Chapter 2: Night of Horror

I started walking up the steps to my house when the door swung open.

"Mulan, thank God you are home!" said my mother as she embraced me in a loving hug.

"Mom, just chillax. It's not like I've been missing for several days," I replied to her annoyingly.

She broke away from the embrace and gave me the look. I rolled my eyes as I said, "Look, I'm seventeen years old now, Mom. I can take care of myself all alone in this house."

She shook her head and replied, "I'm just a bit worried about you honey. Ever since that… incident, I've been a bit more concerned with your safety every now and then."

I nodded slowly in reply before I heard someone clap their hands together to get our attention. I turned around to see my father as he said to Mom, "Alright, you got everything in the car?"

"Yes dear, all we have to do now is tell our daughter the rules of the house and of her safety," she replied to him.

"Right," he said while rubbing his hands together. Then he turned to me and said, "Okay young lady, while we are gone for the weekend, I want you to lock up all of the doors, windows, etc. before you leave the house or go to bed. I also want you to do your daily chores while we are gone as well as starting your school project for biology."

"Yeah Dad, I know what I'm doing. Can you go now before it gets too late for you guys," I retorted at him.

"Okay, call us if you need anything, sweetheart. And please, please we're begging you not to answer the door to anyone you don't know," he said worriedly at me.

I gave my dad the look before I replied, "Dad, I'll be fine here. Now you two just go on your little monster hunt."

"Fine, we're going," he said to me as he and Mom started to walk towards the car. Then he turned to me and said sternly, "No shenanigans while we're gone."

I just smiled and waved good bye at them. The car started as they began to drive down the driveway and out of sight.

I let out a sigh as I went inside the house. I went to the TV and turned it on. I then walked to the nice comfortable couch and made myself at home.

I felt a presence hovering somewhere nearby. I smiled as I said out loud, "You can come out now! Mom and Dad are gone."

Then all of the sudden, a little eight year old Chinese boy with short jet black hair with a long forehead bang covering most of forehead was standing in front of me. He was wearing a nice blue tee shirt and dark blue jeans. His shoes were a tannish brown coloring.

"Phew, I thought I had to stay hidden forever, big sis," said the little boy.

I smiled as I replied, "Yeah well sorry you had to wait, little brother."

He smiled back at me as he made his way to the couch so that he could sit next to me.

Yeah, I have a little brother. Well, had a little brother. You see my brother, Zian, is dead. No, he's not a zombie, vampire, or any of that crap. He's a ghost.

You all might be asking why I can see, hear, and touch him if he's a ghost. The thing is, I was born with this ability to communicate and see the dead. I am almost like a ghost whisper in a way.

Why might you ask that I have to keep Zian a secret with my parents? Well isn't it obvious? I have to keep my ability to see, hear, and touch apparitions a secret because then my parents would want me to use them for their 'monster quests'. Also, they would think that I am crazy because I tried to explain to my parents that Zian was still alive to them when I was ten, and it didn't go so well.

My mom thought that I was under stress and confusion since that night that my brother was murdered. So I had to face the facts that I have to keep this ghost whispering thing a secret.

I have to admit, she might have been right about the stress and confusion of the attack seven years ago. Back then I didn't think much of it than a very, very unlucky incident. All that I remembered was a strange guy asking us to get into this black van. When we refused, he got out his knife and started to attack us.

I tried my best to kick his ass, but he got ahold of my brother and killed him. I screamed as I watched him slowly die in my arms. After that, I couldn't remember what happened after my brother's death and the stranger coming after me.

All that I remember from that night was fear, sadness, anger, and blood in my mind. My parents sent me to a psychiatrist for help. The meetings with the psychiatrist did help me a lot from the pain of losing my brother and what not, but it didn't help me regain what exactly happened that night and why I was covered head to toe with the man's blood.

