Outside the small farmhouse the rain beat steadily down. There was a bright flash of lightening, followed by a loud crack of thunder. Daisy Duke, who had been sitting by the window watching the rain, jumped. Her cousin, Bo, laughed. She got up from the chair she was sitting in and walked over to her younger cousin and took a playful swat at him. Their other cousin, Luke, who was standing over by the fireplace, smiled and shook his head at his two younger cousins antics. Bo went to say something to Daisy, when their uncle Jesse walked into the room.
     "That'll be enough you two." Jesse said.
     "Yes sir." they said simotaneously.
 Outside there was another loud crack of thunder, and the wind began to grow stronger. A branch flew past the window, scratching against the glass. Daisy flinched at the sound.
     "It sounds like that storm is getting really close." Daisy said, than as though to punctuate her sentence there was another loud crack of thunder.
 Jesse sat down on the couch, in his hand he held a large beige envelope. He pulled the papers out of the envelope, setting the envelope to one side. Then he told Bo, Luke and Daisy what the papers said. They were papers of the last will and testament of a distant cousin, Frank, and he had left to Jesse an estate in Maine. The estate had only been infrequently used in the past one hundred years.
     "Well me, Bo and Daisy can go check the place out and see what kind of condition it is in Luke said.
     "Then we can sell it or something." Bo said.
Jesse thought it was a good idea. He thought it would be nice if the cousins could have a little vacation, since crops were in, he didn't need help with the farm.
     They decided since it was already late, and the storm outside was growing worse, that they would wait until morning before making any travel arrangements.
     The next morning the boys headed into town. Being as Bo and Luke were on probation they had to get permission from their probation officer to leave the state. Their probation officer was commissioner Jefferson Davis Hogg, who had always been a source of trouble for the Dukes. They thought he might decline them permission to go, but he willing gave them permission to go to Maine. Boss Hogg figured that if the Duke boys were out of town for a while that he'd have time to make money off of one of his schemes, since it was always Bo and Luke who foiled his schemes.
 Bo and Luke picked up a few supplied in town for Jesse, then sped back towards the farm. They parked the General Lee in the barn, because they wouldn't be needing him for a while. They were taking a flight to Maine, and were gonna rent a car there. Bo, Luke and Daisy packed their bags to leave. Jesse took the to the airport in Atlanta.
     "We'll call once we land in Maine, doubt the phone lines are hooked up to that old house." Luke said.
     "Take care." Jesse said.
     "We will." Daisy said.
     "And stay out of trouble." Jesse added.
Bo laughed. "Don't we always?"
They all laughed about that, then they said their goodbyes. Jesse hugged each of them goodbye, and then they boarded the plane to Maine. Jesse watched from the Atlanta airport parking lot, until the plane had taken off and was out of sight, before he headed back to Hazzard.
     After a couple hours the plane landed in Capitol City, Maine. Daisy called Jesse, while Bo and Luke went to rent a car. Luke was just finishing signing the papers, when Daisy came walking up behind them. The three of them then walked out to the car. Luke had the keys so he drove. It was about a three hour drive out to the estate.
     Luke turned the car up the drive to the estate. The drive was lined with tall trees, the drive wound back to the estate, which was about a mile back in from the road.
     "Wow." Daisy said as she stared at the house. "That is sure a big house."
     "Yeah." Bo said in agreement.
The three of them got out of the car and stood staring at the house.
     "I thought nobody was suppose to have really lived here for the past hundred years." Luke said.
     "What do you mean by that?" Bo asked.
     "Well the grass is cut and the topiary are all trimmed."
     "Yeah, must be someone taking care of the lawn or something."
 Daisy had already gone up onto the porch. "Oh well let's not worry about that now, let's go inside and look around."
Bo and Luke got the bags out of the car and then joined Daisy on the porch. Luke unlocked the door and opened it. The door hinges squeaked as the large, old door swung open.
     They walked into the house. The room was dimly lit by a few streams of sunlight that shone through the cracks in the boards over the windows. The air in the house was thick with dust. Bo and Luke pulled the boards off the windows, flooding the room with light. They opened the windows to allow fresh air in and to clear out the stagnant air.
     They looked around the large room, everything was covered with white dust covers. Against the far wall there was a stone fireplace, with a small pile of wood, covered in cobwebs, sitting beside it, in a brass holder. They removed the dusty old sheets that covered everything in the room.
     Facing the fireplace was a large, red velvet chair. Against the wall by the windows was a couch that matched the chair. Against the other wall was a wooden chair, next to it was a small table, upon which was an oil lamp. On the wall above the chair was a painting of a deer drinking from a stream in the woods.
    Daisy stood looking at the painting, she thought she saw a pair of eyes in the bush by the deer watching it drink. She walked over and looked closer at the painting, but saw nothing. She felt a hand come down on her shoulder, she jumped and turned around quickly. She saw it was Bo.
He laughed at her reaction. "See something in that painting?"
She thought about telling him about the eyes she had thought she had seen in the painting, but figured he would only laugh at her, so she shook her head. "No, I was just looking at it."
     "Well ain't you comin' to check out the rest of the house?"
     "What?"
     "Luke and me told you that we was going to check out the rest of the house, thought you were coming."
     "Oh, I just . . . never mind."
The two of them then joined Luke in the other room. Luke was removing the last board from over a double set of glass doors.
     The doors led out to a small balcony that over looked the back yard. The yard gently sloped towards the rocky cliffs by the ocean. Through out the yard there was old pine trees that had been twisted by storms over the years. Luke surveyed the yard, further to the right he could see another small building and to the left a small thicket.
     "What a view." Daisy said as she stared out at the ocean.
     "Yeah." Bo said in agreement. " I don't know about you two but I am starving."
     "Yeah, I'm hungry to. There was that little town we passed through about ten minutes before we got here, we can go get some food there and bring it back here." Daisy said.
     "Sounds goo to me." Bo said.
     "Yeah well you two go ahead, I'll stay here and keep looking around." Luke said.
     "Okay." Daisy said.
Bo and Daisy left and Luke went back inside to look around some more.
