"If you want to live, find me a carpet knife and a crowbar right now. I'll be upstairs." I said, grabbing the arm of the first person I saw. It was Lux. She looked into my eyes, then nodded and ran of, hopefully getting what I needed. Lux was back about five minutes later with the carpet knife and crowbar. I used the carpet knife to cut out part of the carpet, then rip it up.
I grabbed the crowbar and violently ripped up several floor boards. I told Lux to find me a hammer and nails as I ripped up some more boards. Lux was back soon and I told her to grab some of the boards and carry them downstairs. I help, and within a few minutes I had everything I needed. I put two boards down, about 4 feet a part. Then I laid the other boards on top, going the other direction. I quickly hammered everything together until I had a large square of wood that could cover the staircase to the basement which had a door infront of it. This way, the door to the staircase would just look like a closet.
I looked around, almost everyone was in the basement, except me, Lux, and Shadow, who was making her way to the basement. I walked down the stairs, with Lux just behind me.
"Shadow, light it and put that block of wood over the stair case!" I yelled up to Shadow, who was at the top of the steps. I heard the flick of a lighter, and then Shadow closed the closet door, put the block of wood over the staircase, and joined everyone in the basement.
We wait down there for what seemed like hours, but was really minutes. We could here the shouting above us from the Erasers. We heard the flames burning above us, with things exploding in the kitchen. At one point we heard what sounded like a bomb, and several howls from Erasers. A second later Shadow highfived Ember whispering something about something working.
Soon the noise was dieing down, and we heard Erasers searching the house. Everyone held there breathe when an Eraser opened the door to the "closet" looked around, then left a second later. We still heard flames up above, and soon a loud crash made me jump. The upper floor had collapsed, we found out later. After the crash, people made there way away from the staircase and into the rooms, hoping to be a little less cramped.
Some people fell asleep on beds, others on the floor. No one dared to check upstairs to see if the Erasers left. After almost 24 hours in the basement, I was dieing to get out, so I silently climbed the stairs, and lifted up the block of wood. There was no door, no ceiling, no upstairs, nothing was left. The fire burnt everything. Around me was a flat plain off dirt. Not only the house, but the grass and the trees had burnt.
I signaled for the others to come up, and they did. Some gasped, some had shocked expressions, others looked like they were gonna cry. It was a gruesome scene, with the remants of the home, the bodies of the Erasers I had killed burnt, and the still burning trees a few yards away.
"I believe that's twice now I've saved your sorry asses from the school already. Would anyone like to thank me?" I said, cracking a half smile. I heard a few dry, humorless laughs.
"How about we get out of here and get away from the school before they send even more Erasers?" Shadow asked. Some people mumbled agreements, some nodded, some just sat there, staring into space.