The Castle

Short Story- By: @Fluffyneondinosaur
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=== Intro ===
It was built with swamp colored stones, its gaunt towers so tall they appear to scrape the dark, bruised sky. Nobody ever went there, nobody except a young boy that is.
=== Present Day ===
One cloudy miserable day, Ezran Turmond crept through the silent fields of grass, hurrying towards the “Forbidden Place” as everyone in town called it. Ezran had just moved there, so he didn’t quite understand why everybody was so afraid of the castle. “There are spirits and ghosts there,” they tried to explain. “They perform dark magic there, and kidnap anyone who wanders there. Be careful Ezran.” But Ezran wasn’t careful, in fact, that was the exact opposite of his personality. He loved adventures. So the second he heard about the dangers of going to the castle, he had to go there. That’s why he was almost to the exact place everyone, including his own mother, told him not to go.
Ezran stared in awe at the terrifying castle ahead of him, and looked around. When he was satisfied that no one was there, he sprinted towards one of the towers. When he arrived, he immediately started climbing it, because the only entrance to it was the window at the very top. Suddenly, when he was halfway up, a strong wind began to blow. It was unnatural, because even a slight breeze was rare, at least when he was on the ground. 
Ezran tried to hold on, but the wind was just too strong. One of his hands slipped, and he struggled to grab the tower again. He would have fell, if his other hand hadn’t gotten tangled in the thorny vines growing on the tower. It hurt to feel hundreds of tiny thorns poke his hand, but it saved him.
Ezran grabbed the vines, and used them as a rope to climb the rest of the tower. When he finally got to the top, he pulled himself through the shattered window, and collapsed, gasping for breath. He stared at his hands, bleeding, with scratches all over them. Still, Ezran wasn’t going to give up now. Not after he’d come so far. 
He pulled himself to his feet, and began to slowly walk down the crumbling stairs. The stairs were still steady though, it could have held an elephant. But it was obvious that someone was trying to stop him, because the entire staircase gave away, and Ezran plunged towards the ground, far, far below. 
To his surprise, and pleasure, there was a soft, cushiony, mat to land on, and Ezran landed right on it. It seemed like it had been placed there just to catch people. But that didn’t make any sense, so Ezran shrugged it off, and ran down one of the dark paths branching off of the room. 
That’s when he saw his first sorcerer. He was waving his wand over a cauldron, and mixing in some fancy powders. Thick black smoke was rising up from it, and it made Ezran cough. The sorcerer spun around, startled, and dropped his wand into the cauldron in surprise. 
That was all Ezran needed to see. He turned, and started to run away, when he tripped and fell. He slipped into a dark chute he hadn’t seen before, and tumbled, downwards. 
Ezran thought “The good news is that I’m going further away from the sorcerer, the bad news is that I don’t know where I’m going.” Ezran knew that his mother would be worried by now, because he’d been gone for a while. “It must be getting dark by now,” he said out loud. “I wonder if I’ll be back home in time for dinner.” 
Ezran knew he probably wouldn’t though, especially when he saw light at the end of the tunnel. There was no way he was going to leave something so tantalizing, unexplored. 
He shot out of the chute, and sadly there wasn’t anything to cushion him here, so he hit the ground hard. “Ow!” his voice echoed around the dark room. Suddenly, the lights were snapped on, and there stood a hideous figure, wearing a cloak and a crown. She looked terrifying, or at least she did until she looked shocked. 
After that, all the lights turned on, and a bunch of normal townspeople that Ezran knew, stepped out of the shadows. An annoyed looking cameraman stepped out from a room. They explained to him that they had been shooting a movie by themselves, and that they had told all the spooky tales to keep children away. “It didn’t work on me!” Ezran exclaimed. 
“You’re a very adventurous child.” they answered, smiling.
Ezran was sent home, and a few days later, the movie they’d been making came out. His parents let him watch it with his friends, and he had an amazing, adventurous time.
=== The End ===