Haunted Heist : La Casa Manavi

Chapter 06

"You've got be kidding me." I said as they lay down their arms and departed on their ways while the little child, who was talking to me, suddenly approached me.

"Thank you for talking with us, if you have nothing to add, you may leave." said the little child. "Leave? you're kidding right? where would I go?" I asked.

"That is upto you." said the little child as he departed, I wanted him to stop, to ask for my help, does he even know he's under a ghost house? or is he part of the house act, like mind game was?

So many doubts came through me, I wanted to spell it out directly, but having the risk to find the truth, and knowing what type of danger my friends might find themselves stuck with, I decided to do something I never thought I would do.

"Wait!" I yelled which made the kid stop, as well as his men. "What? he asked and without a delay I directly hit him with what I had in mind.

"I need your help.. my friends and I, we came here to proceed to the next round, but then we got split off, I can't reach out without help, or light in this case." I said, looking upon the torches they carry.

"And why would I offer you my help?" he asked to which I wanted to offer him my fist, but instead, I offered him reason. "I don't know if you're real or not, but you've been here for hundreds of years right? don't you wanna go home?" I asked.

"And do you think you could lead us home? you don't even know where our home is." said the little child. "You're right, I don't, but what I know is, your home isn't here, and this is a game, not a home, once it's done, you and your people are doomed to stay in here forever, unless you come with us, where we can help you get out.

"I said. "But to do that, first we need to find them right? your friends?" he asked. "That's the hard part, not too difficult since you've got manpower enough to go through the whole maze." I said to which he chuckled.

"Something funny?" I asked. "You have no idea, do you?" asked the little child. "About what?" I asked. "This structure, this maze you call, it never stays the same, unless you don't stick together, you're doomed to never find the ones you've lost, same goes for your friends." said the little child. "Is that a no?" I asked to which he didn't reply, but tossed me over a torch which I caught immediately.

"Come with me, I'll show you more." said the little child. I felt awkward about following a bunch of cultists in a maze, but I had no choice, if they were trouble, I'll kill him, if not, they could get me what I need, either way, I need to coordinate with them for now, there is no other way, for now.

Meanwhile Tulio and Dwayne, on their verge, to cowering victory, started running away from the threat that poses them, for a while they've been afraid, but now, things got a little complicated when the predator that chased them like a sprinting tiger with a gun, mysterious vanished from view.

"Hey! hey hey!" yelled Dwayne pulling back Tulio who trips and falls down, pulling Dwayne with him. "What the hell is wrong with you?" asked Tulio. "You fell and you're blaming me?" asked Dwayne.

"Yeah, because you pulled." replied Tulio. "Right, I'm sorry, okay? I just wanna say we lost em." said Dwayne as he got up "What do you mean? the ghost lost trail?" asked Tulio as he too got up.

"Yeah, I think so, thank god." said Dwayne while he bides with Tulio, but little known to them, from the celling within the shadows, a lurking hands are crawling over the darkness, waiting it's time. "Something's not right, how did it lost trail? it was faster than us." said Tulio.

"Maybe it got tired?" asked Dwayne. "It's not alive to be tired Dwayne." said Tulio when the lurking figure bashes down on to the surface, crawling beneath the floor as it reaches them closer without them knowing.

"So where did it go?" asked Dwayne when within a minute, Tulio found himself shocked with a blaze when a monstrous spider faced monster emerged right behind Dwayne which was little known to him.

"Behind you!" yelled Tulio only to get his reply too late as Dwayne gets himself bashed by a leg of a spider, lurking out of the very being that emerged himself as it comes into light, raging upon Tulio.

"Dear god." said Tulio as he tripped down, looking upon the very monster in complete fear of shock. "Skullllllkkkk... Skurhhllll!" whispered the the monster who rages onward directly towards Tulio who immediately takes down his rifle and starts firing at the head of the monster.

"Take that you sick.. botch!" yelled Tulio who continues firing away while the monster screams and leaps back into the shadows as to which, Tulio then rests, biding it's time as the monster leaps away after gaining a heavy amount of damage.

"Dwayne! Dwayne! you there bud?" asked Tulio, confirmed that he was dead after a blow like that, when suddenly, luck strikes him hard when a human hand reaches high right then.

