Chapter Nine: At dawn: Glowing Blue
'A room, a room. Ah here we have a hallway'
"… And in this room an explorer was last seen before the house probably…" Ian was going on and on about workers who 'never returned'.
"Futsūnohito wa garakuta ga, kono baka no kuchi kara detekuru to kangaete iru ka, sore dake de, hoka no bakadesu ka?" (Meaning (s'cuse the swear, that's how she talks): "do normal people believe the crap coming out of this idiot's mouth or is it just other idiots?") Katrina mumbled, then to Oliver she pointed to another hallway.
"Of course"
They turned into it, only to be stopped by a small childish voice saying, "Chotto doko ni iku no?" they turned to see a small girl, about 6, with straight, light brown hair. "Anata wa nokosu koto ni natte imasen." (Meaning: "hey, where are you going? You're not supposed to leave."
While Oliver looked to Katrina for how to deal with the situation, Katrina was just staring at the girl, who was almost an exact copy of her dead sister, who would actually be about 14 now. Oliver knew immediately what was happening and put his hand on Katrina's shoulder. She MIGHT have blushed a little bit, just A BIT, MAYBE. Then she wondered how much she could lie to the girl.
"Ē to... Wareware wa... Yūrei o mitsukeru shiyō to shite imasu. Goryōshin ga shinpai shiyou to shite iru cuz o, anata wa yoriyoi watashitachi ni shitagatte imasen!" (Meaning: "um... we are going to... find the ghosts. And you better not follow us cuz your parents are going to worry!")
"Hai okusama!" said the little girl and ran back to her parents
'Amy, I won't forget you'
"Mistress?"
Katrina clenched her hands into fists in her pockets, and turned back down the hall "Let's go Oliver!"
"Yes, of course."
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"Oliver, are there any ghosts nearby~?" Katrina asked
"Yes, there are."
"So why aren't they showing up~?"
Oliver looked down at the girl, with no attempts to hide annoyance. With a sigh, he says "perhaps you were right about the house its self being possessed. If so it might be changing corridors to attempt to confuse us."
"You won't let that happen though right?"
"Of course not."
Suddenly a door opened all by itself, as if to say "come and get me~!" Startled, Katrina backed into Oliver and without thinking grabbed his arm. Presently, Oliver didn't mind, if he had even noticed, because he was peering into the room. There was nothing there. At all. They kept moving in silence, Katrina still clinging to Oliver's arm. They came upon a creaky flight of stairs, halfway up Oliver said "two steps."
"Hm?"
"That one is broken." She looked down and sure enough there was a step that was broken and they stepped over it. At the top of the stairs, they find a door that is open a little bit. Katrina pushed the door open more with her finger tips, and the result was light. Lots of it. Glowing blue. There was a grey-ish blob floating in the room- a ghost.
Then, for the first time, Oliver noticed Katrina clinging to him, and pulled his arm away. Katrina looked up at him and asked "did you only now notice that?"
Choosing to ignore that, Oliver stared at the ghost. It seems un-aware of the two, and was staring at a wall.
"Why is the room glowing?" Katrina asked curiously.
Oliver examined the blueness and said "this substance appears to be what the ghost is getting its energy from."
"So if you get rid of this will the ghost go away?"
"Eventually, but if humans keep coming in, it will generate more. The best way to ensure that nobody will come here, would be to destroy this house."
"Well then," Katrina stared at the glowing, blue floor and said "burn this house."
A/N: WHOA! Such a long chapter! Anyway to be clear, that little girl is actually from japan. Not to say that Katrina's sister is too, but the girl is. Also *claps* we've almost finished the arc! Next arc: The Freyly Murderer arc! ^^