Hey guys,
Welcome back to another chapter of trapped until dawn. We're getting closer to the main part of until dawn in my opinion so let's get straight into it, shall we?
William's pov, Washington Lodge, 02:03
"She wasn't up there?" Ash asked as Chris came down the stairs after looking around for Sam. It seems like she just disappeared into thin air and it didn't help that it seemed like it took forever to get back to the lodge. I looked up at the clock and it said it was just gone 2am.
"I don't know... I didn't see her. She must have come down here" Chris said.
"We haven't seen her either" Ash said.
"Well she can't have just disappeared, could she?" I said as we walked along. Out of nowhere, the candle on the side lit itself.
"Ahh! Did that just happen?" Ashley exclaimed shocked from the candle.
"Dammit! What is going on around here?" Chris asked as we continued toward the stairs to the basement.
"Chris... Will.." Ash asked.
"Sa... What?" Chris answered trying to call Sam's name.
"What's up?" I asked.
"I just want to say... what happened back there in the shed... I know it was a hard decision for you two to make... Josh was a friend to both of you." Ash said.
"Ash stop..." Chris tried to stop her but she continued anyway.
"No, I want to say- I mean thank you, both of you, thank you for saving my life." Ash said.
"Ash... What was I gonna do? I... I couldn't let anything happen to you... I couldn't" Chris said as we descended down the stairs to the basement.
"Yeah, I don't think I couldn't live with myself if you had died on my watch. I just wish Josh didn't have to die to save you." I said as I took a quick look of the photo that was on the table of three people, the one in the middle being Josh, the two girls beside him probably being Hannah and Beth. The girl on the right side of Josh had a butterfly tattoo on her right arm. On the back was there was some writing that said 'AUG' 13 - Cape Cod. Josh with his lovely sisters, Hannah + Beth looking great, guys. 08.16.13'
That seemed to trigger something for Chris because I could see his face change from scared and worried, to angry with a little hint of still being worried.
"Chris, are you alright?" I asked him as I put the photo down and joined Ash and Chris in the cinema room.
"...Why did you have to push me out of the way? I had it all under control!" Chris shouted as we stopped to talk.
"You're still mad about that? Like I said before, I didn't know what would happen if you didn't pick. For all I know, the saw could've killed Ashley if you didn't. I couldn't let that happen." I explain again.
"You still killed one of my best friends!" Chris said.
"That's enough! We can talk about this after this whole ordeal is over. Right now, we need to find Sam before something happens to her." Ash said pushing between and past us, walking towards the door.
"We'll settle this after we get off this god damn mountain" Chris said following Ash.
"Sure" I said following behind.
As we got through the door, it suddenly slammed behind us on its own and we all screamed.
"What the heck" Ash screamed as we continued down the hallway.
We walked towards a door, Ash tried to open it but it suddenly pushed back and slammed shut.
"This is so eff-ed up" Chris said as we moved on.
We walked toward another door and it flew open all by itself. Ash walked through it first then Chris but Chris bumped into Ashley after she stopped for some reason.
"Hey, what's the hold up" I said.
"Wait a minute. Did you just see that" Ash said sounding scared.
"I can't see anything back here" I said trying to push passed.
"uhh... Did I see what?" Chris asked confused.
"That. Chris. That" Ash said vaguely.
"What 'That' was that?" Chris asked.
"It was like... a see through shape. Like a ghost." Ash explained.
"Oh boy" Chris said skeptically.
"I'm serious. Why don't you believe me?! I said I saw it, doesn't that count for anything?" Ash said.
"We been through hell tonight. Okay? You're mind is fried. My mind is fried. I don't even trust what I've been seeing." Chris said trying to calm her down.
"No! You are wrong. I saw it. And I am sure, Chris! You believe me, right Will?" Ashley insisted.
"Of course I do. With all the crazy shit that's been going on tonight, how could I not?" I agreed.
And I also believe her because I'm in a horror game so... I thought.
"Alright alright. Maybe... It's... Maybe you did see something. Let's just keep our heads." Chris finally agreed reluctantly.
"Are we going crazy down here?" Ash said.
