**Meanwhile**
Scanning the Japanese-styled room I scanned the green mats that lined the floor perfectly, I couldn't help but shiver at the thought of the dirt that clung to them "This rooms like fifty years from seeing a can of Lysol or a broom!" I thought hesitant to step off the modern wooden floor.
Slowly I pried myself from the safety of the wood and crossed the room to the other side
"I'm suppose to find an exist, but how did the others leave?" i kept thinking to myself not trusting whatever prank was being played. Seeing the closets that lined the wall I took hold of one of them, the one closets to the door that led me to this room, and gave it a rough tug to the side remembering how Japan's culture worked.
With a creaky, rusty hiss it shimmyed open. Slowly it slid on its hinges, as if it where at one point glued shut
"Nothing." I muttered closing the sliding closet door. Deciding the remaining three closets where that same i looked around for a door i was use to. I spotted one on the right hand side of the room, the same wall where the stair where.
Sighing aloud I walked over to it and yanked on its brass doorknob. Finding it locked I tried to jiggle the knob wondering if it would pop right open, but no such luck
"Damn-it!" I hissed wishing to break the door knob off "What's with all the locked doors!?" I turned my back to the door disgusted with my discovery of the six-foot door. Pressing my back against it I thought for a moment puzzled on what to do next. However my scowling face didn't last long, once a small red box caught my eye I Imminently left my spot to get a closer look. Reluctantly bringing my knees to the floor I placed my right hand on the dusty ground so I wouldn't topple over.
There, hanging half out of the small faded box sat a piece of paper with the following words,
Fix the piano
Repair the toilet
And leave the First Aid kit on the second floor
I looked around to see someone, to show someone what I had found. My mouth that hung open closed itself automatically when I remembered I was alone. The note itself was hard to make out, whoever wrote it had horrible penmanship. But finding this note alone and not being able to read it correctly was an unsettling feeling
"Are we truly all alone in this mansion?" I thought, then I shook my head and clenched the note tightly in my hand "God, Of course we are, we have to be!" despite of my words I jumped once a loud crash from the closet in front of me "I didn't check all the closets, did I?"
Fear rose in my stomach as my chest tightened "I gotta get outta here…"
BAM! SSSSssshhhh! *door opens a small sliver*
Leaping to my feet I dropped the note and bolted towards the door. Flinging it open I didn't noticed the pair of eyes watching me. Once watching the door being slammed shut the two dark black eyes blinked twice, there where visitors? How many? When did they come?
Then the closet door ceiled itself back up, hiding, yet again, in complete darkness.
Japan and North Sakura have joined the party
Pulling out her phone N. Sakura ignored the conversation taking place in front of her
"So you found nothing either?" I shook my head "Only a locked door and a child's play list, you know a lot of things tend to fall in this house." nodding in response Japan thought about his "monster sighting" he already told Gokata about of the bathroom on this floor but he hadn't said a word about the creature N. Sakura and him saw.
He decided to leave it out and classify it as "an awful hallucination"
Frowning in annoyance N. Sakura grunted loudly gaining the attention she wanted "My phone doesn't work here." she stated, waving around he small flip-phone "I want to go upstairs to see if I can get any service." Japan looked at me for my response, I shrugged "Maybe the others are waiting to jump scare us upstairs." I replied
"Besides maybe there's an exit." watching N. Sakura jump on the first step I held my breath wondering if she would fall through, as soon as her feet made contact with the wood it let out a moan clearly stating that it would break at any given moment "I hope the floor is stable." I thought as Japan began follow N. Sakura up the stairs. I couldn't but be skeptical and hesitated "In horror movies don't the people who get up the stairs last die first?"
Stopping in his tracks Japan waited for me "You may go before me Gokata-Chan." astonished at his kindness I quickly passed him not wanting to be the last person up.
Second floor level
Upstairs was nothing special-just more dark halls and creaky, dusty floorboards. Giving off a shiver N. Sakura moved closer to me unable to shake the feeling of being watched, her phone was no longer visiable, guess she had no luck of finding any bars "I think I see a door down the hall." I whispered taking the camera from her grasp to turn on
it's flashlight "I don't see any of the guys though."
Japan sighed "How bothersome they can be." quickly walking down the hall nothing else was said among my small group, what was there to talk about anyway? The three have done basically everything together and, so far, reported (almost) everything we saw while separated. Twisting the doorknob to the door I had seen I was surprised that it popped open. Struggle-free and no creaking was my type of door.
