red together to make plans on ho

challenge, the door opened, an

who was armed with a gun strapped behind his back. They all rushed to their

r guests." Mr. Blackwood announced smiling. "What if we refuse?" Lucky asked, trying to summon a bit of cour

glanced at Victor, who gave her a solemn nod. She approached the box and dipped her hand into the hole where she felt several pieces of paper folded inside. She picked one and brought it out, her hands trembling in fear as she tried to open it to reveal the name.

Chen." She read out. Izzy brought her hand to her mouth, stif

prodded while keeping an eye on Victor. Izzy is led into a room where the walls are covered with shifting, shadowy images. At the end of the room plastered to the wall like a door stands a

dress code, but since there was no parent she could be reported to, she was often just given detention and some other punishment. On this day, she had just finished serving time in detention and was happy to make her way back to the orphanage, and she couldn't wait to meet her favourite

loor as her leg gave out on her. She became lightheaded and started vomiting. Her body was soaked with sweat, and she had a tingling feeling at her extremities. Luckily for her, Mr Charles had been looking for her and somehow managed to trace her to the shed by tracking her phone. He arrived on time and rushed her to the hospital where she was later treated and was fin

terred the guns

m designated for the challenge. The air was heavy with an unsettling ambiance, and the wa

ders. Hundreds of them, crawling across the walls, the ceiling, and the floor. Izzy's heart raced, and she felt a wave of nausea. But she knew this was the illusion challenge. She needed to stay calm and remember the instructions. "It's not real," she whispered to herself. The room seemed to come alive w

urged through her veins. In a desperate attempt to escape the

all over her. Overwhelmed by fear and unable to distinguish illusion from reality, Izzy screamed. She swatted at the imagi

her mind, the spiders were real, and their venomous bites felt excruciating. With a final, desperate cry, Izzy collapsed to the ground,

illusion and darkness. "Another one bites t