Wow. Another chapter for no reason. And thanks, 67Sexy-Whales42, for making such awesome stories like 'Tag, You're It' and 'The Sky Goes On Forever', even if you don't read mine. And saying that I type like a guy. I don't know why I felt so happy when you wrote a PM with that in it. I also don't know why I felt like writing this. Eh.

"Yup! Although it kept on flying away, we managed to get it!" Len exclaimed. "We even resorted to climbing on top of each other!"

... Climbing on top of each other? I thought, thinking of the formation as well.

It sure looked strange.

"You sure stayed here like an old man while we were chasing for this map," Meiko said, leaning on the wall.

And that statement made me feel like an arrow stabbed my heart out of stupidity.

"Eh, anyway, I think we should start now," I said, trying to change the subject.

"Okay!" Luka said, and we all picked up our respective bags and went out of the house.

After fifty minutes of walking non-stop, we reached the woods. Like all woods in those scary shows, and unlike all woods in those scary shows...

This one was EXTREMELY creepy. Just one look at it, it could chill you to the bone. And because of that, we all felt like re-considering entering the woods, or just go by another route. Without even discussing, we mentally decided by ourselves to look for another route and simultaneously peered at the map.

Unfortunately, there were no other routes.

We all sighed and bravely stepped into it. Shutting our eyes tightly, we tried to prepare ourselves for anything that could be coming.

Nothing happened.

This time, we sighed in relief, but now all of us couldn't move. Not due to laziness like my incident just now, but the nervousness that just decided to stay in our stomachs. But we were determined to to this.

We carefully walked our way through the woods, our anxiety increasing with every step.

After so many hours of walking in the 'endless' woods, we finally saw the gate of the mansion in the distance.

I felt like hugging everyone. We got out of the woods unscathed. Maybe because we were so cautious that nothing happened.

So we went towards the mansion. When we were a lot closer, we saw the metal gate swaying and creaking in the wind.

Even when there wasn't any wind in there.

We tried to 'dodge' the gate while going in so nothing would notice our presence. Hopefully.

When we just climbed up one step of the many steps to the door...

The door seemed to have opened up by itself, making loud noises. A gust of cold wind greeted us. A few seconds later, the gate dropped to the ground with a loud thud. We looked intensely at the broken gate that was on the ground and slowly turned our heads to look into the house of what seemed like endless darkness.

It was as if someone was actually expecting us. Could it have been them? Were they just thinking of devouring us for coming this far?

We all gulped. We could be risking our lives here. Wait, we were risking our lives here. We breathed in deeply. It was as if our minds were linked in a way. Now we were REALLY thinking of maybe not doing this at all. We could all just run away.

No.

We had to do it. We must do it.

Even though our minds were racing we boldly decided to continue this journey and stepped into the house together.

Our fate had been decided ever since we even formed a team to do this.

And there was no way we could ever, ever turn back.

So... how was it? I myself must say that I suck at writing horror stories. Damn. With nothing much to say, but the usual 'homework sucks' attitude... eh.

Please tell me if there's any mistakes, like usual, I don't have time to check. And this is the longest chapter yet. I was right. The later chapters WOULD get longer. Even though this still IS short...

With happs and thanks for reading,

Sal :D

24 April 2013