Encanto

Chapter 10: Inside the Walls

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Mateus and (Y/n) followed the rats up the stairs and down the hall. They rounded the corner and saw one of the rats squeezing itself behind a picture frame.

Mateus knelt down and poked the frame, and his creaked. He pulled it open to reveal a secret passage.

Mateus and (Y/n) climbed through it and made their way inside. The cracks were happening inside the walls too.

(Y/n) gasped and grabbed Mateus's arm when a rat ran passed her feet towards a misty part of the tunnel.

The piece in its mouth seemed to leviate in the air, until lightning flashed revealing the silhouette of a figure.

Mateus and (Y/n) gasped in shock before the figure ran away. The two snapped out of their stunned state and chased after him.

The figure jumped up to a higher level, while the two slid down to a lower one. They looked up at him as he ran and the figure made his way down some stairs. Mateus and (Y/n) slid on the ground breaking the bottom stair so they could get out.

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"It's okay, Mamí. Deep breath in, deep breath out." Camilo said soothingly to his mother as he held a cup of tea in his hands.

Suddenly, Mateus rammed into the wall behind her, causing Pepa to shoot a lightning bolt that hit Camilo, causing him to shift into different people.

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Mateus and (Y/n) were still chasing after the man.

"Stop! Stop!" Mateus yelled at him.

He almost grabbed him, but he leapt over a large hole in the ground by bouncing off of boards that were sticking out.

Mateus froze and held his hand out to stop   (Y/n).

They looked up and saw the figure round a corner. They took a deep and leapt across the hole, but as they landed on the other side, the boards underneath them gave away and they fell.

Mateus grabbed a bamboo support with one hand, and grabbed (Y/n) around the waist with his other. She clung to his neck for dear life, as the bamboo stick started to break.

"No! No! Help! Help..." he called.

"Casita! Casita!" (Y/n) cried.

"Help us! Help us!" Mateus yelled, as his hand slipped from the stick.

But before they fell, a hand grabbed Mateus's. They looked up and saw Bruno looking down at them.

"You're very sweaty." He commented.

Suddenly, the boards underneath him gave away too. Luckily, (Y/n) grabbed a branch with her hands. Mateus held onto his Tío's hand while his other was still wrapped around       (Y/n)'s waist, and he tried not to think about how his face was pressed against her chest.

They both looked down at Bruno, who smiled up at them, just as a rat crawled out of his sleeve and up his arm.

This scared Mateus and he accidentally let go of Bruno's hand and he fell into the misty abyss.

After a few moments though, his head popped up out of the fog. 

He waved his hand to reveal the floor was only a few feet away from the hole.

"Hmm." He said.

Mateus and (Y/n) helped him up and he looked down the hole and back at the two.

"Bye." Was all he said and he walked away.