Silence

Author's Note: Well here comes chapter three. Am I freaking anyone out with this story? I hope I'm not scaring anyone too much. Read & Review!

Disclaimer: Shaman King © Hiroyuki Takei

Chapter 4: Questions

So now they knew the date the house was built in and why everything seemed so old. But that didn't answer all their questions. Questions like; who owned the house? What happened to them? Why was this house so unkept?

Hao brought down the books from the room he had been cleaning in. There was a diary and a few other books, all dusty. The diary proved to be useless. There wasn't even the name of the person who owned the diary. Only a few entries saying things about strange noises and glowing lights in the basement.

It was the other books that gave them an indication of who owned the house. One of the books looked like a book of spells. They had a feeling that maybe the person left because he or she was being accused of witchcraft. The other book was a scrapbook with hundreds of newspaper clippings. All the headlines seemed to have something to do with 'the glowing one'. Well that just added more questions. All the information on the clippings was faded so that didn't help.

Yoh sighed. "This is making me wish that we had our spirits with us."

Hao nodded. "Yeah, but we wanted a regular roadtrip so we decided against it."

"Pretty stupid since each of us has seen or heard something that's not all that normal." said Ren.

Horo nodded also. "And I feel scared since we don't have our spirits..."

Ren laughed. "Horo you are such a baby. It's probably nothing. We're probably all hallucinating because of the weather or something."

"Or we could all be cursed." Yoh said with a shrug.

Horo gulped and looked around quickly. Somehow that didn't really help him much.

"So what did we get out of all this searching?" asked Ren boredly.

"More questions." Yoh sighed and flipped through the book of spells. He reached the end and blinked. "Everytime it looks like we're going to get a name off the book it's always scratched out. Someone really doesn't want to be identified." he sighed again.

"I'm gonna go look through that room again." Hao said before standing and heading upstairs.

A/N: Sorry it ends in such a weird way. I had too. Things are going to get freaky again. Read & Review!