Escape the Night: Betrayal at the House on the Hill

A/N: Hello, world and welcome to the next installment of the season finale of Escape the Night! So, I'm a bit groggy because I was up late getting my laundry done due to the fact that our washer broke sometime last week, and even though a new part has arrived, it won't get installed until Saturday. Anyway, once I'm done with updating my various fanfics, I'm going back to bed since I have a dentist appointment later today to get my final root canal done.

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CHAPTER SIX: THE RITUAL

They hurried into the living room, their minds reeling from everything that had happen, and Eva realized that there was more light starting to come through the windows.

"Guys," she said, pointing to the windows. "The sun's coming up." And they weren't out of the woods just yet, even with Arthur dead, along with Sarah and Marvin. "We need to figure this out."

"The ritual," Joey said, grabbing the papers from the table and looked them over. "Okay. This is the right ritual."

"Good," Dawn said. "'cause we've got to do that right away if we're going to get out of here."

Both Oli and Eva nodded in agreement and they all worked on removing the tables and chairs from the area before Dawn hurried outside with Oli and Eva to get more sand.

Joey turned to move the table that the ritual had been on and he paused, finding another folded paper on it that he was sure hadn't been there before. He glanced toward the doors and then he picked up the paper and unfolded it to see written across the top, Property Title and Deed. This was it, the deed that he was suppose to receive that very night.

'This might be the evil trying to tempt me,' Joey thought, 'but I'm not about to leave this here to harm others.' He quickly folded the paper and stuffed it into the inside pocket of his coat.

Just then, Dawn, Oli, and Eva returned with several buckets of sand, and after Joey helped them remove the remaining table, they went to work on forming a new circle and triangle with the sand. Once this was done, they set up the artifacts and the candles, and Joey sat down in the center with the fourth artifact and a white cord. Oli, Dawn, and Eva sat on the outside of the circle.

It was time to seal the evil away and get the hell out of there.

Oli took a deep breath and he began reading the invocation. "With the thread of the crimes of your own design, I bind your evil three times. Seven times. I bind you from behind, I bind you from before, that you hurt my people nevermore." And as he read, Joey wrapped the cord around the artifact, which was starting to shake, while the evil started surrounding them, clearly trying to stop them, but they weren't going stop, not this time. "I bind you from the left. I bind you from the right. I bind you by day, and I bind you by night."

The artifacts began glowing a ghostly red, along with the circle and triangle design, but they continued the ritual. "I bind you from below. I bind you from above. I bind you with your own evil within. So let this magic unfold!" Oli was shouting now, and Joey had finished wrapping the cord around the artifact, which was shaking violently by this point, making it difficult for him to hold it. "Goddess of the darkest night, bind the presence that haunts this home in thy sacred fires of eternity!!" And with that, the glowing redness was sucked into Joey's artifact, which stopped shaking, and the light returned to the room.

They looked around, wondering if it had worked this time, and when there was no demonic laughter, they knew it was finally over.

"Guys, it worked," Dawn said, a relieved smile on her face. "We did it!"

Eva immediately jumped to her feet. "We need to bury them!"

Realizing that she was right, they quickly gathered up the four artifacts and hurried outside to bury them with only a few minutes to go.

While Joey got a large metal box from the garden shed, Oli and Dawn were busy digging a hole while Eva was holding the artifacts in her arms. Joey staggered over with the box and she quickly shoved them inside. Locking it, the quartet worked together on shoving the whole thing into the hole, where they grabbed the shovels and began burying it as fast as they could.

Soon the box was completely buried and they dropped the shovels just as the sun peeked over the side of the mountain, bathing them with its warm light. They had done it, and the long night was finally over.

Together, Joey, Dawn, Oli, and Eva walked down the long driveway, shaken and changed by the experience, and they weren't even sure that anyone would believe them when they got back home. But it didn't matter, it was over, the evil was contained, and they were finally going to return to 2016 and their lives.

Ahead of them, the gates opened on their own, and one by one, they went through them, leaving both the house and the 1920s behind. Joey was the last to step through the gate, and for a brief moment, he felt something pressing against his mind, something dark that briefly turned his eyes black, and then it faded as quickly as it appeared.

Dawn looked back at her friend, concerned. "You ok, Joey?" she asked.

Joey nodded and put his arm around her shoulders. "Yeah, I'm fine. Let's get out of here."

"Ok," she agreed and they followed after Oli and Eva.

The quartet hadn't gotten very far from the gates when they found a car waiting for them, and it was a white 1920s car that was similar to the one that had first brought them to the house. Waiting next to it was a woman, who smiled when she saw them approaching.

"Hello," she said as they drew closer and many other 1920s vehicles pulled up nearby, "I'm Edith Caulfield, and we're members of the Society Against Evil." She nodded to the men and women, who were all wearing dark clothes, that were exiting the vehicles and smiled at the foursome as their wary expressions changed to that of recognition. "It's good to see that you all are alive, and I'm here to get you out of here. Please, get in." She opened the door and they quickly climbed inside.

Shutting the door, Edith went to the driver's side, climbed in, and she drove off while the men and women headed for the house to retrieve the bodies of the victims and the bodies of the bad guys, too.

They had a lot to do and very little time to do it in since the spell that kept the house locked in the 1920s wasn't going to remain weaken for very long, but they hoped that would remain weak long enough to complete their mission before it was too late.

A/N: The evil has been defeated! Yay! Just two more updates and this story will be done. So, the next update will be at the normal time on Tuesday, and I will see you all then. Bye for now! R&R everyone!