When Things Go Wrong

Chapter 5: The Struggle Continues

*Sera's POV*

Kim and I sat down on a log and took a quick break. Kim properly wrapped her ankle and I sharpened a fat twig into a deadly spear.

"I feel savage." I laughed, growling like a bear.

"I think we look pretty savage by now." Kim mumbled grimly, probably referring to the fact that both of us were covered in dirt and mud. I pulled some stones out of my bra and realized how gross we actually were.

"You think we could sneak into the dormitories?" I grinned.

She frowned. "I'm a little shaken right now." She sighed. I had almost forgotten what had just happened. It's pretty traumatic to lose a sibling.

"Oh, sorry..." I looked at my feet awkwardly. "We can wait."

We kicked around for about an hour. Heard a couple screams. We just needed a break to recover. By the time Kim was stable, I had made us both functional spears and daggers. We both stuck our daggers in the belt of our pants, hiding them with our shirts. Carrying the spears, we headed back down. Maybe we could somehow get past the guards to the dormitory.

We went down to the bottom of the path. Watching carefully for guards, we sprinted across the main path into the shack thing.

"Alright, game plan" I whispered. "We have to go through the woods to get to the dormitories, so we'll have to be careful there. The woods are crawling with possessed people now. After we go through the woods, we'll have to take out the dormitory guards so you'll need this." I said, snapping my glass shard in two and handing her a piece. "After we're done, we'll have to escape through the window, go on the roof and make our way into a tree." Kim nodded.

"I'm just... So tired..." She slowly started laying down on a bench, closing her eyes.

"Kim, no!" I said, smacking her. Again-.-

She shook her head sleepily. "Ow." She said before going back to sleep.

I shoved her off the bench, making her sprawl across the floor, still unwilling to stay conscious.

"Kim, there's a monitor!" I yelled in her ear.

"What?!" She jumped up from her sleep.

"Finally! Let's go!" I grabbed her hand and tried to leave.

"What! You liar! I'm not leaving!" She pulled her hand away and curled back into a ball.

I spent a few minutes trying to figure out how to wake her up.

Then I heard footsteps getting louder and louder.

"Uh... Kim..." I whispered, gripping my spear harder.

"What? I'm. Tired." She was shaking a bit.

"I think someone's coming." I said even more quietly.

"Yeah, okay." She rolled over.

I shook my head. "No, really!"

She got up, and started walking out the door.
"Kim... What are you doing..."

"See! There's no one here!" She turned to walk back inside, when she was pushed by the wooden handle of a shovel.

Kim whimpered, trying not to be too loud. She crawled to the back of the room as the possessed monitor entered.

As they grabbed the handle now wielding the steal side of the weapon, I observed them.

I realized it was Eloise!

"Eloise! Eloise, it's us!!" I desperately called.

She lifted the shovel, preparing herself to hit me with it.

"NO, SERA!!" Kim screamed. She kept repeating 'no' to herself, now shivering in fear.

"Wait! Eloise! Stop!!" I tried to call to her, not wanting to get violent.

"Goodbye." She growled.

As she was about to smack me with the shovel, Kim whispered four words...

"Wait... Not Mme... Please...."

Eloise's eyes slowly turned back to normal, no longer red.
She gasped, gripping her forehead.

"What happened?" She breathed, confused. "I wasn't wearing this before."

She then saw the bloody shovel that she was carrying and choked.

"Kim! You saved us!" I ran over to her. She was still shaking.

Still, my friend mustered a small smile which she hadn't done since her brothers death.

"------" Eloise whispered something, with a huge shocked look on her face.

"What'd did you say?"

"---------" She mumbled.

"Didn't hear you."

"You two are the last ones." Her eyes were wide. "I can't blow out the candle. I'm a monitor. You two are the last ones."

I gripped my spear tighter. "Plan is a go Kim." I said, a look of fury in my eyes. I peaked out the shack. "Coast is clear." I stepped out.

"What's the plan?" Eloise smiled.

"The plan is that your staying here Eloise." I frowned.

"But I can help." She pleaded.

"You can't blow out the candle. The less the better. I'm sorry." Kim and I ran into the trees, leaving her in the shack alone with only a spear I had carved while Kim had tried to sleep.

We managed to get into the woods unseen somehow. There were SEVEN guards guarding the dormitory. Seven.

"Are you, uh, 'stable' enough for violence yet?" I asked Kim.

She gave me a weird look. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Nothing." I said, referring to community channel.

I ran and jumped on one of the guards, kicking the back of his knees hard, making him fall to the ground. I took the non-sharp end of my spear and knocked him out with it. I jumped on some other girl and pulled her hair viciously. We were here to knock them out, not kill them. But a couple bruises won't kill them...

*Kim's POV*

While Sera was viciously attacking people I went into the dormitory. We had to find a phone. You can call 911 from any phone without a password. Maybe we could find one of the teachers phones. What ever happened to the teachers anyway? They just left?

*Sera's POV*

All the guards were knocked out within 5 minutes and I ran into the cabin.

"Did you find a phone?" I whispered. "Backup will be here very, very soon."

"No! There's nothing in here!"

"We have to get out of here. We don't have time to look any longer!" I pointed out the window at the 8 possessed teenagers coming toward the cabin.

Kim huffed in frustration. "Fine. Let's go. Grab your bag, we'll need supplies."

I grabbed my bag and we climbed out the window onto the roof.

"Hey! Get down from there!" Some kid yelled, pointing her flashlight at us. I reflected it with my shard and jumped into a tree.

"Jump!" I yelled to Kim.

"I-" she stuttered. "I can't jump that far with my ankle injury..."