The Phantom School

I rolled down the last few steps of the stairs. My arms were hurting. Since I failed last time, I didn"t try getting on my feet again; instead, I tried to crawl away. But there was no doubt, he was faster than me.

"Help me!" I shouted into the empty hallway. At this point, my only hope was Idil. If she could hear me, she could come to my aid. But that wasn"t going to happen.

I turned around, facing Mr. Kenan one last time.

"Please..." I cried. "Come to your senses! Fight your thoughts! I am not your enemy. WE, are not your enemies."

He kept closing the distance between us as I tried to crawl backwards.

"You can"t fool me twice!" Mr. Kenan shouted at me.

He raised his arm to show me the knife in a threatening manner.

"Mr. Kenan, you are under their control!" I yelled at him. I was too far away from Idil already, but maybe I could bring the "real" Mr. Kenan back at the last moment.

He didn"t even hesitate for a second, and prepared to attack.

The only reaction I could give was covering my head with my arms. I no longer had enough energy to perform quick and tricky manuevers.

Instead of swinging his arm to reach me, he threw it towards my direction. I couldn"t possibly dodge that knife...

Surprisingly, I didn"t need to. I saw the knife flying over my head. I couldn"t turn my head back to watch where it went; but the sound I heard afterwards was good enough for me to have a guess.

The knife struck something, and I heard someone crying in pain. A handful of blood poured down my neck. I was pretty shocked as I haven"t even noticed someone behind me until now. After being indecisive between keeping Mr. Kenan in my view and seeing what was going on behind me, I finally looked back.

Ata was just behind me, and he was stabbed in his stomach. It was his blood flowing down my body. He fell on the floor in agony. Behind him, there were some of my cla.s.smates I had encountered on the roof. They had found me.

It was my chance. I reached out to Ata"s body and grabbed the knife. Although I now had a weapon, I was unsure about the ways I could use it. On one side, there were my murderous cla.s.smates and on the other side, there was Mr. Kenan who went crazy.

I"ve made a daring desicion and started going towards Mr. Kenan. He was relatively more powerful, but I would have a better chance dealing with him rather than dealing with three of my cla.s.smates at once. And if I could get past him, I could go upstairs and reach Idil.

"The knife!" Mr. Kenan suddenly yelled at me. "No time to explain, give me the knife!"

What was he talking about? He was literally trying to kill me a few seconds ago, and now he was asking me to hand him a weapon...

"They are coming, give me the knife!" Mr. Kenan shouted at me. He was pointing into the hallway, showing my cla.s.smates. It was true, I was being chased by my cla.s.smates, but I couldn"t trust him.

As I was getting past him; Mr. Kenan made an unexpected move, caught my arm and grabbed the knife. He released my arm afterwards. While I got away from him in fear, he stood between me and my cla.s.smates. He swung the knife as a way to threaten them.

I was confused. I had thought that they were all trying to kill me, but I had now seen that they were fighting each other as well.

"Run and get her to somewhere safe!" Mr. Kenan yelled.

So... He was trying to protect us now! Maybe the real Mr. Kenan had managed to win his internal fight against "the community" in the process of chasing me down the hallway.

I had no time to think about that any longer. I got upstairs and I was relieved to see Idil still laying on the ground, unharmed. I sat near her and tried to talk to her.

"Hey, can you hear me?" I said. I received no response. She must"ve been in a pretty bad situation.

I lifted her torso off of the floor and slowly dragged her into one of the cla.s.srooms.

I could hear Mr. Kenan and my cla.s.smates fighting downstairs. Everything had happened so quickly; and I had no idea what Mr. Kenan was trying to do. Why did he attack me, and why did he quickly change his side when he saw my cla.s.smates... I had no answers.

"Come on!" I said to Idil. Of course she couldn"t hear me, but I was still nervous and frusturated. I had no means of defense. If someone barged into the cla.s.sroom with evil intentions, it would be our end. Unfortunately, there was nowhere safer to hide either.

After a while I noticed the fighting sound fading away as they were moving away from where we were. After a few minutes, I could no longer hear anything.

I wanted to go out into the hallway to have a look around, but I didn"t want to leave Idil in the cla.s.sroom alone. We were stronger when we were closer, anyway.

Suddenly, I heard fast footsteps. Someone was nearby. I pushed a few desks in front of the door to delay any intruders trying to come into the cla.s.sroom.

I was out of energy, so I would try to run from the enemy rather than stay and fight. I hopelessly looked out of the window to think about a possible escape route. Unfortunately, there weren"t any. The outer side of the school"s wall was flat, and we were very high up, just one floor below the roof.

So I got back, took a defensive position in front of the door and started waiting for any intruders. I had little power, but I had nothing else to do.

Despite all the desks I stacked in front of the door, someone managed to kick the door open with a single hit.