(Well, let's try to do with what we have here. Will, I hope you don't mind if I do this...)

John peered around, blinking several times a minute to get used to the darkness. Still angry at himself for forgetting a torch, he tried to use his hands to guide his way through the passage. He then sniffed the air and his face crinkled. Cigarette smoke. While his parents didn't smoke, they had friends that did and John had an unusual habit in his youth where he would vomit whenever one of them smoked near him. Another epiphany came to him. He asked, "Give me your lighter."

He gave it to him, albeit reluctantly, John used the flame to look around his surroundings. Oh, this is too convenient, he thought as he looked at the walls and the sconces.

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(I really need Turin to post. I am sure he can speak of someone running through the hallways or something.)

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"I bet you there's no oil in them; becuase if there is then its like they planned this." Mary spoke quietly at his shoulder; knowing what he was thinking due to thier long freindship and her obsesive though secret watching of him. "One of us should stay. See if we're being followed."

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Larain looked, or tried, to look down the long passageway, a hand on one wall. She thought that she could see a light at the end, but it could have been a tick of the dark. Then, she pulled out her cellphone, and held it out so the screen illuminated the others.
"Am I the only one here with a cellphone? If so, I could stay here. When you read Don, tell him to call me," she offered...

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Don had to chuckle at Kathryn's words, as he trailed his hand along the stone walls. Suddenly he heard a rumble at the door and turned to see what was going on. So far he couldn't see anything happening.
"Uh, oh.." he said, looking all around to see if any spikes popped out of nowhere. None did. But the door, mural, thing, was shaking a little bit, as if time had made it hard for the thing to give way...

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Kathryn took a step back, not sure if she was liking this. "Oh great," she muttered as the mural began to shake, suddenly unsure if she really wanted to know what lay behind the door. Yet no matter how hard she tried, she could not remove her gaze from the door. Guess next time I should be careful what I wish for, she thought as the shaking began to increase.

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"Yeah.." John answered, his voice trailing off. He grabbed one of the torches from the sconces and remained absolutely still to hear anything..ominous. Nothing struck him at all odd so he grabbed another one and lit them both with the lighter. He handed one of the torches to Mary.

"Here, catch," John said to Matt, tossing him his lighter back. He turned away, predicting that Matt caught it and if he didn't, well, his fault. He took a better look at his surroundings. This tunnel must have been here for ages. Even older than some of the teachers.

Suddenly he heard rumbling. Something that John didn't want to hear in a tunnel. "Umm, Larain," he asked, trying to keep his voice calm. "Do you mind calling your brother and ask what the hell is going on?"

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Larain felt the stone under her hand start to shake slighty before she felt the chamber start to shake. Before John had even said anything, she had used speed dial to call her brother. It took a long moment before he answered.
"What?" he said on the other line.
"What's going on?"
"I dont know. We pressed something and the place started shaking. I think it's this door thing. It's probably so old it's having a hard time opening. I'll have to talk to you later," he hung up, and left Larain glaring at her phone.
"They pressed something," she said dryly.

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Don hung up, and put the phone in his pocket. He handed Kathryn the torch, and went up to the door. Hesitantly he put his hands on it, and started to push. The rumbling got louder, and it started to shake more. There was an audible thump and the door started to open very slowley. Don was using all his strength to push the door, and soon beads of sweat were dropping down his face. After a moment he stopped and sagged against a wall. The door was only open a crack.
"That is one heavy door," he gasped, giving a wry grin...

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"And?" John asked, still trying to keep the anxiety from rising inside him. If the tunnel was collapsing, they knew the way out. And he was the fastest runner among them.

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"He said something about an old door having a hard time opening. He sounded in a hurry. It might be shaking worse were-ever he is," Larain said with a sigh. Though the shaking for a second became more violent, then started to become less and less until it was only a light shake.
"Do you think the whole school's feeling this?"

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"Ooooo I hope not. The teachers will definately know we're here if it dose." Mary voiced worriedly; holding the torch to the ceiling to shed more light. "As it is i think we're walking int a trap"

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Kathryn clutched the torch tightly-so tight that her knuckles were starting to turn white. Slowly, she walked up to the door and angled the torch to see if she could make out anything through the crack that Don had managed to get open. "You okay?" she asked him, as she tried to peer into the crack, but could find nothing extraordinary behind it-though of course it was hard to tell as the light did not penetrate much of the room. She then turned to glance at Don a little more seriously. "The shaking-do you think the rest of the school felt it-because if they did, we might be in a lot of trouble...especially if this place was never meant to be found...."

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"I wouldn't put it past one of those miserable toads to feel it, yes," said John sarcastically. "But the rest of the school, no." He looked around, trying to reassure himself that what he was doing was sane.

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"Well, maybe there's another exit to this place. We could slip through there and leave this school until the rath of the teachers die down," Larain mumbled under her breath thoughtfully, then talked louder. "We should move on now, though, if we're going. Oh, wait... I'm staying here?"

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"I'm fine. Just, that door's heavy," Don said to Kathryn. "This place is deffinantly not meant to be found. I think that's why there was that show with Jared and Kira earlier. But, I couldn't tell you about the shaking. I don't specialize in that."

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Kathryn simply nodded, wondering what could be of so importance that the teachers wanted to keep it a secret. "Too bad we don't have a crowbar or something to see if can pry the door open," she mused aloud. "And we had better hope the teachers don't discover what we are up to..." she muttered in a more hushed tone.

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OOC: I am going to be gone for the week. I shall be back on the 18th. Sorry!!

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(I think that Turin is at a wedding. I was reading back in the posts, and he mentioned something about a wedding in July.)

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