The Unexpected Journey by Flora 123 (best fiction books of all time TXT) 📕

Finally the door creaked open, slowly.

She walked in and realised that no one had opened the door, was it automatic? No this house is antediluvian it dated back centuries if not an entire millennium, it couldn’t have automatic doors. She slowed her pace and finally said, “Hello? Granny are you there? It’s me, Emily. I came for two weeks.” A light went on at the end of a long corridor and she saw something at the end, a silhouette.”Wow this house is long, on the outside it looks so small but it is brobdingnagian on the inside, like a mansion, “she whispered ever so quietly to herself. The small silhouette started walking towards her slowly until it reached the same room that Emily was in. The silhouette turned on a little desk lamp and the silhouette turned out to be Emily’s granny. “Welcome dear child, welcome, I’m glad you could make it” said granny with a wheezy voice. Emily was going to say something but her granny stopped her.”Let me show you to your room, you will spend two weeks in this house so I will tell you everything you need to know,” Said granny. They walked upstairs and granny told Emily that her room is by the stairs and the toilet is opposite her. She also told Emily that she will be getting three meals every day that granny will make and Emily got a menu, on the menu it said: for breakfast: cabbage soup, dinner: cabbage soup with a carrot and for supper: cabbage soup. Emily looked at the menu in disgust but she gave her granny a small smile as if she loved cabbage soup. Next granny told her that next to Emily’s room there is granny’s room but Emily isn’t allowed in that room even if a meteor was about to hit the house, when Emily asked why her granny just said, “because,” and changed the subject. For such an enormous house with tons of rooms she was only allowed in two rooms, her own room and the toilet. Emily thanked her granny and her granny disappeared down stairs.

She opened the door to her room and walked in. She closed the door and looked around, on the left there was a small desk and a squeaky old chair that was falling apart. In the middle of the room there was a small window and some black small curtains. On the right there was a bed that looked like it was in the first and Second World War, There was also a small wardrobe just by the door but it looked so grimy and repulsive she decided to keep her stuff in her suitcase. Something in that room made her shiver, maybe it was because there was no heating in the room or maybe it was the mould and damp climbing up the walls. Whatever it was, she didn’t like that room. She decided not to be too fussy about the room; she thought that the best way to forget that she is here was to take out some things that she liked. She took out her sketch pad and a pencil, her phone and something to eat because she was hungry. After she took something’s out her bag she sat on the bed and tried to call bobby, but no answer. It wasn’t like Bobby not to pick up his phone but it is the holiday’s so he is probably out somewhere. Next she called Rae, she did pick up. “Hi Emily, how are you enjoying the holiday?”Rae said. Emily answered, “It’s horrible, I am only allowed in two places in the house, granny only makes cabbage soup and everyone tells me that apparently a Hide Behind roams the cottage fields, no o...”suddenly Emily got interrupted by Rae.”The Hide Behind? I have read about it in an ancient legends book once. He has the ability to hide behind anything and he is like a shadow, you can’t catch him but he leads people into getting lost forever,””I don’t care about any Hide Behind, tomorrow I am going outside because I can’t stay here a moment longer! I will see if there is a Hide Behind roaming the fields,” Emily said raising her adrenaline.” Oh, so you are brave now? Well just try not to raise any trouble with anything, remember if something I do have dark magic so I can help with creatures, “Rae said monotony ( mainly because she is reading and talking at the same time).”Right I need to go, I am tired after today’s journey, bye Rae,” Emily said tiredly, “Bye,” said Rae and she ended the call.

The next morning she woke up but she didn’t sleep well that night, she kept on hearing creaks, the room was really cold and she thought she was going to get hypothermia in the middle of summer, and next door ( her granny’s room) she heard metal clanking as if her granny was building something. Emily got dressed and she ate something, she decided to walk downstairs. Her granny was sitting on the prehistoric sofa and she was knitting but when she realised that Emily was here she looked so shocked, “What are you doing here?””I am going outside for some fresh air granny, “Emily said and then she left the house. She closed the door behind her. When she turned around she realised that the fog was still there. How strange she thought to herself. She felt like she was battling through the fog and when she got out of the fog she realised that the fog was only around the cottage as if it was a barrier, nothing can come in and nothing can get out. No she thought to herself, it was probably just a coincidence and she walked on. While walking she fell on to the grass and she looked around to find a lever sticking out of the ground. She was curious to find out that it does, she got that from Rae, she never used to be curious but Rae showed her how awesome it is to be curious. She kicked the lever and a tunnel opened into the ground, there were stairs leading down to darkness. Would she go in or would she hesitate? She went in.

