The Phantom School - 113 Death March

After that traumatic moment, I came to my senses rather quickly. She was not done yet. The sacrifice wasn’t complete; and that could only mean one thing… She was searching for the next victim. I had to find her, and I probably didn’t have much time left.

Suddenly, I heard some movement near me. In a bit of panic, I turned my head to look at that direction. One of the unconscious students have woken up.

“Where am I?” he moaned in a sleepy voice. With some excitement, I held his arms and shook him a little bit.

“Hey, hey, look; listen to me.” I was talking fastly. “You need to get out of here. Quickly. Hurry! Don’t get sidetracked.”

Having just woken up, he didn’t even understand me.

“Mr. Kenan? YES? I-I-I WASN’T SLEEPING!” he shouted, thinking that he fell asleep in one of my lessons.

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I slapped him very smoothly.

“What is going on here!?” he was finally seeing everything in detail. He looked around and saw the blood-covered body of his classmate just next to him.

“WOAH!” he said and escaped from my grip, running to a corner of this room.

“Listen to me!” I shouted. “Get out of here, don’t look back, just run!”

Hearing and understanding my words completely, this time, he didn’t even hesitate. He ran out of the room, and away; towards the exit. Hopefully, he could make it without encountering Melis on his way out.

There were two more students in this room, still laying unconscious. I could stay here and try to keep them safe, or I could go out and look for Melis. I didn’t know if there were other students trapped around in the building, and it would require a long search to find out.

A loud ‘pat’ I heard downstairs made my mind. I ran out of the room and went downstairs. I ran for a few meters in the hallway before seeing a body on the floor. When I approached, I saw that it was moving. He rolled around. It was the student I have just sent to run out of the school.

He was injured, but he could still move.

“Mr. Kenan…” he pointed at something. Melis was running towards him, but when she saw me, she stopped. Just after I took a few steps towards her, she turned around and started running away. I tried to catch up with her, but she was faster than me. In under a minute, I had lost her sight again. I decided to check the classrooms nearby, thinking that she could be hiding in one of them.

I approached a classroom on my left and tried to open the door, but it was locked. I proceeded to the next one.

“This one is locked too?”

The third door wasn’t. I entered the classroom, but found nothing of interest.

“Damn it…” She had probably ran unpstairs. I did the same. While I was passing by the restrooms, I heard some struggle in there. I had definitely found her. But before I could interfere, the struggle ended and Melis came out of the restroom. Somehow knowing that I was close, she didn’t even look back. Instead of following her, I decided to try to help the poor person in the restroom. There was some blood leaking by the door.

There was a girl, stabbed by where her kidneys were. It was actually a very small wound, but it was surely painful. She was dragging herself on the dirty, wet floor.

“Teeeacchh-”

“Calm down.” I said, lifting her up and getting her out of the restroom. I put her down by the wall.

“We will get to the infirmary.” I told her.

“There are more!” she said.

“What do you mean?” I asked.

“Teacher, she is about to kill them!”

“Where are they!?” I asked. She pointed to one of the classrooms ahead, on the right. I looked at her and nodded, leaving her there to run to the classroom. This was a very hard thing to do, but I had very little time to make decisions, and I could only protect so many people at the same time…

I barged into the classroom I was directed to. Inside, there were three girls tied to each other and the chairs. They were constantly struggling to escape. They saw me entering the room, but I had almost gave them a heart attack barging in like that.

“No!” one of the girls yelled.

“Calm down!” I said as I approached them. After struggling for a while myself, I had managed to loosen the ropes a bit. The girls handled the rest, except for one of them; who was so traumatised by everything going on. She was crying as her friend were helping her out.

“Did you see Idil?” one of the girls asked.

“The short girl with medium black hair and brown eyes?”

“Exactly!” she replied.

“She is near the restrooms, but she is wounded.” I said. “Is there more people you know about?” I asked.

“I had seen some other students, but I don’t know anything about their wherabouts.” she answered. This was most unfortunate. I had to keep going and search for other people.

“Look, forget about everything, don’t look back, and run away from here!” I told them. This was the same mistake I had just done a few minutes ago, but this time; we were in a group and I would acoompany them on their way out of the building.

We got out of the room and I watched them closely as they ran downstairs, and to the exit. When we arrived there, I noticed that the boy I had previously sent here was no longer around. He could’ve escaped while I was chasing Melis, or… a lot of things may have gone wrong.

“Out!” one of the girls said and tried to open the school’s enterance door. But ultimately, we were stopped. The door wasn’t opening.

“We are going to die!” one of the girls cried.

“No, no you won’t.” I said. “Stay in a group, and we will find a way out.”

“Where are you going, teacher?” one of the girls asked, worryingly.

“I have to stop her.” I said as I kept running. She tried saying something else, but I couldn’t hear. I ran back upstairs. I still had a few students to rescue.

Just when I got upstairs, I heard something from a nearby room. Melis wasn’t even trying to hide from me anymore; relying only on her speed.

When I entered that room, it was already too late. The two students inside… were murdered. It was no longer affecting me as it did before. This was hard to admit, but I was… I was somehow used to encounter death. My heart and mind was… immune.

Melis was still inside the room when I arrived. I blocked the door to prevent her from getting out.

“The sacrifice is complete.” she said. “I can feel her arrival…”

“This is the end of the line.” I said. “You can’t run anywhere.”

“Oh my, do I need to?” She laughed, and threw her knife away to the other side of the room.