Reaper of the Sea

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Aries

   We were getting ready for the night. It was storming hard outside and I knew tonight was the night a lot of people were going to die. I look over at Ashton was sleeping. He looked better but I knew he was still hurting. Luke was getting rebandaged by Ashanti. I pace in front of the room and I hear the PA system turn on.

"Hello hello my lovelies. Tonight will be a little bit different. There will be no hiding in rooms or in clubs. Every room door will be locked. If you try to hide in a room, my staff will be in a vent and if they see you, they will kill you. We will arrive to our destination shortly and all of your misery will be taken away." The Captain says before giving a sickening laugh and leaving, turning the PA system off.

"I hate that guy." I say lowly and Luke looks up at me.

"So what are we going to do now?" He asks and I inhale deeply and exhale through my nose.

"We go out there and we hide. There are a couple places but they are dangerous." I say and Ashanti finishes the bandages and looks up at me.

"Ar, how are we going to survive the night? We're running low on bullets." She sighs and I nod.

"That's true but we also have other weapons. Ash, it's fine." I say and she nods and Luke runs his hand through his hair and I think for a bit.

"We'll just have to see." I sigh and she looks down.

"I just don't want to die." She says and I stand up and give her a hug.

"I will never let you die." 

~~

Mercy

   I was strapping up and pressed record. We make our way out the room holding a backpack for my weapons. I step into the hallway and the others follow and we check to make sure we have everything before the PA system cuts on and the sound goes off but it was slightly faint due to the huge storm outside.

"Where are we headed?" Kirana asks and Michael looks around.

"We can't go anywhere but the deck." He says and we start to walk, making sure no one was coming for us or trying to sneak up on us. As soon as we got up to the deck, there were so many people got gun down. We turn around and ran down another hallway and as we were running we found one of the staff rooms and I try the door knob and by chance it was open. I got my gun ready and I look at the others before opening the door but no one was in there. I check around for windows or a vent but there was none. We get inside and it was just barely enough.

"We can't stay here, we're gonna have to door hop." Calum whispers and I nod and look around and saw a map of the while entire cruise. I look for all different staff rooms and there was one a couple hallways away.

"We can head there when things hit off." Kirana says

   As we sat for another hour and a half, the PA system comes on and the captain says that all doors are now unlocked but the staff will be going door to door randomly through out the night. I groan as the captain turns the PA off and there were more gun sounds and screams.

"Guys we have to go, they have automatics." I say and Michael nods.

"Where are you trying to head?"

"As crazy as it sounds, the deck has all of those bodies out there, we can slowly make our way back to the deck and hide as a body or even use the bucket up top to hide." I say and Calum looks at me before sighing and nodding.

"Let's do it. I trust you." He says an I take a breath and chuckle a bit.

   We hear footsteps and we quietly back against the wall as flat as we could. I see the knob the slowly turn and I got ready to shoot when it stopped. I feel my heart racing and once the door opens a staff member was holding an automatic but before he could get his finger back on the trigger from the I shot him in the head. We shoot up and leave the staff room. I grab his gun and bullets and we start heading towards the next staff room. We round a corner and many staff members stood there waiting. 

"Get back!" Michael shouts as they shoot at us and we get back out of their way. I got shot in the waist instantly falling to the ground. I yell out in pain and winced but I continued to shot them with the automatic. I feel hand on my waist pull me back and I see Michael above me put pressure on my wound while Kirana took my gun and finished the rest of the guys.

"We need to make it to the deck." I wince as Michael lifts the bottom of my shirt to clean and wrap me up.

"Merce you're injured, we need to find a room." Calum says as Michael quickly starts to bandage me up.

"That doesn't matter at the moment. We need to go now." I say and Michael helped me sit up and Kirana hands me my gun and I limp to the deck and as soon as we make it up on the deck we are drenched with rain. We look to our left on the other side of the deck and saw Aries, Luke, Ashton and Ashanti. We both race towards each other and both Kirana and I was hugged by Aries and Ashanti.

"We need to go now!" Aries say and I look over and two staff members come up and shot Aries in the chest and stomach, and I quickly shot both of them in the head and chest and pelvic.

"Aries!" I cry as he lays there.

"Ash look out!" I hear Kirana yell as we all look over and saw another staff member shot Ashton in the shoulder and the hit caused him to fall back but overboard since he was by the side of the ship. Kirana tried to grab him but fell over with him.

"No!" I shout and the PA system turns on and starts with a wicked laugh.

"I got you kids right where I wanted you. Be glad it's time for the killings to end. You five and four more people are the last ones and I will kill you." The system says and before turning off. I weep as I look down at Aries as he lays there, blood pooling underneath him.

"Mercy we have to-"

"I'm not leaving him here. I can't." I sniff, cutting Calum off and I feel a hand on me and I look over to see Calum and I put my hand on his and I let out a breath.

"Let me hug my brother before I go." I say and he nods and I hug him and so does Ashanti before we head back to the room and sat down. I stare down at the floor and Calum hugs me and I have tears slowly roll down my cheeks.

"He was a good guy." Luke says and I nod.

   We stay there for a couple of minutes but I couldn't handle the pain so I leave the room to go see him for the last time and to take something in remembrance of him while everyone was sleeping for the next night. As I make my way up to the deck, all of the other bodies were still there, except his. I look around and but there was no sign or trace of him. I walk back tot he room and met Ashanti half way.

"Where'd you go?"

"I went to get something from Aries to remember him but he's gone."

"Yeah they throw bodies over board."

"No I mean...all the bodies except his are still on deck."

"He's still alive."