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The Forgotten house
Chapter 8
It took an age to calm Darren down and coax him out from behind the sofa. His knuckles were brilliant white and eyes widened. Not long after he had fled down the stairs Dennis and Jim weren't too far behind, visibly shaken but monumentally calmer.
They came to sit down on the sofa as Brendan Ste Cheryl and Nate all stood gathered in front of them, baited breath, like they expected all the answers to come flying out of Jim's mouth as he went to speak. They didn't though; nothing could be that simple when it came to this house.
"That entity you have upstairs is something of the likes I have never seen before" Jim spoke as he stretched a shaky hand to a glass of water.
"Serious? And there's us thinking it was a normal occurrence" Brendan drawled looking at the others in disbelief.
"Look, I guess you all at the end of your tether, and I get that, I do, but I have no idea how we are going to rid this house of the darkness it clearly possesses." Jim frowned as Darren finally came out from the sofa. "What about a blessing? The house could be..."
"Been there, done that and T-shirt has been ordered online" Ste quipped smirking.
"Oh"
"Oh?"
"That's it? We call the 'ghost busters' to say Oh?" Cheryl began to get mildly hysterical
"Can we just leave here now, please?" Cheryl sobbed
"No, we will have a go at helping, we will get our gadgets out and place them various spots round the house, we will also put CCTV up to capture the phenomenon too" Jim agreed while Darren and Dennis nodded together. They all went out to their van to retrieve their equipment.
"Phe-nom-e-nom? Thats a hard word to say init?" Ste shrugged
"Hmm, well I don't see us leaving here just yet so best get settled. I have called a guy to sort the car and once these guys are finished we will leave this house"
A large crash of thunder erupted outside shaking the foundations and making them all jump. A crack of lightning shot over the sky, so bright it blinded them through the window as heavy rain pelted down on the window.
"Jesus, where did that come from?" Nate shuddered walking over to the window and looking at Dennis, Darren and Jim freak out in the sudden weather change.
"The sky" Brendan smirked sarcastically.
"I hope them lot brought spare pants, I think this is going to be an interesting day" Brendan summarized looking up as the chandelier began to swing again.
There was heavy footsteps on the ceiling above them, as they clearly heard them walking around the room above them.
"Where's that coming from?" Ste asked nervously.
"Dunno, lets go investigate." Nate suggested as he made his way upstairs another crack of lightning beamed through the window as a loud rumble of thunder throbbed through their bodies.
They all went upstairs and across the landing. They stood at a different room that none of them had seen. Cheryl used the skeleton key and opened the door. The light under the study door began to shine again, they hadn't noticed though. The room was very dark, as the curtains were drawn; there were specks of light shining through them where a hundred moths had feasted at them.
Brendan walked over and opened the curtains; they saw they were in a Child's room. There was a rickety single bed next to the wall, and a rocking horse was in the middle of the floor. A toy box and dolls house was also in the room, along with various children's drawings. One of the drawings was very dark, the girl had drawn three stick people in red, the mother and girl holding hands but her father was on his own. There was a large black scribble in the corner of the drawing.
"This looks like the swirly thing" Ste noticed as he looked at the picture. "Open them other curtains will ya, need to have a better look"
Nate drew the curtains,as lightening flashed through at him, the sky had darkened with the ferocious storm that was rumbling outside. The rain soon turned to hail as it lashed loud at the window. They crowded around the drawing on the wall and agreed it did resemble the dark entity that roamed the house and gardens.
"Maybe she was running from it when she drowned?" Cheryl shudder
"Could be, but I think there is more to it." Ste replied holding up the locket he had mysteriously acquired.
"What's inside it Ste?" Nate asked looking at the shining silver.
Ste tried to open it but it was too tricky, he gave it to Cheryl with her long nails to see if she could open it. Cheryl used her thumb nails to drag the locket apart as a clink noise fell against the wooden floor boards. They looked down to see a small golden shiny key. Ste picked it up and looked at the pictures inside. One was the lady Lorena the other was the man Eldon but his picture had been scratched at, blurring his face out with deep scored lines.
