Chapter 6

Gray skies, dark gravestones, leaves on the ground, weeping trees and a tall dark tower in the distance. I was near an iron gate and had a red rose in my hand and in a black long dress wearing black ballerina shoes.

"Where am I?"

"At the plantation from our first assignment."I turned around and saw someone I hold dear to me. He wore a long black sleeve shirt that the sleeves were pushed up half way to his forearms, jeans and black and white skater shoes. His hair color was red-orange color and his skin and his skin was pale, his eyes were blue as the ocean, on his face was a streak of blood across his cheek. It was Hutch.

"Hutch?"

"Anya."

"What's going on? Why Am I here at the plantation?"

"I was about to ask you the same thing." I became more confused than usual. Most importantly, why is Hutch? He's dead, isn't he? I know he is, he died here on our first assignment. He was the very first member of the Crimson Rose Elite Squad.

"Why are you here Hutch?"

"This is place I died remember? My first assignment on the squad." Silence came upon us after he brought that up. I became sad all of sudden. I know this is a dream, but it feels so real. I walked toward Hutch slowly. I wanted to touch him, but I didn't know whether he might disappear or not. I was an inch away from him and I stopped walking. He stared at me with those ocean blue eyes. This is no ordinary dream I'm having, it was a memory.

"So, why am I here Hutch?" He didn't answer yet and I don't think he wasn't going to give me the answer easily.

"Why here, why now? Why bring me to the place where you died?" My voice was as calm as it can be, but I didn't want to yell at Hutch, but I was coming to a close of yelling. "Hutch, I need answers. Please just tell me why am I here?" I don't think Hutch wanted me to be out in the cold, but he was being hesitated about telling me. He sighed and finally spoke.

"I brought you here because you need to know something. Something that the school is hiding." My eyes started going wide and started to get curious about what the school is hiding.

"What do you mean that the school is hiding something? What do you mean about that?"

"The school covered up the name of the murderer who killed me here and who killed the girl at your school."

"How do you know that?"

"Because I've been watching over you. In reality, I'm just a spirit. It lingers in the world that I died in and never left. I watched how the squad grew with teamwork, leadership and trust you had with your teammates. You guys became more than teammates, you guys became a family, but it all changed when The Myers Massacre ambushed you guys when they told you they kidnapped the leader of the preps." I gave him a stern look for bringing up that ambush during freshman year. I never wanted to be reminded of that night because we lost our master. "I saw the fight and I wished I never did, but I had too."

"Than why bring it up then! Why bring up that horrible night!

"Because I saw out master get killed by one of the Myer's brother! I saw how he was killed! How he was murdered by Ryan Myers!" Bringing up master's death pissed me off more than usual.

"I was there in flesh and blood! I saw his death right before my eyes! I was scarred for life! I tried to protect him, I tried to protect everyone! Ryan saw the weakness in my eyes, he found out my weakness and I killed him for it! I killed Alex Myers!" After yelling those words to Hutch, I woke up from the dream. I shot up from my bed, sweating and tears streaming down my eyes. Breathing heavily, I couldn't hear my own thoughts. I got out of my bed grabbed my firearm and walked toward the tall mirror on my closet door and saw how pale I was. Something is happening to me and I don't know what it is. The murder, the strange dreams. "What's happening to me!" I said to myself angrily. I glanced down at my right hand gripping on the firearm. Is it because I want to reform the squad? Are the spirits of the squad pissed off? Are they trying to make me go mad? I don't know what's wrong with me. Gripping tightly on my firearm, I looked back at the mirror and saw another's reflection.

I turned around a punched at the shadowed figure, but blocked my attack. He lunged right towards me and dodged toward the door and opened it. "Dad! Help me!" I screamed before the shadow figure grabbed my hair pulling me away from the door and slamming it. Dad and Leon heard me screaming and ran upstairs to my room. I was fighting off my attacker and trying to get towards the door, but he would figure me out. The door was banged down and Leon lunged towards the shadow figure and punched him and the grip was loose on my hair and ran toward dad until Leon was pushed towards me and knocked both me and Leon to the floor. Both of our weapons were on the opposite side of the room. The shadow figure walked toward us, Leon put himself between me and the figure. The figure pointed his gun at Leon's heart and was about to shot him. I couldn't let him die, not this soon. I lunged toward the shadow figure and pushing Leon out of the way and stabbed him with the knife Hutch gave me, but a gunshot was fired.

I stopped running toward the shadow figure and everything around me was silent. The shadow figure looked down at his stomach and he was bleeding. He looked up at me and then fell to the ground. He was dead. Who fired the gunshot at him? I looked back at Leon, but he didn't shoot him. I looked over at dad and he held my gun. Dad was the one who shot him. He saved both me and Leon. Dad swears he would never pick up a gun ever again, but he didn't want me to die so, he had no choice. I was stunned and wanted to pass out, but I couldn't. Instead, I fell to my knees and cried. I became weak and pathetic. Leon kneels beside me and pulls me towards his warm body. I was happy that Leon didn't get killed even though I barely know him, but he was protecting me. Leon was holding me tightly and I felt tears dripping on my head and noticed he started to cry too. Dad was still standing in the doorway and said, "I have to call the police and tell them someone tried to kill my daughter." Leon didn't say a word, but nodded to him. Dad left us and went downstairs and called the police.