Chapter 29

Neox growled as he looked the game screen. "The freaking spawns in this game! I swear to hearts, this infuriating!" he growled, as he died yet again in his newest downloaded game.

Calixa, who was lying on his bed writing in her diary, didn't reply. "What is he playing anyway?" Xion asked Roxas.

"It's called Perfect Dark. Marluxia lent him his Xbox 360 for the week, since Neox helped him with his garden," Roxas replied.

"I wish I had an Xbox," Calixa commented from the bed.

"Me too, then I wouldn't be stuck playing Marluxia's lousy downloaded games," Neox said, growling in anger as he got shot again.

The red head shut her diary with a snap, and announced, "I'm bored." Everyone in the room tried their very best to ignore her. Calixa stuck her diary into the safety of her organization pocket and stood up. "Hellooooo! Did anyone here me?"

Roxas and Xion answered with a "NO!" each, while Neox simply remained quiet. The younger girl growled. How she hated when they did this. "Fine, I'll just go and find the best prank to prank you all with."

"NO!" all of them said at once. "Ok, ok! We'll do something!"

"YAY!"

"What do you have in mind?" Neox asked, still playing the game.

"Why don't we play truth or dare, no promise spell this time."

Xion looked a bit worried and Neox glared at Calixa. Roxas shrugged. "Sure"

"Ok I'll start, Roxas truth or dare?"

"Truth," he said immediately.

"Ok what were you really doing on that mission to Wonderland yesterday?" Calixa asked smirking knowingly.

Roxas blushed deeply and poked his fingers together. "I... I was distracted..." he replied blushing fore madly.

"Distracted by what?"

"... Well I saw that Alice girl… taking a bath in the river..." the blond said shamefully.

They all stared, and Xion glared at him. "Oh really..." she asked in a low deadly tone.

"N-now now Xion... Let's not do anything hasty..." Roxas said nervously, backing away.

"How much did you see?" Calixa asked, smiling as Xion turned beet red with murder in her eyes.

"... ONE question only!" Roxas said to her, trying to save himself. "Neox, truth or dare!"

"Dare!" Neox replied bravely.

"I dare you to hit Calixa!"

Neox looked shocked, and looked at Calixa who was giving him a look that said, 'I dare you to try it...' Neox smirked and tackled his best friend, but Calixa being bigger, and managed to pin him down before he could followed though with the dare. "G-get off!" Neox said, struggling.

"You think I was just going to allow you to hit me?"

"No! Now get off!"

"Why should I?"

"What else would you do?"

"Fine, but I'll do this first," she grabbed his underwear and pulled hard.

Neox yelped loudly and struggled harder, "OW! Ow, ow, ow! Ok, ok! G-get off! I give!" he pleaded.

Calixa let go on his underpants, "Better get some ice on that," she said getting off of him.

Neox undid the wedgie, and groaned in pain. Then he hit Calixa in the back of the head, and jumped back. "There! Dare done! Truth or Dare Roxas?"

Calixa gave him a look that said 'you'll regret that later' as Roxas said, "I already went!"

"Well you're going again! Now truth or dare?"

"Fine, dare!" Roxas replied not wanting to be asked more about his incident in wonderland.

"I dare you to spend the night in Twilight Towns haunted mansion."

Roxas looked at her. "... Fine. I'm not scared!" he said proudly, "Xion, truth or dare?"

"Um..." Xion said unsure of what to pick. "Finally she decided to do something she's never done before. "Dare..." she had never picked dare on the first turn before.

"I dare you to spend the night with me in the mansion!"

"W-What!" she asked not expected that dare.

"It's a dare! You gotta!"

"O-Ok," she replied. "Um Calixa truth or dare?"

"Truth," Calixa replied knowing where this was going.

"Awww... ok. Hmm..." she thought for a second. "Do you enjoy torturing Neox?"

"I do," She stared at Neox smirking evilly. "Neox truth or dare."

"Sadist!" Neox growled. "Dare."

"I dare you to spend the night in the mansion with Roxas and Xion."

"Okay. I dare you to do the same."

"Hey! You never asked truth or dare!"

"You were going to pick dare anyway, knowing you." he told her. "You would never miss out on this. Am I right?"

"Heck yes," Calixa grinned. "I'll need to be there, to make sure you babies don't wet yourselves."

"Hehe... so tonight then?" Xion asked

"Of course," Neox replied. "Do you think we should ask Xero if he wants to come?"

"Nah, he's got a two day mission." Roxas told them.

The rest nodded, and everyone got up to go and pack. Later that night Roxas teleported into the kitchen, and to find that Neox and Xion were already there, "Where's Cali?" He asked.

"Packing still," Neox said, lying on the table.

"Oh yeah, probably packing tons of perfume and junk she puts on herself."

"It's actually body spray not perfume," Xion corrected.

"Whatever," Roxas and Neox said in unison.

After twenty minutes, Calixa came though a portal with two a large bag and a smaller bag. "Of course..." Neox rolled his eyes. "Lets go," he opened a portal to twilight town.

