Tricksters, Demons, and Trolls, oh-fucking-my.

Chapter 12

Sorry if things aren't written very well recently. I hope to do better soon!)

The next few days passed, filled with slight fear and awe of the newfound powers. If Gage could heal life-threatening injuries, could he heal trickster bites/scratches and save them? It was a theory that they were all dying (no pun intended) to try, but were also scared. What if they were wrong? What if Gage's power could only work on certain things?

It was a risk none of them were willing to take. 

Rose looked troubled. "I think we should go back to the middle school." Kanaya nodded. "We could possibly look for supplies." Dirk and Jake nodded in agreement, cleaning their weapons. 
Karkat was, once again, curled up next to Dave, the two of them staying warm while. John and Jade talked, talking about pranks and traps they could pull on the tricksters.

Grace was laying around, doing whatever, but was always in someone's sight. No one trusted her to be alone anymore. Everyone was a little bit off the edge, so they were like a support group to each other. Whenever she fell asleep, her 'inner trickster' (as John liked to call it) would come out and talk to them. It made no more threatening moves towards them, instead laying around or bothering someone. It was like an immature child. A sadistic, crazy, immature child.

But anyway, back to the point.

After everyone had anything they might need, they headed out, closing the hole behind them before going to the middle school. Though no tricksters from outside town had been seen for a while, they were still weary, sticking to the road instead of going really close to houses. You never know when one could've been hiding out in one of them. 

Eventually, they arrived, and entered where the door used to be. It was dark, but the boarded up windows offered some light. Jade, carrying a flashlight, walked right behind Bree and Gage, while Grace was in the back of the group. Starting the the 6th grade wing, they searched classrooms, janitors closets, everything, using garbage bags to put in any supplies they couldn't fit in their bags.

After continuing through the seventh and 8th grade wing, the moved through the gym. After seeing that the rest of the school was empty, they didn't think anything was there.

As soon as they got close, they heard the mad laughter. They hid in what used to be the gym teacher's office, peeking out the window as the candy freaks milled around, looking like a Halloween party gone wrong. 

The click of a gun sounded softly behind Gage, and they turned to come face to face with several knives, bats, a gun, and 5 people with wide eyes.  "Of all the people that could've survived and showed up, it just HAD to be you guys, huh?" The girl snapped. "Wow, nice to see you too," Bree responded in a whisper, sarcasm dripping from her words.

"At least I DESERVE to live, i man you guys are such frea-" Briana was cut off by Roxy. "You guys can hate each other later. Right now, we have to go." Everyone else nodded in agreement, but no one missed the glares the people sent Gage, Bree, and Grace. 

"Stay here, ill get them away," Grace said after a few awkward minutes of silence. She opened the door, and before anyone could stop her, she had already started walking away, waving her arms as she yelled. "Hey, assbutts! Over here!" 

Kanaya sighed, shaking her head while Roxy smiled at the reference. They watched as the tricksters followed Grace, smiles on their faces. As soon as the last candy freak had gone around the corner, the group quickly ran out of the room, heading out of the building and to the closest house. 

After sitting around for 10 minutes, they decided to send a small group back in to see if Grace was alive. Roxy, Dave, Jake, Bree, and Jade would be sent in, while Karkat, Dirk, Gage, John, Rose, and Kanaya would sit and wait. The newcomers of the group, despite their protests, were forced to go. Dante and Brianna were sent in with Jade and the rest.

They headed in, leaving the other half of their group to wait. Not even 5 minutes later, Grace came running out on her own, quickly arriving. "Hey," She gasped, out of breath. "Ok, so we wont have to worry about those things pretty soon, but we need to get away from here."

"Why?" Jake said slowly. "The gas pipes are damaged. We have 10 minutes, tops, to get away before that building goes up in flames." Dirk looked panicked. "We just sent them in there to find you!" Grace looked up, eyes wide. "You sent them back!? Why the hell would you do that!?" She took off running back towards the middle, Jake, Dirk, and John at her heels while Rose, Kanaya, and Gage found any medical supplies they could. 

Running through the hallways, Dirk yelled for Jake, panicking. "JAKE!" Karkat was on a similar level of worry. "DAVE!" They ran, ignoring any danger of tricksters as they yelled for their loved ones. "Bree!" "Roxy, Jane!" John yelled. "HIT THE DECK!" someone yelled, and the world around them exploded, flinging bricks, metal, wood, everything.

====> Be the one panicking for his English boyfriend. Be Dirk.

You run around, screaming Jake. "JAKE! JAKE, PLEASE!" Hearing the start of a familiar voice, you turn, only to hear someone else yelling. "HIT THE DECK!" Your hardly able to registered it when you see Jake running, tears on his face. It's like everything's in slow motion as you run to him, yelling his name.

============> Be the one running towards your boyfriend.
Be more specific!
==================> Fine! Be English. Jake English.

You run towards Dirk, yelling at him. He's running to you, yelling you name. Ignoring the tears falling down your face, you continue running, hardly hear the voices screaming around you. "HIT THE DECK!" 

Everything seems to happen in slow motion. The pipe beside Dirk explodes, flinging wall and lockers at him. Screaming,  you run faster, getting to his now-limp form just before another pipe blows, and the world goes black.

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kill me now XD