We all stood in the darkness of the room, and we grabbed our water guns that had flashlights taped to them and turned them on. We could hear the house repairing itself from the outside into its' normal state. We all turned around to watch the foyer room turn back to normal with the carpet tongue lying on the curving staircase, and the floor repaired itself, closing the hole.
Everything was silent, very, very silent. We were in Old Man Nebbercracker's house. My friends all tried to stay calm, but they were all scared.
"We're dead! You've killed us and now we're dead!" Chowder cried.
"Shhhh! I don't think the house knows that we're in here," DJ said. "I bet it thinks we're still in the car."
"Listen!" Jenny added. "Sounds like it's sleeping."
We all stood still as statues and listened to the rumbling through the house and it was like the sound of a person breathing in and out.
"How are we gonna get out of here?" I asked as I clutched my water gun and shone my flashlight.
"The only way that we're gonna get out of here alive, is if we find the heart, and we put out the fire." DJ said shining his flashlight over the room.
"Maybe we should examine our other options?" Chowder suggested, feeling more scared.
"Sure! Other option!" DJ snapped turning around with his light blinding Chowder as he backed up on the door. "We wait here and do nothing until it wakes up and eats us."
"Find the heart, put out the fire. Got it," Chowder stated.
We all started to look around the house, and it sent shivers down my spine as I slowly walked with my sneakers creaking on the floor. My stomach began to crumple up into a ball of paper as it began to gnaw inside me. I looked over as Chowder shone his light on an odd looking stack of chairs and on the tool table were huge red boxes of dynamite. It was just like in the movie Poltergeist.
"Explosives! It's so cool!" Chowder exclaimed.
I looked over to see Jenny slowly walking around as her Mary Jane shoes slowly clicked on the wooden floor. I started to shake all over as the house was starting to give me the creeps. I then turned to see DJ come over to see a pair of binoculars being held by a wavelength spring. He pushed them over to the door and his eyes widened in shock.
"He was watching me!"
"DJ," Jenny whispered. We came over to see her standing near a wall with pictures hanging up, of Nebbercracker and his late wife. One was of their wedding day, the beach, a fair, and them kissing. "Did you ever see a wife?"
"People use to say he had one… but he fattened her up… and he ate her."
"Ew!"
We looked over at another photograph, and it was of young Nebbercracker with his buddies surrounded by dynamite, bombs, and lighters. It was from his younger days when he was in the army.
"Demolition squad," DJ said, reading the sign on the picture. Then someone in the photograph caught my eye. Underneath the photograph was a list of names until one I noticed one, Steven McGiverns.
"Hold it, I know this guy!" I pointed to the man that was sitting in a chair in a helmet next to Nebbercracker in the picture holding a lighter. "It's Grandpa! I didn't know he was friends with Nebbercracker?"
"Wait, you mean your Grandpa knows Nebbercracker?" Jenny asked.
"Well, technically no, but I have seen pictures of him and Grandma when they were younger," I explained. "But never this one."
I spotted another picture, and saw Nebbercracker as a young boy with a young girl around his age, standing next to him smiling. I looked at the names underneath, and by the girl was her name, 'Patricia Nebbercracker.'
Patricia? That's my grandmother's name. The strangest thing I ever saw, was that this girl looked a lot like me, she had dark curly hair in a low ponytail, and her eyes were similar to mine.
"Hmm, that girl looks very familiar," I muttered. As I took a closer look at her, there came a loud sound of furniture falling, I held in my scream as I jumped. I turned back with DJ and Jenny to see it was only Chowder, and knocked down a few items.
"Sorry," he whispered sheepishly.
"Come on," DJ said.
We all continued to investigate around the foyer, as I clutched my water gun making light footsteps. Behind Jenny and I, Chowder was running, making loud clonking footsteps.
Seriously Chowder? You're gonna wake up the house! I thought.
"Be quiet," Jenny hissed.
"Don't make loud sounds Chowder," I said, giving him a glare.
"Don't worry, I have a very light step," he reassured us.
