Forward: I wrote this a long time ago....I'm not even sure I'll finish it....I just was sifting through my hard dive and found it and, since I had at one time put a lot of work into it, decided to post it up. Hope you like. It's sort of a crossover between GW and House on Haunted Hill, neither of which I own so don't sue. Anyway...R&R and please enjoy!!
The Night on Haunted Hill
(It will haunt them forever.)
(the survivors anyway....)
by M
The full moon hung above in the star speckled sky, casting it's light to the earth beneath it. It was his only source of light. The great lights from the city now seemed like a tiny glow in the distance and his car's headlights had been broken. The land around him was completely barren, except for the few dead trees that leaned over the road menacingly as he drove by. He did not seen to care or notice, however, for his mind was to busy pondering the puzzle that lay before him.
"Why there?" he thought as he continued to drive, "What on earth was she thinking?" He reached into his pocket and pulled out a carefully folded piece of paper. Unfolding it, he once again read the note he had received several days earlier.
You are invited to the birthday
party of Reelena Peacecraft on the house on Haunted Hill
Test your bravery and stay the night.
Hope you can come!
"Releena hates scary places." he said to himself, "What could possibly convince her to have her party there? It makes no sense."
He continued to drive until the shape of a dark, ominous house atop a cliff overlooking the ocean appeared on the horizon. "I'll find out soon enough." he thought as he neared the tall structure. As he parked his car and walked up to the front door of the ominous house, Heero Yui found himself swallowing as he held up his hand to knock on the dark structure that loomed before him. Clang! Clang! The sound of someone's knocking echoed through the interior of the mansion
"I'm not getting it."
"You get it."
"But, I got it last time!"
"So?"
"Woman, you get it."
"Why you!"
"Get it! Get it!"
"I'm not!!"
"Fine. I'll get it." The door opened to reveal Heero, clad in his green tank top and a pair of jeans. In his hands he held a bouquet of beautiful, red roses. "Hello, Heero." Sally greeted him cheerfully as she let the boy in then closed the large door him. Heero looked around at the sight that lay before him. There was a large ballroom in which he could see WuFei, Duo, Trowa, Catherine, Quatre, Dorothy, Noin, Zechs, Lady Une, and Treize (Yes, I brought him back. More people to kill.) seated around a large table. A strange, if not creepy, stained glass picture covered most of the ceiling and there was a bar and a desk off to the side.
"Well, I see that everyone seems to be here." Heero observed, "Except for the birthday girl."
"Leave it to her to be late to her own party." Catharine shuddered, "I hope she appreciates me coming. Anyone else's party and I wouldn't be here. I've heard the stories about this place."
"Yes, it used to be a mental hospital until it was burned down by the doctor who ran it. He was brilliant but like his patients, insane. Everyone died in that fire, I believe." Quatre stated.
"How would you know so much about this place?" WuFei asked the blond Arabic. "I read up about it after finding out about the house from the locals." Quatre replied, " And I learned enough to make me seriously consider not coming here, Releena's birthday or not." Everyone looked around, nervously.
"I learned a little about this house too" Duo said, "After learning that the party would be here, I got in touch with the guy who owned it. Between his insane babbling that the house was alive and going to kill us, I managed to find out most of the floor plans for this old place. It's just your basic everyday house on the top floors but the lower levels are almost like a labyrinth ."
"Well, I'm sure glad that I don't have to go downstairs." Catherine said.
"It sounds exciting to me." Dorothy exclaimed, holding up a hand-held video camera, "I could get some interesting photage with my camcorder."
"Why did you bring that, Dorothy?" Treize asked.
"To video the party, of course." She replied, "I want to catch the look on Releena's face when she sees that we all got here befo-" She was cut off by the sound of the door swinging open. Everyone turned toward the noise to see a young girl with blond hair standing in the doorway, a suitcase under each arm and an angry look upon her face.
