We Must Get Out of Death Valley

Chapter 4: The Circus is in Town

It was cold where she was, but her white fur coat warmed her. She was walking in water. And the place she was at was all red. The ground beneath her shook and a giant red man rose from the ground. "I will make a deal with you." The man said. "I know you are mad. Your horrible friends betrayed you. If you take my hand I will help you. You can get your revenge on them. I have someone special for you..." The giant reached its hand out for Angelina to crawl on. She got on top of it and he closed it, pulling it back quickly. "Ah!" Angelina shrieked.

2362 years earlier...

"I am hated by everyone in this stupid place! The only person who ever really loved me was Great, Great Grandmother, and Soterio!" Pandora yelled. "You are right, I never loved you! I should have gotten the powers! Not you! You don't deserve them!" Pandora's Mom yelled. "I haven't loved you since the day you were born! Your brother was beautiful when he was born! You weren't! You had a long ugly nose and those ugly lips unlike me." Her mother said again. "I hate you!" "I can't help the color of my skin!" Pandora said. "Yes you can! Me and your aunts have given you spells to make your nose, and lips smaller but you refuse to use them!" "Of course I refuse to use them! Why should I be ashamed of my face!" "Because, it isn't pretty." Her horrible mother said again. Pandora had had enough. She used her powers to keep her mom's mouth shut forever and made her an old ugly hag. "Bye." She said. She got her box from her room and left the house. Never talking to her mother again.

Current time...

"Guys, it was horrible, Angelina got crushed to death by the monster." Gavin said frantically. "I'm such a bad person, her blood is on my hands!" He said again. "You're not a bad person, Pandora is." Ella said. "She's the reason for all of this." A name appeared on the door of the room Angelina died in. "Lunus" Circus music started playing and they started to smell fresh popcorn and cotton candy. They went down stairs and followed the sound of the music, which led them outside to big circus tents. They were yellow with red stripes. There was a Ferris wheel and some roller coasters and food stands. A man came out of the tent and ran towards them, he was wearing a large top hat and a black and white tuxedo. He had a cane and a monocle, like Matt did and black shiny shoes, with a white mustache. "Hello... The circus is in town! Would you like to come into the tent?" He said. Everyone started shaking their heads left and right and declining the offer. "No it's okay..." One of them said. "Yeah no it's fine" another one of them said. He insisted and led them inside, but when they went in. The curtains shut and the man was gone. They tried to open them but they didn't move. The curtains were stuck, and when they tried to rip them. Little pricks would come out of the material, that would make it stronger. The lights in the tent shut off. Pandora appeared. "As you can tell, the power has shut off. You must find the three generators and turn all of them on." She disappeared, and there was now a spotlight on something. It was a big clown. He had red hair, and a yellow jacket on with red and orange pants and red elf-like shoes. The jacket had little red skulls and his mouth looked like it had been neatly cut open. He had sharp teeth and bloodshot eyes. He was holding a giant mallet that was covered with blood. It matched him because it had the same color scheme as him, but it also matched him because he was covered in blood as well. He made a scary, raspy clown laugh, and raised his mallet, then swung it at them. They moved out of the way, and then split up into 2 groups running in opposite directions. One group ran to the tent to the left of them, one ran into the tent to the right of them. The group that went to the left found one, in that group was Jobe, Nene, Gavin, Ella, and Jessie. And the group that went to the right found one, in that group was Brodie, Elijah, Adalyn, Lily, Soterio, and Ava. Meanwhile the clown was chasing them the whole time. The left group found a trapdoor under a bale of hay and crawled through the hole that was under it. It led to a place that had all types of horrible contraptions. The worst of which was a guillotine. Attached to it was a note. "There will be no death challenge this time around. One of you will have to put your head in the gulotin and another will pull the string to drop the blade down and kill the person in it instantly. You must leave the room 60 seconds after they die because a noxious gas will fill the room. When you get out, lure the Killer Clown into the room. The gas will kill him instantly and will disappear once the clown is dead. You can then get the hammer and break it open. The stone is inside of it.  Choose wisely on who you want to die, it can affect your chance of getting out of here by sunrise." Nene read. "Nene, it's guillotine not 'gulotin'." Jobe said. "Girl, then why is it spelt, G-U-I-L-L-O-T-I-N-E." Nene replied. "Because! It's supposed to be pronounced like (gee-a-teen) not (gul-i-tine)." "Well boo, I don't care. If I want to say it like gullotine, I can say gullotin." They were yelling at each other about this matter for about 5 minutes before Brodie got mad and interrupted. "It doesn't matter! What does matter is that we have to vote a person into this thing to die!" She yelled. They looked at each other and Ella went to the other side of the room. "I'm not doing this. This happened to me before. I would never do this to someone! I can't watch! You all can pick, I'm not!" Ella covered her eyes and sat in the side of the room she's in. "So who should we kill?" Brodie said. "I think we should kill Adalyn. She hasn't done anything in the past two hours." Jessie said. "I found a generator. Jobe, Ella, Ava, and Nene have been finding all the clues. And everyone else besides you, has just been helping out the group." She said again. "What!" Adalyn screamed. "So we're killing Adalyn?" Lily said. "Yes." Brodie said. Nene, Gavin, Lily, and Brodie, grabbed her. "No!" "Please stop!" "I'll help you guys!" "Please! I don't want to die!" Adalyn screamed. They walked her to the guillotine and put her head in the chamber. Adalyn was screaming at the top of her lungs. "Help! Help me!" That didn't stop them though. Jessie turned away as she pulled the string, she couldn't bear to watch. The guillotine blade went down, and Adalyn's screaming ceased. They stared numbly at the scene, disgusted in who they had become tonight, and in the action they had just committed. Ella was crying. She was so disappointed in what everyone just did. Ella was the only good person here tonight. They crawled up the ladder quickly because they knew that the gas would soon fill the room. They put some hay over the hole to disguise it. The clown saw them and charged at them. Nene ran over the hole, and the clown followed her, but he fell down when he stepped over the hay. He let go of the hammer, and it flew into the air. Jobe grabbed it, and hit it on a steel bar until it broke. The stone fell out and Ava grabbed it. Now that the clown was dead, the material the tent was made of could be moved. They walked back to the manor and opened up the box they had to put all the stones in. Ava dropped it in and they shut it. The eyes, and cracks, and runes on the box glowed again when they put it in, but they glowed an orangish color this time. "Let's play!" A mysterious voice said.