"Here! I'm here!" yelled Dwayne to which Tulio then starts running towards him to check on him as he was hit by the wall after the monster kicked him off. While Tulio goes forth into darkness, carrying his torch, the monster once again returns for a round two.

Just as he arrives, Tulio finds Dwayne alive, but under heavily muscular damage and his shoulder fractured by the blow he got. You okay man?" asked Dwayne. "Yeah, I'm fine, you?" asked Tulio. "Urgh... I can't feel my hands." said Dwayne.

"Here, let me help." said Tulio who offers him his hand. While they are busy, the monster once again, pushes through the light, running directly behind Tulio to which it jumps off to tear him apart, but gets shotgunned to pieces from aside as it's juicy fleshes falls into Tulio's body. "Urgh.. goddamnit!" yelled Tulio who drops Dwayne immediately and begins shivering in complete disgust over being wrapped in its flesh.

"Settle down, you're alive, that's what it matters." said a old man's voice revealed to be a middle-aged guy with a military outfit who approaches them out of the thin blue.

Looking at him, Tulio immediately reaches out for his gun, in which the stranger offers his peace of allegiance with his hands. "Woah, Woah, calm down, I'm not here to hurt you, my name is Austin, I am to check on you guys." said the stranger to which Tulio pauses as Dwayne too looks upon him.

"Check on us? from where? how did you even get here? asked Tulio. "I have no idea, it's past 12, and half the streamers are in bed now, no one's watching anymore, so the WIC Company sent me to check in on you guys, I arrived with a team too, but we got lost." said Austin.

Austin looked like a type of man who knows when to get things done, in other words, he's like a western made dirt cop, but with a sheriff badge of a gun, but doubts found in the minds of Tulio and Dwayne was that, how did he find the correct time to help these guys, and where exactly did they lead upto, was it all part of a game, or is this a beginning of a sinister events, that is yet to come.

Meanwhile, Kinze, on the other hand, didn't have much luck, like a bird caught in a cage, she was a lab rat, tied to ropes and put on display while the demonic doll started playing around her, and had her watch while showing things that seem to make her afraid by every minute, even the smile she lies upon her, seems to make Kinze afraid the most, until she mysterious emerged right in front of her, unafraid of Kinze at all.

"Please.. please, I'm begging you, let me go.. let me go." cried the doll as if she's mimicking Kinze, who remains null without giving a single reply at all, simply because she is unable to.

"But you can't talk, can you? no, you can't.. you shouldn't.... you will not!" yelled the doll, driving the dagger down by her beside in which Kinze frightens, but doesn't respond at all.

"Feeling scared? feeling lost? don't worry Kinze, now that all your friends are gone, we can be together again, we can live forever, and ever, and ever!" screams the doll right at Kinze's face to which she spits at her in disgust, but her weakened stamina caused the saliva to spill through her own mouth instead.

"What's the matter? can't you talk? won't you talk with me? talk! You ungrateful b***h!" yelled the doll shaking Kinze repeatedly until Kinze starts to fall out of conscious again to which the doll gives in a slap to her face to make her stay awake.

"Stay awake you b***h! Stay awake, you're mine! you are mine! you cannot, and must not sleep! do you understand? stay awake!" screamed the doll once more, landing a slap as it climbs onto the flat table nearby and shows off various types of face actions at her as Kinze gains enough strength to finally talk back.

"Why... why did you come back? why are you doing this?" asked Kinze.

"Because, it's what you deserve! you left me! you stuck me in that box and played with your other friends, I was so alone and lost, I was afraid, and it was all because of you! everything was because of you!" yelled the doll.

"I didn't.. mean to leave you... I had.. difficulties, I was... suffering, my parents fought, my friends abandoned... I was lost.." said Kinzie.

"So was I! damnit! So was I! all the times you left me... I suffered, do you know how many nights I've awaited to play with you again? do you even know how many hours, days, month, I stood by, waiting for you, so one day, you could just open that box, drag me out, and say sorry for everything that you did!" yelled the doll.

"But you ignored.. me first, you kept me away, pushed me... I thought you didn't want me.." said Kinze.

"I did want you, I always want you, but you didn't care, you never care, you never wanna play!" screamed the doll who starts laughing away maniacally as it tears itself into her an rips open a dagger out.