A/N: Simply want to say I own nothing except for the OC's that I've put in so that I'm not just putting the script into story format and making them somehow work alongside all the events. This story isn't set in a way that it follows game logic or the set up, it's as if the events are really happening so it's not like they take turns with attacks etc. I'll also try to keep all the characters as in character as I can, and make it all fit. Also from here on in any A/N's or little things will be at the bottom of the page!

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Chapter 1: Curiosity

Running around the place Raysel couldn't help the giddy feeling that was threatening to consume her. Glancing over her shoulder she saw her friends following her, looking slightly less enthusiastic than she did. Of course Raysel couldn't blame them for that considering they'd only flown in to Spain from America yesterday morning and all of them were surprisingly tired.

Of course, Raysel being the energetic bundle she was insisted that they all go out shopping and have lunch before they could crash at the hotel again, probably sometime late in the evening. Paige, Charlie and Chase didn't even try to argue considering they knew that they small brunette would drag them out anyway. Besides, Paige had anyway made sure to pack most of the stuff in Raysel's bag to somewhat slow her down, writing it all in the girls notebook but it didn't seem to be helping much as she continued skipping along the path ahead of them getting weird looks from other people before she froze, waiting for her other friends to catch up again.

Thankfully for the three others she seemed to calm down a little once the others caught up to her, acting a lot less hyperactive and actually walked for a change, obviously shifting her bag in slight discomfort besides the huge smile on her face. Despite finding it heavy, she was used to bags like that thanks to school, so had it been another year or two she probably would've died.

Or just collapsed, either way really.

"You know… we should go mountain climbing sometime" she said mainly to herself rather than anyone else, but immediately heard the protests and groans of the people behind her. They'd probably eventually come around though she thought to herself as she kept walking, hearing people along the streets talking about a haunted mansion somewhere up in the mountains.

Immediately a grin crossed the brunettes features as she turned to the others, who were completely clueless about everything and obviously not paying attention.

"How do you guys feel about a Haunted Mansion?" she asked them, both of the girls eyes sparkling with glee and excitement.

"A haunted mansion?" Paige asked the younger girl questioningly, throwing a look at the twins.

"Yup, they were talking about it over there… but then again you guys don't want to go mountain climbing so I suppose that we can't exactly check it out now can we?" she asked, filling her voice with fake sadness that she'd perfected over the years of being an only child and conning things to get them the way she wanted them… hell it worked after she had siblings and Paige moved in with her as well! Paige knew where this was going, and although she was opposed to the entire idea of mountain climbing she was curious about this mansion, and she already knew that the Mansion would've been in the mountains before her friend even said something about it being there otherwise her friend wouldn't have even mentioned it. After all, the girl was a bit paranoid and would've normally been afraid of getting in trouble for trespassing or something along those lines.

"You know… I suppose we could take a look… maybe it'll be fun, plus it could be a competition" Charlie said, excitement in her voice. "We'll go there and the person that wants to leave first loses"

"Sounds like a plan… so do you know where this mansion is Raisin?" Chase asked, jumping out of the way just in case as he saw her eye twitch slightly. Paige, trying her best to make things go smoothly put a hand on the girls arm warningly and looked at her aware that her friend was probably going to regret all of this over the next few hours but surprisingly her glare died down and she grinned at her other friends.

"Who do you take me for?" she asked bluntly. "It's about 3 hours north of here, on one of the trails that goes up the mountain"

"Then what are we waiting for?" Paige asked, a grin on her face as she glanced at her other friends, twirling a lock of bright pink hair around her fingers.

Of course had they been at the same courtyard a day earlier, Raysel would never have suggested it having seen an all too familiar figure that was dressed in blue in that courtyard, curious about the same story about a haunted house. Unfortunately, they weren't there that day so they began trekking their way up the mountain, laughing obliviously to their surroundings.

Perhaps it was as the hours of walking past that the 4 friends were starting to regret the idea of going for the walk, well all except Raysel who still appeared hyperactive before they finally got to the house, seeing the gate and looking up at the mansion she found herself almost in awe at how it looked. It looked… not as spooky as she actually would've expected a supposed haunted mansion to look, but then again it was probably just some abandoned mansion that no one ever seemed to want to move back into after its original owner left but Raysel still felt something bugging her, a feeling of dread.

However, as she scanned her mind nothing really came up… she definitely hadn't seen it in a movie, let alone saw it else where.

