A/N- Wassup? It be TOBN here with a brand new chapter of The Terror Of Whitechapel!
One more week until Halloween! Are you as excited as I am? And if it is one more week 'till Halloween, that means there is one more chapter of this story! Aw, damn, am I right? But hey! Look on the bright side! If this story is done, on Halloween, I will be posting the long awaited More Than Friends that everyone has been waiting for! It's a 7-day countdown until the Friends Series!
But more information on that later - read the A/N at the bottom after the chapter is done :)
So yeah! Chapter 4! Last chapter was generally, creepy, right? Not as bloody as the last book, but equally horrifying, I hope! Some weird magic is going around, and Ethan has fallen victim to a not-so-willing-to-give-awesome-super-powers spider! Cool, right?
Well in this chapter, things are catching up, and more hints on who the mystery magical person - or at least, Audrey's "accomplice"? - that is behind all these attacks! Have you picked up all the pieces yet? Have ya? I have been leaving quite a few hints...
Shoutouts before I forget...
MBAV fan66- I am glad I gave you the frights! That is my job as an author , after all! And I guess it is just another thing you are going to have to find out, am I right, my friend? Will they get Benny back? I mean, probably, but not without a fight, am I right? Anyway, thanks for your review as always, fanfic buddy :)
And with that, excuse my procrastination, and enjoy reading!
Drop a review as well - the feedback is most rewarding :)
ENJOY!
The Terror Of Whitechapel
By: TiredOfBeingNice
Chapter 4: Every Good Party Needs A Party Game
Benny wiggled in the corner of the dark room, screaming against the duct tape on his mouth. Audrey was standing in the middle of this dark room, sharpening what seemed to be a silver axe. The blade blazed in Benny's eyes, and he attempted to scream even louder.
"Shh," Audrey whispered, "How catastrophic would it be if someone found you..." She cackled once more, sharpening her knives and her silver axe. Benny squirmed people were dancing, and he saw a glimpse of all the people. People were dancing, music was pounding, drunk people were being drunk, and he saw a glimpse of his friends.
Erica was banging her phone against the wall, but he squinted and saw what seemed to be the Siri symbol. He frowned in confusion, then gasped - it didn't work. It went to the wrong people. It should've driven everyone out, but instead, his friends...
He shook the memories and the thoughts out.
Ethan was a bit dazed, and with these high quality monitors, Benny could clearly make out the spider bite on his neck. Sarah fanned his face, and Rory was rambling to some girl once more. Not much as changed, but he did leave his friends in danger.
'Do they know?' Benny thought to himself. 'Surely they couldn't...'
"Oh, Benjamin?" Audrey purred, "Do you know if you friends like party games?"
Benny's eyes widened in horror as Audrey's monitors flashed to six different places in the haunted manor. He nearly screamed again.
Each room held a note, and some sort of...body. What scared Benny the most is that he could see one of the rooms very clearly, and two people's silhouettes lined the darkness. Benny wiggled a bit, and he saw the shadow do the same. He gulped.
It was him.
"Do you want to play with me, Benjamin? I think it is about time that the finale starts." Audrey cackled. Benny narrowed his eyes at her, as if to say "My friends will stop you, crazy son of a bitch", but Audrey just ran the blade of the silver axe down Benny's cheek softly.
"I think every good party needs a party game," She smiled, "wouldn't you agree?"
X~*~X
"What happened to me?" Ethan mumbled, rubbing his pounding head, that was still a bit sticky from all the cobwebs. Sarah explained, her words interspersed with uncertain "um's" and Ethan eye's widened at the thought of him horrifically killing two innocent people.
"I-I...k-killed someone?" Ethan stuttered. Rory nodded.
"Yeah. Two." He said sympathetically, and Erica elbowed him. Rory pouted, and Erica rolled her eyes, looking back to her phone, which was still buzzing with Siri and her static voice. Erica growled, throwing the phone against the wall, and surprisingly, it didn't break.
"It wasn't that bad. They were drunk, I am pretty sure they robbed a Walmart once, and you were hypnotized." Sarah tried to cover up, but something ached in Ethan's heart, and he finally felt the same way Benny had felt when he had killed a lot of people a few months back...
"How did I become hypnotized?" Rory shrugged.
"I think it was some crazy spider. I mean, didn't you get bit?" Rory laughed a bit to himself. "Too bad you didn't have any spider powers. I mean," He hesitated, "you don't, right?"
Ethan rolled his eyes, shaking his head as he looked at all his friend with a tired smile.
"It's alright. It wasn't my fault. It was...Audrey's fault, I guess." Erica had given up on her phone for a while, stuffing it in her pocket. She stared at Ethan, and shook her head rapidly.
"I don't think so," she said slowly, "because Rory had said that there was no supernatural or unusual strands of DNA on Audrey. Someone supernatural is working with her." She concluded, filing her nails a bit. Ethan frowned.
"Okay," he shrugged, "so who is it?"
