It's Not All Fun At The Fair

Chapter 4 ~ Foney Phone

Nikki pulled Aaron off down the right-hand-side of the first fork they came to in the Hall of Mirrors. She kept a firm grip on Aaron as he whimpered at his own multiple reflections.

"Aaron!" she snapped, coming to a stop, "if you don't stop whining I'm going to hit you again!"

He stared at her and gulped, knowing she wasn't lying. "Tristan, quick hold her back!" They both paused. "Tristan?" whispered Aaron, "Don't mess about! Come out!"

Nikki let go of Aaron as he paled to a near green colour, realising the Tristan was not following them.

"Where's he gone? Nikki, where is he? Nikki?!"

"I don't know Aaron!" Nikki nearly yelled, "Please get a grip of yourself!"

"But what if he's been got by something? Or someone, or he's..." Nikki slapped him again. "OW! What was that for?!" he shrieked, clasping his face.

"For panicking. Tristan will be fine! He knows his way around better than any of us!" Nikki quipped, "Now grow a pair or so help me I will ram your head so far up your backside, you'll never see the sun again! Am I clear?"

He nodded, slowly. She smiled sweetly. "Good. Now let's find Archie!"

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"This is so childish!" whined Eliesse, filling a bucket with feathers. "We could do so much better than this!"

"Oh come Eli! The corn flour slime and feather prank is a classic!" replied Zander, hooking a bucket of slime over the door seperating the Hall of Mirrors and the Ghost Train.

"Exactly! Prank! It's so old school!" she complained, hanging the feather bucket slightly above the slime bucket.

"If it's so childish, then why are you helping me?" asked Zander seriously, stopping and looking at his twin. Eliesse bit her lip. "Are you scared?"

"No," she said hesitantly, "I just don't want to get lost."

"So your scared?"

"No!" her voice echoed as her voice rose.

He smirked. "It's okay lil' sis." he put an arm around her shoulders, "I'll protect you." Eliesse pushed him away.

"I am NOT scared!" she snapped. He held his hands out in surrender and went back to the buckets. Seconds later, he turned around and Eliesse was gone.

"Eliesse? Are you there?" he called, looking around, "Eliesse, you'll only scare yourself!"

"ARRRGGGHHHHH!" Eliesse suddenly flew at him fromaround a mirrored corner to his left. He screamed and ran down the corridor in the opposite direction, only to crash into a mirror. Eliesse fell over, clutching her stomache, crying with laughter while Zander lay on the floor, panting and pale as a sheet.

"You're right!" she choked, "The old ones ARE the best!"

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Tristan watched the twins from the control room. He saw Zander turn around and Eliesse snuck off around a corner. Even though Tristan knew what Eliesse was doing, it scared him when she jumped out at Zander but he laughed when he ran into the mirror. He turned back to Camera 26. Archie was still hudled in his corner. Tristan had tried to call Archie earlier but it didn't ring so it must be back at his house. Searching the other camera's, Tristan found Nikki and Aaron on the upper floor, fairly close to Archie. Picking his mobile off the control desk, he sent a text to Aaron.

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"Nikki! Nikki!" hissed Aaron, "What's that noise?" There was a faint beeping noise sounding around the corridor. It took all her strength not to turn round and strangle him.

"Aaron, how can you not recognise your own text tone?"

He pulled his phone out of his pocket. "Oh yeah. Sorry."

You're very close to Arch. Im in the control room!

"Nik! He's in the control room!"

"Who? Archie?"

"No, Tristan."

"I don't care where Tristan is, wherre's Archie?!" she was losing her patience.

"Very close, that's all he said." They walked of down the corridor, their hands trailing along the 'walls' so as not to crash into anything.

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Tristan laughed at his friend's stupidity, although he could see that Nikki was about to kill Aaron. He went back to his phone and began typing her a text.

Nik, keep your cool with aaron, killing him won't help anyt

Suddenly his phone screen went black. He frowned and pressed the power button. A small grey dot appeared in the middle of the screen. Tristan pressed the power button again and the little grey dot got a little bigger. He pressed it again and the small grey dot grew to what looked like a small face, half in darkness.

Tristan stared, horrified at the screen. The little face smiled, revealing small pointed teeth as it's eyes turned to a deep red before the screen went black once more, having drained the battery completely. He lay his phone down on the desk and sat staring at it, wide eyed and not moving. Looking back at the camera screens, he began searching for the twins as they had run off, the whole time, shooting furtive glances at his phone.