A/N: Hey readers. Sorry I've been gone so long, but luckily I'm on summer break now. We're getting closer to the end and I want to thank each and every person who has read this story. When I first wrote this I never thought people would like it given how it deviates greatly from the traditional Final Destination formula. Thank you all for proving me wrong. I hope you like this chapter just as much as the rest of the story.
"Get your shotgun ready, Kevin. This might get ugly," Kimberly said cocking her own shotgun. She pulled out a knife and scratched out one of the symbols on the window. Kimberly and the survivors prepared themselves for the attack; no one moving an inch. Kevin kept his gun pointed at the window; ready to fight if necessary.
"You guys are going get stuck like that if you stand like this any longer." Kimberly would know that sarcastic voice any where! She and Kevin spun around pointing their guns at Clear.
"Listen Clear! We don't want a fight. We just want to talk." Kimberly told her though not once pointing the gun away.
A light chuckle escaped Clear's lips. "Get'em boys," she said and then Burke appeared in the room and grabbed Kimberly's shotgun. He swung it against her face knocking her onto the floor unconscious.
"Sorry baby," he apologized. Kevin attempted to shoot him, but then Alex teleported into the room and knocked his gun away. Kevin threw a punch at him which Alex deflected and tossed Kevin into the table.
"Kevin!" Wendy ran to him, but was cut off by Clear charging her and pressing her knife into Wendy's neck. "Now to end this!"
"No!" Nick grabbed Clear and violently pulled her off Wendy. Burke turned his gun on Nick and he dove to dodge the attack; forcing Janet and Lori to the floor with him.
Wendy used her powers and flung Burke out the window followed by Alex. She dodged a swipe by Clear and kicked her in the throat knocking her face into a lamp. They all made a break for it with Nick, Lori, and Janet running for the kitchen while, Wendy, Kevin, and Julie ran up the steps.
"Wendy!" Clear shouted in rage chasing them up the steps. "No more games!" She was about to throw her knife when she let out a scream and vanished from view.
"Can't believe that actually worked," Lori said still holding onto the kitchen salt. They heard a crash from downstairs and Lori made a line with the salt to hold them off. She then ran in front of Wendy and the others and did the same. The three tormented spirits ascended the steps all very pissed off.
"Why do you continue to run?" Alex asked. "We'll only keep coming for you."
"You don't have to do this," Kimberly said walking up the stairs.
"We have to! Don't you get it! ? He'll kill us all!" Clear screamed at her.
"Newsflash Clear! We're already dead!"
"You know what I mean! I'm not going back to hell!" She roared. "I just can't…" she quietly whispered. He voice cracking.
"Clear. We don't have to go back hell. We can end this all. Just come with us. Please." Kimberly begged. Clear didn't show any sign of backing down.
"Clear," Wendy said calmly taking a few steps forward.
"Wendy, what are you doing?" Kevin asked holding her back.
"I have no idea," she admitted. "Just don't act," she requested of him and crossed over the line of salt. "Clear, do you really thing that Death will keep its promise to let you all go once you've killed us?"
"I'm not leaving this to chance Wendy," Clear said; teeth clenched and knuckles white. "I barely remember what it feels like to be myself anymore. I've died twice already; once when Alex was killed and again when I was caught in that explosion. I've seen things; horrible things. Things…"
"That I can't begin to understand," Wendy finished for her.
"Yes. And I'm not returning to that life."
"Then go on Clear. Kill me. I won't stop you." Wendy surrendered.
"Wendy. No." Kevin crossed over the line, but froze in his tracks. "Let me go Wendy." She shook her head and looked back at Clear.
"What are you waiting for?" Clear advanced forward to Wendy and placed her knife against her neck. The cold feeling of the blade sent shivers down Wendy's spine. All Clear had to do was slice down and she'd be gone. Wendy shut her eyes waiting for the inevitable, but the feeling of the knife shaking against her skin followed by the sound of it clanking against the floor made her open them.
"I'm sorry," she apologized voice breaking. "I'm sorry." Wendy reached forward and found herself putting Clear into a comforting hug.
"It's ok, Clear. It's ok."
"No it isn't. We're dead. All of us."
