Chapter Five

Lucas  makes his way through the creepy and dark park grounds thinking to himself, "A lot of weird things going on lately, maybe coming here was a bad idea".  

He walks whistling to himself until he sees a soldier beetle land in his path, it's bright wings being lit by ambient light and the dim moon. 

Lucas moves slowly forward and with a great leap he squashes the beetle with both feet. Seeing that it's still alive he kicks it again into a nearby bush. 

He giggles to himself as the bush rustles softly in the wind. He stares intensely at the bush until his laughter wanes and suddenly BLAM, a shotgun goes off with a bang and a bright flash. The pellets fly by and just miss him as he screams "Fuck!" and tries to run away from his attacker. 

Henry leaps out of the bush and aims again to shoot but misses as Lucas ducks behind a sign at the last moment. 

Lucas is panicking thinking of what to do and how to escape. As Henry reloads he takes the opportunity to run and throws an empty soda can as a distraction. 

He vaults over a turnstile and dives underneath the tracks of a nearby roller coaster. Lucas covers his mouth to make as little noise as possible while thinking to himself "What is going on, is that the rapist? I really shouldn't have come here". 

Henry runs after him shouting "Come out you prick" and fires a shot into the air. This startles Lucas but he tries to remain calm as he thinks of a way to escape. 

He slowly crawls from his hiding spot to the hollow space underneath the coaster boarding platform. Henry paces around on the platform, the thuds from his boots intimidating but guiding Lucas out with each step. 

Suddenly all is quiet and Lucas, sensing and opportunity, grabs a fistful of sand and gravel.

Henry jumps down and peers under the platform in search of his target. Lucas upon seeing him, throws the contents in his hand directly at Henry's face causing him to scream in pain. 

Lucas rushes from beneath the platform and attacks the now blinded Henry with the knife Kevin gave him. He pushes Henry to the ground and holds the knife over his throat screaming "Why are you after me?". Henry uses his greater strength and stops Lucas from stabbing him saying "You know why, you took her from me, made her suffer now I'm going to make you suffer". 

Henry spits in Lucas' eye and punches him square in the mouth knocking him over. Henry reaches for his pistol but the agile Lucas jumps and rolls onto the platform before he can shoot. 

Lucas leaps over the turnstile to the ride and runs as fast as he can towards the northern exit gate. Henry rips off his trench coat and chases after him, red with rage and firing futile shots at him from his shotgun. 

Lucas runs into a "Haunted house of horrors" through an open window in search of a place to rest and hide from his attacker. He lies down in the dark and quiet room thinking "What was he talking about? Clearly this must be a bad dream". 

He remains quiet as he hears a second set of footprints near the building then the blast of a shotgun opening the doors. 

Henry dusts off the sand still on his face and looks around. The room is dark so he turns on his flashlight only to see an assortment of disfigured clown faces. 

Lucas upon seeing the light tries to get away. Henry hears this and follows the footsteps to the mirror maze. He shoots wildly at the phantom images of Lucas screaming in anger "Come out you coward". Lucas simply laughs at the insanity of the situation which angers Henry even more, "Aaaaah I'm going to fucking kill you!".

Henry rushes wildly through the maze as the glass drops around him, finally he sees the real Lucas who flashes his camera at him saying "Smile". This blinds Henry again and gives Lucas the chance to run out the exit door. 

Lucas tries to put his camera into the bag but it gets snagged by a piece of dangling metal so he drops both and continues running. 

An enraged Henry shoots at the camera 3 times with his pistol and kicks it aside. 

Lucas can see the northern gate up ahead and rushes with all the strength he has left towards it. He fumbles with the key but eventually opens the gate and rushes to what seems like a long sought freedom. 

He sees two girls ahead walking in an empty parking lot and screams for their attention "Help please help help". The girls turn around and he recognises them right away as Gertrude and Sandra from his school. 

Lucas runs and falls at their feet panting and begging for help "Please… You got to help me… Someone's trying to kill me!". 

Sandra lifts him up and asks, "Who's after you, what's going on". 

Lucas grabs their hands and says, "No time to explain we need to leave now". 

Gertrude stands her ground and refuses to follow him. Lucas turns around and shouts, "What are you doing we need to leave now!" .

Gertrude asks "Lucas did you rape Ashley, I'm not going anywhere until you tell me what happened?". 

An angry Lucas rushes toward her and stares her down saying "I did not do that, I have never done that and I would never do that, we don't have time to be arguing…". 

Before he can finish they hear a rattle from the gate and see Henry rushing towards them. 

Lucas shouts "Shit" and runs off towards the nearby mass of trees. 

Both girls rush towards Henry shouting, "Henry stop he didn't do it". He pushes them aside and shouts, "Don't believe his lies". 

He takes aim at a clear shot of Lucas' back and pulls the trigger but nothing comes out of the barrel as the gun jams. 

Henry angrily tries to clear the jam but Gertrude grabs his arm saying, "I won't let you do this".

Henry punches her down and runs off shouting, "Stay out of my way!". 

Lucas runs aimlessly through the wood looking for a way to escape, his strength almost exhausted. 

Soon he sees a road and the flashing lights of a police car coming towards his direction. He uses all the strength he has left and runs directly into the car's path. The driver barely sees Lucas and stops at the last second. He uses the car door for cover as he steps out with his weapon in hand shouting, "Get down on the ground now!". 

Lucas raises his hands and begs with tears in his eyes, "Please help me, don't shoot please". 

The officer continues to shout, "On your knees, do it now!". 

Suddenly a shot is fired and Lucas feels a sharp hot pain in his abdomen and falls to the ground screaming. He looks around disorientated to see Henry standing behind him with his pistol raised in the air. 

He hears only the siren and  shouts of the police officer giving more instructions to Henry before finally fading into darkness. 

The End.