Midnight

Chapter eight

"Help!!!". He shouted and Mike woke up immediately. He almost fainted at what he saw. A lot of spiders were crawling all over Fred as be struggled to get them off him.

Mike almost freaked out at the sight of the spiders, they were big, about the size of a human palm.

Mike jumped out of the pavement where he laid down and proceeded to where Fred was and began to help him out.

"What is this, where do they come from?". Fred asked looking terrified at the hugeness of the spiders.

"Wait don't move". Mike ordered and he stood still instantly. Mike succeeded in getting of the spiders off his body.

"Where the hell did they crawl out from" Fred asked as his eyes wandered across the room.

They began to look around the entire room to know whether if they can find any hole, but to their utmost surprise, there isn't any ant hole in the room. They began to wonder where it might have crawled out from.

"What just happened. There isn't any hole here and how come the spiders?". Fred asked Mike who looked lost in thought.

"I think we should leave this place as soon as possible". Mike said with an ominous tone.

"Why all of a sudden?". Fred asked. He wanted to leave earlier but he had become too exhausted and needed to rest. Be was equally feeling sleepy before the whole incident occurred.

"I think this place is under a serious curse and the sooner we leave the better for us". Mike said as he began to pack his stuffs.

"But the door is locked how are we going to find a new door. It going to be a lot of stress. Let's just rest a little bit and soon its going to be midnight". Fred suggested but Mike isn't having it as he immediately made his way to the door.

"That spider isn't just an ordinary spider, its a messenger. It came to warn us of an impending danger". Mike said and continued.

"You can stay if you want but sorry I am leaving". He said and left the room leaving Fred alone at the room as his dog followed him immediately.

Fred got scared as soon as mike left and he didn't hesitate to follow him immediately.

Mike carried his lantern with him on his journey to find another means of escape.

"So, how are we going to get out". Fred asked.

"I don't know, let's just look around, there must be a way.

They came across a window but it was locked.

"Wait let me open it" mike said to his friend Fred as he handed him the lantern he was carrying. Fred accepted the lantern from him and he moved forward towards the  wooden window to open it.

He tried opening but he discovered it was tightly closed.

He tried everything within his muscles to open it but to no avail.

"Let's just break it". Fred suggested.

"That's exactly what I was thinking". Mike said and he moved backwards, taking a few steps away from the window. Then he came back on it with full speed.

Dang!!

Came the sound as soon as he landed on the window with his body in a bid to break it.

"Its still stucked, maybe we should do it together". Mike suggested after the window refused to fall apart.

"Alright then". Fred said and kept the lantern he was holding on the ground. They both took a few steps away from the window and came back together, this time it was stronger.

Dang!!

Came the sound again and this time the window shattered into pieces and they both fell down through it.

"That hurts". Fred said as he held his arm. He had sustained a minor injury.

"Wait where are we?". Mike asked as he looked around the entire place which was covered with darkness.

He got up immediately and brought his lantern which illuminated the place.

"Arrgh!!!". Shouted Fred as he stumbled upon something familiar and scary.

"Its a skull, a human skull!". He said again with a trembling voice.

"Look!". Mike said to Fred and he looked up.

"Don't tell me, are we?". Fred asked.

"Yes, we are still in the same building but on a different room". Mike said in wonder.

"How is that possibe.?, I am sure that the window led to the outside world. What's happenin". Fred asked looking confused and bewildered.

Mike instantly knee they were in for a serious trouble as there is no way for them to escape from the building except through the entrance door which was shut down by the mysterious wind.

"There are a lot of skulls here, its so scary. What are we going to do now , we need to leave this place before what killed those skulls and skeletons would get to us. Obviously they must be one of us who came on an adventure". Fred said with a trembling voice.

Mike stood transfixed as he began to think of what action he is going to take next.

"Let's look out for some more". Mike said to his friend. He extended his hands to him and he stood up from where he sat on the floor.

Mike was visibly afraid and Fred could see it but he kept trying not to let it show on his face. He doesn't want to scare his friend to death. He also doesn't want to be alone on the mysterious and scary building.

He had began to regret within himself why he choose to embark on this journey. He remembered the advices his mom gave him before her sudden death.

"She must be so disappointed in me". He said to himself while trying hard to conceal his feeling.

They got to another entrance after searching long and hard.

"Let's try once more on this door". Mike said.

" What so you mean once more. We aren't relenting until we found an escape route okay". Fred assured.

Mike gave him a look and continued with what he was doing.

Dang!!

Came the first sound, it came again and again until the final one.

Lo and behold. The door opened back to the room where they were a while ago with its two big candle shinning brightly on the room.

"Oh my Gosh. Where are we?". Fred said amidst wonder.

"We are back in the room again!". Fred exclaimed in disbelief. 

"I think all the doors let to one room or the other except for the main entrance door which is as shut from outside". Mike said after thinking for a while.

"Yes, I think so". Fred responded looking terrified, tired and exhausted and so with Mike bit he looked more composed than the latter.

"Oh my, I am so tired". Fred said as he went inside the room again and sat down on the pavement where he was before they departed the room.

"Maybe we should rest a bit before we continue again, don't you think". Fred said and laid down on the pavement without bothering himself about Mike's response.

"I am all in this mess, all thanks to my stubborness and your stupidity and now we are going to die for it just the same way you killed your mother because of your obsession with the the unknown". Fred said bluntly to the surprise of Mike.

"Don't drag my mother into this okay, just keep her away while we deal with our miserable life right now". Mike said as he stepped inside the room where he was.

"Oh my, I just want to die than to be stucked into his place till God knows when. Maybe we are going to end up like those skeletons we saw out there". Said Fred hopelessly.

"We must surely find a way". Mike said.

"How!!?". Fred asked as he fixed his gaze on him.

Mike looked at him for a while and looked away. He got no strength to argue with him. Although he knew he is right. He knew deep inside him that  they were in for a huge mess.

Tick tock!, tick tock!, tick tock!. 

Came the sound from the clock that mike possessed.

"What's that sound?". Fred asked looking ever ready to attack the unknown.

"Relax, it from the clock". Mike said and brought out the clock from his bag.

"What time is it?" Fred asked him.

He looked at he clock to know what time it was.

"Its almost midnight, few minutes to go". Said Mike.

"Ok, I think I would need to rest a bit whe I await for my death". Said Fred. Mike ignored him and focused on his thinking. After thinking for a while, he fell asleep while sitting down with his head resting on the wall beside him.

"Mike, Mike". Came a voice as she called his attention to where she was.

"Who are you and want are you doing here all alone". Mike asked the strange lady on white sitting alone in the dark.

"You…are…all…alone" said the voice on a whisper.

Mike kept gazing at he strange lady.

"What do you mean by that". Mike asked.

"Wake up, its…midnight". The lady said and disappeared. Mike woke up immediately looking surprised at the weird dream.

"What does that mean. I am all alone?". He said to himself. His attention immediately shifted to where his friend was sitting.

He was a bit startled to see him sitting in an awkward manner facing his back on him.

He got up from where he sat and moved closer to Fred.

"Fred, are you there". He called as he made a move to touch him by the shoulder.

"Ooooorrrrghhh!!!". He made a gnawing sound like an animal. Mike was surprised. He immediately turned his fa e to his direction and Mike almost collapsed. His beloved friend is already possessed by an evil spirit in the room.

Mike shouted and left the room instantly but he was stucked as there is no room for an escape for him.