Cindy and Melissa proceeded to walk down the tunnel, hands intertwined seeking comfort. Both were worried about the campers but that was nothing next to their worry for their younger sisters. Melissa tried to reassure them both that everything would work out and that Ziggy and Aurora would be okay, but truthfully she didn't know that, all she knew was that they weren't safe with Tommy on the loose.
Both girls jumped hearing a voice murmuring their name, they made eye contact before walking quicker, desperate to leave the enclosed space they were trapped in.
"Boo!" Melissa jumped having been on edge after hearing someone say her name. Cindy gasps and quickly pointed her torch at the figure who turned out to be Alice.
"Jesus, what the hell? I told you not to follow me."
"Yeah, I didn't. You went in a circle. A fucking circle" Alice explained laughing. Cindy turned in a full circle looking at the cave before her torchlight shined on Mary's diary. Melissa followed her line of sight before realising the same thing as Cindy. Cindy ran to the diary, picking it up she continuously murmured the numbers one to four, before looking and the entrance ways to the cave.
"What are you doing?"
"This symbol, it branches off here. Four times. Three there, one there, just like this cave." Cindy explained before Melissa took over.
"It's the same! 'Sarah Fier cut off her wicked hand on Satan's stone, scaring the soil beneath with the witch's mark'." She exclaimed, "'Scarring the soil' Either the witch made this fucking place or the settlers claimed she did. It doesn't matter. All that matters is this symbol. It's a-"
"It's a map." The girls finished together with a look of realisation.
Nick and Aurora ran towards the screams, voices being more apparent the closer they got. They both pushed through with Ziggy who had also heard the commotion and ran towards it.
"He's dead!"
"Jeremy's dead!"
"No, you guys! Okay? Hey! We're done. Everyone get back. Hey, no! Colour War's done! Alright?"
Ziggy and Aurora let out a breath at the grotesque sight, Rory's hand fumbling to find Nicks unable to pull her eyes from the scene until Nick made her look away, weaving their hands together.
"Alright, it branches off again here. Just stay left" Cindy explained reading the map. The girls looked around with slight astonishment at the fact their plan was working. "It's taking too long. He could be back at camp already."
"If you have to kill him, could you?"
"Earlier, when Mary attacked, I just... I froze. I couldn't do anything. So, no, I... I couldn't kill anyone, much less Tommy." Alice told her that she didn't have to worry because she would happily kill Tommy. "God, even now, after everything, you're... you're still a jerk".
"Okay, I'm sorry. I just... I never got what you saw in him." Melissa rolled her deep blue eyes and had a strong urge to hit her head off the wall, it seemed even when their lives and everyone else's rested on them they couldn't put their differences aside. "And that was before the witch possessed him."
"Tommy. Tommy was sweet. He made me feel like everything was going to be okay. I loved him. I really did."
"I loved Arnie too. I loved that gross, high little shit." Alice inhaled as Melissa heard a strange noise in the tunnel, pointing her own flashlight she tried to make out if she could see anything.
"Do you hear that?" She asked, gaining Cindy and Alices' attention. Mel looked at the diary, "There's this space here up ahead. All roads lead here." She emphasised looking between the other two. They slowly made their way to the rumbling sound, noticing an increase in flies and stuff covering the walls.
"Cindy? Melissa?"
Alice pointed her torch at the large beating organ in the room that had flies surrounding it.
"What is that?" Cindy asks as they all crowd it, the beating becoming louder as they take notice of it. "Let's get out of here" She adds with fear of the unknown. Melissa watches as Alice approaches it, seemingly in a trance. Alice reaches her hand out and strokes it as flies swarm her hand. Mel carefully regards the dazed look on her face which resembled a similar one that Tommy had.
"Alice?"
Alice pulls her hand back, as she looks towards Cindy and Melissa she begins to scream before rushing off down the tunnel. Both girls called after her and rushed to follow her. Melissa could hear her heartbeat in her ears as she chased after Alice who continued to scream. With one final scream, Alice falls breaking her ankle giving Cindy and Melissa time to catch up. Alice whimpers in pain.
"Let's go! This is not part of the game! Go, guys! Go, go!"
"Five, seven, eight, ten, fifteen, eighteen..." Nick counts the campers as the lights go out. Many of the campers scream in fear. "Everyone stay calm! Everything's alright!" He tries to reassure everyone.
"How many?"
"Twenty-three." Gary points out that at least thirty people are missing, "Where's Cindy, Kurt, Joan?" He asks but no one has seen them since before Colour War but proposes that maybe they're out looking for people. Nick goes towards the phone but quickly learns that it isn't operating.
"We have to go. We have to warn people" Aurora tells Ziggy, Nick and Gary.
"I'm sure they heard the bell. Hey!" Nick stops Aurora from walking out the front door,
"My sister! Ziggy's sister! They're still out there!" Aurora reasons trying to get past him with Ziggy.
"Oh yeah? The same sister who ruined your life?" Aurora shakes her head at him, astounded that he would use that against her and tries to shove past him. Nick grabs her again, "Look, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it. Me and Gary will go" He says with remorse.
"What?"
"Just please stay here. I'm not letting you get hurt!" Nick says louder drawing attention to the two of them, "Okay? Please, let me do my job. I'm gonna find your sisters. Just stay here. Okay?" He soothes her while holding her face. Rory leans forwards and places a lasting kiss on his lips, savouring the moment. Pulling away and resting her forehead on his she keeps her eyes closed.
"Just... come back to me, okay? Everyone was already looking, might as well give them something else to think about." She explains as Nick laughs quietly. He kisses her one last time before he and Gary walk away from the girls.
"Hey, you realise that's a camper, right?"
Nick ignores him before explaining what cabins they will each be searching, Gary panicking about the killer still being out there. He shouts for everyone to stay in the mess hall till they get back. Ziggy and Aurora watch them leave until Ziggy is shoved against a wall.
"Where is she, witch?"
"You kill her like you killed Jeremy?"
"What are you talking about?" Aurora interrupts.
"Shelia!" She explains, "where the fuck is Shelia?" Ziggy and Aurora make eye contact before swearing and running out the door after Nick.
"Nick! Nick, we forgot Shelia!" Ziggy calls into the night before realising he's too far away. "Shit!"
Aurora and Ziggy run off the outhouse together to save Shelia, to lighten the atmosphere Ziggy looks over with a smirk on her face and a raised eyebrow.
"So, you and Nick?"
"This is seriously not the time to be gossiping about my love life, Ziggy!" Rory reprimands. "If we live, I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" Ziggy agrees as they reach the outhouse.
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