My Unlucky Demon

Horror?

Woah... this storehouse looks like every spooky place you will see at nighttime in any horror movie. It makes it look even creepier after the stories that Elaine told us on our way here. That every time someone gets lost and unintentionally comes here alone, just vanishes and was never seen again. And that there was one time that someone was able to come back after going here alone saying that he saw a large wolf with huge sharp fangs that bit him on the neck. I don’t believe it though, ‘cause if it was such a large wolf, instead of getting bitten on the neck, he would have been eaten whole instead. If she named the guy then I might have believed it though.

The door to the storehouse was chained with a large padlock, so it took time for Elaine to open it. While waiting I observed the others. Aiden was just like a wolf in the forest, he was leaning over a tree with his eyes glaring over us. Heh, this guy just can’t stop glaring at us, can he? I looked to the other side and saw Gabriel who I know to be easily scared by simple ghost stories acting all though, “This place is really cool isn’t it?” he said.

“Hey.” I tapped him on the shoulder.

“W-what?” His whole body shivered with one touch.

“There’s a spider on your shoes.” I pointed.

“Gah!” he jumped, “Ah-ah, spider! Get it away!!” he kept on shouting trying to get the spider away from him.

“Haha, what a scaredy-cat.” I laughed.

Raphael took the spider away from Gabriel who was so reluctant to touch it. “It’s fine, only a few species of spider can actually harm humans.” Raphael said reassuring Gab.

“No! They’re creepy, and the legs too, i-it’s eight you know!?” Gabriel said.

What is he saying? What’s so scary about having eight legs, caterpillars have way more than eight, you know? What’s more, it’s not even eight but six legs only because two of them are hands.

“Get it away already!” Gabriel slapped Raphael’s hand making him let go of the spider accidentally and landing it on Mallory’s arm. Mallory who was as calm as a river turned her gaze towards the spider on her arm. She carefully took it off her arm and bent down, she placed the spider on the ground then it uneventfully went away. She stood up and turned to us after. Gabriel looked at her with sparkling eyes, “Mallory~!” he exclaimed making his way to hug Mallory. 

“Hey, hey, you’re so lame, just get ready ‘cause the door is open already.” I said.

We came in. It seems that the lights aren’t working so we went on with flashlights. It was pretty dark even with the flashlights, we only had two anyway. One was given to me and Elaine is has the other. Well, it is at least great to know that we only have one scaredy-cat with us. 

Slam!

“Wah!” Gabriel screamed when the door behind us slammed. 

It wasn’t Gabriel that caught my attention though, it’s Aiden. As soon as the door shut, he grabbed Mallory by the arm who was closest to him at the moment. He let go right away, but it’s making me doubt things... There’s no way, right?

--moments later--

We separated into two groups. Elaine, Raphael and Gabriel are together to clean on the other storehouse just right behind this one whilst Aiden and Mallory are left with me on this one. There are four rooms to clean at, but we can’t really clean separately because the only source of light that we have is the flashlight that I am holding. So we’ll stick together dealing with one room at a time.

Only then was I able to confirm my doubts. Aiden who was acting all cool a while ago is unconsciously sticking around Mallory. There was even this one time when he opened a box and a rat came out, he suddenly lost his balance, sitting on the ground in shock. He’s not seriously scared, is he? Him, who can throw Mallory like a ball with just one hand? I’m sure he can easily stomp over the rat if he wanted to. I got mad and yelled at him.

“What are you doing, get out of the way already!” he stood up whilst glaring at me.

What the heck is his problem? Are people in college really this hard to understand? First off is Mallory, now it’s this guy.

We managed to clean all four rooms, I grabbed on my pocket to check the time on my phone, but it wasn’t there. Did I drop it somewhere? I checked on the room, but I couldn't seem to find it. Ah, it might have dropped when I was lifting the boxes in the 3rd room. I went to the 3rd room with Mallory and Aiden following behind me. As soon as we came in I checked the floor and found my phone right away, but when I turned back, the door was closed shut. Mallory was inside the room with me, but Aiden was outside. The door was locked. Damn it, I knew it! That guy was only acting to let our guard down, now he’s locked us up! The doors in this storehouse are particularly easy to use for locking people up too since the doors can only be opened outside once it’s locked. I do have the keys, but there is no keyhole on this side of the door!

“Hey, open it!” I shouted, but there was no response. 

I kept shouting and banging on the door, but there was no response at all. “Tch!” I kicked the door in anger. I have no choice but to kick the door down now.