End of (your) Game

"Ladies and gentlemen ! From now on, this whole area of mall will be your Arena ! The movie theater, food court, plaza, shopping districts, everything on site will be your survival stage ! Anyone who tries to escape the arena, well... let's see if you can. *chuckles*
So, ladies and gentlemen ! Congratulations ! Welcome to the game, or should I say.. the end of YOUR game !
PS : There are some killers out there. Real killers. Be careful ! *chuckles*"

That was what I heard from the announcer loudspeakers, when I looked outside the window and there are only white clouds enveloping all the walls of the mall building.

And then suddenly, the water sprinklers went mad, splashing water at all directions and some of the electrical equipment got short circuits and went crazy. I could even hear some little explosions here and there.

People starts to panic and tried to run away, get out of the theater. Yelling, crying, hitting somebody else a the door, etc etc.
What the heck is going on ?!
I follow them on the back when the door was not too packed and jammed anymore. I was keeping my cool.

I managed to get to the hall where it leads to the plaza. There, I found an even more vexing situation.
There are many wounded people everywhere, most of them were burnt.
There was a heat wave coming in from the open door. What the hell is going on ??
I ran into one of the opened door. Only when I've just put one or step outside, the white clouds engulfed my body. It's HOT ! Shit !! That was not clouds, that was .. What was that ?! I felt like steam, or very hot smoke just like the one coming out from the volcano.
I jumped back into the building.

I was just taking a deep breath when I realized that everybody has been screaming and running around in chaos.
"Killers !!! They are real !! They are coming at us !!"
"Get out of my way ! I don't wanna die !!"
"Annie, save yourself ! Leave me !"
WTF ?! Seriously ? What the announcer said was true ?!
OMG, what do I have to do in this kind of situation ???

I look around, bewildered, when my eyes stopped at the two figures in the middle of the crowd.
An elementary school boy who was trying to pull in a frail looking grandma. Huh ?
On the other side, I can hear the loud screaming getting closer and the sound of body chopped.. like meat being chopped in the butcher I bought this morning, getting much much closer.

Damn, this is not the time to idle !
I ran into the boy and grandma, took their hands and literally dragged them out of the room. I couldn't even care if they were really not walking.

We managed to get out of the screaming herds, and hid in the theater's restrooms.
I saw my arms, some parts were kinda burnt.
"It hurts ! No way, now it's starting to hurt ! Shit !"
Then I blacked out.

...
I'm dreaming, I saw people killing people. Who's the bad guy ? The good guy ? They both have cleavers and cutting each other. Those guys, they don't even look human anymore..with burnt all over their bodies, that vicious expression on their faces, hateful swinging of their cleavers aiming to kill.. to end someone else's life !
If this was a dream, I want to end it. I want to get out. Now !

...
I woke up. My vision was blurry, i was dizzy...
"Where am I?"
The lighting was dim, it was quiet. I could hear some sounds from sparking cables though.
Where was I again ?
Oh right.. the toilet. Hmm, what's that ? Was the toilet door painted in red ? Dark.. cloggy.. red ?
.... bloody.. red...?

!!!
That shocked me back into reality.
OMG, this is ... not a dream !
I have passed something bad. Something... like butchering. Shit, that gotta be close !
Did they think that I was already out ? Good grief, good for me !

Btw... Where are the boy and the old woman ? That grandma is like... 70 years old or more, she won't be able to move far ! If they met a killer, they won't be able to flee !
Is that blood on the door and the walls, theirs ??

I walked out of the restroom into the theater's lobby.
It's chilly, I could hear the aircon was buzzing, trying hard to cool off the room. I guess it was because that hot clouds outside ? May be ?
Is there no one here ? There are some lumps of dead bodies though, ugh.
It smells like iron.. intoxicating.. I hate it.

I walked deeper into the hall.
My wound stings, but.. hmm, I just realized that my arms were already bandaged.
Was it the boy who did it to me ?

While I kept walking, my mind started to cluttered.
What had happened while I was unconscious ?
How many were killed ? survived ? How many killers were there ?
Could I escape ?
I didn't see the boy and the grandma's bodies, did they survive ?

Shit, this was suppose to be an ordinary day in my life.
A boring day as usual, where I went to the theater to watch a movie and then go home, alone...

I didn't remember how far I've gone into the mall when I heard footsteps.
Were they from the killers ? Or survivors ?
I couldn't be rash, I gotta hide !
My heart beats went faster and faster.

I could see something reflecting the light a little bit, was that metal ? Was that a cleaver ? Was that the killer ??
He passed on me.
...
...
No, I couldn't relax yet. He was still close.

THUMP !
Shiiiittttt !!! What was that ?!?!?! Was that the killer ? But he just got away ??
I looked at the source of that noise.
I saw, the boy ! He was alive ?! And the grandma ? I saw her behind the boy.
And then my eyes caught into the pot that fell on the ground.
That gotta be where the noise just now from !
"Oh, no, this can't be good ! Did the killer hear that ? What if he came back here and kill us all !"

"Hey, kid ! We gotta run away from here ! Hide ! Quick !"
That was my plan, to run. But I've just realized how the grandma couldn't run. She was only able to walk verrrryyyy slowly.
"This is bad. Very bad..."
The tension in my veins in my temple must have raised. I felt anxious, I was scared, I was angry, I couldn't do anything to make this better ?

"We must go back to the toilet ! We can lock the door there !"
I believed that it was a miracle that we could even got there safely. The boy was wheezing, the grandma looked so tired and painful, and I.. I was so stressed.

And then I heard the footsteps, again ! It was him !
I swear my heart stopped for a while when I heard something metallic started to scratched the wall and it was getting closer to our hiding spot !

SKRREEEEEEEEEE.....!!!!

Oh, no ! I looked at the boy's eyes filled with horror.
I couldn't take this anymore.
I'm gonna break down !

BANG !

I woke up.
I was laying on the sofa. It was so cold.
...
Man, this time I woke up for real, don't I? What time is it ? 1 AM plus...
What a dream was that.. or should I say, what a nightmare ?
I'm tired. So.. tired...