The horse stopped at the same place as he did last time, Philza climbed off and tied the horse to a nearby tree before he walked past the weeping angel gargoyle and towards the gate.
"Woah. . ."
A castle was here this whole time?
Philza opened the gate, walking alo g the bridge up to the door and noticing it had been opened so that meant Techno had to have been inside!
Philza pushed open the door, and as he entered the wind closed it after him which admittedly made him jump,"Shit-Calm down, just the wind. . . Oh who am I kidding it's probably some evil ghost going to take over my body.", Philza took out a torch, lighting it as he looked around the castle that oddly looked in good shape, was there a caretaker here or someone that owned the property?
Maybe??
Philza shook his head,"Nevermind-TECHNO!?!", Philza began to journey around the castle looking for his friend.
"TECHNO!!"

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Philza walked down the hall, what floor was he on??
He couldn't recall, but he knew it was getting dark out and it was beginning to rain so he best hurry up.
*Smash*
Philza froze and turned around to see a vase of withered tulips.
"That scared the shit out of me. . . Techno, if this is a joke of yours it is not funny in the slightest!"
And so Philza continued up the stairs.
"He has to be the one, the one that will break the spell!"
"Wait-What are you doing, the Mortal will see us!"
Philza definitely felt like he was being watched, but he didn't see anyone or anything??
Then he saw a light that lead up more stairs,"From how tight it looks, it may lead up to one of the towers.", but a light was traveling up, so Philza followed but the light was a strange blue light that seemed to be leading him somewhere.
"?"
He came to the top, or he hopped it was the top but a lot of torches were lit with this blue flame, it looks like the tours were all connected to what looked like a dungeon.
"Philza!. . ."
"TECHNO!"
Philza ran to one of the cells, Techno was slumped against the wall and had these strange black patches on his skin and his brown hair seemed. .   Lighter?
"Phil, you need to get out of here. . .!"
"Not without you, how did this happen?!", Philza reached into his bag and pulled something that could pick the lock of the cell,"No, Phil you don't understand you need to get out!-", the torches suddenly went out as a powerful wind, taking Phil by surprise,"You will not release my prisoner!", Philza froze, pulling out a sword,"Who's there?!", "The Mistress of this Castle, you intrudered on my land, my joke and so the punishment is set.", Philza felt their voice jumping off the walls, it was like this Mistress was everyone in the room!
"Intrudered?! We didn't know someone was leaving in this Castle!"
"No one does, but it makes no different that he will join the rest of the rotting souls."
Philza froze up, surely there wasn't any ghosts around here was there. . .
But he saw Skeletons in Techno's cell with a closer look, he couldn't. . .
"Wait we can come to an agreement!"
The voice huffed but it turned to Philza or Philza thought it was.
"Let me trade places with Techno."
"WHAT?!"
"You? You wish to trade places with him?"
Philza nods,"If I agree to switch places with Techno, you let him go and I'll stay as your prisoner.", "Forever. . .?", Philza tooked over at Techno, who was shaking his head but Philza reached into his bag and pulled out his lighter and relit his torch and held it slightly close to his face so whoever this was could see his face,"Where are you, if you can come into the light. . .", Philza held his breath, hearing whoever was in the room with them was not human.
And from the shadows, a tall woman came into the light as all the torches were relit and revealing that this woman was pretty tall, had a black dress, long black hair, pitch black wings and a vail around her hat that covered her face.
Philza gulped, even if he couldn't see her face he could almost feel like she was staring with a cold expression.
"Philza no. . .!"
Philza stood his ground, he gulped and lowered his head.
"You have my word."
"Done."
In one movement, the Mistress let Techno go and dragged him out yelling while Philza stood there as he ignored Techno's yelling for this deal not to happen and to let him go.

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Techno leaned against the horse, breathing heavily as the lady had some sort of magic that kept him from going back inside.
Though Techno felt like she did something to him, his gums hurt, his eyes felt twitchy and just felt like something was wrong.