The Séance

Chapter 3:

Krad Hikari was someone who rarely got sick, no matter how delicate and frail he looked, his immune system surpassed one of a normal human being's. Despite not eating much and having to put up with Dark, Krad's immune system hadn't failed him yet, until now that is. He didn't show up for school, and Dark was worried. Worried more about his friend than his hungry stomach of course,the littlelogic that he had told him that without his friend, there'd be no food which would end up with him starving and so, therefore…there's no point in continuing this…anyways…

After school, the trio headed over and visited the blonde, luckily for Dark, he knew where the spare key was located, not that Krad ever used it, but Dark did to sneak into the house. The house was silent, nothing was turned on, "Krad?"

Daisuke and Satoshi looked around while Dark headed straight for the bedroom where he found the blonde asleep, sweat running down his forehead. "Crap!" He ran over, the blonde had a fever, not too high but relatively high. He shook the blonde gently, "Krad?"

Krad stirred and opened his eyes, "Dark? Wha?"

"Okay, how do I say this? You never get sick and…err…well…you're sick, you have a fever."

Though sick, the blonde looked at him as though he was an ape, or a species that was even lower than the ape…which was pretty high, but lower than a human being's so it was considered low, to Krad. "I know…"

Dark frowned, "Why didn't you call me?"

"Today's a school day."

The boy snorted, why did people take school so seriously anyways? He didn't! "It's only school! Geeze, you're sick and you expect me to go to school?"

Krad blinked tiredly, "Yes?"

"The fever must be getting to you."

Then Daisuke came into the room carrying a bottle of pills of who knew what, but the redhead really was too nice to go and drug or poison a sick friend, unlike some people, "These should help break the fever, but really Krad-kun, Dark's right for once, you should've called."

"Fine, side with him." The blonde grumbled as he swallowed the pill with water.

"I'm not taking sides with anyone, I know what happens to people who get in between your fights."

Dark raised a brow, "Really? What happens?"

"They go utterly insane."

The purple haired boy snorted, "That's a lie, a horrible horrible lie, can you name anyone who's gone insane?"

"Umm…there was…that kid…he sat in the corner rocking and mumbling to himself for weeks crying his eyes out…"

Dark rolled his eyes, "Alright then…I can take care of the rest, I bet your mom's worried Dai."

The redhead frowned, "Are you sure?"

"Yea, Krad's asleep so I'll just go and watch TV. Oh by the way, can you drop off by my house and feed With? He must be hungry by now."

"Yea sure." Daisuke was about to head out when he turned back to remind his friend, "Don't-"

"No I won't go into the kitchen unless I absolutely have no choice."

"And-"

Dark grinned in reassurance, "And even then I'll think it over, three million times or more."

Daisuke nodded with satisfaction and headed outside, "Hey Hiwatari-kun! Let's get going! It looks like it's going to start raining soon!" Dark headed outside to see Satoshi nod and ask something, "He's fine, just needs rest that's all, Dark-kun's staying here."

The blue haired boy glanced at Dark and muttered to himself, "I worry for Krad's life…"

"Oi! Shut up! I can handle this!" The blue haired boy shrugged and headed outside with the redhead, Dark huffed, "Hope you get struck by lightning!"

The boy sat down on the couch grumpily, "What a bum…" Then the phone rang…he grumbled under his breath and picked it up, "Hello?"

There was no answer.

Dark growled and slammed the phone down, although he had to admit that it was freaky, he frowned as the phone rang yet again. He picked it up, again the caller had hung up. "Stupid prankers…"

He headed to the kitchen for a drink, he looked around, nothing was out of the ordinary, he even checked the answering machine, it was off. The phone rang again, Dark growled and stormed into the living room picking up the phone, half of him expected to hear squealing hamsters for some reason, "What do you want?" There was no answer.

It was about time that he got freaked out, which he did. So he headed off to the blonde's room and sat beside his sleeping friend. It began raining outside. Krad was squirming around trapped in a nightmare.

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He was walking around, it looked like a swamp. Finally he reached the end, something was calling him, peering into the dark waters, everything seemed normal. Until the moonlight lit the place up dully. A face suddenly appeared, eyes blindfolded, face deathly pale. It was a woman's, her jet black hair was everywhere, her mouth was gagged. There was a noose around her neck, her arms were dislocated and bound, he could tell. Was she dead? Her mud-stained white dress swirling around calmly in the water. Slowly, he looked a little closer.

Then suddenly the women started flailing around, muffled screams came from under the water, her struggles suddenly brought her head very close to his face. She reeked of death.

