Walking down the stairs wasn't always creepy. Ryan remembered when he could go up an escalator at the mall and it wasn't so scary. It wasn't so scary because Ryan was already dead. For the past thirty years he has been flying over people's heads and looking a how they lived their lives. The twenty-first century wasn't that much different than the twentieth century. Car designs just changed, people wore different gimmicks, and the number of people who read books decreased.

The first thing Ryan did when he woke up was go to a burger store and order a cheese burger. That juice, medium rare meat juicing over his mouth and filling his stomach...oh how he missed it. What he wasn't going to miss was school. He hated it in 1980's and he was going to hate it in 2010's. At least he didn't have to walk for half an hour to get to a library to do his homework. Since Ryan and Shawn were from different times they had to change their names. Boton took care of that. Now it was just a matter of remembering his fake name.

" The first demon I see I'm going to kick his ass," Ryan thought walking down the stairs. " I'm going to walk right up to him and kick his ass; he won't even know what's coming to him. First I'm going to punch him in the face, then I'll punch him in the stomach, and last I'll poke my fingers in his eyes and laugh hahaha!"

The stairs glowed with a florescent light. Ryan had swag. He moved his finger left and right, laughing like a maniac and dancing. Ryan liked to dance. He liked hip-hip, rock, and rock & roll. Ryan was the most flamboyant of the two brothers. He had simple dreams and simple ideas. His first idea was putting three different kinds of chips in the same bag and eating them together. His second idea was to skateboard with three wheels called a tri-board. His last idea was to put a TV screen on the ceiling so he could play Xbox while lying on his bed.

Ryan couldn't sense anything that was going around him. Something with six legs crawled up the ceiling. A stinger came out of its body and swung back and forth. The thing fell from the ceiling. Ryan heard a loud thud behind him. His finger accumulated with spirit energy and he turned around. There wasn't anything behind him. Ryan still kept his finger up and leaned against the wall.

" Wait here for him to come, he said. I'll come and get you, he said. I'm suppose to stay here while he has all the fun? I don't think so."

Ryan ran toward the open door towards the exit. Just like a spider releasing its webs on the door frame, a giant monster came down from the door and attacked Ryan. It thrust its stinger into Ryan's arm. It cut through his clothes and his arms. The spider demon tried to thrust its stinger at him again but Ryan grabbed his arm and rolled out of the way.

" Spirit Gun!"

Ryan raised his finger up and fired a beam at the demon. But the spider demon flipped upside down and Ryan's beam fired into a metal bracelet. His beam fired towards the wall instead. The spider opened its mouth and fired web bullets at Ryan. The bullets went towards Ryan's feet. Ryan dodged the webs jumping off the ground and going back. Ryan looked up and saw the spider was gone!

" Where did he go?"

Ryan only had two Spirit Guns left. He looked up looking for the spider demon. He cold hear the cold echo of its legs crawling through the ceiling. Ryan looked around the ceiling. He didn't see anything until some yellow liquid falling from the ceiling towards Ryan. Ryan was splashed in his left arm. Ryan tried raising his hand to fire a Spirit Gun at the ceiling. However, his Spirit Energy wasn't working.

" How do you like my attack?" The spider cackled somewhere in the stairs. " It neutralizes all spirit and elemental powers. Don't even think getting rid of that liquid is going to give your power back. It can only go away in time. Unfortunate, time is not in your moment. You only have a trice to live."

Ryan was daunted when the giant spider fell from the ceiling. Ryan tried running away from the huge spider, but it landed on his legs. Ryan screamed in pain from the fear of his tibia being smashed. Ryan screamed.

" The scream of humans. The greatest music to my ears. I'm going to enjoy eating you!"

The spider demon drooled from its mouth as it prepared to eat Ryan. Ryan didn't have much time. The spider was too big for one boy to push off by himself. Ryan reached into his pockets and put his headphones in the spiders mouth. It destroyed a perfectly good pair of headphones, but it gave Ryan enough time to slip away from the spider and swished his yellow liquids off.

Ryan dashed towards the spider and lunged towards it. Ryan uppercut the spider under the chin. He pummeled the spider to the ground and kicked it off the ground.

" Ha! I got you!"

Two sharp claws ripped through the back of the spider. Fear throbbed inside Ryan's head as he saw something small submerge from the spiders back. It wasn't small for long. The little creature grew bigger and bigger until it mammoth over Ryan. This demon made the spider demon look easy.