Harry's face was torn with terror.
"Louis," he gasped.
He pointed .a trembling finger to where-
A hand had appeared, gripping the top of the parapet.
"Someone's there!" He cried.
I was about to tell him he was imagining things when I saw the wizened fingers. And as I stared at them, I couldn't believe my eyes. It was impossible.
How could anybody climb all the way up Liam's apartment tower? It was twenty five stories above the ground!
A head came into view.
Everything was happening so fast.
Too fast.
The moonlight fell on the man's cruel features, his rotting flesh, his partly exposed skull. His eyes transmitted pure hatred. The man was hauling himself over the parapet. His decayed body was clad in prison garb from another age. His tongue dangled from his mouth. Like The Slasher, his neck was bruised and twisted.
"Zayn!" I yelled. "Help!"
Zayn's ghost wheeled forward. He let out a sharp warning.
"Watch out! That's the Strand Strangler!" The hangman bellowed. "I hanged him in 1878!"
The Strangler was on his feet. He can lurching across the rooftop towards Harry and me.
"I followed you from the bridge," he hissed in triumph. "You thought you could escape, didn't you?"
His eyes locked onto mine. "You'll be first!" His brutal skeletal hands opened, aiming for my throat. "Then I'll fix your friend! And then I'll settle with Malik!"
He took one step forward. It was his last. A black blur flew across the roof. The hangman's cat seized one of the strangler's hands, sinking its teeth into his decayed flesh. The strangler cursed. He tried to shake off the cat, but Disraeli's grip was ferocious.
The strangler whipped around, his eyes shut screaming in pain. For a moment he danced from one foot to the other. Then he ran blindly across the roof and tripped on a pipe.
The cat leaped clear as the strangler plunged head first over the parapet and into space.
His last long scream died away into nothing..
A/N: This book has like *counts* two more chapters and a epilogue to go so keep up with the voting and commenting.
I'll be waiting...
-Sharon
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The Haunted Hangman
TerrorLouis Tomlinson wants to see an Asian ghost. But a visit to a spooky canal puts his life in the hands of THE HAUNTED HANGMAN. Is he doomed? Or can he save his neck? *This book is one of the Mr. Midnight series but we made it as a 1D version. Hope y...