Arthur grabbed Vivi's arm and ran right out of the mansion, leaving Lewis behind. Arthur didn't even chance a glance behind, he just pulled Vivi along as he opened the van. Mystery had jumped in first before Arthur pushed Vivi in and it was only then that Arthur looked back at the slightly purple glowing building. As he got behind the wheel his eyes ended up at a window where a living looking Lewis was looking down at them, Arthur started the van and speed off into the night.

It took Arthur a while for his heart beat to get out of his ears, the moment he had he could hear Vivi calling to him. He turned his head to look at her looking out the back window.

'What the heck was that?' She said before turning to glare at Arthur, he recoiled in his spot and turned his gaze back to the road. 'Why did you pull me away?' She demined and held her hand over herself about to hit Arthur, but she lowered it as she decided against it. 'He wanted to communicate with me.' Arthur had his eyes glued to the road in front of him.

'What do you mean why, I was being chased if you hadn't noticed and I don't think he was chasing me for a hug.' Arthur told her. Unless he was going to kill me with a hug. Arthur though grimly. He couldn't help but look at his left robotic arm, he could swear that phantom pains from when it had been torn off was coming back. He rubbed it with his fleshed hand and could fell the start of a panic attack, he concentrated on breathing and Vivi noticed this.

'Arthur? Are you alright?' Vivi asked moving in closer to him. Arthur tried to nod, he tried to speak, anything to answer her, but he couldn't do anything else besides concentrating on his breathing. Once the ghostly pain had stopped had managed to look over at her and nod. Arthur couldn't help but look into the mirrors to see if a nicely dressed skeleton was following, to his relief there was nothing there and he started to breathe easier.

Lewis couldn't believe what had happened, they had been here and that demon would have been such an easy target by himself. He looked down at his locket one last time before closing it and putting it back on his chest.

'You haven't been left off that easy, I will find you and you will pay.' Lewis said spinning away from the window that had started to fade with the rest of the building, Lewis walked down some stairs before the entire building fading into nothing. Lewis turned around to the gapping mouth of the cave that was the scene of his death and where he had seen the demon that pushed him to his death. Arthur. He thought sadly, before it quickly turned to rage. He would get his revenge, no matter the cost. And so he floated after the van, with the image of Arthur's twisted face from that night on his mind.

'Arthur, you should get some sleep.' Vivi said quietly. She had just awoken from a nap, the sun had just made itself known and Arthur had driven through the whole night. He already had bags under his eyes and looked dangerously fatigued. He shook his head and yawned.

'No I am going to drive all the way home.' Arthur said and another yawn came out. Vivi had awoken herself fully and was now glaring at him.

'Arthur if you don't pull over right now…' Vivi started to warn. Arthur glanced at her and sighed, before he turned the wheel and slowed the van down. Vivi jumped out and stretched before walking over to the driver's side, Arthur slowly crawling from his place to the ground and stretching along the way to the other side of the van. He finally made his way to the passenger side and looked down the road he just drove from, it seemed to be darker then what was ahead. His stump had started with the same dull thudding as when he was in hospital, he opened the door with his flesh arm and crawled into the van. He did need his sleep, he wasn't about to argue that with Vivi, but he somehow already knew that it wasn't going to be peaceful. They started to move again and Arthur didn't even last a hundred meters before he nodded off with the end of his stump continued to lightly thud.

'Arthur.' Came Vivi's voice. Arthur moaned and tried to roll away from her, Vivi sighed before the smell of pizza reached Arthur's nose.

'I swear if this is how I have to get you up…' Vivi said sadly before Arthur opened his eyes. Vivi was sitting in the driver seat with a empty box in her lap and she put Arthur's box in front of him, Vivi opened her door and disappeared from sight. Arthur opened the box and pulled it into his lap, he frowned. He wasn't hungry, he turned to Vivi opening the back of the van. Arthur picked up a slice and bit into it, he got halfway through before he couldn't continue. Mystery jumped up onto the driver's seat from the back part of the van.

'Do you feel like helping me?' Arthur said to him, holding up the box. Mystery seemed to glare at him, before he picked up two pieces and ate them happily.

'Don't you look at me like that, I know that you would happily eat some.' Arthur said with a bit of a smile. Mystery looked over his shoulder to look for Vivi, she had left to use the rest room.

'You are meant to be eating it, you can't afford not to.' Mystery said firmly.

'I don't need you to be telling me that, I know.'

'Oh really, what about all thought times you spent full days without food.'

'That was always when I was working.'

'What about after the accident? You could hardly…' Arthur shoved a piece of pizza into Mystery's mouth, just before Vivi walked back to the back of the van. Mystery glared at him, in till he realised that Vivi had been nearby. Mystery nodded his gratitude to Arthur, before he chewed the food in his mouth.

