Truth or Dare

Chapter 4:

The TV was off again. The thing was broken so there was no use for it. That with the fact it had come on earlier had spooked them. They had thought it was a joke but now they werent so sure. Mike pulled the plug out of the wall to make sure that it wouldnt come back on. They were able to get a limited signal. Jenny was able to get enough to do a basic search. The first search that they did was history of the game truth or dare. Jenny got a lot of junk information then she found what she was looking for. This time she had everyones attention. OK, I have something here. Listen to this, the game was originally done as a game to see if the kids would be good or lie to get out of trouble. Some 17th century kids began to find that there was a difference in how they would play at some locations. It seemed to have more dangerous to do it in places of power. Over the years people would avoid places of power so the memory of the danger would fade. For a while it was used by parents or teachers to get the kids to learn the value of the truth. It had become fashionable to dare kids to do something that they wouldnt think of doing or tell the truth. It was mostly teens and young adults that would play it as a game. Parents would use it to get information on, and the kids would have to do something that was extreme or tell the truth. It was always done with one person who would be in control of the questions. When the teens started playing, they started saying they were being tormented by something if they played it at certain areas that were thought to have strange powers. Jenny read. If the kids played the game in a place of power things would go very different. There is something about if you get caught in a place of power and play the game – it will make you play five rounds; everyone will have to play or die. The kids will think it is a game until the first doesnt do the dare. When the first person in the game doesnt do the dare, that person gets hurt then everyone realizes that it isnt a game. They are being judged for past things. Often these are things that they may have forgotten about.

Jenny, you said this house is a copy of an Egyptian temple and those were places of power. There is the fact that we didnt do the old rituals and now that we have started to play the game, we are stuck. Nick said. Are you guys seriously believing this? This is Jennys idea of getting revenge. You have to be wacked to believe that. This is a game, and someone chose to be fucked with one of the dares. There is no power in this house. There is nothing going on other than you being a bitch.

Nick! That isnt necessary – Shelly said. Suddenly the piano began to sound. The middle C key kept sounding. Everyone went into the room and there was sheet music on the piano. Written in red liquid was Finish the game. A card landed between Shellys feet. Looking down at it, she started to cry. Picking it up she turned it over. Oh god, I cant. she whispered. I cant do this. It could kill me. She looked at Jenny with horror on her face. Why would it say this?

The clock chimed 5 times. Five minutes. Steve picked up the card. Grab the wires – what wires? An ornate chandelier dropped from the ceiling with all the lights burning bright. Then the wires snapped dropping the chandelier to the floor. Everyone gaps and there were a few shrieks when it crashed to the floor. Electricity crackled from the live wires. Steve began to put things together real fast. The clock chimed five times five minutes. We have five minutes. There is no water on the floor so that is good.

Shellys boyfriend came up to her. Listen to me, I grab a blanket and run toward you, you grab the wires just before I hit you, when I do, I will knock you out of the circuit. It will hurt like hell, but you will live through it. Trust me Shelly. Take your watch and ring off. Anything that will get hot and burn you. Both our shoes are rubber soles so we will be fine.

Steve and a couple of others moved stuff out of the way to where there wouldnt be any danger of getting hurt when they hit the floor. Steve grabbed his medical stuff if they needed it.

Matt, I am trusting you on this. Shelly said and took her ring, watch and necklace off. She got to where she was just on the other side of the wires. I love you. She said and nodded. Matt grabbed the blanket and ran toward her. Shelly grabbed the wires just before he made contact and she got briefly shocked. Laying on the floor she twitched for a moment then opened her eyes.

While everyone was paying attention to Shelly, trying to make sure that she was OK, Jenny walked into the dining room. She needed to have some time to think. There had to be a way out of this mess for everyone without them getting hurt. Yeah, they needed to learn that pissing and hurting others isnt ok. Yeah, they had all hurt her in more ways than they knew. Part of her wanted them to be punished but at the same time she didnt want them to die. Then she remembered the message. She had to find a way to contact the person again. Jenny was sitting on the floor, rocking gently. Her eyes were shut. She could see the man walking across the desert again. How dangerous is this going to get?

They must be judged for the treatment of my chosen. They are in a temple which is a place of power. They should have been willing to listen to you. Now they are beginning to pay the price for not listening to you.

How can I help you? I know more about them than they would want known. Jenny realized she could get some feeling of payback for all the hell that she had gone through. I have been a dumping ground of all their dirty secrets for too long.

Why would you? the man said. Not often does he get someone who is willing to help him. This could be interesting in many ways. She had a beautiful soul too.

They have hurt me in ways that I am tired of. They have treated me like I am strange due to the fact that I enjoy learning. I am stuck being the person who has to drive them home when they are drunk or too high to drive. All their dirty secrets, all their indiscretions, they have used me as a vault for them, thinking that I will be the good girl and keep them secret.

The judgements must be done for each person. They must pay for one crime each. The severity of it is will be nothing permanent and they must do at least one round of the game. There is a special dagger in the house. When the time is right, I will make it appear and the dare will be for you to make a choice to accept the gift that the dagger has which is being my bride or the rounds will continue. The choice is yours. Your friends need to be taught to accept the information that is given to them by those that have it. My chosen. The man said in ancient Egyptian. Then he vanished into the desert sands.