Longest chapter so far. I hope you guys enjoy and that my action sequences aren't too bad. Please review it makes me happy!
House and Wilson were still in shock as Chase and Jasper led them cautiously down the hall. The two kept their eyes on Jasper, they couldn't understand it. Jasper shouldn't exist, he was dead, there was no such thing as ghosts everyone knew that.
"Robbie!" Jasper hissed and the blonde nodded his head, holding out his hand stopping the two older doctors in their tracks. House and Wilson watched as Chase tentatively peered around the corner before leaning back quickly.
"What is it?" Wilson asked.
"Shadows," Chase whispered. It took House and Wilson a moment to figure out that shadows actually meant ghosts.
"So what do we do?" House asked.
"Jasper watch over them," Chase said and the teen ghost nodded his head gravely and watched as the blonde took a deep calming breath before stepping out for the two spirits to see him.
Their whole bodies were charred black from the fire, eyes glowed a ferocious golden colour. Chase had never dealt with spirits such as these and he knew that they would be far more challenging to deal with than anything else he'd faced. The evil in the school was strong, strong enough to cause a bitter taste in his mouth and burn his nostrils and throat with every breath.
One of the spirits cocked its head to the side as Chase took one confident step forward.
"Seer," one hissed at him and Chase could tell that the speaker was female.
"Walker of the dead, you were warned," the other growled it's voice male.
The blonde reached inside of his messenger bag slowly, wary when the two began to hiss at him.
"Let us through," he said sternly.
The two shrieked in response and lunged towards at him inhumane speed. House peeked around the corner and his mouth fell open when he saw two burned creatures lunging at Chase and the blonde draw a large pistol and fire two shots, one into each of the menacing spirits' heads.
The two spirits turned to ash in front of him and Chase lowered his gun, raising up his right hand to make the sign of the cross in blessing.
"What the hell?" House asked.
"Before you ask, those are the things that caused the burns on the two guys, there are a lot more of them in here as well as a powerful demon and I'm going to guess some lesser demons as well," Chase explained as he stuck his gun into the waist band of his jeans and took off his messenger bag, throwing it to the side where it hit the tiled floor with a dull thud and a puff of ash and dust flew into the air.
Chase used his flashlight to look down the rest of the hallway and was satisfied when he saw nothing before him.
"Come on we have to keep moving," Chase said as he began to make his way down the hall checking every room he passed, gun drawn.
House and Wilson stood still as the looked down at the rather dark pile of ashes on the floor and Chase's retreating figure.
"'Less you wanna be ripped part by angry spirits I'd suggest you folla 'im," Jasper said before walking after his friend.
House and Wilson came to their senses and followed after the two.
"You shot them," House said as he jogged up next to Chase.
"Yes," Chase said.
"They're already dead how the hell did that get rid of them?" House asked hating that he was completely out of his element in this dark place while Chase shined.
"Spirits can harm other spirits if they wish, they're stuck between two places of existence and in that small lapse over they interact with each other like I would you. They can also interact with humans but it's weak and we look a bit hazy to them, it all depends on how strong the spirit is really, the weaker the spirit the more fuzzy and transparent we become, stronger spirit it's the opposite effect," Chase explained to the two softly.
"Ok," Wilson said in confusion, wondering what this had to do with the fact that Chase had shot and supposedly killed two spirits.
"Every now and again a human will be born that can see and interact with spirits," Chase said before stopping in front of a door, a melted exit sign above it and the remnants of the word stairs painted on the metal surface.
"And that's you?" House said and Chase nodded.
"They do more than jus see an' interact, in a way they're a spirit too" Jasper said as he looked back down the way they came to make sure they weren't being followed.
"What?" House and Wilson said in unison.
"I have some attributes that spirits have; I can make other spirits visible to other people by using energy to charge the air letting them appear, like they do in those stupid horror movies. That's how you can see Jasper and those two spirits I got rid of back there. In explanation to the shooting them I can use that same energy to convert things from this world into a thing from their world. Like I said spirits can harm, even destroy another spirit if they want and that's what I did," Chase explained as he pushed on the door to the stair well.
"If we get out of here maybe you can make me some Ghost-be-Gone too," House said with a grin causing Chase to chuckle.
"I'll see what I can do," Chase said as he pushed on the door with more force making it only budge an inch.
Stepping back from the door Chase summoned energy from the core of his body and forcefully kicked the door straight off its hinges causing it to tumble down the stairs with a loud procession of bangs.
"Damn Superman," House said as he walked forward into the stairwell.
"Come on something might come to see what the hell that was," Chase said as he pulled a shell shocked Wilson into the stair well. The four made their way down one flight of stairs but Chase stopped them when he heard a loud growl.
"What is it?" Wilson asked afraid to know the answer.
Chase sighed wearily and shone his flashlight to the side and was surprised to see not one but two white faced razor fanged demons staring at them.
"Um love," Jasper said nervously.
House and Wilson had gone pale with fright and the only thing Chase could think about was that if they all got out of the school alive then he'd be asking for a rather hefty raise.
The two demons growled once more and Chase backed up slowly. "Now would be a fantastic time to run," he only got half his sentence out before the four of them were tearing up the stairs as fast as they could, Wilson and House screaming and cussing in terror all the way up.
Chase could feel the demons cold rank breath on the back of his neck and he knew that if he didn't do something quick he'd be a headless wombat. Getting back up the stairs he jumped through the door, twisting his body around he saw the demons jump after him and he fired four shots, two hitting each demon squarely in the chest.
They screamed in anger and pain and as quickly as they had come they disappeared into the darkness.
Chase hit the floor with a loud thud and he winced in pain. He really had to stop jumping around and falling, he wasn't as young as he had been when he first started hunting demons and freeing spirits.
"Robbie you alright pet?" Jasper asked as he rushed to his friend's side.
"I'm fine," Chase said as he rubbed his bruised back.
"Let me be the judge of that," House said as he knelt down beside Chase and pulled up his shirt. Chase suppressed a sigh as he felt House's finger's gently rubbing and pressing his lower back.
"You're going to have a nasty bruise but nothing's seriously hurt," House said as he got back to his feet and tried to brush the dust and ash from his jeans but had no success.
"We have to get moving that just scared them for a moment, but soon they're going to be back and very pissed off," Chase said as he wearily got to his feet.
"You mean you didn't kill them!" Wilson cried.
"Those are demons Wilson, not ghosts, demons are strong and always evil little shits, a few bullets aren't going to kill them," Chase explained. "My guess is that those aren't the only two lesser demons running around here."
Wilson stormed over and hit House in his shoulder "You stupid, arrogant, jackass," Wilson said angrily, repeating Chase's earlier words.
"What the hell did I do?" House asked irately.
"You brought us here, you refused to listen to Chase who obviously knows way more about this than we do, and because of that you're going to get us ripped apart and eaten by demons, this is all your fault," Wilson cried.
"There's no use getting mad at him Wilson it's not going to help us," Chase said as he began to walk down the way that they had come, Jasper following along, chuckling at the two older doctors.
"If we get out of here I'm not buying your lunch for a week," Wilson said angrily before storming after Chase.