Anyway, all that matters now was that I still have my little brother by my side. Well, his spirit to be precise. A couple of times I would ask him why he didn't go to the other side of this world. All that he said was 'I want to protect you'. I was so confused by his answer every time that I started to shrug it off like it was no big deal.

"Hey sis?" said Zian.

I turned to my ghost brother and replied, "Yes, little brother?"

He turn away from the TV and asked me, "Why are Mom and Dad afraid of me?"

I hesitated for a second before I replied, "Zian, they are not afraid of you. They're just afraid that you haven't found any peace in the afterlife."

"Is that the reason why Mom thought that you were crazy when you told her that I was still here?" he asked me.

I nodded my head in reply.

He nodded as he understood my reasoning with my parents that he turned his attention back to the TV to watch Jurassic Park with me.

I let out a sigh as I turned to the TV to watch the scene where the two velociraptors are in the kitchen.

After a couple hours of watching some TV, I decided to turn in for the night. I yawned, stretched out my limbs, and walked towards my bedroom.

I went to my dresser and knelt down so that I could open the bottom drawer. I pulled out my pajamas and headed to the bathroom.

"Hey Mulan," said Zian outside the bathroom door.

"Hmm?" I hummed in reply to him as I put on my pajama tank top shirt.

"Do you think our parents are going to finally catch a real monster?" he asked curiously.

I smirked as I shook my head and replied to him, "No, I don't think so."

"Why not?" he asked in confusion.

I then got out of the bathroom and said to him, "Because monsters are not real. They never were."

He looked at me angrily and retorted, "They are real! I've seen them and so have you."

I looked at him for a split second before I said in a sarcastic monotone voice, "Right."

I then let out another yawn as I said to him, "Well I don't know about you, but I am going to bed right now. You should probably rest up yourself too, Zian."

"Ah man! I am dead sis, I don't need to sleep!" he complained.

I looked at him sternly as I replied, "Yes you do young man. I want you to go and rest up so that tomorrow we can go out hiking in our woods early in the morning."

He let out a groan as he said, "Fine!"

"Good. You can sleep in my room tonight than that dusty old attic," I said to him.

He nodded his head as he phased through the walls to get to my bedroom faster.

I shook my head at my brother's laziness to get to my bedroom. I started to walk around the house to make sure that all of the windows and doors were locked up. Then I finally headed to my room to get underneath my soft, warm covers and get some sleep.

I was in a deep sleep when my peaceful dreams of gardens full of beautiful flowers and trees were replaced with a dark, evil forest. In the dream I walked inside the mysterious forest for a long time before a shiny object caught my eye.

I turned around to see a shady figure with a big kitchen knife coming at me.

I screamed as I open my eyes to see the shady figure from my dream hovering above me, in real life!

"MULAN, WATCH OUT!" screamed my little ghost brother.

The figure above me was wearing a white hoody. His sick pale face was smirking in the dark of my room. His charcoal black eyes stared coldly at me while I tried to run the hell away from him.

He smiled even wider as he chuckled darkly.

"Don't worry sis, I'll find something to get rid of this monster!" my brother exclaimed heroically as he left my room to get something to stop this psychopath.

"Zian, wait!" I whispered harshly, but he didn't listen to me as he disappeared through the wall.

I was trembling in fear as I saw the psycho move closer to me and said in a harsh whisper, "Go to Slee… Ow!"

I scratched the side of his face as he winced in pain. Then I kicked him hard in the chest so that he would get off of my bed. He yelped as his stunned body fell off of the bed and towards the ground, hard.

I tried to scramble out of my bed, but I stopped when I heard a low animalistic growl. I turned to my window to see a dark humanoid creature crouching on my windowsill. Its eyes glowed a pale yellow color in the dark.

My heart was pounding violently in my chest as I feared for the worst of what was coming. The creature leaped off of the windowsill and landed on my bed. The thing started to crawl towards me slowly as I tried to back away from the fiend.

My back hit the headboard of my bed as the creature narrowed its eyes at me and hissed. I was so scared that I didn't even realize that I was starting to cry.

