Hello everyone! As I've already stated in my profile, I've decided to finish this story before continuing my Star Fox fic. I found that writing both at the same time was causing me grief. So, on with the chapter!

Disclaimer: I own nothing relating to the Lilo and Stitch franchise. The Disney Company owns it.

Chapter Five: She Has No Eyes

Victoria was gone less than five minutes before she appeared with their things. She brought with her some blankets and their extra clothes, which they would use for bedding, and some small camping pillows. As the others were setting their spots up, Myrtle noticed that Yuki was still shivering with fear.

"Maybe Yuki was right." She thought to herself. "Maybe something did happen to her up there. She's obviously scared out of her wits." Myrtle decided to move her spot closer to Yuki to keep her company, as did Lilo and Stitch. A grateful Yuki cuddled Stitch up close before falling asleep. The others likewise drifted off, tired from their ordeal thus far.

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Myrtle awoke and looked at her watch. It read 11:30 pm. Her bladder had awoken her this time, screaming at her to use the bathroom. She carefully worked her way out of her spot, careful not to wake Yuki, who was still cuddling Stitch. Not wanting to relieve herself in their room, she walked across the hall to the next room, finding a hole in the wall, leading to the outside, to do her business.

When she was finished, she went to walk out of the room, when she got the feeling that she wasn't alone. She turned to look behind her, but saw nothing. She shrugged her shoulders, assuming it was her imagination. After all, old buildings like this often raised such emotions in people. She walked out of the door, confident that she and the others were the only ones in the building, when she noticed something out of the corner of her eye. It looked like a flicker of light. She turned to her right and saw, to her amazement, tiny orbs of light flittering around the corridor, darting in and out of rooms. The sight mesmerized myrtle. She thought the lights were pretty. Indeed, the tiny bluish white orbs twinkled like stars against the blackness of the darkened corridor. Myrtle decided to go and get a closer look at the orbs. But, when she began to move toward them, they suddenly blinked out and vanished, leaving Myrtle with a confused look on her face. What were those lights? She decided to go back to her room and head to sleep without mentioning the orbs. After all, Yuki was still frightened by her experience, whatever it was, and there was no need to frighten her further. Just as Myrtle was about to enter the room where they slept, however, she got the feeling of a presence again, this time right behind her. She also heard the sound of a door creaking open behind her. Now getting scared, she turned to look behind her, and gasped at what she saw.

There, standing in the open doorway she just exited, was the shadowy outline of a man. The figure had not face and no distinguishable features. It was just an outline, like a person's shadow. As Myrtle watched, terrified by the apparition, the figure turned and walked a few brisk paces down the hall before melting into the darkness and disappearing.

Myrtle stared at the open doorway in shock and horror, her heart feeling like it was going a thousand miles per hour. She had never felt so scared in her life. What that what she had sensed before? Could that be what had spoken to Yuki earlier? Myrtle no longer doubted what Yuki had heard in room 502. She ran, not walked, back to the room where they slept, scared out of her wits.

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Lilo's peaceful slumber was interrupted by someone roughly shaking her. Grumbling at the disturbance to her sleep, Lilo sat up and rubbed her tired eyes. Once her vision was clear and adjusted to the dark, the first thing she saw was Myrtle's face, an all too familiar expression of terror crossing. Needless to say, Lilo was instantly awake.

"Myrtle, what happened? You're not hearing voices too, are you?" Lilo asked. Myrtle shook her head.

"No, worse." Myrtle said, her voice shaking with fear. "I saw something." She whispered. Lilo was, needless to say, shocked.

"What did you see?" Lilo said. Myrtle leaned in closer.

"I'm not sure what it was. It was like a person, but…" she said. Lilo looked at her confused.

"But what?" She asked.

"But, it wasn't like a person, it was… like a shadow. It was standing in one of the rooms, like it was watching me." Lilo was definitely concerned at this point. First Yuki hears a voice ordering her to get out of the building, and now Myrtle sees some kind of shadow being in the hallway. Lilo began to think that Julian was right. Waverly hills Sanatorium was haunted.

"What do we do? What if there is something in here?" Myrtle asked, plain terror evident in her voice.

"We don't have much choice." Lilo said. "We have to stay here until someone realizes we're up here." Myrtle nodded, though plainly not happy about having to spend the remainder of the night in the ancient building. From what she had seen, it was clear that there was some unseen horror in the hospital, lurking in the shadows of the dingy corridors.

