Well, I might not be able to post this right away, but I'm still gonna write!
Bah! Down with it all!
Ok, I'll respond to reviews, then, hopefully, get onto the creepiness! YAAAY!
LittleMidgett; I SCARED ME TOO! BAH! But hopefully I'll be able to continue now… unless it goes all dark again…. AHHH! THE SUNS SETTING!
GenesisDragon; Ah, you may never know! Hehe… grampa… ;p
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karone-sakura; we'll see shall we? MOVING ONWARDS!
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Oh, and by the way, this chapter is dedicated to GenesisDragon for giving me an absolutely WICKED idea! Keep writing MR HORROR!
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Amanda
I went to the door as Ithiell left, but Cassie stopped me.
"He'll be ok" she said softly.
"But Dean won't… if he's… to her…" Marco stopped, gritting his teeth. He hadn't let go of Jade ever since we found her.
"I don't care… I'm going after him" I seethed, my heart pounding at the thought of my best friend in the world being… because they…
"Hang on. Ax?"
"What would you like me to do, Prince Jake?"
"Demorph. I've got a feeling that Dean didn't do this"
Cassie, Marco and I just looked at him.
"Say what? What do you mean!" I snapped, balling my hands into fists and glaring at him. He just looked back at me.
"I mean they might be bullies, but I don't think even those guys would kill someone. Beat them up, sure, but not… not this…" he indicated to the pale form of my friend. Jade looked so… she was so…
"Bull" Marco muttered, standing up with her in his arms. Cassie just looked shocked.
"I think you're right Jake. But… if that's true… it means there is someone else in this house"
It hit me then too. Could… could it be…
(HELP! JAKE! AX! CASSIE! ANYONE HEEELP UUSSSSS!) We all jumped when we heard Tobias screaming in our heads, nearly splitting our eardrums. I rubbed just under my ear, feeling the pain from his voice in my head.
"Shit! They're in trouble!" Jake snapped, running out the door, making the rest of us follow. Marco still had Jade in his arms, and Ax was now fully Andalite.
Jake suddenly stopped in the hallway, making us all skid to a stop behind him. He breathed out… and I saw it!
I huffed out, realising suddenly that it was colder than it should have been in the hallway.
"What… why is it so cold?" I breathed, watching as Cassie, Marco and even Ax realised something was wrong.
"I-I-I wish I knew" Jake muttered, then I felt something behind us. I turned, looking behind Ax and Marco to see a white… something… disappear into the wall. Immediately I tensed, knowing whatever it was, it wasn't friendly.
"Oh… fuck" I whispered, my breath coming out shakily.
"What? Amanda, what'd you see?" Cassie said, and I felt her hand on my arm. I pointed a shaky finger, then we all jumped as we heard…
We heard giggling. Then… it sounded like a child giggling!
It wasn't an innocent giggle. Yeah, it was playful, but… but in no way did it sound like an innocent child.
Another giggle, this time sounding a little older. And… then it turned into a laugh.
"Everyone! Be on guard! If you see anything be ready to morph!" Jake snapped as we all somehow formed a little circle, all facing outwards. My nose and ears were beginning to freeze in the cold.
(Watch out! Get against the walls!) Ax suddenly cried, and seconds later I was against the wall, seeing the others had done the same. Ax's hand was on my arm, and I watched as something small and round rolled past us all.
It was a ball! But… it was black…
"Look!" Marco hissed, and my head shot up to where the ball was going. There was a little girl in what looked like a white party dress, with frilly little socks and fancy little shoes. Her hair covered her face, and was fully white. She giggled, leaning down to pick up the black ball that was coming towards her.
She picked it up, giggling. Then we watched… as she disappeared into the wall!
"HOLY SHIT!" I screamed, and seconds later Ax's hand was clamped over my mouth.
(Shh! We don't know where that ball came from!)
One two, into the blue. Three four, dead on the floor. Five, six…suddenly the voice turned into a mischievous giggle again. The child's voice… that was somehow so full of cruelty and menace…
"RUN!" Cassie screamed, and when I saw what she was looking at I froze in horror.
It was like a black void… and it was making its way down the hall!
It seemed to envelope the walls and floor, spreading like a disease towards us.
"COME ON! MOVE IT!" Jake screamed, grabbing Cassie and running. As much as I wanted to comply, I couldn't… I was frozen in place…
(Amanda! Come on!) I felt Ax tug on my arm, and when I still didn't move he pulled me along using his muscled tail.
"Marco!" I cried, watching as he turned, balancing Jade in his arms, and running as well. I ran, feeling like my legs were made of jelly, the only thing keeping me moving was Ax.
"Ahhh!" A scream, and we all turned back to…
Marco was falling! Gripping Jade, he tried to climb out of the black void. But… it was spreading…
"DROP HER MARCO! COME ON!" Jake yelled, as panicked as the rest of us.
"No! Ahhhh!"
"Marco!" I screamed, trying to run back to help him but Ax stopped me.
"LEMME GO! HE NEEDS ME!"
(Amanda, he…)
I fought Ax, watching in horror as the black void sucked him and Jade down. And… I had just… I couldn't…
"All right! Run for it!" Jake snapped, and I turned to see him grab a shocked Cassie and run, tears brimming in his eyes.
