Thriller

9:35 PM
October 29th, 2019

Reception Area

Franziska looked both ways before she marched towards the reception desk. The floor slammed shut behind her, causing her stomach to churn. Both women took a look around, dodging every cobweb possible. The only light in the room was the dim candle following them.

"Look!" Maya cried out, grabbing onto Franziska's hand. She leaned over the desk"There's a skellington on the floor."

Franziska took a brief look at the skull and saw spiders flocking around the skull. She briefly twirled her head and saw a bell. "There's a bell here."

"Why don't we ring it!" Maya pushed herself up and opened her hand out ready to press the bell.

"Don't be foolish!" Franziska demanded as she clutched onto Maya's wrist. "Naomi Nakashima is unpredictable. That's why we need to stay close and stay safe."

"Is she a killer or something?" Maya asked curiously.

Franziska shrugged her shoulders. "That I don't know. Hopefully, there are no victims, but I doubt it."

"Then shouldn't you have the police with you?"

"I can handle this on my own!" Franziska snapped, straightening her collar out. "I am Franziska Von Karma after all."

"Of course you are," Maya said. Maya turned and knocked the bell onto the floor, causing it to make a ping noise that echoed through the whole hall. Suddenly all the lights were on. Maya and Franziska rubbed their shoulders together as their heads spun around.

The skellington on the floor rose to his feet and manically laughed. Franziska hugged herself as Maya crouched over and gasped in horror. Eerie music began to play as the lights went out again as the chandelier above them suddenly began to fall.

"LOOK OUT!" Maya yelled as she pushed herself and Franziska out of the way and onto the staircase.

"Fool!" Franziska muttered. "Why did you press that bell."

"I didn't mean to," Maya panted. "It was an..."

Maya was interrupted by the sound of wolves howling. Both women gasped as they found themselves surrounded by an assembly of zombies. She clenched onto Franziska's hand so tight that it hurt. "I know this song. It's Thriller by Michael Jackson."

"Th-Thriller?"

"I love this song!" Maya cried out. Just as the zombies were about to grab Maya's hair, she bounced off the floor and started swaying her hips. The zombies ignored Maya and they all aimed for Franziska.

"My life can't end like this!" Franziska screamed as she curled herself into a ball. She stayed for a little moment longer and then raised her head. The zombies were walking away as Maya lifted her up from the floor and used karate moves that she learned from Steel Samurai on the zombies.

"Maya Fey..." There was nothing else Franziska could say.

"It's close to midnight," Maya sang happily with her arm waving around the room. "Something evils lurking in the dark."

"Why are you singing?" Franziska demanded to know.

Maya grabbed her by the waist the twirled her around, knocking three zombies out. "Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart." Maya held onto Franziska's heart as she knocked out any zombies that came their way. "You try to scream." Just as Franziska was about to scream, Maya covered her mouth. "But terror take the sound before you make it. You start to freeze, as horror looks you right between your eyes. You're paralysed."

"What the hell are you doing?" Franziska asked Maya as she tried to get the zombies off her clothes.

"Cause this is thriller!" Maya yelled, continuing the sing her heart out. "Thriller night!" The zombies flew away from Franziska as Maya sung. "And no ones gonna save you from the beast about to strike. You know its thriller, thriller night. You're fighting for your life, inside of killer, thriller, tonight."

"Why won't you answer me?" Franziska sighed as she ran up to the stairs to the closest door she could see.

"You have to sing and dance," Maya begged Franziska. "It's the only way to stop them."

"I'm going for that door!" Franziska decided. "Naomi! Show yourself!" The door slammed as soon as Franziska finished climbing the staircase. A horde of blue bats with purple wings came charging to her. One even tried biting her earrings off. The pitch of her voice became higher than ever before. "Get off me you fools!"

Maya jived on the stairs and knocked hard on the door. "You hear the door slam, and realize there's nowhere left to run." The bats ran away as Maya placed her hand on Maya's neck. "You feel the cold hand,
and wonder if you ever see the sun." Maya then covered Franziska's eyes with her hands. "You close your eyes, and hope that this is just imagination, girl." Maya giggled and started dancing with Franziska. Their hips moved in tome with each other. "But all the while, you hear a creature creeping up behind. You're out of time!"

Franziska had to admit, Maya had a lovely singing voice. But Franziska refused to sing. She didn't want to throw away her dignity with a foolish boogie woogie.

"Cause this is thriller, thriller night!" Franziska could tell that Maya was putting her whole heart and soul into her singing. "There ain't no second chance to against the thing with the forty eyes, girl." The mirror on the wall suddenly began to glow with forty red eyes glaring at both women. "Thriller, thriller night. You're fighting for your life, inside of killer, thriller, tonight!"

The zombies jumped back on their feet and started to coo in the background of the song. "Night creatures calling, the dead start to walk in their masquerade." Maya and Franziska ran over to the other door and they were unable to open it. "There's no escaping the jaws of the alien this time." The window behind them shattered as a plant with it's mouth open wide, flashed his teeth and tried to eat both women. "This is the end of your life!"

