A/N: *Pushes buttons on a laptop.* How do you work this bloody thing?
Dizzy: Don't press so hard! What I wouldn't give for Kenny to come a save me!
Ashla: Well he bailed on me at the end of the last chapter! Your fault for getting stuck in the laptop of a complete chicken.
Tyson: Mmm... chicken!
Ashla: WHA! Tyson? What the heck are you doing here?
Tyson: Well hello to you too. I was bored waiting for you to finish so I thought I'd come see how you were doing. *Peers over Ashla's shoulder.* Wha?! You haven't started?!
Ashla: Well duh! These are the author's notes at the START of the chapter.
Tyson: You're slow.
Ashla: No, you are.
Tyson: YOU!
Ashla: YOU!
Kai: Ohh in the name of-! *Comes in and boxes both of them.* Get writing!
A/T: OW!
Ashla: Fine! Grumpy. Please R&R peeps!
Halloween Horrors
Part Four
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'I wonder if I could strangle him and blame it on the ghost?' Kai thought, opening his eyes and glaring over at Tyson, aggravation written all over his face. For the past half an hour Tyson had been complaining about being hungry. He had been offered the option of going to the kitchen to get something to eat but he refused, saying 'No way! Evil knives!' and ducking behind a pillow. He'd given them a wonderful five minutes of peace before starting up again.
"Doesn't anyone have anything on them?" Tyson moaned. He was lying on the floor in front of the fire with his legs up on the couch, holding a pillow across his chest.
"You ate my chocolate bar over an hour ago, Tyson," Max told him, looking down at the teen from his place on the end of the couch.
Tyson turned hopefully to the Chinese boy sitting cross-legged not far away. Ray shook his head and Tyson moaned aloud. "Kai! You got anything?"
"No I don't, but I'd gladly ram it down your throat if I did if it would shut you up!" He glared daggers at Tyson from a chair by the fire. "You're going to drive us all insane with your constant ramblings about food."
"But I'm hungry!"
"We know! If you're that starved, there's tonnes of food in the kitchen like we said before."
"But... The knives..."
"Then be quite!"
Tyson sighed in defeat and fell into silence, for about five minutes. "You know what would taste nice right now?"
"That's it." Kai pushed himself up and started across the room, switching on the flashlight he snatched off the table as he passed it. All eyes followed him in confusion.
"Where are you going Kai?" Max turned around on the couch and asked.
"To get something for that boar there before he eats the pillow." Kai pushed open a door and walked through it before they could stop him.
"I didn't think I was that annoying." Tyson sat up and looked at the door. "Hope he's okay."
Kai walked down a short hallway slowly, looking around him cautiously and listening with each step he took. He reached the kitchen door with no problem and paused in front of it. He stared at the golden handle for a while and thought to himself. Was it a smart thing going into a room full of blades? Well it was either that, or go back and listen to Tyson's never ending moaning. 'I'll take my chances with the blades. Besides, I can check the back door while I'm at it,' he thought and reached for the door handle. A floorboard creaked behind him. Snapping in action, Kai spun around and grabbed whomever it was by their wrist and pulled it up behind their back in an arm lock.
"Ow! Okay Kai! I know you're as jumpy as the rest of us, but could you let me go now?"
"Ohh, sorry Ray." Kai let Ray's arm go and picked up the flashlight again.
"Yeah, no problem." Ray rubbed his shoulder and turned to face Kai. "You've one hell of a grip, you know that?" Ray half smiled and Kai smiled back.
"Can never be too careful. Don't sneak up on me next time."
Ray chuckled. "As long as you promise not to put my arm in that position again?"
"Deal. So why are you here?"
"I didn't want you going in there on your own, and Tyson and Max are too freaked about the idea of knives to move," Ray explained and frowned. "Max is totally petrified."
"Yeah, I noticed. He's gotten the worst of this so far, out of the four of us anyway, and Tyson's too dense to notice the full danger that we're in. I know this is a horrible thing to say, but Kenny got it easy."