Suddenly, the lights flickered, and all the drunk people laughed at the scariness. Some sober people nervously shuffled along, and the gang huddled close together. A huge projector that hung on the ceiling flickered, and a pure, white cloth lowered in front of the crowd.
dO yOu WaNt tO PlAy a gAmE wiTh mEeeE?
People in the crowd whooped, and some shouted "YES!" at the top of their lungs. Blood leaked on the font like paint, and Sarah felt Ethan shudder visibly. She tightened her grip on his hand, and he nodded softly.
I hAve a cOoL prIze fOr tHe wInnEr.
The projector flickered again.
hE's waItiNg.
"'He'?" Rory asked incredulously as the lights flickered back on. "Who is 'he'?" He asked again. Ethan's eyes widened.
"Where's Benny?" He suddenly asked.
A note flickered down from the sky mysteriously, and Erica picked it up. It turns out that a few other people had received the same thing. Ethan looked down at the scribbled font on the sheet of paper, and frowned.
"There are a bunch of places here. Do you..." He gasped, and Sarah thought of the same thing.
"One of those places is where Audrey is keeping Benny!" She exclaimed.
"There is extra food in the places!" Rory exclaimed at the same time. Everyone looked at Rory, and he blushed gradually.
"Yeah. What she said." He covered up, and Ethan read the six places on the sheet.
"So there is the Dining Room, The Kitchen, The Bedroom, The Living Room, The Basement, and The Bathroom." He said with a nod. "Where should we go first?" He added, and Erica shrugged, not really paying attention and/or caring.
"The first one. The Dining Room. I am sure she wants us to go in order - that crazy psychopath." She mumbled, and Ethan nodded.
"I guess it's only reasonable." Rory's eyes lightened up.
"Do you think there's food?" He asked excitedly. Ethan rolled his eyes, and Sarah led the way, turning on the flashlight on her own phone, and leading her friends through the dark, haunted house, and to the dining room.
When they arrived, everyone gasped in fear and terror.
A person was hanged near the range hood, and their eyes were glassy and his face was blue. A rope was wrapped around his neck, and they all gasped - this man was hung. And dead.
"A note!" Rory whispered, walking towards it and reading it. He gasped.
FoUnd tHe firSt gAmE - hAngMan anYbodY?
"Oh my gosh." Erica gasped, shaking her head as they walked out of the dining room in horror. "What the hell? What was that?" She said, her hands shaking as Rory and Sarah came back from the kitchen. The gang had decided to split ways - Erica and Ethan would go to the bedroom and the living room, and then Sarah and Rory went to the kitchen, and bathroom.
"What did you guys see?" Sarah asked, shuddering. Rory was still a bit pale, as Ethan sighed.
"In the bedroom, there was a girl, all her bones split and twisted. It's basically like twisting an ankle, but much worse. The game Audrey set up was Twister." Ethan shuddered "She's so twisted." He added, shivering. Erica nodded.
"Then in the living room, there was a boy, and bloody money was surrounding him. The note said that they were playing 'The Game Of Life', and he 'lost'." Sarah and Rory exchanged looks, and Erica continued on for Ethan.
"A knife was stuck right in his heart, eyes bloodshot, with skin peeling off, oh, and not to mention all that blood pooling everywhere - " Ethan gagged loudly.
"Yeah, it was," His eyes flickered to the last door, "gruesome, but that was it. It's just a guy with a knife in his heart. No biggie." He whispered, and Rory nodded.
"That doesn't top what we saw!" He boasted. Sarah groaned.
"Not something to be proud of..." She mumbled.
"There was this guy in the kitchen, and he was hung onto the wall with nails stuck in his hands, and he had a knife in his butt!" Rory laughed as Erica and Ethan nearly screamed, jumping back in clear fear. Rory grinned obliviously.
"Pin the tail on the donkey?" He pressed, "Get it?"
Sarah sighed, pushing Rory to the side a little as she sighed.
"Then when we went to the bathroom, and it was the most horrifying thing ever. The poor girl's eyes were in the toilet, and the water was red. She was basically bobbing for apples, but instead of an apple, the note said she was bobbing for her own eyes." Ethan winced.
"Audrey sure is evil." Ethan said, fear shaking in his voice. "She even took Benny."
"I thought you didn't care." Sarah whispered, and Ethan shook his head.
"I know he had a reason to avoid me. I would too. But," he paused, smiling, "he's my best friend. I am definitely sure of that."
So everyone opened the door, and went into the basement to the last room.
Erica stood behind, trying her phone again when Siri buzzed on.
HOW MAY I HELP YOU?
"Turn my fucking phone back on, thanks." She grumbled. Blood leaked from the phone's edges as Siri cackled.
ONE THING FIRST...
A/N- Creep you out a bit? I really hope so :)
For the big news - in honor of More Than Friends coming out next Saturday, I want to do something really special. So this week, I am posting a special sneak peek on Tropical Friends, the story prior to MTF! Look out for that sometime this week!
So drop a review, and I'll see you next Saturday!
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