Chapter 6: Midwhich Elementary School
Scarlet entered into the School Lobby, she turned on her flashlight and looked around, finding advertisements for school plays, bake sales, and stuff like that. She found an abandoned school map on the floor. She looked it over before putting it in her backpack and grabbing her Axe, holding it tightly as she went out into the hall. She heard a noise from her left and from her radio, she turned and saw a child sized monster that looked a grayish green. She waited for it to get close to her before smashing it with her axe. She sighed, having hoped she wouldn't encounter any monsters. She went into the Infirmary, and around a bed and to a cabinet where she found four health drinks and three first aid kits, she put them away then noticed a memo pad. She stopped to read it.
I have come to the school to search for my daughter, following clues left for who I can only assume is me from my daughter's coloring book. I hope she is alright, I pray I find her. I hope that you, whoever you are, make it out of this God Forsaken town, and I hope me and my daughter make it out
alive. I refuse to leave until I have my daughter back.
-Signed Harry
She wondered if Harry had found his daughter, and if he was still alive, though it wasn't hers to worry about right now. She went down the hall on her right side to Reception, She went behind the counter and looked at the books that were there, but found nothing of interest. She looked around the floor at all the fallen items, and found a key; she picked it up and examined it finding it to be the Lab Equipment Room. She checked her map to see where it was. She got up and headed back into the hall, trying to the door on her left. "Crap." She said. She headed for the Courtyard, finding the door unlocked. She stepped out and found two more of the monster children, her radio crackling. She prepared her axe, and hacked at them, one losing an arm in a spray of blood, the other lost its head. She turned back to the one who had lost its arm and finished it off. She headed across the courtyard and into the north hall. She tried the doors in front of her, finding them unlocked. She entered the room and found three boxes of handgun ammo as well as a few snacks. She checked them and found they were still good and ate them. She went back into the hall and went into the next room to the Storage Room; she found two more boxes of ammo, a lighter, as well as some cabinets full of documents, of which she skimmed through till she came to the permanent records. She checked them and found information on a Angel Gillespie. "What the hell is information on Angel doing here?" She asked no one as she read it.
Student Name: Angel Gillespie
Age: 10
Average Grade: B+ A well behaved and well mannered boy, keeps to himself a lot of the time,
but has been seen socializing with other students. He has been more to himself since the death of his parent's death and his custody being handed over to his Aunt. He has appeared a few times at school with bruises and cuts, though no evidence to support abuse, though we will be looking into
it.
She shrugged and put it away, she would ask Angel later on it. She looked around the room some more before going back into the hall. She headed to her right into the hall that connected to the Teacher's Rooms. She heard her radio crackle, but didn't stick around to find out what it was as she bolted up the stairs to the Second Floor. She went across the hall to the North Hall. She had switched to her gun on the way up the stairs, and for good reason. She came onto three of the child monsters, and fired at them before they could reach her. She used the Lab Equipment Room Key on the door and heard the click of it unlocking, then she entered it. Inside she looked around, finding chemicals that she didn't know. She found a book and read it on various uses for the chemicals. She went to go look at some other stuff when she noticed a note inside the book, and she pulled it out and read it.
In the place of heat you must light the way for the lost souls, and to free them from their bonds. To do so you must collect the candles of Freedom and
light them in their correct order. 3, 1, 4, 2.