Ray lowered his gaze to the floor. "Yeah. You think we're going to get out of this?" He looked back up to Kai.
"I truly don't know, Ray. We're going to have to see when the time comes. Now, let's get Tyson something before he goes mad."
Ray nodded and they turned to the door. Kai gripped the handle and pushed it down. He pulled the door open and a wave of cold air slapped them in their faces, causing them to shiver. "Well, here goes."
"Good luck, Kai."
"You too. Just think positive." Kai took the first step in, followed by Ray. Once inside, the flashlight was their only source of light and from what they could see, nothing seemed out of place. Talking a few steps in, they both spun around as the door slammed shut behind them.
Kai ran back to it and pulled on the handle, but it wouldn't move. "Shit."
* * *
Max and Tyson sat in silence, the fire the only noise in the room. They listened to it crackling away, burning what remained of the wood to ashes, then they would be without its warm and welcoming glow, left in the faint light of the candles burning around the room and the odd flash of brilliant lightning from the outside storm.
Max hugged his knees to his chest and rocked slowly back and forth. He suddenly felt more scared by the absence of the other two. Sure Tyson was there, but there was safety in numbers and now they were split in two smaller groups of two. The thought of anything happening scared him immensely, and that feeling only grew the more he thought about it.
Turning to Tyson he said, "Hey Tyson? Do you think we should have gone with Ray and Kai?"
Tyson sat up and looked at Max. "Into the blade filled room? No thank you. I've got more sense than that and you've been through enough as it is."
"True I guess. But I still think they shouldn't have gone off on their own."
"Why? You afraid they'd get up to something sexual?" Tyson grinned.
"Tyson! How could you even suggest that!" Max looked horrified. He knew for a fact that Ray was crazy about Mariah and even Kai used to look at the girls around them. Max had caught him once talking to this one girl and even Max was surprised. Kai was stuttering now and again and his cheeks were tinged red. Maybe that's why he usually didn't talk much to girls. Kai had found out that Max had seen him and forced him to keep it a secret. Max smiled at the memory. Who would have thought that Kai Hiwatari, one of the best and well-known bladers in the world, was actually shy.
"What are you smiling at?"
Tyson's question snapped Max back to realty. "Huh? Ohh, nothing. I was just thinking of something."
"Right." Tyson cocked an eyebrow and looked at the blond teen with curiosity. 'Wonder what he was thinking.' He was about to ask him when a strong wind came from nowhere and blew all the candles out.
Max's smile was short lived and his expression was once again showing fear. "Where did that come from?"
Tyson jumped to his feet and looked around at the windows. They were all shut, and so were most of the doors. "I dunno." His eyes scanned around the room quickly. He felt Max press against his back, so that they were now back to back. "See anything?"
Max shook his head, even though Tyson couldn't see. "No, nothing." After looking around some more, Max's eyes stopped at a shadow on a wall. The room was full of shadows, but there was something wrong about that one. "T-Tyson? Can you see that?"
"See what?" Tyson turned around and looked to where Max was pointing. "All I see are shadows." Just then a shadow of pitch black moved and Tyson felt his blood draining from his face. "Now I can." Both teens backed away closer to the fire as the shadow glided towards them.
Looking down, Max grabbed the poker and held it out. "Stop!" Strangely enough, the shadow froze.
"Good going Max. Now tell it to leave."
"Worth a shot." Max swallowed a lump in his throat. "Whoever you are-"
"Or whatever you are," Tyson added.
"Ehh, yeah. Whoever or whatever you are, leave us alone!" The shadow didn't move for a few moments, then moved towards them at a fast pace. "It's not working Tyson!"
"I can see that! Run for it!" Tyson grabbed Max's wrist and ran towards the door that Max and Ray had been through not long ago when Max had gone to the bathroom. He kicked open the door and stopped for a second to look back. The shadow glided around the room, taking the exact same path Max and Tyson had just run, and came towards them. Tyson could feel his heart in this throat as he pulled Max through the door and slammed it shut. Darkness surrounded them from every side.
