The Kill

*I thought so. Ok, lets try and get some scary stuff in it then!*

Seth

Seth wondered if anyone else noticed the room getting hotter and was almost glad when a scream broke the silence.

Everyone looked round to the direction of the scream's origin.
A mutilated body that did not look like anyone related to any of the hotel current guests hung in the air at the top of the grand stair-case. Flies buzzed around its peeling, oozing skin and its hair hung down to its waist in greasy streaks and its bright green eyes shone out through the tangled mass of hair that hung across its face. It looked feminine and the ripped, faded red cloth that barely covered its withered body may once have been an old-fashioned dress.

With what looked like great strain, the spirit brought one arm up and pointed a slender, boney finger at Jared. A nasty hiss eminated from between its chipped and jagged teeth.

Maria:

This was nothing like she had ever seen. So unreal it was slightly funny but the fact the damned soul was pointing a finger at one of the guests showed it wasn't all play. Maria jumped out of her stupifyed state and rushed for the top of the stairs. The roped soul tured slowly twards her. It stared her down as she watched its blue eyes with wonder at first and then witha bit of hate. She rushed twards it and talkled it. Now both of them disapeared into a vortex almost and a few gasps and one scream askaped the petrifyed quests. Well... most of the petriyed guests.

*wasn't the things eyes green? just a thought*

Seth

Seth had thought the spirit looked familiar and now he remembered where he'd seen it before: in the Exorcist! Seth almost smiled. Someone had been doing their research before trying to scare them. He amired their choice of monster, but frowned on their lack of originality.

That fact beside, What The Hell Was Going On?! Seth wanted to help Maria, but she had the emerald weapon on her [foot] and she seemed to be able to take care of herself. He should probably be more concerned by the colour Jared was turning. No matter that he was in an emo band, his skin shouldn't be that grey. And if that wasn't a sign that something was wrong with him then the fact that he was on the floor having spasms should have been. No-one knew what to do, so they did all they could do: stand helplessly and watch as life slipped from Jared's cold grasp.

For a few minutes everyone just stood, staring in disbelief at the nights first casualty.
Crying, Hannah lent down next to his still body and put her head to his chest.
"No heartbeat" she confirmed.
Sara lent down next to Hannah and put one hand against Jared's open mouth.
"Then why's he still breathing?"

Maria:

Another vortext opened beside the crowd and maria rolled out with nothing but crap all over her. Green to be corect. It wasn't from the soul though. She coughed up something and kneeled over it as a few screamed. The vortex closed. "Will you all just shut up?" She coughed again. She crawled over to one of the band members adn looked at him once. She turned for a half second and coughed again. Something oszd out of her mouth this time. She was nearly choking but this kid was being killed from the inside out. Damn buggers. She turned and pushed the girl over him out of the way. She leaned over him and a few bits of green fell onto him. She watched his eyes for a second and then opened his mouth. She stuck two fingers down his throught and placed soemthing there. He started coughing and she pulled herself away. Everyone leaned over him. "Give him room damn it," She growled. SOme people did need room when they had been diing just a minute ago. He color changed just slightly and he was fine.

Maria backed twards the wall and there was a deffinant circle as everone was was afraid of her. "So that's why they call her the ghost," Someone mumbled. She gave a faint growl. She hated it whent they asumed. And with that another vortex opened and she was pulled through. Her shoe was sure to fall off before she made it all the way through and Seth went for it just before he was suvcked in too.

*What shall we do now?*

Maria:

"You quite hard to stop," Someone chuckled the words. She frowned and Seth was there with her. He hekld the sward. "Can I come any closer without being choped to bits?" She looked over at Seth more closly. He helda look on his face and she smiled slightly. She put her nad over his making sure not to touch the sward and pushed his hand down.

"You're safe for now," She comfermed.

"Good." Another hell hound apeared but not as big. The little girl sat atop it.

*You can take over Kobain.

