Roomscapes I - survive

Chapter 13 ~ Ew. Blood.

(Yea, number thirteen is my fav. number so... I'll try and make this my favorite chapter! Thanks for reading! xo!)

 ** ADRIANA'S POV **

Someone was trying to hurt me, I couldn't see who it was, but I didn't care either. I flinched and screamed when he tried to stab me. I heard Valentina beg him to stop, but what she didn't know is that I didn't need him to. I was already on top of him, punching hard as he managed to stab me on the stomach. Fuck. That hurt. "AAghghhhh!" I felt the urgency of the injury, how it needed to be treated now or I would die. But for a second, I didn't care. I grabbed the knife from my bleeding stomach, and stopping the urge to cry and die, I stabbed him harder, multiple times. "No! No!" terrified screams emerged from his mouth as he was cut off by the death announcer. He was dead. I thought my first kill would be a huge deal, but now it somehow felt like I had done it and could do it a million times. Silence filled the room for what seemed like a million years. Then another scream was forced out of my mouth as the pain that had been numb for seconds returned, striking harder where it hurt the most. I fell to my knees, begging for help. I noticed that was a bad idea milliseconds after since I thought now people would know I'm weak and just finish me. So I stayed there, listening to Valentina grunt and throw discs blindly, some hitting walls and others hitting their targets. Curse words and screams were heard and the death announcer sounded about three times including the time I killed the guy. The seconds that I had just lived through were probably the worst of my life. I sat there, ignoring the pain, waiting for this to be over, one way or another. Death would make this over, but curing my injury and moving on would also make this over. I decided I didn't care which one it was as long as it was one when I felt another strike of pain wash over my body, making my gasp and drop a single tear, holding on tighter to my stomach. Shit, did it hurt. I just sat there until I felt my eyes begin to close, and I wondered who was the guy I killed, and who else had gotten killed, and who I would be joining in this other world I was about to transfer to when I closed my eyes... the world of the ones who failed to survive, the ones who gave up, the ones who were done living on earth. Another world, another life... the life of the ones who died...

 ** KRISTEN'S POV **

Valentina was mean. I think. Was she a good guy or a bad guy? Lol, I just called her a guy... haha... I'm so funny. I heard metal things fly through the air and one of them I was pretty sure cut part of my puffy hair. I giggled. Then I realized what just happened and frowned, crossing my arms like a little kid and sitting down with my frowny face, waiting for the lights to turn on so I could see who threw that and scream at them, I was already planning my comebacks when Valentina's soft hand touched my wrist, "Shh..." She whispered. Her hand was soft but I couldn't tell if it was natural or just all the blood on them. Ew. Blood. "Stay here," she whispered, so low I could barely hear her, and I noticed she had dragged me somewhere else. Another dark room. So I just sat down and sang an Old Mcdonald song until a guy pulled me by my shirt and I started screaming, and then I heard a bunch of punching and stabbing and someone else was grabbing me and pulling me as the death announcer went off. What the  heck was going on? My eyes started to hurt when the lights came on...and I was ready to die from a heart attack when I saw who was in the room with me...

