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(𝐒𝟏) 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝟐𝟐

𝟏ˢᵗ 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖.

𝐈 heard Logan yelp in pain. I grip onto my katana as i raise my katana and cut the phantoms arm off, it was a clean cut. I huff slightly.

I look over to Logan, worriedly. I see him clenching his side in pain. I get a better view and see the blood leaking through his sweater.

I slightly cringe at the sight. I heard the others pick up their pace as they begin to approach the rest of us. "Twins, grab the legs! Ben, you stab it!" I heard Ashlyn tell them. Tyler and Taylor grab ahold of one leg each.

I go over to Logan and get a rag i had in my pocket for emergencies. I put it up to his wound, carefully. I could see Ben stab the phantom. The phantom shakes for a moment before it goes limp.

Ashlyn sighs in relief. I put pressure on the Logans wound with the rag to try and stop from bleeding. Tyler then goes over to us. "Hey dude, you alright? Can you move?" I look over to Tyler.

"We're going to have to patch it up quickly to prevent any spread of infection, i still think those things have rabies or something." I tell him as i shiver in disgust and scrunch my nose up at the thought.

I ask Logan to take his shirt off so that i could see his wound properly. I then start to clean the blood around his wound making it so that i could see it properly to know how bad it is.

"How- bad is it...?" He asks us with a shaky voice. I slightly cringe as he asks that trying to not evidently show it on my face. I stay silent as does everyone else. Logan doesn't look down at his wound as he was too scared.

"Why aren't you guys saying anything?? It's bad isn't it?! It hurts! I'm scared!" Logan shouts as he sobs. Both me and Ashlyn panic. "Clam down! It'll be okay!" I tell him with panic in my voice. Ashlyn nods here head in agreement.

She extends her hand out with some pills. "Here. Take these pain meds from the first aid kit." She tells him as she sweats slightly panicking at his outburst.

I sigh and look over to Ben. "Ben, can you help me with bandaging him? I only know how to clean up wounds.." I ask him as i sheepishly grin at him. He nods his head and goes to grab the first aid kit.

I begin to clean up his wound with rubbing alcohol. Not long after he seemed to pass out. Taylor slightly yelps as she catches his head before it hit the bus floor and she sighs.

"We should probably let him rest for a bit." Taylor tells us. I nod my head in agreement. After i finish cleaning up his wound i let Ben bandage it.

"Guess the means the Savannah trip is on hold for now." Ashlyn says to us. I heard Tyler. "Tch." He then gets up.

"Fine. Then let's decide what to do with the phantom." He tells us as he goes up to the phantom and taps it with his weapon.

"So what do we do with it?" Tyler asks. "Good question." I heard Ashlyn say. "Maybe we can chop it up and try to feed it to it's other buddies and see if it affects them?" I suggest.

They all give me a disgusted look or a look of puzzlement. I shrug. "Maybe instead of doing that.. we could experiment on it? See the most effective way of doing damage to it?" Taylor suggests. Aiden takes out his phone.

"Well, since it's dead let's take a closer look!" Aiden says as he turns his flashlight on his phone on.

The phantom then starts to react as is starts to deform and basically have a meltdown. We all take a step back in shock. "Turn it off!" Tyler shouts at Aiden. "Okay, okay!" Aiden says as he starts to turn the flashlight off. The phantom turns onto a goo-like substance. I look at it in disgust.

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Word count; 626
April 15ᵗʰ, 2024
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EDIT;
Word count; 712
June 18ᵗʰ, 2024

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