'A deserted house in a mountain,' As soon as the thought came to her head she knew what the intro was for, HetaOni and that was the point Raysel realised where she found the house familiar. However, that was just a game so it wouldn't be the HetaOni mansion. It was just her mind playing tricks on her, she consoled herself trying not to already run off and cause her friends amusement… but this house did fit the description… 'about three hours on foot from the world summit place. No one knows how long it has been there or who used to live in it. Rumours had it that it was haunted.'

Shaking her head to get that train of thought out of her head she tried to focus on what her friends where doing as Charlie suddenly opened the door peeking her head in.

"Hey guys… it's really clean in her… as if someone still lives here actually" the girl said in an obnoxiously loud voice, getting her twin brothers attention as he ran up to the door taking a few steps in after her, the door still wide open.

"Do you really think going in is a good idea then? I mean… it's trespassing and if someone catches us we could be so… screwed" Raysel said, thinking about what her parents would do to her if they found out she'd been caught trespassing… a shiver ran up her spine at the thought. Sure, by now she moved out but she knew her Step-father wouldn't hesitate to slap her even now, and her mother would waste no time in dragging her back 'home' and grounding her.

"Already scared Raisin?" Chase asked mockingly, clicking his tongue at her and she felt her hands clench up as fought back the shivers that ran through her body, shivers of fear and anger.

"No I'm not" she hissed as she stormed up the stairs in embarrassment, passing the others as she took her first steps into the room not paying attention as she slammed the door behind her. Sitting in the corridor she immediately felt more paranoid as she realised that it did look a look like the HetaOni mansion she remembered from the games. A shiver ran through her body as she looked towards the door, none of her friends had entered yet. "So much for calling me a coward" she muttered, standing up.

As she reached the door her hand gripped onto the handle jerking it roughly to try to open it, her eyebrows furrowing as she realised it was locked probably from the outside.

"Idiots" she muttered under her breath, they were definitely trying to scare her. Looking around the HetaOni look alike mansion she sighed, beginning to walk around up the back of the house realising that it was in fact a Japanese room, which was strangely identical to the one that she'd seen in the walkthrough of that RPG… "Ray you're just paranoid" she condoled herself walking back down to the corridor to see if her friends had gotten any backbone to finally come in the house, but again the door seemed to be locked.

Suddenly she felt the ground shake, slight thumping as her eyes widened as she ran to the stairs, ducking behind them as she saw something appear from the hall she'd just come through, and gasped in surprise as she saw a strange looking creature that looked like an alien, a thin body, oversized head and an oddly grey colouring. Unfortunately she recognized it as what fans dubbed Steve.

Ignoring the screams of protest in her head her body moved up slowly, creeping behind the creature she felt tense, yet relieved that it never turned around. There was no furniture in these corridors, nothing to hide behind if it changed it's mind considering it seemed tense as it walked through the corridors up to what she supposed would be the bathrooms. Finally it froze, appearing to remember something or notice something, Raysel accidently taking another step and falling a small yelp escaping her mouth and a crash as her body hit the ground.

Steve as she liked to call it turned around, it's black eyes meeting her blue ones and they stayed frozen for a moment, the girl gulping in fear as it rasped something in a deep voice, though her mind didn't register it.

Instead she turned, sprinting down the corridor that let to the centre area, the stairs, the stairs wouldn't provide much cover and she didn't have time to decide much leaving her to run down the corridor opposite, leading to what she supposed would be the kitchen, leaving her right much to her dilemma as she looked around the room in distress.

Seeing the kitchen counter she crossed her fingers as she dodged behind the corner her back pressed firmly against it.

Nothing happened.

The silence seemed so loud it was rather painful for her, she truly didn't know what she should've expected but the fact that she wasn't being followed probably made her feel worse. She felt like a helpless child, playing hide and seek, only the price of loosing this game was death. Perhaps she was insane, but the entire idea that it might have been gone she figured that she might try to find it again in order to avoid it if that made sense to anyone but her.

Perhaps she also just had a subconscious death wish that was starting to surface, she reasoned with herself as she carefully stood, peeking over the counter and beginning to walk, her hand firmly on the counter.

Crash!

She jumped as she looked down at the plate that she dropped, the shards lying weirdly on the ground as she looked at it curiously. Why had she been so oblivious and stupid?

Hearing and seeing the door handle move again she looked around, obviously trapped as she tried the other door that was locked before bolting back to her corner digging her nails into her ankles as she pulled her legs close to her body, biting her lip to keep herself silent and try to slow her breathing as she heard fairly soft footsteps enter the room.

"Herro there, are you arright?" [1] she suddenly heard someone ask, her eyes snapping open to focus on the obviously Japanese man in front of her.

She immediately recognized him.

The Japanese can't pronounce L's!