The PREDATOR And PREY

chapter 1

"WE'RE TRAPPED." The words escaped, more like tore through Grayson Hawthorne's lips like a Lightning tearing through clouds in the middle of the night. momentarily showing the light only to snatch it back and leave other to get swallowed by darkness again.... His word Breaking the complete, unwanted silence in that massive, haunted mansion.

"Wh....what is this?" Said AVERY Kylie Grambs. It was barely a shivering, shattered whisper but both grayson and jemison's ears catched the waves of the sound because of drop dead and oppressive silence in this dark, eerie looking at same time grand and mesmerizing Hall. This hall continued the legacy of the tremendously massive mansion outside. the grand structures, swirling on one another and in between, intricate, like land of notorious maze. This hall is filled with what feels like hundreds of haunted faces. The hall, aligned With statues capable of giving deadliest nightmares, that even the devils would Shiver with fear and amazement, at just the mere sight of it, willing to trade their lives to just run away from this sight ,from the view that seemed too real to be fake .

The Vibes in the air is capable of giving goosebumps and Shivers down the spines of the rare people that get to lay their eyes on this, to breathe the air in and around this Mansion.
This crumbling and DARK, as black as night but still dared to contain different colours, nightmare giving mansion, With the hall which is as grand as the court room of the king.

Suddenly...... Grayson's eyes went wide, pupils dilating as if all the invisible light in the hall attacked his eyes ,just for a second, before laying on jemson, only to find out the mirrored reflection of his expression on JEMISON'S face.

"Did you hear that........?"

Jemison's lips parted and words escaped his lips, like the light feather swirling and swirling in the air , unsure of its destination, unsure of its existence. the loud words didn't sound as a question but more like seeking confirmation. his tone also had an edge to it, slightly confused but alert.

Grayson and AVERY nodded at the same time, at the same beat.
"Yes.....", Grayson's jaw clenched as he was saying the words.

There was a sound..... the sound was slowly swimming in the air. faint, almost inaudible but deadly silence in the hall was in their favour. the weird sound was like creepy SLOW MUSIC. like the sound is made when the air is cutting through stones and walls of very narrow space. But AVERY could bet a fortune, it wasn't that. It was literally the music made by human. a melody. She could literally feel the exact moment when the hairs on back of her neck started standing on feet.

The Oppressive Sound Was Anything but calm. Though after 1 minute, there was no sound anymore but this silence made AVERY feel like she was standing in the middle of sea and the waves that could possibly destroy the vast city , surronded her like she was some kind of prey waiting to be haunted. She could feel the sound of it,the sound of waves that are desperate to collide with each other , with sole intention of suffocating her, crush her under its dangerous pressure, to crush her bones and twist her flesh, to drown AVERY, leaving no trace of her.

Suddenly with the jolt of breathing she barely came to her senses. She painstakingly, hardly took slow step towards grayson and started her search of the place as other 2 companies, grayson and jemison were already doing.

She could see grayson searching and looking at the room with the precision of surgeon. Devouring each small details, and filling the information away at back of his brain.

As she was walking she couldn't help but think And agree that even the grandest and biggest ballroom in this city will get ashamed after just a look of this Hall.

After some time she stopped as her mind registered the creepy design and structure in front of her,
Her Body remained stiff with fear, she wanted to move her hand , her legs, to touch and feel the warmth of jemison's hand, but her body betraying her, didn't listen to the command from her brain.