Mily creeped me out. She had a lot and I mean a LOT of books on necromancy, souls and terrifying things you could do to your enemies. I stayed in the room a little longer and looked at every single paper she had there.
It looked like Mily was currently studying two subjects: Necromancy and Soul Separation. I didn’t bother to look into Soul Separation, but I knew what necromancy was and I wasn’t happy about it.
You’re going to say: But Luna! You’re a ghost! Why does necromancy creep you out?
The answer is very simple: because I’ve seen too many horror movies and the undead did not look as good as I did.
I ran out of Mily’s room but then I returned because I had forgotten to take off the dress. Oh and the suitcase too.
After that I headed straight to my room.
Edgar was still sleeping. I decided not to wake him up. Instead I started packing.
I opened the suitcase and noticed it had some sort of hidden pocket on the inside. There appeared to be something there so I took the object out.
It was an envelope filled with photos. Mily must have forgotten them there after her last trip or she just simply wanted to hide them.
Most of the pictures where selfies that Erika took with a grumpy Mily. Around ten photos were with Mily, Saki and Erika at different restaurants. Three of them were with Midari showing the person that took the photos her new bombs. And around 5 of them were with a 5 year old Lord. Mily must’ve taken pictures of her kid.
As I looked through the photos Saki entered and demanded the photos back, probably because Mily remembered about them.
I gave them back and sighed as he left the room. I wished for a companion like Saki. Don’t get me wrong, Edgar is a nice companion, but I didn’t really feel connected to him. Plus he was older than me and could’ve probably been my dad.
What I wished for was a companion around my age whom I could talk everyday. I wished for Mily and Saki’s friendship. I wished for Millie, Wendy and Kevin’s friendship.
But alas, I was lucky to even have a companion. Midari didn’t have one. Erika didn’t have one. So I should’ve been grateful, but why wasn’t I?
I shook my head and then started packing my stuff.
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,,WAKE UP” Midari yelled again. It was Monday morning, meaning that we were about to leave for our big adventure.
,,I’m up, I’m up” I said.
,,Do I really have to go?” Edgar yawned. Midari went up to him and shook him hard.
,,Alright, alright I’m up! Jeez, Betty used to wake up early like this. I’ll never get over it.”
,,What time is it?” I asked Midari.
,,It’s 7 am! Mily told me to fetch you both” she sat on the bed next to me and dangled her legs.
,,Happy dangling” I told her and she smiled.
,,Well what are you waiting for?! Get up! Mily said that we’ll be meeting in the main hallway.”
Midari waved and teleported away. Edgar scoffed and collapsed back on the couch.
,,I created their boos you know…” he said.
,,You told us. What is she like?”
Edgar turned his head to me.
,,Like a very angry Elizabeth.”
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Walking through forests isn’t fun. Walking in general isn’t fun! SIMPLY EXISTING ISN’T FUN!
But even so, Midari was sprinting cutely through the forest. She went through a tree once and jumped into a puddle but she did not seem affected by anything.
,,Mily” I told her but both her and my sister turned to me ,,I mean Mily the witch. Are we there yet? It’s boring!”
I sounded very much like my evil version. She was tormenting me every night exactly how that guy was bothering Lyla.
,,We still have to walk for like an hour” Mily responded. Erika was carrying our luggage using her ability.
,,Hey Mily” I told her ,,Why don’t you cast a teleportation spell.”
,,I would rather not consume my energy. Plus, going on walk is nice.”
I made an angry face and decided to join Midari in the front.
,,Watcha doing Luna?” she asked, slowing down so I could keep up with her.
,,Walking. I have a question.”
,,Ask then, no one is stopping you.”
I looked up ahead, still hoping to see that damn mansion, but as Mily predicted, we would still have to walk for another hour.
,,Who builds a house in the middle of the forest?”
Midari stopped to think about the answer. She then turned to me presenting the answer:
,,I have no idea!” she then started sprinting again, leaving me with the Wendy-Kevin duo.
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After an hour of walking I could finally see a mansion up ahead. I will make one comment about it: It needed cleaning. If the interior looked like that as well…I would return to the school in no time.
I turned around to ask Lord if he’d go back with me but then I realized that the ghost-child wasn’t with us.
Last thing I remembered, he said he was going to the toilet…OH. We ghosts don’t need to go to the toilet. He had lied to us and we didn’t even realize.
Or maybe Erika and Mily did notice but they didn’t force him to come with us. I kind of missed him though. We would have whined about the road trip together.
We stopped in front of the building. Erika had this disgusted expression. Edgar looked a bit anxious to meet his creation.