"It's the only place left Sam could be, Ash." Chris said.
"I wish we could just go find everyone else and-" Ash said but was interrupted.
"What if Sam needs us? What if she's in trouble?" Chris said.
"Oh god..." Ash exclaimed.
Suddenly yet another door opened on it's own but it didn't seem to effect any of us.
"Let's go" Chris said as he went down the stairs to the basement.
We descended down after him and we got to the bottom and round the corner, suddenly there was a loud bang that scared us and then as suddenly as the bang happened, something flew out of a closet in the corner and scared us even more.
"WHOA WHOAWHOAWHOA YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!" Chris shouted.
"What the HELL is going ON!" Ashley shouted.
"Jesus christ!" I shouted.
(Chris) "Whoa." (Ashley) "Oh my god that scared me" Chris and Ash exclaimed as a rocking horse rocked on it's own.
"You knocked into it right? You knocked into it?" Chris asked.
"I don't- I don't think so... I mean, I don't know! How did everything get some creepy around here? Doors slamming and candles lighting up out of nowhere and that specter or whatever it was-" Ash said.
"Ashley, I think you're kind of ignoring what's really important here" Chris said.
"Don't tell me you didn't see that translucent white figure just passing right by us?" Ashley asked.
"We- We could be seeing things-" Chris said.
"I really don't think so, Chris" I said.
"I'm not imagining things" Ash said.
"Yeah well I mean I saw things too. I saw what happened to Josh in the shed. You know? And that's what I'm worried about." Chris said.
"Oh... Chris... I know... I know..."
"You know what I'm really worried about? Okay? I'm worried about Sam? What happened to her? If there's a maniac out here then she could be dead too."
"Don't say that! Please, Chris"
"Yeah, we have to remain positive." I said as Ash walk to the left, where the closet was, and through a doorway to another hallway with a broken cabinet and a door with no handle.
"There's no handle..." Ash commented.
"Dead end" Chris said.
Ashley came back towards us and we went just about to continue along.
"Wait! Chris-Chris-Chris-Chris-Chris! The ghost!" Ash screamed, pointing down the corridor.
I looked down the corridor while she was frantically screaming and saw what she was talking about. I couldn't see it very well because it was so dark but I could definitely see a figure of some kind. It did look see-through and it also had dark coloured hair but I didn't see it for long as it disappeared round the corner.
"What?" Chris exclaimed, phone in hand.
"Didn't you see it?!" Ash said.
"I definitely saw it. Holy shit!" I said.
"...No..." Chris said.
"You were looking at your phone, you dip! What are you tweeting? 'Hashtag there's a freaking ghost after us'?!" Ash said.
"You two, calm down, okay? There is no ghost. Ghost of what? You're both freaking out because of what happened with Josh-" Chris said.
(Ashley) "You're not paying attention. I saw it. Will saw it. We saw a ghost and it looked like Hannah! It looked like Hannah! Or- or maybe Beth" (Chris) "Wait wait wait WHAT?" Ash and Chris said.
"Jesus, Ash... What do you think they followed us up here from the seance?" Chris shouted.
"I don't know, maybe!" Ash said.
"They didn't! Because ghosts don't exist, okay?" Chris shouted.
"Okay, who was talking to us at the seance, Chris?!" Ash said
"I don't know?" Chris said.
Suddenly, there was a high-pitched female scream coming from the way we saw the ghost and then, as suddenly as the scream happened, a painting fell on the ground with a thud.
"What did that?" Ashley asked as we walked towards the place where the painting fell down from.
"How does a picture just jump off the wall like that?" Chris said.
I walked up to the place the picture used to be and saw a key hung on a hook. Ashley took it of the hook and showed it to us.
"Huh. Here we go." Ash said, key in hand.
I looked at Ashley's face and it changed from one of worry to one of horror.
"Oh my GOD! There- look there, Chris you can tell me you didn't see that!" Ash exclaimed looking to see the ghost on the opposite side of the basement again. I saw that Chris actually looked this time and saw the look of absolute shock.
"Wow, that's..." Chris said as the ghost disappeared again.
