Okay, another chapter of SCAREDOM! WHEE!
YAAAAAAAAAY! I RULE ALL YOU PEOPLE! BOW DOWN TO MEEEEEEEE!
karone-sakura; sure! Here it is! And I promise… it'll be super freaky! WHEE!
LittleMigett; well, the freaky is about to get EVEN FREAKIER! YAAAY!
GenesisDragon; dude, all you gotta do is DREAM! I did… AND THAT'S WHERE I GOT THE INSPIRATION FOR THIS! YAAY! But… if I do think of anything else… I'll be sure to pass it on, okay? YAAY!
krazi little aus; now why would I do that? WHEEEE! FUUUUN! YAAAY! WHOOYEAH!
And by the way, this chapter shall be done in Jakes pov, cause I don't know how to do Cassie all that well… sooooo… HERE WE GO! YAAY!
And this shall be especially dedicated to gpshaw! DON'T EVER GIVE UP DUDE!
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Jake
I led Cassie into what looked like an old sitting room. In the pale glow of the light above us we saw an old fireplace, and around it were old-style cushioned seats with those funny curved legs, and bookshelves here and there. On one of the seats there was a book, open to a certain page, as if someone had been reading and then had to run somewhere in a hurry. The thought sent a chill down my spine.
Oh man… my best friend was… and Jade…
No! I couldn't think like that now! I had to get out whoever I could! Had to get us out alive… no other choice…
"What was that?"
"What was what?" I asked Cassie, who was stuck to my arm…and I was so glad about that… stopping in my tracks and just listening intently. I heard creaking… but, it was a kind of house creaking thing…
"Don't worry Cassie, it's just-"
And then came a sound that couldn't be mistaken as just normal creaking…
Someone was running around upstairs! I could hear it!
What… what if it was…
I gulped, stuck between calling out, and staying rooted to the spot, not talking.
"Jake?" Cassie whispered, and I shook myself out of my thoughts, looking down at her frightened features. I had to do something!
"Don't say a word to them! Let's just go downstairs and-"
Creeaaaa…
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"
CRASH!
Someone screamed, and then a door slamming!
We both jumped, and I looked back down at Cassie. I think the look on my face told her everything.
"It's okay Jake, you don't have to be the leader anymore. We'll get through this together, okay?"
I would have agreed with her… if the light hadn't gone out, making us jump again.
I sighed "I've got a bad feeling about this"
As if on que, our only source of light, the moon, suddenly darkened. My head shot over to the big glass windows, realising it wasn't the house that had just done that… it must have been a cloud.
Damn clouds… couldn't they tell I was wound up enough as it was?
"Hang on. I think… lets get a little closer to the window, so I can at least see a tiny bit better" Cassie said, fumbling around for something, and I looked at her like she was crazy.
Didn't she remember the last time we went near a damn window?
"Cas-" but she was already leading me over. We sat on down on one of the seats next to the windows, and I took a chance to look outside.
Still looked normal out there. Same boring street… boring houses… Dean and his gangs tents still there… why wouldn't they let us out?
Why was all of this happening to us?
"Okay, I might have some small torches in my jeans… I c-can't really remember right now" Cassie muttered, fumbling around. I continued to stare out the window, knowing I should say something to comfort her, but… nothing came to mind. It was like I was drawing a complete blank…
Marco. Gone.
Jade. Gone.
Possibly Tobias and Rtaia too. And… Ithiell…
But…
I was so lost in thought I didn't notice that something was happening to the corner of the window. Only until it started to make its way upwards did I see it…
I yanked Cassie up and back, my eyes never leaving the window.
"Jake! What-" she stopped when I pointed.
"There is ice building on the window!"
"I can see that" she murmured as it cracked and made the sounds of…. well, glass and ice going together, basically.
"Cassie, I really hope you have those torches that you promised"
"Uh… yeah! I feel them! Here" I felt something small go in my hand, and it took me a second to realise it was a small torch.
"Is this…"
"Yeah. I usually carry a couple around in case"
"Okay then" I muttered, turning it on and getting a lame little circle of light, which was soon joined by another.
"Sorry. Batteries must be running out" she said, and I shrugged.
"Better than nothing"
I shouldn't have said that, because the light started to flicker. I bit my lip, then gathering my courage and starting to walk back towards the front entrance.
I only took two steps before something moving on the floor made me jump back, slamming into Cassie. We stumbled, before I heard a faint mewling sound. I looked down to see the shape of a cat wondering around. Relief flooded my system, along with a bit of anger at myself for being so scared by a cat and at the cat for just being… well, a cat.
I turned my little torch on it… it was a tabby cat…
But that wasn't what mad me freeze. It was the light that I had trained on the animal was… going straight… through… the animal.
And I was pretty sure that wasn't supposed to happen!
"Um… Jake?" Cassie's voice shook, and I nodded… so I wasn't paranoid…
"That cat shall never leave"
Cassie yelped, and I bit back a simular sound, both of us jumping back at the sudden voice out in the hallway. A voice I'd never heard.
The fireplace behind us suddenly exploded to life, just before the woman came into view. She was wearing an old style maids uniform… looking like it was from the fifties or something, brown with a white apron, and her black hair was tied back in a bun. She had a slender face and neck, and her brown eyes, which were trained on both of us.
I grabbed Cassie, bringing her close to me, backing up as the woman entered the room, coming towards us, her eyes almost seeming to bore into my soul as the firelight flickered off her face and body, giving her an eerie presence.
"Who are you?" I managed to ask, my throat coming out dry and raspy.
"The cat shall never leave, and neither shall you" she snarled, and she stretched out her arms to us… it was then I realised we were getting dangerously close to the fire…
Did she plan to burn us?
My god… I'd never felt so weak and helpless in all my life…
Until… until I saw something out of the corner of my eye…
"CASSIE DUCK!" I yelled, throwing her and myself down on the floor, just before a thundering crash was heard, scattering glass and wall everywhere. I covered Cassie as best I could, hearing the animal cries from the creatures who'd done it.
"AHHH!" the woman screamed, but I really didn't care about her right now. My focus was on keeping Cassie safe. I heard a sickening sound… and I guessed that was the end of the woman…
(YEEEEEHAW!) I heard Rachel cry, and I finally managed to get up, pulling Cassie up with me and seeing two gigantic African elephants heads standing where the front wall used to be.
I blinked "Rachel"
(In the flesh! And I'm here to save your sorry asses)
(Hey! I'm here too Queen Rachel!) Robert snapped, and I sighed.
"Guys, can we talk later? Right now we've got to get everyone else out of here"
"How… how did you break the wall?" Cassie whispered.
(Easy; this house might have encountered human beings before, but it's never encountered us) Robert said smugly, and for once I was glad he was right.
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Well, I hope this was scary enough!
If not… ah well!
I'll probably continue this… I'm not sure yet. Depends on reviews and if I can find more scary things to happen to them.
Now please, review? It would mean a lot to me and the remaining characters if you would…
Oh, and please, vote who should and who shouldn't die!
You tell me. Mainly cause I don't know who else to kill off… and if I should. So please, tell me.
REVIEW OR I SHALL SEND ICE WINDOWS AND… AND A DARK AND SCARY NIGHT YOUR WAY!