Without further delay, here is Chapter 3. enjoy!
Chapter 3
As Katie opened the door, she smiled as she saw a corridor and beyond that the castle, square as day.
Then her smile quickly faded when a thought struck her. 'No, This is too… easy…'
Before Katie could turn around and run out back through the door; the floor dropped out from underneath her.
She screamed as she plummeted further into abyss.
Soon the opening above her, was a mere speck.
Then to add to the horror, It seemed like Katie had been falling for quite sometime now.
And it was way too dark to see how fast she was falling or how far…
Then with a sudden and painful jerk, she came to an abrupt halt.
Katie hadn't hit the ground, or so she concluded.
Katie wasn't exactly sure what had happened.
She reached out behind her, and to her shock, found the ground, not three inches away.
Suddenly, without warning, she dropped those three inches.
Now on solid ground, or so Katie hoped, she stood up on shaky legs, rubbing the arm she landed on.
Katie looked around, sort of hoping to find a latter or even possibly a tunnel.
As the dark surrounded her, Katie found it hard for her eyes to adjust. She couldn't even see her hands in front of her face.
No light shined or echoed from anywhere. Katie was in complete and utter darkness.
Slowly Katie began to walk, hands out in front, hoping to find a wall.
After a bit of walking, Katie was just about to give up when she tripped over something sticking out of the ground.
It rattled as Katie plummeted to the ground, she caughter herself, but still ended up on her hands and knees.
A sick feeling came over her and she prayed to the goddess what she toppled over wasn't what she thought it was.
Rolled over and sat on her butt; whatever it was rubbed against her calve.
Reaching out with her fingers, down her leg, to push what ever it was off her, she touched something smooth and round.
Curiously she fiddled with it, to see if she could identify it.
Katie felt holes in the center of what ever she found… Then Katie screamed realizing what it was… a Skull… a human like skull.
Katie jumped up, and ran in the direction she was headed for in the first place.
Not a couple of feet away did she run into a wall.
Katie turned around and slowly slid down the wall, totally freaked out and trying not to hyperventilate, she placed her hands over her eyes and shook in sheer fear.
Katie threw up her hands in frustration. "This… This isn't fair!" she cried. "Its so hard…. I've come so far… but I can't get anywhere…. " Katie paused to sniffle. "Oh, goddess Darien… I'm so sorry… I… I…" She started to break down again. "I really just wanted to help you, but I'm so stuck… in this… this fucking rats maze!" Katie yelled…. "I just wanna go home…I failed you Darien. I promised I'd get through… But… I shouldn't have made a promise I couldn't keep…"
Katie sniffed. "Jareth's Fucked with my mind… I mean just look at me… I'm talking to myself…I've totally LOST IT!" She screamed.
"Quiet down out there, that's enough screaming to wake the dead!" Someone said beside her.
"Sorry…" Katie said calmly… then Katie realized she wasn't alone. "Whhh… Who's there?" Katie whispered fearful of the answer.
"Just a worm."
"Where are you?"
"Beside ya, But no worrie's. I aint gonna bite." The worm said comfortably.
"What is this place?" Katie asked looking around, still in darkness.
"Its an Oubliette, a place of-"
"Forgetting things…" Katie finished wiping her searing tears.
"That's right." The worm said.
"Are you stuck here too then?"
"Nope. I live here." The worm said proudly.
"Oh…" Katie thought for a moment, and sniffed. "Then you must know the way out?" she paused. "I mean, I don't mean to be rude, its just that this place REALLY creeps me out." She said gesturing with her hands
"Yeah… I get that a lot." The Worm said. "The way out? Why… its right behind ya."
"What?" Katie whispered unbelievably. She turned around and felt the wall. "But, it's just a wall…"
"Cant take too many things for granted here; your just not looking right, there should be a lever around there somewhere."
Katie slowly got up, running her hands up around the wall: then almost out of her reach, she found a switch. Katie pushed it up… there was a snap at the bottom of the wall, and then a light began to form at the bottom, and grow bigger as the door opened from the bottom.
The light was terribly blinding, and Katie had to open and close her eyes at different intervals, so her eyes could adjust.
When the door opened all the way, Katie walked out into the gray-bricked hallway. There where only three ways to go; Left, Right, and Back into the Oubliette.
Katie looked left and right.
They both looked the same…
Katie looked back into the Oubliette. "Thank you. Thank you very much…who ever you are…" When there was no reply. Katie chose to go left.
"No! Wait!" A voice called to her.
Katie turned around, recognizing the voice as the worms.
"Yeah?" Katie pressed. She didn't see anyone in that dark room.
"Don't go that way." The worm said promptly.
"Oh… Okay." So Katie went the only way that was left open to her options. "Thank you."
Katie said as she passed the door; which began to close when she walked passed.
Strangely enough though, Katie got an errie feeling about going this way. "I hope that worm was right…" Katie whispered wiping her tears with her sleeve as she found herself in yet another hallway…
"It's a good thing she didn't go that… it would have led her straight to that castle…" the Worm said to himself in the dark. "Well… Tea Time…"
Well, how'd ya like that? The Fourth Chapters coming up soon, and I am always open to ideas, constructive crictism or such. But mostly comments. Please NO complaints.
This one was abit short, but I promise longer upcoming chapters.
like always. R+R please...
Thanks, love ya'll...
Casey
