Chapter 23: Hiding
Dave and Haley had to run to the right into some woods when the Shades started to close in on them and tried to get them. They ran to the side of the house and saw a little cellar door. They went down it and closed and locked the door behind them so that the Shades couldn't get in. They walked down the stairs and saw that it looked like a miniature wine cellar but without the wine. Dave looked at the shelves and noticed a claw sitting at the bottom of each section of the shelves. He looked under them to see writings about who the claws came from. "When he kills someone, he takes a claw from them and puts it here to mark where it came from. The tag underneath tells who they were and when he killed them," Dave said. Dave saw a few empty sections on a shelf and he went to it to see that three of them had no claws but tags under them. He gasped at what he saw and Haley came over and read what they said. 'The American Dragon. D.O.D:' 'The Chinese Dragon D.O.D.' 'Dave Long D.O.D.' "Why don't you have a title?" Haley asked Dave. Dave just shook his head and Haley asked, "What does D.O.D mean?" "It means Date Of Death," Dave told her.
Haley felt shivers running down her back at this info and they walked through the cellar to see a shadow in the corner. It charged at them and Dave noticed it was a Shade. He transformed his arm and destroyed the Shade. They found another set of stairs and went up them to see a door. They opened it and entered a room with a set of stairs going up behind them. In front of them was a single door and behind them were double doors. "We are on the first floor," Dave said and closed the door after Haley came out. He unlocked the lock for the single door and walked through it.