Zexion and His Many Jobs
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Chapter 7: Ghostly Encounters
Well, here I am once again doing something I really don't want to do. Xemnas has decided to see if I can sniff out ghosts. I don't thing I will be able to but I guess I will see. Why I don't just decide to tell him that I won't do it I have no idea. Maybe one day I will get smart enough.
So, I find myself going to a supernatural investigators house to see if I can have a one day job to see if this is what I want to do in life. At least that is what Xemnas told me to do. I always have to listen to him don't I? Probably because I am afraid that he will sic Demyx on me if I don't. A hyper Demyx is not a good thing.
As I walk up the walkway to the house I notice that someone is watching me. Maybe it is the investigator. It is a really odd feeling. After I ring the door bell, the investigator opens the door to look at me.
"What do you want? I am getting ready to head out and you show up. Are you selling something? Or do you want me to join a cult?" The investigator says as he eyes me suspiciously.
"Hello. My name is Zexion and I was wondering if I could help you today with your investigating. I am trying to find a field to go into for school and I was interested in the job. I just don't know if I want to do it as a profession." I really hoped that he would go for this, he doesn't seem like a very nice person.
"Oh, well that would be awesome. My name is David Fabe and I am short handed today anyway. That is why I am a little grumpy. I love this career, it is always interesting." David told me as his mood totally did a one- eighty flip. I guess I have a job.
"Thank you very much. I will help with whatever you need." As I said this David opened then door and let me inside. I found out that his home also doubles as his office and he is the head investigator of Oblivion Paranormal Searchers, or OPS.
"Well, I got a call earlier from a family that said their house is possibly haunted. They moved there a few weeks ago and they are hearing things and are getting feeling that are not their own. So we are going to go and put up some cameras and things to see if the house really is haunted." David told me this as he was grabbing equipment to carry out the door.
I grabbed the other equipment that David couldn't grab and walked out the door to the van. I now noticed other people coming and parking in the street. They must be the other investigators. I am glad that it won't just be Fabe and I doing this, I would totally mess this up.
"Ok, Zexion, this is the rest of the team, the guy with the long shaggy brown hair is Skyler, he is the other lead investigator and my brother. The guy with glasses and blond hair is Kenny, he is the tech person, he is good with the cameras and other equipment. Jenny, the blond woman over there is Kenny's twin sister and she is a psychic. Shay is the guy who is sick today, he has short black hair and he normally goes to the township to see if there has been any deaths or anything with in or around the house. So that will be what you will do."
"Ok, nice to meet you guys, I am Zexion and I am going to be helping today." I really didn't know what else to say to them. They seemed nice enough though.
"Hello, I am Jenny, if you need anything just ask, I would also help Shay with the research part of the investigating, a psychic isn't always needed." Jenny told me as she shook my hand. I smiled and nodded. I would really need her help since I had no idea what to look for.
"All right, I have to say Zexion, you need a change of clothing, that robe thing you have on is not very practical in this field." David told me.
"Oh, that's fine, it is just a jacket thing I can easily take it off." After I said that I unzipped my cloak and stepped out of it, since it doesn't really unzip all the way. I was left if my black tank top and black pants with my black boots. I just realized that we Organization XIII members wear a lot of black clothing. I also realized that Jenny was blushing and almost fainted when my cloak was off. I wonder why?
"Crap! Jenny! Hey sis, you ok?" Kenny ran over to Jenny and caught her as she started to faint. She nodded her head that she was fine and she shook her head to clear it.
"Yeah, I am perfectly fine Kenny, you can let me go now. I just got a little overheated for a moment. I am fine now though." Jenny told Kenny as she pushed him away and grabbed her things to go to the van.
"Wow, you have an effect on the ladies. Do you work out or something?" Skyler came up to me to ask. I don't really work out but maybe it is all the fighting and things with Sora and messing around with Axel and Demyx. I really didn't know I was that fit.
"No, I don't really work out, I fight with my friends at home, only for like play though, we don't truly fight. I guess that makes me exercise." I really wasn't that fit. Then again, maybe I was, my tank top was tight to my skin and I have a six pack and muscular arms.
"Well, whatever you are doing keep it up because you are ripped. You made Jenny faint, and that is hard to do, I have only seen it once before and that is because a supernatural force was too much for her." Skyler told me this as he picked up more equipment to bring to the van. I grabbed some equipment also to bring to the van.