     Luke looked around the small room, it was very sparsely decorated. Against one wall was a small wooden cabinet, upon which sat a large model sailing ship that was incased in glass. On both sides sat chairs that matched the wood chair in the other room. Above the cabinet was a painting of a stream running through the woods. Luke thought the painting resembled the painting in the other room. There was two doors on the far wall. Luke opened the door on the right, it was a small closet. Luke noticed a large box on the floor, against the wall. He bent down and slid the box forward out of the closet. Luke opened the box and saw it was filled with a stack of old newspapers. After seeing the papers Luke forgot all about the other door. He picked up the box and carried it into the other room. He sat down in the red velvet chair and set the box down at his feet. Luke picked up the paper that was on the to of the stack and began to read it. The article on the front page was about a party that was held at the estate. The article said that it was the most elegant party of the year, on the whole eastern seaboard. Luke started to read the next paper, when he had the feeling that someone was watching him. He turned around expecting to see Daisy or Bo standing there, thinking that they had returned and he hadn't heard them come in. However, when he turned around he saw that there was nobody standing there. A cold breeze blew through the room, causing Luke to shiver. He figured that he was just imagining things and went back to reading the article.
     The town was named Khalida, it was even smaller then Hazzard. A few homes dotted the rocky, cliffs. A few stores lined the town's main street. There was a general store, a barber shop, a fish market, a tavern and a small restaurant. At the end of the street stood a small white church. Bo and Daisy got dinner from the restaurant. In the front part of the restaurant there was a small bakery. Bo and Daisy looked around there while they waited for the food to be cooked. They bought an apple pie to go along with the fish dinners that they had ordered.
     As they drove back towards the estate Daisy sat staring out the side window. She turned to face at Bo.
     "I didn't see much of anyone in that town. I mean there was nobody on the street, not even any cars." Daisy said.
     "Yeah well I guess it is just a real small town. I mean it is even smaller then Hazzard."
     "I guess. They ain't very friendly either."
     "Guess they don't much like outsiders. This place is far out in the middle of nowheres that they probably don't get very many visitors."
     "Yeah, I guess." Daisy said then turned back to stare out the window.
Something about the town still bothered her, but she couldn't figure out what. She decided it was just her imagination. They drove the rest the way back to the estate in silence.
     As the house came into view Bo felt a cold chill go down his spine, but he dismissed it as being nothing more then his imagination. Bo and Daisy went into the house and saw Luke sitting reading the papers.
     "We're back." Daisy said.
But Luke appeared not to hear her, he seemed to be deep into the paper. Bo walked over and put a hand on Luke's shoulder. Luke slightly jumped and turned to see who was there.
     "Oh I didn't hear y'all come in." Luke said.
     "What are you reading that is so interesting?" Daisy asked.
     "Just some old papers about this place. It used to be quite the place." Luke said.
     They went and ate the food on the balcony over looking the back yard. Then went back inside. They looked around at a few more rooms they knew it would take sometime to look over the whole place. They found three of the bedrooms that were in the house. The first had large bed the ends were carved to look like waves. It had soft white silk bedding, covering it. Against the left sidewall was a small vanity table. On the wall by the window was a large oak dresser. Daisy decided that she would use this room to sleep in. The second bedroom had a dark oak bed with black sheets and an oak dresser. The third room was much the same only the bed was covered in blue bedding. The boys decided to use those room. It would actually be the first time the boys had their own bedroom. The farmhouse was small and only had three bedrooms so Bo and Luke had shared a room their entire lives. In the hallway they found a small closet that had many old fashioned oil lamps. They put one in each of the rooms, since the house didn't have the hydro on. Luke wondered if the house if had hydro it was so old. It was starting to grow dusk so they decided to just go to sleep for the night and to get a fresh start at looking the house over in the morning.
 Luke and Daisy had a peaceful nights sleep in the house, however Bo did not. He was a awake most the night he felt as though he could sense something in the house, something evil. He felt as though someone was trying to warn him. Warn him to live the house before it was too late.  He laid awake most the night staring into the darkness of the room.
     The cousin's were awake shortly after dawn. Bo said nothing to Daisy nor Luke about thinking the house was evil. He figured that Luke would only laugh at him. They decided that the old house didn't have any hydro hooked up in any rooms. Early in the afternoon they went up into the attic of the house. It was filled with many items most of which were very valuable antiques. Daisy looked around the large attic.
     "Wow . . . look at all this stuff." Daisy said in awe.
     "It must be were a lot of money." Luke said.
     "If we sell it we'd be richer then Boss." Bo said.
They all laughed about the idea of being richer then Boss Hogg. They continued to look through the attic. There was a small separate room that looked like it had been set up as a classroom to teach the children that lived there. It had a large desk, and chair at the front with three smaller desks and chairs facing it. Along the far wall was a bookshelf filled with many old books.  They decided it would take a long time to search the whole attic and that they wold look around it more later once they had seen the hold house. They waled towards the stair to go down when a tarp got Daisy's eye. She lifted the tarp to reveal an old family portrait. They looked at the painting.
     "You know those kids look a lot like us, family resemblance I guess." Daisy said.
She was correct the three children did look a lot like the cousins and appeared to be about the same age difference between them as there was between the three of the them.
Bo shuddered as he looked at the picture. Daisy noticed.
     "What's the matter?" she asked.
     "The picture is just . . . well the people look . . ." Bo couldn't place what it was about the picture that gave him a bad feeling.  "Their eyes look dark and cold."
     "Yeah. Well except for the youngest kid he is looking off somewhere else." Daisy said.
     "Don't be stupid it is just a painting." Luke said.
Bo just looked at Luke saying nothing, and then walked ahead of the rest to the stairs.
     "Luke what is your problem?" Daisy asked.
Luke shrugged. "I don't know. I don't know why I said that even."
     The next couple of days passed much the same. Luke had started to grow more distant, and whenever Daisy or Bo asked him about it he said nothing was wrong.
     Luke stood in the large old study, that had a large window that over looked the ocean. Against on wall was a old chair with a straight back, it was not very comfortable to sit in. By the window was a large old oak desk, and matching oak chair. Luke sat down on the chair and turned to face the window. From the window he could see the whole yard and the ocean. He saw Bo outside around the small caretakers shack. The air in the room turned cold, and felt like icy fingers softly touching his face. He narrowed his eyes and stared out at Bo, a feeling of hatred swept over him. Luke stared at Bo for several moments, then closed his eyes shook his head to clear his thoughts. He couldn't understand the feeling of hatred that he felt towards his younger cousin. He cared about Bo as though he was his brother.
