The Unknown (Part 3) by Pillar Fox.
I could hear my own heart beating loud against my chest.I knew it within me that I was about to faint.The human figure in a black cloak looking like a grim reaper was still behind me.I still don't know how I managed to move my body,I ran towards the window and turned so I could see the figure clearly.The figure stood still like a mannequin in the middle of the room.I looked around the room,trying to figure out a route of escape.It was at that moment that the Power Holding Company of Nigeria found it convenient to interrupt the power supply.The room was dark and my fear 😱 intensified.I reach for my android phone 📱 and switched on the flash light.I pointed it toward the direction of the figure and to my dismay,the figure was not there.My heart jumped due to shock and fear.It was as if I was in a horror story.Without thinking 😔,I dashed towards the door 🚪 and ran out of the room.
I ran through the corridor with no specific destination in mind.As I was running,I noticed that the strange heads on the wall were gone.I got to the staircase with the intention of going downstairs,then I noticed something odd.The staircase had stairs leading up which was weird because the house is made up of only a ground floor and one upper floor and i was on the upper floor.So how can there be another staircase?Where does it lead to? I thought to myself.Still recovering from the earlier shock,I refused to give in to the curiosity of going up the strange stairs.As I was about to neglect the stairs,I heard baby 👶 chuckles from the direction of the strange stairs.I moved closer to the strange stairs to listen 👂carefully but this time I heard something different.I heard someone singing 🎶 the popular" twinkle twinkle little star 🌟" poem in a slow sober manner.It was as if the person was crying 😢 while singing.The voice was like that of my aunt.Still deliberating on whether I should go,I saw an unusual shadow casted against the wall.I looked back and I saw the human figure from earlier hanging upside-down from the ceiling like a bat.I was scared 😓 that I did not realise that I was unconsciously climbing the strange stairs backwards.Still hanging upside-down,the strange figure started to move towards me,defiling the laws of gravity.Without thinking,I faced forward and started climbing the strange stairs without looking back.At the end of the stairs was a door 🚪 with the image of a man with three horns carrying a staff.On the staff was a head of a woman with long hair covering her face.The image gave me goosebumps big enough to be called boils.I moved towards the door 🚪 and tried to open it.As I was fiddling with the door knob to open the door,the eyes 👀 of the man in the image moved.I could feel my head swelling up as fear like never before clutched my heart.With fear 😱 mixed with the will to survive,I flung the door open breaking the knob.I felt something coming out of the door from where the knob broke out from.I looked closely and noticed that it was blood.The door was bleeding just like the faces on the wall i encountered earlier on.I slowly moved away from the door and started to run through a strange narrow passage.At first the strange passage had a foul and disgusting odour,after sometime,the passage started to smell like it was filled with some mysterious perfume;the fragrance was soothing.I was exhausted from running so I started to walk.
After walking 🚶 for sometime,I was in front of another door 🚪;the door was white in colour with no strange image this time around.I moved closer to door 🚪 in an anxious 😩 manner and turned the door knob.I opened the door 🚪 slowly and saw another passage.Within me,I was disappointed because I had no choice but to walk down another strange passage and I was tired.Suddenly,I heard someone crying 😭.I looked around but I did not see anything but a dark narrow passage.I decided to move forward and trace the direction and position of the person crying.Sooner,I traced the sound to a big hole opening by the side of the passage.I passed through the hole and found myself in a room filled with red lights.The room was gloomy.I looked around and saw a girl crying 😢 at the corner of the room with her head facing down,so I couldn't see her face.She was wearing a white gown and was holding a small mirror in her right hand while she kept her left hand behind her back.I moved closer and asked her "Who are you?Why are you crying?".She stopped crying and like a whisper she said with her face still facing down "Am I beautiful?".Surprised by the question,I stammered saying"I..I don't..know.".She asked again"Am I beautiful?".Looking confused 😖 I answered"I think so".Then she started to laugh and immediately the red light turned green.The gloomy room miraculously turned into a beautiful room.Laughing she said "So I am beautiful?".Still stammering I said"Ye..yes..definitely..of course 😊".With her face still facing down,she moved towards me and asked "Are u also beautiful?".Taken aback by the weird question,I carefully said "Yeah,kinda but I prefer to use handsome,I am handsome".She slowly lifted her head and said "You are so beautiful".Fear mixed with terror gripped my heart as she lifted her head because her face was upside down in a way that her mouth 👄 was in the positon of her eyes 👀 ;it was as if her eyes switched places with her mouth and her nose 👃 was on her forehead.I was so scared 😓 that I moved back and kept my distance.Almost crying she said "Why are you moving away from me?Am I not beautiful?Are you scared of me?". I was speechless,I just stood at a distance with my body and mind shivering.She started to cry and the room turned gloomy again.Suddenly she stopped crying,she smiled and said"If I am not beautiful and you are beautiful,then I will have to just cut open your beautiful face and sew it to my face then I will be beautiful.It's as simple as that". Immediately,my body became numb,I could not move my body;my body was lifeless like that of a statue.I tried hard to move but it was all in vain.Like magic,the mirror in her right hand turned into a sharp looking knife 🔪 and a strange long needle with a fixed thread appeared in her left hand.She moved closer with the malicious objects in her hands and said in an eerie and quiet voice "Now,Shall we begin?".
....To be Continued.
