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Musa's POV
What the hell was a mansion doing out here? This seems like something you would find in a horror movie for god's sake!
This mansion was huge! From the front it had three parts that stuck out: one at the front and two at the sides. There was properly another one at the back but I couldn't see it. It had two small flights of stairs at the front that twirled around a little balcony leading to the front door. The windows were all cracked and shattered and the place looked like it had been abandoned for years. No wonder.
I looked up and stared at one of the windows. I gasped as I saw a figure walk past it. Everyone turned and looked at me.
"What's wrong Musa?" asked Layla.
"Yeah, is Musa scared?" Taunted Riven. I gave him daggers.
"No I'm not. I just-," I stopped. They wouldn't believe me. We all thought this place was abandoned and nothing I would say which change that. It would just make my life hell.
"It's just?" asked Flora.
"Nothing, come on lets go," I sighed. I started to the front of the house but stopped when no one followed me. I turned to face them. "You guys coming?"
They looked at me.
"Are we going in there?" Asked Timmy.
"I must say, I agree. Musa that place looks creepy. I really don't think we shou-,"started Tecna.
"I agree with Musa," said Riven. Everyone's mouths dropped open. "You see, maybe there is someone living in there and maybe they could give us a hand of where to go. And even if there isn't, at least we might be able to stay there until the morning."
I was shocked. First Riven agreed with me and second he had the guts to say what I was too scared to.
"Yeah, and maybe Brandon and the others are I there," contributed Nabu. Everyone looked at each other and started to nod. I looked at Bloom and she nodded. I turned and started to walk back up to the house, everyone following behind me.
Bloom's POV
As we walked up to the front door me, Riven, Layla, Nabu and Musa all went up the right staircase while the others went up the left. I didn't think anything of it until we got to the top.
As I went up the last step I noticed that the people who went up the left hand side where nowhere to be seen. I stared at the steps in confusion. I walked down them until I got to the bottom. Nothing happened. I started to walk back up the left hand side stairs when suddenly the stairs open and I went flying down. Before I could even let a scream out, the stairs had closed leaving no sign that I had just fallen into a trap.
Musa's POV
I looked around for Bloom. One minute she had been there, the next gone. I turned to the others.
"Have you guys seen Bloom?" I asked them. We were all at the top by now.
"No, I thought that she was in front of you," stated Nabu.
"She was but now she's not. It's almost like she disappeared."
"Speaking of disappearing, where is the others?" asked Layla.
"Oh who knows," said Riven. "They've probably gone looking at the outside of the house. Let's just go in already!"
Riven put his hand on the door handle.
"Uh Riven," I said. He looked at me, eye brows raised. "Don't you think you should at least ring the doorbell?"
He thought about this for a second. Well at least it looked like he was.
"No," he answered. He pushed the door open. You could tell it was heavy because Riven actually had to push to get it open. It made a huge booming noise that echoed around the empty walls. The hinges also started to squeak. We all tensed and stayed still for a moment to make sure that nothing was going to happen.
First to recover was Riven. He took his hand of the handle and walked in. He tried to make it look like he didn't care that this might have been someone's home but you could tell from the way he was looking all around him cautiously that he was scared.
We all followed suit afterwards. Not surprisingly me and Layla being last. We all looked around the gigantic room. It had one of those grand staircases in the middle. In fact, it looked a lot like the one from the movie Titanic… Minus the clock.
All around the walls were pictures of people. I went up to one of them.
Mary Cavendish 1735 – 1790
Wow. That person was ancient! Normally people from that time didn't live very long. But then again this lady looked extremely posh. I looked at the painting.
The lady had black hair which went right down to her waist. She had her nose held high and looked very snobbish. I'm glad I never met her. I moved on to the next one.
James Cavendish 1729 – 1762
He had brown hair and was quite long. He too looked very snobbish. Those two must have been married. Moving down to the next picture I came to a girl. She looked about ten.
Eloise Cavendish 1750 – 1761
A wave of sadness came over me. This girl only lived till eleven. She was quite pretty I thought while studying her picture. She had black hair but it was her eyes that caught my attention. Bright green, piercing eyes. Those eyes went right through me. All that sadness suddenly left me and in its place was fear.
I quickly turned and headed back to the others but I failed to notice the little story printed on the wall next to it.
Bloom's POV
I landed with a thump in, what looked like, an old laundry room. Thank god there were still some old clothes and cushions that looked like they were going to be washed but left a the last minute.
I got up and dusted myself off.
"Jesus Christ," I started moaning. "Why does this have to happen to me?"
Suddenly I heard a noise. I stopped dead in my tracks. I looked up and noticed a door on the other side of the room. I started to walk cautiously towards it but stopped when the moaning started again.
To say I was scared would have been an understatement. I was terrified.
I took another step towards the door. The moaning still going. I was now within an arm's length from it. I shakily put my arm out and rested it on the door handle.
I turned it, slowly, and then pushed it open.
I gasped.
Well, what did you guys think? I truthfully liked this chapter and think it's the best one I've done so far but it's up to you.
I won't be able to update over the weekend cause I'm going to London but I think I will bring my laptop and type some more so hopefully I will be able to update quite a lot next week.
Thank you to Princess JasminKS and Wendbria and a big thanks to Gloxinia for reviewing every chapter so far!
Until next time!
