Give the Sword
"Give Maya the sword," Rin said, "It'll be faster."
"Ah, okay." She said, grabbing the sword. "Can you come with me by the way? You have superspeed and I want to have you around just in case."
Rin's eyebrows rose to her hairline but agreed anyway. Then she remembered where they were. "Please press the button to get us out of here. I don't think any of us want to stay here any longer, especially with her."
She gestured to the wall with the trapped Huntress, who was still hitting the wall with her ax.
Maya nodded in understanding. "Yeah. Give me a second and let me find the button."
"The button shouldn't be hard to miss," Ann said, bending down. "It's big and red. Feel around and slam it."
Maya only gave a small thumbs up to let them know she heard her, then disappeared through the exit. A moment later, the exit grew large enough so that it can fit all of them.
Mason whistled. "Sweet. You first, Musa," he said, shoving Rin. "You are going with Maya, after all."
Rin gave him the stink eye, then followed Maya down the passageway.
"Is it clear?"
Rin slowly lifted up the pot, glanced around, and said, "Yeah. Just be quiet," she pulls herself out from the exit.
CRASH!
"Maya!"
"Sorry, sorry!"
The werewolf only shook her head at the sheepish girl on the ground. "Come on. Do you still have the sword?"
"Of course," Maya said indignantly. "What do you take me for? A noob?"
"I was thinking a stupid Gryffindor, but close enough."
Maya scoffed and pulled out the sword, "I have the sword here," She said, ignoring what Rin said, much to her relief because she did not want an argument about stupid Gryffindors to stall them. "How many minutes left?"
"About twenty minutes. But we should hurry just in case."
"Alright一"
"1,2, Freddy's coming for you~"
Rin watched Maya's face whiten in either terror or surprise and choose the former. She didn't blame her, she was struck with fear.
"What was that?" Rin asked tensely.
"Freddy," Maya said in a whisper so low, Rin had to strain her ears to hear her. "Oh no, that's Freddy."
"3,4, better lock your doors~"
"We need to go," Rin said immediately. "If we stall around too long, he might catch us before we一"
"No, you go," Maya said, shoving the sword into her hands. "I'm not fast enough. I'll only slow you down. You can go there much faster."
"But一"
"5,6 grab your crucifix,"
"Musa, he's coming closer, GO!"
Rin narrowed her eyes and frowned. "What about you?"
"I dealt with him before. I can handle myself. Now, GO!"
"7,8, gonna stay up late~"
Rin let out a sigh of frustrated sigh and raced off. Honestly. First Sera, now Maya. Who's next on the list?
"9,10…"
Rin glanced over her shoulder just in time to see Maya collapsing, a dark haze hovering over her. She gritted her teeth. Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs,Rin thought exasperatedly, Ridiculously noble, the lot of them.
She kept going.
"Never sleep again."
Rin was almost there now, she just needed to keep going. Her new injuries from bumping into Killers made her wince, but it was nothing compared to when she got shoved off the school rooftop. They still have no idea how she was still alive.
Still, the pain from her injuries was impossible to ignore (especially the hatchet in her elbow), and she was tempted to stop and rest for a bit, but it was only her determination to prevent a life from ending that she kept going. She could count on her hand of anyone that deserves to be eaten by spiders, and none of those people were Ariza.
"Five more minutes~ Hurry up!"
Rin immediately shot away, a cloud of music notes following her feet. She needs to hurry, or else Ariza will be the first death. That still gives her shivers down her spine. To see another death… the last death she saw was Sera, and it wasn't peaceful.
Rin slammed the door open. Jesse was pacing, occasionally glancing at Ariza with an anxious look. Ariza was nervously fidgeting, the humongous spiders crawling around her. They looked up when they heard the door slam open.
A look of pure joy took over Jesse's features as she ran over and gently took her sword from Rin's grip.
"Renee has found and handed the sword to Jesse! Congratulations! You won! Please regroup and head back to the Living Room!"
Rin looked up and frowned. She clearly remembered she never used her actual real first name. She remembered she was called Rin.
"Oh? So Rin can stand up for someone! What a pleasant surprise!"
Then一
"It's cute to see Rin standing up for someone, really. But I don't like being treated badly. You're lucky that knife missed or you'll be dead right now."
She used her nickname back at that night… why use her real name now?
Rin's thoughts were soon cut off when everyone else, looking battered but okay, teleported into the living room, while Ariza freed herself from her web prison.
"Are you alright, Maya?"
She turned and felt regret bubble up in her stomach when she saw Maya with the worse injuries than everyone else. She had a broken leg, her limbs nearly removed from her body, and claw marks all over her back and stomach. She didn't want to leave her, but she had no choice. Damn Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs. Always so damn noble.
Rin tried not to show her regret, but some of it did because Maya glanced over at her and grinned while Aiden fussed over her.
"I'll be alright, Aiden," She laughed. "I just bumped into Freddy. Kicked him in the jaw and gave him a black eye so that evened the score," She beamed.
Her knuckles were red and bruised, so Rin assumed that it was true. Rin had to appreciate the joke. It cheered her up a bit. To know Maya didn't blame her. Of course, that might not be the same for Aiden, but he wasn't going do anything if he doesn't know and it seems Maya wants it that way.
"What happened to you?"
And suddenly, Ann was at her side, narrowing her eyes at the new injuries Rin gained, which made her nervous. Ann was a menace when it comes to injuries.
"Oh, leave her alone, Ann," Annabelle sighed as she came over with her long brown hair coated with blood and bruises on her neck and what looked like a meathook sticking out of her shoulder. Rin noticed she was carefully hiding the meathook from Ann's sight. "It's not like it's her fault she got those injuries."
"Yeah," Adrian said, bouncing over with the same shoulder injury and bruises as his twin. Rin noted with amusement that he forgot to hide it from Ann, which she didn't notice yet. "Look at responsible Anna! Even she's reckless enough to get herself injured!"
"Shut it, Adrian," Annabelle said, kicking him hard in the shin. That made Rin wince because Annabelle's kicks aren't gentle. At all.
"OW! What the hell?!"
"You deserve that one, you idiot. Do you never shut up?"
"Here they go again…" Ann, who miraculously forgotten about the injuries (much to Rin's relief) muttered.
Rin rolled her eyes and started walking out of the room, ignoring Angel and Petra ("What happened to you?" "I should be asking the same thing!") and Annabelle and Adrian's bickering.
The rest followed her.
