Wait and Jump

"Wait and see who is it!" Angel hissed. "Then jump in!"

"But why-?"

"It might be someone harmless," Angel muttered, scooting closer to the hatch. "If it isn't, jump in and feel free to give me a good slap later." She thought it wasn't a good time to say 'kill'.

Anna bit her lip, probably from noticing what Angel was intending to say, but nodded and wait by the hatch, ready to jump in if needed. "Alright. Whatever you say…"

The door slowly opened and much to the three girls' shock, a very surprised and very battered Lukas stood there, standing at them in bewilderment.

"Oh, it's you!" Seri exclaimed from relief and surprise. "You're that blonde guy from earlier!"

Lukas looked slightly annoyed. Whatever it's from being referred as 'blonde guy', or from the three long, bloody, cuts on his cheek, they didn't know. "It's Lukas," he said, so they assumed the former. "Why does everyone remember me as 'blonde guy'?" He grumbled. Definitely the former.

"Because you have blonde hair, Lukas," Jesse, who popped into sight, said cheekily. She didn't seem to be bothered by the hatchet sticking out of her shoulder.

"Angel has blonde hair, and they remember her name!" Lukas retorted back as Olivia and Axel came to sight.

Olivia, who had three, long, bloody cuts on her arm, rolled her eyes. "Angel is easy to remember. Remember the time she told this one girl she looked like a before picture?"

Axel, who was limping with a bloody leg and looked very annoyed about something, managed a snort of laughter.

Anna and Seri, momentarily forgetting their situation, roared with laughter. Angel simply ignored them, going to Mother Mode (as Axel and Jace called it back when they first met Jace) as she stared at their injuries with narrowed eyes.

"What happened to you four?" She demanded.

Anna and Seri only had small three-inch cuts on their faces from the times they startled her and got her to throw out her daggers, and slashes on their arms from the sharp wood they accidentally brushed their elbows and wrists against. But to have a hatchet on a shoulder, a limp, and long, deep cuts on all over their bodies is a bit...much.

"Huntress," Jesse said immediately. "She threw a hatchet at me and it won't get off no matter what we do."

"Hag," Olivia said, looking at her injured arm. "I stepped into a trap and she came out of nowhere and attacked me. Barely managed to get away."

Lukas glanced at his cheek and shrugged. "Same as Olivia. Except she jumped right at me after attacking Olivia."

Axel grunted and said, "Cannibal."

Angel's eyebrows shot up and waited for an answer.

Seeing her look and knowing what she'll do and say to Petra if he didn't answer right away, Axel elaborated, "He came out of nowhere and slammed his hammer on my leg."

"Ouch!" Seri, who had finally stopped laughing along with Anna, winced in sympathy.

"And the other injuries?" Angel asked, raising a pale eyebrow and scooting closer to the door.

"The loose floorboards are surprisingly sharp," Olivia sighed. "So when we got four careless teens, and they searched under the floorboards, we get cuts."

Axel glanced over his shoulder anxiously. "Enough talking," he said impatiently. "Angel, do you have any more room in there?"

"Axel, you're seven feet tall and huge," Angel said blankly, her pale eyebrow shooting up even higher. "How are we supposed to fit you inside? Why do you want to hide in here?"

Jesse's expression turned nervous. Very nervous. "Well, er, you see… we ran into The Shape."

Angel gaped at them for a few seconds, then hissed, "Are you for real-? Get in! There's a shortcut to the dorms via hatch! Jump-"

A knife came shooting out from between Jesse and Lukas and hit its target, which happened to be Angel's chest. She cut herself off, her silver eyes wide with shock before they roll to the back of her head and she fell conscious.

"It's him!" Jesse shouted, turning to what Petra called Leader Mode as Anna and Seri screamed from horror. "You two head down the hatch with the bow and Angel no! We'll hold him off!"

"But what about you guys?" Seri asked shakily as her hands tugged at the knife in Angel's chest.

"We'll be fine," Jesse said firmly. "That knife is Shape's only weapon and he doesn't have any extras. He's harmless now. And don't bother pulling that knife out, we tried it with the hatchet and it wouldn't budge. Go!"

Seri, with trembling hands, scooped up the bow ("I'll grab Angel," Anna said softly) and the two both jumped down the hatch, leaving the four outside to deal with a large man with a white mask.

As the two slide down the tunnel, an announcement came on.

"Five more minutes until Annabelle meets a terrible fate! Hurry up!"

"Go," Anna mouthed to Seri as they landed in the hallway of the dorms. "Give the bow to Robin. We'll fine. You can't heal Angel with that knife stuck一" She took in a shuddering breath. "一in her chest anyway."

Seri bit her lip and looked as though she started to argue, but she nodded and disappeared in a flash of white.

Anna waited with the unconscious Angel, and after what seemed like forever一

"Seriblaze has found and handed the bow and quiver to Adrian! Congratulations! You won again! Now, as a lot of you are injured, head back to the Living Room immediately after grabbing Annabelle to treat your wounds. Once you get to the Living Room, you may pull out the weapons you may have stuck in your bodies!" For some reason, that sounded wrong. "Have a nice day~"

Anna shouted in alarm as a white circle appeared around her and Angel and teleported her to The Strangling Room.


The ropes around Raven's limbs suddenly loosened enough so that she can easily slip down, which is exactly what happened.

Raven landed gracefully on her feet but was immediately squeezed to death by her very worried twin brother.

"I know you were worried and all…" Raven managed to choke out. "But squeeze me to death later, because I can't breathe."

Robin let go of her as everyone else teleported inside, all looking surprised and very injured, but very relieved to see that they won another game.

"What happened to you all?" Robin asked, wrinkling his nose from the metallic scent of blood.

Petra, who was barely recognizable from the blood covering her face and clothes, grunted, "Do you need to ask?" She snapped.

Robin quickly put his hands in surrender. "I was just asking!"

"Well," Petra hissed out. She didn't seem to be in a very good mood. "Aren't you an insensitive little-"

"Enough," Angel, who regained consciousness, grunted. She looked very pale and weak from the blood loss. "You two are giving me a headache."

"What on Earth happened to you?" Petra rounded up on her next, much to Angel's dismay. "Is that a knife in your chest?! What did you do this time?"

"It wasn't my fault − that knife came charging at me!"

"Oh, so I'm supposed to believe that?"

Tacey rubbed the bridge of her nose in annoyance and resignation. She didn't look very injured except for the blood covering her clothes and long, red hair, but her arm was hanging at a very awkward angle, so they assumed one of the Killers broke it. "Maybe we should go back to The Living Room," She suggested, wincing from her broken arm. "A lot of us need healing ASAP."

"Understatement," Kate said, looking around and grimacing at the number of injuries everyone has. "Seems today's round is more deadly this time."

Anna adjusted her grip on Angel. "Agreed."

So they head to the Living Room, ignoring Petra and Angel bickering along the way.


A/N: My writing sucks in this chapter. Lol.