Hey guys.
Welcome to the next chapter of Trapped Until Dawn. So The Psycho has finally appeared. Ryan has already had an interaction with him, but how will William react?
William's pov, Washington lodge, 23:25
We had busted the kitchen door open, and I had fallen into the room. Ryan had fallen in front of me while Chris fell beside me. I was getting up to save Ashley from whatever crazy person had yanked her through the door, but before I could, I saw Ryan dodge something and I was suddenly hit in the head and knocked out.
23:27
We was unconscious but, even through I was knocked out, I could still feel the feeling of a totem vision coming on.
When the vision came into view, I could see what looked like a pool of water in a cave with a water wheel. I looked over to the left and saw a person get out of the water onto a ledge by the water wheel but it was too dark to see who it was. This seemed to be really important to pay attention to this totem but I don't know why. I contemplated this thought as the vision ended and I lay unconscious.
00:04
I was still asleep but I could feel yet another totem vision start.
When the vision appeared, I could see Mike, wearing only a tank top, in what looked like a building of some sort, petting a wolf. Looks like Mike might make a friend tonight I thought as the scene went black.
00:41
"Oh god… What the hell happened?" I groaned as I finally woke up and started to stand up. When I did get up, I looked around and noticed that Chris was still unconscious but Ashley and Ryan were nowhere to be seen. I also noticed I had a bruise on my forehead, just like Chris.
"Ryan?! Ashley?!" I shouted hoping to hear their call but hearing nothing.
"Ungh... ugh, what the fu-" Chris groaned waking up because of my shouting. He started to get up and grabbed the flashlight that just happened to be there on the floor.
"Chris! Jesus dude, are you alright?" I asked Chris as he grabbed his bruised left temple.
"Yeah, I think so. What happened? Wait, where's Ashley?" Chris asked me getting flustered.
"I don't know. I remember us busting the kitchen door open and then being smashed in the face by a guy in some sort of mask. Next thing I know, we wake up to find Ashley and Ryan gone. What if they had been taken by the psycho guy?" I explained.
"We better find them quick before anything bad happens." Chris said as we moved past the counter to find a way out.
"Wait, what's that?" I said looking down at the floor by the wall to see a blood splatter with a bag of sorts by it. Chris picked it up.
"It's Ashley's wallet. She must have dropped it when she and Ryan were taken away. We've got to hurry and find them before anything happens to them." Chris said as we continued until we came to a door and opened it.
"What the fuck." Chris said when he opened the door, a crow flew from a spot on the floor. The guy must have gone out a door this way and left it open, and I looked through the door to see another blood splatter on the wall but a lot bigger then the last one by Ash's wallet.
Before we left, I took a glance at the clock. The time was 12:43am.
"Aww shit no!" Chris said looking at the splatter.
"We've really got to find them." I said as I jogged down the hall to find an open door. I was right.
"The guy must have taken them outside." I stated as Chris walked towards me and we walked out the door.
We walked down the stairs of the lodge and headed off into the forest, following the blood trail going along the path, calling Ryan and Ash's names along the way until we came across a path that leads two ways. One with the blood trail going down it, one that's completely blank.
"Which way should we go?" Chris asked.
"We should split up. I'll go down the blood path, you go down the other." I said as I walked left and Chris walked right.
I walked down the path until I got to what looked like a dead end. Suddenly, a scarecrow with a zombie mask popped out of nowhere and scare the shit out of me.
"What the fuck!? Why!?" I shouted, punching the scarecrow in frustration.
I walked past the creepy scarecrow and walked towards the source of the blood trail: a pig's head.
"Jesus, poor pig… Wait, this was a red herring! Fuck!" I said looking at the pig's head for a second then moving on.
I moved to the left to see a totem on the floor. At least this way wasn't a complete waste of my time. I picked it up and saw black detailing, which if I remember right is death. I turned it over, looked into the butterfly and the vision started.
