Hey guys,
Welcome to another chapter of Trapped Until Dawn. Now the true enemy has entered the scene. How will Ryan and Will react to this and what will happen next in their terrifying adventure.
Btw, thanks (yet again) to Starelight for the kind words in their review. It make me happy hearing that.
Anyway, let's get this started.
Ryan's pov, Washington Lodge, 4:20
I ran as fast as my leg could carry me, Emily right behind, hoping that this was the way back to the lodge. I do not want to be stick in a dead end with the thing behind us. Lucky for us, I could see the roof of the lodge up ahead (Butterfly effect update).
As we ran to the lodge, we heard the screech of the monster off in the distance. It seemed to scare Emily because she screamed really loud behind me. you could heard it echo throughout the forest. We got to the lodge, ran up the stairs and started bang on the door like our life depended it, which it probably did.
(Emily) "Let us IN! Let us IN!" (Ryan) "Come ON! Open up!" We shouted, banging continually on the door until Chris came to open it.
"Shut the door! Oh my god- Shut the door!" Emily shouted as she fell on the floor after Chris had opened the door, because she had been pushing on the door desperately to get in, while I rushed in and tried to catch my breath.
"Oh my god, I am SO glad to see you Ryan. I was starting to get worried." Will said as he hugged me and I hugged back.
"I'm glad to see you too Will. I didn't think I would see you again." I said as we hugged. We broke the hug and he guided me to the couch, Emily had already been sat down by Sam and Ashley, where we sat and I leaned my head on his shoulder lovingly.
It seemed like the rest of the group, specifically Sam and Ashley, had been bombarding Em with questions, seeing as she looked so frazzled.
"What are you talking about?" Chris asked Em, looking confused. Emily must have said something about what happened
"I said, there is something out there-!" Emily replied.
(Ash) "Like what?" (Sam) "Ash, relax... It was Josh, It was all Josh-" Ash said but Sam countered. I looked confused at that statement. What does she mean "It was all Josh."
Will seemed to read my mind because he said "I'll tell you later."
(Emily) "No, no no no listen to me-" (Sam) " We got him tied up, he can't hurt you." Emily tied to explain but Sam wasn't listen, trying to calm her down.
"Sam, LISTEN. It wasn't 'Josh'. It wasn't even human!" I blurted out, getting a little annoyed that Sam wasn't listening or even giving Em a chance to speak.
"Hold on... Wait - Where's Matt? Is he okay?" Chris questioned concerned.
"I don't want to talk about that fucking sack of shit." Emily said, getting up off the couch and walking towards the fireplace that only a couple of hours ago was being lit by Josh.
"Wow..." I heard Chris say quietly to himself.
"He left me! He just fucking abandoned me when I was hanging off the goddamned tower about to die-" Emily said, being kinda vague about what happened.
"What tower!?" Sam questioned, trying to get more information out of her but, before she could say anything more, I got off the couch and butted in.
"Wait, what?! I know you were probably in a perilous position after the fire tower fell into the mines, but I don't think Matt would just abandon you like that, would he?" I defended him.
"Well he did! The bastard jumped off the tower to safety, leaving me to fall to my death! It was just lucky that a piece of rope caught my foot, otherwise I would be dead at the bottom of a mine shaft." Em argued.
"That just doesn't seem like something Matt would do. He's one of the nicest guys I've ever met. Maybe he thought that he could jump to safety and grab you from there." I argued back.
"Woah woah woah, go back. What mine shaft?" Chris questions as Emily and I sat back down in our previous places, me by Will and Emily in between Sam and Ash..
"There's something else. I found this little like, it was almost like a camp... With these marks on the wall and... A-and... This little broken wooden cross and it- it had... It had Beth's name on it... I think they fell down there. A-and I think Beth died from the fall." Emily explained.
"Jesus Christ." Chris said.
"Oh god... Poor Beth." Sam said.
"So, what happened to you, Ryan?" Will asked.
"Well, We had managed to radio someone on the radio in the fire tower, but then it fell... It tossed me outside into the snow, instead of into the mines. I got up and walked along a path until I came to an entrance to the mines... I went down into it and managed to find Em, but then..." I explained but I was interrupted by someone.
"Em! Ryan! You made it!" Mike said, running into the room from who knows where and hugging Emily.
(Ryan) "Mike?" (Emily) "Oh god, Mike-" (Chris) "Yeah, yeah, barely!" Em, Chris and I said at the same time.
