Among Them All

Chapter 10 Left Behind

Mini Red was certain he knew who the murder was. He was tired of playing ring around the rosy. Of going back and forth with ideas and clues to figuring out who had been killing all of his crewmates, his guardians, his friends. Everyone who had died for no reason, all because of one person. One corrupted, twisted person.

He was ready for it all to end, all he had to do was find everyone that was left and tell them what he had seen. Or what he thought he saw.

Though to my surprise, I thought everything was going well for once. Everything had settled down. I was able to keep the ship intact. It all happened so fast.

"Alright, that should do it. Hopefully Yellow found Cyan. I have no idea what I am going to do with those two," I said, picking myself up from the weapons chair and leaving its armory back into the cafeteria.

"Women are more complicated than people say they are." I was lost in thought till my lower back was hit with a light push followed with a light thudding sound. I turn around to see Mini Purple on the floor.

"Mini Purple?" Her breathing wasn't heavy, but she had a light pant.

"Slow down, you're going to get hurt. Are you alright?" I looked around and down the hall she came from.

"Is someone chasing you? Where's Orange, he was supposed to be keeping an eye on you."

"H-huh, White?" She looked up to me in surprise. It was like she wasn't watching where she was running. She had no idea what was in front of her.

"Mini!" A faint voice became louder as it came closer.

"Orange?" I called out. He came running from around the same corner with the same light pants.

"You got to stop running off like that!" He whined. What was going on? What was she running from Orange now?

"Is everything okay?" I asked him. His eyes met up with mine, his expression went from zero to a hundred in two seconds. He was just as surprised to see me.

"White! Oh, am I glad to see you alive." He said in a squeaky tone.

"Yeah, everything is fine, we just have a little troublemaker on our hands." He put his hands on his sides just like a mother would do to her young one.

"I think she is spending too much time with Mini Red."

I sighed with a chuckle still slightly confused,

"I don't plan on dying anytime soon. A troublemaker ey?" I looked down at Mini Purple who was still sitting on the ground. She looked up at me with the most innocent look on her face as if she did nothing wrong. She shrugged her shoulders as my eyes shifted from hers to Orange.

"That can't be good, one is plenty. Speaking of which, where is Mini Red?" My concern grew more as Mini Purple wasn't the only person we were currently in charge of.

"I'm not sure," he said with the same concern as me.

"I hope he is okay. Hopefully he didn't see what happened to Red..." His voice went soft as Red's name crossed his lips. His eyes shifted from worry to darkness.

"What do you mean?"

"Red's dead," Mini Purple blurted out below us. It was like a kick in the stomach. How, how could someone else die right by our side. I trusted everyone here, even though Red was found dead... That's what made me worry the most. I was conflicted by thoughts and emotions.

"Out of all the deaths, I do not think he was actively killed this time..."

Orange said with some kind of guilt in his throat.