Fan Fiction ❯ Terror High ❯ Losing everything ( Chapter 10 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

By: erivic

“Come on Damian, if you hurry, he might not discipline you that harshly…” Sabrina said, her voice was hollow and dead.

Damian took a step towards her.

He wasn't going to fight.

He couldn't.

Sabrina was his friend.

Ella gasped quietly and looked at Aaron who gulped, watching Damian with desperate eyes.

Damian took another step. The hollow Sabrina smiled. It gave made Ella shiver.

Damian was almost in front of Sabrina, his big, brown eyes dull and sad.

“No!” Chloe and Chase yelled in unison. “Please… fight back, do something…” Chloe said desperately. Rory put a hand on Chloe's arm.

“This isn't our battle now… It's Damian's… He'll make the right choice…”

Hopefully… Rory thought at the back of his mind.

Chloe pushed Rory away and ran over to Damian.

“Damian…” she whispered.

Suddenly, Chase screamed. Kevin and Aiden had moved even closer to them, each of them were holding knives.

How'd they get those? Ella thought, her mind racing. Why the hell do they want to kill us in the first place?

Aaron stepped in front of Ella and Rory pulled Chase over to Ella as well.

“Sit…” the two boys said, beckoning to the seats next to the water fountain.

“But…” Ella began.

“Please…” Aaron said, “things are going to get ugly…”

Ella sat down reluctantly and sighed when Chase grabbed her arm, shivering violently.

Aaron and Rory walked over to Chloe who was still trying to sway Damian.

“Chloe…” Rory said quietly, grabbing her arm. “It's no use… Imagine if one of us were like this… Would you fight back? Would you hurt a friend?”

Chloe's face darkened. She sniffled and closed her eyes.

“No…” she whispered, tears forming at the edges of her eyes. “It's just that… I try so hard to save people… but then I fail… first Kevin and now…” It was hard for her to talk.

She hugged Rory and tears rolled down her face.

“Uhh… guys!” Aaron said quickly, “what are we going to do about the possessed freaks coming over to us this minute?”

Chloe let go of Rory and looked around the hallway. They were cornered. There was no way out.

But, the zombie-possessed-freaks stopped moving.

Because the principal walked into the hallway through the library's double doors.

And he was smiling.

“Well, what do we have here?” he said heartily, “Are you kids trapped?”

The five of them looked at him with the deepest loathing.

The principal took another few steps and whispered something in Sabrina's ear.

She nodded and the principal handed her a knife.

He snapped his fingers and Aiden and Kevin walked over to Ella and Chase.

Kevin grabbed Ella while Aiden grabbed Chase.

“Ella! Chase!” Aaron yelled quickly as he spun around to face them.

Kevin smiled and put the knife to Ella's neck.

Aiden did the same to Chase.

Chase whimpered but Ella just stood there, frozen with fear.

The principal smiled and nodded to Sabrina.

In an instant, Damian was stabbed in the stomach, spilling out his stomach juices.

“DAMIAN!!!!!” Chloe screamed, trying to run over to him. Rory grabbed her arm and the group watched Damian swivel half way around and then fell onto the hard floor. He had a look of sadness and defeat in his eyes.

So did Sabrina.

Aaron looked over at her and her eyes still looked dull but she looked almost… human as well…

When she saw the blood on her hands, she looked down at Damian and crumpled to her knees. “Damian…” she whispered, “I am so sorry… it wasn't- I wasn't-“

She turned around and looked at the principal, clenching her fists.

“You- you made me kill him! YOU'RE A MONSTER!!!!” Sabrina screamed.

There was a gunshot followed by the sound of her body falling as well.

Evan Campbell smiled and put his gun back into the inside of his jacket.

“Well…” he began, “I think that you have all seen what happens to people who don't follow the rules of this school…” He smiled again and walked over to Ella.

“No…” Aaron whispered, looking into Ella's eyes. He sighed slowly and looked at the bandage on Ella's arm.

He then looked down at his own hands. Each of them still bore deep cuts from the knife.

“Ella…” he whispered again, clenching his fists.

The principal smiled and took out his gun. “Aaron- is it?” he asked, walking over to the grade 9.

The principal pointed the gun to Aaron's head.

“What does that girl mean to you?” he asked, sneering, “what would you do to save her?”

“Ella's my friend… I care about her… and I would risk my life to save her!”

“Oh, really? Would you die for any of these people here today? Would you kill anyone to save them?”

Aaron's face darkened. He couldn't kill anyone.

“What? You couldn't?” Evan smiled, the gun still pointed at Aaron's head.

Aaron looked back over at Ella. She was watching him intently.

“I couldn't kill anyone…” Aaron said quietly, “but- I could kill… myself…”

Ella screamed.

“No! Aaron! He'll kill me anyways… but you could still get away, you could still get through this!”

“Life without my friends still wouldn't be worth it…”

“But-“

She gasped and the principal turned around.

“You idiot!” the principal yelled, “you weren't supposed to hurt her yet!”

Aaron looked over the principal's shoulder and watched Ella's body fall.

“NO!”

Ella's shoulder was cut open and Aaron could tell that she was going to live if there wasn't any more damage.

He sighed but then knew that he had to do something.

Chase screamed and pushed her captor away just in time to see Ella fall.

She ran over to Aaron to get a better look.

