SCHOOL OF ROCK-BATTLE ROYALE STYLE
Chapter Three-Welcome to the Game
Amanda Dunham gave her class one more of her menacing smiles before turning her back on them and strolling over to a TV one of the soldiers had rolled in only moments before. "Time to watch the video, don't fall asleep now!" she said in a fake girlish voice as another soldier hit play on the VCR.
A bright orange screen came up immediately along with the title "The right way to fight a Battle Royale!" by the BR Act Committee.
Several of the kids in the class looked helplessly around as though hoping that someone was going to shout "April fool!" but when no such aid came, they were forced to look at the screen helplessly as it carried on to tell them how to kill each other.
A woman wearing a bright orange T-shirt with the slogan "Battle Royale" written on it and a camouflage army hat came on screen and started talking in an overly excited voice that made her sound a little crazy.
"Hello, everyone in class B!"She said giving them all a salute, even though they were in a horrible situation, many of the students still managed to exchange raised eyebrows with the people sitting next to them. "You are the lucky class chosen for this year's Battle Royale! Congratulations! Now, I'm going to explain the rules for you. Listen well to fight right and with gusto. You are on a deserted island that looks like this!" The screen behind the woman speaking had now turned into a map of the island, "It's about 10 kilometers around but we evacuated everyone so it's empty!"
Everybody's attention suddenly moved away from the TV when Miss Dunham suddenly stood up and shouted to a girl named Cheryl Kincaid who was sitting at the back of the room whispering to her friend Amy. "Cheryl! I said no whispering!" and Amanda's hand sprung to her pocket where she pulled out a dagger and threw it with tremendous speed and accuracy at Cheryl's head. The whole class gasped as the blade struck her right between the eyes and Cheryl crashed to the ground where she lay motionless…dead. The whole class screamed and Summer saw that many of those who were sitting where Cheryl now lay dead had moved back so as to not be chosen as the next target.
Amanda Dunham had now slid of the desk where she was sitting and was now slowly walking towards where the girl now lay dead on the floor, "Alright move, move!" she said and she stepped over many of the students who were now whimpering on the floor at what they had seen. Amanda soon reached the body and stooped low over it. Looking down on Cheryl's body she said in what she hoped sounded like a sorrow filled voice, "Sorry, It's against the rules for me to kill, isn't it?" and without any warning she kicked the body over with the side of her foot so that she could now look down into Cheryl's pale eyes, grabbed the end of the dagger that was sticking out of her head and pulled it slowly out accompanied with more screams and whimpers coming from the class.
Girls #24 Kincaid. 49 to go.
Amanda Dunham now straightened up holding the dagger in her raised right hand and once again looked at the class. All the students realized what this gesture meant straight away and immediately ran to the gates that were now guarded by soldiers and tried to free themselves from this prison. The guards pushed the students back and many were thrown to the floor. Katie Brown was once again in tears when the soldiers raised their guns and shot at the roof telling the kids to go back to sitting on the floor, Tomika, Marco, Freddy and Summer immediately ran to Katie to console her and was soon followed by Zach. As the soldiers now began to shoot at the floor all the students ran back to the center of the room. Amanda Dunham was smirking as she looked at the soldiers.
As all the students ran back to the center of the room away from the bullets, Summer was knocked off her feet by a bullet that had punctured her shoulder with extreme force, and fell to the ground, Ryan Jack ran over to her and fell down beside her and checked to see that she was okay. Once Summeri was okay Ryan turned to Amanda and shouted "You heartless bitch!!" and ran towards her, he tried to push her over but once again she took the dagger and slashed the back of Ryan's knee while a soldier punched him in the face so that he was thrown back and down onto the floor. As Ryan lay on the floor in pain Amanda turned back to the TV and shouted above all the students, "Back to the video!"
The woman appeared once again on the screen and continued to talk. "The island's divided into many zones, every six hours your teacher will broadcast updates…"
Miss Dunham interrupted the video by turning to the classroom and shouting, "4 times a day!" and then returned her attention back to the screen.
"…about which zones are danger zones," the woman continued. "If you are in those zones, you should leave quickly because the danger is… Okay, about the necklaces you're wearing (every students hands once again flew suddenly to the metal collar they were wearing) they're 100 waterproof, shockproof and permanent! It monitors your pulse, informing us of your location and movements. So if you linger in a danger zone, or cause trouble we can identify you and transmit radio waves that trigger the alarm and boom! It explodes! If you try to rip it off, it explodes too so promise not to that, OK?"
Ryan was now once again standing up, "You assholes! Shut up!" but he was cut short when a duffel bag hit him in the head, looking around he saw that Chris Line had thrown it. Chris looked at Ryan through his glasses and shouted, "Shut up! I can't hear the video!" before being knocked to the ground by Ryan who had thrown himself at Chris and was now fighting him on the floor.
Once again the class stepped back as they sensed something bad was about to happen, sure enough Amanda Davis turned away from the TV to look at Ryan who had now been separated from Chris and was being restrained by a soldier. "I really hate to do this…" she said as she pulled what looked like a remote from a pocket in her tracksuit and pointed it at Ryan's collar, she pressed a button on the remote and Ryan's collar began to beep.
The soldier let go off Ryan and threw him into the middle of the room. "Better run guys!" Miss Dunham said as she saw Ryan trying to take his collar off so that he didn't have to find out what happens when the beeping stopped.
Ryan ran to many of the students who were now pressed up against the wall trying to separate themselves from the boy and when no-one helped him he ran back into the middle of the room and began to shout "HELP ME!!"
Katie, Summer, Zach and Freddy looked on in horror as their class mate ran towards them and clung to them for dear life. Ryan had ran to Summer and wrapped himself around her crying before Zach pulled him off her and thrudt him back into the middle of the room.
