Haunted

• Luke Biniares, Grade 6
• Short Story
• 2017

Surprising! Exciting! Fun! All of my friends have been in the haunted house and said the exact same thing about it. I can’t for my go. It’s my turn next. They gave me a flashlight and tested that it was working because in the house it is pitch black. I walk in and they shut the doors. I switch on my flashlight. Did I? Off, on, off, on. It’s not working! I feel the floor beneath me abruptly disappear. But I’m not falling. Or am I?
I hear this weird laugh. Then a very irritating noise comes into my head and gives me a headache. “Three lives!” said a creepy voice. I then see three doors. Door One says on it “Hot And Raging Fires” Door Two says “Death Drop” and Door Three says “Lions That Have Been Starved for Three Months” I have completely no idea which way to go. I go into the “Hot And Raging Fires” door. Ouch. My head hurts. “Two lives left!” said the creepy voice. I’m guessing that means I got it wrong. The voice says “Door Three says lions that have been starved for three months. If a lion has been starved for three months it would be dead.”
I keep walking until I find another door. There are four doors and a pattern. The pattern goes “16, 06, 68, 88, ?, 98.” What is the “?”? Door One says “87” Door Two says “78” Door Three says “96” Door Four says “52”
I pick the door that says 87 on it. “One Life Left” laughs the horrid voice. So I got it wrong again. I keep walking until I see something moving. It looks translucent. I think its fluro green in colour. It sees me and starts flying towards me. Wait! Flying? What does that mean? Then I realise it must be that scary voice. It’s a ghost! It has a knife and I can now here a bunch of voices saying “Join us! Join us!” I immediately bolt the opposite direction. A brick wall and four stones with objects on them pop up from somewhere underground. The first object is a hand grenade. The second object is a bucket full of dynamite. The third stone has a sledgehammer on it and the fourth object is an apple tree with exploding apples on it. The wall has “Demolish Us!” written on it. I wonder why it says us but I remember that I have to get away from the strange and creepy ghost. I pick up the sledgehammer and wack the wall. The sledgehammer exploded but the wall is still there. I see a steel wall and chuck the dynamite at it. I throw everything at the wall. I’m sprinting when a blue ring just appears and before I can stop I’ve already run through it. “Phew.” My eyes are really blurry. I start walking in a random direction until I find someone stop me. “You won!” he says.