[IC] Why so serious?

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Jynmi sighed. It was a sigh that gave the feeling it was time to move on, but there wasn't any more sidewalk, and not enough mental fortitude to step off the beaten path into the muddy routes that ran twisted like a snake trying to get away from something a lot bigger into a particularly dark woods one didn't go into unless one didn't mind coming out the other end filled from head to toe with all sorts of new holes of various depths. So he put the pizza boxes in the car, got in, and drove a car that wouldn't go right four miles through winding city streets three blocks away. The lights weren't on, but the address was right. There was a little shiver at the back of his neck, biting him and trying to pull him away like a dog who knew you were about to walk off the cliff, but aside from his teeth had no way to get you to stop. He ignored the shiver and got the pizzas.

"Hello?" He said before reaching the door. "Anyone in there?" He knocked three times and tapped the heel of his fought as if somewhere in the back of his mind he believed there was a pressure pump and his filling up a balloon that would inflate in the shape of the customer the faster his heel bounced. "I've got a pizza for you, and a bill. Don't care too much about the pizza to be honest, but the bill, well, that's got to be paid up, and my wallets too malnourished to do it. Poor thing's on its last legs." In response a cricket started to chirp and then went silent when something bigger without a sense of humor and a thousand kids to feed got a hold of it. "Come on. There's already been three pranks and I can't afford another one." He knocked again and this time the door went eeeeeeetch as it made its way inward. Visions of a snapping turtle's mouth came to mind as did the teeth of a venus fly trap, and "come here" finger beckon from a woman with much more experience than a single human being should be allowed to endure came to mind, and Jynmi turned to run.....

Two houses over where there wasn't any sense of danger. "Hey!" He knocked frantically at the door. "Your pizza's here. Probably thinking you didn't order any and your wrong so here."

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Gwen look trough the window from the hous behind him. And she saw him waiting with a irritated look on his face. Quiedly she opend the door and sneaked behind him. Gwen jump up to scare him good and wenn the pitza fell on the ground she grabbed it and began to run to wards that creapy hous and got in. She clossed the door and walked further in to the hous. Gwen thought of how to make him even more irritated then he was to set up a trap for if he came looking for her in the house.

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"Come. Come on." Jynmi mumbled. He chewed on his cheek, and his lip. Then his tongue. He stopped at his tongue. He did it too hard and there was blood. Images of youthful days, sucking on pennies came back to him like a mule kick to the back of the head. Oh, those youthful days, how much simpler life was. Suddenly there was a jolt as someone came up from behind him. He didn't that though. All he got was the scare of a life. He went. "EEEEEEEPPPPP." It was a battle cry, nothing embarrassing about it. It was meant to dissociate to give him a chance at a counter attack. He just forgot to counter and instead dove in some nearby bushes.

There was a shuffling sound from outside the protective foliage and then the pitter-patter of feet running away. "Oh yeah. The pizza." He nodded to himself and then flung his body out of the bushes like jack in the box whose sound was broken. He would've yelled for the perp to come back but they'd already gotten to far for the sound of his voice to make any difference, and then went into the creepy house. "Oh. Of course he mumbled, shaking his head and then" slapping his hand over his mouth so he wouldn't narrate himself any more. Shame as he'd gone almost three days without doing it. With a shaking head he trotted over to the house and stood in front of the door, thinking about knocking, but deciding against as he wouldn't have answered if the roles were reversed.

Quietly, almost like a cat with socks on its feet, he made his way to around the back, and tried the knob. It didn't open, but the window next to it had been left wide enough for him to be able to crawl through with a couple of friends. Too bad he didn't have that many. So he took in a deep breath, congratulated himself on not drinking anything recently because it would suck to be in such a creepy space with a full bladder and slipped inside.

Somewhere at the bottom of the house, beneath the basement, under the floorboards, something shifted.

