Summary: The main evil in the house is not gone! And a fairly young woman sets off catastrophic events by Reality Traveling! It is also set in first person POV.

Rating: R

Part 1

"Gee Hikaru; don't you get sick of using that charm?" Mythoi asked me.

"No and I am trying to devise an alternate way to use the physical aspects."

"But what if you did and you find yourself where being physical can be dire?"

I groaned, "You have a point, I just want to Raditus to the Thirteen Ghosts reality."

Mythoi had a doubtful look, "Are you sure? Isn't there killer ghosts and stuff there?"

"I'm going to where after the house was burned away, dummy!"

"Oh," Mythoi began. Then he brightened up, "Tell me if you meet anyone cool."

After he left, I sighed. I am Hikaru Stiller. I am a 22 year old girl. I am also a 'student' of the occult. I have this great power, along with my charm, to take my mind everywhere. It's like astral travel but it's about more being there than anything!

"Raditus Polastrien terpandu ostrata pericatur Ermas," I chanted. I had my eyes closed and the charm held against my body tightly.

I found myself in dark woods. I stood up and walked around for along time until I found what I was looking for, the old burned out ruins of the Kritikos house. I cautiously wandered up to it, remembering all of the ghosts that were caught there before. I got all of the way to where the front door used to be and I just walked in.

The place was huge and expansive, even when some of the glass protection panes blown away! I saw the spell glass making a small room around the steps that would lead me into the basement. I also saw a library with fully intact, inoperable spell walls making a huge room which was the library. I saw the tabled in the library, and the whole library looked exactly as it did in the movie!

I decided since the ghosts were gone and Ocularis was destroyed, there was no reason to stay out of the basement. I went down its steps quickly and reached the many hallways. It was phosphorescent and also dim at the same time. I walked down there, knowing that if I ran into any left over ghosts, I could see them without glasses since I was just in mind-form. I made this turn around a corner and saw the ghost of Cyrus Kriticos! He wore his black outfit, his shoes, and even had his black cane! With effort, and climbing fear, I made pretend that I couldn't see him. He walked and sometimes blinked up to where I was. During the brief glance around I did, pretending to be exploring, I caught the look on his face; it was set it malice! He gently swiped at me with one hand, trying to grab me. I acted like I coincidently shuffled out of the way and he grazed my arm.

"Damn, it's cold down here." I muttered, rubbing my arms because he touching me made my arm cold! I'm going back up, I need the glasses! I thought as I hurried back to the stairs. Not to mention a good supply of spell walls!

During my 'flight' to the stairs, I happened to look behind me. I saw Cyrus slowly walking the way I was coming, using his cane! I saw him open his mouth in a primal scream.

"You're mine!" I hear him yell in that verbal/mental speech ghosts use!

My heart is pounding but I act like I don't hear him or see him. I rush up the steps, wanting to be away from here! I run into the library, protectively clutching to my chest, the faded cardboard teleportation symbol from the black Pullet. This was the way I came here, and I didn't want Cyrus to figure out how to use it!

I was looking at the steps through one of the panes pf Spell-walls when I heard a man's ghost voice say, "What's wrong?"

I pretend I sensed something but couldn't see or hear it. I saw the ghost of Dennis Rafkin sitting on the table! I got to the book shelf and rifle through them in a panic; I've got to find those glasses! I find a pair tossed way back and I pull them out.

I hesitantly put them on, looking around. When I see Rafkin, I act like it's the first time I saw him sitting there! "Who are you?"

"I'm Dennis Rafkin, I died here. What happened?"

"I walked in this house, and went down the basement. There was something there though; I felt it."

"You're a fool for walking into here!" Dennis said with desperation, "It's been, what, three or four years?" He saw my confused look and continued, "The Ocularis is a machine from hell, and it never gets broken!"

"What ever it was it is broken-"

"The damned machine is healing itself!"

Right then I knew my mistake even as I watched a swirling golden light spiral up from a point in the floor. I saw the big, circular room get tidier. Then I heard a giant sliding noise and then nothing. I ran out of the library too late and saw that the front entrance was sealed off with a spell-wall!

"The house knows you're here." I heard Dennis say, "You're dead." I turned around to the steps just as Cyrus winked in; he was right in front us! "Cyrus," Dennis began in hatred, "Leave us alone."

"You came here, and you are trapped." Cyrus stated to me, the same evil look on his face. I happened to glance through the spell-wall of the library and saw that I left my cardboard charm on the table! Cyrus followed my terrified gaze and asked gently, "What do we have here?"

My insides froze when he carefully walked into the library. Before I could do anything, he waved his hand behind him and the spell-door shut! I tried phasing through the wall, but the spells even affected my mind-form! I saw Cyrus pick up the decrepit tiny square gently, examining.

"What does this mean?" He asked me. I kept my mouth shut which seemed to tick him off a bit. "Fine, I can research it." He replied. He turned to the bookshelf, picking books out of the shelf, looking through them and dropping them on the floor.

I saw at the main door, some people run and started trying to open in from the outside. In desperation, I ran to it to talk to them.

"Who rebuilt the house?" The man yelled. A boy was with him, as an adult girl. "I'm Arthur Kriticos, I came when my daughter said someone rebuilt the house! What the hell did you do?" He screamed, trying to get the spell-door open.

"It healed itself and trapped me!" I yelled back so he could hear me. "And I've got a problem!" I moved out of the way so he could see the tall figure making a mess at the bookshelf. His eyes widened as he realized his uncle came back as a ghost!

I yelled in fear and ran to the library when I saw Cyrus grab a particularly musty thick book and tuck it under his arm. Dennis walked up to the door and started holding a conversation with Arthur. I got so scared and pissed that I heard this weird noise for a split second, and everything turned bright grey and white. Cyrus was a red flaming, man shaped mass. Then everything went back to normal. Somehow Dennis got the door opened and the gang rushed in. He turned around right after my brief episode and caught my look with a concerned one. I turned back to the library when the episode happened again. But this time, I was stuck like that! I heard some noise that seemed far off to, like people dying and screaming. I felt like running around and killing people but I started hitting the glass door that separated me from Cyrus! Each time I hit it; this distorted bang would be heard. Each time I made contact with the glass, whole damned frame would shake!

"LET ME THROUGH!" I screamed. I realized that it sounded like a demon!

Suddenly, I hit it once more and the whole glass shattered down onto the floor of the library! Still under the influence of 'demon-mode', I leapt through the empty frame, ran up to the back of Cyrus and hit him. I was partially out of demon-mode, but the demon part still made Cyrus fly across the room. As he hit the far wall, he dropped my charm and the book he was holding. I picked them up and leapt back through the hole. Just then the last dregs of demon-mode wore off and I was back in real-time with a whoosh that gave me a headache.

Dennis came up to me with a questioning look and I handed him the charm while I looked at the spine of the book. It was a very much older copy of The Black Pullet! "Thank god he didn't use it." I stated while dropping the book to the floor.

"We've got the door open." Arthur stated. "We need to blow this place up."

We hurried out of the building. Arthur gave me something to stick to the side of the house. I looked at what I wanted me to place and saw it was C- 4. When I place, it, we ran the hell out of there and Arthur used the rigger and we saw the place blow sky high!

Part 2 coming soon