Hey guys,
Welcome back to another chapter of Trapped Until Dawn. This is the chapter I've been waiting for, for a while now. I've had plans for this chapter since I change my format I think. Now I can finally put it into action.
Well, let's get into it.
Ryan's pov, Mines, 05:40
"We beat you. We fuckin' beat you." Sam exclaimed as we got to the top of the rock wall.
Will got up the wall first, managing to get up without any problems, which makes sense when you know that he's been going to rock climbing lessons every week for the past 2 years. Then Sam got up next, slipping up a couple of times but managing to get up safely. Finally I got up after multiple slip-ups and nearly cracking my head open on a rock, but I managed to get up with minor bruises and cuts, luckily.
"That was a piece of cake. Where's the challenge?!" Will said confidently, and a little smugly.
"huff... huff... Speak for yourself... huff." I panted, Lying on my back on the floor to rest. "That was probably... huff... the hardest thing... huff... I've had to do... huff... in my life. I could have almost died."
"Oh, you just exaggerating, you're fine." Will said, looking me over.
"I almost cracked my head open when I slipped!" I exclaimed.
"Well, I said that you weren't as athletic as me or Sam are. Maybe you should have stayed with the rest of the group."
"No, I needed to come. I wasn't going to let that fucking rock wall beat me!"
"Well, I like your determination. Maybe, when this is all over, you could come to one of my rock climbing lessons."
"Yeah, I might just do that." I said, giving him a small smile as he offered out his hand to lift me up which I accepted.
"Guys, this is sweet and all, but we don't have time for this. We have to find Mike." Sam said from the middle of the mine.
"Yeah, we know. We're coming." I said, getting a little annoyed with her trying to hurry us along, as we caught up with her.
"Hey, let's go this way." I said, pointing towards some stairs and running towards them.
"Ryan! Watch out!" Will shouted as I got to the top.
"What? Whoa!" I said, turning around to find that some rocks were falling from the tunnel's roof a few feet behind me, falling onto the stairs, smashing them, leaving me no way to get back or for Sam and Will to get to me.
"Fuck. You ok?" Will asked.
"Yeah, I almost got crushed, but I'm fine. But you can't get to me though."
"We'll find another way round, come on Will." Sam said as she started to walk off.
"Coming! See you in a bit." Will said as he followed behind her.
"Bye. Ok, Let's go." I said as I walked down the walkway.
As I walked, the cave started to shake and dust descended from the ceiling, like an explosion went off.
"What was that?" I said as I shrugged it off and walked on.
I continued to walk until I noticed that I could go two different ways, straight, which would lead me up some stairs, and left, which would take me down more of the walkway. I didn't know which way to go until I noticed something up the stairs, so I made my way up them.
I got up the stairs and made my way over to what I saw to find a weird symbol on the wall. It looked like a skull with sharp teeth and antlers. Next to it was a cow skull.
"What the hell is this." I said to myself as I examined the symbol and walked away.
I continued to look around the area and managed to find a totem.
"Well, it's lucky I got stuck up here." I said as I picked it up and looked into it.
The vision faded in and my view zoomed in on Sam's face as she was picked up by a wendigo by the head. She had an expression of pain on her face. I could only guess that the wendigo was doing something to her lower half.
As that vision faded away, I couldn't even breath before another vision assaulted my mind.
I saw a wendigo pick me up by my head, screeching in my face, and held me up above what looked like water. It then proceeded to slice my neck open with it's claws, blood pouring out as I struggled in vain. Eventually, I slowly stopped struggling and hung limp in the wendigo's hands and it dropped me in the water where I floated to the surface on my back, blood slowly spreading across the water.
As the vision faded away, I couldn't help but shudder at the thought of it.
"A-Another one! When will this end!" I shouted as I hesitantly made my way back the way I came.
I got back down the stairs and turned right to go down the other way when, out of nowhere with no warning, rocks started to fall on the path in front of me. Smashing that to pieces just as it did to the stairs before. I had to grab the hand rail for stability. Shortly after, I run towards the gap that had now appeared and jumped over it and made it safely.
"Phew, that was close." I said as I continued down the walkway.
Suddenly, from behind me, I heard an animalistic screech which sounded like the wendigo. I whizzed round to look behind me to see if it was behind me to find nothing out of the ordinary, for this game at least. I noticed a pipe to my left but I didn't look at it farther.
"I hope Sam and Will are alright." I said worriedly as I came to the end of the pathway.
At the end, I found a small drop into another room with a chain door at one end and a metal door on the other. Seeing no other way to go, I dropped down with a thud and started to look around the new area.
"Ryan?" Someone said as I looked around. I whirled round to look at the chain door to find Sam and Will on the other side.
"Sam? Will? Where did you come from?" I asked as I got closer.
"There was another passage that lead down and we ended up here." Will explained as Sam tried open the door.
"Damn, It won't open." Sam said but she looked to her left to find a spade up against the wall. She picked it up, wedged it between the door and pulled until the door swung open and they walk through before it closed.
