[The Murder Game Series] Murder: The Ties that Bind

[JayJay]

Katniss, sits on a thread bare bus seat next to Ellie, her soft head resting against her tired arms. As the monotones movement of the bus soon closes Katniss' eyes her head fills with the days past.. Conversations with strange and unique people, the feeling of panic and worry but also comfort.
'Prim' -The heart ache of home and the fear that the family she once supported is lost forever..


Outside the dust covered windows and the safety of the yellow bus the city which they are traveling through is frighteningly transformed into a living nightmare which reminds Katniss that, everything is so fragile, like the wings of a butterfly - and how ever much we try to cocoon ourselves from the outside world, it always manages to seep back in and cause more harm.


Katniss lies on the concrete stunned her head pounding, her vision blurry leg sore and mouth oozing with warm metallic blood.. As she attempts to clamber up, she falls back onto the concrete unsure of the mayhem around her, bullets fly as fire engulfs one of the school buses - blood curdling screams and manic laughs echo around her.. Katniss is pulled to her seances by the familiar screams of..


Ellie!


Katniss' heart thumps heavily in her chest, realizing her promise to protect the young girl - she scrambles to her feet the sharp pain in her right leg, her head swooning..


"Agh!" - She lets out a gasp.


Katniss swings her bow from over her shoulder, rubbing the string up and down her fingers to make sure there are no frays..


None, I need to fine Ellie..


As her eyes draw accustom the the contrast of dim and sharp lighting, she see's more bodies those of some she does not recognize.. As she walks closer her body low and her steps light, so as not draw attention to herself, a nagging feeling in the back of the mind tells her that she's not hunter but..


"The hunted.." - She whispers through her cracked lips.


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"K-Katniss?!" - "Katniss, where are you?!" - Ellie..!


Katniss, prick up her ears listening -


Was..Was that Ellie?!





Katniss scans the surrounding area, building grey in the moonlight - her breath making small trails of condensation in the air.. Whilst coming closer to the bodies she see's one that seems to be show a little sign of life - she rushes over keen to help, not thinking of the danger that confronts her.. When she does reach the twitching body, she see's that it's a male lying face down - his clothes blood soaked his arm mangled - a rupture of flesh and bone shoot up through the obviously broken limb..


-As Katniss has not yet drawn an arrow, she see's no need to now as she stoops down to turn the man over placing her bow not far from the body.-


When she does manage to turn the man over, she see's an ungodly smile spread across his face bearing the crooked and blood stained teeth, luminescent in the moonlight a blood red cross painted on his face, his eyes flicker open staring directly into Katniss'.


Crossed..


"Little bitch!" - he whispers..


-Suddenly the man throws himself up, swinging his mangled and contorted limb at Katniss, striking her in the temple! She stumbles back, falling onto the ground.. Scrambling for her bow!


"AHAH! DON'T MOVE LITTLE WORM, LITTLE BITCH YOU! AHAH!"


Katniss, grabs the bow - but it's too late the 'now she realizes Crossed male' hurtles towards her, swinging his arm like it is a mace! - He throws himself upon her, moving his pelvis up and down on her pinned body, his useless broken stub flaying at the side - his good arm pressing hard against her throat.


"You, have such beutiful eyes! - I bet they taste even better!"


"No! -Arrgh! -Katniss pushes against his weight, she scrambles at his eyes scratching them trying to stop him from crushing her throat shut!


Katniss still holding him off her vision turning black, scrambles for her quiver, she pulls an arrow out and whilst he leans into lick her face, she thrusts it into his scull - she hears it crack under her force and a fountain of blood spurts up, like a geyser!


"Ooh!" - he manages to whisper





His grip loosens and his lifeless body slumps onto hers.. She pushes him off with the last of her strangth - she stays there lying on the cold concrete for the second time that evening - staring up at the sky, trying to regain her breath..


Ellie..!


She clambers onto her front, picking herself up and loading an arrow onto the string balancing it between her forefinger and thumb - this is done effortlessly and comes with years of hunting experience. As she stumbles around listening for Ellie, she does finally hear her voice.. A short and scared sequel. - Katniss runs in the general direction and find her huddled in a corner..


"Ellie!" - She whispers feeling the releif of finding her.. Alive..