"Stop saying that, Clear," Wendy ordered pulling out of Clear's arms. "We can fight this. Do you understand me?"
"How? Those guns won't do anything, but piss Death off. And you all know what happens when Death gets pissed off or have you forgotten what happened in the city."
"We know somebody that can help us."
"Don't tell me. Bludworth?" Alex guessed.
"Bingo."
"Why is he always involved?" Clear sighed slumping against the wall and sinking to the floor.
A few hours later
Wendy looked out Kimberly's bedroom window at what could very well be her last sunset. It looked so beautiful to watch. She felt a pair of arms snake around her waist and she sighed. Wendy let herself slump back into Kevin letting him take her weight.
"Hey Wen."
"Hi Kevin," she said putting her hands over his. "Listen we never really had a chance to talk about what happened in the car."
"Did you mean what you said to me after we kissed?" He asked brushing his cheek against hers. Wendy felt her knees buckle slightly and fought to stay standing.
"Yes," she answered. "All three words," but before she could continue she felt him kissing her neck. Wendy bent her head back and pressed her lips against his. Kevin pulled off her jacket and spun her around. Wendy pushed him up against the wall and pulled off his shirt; running her hands up his chest. They kissed again and Wendy felt Kevin's tongue slid into her mouth. Wendy responded by squeezing his shoulder and running her hand along it. Her hands went up and down his strong back while he started to suck on her neck. They broke apart and pressed their foreheads against each others.
"What'll Kimberly say if she finds us in here?" Kevin asked. Wendy didn't answer him and shoved him onto the bed.
Night had fallen and most of the people had fallen asleep. Wendy could hear Nick's snores coming from the bottom level as well as the sound of a shotgun being loaded and subsequently unloaded. She carefully slid out of Kevin's warm arms and got out of bed. She kissed the top of his head and walked out of the room. Wendy crept down the stairs so she wouldn't wake anyone and snuck into the kitchen. She rolled her eyes when she saw the person checking the guns was none other than Clear.
"Can't sleep can you?" She asked sliding into the chair next to her.
"I haven't slept in nine years... or is it decades? I lost track," Clear dryly stated checking the weapon again. "I lost so much when I was alive; my father, Alex, my baby. I forgot what it was like to care for life. I couldn't recognize my face in a mirror any longer. I wanted so badly to escape that I didn't even think about the lives that would get caught in the crossfire when I suggested the subway attack. I was only looking out for my own interests."
"Clear, you can't dwell on the past. What's done is done. If you want to make up for what's happened you can help us take down Death's design once and for all."
"Don't worry, kid. I'm with you guys till the end now. At the very least I'll get some well deserved payback for what we all had to go through," she joked and the two women laughed. "How did you deal with it?" She suddenly asked.
"Deal with what?" Wendy asked.
"The power; how did you deal with the visions?"
"I don't know. I just did. Admittedly I was very freaked out at first. I never thought about how dangerous a simple rollercoaster ride could be."
"You're telling me. Airplanes are supposed to be the safest ways to travel and one blows up mere seconds after we all were thrown off. To this day we still don't know how we are receiving these visions. And why us of all people?"
"Who knows? Maybe fate chose us."
"I don't believe in that sort of thing. I make my own fate. Now if you'll excuse me."
"Where are you headed off to?"
"To try and sleep. You should do the same. We've got a big day ahead of us tomorrow." And Clear exited the kitchen.
I see a lot of my old self in that girl, she thought.
A sudden crash in the kitchen caught her attention sending her running back inside. Wendy was lying next to an overturned table and her body was convulsing.
"Wendy? Wendy? Can you hear me? What's wrong?" She asked propping her up.
"It's my head! It's on fire!" She screeched.
"I need some help in here!" Clear yelled; her voice sounded through the house alerting everyone. She yelled for help again, but her voice faded into the dark along with all of Wendy's surroundings. She felt as if her head was about to explode and then another image flooded her mind.
13 years ago
"Time for bed Wendy," her mother told her.
"Ok mommy," she said running into her room and hopping into the bed.
"Pleasant dreams," she said to her daughter and kissed her forehead. Wendy closed her eyes and fell asleep; several hours later she jumped awake with sweat pouring down her forehead. Then she suddenly had an agonizingly painful headache. Wendy wanted to scream for her mommy to help her, but no sound left her mouth. She was no longer in her bedroom, but in an airport surrounded by people she never met. The scenery changed and she was in an airplane.
