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Will went first, closely followed by Dean and Susan. Nobody said anything when they finally gathered around the door and looked inside. There was a narrow strip of light that cut through the dark room, and it ended right in front of the mysterious wardrobe. But in the middle, right between them and the eerie wardrobe at the end of the light, lay William seemingly still asleep, but maybe unconscious or worse...

"William"

Susan shouted and tried to walk into the room and get him, but Will reached out her arm and stopped her.

"Don't" Will told her mother firmly.

"But William is there, I must get him." Susan said desperately.

"Susan dear," said Dean and looked at her, "I think perhaps it is best we trust Will to do this, she seems to knows more of this than we do." Having said this he looked back at his winged stepdaughter who gave him a confirming nod.

"You two stay here while I will go and get him", she said, "and…" what more Will was going to say was abruptly cut short as the light started to flicker and went off.

"Will" two scared voices cried behind her, but before Will had the time to do anything, the light went on again.

The first thing they saw was that William still lay on the same spot as a second earlier, then they all stared around themselves to see if something suddenly had turned up. It was Dean, who spoke first this time. "Is it just my imagination," he said. "Or does the wardrobe seemed to have moved a bit forward?"

Everyone's full attention turned to the wardrobe and Will said, "No, it is not your imagination. Now the wardrobe stands fully in the narrow strip of light, it didn't five seconds ago."

Will made herself ready to run inside to get her brother when the old lamps started to flicker again and went off one more time.

The light came back almost as fast as it had disappeared, but now the wardrobe stood even closer to William, and Will calculated that by the next time the light would go off, it would be right in front of him and she made herself ready. The light flickered again and it went dark…

The light turned on again quite fast, and to Dean's and Susan's surprise, Will who had stood right in front of them a second before, sat now on the floor and embraced her little brother while staring face to face at the wardrobe. Will felt her brother breath calmly so he was most likely unhurt from what had happened to him, but if he woke up there certainly were going to be a lot of tears and screaming. But most importantly, if she needed to fight, William would be in danger, therefore she needed him out of the way. Behind her, Susan and Dean took a few steps into the room to see for themselves.

"Mom, dad" she said gravely, never letting her eyes wander from the object standing only a meter in front of her, "I want you to take William and get yourself out of here now. Take the car and drive home." And before either of the adults could respond, she made swift motion with her fingers and created a tiny silvery sphere that teleported her brother out of her arms and right into her mother's. By the sound of the couples surprised reaction she was sure she had succeeded. Will allowed herself to take a quick look over her shoulder and see that William indeed was safe in her mother's arms.

"Will, we have him, come back here now," said Dean, trying to persuade her to get away herself. She was about to tell them to leave without her when she heard the terrible sound of a creaking door that begun to open.

The door on the right side of the wardrobe started to slide open and an eerie black fog started to seep out down to the ground and spread out in front her, swallowing what little light there was on the floor. Only a few centimeters of the door had opened before something darker started to stretch out. It was a hand. A black hand that was so thin that it was almost nothing to hide the crooked bones and tendons under the skin. The fingers were unnaturally long and thin and ended in claw like nails at the end. Will jumped back on her feet and into battle stance and shouted, "RUN."

But just as her parents were going to turn around and flee, the door behind them slammed again and the room laid once more in total darkness. None could see anything, but they could hear the wardrobe door that opened more.

"Oh no, don't you dare trying this one on me," Will said, "I strongly prefer to see who… and what… my opponent is!" And with that, Will created two huge spheres of crackling bluish-white energy from both her palms that floated in the air and enlightened the entire basement and everyone who was there. Now she could see more of what was coming out from the wardrobe.

Out from the half-opened door, a black and gray human like figure stretched its upper body. The head was bald and could have been a human's, but where the eyes should have been, there were only two empty pits of darkness. The face was as skinny as seen on people who had suffered from famine, the skin lay tight and highlighting every tendon that were attached to the bones. The neck was long and thin, and ended in a torn tunic that had the same dark grey color as the rest of the thin body. There seemed to be a black fog that lay tightly around the entire creature, making it look like a creature from hell. It was a being born out of the worst nightmare.

Nobody moved or dared to breathe when it craned it's neck and looked first at Will with its empty eyes, then at her parents who by now was scared beyond belief. If that wasn't enough, William had begun to waken and would certainly make a very unwelcome scream when he saw what was going on.

Dean was the first one to move, he took a slowly step backwards, turned around and tried to open the door behind in order to get them out, but as he tried to pull it open, he realized it was stuck.

