10) Headless Horseman Hunt

Headless Horseman Hunt

While having an eye on Arctic, trying to open the other door a few meters further down the hallway, I look at Khaos and Astoria nudging the door and trying to open it. Suddently there was a loud bang, and the big doors moved slowly and squeekingly open. Arctic immediatly ran to us, and we all stumbled back a bit. "How did you open it??" Arctic said, and Khaos just answered "We didn't." Suddently we hear a faint screaming from the hallways behind us, we all shoot up and speed out of the now open doors. Khaos was running in the front, jumping down a small ledge onto a path, and then running straight onto a bridge. Astoria, looking very frightened toge4ther with Müsli followed on his heels, with me, Arctic and Namir following a bit more slowly. Looking back, the howling and screaming suddently got louder and louder. Then around 20 ghost horses & riders jumped out of the castle door, screaming and.. throwing their heads around. They were all headless. "RUN!" I scream, speeding up until I'm heads up with Namir. The others ran faster too, looking around to see why I screamed like this, just to stare in horror at the headless horseman ghost group behind us. Just as we reached normal ground, the ghosts proceeded to jump on the bridge, throwing their heads at us. Screaming in horror Müsli sped up and even overtook Khaos, running blindly away from the ghosts. "STAY WITH US" Yelled Khaos, directing him back to the group who ran onto a big field, trying to find a way to leave the castle ground. Which was in fact quite difficult, as the grounds seem to be framed by walls from all sides. The headless ghost group now left the bridge, speeding behind us. Namir next to me was breathing heavily, panic written in his eyes. This whole trip was a horror show for all of us without question. Poor Müsli was even while running in full speed visibly shaking, Astoria was just a white flimmering lightning with her hair flowing in the wind, so fast was she running away from the ghosts. I try to breathe steadily, which was much harder thought than done. Khaos started to run around a corner, jumping a lower fence and continung into the other direction on this side of the wall. The screaming slowly got more faint, which resulted to Arctic commenting "I think we're going to outrun them soon!" under his breath. I just nod, trying to calm myself down. Astoria jumped next to Müsli who looked like his heart would stop beating every second. Khaos sped up even more, which obviously wasn't a problem for him with his good stamina, but everyone else started to struggle to keep up. "Khaos!! Slower!" I press out under my heavy breathing. We ran around a softly curved arena which was covered with colored fabric in all kinds of colors and emblems. If we would hae time to appreciate it, it for sure would be very beautiful and admireable. Behind us the screaming slowly faded away, which resulted the others to finally seem to get their controls back over their minds. Khaos exclaimed "Come on, don't fall back!! I want to get into safety first!!" Which rushed us all to gallop faster again. He led us over a path that leads back to the castle. The ghosts seemed to be gone, or at least not following us anymore. They seemed to have found new victims for their hunt, with screams being heard on the other side of the castle grounds. In the distance we were even able to spot some ghostly heads being thrown around. Astoria, who now overtook me, seemed to see them as well, ushering Arctic before her with a good little snap to run faster. The little group arrived back up at the castle, all heavy breathing, and then Namir helped Khaos to open a small door to a little tower. "Are you crazy?!" Exclaimed Müsli, looking around for a different path out of here. "As we all saw, the castle grounds won't let us flee. The walls are too high and too thick. The solution and the exist must lay in the castle." Khaos said calmly. I take a deep breath, slowly nodding. He was right, running over the grounds didn't brought us any closer to getting out of here. "I think we should just go in quickly! I can see their heads in the back of the grounds!" Astoria mumbled and went into the tower at first. I nod, scooching Müsli inside together with Arctic. Namir and Khaos closed the door behind us. Looking around, finally not hearing the headless horseman ghosts screaming around anymore, made us realize we were standing in a hallway again. Sighing, we slowly trot down the corridor, looking out of the windows, just to see in the far distance the group of headless ghosts again. "I wonder who they are... And what are they doing?!" Arctic asked. "Probably doing the annual headless horseman hunt of this castle" I answer dryly. Astoria had to laugh, and even Müsli chuckled a bit which seemed to make everyone feel a bit more at ease. Trying to shake off the panic of the chase, we trot a bit quicker through the halls and corridors, trying to figure out which way to go. After a bit of a longer discussion we reached a big cental looking hall with a statue of a sleeping dragon in the middle on top of a fountain. "This all is so... weird. Why is it so empty?" Astoria asks, looking around and peeking into some of the hallways leading off from this hall.