“You okay?” he asked, feeling guilty that he was concentrating on Ella.

Chase nodded and then ran over to Chloe.

Chloe was hunched over next to Damian's bloody corpse.

“You couldn't have saved him…” Chase began.

Chloe nodded and then stood up once more.

Kevin and Aiden's body's collapsed.

The principal turned and began swearing profusely.

While the principal was distracted, Aaron ran over to Ella.

“Ella…” he whispered, inspecting the damage. Other than her shoulder, and her previous injuries, she was… all right…

He sighed with relief and grabbed the knife that was covered in blood.

Chloe watched Rory as he walked over to grab Aiden's discarded knife. He had seen what Aaron was doing and decided that they had to take matters into their own hands.

The boys went on each side of the principal and put both knives to the principal's neck.

The principal laughed and pulled out his gun.

Before Aaron could react, Rory was shot in the head.

“RORY!!!!!!!” Chloe, Chase, and Aaron yelled.

Rory's body crashed into the banister, covering it with blood.

Chloe fell to her knees again and tried hard not to cry.

The principal laughed again and pointed the gun to Ella's limp body.

“NOOOOO!!!!!!” Aaron screamed, running over to Ella, “no…”

Chloe looked from Aaron to the principal and gulped.

She ran in front of Aaron and Ella before anyone knew what was happening.

“Like Aaron said… we're all friends… we care about each other…”

Chase had to do something.

“And friends will do anything…”

There was the bloody knife on the ground.

“Even die…”

She had to get it.

“To save another friend…”

The handle was rough and cold…

“THESE ARE MY FRIENDS!”

Chase stood up…

“AND I'LL DIE FOR THEM!!!!!!!”

And stabbed.

There was a sickening squelch as the blood poured out of the principal's back.

Chase fell over, getting splashed with blood.

The three of them sighed with relief.

It was over. It was finally-

The principal's corpse began to spasm. Everyone got covered with blood this time.

Chase crawled over to Chloe and Aaron (and Ella, but she was still unconscious), shivering.

Then the body stood up.

There was a blinding flash of light and the principal's body morphed into an older version of himself.

The principal's older brother.

The corpse smiled (the creepy smile runs in the family) and walked closer to the group of friends.

“So- you kids have figured it out, eh?” he asked, his mouth spewing blood. “That I was behind this… that I only wanted the perfect school… to get rid of trouble makers, like you, once and for all…”

Chase shivered and Chloe tried hard not to vomit. This guy was one disgusting corpse.

Aaron looked out of the corner of his eye to check on Ella.

Ella was gone!

The corpse smiled. “Or… maybe you kids were just in the `wrong place at the wrong time'?”

Chloe clenched her teeth.

Damian was gone.

Kevin was gone.

Rory was-

She couldn't think about how much she was going to miss Rory…

The corpse laughed once again and Aaron tried to catch one of the girl's attention, but both of them seemed frozen or something.

He sighed and looked back at the principal-corpse-person.

Chase was watching Ella crawl towards the corpse from behind.

Ella was a goner for sure.

Chloe saw Ella too. What the hell does she think she's doing?

Aaron still had no clue, he was looking up and behind him, he should've been looking right in front of him where Ella was crawling.

Boys… Chase thought and sighed.

The corpse obviously hadn't noticed Ella either, (he's- or was- a boy after all…)

Aaron finally saw her. He cried out for joy, which made the corpse look around to see what hade made Aaron so happy.

The corpse lunged for Ella and Aaron screamed.

A body fell, but it wasn't Ella's.

It was Chase.

Chase had run in front of the corpse and shot him just as she got stabbed.

Chloe actually broke down crying after that.

Chase's body fell on top of Rory's corpse and she smiled a bit… Rory and Chase had never really gotten along that well…

Aaron stood up quickly, leaving Chloe to mourn on her own.

He ran to Ella, who was covered in blood.

“Ella…” he said softly. “Oh, god Ella…”

He pulled her into a tight embrace.

“I'm so glad that you're okay…” he whispered, trying not to cry.

He tried to forget that most of his friends were dead.

He tried to forget that they were covered with blood.

He tried to make this moment, with Ella… last forever.

Chloe looked from Kevin's to Damian's to Rory's and finally to Chase's corpse. Her friends were dead.

And she was alive.

She was walking, talking and breathing.

Thanks to them.

She stood up and walked over to each of her friend's corpses…

She studied their faces…

This would be the last time she would ever see any of them.

Kevin had a dull quality to him but he still looked peaceful.

Chase had a look of happiness and heroism.

Rory had a look of surprise and sadness.

And Damian's eyes were still open, with that sad, defeated look.

Chloe broke down crying once more. It was too much. She had lost so much in an instant…

She shuddered and felt a warm hand on her shoulder. Aaron kneeled next to her and hugged her.

“It wasn't your fault, Chloe. They chose to die… they all did something that friends are supposed to do… they're supposed to protect each other…”

“They protected us, Chloe… you would've done the same for any of them and you know it,” Ella added quietly. She winced and grabbed her shoulder that was bandaged by Aaron's shirt. (Ella was loving this…)

Chloe sniffled and Aaron helped her up. Ella stood up as well and Aaron put his arm around her.

Chloe smiled. They were right. Friends stick together.

No matter what.