Chapter Four

"Good night students, it's time for the new deaths. Girl 12 Linex Dahl and Boy 8 Dorian Malloy. 31 left to go. I hope you stay awake, in six hours we'll give new danger zones," the loud speaker came across the island.

"Thirty one students left… there's so many people died," Hannah said, frowning. She was held up in a large building, Samuel had said he thought it was some office building of something though there wasn't much left in it. There was Sammi, she had gotten a butcher knife, Samuel, he had gotten a Uzi, Dustin, he had gotten a Katana, Phil, who had gotten poison, and Ian, he had gotten a street sweeper. Hannah herself had gotten a rubber chicken. She wasn't sure what she was supposed to do with a rubber chicken, but she had gotten it.

"It should be about midnight if we're getting that message. How close are we to a danger zone?" Sammi asked.

"No where near. We're somewhere in A5 and that's not near any of the danger zones," Samuel said. He was in one of the windows, looking out looking down at the one entrance. There were other ways into the building, but they had barred those with the little they could find to make this one the way into the building they were thinking people would be in.

They had been taking turns keeping watch, and by they she meant Samuel and Ian, the two with the guns. While Hannah was sure they all trusted each other, after all they couldn't really kill each other right?, people seemed unwilling to let others use their weapons. So, Samuel would take watch and then Ian would take watch and then back to Samuel. They all trusted each other, right?

"If we're going to make it out of here alive, our best bet is to do something to attack the school. If we can't take out the people there, then we have no choice on getting off of the island," Ian pointed out.

"Yeah, but the moment we tried something they'd make our collars go off and we'll all be dead anyway," Sammi pointed out. "I think our best bet is to try and figure out a way to get the collars off."

"Yeah, but the moment we got close to doing that or got one of the collars off they would just kill the rest of us off, probably come after the one who got theirs off and kill them too," Samuel pointed out. "We either need to find away to get them all off at once, or to take out the computers I'm sure are running these things at the school and then get them off safely and try to get off the island."

"We could try to find other students, work together to think up a way out of here," Hannah suggested.

"That would be a bad idea. Just because we want to come up with a way to get away doesn't mean they will. They could simple pretend to want to help when they're plan for getting off the island is to kill us all," Samuel pointed out.

"But there has to be some people out there trying to get off too," Hannah protested.

"And how do you think we'll be able to figure out who wants to actually work together to get off and who just wants to kill us?" Samuel asked.

"I don't know, but there has to be something that can be done."

"Look, let's try and figure out a situation now that will help us. If we think of away to help the others then we'll try and help them. We have to think about ourselves first," Ian said. "It's getting late Samuel, why don't you let me take care of the watch?"

"It's so dark out, you're not going to be able to see well. Why don't you give me your gun and let me take watch?" Sammi asked.

"I can see just fine," Ian said, getting up. His hand was gripping the gun tightly.

"And I'm not tired, I'm fine. I can stay on watch a little while longer," Samuel said.

"Why don't we just try and poison the water supply? I mean, we have to be able to find something to do that outside of the danger zones," Phil offered.

"What, we're supposed to open a pipe or something? We don't have a wrench or anything, and I'm not going to try and shoot it open," Samuel said. His eyes weren't even on the group as they talked, only on the door.

"Are we sure the other doors can't be opened?" Hannah asked. They were on the third floor, Samuel said it would gave him a better position over the door they choose, but they wouldn't be able to hear someone coming in.

"I'm sure. Unless you want to go down there and check it out again I don't see there being a problem," Samuel said.

"Maybe we should go and check it out again. I mean, we don't know what kinds of weapons everyone got, so there's no way to know if they have the means to break down the doors," Sammi pointed out.

"Fine, who's going to go and check?" Samuel said.

"I'll go and check the front door with Hannah," Sammi suggested.

"And me and Dustin can check the back door," Ian added. They were using a side door as the only way in or out of the building.

"That's a good idea, we can use the buddy system that way," Hannah said. The groups split off and went to check on the doors.

