They set out, it was a long treacherous walk, when it started to get dark they decided to camp out for the night.
They set up camp under two trees, lit a fire and sat down to eat.
“I thought you got food, this stuff tastes like £$%^!!!”Complained Alex,
“Yes well we didn’t exactly have the nicest of budgets now did we?” replied Alistair in a most sarcastic way,
“Will you both just shut up, Jesus I would prefer to be sleeping in the rain away from you!” screamed Fiona.
Soon they were all asleep in their tents.
As morning approached they woke up, ate, packed up their tents and left. They had to walk for about 3 more hours, the surroundings were quite creepy in a way, in most of the journey they had to walk in a bog of mud, and with strange heaps of hot steam been given off, when as you touched the water it was freezing cold.
When the finally got there, they were astounded!
“Jesus Christ! Look at the size of that thing” whispered Alex with his mouth wide open,
What they were looking at was a very tall building with lights lit in every window.
They walked for 20 minutes up a long lonesome path, it leaded straight to the abnormally sized front door, just as Alistair was about to touch the door, it just suddenly opened, a large gush of old, warm, odd smelling air just came flying out of the house, just as if no one had entered in years.
The inside room was lit with a thousand or so candles, it was a massive, the walls were a deep red, with a white roof, the room was empty accept for an uncountable amount of spider webs and a lit fire place with a large chair in front of it.
Fiona started to creep very slowly across the waxed floor, the fire was flickering causing a shadow on the wall of something in the chair, she reached it slowly, and started to turn it, as she did, she let out a load scream;
There was a dusty skeleton, lying there with a small rusty metal pipe in its mouth, it was covered in cobwebs, and she stepped away silently,
“Ok that was freaky!” she said,
They walked through the main room, into a smaller room that looked like a kitchen, except it seemed to have what looked like blood-Staines covering the surfaces, with the odd knife sticking into small wooden boards, there were also small scuttles of bones along the floor, and several rats running around looking for a quiet place to die. There was a door at the end of the room, it led to a set of long, circling stairs, they walked down, with their fingers clenched on the triggers of their guns.
They reached the bottom of the stairs, to find themselves in a small room which seemed to have no light in at all, they went back through the door in to the lighted stairway and pulled their lamps out and lit them, they walked back in to find them self’s face to face with a large cobweb stretching from one wall to another, then all of a sudden 10’s of little spiders came scattering out, followed by a large human size one,
“What do we do?”
Cried Fiona,
“What you think SHOOT!!!”
Shouted Alex,
They all started shooting first at the small ones, then the giant one, they pulled out of the room into the stair way, they tried to block the door, it was hard the large spider was ramming in to it, then when it was to much Fiona lit a stick of dynamite and then Alistair and Alex opened the door she chucked it in, shut the door and ran up the stairs, as they reached the top they heard a large thunderous bang, the floor rumbled, and in the kitchen they were in the old cupboards fell off the wall, Fiona slipped and hit her head on the side of a work surface but seemed to be ok accept for a small cut over her left eye, they slowly went down the stairs and came to the blown out door, they held there lamps up high to see what had happened to find a green substance (most probably blood) scattered across the walls, there were a few limbs of the beast twitching on the floor, but there was a large hand sized eye on the floor turning and looking at them, Alex walked over and put a pistol and pulled the trigger, it exploded and green blood covered his face.
Slowly they made there way to the other side of the room, they went through another door this time a little more conscious of what they were walking in to, they walked into a very narrow but long room, there was a mist floating in there, it was hard to see how long as you could only see a few inches in-front of you, they carried on walking it seemed like an eternity had passed when they finally reached the end, there was nothing just a wall.
“Look!!!” pointed out Alex,
“A wooden door on the floor! Lets try and get it open” continued Charles,
They pulled out a crow bar, and tried to wench the door open, finally it broke through, there was no light down there, and they attached some rope to Alex and lowered, him in with a lamp slowly.
“Alex what do you see?” called Fiona,
This was followed by a long silence, then,
“Guys, I think we found it! Its all here the gold, the treasure, were rich!!!” shouted Alex,
“Shut up you don’t know what’s down there!” cried out Charles,
Alex started to pass up the treasures in a bucket attached to the rope.
As they were doing this, a large shadow passed along the wall, the shadow came nearer to Alex, as it got closer Fiona spotted it,
“Alex behind you!” she cried
Alex turned, and shouted,
“What the F”
There was a silence, the light went out, Fiona and Charles moved very slowly away from the hole.
Suddenly a black smoke started to poor out of the hole, it was spreading along the floor, they ran as fast as they could, being forced to drop gold along the floor to reduce weight, a 8ft figure grew out of the smoke, it had a large black cape, its face was white as the snow, it had two large yellow teeth, with red stains on the ends poking out, as if they were spikes, suddenly he rapped his cloak round him and with a large puff he disappeared, suddenly a small bat like creature came flying at them at unthinkable speeds, as it was gliding through the air, they were coming up to the door, Charles grabbed the handle,
“It’s locked!!! What shall we do,” he called
There was a large scream from Fiona, Charles turned to see, the creature biting into her neck, her face went pale, there was a look of freight on her face, that one look would send a shiver up your spine, a small stream of blood started to fall from her neck down across her white flesh, it dropped her.
The creature turned its head up and round very slowly and looked at Charles, his body went white and cold, he went to kick the door down but before he could, it was over the beast grabbed him on the head, lifted him up, and looked straight at him, Charles tried to struggle free, but his grip was to strong,
“What are you?” he said slowly in freight,
“Your worst night mare!!!” said the beast with a red glance from his eyes, as soon as he knew it, the creature was sucking away at his neck, after a few seconds it all went black, he fell dead, and the beast just vanished.
There was a loud thunder bang outside the house and a big streak of lightning hit the house, there was a hideous laugh coming from the house.
The fate of these young adults was dire, but it teaches us one thing, were there are riches and treasures hidden it is for a good reason.
Death follows all who try to deify it!
THE END
Edward Semprini form 4 original writing course work /