I rolled my eyes with a sigh along with Jenny as we continued to look around the house. My flashlight followed Chowder's light as it floated around, hearing the tinkling of crystal and bells. Chowder and I shone our lights toward an object that was dangling from the ceiling. It was a chandelier with a net of chains holding a bunch of red glass lanterns.
"There. Right there. Shoot it!" Chowder exclaimed.
"The heart!" I added.
We then started to squirt water from our water guns at the heart, and it started to glow with a bright red color. As we kept squirting, the floor beneath our feet opened up the throat and we all stepped back. We pressed our backs against the wall, and water from the basement rose up to the surface, and a gush of it leaped out through the opened door and slammed shut.
A blinding light then shone through the window, it moved around as a spotlight from the stage looking for prey. DJ shushed as Chowder gave a whimper. I swallowed back the large lump in my throat as I felt goose bumps forming over my skin. The light examined over the carpet tongue, and quickly moved to us. We ducked out of the way, before it could catch us. We all stood against the wall petrified as the light shone over the clinking chandelier, and it seems to not notice us.
"What? I thought if I shot the heart, that…" Chowder spoke up
"That's not the heart," Jenny interrupted.
"Then what is it?"
"Well, if those are the teeth, and that's the tongue… then that must be the uvula," she said as she looked over at the door, carpet, and chandelier.
Well that makes sense! I thought. The clump of lanterns sure does look like a uvula.
"And the windows, must be the eyes," I added. "They say that eyes are windows to the soul."
"Oh, so it's a girl house."
I gave him a dirty look, thinking the uvula is a private part. Where did he hear all that nonsense?
"What?" Jenny was offended. "No. It stimulates the gag reflex. Everyone has a uvula."
"Not me," he said.
DJ shushed us, and we watched the floorboards closing up, the carpet tongue laid itself on the staircase and the window light went out. The house went back to sleep. DJ slowly moved his foot on the floor, with only a creaking on the floor.
"No," Chowder whispered. No detectible movement was made.
The dark haired boy shone his flashlight to the window, and it was all still and quiet. He turned to us, and beckoned us to follow him.
"Okay. Let's move," He said. We then begin to follow him in a line as we shone our lights. "We need to move quickly and quietly. Don't touch anything. And stay together…"
Suddenly the floor beneath DJ's feet broke, causing him to fall and scream in the dark pit. I gasped in horror, thinking the house is awake!
"DJ!" Jenny cried as she tried to save him.
"Wait!" Chowder cried.
He rushed over towards Jenny and accidentally pushed her into the whole and they all screamed falling down! My heart began to race!
"Guys!" I screamed.
Without thinking, I jumped down after them! After realizing what I did, I started to scream in horror. My skin and face went really numb from the fall, causing me to think I was going to die! I closed my eyes and let God chose my fate, and then I landed roughly on a huge pile, instantly hitting my head, I blacked out after that.
I woke up a few minutes later, with my head throbbing from the fall. I slowly sat up and looked around. My vision around me became very blurry and I realized I lost my glasses.
"Guys?" I called. I slowly stood up, but I toppled over a pile and landed on the ground. Even if I can't see anything, being in the dark made it a whole lot worse. My skin turned cold.
"I'll save you," I heard Chowder groaning.
I looked over, and all I could see was his large blurry body lying right on his back with his light near him. I slowly start to crawl over with objects on the ground touching my feet. I looked over to see blurry Jenny getting up and was dusting her self from the unexpected fall.
"Chowder? Jenny? DJ?" I called.
"Sally," Jenny said.
When Chowder heard a toppling of items, he screamed and started to squirt at Jenny, soaking her shirt.
"Chowder, knock it off," the redhead said, drily.
"Sorry," Chowder said. "I thought you were… DJ!"
He jumped at the sound and started to squirt at the item. I tried to make it out as a monkey with cymbals.
"Chowder, it's a toy," Jenny said.
"Oh, yeah."
Not wanting to stand around here anymore, I had to find my glasses.
"Hey guys? Have you seen my glasses? I'm blind as a bat!"
