Chapter 1 – The Castle
Axel wasn't sure why he had decided to break into the old castle, all of Hollow Bastion had avoided it for as long as he'd known and rumour had it that the castle was haunted. 18 year old Axel Flare had never really believed in the undead so as far as he was concerned there was nothing to fear from the long deserted castle, he was perfectly safe – unless the stairs fell through.
There was no good in changing his mind about exploring now though, he was already halfway down the basement stairs, although the upstairs certainly hadn't been particularly interesting. Lots of gone off food, old fashioned clothes and books. The whole place was dusty and ancient looking, nothing to fear here. Axel smirked to himself, haunted, as if, that sort of stuff was never real. Still, he had done his research on this particular escapade, no point breaking his neck looking for nonsense in the wrong places; the basements were supposedly the more interesting part, after all the deal behind the avoidance of the castle was the story that the castle had labs in the basement. Labs in which an apprentice had once died. Still, that was more than likely a rumour designed to scare children away from the building, it was probably just structurally unsound or something. A death in a historical lab, yeah right, the ghost of an apprentice, now that was just stupid. Axel reached the bottom of the stairs and opened the door to the main room.