"The door is locked, it won't open," he said while he desperately alternating tried to pull and push the door open with all his might. The noise of her stepfather speaking while trying to tear down the door broke the silence and got the attention of everybody. The nightmarish creature turned its attention to the people behind here, forgetting Will for a brief second. Will took the opportunity to jump aside so she no longer stood face to face with the demon, turned to her parents and screamed, "MOVE!"

Dean and Susan reacted quickly and moved from the door just in time to see Will shoot a lightning bolt from her hand that blew the door to pieces. "Get out of here, I will handle this." Her little demonstration had obviously been enough to make the adults obey, and with a screaming William, they ran out from the room and through the other basement.

The corps looking figure now sprang out from the closet, looking at Will with an understanding that this was a threat it newer had experienced before. Now, as she could see the entire thing fully, she saw that the tunic continued down to its black legs, but most of it was torn to shreds or had rotten away centuries ago. Will had seen her fair share of zombie films, she didn't like them, Irma however, had insisted that they were cool, but this one made the zombies looking quite healthy in comparison. Its speed was an entirely another matter. It moved fast and aimed directly at Will who only had half a moment to prepare herself. The impact sent her flying along the floor, her wings whirling up a lot of earth and dust as she slide. Before Will thought to open her eyes again, she felt some long, cold fingers grab around her neck and tighten. She opened her eyes and looked into two black holes that stared back at her. Being this close up, she noticed that around its mouth the skin was so stretched that it made it seem that its dead lips were frozen into an eternal smile.

Will however, had no plan to study the close up facial features as she was beginning to run out of air. She lifted her arms and grabbed the sickly thin limbs that was holding her and sent an enormous amount of electricity into them.

The demon lost its grip on her and fell on the ground with a smoky halo around it, but it was only for a moment. It rose again, but before it could do anything else, Will shot another lightning bolt and hit. The creature got a nasty shock but was soon back on its legs and lunged at her. She skillfully blocked the first punch but the other came as a surprise and struck her low on the stomach and she fell backwards. Lying on her back she saw the nightmarish creature jump at her with its claw-like fingers spread, ready to tear her apart. Fortunately, years of fighting had given her a lot of experience. As the creature came flying towards her, she waited until it the last possible moment, bended her knees and used his momentum to kick him back again.

Now it was her turn to attack and Will stretched her wings, within a moment she was airborne and was flying towards the ugly creature with her right fist crackling with electrical power.

The momentum of her attack was so great that only a dark shadow was seen flying backwards the moment after her fist made contact. With a sickening crack it smashed into the hard stonewall on the other side of the room, making cracks appear and dust falling down from the ceiling. There it slumped down and didn't move.

Will started to walk slowly against the creature, the impact was hard but she doubted she had managed to kill it, she had met too many monsters that could take a few good hits and rise again like nothing. She stopped two meters before the creature and studied it for a moment, what should she do? Take it to Kandrakar and ask Yan Lin what to do? Surely, she could tell her how to get rid of it. She quickly decided that option was most likely the best; if nothing else, they could keep it safely locked away for a very long time.

She was going to pull out the heart so she missed the swift movement coming from the demon, and the next thing she knew she was flying without the use of her wings. Will felt herself collide with something, but it wasn't a hard a hard stonewall as she had expected, but something that easily shattered on her impact. As she quickly came to her senses, she understood it was the old wardrobe she had collided with, and now, pieces of planks, junk and old torn clothes lay scattered under her and throughout in the basement. Having withstood worse attack than this, the guardian rose quickly again, but the skinny figure didn't came after her. Instead it just stood there and stared. Then it opened its mouth, revealing two rows of deadly sharp teeth and let out a deafening scream before it seemed to dissolve in a black fog and disappear, leaving her alone in the creepy cellar.

"Why? Where are you going, come back here and fight!" She screamed, not understanding why it would disappear so suddenly.

Will looked around herself to see if it had reappeared, but saw nothing. It was first now that she could see that apart from the crushed wardrobe and its scattered contents, there was nothing else in this room. She took a step forward, prepared to run upstairs to join her parents when she promptly stumbled over an old piece of cloth and fell on her nose.

"Great," Will said to herself as she rose again," I can see the headlines; Guardian of The Infinite Universes Defeated by a Rotten Piece of Clothing!" She was going to ignore it and continue when she saw something laying under it. Will hurried to remove the cloth and broken pieces of wood, pottery and other scrap to see what it could be.

It was a book, not a fancy one and perhaps just a couple of decades old, nothing was written on the cover so Will opened it to have a quick look inside. It was a diary, and from the look of it, it seemed to have belonged to the infamous Mr. Henderson. Being short on time, she decided to take it with her and read it later. Now she had to find her parents and little brother, hoping nothing else had found them first.