@JayJay

// Sorry, you must've missed a few things, I just arrived on bus #1 and I'm looking for you xD


Wanna just say you find me in there?

 

[Elondora]

Wynne breathed deeply as she stepped over the bodies of the Crossed girls. Almost everyone was in the bus...Almost. She would stay until they'd found everyone, and she hadn't seen Ariel.

 

[dalecoOoOoOper]

He entered the bus and looked at the driver "There's too many of them! We need everyone to get out of the bus and push forward, or we can retreat!"

 

[MrDubWubs]

[QUOTE="Leo Barnes]He entered the bus and looked at the driver "There's too many of them! We need everyone to get out of the bus and push forward, or we can retreat!"

[/QUOTE]
I agree. We need to drive now!

 

[Jeremiah]

Annie began laughing maniacally as she shot flame after flame at the crossed hordes, beginning to feel power-hungry. "Yes! Yes, rip them apart Tibbers! Listen to their futile screams as they die to our power! These disgusting wretches deserve no afterlife! Hahahahahahahaha!"

The Annie Crossed laughed and laughed, it wasn't her of course, but damn... did she resemble her! BAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAM!!!!! That's literally all you hear as the Crossed female lit a fucking firestorm toward Mikasa, if even a single bullet hit, due to the sheer size of a mini-gun round, that limb would vanish... or her life. Doesn't matter. I wouldn't even suggest a scratch from the bullet! 

Pop.


Hm?


The engine died out once again. If you decided to go outside, pop the trunk open, there'd be a nice gaping hole in was once the engine. Crossed Annie... thing... whatever she was... minigun tore a nice, lovely hole into it's side. It clearly wasn't operational anymore! So, my lovely witch, got a Plan B?

"Oh, did your precious little bus break down? I'm soooooooooo sorry!" She laughed mockingly at the Witch before continuing on with her destruction.

 

[Akibahara]

Hehe...oh, don't worry, I don't have that rash, y'see? Now, don't go and die on me now. I'd hate to lose a good woman like yourself falling to these morons like a bitch.



He chuckled in quite the sinister manner popping out the ammunition slots and looking at his full ammo in what almost looked to be wonder while gazing over from the side of the bus, a sinister grin on his face as he was waiting for another Crossed to poke their head out and let him pop their brains into nothing more than chunks of grey matter.

A Crossed teenager, 14, male, sporting a Pokemon shirt and glasses, snuck up behind Adachi with a cleaver. He swung down in an arc as he screamed, "PIKACHU I CHOOSE YOOOOOOU~" The boy was drooling, insane, and out of his fucking mind. Boy, did he really think Adachi was a pokemon? Probably.

 

[Centurion_]

(( shit is going down. xD ))


Dandy looks around at all his friends and fellow survivors. Everyone was screaming and injured. Dandy started to crawl over to the positions of Claire and Leo who he believed to be the leaders of the group. When he got to a position that they could both hear him and grabbed their attention.


"Leo, Claire! Over here!"

 

[Atarf]

(( Oh wait - Ahah! I was busy typing that ^^ Uh I've edited it now, I hope it flows better! @JayJay ))

 

[The Golden Witch]

-Pompf!-


And with that sound, the engine finally died, as a bullet destroyed it throughly, bringing the Plan of Escape and Retreat to a grinding halt.


"And there goes out escape plan~ Anyone has a plan? Maybe you, cheeky little brat~?"


Lambda looked at Annie.

 

[Flowershadow]

" I'm clear on my side! The back door is open, if you missed that! " She said with a small laugh, having Adachi actually sprint around it as he went to cover his side of the bus. " But if you're good, lets hop in! " Claire called out to him once more, backing away from her side of the bus with her M-9 still drawn, keeping her back facing Adachi as she stood in the open doorway.

He gave a nod before hearing the sound of the engine ceasing its functioning and heard the boy screaming while going up behind him. All he did was turn and coldly plant a bullet in the kid's face before the cleaver reached him, him smirking and covering his mouth slightly with his free hand.


Or fucking not! Looks like it's all or nothing in this rodeo, doesn't it?! Hehe...these bastards continue to surprise me each time we find them.





