Unlimited Chances

|8| Deja Vu

{} Aria's POV {}

        I began to tremble, shutting my eyes tight, trying to push the image from my mind. A image that will be forever ingrained in my head as long as I live. I suddenly feel a hand on my shoulder, and I back away, not wanting to be touched right now as I hug myself. Soon I heard the other Ultimates' footsteps shuffle past me and towards the bathroom, before they all reacted at once.

        "AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

        "What the fuck is this?!"

        "S-Sayaka... sh-she's..."

        "N-No..."

        "T-this can't be happening!"

        "Hmpft, I thought this might happen."

        I didn't pick up anymore reactions through my hearing as I stumbled back, moving my shaky hands to my head. Somehow I find, and fall, against a wall, letting all my weight rest on it because of the inability to carry it myself.

        "T-this isn't real, this isn't real, this isn't real..." I mumbled to myself in a vain attempt to calm myself. But no matter how many times I repeated the mantra, the image of Sayaka's lifeless body still towered over my thoughts. I felt something warm and wet roll down my cheeks, I had begun to cry as the reality of the situation crashed down on me. Sayaka is dead, she was murdered by, most likely, another classmate. A murderer among us, someone capable of taking a life of another. We are trapped in a school with no way out, and we are forced to kill each other to leave. There is no exit to this despair on the horizon.

        My breathing quickens to fast, short breaths. She's dead, D E A D, dead! This is real, this could've happened to any of us at any time! We-We're all going to die here! Die by the hands of a fellow classmate in desperation! I notice that I suddenly feel strangely tingly, like my whole body was gradually being pricked by pins and needles. Hearing the shuffling and distant voices of the other Ultimates in the room getting closer to me is also brought to my attention.

        I open my eyes and clutch a fist full of my shirt above my chest area, every breath I suck in causes pain to flare in my lungs. The first people I see through my blurry tear eyed vision is Hina, Chihiro, and Sakura a foot in front of me with concern etched into their faces.

        "Aria!" Came the distant voice of Sakura. "You need to calm down." A little behind the three girls, the rest of the Ultimates are either still recovering from seeing Sayaka's corpse, or looking at me as I have a panic attack. Hina reaches a tan hand out to me and I flinch away, cowering back into the wall. I shake my head side to side vigorously, my free right hand gripping a handful of my own hair. I can hear my heart beat pounding in my ears, as the tingling sensation spreads. One thought constantly running through my mind. We're all going to die! We're all going to die! We're all going to die here!....

        I could barely see Sakura advance towards me through my tears, I can feel myself steadily growing hotter. Like I was suddenly dropped in a sauna. I... Sakura grabbed ahold of one of my arms, I immediately struggled in her iron grip. The tingling sensation running through my entire body started to feel like a hum of energy within me. All the while I grew hotter, but don't begin to sweat. I Don't... As soon as Sakura grabbed ahold of my other wrist, she hissed in pain and let me go altogether. She looked down at her hands in a grimace, before her eyes widen.

        "She burned my hands!" Sakura exclaimed, looking down at her singed flesh. Confused gasps and murmurs broke out, but they sound far away to me as a single thought burned in my mind. My breathing becoming loud and erratic.