"I hope you people are satisfied! What on earth were you thinking when you chose this place?! You know I hate scary places!" Releena shouted to her surprised "guests" as she slammed the door behind her with a loud 'bang!' and stomped into the ballroom.
"Ummm...what are you talking about?" Quatre asked.
"Oh, nothing, just this!!" Releena yelled into Quatre's face before shoving a piece of paper into his hands.
"Hm.... lets see this." Quatre said as he opened the paper and began to read out loud.
Releena,
In honor of your birthday, your friends would
like to throw you a grand birthday party in the house atop
Haunted Hill. Please attend. "Who sent this?" Quatre asked the other party guests.
"Not me."
"Nope."
"Why would I want to come here?"
"Um..hm."
"It was not I."
"Said the fly."
"Duo!" Slap!
"Ow....."
"Don't look at me."
"I didn't."
"Well, I know that I did not sent it. I got this invitation that I assumed came from you, Releena." Quatre told the ex-world queen while taking out his invitation.
"I got one of those too." Sally added, pulling out her invitation.
"So did I." Heero stated, taking out his. Soon, everyone had shown his or her invitation. It was perfectly clear that everyone had received a letter to come to the house, but from whom was still a mystery.
"This is to confusing!" Releena whined, " Whats going on here?!" Suddenly, the air was filled with the sound of crashing glass. The room erupted with screams of fright as the stained glass ceiling fell down upon the frightened group.
"What in the hell?!" WuFei screamed, dodging a large piece of glass that landed not to far away from him, "That was way too close."
"Look out!!!!" Duo yelled at Releena, before running over and knocking her to the floor, right before a huge piece of the stained glass art landed right where she had been standing. At last, everything calmed down. The group pulled themselves up and brushed the dust and glass off their clothes.
"I wonder what could have done that." Noin wondered, "Something like that does not just fall down for no reason."
"Maybe the house is alive." Duo smirked.
"Don't say that, Duo"
"This is just way too creepy for my taste." Catharine said as she got up from the red, velvet chair she had fallen into during the ordeal, "I'm leaving if you don't mind." She hurriedly walked toward the door. Suddenly, a loud clanking sound could be heard. The glow from the outside lights began to fade as huge, metal plates as well as bars began to seal off all the doors and windows.
"Damn!!!! What now?!" Treize yelled as all the exits became blocked.
"It's the lock-down." Quatre stated, a hint of worry in his voice, "That crazy doctor used it to seal off this place before. Thats why everyone died in that fire so long ago. There was no way out."
"Great. Just great." Heero muttered.
"I'm scared." Releena whined, grabbing Heero's arm, "Hold me, Heero!"
"Get off me." The noise abruptly stopped as the final plate slid into place.
"Ummmmm, I going to go to the bathroom." Duo told everyone before leaving the room. Everyone else watched the braided boy's retreating figure down the hall.
"O-kay....."
"I read an article about this house in one of the tabloids. It said that this house was haunted by all the spirits of those who had died. I didn't believe it at first, but now I'm not so sure." Quatre said to the others. "What about what Duo said? How the owner of the house said this place was alive and going to kill us?" Zechs asked.
"This is just scary. If it's true we may not make it out of here alive." Lady Une whispered.
"We're all going to die!!" Catherine wailed.
"Somebody get me out of here."
"Somebody get me a drink." WuFei groaned as he sat at the bar. Little did he or anyone else know, but behind the bar and out of sight, an unknown force levitated a wine glass above the air, then carefully poured WuFei a glass of vodka.
"Hildie, damn you!" Duo cursed under his breath. When finding out about the party here Duo had indeed gone to see the house's owner. But not to just find out about the house. He also needed permission to set up some 'thrills' for his fellow guests. So, he and Hildie had arranged for some funhouse type experiences for Releena and the others. It had been the two of them who had caused the stained glass ceiling to collapse, but what was with the lock-down? He never arranged for that. Hildie was going to get it. He almost had a heart attack.
