Leon stood before me with a replica of the horrible mask Scissorman wore when he was carving up his victims. "Scissorman gave me this mask and a pair of shears to kill people with. As a reward, he said he would give you... to me." He walked closer, grinning evilly. "What do you say, Jennifer?" I stumbled backwards.

"Leon, are you insane?" I asked. "Scissorman doesn't have me to begin with, and all he wants to do is see more people die!"

Suddenly, Leon's chest and neck became red with blood as Scissorman had his way with him. He came straight at me afterwards, but I ducked behind an old cloak rack, and pushed the rack over on top of Scissorman. It must have knocked him unconscious because he didn't follow me. I ran out the only exit to the room and slammed the door shut behind me. I was in a small hallway with three doors. I chose the door nearest me and went inside. It was a collection of books, not unlike a small library, but very dark and dismal. There was dust and cobwebs on everything. Nothing of interest here.

I left the room and went into the 3rd room in the hallway. Inside was a frightening sight. A chapel, but oddly different. The fresco was painted wickedly; angels with demon wings, an emaciated man being attacked by winged creatures, etc. It was very creepy. At the left side of the painting was a door. I hurried to it and opened it. Inside was inspector Gotts! He was laying on the floor, but still breathing. "Inspector Gotts!" I cried out. "Are you alright?"

"Y-yes, I'm fine... and it's assistant inspector." He managed to reply. "We were attacked by Scissorman, and Helen and I scattered. I don't know where she is."

"I'll go and look for the others." I said. "You just rest." I was volunteering for quite a daunting task, but I did it regardless.

"Take this key, Jennifer." Gotts said. "It may come in handy."

"Thank you."

"Now get going before Scissorman returns."

"Alright, but I'll be back for you, no matter what happens." Gotts only grunted. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a large panel in the wall with a key hole engraved in it. Sure enough, the key that Gotts provided me with opened a secret passage. A flight of stairs lowered from the room's ceiling. I climbed the stairs into a tight passage that I could just barely crawl through. Luckily, I still had the flashlight from the University building.

I came out in a large room with some beautiful pieces of furniture. I jumped when I heard a loud boom behind me, but I figured it was just the stairs ascending into the ceiling again. I walked outside of the room and marveled at the image before me. It was the main room of the castle, and led to at least half a dozen other rooms. Red-carpeted stairs wound around the granite floors. I stepped lightly down the first and second flights of stairs and entered the door on the far lefthand side of the room. Yet another hallway spread out before me.

I took another door and this time I found a kitchen. Below it was a wine cellar. I started to leave the wine cellar by climbing up the ladder, when I heard a noise from behind the wine storage racks.. I dared to peek behind them to see what had made the noise. To my surprise and happily so, I saw Beth scrunched up in the corner. "Beth!" I exclaimed. "You're alive."

"Oh Jennifer, it's you!" She replied. "Is everyone ok?"

"I don't know. I've only seen you and inspector Gotts. He's alive, and resting in the mansion's chapel."

"I don't know why I came along on this stupid trip." Beth said. "He's just going to kill us all anyway. I don't want to go any further."

"Beth..." I started.

"But if you really want to go on, take this key. I found it a little while ago."

"Thank you Beth. I'll go and try to find the others now. Keep your chin up."

"Ok." was her last response to me before I climbed up and out of the wine cellar. I now had two keys, a statue, and a flashlight.

Before long, I came to an oddly shaped door, and decided to enter whatever room it concealed. It was an atrium. I noticed sitting in front of one of the two large trees in the atrium, Professor Barton was sitting in the grass. I rushed over to him. His head was cocked to one side, making it look as if he were dead already.

"Professor Barton?! Are you alright?" I asked.

He looked up at me. "I'm not injured." He put his hand to his chin. "Just think, here I am... at the site of the murders. This is a very intriguing situation, isn't it?"

I only nodded out of politeness. "Intriguing, yes, but dangerous." I said finally.

He gave an approving grunt. Of course it was dangerous, we were being stalked by a psychopath, but here Samuel Barton seemed to be enjoying it!

"We have to find a way to kill Scissorman, Professor." I told him. He looked dismayed. "Kill him?" He asked. "Why should we want to do that? I must find out what's inside that mind of his."

"If we don't kill him, he's going to kill all of us, including you, Professor!" I shouted almost angrily.

Another grunt, this one not so approving. I stood up. There had to be more survivors. It was only natural that I look for Helen next since she was the only other survivor not found yet. I left the professor to his games of the mind, and exited the room. I soon came to a large grate that blocked passageway to the upper floors. I took out the key and checked if it fit or not. It did! I was another step closer to finding the secret to Scissorman.

The first room I came to was a library. There was a not wedged between the pages of an old book on the desk. I took the note out. It seemed to be a map of the mansion. According to the map there should be a secret passage in the atrium where Professor Barton sat, underneath the small water fountain in the center of the room. I hurried back to the room, though Professor Barton was gone now.

I looked in the fountain for the secret passage, but I saw nothing resembling an entrance. Oh! It showed a valve on the map too.. I checked around the area for the valve and found it underneath a shrub. This valve would take care of the water and reveal the passage. I grunted turning it again and again, until the water only trickled out of the fountain, and the entryway was clearly visible. I got in the fountain and pushed up on the grate, revealing the ladder down into the secret passage.

At the bottom of the passage was a long narrow pathway with candles lighting it up. At the far end was a large and very heavy door. There was something on the floor. It was a piece of paper that said N* Hah Sh*... what did it mean? It said "Door Spell to expel the devil children." Door spell? What kind of door? I kept walking and opened the heavy door..

Oh my God! Scissorman was standing by what looked like a lake of fire, his hunched body turning around quickly to see me standing there. "Hello Jennifer!" He said, but in a child's voice. Scissorman was EDWARD!

"Edward?? Is that you? But.. how?"

"So you figured it out did you?" He cackled. "Let's PLAY, Jennifer!" He started after me. SHING! SHING! SHING! I ran past him onto a bridge made of rikkity planks.. to an altar where I was to put the statue. It was all coming together now. As soon as I put the statue on it's holding place, the room started to shake. "To expel the devil children!" I shouted. "I get it now!" I read aloud the words from the scroll.

"N* HAH SH*"

The room started to quake violently, and the side of the rock wall cracked, and blew away as some force began to suck everything towards the center of the room. I had to hold on for dear life. Edward managed to grab ahold of my foot as I clung to the bridge. Just then assistant inspector Gotts walked into the room.

"Woah!" He shouted as he felt the force pulling him in as well. As Edward and I leviated off the ground, being sucked into the wall.. I cried out to Gotts to help me. He did just that as he fired off a round from his pistol at Scissorman. The bullet hit it's target and sent Edward flying into the huge hungry hole in the wall. "NOOooooooooooo" He screamed as it carried him away.

I barely hung on until the door in the wall that had sucked away Scissorman finally closed. Gotts helped me up from the bridge and back up the stairs to the courtyard. We both sat on the ground and breathed a sigh of relief. It was finally over... Scissorman was finally no longer a problem any of us would have to face. Was it really over though? We looked for the survivors and found Helen trapped in a chest in one of the lower rooms, safe and sound, but a little shaken. In fact, we were all taxed by the events that had happened that night.

We all got on the plane home as soon as we could, everyone safe as when they had left, but maybe with a few more nightmares than before.......