SSF: Chapter updates are going faster now, Thank you Hopefaith2 and iiShuChan for helping me. This will be the last you will be hearing from 2p!England, he might show up again someday as an experiment Fanfic, but other than that he's an antagonist for 18 and 19. Now, it is also close to Halloween (I know I'm early) and I thought the thrill and suspense would be fun.
Disclaimer: Own Tori.
Chapter 19
The morning went by quietly, Tori got up super early to go down to his class he left a note saying where he was, once he went to medieval history he saw his teacher getting ready for class, he went up to her and held himself.
"Evlyn?" He called out gently. The woman looked at him with concern, Tori was shaken, her first thought was that Ivan was bullying the poor boy, she crossed her arms and looked him dead in the eyes.
"Is Ivan picking on you lad?" she asked.
"No, no-one is. Evlyn, something is wrong with Arthur, he's scaring me. I saw him laughing at a death scene in a murder book, and his eyes they're pink. I thought it was lack of sleep but..." he felt a few tears fall. "Please tell me you know what's wrong with him!"
"I haven't seen him around lately, actually..." The woman looked up at the boy in front of her. She placed her hand gently on his shoulder to try and calm him down. She was about to ask him to explain further untill the door to the classroom burst open, a random girl poking her head in.
"Mrs. Kirkland, I think you'll want to see this..."
The woman in question looked from the girl at the door to Tori before walking over and going out to the hallway, following the student. Tori, curious, followed slowly behind while willing himself to calm down. They both followed the girl to the staircase leading to the dorms.
"They found him last night. He's in the hospital wing as we speak, but I figured you'd want to know," the girl looked back at the two before opening the door. In the corner of the room, near the elevator, sat a puddle of blood. Above said puddle, written in the blood was, "Damn Frog".
Evlyn stared at the mess with wide eyes. Her son couldn't have possibly done this!
"Where is he?" she looked at the girl.
"Arthur? I couldn't say... I haven't seen him around today. We've tried his room, but no one answers..." Tori looked down this confirmed his suspicion, this wasn't the Arthur he knew and loved.
"It's not Arthur.." he whispered out. The group looked to him in confusion, "It had to be a doppelganger, there's no way Arthur would do this. It's clear they hate Francis, but he wouldn't hurt him like that. He would have left Francis with the traditional bruised and bloodied nose.
"That is true. That boy must have been messing with magic again..." Evlyn groaned, holding her head. Why did her son always have to fiddle with his spells in the middle of the night?
"I'll go check on Francis," The girl bowed at the two before jogging off in the direction of the hospital wing.
Mrs. Kirkland looked back at the mess. She silently wondered how Francis was still alive with this much blood pooled on the floor. Tori cleared his throat to get her attention before saying anything.
"We could try his room again, if you'd like?" He asked, looking up at her. She nodded her response, walking up to the elevator and pressing the button. They both looked at the floor, grimacing at the bloody footprints that led to said elevator. As the door opened, the footprints continued inside and stopped in the middle of the small elevator.
"I'm going to kill him," Evlyn ground out, walking inside. Tori followed her to the room with her, when they got there the door was partially opened, they cautiously went inside and saw fresh cupcakes along with a knife, Tori looked around and stopped at a mirror with a note saying 'We await the silver treasure you bragged about' but it wasn't on the mirror it was as if the note itself was written inside, Evlyn winced,
"I know that trick anywhere" she said with dread. Tori looked at her in confusion,
"Evlyn?" she looked at him and took his shoulder.
"Tori...Years ago when Arthur was ten, he found out how to communicate by writing messages in a mirror, now, this spell is VERY risky, there's countless worlds and mirrors out there so you never know who you're talking to. One day, he was talking to another boy with the same name, they got along fine until the boy came to our world. He had Arthur's looks but, he had pink eyes, to create less confusion we called him Oliver." She started out looking to the knife "He was a psychotic version of Arthur, he would always hurt those he deemed were a threat to Arthur, well, soon Arthur saw the pattern and confronted Oliver about it, he didn't like it. So Oliver, tried to hurt Arthur the very boy he protected. Ian managed to stop him and send him back, before he vanished his words were 'I will take those you care for'...It's been years now and we haven't heard a word from Oliver until now." Tori looked up at her for a while, horror and confusion written all over his face. If Arthur knew what would happen, why would he try it again? None of this made any sense!
