DGM

More Than This

Chapter 13

Ghostly

Kumari had been in the house for days and not a sound came out of it. There was no signal that anyone was in there. There were no lighting, window opening, nothing. Worry struck everyone. Even Lily who had come by. The same with CIndy, George, and Jarrod. "Where are you Kumari?" Lavi mumbled, worried about his 'sister'.

The hair on Kumari's back stood up. She finished fixing the lighting syste. She flipped on thew basement light and smiled. She wiped sweat from her head. It was unuaslly hot down here. She put her hand in her hair and combed it with her fingers, but it was all sticky. She had to take out her hair band because it snapped. Now her hair was too snarly to put her hair up. Even with her scrunchy. She had her jacket arms rolled up and her pants were rolled up a bit. Her jacket was unzipped as well. She turned off the light and took a candle with her upstairs. She went into the living room and turned on the light. She blew out the candle and looked around. This place was really, really old. So how did it have a lighting system?

Kumari looked out the window. It was morning and the dark clouds above in the sky made it so dark outside, it looked like nightime, but you could see a little. She walked into the kitchen and got something to eat. She sat at the table and looked she was done she searched all over the house, but found no innocence. All she found was stains, slime coming down the walls, and the tempurature changed drastically. It went from blazing hot to ice cold. She went upstairs and flies were flying all over. She left that room and found herself in a child's playroom. She dusted off a bookshelf and pictures. "Hello."

Kumari turned around, startled. She smiled when she saw a little girl round nine wearing a pink and white dress with flowers. She had a big brown teddy bear in her arm and was grinning. "I'm Mya. What's your name?" Mya said.

"Kumari. It's nice to meet you Mya, but what are you doing here?" Kumar responded.

"I live here. I've been in here for awhile and I've watched you." Mya told her.

"I think I would've seen you if you've been in here for awhile." Kumari told her, giving a small suspicious look.

She didn't want to suspect the girl of anything, but anyone could be a threat. She knew better than to underestimate someone. "I've been hiding. I didn't want to come out until I knew I could trust you." Mya said.

"I can understand that." Kumari told her.

"May I ask why you are in my home though? My family doesn't like it when people intrude and I don't wish for you to get hurt." Mya told her.

"I'm looking for something that belongs tomy friends and I. We lost it a very long time ago and we're searching for it. You see, it's special. It can disappear one place and reappear somewhere else. Like it has a mind of it's own." Kumari said, stretching the truth.

"You mean the golden cube that glows with a bright green color and has a wheel thing around it. Metal?" Mya questioned.

"Yes. It's very rare and extremely important to me. Can you take me to it? I'll leave right away once I get it. Before your parents find out." Kumari said softly.

"They all know you're here. You should leave now. Before something horrible happens." Mya said.

"I'm sorry, but I can't leave without it. Please Mya." Kumari pleaded, putting her hands in her own.

Mya looked at her then at a pig that appeared in the doorway. "Rudy?"

The pig oinked and Kumari watched as the little girl started talking to it. Kumari noticed its eyes were red. Almost as red as her own. "Rudy says we can take you to it, but you'll pay severe consequences if we do. My family finds it precious and it may be yours before, but now it's ours. They'll make your stay worse then they planned." Mya told her.

"I don't want to hurt you guys, but that cube is called innocence. The fate of the world depends on that small item. Along with more of them. I need it." Kumari told her gently.

Mya nodded and the little girl guided her to a closet in the attic. Kumari turned on the light and she pulled out a shoebox. Mya took a key out of the shoebox and put it through the wallpaper into a secret keyhole. A handle popped out of the wall and she opened a small door. Kumari smiled as she reached in to get a piece of innocence. She would've never found it if it weren't for Mya. Kumari and Mya exited the closet and the door shut. Kumari wasn't paying attention and thought Mya did that. Kumari started to hear voices and chills were sent down her back. For some reason, she felt scared. Frightened. A knot was in her chest and her stomach churned. She remembered hat the innocence will do anything to protect itself. So maybe it was- "Kumari run!" Mya screamed.

Kumari jumped and turned around. She hit a stand and it fell along with a vase that fell on Mya. Only, it went through Mya and shattered on the ground. "Mya?"

