Escape the Night: Betrayal at the House on the Hill
A/N: Hello, world and welcome back to the next installment of the finale of Escape the Night Season 1! I'm updating a bit later then normal because I had to get up earlier then usual this morning to help with some real life stuff, and I went back to bed to recover for a bit.
Anyway, time to see if Joey, Dawn, Oli, and Eva can locate Arthur's brother without getting caught…again. On with the episode!
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CHAPTER TWO: HIDE AND SEEK PART 1
When the quartet exited the house, a loud siren went off, making them jump and they quickly hid themselves when Arthur, Sarah, and Marvin appeared on the balcony above them, having been alerted by the siren.
"This place has a flipping alarm system?!" Oli hissed. "Why didn't you say this house an alarm system?!"
"It doesn't!" Joey hissed back. "Or at least it didn't before everything went to hell!"
"Ssh!" Dawn hissed, nodding to the bad guys above them. "They're right above us."
Arthur was fuming that their four captives had managed to escape, even when he thought that wasn't going to be possible with how he'd set up the boxes and the pokers. "I don't know how they got out!" he growled.
"Oh, I don't know," Sarah snapped. "Maybe if you hadn't left them with boxes-"
"Enough!" Arthur snapped, interrupting her. "Sarah, you take the house. Marvin, you check the side. If you find them, gut them where they stand!" He looked his compatriots dead in the eye. "This game is over."
"Aw, come on, Arthur," Marvin pouted. "The girls' are too hot to die. Can't I have some fun with them first?" he pleaded, unaware that said girls had heard everything, and they were both cringing at the mental images popping in their minds.
Arthur rolled his eyes. "Fine. Whatever," he grumbled. "Do what you want. Just make sure they-"
"They will die," Sarah assured him, a knife clinched in her right hand, and a steely look in her pitch-black eyes. "I promise you. " And with that, the staff began their search.
It was time to run again, and the quartet hurried away from the house and toward the pool, determined to avoid the three bad guys.
"He's coming," Joey hissed, gesturing at Marvin's approaching figure. "Oli, Dawn, this way. This way. Eva! This way! Come on!" And he lead the way to the pool, ducking down behind some bushes to avoid being seen by Marvin as he walked by, armed with a hatchet.
The moment that the groundskeeper was out of sight, they sprinted over to the pool, and began searching for the gems, but there was nothing in the water this time.
"Dang it," Joey muttered, certain that this was where they were suppose to go.
Oli pulled out the note and reread it. "But it says…" he muttered. "It says it's beneath the surface of a reflecting pool…what are we missing?"
"It must mean a different kind of reflecting pool," said Dawn, trying to think of what that could be, but the fear and stress was making it harder then usual to concentrate.
"Maybe the fountain?" Eva suggested.
Joey shrugged. "Sure. Let's try it. This way." And they started to head for the fountain when Arthur suddenly appeared and they had to retreat, especially since Marvin had returned, too. Joey, Dawn, and Oli managed to duck into the pool house, which was, thankfully, devoid of mermaids, and hid while poor Eva was forced to hide behind the building itself to avoid being seen.
Arthur and Marvin searched the area, but finding nothing, they left to search elsewhere. The moment that they were gone, Joey, Dawn, and Oli exited the pool house and looked around for Eva as they hurried to the fountain, jumping down so that they were hidden by the wall.
"Eva, come on!" Joey called out in a whisper and waved when she came out from behind the pool house. "Get down here! Hurry!"
"Where are you?" Eva squeaked fearfully as she moved toward his voice, and when she saw him waving, she hurried over and jumped down next to them.
"Marvin's over here," Joey hissed, pointing to the groundskeeper as he walked by. "Marvin's over here." They then ran to hide behind some trees and, after they were certain that Marvin was gone. "Ready?" he whispered and they nodded. "One…two…three!" And they sprinted across the lawn, jumping over several low hedges, and they duck behind the fountain.
After taking a minute to catch their breathes, the quartet peered over the side of the fountain, using their flashlights to see what was under the water, and they discovered that it was filled with diamonds.
"There's a gem in the water," Joey remarked.
Oli frowned. "There's a German?"
"No! A gem!"
"Oh."
Dawn found a chest and put it onto the edge of the fountain, reading the inscription on the lid. "'Under the water are three invisible stones. Place them on my crown, and I will repay you tenfold'."
While Oli began stirring up the water with his hand, Joey crept away for a few seconds, and then he returned with a rake. Bracing a foot on the edge of the fountain, he used the rake to start poking through the water for the correct gems.
"I'm nervous," Eva moaned since what Joey was doing was making a lot of noise. "I'm nervous."
Joey was reaching into the water for the right gems when Sarah suddenly shouted from the direction of the house.
`"I found them!"`
"Joey!" Oli hissed with alarm. "You're caught! She's in the window!"
Grabbing the gems, Joey ducked down behind the fountain. "Who?"
Sarah came out on the balcony just then. "Arthur!" she called out. "Marvin!"
Joey showed them the diamonds. "I got the diamonds," he whispered and Dawn took them, placing them on the chest, which popped open. Joey barely had time to remove the two rubies and a note from the chest when Marvin appeared and they duck down again.
"Where?" the groundskeeper asked, looking around with a scowl.
Sarah pointed at the fountain. "They were over there."
"Where?"
Sarah descended the stairs to join Marvin, and as they did this, the quartet darted away and hid themselves behind some bushes. Marvin and Sarah searched around the fountain, but they couldn't find their prey. "They were just there!"
"Get back to the house and I'll search the grounds.
"Ok."
Once they were certain that Marvin and Sarah were gone, Joey unfolded the note and read it to his friends. "'The spirits will speak words to help you restore my evil eyes, so I might guard the house with my wings'."
"Wings?" Dawn repeated, peering at the clue. "Is there, like, a statue? A statue with wings?"
Eva nodded. "Up there. See that?" She pointed to the top floor of the house, where where there was a gargoyle standing like a silent sentinel. "Wings. That guards the house."
"The gargoyle!"
The good news was that they knew that they needed to get to the gargoyle. The bad news, however, was that they were going to have to go inside the house, where Sarah was prowling the halls with her sharp knife.
This so wasn't going to be fun.
A/N: Good news is they've managed to avoid getting caught, but now they'll have to go inside the house, which isn't good with Sarah in there.
I will see you all on Tuesday for the next update. Bye for now! R&R everyone!