(Yay! I finally finsihed this chapter! :3 I had soooo much trouble writing this chapter, kept not having any ideas, felt that my writing had slipt, and not being in the mood to write at all. But hey i got through it :3 Take that chapter! XD Hopefully this wont happen agan ^^'. Anyway, my original idea for this chapter was to have the hostpital getting attacked by werewolfs and Paine needs to escape but i scrapped that after a few lines plus i thought it was bad. I mean the first Howling Mist was all about suspence and tension, and this one seemed to be heading in the action horror...so the idea was scrapped. So i've jumped back to what you guys loved about the first one...least i think ^^' So with out further ado, i give you the second chatper of Howling mist 2! Enjoy!)

Get the Party This Started!

The long drive stood in darkness, the sound of the wind howling through tree branches. A long shadow watched from a window its form unmoving. Loose leafs blew around the front drive and danced in the road, their dance going unseen in the pitch black. Long slithers of light began to creep in on the darkness, swallowing the sprites whole as other flee in terror. Something rumbled behind the light, it's voice booming and monstrous as it rolled along the road. The shadow by the window danced its movement showing panic, it disappeared behind the curtain as the house stood in silence once again. The thundering monster pulled into the drive…it's noise slowing to a sudden halt.

"Ah…Ok…that's not suppose to happen ya?" Wakka jumped out his car, Paine and Lulu skilfully stepped out.

"I told you if you kept doing that you'd stall it…" Lulu shook her head moving to the front door, Wakka abandoned his ride floating to Lulu's side.

Paine fiddled with her keys as she selected one and placed it in the lock. The door swung open as her wrist turned, the three stepped inside the dark domain.

"Home sweet hom-"

"SURPRISE!!!" Paine almost suffered a heart-attack as she flipped the switch.

Just sprung from their hiding spots Yuna, Rikku, Tidus, Nooj, Gippal and Baralai were all grinning from ear to ear. Paine looked set to tear the six limp from limp.

"Happy get out of hospital day!" The six finished nervously each emitting their own nervous laugh…Paine's expression softened.

"You were all in on this?" Paine raised an eyebrow to Lulu and Wakka "How long?"

"Three weeks ya!" Wakka gave happily as Lulu moved past him. "We wanted to do something special for you ya!" Wakka rested a hand on Paine shoulder give her some sort of Wakka hug/comfort.

"Then what are we waiting for?" Rikku came barrelling into the room a bowl of popcorn over her head. "Let's get this party STARTED!!" The house erupted into cheers.

The night drove on as the house was alive with activity, spooked screams of terror as horror movies played. Insane fits of laughter as comedies lightened the heart or as Rikku and Gippal made fools of themselves. Drunken conversation's between Gippal and Nooj, general shenanigans with Rikku and clumsy moments with Tidus.

Intent and statuesque Gippal and Nooj stared at each other. Eyes unmoving…unblinking. Yuna and Rikku both took a handful of popcorn trying their hardest to make as little noise as possible. Nooj fought back the urge to blink he was not losing, Gippal fought the urge to take a swig from his beer. The two were locked in staring combat the ultimate test of ones drunken endurance. Tidus and Wakka were busy ordering a pizza to care, they'd been driving the shop nuts with constant reorders. Lulu and Paine were just ignoring the drunken battle going on behind them, both to engrossed in a random horror show.

Yuna's ears peeked at something…the faintest sound. A low scratching came from the front door…and her blood ran cold as a howl sounded. Paine quickly moved to the door her hand twisting on the handle, Yuna's heartbeat skyrocketed…she wasn't really going to? The door opened, rushed steps came in…something large jumped onto Yuna's lap.

"Saya!" Came Paine's sharp call. Yuna blinked as the thing left her with a wet face. "Sorry Yuna…she gets excited when other people are around" Paine was patting a fluffy grey coated animal.

"Oh! Hello there!" Lulu pulled the bowl she had a little higher as the thing jumped at her playfully. "You never said you had a dog." Lulu patted it on the head.

Paine gave a small laugh then tapped her thigh, Saya came over to her. "Well…" Paine started ruffling Saya's coat "She's a half breed. Two thirds Wolf, one third Husky. Isn't that right girl!?" The blue eyed Husky gave a joyful bark, Paine smiling from ear to ear.