Turning down one hallway and up another, Duo reached the small, secluded room which he and Hildie had established as their 'command center'. "What was that all about?!" Duo asked irritantly to Hildie, as he pushed the door open and stepped inside. He was not prepared for the horrific sight that laid before him. "Oh gods......." On the floor, amidst all the broken monitors and short-circuited control panels, lay Hildie's still body. She lay on her back, a look of pure terror and agony on her now lifeless face. Her stomach had been ripped open, and her body was surrounded by an ocean of blood and intestines. It was difficult to tell what exactly had done this to her, a human, or an animal.
Duo, turning pale, then a slight shade of green, started to back away from the door, though never taking his gaze away from his girlfriend's dead form. "What happened here?" he said to himself, "Who did this?! Oh my gods. Hildie......NO!!" *Creak..* Duo turned, just in tome to see the door, the only exit to the suddenly too secluded room, close behind him. And just before the last light from the hall disappeared as the door closed shut, Duo saw the dark outline of someone or something, and Duo knew that he was not alone.
"Well, Pagan said he would pick me up in the mourning, so we just have to wait until he gets here." Releena said, "He can get these panels open from the outside, I bet."
"If we survive that long, anyway." Sally snorted.
"Nothing that bad has happened." Releena responded.
"Yet." Heero said.
"I'm scared. The house is going to get us! It's alive!!" Catherine wailed.
"It is not alive Cathy." Trowa reassured his sister, "Calm down, everything will be alr-"
"Gggahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!" WuFei screamed from the bar. Everyone turned, and saw what WuFei was screaming about. Above the bar, a glass of vodka floated before the terrified WuFei, seeming to be levitated by some sort of unknown force.
"What the hell!?" Treize gasped.
"I need to get this on tape!" Dorothy exclaimed, happily, recording the supernatural phenomenon.
"I'm going to take this as a sign." the Chinese Gundam pilot muttered as he grabbed the floating glass and drank it down in one shot.
"Another please." he requested to the invisible bartender. While everyone looked on in amazement, the glass disappeared behind the bar and came back up with another drink for WuFei.
"Wo-wo-woah!" Catherine stammered.
"Well," Zechs said, "There's something you don't see everyday."
"See," Releena beamed, a look of triumph on her face, "The house isn't doing anything bad to us." Everyone else just stared at her.
"AAAuuuuuuuuugggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"What on earth was that!?" Noin asked.
"It sounded like Duo." Quatre said, slightly alarmed, "And it came from that direction!" He pointed down the hall the Deathscythe's pilot had gone down earlier.
"Let's go!" Heero called out before running to the sound of the scream, the others on his heels, except for WuFei, who was still at the bar.
"Another, please." he asked his new ghostly friend when the others were out of sight. This time, however, the spirit did not comply.
"Oh shoot. Oh shoot! Oh SHOOT!!" Duo screamed as he blindly dodged his unknown assailant in the darkness, "I'm Shinigami dammit!!! This should not be happening!!" He could hear the clanging of the knife, or whatever the thing in the room with him was thrusting in his direction, as it missed him and hit the various equipment around the chamber.
"Oh shoot! Oh shooooooooooooooo-!!" Duo yelped before slipping on something slick and falling to the floor. He groped around for a handhold, but all his hand hit was some sort of slick, warm sticky liquid. "Aww man!" he moaned, realizing what he had just fallen into, Hildie's blood. He tried to pull himself up, but found he was stuck to the floor. No matter how hard he tried, the blood held him like glue to the ground. Suddenly, there was a searing pain in his left shoulder. He felt like his shoulder was on fire. "AAAuuuuuuuugggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!" Duo screamed in agony, before falling over, face first into the puddle of blood. There he found himself stuck in an even more uncomfortable position and unable to breathe.
"Great. Just great." he thought, "My shoulders on fire, I'm in a pitch black room with a crazed psycho, and I'm about to set a new record for the stupidest drowning in all of history. Who ever heard of drowning in a puddle anyway? This is so Uncool! Give me suffocating on OZ's lunar base any day...."
