Trick or Treat - The Annual Teen Massacre

Chapter One - Awakening

Part two - Chapter One

The dreams were confusing. That's what David thought at the moments of consciousness. He had pictured almost every moment of his life, and nothing made sense anymore. He saw his parents being fanatics who were murdering his friends. He saw tony saying he was David's twin brother and he saw Vanessa and Tina happily playing together on the iron stairs of an apartment building. 

It was all one big fuss of in and out of consciousness for a long time. The times he actually got a hold of the world around him it didn't make sense either. Sometimes the sky was pink. 

He sometimes overheard the boy and the girl talk. But not more than that. For all he knew they were talking in a different language, or perhaps even singing to each other? 

He sometimes felt a hand on his head. That soothed him a little. After every dream he did feel a little better. And after a few more crazy dreams, or were they reality perhaps, he started to feel his heartbeat again.

He coughed. 

It seemed his cough was enough to make the two figures move towards his direction again. He opened his eyes and saw the sky. It was still a blur, but it was orange. Why orange? Were his eyes broken? The sky was always either grey or blue. But never orange. 

     "H..Hello?", David said faintly. 

     "David! You're finally up!" the girl said. She hugged him. He braced himself for the pain. 

     "Ouch. Careful please" , David said. He felt the world around him spinning, but he was strong enough that he wouldn't faint again. "Can I have something to drink?" 

     "Sure David, how are you feeling now besides thirsty? Do you know how long you've been in and out of consciousness?" the girl asked. David still couldn't see her face straight. It was almost as if she was in and out of phase. Turning invisible every few seconds. 

     "Confused. I was under the impression you were Tina, but you're not are you? Also there's a lot of things that don't make sense to me."

     "It's a lot to take in. And it's a long story. When you feel ready I'll tell you everything. But no I'm not Tina. I've heard stories about her from that night. But I have never met her. But from what I've heard I don't like her much, way too pompous for my taste. But I think you remember me right? I'm Vanessa."

It took a while for David to take this new information in. He thought about it while Vanessa handed him a bowl of water. He drank it slowly, but gratefully. Vanessa was pierced by a Ballista in the first few hours of the Halloween night . How was it possible she was standing here? He looked at her chest where a gaping wound from an huge arrow should have been. She had been shot very early in the Halloween night by a Ballista. An ancient weapon used in medieval times. But there wasn't any sign of injury. 

"How come you're not dead? I saw you being pierced by that ballista thing!" David asked. 

"I was, and I was lucky it didn't hit my heart. It did kill my GPS, however" Vanessa said smiling. 

After every sip from the bowl the faces of the two people became clearer. The GPS.. It was a little device that was put in all newly born children. It was a very useful piece of technology that tracked people when they were lost. It also registered people's heart rating and other medical stuff. But it also could define if someone was behaving badly. He had seen people drop dead in the Halloween night when a longbow archer killed a girl in a zone where it was prohibited. The murderer got a lethal dose of volts through her body, killing them instantly. David had seen more people dying because of that GPS in the Halloween night. He didn't like the methods. But it had saved him from being murdered.