My head turned to the side of the bed when I heard the guy that I kicked earlier groaned. He slowly stood up, looked at me hatefully, and said angrily, "Alright bitch, you officially pissed me off!"

My eyes widened in horror as the guy brought out another knife and started to come at me with it. I closed my eyes tightly as I felt something vibrating in my throat. I let out a very loud shriek. But the shriek wasn't normal. It was super loud, louder than any normal human scream.

I heard the two monsters scream in pain from my super sonic scream. Once I was out of breath, I looked to see them on the ground, covering their ears in pain.

"Woah!" my brother said as he phased through the room again to see what happened. "Since when can you do that, Sis?" he asked as he looked at me in disbelief.

"I don't know, little brother, but I can't stay here any longer. We have to call the police for help!" I said as I ran out of my room to go to our home phone to call in the police because my cell is at 5% low battery.

I went to the phone and picked it up. I tried to dial in the number but I couldn't because the line was busy.

"Come on, come on!" I said in vain as I attempted again.

Then all of a sudden, a knife punctured the phone as a familiar evil chuckle was heard. I turned around to see him coming towards me in the hallway.

"Sorry, out of order," he said while grinning at me. I dropped the phone as I ran towards the front door.

I got to the door and struggled to unlock it.

He laughed sinisterly as he said, "Where are you going? The fun is about to start!"

I finally got the door unlocked as I bolted out of the house. I ran down the driveway to try and find some help. Then the creature appeared out of nowhere and blocked my path.

I stopped for a split second before I veered away from the fiend and ran straight into the forest. My feet were like walking on air as I ran for my life. I kept on hearing the creature's fleeting footsteps a few feet behind me.

I turned around to see how close it was before I fumbled towards the ground. I fell on my face before I quickly got up and started running for my life again. Then I closed my eyes and started to shout in a strange animal like howling call sound.

I opened my eyes to see the forest all around me glow in a greenish glow from the roots of the tree to the tips of the canopy in a moving spiraling, wavy motion. Then I heard groans behind me. I turned around to see the guy and the creature all tangled up in a bunch of vines and branches.

"The fuck! How the hell did all of these branches get here!" shouted the man angrily as he struggled to cut himself loose while the creature tried to bite and claw at the plant growth.

I started to run again as I leaped from one log to the next in a vain attempt to try and lose the monster and the psychopath. Then I was in the air for a few seconds before I was rammed into a tree by the creature.

I yelped in pain as my body hit the tree, hard. I slumped to the ground as I watched the creature walking towards me. Then the white hooded guy came towards the creature and said, "Good job Rake. Now, let's kill this slippery eel."

The creature nodded as it bared its razor sharp teeth at me.

Shoot, I can't out run them, so I have no choice left but to fight. I got myself up off of the ground, and stepped forward into my fighting position as I watched and waited for the perfect moment to strike.

The guy laughed at me and said, "You think that you can defeat us?"

I only narrowed my eyes at him hatefully.

"Suit yourself, but you are going to die tonight," he said as he lunged at me with his knife.

I quickly moved to the side and dragon kicked him in the back. He fell face forward into the tree. He quickly got up and tried to stab me. I back flipped away from him before I stopped to do a 360 degree lotus kick to the creature directly in the face.

The creature flew to the side a few feet away from me while the guy stared at me in horror for a brief moment before he brought out another knife and tried to stab me with two kitchen knives. I dodged each attack as I tried to gain more ground by moving away from him as much as possible.

Then I went down towards the ground and low kicked him in the shin. He tripped and fell towards the ground on his butt.

Then the creature pinned me down and tried to rip out my throat, but I wrapped my legs around the creature's ankles and made it fall on its side. I scrambled to get up from the ground, but the thing grabbed me by the leg.