Once they were walking down the stairs, "I can't stand the way Samuel's acting," Sammi said with a sigh. "I mean, where does he get off acting all high and mighty like he is. He's not the boss of us. He's not in control or anything. The same goes for Ian. Do they not trust us that much they won't let us even take turns with the guns?"

"I'm sure they trust us. We're working together to find away out of this without everyone dying," Hannah said. She didn't like this. She didn't like that they were starting to turn against each other like this so quickly as if it were nothing. This was their lives they were talking about. They had to stick together if they were going to make it out of this.

"What if we can't find away out of this? I rather have them go then us. If we're going to end up fighting each other, then Samuel and Ian have the advantage with their weapons. We need to do something to distract them and then take them out before they try to take us out," Sammi said.

Hannah stopped walking. This wasn't right. They shouldn't be thinking about killing each other. They were friends, weren't they? They were close friends, weren't they? There was no reason to start thinking about killing each other!

"Hannah, come on we need to check that door that's why we came down here," Sammi said. After a moment, Hannah nodded and continued walking. "I'm not saying that we're going to attack them right away, or even that we have to, just think about it."

"I don't want to think about killing our friends. It's horrible," Hannah said.

Sammi sighed. "We don't have a choice about thinking about that," she said. The two girls got to the door, and frowned. The desks they had shoved in front of it had been knocked over. "Damn, someone's in the building. We should head back and-"

A volley ball was thrown at them. When they moved to get out of the way, Quin was on Sammi, tackling her to the ground and trying to choke her. Sammi soon threw her off her and grabbed her butcher knife. In another moment, the situation was reversed and Sammi was on top of Quin, stabbing her.

Hannah took a few steps back. Sammi had just killed Quin. Hannah was never close with Quin, but she had never seen anyone killed in front of her before. Sammi was covered in blood; she stood up and looked back at Hannah. "We should make sure to fix the door so this doesn't happen again." Sammi started to push the desks back up against the door. "And I'm not sure that she would be strong to move all of this on his own, there could be more people around so watch out. Hannah?" Sammi turned to look at her. "Are you okay Hannah?"

How could she be so calm? She just killed someone! How could she still be so cheerful? Hannah felt uneasy and she didn't move right away. "Alright, I'll help." Hannah moved and started to help Sammi rebarricade the door. It took a little longer than it had the first time they had done it, since there were only two of this time instead of all six of them.

"Well, we should go back to make sure the others are okay. I mean, there could still be other people who broke in with Quin," Sammi said. Hannah nodded and the two started to head back upstairs.

As they walked upstairs, they heard gunfire. "Quick! We need to get up there!" Sammi yelled, running up the stairs. Hannah followed more slowly. If there was a gun fight going on, and she could still hear gunfire so people had to be shooing at each other right now, she wouldn't be much help. It didn't look like Sammi had even noticed she had stopped following right behind.

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When Antonio had found he gotten a browning machine gun as his weapon he was ecstatic. He was going to be able to kill a plethora of people with it and he was sure he stood a very good chance at making it to the end and being the sole survivor. He had met up with Quin, and Mark to break into this place and kill the people he was sure inside. He wasn't sure where Mark or Quin ran off to once the three of them were inside, but Antonio had quickly found that Samuel had a gun as well. An Uzi. Couldn't aim it all that well.

Antonio had knocked one of the desks over for cover, and Samuel had hidden behind one of the only other one in the room. For an office building the absence office furniture was astonishing to him. His eyes went over to where the body of Phillip was. Antonio felt bad about killing him, but there was little that could be done now. Antonio had killed the other male almost as soon as he got up here, and he had gotten at least once hit on Samuel in the shoulder. These desks were not going to last much longer with all of the bullets flying, but he was more well off. He didn't have to reload as much as he was guessing Samuel did. He was really about to kill another person.

