Beyond the Walls

Face off (2)

Liam, the top player of the games. By some coincidence this person had talked to Lucas before the games and kept showing interest in him for the duration of it and now that they are competing with each other he is checking me out instead of watching the doll house, which Lucas bet is a location for their item.

“Was it their third item already?” He mumbled.

“It's the third item?” Aaron asked the same thing. Lucas looked at him and he continued.

“We heard sounds earlier, then a few minutes after, this is again.

“Do we even have the same goal?” Kiko added.

It’s true that it’s not necessary that they have the same goal.

“Oh.. They are coming out.” Elijah said.

The person that came out is the third ranker, Liam’s right hand man.

“Michael…” a bitterness was heard from Kiko’s.

Michael ran out with a bloody bolo in his hands.

*Swish

He cleanly cuts a ghoul’s reaching hand without stopping on running to the lanes of booths where Liam is…

‘Gone?’

Michael jumped to the table hanging on the low ceiling and pushed himself up. Even in the distance one could say they can see his veins popping out. He was like a trained soldier—.

‘Soldier?’

*Swish *Thud

The incoming horde of ghouls are close by but the closest to Michael one by one dropped.

The second placer was not even looking behind as he jumped down the back of the booth and continued to run.

Observing closely, The ghouls looked like they were being shot in the head. Lucas immediately looked at the adjacent trajectory of the bullet. There he saw a miniscule figure of a person and there is only one person who he thinks of the 6th placer. That player is often quiet and just behind the group as always and during the ranking, he displayed efficiency in long distance shots.

It’s dangerous to be in that person’s line of sight.

“Ah. He got away.” Elijah said with an amused tone and a bit of disappointment.

As someone who barely survives at the chase, the scene of just plainly getting away with just running is … just too much blow to them.

“Ah! That can’t be!” Lucas perceives something else.

“Everytime you act like that, it’s giving me heartburn!” Elijah acted like he was really having heart problems.

Lucas didn’t bother to react to his skit and just open the Task file.

Task #1: Team Leaders find your members and the supplies and equipment

Task #2: Hide and Seek: Hide from the monsters while seeking assigned items. (⅕)

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Tickets

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“Ah. I’m right. It’s this!” Elijah brought out a small box. Inside is a 5 roll of entry tickets, with number ‘2’ on it.

“Are we supposed to wear this?”

“Let’s just do it.”

Elijah and Aaron took each ticket bracelet and put it on their wrist. The rest had followed.

“Okay, so where are we going next?” Kiko asked, adjusting his wrist ticket.

The displayed map showed the four different locations of the remaining items and theirs.

“Will it be like that everytime we pick the item?... Do you think we could do it like them?” Jack, who had been silent all this time, asked.

They stayed silent at his question.

Maybe it’s because they got caught off guard the first time that’s why they barely got away with the ghouls but can they be lucky and repeat it four times more. The other group did it seemingly easy to run away from it.

“We cannot…be like that.” Lucas said.

It’s true that Elijah fast and Aaron have the strength but both of them lack each other’s skill. Player number 3 has both that’s why he got away, plus he had a sniper backing him.

That gun must have cost all his additional skill points. All weapons cost more than any other items.

“What should we do then?”

Lucas looked at Jack “... we cannot stay here and do nothing.”

“He is right… Since he is the fastest he could do the running and we can support him in the background.” Kiko suggested as he showed his gun.

“Why are you volunteering for me?! Didn’t you see. I almost died just now!” Elijah lost his usual composure. That event really did shake him up.

“...”

“Why don’t we take turns on fetching the items?” Aaron suggested.

“...”

“Are you crazy? Who would–”

Kiko’s intentions slipped out. The argument had started but Lucas remained silent for a while looking at the wrecked ship.

“Hey! Aren’t you the leader?! You decide!” Kiko demanded.

“...”

“Lucas?” Aaron shakes Lucas’ shoulder as he seems to be out of it.

“Ah? … Yes… There are four items left… we cannot do it like them…” He just seems to be enumerating things that have been said already.

“Did he go crazy already?” Kiko raised an eyebrow at the muttering of Lucas.

“... I have a plan.” Lucas said at the end of his mutterings.

Half an hour later…

Lucas is running as sleathitly as he can from one establishment to another until he reaches a certain ride. It is a ride that extends up to the sky. It was tall and hurts the neck if you look up and on the top part is the rider's seat. Seeing the picture by the entrance to it, the ride seems to drop from the top.