(Ashley) "See? You do see it." (Chris) "That's... I dunno... I-I just... This is fucking crazy." Chris and Ash said as Chris ran off after the ghost and we followed on behind him.
"Chris, it's showing us the way!" Ashley said as we draw nearer to the way the ghost went.
As we turned the little corner, we saw a dollhouse sitting on the table.
"This is unbelievable. I feel like the ghost wanted us to see this" Ashley said.
"Why? What?!" Chris asked.
"Look - look look look. You can see in the windows" Ash said beckoning us to have a look inside and looked inside herself.
"See what? Tiny furniture?" Chris asked.
"No it's a whole scene, with dolls and everything." she said
"...Yeah?..." Chris said as Ash turned the little circle window on the attic of the dollhouse to find a keyhole.
"And look, this little key? What'd I tell you? The ghost is helping us" Ash said as she put the key in the hole turned it and pulled the front of the house back.
"Whoa, whoa whoa- What is going on here?" Chris said as we all took a closer look. Inside there was five dolls pointing towards a bed with another doll with it's eyes closed. One, that like kinda like Matt, was holding a camera which was pointing at the doll on the other side of the bed.
"Oh god! It's like-"
"It's not 'like' anything. That's us. Hiding waiting for Hannah. Last year" Chris explained.
"Hey wait, I thought that you said that you were passed out. How did you know what the scene looked like?" I asked Chris.
"Well, I'm just guessing from the explanation I got from Ash and the rest of the group." Chris answered
"But... It's so accurate, I mean that's exactly where I was sitting... And that's where Matt was..." Ash said.
"This was setup by someone. Who was there." Chris said.
"Or someone, or something that was watching us..."
"Maybe it's a warning. I think someone... I think someone put this here to mess with us." he reasoned.
"No it has to be the ghost. it's trying to tell us that the maniac killed Hannah and Beth!"
"I think it's this bastard, and he's... he's trying to fuck with our heads."
"Why would he set this all up, Chris?"
"He's trying to tell us that he's going to come after all us too."
I looked back at the dolls over their shoulders to see that doll that had it's eyes closed that was pointed at us suddenly moved and opened it's eyes abruptly.
"Yikes" Chris shouted as we all screamed and the roof opened up into the attic and Ash grabbed a book that was inside.
"It's... It's Hannah's diary..." Ash said as she opened it.
The first page Ash flipped to said 'Mom finally agreed. The invitations are out! The party is gonna happen! I hate thet I have to wait :( So far Ash, Matt and Sam have said definitely yes. Nothing from Mike... :('
She turned over to the next page and it said 'OMG! Mike confirmed! He phoned Josh this afternoon :D'. On the page opposite were drawings of the butterfly tattoo that was on one of the girls in the photo I picked up before, that person must have been Hannah.
She turned the page and I managed to read the first line, what was 'Woohoo! Party time tomorrow!', but just I was about to read the rest of it Ash started to read out loud.
"'Everyone being together here on the mountain is gonna be so awesome, cozy fires and hot tubs and OMG Mike I am so psyched to spend some time with him.' I can't read this! It's so sad" Ashley read and said.
The rest of the writing read 'Totally got to stop obsessing but I can't help it - and don't want to :)' before Ash closed the diary and put it back where she found it.
On the other side of the room, the side where we found the key, we heard a clicking sound.
"What was that" Ash asked.
"Sounded like a door opening" I replied.
"It came from down there" Chris replied too.
We walked down towards the door again and it creaked open. Me and Ash tried to walk through it but suddenly the ghost came out of nowhere and scared us. Chris ran through the door and it slammed behind him.
"Goddammit" Chris shouted from the other side of the door.
(Ashley) "Oh! Chris! Chris!" (Will) "Chris! Come on, open up!" Ash and I shouted, trying to open the door frantically.
"Nothing." Chris said.
"But you did see it, Chris. For real" Ash said as we walked through the door.
"I saw... something. But where'd it go." Chris said.
Ash made a hard u-turn to the right and moved a box out of the way to find a camera placed behind it.
"Uh... Guys." Ash called us over, picked it up to examine it and it looked like it was recording because the red light was flashing.
