Chapter 2

Jeannie opened her eyes and look around her surroundings. “I’m still here…” she said in a disappointed tone.

Scurrying through her back pack, she tried to find something useful that can help her escape. She didn’t give up hope. She told herself, “I will get out of here! ALIVE! I’m not going to die in this stinking dead lift!”

Through the back of the tiny pocket in her backpack, she found her cell phone. “OF COURSE!! Silly me!! God… I feel so stupid!” said Jeannie. She felt really silly after freaking out in the lift when she has a cell phone that could contact help. She kept thinking to herself why didn’t she think of that in the first place.

As she flipped opened her cell phone, she quickly dialed Stephanie’s contact number. She prayed that the cell phone would have a line to contact Steph’s cell. She heard ringing! Thank god, she thought. Now it is all up to Stephanie to pick up her call. “Please! Please! Please pick up the call, Steph!! Pick up! Pick up!” begged Jeannie.

 “H-h-hello? Ah…J-J-Jeannie?” Stephanie moans in pain from the cut she got from the glass shard.

“STEPH!! THANK GOD!!” Jeannie was relieved that it managed to reach Stephanie’s cell phone but how long can the line last in the elevator? She quickly brief Stephanie her situation before the line broke off, “LOOK! IM STUCK IN THE LIFT!! I CAN’T GET OUT AND – AND - THE SECURITY! THEY DIDN’T REPLY TO ME!! I THINK THE INTERCOM IS BROKEN! PLEASE!! STEPH!! GET ME OUTTA HERE! I’M SCARED!!” hastily Jeannie told her story.

“Jeannie, well… I don’t think I will be able to save you fast because I’m kind of stuck here myself… The ceiling outside the studio sort of collapsed and it blocked the door. So I can’t get out… I don’t know how but I think there was a slight earthquake.”

“But that doesn’t explain why the security won’t reply me back and –”

“What did you say Jeannie? I can’t hear you! Speak louder!”

“ Hello?? STEPH!! STEPH!! Can you hear me!!” Jeannie shouted as loud as she can however it seems that line is cutting off and the sound of Stephanie’s voice seems to get fainter. She desperately moved around in the small elevator to find a good connection. In the end, she could only hear static… it got cut off. 

As soon as she sat down on the floor, the lift cable broke and the whole lift falls. Jeannie screamed at the top of her lungs thinking that it’s the end of her. She felt as if life flashes right before her eyes. The lift landed on the ground causing a big mess on the ground floor of the university. Jeannie assumed that she was dead for sure, so she opened her eyes to see what heaven is like. But when she opened, she saw that the whole lift was in pieces and broken. She touches her face and her body. She can feel it. she can feel her body!

“I’m… alive… I’m…alive??” she said

        How was she still alive, she did not cared or perhaps now is not the time to ask herself that. She quickly hustle herself out of the broken lift and head out to the lobby.

        In the lobby, she couldn’t see anything. Everything was pitch black. She thought to herself that perhaps there was a power failure. She took out her cell phone and use it as a source of light for her to see. It seems that the front door to the exit is blocked.

        “No such thing as easy way out, huh? WAIT!” she thought back about Stephanie. She remembered that she was in trouble and injured. She sucks up her gut and decides to look for her friend. As she began her search, she saw the stairway up and she told herself, “I’m never going to use the elevator AGAIN!!” she walk up that stairs with that tiny light of hers.

        Stephanie, enduring the pain on her arm, took out the shard that was pierced. Sometimes she thinks, maybe that’s why there are rules on not damaging school property otherwise you get hurt yourself.

        “I should start obeying to CERTAIN rules from now on…” she said

        The shards were taken out from her arm but her wound is bleeding profusely. She looks around and saw the cloth that was covering other students sculpture. She tears the cloth and used it to stop the bleeding temporarily. A thought crosses her mind. She wondered just maybe the cloth could be improvised into a rope and she could use it to get down and out of the building. She stuck her head out and looked down and gave a sigh.

        “It’s too far. The floor I’m at is too high and I don’t think I have enough cloth to get me down.” She said. She looks around the room and tried to think a way out. Since she couldn’t get out through the door and window.. . Where else can she go? Staying put is not doing anything good.

        Again, Stephanie felt a vibration of an earthquake but it seems that this time the vibration seems to be stronger. This time, she heads under the table to avoid being hit by unwanted objects. Floors, walls, columns and ceilings begin to crumble and fall. Everything starts to crack.

“I swear, if I ever get out of this room alive, I promise I will never eat Jeannie’s cake without her permission!” she said as she was hoping that the floor beneath her or the room floor would not cracked. From her view, she could see the little window on the door revealing the boulders that were blocking her way out. The boulders fall away from the door, tumbling down according to the earthquake vibration.

The earthquake stops. She steps out from under the table and walk towards the door. With her hand on the handle, she opens the door.

