Event #3 - Buzzin' Energy [Tag: "Losers"]

[Arielle Belacqua]

Hummingbirds. Arielle wandered through a beautiful park in her favorite pastell blue dress. What a special place.  , Arielle thought as she could see all the beautiful hummingbirds drinking the flowers' nectar. The pleasant humming coming from the pretty birds made Arielle feel calm and glad. She smiled - she couldn't help but smiling seeing this miracle of nature. It was a stunning scene to behold. As she sat down on the grass in front of the breathtakingly pretty daylilies, she fixed her dress so it layed perfectly on the ground. From afar it surely looked like an astonishing painting - the cute brunette girl, sitting calmly in the middle of a paradise. Then it happened: A hummingbird flew right in front of Arielle's face. The color mix of the little bird included blue, violet, purple, green and yellow, simply too incredibly beautiful to describe. The wings moved so fast, the humming was so present. "Hello, little friend", Arielle said softly, "Unfortunately I don't have a sweet flower for you." The bird didn't move a single bit, the wings got faster, maybe to stay in the same place. Was the little bird looking at her? It surely seemed so. "Oh!", Arielle called out as two other colorful little hummingbirds appeared next to the first first one. One was more reddish and the other more yellow and orange - almost blonde. The birds' calling and humming got louder and louder and Arielle didn't quite know what to do nor what was happening. She stood up and was about to turn around, maybe she just wasn't supposed to be there. However, as she did so they were already there: Hundreds, thousands of hummingbirds in front of her, all humming and calling and humming and calling. She tried to walk through them, all she wanted to do was quickly go away to avoid them and not disturb them. But more and more birds were coming and humming. "STOP!", Arielle screemed, covering her eyes with her hand, while pushing birds away with the other. "STOP!". She started running, running as fast as she could. The little beaks were sharp as knives and were cutting through her skin. Arielle was screaming in pain. "STOP!". More and more birds came and the hand Arielle was covering her eyes with got stung by the metal-like birds' beaks. "AAAHHHHH STO-", before she could finish her last loud scream she put her other hand quickly in front of her mouth to protect it. The screams were muted by her hand, however still strong and loud. The beaks pierced through her skin and there was almost no part that didn't got stung by the birds. When two birds pierced right in the back of both knees at the same time, Arielle's knees collabsed and as a reflex she took her hands off of her face and feel flat on the ground on the front of her face.

"AAAAHH!!!!"

Arielle screamed as she woke up. She was completely wet, everything was sweaty. The entrance hall. Yes it was the entrance hall. Yes that was dream. Breathe. - No. It wasn't a dream. Amanda, Veronica, Elizabeth and Thalia - all that did happen. Looking around the destroyed entrance hall, Arielle tried to dry herself by using her just as sweaty clothes as a towel. "Is-", Arielle's voice suddenly cracked. Tears filled her eyes and she just couldn't go on. I can't do this anymore... The echo of the humming still went on in her head. It wasn't painful as in her dream anymore, but it tortured her in an even worse way - it became a part of her mind, of her and it didn't quite let go. "Please..anybody?".
Helplessly Arielle looked around the hall. No one was there, just the usual things were there: Red lockers, paintings and flowers. The moment Arielle saw the flowers it all happened once again - The hummingbirds, the attack, the mugs, Amanda, Thalia, Elizabeth's throat being cut by a hummingbird's beak. Within a second Arielle ran to the flowers and threw them to the ground. Unfortunately it didn't make the humming stop and so she desperately threw the paintings from the wall and tried moving the lockers. "JUST MAKE IT STOP!", she finally shouted and crawled together tightly in a corner.

[Copper]

The dog was lurking in the corridor, sniffing corners, looking for food and his master. When he was rummaging in a pile of dirt, he heard a girl screaming like she was in pain. It wasn't his master, but it was still a two-legs. And it was in pain.

It took less than a minute for the pupper to find the source of the screaming. The poor girl crawled in a corner like she was trying to hide from something. Copper knew she didn't need to hide from him. He is a good boy. He will help her.

The dog carefully approached the girl and lay down, right by her feet, his tail wagging gently.

[Something]

The moment the dog approached Arielle, the girl got a new message from an unknown number.

Smash the dog's scull with a stone. Cut his throat with a pot shard. Kill it. Now.

