Chapter 3

I woke up on the floor of Rory's room, I sat up and adjusted my vision, I didn't know what time it was. I sat up and all of the sudden the painful screech from Rory's alarm went off, it was like a small bird was being murdered. Rory pounded the alarm clock and sat up to stretch his arms.

"Good morning," Rory said groaning.

"How did I end up on the floor, I feel asleep in the chair," I said pointing to the yellow chair on the other side of the room.

"I don't know I was asleep."

I stood up and remembered that I didn't bring any extra clothes with me, Rory gave me one of his coats. I guess it would have to do. We both walked down for breakfast. Rory took out two cereal bars and we were on our way out the door and on our way to school.

While walking down towards the end of the block we caught up with Ethan and Benny. Benny seemed to have a spell book in his hand.

"What's that for?" I asked catching up to them.

"Ethan wanted me to practice battle spells in case if this field trip gets dangerous."

"Ethan, it's almost been a month since the elevator incident, when are you going to let it go?"

"When every supernatural presence in Whitechapel is gone for good?"

"Excuse me?" I asked feeling offended.

"Except for some of the vampires."

"Okay thank you."

The four of us walked to the front entrance of the school and into the gym where the entire freshman class was. We had to stand in separate lines depending on our classes. Ethan and Benny were with Erica and Rory and I were with Sarah The two of us got in line to receive a bracelet, our coloured bracelets were black and the other group was red. Those are the school's main colour. We had to walk in line out the gym doors. In the back parking lot of the school there were two yellow buses. We went on the second one.

Rory and I sat down somewhere in the middle of bus before it took off and we were on our away. Sarah sat down in front of us.

"So are you enjoying yourself?" I asked her.

"Not in the slightest," she said bitterly.

"It'll be over before you know it."

"I wish."

I looked out the window and the small shops that were in the town square seemed to roll by, but then in the distance I could see a hill. It was all dull and covered in white fog, and on the top of the hill was a giant church looking over the entire town.

"Rory, look out the window," I said pointing at the church.

Rory looked, but he didn't seem impressed.

"What about it?" he asked.

"I don't know, just looking at it gives me the chills."

The bus started to leave the town and suddenly it was on a steep road surrounded by trees. I could hear branches hitting the roof and sides of the bus. I kept looking out the window and we stopped by a black, rusted metal gate. The gate was connected by two concrete blocks which had statues of gargoyles on the top of them.

"This place is a lot creepier than I expected," I said to myself.

The entire class gathered out the bus, Rory and I went with Sarah to watch the gate open. A teacher had a key and suddenly it opened.

"This place is amazing!" Rory said looking around as we were walking in. The place looked very old and run down. Of course it was built in the 1800s but it looked like a lot of history happened in this very spot. Just like the regular Whitechapel we were in the town square, in the middle of the town was an old rusted well.

The teacher took out a megaphone and asked everyone to form a group of two. My first choice was Rory because I'm his only friend and I really don't know anyone else from my class. We were free to walk around, but we weren't allowed to touch anything.

One huge rule the teacher mentioned was to not go inside of the church. I looked over at it. It had a giant lock on it. The first thing Rory and I did was catch up to Ethan and Benny who were walking into an old bakery.

"So what are you two doing?" I asked.

"I hoping to get a free sample," Benny said.

"I'm hoping to find nothing weird," Ethan said.

"Ethan, why can't you enjoy anything life offers you?"

"Think of all of the stuff that happened to us, we've been fighting supernatural creatures for almost two years and I want to be prepared when it happens again."

"While you two work on that, Rory and I are getting free bread samples," I said walking into the bakery.

After about five minutes Rory and I were walking back to the town square with a napkin and bread in our hands.

"Oh my gosh this bread is so good!" I said.

"Why don't they sell this anywhere?" Rory said.

"I don't know, the government must be 'trying' to save money."

After we finished our bread we spotted Ethan and Benny near the gate to the giant church.

"You know were not allowed to go inside right?" I said.

"I know, but I'm going to anyways," said Benny.

Suddenly my heart dropped, was Benny being serious? Has he forgotten all of what we've been through?

"Why?" I asked.

"I just want to see why it's locked up."

"I'm pretty sure it's locked up for a good reason."

"Well, I just want to know why," Benny said grabbing hold of the bars of the gate."

I looked around, I didn't see any students or teachers.

"I think I should go with Benny to make sure he doesn't get into any trouble," Ethan said.

"I want to come too!" Rory volunteering.

I couldn't believe it, are they actually trying to get themselves killed? I knew I had to follow them because I would have to get them back before a teacher finds them. I watched all four of my friends disappear into the fog. I was about to climb the fence until someone startled me.

"Cody! What are you doing?"

I turned around quickly and saw Sarah.

"Sarah! I was just-," but then Sarah cut me off.

"You were about to get in trouble weren't you? Wait until I tell Mr. Gupta."

"No! Ethan, Benny, and Rory went in there and I have to find them."

"Are you kidding me?" she said out loud.

"Will you help me?"

"What? No!"

"If you don't help me then I can tell the teacher that you lost a couple of students and you'll have to serve more detention time."

Sarah groaned in frustration and we both climbed over the gate.

"Where do you think they would have gone?" Sarah asked.

"I don't know."

We took a few steps away from the gate, the sound of a crow cawing startled me. I looked back for a quick second and gasped. The gate was gone, all we could see in front of us was a bunch of trees, but no town.

"Cody, where are we?" Sarah asked.

"I don't know."

P.S. I'm so sorry for not updating in almost a month, I deserve to be slapped in the face over the internet. I'll try to update more as long as I can get words to pop out of my head.