 She stopped!

Why did she stop opening the door? From the window, she saw five female nurses. Walking around like a corpse. She wondered whether the nurses out there are either injured which cause them to walk like that or they are drunk.

“HEY! ARE YOU-!” before Stephanie could finish off her sentence, a hand went around her face, covers her mouth, drags her back down and shuts the door. Stephanie struggles. She couldn’t see the strangers face as it was hidden with a ski mask. Thinking that it was a psychopath that was running about in the university that causes the earthquake with bombs, she fights back. Using the knowledge she learned from her high school days of martial arts, she uses her elbows to hit the enemy’s stomach. The perpetrator gasped for air, she uses this opportunity and kicks the enemy back down. Stephanie prepares herself in a fighting stance and charges towards the perpetrator. The stranger panic and then… he shouts.

“W-W-WAIT!! WAIT!! WAIT!! DAMN GIRL! DO YOU GO KILL ANYONE WHO TRIED TO SAVE YOUR BLOODY ASS??!! COUGH! COUGH!” he said.

“HUH??? SAVE ME? YOU’RE LIKE TRYING TO KILL ME!!”She shouted in anger.

“WHA- OH… sorry about the rough handlings but it was a last moment there. You’re about to get yourself killed by them.” He said

“What are you talking about? There is no one there but the nurses. Look! I think they are hurt or probably just drunk. Anyway, I’m done wasting time with you, so if you’ll excuse me-!”

“DID YOU NOT HEAR WHAT I JUST SAID? YOU’RE GOING TO GET YOURSELF KILLED IF YOU GO OUT THERE TO THOSE NURSEY BITCHES! AND BY THE WAY, THEY ARE NOT HUMAN!!” he interrupted. “If you take a GOOD LOOK at those things, you can tell… go on! Just take a peek and try not to reveal yourself!!”

Stephanie hates being shouted at and she definitely hates being told what to do. But seeing this situation and trying to see his point. She went towards the door and peek. This time, she saw the nurses clearly. Their uniforms were soaked with blood; her left hand was holding a head while her right hand was holding a butcher knife. Her skin was gray as if she or “it” had already rotted for a long time. And her face was covered with another thin layer of human skin. There were no eyes, mouth or nose except for her ears.

“HOLY SHIT! WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY??” she said to him in a soft voice.

“Don’t know. All I know that they have some issues with us. I mean look at them. They are carrying a head as if it’s a first aid kit box!’’

She pauses for a moment. Thinking what to say to the person who tried to save her. “urm… im sorry on the…uh… well, the whole hitting you and trying to beat the crap out of you. And thanks….for warning me or saving me… whatever…” she said it in a soft tone.

“it’s alright… it’s an experience… and I’ll never ever do that again to a girl… who knows they could kill me just like you. ” he joked.

“I’ll take that as a compliment…” she said it sarcastically.

“Look… I don’t know how many more people could be stuck here in the university but we got to work together to stay alive to find the others or at least a way out. So, we should start get along now. “He said.

“Fine, but how can I trust someone who has his ski mask on…” she said and points directly to his face.

“Oh! Hold on. I totally had forgotten about it.” He took off his ski mask and revealed a good looking punk dude with one stud piercing between his ridge and three studs piercing on his chin. “I’m Caleb.” He introduces himself.

“…Stephanie…” she answered shyly.

“Alright… cool… now; we just got to wait for them to walk away.”

Stephanie didn’t care who she was with. As long that person did not try to do anything funny like probably use her as a sacrifice and then that person made a run for it. She didn’t know who this Caleb was. She decided to be cautious of him in case of panic situation or if anything goes wrong. All she knows, is that her friend, Jeannie, is stuck somewhere in the lift and she needs help.

        Jon on the other hand, was walking continuously the hall.

        “Man, I didn’t know the hall could be like… this long… it’s like a never ending hall!” he thought to himself. This goes on for a while and he starts to wonder is he walking around in circles. It was kind of dark since there is no light in the hall.

        “There’s got to be a flash light here somewhere… I remember that this university has some flash light box or some emergency box on the wall here somewhere…”

        Using his hands to feel around, he felt that the walls were wet and cold. He knew well that it was blood but he didn’t bothered or perhaps he tried not to be bothered by it. He felt a cold steel surface. Straight away, he knew it was the emergency box. He opened it and took out the flash light. He uses it and aims it directly in front of him. And to his shock, he saw a very humongous fat man.

His lower mouth jaw was gone as if it had been broken off and his tongue was split in half while dangled down. Its salive is not a transparent liquid. It had mix with his blood which makes his drools sticky and bloody. His eyes were sewn shut. It wore a farm boy outfit with variety types of knives in its pockets. It was chopping other students that were still in the university and some were still alive but couldn’t say anything as they were dying and breathing on their last breathes. Some were gargling on their blood. The foul stench of blood fills the air. To his disgust, Jon tried to hold back his urge to throw up but the sight of his classmates and other students from his college being hacked alive was too unbearable for him to see. There was nothing he could do to save them. It was already too late for them. He felt guilty leaving them but he had no choice. He could not fight such a big monster and he was unarmed. He had no weapon with him, not even an army swiss pocket knife.

