Escape The Night ~ NCT

Chapter 4-Dolls

(No one's POV)
Taeyong opened the door to see Jack, standing with the hat again.

"Sorry to interrupt but Sarah is still fixing the mess at the living room and we found out where the 2nd artifact is so if you want to go home, then we better start now right? So...same thing...write a name and put it in the hat but this time, write the person you're suspicious of. If you're not suspicious of anyone, then write your own name. More votes a person has, more chance that he's going to get picked." Jack said.

Everyone started to come up one by one, writing someone's name and putting it on the hat. But...no one put their own name.

Jack drew a piece of paper from the hat and read it out loud.

"Winwin"

Winwin was shocked to think that someone STILL suspect him

"I TOLD YOU THAT I'M NOT THE KILLER!"

Taeyong calmed him down and reassured him that he's going to be fine.

"Ten"

"WHO THE HELL VOTED FOR ME?!"

By now, Ten and Winwin were shocked and scared.

"Follow me." Jack told the two.

Jack went upstairs, and so did the 2 boys. Jack stopped at a door.

"You need to put the dolls in the correct position as the label says, but it's filled with riddles." Jack informed them.

Both were nervous due to the fact that they might die.

"Oh and also, once you enter you need to drink the liquid found at the table. Good luck" Jack said as he pushed Ten and Winwin inside the room.

Ten looked around and saw dolls. Lots of em, and 2 doll houses in the middle. Winwin, went to a corner and found the liquid. He called Ten and Ten approached him. Before drinking, they apologized to each other.

"Bottoms up." Ten said before they both drank on whatever the liquid is.

"It tastes like water..." Both of them said

Ten picked up a note at a table and read it to Winwin.

"You are now poisoned, however, there is an antidote...but to get the antidote you must place the dolls at the right position. If you do it wrong, you will be given the wrong liquid and you will die. If you do it right, you will get the antidote, get the artifact, and live."

Ten looked up and saw that Winwin wasn't beside him, instead, he was sitting in front of a dollhouse. Ten got the idea and went to sit in front of another dollhouse.

"Goodluck Hyung"

(SEVERAL MINUTES LATER)
Both were confused. The riddles were too hard and for them, the dolls look similar! WinWin was taking his time while Ten, just grabbed what he thinks is the right doll.

"I'm done!" Ten says as a drawer opened up on his side, he looked inside and saw what looks to be an antidote.

"Are you sure about this hyung?"

"I'm 100% sure Winwin."

Ten drank the liquid but dropped the glass and started choking. He was poisoned, again. Winwin couldn't do anything but watch Ten die. When Ten finally died, another drawer opened up, and in it was the REAL antidote, and the 2nd artifact. Winwin gulped the antidote, grabbed the artifact, and ran downstairs as fast as he can. Winwin, being the curious cat as he is, thought of how Ten got it wrong. He thought that maybe the dolls were wrong? Misplaced? But his train of thought stopped when he arrived back to the bedroom. Everyone stared at him, figuring out that Winwin had came back, but Ten did not.

"Hyung, What happened?! Please tell me that Ten hyung is behind you!" Chenle cried out

"I'm sorry Lele..."

"Hyung! Did you kill him?! Are you the murderer?!" Lucas said

"What?! I would never Kill Ten hyung, even if he accused me of being the murderer! He got poisoned earlier! It's because of this stupid games!"

"Sorry hyung..." Lucas said

Taeyong grabbed the artifact and placed it next to the first artifact. But Taeyong felt something, a paper-like thing. He turned the artifact around and found a note.

"Huh? What's this?"

Everyone gathered around Taeyong and a saw note that says

"INNOCENT"

"Is it a clue?" Yuta asked

"If it is, then the killer seems innocent? But that makes no sense" Taeyong replied

"But Winwin hyung is described as innocent right?" Lucas said

"FOR THE LAST TIME, I'M NOT THE KILLER" Winwin defended himself

"Yeah, for all we know, I can be the killer" Jungwoo said followed by a chuckle

"Yeah...but it's impossible that Jungwoo is the killer, I mean, look at him, It's most likely that Winwin or Jaemin is the killer" Doyoung said

"WHY ME?!" Jaemin and Winwin said.

Doyoung shrugged and sat back down.

"I would never kill Ten-hyung..."

The lights suddenly went out. Everyone screamed... mostly Chenle.

But the black out lasted for a minute when the lights suddenly came back, with a body near then...

More specifically, Ten's body.

"CHITTAPHON!!!" Jaehyun accidentally said...

"Oops..."

"Why the hell is it here!?"

"I SAW HIM DEAD EARLIER" Winwin said

They were slowly walking towards the body when Ten's eyes suddenly shot open and slowly pointed at something...

"I-is he pointing at Jungwoo??" Doyoung said.

They looked at the scared Jungwoo backing up until he hit a wall... or is it.

When Jungwoo hit the "wall", he actually pushed a door that leads to somewhere.

"So that's what Ten pointed at" Taeyong said.

When they all looked back at Ten.
They saw nothing.

No blood, no body. Nothing. It was like Ten's corpse was never there.

"Where did it go?" Mark asked...

"Do we look like we know Mark?" Donghyuck answered Mark.

"Now's not the time idiots" Renjun said.

"How can such bitterness and savageness fit into a small person." Jisung said while crouching to be short as Renjun.

"We're still older than you Jisung and don't forget tha-" Haechan said before he was stopped.

"Kids will you stop fighting?!" Yuta cut off Haechan

"Yeah we have something serious going on..." Doyoung said

"Sorry hyungs" The dreamies said in unison.

Taeyong sighed as he spoke
"It's okay Dreamies... You're all still young so you have no experience with this."

The dreamies smiled at Taeyong and went behind him.

"We have to get out of here." Chenle told the dreamies.

But what Chenle doesn't know is someone from the dreamies, won't allow it.