The Phantom School

The girl noticed me getting back up and approaching her. With her knife raised above Berkant"s head, she gave me a sinister look. I froze. I couldn"t approach any further.

Berkant looked at me in tears... He was helpless against her. He was silently begging me to help him. It was a heartbreaking moment, because all of this happened within a few seconds. I had little time to react, which I had spent just by staring at the horrors in front of me.

The girl looked back at Berkant, and with incredible speed, the knife penetrated into Berkant"s neck. Swifty, she pushed the knife to the side to enlarge the wound. The splash of blood, and the sound of bones cracking... The color of red spraying all over her and the floor... Berkant tried to scream, but couldn"t. He was gasping for air, making terrible gargling and hissing sounds. I felt a very uncomfortable feeling around my own neck, just by watching it.

She pulled the knife back out of his neck.

"Do not pity him." she said without looking at me. She was watching the blood flowing out of Berkant"s body.

Trying to make good use of her slight relaxation, I ran towards her. This was it. I would catch her myself. But just when I was about to attack her, she made an acrobatic turn and kicked me away. I fell down once again.

"I am not your enemy." she said. "Don"t get in my way."

"Your actions can not be justified in any way!" I said.

"You don"t know that." she replied.

"If you want justice, it will be served in the court." I was getting angry.

"Don"t I know? Law doesn"t work the same way for rich people." she said.

I wanted to defeat her faulty logic to possibly stop her, but everytime, she had managed to defeat me instead.

"Is it worth ruining your life?" I asked. "Everyone"s life?"

"I don"t ever remember feeling happy in my life." she said. "Until now."

I noticed that I was still sitting on the ground, and slowly got back up. She watched me like I was doing something weird.

"If you don"t tell me what your problem with life is, we will never understand each other." I said.

"I want the best for both of us." she said.

"What does this have to do with me!?" I asked.

"..."

"Tell me, please." I begged her.

"We no longer have to live in constant pain." she said.

"Well, you could... You could always-"

"No." she shut me up. "I know a way out of this endless hole."

"What you do is not helping anyone." I said.

"Because you are getting in my way. If you only knew what I know..."

"THEN TELL ME!" I was getting frusturated with this girl again.

"It is not a knowledge I can transmit with words. You have to see yourself." she said.

"Show me."

"There are some people in this world who do lots of nice things, then get nothing but suffering in return." she said.

I was about to say something, but I couldn"t say it.

"This won"t continue that way. There must be... some sort of karma, justice..." she continued. "And I found the way to realise it."

"How? By killing those who annoy you?" I asked.

"Annoy me? Annoying? Oh, you know nothing about people, do you, Mr. Kenan?" she said. "Although I must say, I really envy the naivety... You know, I think this is why you were chosen."

"Chosen?"

"The time will eventually come, if you don"t stand in my way and simply let me do whatever it is I"m trying to do. I didn"t choose you, but I can see why... Now, I want the best for both of us."

"You are living in your own world of delusions." I said. "You can"t see the world the way you need to see."

"When the time comes, it will be you who realises he had been utterly blind to the world." she replied almost instantaneously.

This talk was really getting interesting, but meanwhile, I was also looking for chances to strike her down. Unfortunately, my anxious movements had made her suspicious. She backed away a few steps.

"When the time comes, you will be grateful." she said and ran out of the room. I didn"t even had the chance to follow her. I slowly walked out of the cla.s.sroom, and looked both ways in the hallway. There was no sign of life anywhere, but there were some blood stains on the floor. All this blood... I didn"t remember seeing it before. This was new.

Watching my surroundings carefully, I followed the blood, all the way downstairs and into the... chemistry lab.

"You just HAD TO ruin my favorite spot of the school..." I said, and sighed.

I heard a thunderclap. Normally, I wouldn"t mind it; in fact, I would love watching thunderstorms. But this time... I was scared of it. I was feeling uneasy. The sky was completely covered in dark, low alt.i.tude clouds, rapidly pa.s.sing overhead. The stars were no longer visible. A strong wind began howling. Some of the loosely installed windows started clinking.

A flash of lightning illuminated the hallway. During the short pulse of that blue-white light, I thought I saw something in the hallway, several meters ahead of me. While I was walking towards where I thought I have seen that "thing", raindrops began hitting the windows. The rain slowly intensified.

It had gotten really dark in the building. The moon wasn"t in the sky, starlights were blocked by the clouds, and the city lights were blocked by the woodland surrounding the school.

I slowed down, and with some hesitation, I stretched my arms to the front in order not to hit anything. I could see everything without much difficulty until now, but perhaps it would now be a good idea to find a light switch.

Suddenly, the lights on the ceiling flickered and I felt a soft breeze in my face.

I was startled by a sound far behind me.