Forward: I can't save everyone that you ppl want me to save and still keep to my basic storyline. I can save Quatre (only for you, L, my friend), but that's it. Everyone but him, Heero, Releena (as tempting as it is to kill her...) and Catherine are going to die. I would ruin the story if half the characters survive (in my opinion anyway).That's how it's been planned since this summer. Planed. I actually talked to my friends and we came up with ways for all the characters to die. Sorry. Please, don't kill me. Please? *big, watery anime eyes* Please? I have a life ahead of me! Also, I don't own anything in this fic so don't sue me, or kill me. ^^ Please? Really, I don't take death threats that well. (I go all spazzy, not a pretty sight...^^;;;)
The Night on Haunted Hill
Part 2
"Oh gods! Oh gods!! Oh, GODS!!!!!!" Duo screamed, bounding down the narrow hallway. The grinding sound of the chainsaw right behind him, and gaining. They twisted back and forth down one hallway after the other, not entirely sure where they were going and at that moment, not caring. At the end of one of the stone hallways, they saw light. They burst thorough the small door all at once and found themselves in the skeleton filled room they had been exploring earlier.
"How did we get here?" Treize asked, "I thought you said there wasn't another way out."
"Well, I don't know." Duo said. He once again heard the buzzing chainsaw behind him, "And right now I don't care!! Let's go!!" he shouted, pushing his two companions up the steps and through the door, back into the house. He slammed the door behind him, the noise echoing throughout the chamber.
"Duo? Guys? Was that you?" Dorothy asked, stepping into the main display room. She glanced around, wondering why she had heard voices screaming before. And what was that buzzing? It was somewhat annoying. It grew steadily louder, "Duo? Is that you?" she asked, peeking down the hallway where the sound was originating from.
The next thing she knew she was staring at the insane doctor. He laughed eerily, saliva dripping from the edges of his mouth, as he raised the chainsaw in the blonde's direction menacingly. The camera, still on, was vibrating in Dorothy's quivering hands as she let out a blood curdling scream, which was abruptly silenced. The high-pitched scream rang loud and clear down the hall.
"What was _that_?" Sally asked, turning and looking back at the door their small group had just run through.
"I'm not sure. It sounded like someone's down there." Treize said.
"Was down there." Duo corrected, "We'll check later. Right now, I want to get away from there."
He lead the two down the hall, back to the main room where they had left everyone. Halfway down the dimly lit passage they came upon a door that they didn't recognize.
"Hey." Duo gasped, "Taking note of their location. This was that door we couldn't find before. The one I told Quatre to go in since he wanted to call out."
"Are you sure?" Sally asked, "You looked everywhere for it before. Are you sure it isn't just some other door you overlooked?"
"I don't think so.....I mean-" Duo was cut off when a crashing noise sounded from down the hall. All three heads turned and saw the door to the basement splintered off it's hinges and the psychotic doctor who had been pursuing them earlier standing there, crazy as ever. Blood dripped down from his humming chain saw and even Duo, the God of Death, found himself shrinking back in disgust.
"Look who's back." Sally said, no humor whatsoever in her voice.
"I suggest we run again." Treize said.
"Heh heh Heh!!!" the doctor chose that time to make his move. With inhuman like speed he barreled towards them, waving the saw right and left. The three just stared for a moment as he got closer and closer, preparing to hack them into pieces. Finally, Duo broke out of his terrified trance and grabbed the knob of the door next to them. Praying it was unlocked, which it was, he yanked in open and ran inside, Sally and Treize in tow. He slammed it behind him and bolted it shut. Not taking any time to check his surroundings, he immediately started piling furniture and anything else he could find in front of the door to keep the madman form getting in.
Outside, the doctor pounded at the door, causing the furniture that Duo had stacked up to quiver and quake from the impacts. The trio shrank back against the far side of the wall, not even Heero was strong enough to do that. After about five minutes, even though to them it seemed like an eternity, the thumping stopped. Apparently, the doctor had given up. Or maybe that was just what he wanted them to think......
"I'm going to turn the lights on." Sally stated, slowly inching for the light switch on the left wall. Her two companions simply nodded and watched as the dark outline of her figure moved slowly towards the switch. A few seconds later the room was illuminated in an only slightly comforting glow. Duo blinked his eyes, adjusting to the bright light. When his vision came back into focus, he scanned the room they were currently in, and gasped at what he saw.
"Quatre!" Sally shouted before the two men with her could say anything. The blond haired boy was hanging from the ceiling, face pale and arms hanging limply at his sides. He was hanging by the telephone chord, the wire wrapped tightly around his neck and suspending him several feet above the carpeted floor. Duo risked pulling a chair away from their barricade and climbed onto it. He reached over for the chord and started unwrapping the wire from around his fellow pilot's neck.