It was very dark when the vision appeared, I was back in the mine for this vision and I could see one of the guys being pulled up by something on the roof of the mine. I could hear a screech of a creature or monster of some kind. Not a good sign. The guy, who I could only assume was Chris because of the person's clothing, struggled as the scene faded.
After the vision finished, seeing as this was a dead end, I swiftly ran back past the scarecrow, down the path and towards the path that Chris went down.
I continued to run down the path until I saw Chris enter an eerie shed.
Before I followed him inside, I had a sneaking suspicion that there was something round the side of the shed. So I went round, past the large garage like doors and around the side a bit farther until I came to a dead end. I thought I did this for no reason, until I saw another totem that had a turtle on the back. I picked it up, turned it over to see a brown butterfly, which equals loss, and the vision started.
I saw I was back in the mine for this vision too. Suddenly a hand fell up from above and was laying lifelessly, then a severed head came flying from off screen. It was Ashley, her had had been cut off and her eyes were staring at me as the vision ended.
When I came out of the vision, I heard a loud bang and a curse of 'god dammit' and a little bit of crying coming from inside. Ash and Ryan must be in there. I sprinted back to the door and entered.
When I entered, I heard Chris talking to what sounded like Ashley and a light click on loudly as I enter the room where Chris was.
I looked around the room and saw a grate like window with a railroad switcher with a picture of Ashley and Josh on either side. Through the grate, I saw Ash and Josh tied up by their hands on some sort of board with a railroad track on the floor leading from them to a huge saw pointing towards them. I couldn't see him, but I could hear Ryan grunting and struggling in the corner.
"Hello and thank you all for joining me." The voice of the psycho said. I looked up and saw speakers around the room as Ash shouted to wake Josh up.
"Tonight we're going to conduct a little experiment. A sort of test." The voice continued as Josh woke up, everyone questioned what was going on and Chris tried to open the door to the room beyond the grate but no dice.
"Now for this experiment, we'll need the cooperation of our two test subjects. Joshua and Ashley." Continued the psycho as I contemplated what to do next and Josh and Ash cursed in shock.
"But we're going to need two more brave participants to help decide which subject will live, and which will die!" The voice said as the 'subjects' squirmed about and shouted trying to release themselves and Ryan gasped in shock, still trying to free himself.
"Please. Please please, everyone calm down. It's all very simple. Christopher, William, you will find a lever placed directly in front of both of you. All you have to do is choose who you two will save." The voice explained as the saw started to spin.
How does this guy know our names? I questioned in my mind.
(Ashley):"Oh no... Please! This can't be happening! Oh god oh god oh god...! This isn't right!" (Josh): "Shit... Shit... No! Okay... Okay... Okay...Okay, this is going to be OK." Ash and Josh said at the same time.
"Oh crap. Oh crap. Oh crap. Oh crap. Oh crap." Chris said as he and I were thinking about what to do.
(Josh): "Dude... Buddy... Let's just think about this for a minute." (Ashley): "Oh my god! CHRIS! WILL! You two CAN'T LET ME DIE!" Josh said and Ash shouted, Josh talking primarily to Chris and Ash talking to both of us.
"You'll never get away with this." Ryan shouted from where he was trapped, but his voice sounded hoarse and weak.
"Just, just, just... give us a second... I-I can't think straight... Shit." Chris said in frustration.
"What the fuck do we do? We can't make this decision" I said to Chris.
"Well, I don't think we really have a choice in the matter, do we? We can't bust the door open, I already tried that. Ryan's tied up in the corner and can't get himself free. I don't know what else to do." Chris replied back to me.
"Well, OK then, who do we save?" I asked.
"I don't know, Josh is my best friend but I like Ash. I can't just let her die." He whispered to me.
"I don't know either. You pick, I can't decide." I said.
Mostly because I don't know these characters well enough to make this decision I thought to myself.
