Act 2: Vinegar

Kairi continued running, but she knew she wouldn't make it out the door in time. Instead, she ran towards the storage closet.

She ran in and shut the door behind her. She ran towards the back and huddled next to the mops and other cleaning supplies. It was dark, but she could see enough by the light coming from the crack under the door.

Just as she had suspected, even though the mold could come under the door it didn't follow her, just like how it had avoided that mop bucket in the hall.

"It must be scared of mops!" Kairi whispered to herself. The grabbed a mop from the wall.

"Wait," Kairi eyed the wall of chemical cleaning supplies, "What if it's afraid of the contents of the bucket." She tried desperately to remember what her mom used to clean up the mold in her bath.

"Vinegar!" She whispered in excitement. She remembered the smell of vinegar when her mom cleaned the shower. Conveniently There was a bottle of white distilled vinegar on the shelf at eye level. She took the bottle and splashed some vinegar on the mop.

Armed with a mop in one hand and a bottle of vinegar in the other, Kairi kicked the door of the storage closet open. She expected the mold to pounce as soon as the door was opened but to her surprise, it was nowhere to be seen.

She stood frozen in place expecting it to attack her any second, but nothing came.

Maybe it left? Kairi thought, but there was a faint squeaking noise coming from somewhere in the building.

Despite the fear in her throat, she walked towards the squeaking sound knowing it was coming from the mold.

She found it in a room behind the gym, it looked like a room for parties with chair and tables folded up in the back.

The mold was in the middle of the floor next to two pairs of shoes, its most recent victims.

Kairi stood in the doorway, the mold turned to face her. It raced forward ready to eat her.

She struck the mold with the mop acting purely on instinct. The mop hit with a wet squelch and the mold recoiled backward.

With newfound confidence, Kairi chased the mold into the corner of the room and keep hitting it with her vinegar mop.

Every hit made the mold writhe and try to get away, but Kairi kept on wailing on it. After every couple of hits of the mold seemed to get smaller and smaller until it was the size of a rat.

"Begone!" She yelled and brought the mop down with all her strength, pinning the mold down to the floor. She uncapped the vinegar a poured the rest of the bottle on top of the mold, watching as it shrank, then disappeared.

Right as the mold disappeared there was a poof and people began to spill out of the corner where it was defeated. First appeared Kairi's mom, then the young girl followed but a blond guy who must have been Cloud. The people appearing were all confused and shoeless.

"Where am I," Kairi's mom said, she in pajamas and disheveled. She went to Kairi and hugged her.

"You're safe, mom," Kairi smiled.

More people appeared, a toddler, the guy from the diving board, he three kids from her school, Then Tifa came. Tifa appeared yelled.

"Aghhhhhh!" She stopped yelling and looked around. "Did I kill it?" She looked at Kairi "Did you kill it?"

"Yes," Kairi confirmed, Tifa visibly relaxed.

People were still flowing out of the corner, the babysitter girl and a couple of people she didn't know were even eaten. But there was still no sign of Sora.

Then out came Sora followed by two other people Kairi couldn't care less about.

"Sora!" Kairi launched herself at Sora. "You're alive!"

"somehow," he said. He looked around at everyone then at Kairi. "Did you beat it?"

"Yes, by the power of my heart, and vinegar,"

This story was inspired by true events (by events I mean that I hadn't cleaned my shower in a while and there was a lot of gross mold).

Thank you for reading, I appreciate it in my heart

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