Chapter 3

They haven't even been on these buses for half an hour and Bellamy watched as his classmates were loud and rowdy. One of the jocks was up and standing, screaming out something the other guys were boosting about, sounding like regular idiotic teenagers that got drunk at high school parties.

Noticing a flash of red in his eyes, Bellamy looks down the aisle, catching the strands of Indigo's hair, blowing in the wind as it comes through the window. He watched as she sat with her friend, Amelia. Laughing along with her friends about whatever it was they were speaking.

Seeing Indigo smile made Bellamy happy, feeling butterflies in his stomach. His crush was so painfully evident that it physically hurt, but he didn't know if she felt the same way in the slightest. But his friends–they have, that is something Bellamy cherishes. Indigo seemed to have caught his stare and smiled, to which Bellamy responded with a blush, then an eye out the window. Hearing a giggle at his antics and causes his blush to worsen.

Time went by as he stared out the window and talked to Claudia, who sat right next to him, writing in her journal, Vex under their legs, something about her dream the night before. Listening to her explain what she dreamt of, the aim was darker than her normal dreams were. But this was pretty close to the worst. But soon, he finds himself dozing off to sleep. Claudia figured he didn't get much sleep and let him, keeping an eye out on him.

Letting his eyes shut, he let himself drift off to sleep. Allowing himself to relax in his seat, the noise around him goes duller, and he focuses on the sensation of the bus moving under him.

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The feeling of pain was unmistakable, and this pain was nothing like what he felt before, the sense of skin being ripped open. The cold air stung horribly. Warmblood streamed down from the gashes, worsening the pain.

The blades' swooshing sounded through the air, hitting its mark before going back up and hitting it yet again in another spot, making a deep gaping wound. The scene before him was chilling to the bone, as he kept watching as he kept stabbing. He couldn't stop until the person gets what he deserves.

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Bellamy is shot awoke by a scream that sounded from the back of the bus, as one of the jocks has his head out of the window, Screaming from the top of their lungs, passing cars. A teacher is trying to get the kid to get his head back in the window, fearing for his safety. They were so loud the others were screaming for them to quiet down. They were resulting in them being louder.

It was so loud that the driver was getting distracted and yelling back behind his shoulder to get the kids quiet. He looked around in front of him just in time to see the railing for the road. He was swerving away and slamming on his brakes, ending up hitting the bus behind them. The bus then circled and landed back on its wheels, leaning against the wall of the cliff.

Bellamy slowly got up, opening his eyes as pain shot through his body. He noticed that he had glass all over him; cuts and bruises are searing in pain as he tries to move, even crack his neck. Looking around, he noticed that the bus had crashed, and almost everyone, save for a few, was unconscious.

Looking to his right, he saw his sister sitting there unconscious, bleeding from her forehead. Vex under the seat, panting heavily and whimpering. He was scared after the crash, staying still until Bellamy moved. He shot up and stared at Bellamy intensely whimpering.

Giving a slight pat to Vex, he turns and grabs Claudia's shoulder, giving it a gentle shake, trying to wake up his sister. When she didn't wake, he moved over to find a teacher when a hand grabbed his arm.

Jumping at the sudden touch, he looked back quickly, seeing Claudia's hand and looking at her with relief in his entire being. He hugged his sister tightly as he silently thanked whatever being it was that protected her from being hurt. He let go, figuring it was long enough and looked towards the others. The one he noticed right away was Indigo with her bright red hair, even in the dimly lit light from the windows.

Getting up from the seat, He, Claudia, and Vex walked up to the teachers, who huddled by the driver seat, who seemed to have been sitting still for however long it was. The teachers were blocking the mirror so that no one could see if he's okay. Claudia launched on to Bellamy as he walked up. The worried voices of the teachers were prominent in the teacher's voices as they got closer.

"Mr. Trancy?" Bellamy said cautiously, not knowing what was going on. "What happened? What's going on?" The principal turned around towards Bellamy and then the rest of the class.

