Just Getting By: With Mass Hysteria

I grabbed the chainsaw that was sitting on the bathroom floor.

"Now moving you to Lobby."

An intense and sudden amount of vertigo hit me. I closed my eyes to keep myself from vomiting, but the cheesy nachos from the gas station wanted out. I opened my mouth with my eyes sealed shut, and let loose the cannon's of old cheese sauce and shit tortilla chips.

"Ew. Can't you fucking do that somewhere else?"

An annoying voice that I didn't recognize punched through the air. The tone of her voice seemed like it could cut glass.

"Where the fuck am I?" I asked through gasping breaths.

"Do I look like some fucking expert?"

I opened my eyes and behind the girl I was next to, was a sea of people. Some of them were curled up into balls crying, some of them were banging on doors, and most of them just stood there in place.

"So what was the enemy you faced?" She asked looking honestly inquisitive.

"It looked like some kind of dead guy I guess." I shrugged not quite knowing how to respond. I assume that everyone here had to fight something I guess.

"Lucky." She looked down at her feet. I could hear her sniffling.

"Mine was my kid brother. He attacked me. His eyes were black and shit. I didn't know what to do."

She starred down at her hands. I could see faint stains of red covering the tips of her fingers. She started sobbing again.

I stepped away from my vomit and tried to get more details about what was going on.

"Has anything happened since you've shown up?" I asked interrupting her silenced sobs.

"Um... no I got here about five minutes before you did. If you don't mind me asking what did you choose for your reward." I could tell by her voice that she was trying to keep back the sobs.

"I choose option 1. It gave me a chainsaw, but ever since I came here it's been gone."

I shrugged my shoulders.

"I choose option 3. It said it gave me a heal spell. I haven't been able to doing anything with it though."

"My name is Tony. What's yours?" I stuck my hand out to offer a hand shake.

"Samantha, but you can just call me Sam." She looked at her hand for a second before clasping her hand around mine.

"Party successfully created" a voice sounded off in my head, and based off the surprise in her face I assume the same thing sounded off in hers as well.

"Well I'll honestly feel a lot better if we have to fight anything else if I have someone with me." I tried to smile awkwardly, but then people starting screaming over on a different side of the building. More and more screams could be heard, and there it was again. That fight or flight chugging away again.

"What the fuck is going on?" I said nervousness leaking through my voice.

"I don't know." She clutched my arm hard enough to make me lose feeling. I honestly didn't notice or care of the pins and needles in my hands. The screaming become louder and louder and a faint flash of red lights could be seen coming closer and closer. That's when I saw what was happening. People were vanishing in flashes of red light. They were there one second and gone the next. In a surging tide the wave of red kept coming closer and closer until...

PHWOOSH

The same vertigo feeling violently attacked my body. Luckily this time there was nothing to vomit up. Oh wait, there it is. The subway sandwich I had eaten about a few hours before the nachos.

"God Tony get control over your stomach. Stop vomiting everywhere. Where the fuck are we?"

I opened my eyes to see a brick stone surrounding me. It looked like some kind of sewer system. We were standing on the right side of the path. With thick brown muck passing us by in the middle. On the other side of the muck looked much like the pathway we were standing on.

"Some kind of sewer system I guess?" I stood up after being hunched over and using the sleeve of my jacket wiped my mouth. The stench of the muck was burning my eyes.

"Lets see if we can move along." I started slowly walking forwards with Sam right behind me.

"I'd feel a lot better if I had my weapon." I mumbled to myself and to my surprise that same display window back from my apartment popped up.

"Weapons"

1. Chainsaw- Uncommon

Attack- 67

Speed- 12

Range- 9

Special- Spin Attack

"How the fuck do I grab this?" I thought to myself. Then sure enough the chainsaw popped into my hands. Sam let out a short little shriek.

"How the fuck did you do that?" I could feel the panic in her voice as I seemed to have startled her.

"I was just wondering how to get the weapon I got back at my apartment. Maybe there's some kind of way to get your heal spell?" I shrugged my shoulders again. I could see a look of concentration on her face then all of a sudden I saw a faint glimmer of green. We pressed along. The faint bubbles that would burst through the brown muck only increased the stinging in my eyes, but my nose was already becoming used to the awful smell. After walking for what felt like half an hour I asked a simple question to Sam.

"Hey what were you doing when this started?"

"Um... doing my nails."

"No like literally when everything went down what were you doing. For me I was playing a game."

"Wait what game were you playing?" I looked at her for a second. Was this how we were connected? A fucking video game? Did my ass just get SAWOd (Sword Act World Online)?