He only could laugh into his palm, it looking as though he was either going to throw up or that he was laughing into his hand like a little kid hopped up on sugar. His eyes portrayed a determined, yet still insane glare as he looked out at what was facing the back of the bus after the Crossed child nearly swung a cleaver into him.

 

[RainbowWave]

(I will be replying around eight or nine tonight! I can't wait to do so! )

 

[Verite]

Continuing to sit in the front of the bus, Shiki held his stomach as he sat, feeling extremely nauseous since he overworked his body so much. He was only human after all. He was this close to throwing up, but he had to hold it in. Everything was going to be ok--

Pop.
Hm?


The engine died out once again. If you decided to go outside, pop the trunk open, there'd be a nice gaping hole in was once the engine. Crossed Annie... thing... whatever she was... minigun tore a nice, lovely hole into it's side. It clearly wasn't operational anymore! So, my lovely witch, got a Plan B?

"Oh, hell's bells," he cried out in frustration, "So much for a tactical retreat. We really don't have a choice other than to push our way towards the powerhouse, eh?" Shiki asked no one in particular, though his voice was of course audible to everyone in the bus.


And I'm already so worn out. I just hope I won't run into anyone with guns. Flash Run will have to wait, though if I'm lucky, I can still manage Flash Stealth so long as I don't attempt another Seventeen Divisions. My arms are already numb...

 

[dalecoOoOoOper]

[QUOTE="Flaming Centurion](( shit is going down. xD ))
Dandy looks around at all his friends and fellow survivors. Everyone was screaming and injured. Dandy started to crawl over to the positions of Claire and Leo who he believed to be the leaders of the group. When he got to a position that they could both hear him and grabbed their attention.


"Leo, Claire! Over here!"

[/QUOTE]
Albeit him not approve of Dandy, he covered his back as he slid in a new clip into the Glock "Get over here!"

 

[Akibahara]

[QUOTE="Reaper Jack]

Breaking into a run and going cover-to-cover, Emiya made for the first bus at breakneck speed, as much as his current condition would allow, still an impressive pace. Any Crossed he saw received the Calico's blessing. By this point the Contender was also out, it's one-shot capability would kill anyone, armoured or no, and as such it was a last resort weapon here.

[/QUOTE]
Boom! Boom! Boom! The gigantic rounds tore into 12 Crossed, Emiya's weapon was godly. Unstoppable. The Crossed, however, didn't seem to give a flying fuck. They just kept coming, and coming, and coming... but, lucky for everyone else, thanks to all the killing, the Crossed were dwindling down. For now. It appears you'll be fortunate enough to receive a moment of peace! Lucky you, eh? 

"Get on the bus! Get on the fucking bus!" Luke yelled, grabbing Clmentine by the hand and basically shoving her into the bus. He followed shorty after. What a fucking shitstorm. A lot of people were dead, missing, or just left behind. They pushed over zxrossed, Luke slamming his machete into many, and Clementine losing her axe in the ruckus. "Oh shit." Luke exclaimed once he had jumped on, watching outside at the insanity.

(( Yes. Fuck yes.))


Clementine received a nice fucking punch in the face. Whatever he or she was, it knocked her down. Good. If she decided to look up, it was: Lee. At least, what appeared to be an alternate version of him. The African American swung down, gripping Clementine by the neck, hoisting her into the air, she felt a handgun barrel press against her soft, squishy neck...

 

[MrDubWubs]

*sighs and walks to Annie* Hey Annie. You like burning things of course. Want to help me burn a lot of them?

 

[LunarDiscord]

He gave a nod before hearing the sound of the engine ceasing its functioning and heard the boy screaming while going up behind him. All he did was turn and coldly plant a bullet in the kid's face before the cleaver reached him, him smirking and covering his mouth slightly with his free hand.
Or fucking not! Looks like it's all or nothing in this rodeo, doesn't it?! Hehe...these bastards continue to surprise me each time we find them.





He only could laugh into his palm, it looking as though he was either going to throw up or that he was laughing into his hand like a little kid hopped up on sugar. His eyes portrayed a determined, yet still insane glare as he looked out at what was facing the back of the bus after the Crossed child nearly swung a cleaver into him.

