Okay, I'm back. Would've had it up sooner but my mom wouldn't leave me alone for 5 sec. yesterday. Why is today different you ask…cuz my parents are out of town! YAY! Samie & I went & walked a trial by the river we live by & there was this hobo…well we ALMOST went up to where he was (not meaning to, we didn't know he was there.) & when we walked past again, to get to my car, & the guy rolled over. OMG! We started trying to walk faster but I was laughing so hard. Lol.

Warning: yaoi, OoC-ness, blood, gore

Disclaimer: I wish.

Squall leaned against the wall, staring straight ahead of him at the door across the hall.

The only way into or out of the Basement Dorms.

"Well, I see you're ready for anything." Seifer walked up and motioned to Squall's overstuffed duffle bag.

"Hey, hey! Looks like we're all here! You guys ready to kick some ghosty-ass!"

"Selphie, darlin', calm down."

"I can't help it Irvy! I'm just so excited! Aren't you Zell?"

"Yeah, I mean, what could be in there?"

"Well, chicken, it looks like the only way we're going to find out is if we go in there."

Zell turned and glared at Seifer for the smart-ass comment.

(now Squall POV)

I simply moved toward the door with my bag on my shoulder and my Gunblade drawn.

"What are you so worried for, Puberty Boy?"

I unlocked the door and it 'swished' open. The dorm's hallway was completely black.

Crap.

It was like being blind and it made me really uneasy.

"Well, let's get going." Irvine pushed past me, followed by Selphie and Zell.

Suddenly I was hugged form behind. "Hey, you're shaking." Arms crossed my chest and hands rubbed up and down my arms. "Nothing's going to happen okay? Clam down." I was released and Seifer walked past into The Dark, Foreboding Room of Death and Insanity.

/What the Hell just happened/

"What the Hell, Chicken? Trying to be macho? Turn on the damn lights!" (Shout out to Samie!)

I sighed and walked in as weak overhead lights flickered on…and continued flickering. (You know those long cylinder lights that are in EVERY school on the planet? The kind that make you epileptic when they flicker like the one in Samie's closet? Yea, those lights. Lol.)

"Well that's annoying."

"Wow! This place's a DUMP!"

"Thank you Selphie, we have eyes."

"Group up. Fan out. I want every room checked over." They turned and gave me the SeeD salute.

"We'll look in the main rooms and kitchens." Irvine slung his arm around Selphie and Zell, grinned, and walked into the nearest room. We followed.

"Right we'll take the more…intimate areas. Come on, lioness." Seifer grabbed one of my belts, MY BELT, and dragged me off toward the bedroom.

The door 'swished' open and we were hit with what felt like a solid wall of cold.

"Shit." Seifer looked at me. "You cold?"

I grit my teeth to stop them from shivering. "I'm fine."

He gave me a Look. "If you say so…"

I walked in the room, ready for anything .

"It'd take less time if we all took different rooms you know." Seifer stood close. Close enough to offer heat.

"We have to stay until morning anyway and I'd rather if we were all in hearing distance of each other.

He nodded and started searching. The overhead light flickered as well in this room as it did in the hall.

Nothing was in the bedroom so we moved on to the bathroom.

The light flickered there too.

"What is wrong with all these damn lights!"

"The fuse maybe?" Just then, out of the corner of my eye, I thought I saw a mangled corpse reaching out at me from my right side.

I whipped around, ready, but only saw…myself. Or rather, my reflection in a mirror.

"What's wrong? You see Bloody Mary or something?"

"Something. I thought." Arms around me again. Safe, warm arms. In the mirror Seifer was giving me a concerned gaze, his head on my shoulder. "Nothings going to happen, okay? Nothing's here/"

And that would be Selphie's and Zell's cue to start screaming their heads off while Irvine cusses every word he can think up.

I jerked out of Seifer's arms and ran toward the Main Room.

That was completely black.

I reached into my jacket pocket and drew out a Flare Tortch. It flared to life which made Zell and Selphie start screaming again.

"What happened!" Irvine looked at me.

"The damn light blew."

"I could understand if it was just the chicken but I don't think the Messenger Girl would scream her lungs out just because a flickering light went out."

"I meant the light blew UP! As in shattered? Glass went everywhere."

There was glass on the floor.

Then something moaned.

Irvine grabbed the other two and pulled them over to where I was standing. Selphie whimpered, Seifer drew closer to me and my Flare Torch's flame flickered.

"What was that?" Seifer had his arm around me now.

"I don't know Chicken. But I don't like this."

A series of 'pops' and the showering of glass sounded. One by oneevery light in the Basement Level Dorms shattered. Shadowing the SeeDs in almost complete black.

"Yeah, I really don't like this."

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