The mansion looked extremely creepy from the outside at night. Xion gulped a bit as they walked up to the front door. "Do you think it's unlocked?" Xion asked shaking with fear.

"Yes, Xion. And so what if it is? We've got three keyblade wielders here!" Neox said smugly.

"Oh yeah..." she blushed.

He walked up and shoved the door in, it creaking eerily as it went into the house. It was very dark inside. The only light that showed was the eerie moonlight that shown though the windows. Neox paid no mind to this and walked right in. The others were a bit hesitant, "Come you bunch of wimps," Neox told them.

Xion took a step forward, then stopped. "G-gentlemen first, Roxas," she said, nervously smiling at him.

"No its ladies first," Roxas replied stepping back and motion for them to go.

Calixa rolled her eyes and walked in. Neox smirked at her when she came in, followed by Xion and Roxas. "Oh, Cali. Its reeeeeeeally dusty in here. Will you be ok?"

"Not to worry I came prepared," she said and zipped open her larger bag which consisted of all her cosmetic stuff, and pulled out a dust blower.

"... You know there isn't a shower here right?" Roxas reminded her.

At this, Calixa gulped. "Well I can just shower in the morning when we go back…"

"But think of the dirt, the germs and all that horrible dust," Neox said smirking.

Calixa was now shivering; she was staring off into space as if lost in her own thoughts. "DIRTBUNNY!" Neox shouted.

Calixa then crumbled to the floor cowering and screaming. Neox laughed while Calixa suddenly realized that it was a cruel joke on her. She glared at him, "You'll pay dearly for that."

Neox gulped, they all set their stuff up, arranging it in a square. Roxas put up a large lantern and lit it in the middle of them. Calixa no longer had the air of bravery. She was sitting on a blanket curled up as if something was about to jump out at her. Neox would have played at this, but didn't want her wrath to be any worse. "So, what do we do? Tell scary stories?" Xion asked.

"We could," Roxas said. "Just make sure we don't tell any stories about dirt, we don't want to traumatize Calixa."

"Shut your hole," Calixa hissed at him. All of a sudden, a loud crash was heard, and then Neox jumped, clinging to the red head.

"What was that?" Neox asked terrified.

"S-sounded like it was coming from the library," Xion said shakily

"G-Go check Roxas," Calixa said.

"If I go, we're all going," the blonde replied dryly.

"Fine," Neox mumbled standing.

"All right," Calixa said, getting up but kneading her blanket wrapped around her.

They all headed toward the library. Roxas opened the door and walked inside with everyone following close behind. They all looked around for anything that could have made a noise, but they saw nothing. "What could it have been?" Xion asked shakily.

"I dunno... but its not here now. Let's go." Roxas said, as they turned to walk out.

THUD!

A loud sound came from the bookshelf, it sounded exactly like the other sound. Neox squealed loudly, clinging to Calixa like she was his lifeline. Calixa gasped loudly, as all the breath was taken from her lungs. "Let me go!" she gasped.

Neox just whined and held her tighter. "Relax," Roxas announced pointing to the book that was lying next to the shelf. "It was just a book."

"But that's the EXACT sound that we heard that got us in here…" Xion said to him.

They all looked at the book shelf, there was only one book lying on the ground. If it was caused by the same thing then two books would be in the ground. Neox gulped and let go of Calixa, "Damn, that was scary."

"Yeah, lets get back to the lantern," Xion suggested wisely.

Neox blinked. "Hey, its dark," he said, noticing the glow of the lantern glow was no longer present.

"Who turned the lantern off?" Neox asked.

"I didn't," Calixa said defensively.

"Let's just get the lantern and relight it," Roxas suggested.

"Follow me," Neox said, walking toward the now unlit lantern.

They all followed him. Neox picked up the lantern, "Too bad Axel isn't here," Roxas said after a moment of silence. "Anybody got a match?"

"No."

"Nope"

"I didn't even think we'd have a lantern."

"Then how did the lantern get lit the first time?" Calixa asked.

"I had one match with me," Roxas said.

"Oh."

"Well... I can make a ball of light. If we had a mirror we could relight it."

Everyone suddenly felt really stupid. Roxas and Xion were with them, they didn't need a lantern at all. "You only just remind us that you can create light?" Neox asked glaring.

"Uh... yes?"

"Just get a light for us."

Xion held her hand up, a ball of light appearing in it and illuminating the room. Everyone relaxed with relief that is until they noticed an extra shadow among them, which made them all screamed. Neox jumped at Calixa and latched to her, while Roxas and Xion backed away. Then they saw that it was the shadow was only a coat rack with a hat on it. Neox laughed at there stupidity, "You bunch of dummies!" he chuckled.

"Maybe we should just go to bed, get this night over with," Xion suggested.

"Yeah..." Neox agreed.

They all unrolled there sleeping bags, and laid down. Calixa who brought a plastic tarp had her sleeping bag on plastic. Roxas would have been able to sleep, but the constant tossing and turning of everyone else was keeping him up. The hours ticked by, but none could sleep. "What is WRONG with you all?" Roxas asked finally not being able to stand it anymore.

