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"Two more children to add to my collection."
After what felt like a lifetime, their eyes adjusted to the darkness. Lucy trembled in fear as her eyes focused on the terrifying figure in front of them.
The apparition crept closer, moving at an eerily slow pace.
"Na-Natsu," Lucy whimpered, clutching the boy's arm, "I think we should run—" Suddenly he jerked his arm out of her grasp.
"RAAAAAAAAAAA!" he charged for the apparition. "YOU REMIND ME OF THAT STUPID ICY BASTARD!"
"Natsu!" she clasped her hands against her mouth and watched in pure horror as Natsu collided with the crazy ax murderer.
"WAHH!" The apparition dropped the ax to floor, surprised by the sudden attack.
"YOU STUPID," Natsu punched him. "Ugly," he punched him again, "BASTARD!"
"Ughhh!" the thing moaned as he smacked the floor thanks to the last punch.
Anger flooded throughout Lucy as she ran over to them, "How dare you try to scare us!" She jutted her foot out. "LUUCCYYY—"
The apparition rolled on to his side and stuck his hands up to plead, "LUCY, DON'T!"
"—KICK!" Her foot collided into the thing's ribs, causing him to fly back into the wall of the cabin.
"Nice one, Lucy!" Natsu shot her a pointy-tooth grin and held his hand up for a high five.
Lucy proudly grinned back and high fived him, "Thanks, Natsu!" Then she turned her gaze back to the unconscious ax guy. "What should we do about him?"
"Hmmm," Natsu rubbed his chin, glancing around the cabin "Oh! I know!" His face lit up as he reached down and picked up the ax. "Let's hack him into pieces! MWAHAHA!" Natsu made the swinging motions.
"Ummm…" she sweated nervously, placing her hands up in defense, "I don't think we should…"
"Ughhhh THE HELL!?" the creature groaned as he pulled himself up. "YOU GUYS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE RUNNING SCARED! NOT ATTACKING ME!"
"That voice!" Natsu snapped his head in the thing's direction.
"GRAY?!" Lucy gaped.
Gray pulled back his black hoodie and rubbed his sore ribs, "Yeah?"
"What are you doing?!" she bewilderedly wailed.
"Trying to scare you guys, obviously," he sighed rubbing his eyes, "but stupid Flame Brains ruined that."
"Heh," Natsu haughtily smirked, "like you could ever scare me!"
"That's funny 'cuz you looked ready to piss yourself five minutes ago," Gray smirked back.
"Did not!" Natsu shoved his head into Gray's face.
"Did too!" Gray shoved his head even closer to Natsu's face.
"DID NOT!"
"DID TOO!"
"DID NOT!"
"SHUT UP!" Lucy roared and then she glowered at Gray, with her hands curled into fists by her hips, "Why were you trying to scare us?"
"Because it sounded like fun and everyone else was in on it," he shrugged. "Cana came up with the story…Mira and Erza discovered the abandoned cabin...Levy and Juvia came for the fun and Gajeel and I fought for the roll of the Ax Murderer, but I ended up winning… It was the perfect set up."
Lucy ogled at the boy while Natsu stood there with a grim expression on his face and his arms crossed over his chest
"You guys did all this to scare us?" she dumbly asked.
"Originally it was supposed to be only you, Lucy," Gray stated. "But Mira predicted Natsu would volunteer to join you."
"Mira!" Lucy's cheeks instantly flared up. "She's starting that shipping nonsense again?!"
"Oi!" Natsu awed. "I didn't know Mira was a psychic!"
Gray and Lucy simultaneously face-palmed.
"Anyways," Natsu was back to scowling, "How come I wasn't in on the plan to scare Lucy!?"
"Because you're annoying," Gray sneered.
"OI!" Natsu raised a fist up. "IF ANYONE'S ANNOYING, IT'S YOU! BESIDES, I'M—!"