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An hour later, Stitch was sitting in the open-air solarium area outside of the room, looking out at the darkened Kentucky countryside from behind a pane of rusty metal screen. In the dim light of a moon partially screened by clouds, he could see a vast area of land that had been disturbed behind the building, as though someone had been digging a strip mine behind the building. His sleep had been disturbed by the conversation his sensitive ears had picked up between Lilo and Myrtle. On any ordinary day, his logical mind would have dismissed such a thing as a shadow being as nothing. But, with what he could gather, Myrtle was sincere in her belief that what she saw was real. Stitch was convinced that she did see something in that hallway. What did that bode for them? Sure, Stitch could manipulate objects three thousand times his own weight, but all that strength would be useless against fleshless spirits. That was his concern right now, not fear of what was creeping around in the darkness of the abandoned sanatorium, but how he would protect the rest of them if these specters turned out to be malevolent. After all, he loved Lilo like a little sister, or daughter even. He was close to the others, but was closest to Lilo, she being to one who turned his life around. He didn't know what he would do if he lost her.

Stitch sighed and went back through the open doorway that led to their room. He stared at all of their sleeping forms. Lilo and Myrtle were sleeping peacefully, but Yuki was squirming slightly and whimpering, as though she were having a nightmare. It broke Stitch's heart to see this. Yuki had been the most affected by her experience. She practically, by her own admission, had a heart attack when she heard the voice in room 502. After what seemed like forever, she finally stopped squirming and settled down into a peaceful sleep. Stitch breathed a little sigh of relief. He hated to see them having bad dreams.

Stitch's relief was soon interrupted by a noise from down the hall. It was so slight that, even with his supersensitive ears, Stitch couldn't quite make it out. He craned his head out of the door, trying to pick it back up. His efforts were rewarded when he heard the sound again. This time he could make it out clearly. It was the sound of a person, clearly male, whispering. Stitch was frightened at first, remembering what Yuki and Myrtle had described, but then he thought about the girls sleeping in the room, and a steel-hard determination to protect them in any way he could came over him, completely washing away his fear. He immediately tore off down the hall, following the sound of the voice. Once he got to where he determined the voice was coming from, he stopped. There was nothing there. He was about to turn around and head back to their room, when he heard the whispering again, this time from the opposite end of the hall. He whirled around, but again saw nothing. Despite this, the voice continued to sound, getting louder. Whatever it was, it was getting closer. Stitch steeled himself for whatever it was, exposing his extra arms and other appendages. Finally, the voice stopped. As Stitch watched, a small cloud of mist appeared ten feet in front of him, and the materialized into the pale, ghostly visage of a man. The man appeared to be in his late thirties, was clean-shaven, and had a head of well-groomed, dark colored hair. There was no identifiable color in his eyes. He was dressed in dark colored shirt and slacks, along with a white lab coat. His face was cold and emotionless, a stare that would have chilled the blood of anyone else, but not Stitch. The strong will to defend Lilo and the others was coursing through him, completely wiping away any trace of fear. He matched the phantoms stare almost exactly, his face displaying a look of pure rage.

"I don't know who, or what you are." He said in Turian. "But with whatever God or gods exist as my witnesses, I won't let hurt Lilo and the others. You hear me!" The ghost just stared at him, not showing any emotion. After what seemed like hours of simply staring each other down, the ghost turned and walked straight through the left wall across from him and disappeared. Stitch smiled, thinking he had scared the spirit off. He jogged back to the room where they slept, pleased to find all the girls still sleeping soundly in their places on the floor. Stitch settled into his own spot next to Yuki, proud of himself for his bravery.

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Lilo awoke to the sound of rain. Another storm had moved in over them. This one was nowhere near as bad as the previous tempest, with only moderate rain and distant thunder. She had been awoken by the sound of her stomach growling. Indeed, it had been hours since she had last eaten. She took a look at the display on her watch. It read 1:01 am. They had all been asleep for nearly three hours. Lilo got up and reached into her pack, getting herself the bag of trail mix that Victoria had packed before they left. She opened the bag and began to eat, smiling a little as the taste of nuts and dried fruits entered her mouth. She took a moment to observe their surroundings. Myrtle, Yuki, and Stitch were all asleep on one side of the room, practically no room in between them. Lilo smiled when she saw that Yuki had her arms wrapped around Stitch, hugging him as though he were a teddy bear. Stitch had his hands upon hers. When one saw a sight like this, one could scarcely believe that Stitch was originally created to be nothing more than a weapon of mass destruction.

