An Unexpected Alliance

~•Tia's P.O.V•~

"I obviously…Killed him." All our eyes widen. "What?" "No! You monster!" Sam tries to attack Mrs. Apple, but she creates a cage made of plants, incasing Sam inside. "Huh? You think that a few plants can stop me?!" Sam asked, chuckling with visible anger.

Sam grabs the bars, but immediately takes his hands off, screaming from the pain. "What the fuck?!" "These aren't normal plants, these plants are called Krintix." "What the hell is a Krintix?" "It's a plant that releases gas, making you hallucinate to see the plant you like the most. Touching it will prick you with a slow-acting poison."

"Wait, so I'll die?" Sam stood up as he groaned. "Yes, you will." Mrs. Apple rolls her eyes and sighs. "Anyway, my offer is still open. If you give me one of you, I will cure Sam and unlock the door." "And if we don't?" Anna asked. "I'll use Sam instead." Just as Mrs. Apple said that I could see the fear and panic forming in Sam's eyes. Mrs. Apple conjures a portal. "Once you've decided, push that person into this portal. Well, are you going to do it or not?"

She starts tapping her foot against the floor. "I'm…So sorry." Serena says to Lucas, who turns around to face her. "What—" Serena pushes Lucas into the portal and he disappears inside it. "No! What the fuck, Serena?!" "I'm sorry it was the only way!" We all look back to the portal and see it turning red. Soon, blood splurts out of it.

"Lucas…" I fall down to my knee, losing one of my closest friends. "Until we meet again, my dearest students." Mrs. Apple smiles at us before entering another portal she made, closing both portals as she enters. "Guys, we have to run before the other demons come." We all gather our strengths back and leave the school basement.

We enter the school garden, as we're about to enter the first building, a crow flies by us and we duck down. "Oh my god!" "What was that?!" We look behind us to see where the crow where it came from but as we do Anna falls down from shock as we see a crow-like person, who looks a lot like the plague doctor. It wore everything the plague doctor wore, except if it were in the modern world. It wore a black suit with a red tie. It also wore a rose petal on the chest. It also had a cane equipped, a rose placed stuck unto the top of the cane.

Weirdly though, it didn't move, like, it was as still as a statue. "It's not…Moving." Serena raises an eyebrow and is just about to touch the demon, but I stop her. "Ow! What was that for?" "Don't touch it, we don't even know anything about this demon." "Tia's right, we need to leave before it actually does something." We all agree to continue back into the school but as we turned around, we heard multiple crows flying away.

When we looked at what happened, the demon was gone. "Woah, where'd it go?" Sam ran to the demon's previous location. "This is our chance to escape, let's go—" Vernon is cut off when a ritualistic circle starts forming underneath our position. "Run!" We all run away to the outside radius of the circle and we manage to get out, just in time as lava covered in red roses surfaced up from the circle.

"What the hell is that?!" I asked, completely shocked by what I just saw. "We should go back into the third building!" We all agree and start running, more circles starting to form as we did. We reach the door and I close it. "In here!" Serena gestures us into a classroom and we get in.

"What the fuck was that thing?" "I don't know…Could it be one of the revived demons?" "I mean, when the lava came up, it was almost fully covered in roses. So, I think it could be the resurrected version of The Shade." "I agree. Also, why didn't it move earlier?" "Yeah, that was so weird." "It's our first time ever encountering a resurrected demon, and they seem really strong." I stood up.

"This is bad, we lost all our progress, and now the demons look like they're almost impossible to beat." Anna crossed her arms, sighing. "We'll find a way…I hope." We all sit down for a while, waiting for time to pass by, and soon we decide to go out. "Is it clear outside?" Vernon asked, and Beatrice looks outside the door, closing it right after. "There's…Something out there." "What?"

"It looked like a nurse straight out from the silent hill series." "Did it see you?" Vernon asked. "No, it didn't. We should wait until it leaves the premises." "Agreed." We sit back down, and some wander around the room. Time passes by, and I'm just about to say something when…"Oh! Sorry." The book Beatrice was holding falls to the floor, creating a loud thud sound.

I immediately look outside to see if the demon saw us, and when I did, it was already close to the door of the room we were in. "Shit..! Everyone, hide..!" I against the door, just under the window at the top of the door. The others hid in closets, behind the curtains, and underneath the tables. As we heard the footsteps getting closer, we were getting ready to run when suddenly…We hear two girls running outside.

I look outside the door's window and I see that the nurse decided to go for the two girls instead. "Guys, get over here." I gesture the others to me and we look outside the door. As we looked we saw the thing grabbing one of the girls. Then, it stabbed itself with a syringe, making some of us gasp in shock. As the syringe filled up, we saw that the liquid was dark green. After filling the syringe up, the demon takes it out itself and stabs it into the girl's chest.

The girl screams in pain and the demon lets go of her. Her mouth starts fizzling as she has a seizure. Soon, her body turns grayish-black as we see her blood vaporize in front of us. "What the fuck just happened..?!" Sam closed the door, seeing that the demon went to find the other girl. "Well, that was definitely Mrs. Jones." "Yeah, you're right." "Hello? Are we just gonna ignore the fact that it literally has acid for blood?"

Serena raises an eyebrow, placing her hands on her hips. "We'll talk about Mrs. Jones later, we don't have the time for this. We need to find the others." "I agree." We all agree and we head out the door. As we enter back the school garden, we go start going back to the first building. We soon reach the door and as we are about to enter, an arrow passes through Anna's hair.

"Huh?" We all turn around and see…"A demon!" As I observed the demon, I noticed it wore an assassins' red armor. It had a bow and arrow equipped and it also wore a…Yin and Yang mask…"Dad?" Sam started to walk slowly towards the demon and I immediately grab him and drag him inside the door, as I did I closed it after. "No! Our dad's still out there!" Sam tried to go back, but the others help me to stop them.

"You'll die out there! He's not your dad anymore!" "He's lost his consciousness, Sam!" "Please stop moving because that thing is going to come here any second now!" "Yeah, we need to get out of here!" Sam snaps back, and stops. "Sorry…I…" "We know, don't worry, we'll get him back, but for now, we need to get the fuck out of here!" As we're about to escape, the door flings open, and The Riddler enters the room.

As The Riddler entered the room, it starts charging an attack at us, but just as it's about to be released a potion bottle is thrown across the room, creating a smoke cloud between us and the demon. "Students, quickly!" We look to our left and see…"Mr. Woods?!" We all hesitate but run to our science teacher. "Are you all okay?" "Yes, but we need to get out of here now!" Mr. Woods nods and throws one more bottle at the demon.

We enter the science room and sit down. We all sigh and take a deep breath. "How do we know you're not tricking us?" Serena stood up. "Mr. Anderson told me about you." "You're not answering my question. Also, why did you help us?" Serena added. "Mr. Anderson and I talked to each other when he was still here. A few minutes ago, he told me that he wanted me to protect you all if something happens to him. "Wait, you two talked with each other?" "Yes." "Then that means you're…" "I've gained back my consciousness."