It was pitch dark and only thing that could be seen is that small spot where the flashlights..fall..the cricketing sounds of the insects were vividly heard...

The slightest of the wind blew and made the dry leaves on the ground move a little making a small screeching sound...on the hard ground..

All the 10 of them were standing horizontally..next to each other ...all had their flashlights on the mansion..

Wherever they moved their light..or rather wherever their light fell they all saw an insect moving from their habitat very swiftly...and saw the most ugliest and intricate, dense spider webs...it was a like a unpleasant decor over the walls and they were many long cracks on the wall..many went like a tree branch ...had small branches of cracks coming from them ...

Faizi: booth vooth ka patha nahi..yeh mahal crack ho kar na kar gir jaaye..humare sar pe .. he said still staring at the mansion...

Sumanji immediately turned his flashlights so much so to block his vision..with the light...
Tumare mooh se kuch acha nikalega bhi?!? And started moving her light to and fro on his face..the light that him irritated him..still nodded a yes...and focussed again on the mansion....

It seemed when people actually lived there...they had garden on both side of the mansion...

There was a long gap between..the mansion and the corridors...and kind of weeds..bushes..were grown entangled...

Karan, sid, sanju and Faizi moved to one side ways and Monami, Premji, Suman and koel to the other...

The cricketing sounds got more louder...and they followed the walls and looked upwards...it had windows of the rooms that were there probably...gain with some spider webs...and beyond that zero visibility...

The troop went to proceed..but heard bala and chitra quarrelling...and retreated back to the front...

Bala moved in front in order to open the door...

Chitra held his hand..and pushed him backwards...their shoulders hit each other's..

Bala clearly irritated..and rubbing his shoulders..kya hai...

Chitra: main jaungi andar gate kolne ....
#blogger main hoon...#influencer...she flipped her hair...

It fell on bala's face..he immediately roved it..tu..tu...it was covered in dust and what not ...

Bala: tu poore mitti ko sar par leliya kya...uuuvaah he faked a puke...uss darwaze ko main hi kolunga...

Chitra: nahi..main koulngi...
Bala: toh manjao ki iss mission main last kill mera tha...

Chitra: nahi vo toh mera hi tha..
Bala: fir mein chala kolne...

Everybody returned at this point...

And they both suddenly went silent... Everybody was just staring at them in disbelief...

Sid: kya karte rahe toh yarr...aise chala na kuch nahi kar payenge...

Karan: teek hai andar chalte hain..saath mein rahenge...par..

Everybody noded..

Karan: kya kuch toh bolo...

Everybody just then realised it was dark and karan wouldn't know it...thay all said in unison...yes sir!!....the birds flew at this sound...

Faizi gulped..and took two steps backwards...don't worry it's just the birds...kisi ko pata nahi chalna chahiye ki tera fatta isme hi..he composed himself...be brave tu ek commando hai...

Karan: tu teek hai...
Faizi:haan..haan.. mujhe kya hua....hmm..tum bhi na karan..bhooth se dar tha hoon yeh...bird vird se nahin...

Karan let down his breath and composed himself.. controlling his smile...and went near the door of the mansion.. and everybody followed...and he scanned the door with the torchlight..and.....jerked off a bit.....he took baby steps backwards...he moved the light and saw it to be a spider eating a cockroach...it slowly sucked the whole brown cockroach in...

It was a very old door made of wood...
and it had some intricate details in it..but lost all the varnish...and appeared bloated..may be due to the moist in the air...

He removed the spider's web...and shook his hands to get it off from him...

He tried to push the door...but the door was stuck..probably given the fact that it had remained that way for a long time ...

He pushed it harder..and the door opened with a squeak...

Faizi smiled he was all ready for the squeak this time he wasn't scared...
I know nobody knows the technique of oiling...the doors..not this time..he felt proud of himself...but happiness didn't last long as a bat suddenly flew passed him ..giving him jumpscare..and he held koel's hand...

One flew over koel's head but she was standing still...like nothing happened...she has seen much darker shit in life..this is not going to scare her...

Everybody entered the mansion...
The floor was dusty as hell..noone was certain what it was made of ..when flashlights hit it ,, somethings flashed .hinting it may be old mosaic tiles...

That was a hall way..Monami lifted up the torchlight to see the end of it but it was pitch dark ...

Sumanji started chanting...
Jai hanuman gyaan Gunn sagar...
Jai kapis tihun lok ujaagar....

to herself....
They started walking...they could hear the steps clearly...the leaves crackled and split with their boots stepping on it ....

They proceed further to find a break in the hallway ...

They all took the turn..and it lead to a room...

Karan opened the door...and the mice made their way out running over his boots...and a foul smell came all of them closed their nose...

All proceeded in...

Monu hit something on her leg...she immediately move the torch and found a bed..she examined the bed..the foames of the bed were out...might be some cats job...and because it had a window next to it it the rain water made it soggy...

Sumanji proceeded futher at the corner of the room she found something..glowing...still chanting her mantras..she swallowed her saliva in...and proceeded that while others were just few inches behind her ....

She inches closer by taking baby steps...and she finds a vintage dressing table...she sighed and closed her eyes..and lifted the torch...

She took deep breaths...there were drops of blood droping off the dusty mirror...two long trails of blood just flowing through...she bit her lips ...it's not her first time she has seen blood stain...she composed herself and lifted her torch a little more higher tracing the line of blood.....and....ufffff....she let a sigh of relief it was mice....she composed herself...

