The House at the End of the Street

Chapter Twenty-One: Lost in Nowhere

We walked for a long time in the middle of nowhere. It was hot, maybe a little over 100 degrees at least. Everyone(except Jack and Gracie) were standing side by side and in front of Salvullaz.
"Where the hell are we going?" Mae yelled at Salvullaz, but he didn't answer.
"C'mon! Tell us where we are going!" Jhett started yelling.
Salvullaz didn't answer.
"What do we do?" Kaycie asked me.
"I have no idea," I said, sorrowful.
About thirty minutes later after we started walking, we had come across a small building. It was relatively small, probably twelve feet tall and only seven or eight feet wide.
"This is where you'll be staying for the rest of eternity," Salvullaz said as we walked inside.
It was basically a dorm. It had seven rooms, all of which had our names carved into the door. Mine was the first one on the left side when you entered the building with the rest on the left side being Jhett, Mae, and Kaycie. On the right side being Conner, Jack, and Gracie.
"Why are we here?" Kaycie asked.
"This is why people don't come down to hell," Salvullaz said, slamming the door and locking it from the outside and locking us inside the dorm.
We looked at each other, knowing that we weren't going to get out of here alive. All of us went inside our rooms to look around and get comfortable. There was a bunk bed with a monitor and computer sitting across the room.
I got up from the bottom bunk and started to the computer. I sat back down onto the chair in front of the computer and pressed the power button on the PC. It started working and the monitor opened to GOOGLE. There was no keyboard or mouse, so the computer was worthless.
"Zack. We need to show you something," Mae said, closing the door behind her.
I got up from the chair and went to the door, opening it. Mae was standing right next to the door.
"What's up?" I asked, closing the door.
"We're thinking about escaping. Salvullaz didn't lock the windows, so it would be a convenient way out," Mae said, running into Jhett's room where everyone else was.
"So, the window's unlocked?" I asked.
"Yup. Since the windows only open a small bit, the smallest one here can sneak out of the window and open up the door from the outside and let us all out," Jhett said.
"Who's the smallest?" Conner asked.
Everyone looked at me.
"What the heck, guys. Just cause I can't eat wheat doesn't mean I'm the smallest one," I said, shaking my head.
"Oh well," Jhett said, pointing to the window.
I got right up next to the window and stuck my head out. Luckily, it wasn't that small of an entrance and I was able to easily get out. I started to walk to the front door, but stopped when something blocked my path. It was one of those demon Moose things.
"Are you kidding me?" I said, backing away and running in the other direction.
Everyone in the dorm was confused, but realized why quickly after when they saw the demon moose chasing me.
"Mae! Grab my machete! It's on the bottom bunk in my room!" I yelled.
I was now running around the dorm trying not to get trampled or eaten by whatever the hell this was. I saw Mae stick her hand out of the dorm with my machete, but the moose was standing right in front of where Mae was holding the machete.
"Great," I said, taking a breath and running right to the moose.
When I was about six feet in front of it, I slid under it. I somehow was able to do that and grab the machete from Mae's hand. The Moose turned around and roared at me.
"Don't get killed!" Jhett yelled to me.
"You wanna play? Then let's play," I said, running towards the Moose and thrusting my machete into its chest.
It stumbled backwards, but came back. It charged at me, but I jumped sideways and stabbed the moose with my machete, making it fall over. It didn't get back up.
"Whew!" Conner yelled, the group running to the front door.
I came to the front door and smashed the padlock. The door opened and we started to run to the entrance. Mae grabbed the bag with the book and Ruby's knife. They were all waiting excited to get out of the dump that was this dorm.
"We need to find the palace," Jhett said, stopping the rest of the group.
"Luckily for us, I put a tracker on Salvullaz," Mae said, smiling.
"No way! That's great!" I replied.
Mae pulled out a small tracking device and a red dot started blinking. She had in fact put a tracker on Salvullaz. We started to run in the direction of the red dot and get out of hell.
We ran for twenty minutes straight until we made it to the palace. We started for the exit, but I stopped and looked at the palace.
"Zack! What are you doing?!" Mae yelled.
"What about Jack and Gracie?" I said, turning around and running to the palace.
"Zack! No!" Mae yelled.
"It's suicide!" Kaycie yelled, but I was already too far to turn back.
I threw open the palace doors where Salvullaz was standing there with an open pit of lava with Jack and Gracie hanging over it.
"Zack!" Gracie yelled.
"How'd you escape? That's the most secure dorm in hell!" Salvullaz yelled, angrily.
"I used something you don't have... a brain," I replied.
