Saint Elizabeth's Public Library, After Midnight
"No, no, no, n and o, NO!" Ophelia kept repeating while following Charles and Gaston, that were walking for the library looking for a seclude place.
"Listen I know dat this may be a little strange to you." Charles tried to explain.
"You think!"
"Considering dat probably all you know of ghost comes from old books and de internet."
"…Maybe."
"But sometimes ghost can help people, under certain conditions… and if you have something dat dey want." He finished.
"But after all the risk that we take, you just want to let her go just like that!? What if she just runs away without talking with us!?" Ophelia argued.
"Ah that's when I can come at handy Miss Ophelia, with this!" Gaston answered while bringing a flute out of his long coat.
"Ok first, just call me Ophelia, and two, if you could calm her with your 'magic music' why didn't you do it from the beginning?" The young scientific asked, still irritated.
Gaston smiled a little, "Very well Ophelia! And about your question is pretty simple, I couldn't! You see, she was quite strong at first, but after you shoot her with your weird weapon-"
"The AE-Pack."
"-Her energy drop a lot! Now I can use a gently song to calm her down, if we're lucky she would cooperate with us."
Ophelia wasn't completely convinced, but decide to concede the point, they have means to calm the ghost, still…
"Ok, ok, but we're just going to do that in the open? The demon Smalls would probably choice when we're distracted to attack!" She said, trying to find any excuse that would avoid releasing the ghost.
Charles decide that moment to stop, making the other two stop too, the group were in one of the corners of the library, then he turned around to face his new allies with a smug smile and then began to talk, "I will take care of dat cher, Or I should say, my friends will take care of dat, now, everybody please don't move no matter what you see, my friends really like when I put a good shown so I tend to be a little… dramatic, you could say."
"Why I think that that isn't really a problem for you?" Ophelia whispered.
Charles then proceeds to open his leather bag and began to look for something inside, "Let's see, two bones of cats, three of moles aaaaaand one of a owl! Perfect, now, prepare to be amaze!" He said while crushing all the bones that he took between his hands.
Ophelia raised her eyebrow wondering how Charles could distinguish between all the same looking bones, Gaston on the other looked in wonder while the bones transformed into dust, which then began to circle around the three of them until they couldn't see anything more than a grey dome.
"My friends! We need a hand, for a demon have us in his sight! We need a shadow! We need to hide! We need a place impossible to find!" When Charles finished talking the dust began to become darker and darker until it was completely black.
"Ok that should work a few minutes." The young man said with a smirk.
Gaston clapped with a big smile in his face, "Incredible, amazing Charles, you're quite the talented sorcerer my friend!"
"Heh thanks, though I prefer de term Witch Doctor, I mean, here are some differences but is de closes thing."
Ophelia just stared with an open jaw, "…WHAT!"
"Before you ask why I didn't asked my friends to help me with de ghost, besides asking for this beautiful mask, de answers is quite simple, dey don't like deir 'friends' to be lazy bums, ask for something to look for a ghost? Help hiding a moment while tinking of a plan? No problem, ask for de ghost to be captured? Not happening." Charles hastily explained, expecting the question.
Ophelia just kept staring for a few seconds more before taking a big breath, "Ok, you now what? I give up, my brain can't deal with this right now, so I will just watch and ask question in the end, do you want to talk to the ghost that throw us around like if the library were a giant pinball machine? Be my guess!"
She finally said while throwing the ghost cube in the air –shocking both Gaston and Charles-, the cube promptly opened, releasing a very confused ghost that began to look around trying to understand where she was.
Before the ghost could say anything –or yell anything- Gaston began to play a very soothing song with his flute, filling the inside of the black dome with a relaxing environment.
The panicking ghost was visibly beginning to calm down, her hair red like fire become a few shades more dark, and her eyes –before completely white- were normal looking with a blue color.
"Whe… where I am?" Was the first thing that the ghost said.
Charles took a step forward preparing to explain the situation to the death lady –Gaston was busy playing and Ophelia need a few moments to collect herself, so the responsibility was on his shoulders- "Humm Hello dere cher, I'm Charles and dese are my friends Gaston and Ophelia, we're in a library right now, do you remember how you came here?" He said in a calm voice.
The ghost visibly flinched, like if she hadn't notice that here were other people with her, "Ah… um… I see… this doesn't look like any library that had seems before though." She answered in a very low voice, "Oh! My name is… Faith?... That can't be right, but, I'm sure that's my…"The ghost just kept murmuring to herself after that.
Charles didn't know what to do, in one hand the ghost was talking to him without destroying his eardrums, in the other it seems that she was too confuse too say anything useful, he looked at his friends asking for help with his eyes, but they just shrugged, he just rolled his eyes.
"Listen… Faith, my friends and I need a little help, here's a… monster out here dat want to hurt us, do you know anything about it? Any information could be useful, really."
Faith stops murmuring and stared at Charles direction for a moment before answering, "Yeah… A black monster, I remember, but… You need to do something for my first." She said without blinking.
Charles could help but to sigh, "Of course, what do you need?"
"I want you to find my body."