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I HAVE SIMPLY WARNED YOU, IF YOU DO NOT LIKE HORROR, DON'T READ..
To others, have fun with it. ;3
Dare
As the years went by, this house here has remained under the police wraps to keep out civilians from trespassing onto this property, it has not gained a customer since the last family who bought it and stayed for two days, who has claimed to have seen a shadow of an angelic devil lingering around the house, almost murdering a woman choking her to death if her husband have not seen it and rescued her in time, also manipulated their teenage daughter into killing the neighbor's teenage son while posing as an angel feeding her lies. Black feathers found near their daughter's bed, practically almost everywhere in the house. The window downstairs, the kitchen, hell even the front and back doors. How can this be? Eventually the bank tried again with selling the house to another couple without any kids, but after a month the sighting of an angelic devil had been spotted lingering in the basement, trying to do harm once more each time the boyfriend had left the house. Bearing hand marks over her wrists to the point of breaking bones, dragging her body into a secluded room during the night, only to come up with blood and more wounds. They left as well. So, with the events being so strange yet eerie for someone like children and infants to stay in there, the police had no choice but to close it off, never to be on the markets, nor for human souls to touch the ground again.
Yet, someone was bound to do so...
"This is it?" An unimpressed red-head crossed his arms, expecting for something cool to happen.
Steve questioned him with a confused look, "Yeah, what were you looking for in this place?"
"Um, something more spooky looking? This house don't look so scary like the newspaper said..."
"I wouldn't be so sure about it, this is the house where a family got ran out of-"
"Hey. What are you brats doing over here?"
Both Hwoarang and Steve turned to find an old man standing and glaring at them like he was gonna kill them. Something about him was just as equally eerie as this house, white hair sticking out on the sides but not in the middle, just as bald and shinny. Almost like the old men who talk about getting kids off their lawn, but for an old guy, he was alive and still kicking it.
"Shouldn't be play near here, go do something productive that's not here..." He spoke with such malice like he hated people in general.
The red-head scoffed, "Chill out gramps, we're just observing the house." Hwoarang didn't like this old man's tone of voice.\
"This gramps could kick your ass if he wanted to," the old man retailiated back with a sneer. "Now get the hell away from here."
The grumpy, old man left them here to think about what they may attempting to do, although Hwoarang, nor Steve had no idea what the heck that old man was being a grouchy just because they stood near the dubbed "evil house."
"What the heck was that? That ol' geezer just came out of nowhere, started treating us, us, like kids, then disappear. What the fuck? Should have kicked his ass.."
Steve didn't think it would be a good idea. "Well, he did have a point there about lingering near.." He trailed with his words, waving his hands around and pointing at the house.
"So? That just only means we can go in there and see what makes it so scary," Hwoarang replied with some crazy idea inside his head.
"I don't know, after hearing those stories about it from the newspaper and the news, I don't think-" He was cut off by Hwoarang's words of convincing.
"Come on!" Hwoarang was surely egging him on. "We can just bring the girls along as well, since your chicken and all." He smirked.\
"Alright, but believe me I am no chicken." He told the red-head, sure he didn't want to go inside, but Hwoarang insisted them and the girls would come along to find out what's so scary about this house.
Steve looked back at the house, looking at the structure reminded him of a graveyard without the graves, but it did look so dead. "Hey Steve, come on. We have to meet up with the girls and tell them about our plan."
"Right, right," the Brit nodded and ran where Hwoarang somewhat waited on him.
Lingering at a cafe that sat on the corner, drinking smoothies and pop as they talked about certain things as many people around their table talked about the evil house, sightings of a devil been seen at the attic window, looking straight at them. Possibly into their souls. Of course nobody has gotten proof of that, so it could be a lie just to get on tv. Or is it really true? Listening to the rumors around then, one of the girls had gotten scared of it.
"Um, do you think that house...is really haunted? I mean people have seen weird things outside the home itself."
"Oh please Xiao, you can't say that for sure just cause rumors are going around," the brunette sighed as she sipped her drink. "People like to lie to get on tv.."
Xiaoyu puffed up her cheeks, "Pooh Asuka, you're not helping the situation. Julia, you believe them stories right?"
"Oh, I can't say for sure that I believe them...I mean, I have yet to see these evil spirits to make that official."
The rich girl scoffed as she was unimpressed with these ghost stories. "You guys need to quit thinking those ghost stories, I mean Asuka's right. How do you know people are not lying about the devil sightings just to get on tv?"