     Bo opened the door of the caretakers shack the rusty hinges squeaked as the door opened. The small shack was thick with dust, cobwebs coated everything that was in the shack. Bo stepped into the shack, to see what was inside.
     Luke watched as Bo entered the shack his thoughts were lost as though they were someone elses. He was oblivious to the cold wind that swept around hair, gently blowing his hair.
     Bo heard a faint rustling sound and looked around to see where it was coming for. There was little light in the shack, only the sunlight that poured through the open door, to see by. Bo noticed that the peg board that held a lot of clippers, and other sharp caretaker tools, was wobbling slightly, he thought he heard a voice scream inside his head to look out. Bo jumped backwards, stumbling slightly and falling to the ground. The peg board crashed to the ground at where he had just second ago been standing. All the sharps points of the tool were pointed downward against the floor. As Bo sat looking at the mess he realized if he hadn't moved he been hurt badly. He got to his feet and walked back towards the house.
     He walked inside the house, and saw Daisy sitting in the one room looking through and old trunk, that was filled with elegant old dresses, and other clothing.
     "Hey Daisy, what are you doing?" Bo asked.
     "I am looking through this old trunk of clothes, this stuff is still perfectly good, I think it would fit me." Daisy said then looked up at Bo and noticed he was pale. "What's wrong?"
     "Had an accident out in that old caretakers shack." Bo said.
     "What happened? Are you hurt?" Daisy asked.
     "I am fine, luckily. There was this old pegboard with clippers and stuff like that on it. I heard this rustling sound, and looked around, then noticed it was wobbling. I heard . . ." Bo said his voice trailed off wondering if he should say about thinking he heard a voice telling him to move.
     "Heard what?" Daisy asked.
     "I heard this voice tell me to move. So I jumped backwards and stumbled to the ground, when the board fell all the clippers were pointed down. It landed just where I had been standing." Bo said.
     "Guess it was your guardian angel because it saved your life."" Daisy said.
     "Yeah." Bo said. "Where's Luke?"
Daisy shrugged. "I don't know he is around here somewhere. Why?"
     "Just wondering." Bo said.
Daisy said nothing further and turned to go about looking through the clothes again. Bo walked away to search through the house for Luke.
     Bo walked passed the study and noticed Luke sitting in the chair behind the desk. He felt a chill go down his spin. There seemed to be some dark aura hovering around Luke. Bo took a deep breath and slowly released it as he stepped into the room.
     "Hey Luke." Bo said, as he walked over to the desk.
     "What do you want?" Luke asked, his voice sounded cold and harsh.
     "I wanted to talk to you about something." Bo said.
Luke looked at Bo for a moment with cold eyes and then his eyes softened and Luke appeared to return to the person that Bo had always known.
     "What about?" Luke asked.
Bo told Luke about what had happened when he was in the shack. Luke listened intently.
     "I just got a bad feeling about this place, I think we should go back to Hazzard." Bo said.
     "Look Bo, you are just a little freaked out because you almost got hurt, I understand that. However there is nothing wrong with this house. We are going to stay here until we finish what we came to do." Luke said.
Bo went to argue but decided it would do no good. He turned and walked from the room. He walked around the house for a while, every dark corner seemed to cry out as though the dead ghosts of the past still lived there. Bo decide to just get out of the house for a while, perhaps Luke was right he was just freaked out about almost getting hurt. He thought maybe it was just because it was an old house that held so many secrets that he was imagining things.
     The sun was slowly setting over the horizon, painting the sky in many shades of deep red and purple. Bo stood out by the rocky cliffs watching the waves pound against the rocks. He closed his eyes and breathed in the refreshing slaty air, as he listened to the pounding waves, and the distant cries of seagulls. He felt himself being lost in the peacefulness of the ocean, he didn't even hear Luke come up behind him. He jumped when he felt Luke's hand on his shoulder.
     "Hey cousin what are you doing out here?" Luke asked.
     "Just watching the ocean." Bo said.
     "With your eyes closed?" Luke questioned jokingly.
     "I was listening to the pounding surf." Bo said.
     "Sure is a high cliff." Luke said.
Bo nodded in agreement and looked down he side of the cliff.
     "Would be nasty to fall from here." Luke said.
Bo stepped back of the edge, he felt a tug of fear pull at his heart, he wondered why Luke wold bring that up while they stood out there. "Why do you say that?"
     "I just found that the mother fell from her, or rather jumped to her death." Luke said.
     "Jumped? Why?" Bo said.
     "She was insane." Luke said.
Bo looked at Luke skeptically he saw darkness creeping back into Luke's eyes.
     "Are they sure she jumped?" Bo asked.
     "That is what I read. I guess someone could've pushed her off the edge. It would be easy to do and say she jumped." Luke said.
     "Why do you say it would be easy to push her off?" Bo asked.
     "There is no railing here. And like today I came up behind you and you never heard. If I wanted to I could've pushed you off the cliff." Luke said.
     "Yeah but you wouldn't." Bo said.
     "True. But you are right, someone could've pushed her off. If someone wanted to they could push someone off the cliff." Luke said, suddenly his voice changed to be dark. "Could you imagine falling from this high, screaming knowing you were going to die and there was nothing you could do to save yourself. Bouncing off the sharp walls of the cliffs. Being bruised, bleeding and broken before you hit the water. Then the waves continuously pounding your still living body against the side of the rocks until it smashed all the life from you. Eventually the tide might care your lifeless body out to sea."
Bo swallowed hard, and stepped further away from the cliff. "I'd rather not think about that kind of thing while standing by the cliff."
Luke said nothing just smiled coldly. "You should. Someone could easily come up from behind you and throw you over the edge."
Bo felt cold fingers of fear close around his heart and for a minute truly feared Luke was going to toss him off the edge of the cliff to his death. Luke turned and walked up to the house. Bo watched Luke disappear into the house then went inside himself.
     That night Bo lay awake staring into the darkness of the room. The shadows seemed to whisper and call out to him. He tried to close his eyes to block the sounds from his mind, but they still called. The voices started to cry out as in some internal painful torment. He felt the presence of someone in the room with him. He sat up in the bed, and lit the small oil lamp to see who was there. He could just make out the figure of someone standing in the corner of the room.
