Hope this works--I can’t do anything with Cheruu yet because he got captured and Hon hasn’t posted back yet. So here goes!
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“Allie, Akira!” I shout. “The salt’s working, but don’t use all of it--we need most of it to get to the doctor!”
They nod and we continue to run down the hall, but something keeps eating me up inside and only halfway up the stair case I stop dead still.
Akira looks back. “Chii, we need to keep going! What’s wrong?!”
I don’t know what it is. I keep feeling like something’s going wrong, but at the same time I already know that--the house is being infested for Lugia’s sake! But still the feeling grows.
“I need to go.” I say without much emotion.
Allie’s eyes widen and Akira shouts back, “Akira doesn’t understand!”
“I don’t want to leave you two, but something isn’t right!” I ran up to them. “Take this.” I dump my salt into Allie’s hands. “I won’t need it.”
“What are you talking about?!” Allie screams after me. “You can’t just leave us!”
“Find the others and stay together!! I need to find everyone else! But most of all find the doctor!” I say without turning back. “If something happens to me, you two have to keep each other safe--it’s up to you !”
I could feel my guilt settle in, but my uneasiness only got stronger.
The shadows had pulled Cheruu into the wall, I had only seen him for a second and it made me think he was only an illusion made by the house--but then again, why did it feel like the walls on this house were holding not only him, but the rest of my new family?
Why did it feel like Lupe was in danger?
I kept on running, ignoring the wails and screams the spirits made. Where are you, Lupe?!
And where were Lux and Estelle?! I could also feel their danger in my instincts. Mear, Shupple, Akira, Allie, Hon, Hoom… And so many others!
But mostly I felt Lupe.
“LUPE!!!!!” I screamed, making the ghosts reacts with laughs. “LUUUPPPPEEEE!!”
“Looking for the lopunny girl?”
I spin around to the voice and I couldn’t believe who I saw.
“I thought they pulled you in!! You’re not real!!” I screamed at him.
Cheruu only laughs. “You’re right, I’m not real. But that kid you let get swallowed by the shadows WAS the real Cheruu.”
“Like I care either way!” I growl. “He LEFT me!”
The fake Cheruu shrugged “It’s none of my business.”
“Just tell me where everyone is! Tell me where Lupe is!”
“And why should I do that?” He laughed. His familiar black eyes suddenly took on a nasty yellow glow and his smile was empty and long across his face.
“SPARK!!” I shout and let my golden eyes flash as the surge of energy blows off of my skin and into the body of the shadow.
He disappears before it hits him, but I hear his voice in the ceiling.
“You really wanna know? Take a look, then… And join the party in Hell with the rest of your friends.”
“What are--”
The hallway opens into a portal of pure black, a hole only big enough for myself to walk into. I stand back for a moment, but soon I heard her.
“Lupe?!?!” I dove inside and immediately I felt the hole close behind me, plunging me into darkness.
“You fool.” Cheruu hissed in a fake metallic voice.
I walked for a while in darkness, almost afraid to speak but eventually I just didn’t care. “LUUUUX!! EEESTELLLEEE!!” I stumbled once but continued to shout names. No one replied though, so I began to just shout Lupe’s name.
And she’s there.
The light is dim and my eyes are fading, but I see her. She looked terrified, standing and staring at something still in darkness.
I can barely feel my legs--Move, Chii, move!!
“Go ahead.” I hear the fake Cheruu hiss.
That’s when I run and that’s when I hear her speak. “ANSWER ME!!”
“Lupe, I’m here!!” I shout to her, but I can tell she can’t hear me, nor was she even talking to me. I tried very hard to see who was in that darkness, but what was more frustrating that not seeing who she was talking to was being unable to run very fast in this thick dark. She didn’t seem to be getting any closer!
“What are you talking about? Test subj…”
Her conversastion was getting faint. She was getting hard to hear.
“Lupe, I’m here!” I shout again.
“You crea….” She was getting faint! Oh Arceus above us, please don’t let her slip away!
She was getting closer, but why was I so slow?!
She said something else, but this time I felt as if my ears had gone deaf. None of her words reached me.
“Get away from her, whoever you are!”
So close.
“LUUPPPEEE!!!” I was there--I’d made it! But as soon as I’d come to her she finally saw me and her eyes widened in shock.
“Chii?!”
“Yes, darling I--”
“No! NO! Get out of the way!!!” She tried to push me.
“I don’t underst--”
“Move!!! Please!! He’ll--”
I heard a faint shot of a gun in the back of my head and she screamed. I couldn’t help but cling onto her as she shrieked in my ear.
“Darling what is it?!” I patted her back but she held me tighter.
“Chii!! Chii, he shot you! You’re bleeding everywhere!!”
“No, no I’m fine darling!”
“I’m so sorry!” She sobbed and I cringed.
“What you saw isn’t real, nothing is wrong with me, Lupe!” I held her tighter. “Something’s wrong here, we have to find the others!”
“B-but you’re hurt! He SHOT you in the HEAD!!”
“Shhh… None of that’s real. It’s all a bad nightmare.”
I didn’t know what to do--whatever that THING was, it had certainly done it’s job in scaring her to death.
“Whatever that ghost or demon or whatever it was told you was a lie Lupe, I promise.”
She was calming down a bit, I could tell she no longer saw blood all over me but she shook nonetheless. “No…” She shook her head. “No, something about what he said… Augh, I’m so confused!” She pushed away and I let her stumble a bit in the dim light, holding her head. Something was bothering her, but I wouldn’t ask her what it was.
We had to get to the others. Together we could get through this but apart we’d fail.
I just hoped Akira and Allie made it to the doctor ok.
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Whoa, intense... Chii to the rescue!
I hope that was okay--I’m not sure where you wanted to go with the gun, Otomii-San! I’ll change it if you want me to!

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Featured in this Passage-- A bit of Akira and Allie but mostly Chii and Lupe

-*Blue*