Hello there, everyone! I am very sorry for making you all wait for almost half a year for the next chapter of this fic. I've been busying with my classes but also... I've been having trouble coming up with an idea and a way to continued where we left off in this fic. Plus, I need to stop rushing the plot of it since the purge is still going on for another 6 and half hours.
Anyway, where we last left off, the group made it to Courtney's apartment where they finally gotten some r and r. However, near the end of the chapter, Mike learned that Emma lied to him about Courtney having a car, causing him to grab Emma by her shirt while everyone all moved away, looking worried and very scared, for their life and Emma's. But also... it seems someone was watching and is now heading to them.
What will happen now... read and find out now!
The room was filled with silence, the only sound that could be heard were Emma's frighten and worried whimpers and Mike's enraged and rageful breath. There is still 6 and half hour left until the Purge is over but Mike isn't focused about it now. "You... lied to me!" Mike shouted at Emma, who looked more worried yet even more frighten and scared for her safety. Everyone around them, moved away from them. Courtney and her family all stay together while Dawn held her half brother yet Kitty looked scared for her sister.
"Please... I'm sorry. It was the only way for you to not leave us out there. Please... let me go!" Emma pleaded but Mike refused, he growled even more, feeling more rage and anger as he hollowed, 'WHY WOULD YOU DO IT?! I told you I had to do something tonight! I told you, your sister, Dr. Wilson and her brother that tonight is my only chance at redemption! You told me your friend had a car but you lied! For what? To protect that monster?' Emma shook her head, 'No' as Kitty soon screamed,
"SHE DID IT TO PROTECT YOU!" Mike looked at Kitty as she continued, "Please... don't hurt her. She only did just to keep you safe. You told us you have a family, you have a wife and a baby daughter... please Mike. Let her go... we didn't mean to do this to you!" Mike looked at Emma but then looked at Courtney and her family, all concerned for their safety while Mike then looked at Dawn and Duncan, who both pleaded him to stop. 'Please Michael... let her go... don't do something you will regret...' Mike started breathing in and out... feeling unsure what to do.
"What am I doing? Why am I hurting her?" Mike slowly let go of Emma as she ran to Kitty, hugging her tightly while Mike sat down and said, "I'm... sorry." Mike held the gun in his hand but soon place it away. Everyone slowly walked up as Emma said, 'Mike, please, I only did it just so you can see your family again. I know you don't want anyone stopping you from doing what you are doing. But please, just think for a second. What would your wife think if she learned you died because of this night!' Mike widen his eyes as he thought to himself, but soon stopped and replied to Emma. "Don't you think I don't know that! I know that if I die, my wife will be devastated!" Mike sighed aggressively while Dawn decided to talk to him.
"Michael... please, understand Ms. West only did this so you would be safe. Not just from these monsters… but yourself. Michael, if you were to end the man who ended your son's life, what would it do? You would maybe feel relief... but you would also feel regret about ending the life of someone... like I have done." Dawn slowly remember what she did during this night, making her whimper a bit until Mike only sighed as he replied back, 'Dr. Wilson, I understand what you are doing... but it won't work.' Mike soon stood up and headed to the door. 'Hey! Where are you going!' Duncan shouted as Mike stopped, turned around, facing everyone around him as he soon said,
"I'm leaving. Look, I know you all want me to stay just so I can survive the night... but understand... I can not stop thinking about that man... who killed my son. If I don't do something right now... I don't think I'll be able... to live with myself ever again." Dawn soon realized what he meant as Mike opened the door and left, however, Dawn ran to him and screamed, 'Mike, wait! Don't go!' But it was too late, Mike closed the door and soon ran to the same entrance that they all arrived in. Dawn looked worried as she knee down and slowly tear up, Duncan walked up to her and said, 'It's okay, Dawn. He'll be okay... let's just thanked him... for what he did for us up til now.' Dawn slowly cried while Mike headed to outside on the steel floor. "Without a car... I'll get there in about 4 hours... only giving me about an hour or 2 to find him and end his life." Mike looked at the night sky and soon took a breath in. "Emma, Duncan, Dawn, Kitty... please be safe." Mike soon climbed down the ladder as he decided to go by foot.
Inside the De La Cruz apartment, everyone was calming down after Mike's outburst. "I'm glad we're all safe, but that man is signing his death wish. I don't understand why he would still go outside?" Justin said as Dawn soon answered his question, 'He lost his son last year in a car crash. I helped his wife and himself relief the pain and the lost of their son. But now I see, Mike still held in his rage and his vengeance for that man.' The aura reader slowly sighed in sadness, worried about Mike's own safety. However, in a split second, all of the lights turned off. 'HEY! What happened to the lights?' Anne Maria shouted while everyone else were also concerned and confused about the lights suddenly turning off. Down by the boiler room, someone was starting at the control box, seeing all the wires slashed, causing the lights to go off.
