Chapter 3: At full moon
The two men walked across the lawn towards the circle of trees. Anthony gave a few slaps on the camera. "Nice, my camera is working again."
He said and he pointed the camera at Ian.
"Well, we are almost there. How are you feeling Ian?"
"I'm nervous." Ian said. "I'm mean, look at those trees. Why are they in a perfect circle?"
Anthony pointed the camera at the trees. "It is strange."
They came closer and Anthony's camera began to flicker again. "What the hell is wrong with this thing?" He said and stopped walking.
Ian went on and stopped in the center of the circle, he felt an icy wind. It did not feel good to be here, what if something goes wrong? Ian shook his head, he tried not to think about it. He was hoping that nothing will happen, so they could go back to the car.
Ian looked up, the branches of the trees look like claws of monsters. But he also saw that the moon almost shone over the circle.
"Come on, work." He heard Anthony. "Dammit, stupid thing."
"Anthony, you must see this." Ian said.
"One moment." Anthony said and slaps his camera. It worked again. "Alright, we are now in the center of this….weird circle. It is very strange that these trees are in a perfect circle, as if they are put down by people."
He pointed the camera at the trees and turned so he got all the trees. "I wonder what will happen now. Hopefully it's not boring, what do you think? "
Anthony turned his camera on Ian, who still looked up. "Dude, what are you looking at?"
He stood next to him. "Ian?"
But Ian continues to look up, so Anthony lowered his camera and followed Ian's gaze. The full moon slowly slipped over the trees, the men were hypnotized by the light.
After a few minutes the moon was right above the circle. Suddenly, the two men saw that the trees were illuminated. But when the moon went out of the circle, the light disappeared.
"What was that?" Ian asked and looked at Anthony.
"I have no idea." He said and pointed his flashlight at the trees. "Look!" Ian followed his gaze and was shocked.
There stood strange symbols on the trees. On one tree there was a symbol of a green clover and next was a symbol of a heart. Ian turned and pointed his flashlight at the other trees. There was a symbol of a firecracker, a turkey, an Easter egg and a Christmas tree.
Anthony also turned and pointed his flashlight to the trees. Ian tried to run away, but his friend grabbed him by his arm.
"What hell is this?" Anthony said. He let Ian go and grabbed his camera to film everything.
"This is really weird, man." Ian said. "I don't think we should…"
Anthony walked towards the tree with the Christmas symbol. He noticed something strange. "Ian, come look at this. It has a doorknob."
"A what?' said Ian and walked over to him.
"That thing has a doorknob." Anthony said. "Hold this." He gave Ian his camera and tried to open the door. It was locked.
"Those things are doors." Ian said and gave Anthony the camera back.
"Yeah, but for what?" He said and looked further around. Ian followed him. They tried the other doors, but they were all closed.
"They are all closed." Anthony said. "Is this the strange phenomenon? Closed doors?"
"What about that one?" Ian asked and shone his flashlight to another tree. It had the symbol of a jack-o'-lantern. "We have missed that one."
Ian walked to the tree and touches the doorknob. He got a shiver through his body and he opened the door. "This one is open."
Anthony walked to him. "What do you see?"
Ian looked, but he only saw darkness. "I don't see anything, it is completely dark."
Anthony wanted to step inside, but Ian stopped him. "Is this a good idea?" He asked.
"Come on man, what can go wrong?" Anthony said.
"Eh ... Everything?"
"Geez, where's your sense of adventure?" Anthony said and stepped inside. But suddenly he felt nothing. There was no solid ground. Anthony fell down and screamed.
"Anthony!" Ian cried and went after him and the door closed behind him.
Author's note:
I'm sorry that the chapters are short, I will try to make the next chapter longer :)