When Yuji and the others reached the end of the narrow path, they stopped and stared at the tall tree that was in front of them, with a tall wall behind it.
"So, where do we go from here?" Elizabeth asked.
"Do we get back inside?" Layla asked.
"No" Yuji replied, "We go here", Yuji said, as he takes a few steps backwards, preparing for a run.
Yuji took a deep breath and quickly dashed and jumped towards the tree, then he used his left foot to spring up higher by landing his feet on the tree, making him go across the tall wall.
Yuji landed safely on the ground.
He quickly stood up and checked his surroundings, "this place looks like a wide empty back yard of the school," he said.
Yuji sees the entrance of a building. The entrance was a closed glass door leading to the inside.
As he takes a few steps forward, he suddenly stops in fear, sudden sweat of nervousness came crawling down from his face, knowing of what hurdle might await them, as he saw a horrible sight.
Meanwhile at the others perspective...
"How are we going to do that?" Jaspher asked.
"Don't you remember?" Ryan replied, "We just injected ourselves earlier, we should be able to make it to the other side within one jump".
"Oh yeah... I actually forgot about that" said Layla.
"tsk, he even knew that too, that's why he didn't bother saying anything and just jumped," Ryan said as he jumped with no step backs, and made it easily across.
"All right! I'm going next" Jaspher said as he stepped back and ran for a jump.
"He's amazing isn't he?" Elizabeth said.
"Who?" Layla asked.
Jaspher crossed the wall.
"Yuji" Elizabeth said, as Layla was stunned,
"I mean...despite having no ability and having the status of being the lowest..." Elizabeth looked up, "He seemed to be a vital role in our surviving don't you think?" she said as she looked at Layla.
"Now that you mention it..." Layla replied, "we have been following him without thinking too much, maybe because of his knowledge in these kind of situations...".
"And despite being called a weakling..." Elizabeth said as she was taking steps forward closer to the wall, "for a second, he made us think that he was superior to us...".
"Now that I think about it, I don't know... if right now we're on the same level or he's actually more valuable than us..." She said as Layla remained speechless.
hearing what Elizabeth said, Layla had a sudden burst of thoughts and question in her head.
"Now that I think about..." Layla thought, "The schools hierarchy was fully based on the level of the students, or was it just the students own discrimination..." She thought as she stood beside Elizabeth.
"He was called a weakling, the lowest of the low...why... was he called like that?"
Layla and Elizabeth held hands, and together, they jumped across the wall.
After they landed, they looked around and saw Ryan and Yuji Standing frozen in front of the glass door leading to the entrance of a building, as Jaspher was behind them looking completely nervous.
"What's going on?" Elizabeth said.
"Well... it seems like the two of them saw something and are wispering to each other right now..." Jaspher replied.
"Guys..." Yuji turned around and said, "We got good news and bad news...".
"The good news is, the east testing facility is right across this building" Said Yuji.
"And the bad news?" Layla asked.
"Is that the east testing facility is right across THIS building" said Ryan.
"Huh?" Jaspher said, "what do you..."
"Come and take a look" said Yuji.
Jaspher walked closer.
"And make sure you don't scream" said Ryan.
Jaspher swallowed, showing signs of nervousness.
When Jaspher moved forward he looked at the direction where Yuji and Ryan were staring.
"It's a glass door, the entrance to this building right?" Jaspher said, As Ryan and Yuji remained silent.
Jaspher moved closer until he was able to see clearly what's behind the glass door.
"TH...THATS!" Jaspher quickly held his hand over his mouth, he stopped his scream from coming out as Yuji and Ryan stared at him, as if they were ready to stop him from screaming.
What they saw behind the glass door was a gruesome display of multiple dead students lying down on the floor, with scattered blood all around the hall.
"What the heck..." Jaspher said in a shaky voice.
"What's going on?" Layla said as she approached them with Elizabeth behind her.
Layla and Elizabeth suddenly froze with fear as soon as they saw what was behind the glass door.
"And the east testing facility is just on the other side too..." Elizabeth said in a shaky voice.
Right after she spoke, everyone felt at a loss.
As Elizabeth was thinking of what was going to happen, she started staring at Yuji expecting hope from him.
As Ryan, Layla, and Jaspher were at the same situation, they saw Elizabeth staring hard at Yuji as if she was looking at a slot machine hoping to get something good, then eventually everyone was staring right at Yuji.
While everyone was looking at Yuji, his eyes were closed and was breathing deeply.
"info..." Yuji whispered, He suddenly raised his head and faced everyone, "we need info..." he suddenly stopped as he notices that everyone was looking at him before he said anything.
"what?, what's the idea?" Ryan said.
"Not an idea yet..." Yuji said "but we're not going to get anywhere by just standing here in despair...".
"Then what should we do?" Elizabeth asked.
"Hope your not planning anything crazy like running through the hall again" Jaspher said.
"Like I said, this isn't an idea, but something we should do" Said Yuji, "Check everything, we need information right now", Yuji moved forward closer to the door, "we need to get information on everything around so we could think of an idea.".
