A Dark Descent

The Game

"Where will we be playing?" Asked Alex.

"Here."

The girl flew upwards and all around Alex began to dissolve and form into a room. The room grew bigger and was now a foyer. No windows were around, just a huge white door behind him.

"But before we play." The girl said. "I need to make sure you don't cheat. So give it to me." Alex had no idea what she meant. "Fine I'll just take it myself."

Alex could feel an invisible tug on his bag and the music box flew to Abigail's hand.

"Now let's play." The box flew out of hand and disappeared. "You seek. And we'll hide."

"What do you mean, we?"

Abigail raised her arms into the air. Creatures began to grow out of the ground. As the dirt fell off them, Alex could see what they really were. They were new and shiny toys that Alex wished he had.

"Now go count!"

Alex's body was floating and he levitated away. He yelled as he was carried to an old closet where he was locked inside.

"Hey! Let me out!" He yelled as he banged on the door. "This wasn't a part of our deal!"

Alex eventually gave up on trying to get out. He knew that she wasn't going to let him out, and he was beginning to think that she wasn't going to play fair either. After 30 seconds, the door opened. Alex walked out. He was in a bright hallway. He walked down the hall and came to different paths. Not many paths though. This place seemed to be an actual place that Alex could've found in the real world. But it was still quite large. As he was exploring, he heard a small laugh that sounded like it wasn't supposed to happen.

Alex walked up to a small box where the sound came from. He opened the box and inside was an adorable teddy bear that the second it was seen screamed mockingly and fell asleep. It's eyes lost color and one popped out and revealed to be a shiny orange marble. Alex took the marble and left.

The mansion seemed to be so alive and wonderful. Alex came to a large door with two masks at the top, one was sad, the other was happy. He went through the door and came upon a theater. He heard something move above. He looked up, but there was just enough light to see what was up there. He saw a purple Jack-in-a-box rocking with the clown sticking out of the box. The clown looked cartoonishly scared and hid in the box as it fell all the way onto the stage and broke into smithereens. He walked to the box but the only thing left was a purple marble.

Alex returned back to the foyer. He seemed to have made a full loop so he went up the large staircase in front of him. He came to a hall and walked into one of the three rooms there. He went inside a large pink bedroom with an orange light in the ceiling. He looked around. He didn't hear any movement or laugh. He looked through the green box in front of the bed. Nothing inside except for toys he wished he had. He looked through the drawers and under things. Then he saw two blue eyes under the bed. The eyes widened and closed leaving nothing there. He felt under the bed and grabbed the blue marble.

He then walked into a fitting room with many dresses, tuxedos, shoes, all clothes that were fantastic and Alex wished he had. He didn't have time to try anything sadly. He heard rustling behind the clothes and saw them move. Alex moved very quietly and followed the moving. Then when it stopped, he quickly grabbed whatever was inside. He pulled out a shiny robot that said "Oh, no'' in a playful robot voice and fell asleep. Out of it's chest fell a yellow marble to the ground. He had the fourth marble.

Alex walked down the hall and into the last room. It led him upstairs to the last floor which was a neat, and almost pretty, attic. There was a blue bed there with a wool blanket as soft as a cloud. There were tools for all arts and crafts. Alex took some of the fabric, and some wool, then thread, then a little more wool, then most of the fabric, then all the materials he could grab. But it didn't all fit into his bag. But there was another bag on the floor and he used that to store all the materials.