Riley's POV 

Once Lucas had said it, everyone had turned towards me with beading eyes repeating it; 

"Kill Riley Matthews." 

Maya's laughs fill in the silence in between each repetition. 

"What the hell did you do to them?!" I scream at a still laughing Maya. 

"They wanna kill you now!" She breathes. 

Before I could respond, I hear the sound of something ripping. I turn to find that 'my friends' had escaped their poor-quality trap. They all start walking towards me. So, I do the most positive and smart thing to do; I ran to the top of the building, threatening my life and everyone else's. 

I am much faster than 'my friends' so I make it to the roof with time to make a force field that they couldn't get through. 

I finally hear them coming up the steps. 

"Kill Riley Matthews." 

They all walk into the force field, but after realizing what it is, they start to bang on it, making it harder for me to keep it up. With each hit they put on the force field, the harder it is to hold on. They keep hitting harder and harder until it finally shatters, and they walk through like nothing just happened. 

"Kill Riley Matthews." 

They are all in sync, walking on the same foot, breathing at the same time, same hand motions. It must be some type of brain washing or something. Maybe they're being controlled. 

"Kill Riley Matthews." 

I need to break the trance that they're in. But how? 

Then it hits me. I need to get to the ledge of the building. 

✕Powered By AlbireoIris catches up with me and starts to tug on my shirt. I struggle to get her off because I haven't had a full workout in months. I pull and tug until I hear a rip, and I can't feel her on me anymore. I look back and realize that she had ripped part of my shirt off. 

Man, I love this shirt, too. 

I try to create another force field, but my powers are being whacked-up at the worst time possible, most likely because I'm shaking so much. 

They are getting closer and closer, and they seem to be getting faster. 

I continue running; I need to get away from them. But me, being the klutz that I am, have to trip and fall. I stumble and face plant into the ground, pain shooting through my body on impact. 

Nice going, Riley. 

I scramble to get up, noticing that they aren't far behind me. My feet do several double takes, finally regain balance, and keep me running again. 

I've almost reached the edge of the building when someone jumps out and grabs onto my foot for dear life. I look down and see that it's Sam, struggling to keep her grip on my foot. I try to kick her off, but she's too heavy. I try to run, but she's weighing me down. I struggle until I finally feel my foot loosen from my shoe. I pull my leg up, and my foot comes out, leaving Sam with my shoe. 

Damn, I love those shoes, too. 

Sam doesn't realize what had happened until I was a couple feet ahead of her. I hear her grunt, and I felt something smash into the back of my head, causing me to face plant, yet again, into the concrete. I try to life myself off of the ground, but pain shoots throughout my body while doing so. I try a couple more times, but every time I just fall back down, causing me even more pain. 

Once I finally got up, my head was pounding, and the world was spinning. My legs ached, as did the rest of my body; my arms, my stomach, my back. But I still kept running. The edge of the building wasn't far. 

I suddenly feel a sharp pain go through my fore arm, and I scream in pain. I saw something fly in front of me, and I guess that they're now throwing stuff at me. 

"Kill Riley Matthews." 

I feel a trickle down my arm, but I ignore it for now, trying to get towards the ledge. I grab my arm where it hurts, only causing more pain, but stopping the bleeding for now. 

I then feel another sharp pain go through my shin. I let out another cry in pain, but I continue limping towards the ledge as I feel blood fall down my leg. 

Once I finally get to the ledge, I pull myself up to where I can see all of New York. I turn back towards the monsters that are my friends. They are really close to me. 

"Don't move! Or...or I'll jump!" I say, carefully backing up towards the edge. They don't stop moving. 

✕Powered By Albireo"I'm going to jump off if you don't stop!" I scream. I back up a little loo far, and loose my balance. I try to keep my feet planted, but they go all over the place, and my body is hard to balance. I start to tip over the edge, loosing my balance with my arms going every which direction. If it wasn't for the hand that caught me, I would've actually fell. 

I look up, relieved to see that Lucas had caught me. 

"You have to be more careful, Princess." I let out a sigh of relief and softly smile. He pulls me back up, and I immediately collapse from the pain. "Riles, you okay?" Lucas asks as he kneels next to me. I check out my arm and see the blood oozing from it. I didn't even look at my leg. 

"Yeah, I'm good. Just a couple scratches, but that's not the important thing right now." I say, ignoring the pain when I stand up. 

I turn to see everyone back to normal, holding their heads as if they had headaches. 

Lucas jumps down onto the roof and then helps me down. "Okay, people. Now that we haven't murdered Riley, we need a plan." Lucas says. 

"Right. Anyone have any ideas?" I add. Everyone stays silent. 

Then something comes to me. "I got it!" I exclaim. We all huddle up, and I explain to them what we're going to do. 

"Everyone got it?" I ask. Everyone nods. "Good. Now hands in!" I put my hand in the middle of the huddle, but no one follows. I look around, annoyed. "C'mon guys! I wanted to have a really cool movie moment there! But you know whatever. Lets just go kick some witch butt." I say. 

Man, I hope this works.