Deadly Illusion

Ch.6: Game 1: Day 3

As the morning come once again, the third day has arrive. "Drip Drip" went the water outside, I was swallow my the mood set in tune. As I turned my head to the side, I am awaken by the sound of someone entering the door. That person was Alicia, she look readily upset about something. I sat up and she came in the room. Keaundre was still asleep, snoring. 

" You need to come see this," she said as she walked out of the room. I followed her downstairs to the mansion pool behind the house. The pool was crimson red, it almost looked like wine. A group of my friends were around one side of the pool, looking down at something. Grace? Grace was dead, no seriously, she was dead.

DEATH FOUND: 12:03 p.m.

" What happened here, AJ."

" Laura stepped outside of the house and saw her body placed in one corner of the house. She got me and we pulled her out."

"What's that? Over there near the latter?" Chapman asked. It was a bottle that had a piece of paper in encased within it that was floating over towards to us. AJ reaches  for the bottle and obtains it. He warns everyone to back up as he throws the bottle to the ground. It breaks glass is shattered everywhere. He was trembling. We moved Grace body to the church as we tried to understand what the paper was stating. As we made back to the house, Chapman, AJ, Me, Alicia, and Laura looked at the sheet of paper. It was some layout of a house.

" It's the layout of the second floor!" Chapman said. 

" Yeah, he might be right." The correlation of each of the rooms and the structure that is being describe has a close similarity. On one of the room, three giant "X" were written in the room. 

" Maybe something went down with that room, I think it's room 8," Laura said. 

" The extra room?"

" Yeah."

We started walking upstairs to the room itself and tried opening it. The room was locked, we needed to find an alternative. AJ tried to push it down, but it wouldn't budge. 

" Grace's room, she might have some keys," I said. I ran into her room and looked in all her drawers, even one including a picture of her and her dad.

I finally found a key ring and ran back to the room where we were awaiting the truth. I tried all the keys until I found one that fit. Opening the room door, a dead Elijah, Meredith, and Morgan was found on the floor. All three bodies were pierced through the heart, death might have been caused by lack blood rather the piercing itself. And their mouth were taped, as well as their hands and legs but no evidence of any weapon left behind. Someone with tape? Who could have used the tape?

I got closer to Elijah whose eyes were still opened and closed them. Mikayla walked in the room and came to her knees after seeing her best friend covered in blood, dead. What is there to do anymore? She cried and cried and cried and cried. 

" Mikayla..."

" Aural, she did this..." Keaundre said as he enter the scenario. Nathan, Raven, Robert , and Brelyn were next to him. " Aural did this..."

" Keaundre, stop it!" Nathan looked at him with anger and discomfort. "Can't just spout bullshit that isn't even true!"

"Nathan, that's enough." He turned and look at me and rolled his eyes. 

" This is only the third day, how can we even live here anymore?" Brelyn asked.

"Everyone, downstairs, now!" AJ commanded. We all met in the living room, looking at each other with suspicion. Who is the murderer?

" This has gone long enough, whoever is killing...Reveal yourself!"

" AJ they aren't just going to come out and say it."

" We should just look every angle these murders starting from day one." Laura put her head down while AJ took what she said internally. She was right, we can't figure anything out if we don't talk about. 

" Well Mikayla, how are you so called innocent?" Chapman asked.

" I am not the killer, I wouldn't kill best friend."

"Same here," Brelyn added. 

Robert turned to AJ and gesture to him. I wonder what could it be about.

" I haven't told anybody this but...someone has been moving the bodies while we were not looking." Someone has been moving the bodies? Alibi's?

" The bodies of those who have died from the last two days have been missing. We don't know where they have went but I can guarantee, whoever it is, you will be stopped!" Nathan was frustrated from the idea of someone moving dead bodies. Who would do such a disgusting act. 

" So let me get this from the beginning: Laura found a letter, said letter was a threat to all of us, the 23 of us, Abbey decided to come up with a plan because she felt threaten, Day 1, she is murder along with John, Jordan, Andy, and Jackson," Chapman explained, trying to piece together consensus. 

" Then someone must have know about her plan," I said. " Which includes Nathan, Jordan, Chapman, Me, Laura, Keaundre, Morgan, Alicia, AJ, Elijah, and Raven. "

" Now Day 2 comes along and takes Emily, Bredan, and Diego in which Brelyn admits that she didn't cause their deaths," Raven said. "Which means..."

" Bredan murdered them?" Chapman added. 

" Maybe, but the bodies are moved so I don't know."

" Day 3, Grace, Morgan, Meredith, and Elijah but found in different locations, thoughts?" Laura alluded. She does make a point, Grace's death was isolated from the other the 3, why?

" So the only suspect that could exist is one of us, a extra person that was not originally here, or Aural?" Keaundre said.

" Aural is nothing more than a sorry I made that I got from Grace. Grace had that sickness-talk, so who knows what go on in that girl's head." Laura did the right thing, she spoke the truth about the entirety of story. Proud of he-

" I don't believe. I think the story is true." Mikayla interrupted my thoughts. " She does exist, she is here hiding out."

" Where? Where the hell could she be?" Chapman asked. 

" I don't know."

 I turned to Mikayla and direct my attention to her. " Magic, fantasy, and ghost are just fiction, they do not exist, they did not murder any of our friends."

"So who did?"

" I...I...don't...know..."

At that moment, I knew it was too late to change Mikayla's mind, she was blinded by the notion of this false ghost. I couldn't do any thing, not through words nor actions.

That night, I thought about who could be next and how small the cast is getting. We are getting closer to the end of us, does this mean the end of me? Will I die next? Chapman and Keaundre were sleeping and I should be too. I closed my eyes and dreamt. A golden sky with clouds around, I was falling from the sky and I look down. I could see a person, a woman. I got closer and closer until I could make the picture out. Closer and closer. Closer and closer. I floated to the ground, it was a small girl with a chinese band and black hair. Her skin was fair and beige, it was so smooth. She was short and petite and was dressed in a black dress. And she had a cat tail.

" Hello," I said. She looked at me and turned her head.

" Oh Assante, this is only the beginning, Abbey would've been a great protagonist of this story but you are special." Who was she? She knew who I was? A story? This is a dream, its time for me to wake up. Wake up. Wake Up. Wake up!