'Sis.' They cheered together as they hugged her, she never left her gaze from the four of them.
'I told you two to stay in the room that I had left you in, it took me forever to find the two of you.' She said and finally looked at them as they released her from there hold.
'We are sorry, but we got bored.' On of them said.
'And we are still hungry.' The other one stated, their sister froze, but recovered quickly.
'Those boys found me in the kitchen and I got worried about the two of you, so I had to leave your food behind.' She said smoothly, blaming Lewis and Arthur. The twins gave the two boys a quick glare before looking back at there sister.
'Its alright sis, we know you love us.' One of them said as he started to hang off his brother.
'Any way, you two should go do some reading. You know mother want you two to read some more.' The girl said nudging them to the entrance of the room, the twins only huffed before floating out of the room. Once they left, the girls eyes darkened. Then she left herself float and she sat cross legged in the air.
'What do you want?' She asked, Vivi stepped towards her.
'My name is Vivi, what is your name?' Vivi asked and the girl only sighed before answering.
'Zoey, Zoey Jean.' She said, sticking down her hand to Vivi in greeting. Vivi took her hand and shook.
'Why are you haunting this place?' Vivi asked once they where done.
'I am not.' Zoey said simply. 'I am simply sticking around for my brothers, I can not leave them. I am very much aware that I have died, but they have not.'
'Haven't you told them?' Lewis asked sounding a little mad.
'I have tried.' Zoey snapped at him. 'They are only little kids and the thought of dead frightens them, how am I meant to tell them that they died.' She said to Lewis.
'Well how did you die then?' Vivi asked and then added. 'If you don't mind me asking that is.'
'No I will tell you. I am sure that there was a gas leak, it smelt odd in here, but we couldn't leave.' Zoey said and looked to the ground.
'Why not?'
'Someone came to the house and my mother told us to hide down here, she even locked us in so that the stranger wouldn't be able to find the door. Surprisingly it happened more times then I could tell you.'
'Wait so your mother thought that it was a good idea to lock you guys underground.' Arthur piped in.
'Yes, how could she have known that there was going to be a gas leak while we where down here. It was a peaceful death, I mean we fell asleep and awoke dead.' She said with a shrug.
'And you don't mind that you died?' Lewis asked and Zoey turned to him.
'It happened, I can't change anything now. Who would I be mad at and why? The only person I could think of would be the person that kept coming and pestering my parents, but I don't know who they where.' She answered. 'Its my brothers that I worry about, they didn't really know what had been happening. They would think that it was my mother, who locked us in.' She sighed, even if she didn't breath any more. 'How do I get them to move on?' Zoey asked.
'You where making them a sandwich, correct?' Mystery asked, Zoey nodded in response. 'That is a good idea, but what did happen when they ate it?'
'They eat it and they complain that they are still hungry. They don't even question it.'
'Why are children so difficult.' Mystery mumbled. 'They are convinced that they are alive and so they won't lose there living appearance.'
'I think this this is a first for us.' Vivi stated as she pulled out a small note pad and started to write.
'Well if this is your first time, then I guess that you have no idea how to tell them. I know I am not going to do it.' Zoey said as she stood up and floated down to stand up right. 'I am going to go help my brothers.' She stated as she walked towards the room entrance, blinking her eyes but to white.
'How on before you go, can I ask you something.' Lewis asked and she turned at the doorway. She was waiting for Lewis to continue and Lewis took her silence as a sign to continue. 'How do you do it?' Zoey frowned and before she could ask, Lewis gave more information. 'How do you make your eyes keep the white from being alive?' Zoey only smiled sadly before answering.
'I am sorry, I do not know. I hope you learn, just so you don't have to worry about wearing those glasses.' She said before leaving.
'Come on you three, I think we are finished for the night.' Vivi said before heading for the exit as well, followed by the other three. They left the house as quietly as they could, it wasn't in till they got to the van that any one spoke.
'That was the most relaxed job that we have ever done.' Arthur said happily. Vivi frowned as he opened the back of the van.
'The job isn't finished yet, we have to get those kids to move on and then the job is done.' Vivi reminded him. Arthur groaned as he jumped in and climbed over the seat before pulling the blanket that he had left there over his head, they wasted no time to get ready for bed. Arthur pulled a thin metal rode from the glove box and disconnected his arm, then placing it onto the ground. Vivi cocuned herself in blankets, with Mystery right next to her, as Lewis sat him himself against the van wall with a book.