It was Mily who knocked on the door. Surprisingly she could touch objects, which meant that the house was probably under a spell that allowed us to interact with objects. I deduced that using my brilliant logic.
Mily took a step back and waited for someone to answer the door.
We waited. And waited. And waited.
Suddenly someone yelled ‘COMING’ from inside and I could hear footsteps approaching.
Then I heard someone trip and someone else laugh. And then someone threatening the laughing person.
A third voice yelled at them and footsteps approached once more. The door finally opened, revealing a girl that was about Erika’s height (very tall). She seemed angry, but not with us.
,,Hi” she said and welcomed us inside.
On the floor in front of us were the person that tripped, a boy who resembles me and Millie, and the person that tripped him, a girl with purple hair and sunglasses. Who wears sunglasses while being inside the house?
,,Where’s Jeanette?” Mily asked the girl that opened the door. Like the purple-hair-with-sunglasses, this girl’s hair was dyed cyan. I was starting to like her.
,,Upstairs” she responded ,,I’ll fetch her for you…you arrived earlier.”
,,For that I most humbly apologize” Erika fake-yawned ,,My mistake.”
The cyan-haired girl turned to me and Millie (Wendy was basically hiding behind her).
,,New ghosts?” she asked.
,,Yeah” I responded instead of Mily ,,The name’s Luna.”
,,Oh no” the guy on the floor said and stood up ,,I was thinking that we looked alike.”
He put out his arm for me to shake.
,,Hi sis” he said ,,I’m Elliott.”
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Millie told me that she was terrified of the house. We were rooming together because that’s the way our brother arranged things.
Wendy,Kevin and Edgar had to room together and Wendy threw a tantrum because she didn’t want to be separated from her ghost. Millie calmed her down and told her that if she wanted she could come sleep with us.
I grabbed my suitcase and Millie grabbed hers and we started unpacking. The room my brother put us in was fancier than the rest, though it looked haunted.
He said that he’ll come talk to us after he’s done helping the purple-haired girl set the table for lunch.
,,So” I started a conversation with my sister who had been awfully quiet ,,What do you think of him?”
She looked at me and responded while folding a shirt:
,,I think he’s nice. I’m not sure what to say about the girl who tripped him though.”
,,Mhm I have the same opinion.”
,,Luna listen, I’ve been thinking about that incident with Lyla and I believe it was wrong of me to dismiss her like that. Truth be told I was angry at you and took my anger out on her. I think we should talk to Elliott about her and ask him if he knows anything.”
,,Yeah” I approved.
Just then, a person knocked on the door. I opened expecting to see my brother but instead I saw this girl that had absolutely no color. By that I mean, everything about her was white and grey. Her hair was white, her skin was white, her eyes were white, even he clothes were white! The only grey thing was a pair of headphones around her neck.
This was a low ranked ghost, and the one Midari warned us about.
,,Hi!” she cheerfully said. Not the type of Wendy/Midari cheerfulness, but a type that was GENIUELY nice.
,,Hi? Who are you?”
She waved and then placed her arms behind her back.
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,,I’m Emma! And I’m here to greet you!”
I turned to look at poor Millie who looked like she wanted to steal Emma’s soul and bring it in front of Hell’s queen.
,,Uh..hi Emma. I’m Luna and this is my twin sister, Millie…”
Emma waved at Millie and smiled, showing her perfect teeth. Millie did not smile and did not wave back. She was probably praying to Elizabeth to change her destiny.
,,So you’re Elliott’s sisters?” she asked, not minding her own business.
,,Yeah.”
,,Well in that case I hope you two aren’t as introverted as him.” Emma left the room and closed the door behind her.
,,Did you hear that? “I hope you two aren’t as introverted as him” my ass! What’s wrong with being an introvert?” Millie threw herself on her bed.
,,Nothing, I like introverts” I said and sat down on my own bed ,,She probably thinks introverts are rude or something. Don’t listen to her.”
,,Sometimes I was to strangle you, sometimes I feel like you’re the only one who actually understands me” Millie told me. I couldn’t help but smile. Maybe she had forgiven me for the suicide.
And if you’re asking yourself: “But Luna didn’t do anything wrong, she didn’t push Millie to do anything she didn’t want to, so then what’s wrong?” then allow me to provide you the answer.
I basically encouraged her suicidal behavior and convinced her to kill herself. That wasn’t very nice of me.
,,Anyway, I hope they at least have good food” she rolled over to face me ,,I’m starving.”
,,How many souls have you eaten this month?” I asked.
,,Two” she said ,,they tasted horribly. That’s why I’m trying to compensate with food.”
