Hey guys.
Welcome back to another chapter of Trapped Until Dawn. I haven't heard anything back about my last chapter yet so i'm going to continue like I am, again, please tell me is it wasn't good so I can change it.
By the way, thanks to starelight for your review, good luck on your second time through the game and thank you for your kind words. It makes me happy to know that people actually like my story.
Also, this chapter might be a bit all over the place because it's all improvised, this part isn't part of the actual game so bare with it.
Anyway, let's get into the story, shall we?
Ryan's pov, Top of hole to Mines, 3:00
I woke up to the icy snow hitting the back of my neck, lifting myself up by my frozen hands and examining the area I had ended up in. I was back outside, snow lightly hitting my face, surprised that I hadn't frozen to death knocked out cold (no pun intended) lying on the ground like that. (Butterfly Effect Update)
Behind me, I saw the raised cliff that the fire tower was perched on before it fell, all around me, I saw pieces of the fallen fire tower scattered all over the place but not the top of it anywhere which worried me.
Then, to my right, I notice the giant, dark, gaping hole in the earth and around it was where most of the fire tower structure had landed and it all led to the hole. I stumbled over to it and looked down into the abyss to only see the blackness below, but by the looks of it, with the pieces all around the mouth of the crevasse, the way the snow around said hole is disturbed and the way the walls of the chasm have been scraped, the top of the fire tower, including Matt and Emily, had fallen down into it.
"MATT! EMILY! YOU DOWN THERE?" I shouted into the seemingly endless abyss, not getting an answer except a creaking of sorts which I ignored. But then suddenly heard a loud bang echoing through the void that worried me even more.
"I hope they're alright." I said to myself as I looked around the area a bit more.
Ahead of me, there was a large expanse of trees that looked to thick to walk through. But, to the left, I saw a clear pathway that leads back down the hill. I tried to look down the hill to see of I could see the lodge but it was just a sea of trees.
"That path might lead me back to the lodge. I need to see if the others are alright" I said as I walked down said path, away from the hole that Matt and Emily fell down.
The path led back down the hill we just climbed but from a different place, the hole was on the other side of the way we entered the fire tower. As I got to the bottom of the slope, the world faded away to make way for a totem vision.
The totem started off with Emily sitting on a table with a board that had pictures and a map on it with Mike in front pointing a gun at her. He directed the gun towards her and shot her in the eye, blood splattering over the board behind her.
"Why would Mike do that? To an ex-girlfriend, and friend, no less." I asked myself as the vision ended and I continued on my way down the path.
I continued to walk down the path and I came to a small bridge that went over a mini stream that I had to cross. I got across it and saw a deer on the path up ahead which galloped off as soon as it saw me.
"I wonder if that deer was part of the herd from earlier?" I wondered out loud as I continued walking.
"Actually, I wonder how the supports holding the fire tower up broke. Was it cut or did it just break. Well, I highly doubt that it just broke, otherwise it would've broke as soon as we got in the top of the tower. So it must of been cut. That's low, even for a complete psychopath" I said to myself as I continued along the path.
I walked up a little hill and noticed a shimmer of red out of the corner of my eye. I looked at it worriedly, thinking it was blood, but to find it was a danger totem. I went up to it, picked it up and looked into the hole to start the vision.
I was looking at what looked like me from behind, looking at planks of wood attached horizontally to two walls covering a gap which I could see out of, shown by the fact that I could see a silhouetted figure on the other side. But, the weird thing was, I wasn't moving in the slightest. But, as soon as I moved the tiniest bit, the planks practically exploded as the figure punch through them with a flurry of tiny pieces of broken wood and large planks of wood.
"Hmm, that was weird." I said to myself as I came out of the vision and continued on my way.
I kept walking along until I came to a place where the path split off into two ways, well sort of. One way continued along the path I was walking along, the other way was a cave entrance.
Well, if I go down the path way, I could end up back at the lodge to check on the rest of the group, but if I go through the cave entrance, I will end up in the mines where I can try and find and help Matt and Emily, but which way should I go? I thought as I struggled to pick where I should go.
"I know this is a really bad choice, but I want to help Matt and Emily get out of there." I said to myself as I walked into the cave's darkness. (Butterfly Effect)
There was no way I was going to be able to see in this darkness, so I grabbed my phone out of my pocket and turned on the light function on it on the back.
To be fair, my phone light is actually quite bright. I thought as I trudge down the now illuminated tunnels.
The mine started to decline downwards but, as I pointed my light down there, it looked like the slope went down into hell, which it could do actually. It would probably take me at least five minutes just to get down it.
"Ugh, here we go." I said to myself as I started my descent.
"Hmm, I'm wondering what those two totems were about exactly. Why the hell was Mike pointing a loaded gun at Emily? What forced Mike to do that, and to actually shoot her? That's so fucked up!" I wondered to myself while I stumbled down the hill.
"And who, or what, was that figure in the second vision? Well, it's someone, or something, that can punch planks of wood to smithereens. And, also, why is it that it only punched the wood when I moved the tiniest bit? All of this is very weird." I continued as I slid down the slope still no where near the bottom yet.