"Run!" Mya shouted.

Kumari saw her panic and ran to the window, putting the innocence in her pocket. She opened the window and then put her hands on the window sill. She stared at Mya, worried. Was she real or fake? Kumari didn't have time to think about it. The window slammed on her hands and huge nails nailed it down. She looked at her hands, stunned and winced. Her hand bleed and she thought they were broken. She tried to get her hands free, but couldn't. She heard evil laughter coming from all around. She turned her head and twist it, but found no one. She looked back at the window and almost screamed, but a hand covered her mouth and she could've restrained herself. But what she saw was a teenage boy, ssmiling and giving an evil, twisted look. It was so sadistic and it was almost worst than Road's. The boy was blue and she turned her head again. She could see right through him. She started kicking the wall and the window until her hands were freed.

Kumari ran out of the attic and all over the house. She kept running into people. They were all mad. From four year olds to people in their forty's. She had been hit, punched, and bruised. You could clearly see them too. She froze when she got into the childs playroom. Out the window stood Rudy who was now as big as the house. The door closed behind her and she turned around. A lady looked at her with dark, cold eyes. For a minute, Kumari was out of it and found herself above the floor, floating. Her hair was pulled back and her head was forced to look up. She stared at something that frightened her deeply. It looked like a monster, but it was not an akuma. It was fleshy and devastating for her to look at. Her fear was now seeable. She closed her eyes and she felt things hitting her. When they stopped she opened her eyes. Now she was looking at a door, but she was still in the air, her feet a few feet above the floor. It took her a bit to realize her hands were tied behind her back and her feet were tied together too. Then her neck started hurting and she started suffocating. She was being hanged, but they didn't drop her so her neck would snap. Instead they made her suffer. Whoever they were.

She was glad she was flexible. She lifted her legs and made her hands go under them and to her sais. She had a hard time moving them, but she went against her limits and forced them to. She raised her hands and cut the rope and fell on the floor. She then cut the rope on her feet. She stood up and dropped her sai, but it started moving away form her. She chased it to the stairs and someone pushed her down them. When she opened her eyes to look around the living room, all the furniture was put on one side of the room. Standing up, she brought her hands to her chest as they continued to bleed. The pain was intense and glass and nails were still in them. Suddenly, they were forced behind her and she couldn't get them free. Someone was holding them.

Hours passed and she made it to the basement after being tortured several times. Her arms had been pulled out of their socket and her neck had a cut. She had bruises all over her body and she had wood stuck in her leg. All the ropes were off of her and they left marks. The stairs and the door disappeared and the room got hotter and hotter and hotter. It got so hot, it was hotter than the desert. She guessed it was a hundred and twelve degrees. Maybe higher. More laughter could be heard and she couldn't find a way out as dangerous thing floated. Even her sais. She found a fireplace in the large room and hoped it would take her out. So she climbed up, but a fire started at the bottom. She climbed faster, but when she got to the top, it enclosed and so did the hole at the bottom. She closed her eyes and she felt her back ache. She had been thrown through the bricks into the attic again. Flies were all around and so were the the people. More things floated and they all went through the people. She crawled back to the wall and panicked.

"Ghosts aren't real. Ghosts aren't real. Ghosts aren't real. Ghosts aren't real!" Kumari repeated and repeated.

All the lights flickered on and off. The windows and doors slammed open and shut. Kumari was hit and hit and ended up across the room. Her long hair got caught on something and she couldn't get it out. Her hands could not longer moved and she feared the worst. She used her wrists to pull her hair, but it did no help. Everything dropped to the floor and she was forced on the ground. She stared at something black above her. She could not tell what it was, but when lightning streaked across the sky and the light flashed in the attic, she discovered what it was. An anvel. Her eyes widened as she sat up. Kumari looked for something to help her, ut did not find anything. The anvel dropped and landed on her stomach. She coughed up blood and it did it again. The third time it landed on her ankle. It floated again, but this time, it was going to land on her head and kill her. Most likely. She looked again and found her sai. She used her feet to try to get it, but it was too far away. She persisted on trying to get it. The anvel started to drop and she got panicky. She grabbed the sai and carefully raised it with her arms and cut her hair. She quickly rolled out of the way and was on her side. The anvel fell right in front of her face and she stared, scared.

