Chapter 14: Shadows and Blackouts

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Oh great the spirit was going to painfully torture us.

The flashlights on our phones started flashing on and off creating shadows on the walls of the mine, they were big scary shadows that looked like silhouettes of people.

I noticed the shadow of a small, skinny woman with long hair with what looked like a knife or dagger in her hand behind her back, she moved over to another shadow, the other shadow was a young man who kissed the girl shadow, then the girl stabbed the boy and he disappeared. Instantly I knew it was Shanabelle murdering Richard.

"Stop! Please stop!" I yelled covering my ears with my hand.

"Shh it's ok." Elliot said softly pulling me into his body.

"We are all very, very sorry." Luke humbly apologised.

We were all terrified, even more than we were earlier.

I saw a shadow sneaking up behind Luke, Logan, Emily and Kylie who were standing opposite me and Elliot. Can shadows hurt people? Of course they can these shadows were evil spirits from hell.

"Guys watch out!" I pointed behind them and they all dived out of the way.

"I'm scared." I whispered to Elliot.

"Yeah me too." He whispered back.

Then I felt something, or more like someone pulling my arm, I held tightly onto Elliot's arm.

"Gabrielle your kinda hurting me." He said softly, I let go of his arm and took a step away from him.

"Your out of luck." The spirit said into my ear.

"W-what do you mean?" I whispered.

"Your trapped."

The spirit started to drag me away, I tried fighting to get away but this spirit had supernatural strength.

"Elliot help!" I said but the spirit put her hand over my mouth so it came out muffled.

I was kicking and screaming but none of my friends seemed to hear me.

The spirit dragged me to the corner of the room, into the darkest shadows where my friends would never see me.

It felt as if I had something around my neck, Shanabelle was trying to strangle me, I could barely breath.

"Gabrielle?" I heard Elliot call a small distance away, he noticed I was gone and was looking for me.

I tried to say something, anything, I needed to show them where I was.

I couldn't breath, my head was spinning and my eyes were closing.

Was I dying? I hope I wasn't dying, I hadn't even been on a date with Elliot Johnson yet, I was too young to die.

I heard Elliot call my name over and over, I thought he was still far away but his voice seemed very close to me. I tried to keep my eyes open but I couldn't.

Everything went black as I fell into unconsciousness.

"Gabrielle wake up." I felt someone shaking me. "Please, please, please wake up." The same voice repeated.

"Do you think she'll be ok?" Someone asked.

"Well she's breathing so she's alive." Another person said.

"When is she gonna wake up?" Someone said.

"Soon hopefully." Someone else answered.

All of these voices sounded familiar, where was I? What happened? Was I dead?

Then all of the events that had happened in the last 24 hours came rushing back into my head.

I opened my eyes and saw five figures staring at me, my eyes hasn't adjusted to the darkness so I blinked my eyes a few times. My head felt as if someone had hit it with a baseball bat multiple times.

"She's awake." Logan said.

"Are you ok?" Asked Kylie.

"Are you hurt?" Emily asked.

"What happened?" Luke asked.

So many questions, it made my brain hurt. I cleared my throat to try and answer, then I saw Elliot with tears in his eyes, he was standing the closest to me.

"Elliot I'm fine." I said honestly to him.

"I-I was so worried about you." He sniffed and wiped his eyes with his sleeve.

I stood up and tried to walk to him but my legs went to jelly causing me to fall down, I was waiting for the hard impact of me hitting the floor but I felt someone's arms catch me and place me back on the floor, it was Elliot.

"You should sit down for a while." He said sitting next to me.

"How did you find me?" I asked.

"I heard you say my name just before you passed out and then I found you and about 15 minutes later you woke up." He said.

"Are the spirits still here?" I asked looking for any sign of them.

"Yeah, I think so." Elliot whispered.

I tried to stand up again, holding onto Elliot for support.

"Are you feeling ok?" He asked making sure I wouldn't fall.

"Yeah I feel fine." I smiled at him.

"So what now?" Luke jumped into our conversation.

"Well I've got an idea." I told everyone.

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