"What do you mean?" Layla asked.
"In order to know what to do, first let's find out about our current situation," Yuji said as he was staring hard at the corpses inside the halls without going inside.
"Why are you staring so hard at those dead bodies?" Layla asked, "some part of the bodies were crushed and at a really nasty state, I can't even look a few seconds without getting sick".
"Your right..." Yuji said, "These are pretty nasty..."
"One guys body seemed like it was thrown real hard over the pile of bodies and hit the wall, making his head splat blood all over that wall at the end"
"There is also this one guy, who got his head bashed really hard against the wall, along with his broken neck, I say he got hit really hard.
"And there is also that one girl..."
"STOP IT!" Layla interfered, "I know I said I don't want to look but I can imagine you know?, why are you doing this?" Layla said in a teary voice.
"Because it will help us know what we're dealing with here," said Yuji, "the corpses are fresh too, they didn't die by getting bitten and turned, they got horribly massacred by something powerful".
"Well, judging from the fact that these many were dead in horrible ways, we can say that this wasn't a doing of a horde right? especially low classes".
"And for an akuma to be able to kill students with specialized weapons..." Yuji said.
"What!?" Ryan said in surprise, he then quickly looks closer through the window and observed "What the!?, they... had specialized weapons?".
"Then there's no doubt..." Jaspher said in a shaky voice, "were talking about a high class aren't we?".
"The corpses didn't make it near the door," said Yuji, "and there's no signs of the door being moved in this kind of mess.".
"Are you saying were safe here outside?" Ryan said.
"Not safe but definitely in less danger" Yuji replied, "as long as we don't encounter whatever done this...".
"But how are we going to get to the facility then?" Lalya asked.
"Look around, the akuma must still be inside, maybe we can get an alternative route," said Yuji.
Everyone looked around and carefully approached windows, with the thought that an akuma might be beside one.
Yuji along with Ryan moved to the right carefully and saw something on the ground.
"Huh?, is that..." Yuji said, "Blood!?"
Yuji and Ryan were surprised and confused, as they found blood on the ground near the entrance.
"Wait, Why?, The entrance clearly hasn't been touched!" Said Yuji.
Ryan tried to open a window for a possibility that someone opened a window and got out.
"The windows is open!" said Ryan, "But there's no sign of someone or something going out, the classroom is clean and untouched!".
"Besides that window, maybe the ones abo..." Yuji stood silent after he looked up, as fear and tension grabs a hold of his whole body, making him stiff.
he saw a broken window with blood stains above the first floor window Ryan opened, where the blood lies on the ground.
The window looked like as if something huge broke out of there, dripping with blood.
And as Yuji figured it out Ryan and Yuji saw something come out of the corner from a distance.
A large arm popped out from the corner of the building, which seemed to be an alternative path besides the main entrance.
Followed by a large body, yet smaller than the arm, along with the whole body of the akuma as the akuma faces them.
"Don't tell me..." Ryan said, his voice being slightly shaky.
"We're in big trouble" said Yuji
The akuma seemed to be just below 6 feet tall, had a shape and form of a gorilla, except it's arms were overly sized, and bigger than the body, with over grown veins on it's head covering one of it's eyes, making it seemed like it only has one eye.
"That's!" said Yuji, as he suddenly notices the form the akuma is taking, as if the akuma was about to take off or go for a run.
The akuma used its two enormous hands to grip the ground in front of it, as it steps back a bit, like a hand sling shot.
"WAHTCH OUT!" Yuji said as he jumped quickly on the side.
Right as Yuji shouted, the akuma came dashing very fast towards Yuji and Ryan.
Ryan managed to dodge the akumas dash, due to Yujis warning.
But they didn't notice that only they had a clear vision of the akuma, and a certain someone was behind them, who did not get a clue on what's happening.
Right after dodging, Yuji and Ryan looked back, and what they saw was.
BANG!...CRASH!
"JASPHER!!" Yuji shouted, he did not realize jaspher had been right behind them when the akuma appeared.
Jaspher came flying really fast, he hits the wall really hard, enough for the wall to have cracks, as his body fell sitting down on the ground, slouching beside the wall.
Blood dripped from Jasphers head, as his head looks down on the ground.
"Is he..." Elizabeth said almost seemed like she was about to cry, on her teary voice.
"Elizabeth!" Layla grabs Elizabeths hand and gripped it tightly, as she looks at her directly in the eyes saying, "keep it together".
Elizabeth straightened her face and faced their situation.
As the akuma stopped, by drifting it's feet hardly on the ground, it stopped from it's very fast dash.
It was the worst possible scenario. The akuma they feared, and hoped not to face, came crashing in front of them, making them face it, as one of their ally was taken down by the said akuma.
"Our luck must have really sucked" said Yuji, "the worst possible scenario we were trying to avoid just came forcing it's way here...".
"But there's nothing we can do" said Ryan, " If we want to survive..."
"We have to face this!"
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