Dungeons and Demons by Kayla Krantz

Author:Kayla Krantz [Krantz, Kayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Dark, suspense, ya, Paranormal, Horror
Publisher: Into the Darkness Publishing
Published: 2020-12-04T06:00:00+00:00

16.

JACK’S MIND RACED. It wasn’t a sensation he was used to. Jack had always prided himself on being one of the more levelheaded people his age, but now, he couldn’t get his mind under control. It didn’t sound as if the Nucklelavee was following them yet, but it couldn’t be much longer before it finished off the seaweed and would come after them again.

There was no distinction in any of the paths they chose, and Jack started to wonder if maybe they were going in the wrong direction or if maybe they were doing laps that somehow avoided the tunnel the Nucklelavee inhabited. His only bit of comfort was that they hadn’t stumbled across the big silver door yet, the one that marked the start.

He let himself believe that they were making progress. Even if it wasn’t great progress. They rounded a corner then and were faced with a giant red button. It was embedded into the floor, the path continuing on past it. There was no writing on or around the button, and they converged around it, staring at it with goosebumps running across their skin.

“Do we press it?” Shawn asked the question they all thought.

Jack swallowed, looking at the glass walls around them. It was too easy to imagine the button opening up one of the walls and drowning them all.

“I don’t know,” Milo said, looking around as if he had similar thoughts.

“I think we should keep going,” Jack suggested.

The familiar sound of hooves beating against the floor drifted through the tunnels, and Jack’s eyes went wide. Whatever head start they had was gone now. The Nucklelavee was on its way.

“I think we should press it,” Shawn said at last, glancing over his shoulder.

“Are you crazy?” Jack asked.

Shawn’s mouth opened and closed as he struggled for his next sentence. “I don’t know why, but I think it has something to do with the Nucklelavee, not the tunnels.”

“What if you’re wrong?” Milo asked, white eyebrows drawn together in concern.

Jack frowned. He didn’t want to think about that. Didn’t want to think about what could happen if Shawn was wrong. So he didn’t. He closed his eyes, listening as Shawn stamped his foot onto the button with a clang that radiated around them. They all held their breath, waiting to see what would come next. Jack stared up at the ceiling, hoping the worst wouldn’t happen though part of him expected it to anyway.

It didn’t. Behind them, a silver steel door rose from the floor to the ceiling, blocking off the path they had just traveled through. Jack’s eyebrows raised, and he tried to determine if this was a good thing or not. It would certainly keep the Nucklelavee away from them, but they wouldn’t be able to backtrack, to go through the tunnels again if they had taken a wrong turn at some point.

We must be on the right path, he thought, remembering the double doors that had separated the drudes’ room from Belphegor’s.

“Full speed ahead,” Shawn said with a sigh, pushing his glasses back up the bridge of his nose.

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