"Alex. Could you change seats with us?" A girl asked in her direction. Who was Alex? Her head turned towards a guy, who was frantically shaking his head no.
"Pleeeeeeeaase?" She sweetly asked.
She nodded and left her seat. Soon the plane took off, but something went wrong. The plane started to violently shake. A whole section of the plane broke off and one of the passengers attempted to save another that was about to be sucked out of the hole. It was no good and she was followed by more passengers. A monstrous explosion filled up the plane incernerating all the remaining people; Wendy was so frightened and terrified that she couldn't bear to scream. The explosion reached her and burned off all her skin.
The pain quickly subsided and Wendy was driving down a highway with more people she'd never seen in her life. A big truck drove past her and then the chain holding its large cargo broke sending all the logs it was carrying down the highway. A police car was hit full on and blew up; a man fell of his motorcycle, slid into a log, and was hit by his own vehicle. Wendy rapidly drove to dodge the cars, but her van overturned and crashed on the street. Wendy felt her forehead get cut and felt glass fly into her face and mouth when the windshield broke. As she felt tried to push herself up she spotted a man desperately trying to escape his car. The truck from before came back into view destroying his car and headed full speed at Wendy's car. She finally let out a blood curdling scream and then she was back in her bedroom.
"Wendy? What's wrong?" Her mother asked sprinting into her room and sitting on her bed. "Was it a bad dream?" She asked putting her into a comforting hug. Wendy nodded; her body was trembling. She felt something splash against her face and she woke up on Kimberly's living room floor. Everyone was standing around her with worried looks on their faces.
"Are you alright?" Burke asked holding a dripping bucket of water.
"I'm not sure." Wendy looked at Clear, who had the same bewildered expression on her face. "Clear did you… see it too?" Clear nodded. "How is that possible? How could I have had a vision at only age five?"
"I don't know. There's something about you that's different from the others."
"There have been an estimated 40 casualties and many more injuries from today's pile up on Route 23. This has been the second pile up on that Route in five years."
Death turned away from the T.V. while he sat in gate A-18 of J.F.K Airport.
"Those three were supposed to report in hours ago. What's taking them so long?" He wondered. If they so much as though about betraying him like Kimberly. Death felt his anger boiling and directed his gaze at a plane lifting off.
"Hey relax," the pilot said to his co-pilot once the plane was in the air.
"Sorry. It's just my first major flight."
"Don't worry. The odds of a plane crashing aren't very high," he assured his co-pilot.
"Haven't you ever heard of Flight 180?" He asked.
"That was just a random freak accident. Trust me. This plane is staying in the air."
"Ok. I guess you're ri-," The plane unexpectedly shook.
"It's ok. Just turbulence." The plane shook violently again slamming the pilot's head into the control's.
"What's happening! ?" The co-pilot panicked.
"Something's wrong with the controls!" The ship's controls automatically turned to the left and jerked forward sending the plane dive-bombing at the airport. The captain pulled back on the controls, but they wouldn't respond. "Oh shit!"
"Oh my God!" A woman screeched sighting the plane heading right for them!
Everyone jumped out of their seats and rushed for the nearest exits; pushing and shoving each other to escape. The plane smashed through the side of the airport and erupted in an intense explosion killing everybody in the vicinity. A plethora of fire trucks plus ambulances sped over to the airport minutes after the crash.
"Dear Lord in heaven," one of the paramedics breathed out at the sight of the smoking section of the airport. "Think there will be any survivors?"
"I doubt it," his partner responded.
Death dug out of the rubble and inspected the carnage he caused. "That felt good," he said and jumped out the gaping hole in the building. He noticed some of the ambulances and smiled as he walked away. He looked at one of the still intact parts of the gate and it collapsed on top of the ambulance crushing it.
A/N: Just when Wendy thinks she has all the answers more questions arise. How could she have had a vision about flight 180 and Route 23 years before they happened and why didn't she remember it having them till now? And with Death more pissed than it was in the beginning will she even live to find out? You'll be finding out very soon readers. See you all next update!