Chương 27: Chapter 27_ We should have listened
We should have listened to the silver haired girl and maybe alert others too but no, we didn't.
What did we do?
We disregarded her words and even called her crazy. Now, who was in a crazy situation shouting crazily like an insane person? The silver haired girl whatever her name was, is probably in her room sitting in comfy and sipping wine while we are here, screaming and running, almost peeing our pants.
When the senior collapsed and started coughing blood, no one knew the nature of his sickness but we were not dulards,
these people were just returning from a mission of retrieving a boy from a plagued
community.
What if one of them had been careless and
had now brought the virus over with them?
The screams increased as everyone tried
to scamper away while running for their
lives. The students were pushing one
another in desperation and were stepping
on the ones that were unlucky enough to
fall.
It became a game of the survival of the
fittest. Teacher Lazlo had previously
referred to the school as the survival of
the fittest' however, I was sure this
situation was not what the teacher meant by that when he uttered that statement.
I stood where I was staring at the sick senior on the floor, he was the son of someone taken away from his home because he was unlucky enough to have his powers. Perhaps, these powers we had were not a gift but a curse.
If he didn't have no ability, he would be at
home with his family and would not be
assigned to go save the day. We were only
kids, we are not heroes!
"To our room now!" Mackenzie shouted as
the gathering started getting disrupted and everyone ran helter skelter.
"Hold yourselves" she instructed and grabbed Mia's hand while Mia grabbed mine.
Mia saw I was dazed and in a trance when
she scolded me back to reality." Medusa,
we are running now!"
I broke away from my short trance and we
ran hand in hand. It was a rough run as the
other students were pushing us while we
maintained our hold and used our trio srrength to push them away too.
If any of us should fall, that'll be the end as
the confused and desperate students
would step on them without realizing it.
We saw those who had the power to disappear and teleport, disappeared right
in our faces.
We wanted to run faster but we could not
as the hall was filled with students and it
was almost impossible to run.
Mia stumbled on a student who had fell
down and was unconscious on the floor.
"Mia!" I and Mackenzie chorused in fright
and we quickly helped her up.
"My glasses!" she panicked. I looked at her
face and saw she had lost her glasses.
I quickly scanned the area and saw it on
the floor just some steps away from us.
"Mackenzie hold her, I'll go get it" I said as
I jogged towards where the glasses lay. I
bent and stretched my shaky hands to pick
it up when a running leg stepped on it.
Crack!
It broke " Oh shit!" I stood up and ran back
to the girls, cold sweats dripping from my
face and landing on the floor with my every
step.
"It is broken, let's go" I shouted as I neared
them and we resumed to holding each
other's hands. This time, tightening the grip
a bit more.
A bright light shone across our faces
causing all of us to stop in our tracks and
shield our eyes with our hands,
"Female students, this way to the emergency hostels!" It was all black ushering us to enter a portal that he made appear. "Male students, this way !" another teacher
shouted and ushered the male students
into another portal.
I sighed in relief and thanked the stars, I
was beginning to get worried about how
we would make it to our hostel building
without touching anyone. Any of the
students might be infected, we were all
running around and pushing one another.
Who knows...
We ran towards the teacher and jumped
with the other students into the portal. We
all jumped like ants that gathered on a
cube of sugar.
We landed in another building, it was a
hostel but it wasn't ours. Everyone was
scattered, we saw some newbies and there
were also seniors.
We were all scared but maintained
composure as we approached the hostel. The tension and shock was making some
of us shake while some were even crying.
Of course, it was newbies like us that cried.
Definitely not the seniors, they were quite
shaken too but I guess they've seen worst.
There were three people dressed in hazmat
suits in front of the hostel.
We were hearing voice overs all over the
speaker in the building stating that they
didn't know what happened but in case it
was the virus, necessary procedures
needed to be taken.
The voice over was informing us that the
virus attacks quick and its first symptom
was mild fever accompanied by high teperature so they would be checking our
temperatures as we go in and we were
advised to cooperate.