"You think it's the guy?" Ash asked, putting the camera back on the table where it was.
"Well, that's make sense, I guess." Chris answered.
"Yeah, but why would he want to set up hidden cameras?" I asked
"To be a sadistic basturd, watch us ran around and scream in terror." Chris answered.
"I don't like being watched." Ash said.
"Better?" Chris said as he turned the camera around so it was facing the boxes.
"Go suck an egg." Ash said to the camera. "Now it's better." We walked away.
We walked down the hallway a bit and stopped when Ash picked up something from the shelfs by the wall, it was a creepy dolls head.
"Just when you think it couldn't get any creepier..." Ashley said as she turned the head over to get a better look, but as soon as she did that cockroaches started crawling out of one of the eye sockets and scuttled up her arm.
"Ugh, nightmare fuel" Chris said as Ash shook her arm of the cockroaches and of the doll head itself.
"Jeez. Phew." Ash said as we walked on.
As we rounded another corner, the roof of the basement started shaking and dust fell down from it.
"Uhhh? ... What was that? Huh." Ash asked
"Wait there's a whole 'nother room through here. It's mammoth." Chris said standing by a doorway to a bigger room.
"Chris, I don't know if i want to keep going." Ash said.
"Come on Ash, We can't let Sam down" I said as we walked down a little staircase and down a hallway.
"Where in the world are we now?" Ash asked.
"Are you kidding me?" Chris said.
"Did you know this was here?"
"This? This is like a whole 'nother hotel. I had no idea this was here." Chris replied as we continued down the hall and round the corner.
"I don't think I can take this anymore." Ash said, stopping to talk.
"Yeah I'm about at my limit here too." Chris replied.
"All I wanted to do was forget last year ever happened..."
"To be honest I'm not sure what Hannah thought she was doing"
"Well, I know I wasn't there but, I get why she ran out on you all but I don't get why she would run out into the freezing cold snow." I said.
"Yeah... well... You know how it is when you are crushing pretty hard on someone." Ash said
"Great, so you're basically saying that we put a vulnerable friend in a terrible situation and essentially cause her to run away and to never be seen from again?" Chris explained.
"If it was you, do you think you would have run away? I mean who likes being made fun of?"
"People don't make fun of me."
"To your face"
"What?"
"Chris we made her look so stupid, in front of all her friends and the guy she liked. I can't imagine doing anything worse to somebody."
"Yeah, but that doesn't explain why she would run out of the lodge, into the dark of night, instead of running into her bedroom, slamming and locking the door behind her." I said.
"Well maybe she was too upset to think straight or she wanted to get as far away from us as possible." Ash replied.
"I guess that would make sense." I said as we continued to move forward.
We walked down to the end of the hallway and was about to turn left but Ash bent down to pick up something.
"Oh no" Ash said.
"What is it? Me and Chris said at the same time.
"Sam's bracelet. And she NEVER takes this thing off." Ash replied as she got back up and put the bracelet in her pocket.
We turned left and then I turned right to see a little light on the ground in the corner. I kneeled down to take a closer look at the package that lay there. A label on the top said 'Invoice enclosed'. The package was ripped open with what looked like newspapers in it. I ripped the invoice label off to find an address that said '18 August 2014. Return address: Quality copy LTD, 2100 - Clarke ave. SW, Edmonton, Alberta, T6N 8J5.'
"Hey, these... are these fake. Why would anyone make fake newspapers?" Ashley said looking over my shoulder.
"That's... a really good question." Chris said.
"Yeah, weird." I said as I got back up and we carried on toward some stairs.
"You know what? No." Ash exclaimed.
"Ash-" Chris tried to say.
"No! I've had enough! I'm not going down any farther into this nightmare!" She continued.
"Ashley... I understand, okay? I'm really freaked out too. But if Sam's down there all alone with a maniac... and we leave? We're basically killing her ourselves." Chris said.
"And I'd rather not have the weight of two deaths on my hands." I said.
"Goddammit" Ash said.
"Ashley, come on." Chris said.
"Why are you always right?" Ash accepted.