Hearing something behind him, he turned around quickly to see Sammi almost on him with a butcher knife. Antonio quickly turned and fired at her. His breath became uneven as he watched her lifeless body fall to the ground and lay there limply. It wasn't supposed to feel this horrible to kill people. If he didn't kill people they were going to kill him. Phillip hadn't tried to kill him though. No. He knew he had to keep doing this. He had to kill everyone if he was going to make it out of here alive.

When he turned back around to face Samuel, he saw Samuel had moved and had the gun pointed at him. "Shit."

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"Do you hear that?" Ian asked, turning to Dustin. "It sounds like gunfire." The two had just finished making sure the door to the building was still fine. It looked the way they had left it when they had first barricaded the door in the first place. Almost all of the furniture they had found on every floor, minus the stuff too heavy for them to move or at the other door, was in front of this one. They wanted to make sure there was no way anyone was going to be able to get it. It looked like that was still the case.

"If no one got into the building…" Dustin trailed off, frowning. He fidgeted some as he spoke.

"Then Samuel is up there killing everyone else," Ian said. He wasn't afraid to say it. If Samuel was killing people up there, with all of the gun fire he was hearing, everyone else was probably dead. There would be no point in going back up there unless they were going to kill Samuel right away. It might be the best option right now. They should kill Samuel and get out of here. "I'm going to kill Samuel. If he's killed the others, it's best to kill him now."

"We're really going to go up there and just kill him? What if something else happened?" Dustin asked.

"What else could have happened? Samuel wouldn't let someone else get his gun," Ian pointed out. "Come on Dustin, we have to do this now, before he kills us." Dustin still looked unsure. "Then I'll go on my own and kill him." Though, as he thought about it, this was a bad idea. If they both went up there, chances were Dustin would be killed. You don't be a katana to a gun fight. "I think you should get out of here. " Ian took out his map. "I'll meet back up with you here, in A5."

"Is it a good idea to split up?" Dustin asked.

"I think so. I'll kill Samuel and meet back up with you," Ian said. That way, if something went wrong they both wouldn't get killed. Ian just had to surprise Samuel and then it would be over with. One shot, hopefully. Part of him wanted to know why Samuel had killed everyone else, but he quickly decided it didn't matter. He must have clearly wanted to be the last one standing and this was the way to do it. It would have been smarter to wait until they were the last ones left before he did this. If they were the last ones left he could have just waited until they were all sleeping and killed them all. It would have left him the only one left and then he could leave. Now, all it would be is that Samuel would need to leave and kill everyone else. It was stupid. Of course, Ian knew he was going to kill Samuel as soon as he got up there so it wouldn't matter soon.

Ian waited until Dustan was out of sight before he started back up the stairs. The gunfire had just stopped, so he was guessing if anyone had been alive when he decided to come and kill Samuel they weren't anymore. Ian took a deep breath, before entering the room where they had spent so long together.

His eyes grew wide when he saw Phil's bullet ridden body. Ian had known he would be coming up on a massacre, but that still didn't compare him to see it first hand. He looked up to see Samuel over by the door Sammi and Hannah would have left from, standing over Sammi's corpse. Right away, Ian took a shot at him. It barely missed him.

"What are you doing Ian?" Samuel nearly screamed, turning to face him. He pointed his gun at him, ready to fire.

"You killed Phil and Sammi. I'm betting Hannah's dead too isn't she?" Ian asked, taking a deep breath. He then took another shot at Samuel, hitting him in the lower leg. This this had a kick to it, and it was hard to aim, but Ian was sure he was going to kill Samuel.

"I didn't kill them! Antonio did! Look, he's right there." Samuel pointed to a tipped over desk.

Ian couldn't see behind the desk to where Samuel was pointing, and he wasn't about to move closer to see. If he got closer, Samuel was just going to kill him and- Ian winced as he felt the first bullet hit him. It had been a good shot, right in the stomach… He was going to die… He knew it… As Ian's eye sight started to get hazy, he pulled the trigger of his gun. He was going to take Samuel with him as the last thing he did…

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Hannah stayed where she was in the stair well. So many guns going off. Was it really Ian or Samuel killing everyone up there? No, they wouldn't kill anyone! They were all friends! Friends don't kill each other! She didn't want to believe it. It had to be one of the people Sammi thought had broken in with Quin. That had to be it!