"I think it came from in here." Quatre shouted to the others, indicating a door, "But it's locked! Heero, give me a hand, will ya?"
"Sure." the other boy responded as he and Quatre managed to pull the door open.
"Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Releena shrieked when she saw what was inside. Hildie lay in the middle of the floor, surrounded by blood and gore, obviously dead. Duo was beside her, a long, sharp dagger in his left shoulder and his body face first in the puddle, pinned down by the blood, which seemed to have taken on a rubbery form, struggling to get up. His mouth and nose were covered by the strange substance and he seamed to be suffocating. The most shocking sight of all, though, was a strange being in a long , dark robe who stood over the pair. It turned to stare at the newcomers. As far as Releena could tell, it had no face. The cloak seemed to be suspended by an invisible person. The strange figure turned again, and disappeared.
"I should have gotten that on tape!" Dorothy exclaimed.
"Ummm. Ummmmm!!!" Duo moaned from the floor.
"Oh, Duo!" Sally said, "Hold on! Does anyone have a knife?"
"I do." Catherine answered, "Here." She handed one of her circus act knives to Sally who ripped the wad of blood from Duo's mouth then cut him off the floor. She then pulled the dagger out of the pilot's back.
"Ow! You won't believe what happened and, oh gods! Hildie!" Duo shouted as he stooped back down next to his partner.
"I really don't think I need to tell you that she's dead, Duo." Heero told his friend.
"Heero! Don't b so insensitive!" Releena scolded, hitting her 'boyfriend' upside the head.
"Don't worry about it Releena." Duo said, "I'm fine, but we need to get out of here. I need to tell you what happened. You won't believe it!"
"Ok, Duo. Tell us on the way back to the ballroom, ok? We need to fix up that shoulder." Releena told the braided boy as they headed out of the room, which now reeked of death.
"So, you were responsible for that escapade with the stained glass? How do we know this is not another joke?" Lady Une asked.
"Do you think I would do that to Hldie?" Duo asked, slightly angry the thought would even be implied.
"Well, no."
"I can tell you this, though. This house is out to get us. I suggest that we get out of here as soon as we can." Duo told the others.
"I told you that the house was alive, Trowa." Catherine said to her brother. The pilot of the Heavyarms just stared at his sister, then turned away, not knowing what to say.
"I'm going to follow WuFei's example and get a drink." Sally said, rushing ahead of the group toward the ballroom.
"Anyway, did you see that thing that attacked me?" Duo asked Releena.
"Not really. It was covered by a black robe and as soon as we opened the door, it vanished into thin air." she answered.
"There must be a more logical explanation for this." Treize stated, "I mean, ghosts can't be real. It's just not possible."
"Oh they are, and you should know that, unless you have been unconscious the entire evening." Noin said, "It's hard to believe, but-"
"EEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" a woman screamed from down the hall.
"It's Sally!" Zechs exclaimed.
"Oh gods..."
"Boy, now I need a drink." Treize sighed. Everyone raced toward the source of the screams, afraid of what they might find this time.
"EEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!" Sally repeated over and over again.
"Sally! SALLY!!!!!" she remotely heard the others shout to her as she continued to scream at the scene in front of her. She saw Heero emerge from the hallway and run up to her, the others not too far behind.
"Sally, whats-" he stopped short when he too caught sight of the source of her terrified shouts. Releena ran up to the pair, "Heero whats- Oh gods....." By the bar, lay the body of WuFei. His lifeless form was slumped over the bar, a broken vodka bottle jutted out of his back, blood and vodka formed a pool under him.
"Now I really need something to drink." Treize said walking over to the bar and, avoiding WuFei's body, pulled out a few glasses and a couple bottles of wine and some scotch, "Blast it! I think WuFei had the last of the vodka." Everyone else just stared.
"We need to get out of here." Quatre said, pacing the room, "Duo, is there a phone in the house?"
