We headed towards the bottom of the stairs. My partner and I were assigned an operation to figure out what was it that was weird about the ship we were on. As we approached the bottom of the staircase on the bottom floor of the ship, we reached a tiny room, knee-high in water. There were only two doors, one in front of us and one to the right of us.

I stepped towards the door in front of us. Stepping down into the water, I made my way towards the door. I place my hand on the door handle and turned slowly. I got to the end of the knob turn and pushed the door open ever so slightly. I saw a shadow turn around towards the door in our direction and I slammed the door as quickly as possible and held it closed by the handle. I turned back to my partner, he looks at me for just a second and headed to the other door on the right.

He places his hand on the door knob and pushes the door open with a force, slamming the door wide open with a loud sound. I jumped in surprise and quickly asked what he was doing and why wasn’t he closing the door. I then heard a bunch of voices coming from the opened door.

Before I had a chance to think about grabbing my partner and running up the stairs to a higher level, screams emerged from the opened room. Then as soon as screams sounded, a glowing red color blazed from the room. People were on fire? I run to my partner to witness what he was seeing. The figures that the screams were coming from looked like witches… working on something, well not anymore though. We see some witches that seem to be okay and ran in to help them escape, but as we tried to pull them out, they resisted and stayed where they were. Not wanting to get lit on fire, I grabbed my partners arm and pulled to go upstairs.

We got to the next level and it led to the outside, on a lower deck. It was just about sunset with plenty of clouds. Then we heard a loud laughter from the top floor, the captain’s room. We showed worried faces to each other and continued to climb up to the top of the stairs. And bursting through the door, we saw the captain, but he looked a bit odd. His back was turned to us and he spoke, “Hello dear travelers” and slowly turned around to face us. He looked very bony and pale. He had whitened eyes, long claws, and fangs. He hissed at the two of us and said “Say goodbye to your lives”. As he was going to lung out at us, the ship came to a sudden stop and all of us were thrown off our feet. However, as soon as we were thrown, my partner and me were up on our feet and ran out of the captain’s room and down to the lower deck level to see what we could do to survive.

As we got to the outside, we immediately saw that what had stopped us was a much bigger and tougher ship. As we looked up to the outer deck of the bigger ship, we saw a bunch of eyes looking down at us. We began to walk out towards the ship and waved our arms in sign that we needed help. And then someone else came out from behind us, it was the captain, but he looked… normal.

So, the crew from the bigger ship came down to retrieve us and we were asked what happened. In the best way possible, I tried to explain what we witnessed. As I was explaining, a bunch of crew members boarded the smaller ship to check for any other survivors. When the other crew members came back from searching the ship and after I finished explaining, the two stories seem to connect together. I shouted that we saw the assumed evil was coming from the captain and that he was a sort of vampire. After I said that, the captain looked shocked at the words I was saying. As soon as that was confirmed that some sort of “evil” was on the ship by the bigger ships crew members, they grabbed a hold of the three of us: me, my partner, and the captain. Not knowing who to trust, they lead us to their very top floor deck.

There, we saw three steel chairs lined up, nailed down and exposing with straps. They took us and led us to the chairs and strapped us on. Straps came around our hands, wrists, arms, ankles, thighs, torso, neck, and head. And we could tell they were not joking or taking any risks because those straps and the chairs were strong and tight. The captain of the bigger ship then said, “If one of you guys is a vampire, we will see in the morning when the sun will rise”. Knowing that me and my partner would be safe, we sat still, strapped in and waited for the captains end.