[Arielle Belacqua]

„NO!“, Arielle shouted as she jumped up the moment she felt something at her feet. Out of reflex she grabbed one of a painting's broken frame. For a moment the humming was gone, this second of shock took her focus. Copper, Arielle was about to exhale relieved about the fact it was simply the school's „good boy“, but then her phone beeped. Her eyes widened, a shiver gave her goosebumps and she pressed her teeth together to compensate the stress and fear. 

Smash the dog's scull with a stone. 

Arielle was shocked. She stared at the sentence on her phone screen. Then she slowly glanced over to the dog and quickly looked back at her phone.

Cut his throat with a pot shard. 

„Wha-what?“, Arielle mumbled. Barely breathing she looked over to the pots' shards, for which she was responsible. Seeing the damaged room confused her, one part of her knew it was her fault, but the other didn't understand what had happened. Did I... She simply didn't know what to do, what to think, what to feel. Her eyes wandered down to her phone screen again.

Kill it.

Within a second she looked at the dog. „Kill..it...“, Arielle repeated. It...It...It..., it didn't leave her thoughts. It...It....It...
Eventually the cute, trusting dog's tail caught her attention. It was wagging gently. Arielle couldn't take her eyes off of it and it almost hypnotized her. He was so sweet, so caring and just so purely good.
She was about to crawl over to the dog to calm him down. It seemed as if the tail was wagging faster and faster. „Calm down, good boy..stay calm..“ , she said more or less to herself.
He didn't stop. It was going faster and faster. „Stop, Co-“, Arielle stopped and looked up and remembered something. Stop..Stop..Stop..Stop..STUPID BIRDS JUST STOP! , Arielle shouted in her mind and hit her own head several times with her fists to make it stop. Her own screams, the dog's wagging tail and then it came back: The humming. The humming got more and more intense. Insanely intense. „STUPID BIRD JUST SHUT THE HELL UP!“, Arielle yelled towards the dog and as she looked down to find a moment to calm down, she read the last part of the message.

Now. 

As her eyes were locked to this single and short word they widened dramatically, her mouth was left open and she let out a high pitched scream. "I'M SORRY!" , she finally shouted and grabbed the nearest stone and started hitting with all of her strength. She hit and hit and hit and went on like this until she got to the point of passing out.

Arielle's forehead was bloody and one could almost see the bone.

[Something]

Arielle's "unusual" behavior scared the dog away from the room. She heard a nonstop whispering coming from somewhere in our room: "It, it, it, it.."  Her phone beeped again. It seemed like a pair of hollow eyes were staring back at her from the phone screen. The new message said:

Silly little girl.

You had a rough day, hadn't you? I think you deserve to know that he wants you to die. So do it. Please him.

Die.

Arielle lost 1 health point (due to her hurting herself) and 1 sanity point.

[Arielle Belacqua]

Pain. Tremendous pain was all Arielle felt and could think of when she woke up slowly and badly. "He-help!", Arielle tried to ask for help, but her body and therefore her voice were to weak from the pain. What was it? Carefully Arielle tried to sit up, but she simply was too weak and fell to side, causing her to groan. Please..just help me..., Arielle thought. At least in her mind she was clear and able to think and speak - or that's what she thought. Because as she looked up the room was filled with beautiful daylilies. "N-no..", Arielle managed to say with her voice cracking and hurting. One part of her wanted to scream to herself that it was just a dream, but the other part told her it was real. And the little devil won. Arielle completely got taken into the new reality.

A reality with plants, flowers, hummingbirds, dogs like Copper, a working body and a special guest - Amanda. However Amanda didn't talk, move, blink and didn't even breathe. She was like the most grotesk porcelain doll Arielle ever saw. "Mandy?", Arielle could finally speak clearly and walked over to Amanda. "Mandy, wake up! I need help. I have - ", she stopped. Did she even have anything? Why did she need help? In this world she didn't feel pain, not even a headache. There was no blood from her forehead, covering her entire face and chest. "I guess... I don't need help... I am fine!".
Arielle sat next to Amanda and adapted the same pose and smiled at her friend. "You know...I dreamed that you killed -", all of her thoughts got lost along the way, "I don't know ... Probably a bug... Yes! A tiny annoying brunette bug with blue eyes ! Now I remember!". Arielle giggled and rested her head on the porcelain Amanda's shoulder. "Isn't it beautiful? I wish Nancy was here, too." Nancy..Nancy...NANCY!, Arielle slowly came back to her senses, she had to tell Nancy what was going on.

