hello! this is chapter four! I can't believe I made it this far. And thank you Captain Angel, Alex, Mary, LunaScamander17, guest, guest, guest, guest, guest and guest for the reviews, follows and favorite! This chapter might be kind of weird too, I've been too attached to Willy Wonka, which made me a little 'off' like him. Also, my friends say I walk like Jack Sparrow now.
They exited the manor and mounted their horses. They headed towards the gate and hiked futher up the mountain and down to the other side. They reached a a dark cave, "how much further?" Angelica asked. "not long, we just need to get to the other side of this cave," Rachel explained. "it's almost dark," Jack said, looking at the setting sun.
"let's stay here for the night," Angelica said, and they got off their horses. They tied the horses to a tree. "You know, you could just continue on ahead by yourselves," Rachel said, "I have something to do," her eyes darted around.
Jack and Angelica just stared at her, why was she suddenly refusing to come with them?
"here, I'll draw you a map," She took a piece of parchment from her pocket and started scribbling on it. "we are here," she drew a stickman and a stickwoman in front of a cave, "and then you get through the cave," she drew a clearing after the end of the cave, "there, you will see seven coffins, open the one at the middle. There will be a key, use that key with the one Angelica has, to open the stone door to a pyramid here," she said, and drew a line leading to a pyramid.
"below the keyholes, you will see a cup-shaped hole. Pour this blood and put the hair in the cup, and put the cup in the hole," she explained, giving Jack a vial of blood with a stand of silver hair on it. "then the cup and the door will glow green, and then it will open. And.. inside is the treasure of the lost chamber," she continued.
"alright," Angelica said, she took the map from Rachel and lit a torch that Jack made during the explaination. Jack and Angelica walked towards the cave entrance, "oh! And if you meet Devon along the way, just say his name and he'll let you pass," Rachel said, she took the map from Angelica and wrote a name.
"Devon Karlheinz Maleakhi? What kind of name is that?" Jack said, peeking from behind Angelica. "he's... german," Rachel said, and shoved them in the cave. They remained in silence for a while, until Angelica spoke up, "Jack, how come I never see you flirting with her?" She asked. "what? You mean Rachel?" he answered, Angelica gave a nod. "well, I always thought of her as a man, rather than a woman. Ye know, like... Gibbs. Not that I mean Gibbs is a woman, no no!" Jack explained.
Angelica just looked at him inrediculously and walked on. "and well, secondly, you're around to flirt with," Jack said, with a smirk on his face, Angelica just smiled. They finally reached the clearing.
"look, the coffins," Jack said, he was curious as to whom the coffins belong to, so he examined them one by one from the left side. Angelica went to the right side and examined the coffins aswell.
From Angelica the names on the coffins were:
'Studio de Jose'
So, this is his coffin Angelica thought. She remembered when she met the Jose family. Although, she must admit, Studio must have been rich. His coffin was decorated with jewels and silver, but it was a bit burnt...
'Prince Richard'
The corpse from the mansion? She thought, obviously Richard was richer than Studio. His coffin was made of gold! And the strikeholded "Prince" was making Angelica curious, but it was no matter to attend to right now.
'Zaltana Istas'
What kind of name was that? The coffin was a bit scratched, by animals assumedly. It was decorated with feathers- native american style.
From Jack the names on the coffins were:
'Fred Neuman'
Sounds british he thought, it was just an ordinary coffin. nothing special about it.
'Devon Karlheinz Maleakhi'
So, this guy is also dead he figured, Rachel told him that he will perhaps meet this guy on the way.
The next one Jack couldn't read, because it was in egyptian. The coffin was shaped like a pharaoh's coffin.
Jack and Angelica stopped at the middle coffin, Rachel had told them to open it and take a key. However, they both stopped as they read the name.
Rachel Dark
She's dead? But she doesn't look dead does she? Maybe the coffin was just a mistake? Or maybe they didn't read that right in the dark?
And also, the coffin seemed untouched. It was very clean with a hint of jasmine scent on it.
Angelica opened the coffin to find a golden key similiar to the one she had. She took it and put it in her pocket. Suddenly, an echo-ey laugh was heard, followed by a green light that moved though the trees. Also, a neigh was heard.
Suddenly, they were knocked out, last thing they remembered seeing was a green light.
Jack woke up to the same laugh he hear last night, it was coming from outside. Where am I? He thought, he sat up to find he was lying on the wooden floorboards, with Angelica also up on a bed next to him. He rubbed his head, his head hurt from sleeping on the cold floor. "where are we?" Angelica said, she then looked out the window that was next to the bed.
Outside, she saw some other old houses, kind of like in the book she read, Sleepy Hollow. She then got up and got to Jack who was trying to open the door. To his surprise, it wasn't locked, they got out of the room and out of the house, to find a horse playing with a headless man.
The headless man walked up to them "Hello! Welcome to Sleepy Hollow!" he said, or more like shouted. He has a loud and light echo-ey voice,his tone was a bit cheery. He wore armor and his 'head' was a green glowing void. Jack and Angelica just stared at the man, "you must be Rachel's friends!" the man said and shook their hands in a quick motion.
"aye," Jack said, "she must have told you about me! Oh, and say my name and I shall lead you to the lost chamber!" he said cheery-ly, if that's even a word. Angelica took the map Rachel drew and read the name, "Devon Karlheinz Maleakhi," suddenly, the headless man burst into laughter it was light and echo-ey like his voice. When he finally stopped, he said "oh, your accent is funny! But yes, that's me! Call me Devon, sweetheart!" and he kissed her hand, with his... Jack-o-Lantern shaped void-lips, making Jack stare suspiciously at him.
"oh I told him you are friends of Rachel's! He just wouldn't believe me!" Devon said, "who? Your horse?" Jack said sarcasticly. The horse just neighed, it has a glowing green mane and hooves. "no, Fred of course!" Devon said, not minding the sarcastic tone. "yeap, I fuckin' lose this bet," a voice suddenly said.
Jack and Angelica turned to see a man in a suit with a jar for a head, with his eyes and brains floating inside on a green glowing liquid. "Fred Neuman, you don't have to shake my hand and shit. And I actually gave you my name. Not fuckin' asked for it," he said, his voice was a pissed off tone, which reflected in his floating eyes. "Rachel told us to welcome them, Fred," Devon said, half whisper, which was actually still a bit loud.
"well, you fuckin' welcomed them by knocking them on the head!" Fred said, he had his arms crossed infront of him. "so you were the one that knocked us out," Angelica said. "well, yea. You guys needed that sleep," Devon said, he was backing away and started to mount his horse. "c'mon let's go!" Devon said, changing the subject. His horse trotted slowy so Jack, Angelica and Fred can follow.
thank you for reaching the end! I would kindly ask you to review, you don't have to if you don't want, though. Beacause I rarely review, haha. Also, if you would like to know what Fred Neuman really looks like, you can search him on Google. He is actually from a video game I played, Dead Head Fred. also, I don't own him. And Devon is not really the name of the Headless Horseman from sleepy hollow, he's an OC here, just based on that.
