Author's Note:

Fox Kitsune: Sorry for the slow update, it was my fault. Hope you all enjoy!

aZn dReAmEr xD: Hope you enjoy this chappie!

Whoever Said School Couldn't Kill?

Chapter 3: False Hopes

"Oh, Jeremie!" Aelita whispered frighteningly to Jeremie.

Terrifying, solemn paintings were on the walls of old people, supposedly Sarah's ancestors, and were staring at the horrified couple. Their deadly eyes bored into them, and they could feel them glaring at their presence in the house.

There was actually a coffin in one of the rooms. Lightning suddenly brightened the room, as thunder accompanied it, and roared.

A few arrows were stuck on the walls, and there were red stains.

Could it be blood? Jeremie thought hesitantly. No, of course not… why would there be blood?

He mentally laughed nervously at himself for thinking that. But it wasn't assured.

All of a sudden, they stopped.

"Your friends, they are in there." Sarah pointed to a building across from them. It looked kind of old…

Aelita could make out a figure in the window. A pointy-haired figure leaning across the wall, grabbing something. Definitely Odd. She could recognize his figure anywhere.

"My friends!" Aelita gasped, "Are they in any danger?"

"No… not that I know of." Sarah replied smoothly.

"Not that I know of isn't good enough!" Jeremie cried, "We have to know!"

"Oh, they should be okay; it appears there is only an electricity shortage. They just have to wait until the power is back on." Her voice reassured Aelita, but unaffected Jeremie.

"We have to go over there!"

"No!" Sarah's voice was no longer smooth, "Stop! You'll get hurt out there! You are in danger the moment you enter in that building! Besides, we're locked in here."

"…We're locked in? How?"

"I don't know."

Aelita clutched onto Jeremie's arm. "I'm scared, Jeremie. What are we going to do? Are the others okay!"

"I'm sure they are…" But Jeremie was skeptical himself.

"Please let the others be okay, please…"

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"ULRICH! WATCH OUT!" Yumi screamed, panicking. She was frozen in place, her face written with, "MY LOVE IS GOING TO BE KILLED. DO SOMETHING!" on it. In big, capital letters. With many, many exclamation points.

The knife pinned Ulrich in the shirt. Ulrich had dodged, thanks to his karate practices, but the knife seemed to follow. It swerved and almost stabbed him in the shoulder. He winced, his face filled with fear.

"Wow. A knife that follows you. Nice…" Odd commented.

Yumi glared at him, and slapped him smartly across the face.

Odd quickly rephrased his statement. "I mean, uh, it would be cool if it didn't nearly stab Ulrich."

He rubbed his cheek painfully.

"That's better." She approved, and ran to Ulrich.

"Are you okay?" She asked, terrified that the knife DID hurt him, she just missed it.

Yumi hugged him hard, her head resting on his shoulder.

Ulrich wrapped his arms around her slender waist and told her he was fine. But he couldn't free himself of the knife.

She pulled herself off him reluctantly, and pulled on the knife. He was right. The knife stood firm.

"Guys! Someone, help!" Yumi yelled, pulling on the knife fiercely.

Odd quickly rushed over, and pulled the knife as well. Others also arrived to the scene, and contributed. The knife seemed to hate them all.

With extreme force, Yumi pulled like she never had before. Her feet were on the wall as she pulled. To her surprise, the knife clattered to the floor, and she was sent flying back.

"AT LAST! I'M FREE!" Ulrich yelled, pumping his fist into the air.

"Hah, yeah! Finally!" Odd remarked.

Then he stared at the floor. "Another note!" He exclaimed.

No one was surprised.

Yumi got up and rushed to the commotion.

"What does it say?"

Odd picked up the paper, his voice quivering.

"Don't celebrate yet.
Your time's nearly up.
You think you'll be okay?
Well, think again!

Five are down.
You could be the next!
Just watch your back.
Because I'm all around…

You breathe the air that I do.
Like toxic to your lungs.
You panic, fear for your life.
But you needn't worry,
It's already mine!"


"Oh my GOD. AELITA AND JEREMIE. What if they're dead?"

"Why would they be? I'm sure they're safer wherever they are than here!"

"The assassin said FIVE people. Not THREE!" She screamed, "What if Aelita's hurt? What if she's dead by now? What about Jeremie? How do we help them? How do they help us!"

Yumi blathered on about the possibilities until.

A shriek came behind them.

"Ohhh, not another one…" Ulrich groaned, rushing to the source of the noise. Yumi followed close behind.

"No, I'm not dead… yet…" Milly whimpered, "I'm just terrified. Besides the fact that this person can't write poetry, he's trying to murder us!"

As Yumi hugged the crying girl (And Ulrich tried to soothe her with his awesome, reassuring words, xDDD), Odd gloated- just a tiny bit. "I have catlike reflexes! If I can dodge arrows, perhaps I'll survive this little game."

He meant the arrow in Lyoko. However, he did get hit with arrows on Lyoko, but he wasn't killed, he was only de-virtualized. Here, it was reality. One shot, right in the center of his chest- he would be a goner. Not to mention blood would be pouring out, and he would be lying next to the corpses of Mrs. Hertz, Sophie, and Lizzie. He shivered at the thought.

