You're Next

Chapter 11

I'm on the floor outside with glass on the floor. My face is cut as well as my shirt, but the biggest injury is my thigh. It's heavily bleeding and there's a shard of glass deep inside of my flesh. I'd have to slowly limp away, but above me, Fox Mask pops his cunning head out of the window. I get up quickly and scurry away in pain, gritting my teeth as I go along.

I'm at a tree and breathing through the pain. The glass needs to be removed and bandaged quickly or it'll catch an infection. I luckily have a torch on my phone to see through the shadows of the woods. I wrap my bleeding hand around the glass and squeeze it tightly and slowly pull it from my leg. I gasp incredibly through the excruciating pain. I thought it'd be another piece of glass, but no, it is a foot long shard that takes 10 seconds of pain to get out. When it's out, I drop the glass and use to torch to look around, and there he is. Lamb Mask aiming his crossbow towards me.

Of course I ran, sprinted away in pain. I get to the front door and easily open it and scurry to the one hiding place I know will work. Donald was hid behind the curtain for at least an hour, so I'm safe behind there. Luckily Patrica always keeps cloth on the side of the window to stop water coming in through windows in case the window was left open, so I use that as a bandage for my leg. Then there's a loud stomp and a cry of pain. Then the window slams shut. Looks like my trap with the nails worked.

"Don't get your DNA left in here!" a voice yells. I look between the curtains and they're all there. Rabbit, Fox, Lamb and an injured Bear Mask.
"Sorry, why are we even doing this?" Lamb Mask says. "I mean we've already lost my brother."
Tiger Mask was Laamb Mask's brother. I could kill them all right now if I wasn't injured, I'm not as fast as them anymore.
"Well I'm sorry about that you all keep getting beat up by some girl," Fox Mask says.
"Yeah she's not even that pretty," Rabbit Mask says. Bitch.
"We need to split up," Bear Mask says.
"Yeah," Fox Mask agrees.
"But we know one thing," Lamb Mask says. "She's injured."
They're going to use that injury against me. I need to find the other 3.

When they spread out, several doors open and close.
"All clear LIz," I hear. Felix.
"Over here," I call. They both come and draw back the curtains.
"What happened to you?" Elizabeth asks.
"Oh you know, jumped out of a window. Where's Donald?"
Felix looked slightly phased. "He's dead. We were looking for you and we went to the basement and he was there, stabbed with a load of screwdrivers."
My heart collapsed. My leg was bleeding and over half of the family are dead and god knows where Christian is. The two help me up and rest me on the table where they add several bandages to my leg over the one that has become a dark red.
"So what's the plan now?" Felix asks.
"I don't know," I say. "Can't escape there's four of them left and three of us. They'll have all ground covered
"And you're injured," Elizabeth implies, "so if we did have that free space to run you might just slow us down."
"Yeah," I say. I sound defeated.
"What about Christian?" Felix says. I completely forgot. Christian has been gone for far to long. He must've escaped somehow; probably while Lamb Mask was chasing Kelly.
"If he found help he would've been back by now," I say accepting the worst.
"Well let's just do what they've done," Elizabeth says.
"What?" Felix says surprised.
"We can kill them. I mean Erin killed Tiger Mask," she says.
"He was going to kill me. Self-defense. What they're doing is murder," I say.
"Well the police hasn't arrived yet and they're still after us. Let's face it we've all got some sort of bounty above our heads. We have to fight back," she says.
"She's right," Felix says. "It's our only other option right now."
"Then we've got a plan," I say agreeing with them at last. "But we need to be smart about this."
"What do you mean?" Elizabeth asks puzzled.
"Well these guys are trained assasins. The only chance you've got at beating any one of them is two against one, so none of us can go anywhere alone unless we have to," I explain.
"But you killed that Tiger Mask guy alone," Felix says attempting to bend around my rules.
"That axe was out of his hands, I took a risk simply by using my feet as defence. So for now we all wait for them to come to us. Agreed,?" I ask.
They exchange nervous looks but eventually say "agreed."