"What about Matt?" Mike asked.
"We're trying to figure that out..." Ash replied.
"And there was this "monster" that was chasing them..." Chris added.
"They're all messed up, guys. Emily? Ryan?" Mike said but was stopped by us all turning at a loud bang at the back door.
"Woah." Chris said, surprised by the sudden knock at the door.
"Who the fuck can that be?" Mike questioned.
"Josh?" "Matt?" "Jess?" Ash, me and Chris suggested in turn.
"It's not Jess." Mike said sadly, making me even more confused. What happened while I was away.
"Sorry man... But who is it?" Chris questioned.
"I don't know... We should check it out." Mike answered, looking around puzzled
"I got your back" Chris said supportively, poking him in the shoulder
"Good." Mike said as he and Chris walk slowly towards the door, Mike holding a revolver in his hand.
"Where did Mike get the revolver from?" I asked Will quietly as I saw Mike and Chris conversing by the door.
"He said that he got it from the sanatorium." He replied.
"And when did he go up there?" I questioned farther.
"I'll tell you later, now's not the time." He whispered back as I saw Chris reach for the door handle.
Suddenly, the door swung as the person on the other side kicked it open as Chris opened it. The person turned out to be the flamethrower guy, the guy who saved Emily and I from the monster. He took the gun from Mike and ushered him and Chris back towards us.
"I'm here to tell you what you're up against being back on this mountain. You should never have returned. I don't know why you did after what happened last year." The stranger said while he walked toward the fireplace and put his bag down.
"You mean with Hannah and Beth?" Ashley asked.
"Yeah, how can you know without being involved-" Chris said.
"Or responsible-?!" Sam adds accusingly.
"You hold onto your horses. I don't take kindly to you kids coming up here to my mountain-" The stranger said.
"Your mountain? I'm sure the Washingtons would be very surprised to hear that." Mike said.
"Hehheh Well the mountain don't belong to me, It's true. But it don't belong to the Washingtons. This mountain belongs to the Wendigo." The stranger exclaimed.
"Who?" "What's he talking about?" "What the hell's a Wendigo?" Chris, Sam and Mike question to the group.
"Let's hear him out." Sam said.
"Not like we have a choice." Mike said.
"Now I'm only going to tell you this once. It doesn't matter whether you believe me or not. I've got reasons I want to... Get it off my chest..." The stranger said.
"See? I told you! He's guilty as shit! Guilty of something!" Mike exclaims.
"Mike, shut up. Let the man talk and explain himself." I said to him.
"There is a curse. That dwells in these mountains. Should any man or woman resort to cannibalism in these woods the spirit of the Wendigo shall be unleashed." The flamethrower guy explained.
"Oh crap" Mike said to himself, seeming to recollect something.
"You're going to need to find somewhere safe." The stranger said.
"The basement might be okay..." Sam suggested.
"Okay. Get down there. All of you. And wait." The stranger commanded
"What? Why? For how long?" Sam asked
"Until dawn." Emily answered.
"Guys... I ran off and left Josh when I heard screaming." Mike said.
"Where did you leave him?" The flamethrower guy asked.
"Down in the shed." Will asked.
"Your friend will already be dead."
"No... No he can't be... We were just with him!" Chris exclaimed, getting up from his seat abruptly.
"A lot can happen quickly on this mountain."
"He's right. You guys didn't see that thing. It is undoubtedly fast." I said.
"No. I'm going to go get him." Chris exclaimed brashly.
"You can't go out there Chris." Ash said.
"I'm supposed to be his best friend and I let him down."
"No... He let you down, Chris - he let all of us down."
"I don't care. I'm going to get him."
"Chris, you're insane!" I said.
"Wouldn't you do the same for Will if he was in that position!" Chris replied.
I opened my mouth to reply back but closed it after giving it a thought. Of course I would go out and save him. He's not only my brother, but my best friend. I would do anything to save him. I thought as I kept silent.
"Exactly." Chris said, finishing the conversation.
"Then I'll go with you." The flamethrower guy said.
"I don't need your help." Chris said stubbornly.
"Going alone is suicide." The stranger said.
"Fine." Chris gave in.
"The rest of you - get down to the basement. Be safe. Don't go outside again until we're back." The stranger instructed to us as he went over and instructed orders to Chris and left, Chris in tow. Then, Ashley got up from her seat and followed them.
