Into the Abyss

Chapter Four

When we reached the castle ruins I sprinted up the steps first, with george bringing up the rear. I made it up the steps and I was about to leap through the arch way, when I realised that on the other side of the arch way the path had given way and there was a 60 metre drop onto the rough ground below. I flung my arms out and pushed them against the side of the arch to stop myself skidding to my death. All the boys piled up behind me, and then Finn said the thing everyone had been thinking of.

"We are trapped between prison and death". Finn normally had a big, brave voice but now it was tiny like a mouse and tears of fear dripped down his chin.

I had no idea what to do so instead of turning our self over, I prayed for a miracle, grabbed a many hands as i could find. And jumped.

We fell towards the bottom of the cliff but at the bottom of the cliffs we seemed to twist and stretch in unnatural ways. It was like we were made of elastic, we seemed to stretch out and and then ping back, my intestine were twisted and i threw up. Unfortunately, as we were moving at what I thought were great speeds, my sick spread over everybody else. Guy threw up too and we were covered. And then the pain stopped and we stretched back to normal, I opened my eyes and the room was spinning so I closed them again and waited for it to stop. When I sat up again and looked around the room, we were in the sitting room at home. I was amazed but poor Alfie just fainted, we dragged him onto the sofa and waited for him to come around. There was an uncomfortable silence, which was broken by me thinking aloud.

"Im going back to castle to see what that thing that got us here was, is anyone going to come with me?" I looked at Guy but he simply looked at his jumper that was covered with sick and shook his head. Alfie had come around and said it quite plainly.

"No way, i already look like a girl, having fainted once, im not going to do it a second time"

Toby and Oli both said that they are not having my sick smothered over them again. I turned around to Finn and heard a response that I was not expecting.

"Ok, when are we going.". I was shocked but realised that he was waiting for a reply.

"Um tomorrow morning". Then george agreed to come.

"Well I better make sure that you don't kill yourself". I hugged him tightly and then bounced off upstairs to get ready for tomorrow.