"Now... nobody will stop me from purging those fools!" The mystery figure was none another than the same masked purger that is after Duncan and Dawn. He held his machete and quickly headed to the floor where the group is at. Back outside, Mike was seen walking away from the apartment until he took one last look at the apartment. 'Everyone... I hope you all survive this hellish night... I'm sorry.' But before he walked off, he quickly realized something. 'Huh?' Mike noticed a motorcycle was standing by the apartment. 'That's weird?' Mike got a closer look and noticed something familiar. 'Wait a second..' Mike looked at the handles and the wheels of the motorcycle, they had designs of devils on the center of the wheels while the handles had black and red taping around them. Mike soon remembered something from earlier. Mike had a flashback of the masked purger who is after Dawn and Duncan, he remembered taking a quick look at his motorcycle. He once again looked at the motorcycle and soon felt a horrible feeling.
"OH NO!" Mike widen his eyes as he realized that the masked purger knows that the siblings and sisters are inside Courtney's apartment. "I got to stop him!" Mike soon hurried back to the ladder and started climbing up. Mean while, Courtney and her mother started lighting up candies so everyone could see again. 'There! Now we can all see again, okay?' Wanda smiled while everyone else nodded until someone knocked on the door. 'Who's that?' Duncan grabbed the assault rifle that Mike left for them just in case as Courtney's father soon stopped him. 'Relax, amigo. I'll see who it is.' Felix walked to the door and slowly opened the door. However, Dawn read the knocker's aura from inside and soon gasped.
"Mr. De La Cruz! WAIT! DON'T OPEN THE-" But it was too late, as he opened the door... and saw who it was. 'Yes-huh?' Felix was too slow to react as the mysterious figure soon charged in while also stabbing him through the chest. 'PAPA!' Courtney screamed in total fear while Duncan and Dawn gasped, 'It's you!' Duncan realized it was the masked purger who's after them. Duncan held the rifle but the masked purger stopped him from shooting by stabbing him on the arm. "DUNCAN!" Dawn screamed in horror while Emma grabbed the hand pistol and tried to fire at him but he reacted fast and threw Duncan towards Emma and her sister. Justin quickly grabbed a knife and defended himself and his family.
"You're gonna pay for murdering my father in law!" Justin attempted to stab the masked man but he used his machete and sliced his arm off while Courtney and Anne Maria tried to help him. Courtney and Anne Maria grabbed him by the arms but he toss them away while also stabbing Justin in the chest. Dawn and Courtney's mother were both paralyzed with fear, making them unable to move. Anne Maria saw her husband dead on the ground, 'YOU MONSTER!' Anne Maria grabbed the knife from the floor but the masked man stopped her from attacking him by slicing her head off, 'ANNE MARIA!' Courtney and her mother both screamed in absolute shock while the masked man soon silenced him off by striking them with the handle of his machete. Duncan and the sisters were soon knocked out as well while Dawn trembled with fear.
"YOU!" The masked purger pointed at a frighten Dawn as she slowly backed away from him. "I finally find you and your brother!" The masked purger slowly walked towards her as she fell on the ground. 'Please... what do you want?' The masked purger growled through his mask and said, "For you... to suffer!" The masked purger soon knocked Dawn out while outside, Mike made it back in but he was already too late. 'I'm in... oh no!' Mike looked horrified as he saw the door to the De La Cruz was opened. 'I'm too late!' Mike quickly pulled out his pistol, checking the bullets, he had a few left. 'Okay... I have to save them!' Mike headed towards the room while inside, the masked purger tied everyone but Justin, Anne Maria and Courtney's father to the couch with ropes he had. "There, now you won't get away." The mask purger smiled through his mask until he heard someone arriving. He quickly hid behind the door as Mike soon entered the room.
"Oh my god!" Mike stared with a shocked and horrified look, he saw Felix, Justin and Anne Maria dead on the ground, their blood was pouring onto the ground as he soon looked and saw the others tied up. "Dr. Wilson!" Mike ran towards Dawn as he tried to free her, however, the mask purger slowly walked up, holding his machete high up as he waited for the right moment. 'Time to die!' Mike overheard the purger's voice as he reacted quickly, defending himself with his hunting knife as the masked purger sliced but Mike blocked it with his knife. "Nice try!" Mike and masked purger struggled with each other, trying to stab each other until the masked purger soon slammed his handle against Mike's wound, "Ahh! Damn it!" Mike clenched his wound as the mask purger took his opportunity and slammed Mike's head against the wall and soon knocked him out.
"Like I said... no one is stopping me at all!" The mask purger soon headed to the door and slammed it closed, locking it as well as he looked at his prey. "Tonight... I shall finally end the life of the people who ruined my life!" The mask purger hollowed with pure malevolent terror while down by city hall, showing the timer of the Purge as it soon struck to 6:00:00.
"FELLOW PURGER! YOU ALL HAVE 6 MORE HOURS UNTIL THE ANNUAL PURGE WILL COME TO AN END!"
The mask purger have the group captured and has murdered Justin, Anne Maria and her father! With only 6 hours left, what will happen next? Will Mike and others survive? What will the mask purger do now that he has everyone tied up? But also... who is he and why was he after Dawn and Duncan in the first place? Find out in the next chapter... bye for now
