[Kokujo]

Mimi was still angry at Ed but decided to turn back around and ask him where the others were. She walked back into the dining area but didn’t see Ed anywhere. Finally, she walked towards the kitchen and entered, only to scream at the sight of Ed’s dead body hanging from the ceiling. Mimi quickly ran back to the living room where they all first entered. When she got there, both Scott and Victoria had already made it back. She ran into Victoria’s arms while tears ran down her face. She managed to mumble out “Ed killed himself” before bursting into tears once more. Victoria could only stare at Scott in awe, not knowing why Ed would do something like this. Scott ran off to see if he could find Ed, following the trail of opened doors that Mimi had left. After just a couple of minutes, Scott returned with a gloomy look on his face. “Ed is dead; it looks like he hung himself. I don’t know why he would do this, but he did. I don’t want to stick around here and find out why he did it, so I’m going to go start the van and get out of here.” Scott rushed out of the castle as soon as he finished speaking.

Mimi continued to cry in Victoria’s arms while Scott prepared them to leave, meanwhile, the other five were all still walking around in the castle. Megan and Ronald were still together and talking to each other. “So how do you know Scott?” Megan asked Ronald. “Oh, we met because of a mutual interest.” Megan stopped walking so Ronald also stopped. “A mutual interest? And what would that be?” Ronald clearly didn’t want to tell her, so he made up a lie. “We… uh… both work out at the same place.” Megan thought about it at first, but she decided to just go with what he said. The two continued walking while in another area, Rachelle, Martin, and Mick were walking in a group.

Mick was in front while Rachelle and Martin were walking beside each other. Mick had noticed that there were several candles on the walls so he decided to start lighting them with his lighter as the trio moves down the hallway. Rachelle and Martin were holding hands and talking lightly about what they planned on doing after they both get out of college. “I want to move to Italy and study the area around there.” Martin started talking passionately about his plans after college. “I would gladly come with you if I could, but my future job will probably require me to remain near a Hospital.” Rachelle was aiming to become a doctor whereas Martin wished to travel the world.

Martin knew that, with their choices in life, they probably wouldn’t be able to stay together, so that’s why he decided to make their time count. They continued onward and separated from Mick who was several feet ahead of them lighting candles. As he continued lighting them, he stopped to see if Rachelle and Martin were still following him but noticed they were gone. Mick decided to continue on by himself. Meanwhile, outside where Scott’s van was, Scott was trying to get it fixed but was having no luck. The battery had died so they would have to wait several hours for it to charge. He couldn’t pick up cell phone service at their location, and Scott started to get angry at himself for bringing all of these people into this mess and someone ending up dying.

Mimi and Victoria were still inside and Mimi had finally stopped crying. Victoria laid her down on one of the nearby couches before heading deeper inside of the castle to locate the others so they could leave. Before she knew it, she heard a girl’s scream coming from the direction of Ed’s body, so she took off running in that direction. Mimi and Scott had also heard it, and Scott rushed inside to Mimi’s location to see if she was okay. “Mimi! What was that scream?” Scott said while worried. Mimi looked at him and responded “I don’t know, but it must be Megan or Rachelle.” Scott grabbed Mimi’s hand and quickly ran through the opened doors towards Ed’s body, only to discover a trail of blood leading into the dining area.

“Oh no… not again. Please… please tell me… nobody else has died.” Mimi started to tear up again at the thought of another friend dying, but Scott wouldn’t let it happen. “Mimi, if we want to save our friends, then we need to find them and get them out of here. So pull yourself together and help me!” Mimi looked at him and then nodded slowly and started running with Scott once again. Before they could make it far enough, a bleeding Megan jumped out in front of the two as they were running and landed right in Scott’s arms. “R-Ronald…” Megan barely managed to speak before Scott cut her off. “Save your breath Megan, you stay here with Mimi and I’m going to see what happened with Ronald and Victoria.” Scott took off once again and left the two girls where they were. Mimi simply held Megan in her arms and removed her own jacket so she could stop Megan from bleeding.

Scott burst through the doors to the dining area, which had been closed since he was last there. He could only see more blood and Ronald’s body lying on the ground in a puddle of blood. “Ronald!” Scott quickly made his way to Ronald’s body and turned it over. Ronald was still alive and Scott was relieved. “Where’s Victoria? She took off in this direction!” Ronald pointed to the kitchen and faintly whispered to Scott “she’s dangerous…” Scott put Ronald’s body down and made his way towards the kitchen where he saw blood splattered on the walls and Ed’s dead body once again. He could see a large puddle of blood leaking out from behind one of the counters and slowly walked to where he could see where it was coming from. Finally he saw it. Victoria’s limbs were sliced open and bleeding, her chest had a knife sticking from it, and her eyes were lifeless. Victoria had committed suicide.

Scott couldn’t understand why someone like Victoria would do such a thing to herself, but he didn’t have the time to stop and think about that. Ronald and Megan were seriously injured and he had to get them some help. He made his way back to Ronald’s body and lifted him up and placed his arm around his head so he could walk with him. Scott managed to carry Ronald out of the dining area and back to where the girls were sitting. Mimi watched as Scott carried Ronald but she didn’t see Victoria. “Where’s Victoria Scott?” Scott just looked at Mimi with a cold look in his eyes and she knew what had happened. Mimi started to cry once again and Scott couldn’t do anything but say “I’m sorry Mimi.”

Mimi managed to control her tears just long enough so that she could carry Megan back to the van and they could leave. Scott stopped, pulled his shirt off, and wrapped it around Ronald’s wound so the bleeding would stop and then he laid him down on one of the couches. Mimi didn’t understand why he was laying him there when he needed to be in the van so they could take him to get help. “Scott… what about the van?” Scott looked over at Mimi “the battery is dead, so we aren’t going anywhere until it has a few hours to charge.” Mimi couldn’t believe the bad luck that they were having, but Scott was being optimistic about the situation. “We need to find Mick, Rachelle, and Martin so we don’t end up having to search for them when it’s time to leave.” Scott calmly said to Mimi.

Mimi nodded and stood up, while Scott walked over by her and looked back at the injured Megan and Ronald. “We’ll be back, stay safe you two.” Scott said as both he and Mimi walked through a doorway and down a hall and Scott pulled out a flashlight for each of them. Mimi knew that they weren’t in the kitchen or the dining area, so they didn’t even both checking there. Scott opened up another doorway and it seemed to lead to a string of bedrooms. The two decided to split up and locate their friends by checking these rooms one by one. Mimi started with the first door on the right while Scott started with the first door on the left. They had no luck at all and finally made it to the end of the hall. They walked past the door at the end of the hall and noticed that the hall split in two directions, one going left and one going right. “You go right and I’ll go left, Mimi.” Scott said in a stern voice. The two split up and went down their own halls.