"I don't like to look of this place Mike!" a girl whimpers gripping the man in front while 1 other boy and 2 girls stare, eyes rolling when she quivers and holds tighter. "we'll be here for a week. Alone, no one has been here for ages! Calm down will you Stacy" another boy scowls speeding up towards the large iron gates, using a Jutsu on the iron gate it unshackled for the 5 teenagers to get in. "remember the person who lasts the longest in the mansion wins the chicken game, we all ready? Stacy, Bones, Diego, Mike?" the tallest girl asks strutting to the door and swinging it open, darkness consumes the old abandoned house and dust floats in the air.
"I don't think this is a good idea…I have a bad feeling about this place" a girl at the very back murmurs almost refusing to enter if it hadn't been for Mike pushing her inside, everyone jumping when the door slams shut making the already dark room perpetual. "don't be so worked up about it Bones" Diego rolls his eyes and wraps his arms around Stacy, they called the youngest looking girl bones because of her strange talents influencing the paranormal and undead; if they ever believed anything she said anyway.
"oh relax! Its not like its haunted!" Diego bellows surging an echo through the old house, creaking floor boards and walls moan while it slowly starts to rest from the heat.
"it's a ninja challenge, if you freak out in here how will you get far on missions?" Stacy purrs cuddling her 'beloved' while looking around, Bones mumbles stepping further than anyone else and looking at an old and cobwebbed painting of a strange looking group of men in black cloaks, her eyes shift to the man standing at the end with black hair. There was something about them that she seemed to recognise but the strong nostalgic feeling is shifted when she finds everyone leaving the room.
"Bones! Hurry up or we'll leave you to the 'ghosts'" Diego jokes as she takes one last look at it and starts to walk away, pausing and slowly turning to look up the long flight of stairs to find it empty and darker, if that where possible, than where she stood. "I could of sworn…nah just my imagination…" Bones gently hums quickly pacing the old broken floorboards to the next room to catch up with the others.
Already they had set up a sitting area for them selves with lights and anything they had brought to eat, they were planning the week in the mansion. "Karla I think maybe a week here is a bit much, why not a night or two?" Mike questions only to get a snort of disagreement. "don't tell me you're chicken?" they laugh making clucking sounds before looking to Bones trying to open the curtains to let natural light in.
"I'm not chicken! If anyone's going to freak out it'll be Bones" he defends with a scowl pointing accusingly at the girl, she only looks for a second then to the door of the exit. "I'm not chicken, I just think this house is unsafe…" she mumbles pushing her long waved brown hair behind her ear and rubbing her right shoulder, they snigger softly.
"we'll be fine! We are top of our class remember" Karla yells sending an echo through the house once again, after snacking everyone made their way to find rooms. Karla shared with Diego while Stacy and Mike took to a room leaving Bones by her self; not that she minded but being in an unfamiliar and rotting mansion wasn't the best of places for a sleepover. Especially after she heard all the rumours about the mansion and the people who ever decide to move in, being the only one to truly believe that they could really have been taken by something living in the walls with them.
"hey Bones you can have this room" Stacy chants while she pushes her into the room and goes to the other directly opposite where both doors stand open, Bones blinks and looks around questioning why she even accepted to join before pausing to look over at the bed curiously. It was a four post bed with old sheets covering it, untouched by hands for some time, a rack over head holds thick black drapes with cloth weights at the ends.
For an old room it seemed rather homely in a strange way that she couldn't explain, pictures of the same group sit on shelves; again are her eyes drawn to that same tall man with a mask covering his face. Bones eyes stay at a stand still in awe at the strange colour of his eyes, green with red; almost Christmassy in a strange way.
Her left gloved finger picks it up to look closer and stares almost daydreaming, zoning back in Bones shifts the picture up to reflect the small light of the room that astonishingly still worked. Her eyes squint at something in the glass then her eyes widen and she gasps on seeing something in the reflection and spinning around swiftly. Nothing.
"my eyes are playing with me…" Bones reassures her self gently perching on the end of the bed finding it rather comfortable, next door everyone had started playing music loudly but she tries to ignore it and lay down on the bed. Eyes closed Bones rests and stretches out to place the picture on the bed above her, sighing gently. Humming or breathing can be heard out of place beside her ear. Jolting up and looking about, still, no one was in the room and Bones was starting to become paranoid about her surroundings.
"Diego? Stacy? …. Stop hiding!" she calls gently looking around before stepping to the door still checking the surroundings and opening the creeking oak that leads into the hallway, in the other room everyone is sitting doing 'things' that Bones would rather not look at. "did you come into my room?" Bones asks but no one replies and only ignores her, that would be a no in their language. Bones tenses rubbing her right shoulder and stepping back outside before shutting the door behind her, looking right then left of the halls and her own bedroom she gets safely to the bed. "I just need to rest…" Bones softly sighs getting onto the soft matress and pulling some covers over her, shuddering at the cold and dank room where she had left a light on to feel that little bit safer.
