earth

Chapter 23

The air was thick with the sound of footsteps pounding against the floor, as people rushed toward the door...Falling over each other for the door. the door- that was wide open for many but not keen on the idea of them leaving ... No matter how hard they push the door held strong laughing at their efforts with not even budging.

"These walls are sound proof let's test that shall we?" Jason standing in the middle of the flood, standing with his arms wide open, and his chest puffs out in a show of dominance. He exudes confidence and power, daring anyone to challenge him...but they are all running away trampling over one another in the process...I should run! but ava...Where's she? I hid behind a staircase...And watch as William comes out without the bag he came inside with...what's going on? He pushes people away getting to Ava, Leaning down on her ear...mouthing unhearable words into her ear...She looks at him and clenches her gun...walking to the room...I gulp, That bag he brought inside...it's the bag of guns...Don't tell me...Don't tell me he...Gave guns to them and is trying to lure Ava inside...so she can...no! no! he wouldn't do that! they are supposed to be in love.

"Ava" Screaming her name calling her name but my voice drowns in other people's screams and tramples on other's people's footsteps beating the message into the ground...and can't stand any longer...I pause and ran to her...Pushing people who were already pushing people...Her hand grazes the doorhandle I tackle her to the ground...barely hearing her screams as bullets dominate my ears...My hands came around her ears... shielding her...I don't want you to hear this...

"shit" Their bullets help Jason kill the other runners but also stop him as he's in shock...He stops... Everything around me seems to slow down. The moment felt heavy and still, like the air had been sucked out of the room switching his gun out for a bigger...Like a madman shooting a gun aimlessly...this is horrible...horrible, this is death's bed! every part of this house is alive with death! fresh with new death over and over again...

"I can't take this" My lips trembling fast, fast as everyone's dying fast as the people's life flash before their eyes...I open my closed eyes... Ava, she's crying...

" Neither can I" she whispers...she whispers...and I break burying my head into her shoulder and balling into it...I can't stop...the tears won't stop their souls passing through me forcing their bodies into me...I'm their way to the afterlife...I can feel their pain. their regrets. their sorrow. it's all coming to me. slowly.slowly slowly slowly slowly slowly slowly slowly slowly slowly slowly! chipping away my soul...

"What are you doing get up" A kick hit my rib...waking me...still I'm lying on top of Ava...How long has it been, I sat up and wish I was still asleep...still passed out... the floor was covered in a thick layer of bodies, pile on top of each other like a blanket...The once beautiful and different color dresses range from green to yellow to brown, and they once create a beautiful mosaic of colors. is now identical to what I see, red. " I said get up!" William pulls me to my feet with one arm.

" I don't see why Riley wants you...You're weak! next time I see a tear dripping down your face I'll rip out your eyes  and replaces them with your balls!" His threat cause my blood to run colder than it already was...he releases me

"Liam come with me we have to clear out the rest" Jason cocks his head a bit just as he does his gun...William nods and follows rather happy...

"they're all dead..." I whisper my eyes unable to collect all the bodies...it'll take me a lifetime or two...

"Ah- not all of them" I follow William's eyes...to a person on the ground covered in blood...her hand reaching out...Maybe to God...Maybe she sees god... reaching her hand out to grab death to accept- He shot her...Her body splashes onto the puddle of blood...

"Cammy and brunette see to it that everything is locked...that's the least you can do" Soon Jason and William walk upstairs..." I breathe...I shut my eyes...I shut them...they're dead... they're all dead...not all of them...Once they left I ran...I ran looking for a place that didn't have a corpse...that didn't have anything...no blood not even the color red...I hid behind a staircase...closing my eyes...since that's the only place I won't see blood...I won't see a body...I won't see anything...but not even my mind was safe...The people were all in Abnormal positions.... their legs bent, their eyes dull... deprived of any color...any life...the only thing that showed they were human was their bodies...not their souls not their laughter not their smile but the undeniable fact that they have a body...and they had a soul...

"Officer" Ava whispers...and My eyes open, studying her dress...that has an irregular and unpredictable, as the blood droplets can land in different places and different sizes.   

"Don't call me that" avoiding her gaze...counting the blood drops...ten,

"Officer." Firmness holds her words...I bit my lip...holding it...it's the least I can do..."Officer!"

"Don't call me that!" hitting the floor, coming from my feet...towering above her...she holds my glaze with such weight...she doesn't move. she doesn't look away...she stares. " Do...Do I- How can I..." I choke " How can...you call me...that" my arm swinging hovering over the bodies....showing her as if she doesn't already know!

"How can you call me that after I let this-this happen!?" My hands grip my nose...I-i can't...

"Help us...Help us...please oh god please help us..." Removing my hands from my face...Holding the sides of my face....my ears...me. I nod...I'll help her...She doesn't deserve this...She didn't do anything.

" I'll help you...I promise...You will be free" Hope twirling in her eyes something she hadn't had in a while...

"We'll get through this together...I promise you" Softly smiling...her eyes are the only escape from the horrors surrounding me...I startle at the sound of rapid-fire cracks...like someone began playing piano a sudden wave of screaming plays all at once...We rush up the stairs, running up the blood that puddles on the surface of the stairs coming closer to the awakening sound...Ava tries to rush inside but I pull her close...watching...They move around without any clear direction or purpose...other than to kill.

They dance, their arms interlocked with one another, dancing and twirling in circles in rhythm of the... of the... They wear identical faces, empty faces, empty eyes, empty smiles, empty hearts... In the midst of it all, they are lost in their world, oblivious to the world around them as they dance in temporary laughter and temporary love. To them, it's raining, they think that they are in the rain, just the two of them, dumb to know that the wetness that makes their clothing heavy is blood. They dance, they dance, they dance, lost in their world, lost in their love, lost in their ignorance.
The Holes from the insides of people's brains gush out creating human eruption- flames shoot out of the skull in huge volumes, creating a terrifying sight. The flames are so intense that they shoot up hanging to the Chandelier above, casting an eerie red glow over the surrounding roof...
Riley stood tall on the balcony, her gaze fix on the horizon as she contemplated the weight of her responsibilities.
eyeing me down, nudging her head aiming me to follow her...anything- anything to get away from these...dancing...dancing people...