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Chapter 5: Shed the Light Part 1: The Weirdest Hotel

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Emerl found the page he was looking for, and soon after, the right stories as well.

"This is rather peculiar. For some reason I can only read Sonic and Tails' story. The rest seem to be too light for me to read." Emerl confessed.

"Well since you can read something. Spill it already." J.P. hollered impatiently. With a sudden smack and ounce of pain in the back of his head, he turned around and Izumi stared at him, a little irritated.

"Would you shut up! He's going to tell us!" Izumi yelled.

"I'm not the only one yelling now, am I?" J.P viciously snapped back at Izumi. A moment's silence passed with them staring into each other with fury. Back and forth they started to snap insults at each other, which caused an argument. Emerl started to get a headache, even though he was a robot. With even more force than the other two, he said quite loudly,

"Would you two be quiet so I can tell you?!" Emerl shouted at the both of them. He was completely annoyed with them. Ever since they got to the forest, all J.P and Izumi did was fight while Takuya and Tommy were getting used to their spirits.

"So now we have the spirits of wind and earth." Takuya stated.

"But there could be more. There can be more than that." Tommy replied.

"Tommy, do you think we got this out of luck?"

"We did have some dangerous situations. But if we didn't have them, then maybe we would have been killed."

"Who knows maybe we could have gotten lucky and a coconut could have fallen on their heads." Both of them laughed at the comment.

Roki watched Tommy and Takuya behind a tree. Koji soon followed her.

"Looks like we weren't the only ones here." Roki whispered.

"Yeah. Wasn't that kid the one on the elevator with us?" Koji stated. He swallowed hard. Then in a low voice he continued, "Uhhh.. Roki... about before... I'm sorry I've been an asshole to you. I never really wanted that to happen." He looked up, his face full of guilt and desperation.

"It doesn't matter now." Roki said dismissively. Taking interest in Takuya and Tommy, Roki walked out of the forest to where they were. "Hello boys. So what brought you here?"

"We were on a train and we ended up here." Takuya said.

"After we were chased by machines. What about you?" Tommy asked.

"Me and Koji managed to take a train to a place called Autumn City, but we were attacked by a scorpion with four heads with different emotions. After, we went to the hole it left and " Roki explained as Koji walked out of the bushes. He heard everything. Takuya glared at him.

"What the hell are you doing here? I thought you went with that other train to some other place." Takuya said with venom in his voice. It was apparent the message became clear to Koji and he smirked and retorted,

"Anything would be better than seeing your ugly ass of a face." Koji said as he showed his back to Takuya. Takuya faced burned with anger. His first impression of Koji? Go rot in hell.

"WHAT WAS THAT?! I'LL KICK YOUR ASS FOR THAT!" Takuya put up his fist while Koji grabbed him by the collar of his shirt. Takuya grabbed Koji's arm and tried to pry himself loose, although unsuccessful. It became steadily harder to breathe as his airways were cut off.

"Listen to me you asshole. I didn't come here to beat the shit out of you. I came here so that me and Roki know there are more people around here." Koji let go of Takuya and he fell to the ground, gasping for air. Takuya looked at Koji's face. His expression showed he was still fuming, but telling the truth.

"Looks like you were right. But, for now we have to stick together. There is no telling what can happen." Takuya said bitterly as J.P, Izumi, Emerl, and Gear found them all.

"Its great to see you made new friends. Ooh and one of them is pretty cute." J.P. said in an elated tone. Flying out of nowhere was Izumi's fist, connecting straight on with J.P.'s face. He fell to the ground immediately. Izumi rounded on him again.

"YOU PERVERT! THIS ISN'T THE TIME TO THINK ABOUT HAVING A GIRLFRIEND! WE HAVE TO GET BACK HOME!" Izumi snapped as J.P. started to get off the floor.

"What the hell? You didn't have to punch me." J.P was making circles on the ground as he rubbed his red, swollen cheek.

"Well I have to punch some sense into perverts like you." Izumi said stiffly. She turned and looked at Roki and Koji. She gave them a warm smile and said in a sweeter voice, "Sorry about that. J.P. can't stop his hormones at times." Stepping between all of them, Emerl nodded to Gear and then pointed to the setting sun.

