Riverdale Battle Royale – Chapter 3
Adam Chisholm stumbled across a run down office building in the middle of the jungle on the island. There was nothing else around, just the building.
"This place is so weird," Adam muttered to himself.
He took out his map and tried to figure out where he was. He didn't want to stumble accidentally into one of the danger zones and end up activating his collar and killing himself.
Once he was sure that he was safe Adam made his way into the building. There were elevators but with no electricity they didn't work so he was forced to take the stairs. The building looked to be rather new in it's design, but it was already looking run down. It had probably been built out here solely for the purpose of the Battle Royale.
Adam stepped of the stairwell onto the corridor of the second floor. He began quietly walking along opening doors and looking inside to see if there was perhaps something of value. He was just stepping out of an office when he saw one of his classmates Trula Twyst not ten feet away.
In a panic Trula fired the Colt .45 revolver she had striking Adam in the chest where he fell to the ground.
"Oh god, oh god," Trula muttered realizing she'd just shot one of her classmates.
Trula turned and slowly began walking back the other way away from Adam's body. Suddenly Adam sprang to his feet and grabbed Trula around the neck from behind. The two of them struggled for a while but Adam, who was on the football team, was much bigger and stronger than Trula. With a violent wrench Adam snapped Trula's neck and she went limp.
Adam let Trula's corpse fall to the ground and he took the revolver away from her. He then undid his jacket revealing that he was wearing a bulletproof vest, which had been the item in his backpack, underneath.
Adam tucked the revolver into his pants and made his way back downstairs, feeling much more confident. As he stepped outside the office he was suddenly struck in the back of the head by something and he fell the to ground groggy.
Dazed Adam rolled over onto his back see Cheryl standing over him holding a shotgun. Cheryl knelt down straddling Adam and tossed the shotgun aside and pulled out a vicious looking sickle which she pressed up against Adam's throat.
"You know I've always found you to be rather cute," Cheryl said as she leaned down and licked Adam's face.
That seemed to snap Adam out of his daze and he pushed the sickle away with one hand and grabbed at Cheryl's throat with the other. Cheryl pulled back while swinging the sickle, she end up cutting Adam's right hand off. Adam screamed as he grabbed the bloody stump.
"I'll give you something else to scream about," Cheryl said angrily.
She then stabbed the point of the sickle into Adam's groin and his scream raised a few octaves. Cheryl then slashed at his throat silencing him once and for all.
Cheryl then calmly set about removing the bulletproof vest and taking the revolver. She then retrieved her shotgun and pulled out her collar tracking device. Looking at it she smiled and set out once more.
Jason Blossom was still in the woods generally staying hidden. However, the sun was starting to set and it was becoming hard to see. There was a flashlight in the backpack but Jason didn't want to use it for fear he would just give his position away so that someone else could kill him.
As Jason slowly made his way through the forest, every little noise was making him jump. The whole situation was making him incredibly paranoid.
"It's okay Jason, it's just the wind," Jason muttered to himself.
Just then there was a noise right next to him and Jason let out a yelp and blindly swung his hammer. However he soon realized that it had just been a squirrel of some sort.
"Oh my god, this is getting ridiculous," Jason muttered as he sat down on the ground.
Suddenly something came falling down from the trees above. Jason turned around just in time to have the blade of a katana plunge into his chest and through his heart. The last thing Jason saw was the face of his Japanese classmate Tomoko Yoshida as she pulled the katana out of his chest before he fell to the ground. As his world faded to black Jason's last thought was that Tomoko's weapon was kind of ironic.
Tomoko calmly wiped the blood on her katana off on Jason's clothing before putting it back into it's sheath. She then silently disappeared back into the forest.
Cricket O'Dell had found a small cave in the side of a hill. She had gathered some wood and had started a fire and was eating some of the rations in her backpack. Cricket figured she'd be safe in the cave for the night.
Cricket was just finishing her meal when she heard something off in the darkness. Cricket picked up her weapon, a kitchen cleave, and nervously stood up. Suddenly Reggie Mantle emerged from the darkness. Before Cricket could react Reggie fired his pistol shooting Cricket in both kneecaps and she fell to the ground crying out in agony.
Reggie calmly pulled the cleaver out of Cricket's hands and then used it to cut off her clothing and the proceeded to rape Cricket. Cricket struggled but with her injuries she was helpless against Reggie who was bigger and stronger. Reggie wrapped his hands around Cricket's throat and squeezed, strangling her to death.
Once he was finished Reggie pulled his pants back up and calmly walked off into the darkness as if nothing had happened.
Kevin Keller had been hiding in the woods all game long. His weapon was a machete, which was really only good for close quarters combat and the woods were the best place to force someone into a close quarters fight. However he had yet to encounter one of his classmates, which he considered fortunate.
As the sun had almost set, Kevin had decided to use the machete to make himself a shelter to hole up in for the night. He'd constructed a lean-too and was giving the shelter a quick inspection before he went inside for the night.
Satisfied with his work Kevin head for the entrance. However he suddenly came to a stop as he noticed a long thin blade sticking out from his chest. The blade suddenly disappeared, and Kevin toppled to the ground. He barely had the strength to roll over onto his back and look up to see Tomoko standing over him before he died.
Tomoko grabbed Kevin's corpse by the feet and dragged him away from the lean-too. She then headed back to the lean-too and went inside and lay down and soon fell asleep.
