LATER THAT NIGHT-
Mary is laying with Steven, reading the book.
Mary: This one is really messed up, it's about a supposed demonic book that made some guy chop up his friends in a cabin.
Steven: Wonder what happen to the guy?
Mary: Says right here that he left town afterwards, he worked at a supermarket where he told stories of how he time traveled to the middle ages.
Steven: Wow really? Some people are just beyond strange.
Mary: Yeah, you tell me. I have to use the bathroom, be right back.
Steven: Alright.
Mary heads to the bathroom and after brushing her teeth, stares into the mirror.
Mary: (Scuffs) Nothing to worry about.
She continues to stare.
Mary: (Sighs) Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman…
She pauses for a bit.
Mary: Candyman
She heads back to bed, thinking the whole legend was just that, an urban legend.
Meanwhile, Lanie has taken the box and has entered the basement. She lights candles around her, and starts to solve it. She is more captivated each time the box moves.
After being solved, the box flies out of her hands, shocking her with slight electricity.
The electricity becomes larger as the walls crack, showing light with mist covering the entire room.
Muffled, deep voice calls to Lanie.
Deep voice: You have been drawn to the box, looking for what? As you sit, we feel your need for pleasure.
Lanie: Wait wait who are you?!
Deep voice: Not you.. But we
As the voice says this, quick flashes show of the source of this voice.
A man with etched squares in his face, with pins in each corner. Known by the underground occult circles as Pinhead.
Pinhead: We are the fine line between pleasure and pain, exquisite sensations beyond your wildest dreams or nightmares.
Lanie: Why!? Why are y'all here?
Pinhead: Simple, you opened the box, we were obliged to come.
Lanie: What do you want from me?
Pinhead: Your flesh, we will explore you for eons, we have many sights to show you.
Now Lanie is terrified, as this appears to be the night she dies.
She soon thinks of a way out.
Lanie: What… If I trade?
Pinhead: (Curious) An exchange of souls? Who do you have in mind.
Lanie: Jim and Stevens, you can take them.
Pinhead: We cannot take them, as they do not bare sins.
Lanie: What about…. Mary?
Pinhead: Mary Mckeever? She's the descendant of… She has slain innocence in her bloodline.
Lanie: Wait, who is she the descendant of?
Pinhead: Daniel Robitaille
Lanie: The Candyman?
Pinhead: They are one in the same. Now bring me her and we'll spare your soul.
Lanie: Deal
The electricity and conversation stops as Jim enters the room.
Jim: Is everything alright? I heard screaming.
Lanie: Yeah I fell, you can go back to bed.
While Lanie is down stairs, Mary is in bed asleep, having a strange dream.
She's in a brown field, touching the wheat softy with her fingers.
As the tint of the sunny day becomes darker, more brown, the screams of a man can be heard.
Mary: Hello?! Who's out there?!
The screaming stops as a man appears behind Mary.
Mary: Oh god! Not… Not you! You can't be! No… You're not real!
Candyman has arrived
Candyman: Your lack of belief has brought me here. Without belief I am nothing.
Mary: But why? Why does that matter.
Candyman: It matters cause I am the whisper you hear around the town, the whisper in the classroom, and the whisper in your bed. The legend keeps me immortal, join with me, and be immoral too.
Be my victim.
Be my victim…..
Mary soon wakes up and is absolutely terrified. She is shaking and crying, Steven wakes up too and tries to comfort her.
Steven: Hey hey, you all right?
Mary: (breathing fast and heavy) No I am.. I'm fine.. Let's get up
Steven: (semi confused) Alright then
The four adults wake up and plan the rest of the day. Jim and Lanie are going to the store while Steven and Mary stay.
While shopping, Lanie hears Pinhead.
Pinhead: (inside Lanie's head) Where is the soul of Mary Mckeever?!
Lanie steps away from Jim to speak to Pinhead. Jim is visibly confused by her walking away.
Lanie: Calm down, I have a plan. I'll use the body of her boyfriend to lure her down to the basement.
Pinhead: Do not waste our time, hurry up.
Pinhead leaves her mind.
Lanie walks back to Jim and continues to shop.
Jim: What was that back there?
Lanie: What was what?
Jim: Well you dipped, then started to talk to someone.
Lanie: That was my… Boyfriend
Jim: (upset) oh..
End of chapter two