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Songs for this chapter: Invisible by Plumb, Not About Angels by Birdy, Surrender by Digital Daggers, This isn't Control by MS MR.
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Previously on Dead But Alive…
HANNA POV
"No, I just, I had a nightmare, that's all." I say in a quiet voice, pressing buttons on the coffee maker.
"What was it about?" He looks at me, raising an eyebrow. I turn to face him, looking down.
"About the Edwardian ghost and, um," I hesitate to say the name. "Ali." I say in a small voice.
SPENCER POV
"You sound just like Alison." I look at her suspiciously. She looks at me, still smiling, backing away.
"Ali?" Emily asks as she walks with me, getting closer to her.
"What was I supposed to do?" Aria/Alison exclaims as she backs into a corner. "I need as many people I can get, I can overshadow." She smirks.
"Wait, wait." I walk backwards. "It depends who was the weakest. It couldn't have been-"
"Oh but it could've. Aria may have killed Shana, but it haunts her every time she closes her eyes." Aria/Alison snaps, frowning. "She is the weakest link."
HANNA POV
A picture of a small purple pyramid comes up on results. Caleb furrows his eyebrows and clicks the link with the picture.
"Wait, I've seen that before." Miranda speaks up, looking at the picture. "My father gave me that, before he passed away. He left it in my room I think, when I was younger." Miranda explains.
"How could you remember that?" I ask her in disbelief.
"Sometimes you could never forget." Miranda looks at the picture, sighing.
MIRANDA POV
He looks in his drawers and takes out a black box covered in dust. Mr. Collins gently hands it over to me and I hold it. "You need to be careful, Miranda. You mustn't open it until the ghost tries to harm you or any of your friends." Mr. Collins reminds me, looking me straight in the eye.
"I will." I look down at the box. He smiles softly and looks at me.
HANNA POV
"We're all here to help you, Hanna." Olivia says, smiling. Miranda cough and Olivia flinches. "A-And Miranda."
I smile at all of them. "Well, what are we waiting for?"
PRESENT, JUNE 23RD, 12:07PM, SPENCER'S POV
"So how should we connect to the ghost?" I ask all of them.
"Call their names?" Hanna suggests. We all look at her and she looks at us. "Or maybe not."
"Ouija?" Remy asks. We all nod and she goes to the closet.
"I was thinking that…" Hanna mumbles, looking down. Remy takes down the blank board and alphabetical letters.
"We have to be careful." Miranda reminds all of us. Soon enough, we arrange the letters in the right order, and we all put our hands on the board.
"Hanna, you can talk first." Olivia reminds me, and I look down at the board, nervous.
"Can we talk to the Edwardian ghost?" I ask the Ouija board, my voice shaky. The chip slowly moves to yes. "Okay, someone did that." I raise an eyebrow in disbelief. Everyone's face is as nervous as mine, and I look back down. I take a breath and I ask another question. "Why do you purposely kill five people?" I ask the board. The chip angrily slides to R, then to E, and starts to spell out Revenge. The chip hits the mirror and the mirror gets cracked slightly. We all flinch at the reaction. "Are you sure this is safe?" I cry to Caleb.
"Here, I'll ask the questions." Caleb says but Spencer interrupts.
"No, I will, I know a thing or two about ghosts." Spencer exclaims.
"No I want to do it!"
"My turn!"
Suddenly, the board starts to shake and the window closes and locks. All the doors lock and all the windows shut.
The chip starts to go to the number 9, 8, 7, and starts counting down to 0.
"What the hell is it doing?" Emily exclaims. Miranda grabs her phone and searches as it hits the number 5.
"It's trying to come out of the board guys!" Miranda yells. She runs and grabs the black box. Suddenly, the chip hits one, and black smoke comes out of the board. "Holy cra-"
Miranda suddenly faints. All of us start screaming and yelling.
The Edwardian ghost appears-with a knife. "D…i….e…" I take the box from Miranda and I look down at it.
"D…i…e…" It mumbles again as it gets closer to me.
"Not this time, freak." I yell before opening the box toward the ghost. Suddenly, the ghost's face clears of wrinkles and her hair turns a normal brown. Her devilish dark brown eyes turn hazel and innocent. She looks scared as she looks around in the room, her dress changing to a new black dress.
"Wh-where am I?" She asks, scared.