Claire nearly jumped as Adachi's revolver sounded off behind her, she quickly spun around to finish off whatever he had hit but, the crossed had already been put down by the detective, with relative ease it seemed, and thankfully so. That cleaver the teenager was clutching onto would had did a number on Adachi if it made contact, shaking her head as Adachi comments. " I can't say your wrong about that, things just don't stop around here do they? " She added on in agreement, making sure to put her door to the back of the bus, but she then heard what sounded like Dandy, peering around the bus door to spot him crawling towards her and Adachi. " Oh hey, the coward is back. " She said quite coldly, staring down at him with a deadpan expression. " Just me and Adachi here, Leo went over to the other bus looking for Debra. " Claire explained to him, keeping her weapon out, but not drawn for the time being.

 

[The Golden Witch]

Annie began laughing maniacally as she shot flame after flame at the crossed hordes, beginning to feel power-hungry. "Yes! Yes, rip them apart Tibbers! Listen to their futile screams as they die to our power! These disgusting wretches deserve no afterlife! Hahahahahahahaha!"

"Oh, did your precious little bus break down? I'm soooooooooo sorry!" She laughed mockingly at the Witch before continuing on with her destruction.

Getting up from her driver's seat, she'd proceed to move past everyone, as she took a step outside, looking around in that Chaos. Walking over to the, somewhat, out of mind, Annie, she turned her around, lifting her hand.. only to Bitch-Slap her a couple of times across each cheek, trying to bring her back to a "reasonable" state.


"Listen, you little shit~ The more you light these on fire, the more of them will see the Fire and come rushing here, and sooner or later, one of them is going to fuck you, literally. The will do unimaginable things with you, like the little piece you are. You might think, that you have the upper hand here, but just a single tiny bullet, straight through your small brain right here, and it's "Flame Out" for you~~"

 

[Centurion_]

[QUOTE="Leo Barnes]Albeit him not approve of Dandy, he covered his back as he slid in a new clip into the Glock "Get over here!"

[/QUOTE]
Dandy quickly runs over to Leo while the Crossed finally stopped pinning the survivors. "Leo, we have a chance! We need to run! Leave this place because if only a small portion of one group screwed us this bad then how are we going to deal with another 3 armies?!" Dandy started to panic. "I say we recover the wounded and give cover fire to our retreat!"

 

[Akibahara]

[QUOTE="Hatty Hattington]Due to Hatty's small size, He managed to avoid the Fist, Also Stumbling to the Surprise attack, Hatty Grew quite irritated.
"Please don't Touch my Beautiful hat, You tub of Lard!" Hatty Calmly Insulted the Large Crosed

[/QUOTE]
The "tub of lard" smirked, "Kill you~" just before... FRWOOOOOM! "AAAAHHHHHH!!" A massive volley of fire burned the living hell outta him, some of the flames licking Hatty's hat! The giant man fell into a pile of fiery flesh, the flamethrower Crossed male drawing nigh... "FIRE! THE WORLD IS ON FIRE!"

 

[JayJay]

Ellie turned her head, and the instant she saw Katniss, a wide smile spread across her face.


"Katniss!"


She quickly ran over to her and hugged her tightly, sniffing.


"I'm so glad you're alright..."


After a good time of hugging, she looked up at Katniss with teary eyes, noticing the blood.


The smile on her face faded and quickly turned into a worried frown.


"What happened? You ARE alright, right?"





@Atarf

 

[dalecoOoOoOper]

Claire nearly jumped as Adachi's revolver sounded behind her, she quickly spun around to finish off whatever he had hit but, the crossed had already been put down by the detective, with relative ease it seemed, and thankfully so. That cleaver the teenager was clutching onto would had did a number on Adachi if it made contact, shaking her head as Adachi comments. " I can't say your wrong about that, things just don't stop around here do they? " She added on in agreement, making sure to put her door to the back of the bus, but she then heard what sounded like Dandy, peering around the bus door to spot him crawling towards her and Adachi. " Oh hey, the coward is back. " She said quite coldly, staring down at him with a deadpan expression. " Just me and Adachi here, Leo went over to the other bus looking for Debra. " Claire explained to him, keeping her weapon out, but not drawn for the time being.

