The Adventure of the 4 Musketeers (Original Short Story)

Chapter 1

“Geez this is taking forever!” “Welp you should’ve thought of that before you decided to ask me.” The 4 of us kept walking along the path across the school. “You were the one who asked me to show.” “You were the one who told us!” Freya screamed, I was already getting annoyed though, who could really blame me.

“Relax, we’re nearly there. *sigh* Why do you even want us to go there?” “Because-”

“ ‘Because you want to?’ “ I said in a mockingly tone “It’s like everytime i ask you to give me a reason like ‘Why do you want me to tell you?’ ‘Because I want to’ ‘Why do you want me to turn my camera?’ ‘Because I want to’ ‘WHY DID YOU ASK ME TO SHOW YOU THIS?’ ‘BECAUSE I WANT TO!’ Jesus Fre!” Angel and Leika giggled in the background, and Freya obviously giving an annoyed look.

“We’re here.” Arms opened I walked ahead to point out our destination. A small wooden door by the abandoned and unused part of the building. Surrounded by broken metal and tools with cobwebs and dust all over it. It looks like it could be barely considered a door. “...” “That’s it?” Freya pointed out. “That’s it?! Just a small wooden door is supposed to be a ‘treasured magical property’?” “I’m not surprised you would say that. Judging by appearance, obviously you wouldn’t believe me.” …

“But I assure you guys, this is a doorway to somewhere new, and perfect.” “Ok this is like Coraline I’m getting scared.” “Haha, don’t worry Gel it’s fine.”. Leika then stepped closer to the door and bending down to look “So… what are we gonna do?” A smile came as I moved to and opened the lock. Swinging the door open entirely to show a pitch-black dark passageway. “After you.”.

“WHAT? EW NONONO NO WAY!” Fre backed up, “NO IT’S REALLY DARK AND DIRTY! I’M SCARED!” Leika joined in, “WHY?!” Gel shouted. “Don’t blame me, blame Fre she wanted us to go here.” “I DIDN’T SAY WE WANT TO GO THROUGH IT” “rue, but you insisted. Now hurry up Fre, you first!” I dashed and grabbed Fre by the wrist and pulled her towards the door. “NO! LET GO! WAIT!-” “YOU DO IT OR I’M GONNA MAKE YOU.” “Eh… *looks at the door*” Fre takes one more look at it with a disgusted glare. “Fine fine, I’ve done worse than this. Where's my phone? We need light.” “Ah No, don’t use your flashlight na lang. It’ll ruin the surprise and… how do i put this..’magic sh*t’.” “Language!” “Sorry Zebra, but anyways don’t.” “But then how do we know which way we are going?” Gel asked, “Don’t worry, it’s a straight passage. No rights, no lefts, no holes underneath or above, it’s fine. Now, you ready?” The girls took one last look at each other before agreeing.

First Freya, then me, then Angel and lastly Leika. She was too afraid to even go second or third. Surprisingly, we didn’t have to crawl our way through the ground to get through. As Fre crawled through the door she realized she could stand up easily. “Ok, everybody stick together.” As Fre went on first inside I grabbed her collar of her shirt and moved along and started following her. Angel grabbed my purse from behind and pulled it tight as she went inside. Leika quickly grabbed Angel’s hood of her jacket she was wearing. Still nervous, all of us got the courage and went inside slowly.

“Ok, I’m starting to regret this…” Freya whispered, “You think?” Leika quietly shouted, “I’m so scared! It’s so dark here!” “Obvious na Leika, the only light we have is from the door behind us. Here it’s black. PITCH. BLACK.” “You guys, we’re not gonna get anywhere if y’all are just gonna be like this. We’re all gonna be safe if we stick together, and be calm-”

“AAH!” Leika screamed in the back and we immediately turned to look or… if we could’ve.. “What?” “I felt something on my hand! I felt like a soft ‘swoosh’ on my hand!” Angel turned around a bit to face her friend; “AH THERE IT IS AGAIN!” Leika flung her other arm (her right) then grabbed onto Gel.

“ARAI! ANG BUHOK KO YAN! (That’s my hair!)” As she kept tugging on Angel, soon all of us were being pulled back. “Ugh… LEIKA!” I yelled, “Sorry…” “That was probably just Gel’s hair in a ponytail, don’t worry. We should be there by now.” “Oh yeah? How do you know when?” Fre asked, “Because I do.” “-_-” “Obvious! Because i've been here once now keep an eye on where your going. You might bump into something that feels like-” “Ugh… leaves?” “what?” 3 of us said together. “There’s like- I feel like leaves infront of me… is it bad?” “Nonono, that's not what i was gonna say. So if you feel like vines and leaves, try to go through it.”.

As I said this Fre did and we followed. Now all of us feeling surrounded by plants as we were walking… “I’m gonna say it AGAIN. Ugh, this is taking fore… ver…”

As when Fre swatted the last vines we saw the light of an entire new world.

(I'm sorry if there's any grammar errors and misplaced or missing words here and there. Also I added translations from editing this because this story was originally for my friends and classmates. Not for the public.)