[Vampy]

Gwen was bizzy with making a trap in the basement. She had left the pitza on a table and took one pice of it. There was a closet that was at least 1,5 to 2 meters deep. Gwen looked around more and found a krate that didn't broke when she sit on it so she picked it up and placed it in the closed. In the closed she found a old gothic girl doll. She picked it up "Man this would be gread!" and placed the doll on the table next to the pitza and ate another pice of the pitza. Next to a book shelf Gwen found a fancy old desk lamp that seemd to be working when she pluged it in. She took it and placed it also on the table. When she turned the lamp on she saw a few candels and a plastic skull that looked pritty real with the damped licht from the lamp.

Gwen was setting all the things up what she had found when she heard a sound of footsteps that was comming from upstairs. "He is here." She smiled when she licht the candels and took another pice of pitza and walked to the closed to hide.

[malmshodes]

Getting through the window was pretty easy. Jynmi had been coming in through windows all his life. What gave him trouble was the other side. It was like landing a plan, but without all that runway to gently come to a stop on. So instead he fell, and landed hard with the kind of thump you knew came with stars at the end. "Oh damn it. That hurt." He mumbled and stayed on the ground for a moment, wondering if the twenty bucks were with it until he came to the conclusion said twenty dollars was in fact worth it on account of his not owning any twenties, or anything really. He was lucky to still have a car with a third a tank of gas. "Still hurts." He said getting to his feet and checking his chin to make sure it was still facing forwards. "But I'll survive." Which was a shame when you thought about the alternative. "Now, for that pizza."

He looked around the room and came to the conclusion it was either a kitchen or a bathroom somebody had gotten entirely wrong. There was a hole in the floor, at the corner, underneath the strange clock that looked like a cat with single yellow eye that happened to tick. On the other side of the room there was a cabinet and a refrigerator that hummed so loud it wouldn't have come as any surprise what so ever if it burst into flames. Another wall was occupied by a stove which was still hot. He didn't have to touch it to tell. The glowing red grills was enough of tell tale sign. The last three walls were occupied with two doors and a dimly lit hallway that went into a much larger area. Jynmi looked at this, the hallway the longest. "He shook his head because it had the phrase written you'll die going down this hallways all over it in the colors you'd get in any random handful of party confetti. After some time" he remembered about the narrating thing and did a game of eni-meani-minie-moe to choose where'd he'd go next and it was the first door on the left.

"Ready or not, here I come." He wasn't talking to the stranger with the pizza, because of the lack of concern regarding her readiness for him, but for himself because that's who he cared about most, almost unconditionally. It was a close almost. He loved himself, a lot, but it didn't take quiet that much effort to come up with a list of things he could do to make him wish himself ill. "One moment though." He said, swallowing the lump that was stuck in his throat and tried to hold on to the bell at the back of your mouth with a fierceness that would've made a berserk er blush in a rare moment of self-consciousness, but he managed to break its grip with a couple of wet coughs. "Alright here we go!" He grabbed the door knob and yanked open the door, revealing a dimly lit hallway. "Why," he asked nobody in particular "would anybody use red lightning like that. It literally looks like a stair way down to hell, or the maybe the kind of boiler room a serial killer would call home." He didn't want to go, but the Eenie-meanie had spoken, and would kick him in the nuts if he didn't listen.

The stares squeaked and squealed, louder with each step he took. "Come on now. The last set of stairs I went down didn't complain so much, and I'm only a couple of pounds heavier than I was then." This didn't stop the noises, but he didn't take it too hard as there wasn't a great deal of hope it would. "Hmmm." He said upon reaching the bottom. "Now, I could be wrong" and he wouldn't be surprised if he was because history lacked originality "but this looks like what you find in one of those movies were everything would've gone alright if the main character just left before touching anything." He turned to leave, but the door at the top slammed shut with the kind of finality that said, in no uncertain words, this was final and you weren't anywhere beyond this point. "Oh well, too little too late, but its nice to know.... Er I've got no way to finish that thought."

He frowned and turned his attention back to the doll and the candles, and the pizza which had already become a lost smaller since the last time he'd seen it. "Your not one of them killer dolls are you?" He licked his lips and very carefully like a man in a minefield, or a cat in a busy street, made his way over.

