Mixed Media Challenge: "The Pinksters" -- by Shine

The Pinksters

by Shine

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

 All inspirations came from my Story Dreams, RED (band) music, Nancy Drew game soundtracks, abandoned places, scary forests, and the word HAUNTED. 

They knew they had done it now as they bolted from the haunted building, away from the psycho villains as far as possible. The moonlight shone through the forest trees as Shine lead Ayden, Gena, Roege, Cheye, and Kreze towards the darkest parts of the forest, hoping the booby traps would slow down the psycho villains, though most of the trees were dead, revealing the skeleton tree form. Once they had reached the scary, abandoned railroad tunnel bridge, they stopped to catch their breaths, forgetting how haunted it looked as they had other problems of their own to deal with. 

"Ok. Let's go over our Private List." Kreze said after a few moments.  "1st. The incident. 2nd. The lights went out. 3rd. The place is too quiet. 4th. This dead old mystery is still not solved," Shine listed. 

"Pinkalanda doesn't need anymore villains. Darklanda, home of the villains, needs to close down and remove the villains somehow. They've ruined our childhood lives, leaving us all with haunted memories," Ayden said, looking at his siblings and in-laws.

"Shine, you've been our Ring Leader of this team since the beginning of our horrible past of being kidnapped by those villains, what are we going to do? We have to complete this and somehow heal from our past. Maybe even more. Maybe someday we'll be all healed to the point it doesn't bother us," Gena suggested. 

"Well, we'll all wait until they're asleep, sneak in through the back door, and go from there," Shine planned, ignoring the villains’ screams in a distance. 'They must've found those old booby traps I put there years ago. I just hope the traps don't kill them since I want them alive for the dungeon,' Shine thought to herself, already figuring that the good guards had a hold of the psycho villains and put them in the dungeons by now. 

Roege looked behind him and then at Cheye. Cheye didn't like what she heard in the distance. But when they heard what Shine had said they thought she was insane. 

Later that night, while all the villains were asleep, Shine led her team toward the haunted building (where the villains used it as their hideout for their evil doing) to figure out what was behind their plans from a long time ago and why they did it. Once they snuck inside, they followed Shine through the dark hallway toward the scary part of the building. The frightful meeting room, near the dungeon like hallway, where Shine stopped dead in her tracks. 

"I can't do this. I can't," Shine said, holding back her tears as many memories shot her mind from where the kidnapping happened as a young child: to screaming so loud while crying and rattling the bar-like door, to seeing the scary thing that haunted her Dreams, forgetting how they've managed to escape the dungeon like room. She had seen more things than everyone else. Things that she wished she hadn't seen. Not once had she told anyone as she kept to herself for years. 

"We've made it this far, Shine," Roege said.  "We can't quit now and we have all night to figure this out before they wake up." Cheye said, hoping it would help Shine calm down a little. 

Kreze hugged Shine close. "Everything is going to be ok, Shine. We'll get through this together. We didn't call ourselves The Pinksters for nothing, even though it was originally called The Run Away Pinksters Gang, but we went by The Pinksters for short since the team name was so long." 

After a few moments, Shine calmed down and Kreze had a plan for the team. 

"Let's split up. Two would guard the meeting room door, two would guard the windows, and two would go through the files and stuff. Then, once the files and stuff are found, we'll find a safer spot to go through them and go from there." Kreze said, thinking his idea through. "Roege and Cheye would guard the meeting room door while Ayden and Gena would guard the windows in this room. That would leave Shine and I searching through all this stuff. Are we in agreement?" 

Everyone nodded in agreement even though what they were doing was a very risky mysterious mission. Ayden, Gena, Roege, and Cheye went to their spots, so Kreze and Shine could rummage through the broken filing cabinet without feeling the fears of being caught by villains. As they rummaged through the files, Kreze found all the evil plans and put them into his backpack just as Shine found some files and some disturbing papers that hit her so hard in the guts. She remembered helping burying a couple of their members in a grave after what the villains have done to them. Pushing the memories away, she shoved the files into her backpack, not even caring if the papers rip from all the shoving. 

"Alright everyone, let's go." Shine ordered, hiding the fact that she had been silently crying. "We should go outside and find a place to having our meeting, but not in this building. None of the rooms here are good." Everyone silently agreed with her and followed her very quietly out of the haunted building all the way where the same old railroad tunnel, so they could figure out what to do with the evidence, but only to find the answers on the papers in a frightening way. Where it all began.