"If I may interrupt, we have to get to the nearest city before it gets dark. There's no telling who or what could be lurking here." Emerl stated almost unemotionally. He felt something weird in the air. Gear could sense it too, but she was too busy looking at the horizon. The sun was setting.

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After several hours of walking through the forest, the gang made it to a city named Hang Castle. The entire city was covered in a darkish veil. A large castle stood in the central part of the city. The windows were slightly narrow and depicted scenes of torment in a stained-glass mural-esque style. The castle heights seemed to reach the heavens themselves and as an extra unusual decor, it was a molded gray in color. The plants started moving on their own. The torches had skulls on the top of the pike, whilst the flames were either colored blue or red. They noticed some animals prowling around the city and some humans walking around as well.

"It seems to look like we are in Hang Castle." Emerl stated as he looked around. "I always thought this was abandoned."

Takuya and Izumi peered at the castle. The castle had a skull on the top of it, with some railing coming out of the mouth, as well as smoke.

"By any chance did this town use to be an amusement park?" Izumi concernedly asked.

"Yes. About 50 years ago it used to be a hotel/amusement park. I think it was abandoned because of some ridiculous story about some spirit inside the castle." Emerl said, trying to stiffen a laugh.

"Maybe we can go in and stop this spirit. Maybe it's one of the spirits for one of these kids." Gear said. Emerl was about to punch her, when he stopped seconds later and realized the great idea she had.

"Gear, you may have given me the best idea in your entire activation period." Emerl said as he held Gear against his arm, while the others looked at him with pure confusion.

"By what that means is that we are going into the castle?" Roki asked as she stretched her tired arms. Walking around in the forest made her tired.

"Most likely. We may even have to spend the night." Emerl said as he walked down the hill towards the castle, with the rest of the group following. Many things have happened in the castle that nobody knows about. There has been ghost sightings in that castle, disappearances, mysterious moaning, the entire ghost hoop-lah.

As everyone walked into the castle, they glanced in amazement. It was so clean and displayed no signs of cobwebs or vermin anywhere. There was a bellhop, who was an orange cat and the manager was a purple dog. Takuya walked up to them and was still freaked out by the people of Mobius.

"Uh..do you..have rooms open at this time?" He asked nervously. He was scratching the back of his head, which was usually a habit to show he was really nervous.

"Yes we do. We have some rooms available, but most of you will have to share rooms, if that's okay that is." The manager explained as he gave Takuya three room keys. The group walked up the stairs, unaware that the eyes of the manager and bellhop started to glow bright red and they disappeared with the uniforms falling to the floor.

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After walking six flights of stairs, they finally found the rooms they were in. They opened the first door. It only had two beds and had a large balcony. The walls had some designs of different colors. Izumi and Roki instantly ran into the room, claiming it as their room. The second room was smaller than the first room but had many beds with the walls colored white and gray. Takuya, Tommy, J.P and Koji took the room. The final room was for Gear and Emerl. It was a large room with a giant bookcase and a telescope.

As Izumi and Roki got into their room they wondered what is in Mobius. Although it was two days in a new place, it was almost like another home to the girls.

"So Izumi. What do you think of your group?" Roki curiously asked, as she wanted to know how she could survive through the torment.

"Well, J.P, as you know, is a total pervert. Tommy, well he doesn't annoy me as much, but he is like a little brother. You have to protect him at times. Takuya on the other hand…" Izumi soon stopped as she started talking about Takuya.

"What? Don't tell me you like him. Do you?" Roki slyly asked, which caused Izumi to blush heavily and was embarrassed.

"Let's not talk about that. It's too embarrassing. Even though he is annoying and usually acts like a leader, he still is kind of…" Cutting her off, Roki grinned more broadly and said, in a singsong voice,

"I knew it! You like him. It's written all over your face." Roki started to laugh and ended up getting hit by a pillow Izumi threw at her.

"Shut up. I don't like him like that." Izumi was blushing beet red and looked like she was about to faint from blood loss. She put her hand on her forehead and walked towards the bathroom. "I'm going to take a bath. Don't even think about talking about Takuya while I'm back here, got it?" She shook her fist, trying to get the message across. Roki was highly amused, but still said,

"Fine. Fine. I won't talk about your crush on Takuya." Roki sheepishly said as she got hit with another pillow.

