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Chapter 10 The Killing Game

Image: The girl on the right is Anne, and the girl on the left is Louise.

The books stopped flying around as Ivory picked up the book that had hit her. "This must be one of those stupid magic librarys." She commented showing Anne and Louise the book title. 'Hell hound 101'. This time more confident with their surroundings and the fact that Ivory and Jasper were here to protect them the two girls explored more then they had before. They manoeuvred themselves through the winding halls of the maze that must run under both girls houses. A thousand question floated in their minds. What is this place? Why is it under their houses? A thousand more would come each time a answer presented itself. Ivory had taken a left while Louise and Anne had continued forward down a single path lit by the burning blue flames that ate away at the fuel in the torches . There seemed to be a chill blowing from the room ahead of them. Goosebumps rippled across their skin as they continued their approach intrigued by the heavy emotion and history laying in a shredded heap. Something deadly lay in this room. Cautiously the girls stepped into the room ignoring all the warning signs blaring inside their heads.

'Can you feel that?" Anne asked in their mind shuttering slightly.

'You mean that feeling like someone is watching you and something is about to jump out and try and kill us? Yeah I feel it.' The room seem normal enough as they walked through although compared to all the others it was very bare. It broke off into a long corridor that seemed to stretch further and was narrower then the rest of this underground hide out. Both girls were jumpy as they continued walking. Tight spaces did not please them. Suddenly the spot Louise put her foot on sunk down and the girls glanced at each other. 'This can't be good.' They thought as the already narrow walls started rumbling. 'This is definitely not good.' They both started running as the walls started to close in. Jasper was on their heals trying to encourage them to move faster as their shoulders started to scrape against the walls. At least he didn't abandoned them but now he to may not make it. The girls didn't bother trying to push against the walls, it never worked in the movies and they were no where near strong enough to hold back such a force. The girls now had to turned their bodies to keep on running but then they were stuck. Their hearts started pounding harder as the pressure on them increased even though they knew it was useless the girls started pushing against the walls as it compressed their chests making it harder to breath. The girls couldn't even turn their heads to look at each now they could barely move. In one last attempt Louise put her hands against the wall one on top of the other and pushed against it. There was a spark of electricity then they fell to the ground. "What happened?" Louise thought to Anne. She groaned.

"How the bloody hell am I supposed to know, you touched the wall." She yelled back both their muscles aching from almost turning into a compressed sandwich. They looked at the now big gap were the moving wall once was. "Ah Louise why is there a statue of Jasper in the hall way?" She asked pointing to the stone statue of Jasper standing proudly.

"I don't know I was thinking of Jasper when I touched the wall maybe it has something to do with that?" Louise tried but neither of them hade a clue.

"I think Ivory has some major explaining to do." Anne growled as she got to her feet.

"But first we might as well go see why this room is trying to kill us." Anne looked at Louise questionably.

"You want to keep going into a room that almost turned us into mince meat and might try many other things to stop us getting to what ever is in there?" Louise nodded. "Ok then lets go." They turned to where the door should be but the wall was blocking the way. "Would you be able to do what you did before?"

"I barely know what I did myself!" Louise looked at the wall. "But I guess I could try." Cautiously Louise walked up to the wall with Anne in tow. Going through what happened before Louise placed her hands on the wall one on top of the other. She concentrated on the buzzing feeling inside her and channelled it into her hands picturing the wall as a pile of crumpled rubble. For a moment nothing happened then blue electricity sparked and the wall glowed light blue before decomposing and crumpling. "Wow." Both girls breathed.