  ** VALENTINA'S POV **

I felt my heart sink after hearing Adriana scream multiple times, and I literally thought I would cry to death when the death announcer went off right after she screamed. But I decided if someone had killed her I had to do something about it. I quickly grabbed Kristen's hand and dragged her as far away as I could from the huge mess that was about to take place. "Stay here," I whispered and she nodded, and as I walked away I heard an OldMcdonald song, huh? I'm going crazy...  I walked over to the place I had just been standing in and started to throw discs at any moving figures I could make out in the darkness. Less than twenty seconds had gone by when I felt someone grab me by the hem of my suit and push me against a wall. Ouch. I tried to move and get out, knowing this wouldn't be a pretty death. But he was stronger than me, I couldn't. He moved his head closer to mine, and I was scared he would stab me. I felt his hot breath in front my face and for some reason my breathing became heavy. "Listen carefully," he said, moving even closer, "Those guys are going to kill you, they have it all planned. Now listen again," he stopped, and now I could feel his breathing begin to come faster, clearly caused by his nervousness. He knew this was dangerous, telling me his allies' plans, he moved so close I could almost feel his cheeks on mine as he whispered in my ear, "You don't know who I am, there's new people. The creators didn't put our names in the survivor list. I don't know why. There's me and Jordyn, and these two other kids, Kelly and Chris. Also, before I leave, I'll let you know I saved your little friend, the Old Mcdonald singer... you're welcome..." somehow I felt him grin as I felt another hot breath against my neck and he was suddenly gone, wow, that new kid was sure mysterious. Wow. Just wow. Just--wow. The lights went on. And on the floor, laid Carlos, Maria, and Austin. Blood covered the floors, and Adriana was on the floor, her arms wrapped around her stomach and her face peaceful yet somehow hurt. I stared at everyone for a second, and any hopes of Adriana being alive were about to vanish when she spoke up, "Help," her voice was not meant to be gasp, I could tell, but certainly turned out to be. "Oh god." I sat next to her, my voice full of worry, my hands gentle, trying to remove her arms to look at the injury caused by who knows what. Well... she knew what... "What happened!?" I said, wide eyed, as I looked at her bloody stomach. The injury wasn't just bad, it was horrible. "Valentina." a voice called from behind me and I got my bow and aimed before thinking. "It's me." came a voice from the ground, what?  I saw Maria, her eyes wide, looking at me from the bloody floor, "Hey, use the cream in here..." she said, her voice just  a gasp, "and good luck... go win..." she slowly closed her eyes and the death announcer went off, leaving me wondering why she had helped me, and why she wanted me to win...

 ** NEW MYSTERIOUS KID'S POV **

"Cameron, hurry it up!" Jordyn protests, and I pick up speed, not wanting to hear her complain again, since that's basically all she's done since we got to this phase. Ugh, I hate it here. Everyone's trying to kill everyone. And we only have one advantage. No one knows we exist. That changed, though, when the screen on the roof lit up to show a picture of me, lol I'm handsome, and Jordyn, followed by other pictures, one of Kelly and one of Chris. They were in our group. We had teamed up when we found out we would make a pretty awesome group and everyone was teaming up anyway. "Well... looks like we're probably a target now," Kelly said, her voice soft and comforting, even though she was saying that we were basically all going to die. "But we'll beat their butts, right!?" Jordyn smiled, giving Kelly a quick hug in response to her worried reaction, "We got'em." Chris said, and winked. It felt nice to have a group like this who was always supporting you, but I still felt curiosity about what was going on in Val's team. Was it like this there? Was it better? Or worse? "Ready for your first puzzle." A computerized woman said, her voice emotionless. "Starting in 3,2,1..." and we all went into a high quality simulation, ready to begin and get over our first puzzle, or die trying... before I completely entered the simulation, I looked up to see the screen in which we had seen ourselves minutes ago. Now in it played a video of what was going on right now somewhere else in this maze. All I recognized was Valentina and her other friend--whatever her name was. Under the video there was a caption that said, "and now, to keep you entertained, we are starting a new mini show-announcement kind of thing... it's called...say goodbye :)" my eyes widened. Shit. That meant---well whatever it meant--I mean I knew what it could mean...what if--? and then the camera tilted a little, showing a guy by the door frame, holding an axe and a knife, I think his name was Parker. Val couldn't see him since she had her back towards him and Adriana was now asleep with some sort of cream all over her stomach. Parker took a few steps forward, towards her. And as my eyes closed, I panicked, because the small caption at the right hand corner of the screen widened, showing big, fat letters that covered the video, saying : Say good-bye. And Parker aimed at her with his knife, and the screen went dark, and my eyes simply closed.