Revenge After Death

Under the projector, Stephanie Carlson... AKA "me" stood, well and alive.

She flashed us a smile and opened her mouth.

"Michael... will you marry me?"

I glanced at Michael. He was influenced as well and started making his way forward.

Afraid that he'd also be affected, I held onto Steven anxiously.

Thankfully, he was immune.

He held me in his arms and whispered, "It must be a fake if the first person you call out to is Michael. If it were actually you, you'd definitely call out my name first."

I leaned against his shoulder in resignation. "How could you be jealous at a time like this?"

"Rachel..."

Zion pulled her back, but she was adamant about moving forward.

She walked toward the hologram and reached out to touch "Stephanie".

"I'm sorry, Stephie," she choked out the words. "I should've brought you away sooner."

The floor abruptly opened up again with a loud snap. Rachel fell down as well.

There was the sound of machinery.

Everyone could hear it. They could hear the screams. Afterward, they smelled the blood.

Then, blood started oozing out from the tiles where Joel and Rachel fell.

I tried to hold onto Steven's collar. My heart was beating rapidly, and my entire body was shaking.

It was that feeling again...

same feeling where I'd go mad from despair, but I

at the same time. I wanted to cry, scream,

It felt suffocating, but I had no

reached out and helped me

his senses. His

influenced and

solemnly, "Get a

eyes, Zion went mad and tried to go over as well. He only regained his senses after

Everyone was in despair.

the ones you loved-fall into an abyss and die a horrific death in front of you? "Can you feel it? This is despair. It's suffocation, sadness,

laughed eerily, as though she

shaking, but I didn't know how to express my

anger? Was it

of feeling

your best friend," the girl

opened up, and she held

It was Rachel's head...

kill all of you!" Zion struggled against Eason's restraint

was crying

Zion was going mad.

was holding him

hid in Michael's

was looking at me with bloodshot

moment, it was as though Steven's heartbeat was all I could

monster! An

felt like it was about to split open from

fell onto my

children used to throw at me echoed

is

a

saw her kill that bird

with my own