With her headphones still on, music playing, Tuntun came around and found herself with her head laying on her crossed arms on the library table. All of the books she and Dizi had were still strewn about the table with both backpacks and notebooks around them, except Dizi was gone. The teen sat up, confused for a moment and glancing around the library. All of the other students were gone too which caused a bit of panic well up inside her. How long was she asleep for?! Why didn't Dizi wake her up?! Tuntun looked around for her phone to check the time and possible missed messages or calls, digging in her backpack, back and front pockets, her hoodie pockets, searching under the table and chairs. Nothing.
"I'm gonna kill her." Tuntun mumbled to herself angrily, grabbing her backpack to leave.
As she stepped out into the hallway, her heart jumped into her throat at the state of the school. It looked like a bomb had gone off. Papers and books covered the floors, trash cans were knocked over, lockers were hanging open, some off their hinges.
"The hell?" she breathed, her mind racing as she cautiously walked over backpacks and books. Her mind was racing, she didn't have her phone, she didn't know what to do. This is literally how horror movies started.
She had to get home, maybe her parents knew what was happening, maybe Cypress was at home too if there was an emergency.
Her optimism, however, dissipated when she got to the front entrance of the school. Cars were ditched in the middle of the road, some crashed and on fire, but the most unsettling thing were the clothes raining from the sky. Her breathing getting more unsteady, she looked down at her feet to see clothes as if the person wearing them was laying on the ground when just their body disappeared, it was too perfect to be a coincidence. The teen also noticed all of them had the same hole in the middle of the back or front.
Fearing the worst, Tuntun didn't wait another second by dropping her backpack and running home. Everywhere she looked, it was the same thing. There wasn't a soul around. "What the fuck is going on?!" she breathed.
She took a shortcut through some back alleys of small shops when she heard a solitary scream that stopped her in her tracks, nearly falling forward into a dumpster. "That was close.." she said to herself and headed down the sidewalk towards the sound. What she heard next sent chills up her spine and she could feel every hair on her neck stand up. A deep, raspy chuckling overpowering a pleading woman.
"Soon you will be apart of perfection." the voice laughed and a shrill blood-curdling scream followed.
Tuntun had her back up against a wall as she peeked around the brick wall. A bug-like creature who looked to be nearly eight feet tall stood over the frantic woman trying to get away. It raised its long tail that had what Tuntun thought to be a stinger at the end and impaled the poor woman in the chest. The teenager's face paled at the sight of the woman literally getting the life sucked out of her leaving nothing but clothes behind. She clapped a shaking hand over her mouth to stifle the cry that escaped involuntarily, straightening back up against the wall.
"Mmm I can sense your power, little mouse." the creature laughed to himself knowing Tuntun was close enough to hear.
She had to move but for a second her body wouldn't obey, she was frozen in fear. She snapped out of her stupor when she heard its foot steps getting closer and bolted as fast as her short legs would take her. "GET AWAY FROM ME!" she cried angrily.
Tuntun didn't look back to see where the creature was, she wasn't paying much attention to what was around her either. There was a swift 'woosh' ahead of her and the short teen was suddenly fighting with a thick white sheet that must have fallen from the sky. Her panicking only made her tangle up in it more as she cried in frustration and anger. She froze when she felt herself get lifted up in the sheet to be faced with a very pissed off looking creature who was green this time.
"Please don't hurt me." she cried, clutching onto the fabric for dear life. "I'm just trying to get home."
"Let go." the green creature scowled, shaking her off of his cape and dropped her on her ass. "What are you running from?" he demanded.
His deep voice was almost resonating down to her very soul, it was so intimidating. He too must have been almost eight feet tall but more of a human shape compared to the other one, built like he could rip a tree out of the ground.
"A monster that sucks the life out of people!" she replied with a trembling, timid voice. "I need to get home to my family!"
"Don't bother." the tall humanoid stated coldly. "Everyone in this city is dead."
Tuntun shook her head in disbelief, she COULDN'T believe it. "You don't know that!" she raged, getting to her feet. "I'm going!"
"WAIT!" he raged at her as she took off again. He was about to go after her when he felt a powerful presence step out from the shadows. "Dammit." he cursed to himself, now staring down the bug-like creature Tuntun mentioned.
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The teen ran up to her house to see the door already open and tripped on the step into the house. She hit the ground hard on her knees and looked around to see the house in complete disarray. "MOM!" she cried. "DADDY!" She scrambled to her feet and checked each of the rooms on the main floor. "SAMMY, BLAKE?!" Tuntun was holding back cries as each empty room brought her closer to the reality she dreaded.
In the midst of her frantic searching, she could feel tremors in the ground, like a series of earthquakes, some almost knocking her off her feet. It was like the world was ending but all she cared about was her family and Cypress.
"This can't be happening.." she cried, almost hyperventilating with fear. All that was left was the upstairs bedrooms.