*thanks. if you dont like this you can replace it with your idea though*

Seth

The little girl jumped down off the hell hound and, landing lightly, she began stepping slowly towards Seth and Maria. Whatever she...it...was, it couldn't seem to make up its mind what shape to take, but the ones it cycled through all seemed to be from horror stories.
Seth recognised Dracula and Frankenstein, a ghost and even Jack Torance from the Shining before the thing finally settled on a shape.
It chose a little girl, she looked barely six years old. She wore a perfect, creaseless red cotton dress and she even clutched a small battered teddy bare to her side (Seth admired the attention to detail). Her combed, long black hair hung down to her knees and so did her fringe. The little skin Seth could see was deathly white and as ever she had bright green eyes stairing out them like she could read their thoughts. It was unnerving to say the least.

Seth readied the sword, but with a wave of its hand, Seth's arms suddenly went limp and he could no longer hold the sword up.
"Please don't do that."the little girl's voice didn't fit her appearance. It sounded high-pitched and innocent sure, but it sounded like this was just a guise.
"What the hell do you want?" Maria asked the child.
"You two of course" the child answered in a tone that said they should have already known that answer.
"I think you know our answer to that" Mara retaliated, "You're not getting us"
"Why'd you need us?" Seth asked.
"You don't need to know now" the little girl replied. Was her voice getting more...croaky? "Giving yourself in would be so much easier for all of us. So please..." the girl said please in such a way that she sounded just like a young girl pleading with her mother to buy her a new dress.
"We're not giving in to you, b*£@&" Maria grunted. "We'd rather die than surrender to you".
"FINE!!" The little girl's voice was now a hoarse roar and her mouth opened to an inhumane length, showing off rows of gleaming sharks teeth. She jumped forward, lunging hungrily at Maria's neck. Seth blindly swung the sword up and, as if guided by God, hit the thing square in the neck and decapitated it in one swift movement. The head went flying past Maria and the bodiy slumped dejectedly onto the floor mere centimetres from her. Blood poured from the stump of its neck and the body twitched for a few second and then was still. The blood stopped. It's head grew back.

"This is gonna be harder than I thought" Seth breathed.

Maria:

"Discusting," She managed to say. She about squeaked but she was stronger. If eather showed enough frear they would manage to be taken over. Destroyed into damned souls like fallen angels that would never make it to heaven nor hell. Now that would be hell. The little girl was whipped up onto the hell hound's back and it growled fercly.

Maria took the magazine she had been reading earlyer and held it out. It was ripped from her hand and shreaded into peices. "Whoops. Wrong one," She mumbled as she pulled a peice of old, yellowed paper from her back pocket. A white missed swirled from the paper and enveloped her hand. "I hate this part," She grumbled as all watched. She gritted her teeth as something clamped onto her hand. Something formed to the mold of her hand and the mist died down but made sure to hide her had just for sake.

"What's that?" She girl growled.

"None of your bees wax!" She loved to be mean especialy when it pissed this one off.

"What is it?" Seth asked.

"You'll see," She said with a smile. Her white teeth sparkled of the dim light. The hound lunged and it flew backwards. Maria's smile grew. The mist was gone and revealed a pure silver hand. Hard as anything could get even more. One single small ruby centered the top of the hand and ingraved vines acented it. Tyhe hound strugled to get up. Maria's smile grew. "Care to jump in?" She asked Seth.

"Why not?" And with that they were both after the beast.

*Yours was good Kobain.*

*please take over my characters because I wont be on till monday*

Im starting a group for storybook writers if you are instrested heres the link

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*Your characters don't seem to be in this scene so don't worry, see you...well talk to you, on monday. Oh and, thanks ambercoultis *

Seth

Seth swung the sword down onto the beast and struck with a solid blow to its chest. It groaned and tried to fight back, but Maria hit it again and it fell down.
"Be strong my pet!" the girl called, but from where Seth could not tell: she had disappeared.
"Damn" Maia spat. The beast started to gradually get back onto its feet, and it suddenly hulked far above the pair of them.

