A teenage boy, with medium length dark grey hair tied behind his head with a rubber band was walking down a silent road. He had a small frame and it was hard to tell if he had any muscles under his clothes, it looked as if he had no expression in his face. Also, he was pale, as pale as the moonlight someone could say.
He had a bag on his back, and a book on his hand, which he was reading. He walked with a purposeful stride despite his small stature. After walking for a while, he approached a bridge, at the end of which there was a girl standing, with hair and eyes as blue as the ocean.
She had a slender figure, and was almost as pale as the boy. She was wearing a blue blazer with a white blouse underneath it, and a blue pleated skirt which fell just below her knees. It seemed like she was waiting for someone, she too didn’t seem to have any expressions on her face.
But that quickly changed after she saw the boy, a feeling of euphoria came sweeping across her entire body. Her face expression changed to a smile, her eyes started to seemingly glow, and her overall vibe changed to a happy one.
“Hey Shin,” she called out to the boy.
However, Shin didn’t seem to care, he still had that empty expressionless look on his face, and then he walked down the bridge like there was nothing there. He blatantly ignored her. But the girl didn’t seem to care, as if she was used to being ignored.
The girl then followed Shin, on their way to school the girl kept continuously rambling in front of Shin. Shin would however ignore her as if she just didn’t exist there. After a while they arrived at the school.
It was the best school in Japan. It was known as the hub of excellence with only the most exceptional students having the privilege to study here. This school was famous for having pumped out the future leaders of their society.
The school was a tall building with 6 floors, it seemed to be a blend of modern architecture and Japanese design. The soft rays of sunlight peeking through the cloudy sky made the school look even more extravagant.
Normally there seemed to be a sense of warmth and curiosity looming in the school building. But today it had a gloomy and sinister vibe. There were at least a few students walking in the ground and the corridors, but today there were absolutely no one on those places.
As Shin and Azura entered the building they were quickly met by a surprise, a man wearing black robes covering their entire body except their eyes. He was holding an automatic rifle in his hands
He was a terrorist.
The terrorist yelled, “Hey you two, put your hands behind your head, and follow me silently.”
Without a change of expression Shin nodded his head in Yes.
But the girl, she was terrified, after seeing the terrorist with a rifle. A memory of a man and a woman being shot to death flashed in her mind.
Her face changed to that of terror, it looked like she was almost about to run away from the terrorist but then, Shin took a glimpse at the girl’s eyes, and her face, almost suddenly seemed calm, it gave the impression of being at peace with the world. It was almost unbelievable how her emotions had a sudden change.
At that moment Shin thought,
He would have probably killed her if she ran away, Azura what were you thinking.
Shin and Azura started following the terrorist through the first floor of the school, the first two floor in their school were reserved for school faculty, but today there were only about 10-15 terrorists moving some sort of boxes inside the faculty rooms, but it was difficult to make out what was inside.
What could be inside these boxes, Shin wondered.
At the same time Azura had a smirk in her face, while thinking about how Shin took a glance at her.
OMG Shin I’m so sorry, if I had run away, he would have probably killed me. But it made you take a glance at me; I’d call that a success.
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The terrorist then took them to the first room of the third floor, where Shin and Azura saw kids around the age of 8 sitting on their benches, with fear on their eyes.
Inside the room he met another terrorist to whom he whispered something, and left Shin and Azura on his care.
The terrorist said to them in a dominating voice, “You two don’t say a single word and go sit with those kids got it”.
Shin nodded his head, and Azura said in a faint voice, “Yes.”
The terrorist’s voice changed from and domination one, to a voice filled with disgust and he said, “oh what did you say little girl, I didn’t hear you.”
“Yes,” replied Azura in a slightly louder voice.
The terrorist yelled out, “but didn’t I tell you not to say a single word girl.”
The terrorist violently grabbed Azura’s hands, looked at Shin and said voice, “don’t you dare move, get it kid.”
Shin stared at the terrorist with neither a face of anger, nor a face of fear. Then the terrorist pulled Azura near the writing board on the class, and threw her on her knees.
Then the terrorist pointed his rifle on her terrified face from the front, at that movement the Azura’s eyes met Shin’s eyes and the girl, though terrified, smiled at Shin’s face.
