CH. 5

I felt it haunt me during my sleep; the wind shifted and blew through my window making my room feels as if I was in the middle of the snowy tundra near the North Pole. I was so cold…no matter how many blankets I got, the chills would still come up, I shut the window but the cold breeze would still revolve around the room, making everything feel like winter. I felt a chill go down my spine as I heard a voice whisper in the wind, "Madeline" it called the voice getting softer each time it called my name, and I couldn't help crying when I heard this thing call my name. I didn't want to hear it anymore…yet this voice…it made me want to go to it. I slowly lifted the covers and followed the soothing voice, my night gown blowing in the wind; I dragged myself through the sleeping house as if I was trekking through fields of snow.

My every being felt numb and unaware of everything that surrounded me, I heard nothing but the voice that called me name and each time it called I walked faster, still my body was half asleep, I just couldn't disobey this voice that commanded me to come. I heard the voice get louder when I reached those doors…the doors to the East wing. I looked up to it, in my unconscious yet conscious state, I felt the wind brush by me quickly, I didn't know where it came from but slowly the locks and chains that were wrapped around this door, fell off completely. My mouth opened, I was left stunned as I saw each lock come undone, and fall one by one to the floor. Yet no one felt the urge to get up from their beds to see what was happening…

Then I heard that haunting voice again, but in a soft voice yet you could tell it had authority, it was different yet it felt similar to me somehow…In a darker spirit. I saw the last lock fall and it the ground, the wind immediately stopped blowing and everything went to a halt. I looked around my body numb and stuck in place…I couldn't go back now. The doors opened slowly by themselves I looked beyond them and saw a figure standing at the end of the hall, its head tilted to the side looking at me with those bright blue orbs…that I assumed were eyes.

I tilted my head in the same fashion, I straighten myself, and this figure mirrored my motions. When I took a step forward, so did it, I took a step back and so did it; I felt my body just tremble, this thing was unnerving, it struck fear in me like no other. But at that moment I heard the voice whisper in the wind again, and I felt my body fall into this trance, my eyes growing wide. The figure at the end of the hall that stood alone in the entrance of the East wing, stared at me as I walked towards it. I couldn't control myself it was as if my body had a mind of its own! I wanted to cry, I wanted to scream at the very least so someone could help me! But I just couldn't…I entered passed the doors, as I did the doors shut close…and I heard a lock close shut as it did. I stopped in my tracks in the dark hallway…all I could see was those bright, blue eyes at the end of the hall…

At that moment I felt time just stop, when I took in a breath of air, this figures eyes started swirling…yes swirling, and the swirls were a bright pink almost as bright as the blue. And I saw shining white sharp, jagged teeth…and the insane laughter I heard from when I placed my ear against the wall. In that very second…everything went black.

Narrator's POV

The morning had arrived and the first to wake was Amelia, she awoke stretching her arms up and yawning heavily, scratching the back of her head. "Man…that was a long night…I felt like someone hit me in the head with a bat or something…" She said, getting up from her bed sleepily, she looked off the other bed, in which her dear younger sister…ex-younger sister, was sleeping in. She frowned seeing that the bed had no one in it; she noticed the polar bear that belonged to Madeline was knocked out on the bed. She walked towards her Madeline's bed and lifted the covers seeing that the bear was literally unconscious, she felt a surge of fear go through her…'If Maddie isn't there….then where is she?' She thought, pulling away from the covers. She ran out of her bedroom and towards Britain's bedroom, in which she passed the gaping doors to the East wing. She paused immediately when she passed the doors and felt a chill go down her spine when she passed those doors. She had a very bad feeling when she got close to those doors; she looked at the doors and saw that everything was in place. As if no one had ever touched the doors, '. . . Weird' she thought, she brushed her feeling aside and ran to Britain's room.