And turned back...she kept her fingers on her forehead...and nodded her head...guys let's just head out..mereko acche wali vibes hi nahi are...please let's just...

Everybody gathered near her..

Premji interrupted arey.. Sumanji kuch nahi ...aap tension mat lo... Aapne meri serial deka na maa ka poot episode no.1256 mein jo bhoot aata hai..vo ek criminal hota hai dekha na aapne...
Uss scene mein main hi tha jo ye sach batharahatha fir vo main lead  mera credit chura Letha hai..

Monami, sid and Faizi went and comforted her..karan went and saw the dressing table and understood her situation...

Sumanji interrupted him it's not the bhooth Premji...vibe hi sahi nahi hai...

Bala: hum commandoes hai didi..aap aise kaise ek mice se Darr gayi..

Monu:baath vo nahi bala bro.. mujhe bhi ajeeb si feeling aarahi hain..hume patha nahi..yeh sab..mujhe bhi...

Sumanji : please chalte haina yaha se...and she stormed out of the room and went to the hallway near the door...and all of them followed her...

Sumanji blinked her eyes it was pitch dark....she slowly blinked her eyes and rolled her eye balls still not a thing came in her vision.she couldn't..open her eye lids properly...she closed her eyes and rubbed them again...and open them..still it was pitch dark...
She slowly...lifted her back..to making it straight...the moment she moved something fell on her lap...she licked her dry lips and slowly..brought her hand and touched it..to know what it was...her trembling hands she kept going inch by inch down she felt something soft...she move a inch higher she felt something elevated...the more she realised what it was the more harder it was for her to breathe.it was human lips and nose..it was a face....she immediately...jerked it off Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh she screamed at the top of her lungs... and shivering...her voice lingered...as an echo..adding more shivers...

Trembling she took her baby steps...she hit something metal...she tightened her jaws so that her teeth won't shiver..and bit her upper lip...jai...she breathed ..hanuman......she gasped for breath..she bent down slowly and touched her feet and moved her fingers near her....she immediately realised it was a flashlight and grabbed it ...she wanted to turn it on..she sighed...she slowly kept her hand on her heart which was just pacing...and tapped a little...and bit her teeth and tried have a control her frantic breathing.. ond mustered her courage and turned on the light...

The light hit the ceiling and she could sense someone..standing right behind her..a tear just dropped from her left eye ...she was choking..she slowly turned...closing her eyes...tightly..she was clinching her fists...slowly opened her eyes..it was her reflection...in the mirror...she breathed hard and wiped her sweat seeing herself on the mirror...it was full size mirror...and she noticed they were just mirror as walls every wall was a huge mirror and her reflection was everywhere......except a black hole which may be the entrance to the room may be..she gulped and she saw something near her foot...she slowly bent her flashlight...

Monami...she immediately sat down and shook her monu...monu...her hands shivered and her eyes turned red...she brought he index finger to her nostril ... she felt a slight traffic of air near her nose aand sighed...she shook her...and called her name...Monami slowly came to her consciousness...she blinked her eyes..seeing that with in that dark room gave sumanji a sigh of relief...she immediately took her into an embrace...she was relieved..monu too hugged her..they broke the hug...

Sumanji:..hume yaha se chalna hoga...chalo uto..she said hurriedly...
Monu composed herself and kept her hand she found a flashlight too..and turned it on..with the help of..sumanji..she stood up...

She quickly..glanced up all the mirrors ..yeh hum kaha aagaye..

Sumanji yeh sab baadh mein chalo...

Monu nodded and held sumanji's hands...they started to leave..

They felt something down their spine...monu and sumanji gazed at each other...monu's eyes widened her eyes were just fixed to the mirror that were in the back side of sumanji...but..the reflection was as if sumanji is facing the mirror and sumanji...saw monu's face on all the mirrors that monu's back was facing .....they both gulped.....held their hands...

Aaaaaaaaah and ran from the room...they didn't know where they were...running out from the room they hit the corridor...and the frantically search here and there with their flashlights...and find a staircase...they holded their hands together and ran down their stairs and came down...

I think this is the other side of the hallway monu said and they ran...and they stopped near the door...both Monami and sumanji could react..their mouths fell open..for what they saw in front of them.. they had found...all the rest of them... laying one over the other...like a heap of bodies....near the door...Monu and sumanji looked at each other.....

They hurriedly went near them and checked their pulse one by from top to bottom crying...all over ...thank God everybody was breathing...both of them removed them from the top shivering , trembling...and they shook all of them all of them came to senses one by one...They helped all of them stand they were in some inebriated state..and we're slowly coming to senses..all of them ruu Ed their eyes it took a couple of minutes time...to get back their senses but all of them were fine...thank God...

Premji: lagta hai aankh lag gayi.. before both sumanji and monu could say anything...they were interrupted by a sound... everybody felt a chill down their spine and the temperature had turned pretty low...
They all moved there flashlights to the direction were the sound came...and....found a old clock...a bit far away.....standing tall with its swinging pendulum...

Monu and sumanji...slowly went near it...

Ding....ding.....ding...ding...ding...ding...ding.....ding...ding....ding...ding...ding...

And the clock struck twelve..... everybody looked at each other in horror ... with their flashlights...

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