My family had just moved into our new house. It was a nice house, but it was almost too big. During the second night in my new house, I was brushing my teeth when I had noticed a tiny corner of paper sticking out from the bathroom mirror. I took a screwdriver and lifted the glass and discovered a detailed map to tunnels underneath the house. The next day, when my parent's were out, I decided to follow the map through the tunnels. The tunnels began at a hidden doorway in the basement. I had followed the tunnels for hours until finally, they ended. I couldn't believe what I had seen at the end of the tunnels.

I had seen this humongous room, with many figures dancing. I came all this freaking way! Just to see this! Random people doing boring dances!

I kinda imagine something like this but with figures dancing

I started to turn back the way I came from, but then I tripped over something that looked like a twig. I wondered how that got there.

As I came in contact with the floor there was a loud THUD. All faces turned towards me. I took a closer look at their faces, some had flesh torn off. Others had mouths that seemed to be ripped and shredded or their mouths were cut into looking like smiles. Their eye sockets were empty, and looked like they held the whole infinite universe inside.

"H-hello"after I had said that they all started charging at me, I turned around and tried to go the way I came from but it was blocked. I saw they were almost 6 feet away from me. They soon came close and tried to punch me. But their body's went through mine, it felt like they were tickling me.

They soon started getting frustrated and just walked away from me, and started dancing as they were before.

Since I couldn't escape I went to the benches to sit and watch. As I was walking closer I noticed a young girl, she looked normal. Her eye sockets looked like the others and she had older clothing, looking as if she were royalty. Her strawberry blonde hair was sitting on her shoulders with flowers in it, but the flowers were dead.

I walked up to her and sat down. She must have not realized I sat down because when she turned her head and jumped in surprise. "How.... How did you get here?" She looked surprised to see me in a place like this, probably because everyone here was dressed so formal and I was wearing my hoodie and jeans at the time.

"Well you see, m'lady! I was following this map thingy and I wound up here!" She looked at me dead in the eyes, and looked at as if I was lying or something... Rude she got up off of the bleachers, she spoke with a quiet voice saying "We need to get you out of here or else you will be dead like me, or they will take your soul." She turned around and started walking when she got closer to where the figures were dancing, they all hissed and screamed at her. Ana jumped back frightened because they could harm her since they both are dead.

She stomped her way back to where I was still sitting, smiling at her just to tick her off. She crossed her arms and rolled her eyes, honestly I didn't think they did thay in the time she was alive.... Huh

She grabbed my wrist and hauled me off of my bum, as soon as I was standing she got all up in my face and started speaking, more like angrily talking I guess, she stated she had a plan. The plan was that we could dance like them but dance all the way across the room to get to the other side. I didn't know what was over there and I didn't want to know, but maybe that could let me get home. I hope I can take her with me. She is sooooo cool!

We were dancing but my hand kept going through hers so we just posed and tried to dance. She would drift away from me as we were dancing and the souls or whatever noticed and tried to attack her. Of course, me being a hero! I had run up to her and we pretended to dance again. While we were dancing she told me her name, well what she could remember of it... Her name was Ana!

After what seemed like forever of dancing, we had approached the wall across from where we were sitting. She walked in front of the wall, started feeling around and kicked a part of the wall. After she kicked there what looked like a small door opened. She turned around to face me and said, "t-this was a servants crawl space they use, follow it to the end of the crawl space and you shall arrive back in the hallway. I now must say goodbye... Goodbye." Ana started walking away from me, I sprung forward and grabbed her wrist. '

"Wait! Why don't you come with me, you can be like my ghost best friend and we can do all these things that best friends do. PLEASE ANA! " Ana looked back at me and gave me a soft, sympathetic smile.

"I'm sorry but if I leave here I would have to go to heaven, I don't really want to go and see my family there and I don't think they would like to see me so.. If it means I am doomed here for all eternity then so be it! And I can help all t-the people who get trapped here like how you did, get sent back to their home!" Ana was crying and I didn't know what to do. So I just tried to hug her, which made her start to cry even more. Ana's tears were black, and somehow it became a solid liquid and stained my shirt but I didn't care. Her strawberry blonde hair was a mess. An idea popped into my head.

"How about before we leave we can do something that best friends normally do." I suggested hoping she would say yes. Ana stepped back to look me straight in the eyes, "And what is that? If you don't mind me asking."

I bowed to her and simply suggested, "well, may I braid your hair so then you may always remember we at least did something that friends do together!" Ana laughed at me, as she wiped her tear streaks that were sitting on her cheek.

