Bond of Misfortune (Dwake)

Chapter 4: First Escape

I stood still, opening my eyes I had looked around. We were currently in Lery's Institue. The four of us had spawned together. I saw Feng walk the opposite way from the group. "N' where do you think you goin feng?" David had spoke up and the Asian female froze. 

She slowly turned around and walked back towards us. "There ya go. Now c'mon, we need this brat to follow us for his 'leadership skills'" David had laughed quietly, and led the group towards a generator. Dwight stayed behind, his head held low.

I slowed my pace to walk with him. "We don't need to follow them you know." I whispered to him and he looked up to me. "I know but if I don't listen, I will get a beating after a trial." Jake had heard how hurt Dwight was. Dealing with all of this at such an age. 

"Hey, what are ya all whisperin' about? Get over here and work on the generator." David angerily looked at the two of us while feng worked on the generator. Dwight instant ran over and started to work on it. David walked over towards me, resting his arm on my shoulder. 

"Look er- Jake, don't consult with him or else you also gonna get placed in his rank. You a good kid and we don't want ya havin' a bad reputation. Understood?" He patted my back and I instantly shrugged him off. I gave him the stink eye which really seemed to piss him off. "I don't want to get involved with your little group." I told him straight up. 

The roaring of the generator going off. We heard the ringing of bells happening to appear. The killer uncloaked right behind us and slashed at feng. She shrieked and gotten a sprint burst so she was ahead of us. David was busy body blocking for feng while I tried to gain up on the two ahead. 

David yelled out in pain, he also gotten a sprint burst from the impact. I'm assuming he had dead hard if he was acting in such a way. David had used it right after but the killer slashed him afterwards. He instantly went down and feng successfully ran away to go heal somewhere. "Ugh- come help me ya brat!" David yelled over at Dwight. 

Dwight was about to till I grabbed his arm. I shook my head and led him elsewhere. We heard David yelling out threats but I decided to pay attention to Dwight. It was for the best that he focused on himself this trial. We had done two generators before we had problems with David. 

He was constantly jumping in and out of lockers while we worked on generators, body blocked our exits and purposely dropped down pallets. I was on the very edge of snapping. We had gotten the killer on us a couple of times but would always end up losing him. After finishing the last two generators, the exit gates were powered up. 

Dwight and I instantly ran towards the opposite direction from where David ran to. The exit gate we ran to was already open. "Run ahead, I'll be behind you just in case something happens." I shooed him towards the exit and followed behind him. We heard the ringing of bells happen again. The killer appeared in front of us, I heard his nasty snarl. 

I regret having Dwight go ahead of me. He got downed right when he was about to leave, his shriek echoed through out the institue. No one escapes death. As soon as I figured out he had noed, we heard the thunder ring through the whole place. At least it got cleansed but I had wished it was cleansed sooner. I kept going around and trying my best to make sure the killer didn't pick him up. 

I shooed him to crawl out but the killer ignored me and picked him up. "I-It's okay Jake, just run out." He gave me a sad smile and I shook my head, "I am not leaving you!" Good thing I have been working on sabotaging some hooks. He was walking towards one of the hooks I was working on. 

I ran to it faster than he did and took it down. He groaned in anger when Dwight was fully out of his grasp. "Go! I'm behind you!" I screamed out to him and he ran full speed towards the gate. I turned to see David coming up behind us with a smirk and the killer was right behind him. He was injured and I knew exactly what he was planning. 

The moment he lunged forward, he pushed me towards the killer. "I warned you, and now we will show no mercy." He instantly ran out of the trial. I fell down and gotten slashed. I yelped out and  I quickly tried getting up only to get hit and downed. I felt myself get dragged towards him, a weapon hitting my back multiple times. 

'I guess this is how Dwight feels..' 

{{~>Dwight's Point of View<~}}

This was the first time I had survived a trial. I was happy and scared. I waited for Jake to come back from that trial. I saw David coming out, he pushed me aside and grumbled threats under his breath. I honestly didn't care about him at the moment, I was more concerned about Jake's survival. 

It was about fifteen minutes and Jake finally appeared. I instantly looked over towards him, my smile brighter than usual. I looked at him straight in the eyes. He seemed.. dull and lost. Did he get sacrificed?

"Jake? Are you okay?" I asked him but he didn't seem to respond. I felt him hug me, it was gentle but protective. I was confused and then I heard him speak. "I am sorry.. sorry about everything. I promise you won't be going through that anymore, not while I am around.." I was taken a back. 

His apology made me happy yet concerned. I decided to shrug it off for now and I hugged him back. Planting a kiss on his cheek, I mumbled the words in his ear quietly. "Thank you Jake.."