P.I.E. Operation: PARASITIC

XXXVII: Hole in the Wall

Gah! Everything on the computer just became really slow and now I don't know if the image went through (even though it actually doesn't matter that much and it's just there to look pretty)! Oh well, as long as the chapter is published correctly it's fine. :0)

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Johnny Ghost kneeled on the wooden floor. "I guess... you could say I'm... back from the dead." He was facing down, but Light Zeron could tell he was smiling widely. e said quietly. He was facing the rotting floorboards, but there was clearly a wide smile plastered across his face.

"Johnny? How did you...? You lost so much blood... and you still are!" Light Zeron was at a loss for words. He couldn't form enough sentences to express his confusion.

"I know--Still not in... best condition." Ghost said. Right as he talked, he felt a gust of wind.

"Oh, so you're aw-awake, Gregory." Casket said into his ear. Jimmy's voice went high pitched so his statement sounded more like a question. He lifted his head back up and walked past his human host, holding his beloved knife behind his back.

"Hey, get back over here!" Sally felt offended that he totally pretended she wasn't fighting him in the first place. "And his name's Johnny, stupid!" She said in her pouty-five year-old sounding voice.

"You only know his f-fake identity." This easily perked Light's and Sally's attention, but Jimmy brushed it off. "N-no matter, that's not imp-important." He gave a devilish smile.

"No wonder... You were so quiet earlier." Ghost's smile flipped when he saw the parasitic murderer. He covered the wound on his stomach.

Casket giggled and easily knocked him over with the push of his hand. "You might want--want to fix that." He spun around to Light and subtly began to pull out Knifey, ignoring the black bloodstain growing on his dark blue jacket(which really isn't formal for school staff, but nothing makes sense in the Venturiantale universe anyway :) ). "Drop that boy. I-I'm going to have a t-talk with you about your bad behavior." His eye twitched.

Light stepped back and Jimmy came closer.

Sally hesitantly moved forward. "Y-You're just a coward! Stop picking on the injured!"

As Jimmy was about to object that he was injured too, a gunshot rang out and echoed through the silent school.

Johnny, who still had his satchel on hand, brought out a gun from a covered pocket on the very bottom corner of the bag and shot near where Jimmy's vital organs should have been.

From the corner of his eye, Ghost could see that Jeff was peeking out of a classroom with that permanently-cut grin of his.

The bullet went directly through Jimmy but left minimal blood. It whizzed past Light's shoulder that also carried Billy.

"Oh," Jimmy said with an angered frown. "Are you trying to shoot me in the heart?" He turned around to Ghost and slowly walked toward him with his knife in hand.

Seeing this as an opening, Light made a mental apology to Johnny for leaving him in a situation like this and ran for some kind of Nurse's Office.

"How did I miss--" Johnny started.

"I d-don't have a h-heart." Jimmy grinned again. "I only have a d-demon's black hole of death and despair. I guess you co-could say I am part demon."

"Fine. If you don't have a heart, you can still die from blood loss! Technically, immortality is impossible, even in this world!" Ghost pulled the trigger on his gun again, tearing more holes into Jimmy's flesh. "I can also be considered 'immortal' in a way. I can survive losing more blood than a normal citizen. Maybe I'm almost as much of a superhuman as you!"

Jimmy coughed a reasonable amount of blackness into his hand. He felt slightly weaker, but he didn't exactly care. "You're right, in a way. That h-hurts plenty, but I'm too st-stubborn to realize it!" The murderer aimed his knife at Johnny. " As great as you think you are I'm sure you won't dis-disregard a stab to the heart!"

Ghost didn't move.

The weapon stopped only a few inches from the paranormal investigator's skin.

Sally held Jimmy's wrist. The parasite was at his limit of patience at this point.

Jimmy snatched her other wrist, pushing and running with her until she broke through the school wall. The shape of her body as a hole in the wall structure added to the eeriness of the building(from an outsider's point of view, it would probably look like a murder scene). Blood dotted the outline of the newly formed wall cavity that Sally sat in.

"W-Why do you even b-bother helping him?! All you wi-will get out of opposing me is death."

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Halfway down a hallway, a loud noise startled Lights Zeron. He turned his head to a cloud of pieces of the building and loads of dust that flew like a swarm of gnats.

Responding to this, he stepped towards it, but decided against it. The sister of the boy on his shoulder was a tough fighter and she was still in a well condition to defend herself. Johnny, though... He wasn't sure what Johnny was.

In any case, Light felt he was too weak to help out and would only get in the way. He was still worried, though, and that feeling sat in his gut.

He took a deep breath and continued on, staring at the ground as he walked. He bumped into a surface and almost fell, but he only staggered a bit. When he sighed and looked up, he almost screamed.

Jeff 'the killer' met eye-to-eye with him, bearing that uncomfortably creepy smile that cut his face in half and his crazy wide eyes. "Are you lost?" The hooded teenager asked in a wavering voice.

Should I trust him? Light thought to himself. ...Well, I have no choice unless I want to venture around the entire school. "Uh... Is there an infirmary here?" Zeron said, stepping back right away.

Jeff almost seemed to smile wider, but that was pretty much impossible for him anyway. "Oh, yes. Believe it or not, it's on the roof... The very top floor."

"On... the roof?" Did this guy think he was born yesterday? There was no reason for the Nurse to work on the roof.

"It's on the next floor to the left of the corridor, friend." Light heard Rake hiss at him.

It actually kind of surprised him. "Um, thanks." He ran towards the end of the hallway to avoid any more interruptions.

Meanwhile, Jeff scolded the Rake. "What are you doing? You shouldn't be helping out a regular human! Besides, it would have been funny to follow him to the roof. I could have scared him off the edge!"

All Rake did was apologize with an uncaring smile on his face. He giggled. "Sorry, friend."