Beautiful Crime ※ DogNut

fourteen

Adelaide hesitated before she slowly followed after Courtney, giving slight glances towards DogNut as she did. As much as she hated to admit it but now she was a little afraid, but she couldn't afford to be. In this world, weakness is death, fear is death... everything could mean death and it was something every kid in the city knew; it was imprinted inside their brains ever since the sickos arrived.

Her hands were sweating a little, causing her grip on her knives to slip a little but she kept an iron grip on them, refusing to let them fall. She needed to be strong, show that she wasn't afraid.

She heard DogNut swear beside her, causing her to halt. "Gym bunnies!" He announced.

Adelaide's eyes widened at his words, the hardened look on her face replaced with the look of petrified fear within the blink of an eye. She'd remembered the story DogNut had told her about his last encounter with the gym bunnies and she knew that the same thing would happen here again.

Before she realized it, their group was completely surrounded by sickos. Adelaide almost dropped her knives as she backed away a little. She placed her knives back into their holders and grabbed her baseball bat out of her backpack, trying to calm herself.

In that moment, she felt completely useless. Like she needed someone to come in and rescue her; she hadn't felt like that since the beginning of the whole shit storm and she hated that feeling. She wasn't weak, she wasn't that scared little girl anymore. She couldn't be her anymore, now wasn't the time to be her.

Before she knew it, the fighting began and she forced back her fear and went into warrior mode, emitting a loud battle cry as she charged towards several mothers, slashing her bat into the faces and chests of the mothers, kicking more of them back before hitting them clean in the face.

Adelaide had killed only three of them before she was forced to run, forcing herself to abandon her unfinished job of killing every sicko she saw. As she was running down the stairs, following after DogNut, she placed her baseball bat back into her backpack to make sure she didn't drop it. Somewhere in the chaos, Jackson and Robbie disappeared, Jackson dropping the walkie-talkie on the ground and Adelaide quickly grabbed it, shoving it into her backpack.

Behind the group, Brooke screamed as she was tackled to the ground by two fathers, DogNut and Courtney sprinted towards her but by the time they arrived, the two fathers were dead, knives sticking out of the sides of their heads and Adelaide staring at them. She didn't have time to get her knives before they had to run again, but towards the grass instead.

Breathless and on the verge of tears, Adelaide looked at DogNut and shakily gripped his hand. "I'm scared, we're gonna die here."

DogNut shook his head, forcing Adelaide to look at him. "That ain't happening, babe. I know you're scared, I am too, but we can do this."

"We can't, there's too many of them."

"Yes we can," DogNut kissed her fiercely for the briefest of moments before raising his sword. "Let's do this, babes. It's you and me against the world; Addie and DogNut until the end!"

Adelaide felt herself grow stronger at his words, bringing out her baseball bat out one last time as she smiled.

The pair charged towards the sickos together, their weapons blurring from the speed of their arms. In the chaos and the heat of the moment, they became separated; DogNut going one way and Adelaide going another but none of them realising it until they were completely alone.

Adelaide frantically looked around her for DogNut, but she couldn't see him. She didn't have time to call out his name because she was faced with a gym bunny; ugly and far larger than her in every way humanly possible, she ran around him to try to create distance between them and to see if she could find DogNut but it wasn't doing much.

Taking a deep breath, Adelaide slammed her baseball bat against the side of the gym bunny's chest, causing the gym bunny to turn around, growling at her. "Oh fuck me," Adelaide muttered before being violently kicked in the stomach. She cringed at the pain, a hand rubbing her stomach to ease the pain. "Right in the ovaries... if I ever have kids and they come out horribly deformed, I know who to blame and it surely won't be my man."

She growled under her breath as she raised her bat once again and slammed it against the gym bunny only this time, nothing happened. Either from the force of the swing, or the strength of the gym bunny itself, Adelaide's baseball bat had splintered and broke into three different parts, pieces of wood and nails flying everywhere, leaving her almost completely defenceless against the gym bunnies.

Grabbing one of her last knives, she charged into the gym bunny and began to violently stab it in the abdomen until it went down to the ground and Adelaide climbed on top of it and continued stabbing it, moving up to its chest.

Adelaide stabbed the gym bunny repeatedly, screaming at it to die as blood and puss covered her face. Once she was certain the gym bunny was dead, she stood back up completely breathless. With blood completely coating her face, she looked over at DogNut and watched in horror as her whole world came crashing down within the blink of an eye.

Note

I'm not prepared for the next chapter. I will never be prepared for it. Still in denial over the whole thing four years later tbh. This chapter is just a mess tbh, I wouldn't blame you if you hated it.

On the good side; my muse for this story has returned with a vengeance and I'm probably going to be posting like crazy with this story.