Dani and Billy stood at the staircase with their bags on their backs as Star got ready to go to work. She grabbed her handbag and said, "I might be late tonight but I'll see you after school. The bus will be here any minute"
Suddenly both Dani and Billy heard the eerie noise once again and looked to the roof as Star continued talking, "Have you both got your house keys?"
But Dani and Billy were continuing looking around for the mysterious noise. Star tried again, "Are you guys listening to me? Hello? Hello?"
Dani gasped and asked, "What?"
Star looked at them both with concern and asked, "Maybe I should wait with you until the bus comes. Did your parents used to do that?"
"No" Dani said as she looked to the roof once more.
"Are you sure? I can drop you both off if you like" Star offered.
"No it's okay. The bus will be here soon. We'll be fine" Dani said. Star nodded and said, "Okay. Please be good today"
"And Star?" Dani called out stopping Star from leaving for a moment. "Sorry for the trouble we caused you yesterday at school"
Star smiled at them and said, "I know sweetie and it's okay. I'll see you both after school"
With that Star left leaving Dani and Billy alone in the house. Dani turned to Billy and said, "You did hear it"
"Hear what?" Billy scoffed and was about to walk off when suddenly the noise came back again and this time neither of them could deny it.
They both ran upstairs to the attic and opened the door. The noise became louder and louder as they walked amongst the floor looking for whatever it was making that noise. They jumped when the noise suddenly became louder and ran over to a pile of old board games. They took off each one and then finally stopped at a game called Ghost Zone and that's when the noise stopped.
"Cool" Billy said with awe.
"Let's bring it over here" Dani said gesturing to an old crate.
They both walked over and sat down on the floor as Billy placed the gamed on the crate and opened it up to reveal two pieces on the board. Dani tried to remove them but found she couldn't and said, "That's weird the pieces are stuck"
She saw the instructions on the side and read aloud as Billy grabbed the other two game pieces which showed a medieval maiden and what looked to be a rock star, "Ghost Zone a game for those who seek to find, a way to leave their world behind. You roll the dice to move your token, doubles get another turn and the first player to reach the end wins"
The pieces in Billy's hand suddenly flew off and placed themselves on the empty spaces of the game board. Both their eyes widened at that and Dani said, "It must be microchips or something. Either way that was pretty cool"
Billy pulled out the dice and handed them to Dani and said, "You go first"
Dani nodded and rolled the dice and it landed on a total of six but before Dani could move her piece it moved by itself spooking them a little but Dani guessed, "Must be microchips I'm sure"
They suddenly saw the red gem in the middle glow and both looked to see writing appear and Dani read, "A tiny bite can make you itch, make you sneeze and make you twitch"
She looked at it in confusion but then suddenly screamed as a giant green mosquito suddenly came into the room and dived towards Dani. Billy and her both ducked out of the way but then it dived at Dani again only this time Dani picked up what looked like a gun and fired it to find it sent a green blast out of it and hit the giant bug dead on and knocked it back. Billy kept down as Dani kept firing blasts at the mosquito which tried one more time to attack Dani but she fired once more and sent it flying out of the large window attic which hit an electric wire outside and got zapped.
Billy and Dani watched as the mosquito suddenly exploded into thousands of tiny little mosquitos and flew off into the town. Dani and Billy sat back down completely taken back and shocked over what just happened. Billy picked up the dice and before Dani could stop him, he rolled it onto the board which totalled in two in doubles.
Billy's game piece moved two spaces and once again writing appeared on the gem and Billy read it aloud, "This will not be an easy mission. Good old Boxy slow the expedition"
They suddenly heard noise coming from downstairs and they both ran down to see dozens of boxes flying everywhere in the basement and in the middle of it was a floating blue skinned man wearing overalls, a beanie and working gloves. Dani and Billy looked in shock at what they saw appeared to be some kind of ghost.
The ghost turned to them and shouted, "BEWARE! I AM THE BOX GHOST! I HAVE POWER OVER ALL CONTAINERS CARDBOARD AND SQUARE!"
He suddenly started controlling the stuff in the boxes and sending them flying at Dani and Billy who luckily went behind the door and blocked the oncoming plates and candlesticks. They opened the door to see Box Ghost continuing laughing as he took control of more boxes, he saw them again and grinned and opened a box full of very sharp knives and sent them flying. Dani and Billy both yelped and immediately shut the door and blocked the knives hitting them.
Dani and Billy ran back upstairs to the attic as Dani said, "I bet that ghost came from the game. The giant mosquito as well"
They both sat back down and Dani saw more writing on the other side of the board and said, "Oh man! I didn't read this part"
She turned the board the other way and read the rest of the inscription, "Adventurers beware! Do not begin unless you intend to finish. The exciting consequences of this game will vanish only when a player has reached Ghost Zone and called out its name"
Billy heard a noise and looked out the window to see Box Ghost flying outside and away from the house shouting while duplicating himself, "BEWARE! BEWARE! BEWARE!"
Billy sat back down and said, "The ghost is gone. Maybe we should put this away"
Dani stopped him and said, "No. The instructions say if we finish the game, everything that came out of it will go away. We better do it before Star gets home and chucks a fit over all the mess down there"
Billy nodded and picked up the dice and was about to hand them to her when she said, "No Billy. You rolled doubles so that means you get another turn"
Billy nodded and rolled the dice which landed on a total number of five. The game piece moved five spaces on the board and stopped. Writing appeared on the red gem and Billy read it aloud, "His fangs are sharp, he likes your taste, your party better move post-haste"
Billy and Dani looked up at each other with slight fear as Dani said, "I don't like the sound of that"
Suddenly they heard the noise of piano keys being played. They both turned and Dani whispered, "What was that?"
More noise came as it came closer and closer towards them. They both stood up as they heard the sound of growling and out of the shadows slowly came a large black haired, wolf creature standing on two legs and wearing what looked to be a ripped up green prison uniform.
"Just keep calm Billy. Just keep calm" Dani said.
The wolf suddenly howled and that's when Dani and Billy screamed and started running out of the attic. The wolf chased after them ready to make them his next meal. It chased them down the stairs and jumped down the block their escape through the kitchen door and got ready to pounce and attack them but suddenly it jumped back in fright as a green blast was shot at it's feet.
Dani and Billy looked behind them to see a 23 year old man with a ripped dirty old t-shirt and ripped up pants which had been made into shorts, his long black hair flowed freely behind him and he had a short but thick beard on his face but it was tangled and wild like his hair. But what shocked the children next was a glowing white ring appeared around his torso and suddenly his hair was changed to snow white and his eyes glowing green.
"YOU KIDS RUN!" The man shouted.
Without needing to be asked twice the children ran away leaving the unknown man to face the wolf on his own. The man stood his ground and faced the wolf as it charged at him but then man suddenly turned invisible and vanished out of sight. The wolf growled as it looked around but was suddenly blasted in the back and howled in pain as the man appeared once again behind him only this time standing in front of a bedroom door.
"Come on Wolf!" The man taunted.
The wild ghost animal growled and pounced only for the man to leap into the air out of the way and caused the wolf to slide right into the bedroom. The man immediately floated back down to the ground and locked the door and before the ghost wolf could phase out, he attached some sort of handmade device to the door and pressed it.
The entire room glowed green and the wolf couldn't get out but it managed to sink it's claws into the door a little which caused the man to yelp a little but breathed a little easier.
TO BE CONTINUED….