"I have a feeling that whoever killed our hostess will hopefully lead us to the treasure pile when it comes for us itself" Z commented, she could feel her lips twitch upwards. A smirk wanting to grow as the shadows danced behind her.
chapter 16
Z sat silently on the bed opposite the doorway, a bored expression covering her face as she waited. Waited for whatever lurked in these dark hallways to relive itself.
Sooner it happened the sooner she could leave this strange house.
Her glaze flickered down as the ball rolled gently into her heeled foot.
She paused, before picking up the ball, balancing it in the palm on her hand.
"Do you want to come out of the shadows? I won't hurt you" she questioned her voice laced with otherworldly eerie.
She could feel the shadow hesitate before its presence disappeared completely. Signing she rolled the ball back. It was annoying her to no end, this whole situation she was suck in. The only Presence she could feel, the only thing that could give her answers to leave sooner didn't want to be seen, to be heard to be notice. As if it was hiding form something. It's what made the house so… so annoying. She had kuroro give her the full run down of the house and its occupants. There should be more had two ghostly presences lingering about the old halls. Unless it was one of those…. One of those that consume all in its path, twisted over time from its desires.
She felt the hairs on her arms rise as the temperature dropped in the room snapping her out of her thoughts. Her black eyes glazing over as she stood, a hand gripping the sliver blade loosely as she stepped towards the doorway.
The troupe (that were awake) snapped to attention at the dark haired moment, kuroro watching with interest as she stepped and opened the doorway into the corridor. He followed closely, watching the female's actions with interest.
He was one step behind her, as she paused slowly on her heels slowly to the right. He watched as her breath hitched, before a gust of wind swooshes down the corridor.
"Mine, its mine all mine!" the twisted voice growled, no longer sounding human to the ears. Z black hues narrowed as she felt something tug at her back as if trying to pull her away from the voice. The darkness grew in the corridor as the owner of the voice drew nearer. "it's mine all mine!" the wind pick up, as something rushed towards them.
"And none of you can have it" the voice turned into a whisper, as an ear piercing scream echoed thought out the manor.
"What the fuck was that?!" phinks yelled from the room, snapping her out of her thoughts.
Kuroro remaining silent as he studied the female before him, something else was there with them. He had seen the tug on her cloak, seen the way she had stilled when the uneasy feeling overcame him and the increase of her nen around them. Subconsciously or not. He didn't know.
He watched as she stayed in her thought still the ear spitting scream.
A frowned tugged at his lips, he didn't understand. Didn't understand the female before him and that's what he found alluring – a broken puzzle he wanted to fix and complete.
He gripped her arm and dragged her along in the direction of the scream after telling his troupe members to stay put, "what the fuck?" he hear her mutter as he pulled her along the corridor.
"You where daydreaming needing a little shove" kuroro commented with a sly smirk, before he felt something rip her from his grip.
Stopping he looked back, Z was standing still looking into blank space. At whatever had ripped her from his grip. Z stared at the shadowy ghost before her. It was a child – no old than ten. His features were hidden by shadows but she could make out his expression a frown directed towards kuroro before it turned into a cheeky smile.
"What is it?" kuroro asked.
The shadowy ghost smiled even more before disappearing completely. "Just a little troublemaker… lets go"
The pair, made it to the main bedroom – the cause of the noise. Not being to quite on entering; they quickly surveyed the room. Blood splattered the walls. The unnamed blonde women laid dead on the bed, her organs ripped from her corpse and terror still present on her screaming face.
"And whatever did this... Is the fucking thing in the way for your riches" Z scowled at the sight.
"I see…" kuroro commented stepping further into the blood soaked room. "I thought you said she was already dead?"
Z glanced towards the clock, before returning to the corpse, "just watch"
He raised an eyebrow before his dull glaze landed on the corpse. Which shifted. The blood seem to run backwards, organs pulled back towards the body as it rebuilt itself until the women settle back into a dreamless sleep.
"Oh, I see" her male companion state blanked.
"Until she realises she's dead and come to turns which it, that bloody thing will keep ripping her to spreads. Both a fucking good thing and a bad. We will need to come up with another fucking plan…" Z groaned, stepping out of the room.
"Search the house till we find it, using her as a scapegoat" kuroro suggested, she eyed him before her darkened glaze studied the hallway before them.
"We are going to be here a fucking while then"
-Time skip-
The group had been here for 2 days already and Z was starting to feel the strain of not being able to sleep.
She just couldn't force herself to sleep, even when she thought about it, it became a dead weight in the pit of her stomach. She just couldn't instead she laid there staring aimlessly at the ceiling.