,,What do you think of everyone here so far?”
,,Hmm…Well first, I do not like Emma. She’s annoying! Our bother is alright as I’ve said before. The one with purple hair reminds me of this guy I saw last week while going with Edgar to buy a vest. And the cyan-haired one is pretty and nice.”
,,Ooh mysterious guy with purple hair” I teasted her.
,,Personally I want his hair. Do you think I should cut these off?” she said and pointed at her side tails.
,,Nah” I told her ,,I think your hair is unique and it makes you look pretty. Thought I wouldn’t complain to see you without those side tails. You’d look good either way.”
,,HEYYYYYYYYYY LUNCH IS READY” Midari yelled from outside the door. I stood up and Millie followed giving me a half smile.
She opened the door for us and we followed Midari downstairs.
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Those people were rich. Richer than me, richer than Mily, richer than you and you know it!
They had the longest table ever! You could fit the entire Spectre council in there (A council for Spectres.)!
At the end of the loooong table there stood a woman that looked like the female version of Saki. With shoulder-length hair and Saki’s square glasses, she looked like she was about to commit murder.
On the left side of the table the purple-hair-and-sunglasses girl was playing around with a fork. On the other side of the table, right in front of her, cyan-hair was observing her every move.
My brother was being bothered by Emma who was trying to tell him something about how me and Millie weren’t very social. Ha as if.
He looked very uncomfortable and decided to switch places so that he could sit next to cyan-hair. She didn’t even bother to look at him, much too busy with analyzing her teammate who was threatening to throw forks at us.
At some point we sat down. The table was long enough to fit all of us. Mily was sitting at the other end of the table, making eye contact with Saki’s female version.
Then, the woman spoke.
,,Well hello everyone, new and old ghosts” she said staring at each one of us ,,I am Jeanette, the owner of this house.”
,,Fancy introduction much” Erika mumbled but everyone heard what she said.
,,For those of you who don’t now” Jeanette looked at me and Millie and then pointed at the purple haired ,,This is Klara.”
Klara waved in a friendly manner. Now that she put her fork down, she didn’t seem that threatening. Even so, she looked like she was up to no good.
,,This” Jeanette pointed at the cyan haired ,,Is Merlé. The name is French by the way.”
,,We figured that already” Erika told Midari and the kid laughed.
,,And I am guessing you already know Elliott and Emma.”
,,Yeah” I told her ,,I’m Luna” I introduced myself ,,And this is Millie.”
,,Hi” my sister greeted ,,And these are our companions: Wendy, Kevin and Edgar.”
Wendy gave Jeanette a suspicious look.
,,Wonderful” Jeanette then whispered something to Merlé and she sat up and went to another room.
,,While Merlé brings us food I would like to discuss what your business here is.”
And now it was Mily’s time to shine and speak on behalf of all of us.
,,We are aware that we don’t really get along well. We would like to apologize and to try our best to collaborate with you.”
Wait a minute that wasn’t the plan! The plan was: We go to their house, find Elliott, make sure he’s our brother, steal him and get out of here. Oh and whatever other business Mily had.
,,That…would be nice” Jeanette’s whole demander changed from scary to soft. Was she actually falling for Mily’s lies?
I looked over to my brother who had a shocked expression. He probably wasn’t expecting this. Or he didn’t trust Mily.
,,I am sorry for what happened. I let my anger get the best of me. As for Erika and Midari’s behavior, I deeply apologize” Mily sounded fake, but yet, convincing.
Jeanette’s gaze softened. Edgar gulped, probably because he didn’t know his creation would be so gullible.
Merlé returned in no time. Elliott helped her serve the food, which I found very nice. We ghosts didn’t really help each other out like that.
We started eating and I have to say, the food was chef’s kiss. Though Mily’s cooking was better.
Midari was stabbing her steak with her knife while giving Klara weird looks.
,,How about” Jeanette was talking to me and Millie ,,Elliott gives you a tour of the house?”
,,House? More like palace…” Midari commented.
Elliott was busy eating and Merlé tapped his shoulder to make him aware that Jeanette was talking to him.
,,Uh yeah sure, why not?”
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,,And uhm…here’s the library” Elliott opened a door for us. Not only were those people rich, but they also had enough rooms to store the entire planet population in.
Millie walked inside first. The place was huge and I loved it! Though I couldn’t help but remember that Elizabeth aka my new nemesis also lived in a place like that.
,,This is just WOW! Te library we have at the school does not compare to this!” Millie twirled around looking at all the different books.
