A girl sat in her room doing her homework; she sat proud, had short brunette hair that clung to the sides of her face, and had an olive skin tone. She was working on an assignment for film literature. They were currently discussing the genre of horror, and given an assignment to write a paper on the history of the genre and how it came about. She had been working hours on this paper, but never felt it was to best of her ability. So she brought up her internet browser and typed in "Genre: Horror". Many results came up, but only one caught her eye. It was a ways down the list, but it stuck out and she was filled with curiosity.

She then read aloud the title of the site, "Watch the most thrilling game online now. Live, uncut, unedited, and real. It's a game unlike any other." Confusion washed over her face, but her curiosity had gotten the best of her.

She clicked the link and her screen went black, she had feared she clicked on a bad link; but before she had a second to think about it her screen came back on. This time there was one main video feed with other videos on the left side. Also a scroll bar was on the side of the other videos, she scrolled down and it had only revealed more screens; she gasped for once she looked back at the main screen, she saw familiar faces.

"Holy—" She was interrupted by a voice downstairs.

"Maria! How's your homework coming along?" She heard her mom ask.

She groaned and answered. "FINE MOM" Her mom had shouted something else, but her attention was held onto the screens.

They stood there looking at each other; neither of them knew what to say. They were at a lost of words.

"I can't believe it's you!" Stephan exclaimed as he opened his arms and ran to her.

"And I cannot believe that it's you." Emily said, underneath her tone there was a sense of coldness.

Stephan ran up to Emily to hug her, and she weakly hugged back; her subconscious was eating at her. Yet, Stephan had not seemed to have noticed.

"Hey boothead," Victor said, with a big smile on his face. "I see you managed to stay alive."

Even though the comment was rudely silly, Stephan couldn't help but smile at him. He let go of Emily and ran into Victor's open arms. With Victor he had always felt safe and invincible.

"Is it over now?" Jasmine asked.

"I don't know," Emily began as she turned to face Stephan, who was being hugged by Victor ever-so tightly. "But there is something I have to tell you all."

"What's wrong?" Stephan said as Victor released him from his tight hug.

"She's the reason why we're here." Victor blurted out.

As Stephan's head snapped towards Victor when he said that, it snapped right back looking at Emily, "No, no—no that can't be true. Is it?"

Emily threw a disgusted look at Victor and sighed bringing her attention back to Stephan. "Yes, it is true." Emily saw the anger in his eyes. "Stephan stop, before you go off on me let me explain."

"Then start."

Maria's eyes were glued to the screen, she scrolled through the other screens which showed different rooms. All rooms had been eerie and dark; some rooms had dead bodies lying around. Some she recognized, others were unidentified because of what was left.

"Oh my gosh…what is this shit?" She asked aloud, but quietly.

Suddenly she heard a "beep" and in the corner of the screen she saw a message box that said, "Come join the Chat room where the game is the topic of the day." Again curiosity had overwhelmed her and she clicked upon the link and the bottom part of the screen had brought a black box with screen names on one small side and comments from users watching. She began reading the comments:

BloodFan68: This is awesome!

Goremore91: How did you guys work this one up?

Hailblood3: Is it real?

Jigfantic: How much did this cost?

Fakebeliever69: I heard about this role call a couple weeks ago! It's not real, but it's fun to watch!

Maria read on and on, these people actually thought it was a show; and that it wasn't real, but she knew different. She went to click on the margin for her to write a message and a notice came up: Please choose a name for this chatroom. She began writing what came to her mind first; Mari- and she caught herself quickly erasing it and thinking of some dumb creative name, VMBeliever16. She doesn't know how she came up with the awkward name, but it was there. She began to write.

VMBeliever16: I don't know why you think this is a show, but this is real as real as it can get. I know the people on these screens. And I know this is real, and I'm scared shitless.

People began arguing with her and she got pissed, until a message came across in bold red letters.

Jigsaw: Hello VMBeliever16, so you know these people? How would you like to make the game more interesting for you and the viewers?

Maria thought before she answered, and answered carefully.

VMbeliever16: How?

Jigsaw: Choose who should die next, and it will indeed happen.

Maria went into shock, but the thought of who to kill next came easy to her for some reason. She sighed softly, and began typing.

VMBeliever16: Sara.

They all were yelling at each other, Buddy on the other hand sat there with his hands over his head, until a static filled the room.

Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the final test. There are no more teams; no more saving each other…it's now every man for himself. Let's see who's strong enough to live to see another day.

They all stood in quiet looking at each other.

"Then who's the next to die?" Jasmine said.

Then the lights went out, and everyone screamed for their lives.