Her smile widened, stretching the skin held by the thread. She quickly walked out the room, picking up the hammer, and running out of the house and into the autumn woods.
She emerged on the other side, walking up the empty street. The soiled tool dragging behind her, grinding against the concrete. She giggled to herself as she approached the house. The light in the kitchen remained on, even though the car was gone. Ann's shadow ran across the small lit window.
Zero, growing impatient, walked up the steps and slowly knocked on the oak door.
"I'll be right there, Alice! Man, your gonna love your gift." Ann yelled from another room.
When she opened the door, her grin quickly faded. What once was here friend, instead stood a white monster. Silence filled the home for several moments before Ann ran towards the living room. Zero grabbed her forearm before she could get away and threw her against the hardwood floor.
"Alice! What are you doing?!" Ann screamed.
Zero quickly walked towards her, placing her foot on her arm......splitting it in half. Her screams filled the entire house, rattling against the walls.
"HA! Alice is long gone....and she won't be coming back. As for why? Well.....you can't have Zero with one left." she laughed as she lifted the large hammer above her head.
With all of Zero's strength, the hammer entered Ann's skull, spraying black liquid over the walls and floor. Without hesitation, she yanked out her weapon and shook off the prices of brain matter hanging off. Ann's still corpse lay, the soft innards completely exposed.
With a smirk, she left and returned with a large cleaver.
"Hm, lets see what we can do with this." She said, as she turned Ann's lifeless body around so her stomach touched the floor.
She picked up the knife and ran a line across both Ann's legs, arms and back. She slowly tore open the cuts, muscles and tendons splitting and snapping as more black liquid pour out. She repeated this to the rest and then dug her hands into her back, gripping the rib cage. She pulled and pulled and finally yanked out both the spine and the rib cage. Laughing, she placed it next to Ann's body, and next she placed the arms and then the legs. They were all in the right order, Ann's skeleton laying beside her flesh, the only thing missing was the the skull.
"Hmm...your skull is too damaged, and would be too much of a bother to take off all the skin. So....I know!"
Zero dipped her hand in the pool of black blood and drew a zero in place of the head on the skeleton.
"Perfect! Now your just like me! A lonely skeleton....oh, what's this?" Something besides the body caught her attention.
A box with a white ribbon on top, the tag reading "To Alice"
She ripped off the lid and she saw a simple black and white scarf inside.
"Why, thank you, Ann. You know I hate color." she said as she swung the cloth around her neck.
Red and blue lights began to fill the dark room through the front window.
"Well, this was fun, Ann. And now with you gone, we finally have zero." said the white faced killer as she raced out the door and into the dark woods.
THE END
