Room No.13

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She was there waiting, preparing and sharpening her blades to dig them right into our bodies and souls but we won't let that happen. We won't be tortured anymore and we won't regret destroying her. We have had enough of blood shed and deaths; we couldn't afford more of it. This tragedy had caused us to sacrifice a thousand lives. It had engulfed everything that came in its way: the students, the teachers, the trees, the buildings, the birds, everything. Everything. We won't feel that pain anymore as we were on our way to destroy her.

We are coming, Isa.

I thought to myself as I looked at the sharp blade of my heavenly sword. The holy cross I wore around my neck made me even stronger. I didn't need to worry as I was carrying the whole church with me! 

But I did worry. I worried a lot about Isa who was there with that creature from hell. I thought about the last time I saw her. She was badly injured. Blood flowed out of every single inch of her body. She had a slit on her mouth which meant that she couldn't open her mouth to speak or to scream. She was in so much pain that couldn't be tolerated by any mortal other than soldiers who fought for their country. A tear trickled down my face as I said,"Don't worry, Isa. We are almost there."

We had climbed upstairs and we were on our way to Isa's room. Today was the last day.

We reached the fatal room. The door was opened and was lashed with blood. Of course, it had to be that way when everything was painted with blood. We followed a trail of blood as it was fresh and was not kept there from two or more days. Someone just shed it and that meant it was Isa's blood. 

Suddenly, the blood drops vanished from our way and we looked at a girl lying near the window. Her hair were over her face and blood flowed out of the cuts she had on her body. She was wearing the same uniform as me. We found her, Isabella.

Ryan screamed,"Isa!" 

He rushed to her and hugged her tightly. He shed tears filled with happiness and pain at the same time. The strange thing that I noticed was that he was able to touch her even though she was covered in blood. Earlier, he couldn't touch us as we were covered with blood of other people. But this time, it was Isa's blood so he was able to touch her.

I went closer. Isa was unconscious. I put my hand on her head and said,"Isa, wake up."

Just after saying that, Isa opened her eyes. It was the effect of the magic I used on her. Her wounds would take time to heal. She looked at me. Ryan, Diana and I cried as we looked at Isa's pitiful state. Isa had lost much of her strength and she was not able to speak. We were glad for a moment to see Isa alive. Ryan took Isa's pendant out which we had found earlier and wrapped it around Isa's neck as he said,"I believe it's yours."

Suddenly Isa's eyes turned wide. A drop of sweat trickled down her face as she tried to speak.

"What happened?"asked Diana.

Tears started trickling down her face as she again tried to speak. I couldn't understand what she was trying to tell us.

"Don't speak. You'll make it even worse."I said putting my hands on her shoulders.

What was the matter with her? Why was she behaving like this?

I realized something. I slowly turned my head back and as soon as I turned it, I heard a scream as someone stabbed me....

The Author

Anastasia felt a sudden pain as she got stabbed into her stomach. 

Ryan screamed,"Ana!"

"Long time no see, Ana, Ms Savior."echoed a voice from somewhere into the room.

"Why you?"said Ana as she held her stomach, falling onto the ground.

Anastasia eventually started having scars all over her body.

"Alma, show us where you are!"yelled Diana.

"Even after being an evil spirit, you helped them, didn't you?"asked Alma.

"We are going to destroy you, Alma!"yelled Ryan.

"What if I helped them? It is for the happiness of this school. Why don't you join us?"asked Diana as she looked into the air.

"I am not a fool. No one ever thought of my happiness so why would in hell will I think of anyone else's happiness?!"yelled Alma as she appeared from behind Ana and ran her blade right into her back. 

Anastasia coughed out blood as she felt the pain running slowly into her body. Ryan went towards her and looked at both the girls who were hurt so badly. On one side there was Isabella and on the other side was Anastasia. Alma and Anastasia were indeed sides of the same coin. One a destroyer and other a savior. 

Alma grinned as she looked at the helplessness of the three friends. 

Diana was in deep pain to see the condition of Isabella and Anastasia. Diana looked at Alma disgracefully as she cried red tears of blood. Whenever she cried, the drops of blood fell out from her eyes. Diana pulled out her sword and raced towards Alma. Raging in anger, she ran the blade right in Alma's chest as she yelled,"Stop causing so much pain to them!"

"Diana, no! You'll empower her!"yelled Ryan as she looked at Diana.

It was true. Diana was an evil spirit. An attack of an evil spirit on another evil spirit wouldn't do any harm to the one who was attacked. It would just give more power to the spirit who was attacked. It had happened when Diana was attacked by Richard and Zara in the graveyard. Their attacks just made her stronger than before in place of harming her. 

"What a fool!"yelled Alma as she pulled out the blade out of her chest. 

"You call yourself clever?"said Alma as she pushed Diana aside.

Diana laid there, helpless, regretting her foolishness. She had made a big mistake in anger. She shouldn't have done it but now Alma was stronger than before.

Diana looked at her going towards the three friends as she shed a few tears...

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So think and tell me, what will happen now when Alma has become even stronger?

Till then bye bye!