Kumari ran downstairs and tried to open the door, but it was locked. She tried unlocking it, but it would not. Then she stood still, frozen. Still. Like a rock. Hands crawled in her coat, but not in her shirt. They stopped at the top of her bad. Something was mutterewd and then the hands raced down. Using their nails, they scratched her back. That's when she lost her restraint and screamed so loud, she thought she would go deaf. Why did it hurt so much?

Kumari fell on her knees and looked at the floor. She had to get out of here, but how? She looked at a window off to the side. She had a plan. It may of been blacked out, but it was definately a window. She got up and went to the back of the room. More noises were heard and she ran and jumped out of the window. She landed on the porch very hard though.

A few minutes ago. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Everyone stared in horror as the lights came on and off. The doors and the windows opened and closed. All on their own. Only the front door and the few windows stayed closed. Lavi looked at the attic windows. He saw things floating and a few people. He felt stiff and the hais on his back stood up when someone looked out a window and straight into his eye. He trembled, but when the person disappeared into thin air, he was back to normal. The windows stayed closed. The lights were off. All doors closed. You could no longer hear them slamming. Not too long later the front door's doorknob was shaking and so was the door. Then it stopped. Everything went silent. Dead silent. A cold breeze went by when a loud scream of pain was heard.

Birds flew away and people covered their ears. Others worried and tried to go inside, worried, but the invisible force kept them back. The Noahs seemed a little concerned as well, but they didn't think about it. INstead, they watched the house. Out of nowhere, Kumari came soaring out of a window and landed on the porch. They looked her over and she looked beatened. Her face and arms, her legs, and other body parts you could see, had a bruise somewhere. She looked up and her hair was short. Above her shoulders, but around her chin. She trembled as she stood up. She stood on her right ankle more than her left. Then she fell on the wooden railing. Kumari looked at her foot and more panic overcame her. She felt a hand on it, squeezng. More hands were on her and they started crushing her. She was worried that they would break a bone. Mostly her ankle. They started pulling her though. She held on to the edge of the porch when she fell. When the hands disappeared she stood up and started running across the yard to her friends, but stopped when she heard someone. "Kumari, behind you!" Mya warned.

Kumari looked at the front door. KNives, forks, broken glass, and her sais were floating in the air. She only saw them clearly when they came at her. She dodged them and her back hit something. She turned around and saw nothing. "Damn it."

Mya closed her eyes and she made the shield disappear long enough for Kumari to get through. When she did, Kumari still looked at the house and walked backwards. She ran into someone and still walked backwards. She continued this until Lavi, Allen, and Kanda made her stop. They felt her body continuously shake. She was scared out of her mind. "Ghosts. . . . . ." Kumari whispered, but everyone heard her.

She closed her eyes and turned away. All of her pain got worse and even more intense. Then her back made her fall on her knees. She took off her jacket and looked at her back. The shirt was fine. She lifted her shirt and tookit off. She was glad she kept the little shirt the stopped at her chest and was sorta like a bra, but not, a real shirt, on. Her hands lifted it a bit amd Lenalee gasped. Bookman was about to touch it to check it, but Kumari crawled forward and put her hands on the ground and closed her eyes. "Don't touch it!"

They all stared at her back that had long claw cuts, but were small and they could tell they were from nails. There were more than ten lines though. It was bleeding really bad. They could see more bruises, but that's not what worried them. The fact that her baack was turning black, blue, and purple. It looked like something had been put in the cuts. "It hurts. . . . .it hurts. . . . . . . t hurts!" KUmari shouted and she fell on her stomach, no longer able to hold herself up.

Kandawas so shocked that he was paralyzed. He stared at her. Hours later she was put in a hospital filled with supporters. Kumari was screaming becaus ethey were putting proxide on her back. They kept trying to help her, but she struggled and moved around. She screamed and screamed until she finally passed out. Back at the house. Everything fixed itself and then t disappeared. It went back to America. "Interesting." Tyki mumbled.

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