"Do you think that he could do it again?" Tori questioned.
"I suppose so...may take some time. We'd also have to find both of them first," Evlyn pointed out, looking at the cupcakes, "You never ate one right?"
"No, why?"
"No reason, love. Just asking."
Soon, footsteps could be heard from down the hall. That were slow and paced, the person obviously not in a hurry. Evlyn pushed Tori away from the door, watching it. If it were who she thought it was, Tori wouldn't want to be near that door right at this moment. Alfred pushed the door open slowly and stared at the two with surprised eyes.
"Dude, what are you guys doin' in here?" He asked.
"I could ask you the same question..." Tori deadpanned.
Alfred rubbed the back of his head, "Well, I was on my way to visit you until I heard talking from here. Figured I'd check it out..." he laughed nervously. Before another word was spoken, they heard pounding, like someone was kicking at a door, Evlyn grabbed the knife afraid that whoever or whatever was kicking was dangerous, she moved towards the closet where the pounding was heard, and opened the door, only to drop the knife, she knelt down and looked inside reaching her hand out,
"Oh my god, Arthur! Are you okay?" she asked taking the gag off, Arthur coughed a bit and nodded, he looked up at his mother,
"I'm fine, Oliver didn't hurt me" Arthur saw Tori and winced a bit "Sorry you had to see me like this love" Tori shook his head and watched Evlyn untie him.
"I'm just glad you're safe is all" he said softly. "Why did you do that mirror spell?"
"I didn't! Oliver's been writing to me for about a few days, I ignored them hoping he would lose interest, it didn't work so I woke up one day and there he was staring at me with that sick smile of his." Evlyn had a scolding look on her face,
"I'll have to get your brother to send his arse back," She crossed her arms, "Do you know where he is dear?"
"I wish.." Arthur groaned, rubbing his wrists, "Of course, I do know how to draw him out," he finished, looking over at Alfred.
Alfred blinked a few times, staring at the three who were looking at him, "No way, dude! I successfully dodged him all day, I'm not gunna purposefully sell myself to him! He's scary as hell!"
"Come on, Alfred! He hates you even more than Francis!" Arthur said, crossing his arms as well.
"Yeah, that's reassuring..."
"Look, if we don't stop him now, he's going to hu-"
Arthur was cut off by a scream from outside. They ran to the window and noticed he was standing there looking at one of the female students with a balled fist and his head tilted. He looked rather confused while the girl looked completely and entirely horrified.
"What's wrong, love? It's only a bird!" He cooed, smiling widely.
"Y-You killed it!" She shrieked, backing up.
He laughed loudly while holding out his hand, opening it to reveal a smushed bird, blood dripping, "Of course I did. I need ingredients, do I not?" his chuckling got louder as the girl ran off. Said blonde turned to walk inside, staring up at Ivan. "Move please. Or I could gladly make you!" Ivan cringed at the sickly sweet smile and moved away slowly, allowing the boy to pass him and go inside.
"Dude, even Ivan's scared..." Alfred muttered.
"He must be coming this way... I want everyone out. If he's doing what I believe he's doing, you won't want to be here. Arthur, I'll go find your brother. Don't let him catch you again!" She scolded before leaving.
"Tori, do you think we could hide in your room?" Arthur looked over at the boy.
He nodded quickly, grabbing Arthur's hand and leading the two back to his room, "We'll have to block the door though. I don't trust him," Tori explained, unlocking the door to his room.
A few minutes after the door was closed, the cloned Brit came waltzing down the hall humming to himself. The three in Tori's room pressed up against the door, listening to his footsteps stop in front of Arthur's room.
He tilted his head, noticing the door was opened. The boy peeked inside, noticing the closet door was also ajar, "Oh my, dear Arthur. Where have you gone? Not to fetch your brother, I hope," he sang, walking down the hallway slowly, "I may just have to go kill him."
-line break-
Tori was sitting on the bed shaking like a leaf, Arthur was holding Tori close rubbing his back trying to calm him down, Alfred was by the door holding a gun, Tori looked at him for a bit,
"I thought schools ban guns" He whispered.