"You don't have much time." I tell her as Miranda wakes up.
"I didn't mean to kill her, I swear it!" The Edwardian girl cries, her eyes glossy.
"Who?" Olivia asks. Luke joins in, and looks at her.
"Alison. Alison Dilaurentis." She cries. "I thought she was going to kill me, but she turned me evil instead."
"When did you kill her?" I ask the ghost.
"Two years ago, before Labor Day." She whispers. "She was in Ravenswood when I saw her. She had dark brown hair."
"Vivian…" I whisper.
"Last thing I remember, she had red eyes and I think she killed me." The ghost cries.
"Beatrice Grunwald. She said you wanted to seek revenge on Ravenswood."
"Yes, I did, but not this way." She starts to cry again. "I only wanted to talk to the Mayor, but I saw Dylan-"The ghost stops mid-sentence, looking at Olivia and Luke. "You're them, the children."
"Yeah, we are." Luke wipes a tear away.
"I hated Beatrice, she had everything and I didn't. I had gotten possessed from Ali and she told me to kill five people each year someone from the army came home. She knew you were going to end up here, Hanna." She explains.
I wipe a tear away. Alison, my best friend since the 7th grade, I knew she was mean, but evil?
"See you in the after-life." The ghost says and starts to fade. "Your journey isn't over, watch for Max." She disappears.
"Max took over." Miranda says as she stands up. "We need to find her." All of us run out of the house, to look for her.
1:06PM, HANNA'S POV
"The decoy house that your mother sent you to, come on!" Miranda yells and we all follow.
Miranda slowly opens the door and we all go inside.
Ring around the rosy….
"What the hell is that sound?" I whisper to Miranda.
"You don't want to know." She continues walking up the stairs.
Pocket full of posy…
Spencer, Emily, Caleb, Remy, Olivia, and Luke all walk up the stairs slowly and carefully.
"Ignore the song. She's playing with us." Caleb whispers.
Ashes… Ashes…
My body trembles as she almost finishes the song. I look back at the others, following up the stairs, these long freaking stairs.
We all fall…
DOWN!
The stairs start crumbling down from the bottom step.
"RUN GUYS RUN!" I yell. We all run up the stairs,
"H-HELP!" Spencer yells as she falls as the step crumbles under her feet.
"SPENCER!" I scream as loud as my voice can take it.
"Guys we have to keep going, we'll rescue her as soon as we find Max." Miranda tells us. I start to cry, fearing of Spencer getting hurt can scare the living crap out of me. We finish running up the crumbling staircase.
No one…
Wants to play with me…
"We can play Max. You love games don't you?" Miranda speaks carefully, shaking.
Suddenly, Max appears in front of us and we flinch again.
"Okay!" Max claps happily. "Let's play, 'find Spencer'." My face goes pale when she says 'find Spencer'.
"It's a guessing game." She giggles evilly. An ice cream cone appears in her hand. "She could be with my sister Ali," Max begins as she licks her ice cream cone. "She could be…. Dead, maybe." Max laughs. Miranda grabs my hand before I can kick her puny ass. "Better hurry before the time runs out, there could be more than one person down there." She smiles. Before we leave to find her, she speaks up "Might want to look somewhere under the staircase, or there may not be one anymore." Max giggles.
We look down where the staircase used to be, there's a floor but a whole in the ground. We all jump to the floor.
Caleb looks into the big hole and sees nothing but black. He takes a rock and throws it; it hits the ground a minute later.
"Here, I have a rope in case of anything." He unravels the rope and it goes down to the floor in the hole. We all start going down one by one, but when Miranda is about to go, Caleb looks at her and she looks at him, frowning slightly. She climbs the rope down and we continue going.
Once we are all down there, Caleb turns a flashlight on.
"Spencer?" I call out loudly. My voice echoes in the room. I can hear light talking, but it seems far away. Everyone follows me as I follow the voice. There is a light as I keep walking. "Guys…" I whisper and they continue following. I see Spencer, duct tape over her mouth, along with Aria. "Spencer!" I scream as I gently take the duct tape off her mouth. Spencer hugs me tightly, but I look at Aria. "Is Aria, Aria?" I ask Spencer.
"She was like this when I came here." Spencer informs me. "I think Ali did this to her and me." I rip the duct tape from her mouth.
