After looking in the mirror for a little while, I continued searching around this strange room. I wasn't sure if I was being held prisoner like Maria or if something else had happened. If that were the case, I had no idea what had happened. Once again, I was shoving cobwebs out of the way wherever I walked. This place was like the dungeon of a castle or something. Within the darkness, I finally found a door, a wooden door. With my curiosity building up, I approached it. The doorknob was full of dust. It was as if no one had entered this room in years. My hands shaking, I opened the door to find complete darkness on the other side. " Hello?" I called as I cautiously entered the dark room. There wasn't a sound. " Is there anyuone here?" No answer, I was all alone, or so it seemed. " Eric, Tim? Are you there? It's Randy." I couldn't stand the darkness anymore, so I started feeling around the stone wall for a light switch or something. I didn't find a light switch, but a torch hanging from the wall. " Well, that's a start," I said, blowing the dust off of it.
This torch wouldn't help me, but I remembered jut then that I had a pack of matches in my pocket. Things seemed to suddenly be easier than they were before, or were they? I lit a match from my pocket. It took a few times since it was really cold in here and they might have gotten wet from before somewhere. I lit the torch. Surprisingly, it burned pretty well. I was able to see better down here now. Cobwebs were hanging from the ceiling and they went all the way down to the crumbling floor. It looked like an ancient temple that I was in or something. Then I heard it. There were drums. It sounded loike people banging on drums. " Hello?" I called. There was no answer, but I still heard the drums. With my torch, I followed the sounds I heard to the other side of the room. There were body parts hanging from the ceiling by strings. It smelled awful. The drumming was getting louder and stranger as I approached another wooden door. The drumming was coming from the other side. Very carefully, I reached out and opened the door. I suddenly found myself in a long, rusted hallway that lead to a little window with bars over it. With my curiosity building up, I continued walking toward the window.
Strange lights were coming from the other side as I approached it. There were about two dozen creatures drumming around a blazing campfire n a room surrounded by stone walls on the other side of the window. I backed up. This was really weird. It seemed that this would never end. No matter where I went, this place just kept getting weirder and weirder. The rest of this room that I was in looked like a dungeon sort of place, but it was small. The walls were decaying and rust was forming on everything. There was another sink in here, too. The mirror above it was completely broken and there was glass scattered about on the floor. I walked over to it, slowly. My feet crunched on the broken glass of the mirror as I looked in the sink. There was a knife sitting on top of the drain. It was covered with blood and the sides of the sink were splattered red, too. It gave me a sickly feeling in my stomach as I looked at the knife. I suddenly heard something behind me like a gasp. " Hello?' I said, my voice nearly gone from fright. My toch began to show me what I had heard There was a figure slumped over on the floor. It looked like a girl. " Who are you?" I asked, my voice shaking. THe figure moved slightly. I flinched. This was just getting too creepy for me. However, something made me reach out and touch it. The girl ascreamed and turned over. I jumped back, afraid of what had happened. To my surprise, it was Allison. She was tied up, her mouth covered with duct tape. " Allison?" She was whimpering. It looked like she had been through worse than I had.
She was strting to calm down now, realising that it was just me. I set my torch down to keep the room well lit. " I'm going to untie you, okay?" I said to her, trying to be as comforting as possible. She nodded, but she still looked frightened. First, I pulled the duct tape off of her mouth. She let out a gasp for air and she sighed as I began untying her hands from behind her back. " Thank you, Randy," she said in an out of breath voice. Her blonde hair was stained with blood. Her green eyes looked gray now. She had been frightened horribly at some point during the night. " What are you doing here?" she asked. " What's happening?" I shrugged. " I don't know where to begin, Allison. In our hotel room, there was this hole in our bathroom. The four of us went into these different worlds that were so weird. David was killed and there was this woman, too." " I was talking with the janitor," she explained. " I was right outside your room. He said that he heard strange noises coming from your room." I odded. " I know, we saw you through the peephole, but no matter what we did, we couldn't get anyone to hear us from inside that room." Allison started whimpering again. " I just went to bed," she said. " I woke up here. I don't know wha happened. There was this man here. He told me to get out of here while I still could. Someone tied me up here. Randy, what is this place?"