Ryan's best friend James Bono had separated himself from the group and Ryan immediately turned to him for help, "James!" he shouted as he looked helplessly at his friend.
"Ryan!" James shouted but it was too late, the collar on Ryan's neck stopped beeping and it blew up taking half of Ryan's neck with it. Ryan fell to the floor with a horrible noise and stayed there. James ran beside him and buried his head into his best friend's blood splattered school blazer.
Katie couldn't believe her eyes; two of her piers had been killed in the space of ten minutes, she looked at each of her friends faces, they were each wearing looks of terror and anger that they had been forced into such a hopeless situation.
Boys #15 Jack dead. 48 to go
"What a shame," Miss Dunham was one again standing up, "I looked after him in my own way." James glared at her and so did many of the other students. "What's that look for James?" she asked looking at the boy. When no answer came she turned, for the last time back to the TV.
The woman appeared once again and resumed her crazy talking. "Oh, I forgot one important thing, there's a time limit on this game! 3 days! If we haven't got a winner after 3 days, all the necklaces automatically explode! And no-one wins. As long as we're here lets fight hard so that doesn't happen!"
Amanda Dunham turned her back on the TV and looked at the students, "Any questions so far?" Zach stood up and raised his hand. "Yes Mooneyham?" she said looking at him.
"If I survive can I go home?" he asked.
"Sure," Amanda replied, "But only if everyone else is dead!"
Now a boy named Kevin O'Conner stood up with a raised hand, "Yes Kevin
?" Miss Dunham asked once more.
"How were we chosen?" he asked with a serious look on his face.
Amanda replied saying, "By impartial lottery." Sumer rolled her eyes thinking, 'Great, the one time I win the lottery and I end up here, fucking great.'
"One more?" Kevin said raising his hand once again.
"Sure." Amanda said clearly becoming annoyed with everyone's clear misunderstanding.
"Why are you doing this?"
"It's your own damned fault," she replied with another one of her smug smiles, "You guys mock grown-ups. Go ahead and mock us, but don't you forget. Life is a game, so fight for survival and find out if you're worth it.
At that point several more soldiers came in pushing a cart full of duffel bags; many of the students who were still sitting on the floor scrambled out of the way fearing that they would face the consequences if they got in the way.
"You'll leave the room one by one," the Japanese woman was talking again on the TV and all the students looked at her with panic stricken faces. "But first you get a kit. Inside is food, water, a map and compass. A flashlight and a weapon, so check it out later, OK? The girls might need personal items so you can all take them. Each weapon is different, not just guns and knives either, it's random so maybe you'll get lucky, maybe not. It eliminates natural advantages."
"We've notified your parents so go for it!" Amanda said as though this ought to cheer the students up but instead they were shocked that their parents hadn't tried to help them.
The woman on the TV continued talking, "Okay, you'll be leaving by class number. When I call your name I want to hear a nice big HERE!
Boys #1 Leonard Hawkins."
The boy called Leonard stood up and yelled here, he was then thrown his duffel bag by a soldier and was told to run down a corridor that led out to the island. Before leaving the room he turned around to look once more at his fellow students. He saw his enemies, friends and his crush Mata Hale. He couldn't believe that he might have to kill these people to save himself! With a sad frown he turned around and walked on
The game begins Day 1, 1:40 am
Girls #1 Kelly Burns
"Here." The girl called Kelly said, Katie, Summer, Kevin, Zach, Eleni and Michelle all shared smirks when Kelly was called. They hated her; she was such a little suck up. All of them made a mental note to kill her as soon as possible.
Kelly ran to the soldier who gave her a bag and she disappeared down the corridor.
Boys #2 Kyle Meaney
Girls #2 Eleni Afflerbach
Eleni turned to Michelle with a horrified look on her face before cautiously getting up and accepting her bag. Michelle ran up to her and gave her a hug before she left "You will always be my friend, I'll come and find you." She said before letting Eleni go and returning to where her friends sat. The other five looked on as their friend left, that may have been the last they'll ever see of her.
Boys #3 Catherine Clark
Girls #3 Zach Mooneyham
Summer clinged to Zach before he whispered a soft "I'll wait for you outside" in her ear. She reluctantly let go of him and let him go. Freddy looked at Katie, he couldn't stand the thought of loosing her and seeing Summer and Zach like that made him realize something, he would protect Katie to the end, even if it meant loosing his own life in this sick game.
Boys #4 Kevin O'Conner
Girls #4 Lauren Adler
One by one each student left with horrified looks on their faces as they bid farewell to their friends.
The exchange students who were called Theo Black and Anthony Blaine looked up violently and ran to get their bags when their names were called, the kid called Theo even came back after he got his bag because he said he got the wrong one. To be honest the guys were a bit freaky. Miss Dunham only confirmed what the students thought by adding, "You probably guessed, but they're a little dangerous."
Boys #16 Freddy Jones
Girls #16 Amber White
Freddy turned to Katie, she had tears streaming from her beautiful brown eyes, Freddy threw caution to the winds and kissed her on the cheek. "I'll meet you outside and we'll figure this out." He then continued to walk outside to wait. Katie then remembered something, reaching inside her blazer pocket she pulled out the small picture she had taken on the bus. The last picture that had been taken before this whole mess had started. She replaced the photo in her pocket and walked out the building to meet Freddy when she heard;
Boys #23 Daniel Ward
Girls #23 Katie Brown
Finally, after Boys #25 Frankie Massagli and Girls #25 Kathleen McNenny had been called and had vacated the room with their duffel bags, Amanda Dunham sat down on the desk, turned to a soldier and said in a voice full off glee, "Let the games begin."