     "Who are you?" Bo asked, trying to hide the fear from his voice.
     "I am here to warn you."
     "Who are you?" Bo asked again.
     "It doesn't matter who I am or who I once was. You have to leave this house or the same thing will happen to you and the ones you love."
     "What . . . what are you talking about?" Bo asked, his voice slightly trembled with fear, he kept thinking that these had to be a dream, it could not be real.
     "If you don't leave an evil power will take over you. It has already start to take over both of your cousins. You saw its effects on Luke already. This house this land it is all cursed."
     "This has to be dream. This can't be happening.  This is not real. There is no such thing as evil curses." Bo said.
     "There is and the longer you stay the stronger it grows. It feeds of your life and infects your mind. You must go, you must get your cousins out as well of they will be lost. You don't have very long. I hope that it is not too late already."
Bo stood up and raised the lamp to see who was in his room. He saw the youngest boy from the picture standing before him. His skin was pale and his eyes empty and dead. Bo's heart raced with fear, and he trembled slightly.
     "This can't be happening." Bo mumbled, his voice barely even audible.
     "I must go before the others come after me for telling you. Please be careful and leave this house come morning. It is too dangerous to leave at night."
Bo watched at the spirit before him faded from sight. Bo sat down on the edge of the bed breathing rapidly. Wondering if it had really happened, he wasn't sure if it had or not but knew one thing they had to leave this house. Bo stayed awake the rest of the night. He got out of bed just before dawn and went out and sat on the balcony looking out across the yard as light began to fill the sky.
     Daisy was the next to get up, she walked out on the balcony. Bo turned to face her and visibly paled when he saw what she was wearing, one of the old dresses from the trunk. It seemed to complete change who she was.
     "What's wrong?" Daisy asked.
     "Change out of that dress." Bo said.
     "No way Bo Duke, you can't tell me what to do." Daisy said.
     "That dress is not you. It is cursed this whole place is cursed." Bo said.
Daisy laughed. "There is no such things as curses."
     "Yes there is." Bo said.
Daisy narrowed her eyes at Bo. "This place is not curse, you don't know what you are talking about, so just be quiet."
Bo sighed and decided it would do no good to argue the point with Daisy, she turned and walked back into the house, leaving Bo standing alone on the balcony. Bo wondered if Luke was awake yet, he really needed to talk to him. He prayed that Luke would listen to what he had to say. Luke had always listened to an believed whatever Bo said before, but Bo had a gut feeling this time would be different. Bo walked inside. He walked to the door of the bedroom that Luke was staying in. He took a couple deep breaths and slowly released them, then raised his hand on knocked on the door. No response came, so Bo knocked again. Once again there was no response only silence met his knock. He listened closely but there was no sound coming from the room. Bo slowly turned the doorknob and opened the door.
     "Luke?"
Bo looked around the room, and saw it was empty, the bed was neatly made. Bo wondered where Luke was, as he hadn't seen him on the way upstairs. Then a thought ran though his head and he knew just where he wold find Luke, the study. His stomach tightened and his mind seemed to scream for him no to go and talk to Luke there, to wait until later. Bo just shook that thought of and headed to the study.
     Luke was sitting behind the desk, he narrowed his eyes as Bo walked into the room and stood in front of the desk.
     "We need to talk Luke." Bo said.
     "About what?" Luke asked.
     "We have to leave this place. It is cursed. It is evil." Bo said.
Luke stood up and walked around the table and stood inches in front of Bo.
     "No it is not. You are just being foolish." Luke said.
     "It is so." Bo said, and told Luke all about what had happened last night.
     "It was a dream Bo." Luke said.
Bo shook his head. "No. I thought that, but I know that it wasn't. Can't you feel the evil that pulsates in every corner?"
     "Don't be stupid Bo. This place is not cursed and definantly is not evil. We are not going to go running back to Hazzard County." Luke said.
Bo sighed deeply. "Luke we have to leave it is not safe to stay here any longer."
Luke glared coldly at Bo. "You are being rather selfish Bo. You are only thinking of yourself. I don't want to leave nor does Daisy. You are out voted."
     "We have to leave. We will die . . . or be subject to eternal torment if we stay here any longer." Bo said.
Luke raised his hand, and everything seemed to change to slow motion as Bo watched Luke's hand coming towards him. Luke hit Bo across the face with such force that it knocked him to the ground.
     "We are not leave now or ever." Luke said crossly.
Bo stared up at Luke with hurt eyes. Luke knelt down in front off Bo, pining him with a cold hard stare.
     "Don't interfre with what you don't understand Bo." Luke said, and raised his hand to strike Bo again.
Bo raised his arm to try the block the blow, but Luke moved a lot faster, and stroke Bo across the face again. Bo fell backwards and laid on the floor.
    Luke stood up and leaned over Bo. He grabbed Bo by the collar of his shirt and drug him roughly to his feet. Bo tried to pull away from Luke's hold but Luke was a lot stronger then him, more stronger then he normally was. He opened a hidden door along the one wall. Bo looked into the tiny room that the door opened into. He saw a picture that was like the others. The deer by the stream, only this time there was a hideous beast standing on the dead reamins of the deer. The water of the stream was red with blood. The beast was about the same size as a grizzly bear, with balck fur and red eyes. It's claws were partly embeded into the dead deers flesh. It had an evil snarl, its long teeth were coated in blood, and chunk of flesh hung from the side of it's mouth. Bo felt his stomach churn at the sight of the picture. Luke shoved Bo into the room, that was barely bigger then a closet. Luke slammed the door shut.
     "C'mon on Luke, open the door this ain't funny." Bo said.
Luke said nothing and just stood beside the door. Bo felt along the wall in hopes of having a way out. His heart sank when he found there was none. There was bed in the small room, and Bo sat down. He hoped this was some kind of joke and Luke would let him out. The room stank with evil and Bo desperatly wanted out. The room was only seven feet in length and four feet, at the most, wide. Suddenly the room started to glow with and eerire red light.
     "Luke please open the door. Please let me out of here." Bo pleaded.
There was still no response. Bo wondered if Luke was even still outside the door. He looked around and noticed several other pictures. Some were of beast or demons feast upon both animals and humans. Others were of demons tortuing humans with piles of dead bodies littering the ground around them. Bo trembled and closed his eyes, surpessing the urge to vomit. The room seemed to fill with the growling of the beasts.
