Character Study 3

Combined narrative 

I finally arrived, its nearly what I imagined it to be... but where are all the hot college boys? Alright Elizabeth, you are here to get an education, eye on the prize!Okay I'll fix my hair just in case I find this mythical creature.  I think I will take a stroll up to my new dorm! I mean, I might see a college boy or not, but if I do at least my hair is perfect. Okay, here i go, me, my suitcase, and I, walk, walk ,into the lobby, walk, walk, walk, push elevator button, ding, into the elevator, doors close. Oh, there's elevator music, I like it! I start a small celebratory dance that i made it and I'm on my way to my DORM. It's like I was just in Preston's class a year ago with all my friends and now I am here alone. Okay, fifth floor, here it goes! Oops, forgot my suitcase, ninja skills, and it is snatched from the elevator as the doors try to take my arm with it. then of course the doors open, elevators these days, just awful. Okay back on track, to the room! My roommate will probably be my best friend so I hope she's just not crazy. If I set my hopes low, then i can't get let down right? Yes, lets just aim for not psycho. Such little belief in humans, come on Elizabeth, have some faith! But honestly how can you know these days? Here it is! 518! Door opens and.... wow, this is anticlimactic. Everything is so bare and naked. If only I was crafty, but I'm not, sigh. Well there is a note with a goody bag. Extra points if there is food in it... I trot over like a happy college student and read the note. Take the goody bag, your suit case, and meet in the front of the bus station, more directions will be dispatched once you arrive. Ohhh a scavenger hunt, I like it . I reach in the bag, I feel something metal. What? What could it be? I pull it out and to my shock its a gun. My heart starts pounding and I look around. Am I in the right room? I am so confused. Wait this can't be for me. I look at the note and at the end it says, don't say anything Elizabeth, to anyone. Oh my goodness. I think I am going to faint. I need to collect myself, just like in Taken, I have to do what it says. My family is here and I don't want to put them in danger. This is obviously some cruel joke or something seriously crazy and is this a movie? My phone rings and I almost pee my pants. I make myself look at it even though i just want to hide. It's my mom. I reluctantly answer with a questioning hello? Mom is rambling as usual but I am listening with my full attention because this could be the last time we talk. She and my dad have all my suitcases and are bringing them up. I say okay and hang up quickly. I have got to move. It will be hard to explain things that are in here and escape once they see me. I grab the gun, goody bag and my heavy suitcase that feels light now as my adrenaline kicks in. I start running down the hallway to the elevator, hoping i might run into a set of stair because i defiantly don't want to run into my family. My luck there are stairs across from the elevator. I shove open the door and drag my bag through just as the elevator dings to let someone off. I scurry  down the stairs as fast as I can, trying not to fall on my face. I make it to the bottom after so many flights of stairs, I can't count, at least it was going down. I fast walk to the bus stop, trying not to look suspicious or let people know i am about the cry. I sit on the bench and wait for the bus. It speedily arrives and I jump on. I stow any extra "goodies" in my suitcase and sit down. My legs and hands are shaking but thankfully no one is on the bus because they are all unpacking they stuff in the dorms. I wish i could be doing the same. Then my phone rings, I glance at it and its an unknown number. Oh no, I am going to throw up. How yourself together Liz! You are strong and whatever happens, good thing you have muscles. You can do it, answer the phone. So I do. A warbly voice is on the other line. They say everything i need is in the bag and remind me not to tell anyone or they will kill my family, my pets, my friends, you get the picture. I start crying in the middle but they threaten me again which makes me stop for fear of everyone I love. They said I am going to Paris and I have to do everything they say before I can return home.....

I am on a plane now, everyone seems perfectly content except me. There is a bunch of turbulence but I am holding completely still and can't seem to move very much out of fear. After the call ended on the bus, I checked the goodie bag and it had directions to get to the airport from the bus stop and a ticket for that night to Paris. There was also a phone inside the bag because I had to smash my phone. A bag was inside for the gun to get it through security. The turbulence has now turned from bad to worse. I would throw up but i hadn't eaten for hours, not that i was hungry.

Now I am wandering through Paris. They hadn't told me what to do once i got here. I got off the plane three hours ago and I had been walking ever since. It was getting cold and I didn't know exactly what I should do. I still had my suit case which thankfully had a heavy coat in it because I am a terrible over packer. I found a bench and huddled under my jacket. I felt uneasy but the exhaustion overruled everything else and I fell asleep.

The next thing I know, Alec, Victoria, Daniel and Matthew are looking over me. Um, is this a dream? I start to come to my senses and sit up. Yep, it is them, all the way from California too. They have the same terror in their eyes that I'm sure I have right now too. I hug them and ask them what is happening. Alec tells me he got woken up in the middle of the night with directions to get on a plane and come here, same with Victoria, Daniel and Matthew. I asked how they found me and they said they had followed their GPS right to my location. At first they thought I was a homeless person because of my rough appearance, but if they looked int he mirror, they would say the exact thing about them-self. That must be some advancement on this phone i have so the people in charge can track me too. "So we are supposed to be on a mission, what is it?" Matthew said," I don't know, but I am hungry, lets go get food." We all gave him a look and Daniel said, "Are you out of your mind!?" Matthew was however insisted on getting a meal, its the most important meal of the day he says, and off we go.

"AHHHHHH!" I am screaming at the top of my lungs. I am holding on with one hand, dangling off the side of a bridge. On our way back from breakfast, I made the executive decision that i would live life on the edge. Literally, I was walking on the edge of the bridge and slipped. "AHHHHH!" Alec and Daniel were pulling me up but I couldn't stop screaming. As Alec and Daniel carry me, they make fun of my lack of balance as I am crying of happiness and scariness. After I was firmly planted back on the ground off the bridge, I pulled myself together as Victoria's cellphone rang.

We are in complete darkness. I am directly behind Victoria with a death grip on her arm. Alec is leading the pack through the catacombs. Our mission is to get into a secret vault to retrieve a box. The tough part is finding it. All we have for light is our cellphones which don't help very much. I don't want to see anything but I have to help search for the vault. It is marked with an "X" made of skulls and their is a faint voice singing as you get close it it. We are all silent as we scavenge for the vault. I am wondering how many people get lost in here and die. you couldn't tell them from the original bodies anyway.  Just as I think all hope it lost, we hear it, the singing. We walk quieter as we get closer and closer. Them our phones all got dark. I get even closer to Victoria as we start feeling the walls. With absolutely no light, that is all we can do to find the vault. Matthew finds the X and we all gather around. We agree it is the spot. We all had to work together to turn all the skulls 90 degrees at the same time. It was like a life or death vertical twister because if I hadn't mentioned before, there are traps to catch grave robbers like us.

Now we are running as fast as we can! The vault was successfully opened and Daniel braved the danger to get the box. It was in a coffin, but when he opened it, he found the box, but also a coffin full of creatures that started climbing up him. He yelled for us to go and leave him, as if he wasn't holding the box that we came for. Matthew rushed in and grabbed a hold of him and pulled him out as the creatures started coming for Victoria and me. Alec was at the head of the pack, them Victoria and me, then Matthew and Daniel. Then we hear something start rolling, and all the creatures start to squeak and squish. We felt the air start to whoosh and we realize it is a boulder coming for us. A booby trap must have gotten set off. We keep running and running, and running. Thank goodness for school sports and that we are all athletic. We start to see light and keep going. We reach the surface as the boulder comes slamming into the hole we just ran out of, sealing the catacombs for good.