[Vampy]

While Gwen sat in the closed waiting for him to come down she heard rats runnen in the wall of the room. The sound was making the setup even more perfect. She opend the closed door a tiny bit to see if every thing was still in place. The candels burned good and the licht that came from them made the toy skull seem real. The lamp was still onn and the doll didn't fall on the ground from the table. Every thing was still good. Gwen looked at the stairs and saw a shadow on the wall.He is here already. she thought and closed the door of the closed. The stairs made that perfect creapy noice when you walked on it depending on your wight. The boy was almoost in the room.

Gwen looked at the end of the clased and saw a opening. That is perfect. The boy came in the room and she looked trough the opening but then the door above slammed shut. She did not expect that to happen. The boy looked at the table.Now it is just waiting for the right time to come out.

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Jynmi made his way over to the table without anything else happening. He stopped before he reached his hand over to the doll, because that's what you did in these circumstances, but stopped to make sure there really wasn't anything happening. There didn't seem to be, this moment right here, in particular. "Okay." He touched the top of the doll ever so gently, to make sure it wasn't warn or breathing, and moved his hands over to the pizza so he could start closing the box, and he did manage to close it before he heard the sound in the stairs. They went, eeek, eek, eek like someone was coming down.

"Back dooR?" His eyes drifted around but aside from what was obviously a closet he couldn't see any. "Back door?" The noise coming down from the stairs got closer and he took a step towards the closet. He didn't want to trap himself in there, but he would, if only for a few seconds more of life.

[Vampy]

He was close to the table. She opend the little door in the and of the closed to come out when the sound of foot steps on the stairs appeard. Shit!! Gwen went back to the normal door od the closed and opend it a bit. "Don't say any thing now! Blow the candels out and turn the lamp off and come over here! Try to be as quied as you can!!" she wisperd at him."Hurry!!" You could hear at her voice that there was something wrong. Gwen opend the door further to let him in.

This house was abendon so why is there someone or something comming down the stairs?

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The steps got closer, completely, utterly, and even contemptuously ignoring the psychic pleas Jynmi hoped to be sending out that asked, quiet nicely, to please go away or if not for that, at the very least, stay where you were so he could go somewhere else. There was a second of vertigo as he got lost in the lack of the directions he had to flee. The old self defense mechanism was starting to kick in slowly but surely splintering the door to the control room of his nervous system. He put a chair under the knob just in case. For all his shortcomings and lack of better ideas of what to do, he was smart enough to have little doubt that this wasn't the time or place to play dead because doing so would lead to him becoming so good at the act he wouldn't have to play any more.

That's when the voice came, the one that told him what to do. He hadn't heard it in awhile, probably because of his medication. With a nod, he hurried to blow out the candles, which ended out pretty well. The problems didn't start till he became disoriented in the dark and knocked everything over with the kind of crash you could hear in a vacuum. "Flaming Crap in front of a door." He snapped before shrugging back to his feet as a tell tale glint of some light that shouldn't be there told him alerted him to the door knob's location. He ran, not worrying about sound any more grabbed the knob and stepped.

Jeez That was a close one. "Thanks." The foot steps kept coming till they appeared to stop at the base..

[Vampy]

It took a while for him to come in. But now the thing stood in front of the door. Gwen hoped that it didn't hear the noise that he made. This was not a part of her plan not at all. Gwen was bored for being alone for so long. Plus she got hungry so she thought to order a pizza. Ofcours to let it delivered at the old abenden house down the street. She made a little plan to scare him. But this was not part of it. What can she do to get out of there?

Gwen looked at him then she went to the little door in the end of the clossed to see when it comes in.

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"PSSSS." Jynmi whispered as loud as he could just in case the girl in the closest with him couldn't hear very well. YOu never wanted to take any needless risks in a situation like this. "What's going on?" This was a little bit lower. Not low enough to be considered low per se, but low enough to warrant some restraint in not smacking him in the back of the head because he should've known better. "Also, you owe me for the pizza. I mean, its not mine personally but if the pay for it is going to have to come from somewhere and my wallet is on life support, thanks to lack of nutrition, as it is so the money isn't coming from there."

