“NO!” Goten and Mageman shouted out in unison. They both spun around in an attempt to save Gamestar but it was too late, he was gone. Down heartened, they both turned back around to continue their quest and jumped back with fright. In front of them stood an evil menace who had a large grin painted across his face.
“GAMESTAR!” Mageman said in surprise. Gamestar appeared to have survived the fall and was standing in front of them.
“Gotcha!” He said, still grinning. Suddenly Mageman leapt up and tackled Gamestar to the ground, the pair of them rolling around across the carpet as Goten tried in vain to pry the furious Mageman off of Gamestar, who had called out before hiding behind a statue to pretend that he had fallen down a trapdoor. As Mageman was on top of Gamestar, the miscreant was laughing,
“Ha-ha! I can’t believe you believed that! Why would there be a trapdoor on the second flo-.” He was cut off as a trapdoor opened and, in front of Goten, his two companions fell through to whatever awaited them below. He was alone.
Pacing around the trapdoor, Goten pondered about what the course of action should be. He could see three options: give up and get captured; try to find everyone, dead or alive, rescuing anyone who was alive or he could just leave the house alive.
“I must save them!” He said to himself, thinking about his true love, xxpk. He knelt down on the floor and lifted up the carpet to reveal the wooden flooring below. There was the faint outline of a trapdoor in the floor and he pulled a screwdriver out of his pocket (because, of course, he ALWAYS carried a screwdriver – along with some string and a potato – around with him) and began prying the flooring up around the trapdoor. When he had pulled enough wood out to get underneath the trapdoor without alerting anyone that someone was coming down (the trapdoor itself had a set of bells attached so that if it opened, a noise would sound through the house) and he swung himself under the floor into the small space below. The trapdoor seemed to be over a wall on the ground floor, and there was room for Goten to climb down until he was inside the wall and then below the ground floor. He could hear some sort of maniacal laughter through the wall and he spotted a small hole of light seeping through the wall. He went over to it and peered through.
Through the peephole Goten could see a dark room which had been lit by several flaming torches along the walls. Also along the walls were several metal rings, from which some strange things were chained from. Looking closer, Goten could make out the faint shape of a cup of Donut Juice and a yellow star. There was one person not chained up in the room, but his back was turned to Goten so the villain could not be identified. The person was wearing an object which was very close to Goten’s heart - and often his head – a Tan Cavalier.
There was only one person, apart from himself, that Goten knew wore a Tan Cavalier...
“Andrey...” Goten whispered to himself. At that precise moment, the antagonist turned around and it was revealed that Goten had been correct for, in the centre of the room, stood Andrey – the only survivor of the apocalypse...
Is Andrey REALLY the evil one? What will Goten do next? Will this story EVER end? Find out in Halloween in RuneVillage V: The Showdown
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