Walking down those old creaky wooden stairs made her think of Rae and how much she would have liked this. She decided to call Rae but she forgot her phone. Oh well she thought, Rae was right, in the middle of nowhere all the cool things do happen. At the bottom of the stairs there was a metal heavy door, Emily opened it with all the strength she had. When she walked in she found out that this was an underground bunker. She walked in even further to explore, she found a bedroom, laboratories, kitchen and canned food that can last the next fifty years, Library with really old books, there were a few rooms that were locked so she couldn’t get in. She was searching through some folders when all of a sudden she heard a creak, she turned around and she found a tall man standing there. He had abnormally circle eyes as if they were made of golf balls; he was wearing something that an old army plane driver would wear.”Umm, Good afternoon,” Emily said politely, “sorry that I’m in your bunker, I was walking and the lever tripped me up and the door opened to this place and...” Emily tried to finish but the man interrupted her.” Its ok, is this place interesting? Have a look around if you want,” replied the man calmly.” My name is Steve and this is my bunker where I do various experiments and research, and you are?” Asked Steve.” I am Emily, I have come to see my granny and she lives in that cottage not far from here. I am sorry if I have invaded your property, I will show myself out” Emily said, she was just about to leave when Steve asked if she would like to see the laboratory and Emily agreed. The laboratory was in one of the rooms that were locked, Steve obviously had the key and he opened it. She sat down on a chair and Steve was facing a cupboard full of paper and he didn’t see Emily take out a folder. Emily opened the folder and she read it quietly to herself while Steve was busy. The folder said:” The Shape shifter, Has the ability to transform into anything it sees. He is the most dangerous thing on the planet. The shape Shifter got out once and he took the form of a shadow, the towns people have seen him and they called him the Hide Behind, I managed to recapture him and put him in a steel cage, he took my form and my name as well, my name is Steve Johnstone and if you are reading this then you aren’t the shape shifter because he has a problem opening books and folders, here is my advice to you, RUN!

From,

Steve Johnstone.

Then she quickly put the folder back and then she felt like she was about to faint. She saw the steel cage in front of her and the bars were bent apart, On the ground she then found a picture, she picked it up and it was a picture of a shadow, she moved her chair the slightest bit just to see what Steve was doing, he was having difficulty opening a book! Emily swallowed the fear and asked,” What is your last name Steve?” Steve stopped trying to open the book and he paused, then he said,” Steve Smith.” Then he started going through the things again, that is when one thought came to her head, I need to get out of here.

She knew that he was the shape shifter and she needed to get out of that bunker, she calmly said,” Oh well, will you look at the time, I need to go or I will be late for my cabbage soup that my granny’s making.” Then the shape shifter turned around and turned into his original form and he said,” You’re not going anywhere.” He leaped to catch her but she ran into a room that said freezer room and it had big tubes that could freeze people. She thought, if I get him to go in there, I could close the door and freeze him, but how? Then she had an idea, she ran toward an axe, she picked it up and she decided to hide behind a tube. The shape shifter looked around and he found her, he started charging toward her. She hide the axe until the last second and when he was about to grab her, she cut off one of his arms, which momentarily stunned him. Taking the chance she had to escape, she pushed the shape shifter into the tube and she closed the door. She then pressed freeze and he began to freeze. With his last words he said,” Ha you don’t even know what is happening, I will find a way out and I will find you. You never should have come here. ”She got out of that bunker as fast as she could and she was about to close the door to the bunker when she heard a big clank inside. It’s probably nothing she said to herself and she left. She walked home to her granny’s but she realised something strange, her granny’s door wasn’t closed, it was open. Emily thought that maybe her granny was warm or something. Emily walked up to the door and she walked in.

It was eerily quiet

Emily walked further in and she saw something laying down behind the sofa, it was her