Annual Purge || tøp

Chapter 7: The Pilots' Announcement

BLURRYFACE (@blurryface) posted a tweet.

It was posted twelve minutes ago.

Everyone gathered around one computer, murmuring and whispering at each other. They seemed to held their breath, unknowingly. Their hands were shaking, as the air seemed to turn ice cold. Whoever was holding a baby immediately put the child down, and urged the others to see that tweet. Jenna and Debby were the ones sitting the closest to the computer, with the mouse being on Jenna's side.

She glanced quickly at Debby, before grabbing it with her hand, trembling, and clicked on it. The white and blue screen popped on, blinding in the darkness of the living room. And right there, the tweet was public. It was already getting tons of retweets.

And it read: @twentyonepilots is back from hiatus, and now accounces their second annual purge.

Everything fell silent.

"Annual..." Abigail muttered. "Purge?"

"Go to the boys' profiles!" Tyler's mom urged, patting Jenna's back.

She did as said, and went to Tyler's profile first, finding a white and blue screen like before, with his profile picture changed to a Goner bird. The background picture was still the same street that is in construction, with the fallen cone. Almost all of his tweets were deleted, except ones that were about her. Though, the newest one, posted just yesterday.

It read: You'll have to come and find me... if you can.

And as for Josh's, his profile picture was of an alien face, the background remains the same.

The entirety of his tweets were deleted, except one that was just posted that day, at exactly 0:00 in the morning: Eighteen down,... to go.

"Way too dramatic to be them, honestly." Ashley whispered. "What if it's hacked?"

"I really don't think it's hacked." Zack said, then he pointed at the screen. "But what does this one mean? Eighteen down..."

"There'll be more." Abigail answered.

"There's gonna be more people going missing. They're trying to 'purge' something." Debby added. "But what?"

"Guys, they found something. The cops found something!" Jay suddenly yelled.

Everyone looked at him, who sat by his own laptop at the coffee table, eyes wide and sparkling. But then he immediately frowned, as the entire family gathered around him. Everybody was anxious, as they tried to take a good look at Jay's laptop. It was the newest article about the two out of the thirteen who were murdered. And it was posted by The CNN.

Jay's voice lowered, as he read out the article: "'Police has now learned of the identities of the murdered two from the thirteen missing cases, thanks to an anonymous message sent to them via mails from Ohio. The caller told the police of their names, whom we know may know as Jason Sanders, and Naomi Johnson, and asked the investigators to check the victims' house and social medias.

'There were also addresses, particularly specific, given. And what we've found is rather disturbing: These two people lived together for several years, and are actually child predators. Police have found stacks among stacks of albums and photos, containing child pornoghraphy, there was also drugs found in cupboards. Diaries were put on the table, in plain sight, suspectedly were laid there on purpose.

'It turns out that Jason Sanders and Naomi Johnson have also committed crimes, killing a ten-year-old orphaned girl and dumping her body into a lake, police are now on a mission to find her as well.

'It seems that whoever is behind these missings are doing justice, rather than crimes. And although they may face with trespassing, kidnapping and murdering, they've done a huge job in help detecting the real bad guys'."

The families fell silent.

"Is there one about the 'Annual Purge'?" Jenna asked finally.

"I think so. Just one sec... Here it is." Jay said.

"Read it!" Tatum urged.

"'The thoery was true: Twenty One Pilots are indeed the men behind this. Police are now tracking them down, after they're cryptic messages were put on Twitter, which is now getting thousands of likes and retweets and is spreading all over the country. It is still unknown why Twenty One Pilots, members Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun, turned from between globally successful artists and performers, to being wanted criminals, or heroes...'" Jay stopped reading there, stunned. "There's more, should I-?"

"No, Jay, thanks, that's... enough for today." Jenna said, Debby nodding.

"We should go..." Zack told them. "We'll see how it is in the morning."