Library
Locker Room
Roof
First Floor Men's Restroom
"Well." She said checking her map. "Library is closest, so I'll hit there first." She checked the places on her map, and went to turn when she heard sirens blazing in the distance, she felt a pain rip through her skull and she held onto it tight as she crouched down, she let out a large scream that last till the pain had gone. She stood on wobbly legs and found things had changed. A lot of the chemicals had been smashed open, all the metal was rusted and the wooden door had been rotting. "How the Hell?" She said aloud. She went into the hall and heard scurrying on the floor, and looked. "Cockroaches? I'm supposed to be afraid of that! HA!" She said laughing. She didn't notice they were larger then normal Cockroaches, and that they had come up to her. One jumped on her leg and bit her, causing her to let out a scream of pain, she brushed it off then stamped on them. "Take that!" She held onto her leg as she knelt down. She pulled out a First Aid Kit and did her best to sterilize her leg and patch it up. She went over to the window and looked out over the courtyard and was shocked at what she saw. A big design on the ground, it was glowing red and had several circles with a triangle in the center of it. She didn't have time to ponder it and headed for the double doors at the end, they were jammed shut, so she tried the library reserve. She was able to enter so passed through to the dark room, the only light coming from her flashlight. She went through to the Library through the connected door, and came into a somewhat lighted room. There were a few shelves cases full of books, and she went around one shelf and into a dark area of the library, where she found a ghastly site. There was a beheaded boy holding a red candle, the body leaning over an Occult Book. She had to turn away and ended up puking from the sight and the smell. She took a few minutes to compose herself before going back over to the body and taking the candle and the Occult Book, placing them in her bag. She had to back off quickly and she went over to the nearest chair and sat down, trying to keep from puking again. She sat there for a few minutes, then she rose up and checked her map again, seeing what was the next closest was the Locker Room. She left the Library and headed out into the hall, she found that the jammed door had been barricaded by a large oak desk, and a few feet down the hall was a metal fence blocking her path. She went into the classroom on her left and found the desks knocked over except for one in the center. She went over to it and looked it over, finding it covered in graffiti, and wondered whose desk it had been. She checked it and found a Boiler Room Key. She headed through the door at the end and went into the next Class Room, where she found three more of those kid monsters, which she fired at, and dodging one attack from the closest who was wielding a knife. She fired off three shots into its head, killing it, before dispatching the next two. She looked around and found the room was deserted of items, she headed out of the room through the door at the end, and looked to her right on a bench, finding a Health Drink, she grabbed it and drank it down, discarding the bottle afterwards. She then went through the door across the hall and came up to more Cockroaches, at least 10, and she fired on them, picking them off, and when they got close she would stomp on them. She went into the Locker Room, hearing it creak as she went through it and around the corner, she found another dead body, with a red candle near it. She quickly picked it up, and looked to the locker that was creaking. She cautiously moved to it, and slowly opened it, and jumped back screaming out in surprise as a cat jumped out of it and ran into the hall. She stood back against the locker to catch her breath and calm down. She sighed as she went back into the hall. She went down the hallway, wondering where the cat went, and came out on the left side of the map. She looked to her right, noticing the Girls Bathroom she ran for it to take a bathroom break.
She had taken ten minutes, she hadn't felt like touching the toilet so had taken her time to go to the bathroom, afterwards she had tried the sink, but all that came out was dirty water and blood. She would have to wash up later; she ate a candy bar as she headed down the hall north towards the stairs, planning to goto the Roof next. She made it to the stairs, having only encountered this weird ghost baby that seemed harmless. She went up to the roof, finding it almost as twisted as the rest of the place. She found another Dead Body up here, and wondered why there were so many bodies with candles. She went over to it and picked up the candle. She went to leave when he radio crackled. She turned and found the teenager had gotten up, and had two of the child monsters next to it. "How in the Hell?" She asked no one as she opened fire. She dispatched the Children Monsters quickly enough, but the bullets didn't seem to affect the Zombie Teenager. She put the gun away and pulled her Axe off her backpack, and hacked at him. He scratched at her, cutting her skin, but she ignored the pain until he was down on the ground. She hacked him into pieces before turning to her wounds. She tended to them before heading down to the first floor to get the final candle before heading to the Basement. She encountered another Child Monster and cut its head off with the Emergency Axe. She made it to the Men's Bathroom, but it was locked. On it was a slot for a coin. "Damn it!" She said kicking the door. She wondered where she would get it; she turned and found on the Double Doors a note.
To get the last candle you have to gain the Gold Coin.
To acquire it you must survive the Courtyard Trials.
She went through the double doors, the hall deserted, so she headed for the Courtyard. Once outside she went to the center of the symbol, and stood there for a moment. Then her radio crackled like crazy and through the darkness they stepped into the light. There were ten child monsters and seven Zombie Students. She quickly dropped her axe and brought her gun to bear as they slowly moved towards her, she fired off till it was empty, then reloaded and fired again. Some got close to her and scratched and stabbed at her, she kicked and shot them away from her. For the Zombies she picked up the axe and hacked at them as they surrounded her. She sighed a sigh of relieve minutes later once the battle appeared to be done. Her radio still crackled and she looked around, the noise came first, then the swarm of Cockroaches. They came at her fast, faster then she could fire. They started to crawl on her, and she brushed them off and stomped on them. "Theres too many!" She cried out, fear overcoming her. She tried to get them away and she partially succeeded. She couldn't take it any longer and was encompassed by darkness.
