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Kingdom May: Hrm...I don't know, I'll leave that to your imagination. XD
hanamuguri: Maybe. ;3 They're really bent on trying to escape this, so not really til they'll possibly close to being dead. And I possibly will write what happened to the parents in that attic when the moment is right. So you'll have to wait on that lol.
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They had been screaming out Julia's name for some good few minutes ever since they did not know she was not behind her, checking classrooms after classrooms, bathrooms, anywhere they could think of. Julia was lost, that creature was running loose and there's no thought if that thing got her or not. No, can't think of the bad things. Think positive...yeah right. Dashing back to where they met the evil spirit and the rattling chains, seemingly that was the hallway to get back to wherever the heck they were, so that means the hall in front may lead the way to her presence. There in the middle of the pool, lies Julia face down into the water, not moving. Both Steve and Hwoa dove in to retrieve the corpse, dragging the body onto the surface to make some kind of attempt to save her, despite her being already dead. It was too good to be true.
"She's dead. She sucked up enough water to not get any oxygen." Steve mumbled as he squeezed out the water from his shirt.
"How long have she been like this? Couldn't we save her?" Asuka wondered.
Hwoa shrugged, "I dunno, have to say some hours, or possibly a good 30 minutes.."
"No, she was long dead after we found her like this, after all what can we do? This creature means business, I mean we cannot get away from it. Even our friends are coming back to haunt us from the graves."
"Shut up." Lili huffed, she had just about enough of this. "First of all, let's think about that later, and get out of here before we all end up going crazy and doing something stupid that just may just kill us."
"Lili's right, we have to leave this place before someone else is marked on death row."
Leaving the corpse by the pool, although they would have thought of a proper burial but there's not rest for the wicked for they are everywhere hiding in the shadows. Dashing through the halls, hearing and seeing the doors slam violently, desks being shoved to the walls, lanterns being thrown onto the floors, it was like being sent into war. Each time they ran, a dark shadow stood within the commotion of the classroom, watching them closely like it stood waiting for the attack, to murder. But it never did once move unless your eyes blinked for a minute. Let's not pay any type of attention to that creature, who knows what kind of idea it has in stored for them, don't look. Don't look. And yet, it was hard not to look. At each window they passed through, the devil was going through the glass like ghosts going through walls, simply staring so closely with its black eyes, eager to spill blood as the objects continued being thrown across the rooms and the halls as well. Dashing towards the front of the doors, only to be denied from being opened.
"The door's stuck," Steve mumbled as he rammed against the door a few times.
The German girl slightly laughed, "So now what? We're stuck in here with floating objects being crashed into the walls and phantom-like devils with no way out."
"Guys, even if we do get out, how will we escape? Cause the car's all wrapped up," Asuka pointed outside the window to find the car to be all wrapped up in the roots of the tree growing erratically from the demonic power, maybe the door's like this as well. Not to mention the phantoms of their dead friends showing up.
"Ah crap." Murmured Hwoa, looking around for a chair to use against the windows. He had enough of this, like being chased by the police for something he may have done. "Search for a chair to use, we'll bust the window to break out of this hellish building."
"For once, I agree with you," Leo said eagerly, "despite that you would think of breaking the window like a thief."
"I take offense to that," he scoffed. "And I do not go around thieving people thank you."
"Well its true." She shrugged, looking around for a chair with everyone else, unaware the throwing noise had ceased unless someone had looked over in that direction. And yet, no chair in sight near them.
Leo sighed as the German girl threw over what little debris was left sitting there with no chair to be around them. "There is no chair in sight, what now smart-ass?"
"How about a little less being mouthy and a lot more looking?" He replied, before dodging a piece of wall being hurled at him.
"How's that for looking?" She snapped.
"Guys, shut up. Let's just look for something other than a chair," Asuka muttered out, "like a pipe, or a rock or-"
"A real, good, quick way to get out, or this really disturbing phantom at the end of this hall may possibly kill us, or destroy the building." Everyone stared at Steve in horror.
"Steve? W-what phantom?" The blonde princess asked.
"The phantom down this hall." He told them, as they reached to where Steve stood, a dark phantom-like human watching back at them with a smirk on its face before the building started to shake, parts of the second floor caved in in front of the phantom, covering the way they could have used to find another way out.
