Hide and Go Seek

10. Grim

Caleb... I feel sick. No one had really liked him, Jacob, the cute, younger sibling stole all of our hearts instead of the grumpy, kinda self-centered older brother. Despite all of the fights and arguments he initiated, he didn't deserve what happened to him. After Thing stabbed him 29 times and dragged him back to the surface sputtering and bleeding out, it sliced him open from the hips. I mentally scream and gag as his organs spill out into the ocean he obviously had thought was a safe haven.

At least it was fast... well, faster than Katie.

I am clinging to some sort of rope that is hanging off the side of the ship, cackling like I had just pulled a prank. I feel bile rise up my throat at the sound. The thing allowed my body to dispel the offensive chyme.

"Wasn't that beautiful?" It asks me, a smile pulling at my lips, "the ocean really does look pretty with that splash of red!"

Stop... I whimper, but all the fight has left me. I'm sorry, we were horrible thinking we could play the game however we wanted. Just please, have mercy, spare us? Or even just them, the ones that are left, just leave them be?

"Well now, that's not very fair to me, though, is it? I was ready to play by the rules but was welcomed quite rudely. So no; no mercy"

I shrink back into my designated corner. Through my eye, I can see Caleb's shredded body being raised into the air. I pull out a water-proof camera from a pouch on my waist and snap a picture. Once we reach land, I will upload it. I am giddy with the thought. IT is giddy with the thought, not me.

I can feel my body's fatigue from clinging to boats for the past 2 months eating at my fingers. It took a month for it to track down that Caleb was working on a cruise or something and then spent the next 2 searching and tracking boats that he may be on, with very little resting between.

I try my best not to think about who it will be hunting next.