"They do, but here, only time you can take it out of your room is if you are threatened, we need all the fire power to keep that Oliver at bay." Alfred said staying by the door. Tori rested his head on Arthur's shoulder.
"What's the deal with the cupcakes?"
"Well, the icing is made of sleeping drugs, the cupcakes, well..ever seen Sweeney Todd? He mixes death with the batter, He tends to be well...Never you mind" he said.
"What does he want with me?" Arthur sighed and shook his head,
"I don't know Love." Tori nodded one last time before resting against him. The room went silent, at times Arthur got up to look outside the window to see if Oliver was outside, so far no-one, the door was being pounded on causing the trio to jump and turn to the door, Alfred readied the gun, but no attempts were made inside, all that was seen was a note being pushed under to the other side, Alfred picked it up and paled at the contents.
"This guy is one sick freak" he said looking at the note and picture, it had Oliver, Tori, and a dead Arthur. Arthur came over and looked, gulping a bit, "I can't decide if he's tryng to kill everyone I care about or take my place..."
"I don't want him to take your place!" Tori exclaimed, jumping up off the bed.
"So, you three are in there?" Oliver said in a happy tone.
They froze, looking at the door as the shadow underneath moved closer. Alfred gulped, holding onto the gun tightly as Arthur slowly crept back onto the bed with Tori, glaring at the door.
"Am I allowed in or is there something I've got to do first? I can think of a lot of things," The figure on the other side of the door laughed as he ran a knife down the door. "Come on, this isn't any fun!"
Arthur looked around as Alfred slowly backed up to the bed with Tori. The Brit got up and opened the window, looking at the tree that was near. He motioned for Tori to come closer, helping him out the window and onto said tree. Alfred practically pushed Arthur out as he ran out onto the tree as well as the doorknob started to jiggle.
"Way to go, you bloody prat! I could have fallen!" Arthur hissed out, looking back at the American.
"Just shut up and climb!" Alfred hissed back, pointing down to the ground where Tori was. Arthur was shocked by Alfred's somewhat assertive tone and continued to climb down without hesitation.
"Oh Tori? Are you still there? I don't wanna break your down. It's a very nice door, even though I disagree. Come out so we can play some more okay?" Oliver said in sick twisted childish like voice and he continued to turn the knob.
"Climb dammit! Climb!" Tori whispered as he finally made it down. A few minutes later, Arthur and Alfred make it to the ground.
"Where do we go now?" Tori asked fearing Oliver would find them outside.
"The forest. We can get some help, or weapons. Whatever comes first?" Alfred said as he leaded them to the forest, barely making there before the door is forced open.
"Now look what you made me do! You made me ruin the nice door. Now can we play?" Oliver said as he finally got the door open. To his disappointment, the room is empty.
"Now where did you go? I wanted to play some more. Ahhh I see now. You're playing hide and seek with me! What fun! And I will find you Tori. If it's the last thing I do." Oliver said sadistically as he smirked and left the room. He stomped down the hallway, sadistic smile in place. The blade in his hand gleamed in the light. Students moved past quickly as the blonde went to the elevator quietly and got in, pressing the down button. They all watched as the doors slid closed and the boy disappeared out of sight.
Arthur and Tori followed closely behind Alfred as they ran through the forest. Arthur looked back every now and then, hoping and praying he wouldn't catch up any time soon. He knew exactly what tricks that boy could pull to perform the things he did and they weren't pretty things.
"Damn, you dudes are slow!" Alfred yelled back.
"Shut up, git! We're not all five-star football players!" Arthur ground out, pulling Tori along.
"I can hear you!" Oliver called out in a playful sing-song voice.
"God dammit, already?!"
Alfred grabbed Arthur, who still had a hold of Tori's hand, and pulled them both along, forcing them to speed up. How did he get himself into this, seriously? And how did school become so dangerous?!
"You can't run for long!" the playful voice called out again, laughing.
Arthur growled, looking at Alfred's back, "Why are we going anyway?! I don't see any help!" He yelled out, holding onto Tori's hand tighter.
"Seriously, I don't see anyone or anything and this is really starting to scare me!" Tori exclaimed, glancing back, "And he's right behind us!"
