“So I guess it’s decided. We’re coming with you guys.” Edmund said as he walked toward the door.
“Wait, it only unlocks from the outside. There should be another door here somewhere” I said while remembering when we came in.
“Nonsense! You think Blake is a dummy? He didn’t close the door all the way, he left a little crack so we could exit obviously.” Edmund said while chuckling a little.
I frowned. Outsmarted by a person with lower grades, again!
“Make sure you guys come back” a boy said.
We all froze. It sounded like Blake.
I turned around. “Of course we’ll come back, we need this place for shelter” I said trying to hide how scared I was. I didn’t expect Blake to be awake.
“Honestly, in my opinion you guys are fools. I don’t know what you guys could possibly want to do, but if one of you makes it back alive please bring some snacks. Oh, and if you see an old guy in the woods,
don’t be fooled by his reversed psychology and his riddles. He will kill you if you don’t answer him right. Well, that’s if he’s still alive” Blake said.
“Oh wait, Blake can you please watch over Kohaku?” Kaelinda asked him.
“I’ll make Mari and Lequisha do it” he said as he shrugged and turned around.
“Well, what are we going to carry the snacks back in?” Paige asked.
“I don’t know, find something.” Blake replied as he went into a cell.
“Oh my gosh. I’m not bringing anything cause’ I don’t see anything that I can use” Paige said.
“Oh yeah!” Aoi said as she walked back to the cell we slept in. When she came out she had her bag. “Here, we can use this” she said.
That reminded me of the staffs she gave us to use, I went back to the cell, and grabbed the staff out from under the bed. I came out and I guess everyone else remembered so they all went to get theirs.
Aoi already had hers in her hand, while she put the bag on her back. “Let’s go.” she said as she pulled the door our way and walked out.
I followed behind.
“Ay! Don’t you leave us!” Kaelinda said jogging up to us while we walked down the white hallway.
“I’m surprised he didn’t close this.” I said as we walked past the parallel doors.
“Oh well, whatever.” Aoi said as we walked down the stairs.
I turned my head to look behind me. I saw Edmund, Paige, Kaelinda, and Hana-yon.
“What are you lookin’ at?” Edmund said.
“I don’t know yet.” I said as I turned my head forward and smirked.
Paige, Kaelinda, and Hana-yon laughed.
We reached the heavily locked door that led to the room full of doors.
“Edmund, come unlock this.” I said.
“Don’t tell me what to do,” he said as he came to the door with the keys, trying to figure out which key went in the locks. After five minutes, he managed to get the fifth lock, and it only took a minute to get the sixth lock. He opened the door, and we all walked into the room.
“We need the code, so that when we return, we can get inside the building” I said, remembering when Blake tapped in the code to enter the building.
“I’ll text your phone so Lequisha can give it to us” Aoi said as she went into her contacts and clicked my name. There was a picture of me in a bathing suit standing next to Aoi who was also in a bathing suit, smiling, while we were in front of a big pool that had a lot of other kids in it.
“Is that picture from fun world universe?” I asked Aoi.
“Yup, it is” she replied as she sent my phone a text message asking, Lequisha to get the code from Blake.
“Now let’s go. Hopefully, she replies. Then Aoi’s phone rang. Her ringtone was another nice sounding Japanese song. It sounded soft and sad, like it was about a heart break. Aoi sang along with it. I had no idea what she was saying, but I liked how the song sounded. She looked at the message. It read:
“Alright, let’s go!” she said walking toward the door we used to enter the building.
We walked out the building.
***
“Hey, there is a light in the woods” Edmund said while trying to catch his breath.
I turned my head to look into the woods and saw a light too.
“We shouldn’t approach it.” Aoi said in a cautious tone.
“Whatever, but it looks like they might have food! I haven’t eaten at all today. So bye.” Edmund said as he ran toward the light in the woods.
That’s how he always gets when he’s hungry. He forgets about everything, and eats whatever can be eaten.
I ran after him. This boy always needs me to help him whenever he gets in this state. He almost ate a dead mouse that
the janitor killed. That’s a whole different story. I rolled my eyes as I ran after him. He was pretty fast.
“Edmund slow down!” I yelled as I tried to speed up so that I would be right behind him.
BAM! A smaller tree branch hit my face. I grunted as I kept running. I think it left a splinter in my face. I shook my head and kept running after him.
“Slow down Kaelor. You don’t know what you’re doing! Just leave him!” I heard
them yell as they came running after me. As we got closer to the light, Edmund disappeared from my eyesight.
I was nearing the light. I didn’t stop, because I didn’t want him to go missing. As I got even closer to the light, I saw Edmund standing in front of a person sitting down, and someone else was next to the guy sitting down. I ran even faster to get to the light.
BOOM! I tripped over a thick log. I fell on my face. I looked up and I saw their faces staring at me. I got up and then jogged closer to them.
When I got there, I noticed two adults looking at me while Edmund was sitting on the ground, holding a big bag of Ramblington chips and taking a big amount of chips with each hand. He had crumbs around his mouth and his eyes were wide open staring into the bag.