"Hm, could have been the key doing that inside the locket?" Cheryl suggested.
"No, looks to me like that was done in anger" Brendan interrupted.
"Wonder what the key is for?" Ste looked around at the room but saw nothing that could host such a small key.
He glanced around the room but stopped wide eyed as he looked at the rocking horse in the middle of the room; it had started rocking backwards and forwards slowly. It made a loud ungodly creaking noise on the floorboards each movement.
"Um...guys! You should see this" Ste gestured his hand to them all they all stared at the rocking horse.
"Wind?" Nate cried as Cheryl gave him a dirty look
"Wind my arse Nate!" Cheryl scrunched up her nose.
"Well, whatever it is, I am not that shocked, if the roof lifted off and spun around I still would see it as a normal day in this place" Brendan shrugged his shoulders
A loud knocking interrupted them at the door. They all froze looking at it, as the knock carried on.
"You answer it Nate" Ste pushed Nate towards the door.
"Why is it always me?!" Nate looked dumbfounded
"Cos ye our fave of the group Nate" Brendan beamed pushing him quickly at the door.
The knock came again as a huge flash of lightning lit the room up again,thunder shaking the windows Nate jumped as he creaked the door open.
"Only us!" Cried Dennis as the others breathed again.
"Don't EVER knock at a door in this house OK? Christ my heart!" Nate held his chest as the others came walking in and saw the rocking horse moving.
"Dennis, please can you film the horse moving?"
Dennis grabbed his camera and pointed it at the rocking horse but it stopped moving.
"Oh that's a real shame, maybe next time fellas" Brendan walked out smiling.
"Let's go to the study it's where the shit really hits the fan in this place" Ste smirked as they all went towards the study door.
The door handle began to move and shake in front of them as Ste had gone to open it. He backed off remembering what happened last time. Jim broadened his shoulders and huffed forward.
"I'll sort this!" he said proudly as he went to grab the handle the door flung open dragging Jim into the room, he flew off the floor and soared like a bird, the door then slammed shut behind him.
"That's what happens when ya drink Red Bull that" Darren sniggered
Dennis looked around at everyone worried," This ain't any time to joke!" he cried as he approached the door, using his finger he tapped lightly on the door.
"Jim? You in there?"
"Of course he's in there! We just saw him take a flying lesson doing so!" Cried Cheryl snorting at him
"Let's get in there" Brendan barged to the door and opened it.
Jim was gone, nowhere to be seen. They looked around frantically, under the desk, and that was it really as no other places to hide in the study.
"JIM! JIIIMMM!?" Darren was shouting and looking worried.
Dennis went over to the bookshelf and was looking at the books. One fell out and landed on his head.
"Ouch!"
"That happens a lot" Nate walked over to Dennis "Happened to me too, still have lumps where the book hit me"
There was a knocking again, they all looked around but the door was open. The knocking continued, as they tried to listen where it was coming from. Nate and Dennis looked at each other then pressed their ears to the book shelf.
KNOCK KNOCK
"AARRGGHH!" It's here! Over here guys."
Dennis knocked on the bookshelf as another replied to him.
"Jim? Is that you? Knock once for yes and two for no"
KNOCK
"Jesus! The book shelf has eaten Jim!" Ste exclaimed,he was in shock, they all were.
"I am certain it's not eaten him, but if he is behind it, how did he do it?" Brendan asked looking at the book shelf. There was a small statue of a ship on one of the shelves.
He went to grab it as it pulled down and the book shelf opened up to show a doorway.
"Ye have GOT to be kidding me!" Cheryl exclaimed as Jim waved back at them.
"Looky what I discovered!" Jim was carrying a wooden torch which lit the way down the corridor to goodness knows where.
They had discovered another secret area to the house, a long thin corridor stretched out in front of them. Jim passed another lit torch to Brendan as he took up the back they all walked down. The torch light flickered around then bouncing off the silver shining cobwebs that had been spun on the walls. It was dusty and extremely claustrophobic and very little air circulated here.
