HOW MUCH T1ME

Friend or Foe

We exited the backstage area and walked onto a burning stage.

"Crap! That fire wasn't there before." I said disappointedly. The fire was surrounding us. Allowing us no way out besides the way we had come. We had to jump through the fire. It was the only way. We ran and jumped through it. On the other side we looked at each other proudly. We just escaped a mutated beautician and jumped through a flame.

"Holy shi...damn it!" Darcy said as she noticed the flames on her dress. She stopped it from burning any further by ripping off the part that was on fire before it got to the rest of her dress,

and chucked it into the fire. We got off the stage and began to climb over the rubble to get to the door. As we climbed up my foot slipped and fell into a hole as I tried to get my foot free from the crack in the rubble I felt something touching my foot. My face became worried. Suddenly my whole leg was being pulled down the hole by one of the mutated creeps. As I kicked and screamed for freedom Darcy came to the rescue with a large sharp pice of metal and began stabbing the creature in the small hole. She finally got it to go away and I got free. It scared the crap out of me.

"Thanks" I said as I tried to get my breath back.

"Your welcome" she said with a smile.

"You were scared out of your mind."

She gave a small chuckle and turned to walk away. She took two steps and then the ground collapse underneath her.

"DARCY!" I yelled as I ran to where she fell.

"CAN YOU HEAR ME!"

"SH...I can hear you fine but you've got to be quiet. They are drawn by sound, like dogs and other animals. That's why the beautician went all retarded when we were screaming to each other...I think." She whispered to me probably calmer than she should have been considering her situation.

"Take this" I whispered as I dropped the sharp object down to her.

She looked at me and began to walk off. I started to climb back down the pile and wait for her. When I got to the bottom I could see that the door everyone was crowded at was now blocked by newly fallen rubble and dead bodies. I kept my distance and stayed quiet just incase they weren't really dead. I waited and waited but she wasn't coming. I began to think she was dead but I couldn't afford to think that way and end up bursting out in years and making to much noise so I just waited. Finally I heard a whisper coming from the rubble.

"Chris"

"Thank goodness. I thought you were dead." I said in relief as I helped her break away the rubble to help her escape safely with limited noise.

"I didn't see that thing that attacked you before. I must have killed him before. If that's even possible." She said and gave a small chuckle as I helped her over a large pice of what used to be the ceiling. Just as her foot hit the ground i saw the thing that attacked me before running towards us from under the rubble. We began to walk away backwards. We couldn't run we were in to much shock. It was coming at us as fast as it could, but just before it got to the hole in the rubble the mound of destruction partially collapsed and a massive metal supporter with a sharp end skewered the beast leaving it stuck. As it scrambled to get to us it made loud noises. It was to loud and we would end up dead if we didn't get it to be quiet. Darcy quickly got into action and got her weapon ready for attack and began to violently stab the monster repeatedly until it stopped making noise. I looked away as it was quite disturbing.

"Are you done?" I asked in a quiet voice. She didn't reply, instead I heard her sobbing. I turned to see her kneeling on the ground in front of the hanging body that was dripping with blood crying. I went and kneeled next to her.

"That man used to be my best friend."she said between her sobs

"I...I dot know what to say...I'm sorry" I said attempting to comfort her.

"Chris" she said as she looked up at me. "What are we going to do?"

She looked down at her hands which where covered in blood and began to cry again.

"Look...we're going to get out of this place alive" I said as tears began to form in my eyes. I took a deep breath.

"And if we don't make it...promise me that you will at least try to get out."

"NO!" she yelled. She immediately went silent.

"I can't live without you." She whispered. She looked me in the eyes and tears began to fall again. There was a sudden groan. We both looked at each other quickly with worry.

"I don't want to have to kill again" Darcy said as she burst into years again. I began to think I what to do next. I didn't have much time to think so I had to think quickly.