= Murder III =
By StarFoxRocks
Chapter Four
The Setting: Yellow Comet HQ, up in the Mountains
The Time: 7:27 PM
The Situation: More Brutal Murder!
"Sensei! Look out!!"
Sensei turned around just as the ax was lowered. It burrowed into his back. The old man grunted, falling to the floor of a terrible wound. Sami was screaming.
"You bastard!!!"
The hockey-masked man looked up at her with madened eyes. Sami practically froze.
Just then, Max, Eagle, and Sonja ran upstairs. The killer turned around, looked at them, and jumped through the window, shattering it.
Eagle poked his head outside. "Get back here! You bastard!"
He quickly took off down the stairs. Max and Sonja stayed, Sonja weeping over at the sight of the dead Sensei.
"No! It can't be! Is he-?"
Max turned her away. "Don't look, Sonja..."
Sami fell against the wall, her mind crammed full of what had just happened. It was almost like everyone around her was dying... she couldn't handle it...
Sami quickly stood up and shot down the stairs. Max had no choice but to chase her, leaving Sonja.
"Sami! Wait!"
Tearing the door right open, Sami ran outside into the rain and fell to her knees. Max soon arrived at her side.
"Sami! Damn it, you can't be out here!"
Sami looked up at him with her tear-stricken face. "They're dead, Max! Andy, Jess, and now Sensei! I saw him killed with my own eyes... it's horrible, witnessing a death..."
She colapsed in his arms.
"It's okay," Max reassured. "I'm here..."
But things weren't okay. The killer was walking right towards them. Eagle, who had walked out onto the porch, eyeing the two, saw it coming dead on. He dashed across the lawn.
"Get away from them!"
He quickly tackled the killer, both of them toppling to the wet grass. Sami and Max turned around in fright.
"Eagle!!" Sami yelled.
Throwing punches blindly, Eagle did his best to stay atop the killer. "Go, run, I've got him! RUN!"
But Max wouldn't run. "Sami, get back inside!" he ordered. "Now!"
Sami obliged, running off, but stopping at the porch to look back. Max had grabbed the killer, holding him up while Eagle punched him again.
"Time to unmask this killer..." he said. He reached with his arm towards the mask...
In a desperate attempt, the killer swung his legs hard at Max's crotch. He doubled over, panting. Eagle, taken aback, wasn't able to punch in time. He was knocked flat by the killer.
The hockey-masked madman grabbed the handle of his axe. Grinning at Eagle, he whipped it out. Eagle looked up to see the killer raising his axe.
"You son of a bitch!" he screamed. "You won't get away with this, H-"
He was unable to finish. The killer slew Eagle with one swipe with his axe, beheading him in an instant. Sami screamed his name, causing the killer to look over at her, weilding the axe, now drenched with Eagle's blood.
Max had gotten back up, only to find Eagle's head, severed. Looking at it with disbelief, he took no notice to the killer, who was running off into the woods. Sami ran out to Eagle's lifeless form.
"No! Not you! How could this be!"
Max said nothing.
The rest of the party began to show up.
"What the hell happened?"
"Eagle? Oh, god, Eagle!"
"What the hell's going on? Max?"
"Are you okay, Sami and Max?"
"Eagle's dead! Dead!!"
Sami and Max were rushed inside, the doors being locked and bolted afterwards.
---
Sami was sitting at the kitchen table. Max had fainted on the couch in the lobby. Everyone was sitting quietly around her, aware that she didn't want to be asked of the horrible incident. Drake was sobbing to himself in a corner.
Hachi quickly entered the room. "What the hell has happened? I found Sonja with Sensei on the third floor, dead! Why are you all wet? Where's Eagle?!"
Sami and Drake burst into tears.
"Eagle is dead," Nell quietly explained. "Where were you, Hachi?"
"I was in my room, when I heard screams!" Hachi exclaimed. "I ran upstairs past Eagle and Sami, and Max, and found Sonja and Sensei, then afterwards went downstairs to find everyone outside! This whole damn place has gone amiss!"
"Will you shut up?!" Flak said loudly. "We all god damned know, we don't need you to fucking remind us!"
"This never should have happened... none of this..." Lash said.
Sonja had come downstairs shortly after Hachi had.
"It is all Colin's fault... his first murder started this whole chain-reaction..."
Nell looked shocked. "How dare you say that!"
"But, it was Olaf that provoked him," Lash muttered. "It may have been more of that fat oaf's fault..."
"We don't have time to be pointing fingers!" Hachi shouted. "We need to get focused on whoever this sick-minded killer is!"
"How? Without Eagle, we're screwed. Face it."
"Oh, don't count on it."
Max was standing in the room.
"Max?" Sami looked up.
"What are you talking about?" Hachi asked.
"I thought about it a bit... I probably have a good idea who the killer is!"
Everyone gasped.
"Well, spit it out!" Flak said. "We don't have all day- er, night."
"Alright, let me explain..."