I struggled in its grasp as I felt its claws sink into my skin. Then I kicked the creature in the face to make it let go of me. It took me a least five tries before it finally let me go. Then I crawled away and pushed myself up before someone grabbed me by the shoulders and lifted me up in the air.

The psychopath held me up against a large tree by my neck. I clamped both of my hands on his arm as I tried to dig my nails into his skin to let me go.

He looked at me evilly as he raised his knife right above my chest and said, "You got on my last damn nerves, little girl!"

I stared up in fear as my sapphire eyes widened in horror as I struggled to get air in my lungs. His grip tightened around my neck as he said those same words from before, "Go to sleep!"

I closed my eyes as I prepared for Death to sweep me up from this world.

"Leave her alone!" shouted a voice.

I opened my eyes to see my little brother grabbing the psychopath's arm with all of his might.

"What the hell!" shouted the killer as he noticed that he couldn't move his arm.

"Zain," I whispered hoarsely as I admired my little brother trying his best to protect me. But that moment was short lived when the guy threw my brother off of his arm.

"Get off of me you little twerp!" the killer shouted as he flung him off.

My brother was tumbling in the air before he phased through some trees.

"NO!" I shouted before I hung my head towards the ground.

Then the killer turned to me and said, "Now, where were we? Oh yes, the part where I am about to put you to sleep."

I felt my heart beat faster than before, but my heart wasn't beating out of fear but in anger. This was the same feeling I felt seven years ago from the night that the stranger tried to kill me.

"Say good night, Jeffy!" said the killer. He brought the knife up in the air before he swung it towards me. Just as the sharp blade was about to pierce my flesh, I caught the killer's arm in a tight grasp.

The killer was surprised that he said, "What the!"

I slowly raised my head as I narrowed my eyes hatefully at him. His eyes widened in terror. I growled like a ravage wolf at him as he winced in pain from his hand being crushed. I was about to use my super sonic scream on him when he quickly covered my mouth with his other hand as he tried to stab me with his knife.

I squirmed in his grip before I noticed the full moon peeking out from the canopy of the forest. My heart started to beat even faster as I felt pain rush through my body.

Gah! What is happening to me? Why do I feel so much pain in my body like if it is tearing me apart! I then heard a few bones starting to pop as my body began to shift.

Then I bit on the guy's hand as he screamed in pain. I tasted his warm blood in my mouth. This desire for blood made me bite down even harder on his hand. He yelped even louder in pain as he dropped his knife.

I heard a growl as I looked to see what it was before I felt excruciating pain in my leg. I let go of his hand as I screamed like a bat mixed with a dinosaur's roar in pain. Then I was rammed out of the way and fell towards the ground.

I quickly scrambled to get up as I stared at them on all fours, growling at them.

The guy got up while covering his bleeding hand and mumbled, "Thanks, I owe you one."

"Let's worry about that latter. We have to get out of here!" said the creature.

The guy shook his head and replied, "Not until I kill this….this son of a bitch." He then came at me with a small pocket knife.

I ducked out of the way as I stood up and clawed at him. I saw that his hoody had five long claw marks on them from my attack. He looked down at his clothes and gasped in surprise.

He then looked at me and said, "What the hell are you!"

I was about to run away when I stopped to this pain in my chest. I yelped as I clenched my chest. Then I started to feel very hot. I screamed yet again with the bat like dino scream as I stretched out my arms.

The two started to move away from me as I cry out to this unusual pain inside and outside my body. Bones started to crack even more as my clothes started to rip and tear. Then I noticed that my arms started to glow a teal color before I saw blue fire starting to form around me.

"What is happening… to me?" I said out loud as the blue fire started to wrap around my body in its warmth. I let out another scream. Then the 'fire' died down as I was able to see again.

I saw the look in their faces. Both of them had wide surprised eyes and gaping mouths at what happened just now.

Before I could even look at myself, I started to feel very faint. My eyelids started to droop down. My legs started to give out as I fell to the ground. I laid there on my side as I let the darkness take over me.

~To be Continued~