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”Well?” Casey looked down at the machine. “Can it help us get Morgan out of here?” Colin nodded.

"It should but Casey, it will only hold for about twenty four hours, it might give us a day after we unplug everything here, it doesn't give us mu
ch time to find a replacement.”

“A replacement?”
Morgan asked.

“Yes.” Colin pointed at the life support machines. “Some electric connections to all these wires, the generator just won’t hold beyond the day it was built for so we have to find some place, some hidden place with an electricity connection if we intend to
keep you alive."

Morgan smirked.

“We will find it."

“Morgan…” Casey looked at the machine; suddenly she wasn't
too sure of her own suggestion.

“We will find a connection Casey.” Mor
gan reassured her. “Right Jon?”

“Right.”
His brother hurried to support him. “Don’t worry Casey, it will all go perfectly.” He promised, digging in his pocket and handing Casey a piece of paper.

“And this will make our job a lot easier.” He said as Colin and Morgan glanced down at
the page Casey was now holding.

”What is that?” Casey looked over the page, reading what appeared to be a list of hours, five to s
ix hours apart from each other.

"Well, “Jon explained. “While you were busy screaming the hospital down I let myself into the nurses' station and got the shift changes for the guards and the nurses for the next week or so for this floor and from what I can gather we will have some windows of time between every shift change when there is no one here to see or stop us from getting what we want. How is that for a step up
in the plan?”

Casey clapped her hand
s, handing the paper to Morgan.

“God, this is going so well! I love you guys!
” She hugged Colin who laughed.

“You never would have guessed that s
he was screaming a moment ago.”

He said to Casey’s brother’s and Casey let him go, stic
king her tongue out in protest.

"Right.”
She said. “Good,” She concluded. “We will do it tonight." She stated, looking at her astonished friend and brothers.

"Or did you have other plans?" She wondered as they all shook their heads. None of them planned to interfere with Casey when she was in the war mode.
 Tonight was the night and they were ready, Casey only prayed that they won't get coughed, cuss that would really ruin the plan.

Chapter nine: Against all odds

Meanwhile, back at the school Din and Toby were busy following Casey’s instructions; they were currently on the top floor of the old castle after they had swept over the lobby and the dorm rooms at the floor billow them, founding nothing but a few frightened students and a load full of dust.

"We searched everywhere already!
Gahh! My feet hurt from all these stairs!"

Din complained in frustration, wipi
ng the sweat off his forehead.

"No one knows shit in this place! Maybe
we should stop? Take a break?”

“No.” Toby shook his h
ead. “Casey is counting on us.”

“But ther
e is nothing here!” Din howled.

“Maybe we are just not looking in the right spot, that’s all.” Toby pondered, speaking so lowly that he almost didn't hear himself.

“So where should we look?” Din questioned, making better use of his dog high hearing he usually used for trouble. “Where haven’t we looked yet?”

Toby shrugged. “Maybe they are hiding somewhere outside the school, down in the grounds?
By the lake?"

Din frowned, thinking about it for a mom
ent and then he shook his head.

"I seriously think that they will keep close to here, to the basement and won’t be so damn obvious…" His voice trailed off.

Toby glanced at him. “What do you mean by ‘obvious’?”

"Well, now that you mentioned outside it got me thinking…We didn't look everywhere you know…"

Din said in a low voice, looking out one of the huge windows that spread over the wall behind them. Toby gulped, suddenly beginning to feel really nervous, maybe he shouldn't have said anything because Din thinking always ended up bad, he just had to look at Morgan as recent an example.

"What are you thinking?" Toby questioned, glancing out of the same window as Din was. “Well…” Din smiled, today was not a day off for
his danger detecting mind set.

"As you mentioned outside I was actually thinking about the winter cellar."

Toby shook his head, smiling. Why didn't he think of that? Oh, that’s right, he didn't have Din’s pending death wish.

The cellar was located underneath a stone structure deep in the dark gardens of the castle the school was located in. no one went there, it was forbidden cuss it wasn't in use and in serious danger of collapsing due to poor maintenance and above all it was there for as long as the school stood. That meant centuries with a now blocked path that was damaged by the fire that ran right from th
eir basement all the way there.

'Come to think about it,' Toby wondered. 'It was kind of weird for the fire to spread in such a neat pattern. It was perfect in every way possible, the perfect operation base for some big disturbing monsters from another dimension for sure.'

”My god Din, you’re a genius.” Toby exclaimed and Din bowed in triumph.

“Teachers don’t go there…” Toby was thinking out loud now. “And the students aren't allowed there." Din reminded Toby who smirked at his friends' remark.

"And since when do we care or let something like that stop us?" He questioned and Din smiled.

"True,
true, god, I love to be right.”

“Not that it happening very often…” Toby mumbled under his breath and Din pushed him. “Right, so let me cherish it, now let’s go check it out, c’mon!” He pulled Toby with him, down the steppes and out into the lobby, heading for t
he main entrance of the school.

“
Mmm! Hold on! You are way too eager about this!” Toby screeched, trying to catch his breath as Din pulled him forward. It took them all in all just a few moments to reach the over growing bushes that symbolized the closed area.

The dangerous part of the mansion’s grounds, the one that they were not supposed to go to. But now, here they stood in front of the old stone structure, the winter cellar outside wall, with its crooked hunches and the faded paint job and above all, the huge door that was supposed to be their entrance was filled with concrete, probably from five years before
when it was engulfed in flames.