Why would we not cooperate? It was all for
our own good. I and the girls walked side by side, we did not want to miss one another.
When we got to the building, we formed a
line and queued as we go in while the
people by the entrance would hold a
thermometer to our foreheads before
allowing us in.
We heard a noise and we looked forward to
see a girl being asked to step aside while
her friends continued to shout.
"She has been sick all day before all of this! I swear!" her friend was shouting with her
two hands by her side while she raised and
dropped her shoulder.
Her friend just stood still by the side of one
of the people testing us.
"Please just go!" a senior shouted
impatiently.
Murmurs ensued amidst the queue forcing the girl to go in reluctantly without her
friend. I could almost smell her sadness as
tears laced my eyes. I was always quick to
shedding tears as I am a very emotional
person.
I've always wondered how people who
does not shed tears even in an intense and
painful situation do it because I'm always
close to tears when it comes to emotional
matters.
Soon, it got to Mia's turn. She was good
and was allowed to go in so was
Mackenzie too and then, me.
We walked into the hostel's passage and
had no idea which room to enter since this
was not our hostel.
We opened a door and found it already
occupied with five girls.
"Fuck off" they barked at us when we
opened the door. We shut it back and proceeded to the next door.
It was two seniors that were inside the
room, they looked at us without saying
anything as we opened the door.
"They are two, we are three. I think all five
of us can manage" Mia whispered and we
made to step into the room.
"Don't even dare" one of the two seniors
said and we shut the door reluctantly while
sulking.
This was getting annoying, why did all black not send us to our hostel?!
We moved to the next door and as I was
about to open the door, Mia held my hand
and shook her head.
"It would probably be filled up too or be
occupied with mean seniors" she sagged
her shoulders in frustration.
The others from the queue were already
coming in too.
"So we wait and freeze out here?"
Mackenzie asked in frustration and opened
the door.
Was someone inside? Yeah.
How many? Just one.
Who was it? A senior.
What did she do?
We stood and started at her, she was all
curled up on one of the beds.
"What are you doing?" she asked us and
we were about to shut the door when we
heard her sweet voice." Do come in" she
ushered us with her hand.
Oh yeah!, her voice seemed like a guardian angel's voice at that moment.
We rushed in and shut the door behind us.
Finally, we would rest our legs that were
already worn out and unsteady.
"Thank you" Mia told her.
"For what? It's not even my room also she
shrugged while looking outside the window
Anyhow it is, we were grateful.
Since the room was originally designed for
three occupants and had three beds while
we were now four in number, we decided to
share the bed amongst ourselves. Mackenzie and I shared one bed while
we allowed Mia to have the other one
because of the stress of loosing her
prescription glasses.
We were all silent for a while, each person engrossed in their thoughts.
"But, what the hell happened?" Mia finally
blurred.
"The virus happened." I replied with
sarcasm, why was she asking what
happened when it was already obvious.
"Did the seniors not go with protection kits
before going on the mission? Why send
them to hell if they wouldn't be fortified?"
Mia ranted again.
"They went prepared with hazmat suit and
oxygen. Something is fishy about the
whole thing. I'm guessing one of the other
colleges did this to slow down our school's
preparation of the competition?"
What?
"Why would they do that?!" I almost yelled.
Our school has been winning the competition now for five times in a row for the past five years " the senior answered
calmly still looking outside the window.
She had short black hair and had a whitish
skin, she was cute with her round face
which was now wet from sweatings of the
whole running thing. She was dressed in a
white tank top with black jacket and a pair
of white trousers with blue sneakers.
"They will risk the lives of juveniles and
disrupt the whole school peaceful system
for that? I can not begin to imagine the
number of injured students and the number
of those who would lose their lives!"
Mackenzie fumed.
This was unbelievable! A school attacking
another and risking the lives of youngsters?
What kind of world where competition was
thorough was this?
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