'Man the toilets are disusing here, I think I will just hold it.' Vivi was complaining as she re-entered the van and pushed mystery to the middle seat. She started the van back up and pulled out into the road.

'I could have driven if you had wanted to rest.' Arthur offered. Vivi just shook her head lightly.

'Na, you still look out of it, what ever happened in that mansion really got to you.' Vivi said, her eyes on the road. She didn't see Arthur rub his left wrist in his nervous tick, he and Mystery looked at one another. They needed to talk, but there was no way to do that if Vivi was around. They saw the welcome sign into the town and Arthur released a breath that he hadn't relished that he had held in. Vivi drove to her apartment and grabbed her travel bag from behind her.

'I will see you two later, good luck with that leg Arthur.' Vivi said jumping out, Arthur had no idea what she was talking about for a while before he remembered the half-finished robotic limps that he had sitting at home and the first leg that he was building.

'Uh, thanks. It shouldn't be that hard.' Arthur said before sliding into the driver's seat. Mystery jumped onto Arthur's lap as Vivi gave him a scratch under his chin. She waved to Arthur as she walked into the building.

'What the hell happened in there?' Mystery snapped jumping onto the seat next to Arthur. Arthur looked at the road, his hands went to the steering wheel and drove home.

'Arthur, you need to tell me.' Mystery insisted. Arthur drove on, not looking at Mystery. Once he got home Arthur didn't move from his spot, he was still recovering from the meeting. Mystery moved towards Arthur and started to pull at his shirt. Arthur responded by opening the door and stepped out, Arthur left his things in the van and followed Mystery to his front door. He turned around to look into the distance, the morning was there as the sun rays showed themselves. Arthur only sighed as he opened the door and walked in with Mystery, who stayed close by to Arthur as he made his way to his bedroom. Arthur didn't go to his bed, instead he went to the table that had been added to his room. On it was tools, oil for his arm and also his own personal parts for his arm. He walked over to the table and sat down on the chair that was next to the table. Arthur decided it was time for him to clean and re-oil his arm. Mystery could only watch as he did that, Arthur took of his arm off with a hiss and started to take it apart.

Lewis had made it to his old town, the place looked exactly like it had a little over year ago. He floated around, but he soon realised that the sun was starting to come up and there was nowhere for the ghost to hide, he made his way to Vivi's apartment. Lewis was happy to find that she still lived were he remembered, he found her already asleep in her bed in her day clothes. Lewis' eyes smiled (as he had no mouth to do it with), it was the first time he had seen properly her since the cave and was as dorky and adorable as he remembered. Lewis looked around the room, there were plenty of photos round the room. He could remember there being photos of him around the room, but where they should be was nothing but empty spaces. Exactly as he had wanted it to be. There was a new photo that caught his eye however, one on her bedside table, it was a resent photo of her and Arthur. It showed nothing but there smiling faces in the photo. Lewis was instantly enraged as he remembered why he was in the town, but he wouldn't let his rage take him over in the presents of Vivi. Lewis left her, in search of a new hiding place.

When Mystery awoke from his nap he was disappointed by the fact that Arthur was still awake, he looked over at the digital clock that sat on Arthur's bedside table. It read two thirdly in the afternoon.

'Arthur are you still awake?' Mystery asked. Arthur already had his robotic arm back on and he was fiddling with some pile of mechanical pieces on the table. 'Arthur?' Mystery asked as he jumped off the bed, he walked to Arthur's feet. Mystery's eyes narrowed when he saw the bags under Arthur's eyes. 'Arthur!' Mystery yelled and Arthur finally looked down. He was tired, his movements were slow and he didn't look like he could concentrate. 'Arthur you are going to bed and I don't care about what sort of excuse you have.' Arthur looked like he was about to say something, but quickly shut up. After a while Arthur headed to his bed, but he didn't fall asleep. He was still fighting it not wanting to hear what the demon had to say and he knew it had something to say, he had a feeling. Mystery growled at him and then looked at his arm. Arthur understood that he was meant to take off his arm and go to bed, he could do one of those for now. Arthur took off his arm, the quick pain made him wake up a little and placing it on his bedside table. As much as Arthur tried to fight sleep he eventually fell into a slumber.

'You took your time.' The demon said with a smile. He was still in his room, which concerned Arthur, he knew it was a dream because his room was glowing green.

'No, don't be so worried. I just wanted to warn you.' Arthur became curious at this and he spoke his first words to the demon in a little under a year.

'Warn me? About what?' He asked. The demon laughed, it was a cruel laugh and Arthur was afraid of what he would say.

'To warn you about a certain ghost that is coming after you.' The demon said, enjoying Arthur's panic.

'Who?' Arthur barely managed to whispered, he needed to hear the answer but at the same time he wanted to go and hide. The demon was smiling, Arthur could feel it.

'Lewis.'

*Note

Here it is the first chapter of the second part of After the Cave, hope you enjoy.