Seth thought he knew how to deal with this thing, and having decided on a plan, explained it to Maria...very quickly.
"Ok" she replied, upon hearing the plan, "But what if I..." A paw swung down and knocked them both off their feet. They went flying and landed next to each other, both winded.
Maria was first up, and Seth followed shortly, but not before Maria lunged at the hound with her silver hand. Her strike hit it in the leg and ripped a great chunk of flesh from the beast. Maria flung this away and immediately the silver hand was, by some miracle, spotless again.
Seth brought the hound down to its knees by hacking through its other leg with his sword, and the creature slumped forward, close to defeat.
Seth brought the sword up again and this time plunged it into the beasts chest. Maria placed her hand on the swords hilt and, using the sword as some kind of magical conductor, sent a power burst from her hand down the sword and directly into the hell hound. She soon began straining from the massive loss of energy, but kept her hand on the hilt. But this thing was tough, it didn't seem to want to go down without a fight.
A cry emenated from Maria's mouth - "Shhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittt!" and sweat began to drip off Seth's face and just as it seemed that they would be stuck there forever, the hound threw back its head and exploded.
Seth went flying one way, Maria the other.


When Seth woke up he was lying, fully clothed in a bath somewhere in the hotel now clutching a small emerald. He figured they must have been thrown back through the vortex when the thing exploded, but he wondered where Maria had ended up...

*Just an idea. You don't have to use it. Just ignore it if you don't think it's any good*

Things were not going well in the reception area since Seth and Maria had vanished. Shannon and the other band members had decided to get the hell out of the hotel, but Jared wanted to stay and see things through to the end. Hannah, obviously, wanted to stay with Jared and so the couple watched as the rest of the band stormed back to their rooms to collect their luggage.
PJ was still a resident at the hotel and felt she just hadn't scared everyone quite enough yet so, like Jared and Hannah, decided to stay another night.
And last, but by no means least, Sara wasn't leaving Seth behind so she too decided to stay.

"I still think we should stick together, you know?" Hannah suggested, still shaking slightly from what she had witnessed.
The others agreed and so they temporarily made themselves at home in the reception hall and waited for Shannon and the others to return for their farewells.

Maria:

A cold wind spiriled up her spin. She shivered and looked around. Diffrent clothes and difrent place entirly. Was it a dream? Everything rushing at her seamed too real. She jumped to the side as a beast swoped. Nothing. Then out of nowhere someone wispered into her ear incoherent words. She shivered and turned.

Damn. It was him again. She pulled her anround the waist twards him. She hated the feel his skin gave against hers. Her heart started to excedlerate. He was kinda fun to be around but not in a nice sort of way. She pushed at him. A light sweet broke out on the back of her neck and she looked directly into his dark eyes. "You discuting little-" SHe started to snarel at him.

"Aww. Come on baby." He pulled her tighter.

"Get out of here," She said and with that she joilted into siting position on a red bed. A light sweet was dewing alover her. Another figan nightmare. One of the real ones. She pulled her self over the edge and got up to her feet.

*Gotta go. See ya*

Seth

He lifted himself out of the bath, wincing as pain shot down his arms and legs. He managed to drag himself out of the bath and fell, shivering, onto the bathroom floor.
He lay there for at least a minute, strange images flashing through his mind. He sniffed and, leaning on the nearby sink, managed to prop himself up in front of the mirror. He looked like shit.
His hair was in tangled clumps and greasier than ever, he had bags under his eyes the size of Australia and a gash on his forehead was already beginning to form into a scar. And his nose was bleeding.
He brushed the blood off his face with his sleeve and sniffed again.
He turned the ciold tap on and began to fill the sink up with freezing water to wash his face with. When the sink was full Seth turned off the tap and dunked his whole head into the water.
It felt like someone had just shot him. The shock alone woke him up more than any cup of coffee could. Every fibre of his body screamed at him to take his face out of the water, but he managed to hold his face in the water for 1.............2..............3............. Seth pulled his head out of the water and took in a deep breath of the stale air.
Seth could feel some of his energy coming back now and he used some of it to stumble over to the toilet and pick up a roll of toilet roll. He used some of the paper to block up his nose should the bleeding resume and made his way towards the bathroom door.