The other two blondes looked back. Oliver was literally only a few paces away, that sick smile plastered to his face. He laughed again before chucking his knife hard, the blade glinted in the sun as it headed for Tori's back. Arthur's eyes widened and he stopped, shoving Tori out of the way as the knife hit him in the shoulder. He cried out and fell, hand moving to grasp the blade's handle.
"Oh, I wasn't aiming for you!" Oliver stomped his foot on the ground, huffing towards Arthur. He ripped the knife out and went over to Tori, "Now then my dear, you'll be coming with me...my pure innocent, sweet silver treasure." He said taking his hand, pulling him close so they were chest to chest. "You know, back home, we don't have nice pure things like you around everyone's corrupted, but with you, you can brighten up everything. You will be our bright Idol! A treasure to be preserved." He ran the blade down his cheek breaking the skin just a tad bit, he grinned and licked the wound "You taste good too"
"Don't you fucking touch him!" Arthur screamed at him as he slowly got up from the ground, a hand on his injury to stop the bleeding.
"Oh right. I forgot about you. Why don't we play a little game Arthur?" Oliver said as he smiles wickedly and started walking toward him.
"Arthur! Don't!" Tori called out to him.
"I'm tired of playing these fucking games with you Oliver! If you really want to end this between us then you would have got the guts to do it already. And there's no way in hell you're taking Tori back with you. Not while I'm still breathing!"
"Is that right? Then we'll have make you stop breathing then!" Oliver said as he rushed toward him with knife in hand, Arthur grabbed the boy's wrist before the knife slammed down. Green glared into playful blueish pink.
"Tell me, love. Do you enjoy sweets?" The manic blonde smiled down at him, "Because I'll turn you into one after I'm done with you!"
Arthur pushed against the boy, trying to keep the blade at a safe distance. Oliver growled lightly and stomped his heel onto Arthur's foot and kicked it, causing Arthur to fall to one knee, the blade getting closer. Where the hell was Alfred? Because that gun could come in rather useful right now!
As the blade lowered closer and closer, Arthur cringed. Tori watched, horrified, not knowing what to do. If he ran over now, Oliver would surely kill him. Soon a gun shot rang out, grazing Oliver's shoulder. Said blonde cried out, dropping the knife. Three sets of eyes looked over and saw Alfred reloading his shotgun with the biggest smirk on his face.
"I told you dudes there were guns out here! Ludwig hid them!"
Arthur glared a bit but kicked Oliver out of the way. He jumped up and grabbed Tori's hand, "Let's go. Mum had to have found my brother by now!" He looked to Alfred hoping he would be fine before running off with Tori into the school.
-Line Break-
Ian was going through the spell book, he stood in front of the mirror and began chanting, slowly sealing Oliver back in, the room went wild, wind blowing everywhere, lights flickering, window's breaking, and Oliver's screaming, as he slowly materialized into the mirror, he tried to break out before Ian could finish the spell, however he was held back by dark figures, who Arthur and Tori could safely assume were people from the same world Oliver was from. Oliver gave one final cry before the room went silent, Ian closed the book and went over to Tori and Arthur,
"Thank you Ian" Arthur said holding Tori close
"You have a lot to explain to the students Artie" he looked to Tori "And you have to go through multiple treatments to rid this trauma." and with that Ian left the room. Tori looked up at Arthur and hugged him, the Brit kissed his head again,
"No-one will hurt you, not while my family or I are around" Tori was still shaken though, Arthur looked at the mirror, Oliver would return someday, he was ready for him now, but for now he had a small timid silver eyed boy to comfort. He stood up and carried Tori to his respective room, going down the elevator to the third floor, to room 306, once there he went inside the dorm room laying Tori on the bed. He kissed his head and covered him up,
"You've had an eventful day, you should rest" he saw that the boy was now asleep, he got up to leave, but before he did, he noticed something strange on the mirror, a note, he went to check it out and paled at the message.
'I'll return for you my sweet silver angel'
SSF: And there you have it, Chapter 20 will be up soon I hope
Notes:
Message at the end: Some horror movies do that to imply a sequal...as I said before I might do anothe 2p!England encounter but I don't know when.
Most everything here is self explanitory, at least I try to, if you're still confused PM me
