A Crow In The Darkness

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1140 hours, June 17, 2020
Remori High, class 107 located in Northern Europe

I was now curled up in a corner with the other students and teacher as we watched Kade say then check off names from the piece of paper that Ander gave him. The students whimpered in fear of the unknown.

"Okay," he says tapping the pen on the paper harshly as he concluded his thoughts. "The people I didn't say the names of, get up and follow him." He says pointing to Ander, who was adjusting his mask so it was more centered and comfortable.

I got colder as more people got up. Many students including the teacher stood and walked towards Ander. Nearly everyone of them turned to look back at the people still sitting, with fear leaking out of their eyes. River was one of them, I looked away before I could meet his eyes.  Ander patted the shoulders of the ones who looked like they were scared half to death and smiled to the others as he formed them in a line in the opposite corner of the classroom. They were all students we pulled from the hallway before we went into full lockdown.

"Stop crying," Kade says, his voice muffled and as low as an abyss. "I'm trying to think, and it's hard to do that when all I can hear is you." He says directing to us and not the other half of the class.

Ander was walking up and down the line that he created and examined each face of each student carefully but when he reached the teacher, he grabbed her head more gently then the last and unzipped his mask to reveal a bright white grin of his. His left hand was on her face while his right was by his side. He suddenly opens his hand widely and a long chain of some sort fell from his black sleeve. It glistened in the light coming in through the window, and gave off a purple tint. He swung his hand, making the chain swing in a cursive pattern, gathering energy before he whipped his hand in front of the teacher's face, slicing her neck in one clean cut. As the chain reached her skin, it divided into small pieces but looked as if it was still held together by a mysterious black matter. I looked closer and noticed that it was small knives in the shape of arrows connected in a long trail and I wondered how that all fit in Ander's sleeve. I don't know how I could've looked any longer. The teacher's blood splattered onto the wall in the direction she was hit, making the other students scream and start to move in a panic. My back straightened and my eyes widened in horror. The teacher gurgled and coughed on her raw, exposed neck which let out a river of her blood to hit the floor. Ander let go of the teacher's face, making her fall and leak us a peak of the insides of her neck, making me grimace at the image that flashed in my mind. Ander then swings his chain in multiple quick motions, striking each student that he lined up in the neck and face, killing them almost instantly. The ones he stroke in the neck would scream until their mouths filled with blood, they gargled in the red water before falling and choking to death on their blood and chunks of loose flesh. He looked at River and a split second after, he made a run for the door. Ander flicked his wrist and the tip of his blade caught his wrist with ease as it grabbed the silhouette of where the door once stood. I open my mouth but nothing comes out.

River yelps and clutches his arm. Another strike hits his leg, making him fall to his knees. Everyone was terrified and trembling with unexplainable amounts of fear while Ander walked closer towards the sobbing kid. My eyes began to secrete tears and I bit on my hand to stop any sound from leaving.

River looks up and meets Ander's dark blue eyes. Tears and snot covered his red, swollen face. "P-Please," he chokes out.

Ander wasted no time. His arm went left to right faster than the speed of sound. I exclaimed a yelp of pain as his body went limp. Blood flowed down my hand and chin, creating a slow temp drip down my elbow as River fell flat on the floor.