-The Bride's Welcome and the Endless Hallway-
I know it's short, but there will be longer chapters in the future.
Phantom Manor belongs to Disney
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You enter the first room your feet take you to. Your breathing is as fast as the speed of sound as well as your heart. You can hear the lunatic laughter ringing in your ears. You can feel his deathly cold aura circling around you. You can feel him all over you. Your sides ache with an instant rush of pain as well as your legs and feet. You look back as you heave a sigh of relief.
The Phantom's not there.
However, his essence still lingers amongst your presence as you try to forget it.
Your eyes search for any source of light again. Nothing. You start to feel around for anything that will lead you onward into the Manor. Your fingertips lightly touch the wall as you use it as a guide to assist you through your journey. Your mind rushes with possibilities of what lies ahead as you soon feel the wall disappear into the shadows. However, a glimmer of light appears to the right of you. You can slowly feel the Phantom's presence dying aside from the fact that you know you and him will meet again. The Bride appears bowing to you, beckoning you to enter more into the gloom. She holds a lit candelabra, the source of light, and her undead bouquet of red roses as she wears a gentle smile that seems to never fade away. You bow to her as you journey into more of the Manor.
You manage to see a bit through the shadows as you navigate yourself past objects. One item catches your eye as you swear you see it move a bit. It's a regal knight of the past, however it's only the suit. Does the spirit of the knight live within the suit and haunt it?
You wonder.
You allow your mind to ignore it as you pass by it and makes no sudden movement. But just for the heck of it, you turn to see the knight. He is no longer standing on his post but now in the center of the doorway from whence you came. You turn around all the way as your body faces his. You can feel fear crawling around in the back of your head as you try not to acknowledge it. But sadly you do as you notice that the armor takes a step forward and you in return take a step backward. This continues for a few minutes and then it all stops. The next sound you hear is the twisting and turning of a doorknob as you turn your look behind you to see a mysterious green glow coming from a light and cloaking a door in it's horrid glory. You look to face the knight as he now stands a few feet in front of you, closer than ever. You don't know whether to believe your eyes or your mind as your swear to yourself that you see a demonic grin form on the knight's rusted helmet. It's either the cobwebs or the atmosphere as you hear it again.
The twisting and turning of that cursed doorknob. You look back as you see the doorknob moving madly as if someone was in a desperate desire to get out of both the room and the Manor. But you look deeper into the darkness and see her again. The Bride now lighting your way with the same source of light, the candelabra. However, it appears she seems to be fleeing from something. Running away and never looking back at the beginning horrors of the Manor that she is imprisoned to in her state. And yet you wonder, does she truly exist? Or is she a figment of your imagination? Her singing beckons you to travel farther on and attempt to escape the Manor before it's too late.
You dare not look back at the knight as you run like the Bride and not even think of looking back.
