The Cellar Of Doom

Alesha let break a foresighted, heavy sigh. She couldnt believe she was stuck in an old hotel in Lincoln, Maine, USA. It was the Summer Holidays and she had pass to America with her mama, dad, and her maddening younger brothers Ashley and Scott, who were six and seven. Scott and Ashley werent the ease sort of kids. They tended to excited over anything, and were always hyper. The Miller family were staying at The Stars And banding Hotel, which was re ally old and boring.Alesha would much rather be back at home in England, even it was raining all the time on that point. Alesha had lone(prenominal) been there for two days, and had already taken advantage of the fantastic facilities. thither was the amazing pool and spa, the fabulous arcade and the wonderful multi sports court. Alesha couldnt see what was so fantastic close a dirty pool, an out-of-order spa, two fruit machines and a large fling of bemire with a few goalposts. It was going away to be a very long and boring t wo weeks.She had been out exploring the creepy, old hotel trying to find s deadly kids some her age. Alesha was 14, so it was quite easy really, as there were dozens of fed up teenagers staying at the old place.Alesha, were going out her mammy called.Cool, lets go to Detroit, or Hollywood, or.No, I mean me and your father ar going for a meal. Were going to find a place to eat. OK?What? Alesha protested. Thats not fair. You mean me, Ash and Scott become gotta stay here?Thats right. Well be only be gone for about three hours. We are not going far, we are still staying in Lincoln, dont worryBut mumNo buts, OK? Now, be good.Alesha sat on the fraying green couch, and odored around the dreary brown and yellow room.The colours in here are awful. They so dont match she suasion.She picked up her magazine and started to read the article about her favourite rapper, Eminem. She glanced at the clock. Her parents had only been gone for ten minutes.She heard a loud contendoping hitch.As hley, Scott, please SHUT UP Stop that banging NOW she shouted.Alesha, it wasnt us Scott called.Whatever Now, just shut upShe flicked on the old television and picked up the dusty remote control. The room hadnt been cleaned for ages. The narrative had cigarette stains all over it, and as for the curtains, there was no range in having them there, because they were so ripped and frayed, they were closely non existent.The banging noise was really annoying her now, and she yelled at her brothers to shut up, but they denied making the banging sound.She threw tear bug out her magazine and started to watch the TV. There was an image of a man mental synthesis a brick wall in what looked a cellar. There was also a middle-aged lady with him. She looked really bewildered. thus the man turned to her and started licking the lady with a shovel. Boring Alesha pressed the CHANNEL UP button. ask how to go about TRL on this thing? Alesha wondered.The comparable image was on the screen. What ? Alesha pushed down hard on the control. Maybe the button had got jammed. Now the woman was flagrant out in pain, and blood was staining her pale blue dress. She was howler STOP STOP But the man obviously had no feelings, for he kept checking her, his shovel bright red, his face with an villainy grin, his gray-headed eyes frostily staring at the frightened woman, and the horror on the womans face. Alesha was horrified, and pushed the button again. By now the woman was dead, and the TV still wasnt operative properly. Alesha watched as the man started digging a hole, maybe a grave, in this thing that looked standardised a fireplace, but filled with soil and coal. Then Alesha heard a banging, and she wasnt sure whether it was on the TV or the same one as she had heard before.Alesha was really frightened, but she was almost glue to the screen. She wasnt sure what it was, but it was like there was a special force, guardianship her transfixed to the terrifying images. She tried to pull away, but she couldnt. She watched as the evil man the booted the dead be into the make shift grave. After a while, the man had covered the woman with soil and coal. He carried on mental synthesis the wall.Alesha had snapped out of her trance, and tried the same button again. But when she pushed the button, nothing happened. What was going on? Maybe the remote wasnt working properly. That was why the sick class wouldnt go away. She stood up, and kept hearing continuous banging. Maybe it was conterminous entre or something. She was getting quite scared now. She realised that it was 630 pm, and that her parents had been gone for an hour. She couldnt bear to be alone now, so she called to her brothers. She turned the TV take away.Oi, come ere, now she called out, agitated.When they didnt answer, she went to investigate. She realised that they were asleep in their beds.Typical. Asleep at 630 Lazybones she thought. Well, they must be quite tired later the football this m orning.Then there was a knock at the door. persuasion it was her parents, Alesha hastily opened it.Hi said a voice.She saw it was her impertinently friends that she had met in the pool yesterday.Hi marshal, hi Justin, hi Mel Alesha cried.marshal was from