"Let's go." Sam said as we headed towards the metal door, spade still in her hand.
Suddenly, the metal door swung opened to reveal Mike with a shotgun in his hands.
"GODDAMNIT! STAY OUT THERE!" He shouted as he tried to quickly close the door, only for a flaming wendigo to block it, open it back up, shoving Mike to the ground in the process, and landing on top of him, ready to rip him apart.
"Mike?!" I said, surprised that we found him not at the sanatorium and so easily too. But this wasn't the time for questioning anything, this was the time for action; and Sam was on it.
"Holy shit! Hey! FATTY! OVER HERE!" Sam shouted as she swiftly shuffled towards the wendigo, before Will and I could do anything, and swung the shovel at the wendigo, hitting it in the head. It knocked it back a bit but it wasn't done.
It recomposed itself and tried to lunge for her, but she was one step ahead of it. She swung the shovel and hit it in the head again but this time she knocked it's head off and it collapsed, died. We all breathed a sigh of relief.
"Okay, the wendigo is weakened by fire. Good to know." I said as Mike got up off the ground, went back over to the metal door and used the shotgun to keep the door closed; which I didn't think was a good idea but I guess he probably ran out of ammo.
"Whoa. You alright?" Mike asked as a spirit of some sort come flying out of the dead wendigo and flew up into the air.
"Uhh, define 'alright'." Sam said.
"Alive, for a start."
"Yeah. Yeah, alive's good!"
"The hell are you doing here, anyway?"
"We were gonna warn you about the wendigos."
"I think I got it"
"Yeah..."
"And also to help find Josh. If there is a chance we can safe him, I don't want to leave the mountain without him." Will added. He must not have noticed that Will and I were here because he looked at us with a surprised look on his face, but quickly shook it off.
"Anyway, let's find a way down to where this fucker lives." Mike said as we strode off down another passageway that I hadn't noticed when I entered this area.
"Hey, Will?" I whispered to Will as we walked.
"Yeah? What is it?" He asked.
"Did you see those totems earlier?" I asked.
"Yeah, as a matter of fact, I found the second one."
"Really? I found the first one. Well, I guess it pays off to go both ways. I just hope we can avoid the bad totems."
"Yeah." Will finished.
"Err... Will...?" Mike asked.
"Yes Mike?" He asked, a bit more normally then I would've thought he would've been.
"About what happened back at the hotel... I've had a lot of time to think it over and..."
"Mike, you don't have to say anything. I'm not angry at you."
"Will, you don't have to lie to spare my feelings."
"No, I'm being serious. I'm not angry." He said, I could tell he was, I could see it in his eyes.
"You were in the heat of the moment. You had your conflicting emotion towards me and you had to deal with Emily too. Everything was piling against you and your emotions got the better of you."
"But that doesn't excuse what I did. I never should have shot that gun in the first place, at you or Em. I would've killed her if it wasn't for you getting in the way, and I would've killed you if Ryan here hadn't of stopped me. You could be died right now!"
"But I'm not! You may have been a bit rash but that wasn't your fault. You weren't acting like yourself, you were acting on what you thought was the right thing to do, or what you needed to do. And, if anything, I provoked you into doing that. If anyone's to blame, it's me. And, now that I think about it, doesn't that sound like someone else in the group."
Mike opened his mouth to respond but paused, not finding his words. Will was talking about Josh, based on what he told me, but based what happened last time Josh was brought up in conversation, it nearly ended with Will being killed. But what Mike said next surprised me.
"You're right, as always. I shouldn't have tied he up and it was my fault that the wendigo has him now. I defiantly shouldn't have pointed that gun at anyone. I just hope that Ryan can forgive me." Mike said, directing the conversation towards me.
I hesitated, remembering that I had got really angry in that moment, before answering. "I'm sorry Mike, but I can't. You tried to kill my brother." I answered.
"Ryan..." Will said.
"No Will, it's fine. I understand. I wouldn't forgive me ever." Mike said solemnly.
"Mike, don't put yourself down. You're better then you think." Sam said.
"Come on, let's go Save Josh." Will said as we continued down farther into the mines.
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; Where he saved Will's life.
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; He was able to save Will's life back at the lodge.
Will defended Josh; Josh appreciated Will's concern; Mike criticized Will's choice; Mike and Will got into an argument and Mike tried to shoot him; But Ryan saved his life.
Will chose to step between Mike and Emily; Mike got angry and shot Will but Ryan saved him.
Will chose to take the revolver.
Will chose to stay behind; He managed to persuade Ashley not to open the trapped door; They made it through alive.
And that's chapter 17, I guess. Well, this isn't the whole chapter. I was also going to add in the next part of the game too but found that it was too long, even longer then when they were searching the lodge for Sam. Yeah, that long.
At least this time you won't have to watch ages for the next chapter to come out, I'll be uploading it tomorrow so you can see what happened (By the way, this isn't the actual part I've been waiting for, it's next part).
Also, Thanks to triton for their review and their nice words. It means so much to me when I get any nice comments on my story.
Bye guys (Until tomorrow).