"Um... well... Um..." Chris contemplated. After some thinking, he said.
"Ashley, I'll get you out of this. I won't let you die!"
(Ashley): "Oh god... Thank god... Oh thank you... Thank you." (Josh): "No! Please no!" Ash cried thankfully and Josh cried desperately.
"This is insane... This is nuts. This isn't happening. Chris. Please tell me this isn't happening." Ash said fearfully.
"I-I don't know what to do...!" Chris said holding his hand over the lever.
"Bro! Bro, we've been through so much, come on... I don't wanna go out like this!" Josh shouted.
(Ashley): "Chris, Will, please! I'm so scared! Please don't let him kill us!" (Josh) "I know...I know we haven't been the best of friends lately and I've been kinda messed up and everything... but I'm getting better, man... I swear!" (Ryan) "You can't do this!" Josh, Ash and Ryan shouted.
Why is he taking so long to decide? Maybe I should hurry this along. Who knows what will happen if he doesn't. But maybe I shouldn't intervene. What if I make the wrong option?
"Oh for God sake, if you can't choose then I'll flip the switch myself." I said frustratingly pushing Chris out of the way to intervene and pushed the lever to the right, towards Josh's picture (Butterfly effect).
"Ah... I see. You have chosen... to save Ashley." The psycho's voice rang out of the speakers again while I sighed with relief and Josh screamed as I quickly realized that the saw was headed down the right track right towards him.
(Josh): "NO CHRIS! WILL!" (Chris): "Oh... Oh no... No no no no no no no... Why did you do that, Will?!" Chris asked me angrily while Josh screamed and squirmed around.
(Ashley) "OH GOD JOSH!" (Will): "You were taking so long to decide! I didn't know what would happen if you didn't pick. What if Ash had gotten sawn in half if you didn't pick? You choice would've been pointless!" I said as Ash screamed and the saw got closer to Josh.
(Josh): "I thought we were FRIENDS man! I thought we were FRIENDS! Why would you two DO THIS!?" (Chris) "I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry! THIS IS MADNESS, PLEASE!" (Ryan): "Let us go, you Psychopath!" (Ashley): "AHHH NO!" (Will): "Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck. Please Stop!" (Josh): "NO! OH GOD WHAT DID I DO!?" All of us screamed as the saw got very close to Josh's stomach.
"Stop it you can't do this! Please!" Chris shouted as the saw made contact.
(Chris): "NO!" (Ashley): "OH NO! OH GOD, OH MY GOD, OH GOD, CHRIS! WILL! GET US OUT OF HERE!" (Will): "NO, FUCK, NOOOO!" (Chris): "Oh Josh... Josh, I'm so sorry." (Ryan): "SHIT! GOD DAMMIT!" We all shouted as Josh's lower body was sawn in half, exposing his intestines and spraying blood everywhere, including all over Ashley who was tied up next to him. I dropped to my knees in despair.
(Chris): "No no no. D- Don't look Ash. Don't look!" (Ashley): "Why can't I look, Chris? Please tell me he's OK, please...!" Chris said in dismay and Ash pleaded. Suddenly, the door that Chris tried to open earlier magically opened and Chris quickly ran through it to untie our friends that were still alive. I got up from off my knees and made my way to Ryan.
(Ashley): "No" (Chris): "I'm coming Ash, I'm gonna get you. I'm letting you down" (Ashley): "Argh" (Will): "Don't worry Ryan, I'll untie you" We said to our respective partners.
"I can't believe that just happened." Ryan said as I untied him. I also notice he also had a bruise like Chris and I (Butterfly Effect Update).
"Yeah, and I believed I could save everyone tonight. I guess that was just wishful thinking." I said.
"Oh come on, don't say that. We can still try to save everyone else, right?" Ryan said smiling, putting his hand on my shoulder as I finished untying him and I heard Ashley scream as she saw Josh.