     "Luke PLEASE open the door. Let me out of here." Bo begged.
     "No. This house is not evil Bo, you are. You are the devil's spawn. You are just a creature of pure evil, you need to be cleansed. There is but one cure for that." Luke said, his voice was so dark and deep that Bo barely recongized it.
     "Luke . . . please let me out." Bo said.
     "You are surrounded by your own kind of creatures. Can't you feel them? Can't you feel their evil?" Luke asked.
     "Luke . . ." Bo started to say but was cut short by Luke.
     "You are evil Bo. You are the devils spawn and do not deserve to even speak to me. Let the room cleanse you. Take your evil essance into the pictures." Luke said.
     "Please let me out." Bo said his voice trembling with fear, he knew this was no joke.
     "You can come out in a few hours Bo, once you allow the room to begin to cleanse the evil." Luke said and walked away.
Bo heard Luke's footsteps fade as he left the room. He knew he was all alone and would be in the room for hours. The beasts in the pictures seemed to start growling, and tortured cries filled the room. Bo laid down on the bed, with his eyes closed, thinking that way the images of the pictures could not get him. The sounds filled the room and the images that surrounded him seemed to pull at his sanity.
     A few hours later Luke came back up to the room. He was now wearing, dark brown suit type pants and a long sleeve black cotton shirt, the clothes looked just as old fashioned as the dress that Daisy had been wearing. Luke opened the door, and Bo squinted his eyes as light poured in, his eyes taking a moment to adjust. He slowly stood up and walked tothe door. Luke stepped in front of him just as he went to leave the room. He stared at Bo with cold eyes. Luke was mere inches in front of Bo. Bo didn't even noticed that Luke was wearing clothes unlike any he owned.
     "I trust that you aren't going to cause anymore trouble." Luke said.
Bo just stared at Luke, not saying anything, the images and sounds from the room still filling his mind. Luke put a hand on Bo's shoulder and squeezed it firmly.
     "Are you through causing trouble?" Luke asked.
Bo nodded slightly.
     "Good because if you cause more trouble that will be nothing compared to what you will suffer through." Luke said nasitly.    "Do you understand that?"
Bo swallowed hard, and nodded, not trusting his voice. Luke shoved Bo away from the door, and closed it. Bo walked out of the room still in a daze. He passed by Daisy who sat in the one room sewing. He looked at her for a moment, thinking how odd it was for her to be sitting there sewing. He tried to see what she was sewing but couldn't. All he could see was the crimson red cloth. He saw she was still wearing the old dress.
     Bo stood out on the balcony, breathing in the salty air. His whole body slightly trembled, as the thoughts of what had just happened wouldn't leave him. The thing that seemed to haunted him more was that Luke intentionally put him through that. Luke had knowingly caused him that pain, all because he said they should go home. Bo stared out across the yard at the ocean, time seemed to reverse as a light fog rolled in. He could see a woman standing out by the ocean. Even from the far distance he knew she was the mother in the picture in the attic. He watched her as she looked out across the ocean. She seemed to be talking to the ocean a few scattered words carried on the wind to reach Bo. He only heard one sentence: "Though I walk through the valley of death I shall fear no evil." Her words seemed to send a chill down his spine. Part of his mind screamed to turn and run, leave the house, just leave Daisy and Luke there. But that was something he could not do, and would never do, he would never leave Luke and Daisy's lives in danger. Bo continued to watch the woman, a few of her words reaching him but not whole sentences. A figured cloaked in blackness then came up behind the woman. Bo tried to yell to warn her, but his words seemed caught in his throat. He watched with wide eyes, as the new figure, that he couldn't make out who it was, raised the woman above their head. He could hear her screams of terror fill the air, and seem to surround him. Bo watched, with wide eyes, as the figure tossed the woman off the cliff. He could hear her screams fadding as she fell towards the ocean below. As the fog began to clear the figure dropped the dark cloak from around their head, reviling their identy, it was the father. Bo closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened his eyes, everything was back to normal. He knew it was more of a threat early when Luke said about what it would be like to fall from the cliff. Bo decided he was going to stay far away from the cliffs to avoid a similar fate. He turned to go back inside and nearly ran over Daisy. She looked at Bo with an odd expression. Bo felt a tiny pin of worry poke at him, he knew that Daisy was being effected negitavily by the house as well.
     "You should change into something more comfortable." Daisy said.
     "I am fine in this." Bo said.
Daisy frowned. "Nonsense, those clothes don't hardely suit you. You should wear something more like Luke."
Bo suddenly thought back and recalled the old fashioned clothes that Luke was wearing. "I don't think so. I stick with wearing what I have. Not some old clothes from some old trunk."
     "Fine." Daisy said, and spun around and left Bo standing there.
Bo wondered why both Daisy and Luke were wearing old clothes, and why Daisy wanted him to. He figured it had something to do with the house, as though it was trying to pull them backwards in time, as though through some time warp.
     Bo walked into the house, he could sense something different the moment he stepped through the doorway. He started to look around the house noticing all the dust, and the smell of oldness was gone. Everything sparkled as though it was new. There was no dust to be seen anywhere, the house looked as though it had always been lived in, alougth never aged. Everything was locked in time the way it had been all those years ago.
     At dinner they sat around the table eating their meal in silence. Bo wasn't very hungry, he still couldn't forget about what happened that morning. He could tell that Luke and Daisy had changed drastically, into people in felt he didn't even know. The house had changed then and not for the better. Bo sat pushing most the food around on his plate.
     "We do not waste food, so you'd better eat all that food on your plate." Luke said sternly.
     "Yes sir." Bo mummbled, not even looking up at Luke.
Bo ate everything off his plate, even though his stomach churnned, regecting eating so much after all he had been through and seen during the day.
     After dinner the three of them sat around in front of the fireplace. Daisy was sewing again and Luke sat reading old papers. Bo decided to go to bed early, he didn't really want to be around anyone. He tried to think of how to get them to leave but couldn't think of anything.
     The night wore on and the sound filled the old house. Bo sat awake on the bed with the oil lamp burning. He didn't want to be in the dark after the earlier experince. The figure appeared in the room again tonight.
     "I told you to leave."
