WARNING: This Fanfic contains violence, abuse and gore on later chapters.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Fairytail or any characters that belongs to this fanfic. The images used in this fanfic is not mine as well. I will not earn a cent for sharing this story. This is made intently for the Halloween season.
The clock strikes twelve at noon. The sound of the grandfather clock echoes throughout the manor, after that, a complete silence covered the whole manor again. The sky is covered with thick grey clouds. Within the manor, it's still very chilling. The workers never show up. They didn't make noise anymore. Looks like they are not inside the house anymore.
"Say what!?" Natsu yelled.
Natsu earned a smack on his head by Gray.
"Shut it, Fiery Mouth Breather! Let them sleep!" Gray whisper-yelled.
"But we all want her to wake up right?" Natsu held the throbbing pain behind his head.
"Just shut up you two. Help me read these things." Erza pats the pile of books beside her.
They are all sitting on the floor while the celestial wizard and the little blue Exceed still sleeping on the bed. The ice-make mage is matching the blueprints and the map that they have acquired from the butler. The fire dragon slayer is having a hard time on reading the newspapers that the requip mage forced him to read, but he was just looking at the pictures.
Gray's POV
"I see the manor was burned before and rebuild again." Natsu flipped the newpaper.
"Yeah, it was in here too. Tragic… So many people have died." Erza murmured.
"Erza, did you checked the bedrooms?" I asked, not taking my eyes off the blueprints of the second floor.
"Yeah, I did. Why?" Erza stopped reading and stared at me.
"Did you find a hidden door on the master's bedroom?" I lift one of my eyebrows as I met her eyes.
Erza closed her eyes and thought of it carefully. She remembered that Lucy is the one who checked that room thoroughly. She just checked it with a quick gaze when looking for Lucy earlier.
"No, but Lucy did." Erza sighed.
I clicked my tongue because of disappointment. Erza was confused at me and so was Natsu. They both scooted on my side and looked at the blueprint of the manor. I pointed at the master's bedroom.
"See? There's a hidden door there that leads down—here." I glided my forefinger all the way to the hidden cellar or basement or dungeon or whatever you want to call it. 'It's hidden for a reason, right?'
"All right! Let's go bust some walls!" Natsu stands up.
"Wait! It's dangerous if you go there alone. Don't you remember? The rooms are changing and we can't use our magic. Keep in mind our main objective here." Erza stands up too.
It really sounds strange, rooms are changing, we cannot use our magic, Lucy's hurt and we can't find the workers or whoever they are. I stood up as well and sat on bed beside Lucy. "Wake up soon. We have to get out of here and we need a smarty-pants to solve some mystery here." I whispered as I put the diary under her pillow.
Erza open up the door and checked if something has changed. She was right. Now, we're next to the master's bedroom, the corridor is gone. 'If it isn't just our luck.' Erza was stunned. The room is dark because of the closed curtains. Natsu was not shocked at all, but amazed. He just jogged inside the master's bedroom.
"Don't close the door!" I carried a chair and put it beside the door. "That should hold it. I think it changes when we close the door."
"I understand." Erza opened the royal blue curtains of the huge windows.
I took a quick glance on Lucy and Happy, still sleeping. I smiled and helped Erza on checking the walls. Natsu was searching using his dragon senses. The room is huge. There are three big windows on the across the wall. The king sized bed was unused. Of course, the arrogant noble kid isn't here to use it. It was placed at the left side of the room. At first look, there's nothing here but a huge room with some fancy furnitures inside. It's clean and everything is well-organized. Walls are covered with white floral designs on top of grayed jade background. The vanity is bigger than we have in our rooms and he has a side table with a dart board set at the left side of the bed. The floor is covered with velvet floral carpet. Everything is worth a lot of dime here.
Natsu went near the left side of the bed and sniffing against the wall. There was a blind spot corner when you're standing at the door because of the bed's columns and curtains. He leaned his ears on the angle of the wall and heard someone on the other side. The wall is too shallow and made of wood. Before he could even call us about what he has heard, the narrow wall collapsed. Natsu fall on the ground behind the bed's wall.
"Natsu!" Erza and I yelled and ran towards Natsu.
"Is this what you're looking for?" Natsu slumped on the stoned floor behind the wall. "I smelled someone below, but it's really weak. I think he or she is really far below from here."
There are stairs leading down to somewhere beneath the false wall. We dared not to venture it alone and powerless. We noticed that the room is a little darker. The sun is already setting. Erza opened the lights of the room so we can see well. The lights are not helpful for the false wall though. We still can't see the end of the stairs. The path is too narrow, only one person can walk through at a time. The stoned stairs is uneven, anyone could trip if you're not looking on the sound of hammers pounding and hacking saws has disturbed us again but this time it's really near.
"Let's find anything to light our way down first." I said.
The door where Lucy and Happy sleeps has closed forcibly. The chair I stucked there is gone. We run through the door and tried to open it. It was not locked but it won't open. We tried kicking our way in but the door won't budge open it was sealed shut. We shouted our friends' name but it looks like they cannot hear us from here.
"Wait. Do you think…The house wants us to go down?" Erza said coldly.