Chapter Three is up!
We were crawling through a tunnel. It was very dark except for the tiny glow of light at the end of the tunnel. David was a little ahead of me. I looked behind me. Eric was a few feet back and Tim was even further. It seemed like we had been crawling through here for about ten minutes, but it couldn't have been that long. I heard Eric behind me, sighing. The light at the end of the tunnel was getting closer. I was almost thinking of going back, going back to the hotel room, but it was probably a dead end if I went back. Maybe we could at least get out of the room if we went this way. The light was really bright now. All around us was nothing, but bright light. David came to a grate and kicked it in. We were at the end of the small tunnel.
" Do you see anything?" I asked David who was staring out at open space. " What's out there?" Tim asked. " It's dark out here," Dacvid replied. " I can't see a thing." " You see?" Tim said. " It's a dead end, we have to go back to the room." Suddenly, the whole area at the end of the tunnel was lit up. David shrieked as he saw what was on the other side of the tunnel. The end of the tunnel was a small hole in the wall of a tall yet small room. Thehole was at the top and at the bottom of the room, there was a greenish, disgusting smelling water bubbling up. " I wouldn't want to fall down there," Dacvid explained. " How are we going to get out of here?" I looked over his shoulder. It looked like an ancient sealed off sewage line of some kind. The walls and ceiling just aboe us were made of brick that looked as if it were rotting away. Mold was forming through thecracked stones.
David looked at the opposite side of the room. There was an entrance to another place. Stairs were leading up into nowhere. It was too dark to see where they lead to. " We need to get over there," Eric said as he glanced at the other side of the room. " How?" Tim asked. " If we fall, we'll be in big trouble. There's no way to get back up if you did. I think it's a sealed off sewage line." I was examining the fungus growing from the walls. It seemed to be growing before my eyes. " Guys, look!" I said. " It's growing" The fungus came down to where we were. " We'll swing over!" I explained. There was a very narrow lege right below the hole I stepped onto it and decided that I would try it first. " Will it hold us?" Tim asked. " It doesn't seem very strong to me." I tugged on the fungus that dangled from the ceiling. " It's strong enough," I assured him.
" We'll just go one at a time and we'll all be able to get across." I looked down at the bubblinggreen water. It smelled horrible. If anyone fell in there, you would smell for the rest of your life. Very carefully, I grabbed onto the fungus. It seemed plwenty strong to hold someone. " Be careful," Tim said as I let the fungus take me over to the other side. It held me just perfectly. I stepped onto the ledge on the other side. The stairs behind me lead somewhere, but we had no idea where. Eric started doing the same thing that I did. I helped him get across. The fungus was still strong enough. " Man, " Eric said as he climbed onto the ledge. " You would never think that fungus would hold something that well." " Not in the real world, anyway," I said. " This place just doesn't seem like it's in the real world, it seems completely different, a different world."
Tim was starting to grab onto the fungus. He seemed a little scared, but he made it just fine. David was the only one left on the other side. He stared down at the pool of green water. " Come on, David, you've got to try!" Tim yelled. David sighed as he very carefully grabbed the fungus. Eric tapped me on the shoulder. " Randy!" he cried. I folloed his gaze down at the water an my eyes widened. There was something alive down in that water. It certainly wasn't human, it was like a sea creature, only a creature that we had never hear of or seen before. A growl came from deep beneath the water as moe bubbles formed at the surface. " Hurry!" Eric cried. " We have to get out of here!" David was dangling from the fungus. It wsn't swinging back and forth, so he was stuck in the middle of the room, dangling high over a pool of disgusting water with a living creature swimming in it.
The room began to shake. Stones were falling from the ceiling as a rumbling sound came from somewhere around us. " Help!" David screamed as he noticed that the ceiling was beginning to crack apart. Rocks and pieces of brick were disappearing into the pool below. " Grab my hand!" I yelled out to David who was trying to reach out. " I can't, I can't!" David screaned. " I can't reach! Please, Randy ,help, I can't..." The ceiling collaped with a tremendous cracking sound. David screamed as he went plummeting down into the watery pit. There was a huge splash as he hit the surface of the water. He and most of the ceiling were submerged in the green water which was now turning black and red. " David!" Eric cried out. Chunks of the ceiling disappeared under the water with gulping sounds as David finally broke to the surface, gasping and coughing.
" He's alive!" Tim cried. " Guys!" David shouted, spitting out stuff from his mouth. " Get me out o here, it's really deep!" " We'll get you out! I told him. " Just hang on. " No, I can't!" he cried. " There's something down here, get me out!" " Get him out!" Tim screamed. None of us knew how to get David out of the water. It was far down and if any of us leaned over too far, we would fall in. Suddenly, David was pulled under the green water. The water started to swirl around. It was very quiet and the silence bothered us. " David?" I heard Eric whisper. After a beat or two, a hideous green creature with blood shot veins emerged from the water, blood pouring from its mouth. It growled fiercely, horrifying the three of us as it dove back under the water. A huge bubble of blood erupted from the pool a few moments later as all became quiet again.
Eric looked like he was in shock. To tell you the truth, I felt the same way. Tim looked like he was going to throw up. He did, he went in the corner and got sick. I was trembling and I felt persperation drippin off of my forehead. " It ate him!" Eric cried. " My God, it just ate him! This is a nightmare, it has to be! I'm dreaming, I'm staying here until I wake up." " You're not dreaming, I told Eric. " Sadly, this isn't a dream." Tim came back from the corner and I could tell that he was out of breath. " We have to get out of here, now!" he said. " Come on, let's go!" I said. We dragged Eric up the stairs. We had no idea of what was up ahead. There seemed to b a rumbling coming from all around us, but nothing seemed to be around. As the three of us came to the top of the stairs, we heard a sound like an animal was eating something.
The room was lit up. There were tiled floors around us, but it made no sense to why there would be a sewage line next to a room like this. There was a desk in the corner. A journal was laying on it. I picked it up and read it aloud while Tim and Eric looked around the rest of the room. " April 10th. I've been here for a while now. I'm sot sure how long, but I don't like being here. Everyday, something scary happens. The creature in the water, the dog that eats humans, the ghosts. I can't stand it anymore. No matter what I do, there's always something there." The rest of the page was torn and I couldn't read anymore. The sound had stopped. Tim and Eric were looking around the room. I joined them. There was a dog limping up the stairs, chewing on something as it entered the room. I heard Tim moan as the dog lookedat us and growled.
Eric screamed as he grabbed a piece of broken glass from the floor and stabbed trhe dog with it. Tim and I closed our eyes as we heard the dog cry out and groan. There was a thump and Tim and I opened our eyes. Eric had killed the dog. He pulled the glass out of the dog. It was bloodstained. " We'll use this as a weapon, just in case," Eric said. Tim and I nodded. We studied the dog. Of course, this was a type of dog we had never seen before. It was furless and had a redish skin with purple veins. The tongue was yellow and so was the tail. " This isn't a regular dog," Tim said. " It's different. We're in a different world." " Look!" Eric cried. He pointed to a hole in the wall. " Maybe we can get out that way, in the real world." Without a moment's hesitation, the three of us walked over to the hole and looked inside.
It was dark like the hole hat appeared in our bathroom. I climbed in first this time. Tim was second and Eric followed last this time. It didn't take long for us to get where the hole lead to.
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