"How did you get behind the bookshelf Jim?" Darren asked jumping each time he felt a cobweb stroke his face.
"It was open when I landed in the room, I thought I'd check it out but it closed shut behind me"
"It was already open? First time we knew about it" Ste injected.
"I knocked on the back of the bookshelf hoping you guys had all rushed in to help me" Jim beamed
"You did rush to help me, right?"
"Oh yeah, straight away" Dennis nodded.
A eerie strong gust of air rushed past them arching the flames off the torches as Darren hugged onto Dennis gasping.
"Wind" Nate smirked "Something else that happens here a lot"
A loud growling echoed around them, as they all stopped dead crashing into one another. Darren turned to Nate.
"Does that happen a lot too?!"
"No it bloody doesn't, Bren what the hell is it?" Cheryl began to get hysterical again.
"I don't know, lets find out!" Brendan gestured forward
"What's the worst that can happen?" Ste replied.
As they progressed deeper down the now forever descending corridor they came to some stone stairs. They carefully climbed down and heard water running below them. As they walked down they entered what looked like catacombs, there was water running down the walls and it was damp and had a old smell around it. There were huge sweeping pillars that scattered around the dark stone surroundings. Arches were carved out in the walls that resembled windows except with no glass in them.
"The Romans built this kind of thing, this could have been here centuries" Jim looked around the place in awe.
"What is this place? It's actually pretty cool!" Ste rushed up to Jim looking interested.
"Looks like catacombs, a place like a cemetery or where cult practices were held. Has there been any kind of cult following surrounding your family?" He looked to Cheryl and Brendan
"Yes, well witchcraft has been practiced that much we are certain of" Cheryl agreed
"I spoke to some locals who told me of the rumours surrounding the house, they even have a name for it! The forgotten House!" Brendan told them shrugging.
"Maybe a cult tradition has been passed down though the family over the years, and if people have died here, it will explain some of the supernatural occurrences." Dennis quipped all knowing
"Yeah but so far the only ghosts we have encountered have been the family members that are buried in the gardens" Nate replied
"What graves Nate?" Cheryl asked incredulous
"I forgot to tell you, I found three graves, the little girl and her parents. The black entity appeared and chased me away, that's when I ran into Ste on the lake"
"I believe the malignant spirit has been brought here through a dark cult practice, there has obviously been some black magic which is really something that shouldn't be messed with" Jim warned as they continued to look around the amazing tomb.
A Stone was thrown at Darren hitting him on the arm.
"Ouch! Who threw that stone?" Darren winced
Dennis grabbed his camera and searched around and found a small rock laid on the floor.
"This has happened before, rocks thrown, furniture moved" Brendan put a hand on Darren's shoulder.
"So poltergeist activity as well?" This place seems a hive of the ghostly encounters, best place I've visited!" Jim cried.
"Take it! Ye can have it for a cool million pounds!" Ste laughed
"You will never sell this place!" Dennis laughed" No one ever buys haunted houses, best bet keep it for scaring ya mates with or demolish it to the ground, which I think would be a shame. It possesses beautiful structured features."
Ste felt a hand stroke up his leg behind him, he turned around quickly but no one was there.
"Someone touched me up!" Ste cried
"Brendan, can ye two not keep your hands off each other one minute?" Cheryl groaned
"Wasn't me Chez" Brendan replied as he walked over to Ste and grabbed his arse in a tight grip making Ste yelp."That was though"
"OK so looks like we're not alone down here then" Darren warned
"LOOK OUT!"
The dark entity had appeared inside the doorway of the room jolting the group back in fear, Ste grabbed on to Brendan, he whispered to him.
"Brendan, don't let it get me again, please."
Brendan cupped onto Ste's face and looked deep into his eyes. "Over my dead body Steven that thing won't hurt ye again I promise, stay behind me"
They all backed up together stumbling into the wall, there was no way out now, as it blocked the only exit. Brendan began looking around the room holding up the torch, he was looking for any means of escape another secret hatch and asked Ste to stay with him as they both felt around the water soaked damp walls.