“I see, so this must be the brown haired, freckled one you were talking about” one of the old men said while smoking a cigarette. He inhaled the smoke in the cigarette and then exhaled the smoke through his nose.
“Well, aren’t you a pretty person. Usually stalkers are ugly people. Am I right Jordan?” the second old man said while chuckling.
I was offended by that comment. So Edmund considers me a stalker, that’s a really nice thing to say about a girl who stopped him from eating a dead mouse. I grunted.
“Kaelor, you okay? We came after you to—” Aoi stopped talking as she stood next me. Paige, Hana-yon, and Kaelinda were right behind her.
“Well, here’s the rest of his group.” The first old man said while exhaling three smoke rings.
The second man opened a chip bag that read ‘Doritos’.
“I didn’t know this country had those.” I said while feeling the area where the branch hit my face.
“Oh they do, would you like some?” The second one said while passing it to me.
I grabbed the bag with no hesitation and ate. I hope they don’t want anything
back. Like my mom always said, nothing comes free.
The second man took out a bag of Cheetos, and passed it to Aoi.
“What is this?” she asked arrogantly.
“Whoa, you better take that arrogance out your voice or you get none.” The second man said, while taking the first man’s cigarette and inhaling the smoke.
“Fine, what is this?” Aoi asked.
“It’s Cheetos chips. They come from the United States of America. Try them” The man said.
She passed the Cheetos back. “I want Towtow chips” she said.
“Okay little girl, you can get some Towtow chips.” The second man said while handing her Towtow chips. “Here you take the Cheetos” he said to Hana-yon.
She took the chips while flashing untrusting eyes at him.
They must want something from all of us. I thought.
Edmund stood up and rolled t
he bag up and stretched. “That was good! Kaelinda, your family makes great chips” he said.
“So who exactly are you two? And what do you want from us?” Paige asked the two men.
“Finally, a smart one!” The first man said, while taking the cigarette away from the second man.
“We want you to solve some riddles. They are not too hard, and not to easy” he said as he exhaled smoke.
It just hit me! He must be the riddling guy Blake was talking about.
“And what happens if we solve them?” Paige asked.
“You get past here alive.” The second guy said smiling.
I gulped. These riddles better be the easiest in the book.
“So if we don’t solve them, we die?” Paige said.
“Yup, unless you can run like Mia Consi or as most of you would know speed girl from those cartoons, which is impossible,” The first guy said, while pulling out a pocket knife and rubbing his hands against the blade.
Mia Consi is a super hero from a cartoon that has the power to run fast, like flash and wonder woman. I sighed. I’m not going to make it out of here alive.
“You got yourself a deal!” Edmund said like a dummy.
I gave myself a face palm. This dork, I’m surprised that I can even deal with him.
“I guess this one is the dunce” The second man said while laughing.
I snickered.
“Why don’t we start, shall we?” Paige said while checking out the the area.
“Ok. This riddle is for the stalker,” the first guy said.
“No. It’s for all of us,” Aoi said while holding her staff upright.
“Very well, then.” The man paused. “I am an hourglass. I am purple. I am of high height, but of low width. I can cartwheel but I can’t handstand. I can hide, but I can’t run. I can throw, but I can’t catch, what am I?” the first guy said while smiling.
I tried to think of an hourglass that was purple, and of high height, but low width. I think it’s an hour glass, though people don’t put the answer out there like that. So, it can’t be an hourglass.
An hourglass would be able to handstand. I thought. As they say, people who pass puberty, they get curves, and one of the shapes they list, is an hourglass. I nodded. I’m getting it! There are women that are tall and skinny shaped like hourglasses, yes! I have seen women tall and skinny cartwheel. Most of them don’t handstand. Yes! I’m so, going to get this right. Ok, so they can hide. Anyone can, and they can run, but most people with a banana shape are the ones that run. Yes, yes, yes! I’m going to get away from here
alive. I nodded again. I’m stumped! This part is hard. A woman can throw, but anyone can. I can’t catch… Hmmm, that’s kind of hard. It suddenly came to me. A woman who plays as the pitcher in baseball! I did a short happy dance.
“The stalker looks like she knows the answer,” the first guy said while letting out a dry cough.
I chuckled. “I got you guys all wrapped around my finger! I know the answer” I paused.
Everyone was looking at me, with eyes that were asking what the answer was. I grunted.
“What’s the problem? Cat got your tongue?” The second guy asked while playing with a blood stained pocket knife.
“The answer is…the answer is it’s a woman” I paused and looked at Aoi and Hana-yon. They nodded. “A woman who plays a sport.” I paused.
“Is that your answer?” The second man asked in a tone that teachers use to confuse students, after they give the right answer.
“No” I said, hoping everybody caught on to what I was saying. “It’s a woman who plays, as a pitcher.” I paused again, looking around.
“I see what you’re doing. You’re trying to give everyone the answer. Now you’re gonna die for cheating!” The first guy said while getting up off of his chair.
“It’s a shame. You were right; too bad you don’t have a heart of stone. If you did, you would get out of here alive and they would be left to answer their own riddles.”
