The Beacon Horror

Chapter 2: God Help Them

A/N: Let the games begin

"Weiss, look at this! It's so cool!" Ruby exclaimed in excitement, pointing to a straitjacket jacket before picking it up.

"Ruby, put that down! It could have something nasty on it!" Weiss scolded, marching up to the younger girl and ripping the restraining equipment out of her hand.
It fell back to the floor with a low thump.

"Weiss...I wanted to try it on." Ruby whined, pouting like a child that had her candy taken off of her just before dinner.

The heiress sighed, clearly getting annoyed with the younger girl. "If you want to put it on, go ahead. But don't come whining to me when you get stuck. I'm going to see if there's some sort of office up here."
With that, Weiss stormed off down the long, decrepit hallway, turning right at the end.

Now alone, Ruby picked the straitjacket jacket back up and contemplated for a moment if she should try it on or go after her roommate.

She quickly decided it was best to go after the white-haired girl, dropping the restraining equipment and running down the hall. She turned right, knowing Weiss had gone the same way but what she saw didn't make any sense whatsoever.

It was a dead end with no doors or windows in sight. Where the hell did Weiss go if it was a dead end? Unless she turned around and headed in the other direction. But, Ruby would've seen her swap directions and she would've seen her in the hall.
The younger girl took her phone out and called her roommate. It rang continuously, going to voicemail. She hung up and tried again. It did the same so instead of calling for a third time, she sent off a worried text. 'Weiss, where r u? I cuda sworn u turned right???'

As she waited for a reply, she turned around and headed down the other hallway, looking out for a flash of white. Her phone buzzed half way down, signalling a message she hoped was from the heiress.

Sighing in relief, she opened the message her roommate had sent her. It read 'I went to the left. Meet me in the end room.'

Her phone buzzed again, this time a message from her sister popped up on her notification bar. It was on the group chat they'd made.
'Ruby, Weiss. Get back to base camp. Now!'

The younger girl stopped and read the message twice before sending off her own message. The screen came up with an error warning, stating the message didn't send. She immediately checked her phone service and found it was dead.
Walking backwards, she tried to re-establish the reception, to no avail. Sighing, she continued her walk down the hall, arriving at the very last room.

The door before her was slightly ajar, Ruby pushed it open the rest of the way and stepped into the room. It was another cell. A broken bed lay in one corner with restraints attached to it. There was no window, making the room much darker than it would've been when the asylum was still running.

The younger girl shone her torch around, lighting up as much of the room as she could. Weiss wasn't in here which was strange considering her text said she would be.
Something vital suddenly interrupted her thoughts. Something she should've remembered. How could she be so stupid!

She remembered seeing Weiss' phone on the study desk in their dorm room just before they left. She knew Weiss didn't pick it up and didn't mention it to the older girl, knowing she'd end up either recording the entire adventure or just scrolling through social media.

But, if Weiss didn't have her phone with her, how did she receive a text from her?
Just as that thought passed through her mind, the cell door behind slammed shut, the torch in her hand flickering.
Fear and panic immediately made its presence known and she screamed. The dim light above her flickered on and off. There shouldn't even be any electricity in the abandoned building.