"Wh-what?"

"Don't you see? I never liked your little group to begin with! You were just tools to benefit me!"

"Please Jayden, you don't have to do this!" I tried to reason, to talk some sense into him.

But he wouldn't listen...

Then, I saw it.
His eyes...
They were turning red...
He had been infected!

Ohnoohnoohno!
What do we do!?

Then, he attacked.
I braced myself, but the attack never came.
I looked up, Drea was holding him back!
I quickly willed the water in HQ to gather in front of us and create a shield.

He kept hacking at us.
We kept defending.
But we all knew that sooner or later, it was either him or us.

I tried to keep up the shield but I couldn't do it forever...

"I'm sorry Jayden! Things is for your own good!"

Kitty!?

*Slice*
Blood flowed out like the delicate petals of the red rose, except they weren't the blossoms of love, they were turning black and Jayden was very much dead.

Shout out to brokenmiddlefinger for inspiring the last paragraph of this chapter!