Scarlet awoke a half hour after the battle, lying on the center of the symbol, her legs together and arms outstretched. She tried to move but was still a little tired from the battle. She rested for a bit until she had the strength. She looked around and noticed a gold coin next to her and picked it up. "I guess I survived it." She said putting it away then dusting off. She patched herself up then went over to the door, and pushed her way in. She made her way back to the Men's Room door, inserted the coin and heard a click. She entered and found a crucified dead body on the way, chained and nailed to it. On the floor below the body was a red candle. She went over and picked it up. "When I get home I am going to rest and so get laid." She said grumbling. "Then I'll get a psychiatrist." She left the room and went back into the main hall, stopping in the infirmary to rest a bit more. She rested for about five minutes before getting up and heading to the right side of the map where the stairway was. She went down the stairs to the Basement. She went into the Storage Room, and was saddened by what she saw, piles of children bodies, blood everywhere. She stumbled out of the room and fell to her knees. "What kind of God lets children suffer like this?" She asked, trying to keep from puking and crying. She took time to compose herself and tried to keep from thinking about all those child bodies. She stumbled to the Boiler Room door, and pushed through, finding a dark room with the same red symbol as in the Courtyard, only this one had candle stick holders at four points of the edge of it. She put them in and lit them with the Lighter she had found, and then sat in the center. She pulled out her book and read it in her mind, memorizing the words. When she was ready she spoke aloud. "I call on the power of those fallen souls, I call on them to free the lost souls and allow them to pass! I will do what is needed to free them!" she yelled out. The room lit up and expanded; the sirens blazed loudly and out of the renewed darkness came the cat she had seen in the Locker Room. It had mutated, becoming as twisted as the world around them, and much fiercer. It had saliva dripping from its large tooth filled maw. She stood up quickly, pulling out her gun. It stalked her, going around her in circles. She began to open fire on it, hitting it but barely phasing it. It jumped on her, pinning her down, she continued to fire as it tried to bite off her head, it missing as she moved her head each time. She only stopped to reload her gun before pushing it into the hole she had made in its stomach and firing more. She felt it go tense for a moment before falling on top of her dead. The Sirens blazed again and reality shifted painfully. She lay there trying to recover from all the pain. She reached for her bag and pulled out a first aid kit, and patched herself up enough to make it to the Lobby. She looked up and saw the ghosts of the children from the Storage Room, they were smiling then they slowly faded away. She picked up her stuff and stumbled her way to the Lobby, sitting down on a bench a gun trained on the doors as she waited for Jason.
To Be Continued
Scarlet entered into the School Lobby, she turned on her flashlight and looked around, finding advertisements for school plays, bake sales, and stuff like that. She found an abandoned school map on the floor. She looked it over before putting it in her backpack and grabbing her Axe, holding it tightly as she went out into the hall. She heard a noise from her left and from her radio, she turned and saw a child sized monster that looked a grayish green. She waited for it to get close to her before smashing it with her axe. She sighed, having hoped she wouldn't encounter any monsters. She went into the Infirmary, and around a bed and to a cabinet where she found four health drinks and three first aid kits, she put them away then noticed a memo pad. She stopped to read it.
I have come to the school to search for my daughter, following clues left for who I can only assume is me from my daughter's coloring book. I hope she is alright, I pray I find her. I hope that you, whoever you are, make it out of this God Forsaken town, and I hope me and my daughter make it out
alive. I refuse to leave until I have my daughter back.
-Signed Harry
She wondered if Harry had found his daughter, and if he was still alive, though it wasn't hers to worry about right now. She went down the hall on her right side to Reception, She went behind the counter and looked at the books that were there, but found nothing of interest. She looked around the floor at all the fallen items, and found a key; she picked it up and examined it finding it to be the Lab Equipment Room. She checked her map to see where it was. She got up and headed back into the hall, trying to the door on her left. "Crap." She said. She headed for the Courtyard, finding the door unlocked. She stepped out and found two more of the monster children, her radio crackling. She prepared her axe, and hacked at them, one losing an arm in a spray of blood, the other lost its head. She turned back to the one who had lost its arm and finished it off. She headed across the courtyard and into the north hall. She tried the doors in front of her, finding them unlocked. She entered the room and found three boxes of handgun ammo as well as a few snacks. She checked them and found they were still good and ate them. She went back into the hall and went into the next room to the Storage Room; she found two more boxes of ammo, a lighter, as well as some cabinets full of documents, of which she skimmed through till she came to the permanent records. She checked them and found information on a Angel Gillespie. "What the hell is information on Angel doing here?" She asked no one as she read it.
Student Name: Angel Gillespie
Age: 10
Average Grade: B+ A well behaved and well mannered boy, keeps to himself a lot of the time,
but has been seen socializing with other students. He has been more to himself since the death of his parent's death and his custody being handed over to his Aunt. He has appeared a few times at school with bruises and cuts, though no evidence to support abuse, though we will be looking into
it.