I took a seat on the couch that was so conveniently placed in the middle of the room. My brother showed our sister alls the cool books he liked. I simply resumed to listening to their discussion. Maybe going after him wasn’t that bad.
And yet, I wished we did the same for Lyla instead of yelling at her and not listening what she was telling us.
,,So…Elliott…tell us about yourself” I told him as my siblings came back to the couch. Millie had so many books in her arms she could barely hold them.
,,Well” he started the storytelling ,,I ran away from home. And Jeanette found me and took me in.”
The story was boring but no one had such a dramatic backstory as Midari.
,,Why though?” Millie asked.
,,Because I would have probably died in that place. Listen mom isn’t the nicest person in the world. Did she let you two starve too?”
,,Yeah I guess. Sometimes.”
,,Well on top of the constant neglect she was involved in shady businesses at work. Did you now that she was constantly targeted by hitmen? I wanted to tell you two that it wasn’t safe to stay there but you were too young.”
,,Go on…”
,,I wanted to return to take you both with me. We would have lived here but then I found out you both died and I assumed it was too late. But it isn’t>”
He stood up.
,,Join me. Please. You may not know me very well and I do not know you two either. But together we can leave. You can leave the school, I can leave this place. I could provide for us.”
Millie was as confused as me. But we couldn’t accept his offer. He was right, we didn’t know him and he didn’t know us. Why should he trust us and vice-versa?
And most importantly, I had grown attached to our made up ghost family. I would have rather lived with Mily.
,,I’m sorry, but we have to decline.”
Elliott made a sad but understanding face.
,,I guess it’s ok. But let’s at least spend time together.”
That seemed reasonable enough.
I was starting to remember him. Mom used to tell us that he was an ungrateful child.
I looked up at him. His eyes were green, like mine and Millie’s (though mine were more like blue then green) and they reminded me of Edgar.
,,So how’s your life here?” Millie asked ,,Also do you find Emma annoying? Please tell me you do.”
Elliott frowned at the mention of his teammate.
,,Of course I do. She’s constantly bugging me. Listen, Klara may be the one who plays pranks on me all the time, but Emma is just terrible. She’s always so cheerful even though she’s dead. How can you be cheerful while being dead?!”
An image of Midari and Erika causing mischief and blowing up stuff flashed through my mind.
,,Well, anyway, Emma’s annoying” he said ,,Always disturbing everyone. Heck, she even bothers Jeanette while she’s working, it’s insufferable. And yet, Jeanette keeps her here out of pity. At least that’s what she told me.”
,,In short Emma is a nuisance” Millie concluded ,,And we do not like her.”
,,That would be correct. Before I arrived here Jeanette tried to hand her over to you guys. But Mily and Erika said no. And I mean, it’s very understandable.”
,,So what can we do while around here?” I asked. I could sense my evil version getting bored again.
,,Honeslty? There’s nothing to do. We can talk, read books together or something. You can talk to the others…”
,,Except Emma.”
,,Right, except Emma. Also there’s a park in the back on the mansion, the kind that has swings.”
,,Oh good idea!” I stood up and I noticed that me and Elliott were the same height. Which meant that Millie was taller than us.
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Mily was so bored.
She was swinging on one of the two swings in the back yard. Saki was doing the same thing.
There was also a pile of sand where Midari was building some kind of structure. Erika was sitting on a nearby bench. She stole Klara’s sunglasses and was now enjoying the light of the day.
Midari’s structure collapsed and Wendy ran to her to help her rebuild it.
Kevin and Edgar were setting down a picnic blanket.
As soon as my companion saw me and my two sibling (Elliott decided to join us) he smiled and gestured for us to join them.
Mily stopped swinging and Saki did the same. The two also set down a picnic blanket of their own, gatekeeping their food.
Although we just ate, ghosts can never be hungry. I know Midari and Millie mentioned that they’re hungry, but ghost-hungry and human-hungry are two different things.
Elliott was a bit hesitant at first, but Kevin encouraged him that he doesn’t bite an that Elliott should just have fun.
We all ate together and it really felt like Elliott was part of the family. Maybe I could convince to come with us instead…become a ghost like us.
But then I remembered what Millie had gone through and I wondered, did I really want him to go through the same thing?
But maybe he was willing to die, just like Millie was? Maybe he didn’t like his life here? Was that why he wanted us to basically run away together?
We could build a new life for us at the school. And then find Lyla and adopt her. I didn’t care if she was or wasn’t my sister, but I’ve grown attached to that child and I wanted her back.
Maybe…
And then I blacked out.
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,,Stop it with these thoughts” evil Luna yelled at me. I found myself in her throne room again.
