The devil behind the mask

The bloodbath commences

Veronika POV

The ceiling glowed with luminescent lights. Me and my mom made a left and went straight to the vegetable aisle. My mom picked some vegetables inside packages and tossed them lightly to me as I caught them with ease. After minutes of weaving through aisles to find our goods we were done and had bought everything on the grocery list we were ready to get ringed up as we stood in front of the cashier girl as she took her time ringing us up. In an instant the automatic doors of the market were pushed open and male voices began to envelope the store. The men had entered the store wearing farm animal masks and were armed with different kind of assault rifles, my heart began to pump wildly. A man with a black wolf mask stepped forward, loading his rifle in a fluid motion and shot at the ceiling allowing bullet cases to drop on the floor in a regular pattern

"This is a robbery" he shouted out. My mum pulled me hard and  clutched on to me as though I wanted to escape from her

"OPEN THE REGISTER NOW!" he ordered as he held the cashier girl's hands over the counter with his rifle fixed at her forehead, she tried to escape his grasp but he was clearly stronger. In a quick instance the cashier girl sent her hands flying in the air landing at the man's throat sending his wolf mask to the ground

"Fuck you bitch!" He landed a hard blow on her. His face was revealed and I was staring right at it. He was the man I saw with a tattoo in the black van, the same one that winked at me.

"Well isn't this a complication" he laughed staring at my mom and I as his companions joined in the barbaric laughter

"Thanks to buffy the vampire slayer over here, now I have to kill all of you" I heard a loud piercing boom of his gun go off as the cashier body hit the floor in a loud thud. My mum tried to shut my eyes from the scene but it was a death too late I already saw the circle shaped hole at the center of the cashier forehead, I could smell the disgusting scent of blood in the air which made me cringe but I still could not explain why I had a smirk on my face.

I woke up with a throbbing head the memory of my dream foggy, looking around I could discern that I was laying on the cold floor. This creeped me out. The last thing I remembered was laying in bed right after talking to Damon so it seemed very weird to be laying here, but the more I thought about it the more my head felt like a rubber band that is being stretched to its limit and would snap at any given moment so I brushed the thoughts to a corner of my mind and trudge groggily to the living room to find everyone except Charlie sitting with gloomy expressions spelt all over their faces

"Good morning guys" my presence was known as everyone eyes stared at me.

"Hey Veronika is up. Morning" Natalie said with a smile turning her expression from what I just saw earlier to a cheerful expression

"I have something to tell you, we need to talk" Damon said with a uptight look that worried me to death, I knew whatever he wanted to talk about wasn't good. I was shaken from my thoughts  when I felt his warm hands lead me back to my room

"What is it Damon, you are scaring me" shortly the door opened then Riley stepped in

"A body was found" he dropped the bomb on me, I could feel my knees quiver I tried my best to keep myself standing

"Oh my-" I clasped my hands over my mouth. This wasn't suppose to happen. No one was suppose to die. I won right. All the feeling of victory I had experienced last night was completely washed off from me

"There's more" he looked me in the eye then looked down "the body belongs to Kara"

"But she isn't a red angel" I quickly said

"She became one yesterday" Riley inched closer to me "the meeting yesterday at Alexa's party was for her pledge" she said just standing feet away from me

"No this wasn't suppose to end like this" I stood up being in the middle of both of them "we have to stop the red ghoul before he kills anyone again" I declared with a shaky voice

"Yes but how, even a whole task force is on the case and they got nothing" I looked at Riley who spoke calmly

"Yeah we can't do this just us, we need help" I was prohibited by the psychotic killer to ask help from the detective although he offered to help countless of times but I could get some help from friends like Jason who knows a lot about the previous red ghoul and Gabe I just hoped they would be willing to go into this dark road with us.

I walked over and knocked on Gabe's door then I heard him say "come in" then I stepped in to find his room. It was decorated with pictures some with him present, one picture was with him and a pretty girl in a cheerleader outfit she held pom poms as her hand was placed over his neck. Is she is girlfriend? I thought to myself

"Hey" his voice got my attention "Is there something you want" he said spinning the pencil he held

"Hey" I smiled resting on the desk behind of me "Wow, your room looks awesome" I complimented staring around

"Is it bat cave awesome or just regular awesome?" he asked with a smile

"I would say its getting there" I giggled as he laughed softly

"So what is that you want to talk about?" He asked staring at me with those crystal blue eyes

"I want to tell you what I have been hiding from you "

"Interesting, go on" he dropped his pen and leaned forward still retaining a smile.

There was a minute of silence after I narrated everything to Gabe, I withheld no information back. I told him about the strange text I got, everything Jason told me about the red ghoul and I even told him about the call

"So do you have any thing to say?" I asked

"Yeah I already knew all this " he said standing up moving towards what seemed like a board covered by a tart

"What? How? "

"I wasn't eavesdropping technically I was just walking to my room and over heard you and Damon little spat last night and more importantly I have been doing a little digging, in fact I think its only a matter of time before you get another mysterious call from someone with a bad sore throat saying you should play another game"

"Do you think I'm going to be forced to play a sick game again? " I asked terrified of the thought of being in charge of someone's life again and even more terrified of the thought of failing again

"Yeah, duh. It always happens in every slasher movie and series" there was seconds of silence in the air as Gabe stared at me with a surprised expression

"Haven't you watched any slasher movie; I know what you did last summer, slasher: the slasher series, scream? " he paused waiting for a reply but all he got from me was a dumbfounded stare, for some reason I never watched any slasher movie, I didn't even know what a slasher movie was until like three minutes ago

"Moving on, in these movies the girl usually receives a call.... " my blood froze when I heard the sound of my phone vibrate from my pocket

"Well that was quick, what does the message say?" Dave asked

"Its from Damon and he says that I should meet him at Charlie's room that there's something I need to see'"

"Well let's go then, partner" Gabe smirked.