Eclipse

Chapter 4

Place: Townview

Time: Nearing the end of the day

Was this going to be the end? Time slowed to a crawl, my senses had become hyper aware of all my surroundings, the drumming of the rain against the roof, the roar of the wind against the windows.  The scythe coming down on me in slow motion. 

Then a new sound.  Gut wrenching scream from the creature in front of me and it started running down the corridor somewhere off into the black. 

Reality caught up, time returned to normal. I was still alive.

A bright line shown suddenly off into the distance where a set of stairs went down into the cafeteria. I caught sight of the massive scythe creature running toward it. It seems that's where it's headed. 

The light, did Tamara or Jeremy do something? One of their objectives? If I remember, Jeremy was the one that was supposed to go downstairs. I hope he's ok.

I still had a job to do to save the rest of the children. I turned from the light and continued into the darkness towards another set of bathrooms I had yet explored. I noticed the fire alarms had stopped flashing at some point as I walked. The air grew heavier, thicker and humid. This school was determined to make things miserable for me, for us. A smell started permeating the air, putrid, like the smell of vomit from a child, coupled with the heavy air it started to gag. 

Next, I started to get assaulted by noise. It started with a low moan, as if someone was annoyed by something. It was to the left of me. Deeper moans as if some one where in pain came from my right. With no light, my other senses seemed to be heighted, my adrenaline still pumping in overtime from my near death experience. The next moan was loud and in front of me, as if 30 feet away. This one was load and curdling. Shivers ran down my fine. 

I knew I was near the next set of bathrooms, which coincidently or not, was also about 30 feet in front of me. The moaning in front grew load, and seemed to vibrate by bones, yet I still could not hear anything. Groping the walls, i finally made it to the women's bathroom. 

All sound ceased and the air immediately felt like it returned to normal. 

Inside a leaned against the wall and took in deep breaths of fresh air. With my breathing returning to normal, I felt around for the light switch and flipped it on. While I shouldn't have been surprised, though I was, the light turned on, followed by the sound of white noise coming from one of the bathroom stalls. 

The bathroom was clean, no dirt or grime on the floors, no smudges on the windows. All the doors were closed and clean save for one. The stall in the center had a door, but it was broken in several places, like something rammed into it. 

While I'm probably stating the obvious, I feel like I'm being lead around this place. I opened the center door and found a small old style television sitting on the toilet seat. The static began to clear and I could start to make out something, someone. It was Tamara rushing down a hallway in the school. She quickly opened a classroom door near the end of the hall and rushed in. Following closely behind her was some creature crawling on the ceiling , it went into the room with her. 

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As Tamara walked down the long hall to the classroom where the man on the phone was directing her she began to hear the screams of children. Her pace quickened to that door at the end. Her hand hesitated on the handled for a moment, the small window was covered but the noise coming from the room was deafening.