He fell through the door into a bedroom that had probably been stately once, but now it just looked tattered and everything in it had faded to a shadow of its former self.
Seth blinked and suddenly the whole room was as it had been: grand and lush. A four-poster bed stood proudly in the centre of the room, red curtains slung splendidly over it which looked very inviting. The carpet was soft and it was only now that Seth realised he wasn't wearing any shoes. It felt warm and soft as the shag carpet wormed its way between his cold toes.
A painting of a beautiful woman hung on the wall held there by a magnificently ornate, golden frame.
Suddenly the bedroom door was flung open and a man in a smart tuxedo stormed in dragging a squealing young woman in an ostentatious ball-gown and matching gloves in behind him. From through the door Seth thought he could hear a Frank Sinatra record playing.
"Get off me, Hank!" the girl's voice was high-pitched and afraid
"Shut up May" Seth didn't want to see what this man was going to do with May.
"No!" Suddenly the whole room flashed around Seth and when he could see again he was in the same room, in the same state, but something was different.
'Hank' was lying on the ground with a hole in his chest and 'May' was standing over him screaming as blood stained her silk gloves. Her hair was tustled and the dress was ripped, yet the only damage done to Hank was his lack of heart [literally]. His clothes were fine and his hair and face looked as clean as ever.
May opened her mouth to speak, but just as the first word began to escape her mouth the room flashed around Seth again and once again the room was faded and ruined, and only one thought occupied his mind: Get the hell out of here!

Seth exploded into the corridor, and barreled head long into three guys dressed very similary to Jared.
"Shannon," one of the guys asked, "Who's this guy?"

*lol, sorry it's so long, i got a bit carried away.*

Shannon:

"Don't remeber him," Shannon said to one of them. They were going for the door as fast as they could but everything and he ment everthing was getting in the way. He pushed the boy off them and they were off again.

"SHouldn't we help him?" One asked.

"Maria will help him. If she's still alive," He murmered and they were out the door before you could count to three.

*There. All gone. The sissy boys. The lot of them.*

Maria:

SHe stumbled into a wall. It was odd. Nothing was familiar. She looked down trying to calm herself. She wore diffrent clothes than she had before. How had she been changes. She shivered and blocked out the thought. SHe pushed herself out into the hallway and watched as Shannon and some onther of the band rushed by. They looked too frightened to talk.

She turned back to the way they had come and say Seth in soaking wet clothes droping on the floor. he looked like he had just seen a ghost. Like a normal person who'd seen a ghost. Was she lossing him too? He looked horable. "What got you? My gosh you look like they put you in a blender," She said walking down the hall. She pulled him up and saw he had seen a ghost. Damn. They were getting to everyone now. "Snap out of it damn it," She growled as she smaked him a few times on the cheek. His head snapped to one side and he was out of the state.

"What the crap," He mumbled.

Seth

"What did you see?" Maria actually looked worried for once. She quickly hid it though.
"I...I..had this vision and a death a...What happened to you? Where were you?" Seth asked. Still shivering.

*that's to make up for my last massive post, and also because i dont know what else to say after that. dont worry my next post will be longer *

Maria:

"The damned dark relm again," She mumbled still holding him up. She looked away.

"What are you hiding?" He asked questioningly. She turned to him.

"An old friend greeted me in the relm." She nearly shivered again. "Now what death?"

*I'm not going to make a long post then either. I got nothing to work with.