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Chapter Fifteen: The Scary Chapter, Part Two
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---When we last left the story, Gordo and Jason were separated from Lizzie and Miranda...---


"Oh no, his foot must be so cold!" Miranda said.

"This is no time to joke Miranda, we need to find out what that crash was!" Lizzie said, running towards the noise.

"Right," Miranda said, and ran off after Lizzie. They ran, store after store, to the source of the crash. It was a small janitor's closet. Lizzie opened the door and the girls rushed in. The guys weren't there. The floor was messy with brooms and rolls of toilet paper.

"Where the hell are they?" Lizzie asked.

"Lizzie, look," Miranda said. She was pointing overhead where a small door was swinging back and forth.

"You've got to be kidding. You only see stuff like this in movies. I am so not going in there," Lizzie said.

"I'll tell Gordo when I see him," Miranda said, and found a ladder to use to reach the door.

"What are you doing? You're not going up there," Lizzie said.

"Watch me," Miranda muttered, adjusting the ladder. She started to climb up.

"You can't leave me here alone. What if someone comes?" Lizzie asked shakily. She glanced around.

"Come with me then," Miranda said, reaching the top. She pulled herself up into the hole. Lizzie looked around a few more times, and finally hurried up the ladder. She made it inside, revealing a large enough space to stand upright in. She saw Miranda waiting for her. "I knew you'd give in," she said. Lizzie rolled her eyes and the two girls followed the tunnel.

They had walked for only about ten or fifteen seconds when they heard a clanging of the metal tunnel. It came from around the corner. Lizzie and Miranda quickly moved to the noise. Gordo and Jason were there. They were tied up and gagged, sitting on the floor. The girls hurried to untie them and they explained what happened.

"This crazy old lady..." Gordo wheezed.

"...little old hag..." Jason continued.

"...she tied and gagged us..." Gordo said.

"...claimed the mall was hers..." Jason managed.

"...ran off that way," Gordo finished, pointing behind them. The guys got up and the four hurried in the direction of the old lady. They finally reached the end of the tunnel, which released into a small room. Jason jumped down into it. The little lady that Gordo and Jason had described jumped on him.

Jason was struggling to get the woman off when Miranda jumped into the room. She grabbed a bottle off a small shelf and hurled it at the lady's head. The woman fell and the bottle oozed purple liquid all over.

Gordo and Lizzie jumped in, and they stood there, staring at the lady for a moment. Then, making sure the woman couldn't get up, they looked around. There were witchcraft books and little bottles of different liquids all over in the room. Other witch-like items were scattered in miscellaneous places.

Gordo saw a phone and called the police. He hung up the phone just as the old lady started to come around.

"What the hell is going on here?" Jason asked her. "Explain or we'll call the police."

"No, no, not the police," she said in her old lady voice.

"Then explain!" Jason said.

"Okay... I'm a witch... and that's why nobody was here when you arrived. I cast a spell that made everyone here transport outside and created a force field that wouldn't let anyone else in," she said.

"Then how'd we get in?" Miranda asked, rolling her eyes at the idea that the lady was a witch.

"I'm getting there. The storm was causing the power to lower. That's when you came in. Eventually, the lights went out and I had to create a new force field. But I didn't think to cast the transporting spell again. When I was wandering around this morning, I saw you four sleeping. I grabbed the two boys and brought them here. I was going to come back to get you girls, but I need to take another dose of strength potion so I could lift you. But then you jumped in here and that's how it ends," she finished.

As soon as she finished, the sounds of sirens were heard. "You promised!" the witch yelled, cowering into a corner.

"Oh no!" Lizzie said. "How will they get in? The force field!"

"Hahahaha," the witch cackled. But Miranda must have saw her glance at a hefty book on a podium. Miranda grabbed the book. "NO!!!" the witch yelled. Miranda started rippping out the pages. This technique had obviously worked, as there were footsteps heard in the hall. Gordo hurried to the hole so he could get the cops to come into the tunnel. Soon, there were two cops handcuffing and dragging the witch off.

Another police officer was talking to the kids. "We've had missing person searches out on you four since last night. But you managed to catch this... witch, I guess, as she says. I don't see any reasonable explination of how she did this. But anyway, we'll need you to come into the police department for questioning and then you'll be free to go home to your families. Come with me please," he said.

The four obliged and followed him. As they almost had reached the exit of the mall, Lizzie felt something in her hand. It was Gordo's shoe. She had been holding it for the whole time. "Oh, here Gordo," she said, handing it to him.

"Thanks," he said, and put his shoe on.
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Chapters to come: the second part of the scary chapter, a graduation chapter, a few miscellaneous chapters, and college chapters... maybe some post-college chapters and a ten-year high school reunion chapter
Unfortunately, this (and all of my other stories) will not be added onto until early August. I'm sorry if that dissapoints anyone, but look for the next chapter in August! :)