'Good night boys.' Vivi muttered with a smile, all three of them replied back with a "good night".
There was knocking on the back van door that pulled Lewis out of his version of sleep, he was thankful for the blinds on the back windows. As who ever it was knocking would have seen a well dressed skeleton inside and Lewis didn't even want to think about how some one normal would react to him. Lewis made himself look as he did before he died and picked up his glasses from the floor next to him, he checked to see if Vivi was still sound asleep. She was, so was Arthur, even if Lewis couldn't see him. Lewis cracked open the door and looked out to see who was knocking, he didn't even flick when the sun hit him. Lucy was standing outside and stepped back when Lewis stepped out.
'Good morning, I hope that I didn't wake you.' She said quietly, as Lewis closed the door behind him.
'No you didn't wake me, but my friends will try to sleep as much as they can.' Lewis answered with a smile.
'Any way I came by to ask you if your group would like come breakfast, we have some food that we are willing to give away.' Lucy offered.
'Thank you, but we have every thing that we need.' Lewis calmly declined.
'Well if you change your mind then just come and find me.' Lucy informed. 'Also, what is happening with the ghost problem. My mother asked me to ask, she would like it to be finish as fast as possible'
'Well we made contact with them, we just need to get them to move on.' Lewis said simply, not willing to give any more information.
'Alright, what are you going to do for the rest of the day? What do ghost hunters do when they are not chasing after ghosts.' Lucy asked, looking over at her house.
'Well be will most likely just hang out in town as we decide on what we are going to do tonight.'
'Alright then, have fun with that I suppose.' Lucy said before walking back to her house. 'Oh and if you need to talk to my mother, she said that she would like for you to call her beforehand.' Lucy called out as she left. Lewis watched as she left before entering the van, he found that Arthur was already awake, but calling it awake was stretching it, he was sitting up right but not fully awake. Vivi had rolled over from her original position, but was still very much asleep. Mystery opened his eyes as Lewis settled back down where he had been before.
'Did the daughter visit?' Mystery asked. Lewis looked over at Mystery before nodding.
'Do we tell them about why they are still around? I mean don't they have the right to know?' Lewis asked.
'What for? Nether one of them seemed to care much about it, so why bother.'
'I suppose we should just get this job done as quickly as possible.' Lewis said picking up his book. 'How are we going to get the boys to move on?' He asked.
'Can't you show them.' Arthur mumbled from his spot, the other two that where awake turned to him.
'I was actually going to suggest that.' Mystery said from his spot. Lewis put down his book again before frowning.
'How am I meant to show them that they are dead?' Lewis asked.
'Well you don't have to do all the work, I am going to try to help you to help them.'
'How so?'
'Well it may be a little cruel but, I was going to us some magic to show them there ghostly appearance. They would have the eyes at least, I just hope that they are going to accept it.'
'I have always wondered about that. Why is it that I can change my look in such a way that I ended up as a skeleton?' Lewis asked.
'The simplest answer would be that you are a powerful spirit with a strong will, proof of that would be your fire. Not many spirits have the ability to make objects float, let alone make there energy into flame.'
'I can't make things float.'
'You made suits of armour move, that is close enough.' Mystery paused. 'Did you ever try?'
'Well no. If I needed something moved, I got one of the deadbeats to move it for me.' Lewis said and Mystery cocked his head to the side in confusion. 'I named the little pink spirits in my house that.' Lewis explained.
'That's another thing, strong spirits attract smaller weaker ghosts to them.'
'You don't have any spirits following you.'
'That is true, but that's because I don't want any to.' Mystery said with a smile. 'Just as you don't want any to follow you right now.'
'If it is before eleven, I well beat the hell out of the two of you.' Vivi grunted from her spot under the blankets, both of them froze up as she turned on her phone from where it sat next to her. Even before she opened her eyes to look at the time, Lewis fazed through the floor of the van leaving Mystery to fend for himself. Lewis heard him scratching at the back door before he pulled the door handle down to make his escape. Arthur was holding his mouth closed from his spot as a pillow was thrown out the door after Mystery.
'And stay out there to talk.' Vivi called out before rolling over.