Lilo also took notice to the fact that Victoria was gone. This didn't bother her. She had probably gone off to the bathroom. Lilo continued to eat her trail mix, trying to keep the sound of crunching down, so as not to disturb the others. She polished the trail mix off rather quickly, and deposited the empty bag in her pack, as there was no trash can nearby. She then began to move back over to her sleeping spot.

And that's when she heard it.

Somewhere deep in the darkened hallway, she heard what sounded like whispering. She couldn't quite make it out, as she could barely hear it because it was so faint. Curious, she got up and left the room, trying to follow the sound of the whispers, which sounded like they were coming from down the hallway to her left. She squinted trying to see past the darkness of the hallway, but saw nothing. She began walking down the hall, trying to find the source of the whispers.

"Victoria, is that you?" She called, thinking it was Victoria's voice she was hearing. The only response she got was the echo of her voice in the dark, empty corridor. She continued to seek out the source of the voice, only to find nothing but shadows as she advanced. Then, just as she was about to give up and head back to the room, she heard them again, except this time they were coming from the opposite end of the hall. She could hear them clearly this time. They were definitely female, and from what she could tell, sounded like a young child. Lilo was beginning to get scared at this point, remembering what Yuki had said happened to her. Could this be the same thing? Lilo's musing was brought to an end when the whispers stopped. The quiet was short lived, however, as the whispers started up again, this time appearing to come from the dark room to her right, marked 235. Lilo was very frightened at this point.

"W-who are you?" Lilo whispered to the invisible phantom. "What do you want?" Lilo got no response as the whispers continued. Lilo was shaking slightly at this point. She wished Stitch were there to protect her from whatever was lurking in the shadows of that room. Just then…

"Lilo?" A voice called. Lilo yelped and whipped around, only to find that the voice belonged to Victoria, who had come up from her right.

"Oh, it's only you." Lilo said with great relief. Victoria noticed the fear in Lilo's voice.

"Are you okay?" She asked.

"I heard whispering. I though it was you." Lilo said.

"I was outside going to the bathroom." Victoria said. "You know they set up porta-thrones in the back." She gave a giggle at this. Lilo laughed a little as well. A good joke was what she needed to ease her nerves. "We better get to sleep. We all know how cranky you get when you don't get enough sleep." She answered with another laugh, this time eliciting a scowl from Lilo. They were turning to go back, when the whispers started again. This time, they sounded like they were coming from all directions.

"That's what I heard earlier." Lilo said in fear.

"I hear them too." Victoria said, getting scared herself. The whispers continued, leaving both girls frantically searching to find out where they were coming from. As they swept the corridors, the air around them suddenly became as cold as a tomb. Their breath rose in mist before them, and they shivered violently. Their terror increased as they realized this was exactly like what Yuki had said happened to her in room 502. Victoria then felt the sensation that someone was touching her shoulder.

"Lilo, please tell me that's you." She said. Lilo, who was beside her, shook her head and held up her hands. Victoria then turned her head to her shoulder. Sitting on it was a pale, ghostly hand. Both of them turned around and, when they saw what had appeared behind them, both their countenances melted into expressions of utter horror.

Standing before them was the ghostly visage of a young girl, probably not much older than they were. She was dressed in an old, probably 1930's style dress, which was ivory white in color, and also a pair of white shoes. Around her neck was a silver pendant, diamond shaped, with the letters "ADM" engraved on it's face. Her skin, or what should have been her skin, was a ghastly grayish color, like something dead that had died in water. She had long, flowing, shoulder length black hair, and where her eyes should have been, there were only empty, black sockets. The girl was reaching out with her right hand, the one she had placed on Victoria's shoulder.

"Help me." The ghost rasped, still reaching in their direction. "Please, help me." Lilo and Victoria stared at the apparition, unable to move from sheer terror. The ghost took a step forward, still pleading for help. That did it. Both Lilo and Victoria screamed and tore off down the hall back to their room, leaving the ghostly little girl in their dust.

But what none of them noticed was, at the corner of her eye, a small, silvery glint appeared and began to roll down her face.

A tear.

Well, I promised you all ghosts, and here they are! I really hoped you all enjoyed this chapter. I have a couple more planned before I finish this story. Be sure to read and review!