➰The room➰

Taehyung furrowed his eye brows as he followed the little girl downstairs. It was the same little girl who gave him the necklace. He didn't know what happened but after he heard the bell ringing all of his friend were gone. He realized he ended up on the living room, to the locked door they couldn't get into before when they last came here.

It was a pretty large door with an old golden design. He figured it must've been an important room for their family knowing it was securely locked and how fine the door looked.

Taehyung stared at the little girl and pointed at the door. The little girl just nodded her head, "But it's locked. Me and my friends couldn't get it open." Taehyung spoke.

The little girl didn't reply and grabbed the handle, twisting it to the side and pushed it open making a screeching sound. Taehyung grabbed a flashlight and opened it, shining at the dark room. When the little girl took a step in, the old chandelier lights suddenly lit up, lighting the whole room. Taehyung was confused why it still worked considering a century have passed.

His eyes roamed around the room only to find himself in awe. The room was filled with large paintings covering the whole room. When Taehyung took a closer look, he realized it wasn't just a normal painting, it was the whole Zamora family history.

Every painting contained an older woman and a little girl beside her, with the Zamora mansion on the background. It looked like the photo they saw at the box they found. Taehyung found it really amazing yet really scary at the same time.

He saw the little girl staring at this one painting which he recognized very well, it was Janice and Lucy on the portrait. "It's Janice, isn't it?"

The little girl slowly nodded her head.

"What does she really want? Why is she doing this to people?" Taehyung asked but the girl only looked at him. Suddenly, Taehyung heard a loud thud coming from the staircase. He was about to check out what it was when the little girl gripped on his hand.

"Parating na siya," He managed to hear but as he was about to ask, he was already back on the room with his friends with all worried looks.

"Taehyung! Thank god you're back!" Jungkook shouted, throwing his arms to the boy.

"What's happening...?"

He noticed how depressed they all looked, especially Yoongi, who was gripping unto Jimin's unconscious body and a rosary on his other hand. Jin and Hoseok were the same state as Jimin, lifeless and almost looked like their dying.

"You tell us! What the hell happened to the three of you?" Namjoon shouted, pulling strands of his hair.

"W-what?"

"On the middle of us talking, the three of you just blacked out and we tried waking you up but it didn't work!" Jungkook muttered. "We thought you were all gone..."

"But Jimin thought you were all trapped in the realm of the dead... which is why–"

"Which is why he's unconscious right now. He risked his life by going after all of you to the death realm and save you." Yoongi wiped a tear that escaped his eyes and looked at Taehyung. "Did you see him there?"

"No, I didn't."

"Then how the hell did you get back?"

"The little girl who gave me the necklace, brought me back here. I don't know how but I found something on the realm of the dead, I think I know what this key is for!" Taehyung shouted, holding the key up high. "We can save the others if we figure it out!"

"Then let's go! Taehyung, you lead the way. I'll carry Jimin and Jungkook will carry Hoseok." Yoongi instructed and looked at Namjoon who was already picking up Jin on the floor. "Let's end this shit."

They rushed downstairs with Taehyung's lead and down to the large door on the living room. Taehyung inserted the key and sure did, the door opened wide revealing the same room he saw at the other realm only this time, it was more old-looking and the paintings were almost rotting up.

The three of them looked around, somewhat creeped out at the newly found room. Namjoon realized as soon as he saw all the portraits, "It's just like what it said on the newspaper. No husbands and only the daughter and the mother is present."

"We need to find out why, I hope this will end everything." Yoongi muttered and stared at Jimin's unconscious face. "Don't worry Jimin, I'll save you."

"Hyung! Something's wrong with Hoseok! He's been shaking a lot!" Jungkook worriedly uttered and set him down on the floor as the said boy continued to tremble.

"Oh no, we have to figure this out faster." Namjoon panicked and also lied Seokjin down to the floor. He asked, "Taehyung, where is Janice's portrait?"

"Over there hyung!" The two ran to the painting and stared at it, leaving the other two to watch out for the others.

Namjoon went to the neighboring portrait and put on his fist, knocking on the wall. He went back to Janice's painting and did the same. Then he started touching the wall and the painting. Taehyung looked at the older weirdly, "What are you doing?"

"It's just a hunch but I know there's a room on the other side of this painting. When I knocked on that other portrait, it was shallow and sturdy but in this wall, it wasn't. It was loud and echoey which means there's space behind it." Namjoon continued to roam his hands on the wall. "I'm just looking for something that might open up a secret wall to the other side."

"There's a small dent here at the corner..." Taehyung pointed out not realizing why until it popped into his head. "Hyung! Let's try pushing it!"

Namjoon nodded his head and pushed the painting as hard as they could until the heard a tick sound and the painting flipped over, revealing an abandoned nursery at the back of the painting, just like what Jimin had said before.

"Why is this here? Did Janice liked to play in here or did her parents just built a secret playroom for her?" Taehyung furrowed his brows, head slightly popping into the room and used his flashlight to glisten at the place. He scrunched his nose up at the horrible stench.

"I don't think it was neither of those," Namjoon spoke. Yoongi and Jungkook was curious enough to looked at what they just have found. "I think they were trying to hide somebody in there away from the people. And we need to find out who..."

Taehyung and the others gasped when they saw at the back of the painting, was another painting of Lucy Zamora with another kid beside her, a little boy. "...this boy was."

A/n:

Another update 💜