Howie landed hard on top of Kevin and they landed in a heap at Nick's feet. AJ slowly climbed down the unsteady ladder. Nick looked at AJ and Kevin.
"Guys, I think I was right!"
"About what?" asked AJ.
"The underground tunnels duh!"
"Oh. Right."
"Well, are we gonna explore 'em?" Nick asked anxiously.
"Well, I don't know..." Kevin muttered uncertainly. He looked down at Howie and over at Brian. "I guess maybe we could."
Nick started jumping again. He also howled again.
AJ shook his head, "Don't you ever learn anything?"
Kevin walked over to Brian.
"Brian, you gotta concentrate. We gotta make torches. Okay?"
After a few moments Brian snapped back into reality. "Uh ... right."
He took the lighter from Kevin and held it in front of him, looking on the ground for something. He started picking up pieces of worn out cloth. He grabbed some sticks and started making torches. He walked over to AJ and reached into his pocket and pulled out some lighter fluid.
"AJ, what the hell are you doing with lighter fluid?" Kevin asked, Nick eyeing AJ suspiciously.
"I dunno..."
Brian poured the fluid onto the torches and lit them with the lighter. He gave one to AJ and kept one for himself. AJ held his torch up to read something on the walls.
He gasped and Brian, Kevin and Nick looked over to where he was. On the walls in blood-red paint said 'LET'S PARTY' up and down, everywhere.
"Oh yeah, I was right!" Nick said.
"This place might not have been used in at least 50 years," Kevin pointed out.
"Yeah yeah, amazing Kev. But why does it have to smell?" AJ asked, pinching his nose. It smelled like decaying flesh mixed with shit or something.
They started walking down the tunnel away from the ladder, into somewhere unknown to most people. Unaware of the trouble that laid ahead.
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