Chapter 7
Inside the castle
They finished eating and looted the bodies of the soldiers. They were there to investigate. Aidan walked over to a strange looking painting. "Why do I feel like this is important?" Aidan thought. "Ok, let's go before someone comes here." Brayden said taking the lead. Aidan shrugged the thought off and joined the group. They went down the long corridor that – hopefully – led to all the answers. They came to a three small doors and one big door. "What do we do?" Kevin asked. "We should split up, how many of us is there?" Brayden asked. "Six." Jett said looking at the group. "Have you realized how quite it is?" Aidan asked. "You know it is quite." Kaz added. "Anyways the plan." Aidan said with a 'sorry I'm kinda A.D.D' look on his face. "So six of us. Three small doors. I got it!" Brayden exclaimed breaking the small silence of the conversation. "Three people go into the three doors and the other three go into the three doors!" Brayden smiled. "Perfect." The group split up Kevin going into a door right away, Jett hesitating and Brayden standing still for two minutes. The other three went through the 'giant' doors.
"Hello." They froze. They knew that voice well. Too well. "I see you finally met." The dark man said. "Aidan, I forgot to give you a proper thank you." The dark man stood up. "But we'll get to thanks yous later. Let's catch up." They shivered at the empty sound of his voice. It was like he didn't breathe. "Do you like me castle? My favorite part is the throne." He gestured to the throne he was sitting at. "What have you been doing? Wait, let me guess. You've been meeting new friends and old friends. And let's not forget the time you broke into my fortress and I killed you, Oh sorry I looked too far into the future." They loosened up and drew their swords. "If you think we're leaving without answers to questions like 'why are you here?' then you're an idiot!" Chloe yelled. "Now that we've caught up I would like to say thank you." He said ignoring Chloe's yelling. Three lights appeared out of seemingly nowhere. They prepared themselves. As the lights grew dimmer they saw that it was three crystals. One crystal shot fire at them knocking them on their backs. "You came earlier than I expected but, I think I can make this work." He walked down the steps leading to his throne. Aidan stood up. "I will defeat you!" He yelled and started to run at him. The dark man smiled and fire flew at him. "I have a name… Vitali." Aidan just laid on the ground in pain. Not doing anything. "I don't even need these crystals." The crystals disappeared. They all stood up still determined to get answers.
Meanwhile the other three were standing in one room. It turned out all doors led to the same place. There were three pedestals with nothing on them, until three crystals appeared in a flash. They glowed with a weird since of magic. "We should take these." Jett suggested. They picked the crystals up and left the room. The castle started to shake. "THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU STEAL!" A voice came from the big door that was opened. They could see Kaz making explosion after explosion to distract a group of guards. "RUN!" she yelled. Chloe looked at Kaz one last time before running through the door. The two ran through the door with Kaz close behind. "Shut the door!" Aidan yelled slowly shutting it as Kaz ran towards them. They shut the doors just after Kaz ran through and took off right away. The rest of the group ran after them. The castle started to crumble apart. Aidan felt a weird since of deju'vu.
They ran through the castle until they came to the secret passage. Then he saw it. The painting wasn't a painting at all! It was a book in a frame. He grabbed it and ran down the stairs into the secret passage. The got to the whole the fell down and realized they couldn't get up. "Tnt time!" Kevin placed down tnt and lit it before they could react. The tnt exploded with a satisfying 'BOOM' forming a path out oof the whole. They ran out of the whole and into the forest. "That was extremely close. HIC!" Aidan said. "Oh no I have the hiccups. HIC!" As if his hiccups were magical the castle turned into a pile of rubble. "Why would he destroy his HIC! Darn HIC!" The group laughed together. They felt like real friends.