Once the van was packed David told us to move out, I was in the van with David and the others loaded into Skyler's Tahoe and followed us.
It took us about twenty minutes to get to the house, it was actually a minute or so away from the castle. It was a ranch style brick house that had a big yard that had big trees randomly throughout it. We parked in the driveway and David got out to go talk with the homeowner.
I got out had went over the the Tahoe that everyone else was getting out of. We had to start unloading the van of the equipment that would take a few trips. David gave us the thumbs up to start bring the equipment inside.
The moment I stepped in the house I new that something unhuman was there. The scent that I picked up was of faint cherry blossoms and freesia. I knew that it wasn't an air freshener or a spray because it wasn't strong enough. It must be the ghost or something that was here. I think Jenny caught on to something to because she started looking around and then looked at me.
"Do you sense that too? I sense a female, maybe in the teenage years. She is very lost here." Jenny said as she put her stuff down and walked around.
"I don't really sense it but I do smell it. Kind of a cherry blossom and freesia scent." I also put my things down and walked around, the scent would either die off or get stronger, it was really strong by the back bedroom. Maybe it was her old room. I guess I will find out once I get to the research part of this.
"You smell it? I never heard of that. Very interesting. Yes, I am getting the feeling that she liked those two scents. Were is the scent the strongest?" Jenny was looking at me, encouraging me to keep going.
"Well, it is the strongest back here by this bedroom, I almost wonder if that is were she slept or were she died." I once again walked to the back room and smelled the scent again, it was the strongest right here.
"Yes, I get the feeling too, I think this was her bedroom. Yes, this was her bedroom. I am positive." Jenny nodded her head reconfirming that what she said was true.
"What are you guys up to?" David came over after he saw that we were talking and knew we were on to something.
"Zexion here can smell a presence, I don't know how but he can. What he can smell, I can sense and confirm. It is a teen female that lived in this house at one time and that was her bedroom." Jenny pointed to the back bedroom as she told David this.
"Well isn't this intriguing. Zexion can smell a presence. What does it smell like?" David, I think, was skeptical that I could smell the ghost.
"Cherry blossom and freesia, that is what the girl smells like. Jenny says that those were her two favorite scents." I couldn't tell if David believed me or not. I guess that the equipment will help tell us what Jenny and I already know. This house is haunted.
"Very cool. I can't wait to get going with the cameras and inferred and all the other goodies we have." David seemed genuinely excited to have something new to go with his team.
It took us about two hours to set everything up and the family to go to a hotel. We needed the house to ourselves. After night fall we turned the lights off and we each had a camera to record anything that happens with us or anything in the house. We each paired up I was with Skyler and Jenny and Kenny were together. David stayed in the main room that we had all the computers set up so he could see what was happening with us.
"So, you can really smell the presence huh? That is interesting, not common at all. So what does the presence smell like?" Skyler was off setting the cameras up when everything went down.
"Well, it smelled like cherry blossoms and freesia. So it will be interesting to see if the cameras pick anything up. I am sure she is around." I told Skyler honestly, if the cameras didn't pick anything up then I would be considered crazy. That wouldn't be so fun.
"Hey, anything can happen, or nothing could happen, just because the cameras don't pick anything up doesn't mean that you are crazy, you just can detect things that cameras can't." Skyler must have had this talk with Jenny before. She could be considered crazy too for sensing something when the cameras don't.
"Thank you for that advice, it is helpful. So should we try to have the ghost girl do something or show herself? I don't know much when it comes ghost hunting." I wanted to get of the topic of my sanity plus I wanted to learn more about this, it was kind of interesting.
"Yeah, we can talk to her, see if she can move something or make us feel something. Try and get a reaction." Skyler said as he walked into the back bedroom.
We worked for another two hours and nobody got any reactions. The girl didn't make us feel anything, didn't move anything, nothing. It was kind of disappointing. I do have to say, I always smelt her presence. It would move too.
Once we were all packed up, David told me and Jenny to go and see if we could find out anything about a girl.
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Looking through all the documents I found that the girl that I smelled in the house lived there twenty years ago and she died from asphyxiation. It was brutal and she must not have wanted to leave to try to get revenge.
