Stuck (Venturiantale)

The House of Mirrors

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Jordan and I drank hot chocolate and talked about everything from family to favorite movies and tv shows. We discovered that we shared a love for Doctor Who, Marvel, and Skyrim. He was appalled when he found out that all though I loved video games I'd never seen or played Pokemon. We talked and laughed until the sun came up and everyone made their way downstairs.

"You two been down here all night?" Isaac beginning to make some bacon as Cierra pulled out the ingredients to make some waffles.

"Yep." Jordan said and Bethany whispered something to Cierra that made her burst out laughing. Then they both looked at Jordan and I and started laughing again.

"What?" I asked.

"Nothing." Cierra giggled.

"We need a plan to get everyone back into Gmod." Isaac said.

"If only you had someone good with computers. Oh wait! You do!" Spencer said.

"Do you think you could do it?" I asked.

"Of course I could. I just need to see your laptop. It'll take me at least all day though. You'll all need to leave so that I can focus without you nerds distracting me."

"We could go to the carnival in town." Bethany suggested.

"Yeah! As soon as we're done with breakfast we can go." Jordan agreed.

"Are the waffles done yet?" Sally called from the living room where she was currently kicking Billy's butt at Call of Duty.

"Five more minutes!" Cierra called from the kitchen.

I ran out to the car to get my laptop and brought it in to Spencer. He grabbed it and immediately went to work.

By this time breakfest was ready and we all piled in around the dining room table to eat. We piled our plates with food and dug in.

"This is really good guys thanks!" I exclaimed.

"No problem." The Fryes said in sync.

We quickly ate our breakfast and piled into mine and the Frye's car to head to the carnival. I was driving my car with the Acachallas, Ghost, Toast, and Maddy Friend and the Frye's were in their car. I followed the Frye's to the carnival.

The carnival was huge! It had every ride you could dream of and all the greasy carnival food you could want.

We ran into the carnival and everyone else immediately wanted to ride the rollarcoaster. I was not a fan of rollarcoasters. I hate how jerky and unsteady they felt.

"Come on Rowan it's so much fun!" Isaac was trying to convice me to ride the rollarcoaster but was failing.

"You guys go ride it and I'll go to The House of Mirrors."

"You sure that's ok?" Cierra asked.

"It's fine guys I'll meet you by the churro stand. Bye!" I needed some time alone anyway. All of these people were starting to drain my energy. I started to head off to The House of Mirrors as the others shouted goodbye.

The outside of The House of Mirrors looked like some kind of disco horror movie. It was covered in mirrors and fake blood, and a doll head with dark eyes loomed over the entrance. Strangely no one seemed to be running it. I shivered as I passed under the doll head. The empty eyes seemed to be staring into my soul. The House of Mirrors looked rather similar to The House of Mirrors in Gravity Falls except creepier. The mirrors distorted your face into all sorts of demonic faces. One memorable mirror distorted my face into a clown mask.

I reached the end of the hall covered in mirrors only to find that there wasn't a door to exit the house. Had I taken a wrong turn? I backtracked and took another route only to find that there wasn't a door at the end of that turn either. Instead of a door was a mirror that was different than the others. It was bigger and longer and rested inside of a black ebony frame. The mirror seemed to be calling out to me and the room seemed colder than it was before. My head felt fuzzy as I reached out to touch the cold surface of the mirror. For some reason I was unable to not reach out towards the mirror. It was as though an invisible force was pulling it towards the mirror. When I touched the mirror my hand went through the mirror, I tried to pull it back but I felt something grab my hand and pull me into the mirror.

Jordan's POV

Where was Rowan? The rollarcoaster ride had only taken about twenty minutes with the line and as soon as we got off we headed to the churro stand. Rowan was no where to be found. We'd been waiting and eating churros for about an hour when we decided to go search for Rowan. The guy who was running The House of Mirrors said that he hadn't even seen her go in.

We split up and searched all over The House of Mirrors but hadn't seen her. Now I was really beginning to worry. What if she was lost? What if she was scared and alone and we couldn't find her?

"I found something! Hurry!" Johnny Ghost shouted and we all made our way over to him. Ghost and Toast were standing in front of a large mirror in a shiny black frame. I was the last to arrive and the others were blocking my view of the mirror.

"How is this possible?" Bethany gasped.

"What is it? I can't see." I pushed past Papa Acachalla and finally saw the mirror.

The mirror didn't show our reflections. Instead it showed a large cave with a sea of cages hanging from the ceiling. The scene it showed seemed to be frozen, as a bat was in midflight on the right side of the mirror. In the middle of the expanse of cages was one cage which housed someone. Inside of the cage was Rowan, her face frozen in a look of fear.

Author's Note:

Sorry for this update taking a while. I started school this week and it's kind of been terrible so far. Hopefully it'll get better.

What do you guys think of school?

Next chapter the identity of the mysterious figure will be revealed! I'm excited!

Hope you enjoy this chapter!