Room No.13

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"Ryan! Behind you!"

Suddenly, the black shadows faded as he looked behind. His heavenly sword was not with him.  

He said,"Isa! What are you talking about? There is no one behind me."

It was a bit rough. He didn't sound similar to what he was supposed to be. He was a bit different.

He waved his hand to my direction once again as he said,"Come! follow me!"

"Where?"

He didn't reply and ran back to the stairs. I followed him as he said. What was wrong with him? I was not getting anything. But he was Ryan, I had to trust him. He was my best friend. Maybe, the happenings from the last two days have changed him. He must had been troubled about what had been happening in the school. That was my guess.

I saw him running out of the school building. One thing strange that I noticed about him was that he was stepping on the dead bodies lying on the ground while I was dodging all of them. He was stepping on them and crumbling them. What the heck was wrong with him just then? 

His clothes were lashed with blood and it looked as if he had just got out from a shower of blood. It looked as if he had bathed in blood. It was weird. Absolutely weird.

He was passing through the school garden and I didn't know where he was taking me. The school garden was connected with two things, the infirmary and the hostel building. Probably, we were going to either the infirmary or the hostel building but why would Ryan take me there when he knew that I was searching the school building? 

He kept on running and I kept on following him. He first turned to the infirmary but then he backed off and turned to the hostel building. What was he up to?

One thing that I noticed was that Diana was no longer with him. She was following him where ever he went but now she was not with him anymore. She must had gone somewhere else.

We entered the hostel building. I was not able to control myself from asking Ryan what was he up to. So, I yelled,"Why the hell are not you telling me anything?"

Without even turning around, he said,"Quit it and just follow me. You'll know it for yourself."

So, I continued to follow him. We reached the staircase and we started climbing the stairs. The stairs were covered with blood. Blood was a thing that I was used to see after entering this school. On the very first day, I was soaked in blood. I also remember the guy who told me to be careful when I was standing at the bus stop waiting for the bus. But I was fated to be here and suffer all this.

We ran and finally reached the sixth floor. Ryan made his way to my room and I followed him but why was he going there, in the Room No.13? Alma's spirit and that room are the only things responsible for the death and destruction that has been happening since Alma's death. 

Ryan turned the doorknob and entered the room and I followed him. What I saw made me scream. 

I saw a big heap of dead bodies of girls lying in the room. Some were lying on the window sill and some were lying on the floor. Some were hanging on the fan above my head. The thing that I noticed was that they were just girls. Not a single boy's body was there.

Ryan turned his gaze towards me and said,"Isabella! They were so beautiful. I had to kill them for you!"

He put his hand on my cheeks and I brushed it off.

"Why for me?!"

"They were more beautiful than you. I don't want anyone to be more beautiful than you, so I killed all of them!"he said as he laughed devilishly.

I yelled,"You're not Ryan!"

"I am"

"You're not!"

"I am!"

"You're not!"

"I am!"

"You are not Ryan!!"

"I am not...Ryan!"

The moment he said that my body turned numb. If he was not Ryan then who was talking to me right now. The strange behavior and the strange things that he did were not the things that Ryan would do. He said he killed those girls. The Ryan I know would never do that. Who was the guy talking to me?

He laughed devilishly as he held and pulled me up, grabbing my throat. 

"I'm not Ryan! I am your death! I am Richard!"

"What!?''

He then threw me down on the floor and my sword slipped out of my hands. His eyes turned red. 

He looked at me for a while and then said,"Your Ryan is going to die!"

"No!" I yelled.

I stood up to hold my sword but he kicked me in the stomach which threw me towards the wall. I hit hard against the wall. Blood was coming out of my stomach and out of my head. He kicked so hard that it made a big hole in my stomach. What was I supposed to do? He was still inside Ryan's body. I knew that he would surely do something to it. He was controlling Ryan's body and mind. He was inside him.

He pulled out a dagger and then ran it slowly on Ryan's wrist. Ryan's eyes for a while turned back to normal as tears were flowing out of his eyes as he screamed. Then his eyes again turned red that indicated that for sometime Richard made me to see Ryan's pitiful state.

I was so helpless. A friend of mine was dying right  in front of my eyes and I was lying at a side watching him feel such pain. I stood up but then Richard used his shadows to bring me down again on the floor.

I saw Ryan killing himself. I knew it was not Ryan but Richard controlling him.

I tried to stand one more time but the evil was so strong that it made me helpless. I saw Ryan stabbing himself with the dagger. He slashed his arms and then his legs. Then he sent the blade right inside his eyes as blood spilled out of them. He did that again.

I kept on screaming,"No! Stop it! Let him go!"

But all in vain. Then I saw Ryan doing what I didn't expect. He ran that dagger right through his heart. No.

 What would I do now? I couldn't let Ryan die.

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Hey dear readers! A big twist inside this story! Will Ryan survive or will he die? Think and tell me. Till then bye bye.