A single sweat trickled down my spine, my eyes wide in horror as I stood up slowly. Serpent glanced at me, his jaws open to let out a low growl. What's weird was that he wasn't facing the door, he was looking sharply at a dark part of the room.

Was the beast already inside?

I try not to panic as I squinted at what Serpent was growling at but it was too dark, I couldn't see anything. Waiting patiently, I held my breath. If the beast was here, he would have jumped out and waste no second in slaughtering us all but all I heard was the dang creaking noise. I frowned, slowly releasing my breath and even though fear makes my legs feel like jelly, it did not stop me from taking a step.

I passed Alex and Serpent, a frown appeared on his face but he didn't wake up, I wonder why he wasn't up yet, he was usually always on alert that even the small noise woke him up, Serpent glances at me, his growl stopping for a second before he starts again. Passing Luca, the creak got more louder but we all know when Luca sleeps, he sleep like a corpse.

"Is anyone there?" A too familiar heavily accented voice called out. I stopped in surprise. That was Ani.

"A...mmmphhh!"

My back meet a rock hard chest, the scent of Rain, mud, earth filling my senses instantly. I panicked, wriggling but the hand on my mouth tightened as if to warn me not to let a sound out. A hot breath blow into my ear and a single sound came out of their mouth.

"Shhhh".

I relaxed a little, it's not a beast but who's it? The hand on my mouth reluctantly slipped away as if they weren't sure if I'm going to keep quiet. Soft steps sounded behind me and the person stepped in front of me. My eyes widened in surprise, it was the perfect moment to shout...

ALEX??

But he held a single finger to his mouth and my the urge to shout disappeared replacing fear.... something is still out there and there's Ani too?? Alex gave me a look, a kind of look that told me to stay where I was, that he was going to check this out. He turned and took a careful step, Serpent following close beside him but he didn't take more than two steps before he just.... disappeared

I gasped loudly, rushing forward to see what happened. That was a mistake.

I fell....






Air whipped past me, making my blonde hair fly up as I stretched my hand as if some invisible force would pull me up. My scream stopped short when my back fell hardly into a rock, my body rolling instantly my head banging hard against another rock and I rolled and rolled and rolled, eventually the torture stopped. My head was throbbing painfully, my dainty nightgown hunged up by some rock and I was naked except for my panties, I could feel the....





"Blake!!!" My vision cleared, Ani appearing in front of me. I frowned at her, confused.

"Look at me, look at me, Breatheee..." She instructed me taking exaggerated breaths herself. I copied her, my brain feeling like mush at the moment. When she saw that I'm alright, she placed a hand on my shoulder, looking into my eyes. I avoided it, my eyes falling on green ones, his gaze intense, I quickly shifted my eyes back to Ani.

"Are you okay?" She asked softly.

"Yeah". I whispered, taking in my surroundings. It is dark but it wasn't dark enough that I can't see. Dark, weird animals hung from the roof, dead birds and skeletons littered the floors and feathers and blood decorated the wall. I looked at it, horrified. "What is this place?"

Ani straightened. "Oh this? I don't know, I just kind of stumbled into it".

"What?" I sat up, glancing at what I fell on.

Sacks of grain??

"Oh yeah? She squinted an eye. "It's strange. Have all the shelters you've been had an underground?" She directed her question to Alex.

Alex moved his eyes to her, seeming to think for a second before his deep voice rang out. "How did you find out this place?"

I looked at him sharply, that's the longest word I've ever heard from him.

Ani looked surprise too, her mouth hanging open for a minute before she realizes he asked her a question. "Umm.... I wanted to pee and I didn't want to go outside because it was already dark but I also couldn't find the litter bucket so I...searched and searched and I... "She kicked a skull with her right foot. "Fell into this place".

I stood up, looking up at the dark hole I fell from. "How are we...