"I... I can't sleep when I'm not in my night clothes..." Neox said, blushing.

"Me either," Xion said.

"And there's too much dust in the air..." Calixa added. "It's... its eating me alive..."

They all rolled their eyes at that. "Well, we could all just go back to the castle. If we all go back then we all forfeit the dare," Roxas suggested.

"I never give up!" All thee of them roared at him

"Then stop rolling around, and go to sleep!"

"But I can't sleep in my normal clothes," Neox said.

"Then go back to the castle."

"But I don't want to give up."

"I don't care, either shut and keep still, or leave!"

"You can't make me!" Neox challenged.

Roxas finally gave up and put his pillow over his bed. At around three in the morning, Neox groaned and got up, not being able t sleep. Everyone else had managed to dose off. The boy sighed and took his jacket off, followed by his shirt. He shivered slightly as the cool air hit his bare skin, and then he slowly took off his pants, intending to just change into his night clothes.

He looked over at Xion who stirred and held his breath. She just rolled over, and continued sleeping. Neox continued to change, "What the?" Calixa yelped.

Neox jumped out of his skin not expected to hear the noise. This woke up Roxas and Xion, who stared at him. Neox stood there staring like a deer in the headlights, shirtless. He had at least made it into his pants before they all awoke. "Neox, What are you doing?" Calixa asked slowly.

"Um... changing into my night close."

"... You sure that's all? Roxas asked.

"What else would I be doing?" Neox asked innocently.

Xion nudged Roxas's shoulder, "Shhh... he's a kid!" she scolded him in a whisper.

"Oh... sorry," the blonde replied stupidly.

Neox watched, then shrugged and put his night shirt on. "Let's all go back to bed now," Calixa said, lying back down.

They all did, but about thirty minutes later, Xion was standing up. Roxas who hadn't fallen asleep yet, looked at her and sighed. "What now?"

Xion blushed and looked at him, no shirt or pants on and her night clothes in her hand. "I'm just changing into my night clothes, don't look."

Roxas quickly covered his eyes blushing madly. Xion finished changing her clothes, and then laid back down. By now everyone was awake again. Neox rubbed his eyes sleepily, "Dang now I'm never going to be able to get back to slee-" he suddenly broke off looking alarmed. "Did you hear that?"

"Hear what?" Calixa asked.

"That clopping noise that came from above us," Neox said. then the noise came again.

Clopping?" Roxas asked.

"I hear it," Calixa whispered. "It sounds like woman's heels."

"Woman heels... That doesn't sound good."

"You know, I once heard a story about this mansion," Roxas said. "There was once a woman named Lady Gabriele lived with her husband in this mansion. One day her husband became ill and as he felt death upon him. He told her that when crossed over he'd make a deal with God to come back for her, as long as she waited for him. After he passed away, she spent years waiting for him to come back to her. But he never came. Finally she got to the point where she couldn't wait any longer and jumped off the roof so she could be with him again. They say that she still haunts the upstairs, waiting for her lover to return."

Calixa pat Neox's head, since he was now clinging to her, afraid of Roxas's story, though Calixa was pretty scared herself. They suddenly heard the noise again, making them all jump. Calixa trying not to show that she was afraid said. "Let's go upstairs and check."

"A-a-are you sure, Calixa?" Neox asked.

"Yeah, come. Haven't you ever wanted to see a ghost?"

"No..."

"Too scared?" Calixa smirked at him, trying hard to hide her own fear.

"N-no way! I'm not scared of anything!"

"Then lets go!" Both stood up.

They all walked up the stairs and looked around. "Do you see anything?" Xion asked hiding behind Roxas looking like she was trying not to wet her pants.

"No.. Not yet..." the blonde said, shining a ball of light around.

"Turn that off Roxas, you think she's going to show herself with light around. Ghosts like the dark."

"Oh, right," Roxas said, then shut off the light.

They continued looking around, and when they found nothing and no one they decided to go back and try to sleep the rest of the night. Then, they heard the noises again. Clop, clop, clop. It definitely sounded like woman's heels. "ITS THE GHOST!" Neox cried out.

The footsteps sounded like they were coming down the stares, "Its Lady Gabriele!" Calixa screamed cowering pathetically.

"It's coming closer!" Xion said, tears streaming down her face.

"There ye are," a Scottish voice said. "I been lookin everywhere fur ye."

"What..." Neox began.

"The..." Calixa continued.

"Hell!" Xion roared.

"Bàli what are you doing here?" Roxas asked, more kindly then the other three.

"Zexion tol I ta come an look for ye all." she replied, ignoring the other three.

"What for?" Neox roared.

"'E was as worried as a motha 'en about 'at one dare." she said, pointing to Neox. The boy blushed. "Come on, I'm nae alowed to com bak without ye."

Not wanted to have her stay with them the rest of the night was there excuse for breaking the dare and everyone following the blonde girl though a portal back to the castle.

Here's chapter 29. Wow almost at 30 chapters ^^