Chapter Three

"Match will now start." As Aesop heard the voice, in a blink of an eye, he was suddenly transported in a different map. He recognized the map to be Leo's Memory, as this was the only map that was snowing.

Aesop quickly found a spot to hide his coffin, then proceeded to decode a cipher. Halfway through decoding, a loud chiming bell sounded out. Emily told Aesop that whenever he heard this it means that a hunter hit a Survivor. But even so, Aesop still decided to finish decoding the cipher. After decoding the cipher, he suddenly heard a blood curdling scream. "Run!" Aesop heard Emily scream in terror before he felt his heart pounding hard.

There were purple rays surrounding his heart. But then, he quickly realized that the hunter was near him. Aesop ran as fast as he could but to no avail. Soon, the Hunter was catching up. "Dang!" A few seconds later, Aesop saw "Joseph", he had a gorgeous but cracked face, straight silver hair with a golden ribbon tying his hair.

He also had a sword as his weapon. This "Joseph" was breathtakingly handsome. Aesop was surprised, was he drunk? How could he think about this? He was a man. It was even clearly stated in the book that you can't fall in love with any of the Hunters. If you do, both of you will get killed. Aesop was out of his mind.

Because of that, Joseph hit his hair tie with his long sword. Aesop's mid length hair was revealed and a few pieces of his hair was cut. His silver hair was straight with no tangles whatsoever. Aesop kept on running until he felt a sharp pain on his back. "Ugh!" Aesop held his back to see his white glove now covered in blood. Aesop ran, he saw the hunter clutching his heart in pain. He was surprised but still ran away, limping.

Joseph's point of View

After I successfully eliminated Emily from the game, I went to a nearby cipher to look for more survivors. Indeed when I was near it, I heard footsteps. The survivor was running away from me. I walked up to the survivor, and soon I saw him. He had a ponytail on his silver hair and a mask that covered his mouth. I was shocked. He looked good on the photo, but he even looked better in real life! I didn't want to hit him, but I had to.

I swung my sword at him and surprisingly, I only hit his hair tie. I was always accurate with my hit, but now I hit his tie? He continued to run but I swung my sword at his back. I successfully hit his back but once I saw his back covered in blood, I suddenly felt pain. It was... A weird pain... It felt like my heart was being torn apart. It felt so weird. It was extremely uncomfortable. I clutched my heart in pain. In the corner of my eye, I saw Aesop run away from me, limping.

I tracked down his blood on the snow and soon saw him again. I reluctantly hit Aesop again and now he was on his knees. I felt pain in my heart again. I was suffering. I took a quick glance at Aesop and saw his bloody gloves clutching his clothes in pain. My heart ached. I picked him up, tied him to a balloon and went to the nearby rocket chair. "I'm sorry..." I said while walking to the rocket chair. Aesop was struggling but I said. "Don't struggle... Please... It's no use.." Aesop looked at me, surprise written all over his face. I looked at Aesop, his silver hair was now covered in snow. And snow was trickling down on his face. He looked at me again then finally sighed and stopped struggling. "Why... Why are you telling me all these...?" Aesop weakly said with a hoarse voice to me. I was surprised at his question, but surprisingly, I couldn't answer. Indeed, why was I doing all these? Why did my heart ache when I saw him injured? Why do I feel different when I'm with him? I had a thousand different questions in my mind and I didn't even realize I stopped moving. I looked at Aesop again then said. "If I said I don't know would you believe me?" I said. Aesop stared at me then said. "No." "But I actually don't know." I told Aesop. "Maybe I like you." Aesop looked surprised. His face was red, maybe because it was cold and he wasn't even wearing anything thick. Aesop then said. "Like me? What... What do you mean..?" Aesop asked me with a husky voice. "Exactly what it means. I don't really know. I'm confused myself." I don't know why but I unconsciously smiled while saying that. Aesop's face was red. He looked embarassed but I don't mind. He looked cute when he looked embarassed.

I was now in front of a rocket chair and soon tied Aesop to it. "Don't struggle it'll hurt more." I said to Aesop. But surprisingly the chair was now covered in black goo that engulfed him and the rocket chair. "Sorry..." I heard Aesop mumble. In the next second he was gone. "Coffin..." I mumbled. I completely forgot about it. There were 3 ciphers remaining and I only got Emily so far.

I went to a camera and soon went to the camera world. There I saw Eli. I hit Eli two times until he was now kneeling and soon put him on the rocket chair. After a few minutes, I was now out of the camera world and soon tied Eli to the rocket chair (again). I was now expecting Martha to come since she hadn't saved Emily a while ago. Soon enough I saw her come. I hid behind the rocket chair to avoid being shot by her flare gun but unfortunately, she still hit me. After saving Eli from the rocket chair they both went separate directions. I followed Eli and hit him again but his owl blocked a hit for him. I smirked and hit Eli again. Now Eli was kneeling on the snow which was now painted red by the blood. I picked him up, tied him to the balloons and soon put him on the rocket chair. Now I just waited for the countdown to finish before Eli was now sent back to the manor. After doing so there was one more cipher left. I went back to the camera world again and found Martha decoding the last cipher with Aesop.

My heart ached for no particular reason I felt blood rushing through my veins as I hit Martha and put her on the rocket chair. A few more minutes and now I was back to the real world. Martha was now kneeling on the ground while I saw Aesop healing her. "Stop..." I mumbled to Aesop but he couldn't hear me. I was angry because Aesop was healing Martha. Aesop was touching her! It was unnecessary!

I quickly took large strides towards the both of them and soon took hold of Aesop's arm. "Stop." I said. I was angry but I tried containing it. I put Martha on the rocket chair and now only Aesop was left. I couldn't bear to hit Aesop again as he successfully ran to the dungeon. Soon after, I was transported back to the lobby and saw huge words in front of me. WIN it said. I successfully eliminated three survivors in my first game. I wasn't happy that I only eliminated three but I was actually glad that Aesop escaped. I didn't want to hurt him. It was like part of my body was stopping me from hitting him. I soon left the lobby, thinking and questioning myself. Do I... Like Aesop? I quickly shook my head about it then thought "That's obviously against the rules." But then, I questioned myself again. Why did I act weird when Aesop was healing Martha? Why was I so impulsive? I then again had a thousand question in my head.

- End of Chapter 3 -