The Phantom School

Supporting myself by pushing against the wall, I got back on my feet. There was a trail of blood the way I had come from, leading to that legless girl"s body on the ground. I had brought her all the way here, but I had no idea where she was coming -or perhaps running- from. I decided to follow the trail backwards and try to find out more about it.

With slow and silent steps, I started walking back the way I came from, and eventually went upstairs. I quickly arrived at the spot where I had encountered with the girl. The trail was going deeper into the hallway, so I kept going.

The lights began flickering and a loud sound just overhead startled me. One of the lights went out as crimson sparks flew away. I had panicked a lot, so I stopped there for a few seconds to recover from the shock.

I looked around to see if there was someone else, and began walking again. The trail went further, almost to the other end of the hallway; but then made a turn and lead me to one of the cla.s.srooms on my left side. The cla.s.sroom"s door was closed. I held my breath, grabbed the doork.n.o.b and pushed it open.

There was a big surprise for me. Even though everything was right in front of me, I was having some difficulty accepting the things I was seeing. This, the room... It wasn"t a cla.s.sroom. The floor was different, the color of the walls were a bit different as well; but most importantly, there were no desks, no board or anything else required in a cla.s.sroom.

"Was there maintenance here?" I was thinking, trying to remember. These sort of things would generally be done at the end of semester. But I wasn"t entering any lessons in this cla.s.sroom, so even though everyone would normally be notified, it was possible that I didn"t hear anything about it; especially if it was something so quickly decided. In the end, I didn"t force myself to remember, and I silently stepped inside the slightly darker room.

I suddenly froze. I thought I heard a faint voice behind me. I couldn"t understand any words, but it was terrifying for sure.

I looked behind, but there was no one there. "Stop making things up, Kenan." I said to myself. While I was looking that way, I heard another sound inside the room.

"Hi there, again." This was Melis. I had found her, but this was... I thought this was a bit too easy and obvious. Was she really trying to run from me, or lead me into something?

"It"s you." I said. "You know what, I"m not even going to be nice to you anymore. You are a monster. You have turned into the very evil thing people like you once suffered from."

"Oh, my..." she said. "I was going to try to persuade you, but it looks like I won"t even need to try."

"What are you talking about?" I asked. Her reply had made me really confused.

She pushed a light switch on the wall to illuminate the room. Near the wall on the other side of the room, there were the bodies of a few first-year students I knew. From this distance, I couldn"t understand if they were unconscious or... dead. She walked towards them and inspected the bodies without saying anything to me.

"What is this?" I asked. "I know those people; they could"ve done nothing to you!"

"Calm down, I didn"t say otherwise." she said.

"Why are they here?" I asked, and started walking towards the students. She noticed this and blocked my way.

"Oh, no-no-no..." she said. "Since you are not going to cooperate with me, or rather, with us; I was thinking of alternate ways to accomplish my goals."

"Us!?" I asked. "Who are YOU?"

"Me and her." she said. "She has the control and the power of tens, hundreds of poor souls."

"Who is she?" I asked. Whatever she was believing in, it wasn"t making any sense. "Don"t make me ask the same thing over and over again like you did before."

"You will get to know her." she said. "But there are some steps we need to take before that one."

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"Eh? Like?"

"I will have to make some sacrifices myself since you are not willing to kill me." she said. "Those innocent souls would make really good sacrifices." she looked over to the bodies of the students. "She needs the power of those souls..."

"No, no!" I said. "What in the world-"

"Would you like a better sacrifice, Mr. Kenan?" she asked me. "Perhaps someone more... familiar with those kind of things. Someone no longer so innocent..."

I was surprised with her calmness.

"Someone like me..." she said. "Wouldn"t that make everything better?"

I approached her slowly as she was walking around in the room, talking to me. She noticed this, but didn"t do anything.

"Why?" I asked.

"Don"t worry, mister, you will learn everything from her." she said.

"Let my students go." I said.

"Very well..." she said. "In that case, you know what you need to do."

"I hate you."

"I know." she said. "I know..." She stopped walking in circles and came to a stop in front of me, and turned her back to me.

"But, just so you know..." she continued speaking. "I actually like you, mister. I really do. It was good to get to know you, even for such a short time."

She was playing with the knife in her right hand, rotating and swinging it around softly; probably waiting for me to say something.

"I know what you are thinking." she told me.

I breathed in, and closed my eyes for a second. My next move would be decisive. As soon as I opened my eyes, I punched Melis with great force.