     "It is too late for that." Bo said.
     "Just leave on your own."
     "I am not leaving Daisy and Luke here." Bo said.
The spirit sighed. "I really understand that you want to protect them from this evil but you can't once it takes hold it never lets go."
     "I don't care. I am not leaving without Luke and Daisy." Bo said. "Even after what Luke did . . ." Bo said his voice trailing off.
     "I understand how hard it is for you to deal with the fact your cousin has caused you pain. I used to be very close my brother. We tried to fight the evil together but it took over his mind and he became evil."
     "What was with that room . . . I mean who would build something like that?" Bo asked.
     "My father built, I think it was the evil that made him. If he thought we were being bad as children he would lock us in that room. The evil beats strong in that room."
     "Is that the centre of evil in the house?" Bo asked.
     "No. I know what you are thinking to destroy the centre of the evil to save your kin, but it can't be done. The evil lives below the house. The house was built over top of it. Deep below the house in a portal to evil's releam. It has laid dormant for a hundred years, until the three of you came here. It waited and knew you would be coming. It sent for you."
     "Why us?" Bo asked.
     "I don't know it has to do with some many generations and just being right . . . I don't know."
     "There has to be a way to kill it." Bo said.
     "There isn't. I tried. This whole house was burned to the ground. It rebuilt itself. I was trying to escape. The beast, from the painting in the room, emarged from the portal as it started to open. I could hear it killing my father and brother, in the catacombs below the house. I set the house on fire and tried to escape but the beast got to me first. I think when the house collapse the portal was closed and the beast was trapped once again."
Bo swallowed hard, he refused to allow that to happen to him and his cousins. "What happened to you sister. I saw how your mother died."
     "She gave her life as a sacrfice to the evil. My mother wouldn't give into the evil and my father killed her, thinking that would make me give into it."
     "I am not going to allow anything like that to happen again. I am not allowing this evil to take my family from me." Bo said.    "Tomorrow I will go out of this town and try to find help. There has got to be a way to save Luke and Daisy."
A faint scrapping sound, started along the one wall, steadily growing louder. The spirit looked towards where the sound was coming from with wide scared eyes.
     "What is that sound?" Bo asked.
     "You'd rather not find out. Please be careful I do not want your spirit to be doomed to spend and entirnaty here."
     "Don't worry I'll be careful." Bo said.
The scrapping sound filled the whole room, and sounded as though whatever was making the noise was just outside the room. The spirit faded from the room and as he did the scrapping sound also vanished. Bo got no sleep that night, and left shortly after sunrise to go into town.
     The town looked different and Bo started to see there would be no help from the anyone in town, the town of Khalida was connected to the evil, it was all one in the same. Bo gave up and drove back towards the manor. He sat in the car at the end of the long driveway fopr several minutes, not really wanting to go back, but feeling he had to. He knew that he could escape now, he could go back home to Hazzard, but in his heart he knew he could never leave Luke and Daisy. Bo sighed and drove back to the house. Bo walked in the front door and was greeted by Luke.
     "Where have you been?" Luke asked.
     "I went into town." Bo said.
     "Why?" Luke asked.
Bo looked at Luke, for brief moment wondering if any part of his older couisn eve still existed. "Just for something to do."
     "There is lots to be done around here. I don't want you to ever leave here again, do you understand?"
Bo nodded. "Yes sir." Though thought to himself; ‘We will all be living here, just as soon as I knew how to save you.'
     "I want you to get changed into other clothes. I had Daisy lay some proper attaire out on your bed." Luke said.
     "I don't want to wear any old clothes." Bo said.
     "You will wear them, that is final." Luke said, and turned and walked away.
Bo went to the room and looked at the clothes that laid on the bed, they were like Luke's only in black, instead of brown. He didn't want to put on the old clothes, fearing if he did his mind would be lost and the evil would kill all of them. However, he was also afraid of what Luke would do to him if he didn't put on the clothes, he knew with the evil controling Luke, that Luke wouldn't hesitate to kill him. Bo changed into the old clothes, finding he still seemed to hve control of his own thoughts, praying it would remain that way, he walked back down the the stairs. Luke was standing out on the balcony and turned when he heard Bo.
     "Now that is much better." Luke said.
Bo diverted his gaze from Luke, hating to see the coldness in Luke's eyes. "Where's Daisy?"
     "Out there." Luke said, motioning out to the cliffs.
Bo frowned slightly, he was afraid a simliar fate would befall her as did the mother of the last family to live there.
     "Do you have a problem with gher being out there?" Luke  asked.
     "No. As long as nobody tries to throw her off the cliff." Bo said.
     "I wouldn't worry about that. If anyone was going to be thrown off the cliff it'd be you."
Bo took a step away from Luke, his heart was heavy with the fact that he feared his own cousin.
     "Luke . . ."
     "Yeah what?" Luke asked turning to face Bo.
Bo couldn't see any of Luke in the dark eyes that stared at him.
     "I was just thinking . . ." Bo said, his voice trailing off.
     "About what?" Luke asked, his voice cold and angry.
     "About when we was kids and we . . . became blood brothers. Do you remember that?"
Luke stood there seeming to think about Bo's question for a moment, the coldness in his seemed to crack slightly and Bo was sure he could see part of Luke's true self showing through.
     "Just go Bo." Luke said.
     "What?"
     "Get out of here." Luke said.
     "Do you remember?" Bo asked
Luke put his hands on Bo's shoulders and looked his younger cousin in the eyes, he knew what was happening to himself and Daisy and refused to allow Bo to also be destroyed by the evil.
     "Just leave. You don't belong here." Luke said, though he doubted that Bo would leave, leaving him and Daisy here alone.
     "I am not leaving, not without you and Daisy." Bo said.
Luke slammed Bo agaisnt the wall, trying not be too rough.
     "What if I told you I remember but I just don't care." Luke said.
     "I don't believe that. Please Luke . . ." Bo started to say then watched as Bo's eyes darkened again.
Luke closed his hand around Bo's throat. "Forget it Bo, you have lost. Give in to it."
     "No." Bo said and struggled against Luke's hold.
Luke tightened his fingers, and Bo coughed as he tried to breathe.
     "Please Luke . . . please." Bo said, and then passed out.
Luke dropped Bo to the ground, at the same moment Daisy walked up unto the porch.
