And with this salvation shall they find power

Thomas slams down on the table , "You went too far Mikey"! "Sorry guys I didn't think that would happen really". "What did you think was gonna happen when more than half the students start blowing chunks of blood everywhere, now we can't even reach WIles"! Mikey begins to cry and he lifts a cooler twice as large onto the table, " Thats why I made you guys tacos, and ribs, and curry, and sushi, and chicken, and fried rice, and salads, and milkshakes , and and and…"! James picks up a taco and takes a bite, " Its ok guys, this just means my original three-man plan won't work". " The school is shut down for a week for investigation James, what can we possibly do to get close to Wiles"? " The day before class starts up again there will be a town benefit held at the Lagoon, we will do it there". " In public….me nor Mikey are down for getting caught James, Mr. Wiles has to die, but not at our expense"! James turns to Thomas with his smile once again extended from ear to ear, " We won't get caught Thomas, we simply just need to gather the rest of the team. It will be a grand display of the most cunning and sadistic murderers seen yet ". " How many more people can we recruit"? " Just ranks 2 and 5, we can't have any amateurs on this one". Mikey and Thomas copy James's grin and jump up excited with the thought of a clean public execution. " So lets go for the harder one, rank 2". " That would seem to be the smart move Mikey, but there are certain factors we have to consider". " Like what"? " First, the number 5 slot has been in constant fluctuation between [Ota] and [Cardiac]" " What do you know about them"? " Ota seems to be sort for those anime guys called "Otakus", he has a lot of swords he made from popular anime series. His style of murder involves strangling chaining his victim with his chains, then he makes a display out of them". " What do you mean display"? " You'll see, it's pretty fucked up". " What about [Cardiac]"? " His style suggest a real fixation on finding love, something our kind want be know is out of reach, I'm not surprised there is a killer like this". " Yeah being fat and weird doesn't really help me with the ladies". " Exactly, thats why this guy rips out the hearts of beautiful women and replaces them with those like us, then he "dates" them for about a week in his hideout". " Neither one of these guys are stable James, we can't trust them". " None of us are stable Thomas, and it is this mutual instability that forces us to trust each other", because in the end the weak only have themselves to rely on". " So how do you plan to solve their quarrel"? " I wrote them both a note saying that the [Reaper] will decided their fate at the rundown clothing factory tomorrow night". " Why tomorrow, we have a limited time to do this"? " We need tonight to prepare Thomas, these guys are gonna need an arena".

It was Jarid yusuff, the foreign womanizer and romantic from the East. Jarid would confess love for at least two girls everyday, but all of them either slapped or verbally humiliated him in front of everybody. He was just another one of us trying to reach a luxury saved for normal people. You would think we would hook up with each other, but the constant good ending stories in our animes and games keep us in delusion of grandeur. Jarid was caught in the delusion deeper than the rest of us though, he even tried for the jocks girlfriends and got pummeled for it. Now he was on the way to see the [Reaper] for answers to his woes.

"I can't believe the [Reaper] messaged me"! Jarid opened the door to the clothes factory and walked inside slowly. There was a long hall with doors on the sides that contained tailoring and manikin creation machines. There was a strong smell of burned plastic fabric softener. At the end of the hall there was an arrow with " Go to storehouse" written on it. There was a series of arrows after that he ran past faster and faster in excitement to his destination. Around the final corner was a door that Jarid blew through without even thinking. The room was filled with mannequins dressed in the left over factory clothes He stopped almost immediately as there was someone standing on the other side the room staring at him. After about ten seconds the boy looks down and continues to play his handheld game system, " Are you the [Reaper]". The boy gave out a sigh and turned off his game, " Damn you're annoying, I can't even finish this level with all that noise you're making". " Answer me are you the Reaper"?! " No, I am". Three people with black hoodies stepped from behind a line of manikins. " Hello Mr. Reaper, i've been waiting to meet you"! " It's nice to meet you too [Cardiac] , and you [Ota]. Ota just looked at Reaper with silence and anger. " Why did I have to miss a game sesh for Reaper"? " We all know you two are in constant competition for the number 5 spot in [Bloody Origins], and it's about time that there was a winner". Jarid's eyes widened and he set them onto Otas chest, " I finally get to get rid of this guy...how"? " Did you guys bring your signatures with you"? Jarid reached into his backpack and brought out barbed wire and five scalpel knives. Ota opened a trunk and pulled out two long chains. " OOOO I see, me and mister gamer guy here have to kill the most mannequins right"? " Good guess, but you need a beating heart for your way, and he needs an opponent". Soon the lights will go out and you both have thirty seconds to kill each other or set corner your opponent". Ota's eyes become those of sparked interest, "What do I win for this Reaper"? " You win a spot on the team that will make your murderous dreams a reality" Jarid looked at their faces and it seemed he could already tell the winner apart. " They're ready Thomas, flip the switch".

