Here I shall switch POV every now and then. Like first to third, etc. If the point of the game was confusing, I'm sorry, I tried so hard to make it a little understandable, so let me know what you thought about in the last chapter. Thanks for reading!~
Rolling my eyes, I slowly turned away from Duncan and murmured a soft "fine." Mike and B followed quietly behind me. Duncan laughed and turned the opposite way. So, I knew I had to find the key, which, obviously, one of the first tagged seven, though I should say six now, should have. Then I remember Cody whimpering, so I figure, why not look for the dork first?
The suitcase must be hard to find, though, right? There are plenty of areas in the school that it could be hidden at. Turning, I swear I saw someone in the corner of my eye, so I stop and look. What is that thing coming towards us...?! I dodged effectively, but you're kidding me, right? Oh no. I look behind me. Oh god, B... Mike, next to B, was stunned. B was dead. There was a spear right through him, right at the heart... though I had a feeling that the attack was meant for me. He didn't even say or do anything wrong...
"Are you serious?! You never said we'd actually be killed! And what rule did we even break?!"
"And-And why are we being killed?" Mike questions. It didn't take me long to get an idea. We were targets of some dumb guy who hates us and really wants to kill us. Well, that was just one of the reasons I could think of as to why someone would try to kill us even though we did nothing wrong, or maybe it was just some psycho who did things for sheer entertainment... Or... No, I can't think about this now, I've gotta take Mike somewhere safer with me for now...
"We've gotta keep it low, Mike, try your best to keep your dumb personalities under control," I whispered.
"I-I know..." GASP.
"Dog nabbit-" GASP.
"Not now, Chester, please..." Rolling my eyes, I told him to just follow and stay down. We crouched down and all of a sudden I thought- Are the original tagged alright...? Are they being targeted as well, or are they only attacking the stamped? I couldn't help but think how Duncan's group was doing... I already lost a member. But I'm not going to die. Not today. Duncan was an enemy now, and heck, who was I to say that Duncan couldn't have been the one who tried to target me? Maybe they found the items already, and the items were actually weapons. Anything was possible at this point, and yet, it was still only the start of the game. If I was attacked, that meant I had already broken a rule of the game.
We were never actually told the rules of the game, and he said the rest of it was determined by us, but I could tell that there were rules untold and we had to figure them out. It was sort of like the game Mao: almost every rule in the game had to be figured out on our own, with the exception of a few basic rules. Penalties were given if you got the rule wrong, missed a rule, or to give hints as to what the rules were. Dear god, that's exactly what this game is like. This can't be good. Considering what the unknown being had told us before the game started, I've got to remember that everyone is now an enemy... Even Mike. We walk around the corner and see Duncan making out with Gwen... Did he even consider that she might have the key...? And so we stay to eavesdrop...
"Gwen, we should work together to find the key, and we'll escape together."
"But Duncan, what about the other-"
"Who cares about them? You got your case, right?"
"I did- but, Duncan...! We can't just leave them here!"
"We can! Remember, the key only unlocks two things, the room 233, and a container that has the key to escape. Who cares about the others, I'm going to save you and we're going to leave together. What were the contents in the case, Gwen?" He asked sternly, one brow raised.
"I-It was a knife and the message, o-okay...? But I'm going to say, Cody found his case, and it had something kind of big in it, but I saw him holding something small, he might just have the key! I didn't exactly see what it was, but we could try our luck... Right?" Gwen hesitated as she saw Duncan grin at the knife. I knew that something like that was going to happen, so I grab Mike and softly say, "We can't let Duncan have that key, Mike, we've got to get it before he can even take a glimpse of the key. Come on."
"Sure thing, er... Noah, was it? Maybe we can try to get Gwen's items-"
"No, we've got to find Cody... He might have the key right in his hands. Maybe this game will end faster than I though—"
"Stupid girlfriend stealer!" No. It can't be- "I hate you, why can't you leave me alone?!" Mike and I averted our attention back to Duncan and Gwen as the new guy shouted, and sure enough there was the candy-loving Codemeister. "Stop it! I don't have the key! I don't-"
"Then what was that small thing you were holding?! I saw you open that case, Cody!"
"No- You're wrong...! I don't have the key! It's not the- Argh! Is that a... knife...?! Aggghhhh! St-Stop! Sto..." Cody was groaning and panting heavily in pain as Duncan cut his skin slowly as if to torture him, and Mike almost went in, until I stopped him abruptly before he could continue...
"Argghhh! Ah... N-No...? Ahh...? No! Stop! You can't take that!"
"What is this? The stupid stamp from earlier...? Weren't you supposed to throw this away? What an idio-"
"STOOOP! STOP! NOT NOAH! YOU CAN'T TAKE HIM AWAY FROM ME, TOO!" What? I mean, what? "STOP! PLEASE! DON'T TAKE HIM AWAY FROM ME," Cody sobbed, "not Noah, too...," he continued, "nooo... I... said... STOOOOOP!" Cody broke away from Duncan's grip and pulled out... a gun... Everyone paused and quietly stared at Cody. Duncan retorted, "A gun? You wouldn't dar-"
"Don't. Move." He stared intensely at Duncan with a daring fire in his eyes, and I could tell he was taking a blood-lust bath in his head. I knew, then, that I had to stop him, but his words somehow stopped me from doing anything, even if he was talking to Duncan.
"Cody- Don't do this... Don't hurt Duncan...!"
"And why should I listen to you?! For so long I've been trying to get you, and it hurt standing by, seeing you go with Duncan, a-and I let you be with him... and now you want to kill me...? I say 'I don't have the key...' but you don't even believe me...? Well, I'll have you know..." his cough interrupted himself, "...that Mr. Anonymous told us that the stamp 'will symbolize' our 'partnership', a-and he said right after, 'do not throw it away, no matter WHAT I SAY.'" He trembled with tears near his eyes, putting his defense down..."Noah is still my partner... I didn't throw it away, and I'm not gonna let it disappear..."
"I-I..."
"And now that I'm defending myself right now, I realize that you don't even care if I die...!" Duncan rushes toward Cody with the knife he got from Gwen but Cody immediately brings his gun back up and shoots Duncan right in his face before he could touch him. He realizes that Duncan broke the stamp. Cody drops the gun, paralyzed with what he had done, and falls on his knees.
"NOO! DUNCAN! CODY, HOW COULD YOU?!"
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