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Suddenly, Will felt a shiver jolt down her spine, she stopped reading and looked up from the book and around herself. Everybody had been still while they listened to her reading, but now, the groaning sound of slow moving footsteps against old wooden floor could be heard.
Will tensed and looked franticly around herself for the source of the sound. "Where is he" she thought, "why can't I see where the sound is coming from! "
Creak… thump…. creak… thump….
Nobody dared to breathe while they looked around themselves for the sound that was getting closer and closer. Poor William who was old enough to understand that something was terribly wrong, tried frightened to curl up and hide in Dean's arms. Suddenly, Will felt something light fell on her head and immediately lifted her hand to investigate. She stroke through her hair, pulled back her hand and looked at it, "What's this" she said, "It looks like some sort of powder? Plaster, but how did it get..?" Will didn't finished, in her mind she already knew the answer. She looked up at the dark ceiling above her.
In a room on the floor above them, someone was walking, or rather something.
Will watched her parents as they frightened moved closer to each other. She had thrown off some her fear when the creature had taken her brother and felt more anger towards it than anything else, but her parents was another matter. Before tonight, neither of them would have believed in anything that would have been classified as supernatural or magical. But suddenly all of this had come to an abrupt end in the worst possible way. Now they were trapped in a long abounded asylum stalked by the real boogeyman, and the only one who could keep them safe from it was their daughter whom until recently they had thought they knew. Will felt so bad for her little family and knew she had to protect them at all cost, but she also had a duty as a guardian to banish this thing back from where it came.
The thumping sound continued until it reached the middle of the ceiling above them, almost right above were Will was sitting on the floor, then it stopped.
"Mom, Dean." Will whispered, "I will teleport you outside, then you will get to the car and drive away from here as fast as you can and don't stop before you are home. I will come back later when I have destroyed this thing"
"No!" Said Susan and managed to look both sharply and scared at her, "If we are leaving, we are going together, there is no way I will leave you alone with this monster."
"No, listen here mom…" her protest were cut short when the light suddenly started to flicker, and after a few on and off the lights all died, and the room was dark.
Will rose fast from the floor, "You leave now!" she said loudly in the sternest voice she could muster.
"But Will…" her mother begged, but Will rushed over to them in the dark and hugged Susan, Dean and her little brother.
"Sorry" she whispered, and while holding them, she concentrated her thoughts on the car outside the building where she wanted to send them.
A bright flash briefly illuminated the room and then they were gone.
Still being in her guardian form, it didn't take long before her eyes adjusted to the darkness. The natural light from the few windows, no matter how little, provided just enough to let her see the ghostly outlines of the furniture around her. But this little moment was all her fantasy needed to start betraying her by showing ghostly pictures of dark things she didn't want to see.
"Get a grip of yourself" Will shouted in her mind, "Gather your courage, it is up to you now." And then she marched toward the door leading out of the room. Time to find the creature, and she should really consider to send a telepathic message to the other girls asking for some help. However, she had just opened the door before she heard a desperate voice echoing down the corridor.
"Will! Where are you?"
It was her mother. She turned towards the entrance hall where the sound came from.
"We are still inside, and the door still won't open!" her mother continued.
"What" shouted Will, "Stay where you are, I am coming."
Will shot like a bullet through the door and ran down the corridor. She didn't know that as fast as she had left the room, an unknown figure walked silently in and stopped in front of the book she had left on the floor. The book was picked up and together with the unseen being; it disappeared out from the room.
The entrance hall was lit by some of the old lamps she magically had turned on not long ago. Will saw her parents standing close by the main doors, which Dean in vain tried to push open.
"I thought we were going to appear on the outside." Susan said and ran over to Will.
"Yes you where, but why didn't it work? Maybe I didn't focus hard enough? Let me try again."
Before her mother could respond, Will tried to teleport her once more. In a flash, the woman disappeared… and reappeared right beside her husband.
"It didn't work." Will said surprised."
Dean stopped pressing on the door and looked first at his wife, than to his stepdaughter and swallowed, "So, does that mean we are trapped inside?"
"It seem so," said Will quietly.
"Maybe we have to get rid of the creature before we can get out again?" Dean suggested.