Izumi walked into the bathroom. The room was big and was so clean she could see her reflection on the walls and floor. There were two separate sections of the bathroom, one side for the boys and one for the girls. Izumi walked to the girls' side of the bathroom and saw a giant bathtub along with some shower stalls, baskets for the user's clothes, and a table that was full of towels, robes, and soap. She took a pink robe and took off her jacket along with her shirt, revealing a pink lace bra. She stripped off her sneakers, socks, and her skirt.

All Izumi had on was her underwear. She walked into a stall and placed the rest of her clothes on the door. She turned on the water. The warm water relaxed her tense and tired muscles. She now felt at ease now that her skin felt clean. But Izumi couldn't stop having the feeling she was being watched.

"There is something weird about this place. Are we the only people in this hotel?" She said to herself.

"No. It can't be. Maybe the other people are just in town for some fun. Yeah that could be it."

As Izumi continued to wash herself, two red eyes were seen through the mist behind her, almost as if it was ready to attack her. As Izumi looked behind her, the eyes soon disappeared.

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The boys were in their room, talking about what happened so far. But the reoccurring question to Tommy and Takuya were how they felt when they spirit evolved.

"So Takuya how was it like being Sonic?" J.P asked as he stood up and held a broomstick as if it were a sword. "I mean you were a badass hedgehog that can run at high speed and master swordplay." Takuya shrugged and replied,

"I wouldn't say it like that. When I was Sonic, something changed both physically and mentally." Takuya said as he looked at the ceiling. "When I was him, I felt stronger and faster. Hell, when I was him during the fight against that mechanical wolf, I saw him slow down. But when I held Hogosha, I felt a sudden rush of energy, like something out of a comic book, you know?" Tommy nodded and then added,

"That was like when I was Tails, but instead of being faster I was smarter. When I faced that scorpion, I formulated about 20 moves in my head, with which half of them ended up in me destroying him." Tommy stated as a matter-of-factly. "Not only that, I knew how to target well with the glove that was able to turn into a gun." J.P. looked from Tommy to Takuya and then burst in a dream-like voice,

"All I can say is that I would like to spirit evolve one day!" J.P shouted as he stood on the nightstand. He was then hit with a bottle, causing him to fall off the nightstand. Koji just scoffed.

"Even if you spirit evolve there will be a chance that you wouldn't know what the abilities of that spirit will be before you end up dying." Koji boasted. "It's simple. Tommy and Takuya were able to know their spirit's abilities during the battle out of pure luck." The room went quiet and Koji just ignored them. Then, in a mad rage, Takuya lunged forward.

"WHAT WAS THAT?!" He grabbed Koji by the collar. "You should try to face a robot yourself and see how it's like to be helpless and scared before you had the opportunity to gain the powers of the spirit."

The manager opened the door. He had a somewhat of a devious look on his face. Takuya and Tommy looked at him oddly. Soon, the manager walked up to them and gestured his hand as if telling them to follow him. They all shrugged it off and started following him. As they walked down the stairs, they noticed Emerl, Gear, and Roki downstairs in the ballroom. Takuya looked around the room but couldn't find Izumi anywhere.

"Roki have you seen Izumi come down here?" Takuya asked in a concerned tone. Roki looked at Takuya and remembered what Izumi said, letting her mischievous side take over.

"Oh, she's just freshening up for you Takuya." She said playfully. Takuya started to blush heavily.

"W-w-w-what are you t-t-t-talking about?" He stammered. Roki burst out in a fit of giggles.

The door to the ballroom soon closed and the manager locked it. He looked at the group. His eyes shined piercing red. He smiled evilly and walked towards the group.

"Well I have 8 out of the 9 people I needed to kill for my mission. That other girl will be taken out by my assistant." The manager said. His voice had a mixture a mechanical and ghostly. His body then was surrounded by shadows. The shadows then disappeared around him and a new body was formed. The body had a jack-o-lantern for a head. A blue, glowing cloak. A blade came out of both of the sleeves.

"Well then. Let me introduce myself before my blade kills you. My name is M-14, The Headless Ghost Mech."

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Special thanks to Roxas is my Sora for helping with this chapter. Please Read and Review.

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