Terror

Chapter Thirty-Three

People were gradually leaving the hospital, depending on if their parents could take them home or how severe their injuries were. Jason couldn't, but he had his own room instead, with crowded security nearby.

He stared up at the television in the corner and narrowed his eyebrows at the latest news. It wasn't them escaping charges or River's mother being in jail for twenty years; they found another survivor in Simcoe.

As he tried to think of who it could be, he jumped when his door slammed open. Emma stood there with wide eyes, gulping.

"There's something wrong," Emma said.

Jason sat up but groaned at his injuries, holding his head. "Did someone die?"

"That feeling is back," she trembled.

Jason knew what feeling Emma meant. It wasn't a normal feeling, but the gut feelings she had before the storm or when she suspected something bad happened when the storm stopped.

"Check CTV news," Emma rushed.

Jason opened his phone and scrolled through the many news reports posted online. Most talk about getting out of charges or people being mad that they all aren't getting charged. When he saw exactly what Emma meant, he almost dropped his phone on the ground. No way; it wasn't possible for this to happen.

"How is Cassandra alive?" he exclaimed.

The news knew her as Cassandra, and she had been covered in scrapes and burns from when they all saw her being burned alive. Did something go wrong? Or were they never dead and gone somewhere?

"She shouldn't be alive. That means if Cassandra is alive, it could mean Ashley and Divina will be alive again," she whispered.

They saw all three of them burned, and it melted their skin, just as if ice cream was melting into nothing but a liquid. Does that mean everything they did was erasing the human bodies but not whatever they are?

"What happened? Did something go wrong, and are we all going to die? Is she a wandering ghost or an illusion?" Emma panicked, pacing back and forth in his room.

"You look like you saw a ghost," Mark said.

Jason pointed his phone toward him as Mark came walking over, grabbing his own phone.

"What the hell? Are we sure it's even true because the news is often clickbait?" Mark stated.

Jason wanted it to be clickbait, but he had a feeling this wasn't something fake. People did post a lot of gossip with theories about if that girl would come back or if those things would come back.

Cindy bopped in his room with a frown. She crossed her arms over her chest but winced as her whip marks from Luke had caused serious injuries.

"Have you seen it?" Jason asked.

Cindy walked over to look at the phone he held of the news article. "The whole thing is true. She came with Zane to see me to ask about what chemicals were made to create Ashley," she implied.

Why would she want the chemicals? It's not that he knows chemicals any better than Cassandra does. Cindy may know more, and they did explain it in court, but there's been a lot happening all at once.

"She's talking to James, but apparently Divina and Ashley are sealed. They don't have human bodies anymore because of the attachment," she said. "We have to get that mixture without something that can erase them, or Divina and Ashley will walk the earth again."

Emma sputtered as Jason stared at Mark. Those two, walking the earth? It was difficult enough in The Bubble, but having those two in the real world? It'd be Ashley or whoever's body murdering people and Divina destroying it to kill Ashley.