BRUTAL-
❝ y/n, deena, simon, and kate are a small group of friends in high school. but when an unexpected new killer on the loose, and on the hunt, their lives are tested. constantly on the run, who knows if y/n will confess to kate what she wants...
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everyone worked on spraying the walls with paint, ready to remind nick of the trauma and chaos he caused. they set up a bell at the door of the mall, to alert them when nick entered. they readied the ropes to pull, to trap goode's henchmen when they entered. and lastly, they filled their water guns with deena and kate's blood and glow in the dark paint mixture, ready to send the killers after goode.
they created blood trails from the stores to the hanging tree, where the four teens that started it all sat,
"cut it!" kate shouts to ziggy, hearing a faint repetition of her words as the normal mall lights were shut off, black light replacing it as the blood trails began to glow brightly.
the four teens all smiled at each other, proud of their work. the teases painted along the walls shined brightly around the mall's entrance, and the bell at the door rang just in time.
everyone looked towards the door with panic, surprised nick had arrived so soon. they all grabbed their guns, hiding in different spots near stores.
kate and simon panted heavily as they settled next to a shoe store, clutching the guns close to their bodies as they looked around,
"i don't see anyone," simon whispers as kate nodded to him in agreement, licking her lips nervously.
they sat in silence for a few seconds, anticipating some kind of scream to erupt from the quiet building. they finally relaxed when the silence continued, leaning back against the wall and looking to each other, jumping when they heard a yell across the mall entrance,
"police! hands up, hands up!" the two looked towards the booming voice, seeing an officer, sadly not nick, shining a flashlight in ziggy and martin's faces.
"you listen to me, you don't have any idea what's going on!" ziggy defends, quieting diwn when martin slapped her arm a few times,
"we good, we good! no, no, no. we cool, we cool! yeah, we cool, yeah," martin stuttered, making eye contact with the officer as the latter huffed,
"martin?" he asks in an unsurprised tone.
"yeah, yeah!" martin replies in a hushed whisper.
"are you kidding me?"
kate and simon look the other way as they see deena and josh get caught as well by a second officer, but, yet again, not goode.
"i got two more over here! drop your weapons!" the officer shouts to his friend, then at the siblings.
"it's a fucking water gun, not a bomb!" simon shouts, covering his mouth and shying away when the officer looks to he and kate's hiding spot.
"drop your weapon," the officer demands again, looking away from simon and kate and back to the siblings, "now slide them to me."
kate and simon's eyes darted from deena and josh, to ziggy and martin, then to the couple next to a movie rent shop, y/n and tommy.
"we got the 5150–" the first officer is cut off from his own choking, blood beginning to leak from his lips as he fell to the floor, the milkman revealing himself from behind the dead body.
"run!" ziggy grabs martin's hand, ignoring his feminine cries and reluctancy.
everyone looks towards the scene, standing up and running away. simon, josh, and tommy made it to the stores, sitting down with the ropes tight in their hands, ready to trap the murderers.
ziggy and martin sat at another store as ziggy calmed the frightened male, handing him the rope,
"stay out of their way, and they'll ignore you," she instructs, standing up and looking to her y/n who was jogging towards her.
"w-wait, wait, wait, you're leaving!" martin shrieks, watching ziggy nod before she took off towards her friend.
tommy gulped nervously, watching as his lover and ziggy hid, waiting for their real target to appear. he looked towards the killer approaching him, who was supposedly him, and widen his eyes. he waited patiently as he watched everyone else trap other henchmen.
once arnie entered the book store, tommy yanked the rope, panicking when it stopped just inches from the bottom. he rushed to push it down, stomping on the bottom of it and backed away, just in time for arnie to swing. he took in deep breaths hurriedly before making his way towards sam and the younger y/n.
"how many is that?" deena asks as tommy appears, everyone there except ziggy. tommy wrppaed his lover in his arms, calming down when seeing she was safe.
"i got one, martin got the milkman," josh says, breathing heavily,
"four," ziggy announces, rounding the corner as she sat down, "we have four."
"skull mask, nightwing," kate goes down a list, deena interrupting her,
"no ruby?"
"i-i don't know, i would've seen her, trust me," simon says,
"we need to keep and eye on—"
"y-y-yo," martin interrupts josh, looking above the counter, "why'd it get so quiet?"
everyone looked around before rushing to the corner, looking over the counter as well. the mall looked empty, spare the killers trapped in their store cells. they were being oddly calm, oddly quiet, so were the possessed girls behind them. everyone was confused, but that's when the realization dawned on y/n and ziggy.
"it's him," tommy announces, receiving frightened looks from everyone around him.
"you two don't have to do this," deena tells ziggy and y/n.
the two look at each other, and back at deena, "we do."
