Forsaken By My Destiny

Chapter 17

"WHO'S READY TO KICK SOME GHOST ASS!?" Marine was eccentric about the trip. Blue was busy fiddling with his camera and recording set and Ray seemed to be lost in his own thoughts. Since I was the only one with a car and licence I had to drive everyone to the Manor.

We finally arrived as I parked in front of the Manor's gate. Everyone stepped out of the car and gathered their equipment. Blue had all the recording gear excited to capture the proof of ghostly existence, Marine was stuffing a container of gasoline into their bag which they brought for some reason, Ray was the most prepared bringing a machete and a bag full of who knows what. I only brought a light, a bag with water and snacks, and a pocket knife.

"Ray are we here on a ghost hunt or a murder?" I asked. Ray has been jittery ever since we picked him up from his house. He was wearing all black as if we were about to rob a house which wasn't far from what we were doing.

"I don't like messing with the supernatural. I rather observe them from afar and not die a cruel death." Ray said nervously.

He pulled out a pair of pliers from his bag and broken open the lock on the gate. The gate opened with a loud creaking sound as we entered. The ground was muddy and yard littered with different plants and weeds. We tried opening the front door but it seemed jammed.

"Let's split up and look for an entrance inside." Marine suggested. "It'll be quicker to cover ground that way anyways. If one of us finds the treasure or ghost we'll call each other."

"MARINE NO. Are you kidding me? Have you never seen a horror movie? Splitting up is the number one cause of death." Ray was shouting. We shushed him remind him to keep his voice low.

"I'll go with you if you want. We're not going to die I doubt there's anything here to be honest. I think you're watching too much tv." I knew Marine and Blue would have teamed up anyways and I'd be stuck with Ray but I was hoping that would calm him down somehow. It was unnerving seeing Ray like this, whenever there was conflict within the Crunchies, Ray was always calm and collected usually the one solving problems. It was scary seeing him so paranoid.

"Alright. Fine. But if a ghost murders all us tonight I'm being flipping you all of in Hell." Ray and I went towards the back of the house while Marin and Blue searched the front. We found one of the windows broken in the back and climbed in through it. We ended up in some kind of bedroom. Most of the wooden furniture looked rotten. Ray got out a pair of gloves and handed it to me. That was probably a good idea. We searched the room for anything interesting but most things were either broken or just normal furniture.

We left the room to go explore the rest of the house. I got a text from Blue that Marine and him were exploring the 2nd floor. We looked around for a bit as I noticed a door with another pair of stairs leading down into a basement.

"Ray I don't think we'll find the treasure on the 1st floor. In the story the body was stored with the treasure so if you wanted to hide a body it would probably been out of sight." I gestured towards the stairs.

"Yeah ok Darcus, why don't we just die today huh? Why not? It's a good day or I guess night to die anyways." He reluctantly followed me down the basement. As we were going down the stairs the door behind us shut closed. Ray ran up and tried opening the door open, panicking and banging on the door. I looked down at my phone, no reception.

"Oh God oh God oh God." Ray was slumped against the door mumbling to himself. I pulled him up from the ground and tried my best to calm him down.

"Ray please if anything you're the one freaking me out here. It was probably the wind and this house is old so the door is probably jammed. There's probably another entrance out of here. Butt seriously you have to calm down and get a hold of yourself." I said turning while rubbing his back in an effort to help him.