"Fine. We'll have a duel. If you win, I'll let Jack and Gracie go, but if I win, all three of you die. Deal?" Salvullaz asked.
"Don't do it!" Jack yelled, but I ignored him.
"Deal," I said, shaking his hand.
Salvullaz and I turned our backs from one another and walked seven steps in the opposite direction. Jack would yell draw when we were ready. The rules of a sword duel were that we would turn and take swings at each other until the other was injured.
"3... 2... 1... DRAW!" Jack yelled.
I turned around quickly and thrusted my machete right into Salvullaz's torso. Salvullaz was stunned and started to fall backward.
"I win," I said, pressing a button that closed the lava pool that Jack and Gracie were hanging over.
"You're dead meat," Salvullaz said, dropping Jack and Gracie.
We all ran out the palace and back up to the exit. Jack went up first, then Gracie, then me. We climbed up the rope for a minute or two before we could see the surface of earth. Twenty more seconds and we climbed out of the entrance. The group were happy to see that Gracie had turned back to us and wanted to kill Salvullaz.
"How'd you win that duel?" Gracie asked.
"Mae? May I have the bag real quick?" I asked.
Mae threw the bag to me. I caught it and opened the bag. I pulled out the Ruby's Knife and showed everyone.
"I broke a little off the Ruby's Knife and sprinkled it onto my machete back in the dorm," I said.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait... you won a duel against Salvullaz?" Kaycie asked.
"Yup. That's how us three are still alive. I bet my life on these two, and I promise to do the same for the rest of y'all," I replied.
We left the house and went outside. We were greeted by Thomas, Tristan, Madison, Jarrett, and David.
"So there's only three of the original Crismon Wolves left. That's nice," I said, smirking.
"I'm sick and tired of trying to kill you, but you slip away every time!" Thomas yelled.
"Here comes Mega Thomas," Mae joked.
"Shut up!" Thomas yelled, angry.
"Just fight us already," I said.
Thomas ran at us with his shortsword, but I blocked the blow and pushed him to the ground. Thomas got back up, but I continued to push him back down.
"Get back to the house!" I yelled, the group running to the house.
We came back inside the house and slammed the door before Thomas got there. Mae, Jack, and I pushed up against the door so Thomas and the others couldn't get inside.
"Why did we come into here?" Mae asked.
"The entrance is an easy way to kill all of them, so why waste that chance. Kayice, Jhett, Gracie, and Conner, pull the rope up from the entrance so the others can get out once they fall," I said, still pushing against the door.
Kaycie and Jhett nodded their heads and started pulling up the rope. Thomas was pushing harder against the door, trying his best to get in, but Mae, Jack, and I kept the door closed. Now, all five of the remaining people were pushing against the door.
"Is the rope up?!" I yelled, struggling to keep my breath.
"Yes!" Gracie yelled.
We stopped pushing against the door and let the other inside. Thomas fell over onto his face, but Tristan was able to keep him balanced. I ran out from the corner and tackled him to the ground. We struggled a bit, but I got the upper hand and pushed him into the hole, killing him.
"One down, four more to go," I said, standing up.
Jhett and Jack took on Jarrett, Kaycie took on Madison, and Conner and Gracie took on David. Thomas came running at me, but I dodged his first attempt to kill me.
"C'mon!" Thomas yelled, standing up and charging at me.
I took advantage of that and sliced his face with my machete. Thomas stumbled backwards and fell into the hole, but caught himself. Thomas was hanging off a ledge that led to hell.
"Bye-bye, I win," I said, stepping on his fingers and making him fall to his death.
I could hear his body smash into the ground. I looked up and saw that Jarrett and Madison were retreating, but David stayed, so we got rid of him real easily and pushed him down the hellhole as well.
We took a minute of resting, but got back up to plan how we were going to kill Salvullaz. What I did know was that we were no longer going to be bothered by Thomas or the Crimson Wolves anymore. Until we met Salvullaz again, we needed to survive, and that's what we were going to do.
All of a sudden, something started shaking the inside of the entrance. The house around us was seeming like it was going to fall.
"Go!" I yelled, pushing everyone out of the house.
We turned around and saw the house falling, but we saw something starting spewing out of the hole. They were spirits of the dead.
"What the hell?" Mae said, looking around the spirits that were coming out of the entrance.
"Oh no..." I said, looking around too.
"What does this mean?" Conner asked.
"This means that all of the evil people in the world will escape hell and kill anyone who tries to stop them," I replied.
We watched as demons came out too. There was nothing we could do but just sit and watch it unfold.
"We have to do something," Conner said.
"There's nothing to do. Salvullaz was right... we are dead meat," I replied.