Chapter Twelve
Darkness Falls
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While Nick was up on the third floor, the others were still sitting in the room
trying to figure out what to do about this whole thing.
“Guys, we gotta go and look for Nick! He’s probably in a ton of trouble right
now,” Teri said, sounding scared.
“Teri’s right,” Kevin said, “we need to go look for Nick, maybe we can help him
out before he gets into too much trouble.”
None of the others looked to happy about leaving them room, all were
thoroughly scared now. All of them were in the middle of something they never
meant to get into.
The others finally agreed to go look. AJ went to go open the door when all of a
sudden they heard a scream echo through the house, followed by an eerie
laughter. They all stopped short and stared at each other in horror.
“Oh shit. What the hell was that?” Chris said softly.
“They had to be Nick, oh god, something must have happened to him,” Emily
said.
“Let’s get out of this hall and start looking around. There is 4 floors to this place,
he could be anywhere,” Lance told everyone.
The others nodded and started walking down the hall. They reached the end of
it and JC looked out the window next to the entrance of the hall. He could see
the sun setting on the horizon and he sighed, they still had all night to spend in
this place with God knows what happening to them. What him and the others
didn’t know is that when darkness fell, the place would turn into even more of a
hell then now.
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After falling through the floor, Nick ended up landing on a hard floor.
“Owww....fuck!!” he yelled out as he hit the concrete.
He slowly stood up, rubbing his sore back. “Aww....where the hell am I now?”
Wherever he was, it was pitch black. He tried to feel his way around but all his
hands hit were air. Nick strained his eyes to at least see something but all he
saw was blackness. “Might as well just sit on the floor here and wait for someone
to find me,” he thought.
As soon as Nick thought that a chilling wind whipped through the room and the
sound of heavy breathing could be heard. Nick froze. It was the same sound as
before when he had been in the room with everyone. Nick slowly started to back
up, wanting to get away from whatever was in the room with him. As he was
backing up, he smacked into something. Nick wanted to scream but managed to
contain it. He slowly lifted hi head and felt what he had pushed into. It felt like a
wooden board, very rough feeling. Then his hand hit something smoother and
rounded. His yanked his hand back when he hit something sticky and wet.
“What the....” Before Nick could finish that thought, there was a flicker and a
bunch of dim lights flicked on. He was in a very large room with a huge door on
either end of it. Blocking the doors were rusted over metal bars. Nick looked at
what he had been touching and screamed. He jumped back in fright and stared
at it. The wooden board had been one of those things that hold people in
confinement after committing crime, they were from centuries ago. What was
being held in it though was what made Nick scream. The skeleton of a person
was still in it and there was blood all over it. As he watched, he noticed that
blood seemed to be still coming from the skeleton, which Nick thought was
extremely weird since skeletons don’t bleed. He look around the rest of the room
and saw that many other skeletons were trapped in the same kind of things and
all of them were bleeding also.
Nick was extremely scared now. Hadn’t Justin talked about seeing bleeding
skeletons? Nick felt another presence in the room and quickly turned around. His
eyes widened when he saw a figure in a black robe standing at the other end of
the room. He couldn’t even see their face because it was covered. Nick heard the
heavy breathing start again and realized it was coming from that thing. He slowly
started backing up towards the other door and just as he did, the thing started
walking towards him. Then the sound of screaming and pleas for help filled the
room. Nick looked around and stared in shock as the skeletons came to life and
started to move in their confinements.
As Nick was running towards the door, one of the skeletons reached out and
grabbed his arm. Nick screamed and yanked it away, the blood of the skeleton
now on him. The thing that had been walking towards him was now closer and
started to reach out towards him. Nick looked at the hand and saw it was only a
skeletons hand, no flesh covered it at all. Nick continued running at the door and
finally reached it, but it was locked, the metal bars making it impossible to open
the door.
“Oh God no! I don’t wanna die! Please don’t let me die!!” he screamed.
Nick felt something on his shoulder and that same cold feeling washed over him.
He slowly turned around and stared at the thing in front of him. It’s eyes glowed
through the blackness of it’s hood. Then it reached it’s hands up and slowly took
it’s hood off. Nick could only stare, he couldn’t move or scream. It was the head
of a skeleton but it had glowing eyes. It gave an evil laugh and in a deep,
menacing voice said “Time for you to die like the other people here.”
Nick stared at the thing in horror before it grabbed him and he felt himself
slipping into an icy blackness, and there was nothing he could do to stop it.
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Meanwhile, the others were still on the second floor, deciding on how to look for
Nick.
“Ok, guys, there’s 4 floors to this house and then there’s the basement. There’s
12 of us here. I think we should pair up and each group should be assigned a
place to look, what does everyone think?” Brian said.
The rest of them looked at each other nervously then they all nodded. “We’ll do
it,” Justin replied, “I’m just not gonna be the one to look in the basement. I
absolutely refuse to go back down there.”
“And I’m not staying up here to check out this floor,” Teri added in, “I’ve already
seen enough up here.”
“Ok ok, fine.” Howie said, wanting to get this over with. “So, who wants to go
with who?”
The 12 of them paired up and chose where to go look for Nick. This is how it
ended up, Brian and Teri would be up on the fourth floor. Emily and Laura were
going to on the third floor. Joey and AJ would be staying on the second floor.
Chris and Justin would be on the first floor. JC and Kevin would be on the
basement and Lance and Howie would be looking around, trying to find a way
out of the house.
“Ok, good luck everyone and try not to have anything happen to you,” Kevin
warned them all.
They all nodded and went their separate ways unsure of what they would find
through the rest of the house.
As they were walking to their destinations, the sun slipped fully behind the
horizon and the house turned even darker then before. Darkness had just fallen
and the long night still lay ahead of them.
Chapter Thirteen - Disappearances
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