As he spoke the thing coming down the stairs finished coming down so you could say he was in came territory. The footsteps could be heard all the way to the last step, but there wasn't any legs to accompany them, or a shadow to go along with the space on the ground that suddenly sunk in as if something way too heavy to have been able to climb the stairs without going through them on its first step, was standing there. There was a moment when nothing happened but then the foot steps started again, and they made their way towards the table. A pause, and then the table was smashed in half like a piece of wood suddenly between an anvil and a sledge hammer that was just fired out of a cannon. Another pause went by without anything of interest happening before the foot steps started again, and this time they appeared in the direction of the closet

[Vampy]

Gwen looked back at the boy to answer his question but then the thing came in side and she quietly closed the little door so that the thing couldn't see them. Gwen moved closer to him. Then the sound of a table that broke that scared her a bit and she leand to the wall. The sould of hitting the wall sounded odd. Maybe the way out for here. Gwen began to looked at the place were she hit the wall to see it there was a door or something. She had to be quick. The sound of footsteps came closer. Then they stopped in front of the clossed. Gwen found a hill where her hand fits in and feels a kind of handle. She looked back at the boy and pulled the handle.

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The girl gave Jynmi a look, or more of a glance which somehow managed to ask a question that you had no idea was a question even with the lack of the right punctuation at the end. He nodded, and shrugged at her, which translated to "this is all new to me too." He watched her open up something. Light came rushing in like customers after the stores had been open for a black friday. It wasn't a very strong light, but what it lacked in the ability to bring color into the world, it more than made up for by showing you just where to put your feet so you wouldn't trip.

"I don't know if its safe to go in there." He said. The pounding footsteps stopped just on the other side of the door and then there wasn't a door, but some smashed remains that went flying to the side of the room opposite of where they were. "But its not safe in here either. So let's go and do some sight seeing, eh?" He took her hand and pulled her into the light. It went bump, or it could have been his head. It was hard to tell. He shook it off certain there was really just some kind of misunderstanding like the little frame the light was spilling from was lower than it looked. So he tried again, but there was still a bump. "Hmm." He tapped on what could only be described as a screen that was the kind of clean one just couldn't believe. Jynmi couldn't believe it, and his head had gotten a few bruises from it.

"Here, you've got to knock on it like this." A voice said before there was a series of oddly timed knocks. "There you go."
"Thanks" Jynmi said looking around. Glass smashed somewhere and then the door of light became the epicenter of a tornado, but one that happened underground within a small doorway. It pulled them towards it and then into it.

[Vampy]

When Gwen opened it he took her hand and pulled her trough with him. The light was so bright that she couldn't see a dam thing. Gwen tried her best to see him but the light really hurts to her eyes so she closed them. When they were trough it she hit her head really hard at something that sounded like glass or something like it. Gwen didn't know how long she was away the only thing that the knew was the sound of breaking glass and a males voice. When she opened her eyes the bright light was back. The first thing that she saw was his face. She looked away and blushed. He must have hold her in his arm to carry her to this bench. Gwen was a little confused after all what happened or was it all a dream she had no clue of how long she was a sleep. She tried her hardest to remember what happen earlier.

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Jynmi flew vertically quiet a ways, and kept on flying long after he ran out of air to scream with. In fact he didn't stop until land, a lot of it, came out of nowhere like a giant catcher's glove and plucked him out of wherever it was he was flying through. It hurt, and that was a good sign because pain was something that you tended to look over when you were dead. "So I'm not dead." Jynmi muttered, rubbing his head, his back, and that was about it. There were more places that were sore and badly in need of a rub but a lady was present.

Oh yeah! "Uhm." Jynmi moving closer to get a better view of the young woman to make sure she was alright. "Are you alright?" He put a hand on her shoulder. "Uhm." Something dawned on him and he looked around. There was still light but it was starting to bow out and exit the stage so the rest of the defined world could have it chance in the spotlight. "Well, if you are there's good news and bad news." He uhmed again and scratched under his chin. "We're not in that house anymore and whatever it was that smashed along in the basement doesn't seem to be around." He nodded, happy that it sounded as good coming out as it did in his head.

"Unless of course we always lived in a world with forest that went high up to where the mountains could only grasp and glittered with lights of diamonds and I just didn't know about it. We didn't did we?"

