British Zombie Breakout Part One: The Castle by Salisbury Peter

Author:Salisbury, Peter [Salisbury, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-11-07T08:00:00+00:00

Once the trapdoor was opened, they all stared down into a deep, dingy, stone-lined pit. There was a near vertical wooden ladder going down fifteen feet to the bottom.

'Are you sure this is right?' Alex said.

'There's no way I'm going down there,' Maisie wailed.

Steve shrugged. 'It's the only way out.'

'You can stay up here and wait to see if you get rescued,' Fred said. 'But I'm going first.'

Fred climbed down the ladder and looked around. His eyes were already more accustomed to the dark. 'There's another door here,' he called up.

The rest of them followed him down and jostled for a look through the small glass window set in the top of the door. What appeared to be another window could be seen dimly in the distance.

Maisie shivered for what seemed like about the tenth time. 'It's freezing down here,' she said.

It was so dark, they could barely see the lock on the door. Alex pulled her key ring out of her pocket. There was a tiny LED torch on it, which stayed lit just long enough for Steve to unfasten the lock. He got Fred to help him haul on the door but when it opened, something weird happened. A gust of air blasted through the tunnel and made the outside door of the tower slam shut, plunging them into total darkness, with every tiny noise echoing around the dungeon.

Maisie began screaming and didn't stop until Alex slapped her. Then she began crying.

'Pull yourself together,' Alex said in a rough tone. We're half-way out.'

'But Steve said it might be haunted,' Maisie wailed.

Rachel pushed past and started down the tunnel, aiming for the light at the far end. 'Well, I'm not hanging around here,' she said in a shaky but defiant voice.

They heard her make three footsteps, then there was a shriek and she stumbled and fell. Alex could vaguely see her scrabbling around on the floor before righting herself and feeling her way back to where the rest of them were clinging to the door frame. Alex grabbed her school jacket and let go immediately, feeling the damp and dirt Rachel had picked up on it.

'No, don't let go,' Rachel gasped.

'What's the matter?'

Alex could only just hear her reply, 'Cobwebs!'

Steve let out a long sigh. 'We'd better go back up and look for a torch,' he said.

Getting back up a fifteen foot ladder in the dark was no fun. Back outside in the courtyard, blinking in the light, they all saw what a state Rachel had got herself in. Her new jacket had damp patches and smudges of dirt and cobwebs everywhere. She had cobwebs in her hair but Alex wasn't going to be the one to tell her about it.

'I think you'd better go to the washroom and tidy up,' Fred said with an ill-concealed smirk.

'And the rest of you can help me find a torch in the office,' Steve said. 'There must be one somewhere.'

Rachel cleaned herself up in the tiny restroom next to the snack bar, while the others searched the office for a torch.

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