The shadow of the night is scary mom (2)

"In a dark side of a cave, drops of water can be heard from the spikes protruding from the ceiling with a top sound, far deeper, a cave like alleyway leads to an enclosed room, and inside the room, the sound of something scratching a box could be heard".....

While Mrs Vanelopé was writing on her book, we the students were actually dicoursing or reading, or steal, sleeping, everybody was doing his or her things quietly, Jackson was back and from his red eyes and hands, he most have received serious beatings, that was the deal passed with the principal, each time I and Jackson fought we were beaten.

But we did not have Jackson's time today, our sets were ready, class would be over soon, so we were finalizing our preparation for our adventure in the cave.

"Guys are you all ready, we always waited for this moment since old Mr Robert told us about the cave"

"Of course we are!"

"I am."

"......"

Looking at Mike he finally answered but we could all see through him, he was reluctant to go, we had to join force in other to convince him, even Billy had a hard time convincing him.

"Brian what are you guys planning"

"Wow!?, all this equipments parked in your back are for whic......hmmm!"

Billy, as fast as ever caught Vanessa's mouth and closed it before she could finish her words.

The four girls were always interested in our activities and always wanted to watch. Catherine came closer to me and held my hand and with shining eyes asked me to tell them.

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The bell rang and everybody was heading home, except I, Billy actually holding his face in annoyance, Mike, Scott, Catherine, Vanessa, Eliza, and finally Erika. women's are dangerous.

I had revealed everything to Catherine the moment I saw her smiling, Billy got annoyed but he to was carried away by Vanessa's serious and cute face and with her chocolate colour, Billy could not help but feel something for her, we were actually kids but we knew the meaning of love.

Riding our bikes in direction of the mountains, we knew the location of the cave, each of us took our bikes and headed towards the entrance, from there we equipped our selves, each of us had a talkie walkie, a rope, bottle of water, and a medical box we took from our home without permission, if we were caught by our parents, we will be surely grounded by our parents until we reach college.

"Since we did not prepare for an expedition of eight, one boy would take full responsibility of one girl"

Blushing everybody nodded, why were they blushing?, Catherine came closer to me and explain what they understand as full responsibility, and from there, my face was red through out the entering of the cave.

In the cave, they were numerous gallery and holes every where, tying the long rope on our stomach, we did not attempt to explore the cave separately, we went together, and took a particular direction, this was because the had written languages on the wall.

Mike was particularly fascinated by the writings, given his lamp to Erika, he took out his camera and took pictures of all the writings he saw.

Billy was in charge of marking and watching our back living sticks behind us, so we could find our way out in case of an emergency.

Mike and Scott were charged with the role to escort and protect the girls, and me, the head was to guide the way forward and verify if they is no danger, I took after my dad, he was a great military man who died in his task and for that I would always respect him and try everything to be like him.

"Hmm!?, What is this place, it those not look like a cave at all but more of an underground alleyway which have been caved, Hmmm..., Mike come see this."

Calling Mike from the back, he came looking directly at were I was pointing.

"Wow!?, Guys come see this.."

while everybody was gathering, Mike inspected the walls and came out with the direct conclusion I had but more precise.

"These walls have been caved a long time ago, they are actually very old."

"Old at which level!?"

"Older than Mr Robert and maybe the town it's self"

Everybody exclaimed with a 'WOW!?' sound, and started touching the walls, After covering a significant distance it was getting late and the girls were already tired, which annoyed Billy.

"I knew you girls would slow us down!"

"Shut up don't annoy me!"

"What did you say!?"

"Shut up!!"

Looking at Billy and Vanessa arguing among themselves, I could only laugh silently, but later turn red when Catherine leaned on me in pretext she was tired, Scott and Eliza were getting along very well, their characters were matching well, and talking about characters, we had this two Mike and Erika, they two brain box, both of them spoke with their actions, Mike was examining the wall while Erika was looking at the floor, both carried a lot of samples with them and we're smiling with red faces avoiding eye contact, when I thought of this expedition as a success.

Rumble!!!!, A land slide was surely occurring outside because the cave was shaking, the girls were frightened by the movement, we decided to evacuate as fast as possible before the vibrations got worst and the ceiling starts falling on our heads.

But as we were about to live the alley way cave, I heard something strange.

"Huh!?"

"Brian what are you doing!?, hurry!!"

Billy urging me to hurry, I turned my head to follow but the sound got larger.

"what was that!?"

"Brian, for God sake, hurry!!"

Turning and throwing my bag for Billy to catch,and untying the rope, I waved my hands and making signs to them, that I have to check something.

Putting a complicated expression and with the situation getting dangerous, they had to first secure the girls, and had no time to object my decision.

I went back in the alleyway of the cave and continued straight forward, after few steps, I could see the end of the alleyway, entering the a room like cave, I saw a strange temple, with cat faces drawn every where.

literally speechless, I could see a box with a paper on it, it resemble a talisman, I knew the utility of talisman, it was to either imprisoned or capture creatures who are dangerous, but the one calling me since then was asking for help, and right know the voice was begging me to remove the talisman from the box, I was not quite convince so I stood there and looked at the box.

The box was dark and covered with talisman with one leading talisman covered red, I came closer to the box, but I did not forget the sound of the rumble, touching the box, I could feel something moving inside and with a Crack sound I open the box. At first nothing came out, so I looked inside the book, the strange voice had also stopped, I was rendered speechless, was my imagination playing with me.

At that moment, a shadow was growing behind me, the hands were expanding and a big smile was forming revealing long and sharp teeth, his head was like that of a cat and his body was two times that of a man, as he was opening his mouth he suddenly shrunk and disappeared.

Sensing the chill in my back, I turn my head fast, only to see a cat starring at me.

"Where is this cat coming from?"

They cat had white gloves on his front paws, he looked at me before turning his head and disappearing in the dark, confused I carried the box and a book on the floor and exited the room cave.

Outside, Billy was anxious, the others all carried worried faces, before they all push a breath of relieve, they saw me coming out of the smoke and smiling at them, even though I got hit in the head by all of them I knew they were all worried and I apologize, we headed home on our bikes and separated later, everybody took the road to their respective homes, arriving home and greeting mom with a kiss, I was question on why I was dusty l, I told her that I fell on the ground while riding but I came out with no scratch, with that I headed to the rest room and had a bath later i left for my bed forgetting the black box.

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Meanwhile, in the cave a cat was coming out and murmuring a strange song, yes the cat could speak, the cat looked straight forward on the road we took and followed it. A wild dog passing by tried to catch it but ended up being swallowed, the cat having his meal continued his journey while murmuring his strange song.

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