candy queen of sin

chapter five (molly)

Nira wanted to show me something. She claimed this thing had to do with the cryptic message from the ghost. So, I decided to go along with nira as she brought me to a small canyon with a large tunnel dug into one of the walls. 

the tunnel got creepy quick. it got dark with only little bits of light coming out of the cracking ceiling. And we kept hearing footsteps echoing up ahead. And I wasn't sure if I could trust my nose as I smelled-sugar?

We kept walking. Nira wouldn't tell me what it was we were here to see. But I figured if the apocalypse had to start somewhere mysterious mines would be a good place for it. who knows what ancient relics could be buried in the ground. and with paranormal activity happening in mass it wouldn't surprise me to find some spiritual entity trapped inside an ancient artifact.

We quickly came to a strange intricately carved archway. the archway had strange symbols on it. But there was one picture on there I understood. it was a picture of a girl holding an ancient staff and an army of zombies coming from the ground seemingly at her command. and there was these rectangle things with bite marks in them.

"So this archway just confirms what the ghost told us, the apocalypse is coming."

"we have to keep going. you don't understand. these tunnels were created by people mining out strange sugar crystals that had formed in the ground here. the rectangles in the picture, don't they remind you of something?"

"chocolate?"

"exactly! I think there is something down here, some ancient being, that is going to become the candy queen."

We continued walking because if Nira is correct, we might be able to stop this being before she can bring about the apocalypse. I actually started seeing the sugar crystals as we continued deeper and deeper into the tunnels.

Before we could find the strange artifact or whatever was in these caves, we heard a horrified scream far up ahead and we immediately started running until we saw the person who had screamed was holding the staff, many spirits floating in circles several feet above her. At this point she was saying things in some long forgotten language.

it was too late. Someone had released the ancient being. Before we could figure out if this ancient being could speak English or not, she took off running so fast there was no way we could keep up. And we had no idea where she was going. did she even know? or was she just trying to get away from us before we could do something?