I heard my friends looking through the items and I saw my blurry flashlight, and I got on my knees to slowly crawl. I didn't want to step on my glasses and break them like that kid did in that Christmas movie for shooting his eye out.
"Here, I found them!"
Jenny came up to me with my glasses, and I gingerly took them from her. I put them back on my vision became clear around me.
"Thanks Jenny," I said smiling to her for the first time.
"No problem," she said, doing the same.
I looked over and grabbed my water gun, with my light still flashing. We were in the basement with thousands of pipes winding over our heads with brick pillars. We were all together, except for DJ.
"Where's DJ?" Jenny asked.
"I don't know," I said, and I shone my light around the room. "DJ, where are you?"
"DJ!" Jenny called.
"Over here!" he called as when shined our flashlights to him. He was standing in front of barred gates of a cage. As we came towards him, we looked around and moved our lights around the room. As if it was something I did not noticed after seeing again, it gave me a huge surprise. The basement was stocked with millions and millions of toys.
"Wow, look at all these toys," Chowder said.
"This must be where Nebbercracker kept his stash," Jenny said.
"Stash," Chowder chuckled.
"Well, more likely where he keeps all the confiscated items he takes away from the kids that lands on his lawn," I added. "Maybe my doll is here."
"I think you guys should have a look at this." DJ said, and beckoned us to come over. When we reached DJ, we were at the barred cage with chains and a lock, with wheels on the ground. He shined his flashlight on the sign that seemed to be from a circus above as he whispered the title, "Constance, the Giantess."
"Constance? That's her name?" I asked.
DJ looked at the heart-shaped lock, and grabbed it, as he examined the lock, he touched the cover and it flipped. He jumped back, and saw a keyhole.
"The key!" DJ exclaimed and he pulled it out from his pocket.
"Come on DJ, we don't have time for this." Jenny said.
"Yeah, we've gotta find a way out of here." Chowder added.
DJ ignored us and placed the key in the lock and unlocked it. The lock fell off with the chains rattling on the ground. Whatever was in their must be interesting and horrifying at the same time.
"What are you doing?" Chowder asked.
DJ was determined to know and he opened the gates as they were dragged heavily across on the ground. The sound made myself shiver as more fear was growing in my heart.
"Let's just take a quick peek in there and escape!" I said.
We all entered in the dark room with our water guns and flashlights, with ice coursing through my blood.
"We have a Ping-Pong table in our basement," Chowder added.
We looked around the cage and we shined our flashlights down and we gasped in fright. Lying on the hard floor was a large woman encased in concrete, as if she were a statue. Is that her?
"Constance!" cried DJ.
"Holy moly! He really did eat her!" Chowder exclaimed.
"But if he ate her, why is her body here?" I asked. "He could've thrown out her remains."
"Couldn't have. Her whole body is buried in cement," DJ said.
We shined our lights to notice that many items surrounded Constance's body: heart-shaped candy boxes, candles, photographs, and flowers. That was really strange. Did Nebbercracker really love his wife?
"Look at all this stuff," Jenny said. "Why would he build her a shrine if he murdered her?"
"Maybe he just felt guilty or something…" said Chowder. "DJ, can we please get out of here?"
DJ shushed him, and he slowly took more steps as he stared at Constance.
"I always knew you were hiding something, Mr. Nebbercracker," he said.
As DJ leaned in to look closely, he accidentally tripped and landed on top of Constance and stared at her with his nose touching her nose.
"DJ!" Jenny cried.
DJ screamed as he and the cement on the giantess began to crack. Chowder, Jenny, and I pulled him up as we tried to calm him down. I stared at the body in horror.
"Way to go Big Nose!" Chowder snapped.
"Oh my God!" I screamed.
The cement crumbled revealing a gigantic skeleton and it terrified me so much, I felt faint. We backed up in fear as a green fog emerged from the skeleton. The house began to rumble as a brick fell from the ceiling and almost landed on my skull. We all looked up in fright.
"It's awake!" Jenny cried.
"Run!" DJ cried.