" I don't know," I said, shaking my head. " This is like a soul house or something. I think that they take people from the real world prisoner here. Eric, Tim, and I saw all these different rooms here somewhere else within these walls. There wre people chained up in these rooms and there were thousands os prisoners at this strange ritual or something. It's too horrible to explain." " I can't figure it out," Allison said. " I saw this weird creature come in here, too. It was all bloody and it was growling at me." I sighed. " What happened next?" She shrugged. " Nothing, it just disappeared. I just want to go home. I knew that this field trip was a bad idea." " We'll get out of here, don't worry," I assured her. " If there's a way in, there's a way out. Can you remember at all how you got here?" She looked at me for a moment and shook her head. " No," she said. " I just woke up in this room. The creatures just disappeared, they didn't exit through anything." She stood up with me. " Let's find a way out," I said. " Then we can look for Tim and Eric." She nodded.
There wasn't really that much in this room. It seemed like an old cell of some sort, but it looked as if it had been locked up for years. I took my torch and the two of us started searching around for another exit. That weird ritual was still going on outside that barred window. The bonfire was glowing brighter than ever. " These things are evil," she suddenly said. " They're horrifying." I think that Allison had been so scared, she was almost in shock. She kept chanting on while I discovered a statue splattered in blood. It was a statue of a cat of some kind, almost like the kind of statue would find in Egypt. Something made me reach out and touch the head. The head moved back and part of the stone wall beside it opened. " Allison, I think I found something!" I explained. She came over to me. Light was shining from the other side of the doorway that had just appeared. " Let's check it out," I said, pulling her through the hole.
Now things were getting too weird for words. This doorway that we had crawled through lead to another hallway with bright red, rusted walls. There was that sound like a heart beating again as the walls seemed to be moving. Allison was behind me, whimpering. The echoing sound of a woman trying to scream came from above this hallway. " Help me!" we heard from above us. " Help me, he's coming!" " Let's run!" I told Allison. We started bolting down that hallway, the walls still moving. " Run!" I screamed. We turned to see another hallway stretching far down. " How huge is this place?" I said, frustrated. Come on, Allison!" We kept running and running, strange noises echoing in all different places. Both of us finally came to another wooden door at the end of this hallway. I was about to open it, but we noticed that the knob was already starting to turn. " Somebody's coming in!" I whispered. Still whimpering, Annie grabbed a sword from a suit of armor standing behind a curtain nearby. There were other weird things in the hallway, like an empty table with blood splattered on the chairs. Annie heald the sword firmly, waiting for whatever was on the other side of the door. The knob turned and the door swung open. Allison hurled the sword at what was coming in. The sword went right into that thing's chest. Unfortanatly, that something was Eric. Eric had opened the door. Tim was behind him. " No," Allison said. " No, this can't be!" Eric groaned and fell on the floor. He was still alive, but in horrible pain. " It's funny seeing you guys here," Tim said. " Only, I think we should do something about Eric." I nodded.
Allison was already neeling on the floor, trying to get the sword out of Eric's chest. He screamed in pain. " Look, we have to get this out!" I told him. " We can't just keep it in." " Just be gentle," Eric said in an out of breath voice. " Okay," I said, tugging on the sword. Eric screamed, but I had the sword out quickly. Thankfully, Eric wasn't bleeding anymore. Tim helped him up. Eric screamed again. " Just get me out of here!" he whined as Tim, Allison, and I started dragging him through the door and down yet another hallway. " We're tryin'," Tim assured him. " Just stay with us here!" I could hear him breathing heavy. Blood had since dripped from his mouth and he looked like he was in terrible pain. He screamed again. " Shut up!" Tim screamed. " Shut up!" Allison and I went over to a red rusted door and tried to open it. The door was locked. " Just wait here and be quiet," Tim told Eric as he came over to help Allison and I with the door. " Just..get it open," Eric said, coughing on some blood. " The pipe!" I said, pulling the steel pipe that was sticking out of my pocket. Allison actually grabbed it from me and started getting in position to break the door open with it.
