Free Draconic Testament by Zac Atie Page B

forgot what happens when he closes his eyes, and decides to go along with it. The glowing silhouettes appear in the background, number 3 vanishing off the map as usual. He could sense where he was, the Haven. Then, he could also sense the killer. He hadn’t been caught. For some reason, Bastion felt a little… relieved, and a huge weight was lifted from his chest. The killer was still out there, which meant that all his odd fatigue and depression was being lifted. He wondered if it would stay away if it was him who was the one to catch the guy… but then he realized something that stopped his heart dead. Veronica was nearby the killer, and she was being controlled, mind washed, much like number 2 and the woman he had seen in the parking lot. He couldn’t believe this was happening, and that he had missed it. He had been messing around all day, and now this was happening. He cursed, and tracked where they were going. The school… They were going to the school, since the school is practically deserted on the weekend, and if anyone saw him… “Goddamnit!” Bastion hissed, startling Talia, and he stood up.
“Wha- What’s the matter?” Talia asked, bewildered, hiding her body, as she had taken off her top and bra. “I have to go.” Bastion huffed “Sorry.”. He jumps down off the platform and begins to push himself through the gap in the fence. “You can’t be serious!” Talia growls, picking up her clothes. “Really!?” 

The High School. It was completely silent, the only sound to be hear was the wind blowing overhead. Peering through the rusty gates, the school looked as if it was but a picture, a still image in a very real, sinister world. Bastion felt as if he was looking at the post apocalypse, an empty area that used to be full of activities and innocence reduced to a front for dark horrors. Knowing that he had to enter there, when there was all but about 3 people actually around on this day, bothered him… But if he didn’t, someone he knew would die. He didn’t know, nor like Veronica all that well, but she didn’t deserve to just die. To perish at another’s hands like she was cattle. The gates were locked, and both the fence and the gate had barbed wires over it. So, how did they get inside? Bastion examined the perimeter, going about 1/3 around the fences of the gates till he found what looked like a whole in the fence, a large one. It looks as if it had been both cut, and burnt, since the ends of the fence that were cut were scorched. He pushed through the fence, still feeling some sort of sinister heat from the broken chain link fence, ending up in the teacher’s car park, which was behind the main building. He takes out his Medallion, that had been charged in the early hours of Talia’s revision session, and searched for Veronica. The silhouette was large, which means she was close by, in the assembly hall. The killer seemed to be pacing back and forth, while she was bound on her knees. He was making sudden movements that looked like acts of frustration. He could hear very faint shouting from the echoes emitted from the assembly. Where was everybody? Bastion readied himself, taking a deep breath, and puts on the Medallion he took from the killer’s apartment. He looks around for some sort of weapon to use against the killer. In the corner, next to a dirty drain, were a cluster of iron pipes propped up against the wall, and also lying on the floor. Bastion rummages through the selection, looking for the most useful piece in combat, when he comes across a broken pipe. The pipe was sharp at the end of which it was broken. He thought it was incredible that the school just left this here, but he couldn’t be mad at them right now. He runs up to the double doors with small windows into the main building, but find that it’s locked. Bastion curses, but then remembers some old advice from his history teacher about double glazing windows. He gets his iron pipe and attacks the bottom left