All Chapters of The Rip: Chapter 31 - Chapter 33

Nick didn’t answer. He just stared at Gabe, jaw tight, breathing through his nose like he was bracing for a punch.Susan laid the satellite printout on the bench between the kettle and the fruit bowl. Glossy paper slid over stray droplets Nick had splashed when he’d rinsed his mouth. She pinned the corners with whatever was close—an empty mug, a salt shaker, her phone, a sealed evidence pouch with a single hair inside.“Look,” she said.It wasn’t just a map. It was layered—shoreline, sewer grid, stormwater, mains. Over that: heat blooms, IR traces, EM spikes. A dotted thread began at Crescent Cove, curled past the wharf, then split like veins—one toward the school, one along the apartment blocks that climbed the hill.“These aren’t random hits,” Susan said. “They’re recency-weighted. Last forty-eight hours, brightest to oldest. School pool lights up like a Christmas tree—Jasmine, Nathan. Then this building—fifteen minutes before the call came in. Two signatures. They move through the

Behind the main school building, near the water mains, a low, unnatural vibration hummed from beneath the ground. The pipes began to shudder, rattling violently as unseen pressure built within. Joints strained, bolts groaned, and then—CRACK!Water exploded from the connections, gushing out in high-pressure bursts as something surged through the system and forced its way into the building.All at once, the school’s watering systems flared to life—spraying jets of water high into the air, their trajectories eerily aligned, all aimed in the direction of the gymnasium.Inside every school building, sinks, toilets, and utility rooms erupted. Faucets blasted open, showers turned into geysers, and pipes burst in fountains of chaos.Windows shattered outward as entire classrooms were gutted by forceful blasts of water, sending glass and debris into the air.The school was vomiting water in every direction—The demon had arrived.And it was hunting.Inside the gym, rock and roll blasted from