Episode 5

The next thing Zach knew, his eyes were staring into the tiny follicles in the carpet. Someone shouted, but his ears rang too loudly to make it out. The floor vibrated - more bodies landing on the carpet with dull thuds.
"Get down!"
"What the hell, man!"
"We didn't do anything! Obviously!"
Zach slowly turned his neck so that he could look up at the commotion.
Jacob, the actor with a grizzly beard, had a gun pointed at Blake, who now also laid flat on the ground. Everyone had wild looks in their eyes; first Taylor's hanging and mangled body and now this.
"What are you doing?" Aaron demanded. He knelt like the rest of them but didn't resist glowering.
"This park is officially on lockdown. You, the employees and the entire park will undergo a thorough investigation," Jacob stated.
"What are you some kind of cop?" Gerald grunted.
"Yup."

*****

Macy sobbed quietly in a corner, dabbing the blood off from her face with trembling hands. Matt provided an endless line of multicolored handkerchiefs from his sleeve. Some of the red remains stayed stained in her white-blonde hair; speckles of proof from tonight's grizzly events.
Everyone had been shoved into this dressing room backstage; Macy and Matt, Zach, Spencer, Gerald, Blake, Andrew, Jordan, and now the witches, Natalie, Jen, and Tina. Jacob brought them in last, rounding them up from the stage after Tina fainted.
Natalie shifted her eyes across the room, examining everyone's face and features; anything to distract from what she'd just seen. Seconds, it felt like seconds, before the show Natalie talked to Taylor. She didn't know what it was exactly, but that blonde was one of the Wonder World employees she didn't find totally annoying. They could've been friends if they ever had the chance to hang out after work. Not anymore.
In a way, Natalie felt guilty. She knew it was irrational, bad people will do bad things regardless of the circumstance, but still. What if she hadn't' asked for Taylor's help in finding her grandma? Taylor looked so eager to assist too...
It's all too familiar, Natalie thought. This feeling of dread and a darkness pressing down on her - making it hard to breathe, see, feel...
She and Jen sat cross-legged on the floor with Tina sleeping in their laps. A blonde boy had fallen asleep as well, though not because the situation made him feel relaxed by any means. His face looked paler than a corpse.

"Did you guys know he was undercover?" Gerald suddenly asked the actors.
Jordan, eyes pink from crying, sniffled and glared up at him, "No..."
Andrew sat on the black stylist chair's next to a glamorous vanity mirror. He twirled in the seat once before responding, "I had no idea, just thought he was... eccentric? I guess that means he's a good actor after all!"
"Who cares about the cop!" Macy cried, "Taylor is literally hanging from the ceiling with her guts out for the whole world to see. Someone did this!"
Jordan huffed. A tension started to slowly build in the room. "We haven't had any issues until you guys showed up."
"What's that supposed to mean," Matt snorted, "We didn't do this."
"Ugh, enough!" Natalie barked. Everyone looked in her general direction. Jordan frowned, clearly not satisfied yet.
"I saw someone in the rafters..." Natalie explained, "So I know it wasn't any of you. Or us."
The pale boy asleep on the floor rose from the dead, his interest captivated. Odd, Natalie studied him a while longer, he looked familiar. Or similar? Taylor... Natalie put the pieces together. She did say she had a cousin working at Wonder World named Zach.
"Who did you see? What did he look like?" Aaron blurted, "This is great, we can tell them what you know."
"He was in all black," Natalie grimaced, "Almost impossible to see anything other than his outline..."
That seemed to make everyone join in communal terror. Blake's face hardened until he looked rough as stone. Natalie gazed down at her grandma, stirring in her sleep like a nightmare plagued her mind.
"What do you think is happening out there now?" Jen said.
"People are probably scrambling to get to the exits," Blake muttered, "The ones from the theater that didn't get pulled aside like we did, that's for sure. They'll evacuate everyone else from the park eventually..."
"I don't want to be trapped in here," Macy sniffed.

"Mmm..."
Jen nudged Natalie's shoulder. Tina's eyes flickered open, this time their normal color returned. After Tina's episode on stage, Natalie knew people would be suspicious of her. But it wasn't any of them, Natalie knew, it wasn't... human.

No one believed her last time. Who'd believe her now? Now that it's happened again...