Dance of the Damned

Reckless Idiots

"Carvill!" Madam Lottie shouted, making her way to the frantic man still trying to make his way through the crowd. "Stop!"

"Why is he such an i***t?!" Carvill shouted, still trying to push through.

"Carvill! Stop!" Madam Lottie grabbed onto his hand and pulled him away from the crowd of people so that they could run past them.

"Why are you stopping me?!" Carvill asked, trying to push the woman away but she would not move or release her hold on his hand. "Let go, Morgan."

"No." She frowned at the man, taking off her mask to glare at him. "I will not let you go in there recklessly."

"I'M the reckless one?!" He argued. "I am not the one that ran in there while I cannot see anything and is very sensitive to sounds!! You should be stopping him!"

"Roshi is never reckless." She said firmly though her hands still trembled. "I want to go to him too, Carvill, I would do anything he asks me to.

"If he does not say anything and takes off somewhere I cannot follow him, then I will wait here until he comes back." She released a shaky breath, still holding Carvill's arm. "Wouldn’t you do that for him, Carvill?"

"I wish he told me more things," Carvill said, defeated. "But, I suppose I do know the kind of person he is. Always taking the most dangerous ones. I wish he relied on us a little more."

"I believe he is." Madam Lottie pointed to the people at the top of the wall, attempting to jump to get away from the fire and the heat. "Come!"

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11: 50 P.M., 13 June

Micah ran through the crowd of people, because of his smaller stature, he was able to squeeze through the little gaps and push his way into the main part.

Someone grabbed onto his arm, making him flinch and pull his hand out, completely ignoring everyone.

"This way!" He heard a familiar voice and ran in that direction, bumping into Teri who did not recognise him. "What are you doing this way?! Go the other way!"

"Teri!" Micah shouted, pulling away at his blindfold slightly to reveal his eyes. "It's me!"

"Roshi!" Teri shouted with concern and relief. "What are you doing here?! Where is Carvill?!"

"There are too many at the front." He said as a person pushed him almost knocking him over but Teri managed to catch him.

"Are you ok??"

"I am fine!" He said, shaking his arm that got hit as he held the papers tightly in his hands. "Divide up the people! There are too many on this side. There are two more exits, use that!"

"Ok!" Teri shouted, turning to some other people with her, giving them instructions before they took off immediately. "Thank you, Roshi!"

"What for?" Micah tilted his head to the side, fixing the uniform he wore.

"For sending them!" She pointed to some people in the crowd, helping people to the other exits. Some were even carrying injured people out. "Thank you!"

"I didn't do anything!" Micah shouted with a smile. "Do you have a horse?!"

"Horse?! Does anyone have a horse?" She shouted in the crowd of people as though someone would be able to hear her. And she was right.

"Here!" One of the men road to them on a horse and got off before the horse could stop completely.

"Ford! Thank you!" Teri shouted, and helped Micah on the horse. "Where are you going??"

"There!" Micah pointed into the heat and took off into the crowd before Teri could stop him.

"Wait! Roshi!" She tried to run to him but a woman collapsed in front of her, groaning in pain as some people began to step on her leg.

Before she could think, Teri grabbed the woman away before she could be trampled by anyone else.

"Are you ok?" She shouted at the woman who fainted in her arms. "Ford!"

The man from earlier ran to them, sweat dripping down his face. "Here!"

"Take her out of here." She gave the woman to him and turned back to the direction Micah took off to. She was about to go herself but someone called out to her.

"Teri!" A familiar girl ran to her from the direction of the crowd.

"Juliet!" She shouted happily, taking the girl in her arms and pulling her to the side. "You are alive!"

"It's so hot!" She coughed, showing parts of her burnt dress. "Even being ten feet near the fire is enough to burn me this much! Don't get close to it!"

"Roshi just took off in the direction of the fire!" Teri said panic written all over her face. "I need to-"

"Teri! Help!" They turned to a man carrying two people in his arms while two more laid on the ground.

She turned to Juliet who was still trying to catch her breath, coughing over and over again. Giving one last look at the direction she wanted to go in so much, she turned from it and picked the other two up before they could be trampled to death.

“I couldn’t divide them up, I am so sorry.” The man said, furrowing his brows at Teri who shook her head at him.

“Don’t worry about it. It is hard to after all.” She turned to the group of people pushing and pulling at each other, trying to get out through the walls as quickly as possible.

Some were not able to push and were stuck at the corner of the gate, stuck.

Walking to one of them, she said, “There is another exit, come this way.”

Some people heard her and followed as she took them to the other way to get out of the walls, a small doorway that was broken down by some other people.

Entering the doorway leads to the inner corners of the wall where there was another door to lead to the outside world. In the inner corners of the wall are stairs that lead to the top of the wall that some people might have run up to.

“Who broke this?” Teri asked, looking at the man behind her who shook his head. “I think some people ran up.”

Without waiting for another second, Teri ran up the stairs, leaving the man with a line of people running to get out of both doors.

Don’t jump down, please don’t jump down. She kept repeating in her head while still running up the stairs as fast as her dress would allow her.

When she heard voices, she ran even faster, bumping into a man on the chest and almost falling back but he caught her.

“Teri?” Carvill asked, holding a limp person over his shoulders. “What are you doing here?”

“I should be asking you that!” She shouted, looking behind him as some people looked at the two, even Madam Lottie is there, grinning slyly. “Oh, you took care of everything here then?”

“Yes, but the fire is growing worse,” Carvill said, frowning. “Did you see Roshi?”

“He ran into the fire, I couldn’t stop him. I am sorry-“

“Can we get out of here first?” Madam Lottie said in a teasing tone. “The people here are anxious.”

“Oh, right,” Teri said, running down the stairs until they reached the ground floor and the people ran out the door.

Teri, Madam Lottie and Carvill watched them file out, stuck in the middle.

“Carvill, I am sorry. If anything happens to Roshi … oh, it’ll be all my fault.”

“Why are you apologizing to me?” The man asked, adjusting his mask. “I was unable to stop him so in the first place, so if anyone is to blame if he gets hurt, it will be on me.”

He looked kindly at her, black eyes not holding a hint of accusation. “Please don’t worry about it and focus on this one thing.”

“Ok.” Teri nodded, still not very convinced. “We can talk about this later on.”

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00:00 A.M., 14 June

If I remember correctly, it is this side. Micah thought, riding his horse through the crowd of people. As he passed the people, he gave them directions on which way to go to get out of that place.

The closer he got to the direction of the fire, the thinner the crowd became, until there was no one there but Micah and his horse.

I think it should be fine now. He thought, pulling off his blindfold to see colours littering his surrounding, though they were faint.

He looked through the fading colours for a specific one, a soft shade of purple only to find a familiar maroon colour.

"Fancy seeing you here," Micah said, looking at the woman that walked to him.

"Aren’t you the one that got stabbed before?" She asked, tilting her head to the side. "I see that you lived. What are you doing here?"

"What about you?" Micah asked, pulling a cloth over his face to try and keep some of the raw heat from scorching his face.

"I came to this kingdom for a reason. Now I want to know yours." She said, sceptical of the boy now as the two stared at each other the blue flame roaring behind them.