After the longest five minutes of my life, I finally made it to the bottom and rest my aching legs for a second before continuing on my not so merry way.
But as I rounded the corner to the main part of the mines, I started to hear a screeching like sound that sounded like it was coming from all over the mine, it didn't sound like it was in one direction.
After walking for another ten minutes through, what seemed like, endless mine tunnels, with the screeching echoing throughout, I ended up in a big open area with planks on the floor over to the side of the room, and it seemed like it was a dead-end.
Suddenly, I heard a squeaking noise above me, I looked up and shone my phone light up there to see that the cave's ceiling was covered in loads of bats. I realised that I probably shouldn't have shone my phone's light up there as all the bats eyes opened and they started to descend on me.
"OH CRAP!" I shouted as I got swarmed by the bats, coming and hitting my head from all angles. I tried to swat away the bats with my hands, phone still in hand, as I ran around the area mindlessly.
As I ran, I blindly stepped on the planks to the side and, apparently, they were covering up a pit that I had fallen into and I was now sliding down a steep slope.
As I wail, I got to the bottom of said slope and there was a little drop that made me flip on my front as I went over it. With a hard thump, I landed on the rough ground, accidentally letting go of my phone that was still in my hand and I heard a loud crack as it hit the ground too.
"Oh, fuck" I groaned as I lifted myself up and dusted myself off, looking around the area I had landed in.
I was in a rather small space, a lot smaller than the area I was in before. I could see the slope I had just slid down, still hearing the squeaking of the bats that were up there, I could just about see another passage way leading out of this room, even though it was so dark seeing as I didn't have a light on.
Speaking of light, I could see my phone lying on the ground, lifeless. I picked it up to see, or rather feel, that the screen was cracked all over, There was no way I was turning it on now.
"Well, that's just great! There goes my only source of light. My phone is officially buggered." I said to myself as I put it back in my pocket and continued on my journey.
As I continued through the endless cycle of tunnels, I could feel the all to familiar feeling of a totem vision coming on.
I could see Mike, walking through a hallway of a building, with a clawed hand sticking out of the bars to a cell of some sort. That clawed hand tried to swipe, with a screech sounding kind of like the one in the mines I'm in, at Mike but he moved out of the way just in time to not get scratched.
"I hope Mike will be careful." I said to myself as I came out of the vision and continued on my way.
After yet another ten minutes of more tedious walking, I came to a cross roads. I probably would've gone left, if I hadn't of heard a sort of electrical crackling coming from the right path, so I went that way.
Unfortunately, it led to another dead end. But this one had a grate type door, that looked like it wouldn't budge even if I tried, that I could look through and see what was on the other side. I looked through it to see some electrical switches connected to some lights that led to a elevator.
"So that's the crackling I heard." I said to myself as I continued to look around.
I looked more so at the elevator, specifically the bottom where you entered it, and I saw a figure walking towards it. To my surprise, it turned out it was Emily. Before I could shout to get her attention, she walked into the elevator and turned it on to make it go up, and that elevator went up fast.
"I need to find a way to get up there." I said as I rushed back the way I came and went the way I had decided not to go.
To my great fortune, that way led to some slopes that spiraled upwards, the way I wanted to go. I ran up those slopes as fast as I could, as grueling as it was, and I manage to get up them in quick time, but my legs were aching afterwards, but I pressed on anyway on my mission to get to Emily and get out of these eerie mines.
I strode onwards until I came to yet another dead end. I'm getting sick and tired of these dead ends. I thought as I examined the dead end.
There was a wooden door in front of me, kind of like a stable door, but I could see through the gaps in the wood but there wasn't anything to really look at.
I was about to turn around and find another way through but I saw through the gaps that there was someone on the other side. Again, it was Emily, looking like she was running from something. She ran towards the wooden door I was on the other side of and looked around, not even noticing me, for a place to hide.
Before I could say anything to let her know I was here (again), she ducked into a gap in the wall to her right, my left. As she did that, I saw another figure come round the corner. He was wearing very thick clothes, goggles on his eyes and was holding a flamethrower in his hands that was strapped to his back.
He looked towards me but also didn't seem to see me and he immediately moved towards the gap in the wall where Emily was currently hiding. The figure moved towards Emily and went to grab her.
Butterfly Effects:
Will chose not to shoot the squirrel; Nature remained in balance.
Will pushed Chris out of the way to pull the lever; Chris blamed Will for Josh's death; But he trusted Will anyway.
Ryan kept the axe; Ryan was put in danger; But made it out safely.
Ryan walked calmly through the herd; Ryan, Matt and Emily escaped the threat unscathed.
Ryan kept the flare gun.
Ryan decided to check the trapdoor; He fell through the open door; He failed to grab the doorframe; He ended up outside.
Will tried to save Chris from the psycho; Chris trusted Will and put the gun down.
Ryan chose to go into the mines.
And that's another chapter done. I would've continued onto William's next part but, if I did, then this chapter would've gone on for too long. I hope that this chapter was good, like I said, it was completely improvised so all of this was my idea pretty much.
Bye guys.