extra long chapter today for the long wait, this is hot off the press, please enjoy!

Superman and Wonder Woman stared at the figure in the window, "what does this mean?" Superman asked as he took the photo and he started putting it back in the case file. But a loud bang made him stop. He looked up and saw Flash staring at something behind him and Wonder Woman with a confused almost scared look. Superman and Wonder Woman turned around to find the door slammed shut.

"nothing was there" Flash whispered, stunned.

Wonder Woman turned and was reaching for the door as her fingers touched the door handle she heard soft quick footsteps race past the door. She nearly ripped the door open and stuck her head out and looked side to side, she paused and turned back around and just shook her head at Flash and Superman.

Superman used his x-Ray vision and looked side to side, "I'm not seeing anything " he said.

The three stepped out into the hall, "the foot steps headed this way" Wonder Woman pointed down the hall in the direction Flash had come from. They walked down the hall looking in each doorway not sure what to expect, till they reached the stairs at the end of the hall. "Let's split up and look around" Wonder Woman suggested.

Superman and Flash headed down stairs and Wonder Woman stayed on the upper floor, she looked down the long hall that seem to stretch before her and it made her dizzy. She shook it off and started down the hall stepping into each room for a moment looking for something to catch her eye. When she approached the room they had just been in she started to open the door then stopped.

Superman left Flash at the bottom of the stairs and flew to a large room with the portrait and looked around the room. He once again used his x-Ray vision and looked around the room for any clue of what happened many years before. His eyes spotted a something on the wall just about the fire place, he flew closer and inspected the wall. He saw it was under a roughly cut piece of wall paper that matched the rest of the room, he carefully peeled it away to revel a strange symbol drawn with something red.

Flash watched Superman's cape disappear at the end of hall before he started searching the hall, he forced himself to go back to the room that he saw the dark shadow. Before stepping in to the room he once again looked across the hall to see if anything would cast a shadow, but saw nothing but the setting sun through the window. He stepped into the room and noted how it liked like every other room and was almost let down, until he heard a soft dripping sound.

At first it was almost to soft to hear, but the more Flash focused the louder it seemed to be . He looked around the room searching for where it came from and he noticed a door opened just a crack. He approached and opened the door to revel a bathroom, to his right Flash saw a bath tub with the shower curtain pulled around it, and to his left he saw a sink with water dripping from the faucet.

"This place shouldn't have any water" he muttered to himself as he walked towards it. He looked in the dusty mirror just above the sink and blew a quick breath sending the dust flying away, he placed his hand on the faucet handle and moved it back and forth slowly but the water still when on dripping. Flash leaned in for a closer look and tried tightening handle but nothing worked, as he inspected the sink he noticed something in the drain.

He put two fingers in the drain and felt around, but couldn't reach what he saw. When he pulled his fingers out his jaw dropped slightly as he saw his fingers were covered in something red. He stood up quickly staring at the sink, when he looked in the mirror his eyes widened as he noticed a dark hand clutching the shower curtain from behind.

Wonder Woman stood in front of the closed door deciding wether or not she wanted to open it, she thought back to when they had left the room remembering that no one had closed the door. She looked side to side down the long hall and was left to wonder what had caused the door to close, that is when she heard the scratching noise. She placed her ear up against the door and found the sound was coming from the other side, she waited a few seconds unsure what she should do, but then she heard the small laugh.

Wonder Woman once again slammed the door open and started rushing in but stopped in her tracks as she noticed the walls were covered in drawings. She looked around to find the drawing on all the walls and even on the ceiling. They were childish drawings, many stick figures and crude pictures. Before Wonder Woman could even begin to comprehend what the drawings meant she heard footsteps and the door shut once again.

Wonder Woman resisted to temptation to rip the door off its hinges, and opened it flying into the hall. She paused in the hall looking down both ends searching for the cause of the footsteps, she once again heard the small laugh. She flew towards the stairs searching for the source of the sound, she turned around and gazed down the long hall.

She saw, at the far end of the hall, something small and dark walked across the hall from one room into the other. She charged towards it at full speed, and went into the room that the figure went into, but she found nothing.

A loud bang brought Superman back from the large room and Wonder Woman down the hall and stairs. They found Flash on his hands and knees in the hall, "Wally, what happened?" Superman asked as he rushed towards him.

Flash was taking shallow breaths trying to calm down, "it just...it flew off the... And um...the a".

"Wally, clam down, just tell us what happened" Wonder Woman said but Flash just stayed silent trying to make sense of what happened. Wonder Woman looked at Superman for answers, but he didn't know what to say, and they all went silent. Suddenly Flash pointed behind Wonder Woman towards the stairs, in silence they watched a small ball slowly roll out of the near by room and down the stairs leading to the basement.

The three stared for a minute still quiet, then Superman stood up and followed the ball down the stairs. As Superman descended it got darker, he felt like he was walling into in endless pit till he finally reached the bottom. The basement was dirty and messy, and the walls and floor was made of concrete, Superman dodged cobwebs as he wondered passed the rows of shelves filled with toys, boxes, antiques and other items.

Superman was startled when he heard music start playing, the sound was a simple melody and Superman located a small music box. It was on a shelve and Superman bent down one one knee to get a better look, the box was generic and Superman didn't see anything significant about it. When he shut the lid to stop the music he saw a dark shadow figure on the other side it was small, the size of a child, just standing there looking at him.

Before Superman could move it disappeared in the blink of an eye, he flew into the next aisle, where the figure was, but there was no trace. Superman looked around and spotted the shadow movie a few aisles away and he chased after it, but again it was gone before he got there. Suddenly Superman felt a hand on his shoulder, he wheeled around and came face to face with Wonder Woman and Flash.

"Are you alright?" Wonder Woman asked.

Superman turned looked around before answering, "did you see it?" He asked.

"See what?" Flash asked.

Superman sighed and turned and went back to searching for the dark figure followed by Wonder Woman and Flash. A soft tapping sound suddenly filled the basement and the three stopped when they heard it. They started searching for the sorus and came to a door, superman stepped forward and opened it.

The door led to a small room empty except for one box in the center of the concrete room, when they opened the box they found an old film projector camera and several tapes.

next chapter should be out in a few days