As she slept a figure approached the lean-too from the darkness. Cheryl peered inside and saw Tomoko lying on the ground fast asleep, her katana clutched in one hand. Cheryl quietly climbed inside and then used her sickle to slit Tomoko's throat while she slept. Tomoko's eyes shot open and she clutched at her throat with surprise as Cheryl watched with a smile on her face.
It wasn't long before Tomoko bled out and lay still. Cheryl then lay down next to the still warm corpse and fell asleep herself.
Toni Topaz had been looking for somewhere to hide for the night when she came across the four apartment buildings. She entered the first one and stumbled onto Dilton's corpse. She almost screamed but quickly covered her mouth and stopped herself. She noticed that Dilton's neck had bruise around it like he had been strangled with a rope or a belt.
With the dagger she had gotten in her backpack, Toni figured she could handle someone with a belt or rope, but she was still nervous. Toni made her way upstairs, she figured somewhere between the second floor and the top floor would be the safest bet.
Toni decided the third floor was high enough, and then she made her way along till she reached apartment 3G which was right around the middle. As Toni opened the door she was shocked to see that Sheila Wu was already in the apartment.
Toni pulled out her dagger, but she barely got two steps towards Sheila before Sheila shot Toni with a Taser causing Toni to fall to the ground spasming and drop her dagger. Sheila then picked up the dagger and plunged it into Toni's chest, killing her.
Sheila cried over the body of her friend well into the night before she finally fell asleep.
Archie and Betty had been running and hiding all night. They had heard sporadic gunfire and screams through out the night. The voice of the shadowy figure from the bunker came over a PA system that was set up across the island announcing the names of everybody who had died on the first day. Archie and Betty had been broken up to hear that Jughead and Veronica were dead, and they wondered what had happened to them.
They spotted a clearing with a set of huts in the distance and decided to head towards there. Just then they heard the snap of a branch behind them and they turned to see Tono Diaz, a Mexican student from their class about two hundred feet behind them.
Tono raised his weapon, a MAC-10 machine pistol and let fire. Fortunately for Archie and Betty, Tono's weapon was very inaccurate and it discharged it's entire clip in almost two seconds without hitting them.
"Split up!" Archie said to Betty.
The two of them ran in opposite directions. Tono quickly reloaded and then found himself with a decision as to who to chase. Tono decided to chase after Betty since he had seen that she had a crossbow and he wanted it.
He chased Betty towards the huts and saw her run around one. He chased after her and ended up almost tripping over the rotting decapitated corpse of Raj Patel. Tono stopped and just about threw up on the spot. He then heard a twang noise and a crossbow bolt flew just millimeters over top of his head. Tono looked to see a terrified Betty hiding inside the hut holding the crossbow.
Tono stepped inside as he cocked his machine pistol and pointed it at. He didn't get a chance to fire though as Archie ran up an smashed him in the back of the head with his frying pan. Archie continued to hit Tono until Betty came over and stopped.
"Archie, Archie stop," Betty said. "He's dead."
Archie looked down at Tono who was lying still. It soon became quite evident to him that he was in fact dead.
"Come on let's get out of here," Archie said as he took Tono's weapon.
The two of them then ran back off into the woods.
Sheila woke up to sun streaming through the broken glass of the window of the apartment. She looked over to see Toni's dead body still lying on the floor with the dagger buried in her chest.
Just then Sheila thought she heard something. She went over to the window to see her classmate Wendy Weatherbee, the niece of their principal, walking along outside the apartment building. Sheila fired her Taser at Wendy not having any idea of the rang of the weapon. The cords of the Taser fell far short, but the crackling noise it made alerted Wendy to he presence. Wendy ran and Sheila quickly lost track of her where she was.
Sheila was nervously peering out the window but couldn't see Wendy. She wondered if perhaps Wendy was planning on coming in after her. She went over to Toni's corpse and pulled out the dagger and faced the door waiting to see if Wendy came barging in. She then heard the sound of something metallic hit the ground behind her. Sheila turned around to see a grenade lying just a few feet away.
"Oh fu…" Sheila started to say.
Wendy watched the explosion from the apartment. She thanked her skill as a softball pitcher for being able to toss the grenade up there so accurately. However she wasn't sure if she had killed Sheila or not and so Wendy made her way into the apartment and upstairs. She soon found the apartment which had its door blown off its hinges. Wendy looked inside to see two bodies, although neither was identifiable at this point. Wendy figured one must be Sheila but wondered who the other one belonged to.
Wendy then made her way back downstairs. Her item had been a grenade belt with three grenades and she still had two left, but she'd have to make them count.
Just as Wendy left the apartment she was struck by something sharp in the gut. Wendy looked down to see a sickle buried in her stomach and then looked up to see that Cheryl was holding it. Cheryl smiled and pulled the sickle out disembowling Wendy as she did. Cheryl then took Wendy's grenade belt from her and then stood over Wendy, just staring down with a cold expression.
"What… what… are you doing?" Wendy asked weekly as she slowly died.
"Just watching you die," Cheryl replied. "I must say I've really come to enjoy it."
Wendy tried to reply but all that came out of her mouth was blood and she gurgled a few times before she went still.
"Hmm, that was kind of disappointing," Cheryl muttered as she wandered off.
There are only six students left. Cheryl, Betty, Archie, Reggie, Shrill and Nick. Who will emerge victorious? Read on to find out. Please Review!