‘This month begins part one of fear.’
What evil lurks
In
the ancient legend
Of spirit cave.
Sally and her friends Heather,
Wendy and Kathy stepped from the dark bedroom into the brightly lit hall.
“That was a really great film!”
Sally exclaimed, as her friends stopped to look at a poster on the bedroom wall
of her brother’s room next door. It was an ‘Iron Maiden’ poster, showing a
dark cloaked, axed figure hovering over the earth.
“Yeah, it was a cool film,”
Heather agreed.
“But they have no idea of how
kids should act, in a given situation.”
“What do you mean?” asked
Wendy.
“Well if I had been one of those
kids, I would never have let those ugly deformed creatures steal the Jewels
without a fight.”
“Oh, come on!” Wendy said.
“Those creatures had them surrounded. They had to give up the Jewel’s.”
Sally frowned. “I think
Heather’s right. It would have been better if they’d tried to fight their
way out in the first place. Then they wouldn’t have had to face those
creatures.”
Wendy rolled her eyes.
“Then they wouldn’t have made a
film!”
Kathy was very quiet. In fact, she
was still staring at the poster as if lost in a world of her own.
“You know what would be really
great?” She said at last.
“If we could go on our own
adventure.”
“Well, that’s a joke,”
laughed Heather. “There’s no place to go, around this tiny village.”
“Well, we could explore ‘Spirit
Cave’ Wendy announced.
Heather sniggered and shook her
head. “Get real!”
“You never know, we just might
find something creepy at spirit cave.”
“Yeah, like creepy spiders and
their death ray webs.”
“I’m serious!” Said Kathy,
getting rather cross with Heather and her smug remarks.
“What kind of creepy things?”
Wendy asked.
“Well legend has it that an old
wicked witch, who knew the secret of the cave, revived by magic invisible
unintelligent creatures.”
“Now that sounds creepy,”
Heather said at last.
“That’s not all,” Sally said,
“ Apparently these creatures captured people.”
“What for?” Heather asked with
a shiver. Sally shrugged.
“Nobody knows for sure, but their
victims were never seen again.”
“I also discovered,” Sally
continued. “That a native American Shaman used his special powers to protect
the people and trap the witch and the evil spirits within the cave. Now, comes
the interesting part!”
“What! What!” Cried Kathy with
excitement.
“The Shaman no longer dwells
within the cave. He disappeared when the cave was opened to the public.”
The group of friends stood in
silence for a moment. It was Kathy who interrupted the moment.
“Why don’t we explore the
legend further and find out if it’s true or not?” Asked Kathy with a wicked
grin.
The rest of the group shook their
heads in agreement.