"What kind of foolish place is this?" Franziska asked.

The only answer she got, was Maya's melody. "They're out to get you." Maya danced around Franziska as the zombies mimicked Maya's rhythm. "There's demons closing in on every sight." Maya swirled over and got her hands onto Franziska. "They will possess you,unless you change that number on your dial."

Franziska blushed hard. "No time to mess about! We really need to find this woman!"

"Now is the time!" Maya curled up over to Franziska rubbed her head against Franziska's shoulder. "For you and I to cuddle close together." Despite Maya's best efforts, the zombies continued to approach them with their hands out ready to strangle them. Franziska was still perplexed at the fact that Maya was grinning. "All through the night, Ill save you from the terror on the screen. I'll make you see."

Franziska closed her eyes and decided to join in with the final chorus. "That this is thriller, thriller night."

"That's it!" Maya cried out. "Keep singing."

"Cause I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try!" Franziska could finally understand why Maya was enjoying herself as both started singing and dancing. "Thriller, thriller night. So let me hold you tight and share a killer, thriller, killer, thriller, here tonight. "

After repeating the chorus for one final time, the zombies vanished. Maya rocked her shoulders as she twirled around Franziska.

"I think we beat them," Maya told Franziska.

"I wouldn't be so sure."

"Look!" Maya cried out as she pointed to one of the doors that had closed on them in the second verse. "There's some text on the door. Maybe it will open for us."

Before Franziska could even begin to speak, Maya grabbed her hand and dragged her to the other side of the door. A long poem glowing in red text appeared before them on the door. "What's this?" Franziska stammered.

"I know this!" Maya responded. "This is Vincent Price's part in thriller. You know? The spooky rap!"

The two ladies were interrupted by a dark, deep and sophisticated voice that bellowed over the hall. It was the voice of a woman.

"Darkness falls across the land. The midnight hour is close at hand. Creatures crawl in search of blood, to terrorize yours neighbourhood."

"That voice!" Franziska said. "Naomi Nakashima! Is that you?"

"And whosoever shall be found, without the soul for getting down, must stand and face the hounds of hell and rot inside a corpse's shell!"

The ground began to rumble as the door in front of them shook as the knob went round and round. "Naomi!" Maya cried out. "Are you behind the door. Don't worry, you're not in trouble."

"The foulest stench is in the air. The funk of forty thousand years, and grisly ghouls from every tomb. Are closing in to seal your doom And though you fight to stay alive, your body starts to shiver. For no mere mortal can resist...The evil of the thriller."

The door burst open and without a second thought, Franziska and Maya jumped through the door. The lady laughed mechanically as the door closed and the song had finished placing.


9:42 PM
October 29th, 2019
The Bedroom

Franziska grabbed her whip and got herself up and investigated the room. The lights were on, but there was no one home. The room appeared to be in a decent condition. "This must be Naomi Nakashima's bedroom."

"You know," Maya said as she had her hands around her back, admiring the large bed in the room. "I'm starting to like this place."

"WHAT IS THIS?" Franziska screamed at the top of her voice. Her arms flying in the air as her whip lashed back and forth, missing Maya by just an inch. Franziska could feel the heat of her red cheeks. "IS THIS SOME SORT OF JOKE TO YOU?"

Maya got her hands out and approached her in a calm manner. "Calm down," Maya whispered. She patted her shoulder. "They would have eaten you alive if I hadn't have done that."

"Is this some prank that you and some foolish fools created?" Franziska buried her head as she ran her fingers through her short aqua hair. When Maya shook her head, Franziska collapsed on the bed, completely flustered and utterly confused. "Naomi Nakashima is mentally insane. I need to find her as soon as possible before she harms somebody."

"Well if she was really insane," Maya snapped back. "Aren't you the fool for trying to find her on your own!"

Franziska couldn't reply. She sat down on the bed and tilted her head.

Maya joined her on the bed. "I wonder what Nick and the rest of the gang would do in a place like this?" Maya wrapped her hands around her hair and stretched her arms back, tilting her head towards Franziska.

"Phoenix Wright would be crying like a baby most probably," Franziska assumed. "Miles Edgeworth wouldn't step one foot into this place, and Dick Gumshoe would beg him to come cause he wouldn't go on his own."

"They wouldn't survive then..." Maya lowered her head. "I was hoping they'd save us."

"We need to find Naomi Nakashima and then get out of here," Franziska suggested. "I will call the authorities and they will take her back to the institute she came from."

"Do you think we'll find her alive?" Maya asked.

"Who knows," Franziska said. "Anyway it's getting late, we should both have some rest. Perhaps this place will be easier to investigate in daylight."

"Great idea!" Maya said as she quickly closed her eyes and yawned. "Goodnight, Franziska."

"Goodnight, Maya Fey."