Chapter 2
I'm gonna do a different perspective for each part I: Hopefully you don't get too confused Dx
Part 1: Ember's perspective.
I sit up and look around. "Where am I?" is the only thing running through my head. I blink and rub my eyes, then realize something. I'm not outside, behind the gym. I'm in a run down school building. I quickly get up and look around. "I-Is anyone else h-here?" I yell out. "E-Ember?" I hear a familiar voice and run towards it. I fall over something, but since my eyes are still not used to the darkness, I can't tell what it is. "Ow! Watch where you're going!" The voice tells me. I look down and see a very startled Jade glaring at me with her big brown eyes. "Oh. My bad!" I say to her. I stretch my hand out to her, to help her up. She takes it, and stands next to me. "Where are we? What's going on? Where's everyone else?" She hopelessly stares at me and I can see tears forming in the corner of her eyes. "I.. I don't know.." I tell her. There's awkward silence for what feels like 30 minutes, and she then says "H-how about we go t-try to find them?" Her voice is shaking and stuttering, and I can now see tears falling from her face. In my 3 years of knowing her, she's been the strongest girl I've ever met. She must be really scared. I try to put my arm around her and comfort her, but she's too tall and I'm too short, so it's not easy. "Jade.. I promise that everything will be fine…" She looks at me with sad eyes and a flustered face and I can't help but feel horrible for lying. I don't know if we'll make it out alive. I don't even know what's going on. I smile at her and wipe a tear from her cheek. "How about we go set off to find the others? There's a door right over there. How about we go see what it leads to?" She pauses for a moment and stares at me. "Okay.. Fine.." I walk to the door and open it. "Woah.. That's nasty!" The door leads to a fenced in outside area, with a pool in the middle. The water is a dark green. She walks up next to me and stares into the water. "Ewww! Wait.. What's that?" Jade points to an area in the water. I look closer at it, and see something sparkling at the bottom. "Hm.. I don't know! Maybe there's a water room where we can drain the water and go investigate! There's no way I'm going into that water." She nods her head and I walk around the edge of the pool. I spot a small door and run over to it. Nope. No use. It's locked. "Hey Jade, look! A door!" "Is it open?" "Nope. Maybe there's a key around here somewhere? You go back inside and look for one in the room we were just in. I'll look out here." Jade nods her head and walks into the room.
Part 1: Jade's perspective.
I walk around the room, looking for a key. No, something more than a key. Anything. A magazine, a school newspaper. Anything. I just want to know what's going on. Ember was probably lying. How does she know that we're gonna make it through this alive? Wait. Is that a body? I walk over to it and crouch down. Indeed it is a book. I look at the title. Just a plain old text book. Ugh. Stamped onto the side, it says "Heavenly Host Elementary" Is this what the school is called? Hm. Suddenly a whiff of depression comes over me. What if we never make it out alive? What if we all die. What if Ember dies and I'm left alone? NO! I run back out to the pool and see Ember bending over a planter. "Hey look Jade! I found the key!" Ember says with fake excitement. "Awesome!" "Here, Jade, you stay here and I'll go check out the room to see if a water valve is in here! When I yell out, tell me if the water is going away!" ... "Okay" I say back. She walks into the room and I can't control myself. I jump into the pool.
Part 1: Ember's perspective.
I walk into the room and look around. I see a valve and run over to it. "Water Valve" It reads. I turn it and yell out to Jade "Hey! I found the valve, is the water going away?" I wait for a little while. No answer. I then here a strange sound. Like, the kind of sound that a pipe makes when something blocks it out. Hm, strange. I walk out to the pool, and see the water is drained completely, except for a small portion at the bottom. Then I see something I'll never be able to unsee. At the bottom of the pool, I see Jade. Well, half of Jade. Her torso is ripped in half, with guts spilling everywhere. Did she fall in and get sucked in by the thing? Oh my god! I jump into the pool and can't help but stare. I look around and see that there's multiple bodies. I gag and cover my mouth with my hand. Oh.. My… No!? No? I run to the bodies, and to my relief, none of them belong to my friends. But this worries me more. Who are these people? I see the shiny object and walk over to it. A key? I look very close, and see "Infirmary" printed into it.