     "He is really a slow learner isn't he?" Daisy asked.
Luke nodded. "Let's go inside. We need to prepare for tonight."
Daisy nodded and followed Luke into the house, leaving Bo laying on the porch.
     Luke opened the small door, next to the closet, and the two of them walked down a narrow flight of stairs. The air seemed to be thick the further down they went, the smell of death clung to the air. A couple moments later they reached the bottom of the stairs, opening to large underground cave, that ran under the house, and the complete grounds of the old home.  An eerie light dimly shone on the walls and floors, coming from unseen source, powered by evil.  Daisy followed Luke as the walked deeper into the cave, until they reached a stone alter. Reversed pentagrams were painted in long dried blood along the sides of the alter. In centre of the base of the alter a likeness of the demon was eteched into the stone. The top of the alter was smooth, candles sat on the cornors, and after years of not being light, they sparked to life, their flames glowing brightly. Luke picked up silver, jeweled, dagger that lay upon the alter, and made a deep cut along his left hand, then pressed his hand against the cold, stone, surface of the alter.
     "I bid the demon Khalida to rise, the portal to open. He shall feed upon the weak, destroy those he deems unworty. I call Khalida from his slumber, I call for the portal to open. So mote it be." Luke said, his voice low and cold.
A red and black spiraling light appeared a few feet to the right of the portal the sounds of the demon Khalida could be heard drifting from the portal, as made his way from the releams of demons, from the depths hell into the human world. Khalida spoke his voice echoing through the cave.
     "I need a sacrifice. The blood of an innocent soul, untarnished by the evil. The blood to give me the power to cross and walk freely in the world of humans. The sacrifice must take place tonight at midnight when the full moon is at it's peak."
     "Bo, our cousin, is untarnished by the evil, his blood will be shed for your purpose." Daisy said, not even thinking about the words she was saying, not even knwoing the death she had just sentenced her younger cousin to.
What Daisy said echoed in Luke's head, and a part of his mind screamed out not wanting to sentence Bo to death, not wanting to watch his young cousin die, not wanting to see Khalida.
     Bo awoke nearly ten minutes after Luke and Daisy had left him there, he stood up slowly his head throbbing. He looked out across the yard, seeing neither Daisy nor Luke. He made his way into the house, and after ten mintues of searching for either Daisy or Luke, and finding no sign of them he gave up and went to lay down, hoping the pounding headache would go away. Bo drifted into a deep sleep.
     Luke walked up the stairs, towards the bedroom that Bo was in a voice sounding in his head over and over again telling him to look Bo in the room, to wear down his restiance to make him weak so he couldn't fight come midnight when he was to be sacrificed. Luke walked into the bedroom and looked at bo, watching his younger cousin sleep for a moment. His heart ached for Bo and he didn't want to do anything to harm Bo, but he found he had little choice, the only true part of him that still existed, as long as they remained at the Khalida Manor, seemed to be growing smaller and weaker with each second that passed.Luke walked further into the room, and grabbed Bo by the arm and hauled him off the bed. Bo snapped awake, and stumbled to the ground as Luke drug him off the bed.
     "Luke."
     "Come along Bo. You have not yet learned your lesson. You are the devil's spawn and must be dealt with." Luke said, pulling Bo to his feet, non too gently and dragging him from the room.
     "No please Luke, please don't put me in there again." Bo begged, pure and true terror struck him at the thougth of being locked in that room again.
     "You have to learn Bo."
     "No please." Bo said, even though he knew no amount of pleeing would stop Luke from locking him in that room.
 Luke unlocked the door and shoved Bo into the room, closing the door behind him. Bo pounding his fists agaisnt the wall as the sounds began again.
     "PLEASE LUKE! LET ME OUT! DON'T DO THIS!" Bo screamed, pounding his fist agaisnt the wall until his hands went numb.
Luke stood and listened until Bo's screams stopped and he ceased pounding on the wall. Exhusted Bo sat down on the bed, unable to ignore what was happening again, the sounds almost too much too bear, he actually began to wish that he would just die and then all of this would come to end, wanting to die before Luke came back to open that door.
     The hours ticked past slowly, as Daisy and Luke began to preapre for that night's ceremony. As the last day of day dropped beyond the distant horizon, Luke went to let Bo out of the room. Bo lay unmoving on the bed, even when Luke opened the door. Luke walked into the small room, and stared down at Bo, his humanity seemed to have left him completely. Luke grabbed Bo by the collar of his shirt and pulled him off the bed, and drug him down the hallway back to the bedroom. Luke tied shakles around Bo's wrists fasten the other ends to the wall. Then without a single word he turned and left Bo alone. Shortly after Luke left the room, the spirit that tried to warn him appeared.
     "You should've left Bo, it'll be your death, and maybe many more once Khalida crossover, once your blood is shed and he feeds upon it."
Bo remained unresponsive, the imaged he had seen in the room burned in his mind, the sounds echoing in his ears.
     "You had a chance to escape Bo a chance to save yourself."
     "Not leaving without Luke and Daisy." Bo mumbled.
     "It is too late for them and now it is too late for you."
     "No, not to late have to leave here have to go home." Bo said, his voice soft.
The spirit sighed, he knew the bond between the three cousins must be extremly close, he knew that nothing would break that, Bo knew in his heart that it wasn't his cousin's that were evil but the manor, and he still had a tiny sherd of hope that they could still escape. The spirit slowly vanished from the room, leaving Bo alone once again.
     Bo drifted in and out sleep and shortly before midnight he was woken by the sound of chanting, that filled the whole house, soft at first and then gowing louder. Luke and Daisy stepped into the room, each wearing a long crimson red cloak, the hoods pulled up and shadowing their faces. Luke stepped over and unchained Bo, pulling him to his feet.
     "It is time Bo." Luke said.
     "Please Luke you have to fight this." Bo said and glanced at Daisy. "Please Daisy don't you see this ain't you?"
     "What do you know anyways Bo?" Daisy questioned.
     "Please." Bo said, though he knew his words would do no good so he said nothing more.