“Lo
ok at this thing.” Din exhaled.

“I know.” Toby nodded. “The whole thing looks like a giant concrete cube or something.” “Oh, li
ke in that movie?” Din laughed.

Toby twisted his face in disgust. “Well, I don’t want to go in there if it’s like in that movie. People die there, in the most gruesome ways and they never get out.”

“Oh don’t be a chicken.” Din teased. "Besides, we can’t go in there anyway, it's blocked."

Din frowned, trying to see over the concrete mold if there was a po
ssible way to lead them inside.

Toby sighed, knocking on the stone wall, a hollow sound had ringed through the solid structure and Toby pressed his ear against the cold stone wall to listen in, pressing both of his hands against the concrete.

”What are you doing?” Din wondered, looking at him with a 'what the fuck?' kind of look. “Saw it in a movie once.” Toby admitted, “Thought I could gather something from it.”

Din shrugged. "Well, can you hear anything in there?" He asked his friend and Toby nodded.

“I think that there is some kind of a buzzing sound coming from the inside. Come here, listen to this.” Toby moved a bit aside to allow Din an easy access to where he heard the sound coming from.

“Sounds like a fucking beehive in there.” Din mumbled as he started roaming with his hands across the wall in front of them, clinching his brow in concentration as if he was looking for something important.

Toby frowned as he looked at his seemingly deranged friend.

'Well, we all go insane in our own special way.' He thought.

"What are you doing?" He asked curiously, looking at the leveled stones before them.

"There has to be a secret door here or something…” Din answered, glancing at him for a second and then resum
ing his search around the wall.

“Oh c’mon!”
Toby crossed his arms over his chest. “You don’t really believe that there is something like that in here!” He shook his head.

“There has to be!” Din argued. “Places like this always have a secret door. I just have to find it and…
Ohh!"

Din’s eyes widened as his hand slid into a low crack in the space between the supposedly concrete covered door and the wall, barely visible to the human eye.

”Din?” Toby moved aside, nervous.

“Sec…” Din whispered, wiggling hi
s hand inside the narrow crack.

"
Agghhh!!!!" Din screamed and Toby screamed with him. Din began laughing as Toby jumped back.

"You moron!"
His friend declared annoyed. "Sorry, Sorry. I just couldn't resist." Din laughed, wiping his eyes with his free hand.

"Now hold on." He said, shifting his attention back to the wall and turning his hand in the hole it was inserted into. A low cricking sound was heard and Din pulled his hand out as part of the wall slid into the ground, revealing a huge dark room behind it.

”After you.” Din smiled as Toby gaped at what his friend discovered. They both carefully stepped closer to the door, afraid at the prospect of what was waiting for them inside the darkness.

“
Ohh!” Toby covered his mouth and nose with his hands as they came closer to the opening.

“My god!
” Din exhaled. “What is that?!”

“I don’t …I don’t know…” Toby coughed, pressing his hands tighter to his face, shielding it from the horrid smell that came f
rom inside the stone structure.

The air inside was worm and moist, a foul smell of rotting eggs and a sweet sickening essence had made it almost impossible to breath, their vision got clouded by the dark dust that seemed to float from everywhere as thei
r bodies covered in cold sweat.

Toby coughed again. “Where the
fuck are we?” He demanded in a chocked voice, looking back at his friend.

”Wait…” Din narrowed his eyes as he scanned the s
pace in front of them. “C’mon.”

He whispered to Toby as he pulled his friend inside, crouching down against the wall behind some huge barrels and looking up at the wood containers, attempting to read the warning labels tha
t were plastered all over them.

”Oh my god…Din…Are you seeing this?” Toby whispered s
canning the room with his eyes.

“Yeah…” Din choked. “Shit…What is that?” He asked astonished, glaring at the beings that walked around the stone like crypt.

The space in front of them was filed with figures, tall, dark narrow creatures all dressed in black and caped in dark hoods, covering their inhuman face.

Toby gulped, narrowing his eyes as he attempted to identify the creatures, his eyes traveled across the room that seemed to be illogically much larger on the inside until his sight finally rested on the wall that extended on the other side of the structure and his breath was cut short by t
he horror of what he saw there.

”Din! Din! Look!” Toby whispered screamed as he pointed at the direc
tion of the glowing stone wall.

“What?” Din raised his eyes to follow Toby’s pointing finger. “What the…?” He asked, looking at
the structure in front of him.

The stone wall was divided, as if someone had carved into it with a hammer, creating a net like monstrosity, the first thing that came to mind when you saw it was that you were looking at a huge bee hive. Each section was carved to perfection, containing a big, vibrating pulsing green almost transparent vein and slime covered egg. It was as big as a person, all the
caverns had one, all, but one.

"Is that who I think it is?!"

Toby shuddered, pointing at a fairly remote section in the divided wall that seemed to contain the body of a young blond boy lying, unmoving behind a mass of silver like bars. "Oh shit…" Din whispered.

"That’s Jon's body!" Toby growled. "Do you know what that means?!" He looked over the barrels at the black hooded creatures. "We are right in the middle of their fucking base of operations! We need to get the fuck out of here!" Toby said
, frightened as he already moved back to exit the way they came from.

"Wait!" Din grabbed him by the arm, pulling him back down. "We have to get Jo
n's body the hell out of here!"