"Well, I think we solved the case of this one, Mary Fuller was a seventeen year old girl that died in a horrible way. I think if we get a priest in the house and bless it so then maybe she can go and be peaceful. We should go tell David the news." Jenny said as she printed the article out so then the team can see it.
"I really think this was cool looking for everything and being able to potentially help this ghost." I told Jenny as we walked out to the Tahoe to go back to the house.
As we drove Jenny told me about how she got into this field of business and how she loves it and would never change. She also told me that her brother Kenny was always overprotective of her since she is a psychic.
Once we were back at the house, David and the team were almost finished packing everything into the van to get back to the office. I showed David the article and he agreed that a priest was needed to help the ghost.
David called the priest then the family, he told them that they were going to have a non haunted house by morning and that they could come back anytime after that. They were overjoyed.
"So, Zexion, do you think that you will stay in this field? What college are you planning on going to? I can get you a recommendation no problem to any college." David told me as we climbed into the van.
"Oh, well, I think this is a very interesting field to go into, but I will have to talk to my superior and see what he says, as for schools, I have no idea. I don't even know if I will go to college. I guess I will see." I could see the disappointment and shock in David's face as I told him this. Maybe my lie wasn't such a good idea.
"Ok then, well I guess if you ever want to come and investigate with us you are more then welcome, maybe this will be a new hobby of yours." David told me he also handed me his card so I could call him at anytime.
"Thank you. Maybe I will take this up as a hobby. I will call you anytime that I really want to help solve a case." I put the card in my pocket for later.
The rest of the ride to his house was quite. It seemed to go by quickly though. When we were there there was a tall guy with short black hair getting out of his car. That must be Shay.
"Hey Shay, I thought you were sick today? Did a miracle happen and you got better?" David teased Shay as he opened the side door to the van to start unloading the equipment.
"Well, I felt horrible this morning and I took some medicine and now I feel better. So who is the guy with gray hair?" Shay said as he looked at me.
"Oh, this was your temporary reprieve for today. He helped solve a case and he has taught us a new way of sensing a presense." Skyler told Shay since David was busy carrying things into the house.
"Interesting, so what is this power of yours?" Shay asked as he walked over to me. He seemed skeptical of me.
"Well, I can smell the presence in the house. Like the case we had today, the girl would wear the scents of cherry blossoms and freesia all the time and so I smelled that. I know it is kind of odd but it works." I seemed to want to defend myself against him. I wonder if Jenny ever did this too.
"Cool, that would be handy if you stayed around longer. It would help Jenny and everyone. Well I guess you will have to help us more often. It would be nice to have a younger person on the team." Shay said as he shook my hand. So maybe the guy isn't so bad after all.
"I guess we will see. I never know what I am going to be doing tomorrow. I will definitely stay in touch with you guys though. I did have fun. I really like going to the township and looking up what happened to the girl. I will definitely remember this." I was kind of sad to be going. I will just have to come help them.
"Definitely keep in touch with us. Sorry that I wasn't around, I just really wasn't feeling good this morning. I am pretty sure we would have made an excellent team." Shay told me.
After that I help bring in the rest of the equipment into the house so then the team could review things to see if we really did miss anything.
"Well, I think I am going to head home, it has been a long night. I will be in touch with you though." I said as I turned and walked out the door, I also grabbed my cloak off the coat hanger as I left. I was tired ad wanted to get some sleep before Demyx or Axel attacked me in the morning.
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Once I was home Xemnas called me into his office and asked me how I like the ghost hunter role.
"I really enjoyed myself, and yes I can smell ghosts. I know that is what you really called me in here for." I said out pointedly.
"Dang, you caught me, yes I was curious to know if you could smell ghost, since you can smell when people die. It is always good to know." Xemnas said as he paced around his desk.
"You aren't going to use this to make me do things I don't want to do." I told him flat up. He always seemed to use my powers against me.
"I would do no such thing, you know this Zexi." Xemnas told me as he looked at me innocently.
"Yes you would and you know it." I told him and he just shrugged his shoulders.
"So what, I am your superior, you will do what I say. Now go to bed before I yell." Xemnas said as he pointed to the door.
I walked out not even caring that I should apologize for my attitude, I was too tired for it. Once I was up in my room I grabbed a book and sat in my big comfy chair and read before I went to bed. I wonder what I will do tomorrow. I guess I will find out.