"Yeah, I guess you're right. Let's go." I said smiling back as we exited through the garage doors I had walked past earlier with Chris and Ash walking and hugging each other protectively.
"Guys!" I heard someone say as we rounded the corner dejectedly, I looked up to see Matt and Emily walking down the path.
"Blood! Blood! Whose blood is that, Ash?" Emily asked us.
"Are you OK?" Matt asked.
"Guys, what happened?" Emily asked.
"J- Josh." Chris tried to say but was struggling.
"Josh what, dude?" Matt said.
(Chris): "He's dead" (Matt): "Wait, what?" (Chris): "Right in front of us man-" (Emily): "What are you talking about?" (Chris): "T- There's a maniac-" Chris tried to explain but Matt and Emily looked confused.
(Matt): "Maniac?" Matt questioned confusedly.
(Emily): "Oh my god. We gotta get out of here" (Matt): "I don't understand what happened-" Matt and Emily continued to question.
"I'll explain seeing as Chris and Ash aren't in the right state of mind right now." I said as I started to explain as they cried.
"We were attacked by a complete psychopath… He knocked us all out and kidnapped Ashley, Ryan and Josh and took them down to that shed over there." I explained.
"I managed to dodge the Psycho's attack and tried to save them, but he eventually got me." Ryan added.
"Chris and I woke up and made our way down to the shed where we found a torture chamber of sorts… Josh and Ash were tied up with a saw pointing right towards them." I continued to explain.
"I was also tied up in the corner." Ryan added again.
"Anyway, we had to pick who to save… Ash and Josh… I left the decision up to Chris. He said he chose to save Ash and the saw started to spin and move towards them… Chris was taking to long to decide which way to pull the lever so I-" I said but I was interrupted.
"You push me out of the way and pulled the lever yourself!" Chris interjected. "You killed my best friend!" (Butterfly Effect Update)
"Yeah… Technically, but one, I didn't know what was going to happen if you didn't choose which way to pull the lever, and two, you had already chose to save Ashley anyway." I said back.
"That's no excuse! You were the one to pull the lever…" Chris stated.
"Anyway," Ryan interrupted. "The saw went towards Josh and… cut him in half… They untied us and we got out of there as fast as we could."
"No. No, this is insane. We need to go get some help." Emily said.
"We're going to figure things out." Matt said.
"Matt, we need to go get help now!" Emily said.
"Em, we should look for the others-" he said.
"Mike and Jess are off 69ing each other and who knows where Sam is." She said.
"I think she's in the lodge-" Chris said pointing to the way back to the lodge, the way we came from before all this happened.
"Shit, what if the Psycho already got to her?" Ryan stated.
"Ryan, I'm sure she's fine." I said.
"Fine. Fine. You're right. Get everyone else together. But if there's a maniac running around I think we need to get some help too, right? Not just waiting around?" Emily agreed.
"But what about-" Matt tried to say but was cut off.
"Why are we still talking about this? Let's go!" Emily said.
"I think we should split up. Who's going with who?" I asked.
"I'll go with Matt and Emily." Ryan said standing beside them.
"OK, I'll go with Chris and Ashley then." I said standing beside them.
"OK, stay safe." Ryan said to me.
"Yeah, you two." I said as we walked off with our respective groups to find some help and find the others.
Butterfly effects:
Will chose not to shoot the squirrel; Nature remained in balance.
Will decided to face the 'danger' on his own; He attacked his 'attacker' who turned out to be Chris; He gave him a bloody lip and black eye.
Ryan tried to save his friends himself; He was caught by the Psycho before he could do anything; He ended up with a bruise like Will and Chris.
Will pushed Chris out of the way to pull the lever; Chris blamed Will for Josh's death.
I'm glad I didn't take as long to make this chapter as I do with most of the other ones. I don't like to keep you guys waiting.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed this chapter. Tell me what you think of the story so far, I would love your feedback, anything to help me improve this story in anyway.
Bye guys.