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Chapter 18 - Ch.18. Goodbyes

"You feed on the loneliness of your victims" Emma cried out. "Alex, I know you can hear me, you have to stop madness."

It said in its demonic tone "I possessed them, you have to talk to all six of them at the same time."

"You don't know their pain," It reminded her. "Times ticking, Emma," It said in Alex's voice.

"TownPort is dying," Emma shouted ignoring its tricks as she did. "You all need to stop this right now!"

It groaned like it was hurting, it was working, they were listening. "No more bloodshed…" She shouted but was interrupted by its loud hurtful groaning. "You cannot stop me." It reminded her again.

"I'm doing it right now," She reminded it too.

The ground shook from below, all the way from the collapsed bridge. Loud shrieking echoed from down. It looked at her with an evil grin. "Welcome to my show, Emma." It said in its demonic tone.

The shriek grew louder; the bodies were alive, crawling up the collapsed bridge. There were many and there was no way she could fight all of them. She could hear them struggling to get up.

"Alex, all of you," She shouted as her voice was almost overwhelmed by the shriek below. "Help me."

They were getting closer; she could feel it; she was also staring at the weird face of the entity. The rock shook, the first hand came out denied flesh and mostly bones, its face was exposed, its empty eyes fixed on her. Others forced themselves to climb over the first till it was completely covered.

They charged, shrieking loud, hurtful sounds. She covered her face expected to be mauled by a multitude of living dead but to her surprise, they ran past her.

They went straight to the entity, they were vicious, she was lost in the stampede as more came pouring out. The entity was covered by the swamp of its own army. They bared their teeth in its skin as it growled in excruciating pains.

Emma watched; she saw what would have happened to her in a blink of an eye. The entity crashed into the ground as the living dead fed on it. It said in a weak growl "goodbye for now, Emma."

The heavy rock above the entity came crashing down. They were buried in stones. She saw the way out shaped like a door. She climbed on the rocks and headed to the door.

The light was restored; the shadows disappeared at the entrance of sunlight radiating from the window. Emma was back in TownPort High but this time in ruins, the hallway was messed up, blood smeared the doors and windows. She heard clattering from a distance and shortly few students came out from hiding; they had bruises and cuts and were covered in blood, at least not theirs.

Principal Dawson came out from hiding almost untouched by the whole incident except for a few scratches here and there. The moment Emma saw her, she fumed furiously. "You caused this!" She said as she advanced to punch her on the face, but she was stopped by the security detail of the Mayor.

She struggled with two others before restraining her face to the wall. The Mayor came in and gave them orders to release her.

Dawson straightened up; the Mayor looked around at the mess in disappointment. "What did you do?" He was asking principal Dawson the question. She had no idea what to give.

"You did this." He said conclusively.

"You are no longer the owner of the school," He declared immediately. He turned to the security and signaled with a tap of his cap. They got the survival out for medical checkup. Emma was also escorted outside by a soldier to avoid anymore escalation.

Dawson watched her whole life crash. Her bright ideas, achievements gone, nothing to show but wreckage. She screamed in a rage. It echoed into empty halls. She heard someone counting in a whisper from nowhere in particular.

Someone was still left in the building. "Hello," She called out "anyone there?"

The counting was all over the speakers, it was disorderly,

"12, 5, 8, 0, 11" It started a child's voice, getting deeper. "5, 4, 3, 2, 2, 2"

It sounded demonic now "1. Time to come home."

She saw Alex standing a little distant from her, not Alex, possessed Alex. She heard clattering in a distance mixed with shrieking. It came from every corner of the ruins.

A swam of possessed children of TownPort High charged towards Dawson. She was surrounded and it went black. She was mauled to death.

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