Jerome was eight it was his third summer at Anubis house, his mother said she was too busy to bring him home, that's what she said last year and the year before that. Jerome didn't always mind he liked to explore the nearby woods and see what new places he could find he was used to being alone but on occasions three boys who lived in close proximity to the boarding school Kevin, Andrew and Taylor would come and they would hang out together, pull pranks and get in trouble together.
It was eight o'clock on a Friday when they came to visit Jerome they had two hours before Jerome had to be in for curfew so they decided to go to an old abandoned boarding house. It was even older then Anubis house, the Ammit house was rumoured to be haunted so the four boys were determined to check it out.
They drew straws to see who would go in first. Jerome had chosen the shortest straw so he was the first to go in alone.
"Okay you have to go in and then bring back something from the inside" Kevin said.
"And you have to look all around the house you can't bring something back from the hallway" Taylor added.
"Unless you're scared" Andrew finished and the three laughed.
"I ain't afraid of no ghosts" Jerome said smirking, quoting from ghost busters. He walked up the stairs to the house every step he took made a creek; he peeked in the dusty window before walking inside.
As soon as he was inside the door slammed shut he would have been scared but he knew it was just his friends playing a prank and being the king of pranks he wasn't going to fall for it.
Slowly he walked upstairs and into a room that was filled to the roof with cardboard boxes. Jerome began to rummage through the boxes until he came across a velvet red box with a golden lock it wasn't locked so he opened it and inside was a key properly to lock the box.
Suddenly the room became very warm and bright as he heard a voice say.
"You have released me."
He turned around to see a female demon with a body that was part lion, hippopotamus and crocodile. She transformed into her human form that was easier to look at. If this is a prank it was the best prank ever but he would be lying if he said he wasn't scared.
"I am the great Goddess Ammit, devourer of souls."
Jerome didn't move he stood there like he was glued to the spot.
"I will now take your soul as my prize" Ammit hissed.
Jerome ran as fast as he could down the stairs and out of the house of Ammit, Jerome was screaming at the top of his lungs he still had the box in his hands.
When outside He turned back to the house and saw that the goddess Ammit could not leave the house it was like there was some kind of force field around it preventing Ammit for getting out.
He turn back to his friends they were rolling on the ground laughing at him. It was obvious they had not seen the ghost.
"That house is haunted" Jerome said trying to catch his breath.
"Yeah of course it is Jerome" Andrew said laughing at him.
"Yeah we'll see you later" Taylor said trying to hold back his laughter.
"I'm telling the truth it's haunted by Ammit she wanted to eat my soul" Jerome screamed.
At this the boys burst out laughing even more then they were, before leaving Jerome there.
Jerome looked down at the box in his hand then back to the house he heard a faint whisper coming from the house.
"Revenge, revenge I will get my revenge."
Jerome then took off down the street towards Anubis house as fast as his legs could take him and ran into the house and jumped into Trudy's arms telling her everything that happened.
"It's okay it wasn't real" was all she could say in a soft comforting voice.