A Dangerous Game
Part 6: The Books
It is time to end the nightmare. Gregory arrived at the school crossing through the football field witnessing the monsters invading the place. Screams of students everywhere. Vision blurring. His wound getting worst. He should be at the hospital getting his wound stitch up. But Gregory has important things to do. He has to stop the nightmare. He has to stop R.L. Stine.
Gregory's not sure if R.L. Stine is going to be the key to end the horror. But he needs to find out. First, he must meet him first.
Then something caught his attention. As he was about to enter the football field, he saw the big bonfire burning hundreds of black books. He saw the monsters burning those books. Wondering, why would they destroyed it? Could the book be a threat to them? Then a thought struck Gregory. He still has the strange black book.
Yes!
The books are doorways to their respective stories. If it's opened again, the monsters will be sent back inside the can use this instead of facing R.L. Stine and force him to fix his problem. "That's it!" Now he doesn't have to get his hands dirty.
If he knew this the whole time, he could've send that Beast back in his book! Damn it! Now he has to go back and find the Beast again. However, the screams of students echoed across the area like there's a big slaughterhouse. Heath and Caitlyn are in there. Gregory has to decide. Go save his friends or hunt the monster again.
Well, he hunted and caught the Beast already. Time to save his friends. "Don't worry, guys. I'm coming!" But then his wound began to sore. "Damn it."
Heath and Caitlyn managed to get inside the school but they missed the terror and excitement. No students in sight. Good news for Caitlyn. She's sick and still wears her father's robe. "Where's everyone?" Heath asked.
"Clearly, they left the building." She answered.
Then they heard brooms moving inside the janitor's closet. "What's that?" Heath knocked the door. "Who's there?"
No answer but the brooms are clearly moving indicating something's inside. Caitlyn opened the door and the man inside screamed at them. He sounded like a girl. It was Davidson the popular guy in school hiding inside the closet. He looked like he's about to pee himself. "Davidson?"
"Close the door! It's still out there!" He yelled at them.
Without asking, Caitlyn shut the door leaving him. "No need to ask what's out there." They heard roars and screams just up ahead. Everyone's in the gym hall. Caitlyn and Heath sneaked towards it and then took a peek. Monster were pushing the door to the locker room where the students and teachers barricaded. They are trapped.
"We should do something." Caitlyn said.
"Are you crazy?" Heath doesn't want to do anything except hide. "Gregory wanted us to stay safe. And so we should stay safe and hide."
Caitlyn then said, "If my brother's here, he will use a bait and lure these guys away from civilians."
Heath responded, "But he's not here. And this is a different situation."
Unexpectedly, Caitlyn went in the gym hall and yelled at those monsters. "Hey! Over here! Come and get me!" Heath moved back a little but kept his eyes on Caitlyn and those monsters. Those dark nightmarish creatures all turned around and set their eyes towards the girl Caitlyn. They hissed. They growled. And then they roared.
They started chasing her. Caitlyn retreated back to the hall where Heath started running too. "Don't follow me! Don't follow me!"
However, she did not hear him. She just followed Heath as she's escaping from the monsters. The two teenagers ran towards the exit of the school building. The monsters followed but then changed their attention to the school bus leaving the school grounds quickly. Caitlyn and Heath hid and watched as the monsters chased after that school bus.
Then they heard another car roaring its engines. They saw a black car near a large bonfire leaving the football field and began to pursue the bus.
Heath commented, "Whoever is in that bus is my hero."
Suddenly, "Guys..." Someone came up to them from behind and scared the hell out of Heath. Both turned and saw their friend Gregory back.
"You're back! That was fast." Caitlyn noticed his current condition. He's not well. "Gregory! You're hurt." She checked his deep wound at the back. "We need to get you to a hospital."
"No time. We have a Beast that needed to be stopped."
Heath was concerned and scared. "It was the Beast, right? He did this."
Gregory answered weakly. "Yes. But... don't worry. I have found a way to defeat him." He showed them the black book with the burnt title of The Beast from the East. His friend Heath asked, "So what? Are you going to read him to death?"
"No. Remember how we met the Beast."
Heath recalled that moment. "Yes. He came out from that book."
Caitlyn quickly concluded. "And we can put him back there."
"Exactly."
The three teenagers has finally got a plan to defeat the Beast once and for all. But then Gregory added, "However, after defeating him, there are still monsters out there and we don't have the books to put them back."
Caitlyn said. "Just focus at one monster first."
"Right."
Suddenly, out from the blue, they heard a loud howl. It's not from the werewolf or a vampire dog. It's from the Beast. He's coming. Caitlyn asked the boys "Where are we going to set the trap?"
"We can't go back to school." Heath said. "It's badly damaged and they had enough monsters to handle." He remembered Davidson's terrified face.
"There's no other place." Gregory turned to Caitlyn. "Your house is the only place we can trap that blue creature. It's always at the East."
She understands but she reminded them. "I want to set the trap outside the house. Probably, my backyard. Just minimal damages, guys. Please. My dad is currently at his friend's birthday party and I'm sure he'll be back soon. Drunk. And Donovan's coming home too."
Gregory was surprised. "Your brother is coming home from Afghanistan?"
"Yeah."
After that, it gave him an idea. He asked Caitlyn, "Do you have guns at home?"
She answered, "No."
That idea just vanished from his mind. "Okay. Never mind. Let's stick to the original plan then."