Midnight

Chapter six

"Help!!!". Mike and Fred shouted on top of their voices inside the house but unfortunately for them no one was around as it was a cursed land.

"Wait!, stop shouting, there is no one else here except the two of us!". Mike shouted with a clouded voice as he tried to calm the situation.

"No!, that can't be there has to be someone else out there". Said Fred who was end enveloped with fear.

"Wait, relax, let's see what we have here". Mike said in a whisper.

"What do you mean". Fred asked lowering down his voice also as if there is an entity before them.

Mike dipped his left hand on his bag and brought out a lantern. He switched it on and the whole house was illuminated.

Fred heaved a sigh of relieve as soon as the house got illuminated.

"You have to be strong or else, it wouldn't be good for either of us". Said Mike to his friend.

"That's the problem, I am not as string hearted as you are but I will keep trying my best". Fred assured his friend.

"Just don't freak out okay, it will only make matters worse". Mike said again to his friend.

"Okay, but we will have to be careful". Said Fred.

"Of course, we will need to be careful to survive". Mike said with an iron tone. He isn't terrified. He was just curious to know what  content the house had.

They moved out of the door slowly and began to walk about all over the house to get familiar with it.

"Look at that, what is that". Fred said pointing at an old abandoned structure inside the house. It was old and had cobwebs all over it.

"I think they were mostly used to perform some ritual during the medieval times". Mike said as he gently observed the structure.

"I think this place might be a ritual house or something of that nature. You can tell by all this old and abandoned structures all over it". Fred said as his eyes wandered across the house.

"Yes, I think so". Mike responded.

"They all look scary. But why would you choose this place out of all other places". Fred asked looking interested.

"I think this place has the perfect answer to what we are looking for. I have been hearing about it in stories and all this why I had been dreading for the day that I would visit it and witness it with my own eyes". Mike said.

"That's a bold of you. Any ways I just hope it provides us with what we are looking for". Fred said.

Mike looked at him and chuckled.

"Of course, it will". Mike said with a little bit mischievous smile on his face as he continued in his tour around the scary house.

After a while, they began to hear some strange voices huming a song. It was so low and almost like a whisper. Mike heard it but he ignored the sound.

"Wait what was that?". Fred asked as he stopped walking and began to listen keenly.

"Did you hear that?". Fred asked again.

"Hear what?". Mike asked feigning ignorance. He doesn't want to scare his friend and so he had to put up the act.

"I think I heard some voices like a whisper humming a strange song". Fred said holding his ears as if he wanted to hear the sounds properly.

"Come on, that might be a noice from the breeze, inside or outside". Mike assured.

"Are you sure because its like its student k in my head". Fred said again trying to freak out.

"Come on just ignore it. I don't even hear any sound. It might be your sense of hearing trying to make out something since we are in a strange and scary place. Come in just ignore it". Mike said again.

"Ok, I think that makes sense now". Fred responded as he agreed to what his friend had just said.

Mike heard the sound it was as if the song was trying hard to make them to sing along with it. 

"What ever thing you hear just ignore it and don't try to go along with it okay?. Remember we have to be careful". Mike said to his friend as if he knew what might be going on in his mind.

Fred gave him a weird look and continued with what he was doing.

"Hey come here, stay quiet". Mike said to his dog that was busy destroying some structures at the building. He managed to put it under control and he continued with his tour.

"Have you heard about the story of a man in a strange building who layer discovered some kind of treasure in it?". Fred asked his friend Mike.

"Don't tell me you are hoping to find some treasure in this abandoned place because its more of a fantasy than reality". Mike said in a witty manner and they both chuckled.

"Who knows someone might be lucky today". Fred said again wittingly and they both laughed again.

The humming continued and this time around, it was as if it was coming closer to their ears.

Fred turned and looked around but he didn't find anything. He decided not to alert his friend Mike because if the warning he gave him earlier about the song.

He started to move slowly to the direction where he thought that the humming might be coming from. He was afraid as it was already dark. He still had the impulse to find out what was actually going on. He had already started to have a double mind. He started contemplating within himself he was still going to continue with the adventure or not. It was so scary and it was far from what he had imagined.  But still he made sure to put on a confident look in order not to discourage his friend Mike who seemed to be more confident than him.

"Where are you going". Asked Mike as soon as he saw his friend making a weird move towards the unknown.

"No, it nothing, I just wanted to confirm something". He said without sparing his friend a look.

Mike ignored him and continued with what he was doing.

Mike came accross a weird structure, it looked like a harp. After observing it for a while it began to look familiar to him.

"Wait I have seen this before". He said to himself as he picked up the harplike structure from the floor.

He began to think about where he had encountered such object before. Then he immediately remembered as his mind went back to the weird magic he had performed which was perceived to be the cause if his mother's mysterious death.

"I think this might be the original and the more effective one". He said to himself.

"Look Fred, see what I found". He said to his friend Fred as she immediately turned around to where he Fred was. To his damn surprise, Fred was no longer there.

"Fred!". He called as his eyes wandered the entire room inserach of his friend.

Fear gripped him but he resisted it.

"Where could he be". He asked within himself as he moved gently to where his friend stood before.

"Fred!". He called again but he got no response.

He became worried. Its already dark and the lantern he carried only had its light reflecting on the area where he was. The rest of the area was still very dark.

"Fred!, can you hear me!". Shouted Mike again but still he got no response.

He picked up his lantern quietly from the ground and began to look for his friend. He made sure that his feet made no noice while he walks.

He came to the other area of the room and was filled with cold shivers. He managed to gain control over it as be continued with his search.

"Did he by any chance abandon me all alone here without telling me?". He asked himself rhetorically and in disbelief.

He immediately heard a cracking sound by his left. It was as if something had fallen down. He turned around sharply to his left to know what exactly was that but the whole place was covered with thick darkness.

"Hello". He said almost in a whisper but still he got no response. He began to match along to the place where he had heard the cracking sound.

The closer he gets the more cold shivers ran through his spine. He didn't know but he can sense a strong weird energy as he approaches the area.

"Fred!!!" He called again, this time with a higher pitch. The next thing be heard was a footstep running towards him from the dark.

"Ghost!!, ghost!!, ghost!!". Shouted Fred as be runs out from the dark.

"Fred, wait!, get hold of yourself!". Mike said as soon as he saw his friend running towards his direction and heading towards the entrance door.

"I am not doing again!, I quit!, it was a ghost!". Fred said as he pants heavily while running towards the door.

Mike had no other option but to go after him.

As soon as he got to the door, he tried to open it but it was stucked.

"I can't open it!, what's going on". Fred said as he tried his possible best but to no avail. The door had been shut by the strange wind that followed them right after they made their way into the building. Mike also tried to open it but to no avail. That was when they knew they were in for more trouble.