Being the first to step inside the room I looked around, it was a pretty big, dust too. I wanted to sneeze but held it back as three large bookcases came into view.
They stood on the far corner to the right while three stand up dressers lay flat against the wall on the opposite side. What surprised me most must have been the bed that was very close to the door. No more than three feet away sitting on its faded green covers was Germany's whip
"Is this not, Germany's? What's it doing in a place like this?" asked Japan confusion lacing his voice. My feet acted on their own as I walked over to the bedside. Taking hold of the weapon I grasp it tightly and rubbed my fingers over its worn leather
"I don't think this is a joke." I said after a minute of my hard-core studying, I looked back at my companions "Germany wouldn't just leave this anywhere." N. Sakura nodded her head, quick to agree
"Do you think it has to do with the front door being locked?" she asked "I don't know, maybe." I replied wrapping the whip around my hand "Well, we wouldn't find anything else here, let's go search the other rooms." Japan said "Yeah." said N. Sakura, she then smiled "South is going to be so mad at all the awesome pictures I'm gonna take." Walking back down the hall I kept gazing at the whip wrapped around my right hand
"This better not be a joke." I kept thinking. Japan turned to face me "Gokata-Chan please hurry up I don't want to lose you." quickening my pace I followed the two Japanese siblings down the hall, seeing yet another looks-just-like-the-last-one wooden door made me want to scream, how many doors where there!?
Japan gave off a soft trumpet smile as that door opened "Maybe luck is on our side after all." he thought allowing the girls to entire the room first.
Once we where all in Japan quietly shut the door behind him flicking on the light afterwards. This dimly light room was no different from the last one we where in, it only had a table with a merrier on it where the book cases should have been. Cobwebs where visible, clinging to the furniture as N. Sakura took in her surroundings. However, she did a double take once seeing a dirty white curtain covering a small part of the back wall. Nudging me with her elbow she grinned once catching my attention
"I dare you to go see what's behind that curtain." raising my eyebrow I looked over to the curtain, thinking nothing was behind it "Ok, whatever." i said, walking over to it I gripped the dirty cloth in my left hand.
Basically ripping the curtain from its screwed-in pole I stumbled backwards once I saw an outline of a body
"G-Germany?" N. Sakura said in a shocked manner
"The hell bruder (brother)! I thought you where going to kill me a minute there!" I spat, I got off my butt and stood on my feet
"H-he's shaking!" said N. Sakura "I thought the mighty Germany never did that!" walking over to his shaking ally Japan placed a hand on his shoulder. He got straight to the point but spoke softly "Germany, do you know where the others are?" but Germany didn't answer he stood propped up against the door frame looking mortified
"You look, shaken. I'll go get you something to drink." looking at his two stable companions Japan then added "Are you two coming with me?" I shook my head "Nein, I'll stay here and see if I can get him to calm down." Japan smiled "That's very thoughtful of you Gokata, 姉妹 (sister) are you coming with me?" N. Sakura quickly nodded her head
"Of course I am, it would be so un-awesome of me not to." however before the two left the room N. Sakura took about three pictures and a video of Germany shaking, she really wanted to savior this moment.
Departed from Gokata, First Floor Level
Walking back down the stairs to the first floor N. Sakura followed Japan down the hall on the left "Why are we going down here? Doesn't the water in the kitchen work?" Japan thought for a moment before shaking his head "The knobs on the kitchen sink where cracked if I remember correctly, besides, the bathroom looked cleaner to me." letting out a "Whatever, let's just hurry." N. Sakura quickly ran ahead to open the door "C'mon this place gives me the creeps." letting out a small laugh Japan nodded his heading agreement "Same."
Once the two retrieved the water? from the sink N. Sakura looked over to see the working toilet. She looked back at Japan and smiled sweetly, Japan chuckle
"Well that is water, Sakura, let's not be hasty though." puffing her chipmunk cheeks out in annoyance N. Sakura then hurried back upstairs with Japan
Second Floor Level
"Here, Germany, I brought you some water. Drink it and try to calm down a little." Japan stepped over the whip I had dropped, carefully he handed the cup he found in the bathroom to Germany
"But I warn you, it's not filtered though." I wrinkled my nose in disgust as I watched Germany tip the glass to his lips to drink. Even if it was me, in that situation like that, I would not, under any circumstances, would I ever drink that water like Germany is.