"It doesn't seem that way," the bubbly girl paused grimacing, "a family ran out of the place cause something weird happened! Their daughter killed the neighbor's kid cause she told the media an angel told her that boy was evil."
"She might have done it on her own time," the Indian pointed out. "And then used paranormal things as her alibi."
"Oh no, don't look now, but I see a smile on Hwo's face," Asuka sighed as they all know that Korean boy had something up his sleeve.
"Come on ladies, you, me, and Steve are gonna investigate that house."
"What? You want us to investigate that house? You and Steve? I'd expect it coming from you."
"Hey!" Hwoarang was offended with that comment.
"But you Steve? Really?" The girls were shocked at this newly found discovery.
Steve defended himself. "No, no, he coated me to go with."
The girls looked at each other, trying to make an attempt to believe his story, after all he does hang around the Korean more likely that anyone of them. Possibly gaining the influence to do crazy things like he does. That would be bad. Very bad.
"Errr, what would be gaining if we do go in there?" Julia asked.
"To see who's not chicken, that's what. I see nothing famous about the place," he said with pride, unafraid of this said house. "We can bring Leo along for the ride too, someone call her up."
Such a thought to make a dare to linger into the house with such evil...
The gang snuck out of their houses, or just left with an excuse to "go home," only to meet up with their friends outside in the dark at some corner street, walking towards the haunted house like they were running away from the police from breaking out of prison looking for shelter. Sure, one of them wanted to go inside the place that reminded people of a graveyard, but some of the others not so much. Julia wasn't so sure of this idea, Asuka did not mind it too much, Lili didn't care for it, Leo was still mad at Hwoarang for inviting her to this, and Xiaoyu seemed frightened with that idea of trespassing. It had an evil aura, that alone should make someone not to go in there.
"Please tell me why I am here? This little bet of yours does not concern me," Leo muttered, she was not amused that Hwoarang had to add her to this crazy equation to sneak inside that house.
"Chill woman, if these girls had to be involved, then you do too," the red-head explained his actions, but that was not convincing her.
"I wasn't even there, how in the heck you involved me in this crap? I'll never know." She crossed her arms.
Asuka placed her hand on Leo's shoulder, shaking her head, "Its no use Leo, I stopped wondering what Hwo sometimes be thinking in that crazy head of his."
"My head is not crazy," he scoffed. "Its pure genius after this thought."
Asuka rolled her eyes, muttering "That's what you think."
"Jeez, if you wanted to go figure out what's up with that house, you clearly could have done it yourself. Leave me out of this," Leo told him.
Julia sighed, "Enough guys. Now what's the whole point to this? What will we be looking in this said house when we do go in?"
"Hopefully not the devil with angel wings," Xiaoyu mumbled.
Lili overheard her, scoffing. "Oh Xiao, you really need to quit with that. Ghost stories are known to scare people."
"So, what you're saying is..." he paused with a smirk on his face, "you're more likely the candidate to go inside first right?"
She groaned, "I didn't say that I was volunteering myself, I was simply telling her that ghost stories are just to scare people with."
"Boy, nothing scares you Lili," Xiaoyu sighed, sounding a bit annoyed at that.
She huffed proudly, "Of course not, I don't let some ghost story get the best of me."
Standing two stores high, if you count the basement as one as well, vines wrapped up on the left side of the home. The trees, and flowers were all dead, leaning over and dead leaves stayed in place since the last family had lived here. Cobwebs at every corner, the atmosphere still as it was years ago, dark and depressing with a creepy factor. It smelled like fresh, dead corpses and fresh blood, like being in a doctor's office with hints of being in a morgue. Still, something about it was creepy that topped the look of it, a pair of eyes following your every movement, being watched most of the time.
"So, who's going first?" asked the Korean, only to be met with silence.
Leo spoke as she crossed her hands, "I'm not, it should NOT concern me in your games to scare people with."
"No way," Xiaoyu declined.
Hwoarang sighed, "Fine then, if no one wants to go in there, we'll just have to draw straws then."
"A game of straws to pick out who goes in? Really?" Lili was by far unimpressed with thst kind of idea, "its a childish game."
The Korean rolled his eyes. "Then, why don't you go in there, richie. Saves us the trouble to find out."
"No way," she declined his offer, "its was a complete waste of my own time. trying to find something that does not exist."
"Scared?" Hwo taunted Lili, which only irritated her in a matter of minutes.
"Enough, jeez...this was your idea, why not you go in there and save us from hearing you two bicker like children," Julia sighed. "Just draw the straws out already."
Who was destined to go inside...?