Whispers In The Dark (Avenged Sevenfold)

Chapter Nine

-Zacky's POV-

I had calmed myself down, for the most part, as we keep going deep into the Catacombs. I had to be strong. I had to get over how freaked out I was. But it didnt help when we reached and hole. A hole, going down, that we had to go threw.

"It doesnt look too deep." Amber said looking down it.

Jake pulled out a flar stick from his back pack and dropped it down the hole.

We all stayed quiet so when know when it hit bottom. It only took about two minutes, before it finally hit bottom.

"It seams deep." I said looking at it iffy.

Brandy leaned on my arm and kept looking down the hole. I knew she was trying to keep me calmed down and it was working, for the most part.

"I'll go first." Jake said as he shoved the hook into the ground. He tied and looped one end of the rope to the hook, then threw it down the hole. "Wish me luck." He said before decending down the hole.

"So whos going to go next?" Brian asked, looking at everyone.

"I'll go last." Dakota said looking at everyone.

I took a deep breath and grabbed the rope, "I'll go."

"Are you sure?" Brandy asked, worring about me.

I nodded my head and hooked my harness to the rope, "Soon its done and over with, the better."

She hugged my neck as I sat at the edge of the whole. I grabbed her face and kissed her, then slowly decended down when Jake reached the bottom.

As I slowly made my way toward the bottom, I heard something. A voice, I was not expeacting to here, down here. And what it said, haunted me, sending chills down my spin.

"Did you hear that?" I asked Jake as I reached the bottom.

He looked at me funny and shook his head, "I didnt hear anything. What did you hear?"

I ran my hand threw my hair and up the tunnel, "I thought I heard, was the biggest mistake of my laugh, hautning me."

Jake looked at me like I was crazy, then called for the next person to come down the tunnel.

Coming from a distance, I heard a phone ringing. I looked down the hall, and saw nothing but darkness.

"Please tell me, you hear that phone ringing?" I asked Jake and Brian both, as Brian unhook his harnus.

Brian walked a little ways down the tunnel, "Yea, I hear it. What is that?"

"The phone company use to run lines down here." Jake told us, "But they took them all a few years ago."

Brian and I looked at each other a bit worried.

"What the hell could it possibly be?" I asked.

Jake shurgged his shoulders as he looked up the whole, "We'll go check it out once everyone is down here."

I leaned back against the wall, waiting for everyone to come down.

And after a short bit, everyone was almost down, everyone but Daktoa, he was last.

"You heard a phone ringing?" Cyndy asked me. She looked at Brian and he nodded his head as well as I did.

"Dakota!" Jake yelled, "Are you coming?"

All of us looked up the hole.

"Yea, I think somethings up here with me." He said with a frightened tone in his voice.

"Get your ass down here!" Amber snapped at him. She slightly pulled on the rope.

No responce, and no movement came from above.

"Dakota!" Jake yelled. He sounded aggervated and worried.

Out of no where, Dakota came falling down the hole, smacking the ground. The girls jumped and screamed freaking out. I looked at Brian shocked. He looked surprised as well.

"Dakota!" Jake yelled kneeling down to him.

Amber was crying histaricly. She couldnt be quiet.

I knelt down next to Jake and checked for a puls from Dakota, which I couldnt find. "Jake, hes gone." I said resting my hand on Jakes shoulder.

Jake stood up and kicked the dirt next to Jake, then looked at us pissed off. "This is your fault! You four had to come back here!"

"Jake!" Amber said pulling Jake back, "It wasnt anyones fault, he probably just fell."

Jake jerked away from her and conuited down the tunnel in silence.

We followed Jake, no questions asked. No one spoke, untill we started hearing that phone ringing again.

"Wheres that coming from?" Amber asked looking around.

Everyone started looking around, trying to find out where it was coming from. Everyone but Cyn. She stayed still and listened, then pointed a little up ahead, at a hall way. An extrea walk way in other words.

We all went down it and it was just a big room. It was empty, almost. Only thing in the room, was a teleaphone, on a table, ringing.

"Should somebody answer it?" Brandy asked, looking at everyone, then me lastly.

Something inside me, told me to answer, but I couldnt. I couldnt move. Who knew what would happen if it was answered.

"I'll do it." Brian volunteer'd.

Cyn grabbed onto his arm to stop him, but she wasnt fast enough.

He walked up to the phone and answered it. He stood there for a few minutes, then turned white. Slowly after, he turned red. He looked right at me and his face, changed. He looked angry.

"You slept with Cyndy?!" He yelled as he dropped the phone and charged at me. He pushed me up against the wall and had me by the throat.

I couldnt speak, my sight was blury and I barley even knew what was going on. He caught me by surprise, but I never saw Brian like this. There was only one thing I could slightly think of why he would act this way. That phone call, told him something. Told him my darkest secret, but it didnt seam right, or I didnt hear him right, did he say, I slept with Cyndy?