Description: "Anyone hear that?" Andy asked. Hector, climbing in front of Andy, listened. "You mean that . . . buzzing sound?" "Yeah. What is it?" The sound was a chirping buzz, coming from all around. "Whatever it is, I don't like it," Hector said. He and Andy climbed in through the window. The main complex had lost power. Cracks crisscrossed the walls. The boys made their way slowly through the darkened halls of the school. Pyro's voice quavered, "Where is everybody? What's all over the floor?" "Something's all over the walls, too," Shields said. "And what is that smell?" Reilly exclaimed. "It's like something died in here. Yikes." "Hold on a second," Andy said. He checked in one of the offices off the corridor they were in. He could see papers scattered all over the floor. He opened the desk drawers, and rooted around a bit. "Aha!" A small penlight was in a tray filled with pens and pencils. He clicked it on and panned it around the room. "Oh, no . . ." He stumbled back out to the hallway, shining the penlight around. "It's . . . it's blood!" Blood was smeared along the walls, and spattered on the floor. It was everywhere, as if it had gushed and sprayed from the many cracks in the walls. "Hey, this is a joke, right?" Joey said, his voice cracking. "Where is everybody? What happened here? Where is everyone?" A sharp chittering sound echoed faintly through the hall.

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