"I'm not so sure of that." A voice replied. It was sly, witty, sleek… Just like an assassins voice would sound like. The thing was, they could not tell if it was a female or a male. It was impossible. It was stuck right in the middle, like cream in an Oreo cookie. Sadly, this wasn't the time to think up something as delicious as cream. Though every single, solitary person in here wanted something to eat. Standing there, watching their classmates fall to the ground didn't make one full… Though it did make them full of fear.

"ODD, COME ON! GET OUT OF THE WAY!" Ulrich yelled. Since he was right next to Odd, he was able to jump, and push both of them out of the way just in time.

"YEAH!" Everyone pumped their fists in the air, and doing a little victory dance.

Yumi walked up to the "thing" that almost strike Odd, and pulled it off the wall to examine it.

"It's… a dart… a MAGNETIC dart?" Yumi looked around, puzzled.

"The note, you moron! Read the note!" Sissy pestered.

Yumi sighed, "Yeah, Sissy, getting to it."

She took the note out and read,

"Hah. I knew he would go running for his dear friend.
Which is why I used this.
I just proved this little boy wrong.
He doesn't have cat-like reflexes, that idiot.
This was the only thing I had left; I guess I wasted it too.
It was supposed to be on my dart board.
To throw darts at all of you! Too bad it ain't in poetry form, it would be quite amusing.
I'm really not in the mood.
And this time I'll be nice and say, you aren't too.
I'll haunt you in your dreams tonight,
If you can even sleep.
I wish you a good dream,
When no one will scream. All the doors are locked.
You can't escape.
You ask, why does this happen to me?

I say, why not?
It's so fun just to see you fall and drop.
Well, now guess what?
There's another one coming.
Beware."

"That wasn't even poetry!" Odd complained.

"The murderer SAID that it wasn't!" Yumi sweat dropped, exasperated at Odd's stupidity.

"Oh."

They all heard a whoosh, followed by a shattering scream.

"Yep, the man keeps his word," Odd shook his head sadly.

A knife had been thrown, and hit the person square in the chest. The knife was of course, sharp. One prick of that thing and you'd have a major blood loss. Blood poured out, and no one was brave enough to mop up the blood with their shirt or shoe. Besides, if they wiped it with their shoe, wouldn't it be disrespectful? There was no note this time.

"Adam. Rest in peace, man." Nicholas mourned.

Adam was an outsider, a complete loner. Nicholas had befriended the boy, but Adam had always been shy and quiet towards others, so no one was crying, but they mourned for him anyways. It always hurt having a classmate dead even if you barely knew him or her.

"I don't know what to do now though. There's nothing to do but wait," Yumi moaned helplessly, banging her fist onto the wall next to a window.

"Wait! I think I got something…" Ulrich grinned malevolently.

"What?" The group of students huddled together excitedly.

"If we break the window, maybe we could climb through it." Ulrich explained. He also said he was motivated when Yumi had banged the wall, because the window was directly at the top of the place in which she banged.

"But the window is high up, and we don't know how to reach it." Yumi reasoned.

"And I'll get my hands all dirty!" Sissy protested.

"We should at least try it. It's better than staying here and wasting away to our death!" Ulrich argued.

"Yes, but what if there is something horrible outside that will kill us anyway?" Yumi questioned.

"Better than rotting away to our deaths." Someone answered.

"Yeah! What he said!" Sissy instantly changed sides when she noticed the statement was spoken by a good looking guy.

Ulrich examined the wall sporting the window, noticing the window was at least ten feet over his head, and it would be hard to get too, and to get everyone out of.

"Now what?" An angry and terrified girl yelled from the crowd. She was one of the many girls that liked Ulrich, which meant she and Sissy hated each other.

Ulrich shrugged, looking to his two friends for support. Neither had an idea.

A shuriken (throwing star) whizzed by and almost hit Ulrich. It was about an inch away, stuck deep into the wall right next to his head.

A note was attached, and Ulrich opened it to find a very short passage.

Windows won't work, neither will doors for that matter. I hope you don't mind, but your friend Adam came in hand when writing this note. Anyway, no matter what you try, you're all going to die…

Ulrich noticed it was written in blood, and he was shaking as he read it to the crowd of people in front of him.

"This is so stupid!" cried Emily. "Why the hell would anyone want to do this?"

Everyone else grew quiet, not sure of what to say in response to that.

The gang felt defeated, since the window was out of the question. A few students piped in to try it anyway, just to make sure, but everyone suddenly lost the will they had just had.

"Are we really going to die?" asked Yumi, now shaking slightly. Ulrich gently hugged her as Odd placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder.

"Everything will be okay…" Odd tried to cheer her up. But inside he wasn't even sure himself. I hope…

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Okay, that's it. Just for fun, can you guys guess where Jenn and I switched? Like, where one stopped and the other started. Just for fun. Anyway, hope everyone liked this chapter and please review!