"Okay, just so you can be happy." Ana said with an adorable smile.

I was so excited that I plopped down on ground and intensely patted the spot in front of me till Ana sat down. As I started braiding her long hair, I asked some questions. I asked Ana about the ghosts dancing and and she simply replied saying that they were from her family's best memory they all had together. Then corrected me saying they were the restless souls of the people who were killed there.

I then asked Ana a different question, and it was one that had really got her attention, "what do you remember before you died?" She seemed to be taken back by that question, she started slouching, tears starting to form in her eyes, and Ana sadly spoke " I remember there was a revolution and my family and I were relocated to our safehouse. These people who took us there tricked into believing that we were being relocated for our safety and we hoped to be granted asylum in another country and gathered us all in our basement and shot us dead" I did NOT expect that of all things, I imagined her maybe dying of natural causes, but that was a little messed up! I wanted to test something....

"What year was it when you died?" She may be the Princess Anastasia who knows I heard about this theory before maybe it did happen!

"The year was 1918! Now I believe it is time for you to leave!" Ana stood up from where she was sitting, she turned around and grabbed my arm pulling me to the crawlspace. I fought her, I didn't want to leave her. i realized that for some. Reason, with Ana actually being able to physical push me, she had made herself solid so I could do her hair and now, so she could push me. At the last second I had before I went in the crawlspace I grabbed Ana's hand pulling her with me.

I opened my eyes and looked to my side and smiled. There Ana was, laying next to me looking more like a human than she had before she was even wearing normal clothing. Her eyes suddenly fluttered open, she had very beautiful blue eyes. She turned her head to face me, when I came into her view, Ana quickly stood up and was frantically looking around. I stood up next to her and she was about to run away but I hugged her before she could leave. Ana trashed around and struggled to get away from my tight hold, she gave up a few minutes later. She turned around to face me and started yelling stuff at me. I wasn't really listening to her because there is no point, I just had to let her get all her anger out and then forgive me. She abruptly slapped me across the face, bringing me back to reality.

"DOU YOU HAVE ANY IDEA OF WHAT YOU HAVE DONE" Ana was glaring daggers at me, she was really scary! I shook my head no and she raised her hand to slap me but instead she started crying, normal tears. I instantly, hugged her, to which she flinched. "What's wrong?" I honestly thought she would get over it and be happy to be out of that place, but it seems as though I was wrong.

"Now that I have been out of there I have to go up to heaven to see my family again," she whispered and was crying even more. "I don't want to see my family. I let them down I couldn't talk them out of believing those people. I bet they going to be embarrassed of seeing me because I couldn't do a simple thing." I was rubbing circles on her back hoping to comfort her.

"You couldn't help them see the danger they were in. They just chose not to listen to you. It isn't your fault for their death. It was their fault for not listening to you when you warned them" before I had the chance to finish comforting her my family busted through the front door. I picked her up and carried her to my room just across from Where we were standing. Once I was in my room I yelled to my parents that I was feeling sick and I'm going to sleep for a ling time, and they didn't question it. "I believe that in a few minutes I will be taken to join my family." I looked back to Ana and saw her sitting on the bed, I walked over to her and sat down.

I suggested we should watch a movie, Ana agreed but warned me that she may get taken during the movie.

Time passed and near the end of the movie there was a bright light and Ana was being raised off of the bed and to the ceiling. She looked down to me and smiled. "I guess I see my family, I hope to see you soon.!" She dropped something on my bed and then she was gone.

I was frozen. I couldn't even tell her goodbye. I remembered she dropped something and I scrambled to find it. It was a beautiful necklace with a gem on it. I still miss her to this day but I know I will see her soon."

All the children gathered around me gasped, some had glossy eyes others were crying. One kid stood up "Do you believe it was the Princess Anastasia? " he asked. Many others agreed with him.

"I believe it could have been, but we may never know for sure." I said getting many groans from the children. I saw the young girl who is taking care of the children walk up to the circle of children, "Alright stop bugging Mr.Buraginsuki with all those questions! Now it is time to go inside and eat your soup!" All the children sprung up from the grass and started running to go inside to get their food, and she was following them back to their house.

I looked up to the clouds and I swear I saw Ana looking down on me.

I smiled and waved to her. I held on to the necklace she left and let a tear run down my face.

I will see you soon! I said aloud.

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This kinda based of a dream I had, I wrote down what I remembered and added more things into it!.

I had fun with this one.

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