112 Seek & Destroy

Melis fell down and let out a scream. She put her hands on the ground to try to lift herself up again, but she required some time to recover from the shock. Using that chance, I held her and pushed her back down on the ground. She was caught pretty well, and this would be the end of the massacre.

"No one will die." I said as pushed her down with my leg and tried to catch her arms.

"Impressive." she replied. All of a sudden, the lights went out. The room went completely dark. I was pushed back by my chest and thrown away. She had escaped.

Such strenght... I had really underestimated her power.

"Don't be so silly." I heard her voice, followed by the sound of the door locking. In the blackness, I tried searching for something, in fact anything, using my hands.

"A lot of blood was unnecessarily shed already. No one has to die." I said.

"It is a necessary sacrifice." she said. "Someone has to die."

"You are insane. You somehow believed in the words of a crazy cult. You let people manipulate you, and eventually went insane."

"Only when you meet her, you will understand you are wrong." she replied.

"You know what? I don't believe in her." I said. "She doesn't exist. Whoever told you about her, was wrong. Let it go."

"How stubborn..." her voice changed a little bit. "Those people showed me the true nature of things."

"Okay, who the hell are those people!?"

"You will get to know her, only if you let me finish the job." she said. This weird transition from 'those people' to 'her' was really, really confusing.

"What happened to 'those people'? Who is 'her', and what do these two have to do with one another?" I asked. Even forming this question was hard itself.

"They are all bound to her." she said.

"So... she is their leader?" I asked.

"No, not exactly." she said. "She IS them."

"Eh?"

"We talked about this before, didn't we?" she said. "She has the power and the will of hundreds of souls."

"Tell me more about her." I said.

"There is not much I can tell you." she replied. "You have to talk to her yourself. In fact, you better do."

"I have nothing to do with a terrorist." I said.

"Be careful about the words you choose." she warned me. "You might end up regretting it."

"She is a criminal." I repeated.

"You don't know her." she said. "Things are not the way they look. She is a good person."

"I want to talk to her." I said.

"Do I need to remind you-"

"Shut up." I said. I knew very well where this was going. "No one is going to die. Just tell me where she is, and we will have a talk."

"You are asking for the impossible." she said. "She needs more power to surface. Unless the sacrifice is complete, we won't make any progress."

I sighed.

"Look, it is not too late. Drop your knife, come to me, and everything will be okay." I said. "I understand life hasn't been good to you, but there is a way out of this."

"You don't understand." she said. "I am okay. I feel fine. I've never been better. I already know the best way out of here. I just have to do this. You are leaving me with no choice..."

I heard some footsteps. She was walking around.

"What do you mean?" I said.

"You had the chance to kill me, and you refused it with such a stubborn manner... You made your choice, to push me to continue the sacrifice with those 'innocent' people here."

"No!" I shouted.

"Would you like a better sacrifice, mister?" she asked. "Well, too bad. I already gave you the chance."

"Hold on, we can talk about this!" I said.

"If you really want to handle this properly, why don't you call the police already?" she asked. "Oh, let me guess; because you can't!" She chuckled. "You are not only blind, you are completely helpless."

"Your actions killed every litte bit of sympathy I thought I once had for you." I said.

"Good. Maybe you will come to understand how I really feel." she replied.

I heard another set of footsteps. She was getting away from me.

"Okay, okay..." I was sweating badly. "If you need to kill someone, let it be me." It was a futile attempt.

"No, you are way too important for this sort of thing." she said. "You were chosen by her."

The footsteps stopped. I heard something tumbling.

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"I am sorry." she whispered. "It wasn't your mistake, but this is for the greater good."

It sent shivers down my spine. I couldn't see anything in the darkness, but it wasn't hard to understand what was going on by listening to the sounds. She had just stabbed one of my students.

"NO!" I cried.

She pulled the knife out, and sticked it into my student's body again... and again...

I roughly oriented myself towards the sound and ran that way; but when I arrived where I thought she was, I couldn't find her.

"You demon, you killed my student!"

"We are getting closer." she said.

I had made my mind. I was going to play the game by her rules, and kill her. At least this could limit further casualities... and, although painfully, it seemed like the only way to stop her.

"I will kill you." I said.

"No, you won't." she said. "Not anymore."

The lights flickered and turned on. She was nowhere to be seen.

"Where did you go, you heartless coward!?"

I stood there, in the middle of the room, in silence. Then I turned to look at my poor student who had just been stabbed.

His body was just next to me. He was stabbed by her chest, exactly from where his heart was. There was another wound on his stomach, which caused some part of his intestines to poke out. His left eye was removed, the nerve endings and veins were visible.

"You monster..."