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Krad's eyes snapped open, his breath came out rapidly he could still smell the decaying body soaked in marsh water. "Krad! Krad! Calm down!"

"…Dark?"

Amethyst eyes blinked, "You awake?"

The blonde nodded, he was about to mutter something about if his eyes were opened not to mention staring at him, why wouldn't he be awake, but then the phone rang, "Do you know who it is?"

"Stupid prank caller freaks. They've been calling a lot lately." The phone rang again, Dark rolled his eyes and ignored it, and it rang again, "Geeze this is getting annoying."

Krad frowned as his friend headed into the living room again, he sat up and rubbed his eyes. Something flicked in the top corner of his room, he rubbed his eyes again, it was gone. "Great…now I'm hallucinating."

Dark popped back in, "What?"

He turned around, "No one answered?"

"No, I disconnected your phone. They were getting really annoying."

"How very like you."

Dark sat down on the bed, "So you mind explaining to me?"

The blonde raised a brow, "Explaining what?"

"What woke you up."

"Oh, just a nightmare."

Dark watched him worriedly, "Is that what's been keeping you up?"

Krad nodded dumbly, "How'd you-"

"Krad, I've known you all my life now, you underestimate me."

The blonde frowned, "Sorry,"

"Forget about it. Come on, now that you're up, let's go eat."

Krad rolled his eyes, translation: "I'll forgive you so long as you'll go and cook dinner, right now." Dark helped his friend up and headed into the kitchen quite happily, Krad stretched and started his way to the kitchen when the phone rang, "I thought Dark disconnected it…"

Krad headed over and picked it up, he felt his hair raise when he picked up the telephone. When he lifted the receiver to his ear, he was greeted with muffled screaming, like what he'd heard in his dream. After what seemed to be forever, he dropped the phone and scampered into the kitchen, a minute later he heard the long tone of the phone's disconnection then it turned itself off altogether. What is going on? "Krad?"

The blonde whirled around, eyes wide with fright, "Y-yea?"

Dark had seen his friend's reaction, "I thought I disconnected the phone…"

"I thought you did too…"

"I'm sure I did, I ripped the cable from the pluggy…thingy."

Then the phone rang again, the two stared at the phone on the ground through the counter which the two had so often eaten on. They waited for the phone to stop ringing, holding their breathes, they continued to stare. Finally, it stopped, but then there was a beep, the two stared at the answering machine which was off but a minute ago. It was now flashing a large red, glowing one. One message.

"Krad? What's going on?" Dark asked slowly creeping behind his friend out of fright.

"I know just about as much as you." The blonde gulped and clicked the play button.

Again, there was muffled screaming, it sounded like there was water running in the background. It's just like the dream…Golden eyes blinked, he pressed stop, but nothing happened. The screams just kept going and going, it was starting to get to him.

Dark growled and slapped the blonde's hand away, the moment he came into contact with the pale hand, he could've sworn he saw something flicker in the top corner of the living room, he shook his head and unplugged the machine, it continued playing, then he took out the tape, finally the screams stopped. He ran over into the living room with the answering machine and grabbed the phone and unplugged that too.

Krad watched his friend dumbfound, "Dark? What are you doing?"

"Getting rid of these!" He ran over to a closet, it was filled with towels, grabbing one, he began to wrap it around the machines. The phone rang again. Dark gave a startled jump but grabbed another towel and wrapped it around the machines. The sound of ringing was soon muffled by the towels. Then he threw the bundle into the closet and piled more towels on top of it and closed the door. Krad blinked again, there was no more ringing or beeping.

The violet haired boy smirked feeling quite proud of himself, he walked back over to his friend. "Dark you…"

"What? That was freaking me out!"

"Yea me too but that was the first time I saw you act…somewhat rationally."

"And that's the thanks I get for getting bloody messed up machines?"

"…yes?"

Dark huffed, "Fine, be that way."

The blonde smiled ruefully, "Fine, fine, go and put me through a guilt trip, I'll cook dinner alright?"

A smile found its way back on his face, "That's more like it."

Krad rolled his eyes and set to cooking, he didn't object to his friend staying in the kitchen with him and watching him cook. Honestly, he was pretty sure that Dark was just as freaked out as him, so he let the boy stay…so long as he didn't touch anything.

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"You can take the bed, I'll go sleep on the couch."

"No way, you go take the bed, you're sick."

"You realize that you'll just come in the middle of the night for some odd reason and I'd end up sharing the bed with you anyways so what's the point in arguing?"

