13) Creepy Crypts

Creepy Crypts

We we're standing in  a very dark hallway, in front of a fleet of stairs, leding down into black nothingness. Looking around at each other, Khaos nodded and then started walking down the stairs as the first one of us. Müsli and Arctic slowly and carefully walked down behind him, with me, Astoria and Namir following at the end. "I wonder where we are now.. is this going to.. get us out of the castle?" Namir asked slowly. I nod, and say "Hopefully it will." I catch Astoria looking around right at me, scanning me for truth. I knew she didn't belived my bluffs as well as Namir and Müsli, but the visitors had an absolute nightmare of an adventure right here and I wanted to keep the panic down as much as possible. Astoria turned back, following Khaos who now left the stairs. We seemed to have arrived, it was extremly dark, cold, and very wet. "Where are we..?" whispered Müsli scared as ever, trying to see something in the dark nothingness. "I have no Idea" answered Khaos, starting to slowly move forward. Slowly, with each meter that we walked, the room got brighter. There seemed to be some lights, hanging on the walls, burning slowly and throwing flickering light around this room. Looking around, we realize that this must be an old crypt, laying hidden beneath the castle floors. "Please, please I don't want to stay here, I want to get out of here as soon as possible!" whimpered Müsli, pawing scittish at the ground, looking around in expectance of seeing a ghost jump at him every minute. I sigh, hoping that there were no more ghost encounters laying ahead of our path. "Let's go..." Astoria murmord, slowly stepping in front of the group and leading them through the weirdly big cruft. Everywhere was moss, puddles, and stone coffins. Khaos looked around, catching my look. We both didn't liked this situation at all, and I knew that Khaos was worried. This wasn't good, and we needed to get out of here as quickly as possible. "Quicker." I huff, snapping at Arctic's and Namir's Tails, who reacted by pinning their ears and quickly trotting up to follow Astoria. Müsli shivered, and just wanted to open his mouth to say something - probably another complaint about this horrible situation - but then he stepped on something. There was an ugly crack being heard through the crypt, with the crack being echoed back to us over and over again. We all freeze, staring over at Müsli, who presumably started the cracking noise. He stared bac k at us, panic laying in his big, wide open eyes. "What happened?" Asked Khaos, just as Arctic said "What did you do??" Müsli whimpered, removing his hoof from... the bones. He had stepped on a small collection of very horsie looking bones. I stare at them, and then look around, just to suddendly see more bones laying around here. "Oh my gosh.. I didn't even noticed all of the bones around here.." Namir said, suprise and shock laying in his voice. Nobody of us probably had noticed them before. "Its okay Müsli..." Astoria said softly. "Come, follow me, It's okay really!" Müsli, after a few seconds of heavy thinking duties, slowly started to move towards Astoria, but staring at the ground at the same time, doing his best to not step onto any more bones and other undefinable stuffs laying around the stone coffins. Walking around in this creepy crypt was an awful feeling, trying to shake the cold and unsafe feeling off, Arctic shook, which resulted in his tail nearly swishing over a vase standing on a small podest. "Be careful!" I hiss, which led to Namir look around to us, making him stumble over some plants and bones. "Can you all be a bit more careful and maybe, just maybe, a little bit more quiet?" Khaos hissed at us, which I commented with an eye roll. "I think I see the exit!" Astoria exclaimed, which led me, Khaos and Müsli to shush at her slightly panicky. The crypt started to get even lighter, but it wasn't really daylight or anything in that matter, but more the lights from hunderets and hunderets of candles, leading a way through the seemingly endless crypt. Looking around, we all don't really know what to do, where to go and where to  look. "I hope we don't see more ghosts dont here" Namir muttered silently, voicing the concern that was the whole walk already lingering in my brain. I couln't shake the feeling off that we would see those two weird ghosts from the field earlier again at a later point. Khaos walked slower, his ears pinned with worry, sniffing the air and then the ground around us very intensely. "What's going on Khaos?" I ask, knowing I should be worried if my friend was behaving this way. Khaos just shook his head, and Namir started to say something probably very rude, but Arctic thankfully snapped over at him, making him shut up very quickly. Khaos sighed, looking around into the darkness and then looking back at us, staring at each of us. "We are not alone here" He says calmly with a quiet voice. Müsli gasped and whale eyes the whole enviroment, while I just nod. "Why are we still standing here?!" Namir gasped, making a move into a random direction. "Don't just run off!" Arctic held him back. "What do we do now?" I ask, not feeling too confident. "The scent is from a bit ago, maybe half an hour. Lets move in this direction. Over there the scent is old, but strong. Maybe we find out who that is.." Khaos said slowly.