He felt angered, the bus was unoperational as he holstered his Glock, going into the duffel bag before taking out two Berretas. He closed his eyes, breathed deeply, and ran at the Dam. Stupid as it was, he was angered at the fact Debra was In the bus, Chris was left behind, the bus was tottaled, and Dandy wanted to run away from the fray and he ran to the copied Annie, grimacing before letting out a quick volley of bullets at her "You.Son.Of.A.BITCH!" Leo was yelling as he fire and fired.

 

[Centurion_]

Claire nearly jumped as Adachi's revolver sounded off behind her, she quickly spun around to finish off whatever he had hit but, the crossed had already been put down by the detective, with relative ease it seemed, and thankfully so. That cleaver the teenager was clutching onto would had did a number on Adachi if it made contact, shaking her head as Adachi comments. " I can't say your wrong about that, things just don't stop around here do they? " She added on in agreement, making sure to put her door to the back of the bus, but she then heard what sounded like Dandy, peering around the bus door to spot him crawling towards her and Adachi. " Oh hey, the coward is back. " She said quite coldly, staring down at him with a deadpan expression. " Just me and Adachi here, Leo went over to the other bus looking for Debra. " Claire explained to him, keeping her weapon out, but not drawn for the time being.

Dandy looked pissed at Claire


"Now's not the time to be pissing around! I'm not flirting and I don't intend on dying here but I'll put up a fight if I have to!"

 

[MrDubWubs]

[QUOTE="The Golden Witch]Getting up from her driver's seat, she'd proceed to move past everyone, as she took a step outside, looking around in that Chaos. Walking over to the, somewhat, out of mind, Annie, she turned her around, lifting her hand.. only to Bitch-Slap her a couple of times across each cheek, trying to bring her back to a "reasonable" state.
"Listen, you little shit~ The more you light these on fire, the more of them will see the Fire and come rushing here, and sooner or later, one of them is going to fuck you, literally. The will do unimaginable things with you, like the little piece you are. You might think, that you have the upper hand here, but just a single tiny bullet, straight through your small brain right here, and it's "Flame Out" for you~~"

[/QUOTE]
*places my gauntlet on the witches head* You touch her one more time and i'll pop your brain out like the zit it is!

 

[SirDerpingtonIV]

Suddenly, Spy appeared, infront of a clump of 5 Crossed. He fired his revolver, blasting the suprised look of one Crossed right off it's face in a shower of blood, before putting the revolver in it's holster, and sliding out his knife. The Crossed were getting their wits together, and fighting back now. A broken baseball bat flew over his head, and Spy dived forward, plunging his blade into the gut of the Crossed who threw it. He stepped back, ripping out his knife, as a Crossed swung his knife right where he just was. He stepped to the side, plunging his knife into the Crossed's back, shoving him forward into another of his comrades, knocking them both to the ground, He ducked, as a Crossed swung the butt of his shotgun at him, and stabed his knife into the Crossed's armpit, who had time to yell, "OLD SPICE ODOR BLOCKER BODY WASH HAS FAILED ME!", while clutching himself in pain, before Spy was behind him, slitting his throat. The last Crossed got up, throwing a knife at Spy. It hit him in the shoulder, and he shouted in pain, before throwing his own knife, into the center of the Crossed's head. He walked forward, pulling out his own knife. He wiped the blood off his knife, on the dead Crossed's clothes. He pulled the knife out of his shoulder, pulling a handkerchief out of one of his pockets, and putting it on the wound to stop the blood. Another Crossed, a small girl, around 13, jumped out of nowhere, charging him, "HAHAHAHA BLEED BLEED BLEED!" she shouted at ihm, before Spy whipped around, the dead Crossed's knife in his hand, throwing it at the girl. The knife soared straight into her mouth, blade first, puncturting her jugular and trachea, before the tip of the blade came out the other side. She stopped, gurgling blood, as she fell onto the ground, twitching, before she died.

 

[Reaper Jack]

By this point, Emiya had gone through 2 Calico magazines, 2 smoke grenades and 4 Contender rounds, he still had plenty to fight with, but he disliked how quickly his munitions were depleting. By now he'd made it to the hood of the bus, only to discover it was out of order, he took cover behind it instead and shouldered the WA2000 (on the good shoulder obviously) picking off targets of opportunity, he couldn't afford to get caught in open combat again right now, he would have to rely on help from the others.