"The palace is so huge that I'm getting dizzy by looking at the ceiling only.", Cathy astonished.
*Infront of a room*
"Ok visitors! Our next destination is Princess Marie Caroline's room.", said the palace guide.
"Princess Marie Caroline? Isn't she that princess...", Julia tried to say something but stopped.
"What? Why don't you finish the sentence?", Tessy frowned.
"I mean there is a urban myth about the princess. So I was just confirming if this princess Marie Caroline is the princess in the myth or not..", Julia explained.
"I know there is a urban myth about the princess. But there's no proof against that. So we can't just spread rumours without verification. It's against our policy.", said the Guide.
"But what is the urban myth? I really wanna know.", Jinny demanded.
"Yes yes we all wanna know about the myth. Please tell us.", Everyone started to nag as well.
"Ok Ok. Maybe I can't tell you. But if Ms Julia knows the myth, she can tell you. It's not against the policy." , the guide suggested.
"Me?", Julia got nervous.
Everyone agreed.
"Yes yes! Please tell us. I'm dying of curiosity", Tessy cried.
"Ok ok! I'm telling.", Julia agreed.
Everyone gathered around her with curiosity.
"It is said that the princess was soooo beautiful that at that time many princes including royal officials fell for her. The General of the King's army was one of them. He became so obsessed with the princess that he wanted to marry her. He even forced the king to marry her off with him.", said Julia.
Everyone gasped.
"Then?", in unison.
"Then the king tried to marry her off with another prince. But the general couldn't tolerate that and on the wedding day he kidnapped her.", Julia said.
"Kidnapped?", in unison.
"Yes kidnap! After that when the king's army found him with the princess, the general killed the princess infront of them and after that killed himself too.", Julia sighed.
"That's so tragic!", Tessy cried.
"But what is the urban myth in the story?", asked Jinny.
"I was about to tell you that.", Julia said.
After taking a deep breath she said, "It is also said that the ghost of the general is still searching for the princess in this palace."
Everyone became dumbfounded for a moment.
"That's so scary that I got goosebumps all over my body. Look!", Tessy exclaimed.
"Oh Stop! Don't be a child. It's just an urban myth.", Jinny said.
Someone in the group suddenly pointed at a portrait on the wall, "Who is it in the picture? It's named as General Edmond."
"It's that general you guys were talking about.", the guide said.
"He is that general??", everyone got stunned.
"Yes! If you've done talking about the urban myth we can proceed to princess Marie Caroline's room.", said the guide.
"Yes! Please.", everyone followed him to the room.
*After entering the room*
The guide took them infront of a wall. There was a big portrait of the princess on the wall.
"Attention everyone! This is the picture of Princess Marie Caroline.", the guide pointed at the portrait.
Looking at the picture once, made everybody utterly shocked.
"Isn't it Cathy in the portrait?", Tessy exclaimed.
Everyone turned to Cathy and wondered.
Cathy was shocked as well.
"Yeah! It seems like Cathy in the portrait but dressed up as a princess.", Jinny got confused too.
"What a coincidence! I haven't noticed that till now. She really resembles the princess a lot.", the guide was shocked too.
Suddenly the lights of the room started to flicker.
Everyone started to panick.
"What's happening here?", this time Cathy got scared.
"Strange! I've never experienced like this before in this palace.", said the guide.
Suddenly the lights got turned off. The room filled with darkness.
Tessy started to scream, "Help! Help! What's going on here? I wanna go home."
"Everybody please calm down! I'm calling the security right now.", the guide assured them.
After a minute the lights got turned on again as if nothing have ever happened.
"Where's Cathy?", Julia panicked.
"Yeah! where is she? She was right behind me. Where did she go so suddenly?", Jinny exclaimed.
"It's really getting wierd. Please call the security.", Tessy asked for help.
"Yeah! I'm doing something. Don't worry.", the guide called for the security.
Everyone started to search for Cathy, "Cathy?" "Cathy? where are you?" "Cathy?".....
Julia who tried to call Cathy, "It's ringing somewhere near. Can you guys hear that?"
"Yeah! I can hear something. Follow me.", Jinny said.
Everyone started to follow the direction from where the sound was coming. They reached infront of the former wall where the general's portrait was hanging.
"Here is the phone.", Jinny rushed and picked that up.
"But where is Cathy?",Julia became concerned.
Suddenly with a high pitched scream Tessy fell on the floor with a thud, "Wh-what is that?", pointed at the portrait with a shaky hand.
Everyone turned to the portrait.
It was Cathy in the portrait with the general. As if the general was trying to hold her in his arms. The general's eyes were glaring so much that it could make anyone's heart stop beating in fear. Actually it did left everyone flabbergasted by the whole situation.
Author's note: If you like supernatural stories, you can check out my chat story "Trapped by the swap". It's a bl story with supernatural twist. Hope you like it.❤️💜
