Bella quietly cried on. She wiped more at her tears and all Mr. Kingman did was just sit there looking at her; with not even the slighest bit of sympathy in his eyes. Seeing her go through the clear heart ache she was going through was one of the most rewarding moments of his life. It made everything that he had put in place to avenge Gloria's death worth it. He had put in so much work and seeing it all unfold exactly the way he planned it would made him feel like he had already won. Her suffering, both emotional and physical, and her eventual death was his goal but seeing this woman who was by far the best in her field exhibit the demeanor of a lost little child was just as sweet."I bet now you're thinking you should have taken option A. What was option A? This was obviously option B because I don't think anyone ever wants to become an assassin, it's one of those professions that you just find yourself in. Like me and what I do. Being a criminal boss was not what I grew up wanting t
"Players of OutLive welcome to level 5," Lora's voice said to everyone. It was a new day and the viewers from the day before and new ones had logged onto the website to watch the next level of the game; eager to see what was installed for them and the players who were on a train sitting in the same passenger car but on different seats. They were dressed in normal clothes but had their weapons on them. "In this level you are civilians on a high-speed train and your mission is to reach the front car. Simple? Wait, there's more. You are to reach the front car and only when you are safely there will one of you light your flare and signal the end of the level. You're in the 6th passenger car and you are to spend not more than five minutes in each car or it will snap off and when it does with any players in it, those players will fall back. The door will unlock when the clock hits two minutes and you will have those two minute to move from the car you are in to the next one. Any players tha
The train moved on, as the players just stood there and watched the car that Brian was in fall even further back; he was gone and just like that they were down to nine. "Oh my gosh," Emily said as she wiped away at the tears that streamed down her face. It wasn't just him being killed but the timing. They were in a game were people were obviously going to lose their lives but them losing someone so soon didn't even cross their minds and so it happening really gutted them; it had them worried even more for what was yet to come. Only Bella knew that them dying in the game meant them dying in the real world as well but it was still just as emotional. To them they were just exiting the game but they were people that they had began to bond with and so no longer having them around left them feeling some type of way. And it wasn't so much them exiting the game, because that was something that was just bound to happen but it was how; the gruesome ways in which the players that had left had di
The players were now down to eight and safely in the third car they stood waiting to see what was going to come at them next; looking at each other with their hearts continuing to sink at the thought of the ones that they had just lost. They had just gotten into the level and they had already lost two people; how many more were they going to lose?"Everyone alright?" Den asked and they responded with slight head nods; obviously still shaken from what they just went through with the bat creatures that really handed it to them. But though battered and bruised they collected themselves with deep breaths ready to go again; they just had to be ready to go again, it was why they were there."Oh gosh what's next?" a girl watching on her laptop asked.The train carried on as the players then spread out to look out the windows to see what was coming at them next; still moving through the dilapidated city with the setting sun in the exact same position it was in when the level began."Do you gu
"Of course it's not safe to swim through, look how black it is," a girl watching on her laptop with her best friend said."That is the blackest water I have ever seen," her best friend said."It looks like what water would look like if it were alive and died," she said and they laughed. "So black."Just then two of the creature's tentacles caught Sue by both her legs and because she wasn't holding on tight enough she got pulled back and PWAF! She fell into the water."Sue!" Emily shouted and wasting not even a second to think about what she was about to do Bella sliced through the tentacle around her left hand and the other around her waist and PWAF! She dived into the water after her; with all the players giving out the heaviest of gasps, the viewers too. Did what just happen really just happen? One of the players just got dragged into the darkest of dark water and another dove in right after; the darkest of dark water they still didn't know was safe or not."Ha!" a man watching on h
Waiting on suddenly something happened. The sea urchins began to pull back and POOSH! POOSH! POOSH! Water started to squirt in through the holes made by their spines. The holes were small but they were numerous and each one had water squirting in from it. Water that squirted on them and began to wash off the dark water from the previous car that had stained their clothes, their skin and their hair; with each one of the players with hands over their faces to shield them from the water that was squirting in from everywhere. It was then that they got up onto the seats."Oh no the car is going to flood," a boy watching on his laptop said."Oh my gosh the thing is going to flood," a girl watching on her phone said. "Drowning is my worst fear.""Ha! We're going to die. We're going to drown and we're going to die," Reggie said; already freaking out."No one's going to drown," Den said."We are so going to drown," Mandy said; as the car began to fill. The water had just started coming in and
The car was completely flooded and the players just floated there holding their breaths; looking to the clock which read 2:10 and then at each other wondering who was going to run out of air first and drown. A sight that was going to be one of the hardest things either of them ever saw. Who would want to see people drown? And worse off when those people were people you had come to care for. It was such a terrible thing and to think that seeing each other drown was going to be the last thing they saw before they themselves drowned and exited the game was something that brought an actual pain to their chests. They all hoped that they were going to win and so not only exiting the game but doing so in such a cruel way had them quite shaken. The majority of them had tears coming out of their eyes but because they were completely submerged in water they couldn't be seen.They were hoping that once the clock hit two minutes flat that the door would open just like it had been before but it di
"How did she do that?" one of the software engineers in the control room asked and turned to Mr. Kingman who was standing on his platform watching the outro on the main screen. "How is she able to hold her breath for that long?""She's an assassin remember, they train their bodies to do the most ridiculous things so that they can be able to work themselves through any scenario to take out their targets. And she's the best of them so that's probably nothing compared to what she can actually do," Mr. Kingman said and faintly smirked to himself. "And how's her following going?"Another engineer typed something on his keyboard and the bets popped up on one of the screens. It was a bar chart of the all the players that were still in the game and the number of bets that had come in and were continuing to do so."Bella's up to two million bets whilst the others are still stuck in the bottom half of the one point hundreds," the engineer answered."Good." Mr. Kingman looked on at the chart wit