"Ash, where are you going." Will asked.
"Just give me a minute." she replied as she followed after them. Then, again, Will got up and followed sneakily.
"Now where are YOU going." I asked.
"Going to make sure she doesn't get in trouble." He answered.
"Okay, be careful." I said as he followed after her, hiding round the corner so that he wasn't spotted. After a couple of minutes, he came back.
"What happend?" I asked.
"Oh nothing. It's fine." He replied with the weirdest smile on his face.
"You sure?" I asked.
"Yeah." he replied weirdly as Ash came back.
"We better get down to the basement." Sam said as she got up from her seat.
"Yeah, we probably should. I just hope that Chris and the flamethrower guy is okay." I said as we all got up and started to head for the stairs to the basement.
We were just about to go down the stairs when Will went straight past them and towards the back door.
"Will, the basement is this way." I said.
"I just want to stay up here, just in case they need help." Will answered.
"Fine. I'll stay with you." I said as I came back up the stairs and stood next to him.
"So, what happend while we were away then." I asked.
So, he explained to me what had happend in the lodge. About how they had ended up in an old hotel under the lodge; how they were captured by the psycho; how they had ended tied up in chairs with saws above Chris and Ash's heads.
How he had deduced who the psycho was by the clues that they had found, which surprised me because I'm the one who usually who does the deducing, but he didn't tell me who it was straight away; how Chris had to choose whether to shoot Ash or himself and how he persuade Chris to put the gun down after want had happend earlier.
How the psycho had revealed himself to be Josh all along, which definitely surprised me because I wouldn't have expected him to be the guy chasing us all across the mountain, because he wanted revenge for what happened to Hannah and Beth last year.
How Mike had gotten angry because he thought Jess died and had knocked him out and explain what happend with him and Jess; and how he, Chris and Mike had taken Josh down to the shed and tied him up.
"Wow, who would've thought that Josh was the psycho. To torture your friends like that." I said after he finished.
"I know right. Anyway, what happend to you?" Will asked.
So then I told him what happend on my end. About how we had ended up at the fire tower, radioed for help and how it fell into the mines; How it flung me out into the snow and and tried to make my way back to the lodge.
How I had to make the choice of going down into the mines or continuing down the path, and ultimately choosing to go into the mines; how I had eventually found Emily with the stranger and how the stranger had save her and me.
How I made it down to Em and saw the monster, supposedly called the Wendigo, chasing her and how I couldn't do anything about it; How she managed to escape and how the Wendigo almost caught me but didn't; How I got out of the mines and run to catch up with Emily.
"Wow, we've both been through a lot tonight." Will said after I had finished.
Suddenly, We heard a gun shot off in the distance, and then a few minute later, another one sounded out.
"What's going on?" Ash said as she came back upstairs.
"There were gunshots in the distance" Will said.
"Look, Chris!" Ash said, pointing out the door.
I could see Chris jump down from the ledge opposite the door and it looked like he was hobbling. Up on top of the cover of the bench to the side, I could see the Wendigo that chased Em earlier.
It came down and leaped at him but he managed to shoot him with the shotgun he had. It pushed it back but it got up again and leaped towards him again. He managed to just shot it again and run up to the lodge door and Ash let him in before we could get to it.
"Oh THANK GOD! Please, let me in, quick! Oh my god!" Chris exclaimed as Ash let him in and he closed the door behind him.
"Chris, what happend!" Will asked.
"There's no time to explain, we gotta go, that thing was like right behind me -" Chris answered as the Wendigo came into view of the door window and lunged at it. We all shouted as we run towards the stairs. But there was not smashing noise, guess the Wendigo didn't come in yet.
"Let's get down to the basement. Quickly!" I shouted as we rushed down to the cinema to get to the basement and, what I presume, to the old hotel.
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; But he trusted Will anyway; Josh felt betrayed and taunted Will.
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; He ended up outside. And managed to make it back to the lodge.
Will tried to save Chris from the psycho; Chris trusted Will and put the gun down.
Ryan chose to go into the mines; He tried to be careful and succeeded; He made it out of the mines unscathed.
Will defended Josh; Josh appreciated Will's concern; Mike criticized Will's choice.
And there's Chapter 14. Sorry this took me so long, I would've finished it last weekend but I ended up falling ill. Well, at least it's out now and before Christmas as well. I guess this is my Christmas present to you guys.
Merry Christmas guys.