I maaaay have put the wrong date on chapter 7... 7 and beyond were supposed to be October thirty-first. Halloween, ooooooooh~

. . . Ahem ANYWAYS...

Post #9 October 31, 2013

So we went back to the apartment. The N64 was right where we left it, buried behind the burned building.

Skyler dug it up and set it on the ground.

"We know you're here, Ben." He told the console.

"Oh, do you now?" said the ghost from behind us, "Are you here to play?"

I decided to go along with it. "Yeah, let's play a game." I lifted a small sledgehammer I brought with me. "It's called 'Break the Ghost!'"

Ben sneered. "A sledgehammer isn't gonna kill me y'know."

"It isn't for the ghost." Skyler elaborated.

"Wait, what?" Ben was confused.

I took this opportunity to bring the hammer down on the console, destroying it.

Ben's look of confusion immediately changed to amusement. "Was that supposed to kill me?"

"I don't get it..." I said, panting, "The cartridge was inside that thing..."

"Are you sure?" Ben asked, holding up the cartridge.

Skyler and I stared at him, wide-eyed.

Ben smirked, turning it over in his hands. "Hope you don't mind if I have some fun."

He then rushed at me, turning transparent.

I heard Skyler shout my name, but it was too late. Ben had gone inside my body, abd I could see what he was making me do.

He was making me pull my gun on Skyler.

"STOP!" I yelled, trying to fight him.

"Rachel... Don't let him do this to you. Fight." Skyler pleaded.

I squeezed my eyes shut as Ben placed my index finger on the trigger. "I'm trying!"

"Try harder, Rachel! You can beat him!"

I let out a sob. "BEN, STOP THIS, PLEASE!"

I heard Ben laugh. "When I'm having fun? Oh, no. I don't think so."

"BEN, PLEASE!"

Ben faltered for a moment, taking my finger off the trigger. I opened my eyes.

"Not having fun, are you?" He asked, letting me move slightly. I shook my head, stifling more sobs.

"Oh... I didn't realize that..."

I sighed in relief.

"THAT YOU TWO ARE WAY TOO FUN TO PLAY WITH!"

He tightened his control on me to the point where it hurt. I let out a cry of pain. The gun dropped to the ground, landing on the sidewalk next to me and sliding across the ground.

I heard Skyler's voice again, this time more distant. I was losing control of my mind. I couldn't hear his voice anymore. I could only see his mouth moving. His legs moving as he charged at me, er, Ben. He grabbed my shoulders. I did not feel his touch. He shook me. I did not feel it. He was shouting at me, I knew that. But I did not hear him. I could not scream. I could not cry out. My body was as stiff as a board, and Ben was contorting it in way in which the human body should not move. I could hear the crackling of my bones. My ribs snapped. Ben let me scream in agony; he let me hear Skyler's shouting. He was crying too.

Crack!

"BEN, CUT IT OUT!" Skyler sobbed. "RACHEL!"

Snap!

Everything was going black. Ben let me fall to the ground.

Skyler screamed my name, kneeling down and scooping me up in his arms...

"Rachel... Please don't die!"

I let out a gurgling noise, and blood ran down my chin.

"Please Rachel..."

I gagged, spewing red all over Skyler's front.

Skyler sobbed.

Ben cackled. His voice turned my stomach.

"Y-You bas...tard..." I managed to choke out.

He replied witha smirk. "Shall I let your honey join you?"

"D... DON'T YOU TOUCH H-" I broke out in raking coughs and hacked blood all over myself and Skyler.

Ben cackled again. "Oh look. You're drowning!"

"J-JUST LET HER..." Skyler sobbed and looked down, defeated. "Let her die in peace... Please..."

"Peace?! PEACE?! I DIDN'T GET PEACE WHEN I DIED! I NEVER GOT REDEMPTION! WHY SHOULD SHE DESERVE IT?!" Ben screeched.

Skyler gave him a sad look. "Because she didn't deserve any of this."

"THIS BITCH DESERVED EVERYTHING SHE GOT! I DIDN'T GET TO GROW UP, HELL, I DIDN'T EVEN GET TO FINISH THAT GODDAMNED GAME!" Ben gestured to the Majora's Mask cartridge.

"I get that you had a lot of potential, but that doesn't mean you should take it out on Rachel." Skyler sniffed and wiped his teary eyes.

"I..." Ben sighed. "I don't know what to do... I thought I'd kill you both for fun, like the one before. But somehow ... Looking back on it... It wasn't fun at all..."

Skyler remained silent.

"I can't take back what I've done... And I can't give you two the happy ending you deserve." Ben said.

"I'm sorry." He walked over to Skyler and thrust his arm through his chest.

I couldn't scream. I was too busy drowning in my own blood to make even the tiniest peep.

I watched Skyler slump over, coughing up blood. He gasped for air, but however could not get oxygen.

He, too, was drowning.

As we both lay there, drowning in our own blood, I thought about how stupid I was.

I tried to kill the dead. I let Ben possess me. I let him kill Skyler. I let him kill me.

For all of you who are reading this, I warn you.

DO NOT trust unlabled game cartridges given to you by some hobo. DO NOT go after a vengeful ghost. He WILL kill you.

Nobody will believe you. After all, who wants to listen to someone who's probably crazy tell them a bullsh*t story about a ghost?

So please. Take my advice.

Jedusable, if you're reading this,I want you to know that this is your fault.

It's your fault I'm dead.