"We need to get him down."
"Is there any scotch left?"
"Blast it Noin, that's your second bottle!!!"
"Well, maybe I'm drink myself to death before the ghosts can get me."
"They haven't come back yet..."
"Hey, has anyone noticed that Dorothy's missing?" Relena asked.
"No." everyone else responded simultaneously.
"Well, don't you think we should look for her?"
"No." everyone once again answered. The idea of getting out through the windows had long since been forgotten. There was no way any of them could possibly get them to open. So instead, the group had decided to sit down and busy themselves until their companions came back.
"Do you think Duo and the others got the lock-down to reverse?" Catherine asked.
"Are the windows open?" Zechs asked.
"No."
"I want to get out of here." Relena whined, "I personally blame all of you for getting me into this horrifying situation."
"What'ver." Noin slurred in drunken speech.
"I don't think he's breathing." Trieze said, looking down at the younger boy in front of him.
"Come on, Q-man!! don't quit on me now!!" Duo half begged, half screamed at the blond, Arabian pilot.
"Move aside." Sally ordered, pushing Treize and Duo over, "I'll give him mouth to mouth." She then proceeded to administer CPR to the unconscious Quatre.
"Wake up, dammit." she said between breaths. After nearly five minutes with no results she was about to give up. Suddenly, Quatre started sputtering and gasped for air.
"Quatre!" Duo shouted, happy his friend was alive.
"House....phone.....ghost!!! You guys didn't hear me shouting!!??" Quatre screamed, fully awake and seriously ticked.
"Um.....no......" Duo mumbled, fully aware of what could happen when the Sandrock's pilot got angry.
"Fine. Now, we need to get out of here. Um....Duo? Why do you have the one door sealed off?"
"Because there's this crazy mad doctor guy after us." Duo explained. Then, he took in what Quatre had just said, "What do you mean, the one door?"
"Well, because there's that other door in the back of the room. I thought you knew the layout of this house. It's near the back in the shadows so I guess you didn't notice it. That door also connects to the hallway outside."
"Oh shoot....." At that moment, the back door crashed down, and psychotic and very unwanted face appeared in the outline of the doorframe. Needless to say, the furniture blocking the other door was moved in record breaking time, and the four people inside were out of there in a flash.
"Was I the only one who heard a 'crash'?" Releena asked, moving her hand to her ear and signaling for everyone to be quiet.
"I don't think so." Catherine said, "What about you, Trowa?"
"I'm not sure, Cathy." he answered, "Let's all be quiet and listen for it again." The room fell into silence. They all listened for any other strange noises. They were met with nothing. Just as everyone was about to give up and go back to what they had been doing, the steady beat of pounding feet echoed down the hallway. It was only a light patter at first, but the pounding footsteps got closer and closer, and as they did they got louder and louder as well. All heads turned in the direction of the noise, the hallway where Duo and the others had gone down earlier. Minutes later, a group of four, Duo, Treize, Sally, and Quatre, burst in, screaming and yelling something about a mad scientist.
Heero, annoyed by the noise, went up to the group and did the one thing he knew. He punched Duo and told him to shut up.
"Hey!! Heero!! What was that for?!" the braided boy shouted, slightly angry.
"Well, at least he isn't screaming his lungs out anymore." Zechs stated. The others allowed the frightened group to calm down and catch their breath, and then bombarded them with questions.
"What was _that_ all about?"
"Where were you?"
"Mad doctor?!"
"Have you seen Dorothy?"
Duo held his hands up in front of him, "Woah! One question at a time. Let me explain....." The group quickly explain all that had happened. Quatre's assassination attempt at the hands of one of the house's supernatural residents, the crazy chainsaw wielding doctor, and the scream they heard while running from the psycho specter.
By the end of the little story, he had several people staring at him with a mix of wide-eyed to disbelieving looks, Catherine cowering in Trowa's arms, and Releena _trying_ to do the same with Heero. She was having little success.
After a few moments of silence, Zechs spoke up, "I think it's safe then to assume that the person who screamed was Dorothy. It's most likely she followed you all down there while we were occupied with 'problems' of our own up here. Now, if this doctor fellow was following you, he didn't come here, which makes me assume we have safety in numbers. In fact, not one dangerous encounter has occurred when we were all together. I'd suggest checking out on Miss Catalonia by all heading down to the basement together and seeing what we can find."
"I don't want to! I'm scared!!" Releena whined
"Come on!"
After some persuasion, they finally got Releena to agree to go down with them. And the group headed down to the basement to see what they could find.
to be continued.........
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