Detroit, Justin was from calcium and Mel was from England. They were bored too.Wanna come out with us? We are sooooo bored, and were jus wondering whether you wanna come and jus like wander around here. Justin said.I cant, I gotta look after my brothers. She replied.Go on Mel pleaded.Well, only quickly. Scott and Ash are asleep anyway.Alesha stepped out with her friends, and realised that she had about two hours before her parents got back.So where we goin? Alesha asked.Dunno Mel replied.They walked around, and found a set of stairs leading downwards. Alesha had forgotten about the TV incident, because she was euphoric that she wasnt alone anymore. There was a NO ENTRY sign on the door. Aleshas phone beeped. It was a text message. It saidHI ALESHA HOPE U R LOOKIN AFTA UR BRUVZ. WE MIGHT BE BAK L8R, MAYB 930. HOPE U R OK. IF U GET WORRIED JUS CALL US. C U L8R still N DAD XX )Alesha felt a bit iniquitous leaving her brothers alone now, but pleased she was out of the boring, stuffy hotel room.Marshall turned the NO ENTRY sign over so that it looked like a blank piece of card. They followed the stairs down, and realised that it was a cellar. It was pitch black. Alesha heard a very familiar noise.Uh.is there a light in ere? Mel asked.Hey, guys, yhear that? Alesha questioned, totally ignoring Mel.What, the banging? Yeah, I think. Justin said.SHHH she whispered.Sure enough, there was a banging coming from somewhere in the room.Marshall searched the wall with his hands to find a light successor. He found one, and flicked the switch on.BANG BANGMarshall Mel said.The banging got louder.Its nothing, OK guys? Leave it. Were mulct Hey.Look, a video tv camera Its one of them ones that came out about quintuplet eld ago, you know, a pocket one They are worth laden Justin shouted with excitement.He went over to examine it. It was about 10cm in whirligig and 5cm in width. Justin had seen it hidden in a small hole in the wall. It was plugged in though, as if someone had affiliated it to something.Alesha noticed that something had been boarded up.Hey, microchip this out, I wonder whats behind this?Er, probably nothin interestin Marshall answered.He started to kick the board down, with Justin still exa miniskirtng the video camera. Mel and Alesha just stood there talking.Once Marshall kicked the down the board, there was a wall which was about 2 metres high.Hey, look over here he cried with excitement.What it is? Mel asked.Dunno. Im gonna climb over it and see what its hiding.He started to clamber over it, but the wall obviously hadnt been built properly, because it collapsed almost straight away. Marshall tumbled to the floor, and realised he had landed right next to something that made him fee l quite sickUgh, Justin, its a skeleton How did it get down here? Justin screamed.OH MY GOD Mel cried when she saw it.Cool Marshall marvelled.Yuk What we gonna do? Alesha shouted out.Then Alesha remembered the video.Justin. she called out.She ran over to the video camera. It was true. The video camera was connected to a TV somewhere in the hotel. Her TV. The shocking images that she had been watching in front had actually happened. She explained to the others what she had seen earlier. But how could the banging be explained?Once Justin had gone to reply to find somebody, the once isolated room was filled with natural law, hotel staff and detectives. The police questioned the kids. Mel thought they would get told off for entering the cellar without permission They didnt though. Although Alesha got told off for leaving Ashley and Scott on their own, she didnt really mind because it had been an adventure for her. Months the woman was named as Ann McKenzie.The police confirmed that A leshas story was true. What had happened was that years ago, Ann knew that her fianc would kill her, because he was so violent, and every time she left him, he would hunt her down and beat her up. Every year they came to Maine, to The Stars And Stripes Hotel, and he kept dropping hints about death and that he would kill her once they were in Maine. Because they were from California, he thought that he wouldnt be caught because of the distance. She had no escape. So she invested in a mini camera so that he could be caught. Ann cleverly connected the camera to a TV, which happened to be in Aleshas room.Since the hotel had been closed for the last three years due to health and safety reasons (Alesha wondered what it was like before the inspections), nobody would have noticed. Then Anns fianc (later named as Daniel Durst) beat her to death and sealed up her body up in the fireplace. Because the camera was a mini one, Daniel didnt notice it. Ann was remote from the Missing Persons list, and because Daniels face was seen on the camera, the police caught him, and gave him a life imprisonment. The kids were granted medals because they were quite brave. Alesha wasnt sure, but she had a funny feeling the banging noise was the ghost of Ann McKenzie, trying to get the attention of holiday makers, so that everything would be discovered, and her fianc would be put to justice.After Aleshas holiday had finished, she kept in commove with the other kids. Maybe the holiday wasnt so bad after all