"Ow!" She groans, rubbing her mouth.
"I guess it is Aria." I nervously chuckle. She rolls her eyes.
"Yeah, it is." She looks down. "I can explain why I was on the Ravenswood page, but later." Aria looks in a distance. "We need to find Ali and Max."
The others climb up the rope fast. I start to climb, but the rope falls down. I look at Spencer and Aria, scared as hell. "We'll help you!" Caleb yells through the hole.
"YOU BETTER!" I exasperate, annoyed as hell. He throws down another rope and all three of us climb up.
Max and Ali appear in front of all of us. Ali is smirking, flipping her hair. I look at her neck and there's a Ravenswood necklace. Ali looks at me, and then at my necklace.
"You like?" She asks me, and then looks at Emily. "I knew you would like it, Em." She confidently says and smirks.
"Hell no." Emily says underneath her breath in disgust. Caleb goes on his phone and searches up the necklace. I look at the phone and it reads 'Gives protection and power." Max also has one too. Caleb smirks at Miranda, who was reading it too.
"What are you looking at?" Ali asks. She takes Caleb's phone before he can do anything.
"Awww, someone wanted to know what this necklace means. Nice try, you aren't getting your hands on this beauty." She touches her necklace, smiling.
Miranda smirks at Ali. "You're funny, Ali." She laughs. I look at Miranda, puzzled. I then remember what we both have, and I smirk too. We both disappear.
"Where'd she go?" Ali asks the others. They shrug, smirking. Miranda and I appear behind Ali and Max, and we rip their necklaces off.
Alison and Max growl and turn around. Ali suddenly lunges at me, tackling me for the necklace.
"GIVE ME THE NECKLACE!" Ali shouts her eyes red. My eyes turn red too. I push her off me with my powers, and I make her slap herself. The rest chuckle, but Ali throws me against the wall with her hands. "We don't have to do this." Alison says, nervous.
She's afraid of you – Miranda.
I roll my eyes and smile at Miranda's mental message. "Yeah we do, Ali." I flip my long blonde curly hair back, and my eyes turn red again, firing lightning at her. Alison dodges each lightning bolt, but gets hit in the shoulder with one of the lightning bolts.
"I mean, of course we do, and I'll kick your ass anyway." Alison smirks, flipping her hair back. Suddenly, her face turns scared. "Help, Hanna." She whispers, but smiles again.
"Something is overshadowing her." I tell the others. Her eye twitches. "T-That is crazy." She says.
I take out the pyramid again and face it toward her. She flinches and backs up. All of a sudden, a spirit leaves Alison's body, a woman. (A/N: The woman that no one knew about, the one in 1x10 with the spider on the ice cream cone? Her. O_o)
We all look at this woman, puzzled. I keep the pyramid raised and she loses her power. "Max, my… child…" She mumbles as Max stands over her.
"I don't need you, mother." She growls as this woman furrows her eyebrows. She lets spiders out of her arm and it crawls up Max's. The woman closes her eyes, and her spirit leaves.
"Where am I?" Alison asks, rubbing her forehead.
"Whenever Ali came here, I think that woman possessed her." Spencer tells us.
"H-Hanna?" She calls out, looking at me bewildered. "You're alive?" I sigh and look at her.
"You've had enough, Ali. You need some rest. Let me take you home." Miranda tells her. She looks at me and half smiles, popping out with her.
2:27PM, HANNA POV
Max takes one look at me, and pops out of the house.
"So close!" I yell. "At least Ali is free, but still a bitch." I say to myself.
Miranda pops back into the house. "Your turn, Emily." She smiles as she is about to take Emily home.
"Can I stay to help you guys?" Spencer asks us. I smile at her, my dimples flashing.
"I think you've had a day, you need rest too." I tell her. She nods slowly and I hug her goodbye. She grabs Miranda's hand and she pops out.
"Okay, we need to find Max, and soon." Caleb tells the rest of us.
"I just can't believe that woman who took over Ali told the ghost to kill five people. That's cruel." Remy sighs.
"And how Dylan killed my father." Olivia mumbles her eyes glossy. Luke wraps an arm around her, half hugging her.
"It's okay guys, we just need to find Max, and hopefully this will all be over." I tell them. They all nod and I smile.
"Let's do this."
2 more chapters guys! :D omfg this story grows up so fast :'(
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