She shrugged and put it away, she would ask Angel later on it. She looked around the room some more before going back into the hall. She headed to her right into the hall that connected to the Teacher's Rooms. She heard her radio crackle, but didn't stick around to find out what it was as she bolted up the stairs to the Second Floor. She went across the hall to the North Hall. She had switched to her gun on the way up the stairs, and for good reason. She came onto three of the child monsters, and fired at them before they could reach her. She used the Lab Equipment Room Key on the door and heard the click of it unlocking, then she entered it. Inside she looked around, finding chemicals that she didn't know. She found a book and read it on various uses for the chemicals. She went to go look at some other stuff when she noticed a note inside the book, and she pulled it out and read it.
In the place of heat you must light the way for the lost souls, and to free them from their bonds. To do so you must collect the candles of Freedom and
light them in their correct order. 3, 1, 4, 2.
Library
Locker Room
Roof
First Floor Men's Restroom
"Well." She said checking her map. "Library is closest, so I'll hit there first." She checked the places on her map, and went to turn when she heard sirens blazing in the distance, she felt a pain rip through her skull and she held onto it tight as she crouched down, she let out a large scream that last till the pain had gone. She stood on wobbly legs and found things had changed. A lot of the chemicals had been smashed open, all the metal was rusted and the wooden door had been rotting. "How the Hell?" She said aloud. She went into the hall and heard scurrying on the floor, and looked. "Cockroaches? I'm supposed to be afraid of that! HA!" She said laughing. She didn't notice they were larger then normal Cockroaches, and that they had come up to her. One jumped on her leg and bit her, causing her to let out a scream of pain, she brushed it off then stamped on them. "Take that!" She held onto her leg as she knelt down. She pulled out a First Aid Kit and did her best to sterilize her leg and patch it up. She went over to the window and looked out over the courtyard and was shocked at what she saw. A big design on the ground, it was glowing red and had several circles with a triangle in the center of it. She didn't have time to ponder it and headed for the double doors at the end, they were jammed shut, so she tried the library reserve. She was able to enter so passed through to the dark room, the only light coming from her flashlight. She went through to the Library through the connected door, and came into a somewhat lighted room. There were a few shelves cases full of books, and she went around one shelf and into a dark area of the library, where she found a ghastly site. There was a beheaded boy holding a red candle, the body leaning over an Occult Book. She had to turn away and ended up puking from the sight and the smell. She took a few minutes to compose herself before going back over to the body and taking the candle and the Occult Book, placing them in her bag. She had to back off quickly and she went over to the nearest chair and sat down, trying to keep from puking again. She sat there for a few minutes, then she rose up and checked her map again, seeing what was the next closest was the Locker Room. She left the Library and headed out into the hall, she found that the jammed door had been barricaded by a large oak desk, and a few feet down the hall was a metal fence blocking her path. She went into the classroom on her left and found the desks knocked over except for one in the center. She went over to it and looked it over, finding it covered in graffiti, and wondered whose desk it had been. She checked it and found a Boiler Room Key. She headed through the door at the end and went into the next Class Room, where she found three more of those kid monsters, which she fired at, and dodging one attack from the closest who was wielding a knife. She fired off three shots into its head, killing it, before dispatching the next two. She looked around and found the room was deserted of items, she headed out of the room through the door at the end, and looked to her right on a bench, finding a Health Drink, she grabbed it and drank it down, discarding the bottle afterwards. She then went through the door across the hall and came up to more Cockroaches, at least 10, and she fired on them, picking them off, and when they got close she would stomp on them. She went into the Locker Room, hearing it creak as she went through it and around the corner, she found another dead body, with a red candle near it. She quickly picked it up, and looked to the locker that was creaking. She cautiously moved to it, and slowly opened it, and jumped back screaming out in surprise as a cat jumped out of it and ran into the hall. She stood back against the locker to catch her breath and calm down. She sighed as she went back into the hall. She went down the hallway, wondering where the cat went, and came out on the left side of the map. She looked to her right, noticing the Girls Bathroom she ran for it to take a bathroom break.