"Ok then," Will said, "Come with me. We will have to go back to the room because I managed to leave the book, again. It might give us some more clues. Then we will try to figure out what to do"
The light had disappeared from the corridor, and none of Will's commands could get the lamps on the wall working again. Dean had turned on his old Maglight while Will made an electric blue orb to give more light to their surroundings. Susan had taken hold on her son, she didn't let him walk but carried him in case they needed to run. Against the windows on their left side, a thousand snowflakes came dancing out of the night and disappeared again. No one spoke, they only listened to the voice of the old haunted asylum as the wind mad it groan through hidden cracks and holes.
The trip back to the room was short, but it still felt like an eternity. Will walked in first, keeping her hand with the blue light outstretched in front of her to give a clear sight. There couldn't been more than two or three minutes since they left the room, but from the look of it they might never have been there in the first place.
"Where did you leave the book?" Dean asked while he swept his flashlight across random places in the room.
"I left it on the floor right where I was standing when I tried to teleport you out."
"But I don't see the book on the floor." Said Dean and studied it carefully, "In fact, I can't see to find the book anywhere in this room. It shouldn't be that hard to spot"
"That's because it's gone." Will said shaky, "The creature must have taken it."
"It was right above us, it must have heard what you were reading and didn't like it."
Susan who were standing behind Dean and Will looked nervous behind and around herself to see if there was anything there and said, "So when you came running for us, the creature came in here and took the old diary. Do you think it's still here?"
"No, I don't see it, the thing seem to be able to disappear into thin air at will, which might cause a problem for us if it doesn't want to stay and fight." Will replied.
"Will" Dean said thoughtfully, "What have we learned about this creature, perhaps is there something you or we know that might help us to defeat it, or get us out of here?"
"Well, let's see" said Will and thought for a moment, "It was originally summoned by an ancient tribe from this area to take revenge upon another tribe, but it went out of control and killed its summoner and the first tribe. Then it was sealed in twelve artifacts that were buried in a hill on which later this monastery was built. Some of the artifacts were broken and the creature appeared again and started killing those who lived here, before it was sealed away again by a monk who hide the artifacts such that they never should be found again."
"But they was" Dean continued when Will made a break, "Some part of it responded by the fear that was emitted from the patients here and doctor Henderson learned about it and wanted to find the twelve objects in order to learn more about the creature. And the killings started all over again."
"But we didn't learn how many of the artifacts he managed to find or what happened to them," Susan said as she joined the conversation. "And what about your aunt, where does she fit in all this, how did she get hand on the asylum and why were we asked to come here?"
"I am afraid we need the book in order to learn some of the answers," said Will. "But the impression I get from all the writings, is that the creature needs the artifacts to be close to each other to become physical, perhaps one or several of them to be broken in order to kill, and most likely all of them to be destroyed to finally become free."
"And what will happened then" said Susan.
"I am not sure, but it is most likely that the people in the village will be the first to experience its freedom…"
As the last words were spoken, an eerie silence spread inside the cold room. Then Dean said, "I say, as the village is still standing, and the creature for the moment seem to be restricted to the asylum but still quite physical , we can presume that many, if not all of the objects are gathered on the same place, but not yet broken. And if the creature is physical strong enough to attack us (now he looked at his wife), it must also be strong enough to break them if it want so. That lead us to two possibilities;
One, the creature have the objects gathered, but for some reason cannot break them itself.
Two, the creature can break the objects, but does not have all of them."
Will thought about this for a second, then she broke into a proud smile, "Great thinking Dean, that sounds like a reasonable theory."
"But what should we do with it, the artifacts I mean," Susan said, "If they are broken, can you fix them and seal the creature back? And where are they, this building is huge, they could be hidden anywhere."
"The office?" Dean suggested.
"Nope", Will said "Too obvious, I have been there and the only suspicious object in that room is the painting of the doctor himself. Besides, the monk wrote that the sacred objects where simple things like pieces of pottery, wood, bone etc. and would stand out in an asylum for lunatics. For people here, those artifacts would either look like antiquities or simply junk, and Henderson would likely have to retrieve and carry them around while he did his "research". How and where could he have done that without being interrupted?"
As soon as she said that, Will, Susan and Dean stared at each other while the revelation hit them all and they exclaimed simultaneously.
"The basement!"
Things are moving in the shadows and even with Will's magic, getting out of the asylum doesn't seem to be an easy task. What will they find down in the creepy basement this time?