Rikku came right over, Yuna took a little while to come over clearly unnerved by the encounter…memories of that misty night had started to play. Brought back to life by that haunting howling…

"Pizza's here!" Tidus practically jumped away from the window as the red van made parked in the driveway. He wasn't there to see the driver climb out…then be snatched away by some dark figure.

Saya's ears dropped…she gave a low growl eyes fixed on the front door. "Saya?" Paine raised an eyebrow to her dogs strange behaviour.

"Take it she's not done that before huh?" Tidus's hand froze on the door handle, Paine shook her head. "Maybe it's just the delivery guy…like how dogs are suppose to chase postman!" A large shadow stood unnoticed behind the door barely visible through the small pain of glass…it moved away as Lulu came through.

Saya leapt at the door barking like mad, Tidus backed away.

"What type of pizza did you and Wakka order?" Lulu's gaze fell on Tidus.

"Uhhhh…pepperoni" He gave a small shy smile. Lulu just shook her head.

A sudden crash of glass came from outside, the teens exchanged worried looks among each other.

"Woooooohoooo! Doggies!!!" Came Gippal's cry from the living room taking away all seriousness from the moment…and also waking Nooj.

"Baralai!" Baralai popped his head round the top of the stairs "Could you hold onto Saya for minute?" He gave a nod to Paine's question as he bounded down the stairs.

Paine disappeared into the kitchen, after a few seconds of rummaging through draws she reappeared with a torch in hand.

"What's with the torch?" Nooj was using the wall for support, looking a lot more sober then he was a few minutes ago.

"Someone might be trying to break in…plus I can't see to good in the dark now can I?" Paine flicked the torch on and off then pulled the door open.

"Hey! Wait! I'll come with you!" Yuna quickly followed Paine out into the night.

The round spot of light flashed back and forth cutting through the darkness. The red pizza van stood still on the driveway…carrying no signs of a driver. The light shone through the dirty glass as the two girls came closer…one of the windows had been busted in. Paine and Yuna exchanged a worried look…what sort of driver breaks their own window? Yuna looked in through the window, the keys were still in the ignition. Paine ushered back a sigh as a slow mist started to creep in, it had looked like it would have been a beautiful night. Paine's train of thought stopped there as her torch caught something in its light. The two moved forward carefully…the red shone in the light…the two's imagination's ran away with them.

"…What is it?" Yuna couldn't stop the trembling in her voice.

Paine chuckled lightly "Free pizza" The torch fell on the slightly opened pizza box, Paine picked it up…something wet touched her finger. "…Geez…" Paine flipped the wet stuff of her hand.

"What's wrong?" Yuna watched as Paine made a twisted face of disgust.

"Nothing…just something on the box. Maybe the grease started to seep through from being on the grass…" Yuna gave a small giggle.

Something caught in Paine's vision…something at the edge of the torchlight…something red. Paine focused the torch on it…following the trail up…to the bloody remains of the deliveryman. Twisted bone and torn flesh fell about the shattered remain, the face was a twisted mask of terror, fear and agony. Something gave a low growl as the light caught its hand, the entralls sliding around in them…there came a snarl.

"RUN!!" Paine grabbed Yuna's hand pulling her horrified friend along

The two turned bolting as the thing took after them, they dashed past the truck minds ablaze with fear. The two slammed into the front door.

"OPEN THE DOOR! OPEN THE DOOR!!" Yuna's fists pounded on the wood her voice full of fear.

The door swung open. Yuna stumbled in, Paine slammed the door closed pushing locks into place…there came a thud from the other side of the door.

"Hey! Hey! Pizza!" Gippal picked up the box totally oblivious to Yuna crying and Paine looking like she'd seen sin. "Oh man…pepperoni" Gippal sighed.

There came a howl…the teens watched each other eyes filling with fear. Other howls followed as the mist pulled in outside…

The nightmares…have returned…

(I hope the wait was worth it and sorry for the long babble at the top, just wanted to give a bit of insight you know? :3 Special thanks to Yuna of Besaid for reviewing, i sorta cleaned up and got this out for here ^^ And for everyone else that enjoyed the first one ;). Feel free to review and intill the next chapter guys, bye byee :3 Special thanks you Yuna of Besaid for spotting a typo, cause Lulu would have bashed me if she saw that word in the same sentence as her XD)