The Shadow Man Book 1/2 ✔️

4. The Queen Mary

After hanging out with everyone it was finally time to go to the Queen Mary. Just before we leave though Sam and Colby start their video
"What's up guys it's Sam and Colby" Colby yells
"Today we are going back to the Queen Mary ship. We are also joined our friend Rose who has no idea what's happened in the past so on the way there she will be watching the secret footage we recently released"
"Bro she ain't ready" Corey says in a kinda song song way
"Let's go" Sam turns off the camera and we all head down the lift and out to the multi-storey.

Sam films a montage on the way there and finally we arrive at the ship
"Woah" I gasp at how big it is
"Now what I haven't told these guys is" Sam says breaking my trance. I look over and see he's started filming "I may have booked us a certain room"
"No nope no way" Corey shakes his head
"Sam what did you do?" Colby nervously laughs
"I booked room B340"
"Ok bye guys let me know what time your picking me up from the b&b down the road" Corey says getting out the car as Colby face palms his hand
"Oh god"

We all get out of the car and walk over to the lobby where Sam checks us in. I follow the boys to the room
"Here it is boys and girl" Sam breathes out. He unlocks the door and I'm instantly hit with a bad feeling but I try to ignore it and I walk through the door
"Bro why did we come back here?" Corey asks
"Anyone else got a pit in there stomach?" I ask looking round the room
"Yep" Jake says popping the p
"Let's set our things down and then explore the ship. Rose hasn't seen the ship in person yet and tonight we get to go down to the boiler room" Sam says point the camera at me and Corey who is stood next to me. We put out things down on the couch and begin to explore the ship. Colby is in front with Sam, Jake is running around like a child and Corey is walking next to me. I turn around at the feeling of being watched but to my surprise no one is there, but I see a black mast go around the corner at the end of the hallway. I stop walking and stare down the hallway as the lights begin to flicker and I start to have flashbacks to what happened a year ago. My eyes begin to water and my hands begin to shake
"Yo are you ok?" I feel a hand on my shoulder which make me jump a little. I turn to face Corey who is looking at me with a mixture of confusion and worry
"Errm yeah. Did you see the lights flicker?" I ask
"No none of the lights flickered"
"Oh. Sorry I guess looking down the hallway just triggered a memory or something" we continue walking but I still have that feeling of being watched. I'm snapped out of my thoughts now realising we have made it to the boiler room and Corey is shouting
"Bro did you not hear that?"
"Hear what?" I ask
"That bang" Sam says conforming what Corey had just heard
"Could it have been the boiler?" Jake shrugs
"Jakes got a point" I cross my arms

We carry on exploring the ship and after about an hour and a half we get back to our room
"I've got the spirt box, dowsing rods and the K2" Sam says unpacking his bag
"Can I have the K2" I ask and Sam hands it to me. I get up and start placing it on things that may make it spike "I just want to see what might make it spike so that if it does we can debunk if we can" after I've done that I sit back down with the group
"Is there anything in this room?" Corey asks and the K2 spikes and the name Rhys comes through on the spirt box that Corey is holding
"Rhys? If that's you, you can use this spirit box to communicate to your sister" just white noise comes through at first then something comes through that kinda sounds like my name
"Was that Rhys?" Sam asks me and I shake my head
"No that didn't sound like him"
"Is there another spirt with us?" Colby asks and the K2 spikes all the way to red. Just as it does we all hear a loud bang come from the bathroom. I get up, picking the K2 up and go towards the bathroom
"Rose what are you doing?" Colby asks
"Shhh I just want to see"
In the bathroom I close the door behind me and I turn off all the lights. I close my eyes thinking a put my brother. I then open them and look into the mirror to see what looks like my brother stood behind me, but he looks like he has blood dripping from his eyes. I go to scream but nothing comes out.

Colbys POV
While Rose goes into the bathroom the rest of us sit listening to the spirt box, but nothing comes through. Just as I lean over to turn it off a male voice comes through saying 'bathroom' and 'demon'. I look up to see Sam and Jake already walking over to the bathroom, I then look at Corey who has tears in his eyes. I hear Sam and Jake talking to Rose
"Rose are you ok?" Sam asks
"Rose?" Jake nod asks voice laced with concern. I slowly stand up and see the boys walking out with Rose who has clearly been crying and is wearing a blank expression on her face
"What the fuck happened?" Corey raised his voice out of nervousness
"I... he... he wasn't" she stutters
"Sam what was she doing in there?" I ask
"She was staring into the mirror but not at herself, like as if someone was behind her" suddenly there was loads of knocking coming from all areas of the room. The spirt box then went off and said 'it wasn't me'
"What wasn't you?" Jake asks and once again the same male voice comes through and we hear the words 'mirror' and 'reflection'
"Can... can we leave" Rose sniffles
"Let's just see if we can get any other evidence" Sam says, always trying to push it just a little to far sometimes
"Did something appear in the mirror? Knock once for yes three times for no *knock
"Was it Rhys?" I ask "knock once for yes more for no" *knock *knock *knock
"Was it a spirt? Knock once for yes more knocks for no" Jake now asks *knock *knock *knock
"Demon" Rose quietly says and we end up hearing just one knock
"Dude let's go" Corey yells and the rest of us agree to leave. We grab all of our things and head to the car. Sam and I wrap up the video and I turn off the camera
"Are you ok?" Jake asks
"I... I don't know. I saw my brother in the mirror but he was bleeding from his eyes. He looked evil, I couldn't stop staring at him and he just stared back but with a smirk"