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Chapter 1

May, Max, and I decided to explore our rooms while Broc and Alfred started to cook supper. He told us that it was up the stairs, to the right and it was the first and second rooms that we would be using. One room was a bedroom that Alfred may have once slept in with a queen bed, a dresser, a safe and several bookcases all over the room. The other room was probably one for a child that might have once lived there. There was a cage for a pet, a teddy bear, several bookcases and a full sized bed in that room. We went back down stairs and into the cafeteria, which was behind double doors between the staircases. We walked in and sat down for a while until we heard a scream shout out from the kitchen. When we came in, Broc was standing against the wall and near the entrance to the cellar and Alfred had a spoon pointed towards him.

I heard him call out "Get away from that cellar door right now! I will get the spices from the basement we need!"

Broc responded with "I can take care-"

"No you can't! No one goes into the basement but me! Ever!" screamed back Alfred.

Things went on calmly from there up until dinner when we questioned him about the rooms we where going to be sleeping in. May asked, "We noticed that the second room with the giant teddy bear appeared to be set up for a child. Do you have any children?"

"I did, but she died recently of an unknown disease," he lied. Then he added "I don't want to hear anymore of this children nonsense."

Later that night though, things only got weirder. Broc and I were sharing the first room with the queen-sized bed while May and Max were sharing the full sized bed. During the night, I started to have the worst nightmare of my entire life. I was in a dark basement that seemed more like a huge maze. An eerie blue light was constantly keeping everything in an easy to see light. I started to walk up to the odd light when suddenly, I saw something in a tube full of greenish water. There were several tubes all over the room with plenty of machines and other high tech devices. I walked carefully over to the tube almost in fear that something might hear me and try to strike out at me. I not only felt like I was being watched, but knew that something knew that I was here and of easy prey. I walked up closer to the device and peered in. What I saw next almost made my heart skip a beat or ten. I saw this body that looked just like me-was me-that had only swim trunks on with its mouth wide open. What was really scary about it was that it had no eyes just hollow shells with porous edges that looked like the edges around his eyes had been turned into sponges. And worse than that, when I saw his eye sockets, they led up out of the tank to two eyes staring down at me. I vomited in the dream and woke up. I looked around and saw vomit on the bed but Broc was gone.

Broc was down in the kitchen walking towards the entrance to the basement. He carefully opened the hatch and slipped down into it. He turned on his flashlight and started to walk down the hallway to an open doorway. He said, "Let's find out what your big secret is Mr. Drevis." He walked closer to the doorway when a thought shot through his mind saying Go back and never return. He will be waiting for you and he will betray you. Just…like…me! As dangerous sounding as it was, he chose to ignore it and go in. More voices drummed, raced, swam through his head telling him to go back but he pressed on anyways ignoring all of the thoughts. He saw puddles of blood and dead bodies piled in corners. The two tables appeared to be operating tables and were stained with more blood than the floor and walls combined.

"Hello there. I warned you not to go into the basement, but you did it anyways, so now I get to kill you."

Broc turned around in time to grab the hand with a butcher's knife in it and pushed him back into a table. Broc tried to run but tripped over an arm lying on the ground and tumbled to the floor. He tried to get up and start running again but was caught up to quite quickly and was stabbed in the leg sending him to the ground. Then Alfred took the knife and tried to jab it into Broc's chest but was shown resistance and forced to try again. This time however, Broc couldn't react fast enough and caught the blade in his shoulder and was staked to the floor as Alfred went in and got some poison in a syringe and brought back to Broc.

Broc said, "Why are you doing this to me?"

Alfred simply returned, "You are a perfect specimen and you stumbled upon one of two great secrets of mine. YOU MUST DIE!" After stating that, he forced Broc still and drove the needle into his neck and squeezed the poison into one of the main artery headed for the head so the poison would act quickly on his brain and then return to the heart to finish the job. Broc whimpered like a small child as agonizing pain drove through his body and forced him down for good. The doctor claimed, "One down, three to go."

May found herself in a tube filled with greenish water with a dark, tall figure leaning over at a computer or other high tech device that you could have found all over the room. The apparition turned around to show itself as none other than…Alfred! She started to squirm with thoughts running through her mind like how could something like this happen! Alfred then said in a raspy evil voice, "Before your sands of time draw to an end, what do you think would be fitting for you to wear." She tried to scream and squirm but nothing came out. He pulled up one of the dresses that she owned. It was red at the top but slowly faded to a deep black as it worked its way down. It was one of the most beautiful things she ever saw. Alfred said, "I can see the joy in your eyes of this one. It shall be what you wear. May tried to scream out for help but nothing happened. Alfred turned towards her with live wires in his rubber bound hands and brought them over the tank, She successfully screamed out for half a second before the wires were dropped in.

The sudden jolt of her body scared her out of bed as she tumbled down out of bed and onto the floor. She got back up to check on Max and see if she had woken him. When she got back up though, she didn't see him in bed or anywhere in the room. She got dressed and ran to the door swinging it wide-open and running right into me. We collided in midstride and were both unconscious for about thirty minutes.

Max wandered down the hallway looking for the bathroom and soon found himself in the main lobby. He went across the top and saw a hallway identical to the first. He went all the way to the end of the dark hallway and entered a room that he managed to find. It was full of…dolls? They all looked so real as if they were people just waiting for someone to say hi. He looked forward and saw then the doll that had once been Aya. He, of course, had no idea and just thought of it as his prize collection. He thought to himself what a pretty looking girl. She looks so amazingly detailed. Thank you. He jumped six feet high when he heard that. Then the girl told him, you look very cute yourself. He just said, "Thanks" and was grabbed from behind and held. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Alfred had his arm around his chest. It was so extremely tight that he could barely gasp out "What are you doing?"

"You have discovered my second secret. That doll before you is my beautiful Aya, my daughter."

"I thought you said she died of a disease."

"I lied, she did die of a disease though. She died of the disease known as mortality, so that she could become a beautiful idol and a true specimen for all of mankind to see one day, just not today." He tightened his grip on Max and held the knife tight to the young boy's throat. He just gazed at Aya for a few minutes before remembering what he was doing. He asked the boy a question: "Do you know when a person realizes that death is just another hurdle before becoming eternally beautiful?" Max just stood there quiet for a few minutes before Alfred repeated the question, screaming it out loud.

Max said "I wouldn't know, couldn't know, and I don't care to know. I am just a child with so much to live for and so much life to live."

Alfred answered his own question with, "Only after death do people realize that death itself is and has nothing to fear" as he slit the boy's throat, letting him bleed dry and put a big puddle all over the floor. The boy's frail body crumpled to the floor in a sea of red and Mr. Drevis' laughter. He then proceeded to drag the body down the basement and came up to find Ash and May. He found them lying unconscious on the floor and picked them both up with ease and carried them down into the basement. He laughed and cackled the whole way down calling out that soon Aya would have more friends to play with up in heaven.

That is the first chapter and I hope you will read the rest as it comes out.