Hope for Life: Chapter 6 (Finally!!)
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Dan slowly opened his eyes. A large table was pushed up against him on his left side. He groaned in pain as he moved the table off of him. He felt as if he had broken all the ribs on his left side, which was probably the case. Dan looked around the ballroom. There were many people on the floor and some were on the tables that managed to stay up. He scanned the room for the others. He saw Alice hunched over someone. Dan crawled over to where she was and saw a sight he never wanted to see.
Shun was lying on his back, a shard of glass wedged into his left shoulder. His hair was a mess and there were cuts and scrapes everywhere on his face. He pretty much had "death" written across his face.
Alice was frantic. She was hunched over him crying hysterically. Dan looked at her, he looked as if he wanted to ask her something but it seemed she had already figured it out.
"He's gone, Dan," she said, tears in her eyes. "It's over"
"He's…dead?" Dan asked tears forming in his eyes as well. She nodded her head slowly.
"I found him a while ago. I waited for him to wake up, but he never did. I checked his pulse and…nothing." Alice's tears were coming down like waterfalls again.
Dan looked around and still saw no sign of the rest of the brawlers. He looked at Alice.
"Do you know where the others are?" he asked
"Um, I think I saw Marucho earlier, but I think he went to go search for help." she explained.
"So he's alive?"
"Yeah."
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Marucho looked at the person in front of him. How in the world was he going to tell Dan? He looked at her again. She was caked in blood and covered in bruises. Her once beautiful dress was now bloodstained and torn. She was obviously dead, of she wasn't…well, Marucho thought she was considering her condition.
He decided to try and speak to her again.
"Runo…?"
No answer.
"Are you…alive?"
Again, no answer.
"How am I going to explain this to Dan?"
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"Marucho!!" Dan called out. He could walk, but his side hurt like hell when he did.
"Marucho!!" he called again
Finally he caught sight the wealthy blond. He headed towards him. It would be a weight off his shoulders to see Marucho alive. It would be even better to know that the others were alive.
"Marucho!" he called once more. This time, the blonde turned around. He looked perfectly fine, despite the horrified look on his face.
Dan made his way closer, and found out why. There was his girlfriend of three years, dead. She was a horrifying sight. Worse than Shun. Her once gold and bright dress was now a dreadful shade of maroon. Her bright blue hair looked as if it had been dipped in red ink. Blood was running down her face almost as if she were crying blood. Shards of glass were embedded in almost every inch of her skin. Dan knew he was crying the second he saw her.
Marucho stood up and gently but firmly, wrapped his arms around Dan in a mournful embrace. Dan was stuck. He didn't know what to do. He left the scene feeling more pain in his heart than in his side.
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And there it is, sixth chapter. I didn't find my papers but after a couple hours of brainstorming and lots of ideas from my fans (thank you all) I managed to come up with this. I decided not to beta this one just because I know how anxious you all were. So…yeah, Review!