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Chapter 8.1

James had been traipsing through an endless amount of bushes (haha lolz) and had finally gotten sick of looking for people. None of this was his fault. Mark was a psychopath. James and Kaz had just been forced to go along with his plan. He wasn't to blame for all of this. None of this. He was innocent. James began to fall into a spiral of self hatred; he wanted off this stupid island. He was risking his life because somebody else had messed up big time. He decided to head back the way he came, and then take the three idiots in the cages to the Towers and get away from here as quickly as he could. James realised he only vaguely knew which way he was going, he couldn't remember where exactly the cages were. He began to walk in what he thought was the right direction. James came across the slain bodies of Sam!, Niamhxo and Kaz. He didn't know how to react. His initial reaction was one of horror and shock at what he was seeing, but the overriding thought he had in his head was 'it could have been me'. James' body shuddered all over. He then realised that the three of them had been shot. The sense of horror came back to him once more; and his eyes began to follow a trail of blood that was heading in the direction he was walking. Their killer was heading towards the cages. James' initial thought was to run in the opposite direction, but he knew that he had to follow the blood trail for two reasons. One, the Towers were in that direction, and two, he had to at least try and save Andy, Twilight and Stu. James hurried as quietly as he could along the trail of blood, and finally reached the site of the three cages. He began to regret his previous actions. He saw the carnage, the blood everywhere, he saw Lauren's dead body and he couldn't even begin to process what had happened. He knew now that locking wasn't always the answer - people die when you lock threads, James. He ran to Twilight's cage: the pop diva was long dead. He ran to Stu's cage, and realised Stu was still alive, although only just. Stu weakly raised a hand and waved at James.

"Pretty wacky~ huh?" Stu tried to laugh, but started coughing up blood instead.

"Jesus Stu, I'm sorry, what happened here?" James asked the dying forum member.

"Lauren... she came in here all messed up in the head. Shot Twilight, shot me, and then Darenn appeared from nowhere and she shot herself." Stu mustered up all his strength to tell James what happened.

"So where's Darenn now? And what about Andy?" James looked frantic.

Stu pointed in the direction of Andy's cage. James' eyes followed Stu's finger, and he quickly darted away from Stu's cage and ran to Andy's.

"Darenn!" James flung the cage door open.

"Hey James..." Darenn smiled despite the tears rolling down his face. James noticed the gun lying next to Darenn, the magazine of the gun lying separately from the gun, completely empty.

"Darenn... did you try to...?" James touched Darenn's shoulder.

"I tried to shoot myself, yes. But it wouldn't let me die. And d'you know why?" Darenn began to laugh hysterically.

"Why...?" James was scared.

"Because since this story began, I became a moderator! The whole premise of this story was that the last man standing would become a moderator for their troubles, but now I'm a moderator - if I win, the story's moot, if I die, there's a massive plot hole, y'know? So there's got to be more than one winner now. Or at least, I have to make it off the island alive." Darenn laughed.

"...That's not right. Kaz got absolutely merked by Lauren earlier in the story." James burst Darenn's bubble. "Sorry dude, there just wasn't any ammo in the gun. Anyway, now that you're here, you can help me carry Stu back to TiBB Towers."

Darenn looked distinctly pissed off as he clambered out of the cage. James and Darenn carried Stu out of his cage.

"We need to make a stretcher." James said as he found a long, thick piece of wood (that's definitely a dick joke). "You go fetch that conveniently placed piece of canvas and I'll grab that other long, thick piece of peni- wood."

Darenn did as he was told, and then helped James tie the stretcher together.

"What about Andy?" Darenn asked, as they moved Stu onto the stretcher.

"What do you mean?" James lifted up his end of the stretcher.

"He's still out there. Alive. Alone. He doesn't know that this is all over. He said he was going to find the Brotherhood... but how can he do that if he's on here? Does he know how to get off?"

"Well, you could go show him how to get off," James smirked. "But seriously, we have to get back to TiBB Towers as soon as possible, they'll leave without us."

"But what about Andy? If we make it back in time, we can just tell them to wait for Andy."

"Let's get going." James hurried the story along.

The two moderators, with Stu on a stretcher, hurried through the forest, keeping near to the beach, and eventually the looming site of TiBB Towers came into view.

"We're nearly there!" Darenn exclaimed, smiling at Stu who was growing weaker by the sentence.

James and Darenn broke into a near jog, being careful not to drop Stu, and made it to the bridge.

At that exact moment in time, however, Andy appeared at the bridge, on a majestic, white horse. He was clad in armour and led a charge of several knights - The Brotherhood.

"Andy!" Darenn was pleased to see him. "You made it!"

"Quiet, Fool. You were going to Leave Me Here. The Brotherhood is Not best pleased."

"He's right, Darenn. We were going to leave him here for constantly making duplicate accounts." James nodded.

"But, but you said..." Darenn looked confused.

"I'm dying here, fancy getting me into the Towers?" Stu piped up.

"We will not Go down without a Fight!" Andy roared.

"Darenn, go get back up. NOW." James cracked his fingers, and electricity sparked from his knuckles.


Darenn sprinted towards the Towers, and burst through the front door. Naturally, he had to run up a gigantic flight of stairs, all the way to the top, before he found anyone. He fell through the doorway and landed on the floor.

"Darenn!" Shaun screamed with delight. Shaun got to her feet and ran over to her jilted lover. "You're alive baby! I'm so happy!"

"I don't have time for this; there's a battle going on outside between James and the Brotherhood, we need as many mods as we can to go help him. Stu's dying out there, we need to get off this island as fast as we can." Darenn barked orders. "I'll be back soon, baby." He smiled at Shaun, and then ran back down the stairs.

Mark, Princess, Darenn, Red Moon, Vicky and 30stone charged downstairs and burst out onto the bridge. The scene in front of them was truly shocking. David, Andyman, Nathan, Remy and Andy were circling James, who was fighting a losing battle. Red Moon and Vicky crashed forwards and broke up the circle. Vicky hit Nathan with a lock, but it failed, due to Nathan's height. Nathan punched Vicky, sending her flying backwards, but she smashed into David. David kicked a football at Red Moon, but he dodged it and it hit 30stone square in the face.

Ben had been holding back from fighting; he was caught between his sense of duty and his loyalty to his friends; but David's football made his mind up. He kicked the football back, hard, and knocked David out with his curling cross. Ben and Red Moon ran towards Stu, and darted back with Stu on his stretcher, into the Towers. With Stu safe and out of the way, all the moderators needed to do was get inside the Towers, barricade it and get everyone off the island: but the Brotherhood weren't going to give up so easily.

End of Chapter 8.1


I've split this into .1 and .2 because this one was getting really long, nearly done though!!