Author's Note:

Yes, another chapter for the horror story! It seemed that people loved it, and I'm very happy that this project has done well for its first chapter. Make sure that you try to imagine the scenes in front of you for this horror to take full effect! I've worked really hard ever since I joined, give me some ideas to see what I can do with it!

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On with the Story!

The Hermitage, 9:01pm

With Odd leading the way through the living room, it started to give him chills. Sometimes, he would have to stop to breathe shakily.

"Can we...not split up?" He asked nervously, his legs starting to shake from the creepy vibe of the Hermitage.

"I don't want to either." She found a scrapbook, picking it up and opening the pages. "I wish the lights still worked in this place." She looked at one photo, raising an eyebrow. "Hey Odd!"

"Yeah?" He was in the kitchen, gagging at the quality of the food and the sink. Yumi walked over to him, showing the picture that she had he eyes on. "Someone else is in this, besides Aelita and Franz."

"Maybe her mother?" Odd suggested, pointing to the other person.

"That's impossible; her mom would have pink hair, not black like mine." Odd flashed the light at the picture. "On top of that, the car's shadow isn't correct." Her slim finger pointed out the shadow.

"Maybe it was just the camera itself. With the things people had back then, you'd expect this." Odd said, looking back at the photo.

"True..." Yumi put the book on a desk, as they advanced to the living room. The place was still disorganized, papers scattered and the couches crooked. Odd looked at the piano, taking off the sheet that covered it.

"Yumi, this piano is...I don't know." He edged away from it. "It looks new."

"Duh! You just took off the sheet, and it was collecting dust." She rolled her eyes, but now noticed that Odd was correct, in fact. Looking over the piano, she couldn't help but inhale a breath of anxiety.

The piano looks like it was polished, the keys a bright white like a model's teeth. Odd got the chills again.

"God, I hate this place." He flashed the light under the piano seat and over the top. He looked under again, catching a silver color shining dimly under the gibbous moon. Taking it, he silently cheered.

"I found a key, Yumes." Odd tossed it to her, as Yumi nodded.

"I'll go text that to Jeremie."

Jeremie's Dorm, 9:32pm

He rubbed his eyes, lazily looking at the two dots slowly moving. By now, he typed slower than usual, his fingers twitching at every key he presses.

"We should've done this in the morning." Jeremie muttered to himself, feeling a vibration. He grabbed his phone, sighing as he finally had something else to do.

The text came from Yumi.

"Found a key, nothing else to report Jer." He replied with a "Check the library next."

Jeremie kept finding himself not doing anything now, and due to his 'almost asleep' phase, he looked at the computer again, found those red dots, and followed them.

"God, I hope they find something…" he said out loud, but only so that he could hear it. Jeremie then lazily typed again, filling the computer with codes of green and black once again. It was as if his fingers already knew what to do, because he kept dozing off and waking up to find all ten fingers moving, and then he'd look at the coding, which was correct. It wasn't making sense to him, but Jeremie was too tired to think, too tired to care...

Too tired to look at those red dots...

Too tired to look at that XANA attack that popped up on his screen...

And then he fell asleep.

The Hermitage, 10:38pm

"Yumi, we've been looking for more than an hour of what this key could unlock, and still haven't found answers!" Odd almost shouted, crossing his arms. "Let's just find more clues for Jer, so that this mission won't be a waste!"

Yumi scratched her hair. "Okay, I see." She smirked. "If you don't want to know what this key can do, why don't you go find some papers or files for Jer?"

"I will!" He took wide strides down the hall, and went upstairs.

'I don't even know why Ulrich likes her sometimes...' Odd thought, searching to what looked like a laundry room. He checked all of the clothes, shaking them violently in case there was something in there.

There are two that he haven't checked, it was too hard to see them with only his light. Odd took the two pieces of clothing, one was pink shorts, definitely telling him that it was Aelita's, and some sort of scarf. He couldn't really tell whose it was, for the scarf was a brown, burgundy color. Odd did the same as the last pile of clothes, shaking them roughly as a piece of paper and another key drop under his feet.

"Hmm..." He looked at the key first, a bronze color from most of the rusty parts of this house. It resembled half of a heart.

"Yumi!" He called out. "Yumi, look!" She ran up the stairs.

"Yeah?"

"Look at this." Odd tossed her the key, yet forgot that there wasn't enough light to let Yumi see where it was going. The key clanked a few times before finding its place on a random spot of the floor.

"Nice throw..." Yumi said sarcastically, snatching his phone from him as they heard it drop more than once. "It probably went down the stairs..." She muttered.

Odd took the phone back, smiling jokingly as he shined the light on the stairs, finding the key on a more square type of stair.

"Let me see that key that you have..." Yumi went to him, placing her key in his hand.

"Now what?" Yumi asked. "Two keys and no answers."

"No..." Odd smirked, putting them together. "Two keys, and one answer." The two keys made a heart shape.

"Oh, I see where this is going." Odd replied. He went back up the stairs, and took the photo he left on the floor.

"Yumi, I think we found something here."

"What?" She looked at the photo, gasping.

The photo showed the keys together on one of the stairs, and yet, one of the stairs they stepped on had a lock.

"Oh Franz, you're just like XANA..." Yumi said.

"How so?"

"He keeps the secrets hidden, but the clues are right in front of you."

"I like it!" Odd cheered. "It'll be our little inside joke every time XANA attacks. What do you say?"

"Sure," Yumi said, as they both went down the stairs, finally seeing the lock.

"I'll go back to the library," Yumi said to Odd. "Just in case. You can check whatever is inside the stair."

"Good luck Yumi."

She nodded, heading down the stairs.

"Let's see here..." Odd examined the keys then the lock. "Maybe if I..." he muttered, adding one of the keys on the lock, only covering half of the key hole. Odd then used the other key on the other half, hearing a clicking sound.

"Yes!" He said to himself, turning both of the keys, as the top part of the stair squeaked open like a trapdoor. Below was some sort of ladder going down.

"Please be a vault..." He muttered again, climbing down, but instead of money, he found the opposite. Odd went wide-eyed, covering his eyes and shouting,

"YUMI!"

She bolted to the stairs, looking down at him. "Yes?!"

"You have to see this..." Odd breathed out shakily, seeing Yumi climb down.

"Did you find any...Oh my God..." Yumi stopped talking, now knowing what Odd was trying to say.

The room was fairly large, covered in papers and moss. The wallpaper on the walls were begging to be ripped away from the wall, but what really stood out was the graves scattered around the room. Odd put the flashlight on again, but turned off.

"Don't worry, there's a flashlight here." Yumi said, picking it up and shrieking. "Agh! Spiders!" She dropped it, the spiders running away to their webbed homes.

"You're such a baby..." He muttered picking up the flashlight once again and flicking the switch, as a yellow light filled the room. "And it works too!" He has to hold his breath to stop himself from gagging at the sight.

"I should text this to Jeremie..." Yumi muttered, taking out her phone from her pocket and texting, 'We found this really weird room, want us to explore it or not?'

They both waited for about twenty minutes to hear what he has to say.

"Let's just explore this room; he's probably daydreaming about Aelita." Odd joked, getting a chuckle from Yumi.

"Yeah. Let's explore this freak show."

(FIN)

Ah yes... the cliffhangers!

Did you imagine this in your head? Did you think it was good? If so, leave a review!

I tried experimenting in this chapter with the atmosphere, which most stories don't really have a good grasp on.

See you in the next chapter,

Peace, my peoples~