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Latts, Dengar, and Ahsoka walked around the 'haunted' hotel. To give it credit, it was pretty darn creepy. There were flickering lights, creaky floor boards, slight cold breezes that gave you chills. This place had it all.
"You know, this place could rival our last bounty." Latts whispered.
"Why are you whispering?" Dengar asked.
"Look." She said stopping. "We don't even know what this thing is. It could be in any room or around any corner. Doesn't that even slightly freak you out?"
"Nah. I've seen creepier." He smirked.
"Yeah, what?" Latts asked.
"A-hem!" Ahsoka coughed. "Shouldn't we be looking for 'it'?"
"Yeah. Come on, let's go." Dengar said as he started walking again.
They turned a corner and saw a hall that had a single door at the end. The door was slightly ajar. There was no light coming through it.
"OK, that is creepy. I feel like I'm in some horror Holofilm about to die once I walk through that door." Dengar joked.
"Please don't say anything like that." Latts winced.
They all walked up to the door. They examined it before they even touched it, making sure there was no traps or anything. Latts felt a tapping on her left shoulder.
She looked over and nothing was there. She smirked, immediately knowing what it was. She turned to her right to look at Dengar.
"What?" He asked.
"You just tapped me on the shoulder." Latts accused, smirking.
"No I didn't." He stated. He had a pokerface on.
"Ha! I've seen that trick so many times. You're just trying to freak me out." Latts explained.
"No. I. Didn't." Dengar stated, prodding her with each word.
"OK, let's go in." Ahsoka said, now finished examining the door.
They opened the door, letting the light from the hallway in. The room was still really dark. Dengar looked around and found a light switch next to the door. He turned it on and they saw-
"A bunch of ropes?" Latts asked, cocking an eyebrow.
"That's not weird at all." Dengar stated, going to touch one.
"Don't!" Ahsoka yelled grabbing his outstretched arm.
"What?"
"Look." She pointed to the ceiling. All the ropes were strung up into the ceiling tiles crating small cracks. Crawling from those cracks, were bugs.
"Gross!" Latts stated, almost gagging.
"Thank you." Dengar said to Ahsoka.
"Don't mention it."
Meanwhile, Sugi, Embo, and Ventress were also searching for the bounty. They walked down a set of ornate stairs. At the bottom was a set of large, lavishly decorated doors. They opened them and walked in.
"This must've been the ballroom." Ventress stated.
The room had a huge dance floor, tables at the side of the room, and a stage that was once for the band. The only weird thing was there were statues of many different people on the dance floor, posed looking like time had frozen while they were all dancing.
"This is weird." Embo stated. Marrok let out a small whine.
"'It' obviously had an obsession." Sugi joked.
They made their way across the dance floor, taking care not to touch any of the statues. Once on the other side of the room, they came to another door. Walking through it, they came out into a hallway. Up ahead, they saw something go around the corner. It moved so quickly, they didn't have time to see what it was.
"Did you see that?" Sugi asked, eyes wide.
"You bet I did." Ventress stated.
"Let's follow it, quickly." Embo said, running after it with Marrok. Sugi and Ventress ran after him.
Once back out in the hall, they tried to decide where they would go next.
"So remember when we took that right and came to here?" Latts asked.
"Yeah." Ahsoka said.
"We should go back there and take the left." Latts finished.
"Why?" Dengar asked.
"What do you mean 'why'?" She asked, crossing her arms.
"Well, we could go back through the bug-rope room. I saw a door on the other side." He suggested.
"Um, you can traverse that by yourself but I am not doing that!" Latts stated.
"Scaredy cat." He teased.
"Oh yeah? Well, I don't know about you, but I don't want to accidentally hit a rope, have a ceiling tile fall, be covered in bugs that could perhaps be carnivorous, and get eaten alive!" She defended.
AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
"What the heck?" Ahsoka exclaimed.
"It sounded like a bloodcurdling scream." Dengar observed.
"Maybe the others are in trouble!" Latts said, biting her lip.
"They would have use the comm." Dengar argued.
"Yeah but they're in trouble and I'm not gonna wait of them to call and say, 'Hi um, Ventress just died, er, where were you guys?'" Latts stated, running off in the direction of the shriek.
Ahsoka and Dengar ran after her. After several minutes of running, searching, and panting they heard their friends voices from a room up ahead.
"Let's hope we got here in time." Ahsoka said.
What will they see when the walk in the room! One of their friends dead? Find out next chapter!
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