"I'm not always right"
"Well... when you're right, you're right"
"I don't want to be. I want to leave"
"No... we've got to find Sam. Let's go."
We walked down two sets of stairs and stopped to talk again.
"Chris... I'm gettin' a really weird feeling from all this..." Ashley said.
"What do you mean?" Chris asked.
"So we're saying that the same guy who made the newspapers also set up the camera, right?"
"Yeah... I think so."
"It's just... It feels like he's constructing this whole story for us... Then watching us run around, freaking out, seeing what we do, Like it's... Like it's some sort of fucking experiment."
"Yikes that... that kinda... That actually makes a weird sort of sense..."
"Right?!"
"Wait..." I said as I remembered something.
We went to the door on the right and found a newspaper clipping that said 'Ex-janitor convicted for arson, swears revenge on movie mogul's family.' "So, what we have here" Chris said as he looked at the clipping, "Looks like a newspaper article" Ryan said, "'Ex-janitor convicted for arson', sounds like a bad dude" I said as he put the piece of paper down.
"I remember we found that newspaper when we were trying to un-ice the lock on the lodge door." I said to Chris.
"Oh yeah, I remember seeing that." Chris said.
"We found that when we were in the storage room, if you remember, Josh didn't come with us. He said he had to go do something."
"You don't think this all has something to do with Josh, do you?"
"Maybe. I'm not sure yet but I think I'm starting to piece things together." I said as we walked on.
As we walked on, we saw some electrical wiring on the ground. There was a big electrical box with wires coming out of it with timers that read 'tv' and 'lights' on it.
"Huh" Ash said as we examined it and moved on.
We walked down more corridors, walking past some crazy items such as a few dummies and cages. We walk through a double doorway and it suddenly slammed behind us. Ash whimpered as we looked around the room filled with blood and saw-blades and items of that nature.
We looked to our left to see meat hooks and chains hanging on the walls. "Oh jeez. This is so enticing" Chris said as we examined the hooks and chains.
"Oh boy. Do you think all this stuff is... his?" Ash asked.
"Unless the Washington's were into some freaky shit in their spare time, then yeah, probably." Chris said as we continued to look around the room.
We made a hard right down a little side corridor to find a dead pig carcass.
"Oh no, you have got to be kidding me. Repulsive!" Ash said, turning away.
"What's with all the dead pigs? First, there was that dead pig's head down that bloody path, now this." I said in frustration.
"This can't be for eating." Chris said.
"Why the hell is that here?" Ash asked.
"By the smell of it, It's been here, and dead, for quite some time" I said getting a closer inspection.
"It's like a goddamn grindhouse movie in here." Chris said.
"All of it's guts and stuff have been taken out. It's just an empty corpse now. It was obviously left here by the psycho. But why?" I wondered out loud
We haven't seen any sign of any guts or intestines around here. Where could they be? I thought to myself as we walked away from the pig.
We moved out of the side corridor and up in the main part of the room to find what looked like a hit list or something of that nature. There was a picture of Sam, Mike, Ashley, Josh, Chris, me and Emily, with crosses over Emily's eyes but I don't know why.
"That's us" Ashley said, examining the list of photos.
"What is this, like a fucking hit list? Christ" Chris said coming over to look at the list then walked off.
If that's true then I hope Matt, Emily and Ryan are alright. I thought as we moved on.
We walked down the big hallway and opened the door at the far end of it to find a projector with it's light on. Ashley flicked the switch to start the projector and it started with a loud click that scared Ash.
"Hello?" Chris said as I heard talking as the film started.
"Oh god... Chris, it's from last year." Ash said as I saw the scene play out, seeing Ash hide in a closet.
"Uh... This is a little... This is a little uncomfortable, huh?" Chris said as we saw a image of Emily and Jessica hiding under a bed.
"I've never seen this video... She's just so..." Ash said as the image of Hannah entering the bedroom appeared.
"So... What?"
"She's so excited... and alive"
"She has no idea" Hannah starts to take her top off.
"Oh jeez" Ash said as the prank continued to play out.
"Whoa. I forgot you were such a willful participant"
"This is terrible. I couldn't feel any worse."
