“William!” screamed a handsomely build tanned teenager who just reached puberty. “Lets go hiking now”. “Are you mad, Richard?” replied William. William was Richard’s best friend although the latter was 2 years younger than him. William possesses an air of responsibility, well-mannered behavior and a great sense of justice, while Richard was like a young boy with a very sharp and witty mind. Both of them were having a camp out at Half Moon Bay. “No I am not mad. I’m just bored!” answered Richard with dullness. “Besides, it’s just hiking, dude. No harm if we’re well equipped right?” “I rather stay here and look at the stars and moons instead of hiking with a lunatic in the middle of the night with” answered William. “Oh come on dude. Look the sky is empty; there is no moon or stars nor even airplanes. What sort of “blinky” lights do you expect to see? Unidentified Flying Object?” questioned Richard with annoyance. “…You do have a point” said William.
Finally, after a long series of exchanging cold hard remarks, William finally gave in and joins Richard “The Lunatic”, for a short hike up the forest near Half Moon Bay. After almost an hour of hiking, William said “Its getting late lets go back to our camp site.” Richard agreed as he has already satisfied his hungry curiosity. However, they fail to notice that someone or something was observing them the whole time while they were hiking. On their way back, William and Richard got lost. “Richard” said William, “Yes?” Richard replied with a hint of tire in his tone. “I blame you for this” answered William. “Enough with that already.” replied Richard with remorse. “Let’s try to find our way back instead of blaming me for getting us lost alright?” said Richard. William nodded in agreement. After 2 hours of scurrying around the forest, they stopped searching and took a break by sitting it under a huge tree.
William sat on the root of the tree when suddenly he heard something clicked. Both of them jumped up and heard a series of mechanical sounds clicking and rolling, and when it stopped, the tree vanished and replaced by a huge stairway down underneath. Richard grew in excitement as they found a discovery but William got more worried. The thing that was observing them grew angry and all animal around it felt fear as if a hungry predator just entered their premise. Richard and William then entered another debate to whether to go down or not. The result was obvious as Richard won the debate again. With William having a very bad feeling about this, Richard dragged him down as they walked down the dark stairway.
After walking down for a few hundred steps down, William finally pried his mouth open and told Richard it’s too dangerous to continue. “God knows how deep this is? We have been walking down for a few minutes and I still don’t see the bottom.” said William with fear creeping into each word. Richard replied “Come on, just a few more steps” and with a hint of courage and stupidity, Richard leap down the rest of the step without knowing what lies in front of him. With a soft thud, Richard landed on all fours on a flat ground. “Taa-daa!” said Richard. Now let’s go. William sighed in great disbelieve as he continue to follow Richard into the dark hall. As each step they took, William started to notice that someone or something was watching them. William looked behind him as to wish he could catch what was staring them, but with almost no light, he couldn’t see anything.
William turned back in front and notices that Richard was missing from his sight. He panicked and called out for Richard. “Richard! Where are you!?” screamed William. Echoes were his only reply. He panicked, he search for Richard by running in deeper and deeper into the hallway. After two hours had passed, he gave in. He sat down and let his mind wonder. As he sat down to rest, slowly, he began to to notice everything was getting darker, and darker, when finally he fell asleep.
“William” said a soft voice echoing to him. “William” it repeated as the soft voice grew louder. “William!” the voice became angry and full of annoyance. William woke up from the dream and saw Richard waking him up. It was bright, everything was lighted up and the walls were all painted dark brown, mimicking rust. “What happened?” asked William as he rubs his head. “I don’t know but its 7.30 in the morning and everything just turned brighter.” said Richard. “Richard! Where did you ran off too?” said William with anger in his voice. “Me? I was right behind you and you suddenly just ran straight! You know I’m not a runner, you idiot” argued Richard. “You were behind me?” said William in confusion. “Yeah!” voiced Richard. With that, William grew worried but at least Richard was with him now.
With everything brighter, they walked try to walk back, but it seems that no matter how far they walk, they still couldn’t reach the end. Suddenly, while they walked, Richard notices something and made a conclusion. “Hey, we have been walking in circles. Look!” pointed Richard at a spot where William sat. William asked “How do you know? Everything looks the same” “No it doesn’t. Look, at the spot here? I slashed the wall incase we got lost and it could be our marker” answered Richard. “Smart” replied William. No wonder it seemed eternity, they have been led walking around. Something weird strikes him, they have been walking around so long but they don’t see the stairs. What happened to it?
They continue looking in search for clues when suddenly a series of clicking sound mimicking the sound of a huge mechanical instrument at work suddenly struck them full with familiarity. They ran with towards the sound and a stairway appeared. As quickly as they could, they ran up the stairs, ignoring any warning signs that it could be a trap. As they climb up the stairs, they heard scraping noises. A large hideous looking beast was staring down at them. It lunges and hit William right at his chest. Falling down the stairs, Richard could hear William’s bones crack and screams full of agony. The beast pinned down William with its massive body and opened his huge mouth mimicking a shark to bite off Williams head. Thankfully, Richard acted fast enough and slashed the beast with his knife. Although the wound only seemed to anger the beast more, it provided sufficient time for William to escape from the beast’s capture. Now the beast was focused on Richard for revenge. It tightens its thigh muscle in preparation for another lunge. Richard turned to face the beast, ready to avoid the lunge. When suddenly another huge beast appeared, leaps over Richard and crash right into the first beast. It felt like a re-enactment of Clash of the Titans. Both beasts were fighting with each other. Clawing, biting and kicking, they were both evenly matched. Blood started to spew around the battlefield. William and Richard saw this as the best opportunity to run and ran up the stairs at full speed. As they reached the familiar grounds of trees and skies. They quickly ran straight down the forest mountain. Finally, they found their camping spot. Richard quickly looked for his first aid kit to clean up Williams’s long gash on its right hand, courtesy to the first beast.
With the cell phone working and help was 2 minutes away, William and Richard was happy that they survived this adventure. With the gash on Williams’s hand reminding them about this incident every night, things will never be the same again.
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