Macabre illusion
"At this moment, Madeline appeared at the door and totally scared me. "Run, run! They are looking for us! Run!" She said with a terrible scream. Suddently, the clangorous, hollow and terrifying reverberation souded again. Roderick and Madeline were petrified, which made me more worried. So we decided to escape the haunted mansion, quietly at the beginning, and when we crossed the corridor I saw the most frightening thing I had ever seen. Paintings were alive : the portraits of the Usher family went left their paintings. They all looked mad, first I wondered myself if not all this even was not a nightmare, but when I smelt a violent hand on my elbow, I knew that my life was in danger. Madeline was totally petrified and couldn't move. Quickly, I took her in my arm and follow Roderick to the exit. But when we arrived at the stairs, Roderick passed before us, I dreadful sound rang from the stairs : all broke down and Roderick fell and died in front of my eyes. Even if I hadn't seen him for long time and have never considered him as a very close friend, seeing Roderick's death just before me after a weird visit with him made me sad, now I was totally lost in this monstruous house. Fortunately, Madeline didn't see her brother's death, she felt dizzy.
The house was now not almost enlightened, and I smelt my death arrived. I found a little room at the back of the corridor which I could locked with keys. I wouldn't not cry before being killed, question of dignity. Madeline woke up and looked at me with her largedark eyes, she was beautiful, for an instant i forgot where i was and her presencereassure myself. I made sign to her not make any noise, because the spirits, ghosts or whatever it was, (because i didn't know what this thing was ...) looking for as like looking for blood.
"In my bedroom we could escape from the window.." she whispered. But how could we leave this room? She looked at me, and even if I didn't talk she read my mind. she gave me a kiss and said "I am pleased to meet you, but no, it's time to go." I understood that we couldn't stay there longer and that now we have nothingto anymore. So let's go, i told myself. I took the handle and breathed. Just few seconds later we found ourself outside the door I felt like a target a prey. Step by step we walked in the gloomy corridor. Apart from our breathing there was an appalling silence. All of the sudden I knew there were here, just close to us, I done in the dark. "AAAAAH!" Screamed Madeline pointing to the roof a kind of black mass was hanged in the corner of the roof, with its eyes looking at us with a big rage.
I took Madeline's hand and we crossed the long corridor running the terrible thing called the others with a high-pitched cry before coming Madeline's bedroom I took a candlestick posed on a table, and with a fury i hit the monster, when he was down i beat him, i gave him so much boot for all the rage i have accumulate during this visit, that i had forgotten that Madeline was waiting in the bedroom and that approximatively ten kinds of paintings looking for me. I let the thing down and run to Madeline. She couldn't open the window : the mansion decided to keep us as prisoners. I tried to open, and indeed it was impossible. The house was alive, i couldn't believe it, but the paintings, Roderick's illnessand all stranges events were due to the usher family and the house was there propriety from generations to generations. But i decided to choose my destiny : and wouldn't die here and now, so i took the candlestick that I had actually never released and I broke the window's glass. The ghost began to try to enter the room and Madeline put some fournitures in front of the door. Once the window were broken up I looked at the height of the level. There must be three meters. But fortunately there was lake below us. The door began to open itself with all the monsters behind. There for i told Madeline to jump before me, she was terrified but knew that it was the only possibility to live. Then i follewed her in her fall, oblivious what attempt me below.
"In my bedroom we could escape from the window.." she whispered. But how could we leave this room? She looked at me, and even if I didn't talk she read my mind. she gave me a kiss and said "I am pleased to meet you, but no, it's time to go." I understood that we couldn't stay there longer and that now we have nothingto anymore. So let's go, i told myself. I took the handle and breathed. Just few seconds later we found ourself outside the door I felt like a target a prey. Step by step we walked in the gloomy corridor. Apart from our breathing there was an appalling silence. All of the sudden I knew there were here, just close to us, I done in the dark. "AAAAAH!" Screamed Madeline pointing to the roof a kind of black mass was hanged in the corner of the roof, with its eyes looking at us with a big rage.
I took Madeline's hand and we crossed the long corridor running the terrible thing called the others with a high-pitched cry before coming Madeline's bedroom I took a candlestick posed on a table, and with a fury i hit the monster, when he was down i beat him, i gave him so much boot for all the rage i have accumulate during this visit, that i had forgotten that Madeline was waiting in the bedroom and that approximatively ten kinds of paintings looking for me. I let the thing down and run to Madeline. She couldn't open the window : the mansion decided to keep us as prisoners. I tried to open, and indeed it was impossible. The house was alive, i couldn't believe it, but the paintings, Roderick's illnessand all stranges events were due to the usher family and the house was there propriety from generations to generations. But i decided to choose my destiny : and wouldn't die here and now, so i took the candlestick that I had actually never released and I broke the window's glass. The ghost began to try to enter the room and Madeline put some fournitures in front of the door. Once the window were broken up I looked at the height of the level. There must be three meters. But fortunately there was lake below us. The door began to open itself with all the monsters behind. There for i told Madeline to jump before me, she was terrified but knew that it was the only possibility to live. Then i follewed her in her fall, oblivious what attempt me below.
Finally, more scared than hurt, we fell on the fresh lake, and behind us all the mansion falt in ruin, covered the frightening memories of the Usher family. I heardan horrendous sound of cracking, so i understood that it was the end of this ordeal. I looked at Madeline and help her to come out the lake. Once outside, she looked around her and asked me where was her brother.
"He joined them..." I said gently. She didn't cry, and didn't ask another question about her brother. Whereas the house collapsed behind us, I took her hand and we left this haunted place. Even if I didn't turned back to wtach the disaster, anyway I was afraid that one of the monsters would come the ruin and caught us.
-And that's how I met your mother, Paul. Orignal story, doesnt'it ?" Paul is our son, he's forty years old. With Madeline , we chose to adopt him so as not to perpetuate the curse of the Usher family, because Madeline is the only direct Usher's decent. This terrible night haunted me for several years, and I made some frightening nightmares. Madeline, had never talked about her brother brother since that event and we asked the town hall to destroy the Usher propriety . I can tell you that before this weird and gloomy travel to this mansion, I had the thought quiete limited, that is to said that if someone could narrate to me a story like that, I would have laughed. But now, Iknow and I want to share this experience to make you understand that the reality you live is just a tiny reality in an ocean of possibility, an ocean of another reality almost the same but with new things which seems to us strange and unusual, but we must to question ourself... What ios the truth? Macabre illusion
"At this moment, Madeline appeared at the door and totally scared me. "Run, run! They are looking for us! Run!" She said with a terrible scream. Suddently, the clangorous,
hollow and terrifying
Caroline Nasica TL1