"Yea…true…they're not odd reasons!"

"Last time you told me a spider was glaring at you."

"It was! You'd get freaked out too if some thing with a million eyes glaring at you! So now what? The couch is too small to share."

"You twit, we go share the bed. By the way, spiders only have eight eyes max."

"Not if they're mutated!" Dark smirked, "Can we watch a movie first? Please…"

The blonde shrugged, he didn't really care, "What's on?"

"No idea! That's what a controllers and TV guides are for!"

Krad frowned, "Fine, whatever."

Dark smirked and pointed to the hallway, then he instructed his sick friend to "Go get a blanket, it's going to get cold and I'm already cold."

The blonde huffed, "Don't boss me around. I'm supposed to be the sick person who's bedridden here." But he went nonetheless.

"That's a good boy."

Krad frowned, grabbing the blanket and throwing it over his friend's head, earning him a growl of protest, "Oh quiet you, you have nothing to complain about."

After a couple hours of movies, Krad fell asleep and Dark yawned sleepily, he was in no mood to carry a sleeping, not to mention sick blonde into bed then crawl in himself. So he closed the television and the light, which was efficiently right next to him and went to sleep beside his friend, boy was his back going to be sore in the morning...

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In the middle of the night, the television clicked on, neither of the sleeping teens noticed for it made no static or noise. But a face soon appeared on the staticky screen, it was a woman. Her long black hair draped over parts of her face, her mouth was opened wide but gagged, the blindfold which was once covering her eyes had been removed somehow. Large black eyes were watching the sleeping boys for a couple moments before the television turned off.

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Nya

Whoa! I finally updated this again! XD I just found out that it's easier to write horror stories at night XP Even though I'm in a dark-ish room by myself thinking about it...-shivers- Erm, yea..enjoy!

Hakudoshi-chan- Yes, unlike me, the girl with the non-existent immune system XP I'm not sure how but Krad's immune system is strong...here...in this story :) On the bright side, he has Dark to take care of him so all's well XD

Les Scribbles- Thank you :) I've seen it happen, my cousin had a worm stuffed into a lego man and set it on fire...then it went pop! I seem to have troubles with simply sticking to horror, it seems too...cliche, but maybe that's just me...

Mysterious Kaitou- I can't help it! Krad looks frail and I just go along with it! I get that kind of sick twisted humor sometimes...not sure why, I find it fun to torture people XP Here's more answering machine problems:D I know just how much you love them XP

Seena58- I think I somewhat based him after me XP Sick with lack of sleep XD I think alot of people envy Dark for his ability to stay skinny :P I just go do my own thing in math, who cares about the class:P

dimonyo-anghel- He's unconsciously one XD He doesn't really notice his eating behaviors, but everyone else does :O Naw, I'm too nice to poison Kraddy-kins, well not really but still, he just got sick from lack of sleep here :)

KuroTsubasaNoTenshi- Thankies! Sorry for the slow update! I'm not sure how long it's been, but yea...boy I'm going to be typing alot in summer >.>;; Alot alot...considering how much I want to get done before school starts again...glad you like it XD

Gabriel of Dreams-Yume Chan- That took awhile didn't it? Whoa...over four months o.o I've gone beyond lazy...but fear not! With all this extra time on my hands, I'll update again...hopefully sooner! Or at least within a month XP

-THE CITY DRIVE-- Sounds like fun XD Actually, I'm going have mirror...problems in here :) I'm going to have to go crazy with the descriptions, just to scare you XP Or at least get you somewhat jumpy and jitterish :)

Raydar89- Thank you :D I'll try to update sooner next time, but meanwhile, I'll be working on my other fics, hopefully getting those up soon. Or as soon as possible. Which might take awhile but yea...I'll just have to type alot :P

chrnoskitty- Everything has to end! Or else you'd spend the whole day reading XP Actually...I wouldn't mind doing that but still...my eyes would get tired :P And on the more positive side, there's still more to come XD

GirlWaterShaman- That took awhile but it's finally up:D This chapter took awhile...why? Because I forgot how I wanted to start it off XP But once I get started...I just typed until I got stuck again, which didn't take very long :P

Kireina- Thankies, hmm...how will I wrap this up? o.o Wait...I think I know how XD But I can't tell :P Even if I do tell, I'd probably end up changing my mind anyways XP I'm very indecisive apparently XP

mad hatter- I updated! And now I have to go and work on my other fics, which have been left in the dust, or the back of my computer for quite some time now...awww I feel bad for them :P But oh well! I'll just have to update them soon:)