     Bo allowed Luke to lead thim down the narrow flet of stairs that led to the cave, Daisy following close behind them.They stopped by the alter, Luke picked up Bo easily in his arms and laid him down on the alter. Panic cleanched at Bo and his heart beat widly with fear,breathing in deep gasps, fearing the death he knew was coming. Bo glanced over at the portal, knowing that the demon wa on the other side, this was the center of the evil. Bo looked up at Luke, who stodd shapening the blade of the dagger. Daisy opened Bo's shirt and began to paint strange symbols on his chest, in blood.
     "Please don't I don't want to die." Bo said.
     "You'll serve more purpose in death then you ever did in life." Luke said coldly.
Bo shivered as the cold steel of the blade, pressed against his throat. Luke traced the blade down along Bo's chest, not hard enoguh to break the skin until, the dagger was postioned over Bo's heart.
     "Please don't Luke, you have to fight this you are your own person don't allow some demon to control you." Bo said, locking eyes with his older cousin.
The evil started to lose its hold on Luke's soul. Luke's eyes widdened and he started to tremble, realizing he had almost killed Bo. He took a step back, his thoughts racing inchoranently, and he had no idea of what to do or say. He dropped the knife, and it landed on the alter next to Bo's body. Daisy glared angerily at Luke.
     "Traitor." Daisy scowled and grabbed the knife.
Daisy raised the knife high above Bo, holding it between her hands, preapring to plunge the blade through Bo's heart. Bo stared up at her, feeling at a lose for words, anything he could possibly say seemed to remain locked within his throat.
     "DAISY NO!" Luke screamed, finally seeming able to find himself again.
He raced around the alter, grabbind Daisy around the waist and pulling her away from Bo.
     "Let go of me." Daisy said.
     "No." Luke said. "Think about this Daisy, do you really want to kill Bo?"
Daisy glared at Luke coldly. "Yes."
Luke gave Daisy a gently shake, and held Daisy as he made her look at their younger cousin. Bo felt weak but he found the strength to sit up. Daisy could hear the voice of Khalida in her head, telling her to kill Bo, she barely even seemed to know that Bo was her couisn. Bo locked eyes with her, and the evil seemed to fade as she saw her younger cousin looking back at her. Luke felt Daisy go weak in his arms.
     "OH my god Bo, I am so sorry." Daisy said, tears starting to streak her cheeks.
Bo slid off the alter and walked over to his family.
     "It's okay." Bo said, hugging both his cousins at the same time.
Khalida started to growl loudly and the whole cave shook as though and earthquake was taking place.
     "NOOOO!" Khalida screamed, knowing he no longer had any hold on Luke or Daisy, the bond between the three cousins was stronger then all of his evil powers.
     "We have to get out of here." Bo said.
Luke and Daisy only nodded and three cousins ran up the stairs.The house seemed to be crumbling all around them. As the burst out the front door the house crumbled to the ground, dust billowed up high into the late night sky.The car sat in front of the hosue, completely undriveable. The bright light from the full moon that shone over head, made it easy to see and the started their way across the yard in silence, neither Daisy nor Luke knew how to say sorry to Bo, and figured that now wasn't the best time. The were half way to the road when one the topiary came to life, a large lion like creature.
     "C'mon run." Luke said, as the beast charged towards them.
     "I can't." Bo said, still feeling to weak to even walk.
     "You have to." Luke said.
Bo ran as fast as he could, but being the slowest moving the creature managed to easily catch Bo, knocking him tothe ground, Bo felt his left ankle snap, and then found himself staring up at the beast. He screamed for help and Luke rushed back to where Bo lay. The creature looked up at him and snarled. Luke's mind raced as he tried to form a plan. He reached into his pocket, his fingers closing around an old silver lighter. He pulled it out and snapped the flame to life. The creature didn't seem to notice, it had turned its attention back to Bo. Luke rushed forward, and ignianted the creature with the flames. It howled in pain, loosening its hold enough on Bo so that Luke could pull him out from under. Bo leaned heavily at Luke as they made their way away from the burning creature. They walked back over to where Daisy stood and watched the creature burn to ash, hoping there would be no more surprises before the escapes, all the wanted to do was to go back to Hazzard County.
     "Let's get going." Luke said.
Bo shook his head. "I can't walk I think I broke my ankle."
     "I'll carry you then." Luke said, knwong that he could still easily carry Bo's weight just as like when they were kids and he'd give Bo a piggy back ride.
 Bo nodded, grateful to have his family back. They made their way to te road without further event and moments later Bo drifted into a deep sleep. Luke and Daisy walked along the old winding road, wondering how far they'd have to walk before the saw another car, or at least another phone. Bo never woke up, even when they stopped to rest a couple times. Luke wasn't overly worried, he knew it was pain and exhustion that had caused Bo to pass out and figured it was best for Bo to get some sleep.
    Shortly before dawn they reached the next town. Bo woke upjust on the outskirts, of town and they made their way to the doctor's office. They didn't explain things to the doctor, who didn't ask questions, almost as though he could sense what was wrong. He set Bo's ankle in a cast, and told him to take it easy for a few weeks. Luke was glad that he had enough money in his pocket to rent a car to drive to the airport. The three Duke cousins discussed what had happened, even though it still haunted them all they knew it was best to talk about it, and by the time they reached the airport things were almsot back to normal except for the memories of what had happened, and that was something they would carry with them for a long time. The return tickets were at the airport waiting for them and flew back to their home state of Georgia.
    Luke called Jesse and told him to come get them at the airport. He was shocked to see how they looked, as though this trip had been very hard, and saw Bo was hobbling on crutches.
     "What happened?" Jesse asked.
     "We'll tell you once we get home. Here ain't the place to discuss it." Luke said.
They went out and climbed into Jesse's old white pick up truck and drove towards the farm.
     "You could tell me now." Jesse said, as he drove along the road.
     "I would rather wait until we get home." Bo said.
     "All I want to do is get home." Daisy said.
Her couisns argeed with her.
     A little over an hour later they arrived at the Duke farm. Bo sat down on the couch, filled with joy to be home at least, a sedimant shared by his two older couisns.
     "Are you going to tell me now?" Jesse asked.
     "I think you should sit down Uncle Jesse, this is a long story." Luke said.
     "And a hard one to tell." Bo added, as Luke sat dwon next to him on the couch.
Jesse sat down on the chair facing the couch, and Daisy sat down on the other side of Bo on the couch. Then the three Duke cousins started to tell their uncle about everything that had happened.