How long do you think it was sitting in its contaminated prison for?
Letting out a sigh Germany finally decided to talk "Is that, really water?" he asked "Judging by its color, probably." replied Japan "I see, anyway, sorry for falling apart like that, I feel much better now thanks to you three."
"That's good to hear." Japan said with a smile "So, where are the others? Do you know?" rubbing the back of his neck in embarrassment Germany blushed
"I'm, not sure. At any rate, we ran for our lives and those two went in different directions." raising an eyebrow I couldn't help but butt into the conversation
"Ran for your lives, why?"
Shaking his head Germany started to choke "Sorry schwester (sister) just, please give me a moment to pull myself together." "Alright we'll be here." I replied "We'll go look for the other two, try to get some rest in the meantime." Japan said "Sorry again." Germany began "Oh, by the way I found this when I was running. Maybe it can be of some use to you." Germany handed Japan a silver key "ありがとう (thank you) Doitsu (Germany), I'm sure this will be of great help." nodding lightly the German man stepped back into the closet, closing the curtain behind him.
Sighing I picked up and re-wrapped the whip around my hand.
Feeling a bit of weight on my shoulder I snapped my head around to see N. Sakura, her hand lying at the top of my shoulder "I'm sure he'll be fine." she said. I rolled eyes and pushed her hand back to her side
"I know." i muttered so only she would here "Now let's see where that key leads to!" looking back over to Japan I waited as he thought. He had his head tilted up to look up at the ceiling and his hand rested on his chin for support. The precious one-of-a kind key was dangling from his right index finger
"I think this is the key for the lock on the first floor." he said finally "We should start there anyway." nodding her head N. Sakura snatched the key from Japan's grasp "Well what are we waiting for? Let's go!" she shouted excitedly.
First floor, library. Added Gokata to the party
I didn't know what made Japan think to go to the first floor but he was right, that stupid fucking door popped right open as if it where never locked. Stuffing the key in his pocket Japan lead the way down the small row of books. I stopped to see some of the titles on their broken, sagging spines but they where all too faded to read.
I did, however, find a marriage redecoration form with scribbled handwriting on it.
Seeing something move out of the corner of my eye I dropped the piece of paper and looked over, all i saw where shadows nipping at the light that came from the ceiling lamp.
Looking over to Japan I saw N. Sakura and him looking rather confused at a small white object next to an open book, walking over to the table I pressed my knuckles to the wood so I could lean over.
The small white object looked like a big clump of rice to me, but it amazed my two companion .
Squinting my eyes I pushed my sliding glasses up wondering if I was seeing correctly
"That is, a rice ball right?" asked the younger Japanese sibling (N. Sakura)
"Hia, it seems to be." replied the eldest (Japan).
Japan, obtained Ordinary Origen
Laughing a bit to myself I looked around thinking I was being watched again
"Well I don't see anything else here, lets head back to Germany." I said.
We began to walk back down the straight row of books, but this time N. Sakura shrieked once a grey arm slithered out into the light
"Japan it's back!" she cried
"Hia, time to go!"
Whirling around to face the possible threat I couldn't help but shout in surprise, standing right there in front of me was a human shaped creature with a long, fat neck. It reached its hand out to grab me, but Japan gripped me by my shoulder and yanked me backwards.
Together, all three of us speed down the squeaky floorboards to get to the door.
But Japan had mysteriously lost the key.
N. Sakura and I glared at Japan in an are-you-serious-right-now kind of glare, it wasn't pretty-especially when I punched his upper arm "Ow! I'm sorry Gokata-San, North, I must have misplaced it on accident." glancing over her shoulder N. Sakura then began to panic
"Oh my God, we're going to die!" she cried, burying her face into Japan's non-injured arm. Grumbling a few colorful German choice words under my breath I gripped the locked it tightly I slammed my whole side body onto the cracked wood.
But it didn't budge...
"Crap." I hissed, looking back over to the monster my eyes went wide as it slowly drew closer. I slammed my side onto the door again. Japan flashed a glance down to his cowering sister then over to my shaking form.
Pushing N. Sakura gently off his arm he grabbed the sword handle that jutted out from a pich black sheath around his waist "I will hold it off, go find the key I dropped." gripping a frightened N. Sakura in my hold I could only nod watching quietly as the monster came closer, and closer, and closer, until it was directly in front of Japan.