Ch. 25 Lucifer?
Jennifer and the gang traveled together through the hallway and Jennifer had the lead. They stayed downstairs because there was a certain room they needed to enter in order to complete their mission. What could the gang expect to see? Demonic material that's for sure. They all gathered together in front of the room with such suspense. Who knew what was behind the door!
Before going in, Jennifer wanted to make sure everyone was ready. She turned towards them and said, "Ok guys, let's take a deep breath before going in here."
The gang took a deep breath and hoped for the best.
"Oh no I'm so nervous!" cried Laura looking afraid.
"It's going to be alright Laura. Jenny's got our backs." comforted Joshua patting her on the back. He then looked at Jennifer as to say, 'right?'
Jennifer smiled at him to mean 'yes'.
"I wonder if there's going to be some creepy, satanic pictures all over the place!" said Anne sounding like a daredevil.
"Anne!" whined Laura giving her a worried look.
"Yeah cut it out, will you?" scolded Joshua giving her a mean look.
"Anne!" Jennifer also shot Anne an assertive look.
When Anne realized everyone was looking at her, she felt bad and apologized. "Ok sorry!" She raised both hands in the air as to surrender.
Jennifer sighed. "Alright let's try again!"
Everyone breathed in and exhaled.
"Wait!" said Laura and took her last, long breath before she was certain she was ready. "Ok I'm ready!"
"Ok gang, here we go!" This was it! Jennifer was about to open the door to the dark world.
What was Mrs. Mary's biggest secret?
The more Jennifer thought about it, the slower she seemed to work. She hesitated as she was about to insert the key into the lock. Jennifer even thought about what Anne said.
Maybe she was right. Maybe there were a bunch of pictures on the wall.
But now Jennifer was just being ridiculous.
Anne didn't know what was behind there. She was only guessing or maybe just trying to scare everybody as if she wasn't scared herself.
Using the ceremony key that she found in the doll room, Jennifer finally opened the door to the ceremony room.
When the door opened, one image caught everybody's attention immediately. It was a dark, red pentagram on the floor that was almost as big as the floor.
Everyone walked in.
"Whoa!" exclaimed Joshua eyeballing it with such amazement.
"What…..is it?" asked Laura looking at Jennifer.
"It's…it's a…" Jennifer couldn't even think of the proper name she was so stunned.
"It's a pentagram!" answered Anne folding her arms as if it was common sense.
Nobody looked at Anne this time. They continued looking around the room.
Aside from the pentagram, there was an entire row of lit candles on a top shelf, a metal disk and a severed crow on the bottom shelf.
Laura saw a picture and pointed it out. "Hey look, there's a picture!"
Everyone looked where she pointed and saw it.
But when Jennifer looked at the picture, she was intrigued by it. "Hmm?"
"Whatcha thinking Jenny?" he asked studying her.
Jennifer squinted at it. "I'm trying to figure out what it is!"
"Looks like a skeleton." said Anne casually.
"I think it's more than a skeleton." replied Jennifer still analyzing it.
Meanwhile, everybody went their separate ways in the room.
Anne decided to study the pentagram. She even had the nerve to walk on it like nothing would happen.
Joshua stayed with Jennifer but looked around where the severed crow was.
Laura saw a vase and went for the vase.
As Anne looked at the pentagram, she noticed something revealing. It looked like a loose floorboard. 'Is that a trap door? Wicked cool! I wonder what's under here!' she said in her head. Anne stepped on it and felt that it in fact was loose. Yep something was definitely under there!
Laura stared at the stunning vase. It was beautiful and so were the flowers! 'I've never seen anything this beautiful!' she thought to herself.
Jennifer and Joshua seemed to work as a team.
Joshua found clues by scoping out the bottom row and showed it to Jennifer. "Look Jenny!" he said pointing at it.
Jennifer saw what he investigated.
Laura turned around and looked at Jennifer and called her over to the vase. "Jennifer!"
Everyone looked at Laura.
Jennifer stopped what she was doing and came to her rescue. "What's wrong?"
"Jennifer! Look! This vase is amazing!" she exclaimed with a big smile.
Jennifer had a good look at it and said, "Hmm? It sure is!" But for some reason, something told her to put that staff in the vase. "I don't know why but something's telling me to do something kind of weird."
"Like what?" asked Laura looking confused.
Jennifer pulled out the flowers and tossed them on the ground.
'Why did she do that? Those flowers are so beautiful!' Laura thought to herself.
"Jenny what are you doing?" yelled Joshua.
"I don't know, but I hope it works." Jennifer replied.
Even Anne had to see what Jennifer was about to do.
Jennifer pulled out her staff and placed it in the celadon vase.
All of a sudden, there was a noise that sounded like a trap door opening and a scream.
Everyone looked where the noise came from and that's exactly what happened.
Unfortunately, Anne was standing on the trap door and fell through. Luckily, she was able to catch herself in time.
"Anne!" everyone yelled and immediately ran to her assistance.
"Heeeeelp!" she yelled in terror.
"Here give me your hand!" Joshua squat down and offered both hands.
"I've got the other!" said Jennifer willing to work with Joshua anyway she could.
Laura stood back and watched.
Anne grabbed both friends with each hand and they were able to pull her up quickly. As soon as she was back up, Anne was sitting on the floor hyperventilating.
"Are you ok Anne?" asked Jennifer genuinely worried about the girl.
Anne couldn't say anything at first but after she caught her breath, she finally responded with, "Yeah…I'm alright…..but I'm really scared now!"
"You're not the only one." said Laura.
'Yeah now you're scared since you wanted to tease everybody earlier.' Jennifer thought to herself.
"We're all scared Anne. But we've got to get to the bottom of this mansion and eventually get out of here!" said Joshua looking her straight in the eye.
Anne turned to Jennifer and tears began to run down her cheeks. "Jennifer I'm…..I'm sorry." She looked at everyone else and apologized as well.
Jennifer sighed, "It's ok. We're going to be alright."
Laura looked at Anne with shock. She couldn't believe that Anne actually broke down as much as a jerk as she can be. But in reality, anyone can break down if under enough pressure.