Welcome to chapter 4.
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Alex's P.O.V:
When the house stopped shifting, I was with Drake. Horace and Angry Princess were on the other side of the glass.
"Let's get going." He sighs. We turn around and start to walk. I could faintly here music.
"Music!" I whisper happily. Drake rolls his eyes at my happiness. I start to hum to it. For the first time, ever, Drake started to whisper/sing along with the lyrics. I just nodded my head slightly in tune to the beat. I hear Drake stop walking, and gasp. I look up to see the Hammer walking towards us. He was staring at me, face emotionless. I instantly was alert and in defence mode. I grabbed Drake and starting running away.
"Run god dammit!" I yell at him, running from, the now chasing us, Hammer. As we ran forward and around the corner, the Jackal appeared at the end of the hallway. We were now stuck between the Jackal and the Hammer with no where to run.
"You've gotta be s***en me!" I sigh (she is unknowingly copying Dennis).
'Let's see. Big guy with hammer and nails who is trying to kill you or my insane dad who most likely trying to kill us. Odds aren't exactly in our favor.' I reason to myself in my head.
"We have to fight them, it's the only way." I whisper to Drake, who had moved to be back to back with me.
"You're kidding, right?!" he exclaims in a whisper.
"I'm afraid not." by now the ghosts were only 5 feet away.
"1........2........" I count.
"3!" we yell together, charging at the ghosts, him getting Jackal, me getting Hammer. As I ran towards the Hammer, I was unexpectedly pulled into someones arms from behind. I could tell in was a ghost, who I didn't know. As the ghost ran past Hammer, me in his arms, I started to get irritated.
"Alex, this is no time to be running away with the ghosts!" Drake yelled, still between an angry Hammer and Jackal.
"I really don't have a choice do I!" I yelled back. I started to struggle against who ever was 'kidnapping' me. I could who ever carrying me was male so I did the first thing that came to mind. I think you can guess where I kicked him. As I was released, I turned around to face the ghost. I remember seeing his picture in the newspaper.
"Arthur Kriticos." I say, looking sheepishly at his pained expression. Arthur was the man who was tricked into coming here with the remainder of his family by Cyrus.
"How did you...." he said confused, standing up. I just smirked at him.
"I am Alex Kuhn." I said, my last name feeling natural. He looked slightly scared but was indifferent.
"We have to get you and your friends out of this house." he said, as if I was a 5 year-old.
"Alex!" Drake's shouting got me out of my angered thoughts. He was ducking the Hammer's blows while trying to stay at arms length of the Jackal.
"Sorry!" I yell, running towards him. I was behind the Jackal, who was make an escape impossible for Drake. I grabbed the back of his cage, making him incapible of getting Drake.
"Drake run for it!" I tell him, slowly loosing my grip on the thrashing Jackal.
"Ryan leave him alone." I hiss, trying to get his attention away from hurting Drake. It seemed to work. He started to spin around, trying to grab me.
"Alex, come on!" Drake says, making me release the Jackal. We started to run. When saw Arthur, who was glaring at us and muttering something about 'Stupid kids', we ran towards him.
"How did you manage to set off this ghost?!" Drake whispers to me.
"When he tried to make me leave you for dead, I kicked him.....somewhere." I explain, picking my words carefully.
"....." Drake broke out laughing.
"You got beat up by a girl." He laughs, pointing at a very irritated Arthur.
"Arthur!" someone yells from behind him. He turns around to face....Kathy Kriticos.
"What Kathy." he sighs.
"Jackal!" she yells pointing to right behind me and Drake. Drake and I slowly turn around. Right in front of us is a very angry Ryan Kuhn.
"You think he's mad?" whisper Kathy from behind Arthur.
"No duh!" I growl, punching the Jackal in stomach, and starting to run. We all started running from him. Ryan was less than 2 feet behind us.
"Run faster!" I yell at Drake, who was currently running the slowest.
"Sorry, it's not exactly easy to run after being exhausted in a fight with two ghosts!" he glares. The house starts to shift suddenly, making us all fall as the floor beneath us moved. I grunted in pain as my shoulder took the force of the fall. After the house stopped shifting, I looked at who I was stuck with. To my delight I was with Drake.
"Fate just loves to screw with us." Drake sighs, looking at me. I nod in agreement before getting up. I could still hear music.
"Come on, I can still hear music." I whisper to him, starting to follow the music. I started to sing to the lyrics as Drake came to walk beside me.
Once again the same things on your mind
Increasing pulse from what goes on inside
Will you pay for what you've done, hatred
Paybacks such a bitch her vengeance haunts you
So what's wrong tough guy why the tears
You drove me to this now you disappear
Now all those acts repaid
Your turn to be afraid
Not longer almost done
Oh god just what have I become
X2
Try to fight you only make things worse
Screams of agony your final verse
Now you're begging for your life, breathless
All the times I bled my vengeance takes you
So what's wrong tough guy why the tears
You drove me to this now you disappear
Now all those acts repaid
Your turn to be afraid
Not longer almost done
Oh god just what have I become
X2
Your sweetest dreams turn into tears
It's almost done
They're almost gone
Our darkest days they fade away
It's almost done
They're almost gone
So what's wrong tough guy why the tears
You drove me to this now you disappear
X2
Now all those acts repaid
Your turn to be afraid
Not longer almost done
Oh god just what have I become
X2
"I love that song. It has it's own sense of humor." I sigh, smiling.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Drake says, smirking. I punch his arm 'lightly', he stumbled.
"Ow, what was that for!" he complains, rubbing his arm.
"I guess I don't know my own strength, sorry." I say with an innocent look.
"Sorry my a**." I heard him mutter under his breath. I roll my eyes and laugh. I saw Drake shudder from the corner of my eye.
"Come on, we need to find Moony and Rose." I remember, starting to jog towards the music, which was the song 'Breakdown' by Seether.
After 30 minutes of jogging, we reached the living room with the stereo. The song 'Critical Aclaim' by Avenged Sevenfold was blasting loudly.
"It's nice to hear my music at normal volume!" I yell to Drake, who was twitching slightly in pain with the beat. As we walked into the room, I was dumbstruck.
