6. The Giant door as the barrier
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Alexa's Pov-
"Look, there it is! We have come!"
We reach the castle and I am the happiest among them all. I am feeling so giddy to finally come here. This place seems to attract me to it. It's like it's calling for me to come here and dig out as much as I can about this place. All the truths, the mysteries... Everything.
Okay.... now that sounds a little bit too overboard. I'm making it sound like I'm some detective who has to dig out all the information of some scary place like the one in front of me. The caste will be the best to film any horror movie in it, and it could be the best place to film any fairy tale type movie too if it is cleaned and decorated well. It is giant with big stone pillars and stone walls. Just perfect for a horror movie in the current condition but perfect for a fairy tale when cleaned.
"This is a haunted house!" Brett screeches.
"Shut up Brett! It is not a haunted house! It's just old." I say.
"Just look at it! When you look in the front, it feels like someone might be watching you through the windows, then you look at the window it feels like someone could be behind you! I can't stay here! It's all too dangerous!" He says.
"I would like to agree with Brett on this," Rhett says in a meek voice.
"Come on!" I let out throwing my hands in the air before I start moving towards the huge a*s iron gate.
"Listen to us, Alexa! And please return or you are on your own! I don't wanna die so soon! Brett could get busy in f*****g one of them but what about me!?" Rhett says scared.
They very well know if I don't return and continue moving, they'd have no choice but to follow me. Hehe...
"What the f**k bro!? I ain't gonna f**k some witch b***h!" Brett quickly says making me laugh at the rhyming words.
"Really!? What about the lines you always hum? 'Oh, witch b***h! Come give me a kiss! Get laid on my bed, and scream for my d**k!' " Rhett says singing the lines that Brett always hum. He isn't wrong in what he said before. Brett does have this very weird fantasy of having s*x with a witch because he thinks they are hot with dark lipstick, cape, and a corset! Like, they don't even exist, and even if they do then who knows if they look the same as how the movies display them to be.
"But there could be some ugly ghosts here for all I know!" Brett says. 'Oh God! The man is serious about having s*x with witches!'
"Brett you need to shut up! What if they are hiding in these trees and eavesdropping on our conversation?" I say turning around. And the terrified look on Brett's face makes my joke worthy.
"I'm not staying here for even a minute!" He says but doesn't move from his place because of course, he can only go with us. He is too scared to go alone anywhere in this forest.
"Just cut this all," Desmond says and starts moving to where I'm standing a little distance away from them. Seeing Desmond moving, the twins don't seem to have any choice but follow him because they don't wanna obviously be left alone. They come near with grumpy faces while I just grin like an i***t.
"Let's Go!" I exclaim and we get inside the iron gate. There, passing one gate, we come across a long pathway that leads to the entrance and I run towards it. Brett and Rhett are so terrified that they scream and run behind me leaving Desmond who is coming towards this huge door calmly, taking his time. We all stand in front of it, not knowing what to do. There is a wheel-like thing attached to the door and there is a small hole in the center of the wheel.
"What now? Come on, even God wants us to return back?" Brett again starts.
"Brett! This is the best adventure you could have ever asked for." I explain to him with a raised brow but he only huffs and at the same time, Desmond reaches us.
"Desmond, how do we get inside?" I ask.
"What am I? Dora the explorer? How would I know?" He says.
"There has to be some way," I say touching the wheel-like thing on the door.
Suddenly the wind starts spiraling fast like before and stops itself after few seconds.
"Damn these winds!" Brett says when my eyes fall down and I spot something near my boots. I bend down to pick it up and it's an ancient key with many carvings at the top from where one holds it and it is unlike the keys nowadays that have a building-like structure at the end that has to go inside the lock. This one is curved in a half-moon, like the one at the end of the fishing rod.
"What's that?" Rhett asks.
"OH MY GOD! Now she even got the key. I'm telling you guys, it's all the ghosts' plan. They are providing us the key just to lure us in. Was the key here before? NO! The winds..., it was all planned!" Brett says and I shake my head while penetrating the key in the keyhole that is shaped exactly for the key. Well, that's an obvious thing!
I try to roll the key a little but it doesn't even move.
"Agh!.. Just freaking move!.." I grunt applying more force. I let go of it sighing heavily and look at Desmond with sad eyes. He who understands the signal, come and try to roll it.
"It's old and hasn't been opened since don't know how many years." He says grunting but finally rolls the key and I clasp my hands together happily.
He retrieves his hand and holds the wheel. He opens and clenches his hands around the wheel to improve his grip on it.
"What are you doing?" I ask.
"This has to be rotated." He says and applies full force to rotate it. I go closer and help him when he yells at Brett and Rhett.
"Come here and help me fuckers!" He says and they both start helping us too. After applying a lot of force, a very odd bold sound comes as we feel the wheel rotate in the clockwise direction and it works as fuel to our efforts and we try harder while grunting.
It starts rotating and with that an iron plank above the wheel, at the top, starts retrieving that indicates that the door is opening. We push and push and opens it completely.
"Ahh... my hands.." I exclaim as we all breathe out and I fall backward on the ground followed by Brett and Rhett.
"f**k!" Brett curses along with Rhett and Desmond proceeds to open the door.
"We gotta do this together too." He says and, Brett and Rhett who were resting on the ground, get up again to help him in this hopefully last tiring task before we can see what is hidden behind these doors.
"Get, set, PO!" I say and we push open the door that was a hard task too but easier than rotating that wheel.
The door opens and we all take steps inside together and I feel like we are in a Hollywood movie where the heroes have just come out form trouble. Like after a blast, or like in the movie Jumanji two when all the characters get the characters same as what they had in the first part of the movie.
I grin at the great walls in front of me and I look at big, hugeeeeeeee hall in awe and complete disbelief.
Finally I'm here! Let's see how things goes while I stay here...
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