"You guys will have to get off the bus but off the back. You can't leave from the front. Imagine it as a fire drill!" He tried sounding as he always does, but his worried face set off the others into questions in the students. It had prompted a lot of questions, and yells were sound.

Bellamy looked to his right and caught a look at Indigo as she stared out the window, her face white as a sheet. Bellamy looked out the window at the strange sight of fog or steam, and he wasn't sure what it was. It moved as if there was a wind moving it. He looked towards Indigo and then moved towards the back towards the door to jump out of the bus.

Waiting for the line of classmates, Bellamy jumped down and turned around to grab Claudia's hands and help her down from the bus. She immediately grasps onto his arm with a frightened look on her face. Bellamy helps Vex down after coaching the dog to move towards him. After Vex got out of the bus, he immediately alerted Claudia's panic. He was jumping on her, telling her to sit down.

Bellamy moves Claudia to the curb and sits her down, standing by her, so she doesn't panic anymore than she already was. He looked around towards the others, getting out of the bus and finally calming down from the crash, and assessing their wounds. Some weren't hurt, other than whiplash. Some were injured, with a lot of blood coming from their injuries due to the glass. But other than that, they're surprisingly fine and intact.

Indigo then came out of the bus and walked to the middle of the road. Bellamy watched her as she looked like she was in the midst of an episode of some kind. She looked towards one way of the road, then to the other, the look of fear evident on her face, before walking over to the two siblings, looking over the edge of the rails.

"Indigo? What's wrong?" It was a little hard to see her through the fog, but the red was hard to miss. She looked at Bellamy with wild eyes; she looked at the others and went off to find the teachers, muttering something about 'needing to move and not stay here.' He watched her go up to the teachers and argue with them in confusion. He didn't understand anything she was saying at all. Why move? Is there someone coming for them? What's going on here?

Time went on as she had left to argue with the teachers, and no one came, not even the other buses. There were only two buses in the area, and there was half of a class and Bellamy's class. The luxurious buses crashed against the hill or the rails. The wind blew a chill, causing Bellamy to shake, curling in on himself, tightly holding Claudia's arm as it clenched to him. Feeling her trembling against him, he wraps his arm protectively around his younger sister, hiding her from the cold.

She looked up to her brother as he took off his hoodie to give her it, which he tried to refuse. But after placing it in her lap, she gave up and put the hoodie on. She was gratefully looking at her brother and smiles. Smiling back, he nudges her arm with a small laugh as he stands up. She was watching her brother move; her anxiety spikes again before Vex settles her down. He started walking towards the arguing people by the bus.

"We don't need to go anywhere, Indigo Chaplin! We heed to wait for backup!" the principal exclaimed out loud at her. Getting tired of his student's constant badgering, but she isn't letting down, she continued.

"But we won't get anywhere here! We can find something to get out to people in town!" She pushed back with a stubborn look on her face, not stopping until they moved from their current area. She and the principal continue for a good 20 minutes.

"And what do you know about this area? Why should we go farther into town when we are fine right here!?" He yelled at her, which silenced Indigo. Looking away, she muttered something under her breath. "What was that, young lady?"

Looking at the principal again, she said, "Because I've been here before. I pretty much know this town like the back of my hand. I know that staying here won't do anything for the time we're going to be here! We need to move now!" She said sternly. Stubbornly staying on the subject, she stares at the principal. They stare each other down, and neither backed down from their staredown.

This argument lasts for a good 10 minutes before the principal falters and gets broken down from her constant badgering. He crumbled under her stares, gave up on his decision, and decided to listen to what she had to say. She seems to know more than he did about this place than anyone else did.

She started in the direction that Bellamy assumed the town was in, but her body language made him feel a little more confident about the situation. She seemed to know where she was going, and that's all Bellamy needed to get through this.

Following Indigo is the best bet to figure out what's going on here.