"Tyson? Where are you? I can't see." Max's voice was to Tyson's right.
Tyson turned to him just as a finger poked his eye. "OW! Max!"
"Whoops! Sorry Tyson!"
Tyson growled and held his eye. "Yeah, sure. Come on before freaky phantom gets here." They started down the hallway running, Tyson's vision a little blurry from Max accidentally poking it. He cursed as he tripped over a fold in the carpet and fell onto his side.
"You okay?" Max asked, pulling Tyson to his feet and they started running again.
"Just peachy. I'm having the time of my life," Tyson muttered, his voice dripping with sarcasm. "Ow!" he yelped as he ran into Max, who had stopped suddenly. "Max!" He scrambled to his feet and looked at his friend. "Why'd you stop?"
"That's why." Max nodded to the cloaked shadow before them, silhouetted against a window as lightning flashed again outside.
Tyson stood transfixed, staring at the shadow before them. "What are we going to do now?" He turned around to see another figure gliding down the hallway, coming to a stop a few feet behind them. "We're trapped."
* * *
Kai and Ray slammed against the door again, but all they were succeeding in doing was hurting their shoulders.
"It's no use," Kai said. He could feel his face was flushed and his breathing was slightly laboured. Ray was the same. "Come on, let's try the back door while we're here." Kai turned around and started walking across the kitchen, flashlight in hand.
Ray followed him. He sighed and scratched the back of his neck, getting a sudden itch. He froze when his hand touched something furry. He yelped and swiped whatever it was away.
Kai was beside him in a second. "What is it?"
"There was something on my neck!" Ray shivered at the thought.
"Let me see." Kai pushed Ray's ponytail out of the way and shone the light on his neck. There was nothing there. "You sure? I don't see anything."
"There was something there. Something furry."
"You sure it wasn't just your hair you felt?"
"No, it moved." Ray took the flashlight from Kai and shone it down on the ground. He couldn't see anything. "Maybe I just imagined it." He caught something moving from the corner of his eye and shone the light in its direction. "Ah!" Out from the shadows crawled spiders, and not just a few small spiders that you saw everyday, but spiders that were about five times the normal size, and there were about twenty of them. Ray backed away as more and more spiders crawled from the shadows, some even larger than the rest.
"Ray? What's wrong?" Kai looked to where Ray was shining the light but didn't see anything. Then why did Ray look so scared. "What do you see?"
"Spiders!"
"Spiders?"
In Ray's eyes, the room was now covered in the eight-legged monstrosities. They crawled over the walls, the ceiling, the cupboards, and the floor, everywhere. And they seemed to be multiplying by the second. More and more streamed from the shadows until every inch of the room was covered in them.
Ray stepped on the insects by his feet, hearing the revolting squelch sound as he stepped on each one. But for every one he killed, three or more took its place. Ray yelled as he felt one drop from the ceiling onto his neck. He hit himself on the back of the neck, killing the invader with a strong blow.
Through all of this, all Kai could see was the fear on Ray's face as he stamped the ground repeatedly and cursed as something landed on him. "Ray? What's going on?"
"They're everywhere Kai! Can't you see them?" Ray yelled, his bright eyes staring over at Kai. They widened in terror. Kai's whole body was covered in the spiders. The clung to every part of him, some even crawled in and out of his mouth as he spoke to Ray.
"Ray, there's nothing here," Kai told him, but Ray knew he was wrong. He could feel them everywhere, crawling over his clothing as he desperately slapped them away. The flashlight that he'd dropped on the ground was covered in them too, as well as his friend. How could he not see them? How?
To be continued...
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Ashla: Well that ending sucked.
Dizzy: Don't you think you're dragging it out a lot?
Ashla: I am? Well, guess I am yeah. But what do you people think? Am I dragging this out? It'll be over soon but I'd like to know so that I can improve for my other fics. Please don't forget to review. All it takes is the push of a button and to type a few words. Thankies!!! Till next time! Slán slán ^^
~Ashla~
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