(Thanks to Angie2282, jamesss, Lance-Dusk, Zro-Kemuri 9t6, AlexTheMortal, and Zackt2010 for your reviews! Allright, let's see the penultimate chapter involving Jigsaw's... well, I suppose you'd call it an 'arc'. Read on!)
Paige coughed, holding her belly in pain. She was just too shocked to say anything, the burning questions she had for Trent unable to come free from her mouth. Trent cocked his head slightly, wiping the blood off of his knife on his already blood-stained trousers.
"Oh? Are you not going to say anything?" Trent asked, before suddenly throwing Paige nonchalantly over his shoulder and started to walk despite Paige's injury. Paige weakly tried to get off, but was unable to, and just hung there limp, her blood spreading over Trent's shoulder. "You know, I've had a lot of time to think, Paige, since Crystal Lake. And I've realised, all my problems are your fault. Everything is your fault Paige." Trent went through a darkened alleyway. "But, then again, that could be a bit idiotic of me, right, to blame you?" Trent dropped Paige into the dirty alleyway. "Well, TOO BAD!" Trent kicked Paige hard in the stomach, opening the wound a bit more.
Trent crouched down over Paige's body, still grinning. "I do what I want, Paige. You can't just stop me. Oh, and I know you know, which is kinda the reason you're here now. I don't want that secret out and about, y'know. It's so terrible and disgusting to me, I don't want ANYONE to know. Well... William knows, but I'm sure I'll... talk... him out of it." Trent stood straight and suddenly snapped his foot down on Paige's wrist. A satisfying crack filled his ears, and Trent turned away, leaving Paige silent and weak. "I hope you think about everything you've down, Paige. I sure hope you do in your final moments of your extended life."
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William had led the group of six into the place where he and Paige were held by Jigsaw.
"So, what are we doing then?" Max asked, letting Mila lean against the wall.
"Let me explain something to you." William said, facing the six. "When I encountered Jigsaw, he informed me that his 'item', the puppet Billy is just up those steps. He told me that two people would be able to destroy it, with teamwork. Jigsaw told me that if I, and Paige, work together, we would destroy it. But we also had the choice to walk away. Unfortunetly, Paige took the selfish action, and walked away. I followed her to persuade her to help me, but to no avail. You saw her storm off, and she was planning on going wherever." William lie, although the others didn't know that.
"Paige did?" Victor said, surprise evident in his voice. "That doesn't sound like the Paige I know."
"Indeed." William said solemly. "Once her life was completely on the line like that, her true colours appeared. But, I want to finish what I could have started, and I have to ask, will one of you help me destroy the puppet?"
"I want to stay with my sister... sorry, William." Max said, looking to Mila, who was shaking slightly.
The other's didn't say anything, but as Tally was about to step forward, Victor spoke up.
"I'll do it, I guess. I don't mind." He said, and William nodded.
"Come with me, then Victor." William looked to the others. "And If we don't come back in twenty minutes, assume we have somehow died, and by no means follow us up there. Anyway, let's go."
William led Victor up the stairs, a small camera following their movements.
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"I never said that..." John mused, from a room full of monitor's showing scenes from inside every rigged room. "William, why would you do that? You're going to sacrifice your friend, you selfish man." John shook his head, knowing that soon, he would disappear and be the first of Death's 'generals' to die.
Suddenly, the door to the room burst open, and an angry Amanda Young stormed in, fuming. "Kramer! What the hell do you think your doing, huh!"
"Perhaps I should ask you the same thing, Amanda." John said calmly. "I know that Damian only escaped his trap by a fluke, but you locked him in there anyway. You wanted him trapped in another 'impossible' trap. You fail me, Amanda. I gave you a second chance, and you blew it."
"Your right, Kramer. I wasn't expecting him to come out, and I THOUGHT that William had walked away." Amanda pointed angrily at the screen showing the former mortician. "But what's this? You're not going to DO anything about this?"
"Why would I?" John asked, shrugging. "It's amusing in the way William thinks."
"You're just throwing away your life, that Death GAVE you? He gave you a chance, gave US a chance to live again! To do whatever the hell we wanted to do!" Amanda shouted.
John remained silent as Amanda ranted, knowing it would end in only a minute or so.
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"Umm... William, what's this about?" Victor asked, looking inside the empty room. Well, empty except for the white puppet dressed in a tuxedo on a red tricycle. "I thought we had to work together on some sort of trap."
"I lied." William said bluntly, pushing Victor further in the room, and closing the door, activating a timed trigger.
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Victor saw the door shut, and his eyes widened in surprise as the puppet's mouth opened.
"Victor, you have managed to escape your trap, or rather Leslie did. I am speaking to you live right now, and I have seen what William Bludworth has done. Unfortunately, I cannot reverse what has been done, and your innocent life shall be ended in approximately five seconds. However, you're trapped friends will be freed. This was for William. I apologise for William's own selfish action."
"What?" Victor backed away from the puppet, as a beeping sound started, and a digital clock on the wall counted down from 00:05
Victor shook his head, and went over to the door.
00:04
"WILLIAM!" Victor shouted, smashing his fists against the door.
00:03
Victor slammed his fists against the door, but he knew William wasn't going to open the door, or answer
00:02
Victor slumped against the door, knowing it was about to end. He was all willing to risk his life, but William had just made him throw it away. 'You fuckin' bast-
00:01
Billy's head turned, and suddenly it exploded. The puppet smashed to pieces as fire and bits of wood and metal flew through the confined room, hitting the walls and making the room into a fiery inferno. Victor's skin was seared from his body as he was impaled with multiple shards of metal and wood. As the fire cleared, Victor's corpse slid sideways so it was laying down, dead.
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At the moment of the explosion, William deliberately threw himself down the stairs and let himself roll down to the feet of the very surprised group.
"What happened?" Zeke blurted out, noticing Victor wasn't with William. William didn't answer, just sat up and put a hand over his face.
"William!" Leslie said sharply. "What happened?"
"That idiot..." William muttered. "Victor made a mistake. I only just managed to escape. He set off an explosion. He's dead." William picked himself up, brushing his suit down. "We would have got it as well. The good news in all of this, however, is that despite Victor's death, Jigsaw has been beaten. We're done."
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In his room, Amanda had picked John up by his collar, and was screaming, shaking him back and forth. She suddenly gasped as her hands disappeared in front of her, falling to dust onto the floor. "Kramer, you fucking idiot!" was her last words as she fell to a pile of dust.
John watched his former disciple fall before him, and watched with grim amusement as his body dissolved before him. Finally, his cloak fell to the floor, dust in it. Jigsaw, the first of ten, had been defeated, arguably by his own will.