Chapter 4

Mara's POV

''No!'' I screamed loudly.

The boys jumped out of their skins, jumped up and stumbled back. Mick tripped over Fabian's motionless body.

''Mara..What..what is it?'' Jerome said shakily. He was wiping his eyes. All three of them looked like they had been dragged through a bush, ran over by a train..and then beaten to a pulp.

''Amber..then Patricia..i heard them in my..head!'' i yelled, my voice broke on the word ''Head''

The boys looked at me as if i had just grown a second head.

''Mara...Nina,Fabian,Amber and Patricia...have..have...passed..away!'' Jerome shouted. Then he broke down in tears.

''Mara...we..we need to get..help...Trudy's upstairs...or she might be..i dont know..i just dont know what to do...'' Mick said weakly.

''We..we need to get rid of..'' Jerome said shakily. He pointed to the bodies of our friends on the floor.

''No!'' i heard Amber yell in my head.

''Mara...litsen to me..i know its hard to believe..but we are not dead...just..erm...well i dont exactly know where i am..and its not WE its ME..im on my own...i dont know where the others are..its so dark and im scared..i want my mum..''

She wasen't making sense..

''Wait...your not dead?'' I whisperd.

''Nope...well i dont feel dead...and all i can see and hear now is my rotting corpse..or maybe its not rotting...its just there...with..Fabian and Nina..and Patricia..

Then i heard her sobbing again.

''I cant believe that...twit killed us!'' Amber yelled in my head.

I managed to smile. Just a tiny smile. Trust Amber to call a murderous psychopath a ''Twit''

''How can we help you?'' i said quietly. Then tears started to dribble out of my eys and down my face...

''Mara..'' Amber said softly.

''But your dead...we can't help you'' i whisperd.

''Yes you can..and for god's sake stop telling me we're dead...its bad enough seeing my...my...my...bod-y on the floor like that..and Poor Neens and Fabian...''

Then i heard her crying again.

''Mara..Please help me!'' Amber sobbed.

''Just..just give me something i can...help you with..i can't do this on my own!'' i hissed, still sobbing. My voice was shaking.

''I'll..i can try...'' Amber said, still sobbing.

Suddenly there was a huge gust of wind. I swirled round to see a book..which was not lieing there before...on the stone floor next to Fabian's head.

I shakily stood up, took a deep breath and staggerd over to it.

Then i picked it up.

''With this...You can bring us back..our souls were sacrificed..But you can bring us back...'' Then Amber started crying again.

The name of the book gave me shivers down my spine.

''Egyptology, Bringing the Dead back to Life'' The book read.

''What am i supposed to do?'' i said, my voice was barely a whisper.

''Page forty two..wait Oh My God..Trudy...she's coming!'' Amber squealed in my head making me wince.

Suddenly Trudy appearedn in the cellar doorway.

''Kids! What on earth are you doing here?...You could catch anything down...''

Then she caught sight of Nina. Nina Martin sprawled out on the floor, beneath a pool of blood, Fabian was next to her. Fabian Rutter. He was faced down on the stone floor.

Amber Millington and Patricia Williamson...Dead next to them.

They were all dead..no doubt about it...

But i knew they were'nt.

The boys, still sobbing looked at Trudy. They had no idea what to say, how to explain this simple of act of murder. Murder upon our friends.

Trudy staggerd back, still looking at the bodies of Fabian and Nina, she then put a shaky hand to her mouth..

And let out one of the most terrifieing screams i had ever heard in my entire life.

''Trudy! Oh my god, i can't believe she can see me like that!'' Amber yelled in my head, her voice sounded clogged, still sobbing and full of emotion.

''Tr..u..d...d..y..We can..explain...'' Mick stutterd.

But all what came out of Trudy's mouth was:

''No!''