Suddenly, there was a thundering boom as two claw like hands reached out from beneath the floor next to Eric who was screaming in terror now. Allison dropped the pipe as the three of us started pulling Eric away. We were too late, though. Whatever was down there, was pulling Eric down through the hole. " Help me, help me!" Eric was screaming hysterically. " Get me out of here!" The claws pulled Eric head-first down into the hole, Allison, Tim, and I pulling on his legs. When we couldn't see Eric's head or chest anynmore, blood started spraying up out of the hole and right at the three of us. Allison was screaming, causing her to lose her grip on Eric's legs. We had to let go. We couldn't win this battle no matter how hard we tried. Eric was pulled down into the hole, lost forever as the last of the blood in his body gurgled and flooded out onto the floor. Allison was looking at her blood covered arms while she panted, looking over at the door we had been trying to open. The steel pipe lay on the floor. Tim and I were silent. This was the third person we had seen die in one night, not counting the guy that was lowered in that elevator to the firey pit. Without saying another word, Allison grabbed the pipe and hurled it at the door. Surprisingly, she created a hole in the door, large enough for us to reach in and unlock the door from the other side.
Through that door, there was nothing but darkness ahead of us. Allison looked at Tim and I. It was just the three of us now. " Let's go," she said between panting. " Alright," Tim said. " But if there's anything else in there, I'm turning back." Allison nodded and Tim held onto my shoulder like he could barely stand up anymore. We walked through the large puddles of blood leftover from Eric's death. As we approached the door, the three of us looked through the hole. It was pitch black on the other side. If things had been hard so far, they were bound to get worse now. I reached through the hole and felt for the lock. Tim and Allison were watching me. They were horrified, you could just tell. Finally, the door unlocked. This was the moment of truth as the door swung open. Everything was so dark in this room that we couldn't see our hand in front of our face. " Hello?" Tim called. " Anyone here?" The door behind us slammed as all of the lights came on. We were in a white room. The door we had come through just disappeared and we were surrounded by white walls. Not a speck of dust was showing. " Is there anyone here?" Tim called again. There was no one here, or so it seemed. " Randy," Allison said plainly. " I'm scared. " Don't be, we're getting out of here," I told her. There came a groaning sound from all around us. " What's that?" Tim asked. The three of us huddled together as the walls started closing in on us.
" Make it stop!" Allison screamed. The walls wouldn't stop. They just kept closing in on us. " Someone, help us, please!" I screamed. No one could hear us. We were all alone in a room with the walls trying to crush us. " Help!" This couldn't be real, it had to be a nightmare. I was so terrified, I didn't know what was going to happen to me. Maybe I would have a heart attack before I was crushed. I didn't know, but the three of us suddenly felt the floor drop from beneath us. We were now falling into an open pit. I heard Annie screaming. I couldn't scream because we were falling so fast. Suddenly, there was a red glow coming from the hole we were falling into. Then I thought, " We're going to be burned!" We ended up falling onto a pile of bones and skulls. The fall hurt because those bones were sharp and far from soft. I heard Tim gasp. " We're alive!" he cried. " I can't believe it! We're safe!" Allison and I got up from the pile of bones. Above us was blackness. We had fallen hundreds of feet and it was a miracle that we were still alive. " Where are we?" Tim asked. " This place is just too weird." Around us, it almost looked like a huge cavern lit by torches. There were bodies hanging from the rocky ceiling upside down. They were wrapped up in white cloth that was stained by blood. Some of the blood was dripping down onto the cave' floor as if it were the water that usually drips in caves. " This is disgusting," Allison explained. " If we get out of this alive, I'm never going on a class trip again."
" Come," we heard in an echoing voice. " Come to me." " Who's there?" Tim screamed. " What do you want from us?" There was no answer. The voice had disappeared. " There must be a way out around here," I explained. " This place can't go on forever." It was mostly dark in this cavernous place, but there was enough light from those torches to show us everything we wanted to see. The three of us walked around the area where the blood was dripping from. We weren't sure how long those bodies had been there. " I think the voice came from over there," Allison said, pointing to a little opening in the cave's wall.
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