She had taken ten minutes, she hadn't felt like touching the toilet so had taken her time to go to the bathroom, afterwards she had tried the sink, but all that came out was dirty water and blood. She would have to wash up later; she ate a candy bar as she headed down the hall north towards the stairs, planning to goto the Roof next. She made it to the stairs, having only encountered this weird ghost baby that seemed harmless. She went up to the roof, finding it almost as twisted as the rest of the place. She found another Dead Body up here, and wondered why there were so many bodies with candles. She went over to it and picked up the candle. She went to leave when he radio crackled. She turned and found the teenager had gotten up, and had two of the child monsters next to it. "How in the Hell?" She asked no one as she opened fire. She dispatched the Children Monsters quickly enough, but the bullets didn't seem to affect the Zombie Teenager. She put the gun away and pulled her Axe off her backpack, and hacked at him. He scratched at her, cutting her skin, but she ignored the pain until he was down on the ground. She hacked him into pieces before turning to her wounds. She tended to them before heading down to the first floor to get the final candle before heading to the Basement. She encountered another Child Monster and cut its head off with the Emergency Axe. She made it to the Men's Bathroom, but it was locked. On it was a slot for a coin. "Damn it!" She said kicking the door. She wondered where she would get it; she turned and found on the Double Doors a note.
To get the last candle you have to gain the Gold Coin.
To acquire it you must survive the Courtyard Trials.
She went through the double doors, the hall deserted, so she headed for the Courtyard. Once outside she went to the center of the symbol, and stood there for a moment. Then her radio crackled like crazy and through the darkness they stepped into the light. There were ten child monsters and seven Zombie Students. She quickly dropped her axe and brought her gun to bear as they slowly moved towards her, she fired off till it was empty, then reloaded and fired again. Some got close to her and scratched and stabbed at her, she kicked and shot them away from her. For the Zombies she picked up the axe and hacked at them as they surrounded her. She sighed a sigh of relieve minutes later once the battle appeared to be done. Her radio still crackled and she looked around, the noise came first, then the swarm of Cockroaches. They came at her fast, faster then she could fire. They started to crawl on her, and she brushed them off and stomped on them. "Theres too many!" She cried out, fear overcoming her. She tried to get them away and she partially succeeded. She couldn't take it any longer and was encompassed by darkness.
Scarlet awoke a half hour after the battle, lying on the center of the symbol, her legs together and arms outstretched. She tried to move but was still a little tired from the battle. She rested for a bit until she had the strength. She looked around and noticed a gold coin next to her and picked it up. "I guess I survived it." She said putting it away then dusting off. She patched herself up then went over to the door, and pushed her way in. She made her way back to the Men's Room door, inserted the coin and heard a click. She entered and found a crucified dead body on the way, chained and nailed to it. On the floor below the body was a red candle. She went over and picked it up. "When I get home I am going to rest and so get laid." She said grumbling. "Then I'll get a psychiatrist." She left the room and went back into the main hall, stopping in the infirmary to rest a bit more. She rested for about five minutes before getting up and heading to the right side of the map where the stairway was. She went down the stairs to the Basement. She went into the Storage Room, and was saddened by what she saw, piles of children bodies, blood everywhere. She stumbled out of the room and fell to her knees. "What kind of God lets children suffer like this?" She asked, trying to keep from puking and crying. She took time to compose herself and tried to keep from thinking about all those child bodies. She stumbled to the Boiler Room door, and pushed through, finding a dark room with the same red symbol as in the Courtyard, only this one had candle stick holders at four points of the edge of it. She put them in and lit them with the Lighter she had found, and then sat in the center. She pulled out her book and read it in her mind, memorizing the words. When she was ready she spoke aloud. "I call on the power of those fallen souls, I call on them to free the lost souls and allow them to pass! I will do what is needed to free them!" she yelled out. The room lit up and expanded; the sirens blazed loudly and out of the renewed darkness came the cat she had seen in the Locker Room. It had mutated, becoming as twisted as the world around them, and much fiercer. It had saliva dripping from its large tooth filled maw. She stood up quickly, pulling out her gun. It stalked her, going around her in circles. She began to open fire on it, hitting it but barely phasing it. It jumped on her, pinning her down, she continued to fire as it tried to bite off her head, it missing as she moved her head each time. She only stopped to reload her gun before pushing it into the hole she had made in its stomach and firing more. She felt it go tense for a moment before falling on top of her dead. The Sirens blazed again and reality shifted painfully. She lay there trying to recover from all the pain. She reached for her bag and pulled out a first aid kit, and patched herself up enough to make it to the Lobby. She looked up and saw the ghosts of the children from the Storage Room, they were smiling then they slowly faded away. She picked up her stuff and stumbled her way to the Lobby, sitting down on a bench a gun trained on the doors as she waited for Jason.
To Be Continued