Once all the gunfire had stopped, Hannah waited another few minuets. She had to make sure whatever was going on was done before walking back upstairs. She tried to steady herself, ready herself for whatever she was going to find when she got back to where the others were. Maybe no one was dead besides whoever it was that had come in with Quin. Maybe everything would be okay when she got back upstairs.

Hannah took a deep breath before walking into the room. The first thing she saw was the mangled body of Sammi. Hannah screamed and sank to the floor. Sammi was… Sammi was dead. Her eyes were soon on Antonio. He was holding a gun. She knew it! She knew they wouldn't kill each other and-

Hannah pulled herself up and ran over to Samuel. He was still bleeding, but he had several gunshot wounds. She saw Ian across the room, not breathing, as she got closer to Samuel. She didn't seen Dustin anywhere, but it looked like everyone really was-… Hannah couldn't let herself break down now. She had to try and help Samuel before he died too, though she had almost lost it when she saw Phil's body over there as well.

"Samuel!" Hannah said, sitting down next to him. There was so much blood. So very much blood. "You can't die Samuel! You can't die too…" Hannah could feel tears well up in her eyes. Samuel couldn't die. He just couldn't.

"I'm glad you're still alive Hannah. You have to get out of here; all that gunfire will cause people who heard it to come here looking to kill whoever's here," Samuel said.

"I'm not going to leave you here! Come on, I'll try and get something to stop the bleeding and then we'll get out of here together! I'm not going to leave you here to die!" Hannah got up and grabbed her bag and brought it back to where they were sitting at. She took out a few of her shirts and grabbed Sammi's butcher knife to cut them into pieces. Once she had them looking as close as she could to bandages, she started to wrap up Samuel's wounds.

"Hannah, it's not going to matter. You won't be able to stop the bleeding, and even if you do there's infection to worry about and-" Samuel started.

"That's not true. You got lucky. Most of the wounds are in your arm, leg, or shoulder. It looks like it went clean through too and-" Hannah stopped as she thought of something. The reason she knew about gunshot wounds to begin with was she helped Emily look some things up about them for some class project in health class. They had to pick something to do with bodily harm and do a paper and a presentation on them. "Emily always has a good first aid kit on her. If we can make it to where she is, we'll just…" Hannah looked at the guns in the room. "We'll force her to help you." Hannah made sure Samuel's wounds were taken care of as good as they were going to get, before gathering all of the weapons, food and water in the room. "Come on, let's get going. The sooner we find Emily the sooner we… we can make sure you don't die." Hannah's voice was shaking. She doubted Samuel would live more than a few hours like this, and that was if they were very lucky. They had this whole island to look for one person… No! She had to think positive otherwise there was no way Samuel was going to be able to live. Even if She was able to save and help Samuel, she knew if they ran into anyone else they would be at a great disadvantage and… She didn't want Samuel to be in any more pain than he was… Even if they did find Emily, Samuel had gotten shot in the side and she wasn't sure there would be anything that could be done. She felt bad for lying to him, but, telling him everything could be okay. It couldn't. No matter how much she wanted it to be. Even if they got to Emily and had first aid kit, it wouldn't help unless that bullet had somehow managed not to burst any internal injuries and…

Hannah grabbed the Uzi out of Samuel's hand. "I'm sorry," she told him softy as she aimed it at his head. At least he could die and not be in pain anymore… this would be the merciful thing to do, right? It was okay, right? She hesitated.

"Hannah…" Samuel started.

Hannah didn't answer. She just closed her eyes and pulled the trigger.

Dead: Girls: Girl 2 Sammi Blaine, Girl 5 Quin Astraya. Boys: Boy 2 Phillip Hermes, Boy 7 Samuel Godsayd, Boy 14 Ian Camerson, Boy 18 Antonio Rodregas. 17 dead 25 left to go.