Yin decided it was time to check on John. Thirty minutes ago he had been kneeling down and was praying on the monitor. Now he was lying on the ground in a fetal position. Yin wanted to make sure he was still alive.
"Hmm… What's this?"
John's skin appeared to be covered with more than just sweat. It may have been dark, but Yin recognized the smell. Sure it was a faint smell, and not one most people are able to detect, but it was one that Yin knew all too well.
"Eww…"
John may have been sweating blood, but that just meant he was terrified. He was still breathing and had a pulse.
"For a moment there I was worried I had given him too strong a dose."
Yin had never used the drug before, but was told it would give the desired result. Yin was many things, but a junkie wasn't one of them. People who indulged in drugs always ended up destroying their bodies and emptying their wallets while they did it. Yin had tried beer once, it tasted like ginger ale mixed with vinegar. Yet for some reason there were just as many people who tried to drown out their problems with alcohol as other people did with drugs. Yin understood long ago that the only way to get rid of your problems was to face them, because if you ignore something it doesn't just go away.
"Still… I wonder what he sees."
To answer Yin's question, John believed he was still locked in a basilica with Death lying in wait just outside. He was beginning to get hungry and thirsty, but he couldn't leave the building.
"Gotta stay… Death will get me… Gotta stay… Death will get me…"
Death must've heard John despite the thunder and rain outside, because he started to taunt him.
"Johnny-Johnny whatcha gonna do?"
"This portion of the house is even bigger than the last one." said Bridgette.
"Rachel's father must've been really loaded."
"We can cover more ground if we split up."
"Split up? Don't you watch horror movies?" asked Owen "The boogeyman always strikes when no one can hear you scream! Forget that one rule and you're worm food!"
"Okay how about this… What if we split into two teams, one group of seven and one group of six?"
"I think that'll be fine." said Gwen.
"Okay then; Owen, Izzy, Cody, Sierra, Duncan, and Gwen you'll be a team; and the rest of us will be the other team. You guys take that hall and we'll the other one. If anything bad happens, scream."
"Like this?" asked Lindsay "AAAAAAHHHHH!"
"Yes… like that…"
Unsurprisingly most of the doors were locked, much like they were in the first part of the house. Duncan tried picking them, but it didn't seem to be going anywhere. Obviously Yin had replaced the locks the doors had decades ago with new ones.
Duncan's log
"I hate locked doors, but at least that usually means there is either someone or something worth locking up behind them. Either that or Yin is just trying to get me angry."
They finally came to a pair of large doors covered with peeling white and golden paint. Fortunately this one wasn't locked.
"Whoa…"
The six campers found themselves in what appeared to be a huge ballroom. The room was filled with dust and huge cobwebs. You couldn't even see outside the window.
"I don't think we're going to find anything here." said Gwen "If Yin had hidden something in here there would be disturbances in the dust."
"Okay… let's move on."
They had barely turned their backs and gone three steps when…
CRASH!
"What the hell was that?"
They turned around to see that the big chandelier that had been hanging from the ceiling had come crashing to the floor.
Gwen's log
"I hate this place."
"So Sierra, how does it feel knowing a key stands between you and Cody?" asked Izzy.
"I already have the key."
"No you don't." said Cody.
"Yes I do."
"No you don't."
"Yes I do."
"No you don't."
Sierra thought before she responded.
"How do you know that I don't?"
"I'm not telling."
Sierra's log
"Damn it…"
Cody's log
"I've seen Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End twenty times. I'm not stupid."
"So Izzy, who do you think Yin is?" asked Owen.
"How about Leshawna?"
"Leshawna?" asked the others confused.
Izzy nodded.
"Izzy, in the movies the killer or whatever is usually a Caucasian male in-between the ages of…"
"Exactly! It's the perfect alibi! Besides it's usually the person you least suspect."
"Leshawna only hated Chris as much as the rest of us, I don't see her kidnapping all of us to get back at him." said Cody.
"Yeah, what would her motive be?"
"In the millennium motives are incidental."
Izzy's log
"Randy, Scream."
"Okay…but you overlook one very important point. Yin is way too skinny to be Leshawna."
"Okay… who do you think Yin is?"
"If I had to take a guess, I'd say one of Chris' ex-girlfriends." said Gwen "You know, the yin to his yang?"
"Sierra, does Chris have any ex-girlfriends?"
"Do dry leaves burn? It's one of the topics covered in my unpublished book, Dark Secrets of the McLean Family Revealed."
"Interesting… What kind of dark secrets are we talking about?" asked Owen.
"If I tell you then you won't buy my book."
"If you don't tell us we might just look up the information online." said Duncan.
"I'll take my chances."
Meanwhile in another part of the mansion the seven other campers were going down a different hall lined with jack-o-lanterns.
"When I get my hands on Chris, I swear to god I'm going to kill him." said Heather.
"What makes you think the person behind this is Chris?" asked Alejandro.
"Who else could it be?"
"Anyone…"
"Alright Hercules, what's your theory?"
"You really think I look like Hercules?" he asked smiling.
"Just answer the damn question."
"Well to be perfectly honest, I don't know who Yin is yet… but I'm pretty sure he or she isn't working alone?"
"Why?"
"Whoever Yin is they've gone to a lot of trouble to learn a great deal about us. Duncan felt confident the only people who knew his little secret were among us. All they showed us was that the four of you had some kind of secret, they didn't tell us what, but what if that information was included in the unreleased deleted scenes from season one?"
"I never thought about that."
"So whoever knew Duncan's secret would either have to be someone he told about it, someone with access to the deleted footage, or someone who managed to obtain access to it."
"That doesn't explain how they found out about me and Cody."
"Tell me something; when you bought those DVDs did you go incognito?"
"Of course."
"Did it fool anyone?"
"Okay, I'm not a master of disguise, but a blonde wig and some sunglasses have kept people from asking for my autograph."
Courtney's log
"Who would want Heather's autograph?"
"I don't think a wig and sunglasses would fool someone like Sierra."
"Sierra?"
"Who in the world knows more about us than the queen of stalkers? She's already admitted that she's broken into your room once, and only she would be interested in Cody's reproductive organs."
"You think Sierra is working for Yin."
"I'm saying it's very likely."
Geoff's log
"Why would Sierra work for Blaineley?"
(To be continued)