He walks back slowly and points away the direction of his flash light in the opposite way. As he was walking, he accidently stumbled on a janitor’s mop bucket. The monster heard the noise and starts walking towards it. There were no rooms nearby for him to hide. He shuts off his flashlight and stayed very quiet. The stench of it is so mortifying that he has to pinch his nose tightly. It then starts to smell for Jon. Jon walks hastily as it seems to follow smell and noise. He tried to make his footsteps soft as possible to make it lost its way towards him but it seems that his scent was already caught by the fat monster. Jon didn’t really see where he was going as he was paying too much attention to the monster hoping that it would just go away. He reaches to a dead end.

        “Shit! Damn it!’’ he said. He looks around and saw a male student corpse.

“ DWAYNE???!” to his shock, it was his president from the student council. His upper body was there but his lower body was missing. He was cut to half. And his organs were coming out from him. It seems that he had fallen to their hands he thought. He felt sorry for the president. Then… an idea crosses his mind. He felt bad using his president as a shield but he has no choice. His president was dead but Jon is still alive and breathing. He takes his hand, took large amount of blood from the president and smothered himself with it and uses the president body to cover himself and his scent. 

There, Jon stayed very still till it arrives… he tried to look for Jon but finds it difficult. Jon scent was caught till he was standing near the corpse. But it seems confuse. Jon scent was caught there but then another scent of a dead person covers it. The fat man or monster starts to growl in anger and thinks that his prey has fooled him and had gotten away. He turns his back and walk away. As Jon let down his guard and puts down the dead corpse, it turns around and threw his big knife towards Jon’s direction. Jon dodges the knife. It growled in anger thinking that it was almost being fooled by him. He charges forward with his big fat heavy feet like a bull running towards the target only this time, it wants his life. Jon run towards it and dodges his large arms. The chase begins.

“OH SHIT! SINCE WHEN DO FAT PEOPLE RUN FAST??” shouted Jon.  He jump and dodges bodies that were in his way. So many bodies were found in his way of escaping his death. He turns to his left and the monster takes a long time to turn as his body is so heavy. Noticing the weakness, he took advantage of it.

“TRY THIS YOU FAT PIECE OF LARD!” he said as he makes a turn. Jon turns to every direction it came upon his way. But little does his know that it’s leading to his trap. And it happened, he was trapped.

“CRAP!! NOT AGAIN!! WHY! WHY!!” shouted Jon.

It cornered Jon and this time it did not give any chance for Jon to slip away from its fat and heavy arms. It grabs Jon with one hand and starts squeezing his body.

“AHHH!!!” Jon shouted in pain as he can feel the tension in his ribs being slowly about to crushed.

“HEY FATSO!” a stranger shouted. It turns and saw a man with a shot gun pointing straight towards his fore head. The stranger pulls the trigger and the monster head being blown off with blood splattered on the walls and of course, on Jon’s face. Its large body fell down with a big impact.

The stranger walks towards Jon, giving him his shoulder for Jon to hang on to. Jon flashes his light towards him and it was Gregory from the management department office.

“Gregory?? Wha-!”

“No time to explain. We got to get you out of here before anymore of his fat club people shows up.” He interrupted. “Here, use this.” Gregory handed him a weapon. It’s a butterfly magnum caliber gun. “Ignore the size of the gun. Once you pull this trigger, it can really kill a person or monster with just one hit on the forehead.

“A gun?? But I never used a gun before… More importantly, WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GET THIS GUN??” Jon shouted.

“Well, I'll explain the gun part later. Now’s the time to use it. Unless you want to be their dinner…” Gregory said in a sarcastic tone.

“Fine…” Jon said. “And they say fat people are harder to kidnap…” Jon joked.

“I guess they were wrong about it then.” Gregory gave a comeback joke.

“Damn right they are wrong… Food grudges are meant to be feared.” He said. “Are we the only people left in this university?” Jon asked.

“No, I don’t think we are. So if there are survivors here, we should save them from the fate like the others here and your president.” He answered.  They both talked as they walked through the bloody hall.

Two saviors, two rescued and one saved by her own luck. How will this turn up for them in this dead university?

P.S: you probably found alot of mistakes in here... im kind of lazy to edit it so thats why...(-_-)/ enjoy... btw, writing this story is dangerous cause everytime i continue writing this story, there's a black out... lols... so probably thats why I'm not meant to be a writer... lols.. as for the pictures... yea.. still not able to relate it very well.. it will have to do. lols