"So wait," Lucy interrupted Natsu and looked at Gray, "you were the one who was making those banging noises?"
"Yup," he grinned proudly.
"And you were the one talking in that whispery voice?"
"Whispery voice?" Gray blinked.
"Yeah." Why did he looked confused? Lucy was starting to feel uneasy, "you said, there's so much more to be seen."
"No I didn't," Gray frowned.
"Wh-What?" she choked.
"Stop tryin' to scare her," Natsu glared at him. "You've done enough of that for the night."
"I'm not!" Gray threw his arms up. "I have no idea what she's talking about!"
"What about the flashlight?" she hastily asked. "How did you make it die?"
"I didn't," he said, scratching the back of his neck, "I just assumed Natsu turned it off…"
"So-So-So," Lucy stuttered, unable to form a coherent sentence.
"Calm down, Lucy," Natsu pattered her back. "You're just bein' paranoid."
"What he said," Gray awkwardly coughed.
"I guess you're right—OW!" someone yanked at her hair. "NATSU!" she punched the boy's arm.
"OW! WHY'D YOU DO THAT?!" he glowered at the girl.
"You pulled my hair!" she growled.
"It wasn't me!" he claimed.
"Gray?" Lucy turned towards the other boy, though it was hard to see in the dark lighting, she could sort of make out his perplexed expression.
"Wasn't me."
"OWW!" something pulled her hair again. "Quit it, Natsu! It's not funny!"
"I swear it's not me!" he snapped at her, starting to get irritated.
"OW! ARE YOU SERIOUS?!" Lucy thumped him on his head.
"OW, LUCY!" he fumed.
"Just stop, Natsu," Gray exhaled. "You're not funny."
"I swear it wasn't me!" Natsu continued denying and then he was shoved him forwards, "OW! I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING, LUCY, SO STOP HITTING ME!"
"I DIDN'T HIT YOU THAT TIME!" Lucy shrieked.
"Was it you, Ice Brains?" Natsu seethed at Gray.
"No!"
"Guys," Lucy whispered, while lightly touching Natsu's forearm, "Can we get out of here?"
"Sure," Gray said. "I've been in here for too long waiting for you guys anyway."
"Aww," Natsu pouted as they walked towards the front door, "I wanted to explore some more…Haunted houses are cool."
"It's not really haunted, Natsu," Lucy said to him, but it was more to convince herself, "Cana made it all up…"
"But still…" he sighed.
Gray turned the doorknob, but it wouldn't budge, "C'mon," he grunted, turning the knob some more.
"Grayyy, open it already!" Lucy pleaded, her anxiety was through the roof.
"I…can't!" his jaw clenched. "It's locked or somethin'."
"Tch, like we would fall for that," Natsu scoffed. "You ain't foolin' us for a second."
"I'm not fooling around!" Gray exclaimed, gesturing toward the door, "I can't get it to open!"
"Lemme try," Natsu shoved Gray out of the way, causing Gray to shoot him a look of disdain. "C'mon, open!" Natsu fumbled all around with the knob, but, alas, nothing happened. Then he rammed his shoulder into it, but again, nothing happened.
Pure fear washed over Lucy.
They were trapped.
"It's probably Cana and the others pulling another prank," Gray hypothesized, though sounding unconvinced.
"Let's try the window," Natsu suggested.
Gray ran over to the nearest one, trying to pull it upwards to open it, "It…won't…budge!" he groaned as he continued to push against it.
"Move," Natsu commanded as he picked up the ax. Gray did as he said and watched as Natsu swung it against the window, again and again and again, until finally there was a crack. "YOSH! It cracked!"
"Great!" Lucy was finally starting to feel relieved until a cold, icy breath breathed against her ear and so gently whispered, "Pretty girl with pretty hair."
And once again, her hair was tugged.
"KYYYAAAAA!" Lucy screamed on the top of her lungs as she bolted towards Gray.