"Oh, this is just great. Creepy phantom makes the building have an urge to collapse," the redhead groaned. "And we still don't have anything to break out of this place." Suddenly, something was hurled at the window, breaking the glass onto the floor. Hwoa looked out to see a face they never expected. "Lars? What the hell...? You almost killed me with whatever that was."
"I'll answer that and questions later, right now we have to go. Right now." The gang all slipped into his car after carefully getting out of the window, until a certain evil stopped Lars from just getting in driving away.
"So...that is your choice I see?" The devil chuckled in his human form. "To save another few lives that are simply useless and dead weight."
"I can't just let you run by and murder every person you can," he growled, "it isn't right." The gang just stood there in question of how in the heck Lars is even talking, reasoning with this demon, they don't know right from wrong as much as we do, or they just don't care. As long as those fiends were to spread their evil around and kill enough, they're satisfied.
"Nor is it right to kill your own kind, but of course their sins are always around offering and tempting them to fall into the darkness for the sake of their loved ones." As he told them once more.
"We don't know any better, its the process of learning."
"Humans are so simple to become ensnared when things become a problem. Your father should know all about it as this simple sin of saving one's life as sin revolves around your family." He chuckled.
"They were convinced by you, you did this! I'll find a way to stop this, and to stop you."
"You can try to, but I doubt that."
The building grew smaller and smaller as the car drove away fast, "Alright, you have something to explain to us. Now then, What's the sin that's tied to your family? you know about this more than we do."
"Its the same way, I have no idea what it is, but I know someone who does.."
"Ah, here's a face I've have not seen in a while," a voice chuckled. His half - brother, Lee was in town he assumed, visiting again.
"And you brought friends as well? Don't let them stand outside, come in, come in. Its hardly I see you come over with friends."
"Shut up. Where's Heihachi?" Lars demanded that he should see him right this moment.
"Out somewhere, God knows where." Lee scoffed as he went into the kitchen to make some tea. "Tell me, what's the reason you're here to see him?"
"That a certain devil of our nephew has come home," he mumbled as the tea cup shattered on the floor. Everyone turned their heads over at the open kitchen, staring at the shattered tea cup with worried looks except for Lars who thought of it to be strange.
"Oops, tea cup slipped. Clumsy me." He laughed as Lee knelled to pick up the pieces. Others disregard it while the Swede just looked at it as something not being right.
"Do you know anything about the house?"
"Now what would you want to know about that place? It is haunted you know," he calmly told them, setting down the tray with several tea cups and the kettle as well.
"Because we're being stalked by the angelic devil," Leo snapped. "We have been having oddly and weird things happen to us that killed a few of our friends. We're next and I want to know if there is a way to stop this thing!"
Lee hesitated with an answer, "Well, I can't say I can help you out with it, I'm still wondering about how these people are just dropping dead and disappearing around the world."
"You're hiding something from us, more likely me, spill it." Sure Lars was apart of the family, but there was somethings he did not know of, and Lee thought it was better off not telling him about what went on with the family. Its bad enough that mom had to meet the devil first to set things off without telling dad a thing.
"I can't do that," Lee muttered, refusing to tell anything about that, the times where a certain someone was always trying to hurt, or to kill. "I won't tell you a thing."
"But this is a fucking critical to our lives," Hwoa explained, "we're all gonna fucking die cause we don't know how to stop that curse from marking and killing everyone in its sights."
"I don't want to remember anything about my past, its bad enough that I have to suppress it every time I hear of people disappearing, or suicide," he sighed as the thoughts of dying crept up his mind since those nights years ago before they found out mom had blood relations in Sweden she never told anyone about til they read it on her death bed.
"What do you know about this? Tell me."
"Are you afraid of me? Does my presence scare you? Why is that?" He chuckled, smiling so sincere with an evil aura waving around him as the devil mocked his fear, Lee had never felt this scared since the years in his childhood. "Remember uncle, it wouldn't matter where you leave off to, trying to get away from things you cannot escape from, I'd always find you anyway. Even if you were on the other side of the planet."
He shuddered to his laugh, its bad enough to witness the blood stained on his hands and the air smelled like it as well. He knew what happened, but did nothing to stop it. Lee did what other people would have done. Ran away. But now he's being confronted about it again. He sighed, knowing that he would regret telling Lars about the family's dark deeds til this day. "That our nephew is not the only person who was possessed at the time."
To Be continued...