"Looks like you were enjoying yourself."
"That's the worse part, isn't it? We were just playing a prank. It was supposed to be funny."
"Yeah."
"I never want to see this video every again." Ash finished
The projector showed us a close up of Hannah as she opened her mouth to say "Mike" and suddenly a image of the ghost popped up on the screen scaring us.
"Ahh! Oh Chris-Chris-Chris-Chris! What is going ON!?" Ashley cried.
"Ash - Ash, slow down, OK?" Chris said.
(Ashley) "I can't handle this - ghosts, and these videos, and everything just flying around -" (Chris) "Calm down, listen to me for a second -" (Ashley) "What? Calm down? Why should I calm down, Chris? I am freaking out right now!" (Chris) "This has got to be someone messing with us." (Ashley) "What?" (Chris) "Think about it - ghosts don't set up video cameras. They don't play games." Chris and Ashley said one after the other.
"They also don't make newspapers that are fake and set up hidden cameras too." I added.
"Then who would set all this up? Seriously, I'm asking." Ash asked.
"I don't know. Maybe the same guy who tied you up and killed Josh." Chris answered.
"Oh... Right." Ash agreed.
"The same person who might have Sam, right now."
"Maybe you're right."
"I wish I wasn't." Chris said as he started to walk out of the room.
I looked around the room a bit and found a totem in the corner of the room. I picked it up and turned over the yellow totem and the vision started.
The vision opened on a close-up of my face, the camera switched round to a table in front of me and with a handgun in my hands. I checked how many bullets were in it and I put it in my jacket pocket as the scene ended.
I started to walk away from the totem as the vision ended but was stopped but the feeling of another totem starting up.
(The same totem Ryan saw in the last chapter, the one with Chris and the gun.)
I should probably remember those two totems. I thought as the totem ended and I left the projector room.
We turned right to go down the hall which probably leds to the way out of the room, turning round another corner toward a door that looked like it had blood on it.
"Oh crap - look at that" Chris said as we move towards the door.
"Blood?!" Ash said.
"Might be Sam's" Chris said.
"Let's hope not" I said.
"Let me see if I can get this open... Ungh... Got it... but... damn this thing is heavy-" Chris grunted trying to hold the door open.
"Be careful." Ash said.
"Will... Come help me hold this door open." Chris asked me.
"Ok, hold on... Ash, come on... You need to come through." I said, moving towards the door and helping him hold the door open.
"Even with Will helping me, We won't be able to hold this forever"
"Oh! Guys!" Ash shouted
"What?" me and Chris both asked at the same time.
"I think I just saw Sam over there"
"Ash... are you SURE?"
"I don't know. But come on, I think we should go check it out."
Well I'm pretty sure whoever's bleeding came through here, okay? So we really gotta get moving, like now."
"Chris' right, Ash. You need to come with us. Now"
"I'll catch up with you two. Sam!" Ash shouted as she ran the other way.
"Ash-" Chris and I shouted after as the double door between us and Ash slammed shut behind her.
"Chris! Will! Help! I'm stuck!" I heard Ash shout through the door as we couldn't hold the door anymore and had to move away from it.
"Oh Ashley, why do you have to be so difficult!" Chris groaned, us walking on past so fallen over shelfs and something that looked like a cooling machine, seeing the icy smoke coming off of it.
"We need to get round to her before she gets herself killed." I said walking into the next room.
But I stopped when I noticed what was in there. I saw a scarecrow type dummy wearing a zombie mask and what looked like Sam's clothes.
"Well, this is just fucked up." I said looking at the dummy.
"You could say that again." Chris said.
"Why would the psycho create a dummy with it wearing Sam's chlothes?" I asked.
"Maybe to create a decoy?" Chris suggested.
"Yeah, maybe." I said as Chris tried to take it off the hook it was attached to.
"What are you doing?" I asked him as he got it off.
"I'm taking this so I can show Ash when we find her." Chris answered.
"Why?!"
"Because I don't think she would believe us if we told her"
"That's not really our biggest concern right now. We have to find Ash before something bad happens." I said, walking towards the door at the end of the freezer room and holding it open for Chris to get the stupid dummy through the door.
