Alexander stared at the woman while the other two looked around the room, readying themselves to what was about to come which never came before a couple of footsteps were heard coming from below. 

"The skeletons from the bas.e.m.e.nt," said Alexander, as he heard many more footsteps coming from below which was now heading towards where they were. 

And in no time the skeletons did appear in the dark, attacking Alexander, Damien, and Caitlin. It was only the rooms that were wide open with the windows letting in the light which in turn spread the light on the corridor was a place where they could see more skeletons fading in and out because of the light. 

The Artemis couple continued with their ritual interrupted while the other three fought the skeletons off them. Sadly the creatures who were attacking them were already dead and had no flesh on them which made it impossible to kill them with bullets or with knives. 

There were too many skeletons to take care of, the more they fought the more they raised against them. When the black witch had cursed the skeletons, putting spells on them to obey her order in killing the people in this mansion, one of them had gone searching for the fourth person who had intruded into the house. Penelope. 

Penny was sitting on the floor with her hand in her mouth trying to see if she could get the venom out that had turned her arm numb when she heard footsteps approaching the room. Her first thought was that it was Damien who had returned back after the first fifteen minutes but her eyes bulged when she caught sight of a skeleton that looked like it was living and breathing. The skeleton looked at the front and then turned its head, the head making an annoyingly creaking sound until it stopped to look at her with no eyes in its skull. 

Out of worry and stress, she bit into her arm as hard as she could, sucking out the blood from her arm before standing up. She spat out the blood along with the venom that had come to settle in her skin, trying to spread around her body. She had torn and tied around her arm the cloth to stop the venom from moving more in her body. 

Penny was very careful and when she stood up, she should have stayed still but because of her footing that missed the balance, the skeleton quickly made its way to her, ready to attack her and she slid out and away from the skeleton, running towards the door when she felt her hair being pulled back painfully. 

"AHH!" she cried when her hair was pulled and she had to stop back from running towards the door. 

She did the best she could by moving her hand and legs together to push the skeleton away from her. Kicking the skeleton with her leg that had the head rotate from its structure of the body and it had to catch hold of its head from falling down.

"Take that!" Penny cursed the skeleton, her arm feeling much better now that she had pulled out the venom. The creature was obviously in control of the Artemis which was why it was walking and running so sloppily. The only bad part here was that no matter how many times one would kick and beat it up, it would still come to stand up and chase the person. 

"What is the spell to wade you off?!" she exclaimed trying to rack her brain. She had read about voodoo magic but she hadn't placed it in her skin as another incantation. It was because she had read the book in the secret room of the church. 

She had the rosemary with her but how would one try to stop this?

Every time Penny tried to reach for the door, the skeleton would come to drag her back. 

She used her hand to stop the skeletons from hurting her but the creature was dead and a puppet that threw her right against the wall making her wince. Why was she always getting thrown at either trees or walls? Standing up again, she looked at the door and then at the creature, calculating to know that this time again it would pull her back. Her eyes darted towards the windows which were half open, half closed that were mostly broken. 

The skeleton appeared to read her mind, its own face turning to look at the window she was checking on. 

This time what she did was, instead of going to the door, she decided to use the window. running towards one of them which was open and had no gla.s.s to stop her, she almost reached it when the creature again made its way to her. Its bony fingers reaching out for her and Penny stopped herself from moving any further. 

Instead of letting the skeleton catch her, she pulled the skeleton by its arm and she threw it right through the open window with all her might. The skeleton didn't fall off but was stuck in between by holding one side of the window sill. 

"Get out of the window!" Penny said raising her leg and kicking the skeleton multiple times, "Stop acting like a spider," she said until it finally fell down from the window. 

Bending down her head, she caught sight of the skeleton who had stopped moving and was lying crumpled on the ground. She noted that the magic and the skeleton's effect stopped outside the mansion. 

The house was controlled by the Artemis which meant someone had to stop them. Not staying back in the room, she made her way to find Damien and the rest of them.