He looks at his map and sees different item’s locations and his members scattered around the theme park.

He recalled the first part of the plan. “We will all split together. The four of you will pick the items at the same time.”

Lucas waited until the last of his members had stayed still before he opened his bag.

“Then what will you do?” Kiko is dissatisfied at Lucas’ opening of plans.

“Me? I will give the signal.”

“What signal?”

“You’ll know it when you see it.”

*BANG!

A red smoke colored smoke had been shot to the sky. It was one of the items that he purchased with his points. Smoke gun.

As soon as it was fired, the ghouls had stopped in their tracks and looked up.

“UWARGHHHHH AUARGHHH!!”

Like packs of animals they howl and start charging in the direction of it.

At the sight of the colored smoke, Team 1 who is currently in the middle of getting out the fourth item turned in the direction of it.

“What the… What is that?” Brandy was dumbfounded. Even Liam was confused.

But even Lucas’ teammates were questioning it also. It was too flashy!

“Is he planning to sacrifice himself?!” Kiko said with a wide eye, looking at it.

“When you see the signal wait a little before going in (for the items)?” Lucas said at their meeting.

Though confused, Team 2 turned their back on the smoke and proceeded on their item location.

Elijah - Mini Ferris wheel Ride for kids.

Aaron - Race track for kids

Kiko - food truck

Jack - Parade caravan

“Remember to find the items quickly and get out.”

*Cough cough cough

“What the hell!” Lark, the team 1’s sniper, coughs because of the dispersing color smoke in front of him.

“Who the hell is–” He looked down to see the responsible one. He looked through his lens and saw the back figure of Lucas who is clumsily running away with a heavy looking bag.

“Heh. Look at this dork.” Lark positioned himself to take a good aim at him.

“...It’s your unlucky day. Liam said, I could kill you. Looks like he's interested in you ha–...!”

He moves his lens to the opposite street and sees the hordes of mutants coming and rushing, it was the same in other directions.

“He only dug his own grave.” He put down his sniping tool, since Lucas is already dead meat this time.

*bzzzt bzzzt

“Yes?” He answered

“--Ge.** re.” Liam’s voice is choppy on his line.

“What?”

“Get… !!”

‘Is he shouting?’

*BANG!!!

*Bzzzzt

“GET OUT OF THERE!!!!” Liam’s clear voice went through but it was too late.

Below the ride, is the gathering of Hunchback mutants.

“UAWRGHHH!” It growled up as it spotted Lark on the top.

*BANG BANG BANG

The mutants keep shaking the ride tower by slamming their body but it wasn’t budging.

Lark, who was horrified, looked ahead at where Lucas had hid. The booth he had jumped into was quiet and untouched.

“UWARGH!!!”

*Grab

The hunchback ghoul had started to climb up. The metal creaked as it made its way up.

*Ping

With a silencer, Lark put a bullet straight to the mutant's head and it fell down but it didn’t stop the others from climbing up.

*Bzzzt Bzzzt

“Liam! Liam!! YOU GOT TO HELP ME!” He is panicking while contacting Liam.

*Bzzzt Bzzz!

“Lark! Calm down. Don’t waste too many bullets! We are coming! Who was the one that fired the smoke gun?” Liam answered. Him and his teammates are running in together.

That’s what he said but inside his head is messed up.

“Te–m — Leader!”

The line is becoming choppy with all of Lark’s shooting.

There was no shortage of mutants coming up for him. Even if he manages to calm down, this much is still close to impossible. The surrounding of the ride tower is filled up with climbing mutants.

Even from afar Liam can tell that Lark has no safe way down. For him to make out, They will need to lure the mutants out of the day but is that possible?

Raking his head on, he is overriding all his ideas so much that his head started to hurt.

“f**k it!” He cursed.

He was pacing around when something caught his peripheral vision. One of Team 2 members is rushing out with a bag. Only then he heard some music playing and the mini ferris wheel from the distance started to turn.

“Liam!” Michael called.

Looking at the thing that Michael is pointing at, it's Kiko from afar sticking out his middle finger on them as he runs away from the noise food truck playlist.

“He got us good.” Athena smirked.

‘Dammit! Dammit! Dammit! LUCAS!!!!’

Liam finally got it.