I heard the door at the end of the hall creak open and shut and saw Ash at the end of the hall with her back turned to us walking backwards.
" shit shit shit shit shit shit shit... " I heard her say but before I could tell her we were right behind her, she turned around and got scared by the stupid dummy that Chris brought with him.
"AHHH! Chris!" Ash screamed.
"Hey hey hey - relax -" Chris said.
"It's only us." I said
"You scared me half to dea-ohmygod" Ash said.
"Yeah. Right?" Chris said.
"WHAT is THAT... THING?"
"It's a dummy, dummy"
"But it's... why is it..."
"Wearing Sam's clothes? I have no freakin' idea"
"Where the hell did it come from?"
"There was some kind of freezer back there." I answered.
"Yeah sure, makes sense. Why did you bring it with you?" Ash said.
"I didn't think you'd believe me. And I think it's... you know." Chris explained
"A bad sign?" I suggested.
"Yeah" Chris answered.
"For Sam?" Ash asked.
"For any of us. But yeah, mostly for Sam."
"I still think you shouldn't have brought that thing with you." I said.
"Shhh... we've got bigger problems right now" Ash shushed us.
"What do you mean?" Chris asked.
"The psycho. I just saw him."
"Wait. You saw him?!" I said
"What? Where? Where did he go?!" Chris said.
"I don't know! But we've got to be quiet! He's gotta be... still really close." Ash said.
"Awesome"
"Please no!" a voice shouted from in the next room which sounded like Sam.
"Sam?" Ash said as we walked towards the double doors that led to the voice.
We opened the door with a creak and the first thing we saw was someone in a swivel chair with the person facing away from us, but I'm pretty sure the person in the chair was Sam because of the mass of blonde hair on her head.
"Oh, guys. Oh no" Ash said walking towards Sam.
"Hello?" Chris asked the person.
"Sam?" I said.
Chris took the flashlight away from Ashley and she turned the chair around so we could see Sam's face. She had her eyes closed and her head drooped over to the right side of us as she was turned around.
"Sam!" Ash cried.
(Ashley) "Guys, is she dead? Holy shit, holy shit-" (Will) "No no no no no. This can't be happening." (Chris) "Shit. She's not - she's not dead." We all said.
"How do you know?" Ash asked.
"She's still breathing." Chris answered.
"What the hell is wrong?"
"I think she's been knocked out."
"Ohh. Oh no no no no no. This is bad, this is bad! We need to get her out of here."
"Yeah, definitely. Chris, help me ge- CHRIS, LOOK OUT!" I said looking at Chris and pushing him out of the way as the psycho came up from behind him and almost grabbed him (QTE successful/Butterfly effect).
As a result of me pushing Chris out of the way, I was in the crossfire of the psycho's attack. He grabbed me and put a gas mask type thing he had in his hands over my mouth. The gases that come out of it were too overpowering and I succumbed to them. I landed on the ground with a thud as I fell into a sleep, only after hearing the sound of two other thuds as Chris and Ash were probably knocked out too.
Butterfly effects:
Will chose not to shoot the squirrel; Nature remained in balance.
Will pushed Chris out of the way to pull the lever; Chris blamed Will for Josh's death.
Ryan kept the axe; Ryan was put in danger; But made it out safely.
Ryan walked calmly through the herd; Ryan, Matt and Emily escaped the threat unscathed.
Ryan kept the flare gun.
Ryan decided to check the trapdoor; He fell through the open door; He failed to grab the doorframe
Will tried to save Chris from the psycho.
Well, that took way longer then I expected to type. Sorry it took so long to get this done, this chapter was a lot longer than I expected. nearly 6,000 words on this one, the longest chapter I've made yet.
By the way, I would really like some cover art for this story but I can't draw to save my life. So, if anyone who is reading this is a fan of this story and can draw good drawings on a computer, maybe even has a deviantart account that they upload drawings onto weekly, then please PM me or send me an email at mitchinator9000 and we'll talk about what it should look like. You could also send me a link to your deviantart page if you have one so I can take a look at your work.
Bye guys!