Chapter 14

Ten minutes later, Matt and Jeff were reunited with Christian and Adam who were covered in dirt and cobwebs. "Any luck guys?" Matt asked Adam and Christian, who shook their heads. "It was a dead end. A totally creepy area as well" Adam replied, brushing a cobweb out of his face, adding "you need to see it to believe it" "we encountered a whole village dedicated to Rose" Jeff replied, "It's so creepy man. You'll see it when we go back through. Anyways what was it like in there?" "You've never seen anything like it. It's like something out of a twisted fairytale" Christian said "it took us a while to even figure out where to start looking" "It took us a while too. It's so eerie and creepy down here" Matt said, "I can't imagine what these poor women went through" "So tell us more about what happened in there" Jeff asked, his curiosity getting the better of him. "Jeff it was awful. There was a creepy toy store, which was full of maggot infested toys" Christian said "There was a door way at the back of the store, but we couldn't see anything beyond it so we had to find a way to gain power" "So we made our way towards the school that was falling to pieces, which is where we encountered the twins" Adam added "They told us their story, how they were snatched away from Rose and used to blackmail her into staying with Charles. They also told us to watch out for Victor, they said he's crazy. Dangerous even, before pointing to a house just beyond the school, which is when they vanished" "So following their hint, we headed to the house. Oh my gosh guys it was like something out of a twisted Fairytale. It was like the gingerbread house out of Hansel and Gretel, only creepier" Christian continued "We searched high and low throughout the house, where we heard footsteps approaching, until Charlotte showed us a secret hiding spot where she and Gwen used to hide from Charles" "Anyway, we hid in that place for 10 minutes until something or someone caught his attention" Adam continued "We found a fuse in a dolls house, which was a replica of this manor. We found the fuse box in a basement under the school, inserted the fuse and voila! There was light! So we headed back to the toy store, and headed through the doorway at the back of the store, where we encountered the twins again" "They told us that after Charles snatched them, they never saw Rose or their father again" Christian added, "They told us that Charles locked them in a tiny room one night, which they led us too. It had the strangest contraption on the door, I think it was a lock it wasn't a straight forward lock. It had strange symbols on it that we had to press within a certain time limit. Once we had the door open, there were three jewelled puzzles. You know, connect the dots without going over the same line twice. Once we had completed all three, a double coffin with a load of tubes appeared before our eyes" Adam continued "we opened the coffin doors where we found two very small skeletons. We found the twins and released them" "And I'm so very thankful for it" a female voice said behind them, causing all four men to turn around where they were met by the ghostly form of Rose "you have released my children from this ominous place, now there are just two people left to free: myself and Miss Willow. My body is not far from here and Willow is just beyond me, but you must hurry. Victor is scuttling about near Willow, she's very weak and I don't know how much longer she can hold on for" she added before vanishing.

That was all the motivation Matt needed as he turned and headed back into Roseville, followed by the others. Jeff gave Adam and Christian a quick recap of what Matt and he found before following Matt into the grocery store before stopping in the lift shaft. Matt took the skeleton key out of his pocket and placed it into the small keyhole. A small rumbling over head let them know that they were nearing closer to Rose and more importantly, slowly edging ever closer to Willow. As the group caught their breath, they were only thinking about one thing. The state of Willows health. The words spoken by both Rose and Emma weighing heavily on their minds. Please let her be alive Matt thought to himself, his face obviously showed it as Adam said "she'll be ok Matt" "She has to be, Adam. I don't wanna let Jasmine down. She needs her mom" Matt replied, "You won't anyone down Matt" Jeff added, as the lift came to a grinding halt. "Let's go get our Wills back" Christian said as the steel doors slid open, revealing a small underground lake, where there was a small wrought iron grate to the side of it, which had an ominous glow coming from inside. They managed to unloosen the bolts and removed the grate as Christian said "There is only one of us small enough to squeeze through that gap" as they all looked at Jeff who shook his head. "NO WAY! What if he's there? I'm not going through there on my own" "Jeff please, Wills could be through there" Matt begged his younger brother, Jeff sighed "ok Matty, I'll go. For Wills" as he lay on his stomach and crawled through the small hole and into the unknown, leaving the three men to pray for Willows and hoped that she was still alive.

15 minutes later, Jeff re-emerged from the hole, covered in dirt and a few cobwebs in his hair with a solemn look upon his face. "Wills wasn't there but I did find Rose and freed her" he said quietly as Matt slumped to the floor, his head in his hands. "We are never gonna find her are we?" he said quietly, his voice cracking with emotion. "Matt don't give up. You are so close to her" a female voice said, making all for men look up and turn around, where they were greeted by Emma, Rose, Gwen & Charlotte. "Thank you for setting us free and reuniting us with daddy" the twins said, stepping forward hand in hand before Emma spoke "You are so close to her Matt. You just need to go deeper underground. We will stay until you are all free, but beware of Victor" she added as Rose stepped forward and added "Thank you for finally freeing us. Please hurry, Willow is in a terrible way" before all four of them vanished. "Just how many levels does this place have?" Adam asked "told you it was huge" Jeff replied as Matt got to his feet "Adam, Christian, Jeff who wants to ring the girls and who wants to call the cops and ambulance?" he asked as Jeff asked "what about Wills? We wanna come with you" "I'm gonna go get Wills on my own" he replied as he turned his back on the three men and headed off in search of the young girl as he thought to himself hang on Wills, I'm comin!