"Down the hall, second door to the right, but I don't think you'll get it to do anything. Ghosts have a way with phone chords, they can short-circuit them when they don't want their prey to call for help."
"We need to try." With that, the blond teenager left the room and headed down the hall in hope of calling for assistance.
"Hey Duo? This lock-down thing, is there any way to get it to reverse itself?" Treize asked.
"Maybe downstairs, I think I know where to go. Can't guarantee anything though."
"Well, as Quatre said, 'we need to try'. Let's go."
"I'm coming with you." Sally stated, getting up.
"Fine, we're safer in numbers." Duo agreed, "Come on." The three left the ballroom and headed for the stairs leading to the basement, and whatever terrors lurked there.
"I need a drink." Noin said, getting up and grabbing an entire bottle of wine, "Anyone else want some?"
"Sure, what the heck? Pour me a glass." Une called from across the room.
"We should try to find another way out of here too." Releena suggested.
"Good idea." Catherine agreed, "I don't want to be here any longer then I have too. Come on Trowa, give us a hand." The next thing Trowa knew, he was being grabbed by the collar of his blue turtleneck and being dragged along to one of the sealed windows.
"Heero! You help too!" Releena called.
"Fine." the perfect soldier replied as he got up from his seat and walked over to help the girls. After all, he knew that if he didn't agree to help he would most likely be dragged across the room like Trowa anyway....
"Good luck!" Noin called in slurred speech as she placed the end of the now half-empty wine bottle in her mouth and took a big , long swig.
Zechs looked at his second in command, a look of worry on his face, "Noin...I think you should stop now......"
"Why? If I have to die, I'm not going sober." she responded, and with that, took a huge gulp from the bottle, "Good......"
"Ok, now I know you should stop. Give me that!!" Zechs lunged at Noin, trying to get the bottle out of her grip. Pretty soon, the two friends (and maybe something more ^_^) were locked in mortal combat on the ballroom floor. With all that was happening, nobody noticed that Dorothy had disappeared.
"The entrance to the basement is just at the end of this hallway." Duo told his companions. They passed several doors as they continued. Everything seemed to be going smoothly until, quite suddenly, Duo stopped and turned around.
"What's wrong, Duo?" Sally asked her companion.
"In the hall, that door, that room. You know, the one I told Quatre to go to in order to find a phone."
"Yes?"
"It's not here. I know that there was a room here, but there isn't."
"I hope that your sense of direction is better down there then it is now." Treize said, "I don't want to be lost down there because you can't tell left from right."
"Hey! Don't insult Shinigami!! I know there was a room here!"
"It's ok, Duo." Sally told him, "We can look for it later."
"Fine, lets go." The three continued down the dark, eerie hallway.
"muuuum! muuummmmmppphhh!" came a small, muffled voice from the other side of the wall where the group had been standing only a few short minutes before. The others continued on, however, unable to hear it.
"Releena, this was your idea!! Give us a hand!" Catherine called out to her friend. She, Heero and Trowa were standing next to a window, attempting to pry it open with a long, metal bar they had found behind the bar. Even with Heero's superhuman strength, though, they were unable to get the metal plate sealing the window to move up any more then a few centimeters.
"Bu-but I'm the Queen of the World." she whined, "And this is my best party dress."
"Ex-Queen of the World in case you have forgotten." Catherine snapped back, "Now give us a hand!! Dammit! If you're too worried about your freaking dress to help us out then just bend over, stick your head between your knees and kiss your royal butt good-bye! I'm getting out of here, with or without your help!!" She pulled out her knives from her circus act and held them up. Everyone, including Heero, instinctively backed away.
"Sis?" Trowa asked, walking toward his sister, "Maybe you need a rest, ok?"
"No!!! We need to get out of here!"
"No, you need a rest, come on. Please, Cathy." Catherine started trembling and her knives clattered to the floor.
