Not really much to say other than enjoy
Hatori jumped as the door shut and locked, leaving him in the room with no light. He creates a small flame with a snap of his fingers, though dim, it is light. He carefully wonders the room, cautiously as it is hard to see for any traps. "Yyyyeah… I'm an idiot…" He says to himself realizing just how stupid it was to go in alone as he has set his eyes on an unusual device that obviously requires an extra body, which at the moment he is out of. "What do you take me for? I'm no second-rate spirit." Flame complains reminding him he is there as well through a sort of telepathy. Hatori mumbles replying to him, just to be safe. "And take the chance I get killed? Doesn't sound very appealing to me…" He shoots back. Flame growls at him, "Let me out, I'll show you what I'm talking about. You just have to trust me". Reluctantly, Hatori did as he was told, flipping the little coin in the air to release Flame. What choice does he have?
Flame appeared beside Hatori, the red parts of his "uniform" glowing, lighting the room. Of course, without Flame Hatori's little light goes out. "Now what?" Hatori asks him. "I told you, I'm no second-rate spirit." Flame repeats himself before creating a clone causing Hatori to jump a bit. "Ok, that was cool" was all he had to say before Flame and his clone created light once again. The light was brighter this time, and the three could see a little more. There were two platforms and a lever in between them and a box above it. Hung above the platforms are two more platforms with a nasty twist, each have spikes on the underside. Speakers came on and Ellena has returned to explain things once again.
"Big brother your only hope now is to stay out of Flame's way, I don't want you to die. So I'll direct these 'instructions' to him. Flame, there are two platforms in front of you with two more hung above them. When the lever is pulled the platforms in the air as well as the key will be released. The only way to keep the door to the key open and the elevated platforms from falling is to keep at least a hundred pounds on those platforms. Also the floating platform above one grounded platform will fall if the weight on the other is removed and vice versa. I can't tell you how to do it but I can warn you standing on platforms seems too easy to me, be careful." Ellena's voice faded and the speakers died.
"She's right, standing on platforms is too easy…" Flame states repeating what Ellena said, "Oh crap did she say at least a hundred pounds? How much do you weigh?" Hatori raises an eyebrow at this, "That seems like a silly thing to ask, you should know, but 125… Why? I'm not about to put myself in danger like that". Flame gives a look between worried and angry, his clone speaks to explain it a little calmer than Flame himself is, "I'm afraid you have to, I don't weigh anything… I can pull the lever and get the key but… that's it". Hatori scowls, he wanted to avoid being in the center of danger like that but now he doesn't have a choice. With a quick glance at each other and then to the clone, Hatori and Flame nod and the clone pulls the lever to start the show.
'Oww my head~…' Hitori thought, waking up to find himself alone. Oh great. He gets up, despite the splitting headache screaming for him to stay down. "Hari? Hari where'd you go?" He called out, receiving no answer. Now he's worried. He hears a click (which was the lever being pulled) and knows now that his brother has gone to continue alone. "Idiot!" he exclaims to no one really. "He's going to get himself killed!" Hitori is both angry at and extremely worried about his brother. He tries and tries to find any way to open the door he can, but gives up when he's tried everything that comes to mind and is in his power. He ends up back against the wall sliding down it until he's seated, exhausted. "Hari… please just don't do anything stupid… I can't lose you…" he mumbles. With nothing more he can do he turns to his Christian faith and prays for his brother and Ellena's safety.
Ellena watches on the monitors, worried out of her mind about the two who are now separated, which is unusual for them in a situation like this. She takes note to their cell phones on the woman's belt. No way to call for help. She watches as Hitori gets up, heartbroken at the sight of him helpless to do anything about his brother's likely peril. Her spirit's charm is with the cell phones, she can't fight either. "Eat girl" the woman says suddenly. "I'm not hungry" Ellena shoots with an angry voice, but her stomach is betraying her words. Against her wishes Ellena munches tiny bites out of a ham sandwich as she watches her older brothers.
Flame's clone takes the key from a box on the other side of the lever and unlocks the door. Once the door was unlocked he went to take Hatori by both hands and pulls him off of the platform to free him from danger. Once done the platform above Flame's head falls, the result should be obvious. Needless to say, he won't be yelling at Hatori for a while. Hatori flinched a bit from the sound and the fact that he got sprayed with Flame's blood. The clone is gone, now he really is alone.
When Hitori heard the door click he stood and opened it, finding his brother alive and seemingly unhurt. Although when Hatori saw his brother he was expecting a sort of 'are you alright!' freaked out reaction, not a fist to his head. "Moron! Do you know how worried I was! That was incredibly stupid!" Hitori yelled at him, lecturing him. Hatori gave an apologetic face and then glanced his way back to the platform Flame was once standing, now dripping and flooded with blood. "At least it wasn't you…" Hitori remarked un-phased by the sight and knowledge it was Flame, blood isn't a problem for him. Hatori couldn't look for long, blood doesn't really bother him but knowing that it was Flame does. "The poor guy takes all the beatings, doesn't he?" he murmurs, receiving a sort of hum from his brother as a reply. He's not sure what to make of that.
After a few gawking moments Hitori convinced -through much persuasion- his elder to help him free Flame. Once the platform was lifted it was Hatori's job to pull Flame's mutilated corpse from the floor. "Ugh, this is so gross" he complains, pulling the body from its deathbed. "Quit whining like a sissy and hurry up, this thing is heavy" Hitori scolded him, holding the platform up. Once Flame's body was free, Hitori dropped the platform and began to work on healing him. It didn't take long for him to finish and give his brother another knock on his head. "No more running off on your own!" he scolded him a second time. Hatori nods, holding his head where his brother hit him. Hitori's healing Flame has cost him a second time that night as he falls weak and ends up lying in his brother's arms again. After a few minutes of rest he regains a little strength and stands to pick up Flame.
The two continued on, Hitori piggybacking the unconscious but alive Flame. After quite a walk down a stairwell they come to a corner room. "Guess this is where we should be…" Hatori remarked looking to see no other place to go. Hitori nodded, letting his brother open the door for him. Flame awoke as they entered the room mumbling something about the platforms before. Hitori let him down and the two joined, Flame now back with his original host.
After a while of arguing Hatori finally gave up on trying to take the pain they're likely to suffer here and lets Hitori keep Flame. Now they're glad to see the door hasn't shut and locked them in, but that isn't always a good thing. Hitori seems to think it means they've missed something, while Hatori takes it to mean nothing at all, and Flame disagrees with both thinking it means there's a role the door itself plays in this task ahead. With that being said, the speakers rumble to life and the deep voice returns to explain.
Well there's part 4. I'm ashamed to admit this one isn't much bigger than the last… but pushing that to the side I'll try to make the next longer. I'm crammed with studying for finals. I have nothing more to say T_T