Kidnapped to Another World

KTAW Chapter 7, revised

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Chapter 7

"Where's Saito? Is he back yet?" I called out suddenly. We were worried. It'd been much longer for him to get back than we'd expected.

The others confirmed no one has seen him. The others are also even more worried than before. There's also a tumult of panicking people around us that makes it hard for us to hear each other and people are pushing each other to get out of the way of all the trouble.

The semi-gang of people around me were pressuring me to close the tall spindly barricade now. We'd gathered as many students as we could and they were pulling themselves through in droves now. The students were really scared as they ran through. They looked like scared rabbits, but I'm sure we all looked like that too. I also detected a funny smell; some people had lost their bladder control in fear.

I was still worried about If we could save Saito though...

Come on... please make it, I thought.

But the real question is, what horrors the other students from downstairs saw that made them piss themselves like that. And they won't stop but keep running past us. They looked like... the look on their faces resembled how deer's eyes look when fleeing a forest fire. And while I wasn't sure yet what they saw, I remember seeing nature videos of how panicked animals looked and this was the same.

"Help us!"

"They're coming!"

"Help! Oh my shit! We're gonna die!"

"Run! Run away!"

"Their right behind us!"

"We can't fight back without weapons!" someone else cried out.

That's the real problem. We're having to improvise weapons against whatever is down there.

All kinds of such comments were heard as the scared students ran through the aisle. Some of them were so afraid and so panicked they ran into parts of the barricade. Then they had to pick themselves up and move through. A lot of them were also looking over their shoulders, afraid of how close behind things were.

They all had the same afraid wild eyed looks of people seeing and living through trauma and covered in grime and dust from fumbling through the ruins of the school. Some of them had torn clothes too, but so far not many had bad wounds.

Then after that more and more of the students who were wounded ran through, as time progressed. This was a marked difference and was also a warning sign that things would start to happen so. Some of those wounds were from skirmishing with the creatures downstairs, but some would be from cuts in the wreckage. Little by little though, the wounds were worse, and more and more injured were coming through.

"Do you have any other weapons available?" Some of them asked us, gazing at Akira's spear and my fire axe covetously.

"Don't even try to take it," Akira warned preemptively, narrowing his eyes at the jealous. He kept his fingers tight around the spear, which was really well made.

Such looks were why I hadn't wiped any blood of the axe blade yet. The fiercer I looked the less chance someone would try to risk taking it.

"Sorry, grab a chair, or a desk to use as a shield," Yuriko said. Yuriko, being one of Akira's group. She was also on the volleyball team with Yumi, which was how I knew her name. She was a tall lean kid with long hair that towered over the others and very athletic. I was a bit jealous that Akira had snatched her up for his team. The people that were athletes were already recruited fast.