She searched with the troupe, entertained the dead house owner, and played with the shadowy presence, who had yet to show his full form. It was all slowly playing a toll on her mind.
On top of that, she could feel the voices. Those shadows that hovered over her shoulders – that whispered in her ear at every beck and turn. Scratching at the surface of her mind, they were hungry wanting to feed. Wanting to take over… she knew what it is was that haunted these halls. She knew and they knew.
And they wanted to consume it and her.
Currently the group sat around one of the many lounges in the big manor house, its wooden floors creaking underfoot as Z stared dully at the wall.
A chilling sensation ran up her spine as something in the house began to stir…
"God this boring long is it going to take from us to thing the prize?" muttered phinks, slumping on the sofa.
"however long it take, we searched most of the house… maybe if someone didn't lose the blueprints shal sent us we wouldn't be lagging" machi shot back at the blonde.
"Hey! I told you were I put them! Don't blame me that they gone!" phinks augured sitting up angerily.
"How did you manage to lose them anyway?" paku enquired.
"I didn't! Ugh... I put them down and next minute they vanished" scowled the blonde.
Feitan sniggered, "maybe a ghost moved it"
"Shut it, the only ghost here is the dead lady, who doesn't realised she dead" phinks frowned, "like how do you not relies your dead"
"It surprised me when we saw the body… I'm sure if that happened to me I would know that I was dead…" machi muttered.
"Z why doesn't she relies she de-"
CRASH!
The group heads whipped around towards the open doorway, a tray of tea split on the ground which now was littered was shards of tea cups. The blonde women stood trebling, her eyes widen in terror as there words entered her mind. Z eyes widen as the clogs seemed to turn in the women's brain. Shit.
She moved forwards, in some attempt to keep the ghost here as the scapegoat but fate had other plans. As soon as Z moved the wooden floor creaked dangerously. Black hues glanced down before snapping, locking onto kuroro own as the floor beneath her gave way. "Shit" she swore as she was dragged into the abyss. Darkness consuming her vision.
The troupe (all but kuroro) leaped to here feet as the women before them vanished her body disappearing into thin air. Kuroro watched as Z's raven hair tips disappear from sight. "What the fuck" phinks swore as the house let out a groan.
"I think, whatever it is, now has a new target" paku stated calmly.
"Let's help get Z out"
"I wouldn't do that if I were you" a cheeky voice called.
A young boy, sat on a cupboard his legs swinging a smile wide on his face. "Why not?" kuroro asked staring at the boy with narrow eyes. He hadn't sense him at all.
"coz I said so?"
"Well who the hell are you? Never seen you before" phinks.
"Never seen me? I see you, I have been with you since you got here"
"Uh?"
"And you weren't making much progress, so I decided to push things along" the boys grin widen even further.
"How?" paku asked her head cocked.
"I pushed the lady into remembering. Though you pushed her over the edge"
The troupe grew tense, at the statement their eyes narrowing. He had ruined their plan. Now a hell hound was at their doorstep…
"And I also took your map"
"See I told you I didn't lose it!"
"Shut up phinks" feitan told his friend.
"So why can't we help Z?" questioned kuroro.
"Because I like her and not you"
"Can I kill him?" phink grumbled, cracking his knuckles.
"You can't..." the boy grinned, before his body slipped though the cupboard the last thing to vanish was his face, "plus you have to survive him first"
The room filed with silence, before the temperature dropped things began to move as a dark presence drew knew. Kuroro materialised his book, prepare to fight though he didn't know how he would fight something he couldn't see.
Black hues glance back towards the hole in the ground. Hurry Z they needed you. The doors slammed open, the boards creaking under foot as the black mass of shadows stepped into the room. "Hey, am I the only one who can see that?" phink questioned in shock.
"Nope I can see it to" paku and machi responded.
"Good, that thing grim"
The mass of black shadows snapped its head towards the blonde, to releveling a snarling deformed face, the skin melting from its twisted features. Its hands where wraps of black shadow that seems to come off it in wave. A creature you hear about it horror stories and tales of terror to keep people away from treasure trove and tombs. A nightmare wrapped in fresh tearing darkness.
"How the fuck do we kill it?"
"You don't"
to be continued...
hey all!
sorry about the shitty chapter, feeling the need for sleep!
and the fact its a tad short... decided to do three chapters instead of 2 hope you like!
there should be more kuroro x Z in the later chapters dont you lot worry...
tell us what ya think? does it make sense? even a little bit?
lov ya all!
happy hunting xx