Vivi awoke and realised that the van wasn't moving, she rubbed her eyes and stretched before sitting up. She found Lewis sitting in the drivers seat with Mystery right next to him, but Arthur was no where around. Lewis noticed that she was awake and turned to face her.
'Good afternoon, you must have slept really well if you slept for as long as you did.' Lewis said, Mystery climbed over the seat and went over to Vivi to lick her face.
'You slept almost the entire time.' Mystery said once she had awoke from his affection.
'Did I? Where are we?' Vivi asked.
'We are at a gas station, if you need to go to the toilet then I would go now. I think that we will get to the place in an hour or so.' Lewis answered. Vivi flung the blanket that she had been sleeping under and put on her shoes, soon enough she was opening the back of the van and she beelined to the toilets. By the time she got back Arthur was already in the van with two coffees, he handed hers to her once she was settled back in the back seat of the van. Once they where happily sipping on there coffees Lewis started up the van and drove back onto the road and headed off.
'Please tell me that this isn't the place.' Arthur whined when Lewis pulled up in front of a large old house, it wasn't as large as Lewis' mansion, but still big enough to be scary.
'It is and don't you dare start whining know. We are on time so lets go.' Vivi ordered before, exiting through the back doors. Lewis patted him on the back before opening his door and got out, Arthur huffed before getting of of the van. Vivi was already at the front door and she waited for the others to join her, Arthur was the last one to catch up. Vivi pressed the doorbell and waited, it didn't take long before a teenaged girl with wavy long brown hair to open the door.
'Are the investigators?' She asked, not opening the door fully. Vivi smiled with one of her business smiles before speaking.
'Yes we are. We where connected due to your concern of a possible hunting.' She said. The girl nodded before fully opening up the door to let them in, she did look oddly at Mystery but didn't say anything about him. She lead them to a living room where there was an older women sitting in an arm chair, she looked up before gesturing to a couch on the other side of the room. Vivi took the lead as Arthur followed her to the couch and sat down, Lewis stood behind the couch as Mystery sat on the floor next to the couch. The women stared at Mystery for a while, but also chose to not say anything.
'I am Rose, I was the one that contacted your group.' The women said. 'And this is my daughter Lucy.' Rose said looking at the girl that answered the door.
'Its good to meet you. I am Vivi, this is Arthur.' Vivi said pointing to Arthur. 'Lewis and Mystery.' She pointed to Lewis and Mystery. Rose nods and attempts at a smile, but then she shakes her head and frowns.
'We have recently bought the house and have moved in a few weeks ago, these noises started two weeks ago. I did give you some details, did I not?' Rose asks Vivi, Vivi pulls out a note from her pocket.
'Yes you did, but we would still like to have a look around the place when the disturbances happen.' Vivi explained. Rose nods.
'Very well. They start at sundown and that is when we will lock ourselves in our rooms, in till then you may look around the house.' Rose says as she stands, she turns to her daughter. 'Will you be able to help them, I am going into town.' She announces before leaving the room, Vivi turned to Lucy once her mother had left, who stood to the side of the room.
'Do you think we can have a look at the basement?' Vivi asked, once Rose had left. Lucy nodded and started to walking into the hallway, the four of them followed behind as she made her way along in till she stopped at an empty section of wall. With the art work on the wall they where all surprised when she reached her hand out and grabbed onto a door handle, but once she made it noticeable it was hard not to see the door handle. The door opened inward and there was an old dusty staircase that led downward, Lucy took a step in and flicked a switch for lights to illuminate the staircase fully. Vivi didn't even hesitate before walking down the stair case, Mystery followed behind which left Arthur and Lewis standing at the top. Lucy watched as they slowly made there way down the stairs and followed behind the two of them.
'Can you see with your glasses on?' Lucy asked. Lewis tensed up, but didn't turn around not wanting to risk for her to see her eyes.
'I can see just fine, you don't need to worry.' Lewis responded and started to walk in front of Arthur, who acted as a barrier.
'You are an odd group.' Lucy commented, but didn't say anything more. Once they got to the bottom they couldn't find Vivi or Mystery anywhere.
'Vivi?' Lewis asked with some concern, there was a giggle and then there was a flash of blue to the side of there vision, and Vivi came out from behind a corner.
'This place is huge, with so many hallways and rooms. This place has a whole load of things to see.' She said in excitement. The basement, if you call it that, was a large space that was divided by walls of earth and room where carved out for storage. Some of which where being used.
'The owners before used the basement as an extra living area, but we don't have that large of a family.'
'A large family lived here prior? What happened to them?' Vivi started to ask Lucy questions, Lucy though for a while.
'I don't know the whole story, but from what I gathered, something happened to make the father leave and then the mother died mysteriously and the children…' She trailed off before frowning. 'There where three if I remember correctly, young twins and an older girl.' Lucy looked to the ground. 'Who I have seen before…'
'Really?' Vivi said stepping toward her and clapping her hands together, Lucy looked at her with an odd look. 'Did she focus on anything or did she look like she was doing some sort of a task?' Vivi asked.
'I went down to the kitchen to get a snack and she was there, just making a sandwich. It was weird, she didn't even seem to see me.' Lucy managed to explain.
'And is she the only one to go up stairs, what about the children?' Lewis asked, but Lucy was already shaking her head.
'No, on occasion you could hear soft sounds of laughter and crying. I would guess that that would have been the children.'
'Does she ever say anything or do anything else?' Vivi asked.
'I don't know, the time in the kitchen was the only time that I had ever seen her.' Lucy paused. 'There have been a few times that my old toys ended up in the basement, maybe it was her moving them.' Arthur and Mystery had a wonder around close by, never leaving the sight of the other two of there group. Arthur peeked into a room and he almost gave himself a heart attack when he came face to face with himself. He jumped away from the mirror and tripped over Mystery, then there was the sound of some one trying not to laughter. Well two some ones. Arthur jumped up and looked around, the others didn't seem to hear any thing. Mystery and Arthur looked at one another, and where about to look into the room further when Vivi's voice interrupted them.
'Come on you two, its going to be dark soon.' She said, Arthur was quick to run back to his friends, but Mystery had one last look around the room. When left he never saw the two pairs of eyes that smiled from inside a partly opened wardrobe as they went back up the stairs and out of the basement.
Note: I could think up a name for this chapter, so its just going to be the number that it is. Sorry.