Chapter 3
Scary Stuff
Everyone was sitting quietly, staring at each other.
"Isn't anyone going to do anything?" Katz asked, breaking the silence.
"I'm not movin till I get me money." Eustace grumbled and crossed his arms and the silence began again.
"Well I'm goin to explore a bit." Muriel said after a while. "This is very exciten!"
She stood up and started to walk to a door, Courage not far behind, when all of a sudden Harry jumped in front of her and eerily warned, "Go anywhere except…the basement. Beware of the basement!"
"Well, if ya say so dear." Muriel shrugged and opened the opened the door.
"Wait!" Katz yelled and ran to where Muriel and Courage were. "There are no dogs allowed in any of the other rooms."
"Sorry Courage, I guess I won't be seein ya fer a while then."
"But, but, but…" Courage stuttered, but Muriel was already walking into the dark shadows, humming a cheery tune as she went. Courage whined dejectedly and returned to his seat.
"Courage…" Fred said unexpectedly and held up a razor. Courage screamed and his limbs popped off.
"Yo daddyos, I'm gonna go searchin for a piano and swing." Velvet Vic said and left too.
"Nope, not movin." Eustace mumbled again.
With the small distraction that Vic made gave Courage enough time to bolt into the room that Muriel had entered earlier. He ended up in a dimly lit room that smelled strongly of cotton candy.
"Muriel, Muriel!" Courage called into the darkness. The response was an ear splitting scream.
"Oh no!" Courage gasped, his ears standing straight up. "I've gotta save Muriel!"
He started running to where the scream had come from and eventually found himself at…another doorway! Dun, dun, dun. But this was no ordinary doorway for it led to…the basement! Dun dunnunun!
"I know this can't be good." Courage said to the audience, but being the brave, loyal, loving dog he is he made his way down the creaky steps that seemed they would give at any moment.
When he arrived at the bottom of the stairs he found a switch that turned on the lights and looked around. All around the basement were a bunch of glass cases with stuffed animals in them that looked like they had gone through brutal torture. There were some with their heads ripped off, and some with their stuffing falling out of huge gashes in their seams, and even a pink bunny rabbit on a noose!
"Ugh." Courage cringed. He went past the poor mutilated stuffed animals and headed onward.
Another of Muriel's screams shattered the air, this one much closer, and Courage nervously started to run toward the sound.
"Awoooooooo!" He howled for before him was the most terrible scene Courage had ever witnessed.