She kicked the door open and with a scream she said, "BRITAIN! I CAN'T FIND MADDIE!" She yelled frantically, startling the British man that was still in bed, half asleep, he sat up straight quickly, he moved his hand to his chest breathing heavily, "don't do that you blithering idiot! You could have given me a heart attack!" "Whatever dude! Maddie's missing! She wasn't in her bed this morning when I woke up! All I found was her bear thing literally knocked out! Like someone bashed its head or something!" Amelia said, not caring for anything that Britain had just told her, but with this Britain's whole body just flinched when she said that Madeline had gone missing, he immediately jumped out of his bed, without changing and ran to Amelia and Madeline's bedroom. He inspected the bear and found a mark on its head, one that showed that someone had hit it to the point of no conscious. He took a deep sigh and placed the bear back to the bed, and started running off to Canada and America's bedroom. He ran in startling the two young men, America were irritated by this, "What are you doing here so early!" Britain didn't even bother to reply to the young American, he just ran off to Canada and checked if he was awake. He saw him wake up but he had fallen back asleep when America spoke. He put a hand to the colonies head, it felt like ice. America got up quickly to his brother's side, his whole body filling with fear, he looked up to Britain, "What the heck is going on!"

Britain shook Canada's body to see if he could wake him up; Canada opened his eyes slowly, being shocked to see Britain standing over him. "B-Britain?" he said in his usual soft tone, "Yes it's me…did you wake up at all last night?" He turned to America, "At all?" America cocked his head to the side looking at him confused, "What are you talking about dude? I was asleep the whole time; actually it was like the worst night ever! I woke up with like the biggest headache…" Canada nodded in agreement to what America said, Britain started panicking in the inside, but he didn't want to the others to see his worry. Amelia was close behind; she knew that Britain knew something and that it wasn't something good at all. If it meant her sister disappearing, then she knew this was something extremely bad. And that she'd soon have to take into her own hands, and fast.

Britain left the room quickly and went up to the doors that led to the East wing, he placed a hand on them and felt the cold doors. His face grew pale and stepped back away from the doors, "this can't be…" Amelia came in, showing the worry in her face and heard what Britain had said, "What can't be? Dudes tell me what's up! I want to know where Maddie is!" She said her voice rising, Britain turned to her, his face paler, "Someone has opened these doors…and from my guess they left with your sister."

"They what!" She screamed, she ran towards the door and started beating on it and yelling out for her sister, she started scratching at the doors, yelling at the top of her lungs. Britain pulled her back and dragged her away from the doors, "GIVE ME BACK MY SISTER YOU CREEPS! WHOEVER YOU ARE I WILL FIND YOU AND GET HER BACK! LET ME GO!" She yelled struggling to get out of Britain's grip, but it was hopeless and he ended up getting her into his study, closing the door behind him. He grabbed her shoulders and made her look into his eyes, "Get a hold of yourself!" he said, gripping onto her shoulders tighter. She looked back at him shocked, still showing the anger that filled her, "someone has my sister and you won't even let me try to get her! Let go of me so I can find her now!" she yelled stomping on the ground, Britain lifted her up from the ground and forced her to sit, Alice came rushing in, after hearing all the noise, "what is going on in here!" She yelled seeing how Britain was forcing Amelia down on a chair, she raised a brow looking at them in slight fear and disgust, and ". . . should I go?" Britain and Amelia immediately started blushing, "IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK!" Britain automatically said, moving himself away from Amelia lifting his hands up. Amelia didn't really care and turned her body away from Britain and Alice looking out the window, thinking of a way to get her sister back. How to enter the East wing; Alice meanwhile started debating in her mind, if what Britain was saying is true, she brushed the thought aside and entered, asking Britain what was going on again.

He explained to her everything, leaving Alice speechless on the situation, "do you think he's responsible for this?" She said softly so that Amelia couldn't hear, "most likely, but we can't go through there, well Canada, America and I can't go through there…its forbidden as I said before." Alice looked towards the ground worried, thinking up a solution somehow, Amelia turned to the two, showing her fear now, "How are we getting Maddie back?" Alice walked up to her and lifted her head so that she would look at her only. "We'll find a way, but you young lady will be a part of this find and rescue mission, you will stay behind with me. We'll find someone to bring her back, one way or another." Amelia's fear automatically turned into rage when she heard this and got up defiantly before her, "I am not going to stand by and wait till some guy brings my sister back! I'm going in there and I'm going to find her! And kick whosever ass kidnapped my baby sister!" "You will not!" Alice said, speaking louder than Amelia, she poked a finger to her chest, "You will not venture through there! It's dangerous and forbidden!" Amelia pushed her hand to the side, sending Alice back a few steps, "I don't care! I'm finding her if it's the last thing I'll do!" With that she stormed out of the study, determined to find her one way or another…the only matter that stood in her way at this point was trying to find a way to open that door.