,,I thought you didn’t care about anything I think about.”
,,It involves our family, of course I care. You view me as your evil version, a person that does not care. Well I do care. And I care about Millie, about Elliott. “
,,Well I don’t want to kill him either.”
,,But you thought about it.” She stood up from her throne.
,,Yeah but it was just a thought, you can’t control thoughts!” I tried my best to convince her of my innocence, but she was getting angrier.
,,Control yourself, goddamnit!” she yelled and I woke up somewhere else.
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I was standing in the middle of a town square. Someone next to me pointed at something and yelled:
,,BURN THE WITCH!”
I looked in the direction the person pointed and saw a terrified Mily being set on fire. The part of her face that her hair usually covered was now exposed, and in that moment I finally understood why Mily was so insistent on having emo hair.
It was because her right eye was missing.
The alive version of Mily yelled in pain as the flames burned her dress. I saw two men holding back a guy that was trying to save her. I saw another guy smiling to himself.
The scene was just cruel. As much as I disliked Mily and her rules, I couldn’t help but want to kill everyone that made her suffer.
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,,Luna wake up already. I’m tired of you fainting like this all the time!” I could hear Mily yell at me.
,,Hey maybe try not to shake her so hard?” Edgar’s voice could be heard.
,,Wait let me perform CPR…” Midari suggested.
I woke up and pushed her away.
,,Bad Midari! No CPR!” I yelled and she backed down.
,,Luna” Mily warned me ,,Tell us what happened. Why are you fainting? And don’t try to act clueless, I know you’ve stolen more souls from me and ate them, so I know you’re not fainting because of that.”
,,Well…hehe…you see…”
,,Actually why am I bothering? While you were asleep I connected my mind to yours. Seems like you’ve got an angry version of yourself living in your head rent free.”
,,Yeah but she said not to tell you because you might kill her.”
,,I know, I had a little chat with her.”
Listen I am not the brightest person around but I figured out that when Mily entered my mind, I entered hers, specifically her memories.
I wanted to hug her right there but my ego was too big.
,,Well, would you like me to do just that?” Mily asked.
,,Uhh no thank you, I’ll deal with her myself.” Mily crossed her arms in disappointment.
,,At least be grateful that I saved you this time.”
,,Thank you for saving me, almighty Mily.”
She seemed happy to be called almighty. Just then my sister entered the room, looking worried.
,,Luna!” she yelled ,,Don’t ever faint like that again, you scared me! I mean, you always scare me but this time you scared me really good.”
I expected her to hug me but that did not happen.
,,Well what are you going to do about your evil self?” Mily asked ,,She’s pretty mean.”
Mily calling someone mean meant that the person was actually mean.
,,Are you sure you don’t need help?” Mily questioned ,,I’ll help you for the low price of your cleaning services…”
,,No thank you!” I said, louder than intended. I had some bad memories about cleaning.
Midari looked at me, then at Mily but she didn’t say anything. Sometimes I felt like Midari and Mily knew something I did not, but everyone has their secrets, right?”
,,Well…what now? The plot is kind of stuck at this discussion.”
I got some weird stares again but no one said anything. Then I remembered what I wanted to ask Mily.
,,Hey…Mily…so…I don’t know if this is appropriate of me to ask, but are you missing an eye?”
Mily blinked and then turned her head to Midai who shook her head.
,,Yes indeed. I am missing an eye. Is there a problem with that?”
,,Wow I really feel like in those horror stories from 2013” Millie said, her voice filled with nostalgia.
,,Yeah I feel like that dude with the white hoodie” I said ,,Oh wow, I’m actually starting to remember those stuff. I used to be really into them.”
,,I thought the point of the discussion is to find out whether Mily is missing an eye or not” Midari kindly reminded us.
,,Indeed it is. Mily, can I see it?” I asked, even though I already saw it.
,,No, of course not” she bluntly replied, probably wondering how on earth I could even suggest such a thing ,,You’re disgusting Luna.”
,,I may be, but you’re disgusting too. Like c’mon, you raise the dead and you perform weird rituals. You literally have an entire shelf filled with animal bones!”
,,Those are for divination! I need them!” Mily argued back.
,,Actually I believe that Luna’s more disgusting. She eats souls” my sister obviously sided with her friend.
,,Ok, ok everyone calm down” Edgar quieted us down. He was very good at managing kids. I could see him being a preschool teacher.
,,Fine. Also we are expected to have dinner with the rest. Wonderful right?”
Midari didn’t look excited. Instead she turned her head and mumbled something about stupid Jeanette.