Class Trip Ended in Horror

Chapter 20

From Amy's point of view

"Amy, wake up," said a friendly voice. "Five more minutes," I nagged into the pillow. "Okay, if you want to stay here," said the voice. I widened my eyes and sat up. Katy looked at me with a grin. "It's still dark outside. What time is it actually?" I asked yawning. "It's 5:30 a.m. So, get dressed and close your suitcase," said Paul. "You can change here, we'll turn around," said Fabi. We nodded and the boys turned away. "Don't you look," said Katy. "We don't," said Paul. I put on light blue jeans, a red and white striped sweater and red sneakers. Katy put on white jeans, a black hoodie and black boots.

We closed the suitcases. "We're done, you can turn around now," Katy trilled. How can you be so motivated so early in the morning? I'm more of the morning grouch type.

"We would change too, so if you guys could turn around that would be great," Paul said with a grin. So, Katy and I turned around.

Someone tapped my shoulder and I turned around, startled. Paul grinned at me. "Man, do you know how scared I was?" I said, clutching my heart. "I noticed you jumped quite a bit," he said, laughing. I just rolled my eyes and we pushed our suitcases into the entrance hall. "Where is Mr Schmidt?" I asked in amazement. "We asked ourselves that too, since he was already gone when we woke up," said Paul. "We have to look for him," Katy said with a touch of nervousness in her voice. "Do you actually still have the book?" I asked Fabi briefly to make sure. He nodded and pointed to the bag. "Where should we look? Should we split up?" Paul asked uncertainly. "It wouldn't be smart to split up. We'll see if he's in the bathroom first and if he's not there, we'll keep looking," said Fabi determinedly.

We went to the bathroom. "Mr Schmidt," called Paul. No answer. "He's not here, but maybe in the library," said Paul. So, we went up to the library. We went in and looked behind some shelves. "Aaahh," Paul screamed and ran out of the library and we followed him. He turned towards the stairs, tripped and fell. We ran and I screamed.

A fine metal wire was attached to the stairs. At the bottom of the stairs was Paul's body and next to it was his severed head. "What the," Katy said, horrified. "It wasn't there when we went upstairs, that means someone put it here, they must still be here," said Fabi.

"Out. We absolutely have to get out of here," said Fabi. We ran down the stairs, being careful not to touch the metal wire. When we got to the bottom, we stopped.

"What time is it?" Katy asked. "6:10 a.m." said Fabi. "The bus will probably only come in 20 minutes," I said. "We still have to get out," said Fabi. "But it's raining pretty hard outside and it's dark," said Katy. "That doesn't matter now," said Fabi seriously. "And the suitcases?" I asked. "We'll leave them here. Wait a minute," said Fabi. He ran into the parlour and arrived with the metal thing you use to turn the logs in the fireplace. "In case someone attacks us," he said.

The rain outside slowed down. "6:18 a.m. 12 minutes to go," I said. We heard the sound of the engine and saw the bus pull up through the window. "Thank God," I exclaimed relieved. "Let's go then," said Katy. We ran from the stairs to the door. Fabi opened it and we ran to him. Katy suddenly stopped.

I turned to her. Standing behind her was Vladimir who rammed a spear into her back, the tip stack out of her chest. Katy's face was horrified. I yelled and tears welled up in my eyes. Fabi ran to me and pulled me out of the lock. Everything was happening in slow motion in front of me.

Not Katy. I've known her since kindergarten. We had so many beautiful memories. I could talk to her about everything and I trusted her like no other and Fabi. She can't be dead. I didn't want to admit it. I started to cry bitterly, she can't leave me alone. Without them there is no point in continuing to live. I kept screaming her name. We arrived at the bus. Fabi pulled me onto the bus and yelled at the bus driver. "GO GO!" The bus driver gave us a bewildered look, but drove off. Fabi pulled me onto a seat and took me in his arms, I clung to him tightly.

"We have to come back and avenge them," I said tearfully.

There we sat on the bus on the way home. We looked back at the castle and vowed to come back and avenge everyone.

Sequel follows.