The second guy said while stomping on the first guy’s cigarette.
I backed away. Everyone else backed up too. The first and second man lunged at us with the pocket knife.
I grabbed Aoi who was closest and I ran into the woods. It’s amazing what you do when you have adrenaline rushing in your veins. I dashed through the woods, jumping over everything and squatting below anything I could. I was in front of Aoi.
“No! Please stop!” I heard a muffled yell of pain. It sounded like Kaelinda.
“Ouch! Stop!” I heard another voice yell. It sounded like Edmund. I stopped and gulped.
“Why don’t we make this slow and painful!” I heard one of the men yell.
I heard someone say, “No! Stop, you psycho killer!” It sounded like Kaelinda.
I turned around and ran back. I was followed by Aoi. I couldn’t let my friends die like that.
After a distance I ran into someone. I fell on my butt and rubbed my forehead. I looked at who I ran into. It was Kaelinda. She was crying. I couldn’t see her face, but I recognized her voice.
“Run, run! Turn around run! Before they realize I’m gone!” Kaelinda said struggling to get up. I helped her up as I stood up.
“Kaelinda it’s me, Kaelor. Where is everyone? Are they alive?” I asked.
“Yes. No… I don’t know! I ran when Paige threw a kunai dagger at them.” she said trying to push past me.
I ran past her. “Aoi, you and Kaelinda run! Run as far as you can!” I said as I ran closer to the light that came into my sight. I dashed towards it. When I got to the light, I saw Paige fighting them. Edmund pushed past me as he ran in the direction I came from. I gulped. Where’s my staff? I looked on the ground. It was next to Hana-yon who was lying there, unconscious? She didn’t look dead.
I dashed over to my staff. When I grabbed it, suddenly, someone grabbed my forearm.
I grunted. This won’t end well I thought. I got cut on the forearm and I let out a yelp of pain. I pushed the button on the staff. I let out another grunt. Then I was cut again in my forearm, a little closer to my elbow this time. I let out another yelp of pain as I felt a tear come down my cheek. I looked up.
The man who was causing me pain, had an evil grin on his face.
Then a kunai dagger was coming in my direction. I dodged it and pulled myself out of the man’s grasp. It hit him in his arm. He let out a yelp of pain this time.
“Not this one again.” he said as he turned around. I looked in the direction where the kunai came from. I saw a man on the ground. He didn’t look dead. He just looked like he was pressure pointed. I looked to Paige, who was covered in cuts. She was so mad, she could have shot daggers with her eyes.
I bent down again, and then shook Hana-yon in an attempt to wake her up.
Hana-yon had a big bruise on her forehead and a few cuts on her face. I grunted. Well, she couldn’t have been knocked out like that, she must have been pressure pointed too. She’ll wake up soon enough.
Suddenly, I felt someone yank my hair back. I looked up to see who it was. It was the man; he pulled my hair so I would come up from my squatting position. Then he pointed the knife towards my neck.
I grunted again. He was not giving up, was he?
Then, Paige stood in front of us, a distance away. She sighed.
“Your friend or me? It’s your choice.” the man said.
Paige massaged her temples. She looked mad.
“Yah!” I heard someone yell. It was Edmund. I saw the man move the knife away from my neck and I felt all of his weight on me. Was he dead?
I turned my head to look at his face. He wasn’t dead, just knocked out. Well that was the end of this situation I thought as I shook him off of me. I felt my neck. Thank goodness I wasn’t hurt!
“Are you okay?” I heard Paige ask.
I nodded as I pointed to Hana-yon, “Yup, I’m fine but, what’s wrong with Hana-yon?” I asked.
“Oh, she just got knocked out.” Paige said while coming towar
ds me. She squatted and then shook Hana-yon.
“Hmph, it’s seems she won’t wake up from a shake,” Paige said trying to sound like an adult. She grunted. I looked at the arm she shook Hana-yon with. There were a couple of wounds on it.
“This might wake her up,” Edmund said as he banged his staff on the metal of the tent. It made a loud metal clang and Hana-yon sprang up to the world of the living.
I grabbed her and pulled her up.
“What happened, who is that?” she asked.
I remembered that when you get knocked out like that, the first thing you get is your smell, then hearing, then sight. Or is it hearing, smell, then sight? Oh well, whatever. “It’s me, Kaelor” I replied, before giving Hana-yon a hug.
“Oh”. She stood up and rubbed her bruise. “Ouch! Where’s Kaelinda, and Aoi” she said scanning the area.
“Oops, I forgot that I told them to run. So they probabaly are somewhere in the woods now.” I said.
“Which way did they go?” Paige asked.
“They ran deeper into the woods…I think.” I said while recalling when we turned around and ran into Kaelinda.
“Ok, so which way? This way or that way?” Paige asked while putting her arms out.
“That way,” I said as I pointed to the arm facing the way we came to get here.
“So, farther down?” Paige asked.
I nodded.
“It’s a good thing you guys found out which way we are going, but now we need to get out of here, because there is a group of zombies coming this way.” Edmund said while grabbing Hana-yon’s hand.
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