The lights went off and immediately I could hear his chains swinging away at the mannequins. His weapons might be bigger but I know for a fact that chains always get caught on high things, plus it will be a slim chance he'll aim low. I get on all fours and began to move around the floor like a spider. I hooked my barbed wire around the feet of the mannequins as I moved around. I made sure to circle the sound of the chains as I placed my trap. The weird thing about this is I only hear one chain, the other must be wrapped around his fist or something. As I hooked the last to spikes to each other the light came back on and there he was standing in the middle as I predicted. I see The Reaper and the other two appear above on a balcony. " It seems you are at a loss Ota, how do you intend to handle this"? That smug bastard is just staring at me, he didn't even answer The Reaper, " Who the fuck do you think you are, Once I pull this wire I have you trapped"! I clinch the wire to the point that my hand starts bleeding, I can't help but feel uneasy by his stare. Fuck now i'm just jittery, I can't stand this guys calm fucking state, I'm just gonna kill him and finally work beside the Reaper. I pull the wire and the mannequins begin to fall as the circle of spikes encloses on my prey. I can only revel at this moment for after I trap him, I shall remove his heart and give it to my idol. My inner party was crashed by the rattling of those damned chains , how the fuck did he do that! There he was hanging from an old ceiling fan looking down on me with that same fucking look. I pull four of my scalpels out and throw two of them at him. I raise my hand to throw another, but it is stopped by a cold crushing feeling. The bastard has my right hand locked down. I desperately try and throw with my left but it was a total failure. A tug on my arm pulls me to the floor and drags me across the floor and at my opponents feet. A steel noose raises me from the ground and suspends me mid air. All I can do is flail around crying and kicking. The steel grows colder with every breath I take, and it's hold tightens to a point where I taste blood. Is this how it feels to choke…..to have your throat crushed and filled with blood at the same time. I can not even gargle out a plea or sorry, I can just watch as these guys witness my embarrassing death. My mind is filling up with memories and aspirations and I can only cry more, but why not me, why was I not good enough. Damn my eyes are shutting, I guess this is it….. Cardiac….. Whose voice is that…...Reaper? " I am sorry for this Cardiac, but we needed the best to pull off what I have planned, We are going to take down the whole school to avenge people like you and me. Believe it or not your sacrifice has pointed us in the right direction….Thank You. He thanked me! I guess this was how I was destined to help him after all…

The Klub awes at Jarid's hanging corpse, then Mikey pulls out a large lunch pail, " Lunch Time Guys". The boys sit down and enjoy a meal under Jarid's suspended feet, but Thomas is unsettled by Ota's demeanor. " Hey Ota, how ya feelin bout all this"? " I'm glad to be able to kill for real now, I was getting bored". James jumped up and grabbed Ota by the neck of his shirt, " This isn't some mindless killing spree, we are doing this to liberate those like us". Ota smacks James's hand and starts to laugh " You mean the nerds, geeks, drama kids, gays, yada , yada, fucking yada"? " Yes ALL of us Ota"! " By protecting them like this you're just allowing them to stay weak hide behind us". " This is only temporary, they will find strength once we handle what hinders us". " But then why would we need strength if you have already taken down all the obstacles"? " So it won't happen again, So when they go to highschool and then college they will not allow themselves to be thrown back into the lowest social caste". " Our type are meek by nature James, but If you think we can elicit the crazy out of them, then I'm all in". The tension in the room settled and they resumed their lunch. " Now all that is left id the number two, [The Madam]