There hands being covered in the green mold that had grown there over the times, the smell was sickening making them feel ill. They could hear the others as they continued to panic as mayhem threatened to rear it's ugly head.
Then the entity shrieked out a loud menacing noise as Ste stiffened with fright, he knew it was going to attack a strong wind blew around them extinguishing their flame torches as the place fell deathly black around them, Ste hitched a breath behind Brendan.
"I love you Bren, so much" Ste spoke with a shiver in his voice into Brendan's ear
"Don't ye dare Steven, we are going to get out of here, and I love ye too, more then you'll ever know" Brendan held onto Ste feeling behind himself and around Ste's waist, he dragged them around slowly using the wall an a guide.
"Chez, Nate where are ye?" Brendan moved to grab hold of Ste's hand and asked him not to let go.
"Over here!" Shrieked Cheryl "We're over here, is Ste with ye Bren?"
The malignant spirit was still making deadly noises and then there was a high pitched scream that made them all wince. Brendan jumped as Ste let go of his hand,he turned and frantically grabbed out into the pitch black space around him. He couldn't find Ste though
"Steven? STEVEN?! Please god answer me!" Brendan began panting with terror as he tried to feel his way through the dark.
"What's happening? Brendan? Ste? WILL SOMEONE ANSWER!" Cheryl was now hysterical running forward quickly she ran into a pillar which was a little in front of her hitting her head and falling with a crack on the concrete floor.
Nate rushed forward too and fell to his knees as he tried to get to her.
"Cheryl? Cheryl speak to me love" Nate cried as the others huddled together behind him. They three where now the only ones who hadn't been separated in the moment the light was taken from them.
"I knew I shouldn't have got out of bed this morning, a black cat crossed my path yesterday, a bad omen that is" Darren cried
"Shut up Darren, we are in the middle of a pitch black room with a pissed off ghost, get with the picture will you!" Dennis poked Darren hard in the ribs
"OI, that's me you're poking!" Jim warned.
"We need to do something" Dennis cried
"Like what? I left my idea light bulb at home!" Jim spoke sarcastically
"We have spare bulbs in the van!" Darren interrupted
"Jesus and you think I'm the dumb one!" Dennis rolled his eyes
"Ye will all have my foot up ye arses if ye don't shut up! Has anyone got a match or lighter to get the torches going again? STEVEN! I will fucking kill ye if ye don't answer me NOW!" Brendan was so scared his mouth had gone very dry and found it hard to swallow properly.
There was a small whimper within the room, they couldn't make out what it was.
"Steven?"
"It's Cheryl" Nate cried I've found her.
"I have some matches! Hang on" Jim cried as he struck a match the soft glow quickly shone a soft flickering light but not enough to see properly. He lit his torch as Brendan ran over to them and lit his torch, he used it to see and saw the entity was still there it screeched loudly and rushed towards them, Brendan dived out of the way as Darren, Jim and Dennis all screamed blue murder, it passed through them and into the wall.
Dennis crashed onto the floor and started to convulse over and over on the floor as his glasses fell off Jim and Darren knelt by him holding his body steady.
"Bren?" Steven was curled up in the far corner of the room sat rocking on the floor as Brendan sobbed rushing over to him he cradled him in his arms.
"Why did ye let go of my hand, Steven ye too important to go and do that. Thank god ye OK" Brendan felt a tear fall down his cheek and rest in his moustashe. He sobbed lightly into Ste's hair as Ste gripped onto him for dear life.
"Nate, how is Cheryl?" Brendan took in a deep breath trying to calm himself.
"Cheryl has banged her head, think she knocked herself out on the stone pillar when she ran at it. She's breathing OK." Nate had Cheryl's head resting on his lap as he stroked her hair.
"How is Dennis Jim?"
"Doing better, he had an attack of some sort as the spirit passed through us he took most of the brunt of it. He is unconscious now, we've put him in the recovery position just in case." Jim answered as he stood up, scratching his head.
