Ever After High: Corpse Party

Chapter 23: We Were Born to Die

Daring's POV

"Headmaster Milton Grimm. Entry is forbidden." I read from the plaque on the door, on the very top floor of the school. Kitty pushed the door that was surprisingly unlocked. She gasped at the room. There was what seemed to be paper pasted all throughout the room. It was everywhere, on the desks, walls, and on the boxes. "W-why are there so many sealing charms?" Kitty said shakily, clutching my arm. "I don't know." I said, proceeding to open the drawer in the headmaster's desk.  Kitty clutched my arm even harder. I opened the drawer. There was a bloodstained pouch and a journal. I picked up the journal but dropped it like it burned my fingers. "Daring, are you ok?" I heard Kitty ask frantically. She was fading. Was I dying? No, I couldn't be, this felt different. The world was coming back into focus. I couldn't move. But I heard a woman's scream, and the sound of a body hitting wood, and horrible snapping sound. Then I saw her. The White Rabbit. She had short white hair, and looked exactly like Bunny. Except her neck was twisted and she wasn't moving. She was obviously dead. And the man that stood before her was Headmaster Grimm, staring at what had happened. "Mommy?" A little girl's voice said, and Bunny's small figure appeared around the corner. She gasped when she saw the scene. "Mommy?!" She cried, focusing only on her mother, tears filling her eyes. Then she saw Grimm. Her eyes widened with fear. "You had to see it, you just had to have seen it." He said angrily to Bunny. Bunny tried to run, but Grimm had grabbed her arm and she screamed, "Let me go!" He looked angrier than before. Then his hands clutched her neck, and he began to squeeze. Her face turned blue as she struggled, and her eyes were rolling upward. Then the struggling stopped. Her hands fell limp. He threw her to the ground. Then my vision became blurry, we were in a new place. I seemed to be underground. Bunny's face still held the shock of her last moments. "Why must you keep tormenting me?" Grim yelled at Bunny's body. Then he grabbed a pair of scissors and stabbed Bunny, screaming, "Damn You!" Each time. He then opened Bunny's mouth and cut off her tongue, placing it into a pouch. "Now you can never say anything," he threw a worn stuffed rabbit at her, "I'll kill you as many times as I have to..." The scene then came back to reality. "Daring!" I heard Kitty yell clearly, "Are you alright?" I nodded at her, and picked up the journal that had fallen, and placed it back into the drawer. "Headmaster Grimm killed Bunny." I said to her. She gasped. "He killed her because she had seen him kill her mother." Kitty gasped once more. I looked at the pouch in the drawer. It seemed very clear as to what was inside. I picked it up without fear and placed it into my pocket. "Kitty," I said, "Let's go."