Manson: SO… From the top

Choir of hot guys singing: She doesn't Own it, she doesn't own it… Soul Calibur and that's just sad

Manson: ::Weeps:: On with the show… ::: Blows her nose:::

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Haunted Cherry Blossoms

"So… why do I have to do it again?" Talim asked Raphael that combed his Frenchie goatee as if it was the most intellectual thing to do.

"Because my dear Talim… He likes you…. He will be happy of seeing you…" Raphael said while the rest of the souls plainly looked at him wide eyed.

"Are you sure…? I thought he hated everyone and specially me…" Talim said with some disbelief as she was pushed towards the door of the huge place.

"Nonsense dear child…. He loves you… we are starting to think he might treat you that way because he kind of sees you as a woman…. You know what I mean… right?" Raphael said as he tapped Talim's behind in an encouraging way. The girl blushed deeply. Ivy leaned on the threshold as if she was holding to her sanity and not breaking into the hell of a laughing attack.

"Really?" The innocent Teen asked, someone saw her as a woman… and from all people it had to be HIM…. Yay for Talim.

"Oui. Oui… I heard him myself… he has a picture of you on his locker… Now alle Alle…Go fetch him Bombshell…" And with that Talim nodded and ran inside the huge place to find the one the rest of the souls were waiting for.

"You know he despises her, right?" Maxi said as he pulled out his Cover Girl mirror and blew a few kisses to his Oh so sexy dandy face.

"Oui… she shouldn't be so gullible…" The Frenchman said with a macabre laugh that had a French accent and sounded plainly weird, how a laugher can have an accent… don't ask me… I only write this thing.

Talim walked through the dark hallways with her only weapon being the necklace she held dearly and fiercely on her hand.

"Here Blondie, Blondie, Blondie…" She called and could hear the echo of her voice in the hallway. Finding herself in the base of a staircase she began climbing slowly.

"Why couldn't Chia-chan come with me? This is really scary….- In the entrance Xianghua blew her nails.-How can he live here?" Talim asked as she heard a noise behind her but saw nothing.

"Ok Talim… breathe… you are paranoid…. You are paranoid and the frenchie saw your asshole face…. Why me?" In the entrance Rafael winks at Astaroth plainly to freak him out achieving his goal almost instantaneously, because he freaked out and hid behind Ivy if it is entirely possible.

"Maybe after this… he, he… I am scared now….- she said as she once again heard the noise and ran up the stairs- When you walk away you don't hear me say…" Talim sang lightly the song from Kingdom Hearts, trying to keep her mind off the nasty noise that was scaring her to the bones.

"Maybe this is some kind of fraternity initiation…. And they will like me now… they accepted Yun-chan easily… why can't they accept me?- Once again that crappy noise that seemed like a pool ball rolling down the staircase filled the hallway.- Kyaaa…. I swear if I see that damn blonde right now I will squeeze the skittles out of him…"She said as she kept walking and walking, turning left and right in the huge house.

"Why can't he live in an apartment… NO… he has to live in a creepy castle like house…. Ivy-sama… why couldn't you come with me?- In the entrance Ivy asked. "She surely is delaying a lot… You don't think she is dead, right?"- Mr. Blonde Dude… where are you?" Talim asked as she heard now a voice.

"Now…" The soft echo said on her ears. She ran like a freak through the hallways storming inside the first room she saw, being that a training room and right in the middle of it our beloved sociopath was training with one of his swords while listening to the tunes on his sound system. Talim almost drooled; the guy was only wearing those Adidas jogging pants that looked so good on anyone with the body to wear them. He dropped the sword with the sight of the teen.

"Talim?" He asked as she looked at him and pushed her jaw upwards to close her mouth.

"Mr. Siegfried-san… we… we… were looking for you…" She said as she looked at him. Maybe everyone was wrong and he hated her guts and was going to eat her with a bowl of cheerios the next morning. Cheerios and sliced Talims, a delicacy.

"We?" He asked as he walked to the stereo and turned it off.

"The guys and me… we were called on a trip to somewhere and the boss couldn't find you… so he sent us… Please don't kill me…" She said squeezing her necklace tighter. Siegfried smiled widely… that kid was scared to her bones.

"Kill you? Why would I?" He asked walking to a chair and grabbing a sleeveless shirt so the girl stopped scanning his abs.

"Because… you hate me…" She said in a squeaky voice tone.

"I don't hate you… I am just an asshole and it works for me…" He said making Talim smile.

"Right you are…" She said looking at him.

"Excuse me?" He asked walking to her. She sighed and looked scared at him.

"No… nothing, that we better leave because we are being requested in the entrance of your haunted castle…" Talim said as she walked out and Siegfried beside her. He looked at the girl a little bewildered

"Haunted?" He asked as they walked through a corridor and suddenly there was a blackout. Talim simply glued herself to Siegfried like a Garfield Plushy to a window.

"Um… Talim…. I need that arm…" Siegfried said as he seemed to sound like his usual acid and sarcastic self.