"I-I'm sorry, Trowa" she stammered, "You too, Releena. I'm just so, so scared" She collapsed into Trowa's arms, letting her brother hold her as she cried. "W-we need to get out." she sobbed.
"I know, sis. I know."
At the end of the hall stood a large, dark door. It seemed dark. Darker then before, when he didn't know that he would have to go down there. Then it had seemed like a normal door. Now it seemed like a portal into terror. A dark aura seemed to surround it, and for one of the few times in his life, Duo was actually afraid. To think he could face death, destruction, and the horrors of war without as much as flinching, and yet be scared of something like this. A simple door. In a haunted house......but that was no excuse!! Why would he be scared? "Well," he swallowed, "Here we go."
Duo opened the door, revealing a concrete staircase leading down into darkness, the unknown. Sure he kinda knew his way around but, he had never been down there, and did not know what would be down there with him.
"Um, Duo?" Sally asked her braided companion.
"Yeah."
"Are we going down."
"Oh! Sure." He slowly placed his foot on the first step. Then, like a child taking his first steps, placed his other foot down on the next. This slow process continued until, all too soon, he reached the bottom of the staircase, Sally and Treize behind him. Duo groped around in the darkness for a light switch. "Here it is." he said, thankfully, as light illuminated the room.
"Gaaahhhhh!!" he heard Sally shout from his left. The room was filled with bodies and skeletons of humans. In glass cases, almost as if they were on display. In an adjoining room was what looked like some sort of torture chamber.
"What a sick person." Why would he be scared? The answer was clear to him now. In battle, he had known his enemy, what they were thinking. What these psycho ghosts were doing was making no sense. In battles ,the enemy was, more or less, sane and he knew their limits. In the battles, he had an idea of what was going on. In the battles, he had control of his situation, knew what to do. In battles, he could bail out whenever he wanted to. Boy, did he wish this was a battle, because bailing out was all he wanted to do.
"Oh, my!" Dorothy exclaimed. When the others were not looking, Dorothy had snuck out of the ballroom to get some cool shots of the lower levels by herself. She now found herself in the room full of bodies and skeletons. Slowly, she outlined the room, getting footage of everything, not wanting to miss a single detail of this amazing experience. After making sure that she had not missed anything, Dorothy headed into the next room.
"Thats strange. I'm sorry guys. That was where the map said the abort switch was. I could have sworn that it was there." Duo apologized.
"You did swear." Treize stated, matter of factly, "Several times if I do recall."
"Shut up."
crash!! crumble!!!!
"What the heck?!" The ceiling above the group caved in in front of them, blocking their way back upstairs.
"Ok, calm." Sally said, "Duo, is there another way to get back to the main room with the steps leading back up?"
"There is, but not from here as far as I recall."
"Damn!!!"
"Lets look for one anyway." Treize suggested, "It's about all we can do."
"Fine." They doubled back, trying to find a way of escape. After a short while they came to a fork in their path, and hall leading left, the other going right. Duo thought he heard a faint buzzing sound, it seemed to be getting closer and closer.
"Duo! Hey, Duo!!" Sally yelled, shaking her companion, "Which way should we go?"
"Hmmm......" The buzzing got louder.
"Hey guys, I think I hear a buzzing from down there." Duo said, pointing down the left corridor, "Do you here it?"
"Let's see." They all turned their heads down to the left hall. The buzzing continued to become louder and louder until suddenly, it was...........right behind him? Duo slowly turned in the direction of the right hallway to be greeted by a strange man. He had a evil, crazed smile on his face. Scalpels and knives glinted from underneath his long, white lab coat and in his hands was the source of the buzzing noise, a large, nasty looking chainsaw.
"Hello, Mr. Maxwell. The doctor is in the house. Heh Heh Heh."
"Ummmm, guys? I-I think we sh-should go that way.' he said, pointing down the left hall. The others nodded, then, with Duo at their heels, bolted down the corridor, the crazed doctor right behind them.
to be continued......
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