[Vampy]

"I'm oke. Only my head still hurts a bit." Gwen had no clue of where the are. She really hopped that he did. Then when he began to talk about what she saw in, what she hopped was a nightmare, she got up and looked around. "So did that really happened? It seemed more like a really scary nightmare." Gwen looked back at him with a afraid look on her face. Gwen was glad that that was over. The place where they are was beautiful. The perfect setting if you thought of an fantasyland or world. "It's really pretty here." Gwen walked around but didn't go to far away from him. The place seemed somehow familiar to her, was she been here before?

"I don't know that, but doesn't seem this place familiar to you too?" Gwen got really confused right now because she couldn't remember of how they got here and where did that dream come form? Gwen hopes had maybe he knew something.

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Jynmi nodded. He shook his head, and shrugged and tried to go through ever expressive movement he could come up with just to make sure he touched on the bases. "Maybe. There's definitely something about this place that screams "remember me"." He looked around the massive trees. "Hey, before we got sucked into this place, I mean if it really happened and wasn't a dream, did you hear a man's voice? I could've sworn I did." He looked at his hands. "It, he, mentioned knocking the right way." He blinked because not doing so would cause his eyes to dry out. He shrugged and spotted a small clearing in the huge trees. "Hey, this might sound crazy but do you get the feeling we should go in there? I mean, its like hands are pulling me into it." He motioned with his hand for her to follow him. "Come on. I'm pretty sure this is the way to go." But he stopped and looked around. "Besides, I"m not sure if there's any other way to go. It's one of those process of elimination things. "

[Vampy]

Gwen was really happy when she heard him say that he also sorta remembers this place. So she looked at him and smiled. Gwen looked around again a saw something. Something that looked at her with a familiar face she walked closer to it. But he stopped her with what he said. That he heard a man's voice. She couldn't remember, she didn't hear something like that at all. "No, I didn't hear that at all, or was I away at that time already?" Gwen looked at the ground. His hand appeared next to her."Where are we going to?" she asked and looked back but the face was gone. Gwen looked around but couldn't find it. She took his hand and got up. She still didn't know his name should she ask it? Maybe later if they are at some safer place. Gwen had the feeling that they are being watched by someone or something.

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"Where?" Jynmi scratched his head as he thought about it. He scratched hard, and then soft. Scratched to the left, right, up, down, sideways and with a vengeance, but no amount of rubbing the skin of his scalp with nails could get any helpful information. All it brought about were the nerves nearest to the skin screaming and begging him to stop that, or they'd do something awful. It was a bluff of course, as nerves lacked any sort of offensive weapon against the rest of the body aside from letting it know something wasn't comfortable and that hadn't done it any good in the situation so far and there wasn't much chance of that changing any time soon. "Where's a good question. I'm not exactly sure to tell you the truth(sorry if you preferred a fib,) but something tells me there's no point in staying here. It's that same feeling of deja vu."

He squeezed her hand in case she was getting nervous, but if she wasn't then it was for him. Something was following them. Who it could be, there was no way to tell? What did they want? How could he know? When would be the next chance he got to finally get around to seeing the rest of the transformer movies? Meh, that wasn't really worrying him. "Hey." He said, looking casually over his shoulder and hoping she wouldn't panic as he tried to look around her, expecting to see two glowing red eyes somewhere among the diamond trees. "By any chance how does the back of your neck feel?" His was all tingly.

[Vampy]

Gwen feels the back of her neck with her hand, maybe there was something there. She didn't get why but it hurt a little. "It hurts a little, but why? Did something happen?" She really didn't get it. This place was odd the two of them didn't know how they got here or remember it. Gwen still didn't know if the dream was real or not. Gwen looked up to the sky. Looking for the sun to get what time it was now. "Almost 5pm, we need to get going, it will be dark soon." she said it with a soft voice. The feeling of being watched was still there. Gwen looked at the tree's, maybe there wa s something hiding there. She was stil l holding his hand. There she saw something. Gwen holds his hand tight. She kept on looking at it so she didn't lose it again. "Look." she whispered to him. "There is something." It moved but didn't get out of sight.