8 Sins

Jake

As I divulge into my 5th slice of pizza I smiled as I watched Ajax pulled up, Raphael running out of the house with furry. " oh this should be fun" I smirk.
  I watch from the busted up window as Raphael Yanks the door open, beginning to yell at Ajax but stops. Something Ajax says shattering Raphael's confidence in seconds. His anger disappearing.

As they walk inside Ajax is wide eyed and shocked, Raphael on his heel, his eyes wide as if he has a million questions.
  " Basement now" Ajax groaned. This made me choke on my pizza, my eyes wide. He hated the basement, never wanted to go in it let alone near the door.
  " What?" I ask conflicted, " now I don't want to" I scoff crossing g my arms as I put my pizza down.

" I'm down there's bound to be something expensive down there I can pawn, or sell"  Zane smiles, standing to his feet as he pulls his key from his pocket.
  " do we have to...that's so much work to explore and clear shit out" Michael starts but a look from Ajax, of all people made him shut up.
" Hey if y'all are going I'm going!" Ian chimes in running downstairs.

I cross my arms in annoyance, realizing I have no choice in this, such fucking bullshit. I yanked the key off my neck and curse makingn my way to the basement door. Unlocking it, I hesitate, " did dad really want us exploring this place? I mean seriously? The keys came down to us in order. Youngest to oldest." My eyes go to the rest of the group and they all nod not saying anything and I sigh opening the door. My stomach immediately churning as another door is there less than 3 steps down.
  " there's another door" I pause as I step back. Why would he guard the basement with so many doors? What was the point? We were good kids and wouldn't have gone down there anyways, unless it wasn't for us.

  Slowly Raphael walks up trying his key, but to no luck it wasn't him, the door beeps. One red light appearing at the top out of three. Meaning we had three chances.
  " fuck" Blake gasps. This is a bewilderment to us all, yeah the past sins were secretive but never did we think it would be this dark.
  " order dad said order always matters" Ralph says sternly, walking over to Michael's and snatching him up by the neck. " open it" he growls.

Michael groans rubbing his neck as he pushed Raphael off of him, " why me if it doesn't work we got one chance left till the light does whatever it does." He didn't want to do it and I didn't blame him. If we fucked up the light could signal anything and I mean anything.
Raphael grabs Michael's key and slams it into the lock and with a twist, the light goes back to normal. What. The. Fuck.

And another door. Zane was next, then Ajax, Ian, and Blake. When it came down to the last door it reeked of hatred, the s'more smell more burnt than anything. Wrath was furious when he left last time, meaning we could find absolutely anything behind this door.
  " No don't open it" I groan feeling queasy as I back up out of the staircase, " what if there's nothing down there? What if all of this was for nothing?" I ask.

Ajax goes rigidly still, and I pause looking at him, " there was a problem at the bar" he admits.
  " what do you mean problem?" Blake asks, stepping closer towards Ajax, " like girl trouble or someone trying to fucking kill you?"
  This had us all on edge, why didn't he tell us what it was whenever he first got here, he told Raphael obviously. The way Raphael stopped yelling at him told us more than enough of what I needed to know.
" Open it" Blake demands as he pushed past Ajax. He wanted to see this through, seeing as Ajax went silent not knowing what to word it.

Raphael place the key into the lock, slowly twisting it, " wait" I say as I step into the staircase again. Just as I do the door slams behind me, locking all over again hitting my back side as it does. I jump dread churning my stomach as I look at the door.
  " well now we have no choice.." Michael sighs leaning against the wall.
  " shutup!" Raphael yells just as Blake and I go to protests. He swings the door open and lights flicker down a long hall. Slowly we all stand up straight as we look into it, what did they do.

  Slowly shuffling into the dimly lit hall, I winced at the smell of hatred. It coated the walls like a paint you could never wash off. It was overpowering.
  As we come to the end of the hall there was 8 doors. All with different pictures on them.
The first one a kiss, the second a lion, the third a bed. I didn't even bothering looking at the rest as the fourth was mine. A fork so big that I swear it should've been broken by now. We all had our own doors, we were all standing in front of, a sense of urgency filling us as we wanted to open the doors. But we couldn't, not because they were locked but because our eyes drew to the 8th door. It was new, you could tell by the hinges and the freshness of it, the way it had the smell of strawberries reeking from it.

" what was the problem you ran into out there?" Blake asks as he approaches the last door hand reaching for the handle.
  Ajax eyes widens as Blake touched the door, the door his hand immediately retreating as the handle bursted into blue flames that spread across the door and nothing else. Blake's hand not burnt but hot to the touch as if it was, an inscription forming into the door same height and depth of ours. " a woman...her eyes were glowing, she reeked of strawberries, and she moved like us" he barely breathed out. The door slowly stopped burning and we all froze.

Man.