A drip of water fell on him, then another and another until the drops of water had become more of a spill. A loud boom echoed around the room shaking the foundations and pulling Darren and Jim off their feet on to the floor awkwardly. The floor walls and ceiling began to tremor around them as deafening thuds became louder.
"Christ, now what?!" Brendan grabbed Ste and shook him out of his trance he'd entered as he separated from Brendan earlier. He slowly moved his stare to Brendan.
"Steven, i need ye to get up, can ye do that for me?"
Ste shook his head and stared back down at the floor. Brendan moved his head back towards him and kissed him softly making Ste register with him again
"Steven, we are in grave danger, I need ye to stand up for me baby, please? Brendan searched Ste's emotionless eyes trying to get through to him, but he just was distant like he was in shock, so Brendan grabbed hold of his arms and pulled Ste up and walked him to the doorway out.
"Guys, I can't leave Steven, he's in such a shocked state I can't get through to him" Brendan's stomach twisted as he held Ste close.
The booming noise became louder as cracks began to form in the walls around them. Small at first then larger as they seemed to take on a life of there own cracking into longer creases across the stone.
"Right we need to get out of here,now!" Jim cried as he noticed water had began to spill through each of the growing cracks.
"Nate is Cheryl awake yet?"
"No she isn't need help to move her please" Nate stroked and kissed Cheryl's forehead.
Jim rushed to Nate and Cheryl as the cracks in the room got bigger, a piece of stone flew out hitting Jim on the head and making him fall on the ground. Water had now began pouring in to the room at a record pace, Darren grabbed hold of Dennis' legs and dragged him along in desperation, the stone fell around them crumbling into the room.
"What if the house collapses!" Darren cries as he manages to haul Dennis to where Brendan and Ste are huddled waiting.
"No I don't think it will, I think we are nearer the lake, explains the water." Nate reasoned as he shook Cheryl lightly, she began to stir more awake at last.
"The place can still collapse water is extremely damaging, lets get back to the house" Brendan looked at Ste as he spoke. He stroked a finger down Ste's cheek.
"Hey you, can you understand me?"
Ste nodded lightly in response but his eyes were still lost.
"I am going to leave you... " Ste gripped tightly onto Brendan's wrists with his fingers, his nails pierced into Brendan's skin. "Ow, hey! Just for a moment, I need to help the others, the place is collapsing, Chez needs me, I wont be long I promise"
"Don't, don't leave...me" Ste strangled his voice still not looking at Brendan, just into thin air in front of them.
Brendan was worried about Steven as he seemed so distant,the shock earlier had taken it out of him. He sat down in front of where he was staring and looked into his eyes.
"You know, I never thought we'd get this far, me and you. God the things we've been through together, the way I treated you back then, and despite all that, ye still came back to me. Brendan smiled and continued trying to get through to Ste
Steven I love ye, I want to marry ye one day, just us and the kids, remember? I just right now have to help Chez and the others, I WILL be back." Brendan squeezed Ste's hand as a tear fell down Ste's cheek he eventually nodded in agreement as Brendan got up and went back into the room.
The stone walls were secreting a lot of water now as well as above them so they were now getting drenched. Brendan first helped Nate to carry out Cheryl into the doorway they lay her next to Dennis as the body count was getting higher amongst them now.
Nate stayed with Cheryl, Dennis and Ste as Brendan and Darren went back to get Jim. He was stirring awake a little water rose up next to him. Brendan knelt down to Jim and moved him to sit up.
"Hey ye OK? Come on Jim up on ye feet" Brendan and Darren moved to pick up Jim and rest his arms on their shoulders and made there way back through the crumbling surroundings.
Ste started to blink back into himself again, as he hitched a breath, the air turned icy cold around them, they could see the breath in front of them as Ste held up his hand to the icy mist of his breath.
His heart started to beat faster as he turned his head slowly towards where Brendan Jim and Darren were walking back as he gasped and went to stand up and run towards them, the doorway collapsed in on its self sending stone crashing in front of him as Ste screamed, it went dark again.
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