You're Next

Chapter 5

I run after Kelly in hope of catching up with her. I try to shout out to her for her to tell me what she saw. But I'm taken to chasing her.
"What'd you see?!" I shout up to her, but she the loudest.
We're still running when we reach the stairs, and when downstairs, she's heading to the door preparing to open it and reveal the outside exposing us. So I boost up the speed and tackle her to the ground.

"What's going on?" Donald calls.
"Hold on. What did you see Kelly?" I ask her trying to overcome her voice.
"He.... He... He just popped out from the bed, in a mask." She's screaming and sobbing at the same time.
"What mask?" Max asks.
"It had a snout and ears and..... I would've said a fox."
I mount off of her and help her up. "Well, I'd say that whoever killed Patricia, was wearing a fox mask like Tiger Mask. And in the bedroom the whole time after that."

We all stay vigilant while walking around the house, and I ensure we're all carrying a weapon. I go to check on the bedroom again, and see that the door is wide open, as if to warn us that Fox Mask is out. I see Felix and Elizabeth tiptoeing around the floor, checking every room armed with a carving knife.

When returning downstairs, I can see that Kelly has calmed down, and Donald is comforting her with the arrow still lodged in his flesh.
"The house is clear," I tell them.
I check Donald's wound in his back, and it's clear of blood as well. "Christian will be okay you know," Donald reassures me. I just smile, he could be being slaughtered like the other three right this second, his blood being used as a warning in the same "YOU'RE NEXT," horror. But I do know that I'm going to defend his family.

"Time to scout," I begin. "Who's coming?" No one comes up at first, but then Kelly courageously slide a knife off of the table and goes upstairs before me. "Okay then."
Upstairs, Kelly is breathing in the way I do, heavily and calming.
"Kelly, you don't have to do everything like me you know," I tell her when she walks and wields like me.
"I know, it's just, copy is my middle name," she says.
"Really," I tell her.
"No, it's just something you say...... It's Marie," she says nervously.
"Kelly Marie Davinson that's nice."
"What's yours?" She asks.
"What's my what?"
"You're middle name?"
"I've..... I've not got one."
Aww that's a shame."
"Yeah I was a deprived child."
"Are we just talking about middle names to deprive the fact that any one of them assassins could pop out and kill us at any moment?"
"Yeah that was the plan," I confirm.

Scouting the premises is much easier than the last time. Although there's another window that's been smashed. The glass is all over the floor.
"That's new," I remark.
"What?"
"Either someone else has got in or someone has gotten out," I mention.
"Fox Mask?" Kelly nervously says.
"Possibly. I think it's beat that we split up," I say.
"What?" she says in terror.
"If you run into anyone, scream and stab the shit out of them with that knife."
"Okay," she says before shaking wanders off further into the house.

Everything is clear for me. I'd like to think Kelly is safe. But then I hear a door be slammed open with force. I go towards the notice upstairs armed with the calving knife and my witts. Then there's a scream I've heard consecutively tonight. Kelly is in danger. Then she comes charging along the corridor with the knife dropped. She passes me, and this time I can't stop her. But I still follow her, especially Rabbit Mask swings her axe into the wall.

I chase her, but this time she reaches the door, opens it, and storms out. Donald then calls after her, but when running after her, the arrow in his back is knocked into the wall.
"Ahhh! Fuck!" He screams. He reaches behind him, grabs the arrow and yanks it out.
Then he blacks out.