"NANCY!!!!", Arielle yelled with all the power she had left, her voice probably sounding horribly to others. Back in the destroyed Entrance hall Arielle felt the pain again. Not only that but also a thick liquid running down her face. When she touched it, she could finally see it - Blood. Her eyes widned, her mouth was open from the shock and her pulse got faster and faster and helplessly she tried to cover the wound with her hands. However, by pushing the hands over and over again against it, she made the pain and blood simply worse. "BLOOD!", Arielle finally shouted, "HELP!". Not being able to stop pressing her hands against it, Arielle went on like this for quite some time. Until something called her back to reality - The beep sound. A shiver came over her and goosebumps quickly followed, along with panic. "No..", Arielle whispered, "Not again..No, no, no! PLEASE!". She tried to ignore it, but in her head the beep sound didn't stop, it went on and on and it was as if the phone called her name and then the humming came back.

"OKAY I'LL READ IT , JUST STOP!", Arielle yelled quickly crawling over to her phone and read the message.

Silly little girl.


Girl...Girl...Girl,Girl,Girl,Girl...Girl... Arielle couldn't take her eyes away from the screen and various scenes came to play in her head. The girl's locker room in her old school, where she and her friends bullied the girl. The girl's night with Thalia and Nancy, where they came such close friends and just had an amazing time. The girl's dressing room, where Amanda was fixing stuff at Arielle's costume. Amanda..., Arielle shook her head and remembered how Amanda sliced poor Elizabeth's throat without hesitation. "You'll pay for this...all of this...". Arielle squintched her eyes to focus on the next part, she tried hard to stay concentrated - thoughts, memories and hallucinations got more and more the best of her.

You had a rough day, hadn't you? I think you deserve to know that he wants you to die. So do it. Please him.


He...He wants me to die?, Arielle thought in fear, "Ph-...Phillip...Alex.. Those two names popped up first in her mind and didn't leave it. No matter which guy she thought of, these two kept coming back - the one's she liked the most. Who wants to kill me?!. Arielle couldn't understand what was going on, her headache was worse to begin with due to her wound. However, this messed up her mind and made it even worse. Her hands wandered to her wound again and started pressing against it. The pushing slowly turned into poking and everytime she had to groan with pain, her fingers pierced more and more into the bloody wound. "WHY DO YOU WANT TO KILL ME?!", Arielle yelled with her fingers peeling off more and more of the wound, "WHY?! PHILLIP!? ALEX?! WHY?!". Another beep. "STOP!", Arielle yelled at her phone. Eventually she picked it up, the sound was horrifying to her, but it stopped her poking her wound for some time.

Die.

"Die..", Arielle read it out loud with a trembling, scared voice. You..should..., she thought, You would feel better...Much better...Just..die... Her hands and arms were covered in blood at this point and she had to force herself to crawl over to two sharp pot shards. If you slice your throat now..You will feel better... Arielle stared and stared at the shards and didn't take her eyes off of them for a long time. No one is answering you...No one is coming to help you..Alex..Phillip...Somebody wants you dead...Nancy, Thalia..they are not coming to help you...Just...die... Slowly Arielle brought the shards close to her neck and held them ready to slice her own throat. The moment she was about to do it she saw Amanda again. Reliving the moment Amanda sliced Elizabeth's throat made Arielle scared and angry and the lowered the shards again. "No, Mandy..You won't win..You - won't - win!", Arielle said with a smile across her face.

Happily, Arielle looked down at the shards and thought of how she was about to end her life because of some jealous girl. This bitch really thought she'd tear me down...She-, Arielle's thought was cut off by something coming from the shards. Did she cut herself? No it wasn't something she felt, it was a noise coming from them. A humming. The hummingbirds. "JUST DO IT!", Arielle finally shouted as she stabbed her eyes with the two shards. Aggressively she pulled the shards out again and stabbed her eyes once more.

She wanted yell and scream, she wanted to cry, but Arielle passed out quickly. Her forehead was still bleeding and her eyes stabbed by the shards were causing even worse bleeding.

Arielle bled to death.