During the night the thin covers that once kept her warm had been kicked to the side while the curtains went crazy from the thundering wind and rain coming in from the window, the rain and thick mist hit the single closed glass balcony door threat fully, Bones shifts her head to lay on her spread hair which tickles her nose. Despite all these things what was making her waiver in her sleep was the feeling of -something- making its way up her body. It went slowly in caution over her flat out form on the double bed, the mattress sinking around her until resting around her hips where the thing stopped.
Anyone would have woken up by now but she only ignored it in an attempt to pass it off as a 'bad' dream, her breathing hitching when it takes hold of her shirt and lets long thin hair like branches proceed under it. Only when it touches the metal hoist on her bra does she shoot her eyes wide, this was not a dream. It was too real! Head spinning up to look, no one was there. Only the wind and the rain clattering and screaming nightmares at her, heart racing like a rabbit she stares around the room and then at her shirt with a hand sitting where the string like fibbers had been moving around. Nothing.
Hopping to her feet Bones shuts the window and closes the thin white curtain, long waved messy brown hair, pale face and front now soaked by water. Bones face was paler than usual, all the blood had run away to hide from that ordeal, screaming next door sends her running to the other room. Lights on Stacy is in a corner quaking with Mike trying to calm her down, pointing at the window Bones looks round at it.
"there's nothing there, you must have been seeing things" more shouting sends all 3 running to the next room, Karla was missing and Diego was looking about frantically. Stacy scoffs and folds her arms pointing out the obvious facts.
"she's chickened out!" Stacy laughs but Bones looks at her stuff still there, why would Karla have gone without everything. Especially in a thunder storm. "everyone calm down! I'll call Karla okay?" Mike rolls his eyes flicking the phone up and dialling only to receive the answering machine, Diego shudders worried about his lover.
"she'll be fine stop worrying" Stacy reassures pushing Mike to go back next door while Bones looks at Diego still unheard to the words before shutting the door, the entire night no one could sleep and by the time dawn had broken everyone was grouped for today's activity. Bones being first to appear downstairs and to sit by the step on her own, eyes staring at the photograph on the wall again. Why did it feel so familiar to her as if she had been to the mansion before, Stacy yells to Bones to wake up and start moving her butt.
"okay lets go do our own thing, c'mon Mike maybe we can find something to do upstairs" she giggles pulling the embarrassed man while Bones looks at Diego who had gotten over it and was now walking into the kitchen for a snack, the girl decides to scout the hallways in search of anything of interest. Even though it was day time the mansion was still dark and creepy where windows couldn't reach the shadows, putting in headphones Bones hums 'Life is priceless' to her self while looking at all the portraits.
Looking at a strange room she slowly opens the door and looks inside, nothing apparently interesting was inside but another large bed with drapes and photo's. This time they were photos of the man she was so curious of, who was he? This man was so nostalgic that Bones was becoming irritated by it, because of how stressing it had been she could safely tell her self that the hallucinations of this man were nothing. In the corner of the room is a strange black clump, stepping closer her hand touches it then pulls a piece away.
"thread…weird" she mumbles stroking it with her thumb and looking about then back down, the clump was gone except the piece in her hand. "….weird" Bones mumbles finding the urge to wrap the found thread around her wrist like a bracelet, stepping outside she looks around again and shudders at the chilly air. Something bulked swiftly runs past at the end of the hallway but is gone by the time her head turns, stepping towards it the bulk shifts past again just as fast but this time behind. Bones stops when what ever the black shade is runs right past the door only meters from her, gulping back she steps closer to the door.
"Stacy?" she slowly bites back as it runs past again almost forcing her to release a whimper, she spins swiftly and backs up in paranoia. "Mike??" Bones tries again waiting for a moment before holding back the fear to step nervously between the two doors, ducking and screaming when something large and black comes flying out at the speed of lighting, inch's from her head into the next room. Curled up and eyes shut tight Bones whimpers in fear until high pitched and hysterical laughing causes her to look around at Stacy and Mike creasing them selves.
"y-your face!" Stacy cackles gripping her stomach tighter in amusement while Mike lets his laughing out for the entire house to hear. "priceless! I wish I had my camera" he chuckles wiping the tears and seeing Bones had got up and was storming away, both chase after still laughing. "oh lighten up will you! You'll have to get used to being frightened like that if you're going to last even 3 days here" Stacy advises then blinking and looking around.
"hey Mike where did Diego go? He was here a minute ago…" both Mike and Stacy look about before shouting and screaming from along the hallway is heard, Diego comes running frantically down the hallway slamming right into them and toppling to the floor. "g-ghost! B-big g-ghost!" he whimpers pointing at the empty space while Stacy laughs pulling out a large black puppet like thing from the room. "you mean this?" Stacy giggles throwing it at Bones and knocking her over, its large black form squashing her. It didn't seem too creepy but it had a strange mask on its face like that of a tigers, although it seemed heavy it was quiet light and was easily pushed down from her caught body.
"here you like weird animal things! Stupid thing freaks me out, maybe we can burn it later" Stacy jokes walking away and shaking her hand followed by the others, Bones on the other hand doesn't find it amusing and scowls before looking at it again silently. "I doubt they could burn you if they wanted to" she mumbles standing up and looking ready to walk away but looks back at it just laying there.