"I don't mind… you can use it… This place is haunted…. Keep me safe Mr. Blonde," Talim said as she heard a sigh from the other one and then he started walking. He was more than sure she was enjoying being carried around and he wasn't pleased at all.

"My house is not haunted…." He said as he took a left in the dark corridor.

"Now…. Now… ow…. w…" Once again was heard through the hallway.

"Stop that Talim… I am trying to remember which hallway takes me to my room… I need a flashlight…" Siegfried said as he rubbed his forehead with his fingers. Talim was starting to be annoying.

"It wasn't me, Siegfried-sama…" She said as she squeezed tighter the muscular arm. That's why he didn't like kids.

"Whatever… now… which way was it… three times right and one left up the stairs? Or was it… Three times left down the stairs…? Ficken…." He said as Talim didn't move a muscle to let him go.

"Mwahahahahahahaha…." Echoed on the hallway.

"Kyaaaa…. –Talim yelled and squeezed his arm tighter.- It wasn't me Siegfried-sama… forget the flashlight and let's go out of here…" To her surprise she felt his hand on her back.

"Holly fuck! What the hell was that?" Siegfried asked and there was that noise of steps or balls rolling down again.

"I don't know and don't want to find out…I told you this place was haunted…" Talim said as it seemed she was going to cry.

"Now… Now… ow… w…." The echoing whisper continued.

"You know what? I am scared like shit and therefore will pull you like a kite behind me and will run like a bitch to the outside… I am buying an apartment…": Siegfried said as he grabbed Talim's arms and putting her on his back he started blindingly running through the hallways.

"Now… now …. Ow… w…" Continued behind them.

"Run Siegfried Run…" Talim encouraged while holding on to him.

"Kid… you are strangling me… I can't breathe…" He said as he slipped and fell.

"Now… now… ow… w…"The echo continued and it seemed it was close, Siegfried noticed the huge windows and knew he was in the main office of his house. Standing up he walked to his desk, grabbed a flashlight and taking Talim again he started running to the main entrance.

"Now… now… ow… w…" Continued behind him. And he tried to look back.

"Siegfried-sama… WATCH OUT!" Talim yelled as she saw him run and trip with the edge of the house's second story balcony, falling over it. As he fell he took Talim from his back and landed on it, she fell on his chest.

"You Ok, baby girl?" He asked almost voiceless. She thought the ghost killed him.

"Yes, Siegfried-sama…. Talk to me please…" She said moving him.

"Can… you… make me… a big favor, Dear?" He asked as he barely moved. Now the guy was going to die and he was the only one that saw her as a woman.

"Anything Siegfried-sama…" Said the desperate teen.

"Would you… kindly… get off me….? You are crushing my balls with your knee,,,, OW!" Talim quickly moved and made it worse by pressing her knee harder on his… Sieggy Scepter… Siegfried proceeded to weep like a child.

"Fuck… God Damn it… It hurts…. Oooooooooooooow!" He said as he assumed the fetal position.

"Gomen, Gomen… Sumimasen Siegfried-sama… Can I help you? Do you need a massage?" Talim asked innocently. Siegfried's eyes grew so wide he looked like a cheap Anime character.

"Talim… if you gave me a massage… it would certainly relieve my pain, but I would be taken to jail for child perversion…" He said as he stood up and took a few steps.

"Now… Now… Ow… w…" Once again was heard.

"Great… we forgot about him…" Siegfried said as he held the thin Warrior and looked at the direction in which the sound came. Siegfried looked and to the light of the window in which Talim and him were cowarding in fear came the Gardener of the castle… or what seemed to be the gardener.

"Can you hear me now…?.... Good! Please switch the lights back on… this place is rather creepy…- He said and then the lights came back and they saw the joyful Gardener with wishes to be the spokesperson of Verizon Wireless.- Master Schtauffen… Good night…" Siegfried felt like killing him, but then he noticed he was still holding Talim.

"Come Kid… let's go…" He said with a heavy sight. Talim walked beside him.

When they arrived at the entrance, the rest of the souls were sitting there in the Threshold waiting for them.

"You surely delayed…." Kilik said as he looked at Siegfried that frowned and kept walking.

"Do we need to stop on a church so you repent from your sins?" Raphael said as all of them started their way to the car. Siegfried turned around walked to Raphael and slapped the back of his head.

"Soreil… you are sick and need professional help…" Siegfried said as Raphael sobbed the recent brain quake he received. Maxi plainly laughed and smiled at his face on the cover girl mirror.

"Can you hear me now?" Talim said and Siegfried looked at her over his shoulder.

"Good…" He said as he laughed a bit and so she laughed.

"What's so funny of that annoying commercial?" Asked Ivy.

"I don't know.. I only see stick figures…" Kilik said with a stupid smile as they entered the car, an RV, and went away.

Ghosts and creepy cell phones? Manson is back… Wait up for chapter two

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