"Lucy!" Natsu nearly dropped the ax as he whirled around to look for her.
She was cowering against Gray chest.
"What's wrong?!" Gray asked, awkwardly rubbing her back.
"There's someone here!" she wailed into his shirt. "He-He whispered in my ear. I felt his breath…"
"OI!" Natsu roared with the ax ready in his hand, "COME ON OUT, YOU BASTARD! WE KNOW YOU'RE HERE!"
A loud BANG rang throughout the cabin.
"Wha-What was that?" Gray asked, clutching Lucy tighter against his chest.
"Sounded like a door," Lucy replied in a hush tone, her body was quivering so badly…
Natsu moved next to them.
Cold sweat dripped down Natsu's forehead…
He was losing his grip on the ax thanks to how sweaty his palms were.
Silence hung between, as though they were expecting to hear something else.
A chill filled the silence…
And then BOOM followed by a streak of light that lit up the windowsill.
Lucy let out a scream and Natsu and Gray jumped.
"Thunder and lightning," Natsu muttered.
And then repetitive, rapid pounding beat against the roof of the cabin.
"Rain," Gray stated.
Lucy pulled away from Gray and looked towards Natsu, "Maybe…Maybe you should keep hitting the wind—"
"LUCY!" Natsu pulled her against him just in time as something whooshed past her head, narrowly missing her, and smashed against the wall.
It sounded like glass.
"The hell!" Natsu cried, clutching her to his chest. Despite the situation, she found herself calming down…There was just something soothing about being in Natsu's, warm, muscular arms…. "If this is Cana or that stupid metal head guy, you better cut it out! It ain't funny!"
Her brief minute of peace in Natsu's arms had ended abruptly as whispery laughter rang all around them.
"What the…" Natsu choked.
"Sounds like children…" Lucy nervously swallowed. Tears welled up in her eyes as chills ran up and down her spine.
"Shit," Gray murmured.
"Some-Someone coulda gotten hurt by that!" Natsu's voice wavered.
"Someone coulda gotten hurt by that," a voice—that sounded like a little girl—mocked.
"Someone coulda gotten hurt by that," a deeper voice mocked.
"SOMEONE COULDA GOTTEN HURT BY THAT." The voice…it sounded demonic…
"Natsu!" Lucy buried her face into his scarf. "What should we do!?"
"Yeah, Natsu, what should we do?" the deep, demonic voice whispered into his ear.
He jolted, looking all around, hoping to find Cana or Gajeel or someone…This had to be some sick prank, right? Yes, Gray must still be pranking them…
Gray crept closer to Natsu and Lucy.
Natsu's blood ran cold by the action, because this meant that Gray was scared.
The children-voices were back as they sang, "You're all going to dieee, you're all going to dieee, you're all going to dieee."
BOOM!
Another clap of thunder shuddered throughout the cabin.
Lucy let out a whimpering noise and Natsu muttered a curse.
Gray let out a sputtering noise, "Do you guys see that?" He pointed towards the window.
Natsu sucked in a breath.
There was a tall, shadowy figure, staring into the window Natsu had cracked, looking directly at them.
Lucy lifted her head up and peeked over to see what the others were looking at and her eyes grew wide as she audibly swallowed, "It's watching us…"
It lifted up a long, claw-like finger and touched it to the glass. Slowly, it scratched down the window like nails on a chalkboard.
"GAHH!" The three of them slammed their hands to their ears, cringing.
The glass began to shatter.
"RUN!" Gray yelled and the three of them took off.
Natsu clasped Lucy's hand into his as they moved deeper into the house.
They all took turns stumbling over unknown objects, but no one slowed down for a second.
"There has to be another way out!" Natsu panted as they ran into the first room they saw.
It was a bedroom.
The door slammed shut, causing the three to jump.
"There's no way out…" they heard a little girl giggle from behind.
The three of them slowly turned around.
"You're all going to die."
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~This chapter was written by me~
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