Good Bye Shin, “thought the girl.”
Shin, maybe for the first time in his entire life, changed his expression, to an expression of care,
“Azura!”
His mind went blank and he charged at the terrorist.
When the terrorist noticed Shin charging at him, he fired his rifle at Shin, and shot him in the guts. While the terrorist was shooting Shin, only about 5 bullets had been shot, when Azura chocked him from behind.
Shin with blood flowing out from his guts, went to help Azura since the terrorist was too strong for Azura to handle alone.
As Shin was grabbing the terrorist’s arms he shouted, “Azura don’t leave his neck.”
Azura replied, “Yes Shin.”
Just after Shin and Azura had strangled the terrorist, the whole class went into a state of panic. Most of the children ran out of the class. As they were running out of the class, the accomplishes of the terrorist noticed them.
After that all that could be heard was the sound of gun shots and loud screams of the children being murdered mercilessly, the sound stopped after about 2-3 minutes.
An acrid stench of blood loomed in the school corridors, it seemed to emanate from the bodies of the kids killed by the terrorists.
While this was happening Shin and Azura were still chocking the terrorist, they both didn’t seem to be bothered by, neither the loud sounds nor the noxious smell of the blood and gore. Unlike the kids who didn’t run away from the class, they were shivering in fear and vomiting because of the foul smell of blood.
Just when the shooting stopped, the terrorist who was being chocked by Shin and Azura went unconscious.
He was dead.
After killing that terrorist, Shin let out a sigh of relief, but then he felt a throbbing pain on his gut. Azura saw the bullet wounds on Shin’s gut and the blood flowing out of it. She asked Shin with a loud yet concerned voice,
“Shin! are you okay, wait don’t move let me try to stop the bleeding.”
Shin nodded his head, and Azura tore the robe of the terrorist who they just killed to tie around Shin’s gut.
While she was doing this, the other terrorists quickly came to the classroom they were in, Shin tried to back away with Azura, but because of the pain he fell on the ground. Azura panting tried to pull Shin away from the terrorists.
The terrorists laughed at their feeble attempt to escape, one of the terrorists went to check on the man Shin and Azura had killed.
“He’s not breathing,”
As the terrorist who went to check on the man said this, all the terrorists grew really angry. One of them went up to Shin and Azura. Grabbed them both by the hair and yanked them upright with brutal force. A crimson stream of blood gushed down from Shin’s guts.
Azura shouts, “noooooo leave Shin alone you monsters, leave Shin alone or I’ll kill you.”
“Shut up you little,” the terrorist yelled at Azura and kicked her in the gut, which caused a lot of blood to ooze out from her mouth.
She let out a scream on pain.
“Don’t touch h-…”
The terrorist punched Shin in his gut and said, “Oh little boy, you really care for your girlfriend do you, then how bout we kill both of you together.”
Then, one of the terrorists said, “Hey weren’t they trying to reach the window before, let’s throw them out of the window.”
After saying these words, the terrorists grabbed Shin and Azura and said to them, “NOW DIE YOU BASTARDS.” Then they threw them both out of the window.
As Shin was falling down the window, all Shin had in his mind was,
I’ll kill them, how dare they lay hands on Azura, I’ll kill them, KILL THEM, KILL THEM, KILL THEM, KILL THEM, KILL THEM, KILL THEM, KILL THEM.
Azura more or less had the same thoughts on her mind, but there was another minor thing she thought,
Shin really cares for me, He cared for me, OMG SHIN CARED FOR ME.
When their body met the ground a loud sound of blood splatter could be heard, their bodies fell on top of each other and blood oozed out from their bodies in a rapid stream.
As they felt their consciousness fading on the final moment, both only thought of each other,
Then they died.
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After what seemed like moments to Shin, He felt his consciousness returning and before even opening his eyes he screamed,
“Azura!”
After opening his eyes, before getting up he crawled in his feet to find Azura whom he found about 5 feet away from her, he didn’t focus on the surroundings so he couldn’t tell what was there except Azura, but then a tall dark feminine shadowy figure appeared in front of them and said,
“So, you’re finally awake kiddo.”