(Amanda, hop on my back!) Ax cried, and in spite my absolute shock I somehow managed to climb on, holding his shoulders as he bolted down the hall. I saw Jake and Cassie disappear at the end of the stairs, and Ax followed. I dug my face into his back, trying hard not to cry for them.
I looked back as Ax took the stairs, seeing the black void stop suddenly, receding back to wherever it came from. Ax and I hit the bottom of the stairs hard, and he skidded to the door where Cassie and Jake were, trying to open it.
"It… it's locked! Ax, break it down!"
"DEAN! DEAN LET US OUT!" Cassie screeched, slamming her fists on the window. Jake moved out of the way as Ax struck the door. But…
Ax yanked his tail back, and we watched as something simular to the black void overed the entire door. We all just stared, open-mouthed.
"Move Cassie!" Jake suddenly appeared with a chair, throwing it straight at the window. It bounced back, knocking him and Cassie back onto the floor.
Neverleave…
A whispered voice! But… different… so much more different to the child's voice…
"Let us out!" Cassie was pounding on the window again. Jake yanked her back just before the black void covered the windows, shutting out our only escape.
"This way!" Jake ran into a sitting area, and we all stopped for a minute to catch our breath. I was so messed up… this… what the hell was going on!
I got off Ax, holding onto him for support as I made my way towards the others.
"Jake, what… what now?" I whispered.
"I… I don't know. We… we have to find a way out…" I saw tears spilling down his cheeks silently, still holding Cassie's arms. Marco… Jade… they were gone…
(Where are the others?) Ax asked shakily. This seemed to wake Jake up a little, and he dropped Cassie's arms to turn and look at us.
"We… we have to get the others and get out of here. Cassie and I will find Robert and Rachel, you guys can find the others. They gotta be somewhere around here…" he walked away, with Cassie hurriedly grabbing onto his arm and walking away.
I looked at Ax "Let's go. I'll start in the dining room. You go into the kitchen"
(But I do not think it is wise to-)
"JUST DO IT AX!" I screamed, walking out into the entranceway, looking at the now clear windows and somehow knowing that if we tried to get out again, the same thing would happen.
Ax clopped out beside me, then walked with me into the dinning room. Thankfully, it was still dimly lit enough for us to see.
Ax went into the adjoining kitchen, and I just stood there, looking around. The dining table was directly in the middle of the fairly large room, and antique chairs were cluttered around it.
There was a wall unit filled with what looked like very expensive plates and mugs, we well as this and that. There was an old runner on the table, and a very pretty dark blue vase with dead flowers in it. It just didn't look right….
Under almost the whole floor, there was a worn mat with strange designs. I could only make out the red outlining of it. The rest was too old and worn.
Soon, hot tears joined it on the floor. My friends were gone….
Imnotdone…
Suddenly, before my eyes, I saw a hand literally reach out of the carpet, grabbing my ankle tight!
"AHH! NOO!" I tried to yank my foot from its grasp, but it was no use. I hit the floor with a thump, trying to get the… the literally rotting hand away from my ankle. But… its grip was so strong!
Notsofastgirly…
All of a sudden it was dragging me across the floor, and then I felt myself flying, hitting the wall unit, hearing and feeling the crash of the things behind me. I hit the floor, feeling pain shoot through every inch of my body.
I struggled to get up, but my body wouldn't respond. My ribs felt like they had been shattered. I managed to get to my hands and knees, coughing and just wanting the pain to go away.
Then… I heard the giggling again…
My head shot up to see the girl. Only… she had black hair this time… and it looked like it hadn't been washed in months. It still covered her face as her head was tilted to the side. All I saw was one eye… opening wide…
She giggled again. Then…
Her eye fell out of the socket!
I screamed!
The light above me began to flicker!
Please… don't let it go out…
Then… she was suddenly completely different. She looked like… pre-teen… dressed in something that I couldn't place an era to.
Her giggle turned into a full blown laugh. But it wasn't a nice one. It was cruel and full of menace. Her hair… it seemed to fall off in clumps! And… and then her arm dropped off!
She was literally rotting before my eyes!
I had enough when I saw her jaw… still with skin and muscles… fall off and hit the floor inches from where I was. And she was still laughing!
"AAAAAAAAXXXX!" I screamed, scrabbling up and running into the kitchen. I somehow managed to slam into him as he was running as well, making my whole body hurt and…
And seeing he looked more terrified than I'd ever known Ax to be. He was shaking…
"A-Ax?" My lower lip trembled in fear.
(We have to find another way out) he whispered. Then… I finally saw…
A hooded figure! Coming towards us painfully slow…
I spun. The girl had followed me!
Bits of skin and muscle were literally falling off her face!
Two more for the house… came a whisper, this time seemingly from the hooded figure. I grabbed onto Ax around the waist, digging my head into his chest and holding him tight. He returned the pressure, still shaking.
So this was it… we were… not going to…
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAA!
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There ya have it! Hope I freaked you all out enough!
V; MUUUMMMMMEEEEEEEEE!
Me; Muahahaha! He's too easy…
Oh, and that dining room bit was inspired by a dream I had actually… very freaky… (shivers)
NOW REVIEW! OR I'LL SICK V ON YOU!
V; NOOOO! I'M TOO SCAAAAAAARED!
Me; wimp…