They drove through the highway, their destination already known by the two on the wheel. Tian and David had already checked where it was they were found, it wasn't even that far, a day's travel at most. The main however problem was that the kid wanted to pee, eat and other stuff regular humans do.
They had to stop thrice already because of the child, they didn't even know if they were heading the right way anymore because of all the stops.
"We're low on fuel"
David shouted as they were passing by a gas station.
"What about money?"
Tian just rememebered that he forgot to take some from that rich idiot.
"Don't you remember what the reward for first place was at the tournament, I was announced the winner and 10 grand are now in my pocket"
Tian laughed at his remark, forgetting all about the tournament, such childish things he had long forgotten about.
At that time in the police station, Chris was put in a detention cell.
-Did you get a word from him?
-No, it seems like her death was a huge hit to him
-After the neighbor identified him as the victim's boyfriend and the person calling the ambulance twice, there's no doubt that the people who stole the ambulance were the culprits of our crime
-What about him?
-He has no papers, thus he'll be deported to mexico or somewhere, don't know where
Chris sat alone in a cell, today there didn't have anyone other than him in detention, probably for the better.
Outside the sky was getting darker and the seventh day had ended, it was time for the monster to come out and play.
The ghost appeared out of the wall, passing through it and heading towards him, it was an easy kill, a person whom had lost his will to live.
Like the drums of war however another ghost appeared behind him. It was the spirit of the warrior whose head was shrunken. The shrunken head like the A.I. was stored in his indestructible wrist watch.
The little girl ghost was two heads smaller than the warrior wearing the colors of a warrior and holding a spear. Chris other than sneezing because of the ghosts didn't even see them fighting a staring contest, until the ghost of the girl simply turned around and fled.
Chris could have ended everything then and there, if he wasn't so down, all he had to do was order the warrior to attack. Tian was terribly wrong about the relic, it didn't need a shaman to use, anyone could, as long as what you're facing is a danger of life and death, the relic could save your life once.
Since the ghost girl however didn't attack him, the shrunken head wasn't used up, of course it would be another matter if she had attacked.
Back in the mansion everyone was on Edge, they knew that the others were coming back, but they didn't know whether the ghost would attack them if they came out or not.
It was the middle of the night that Mary decided to sneak out to go to the toilet. She was too shy and her alertness had gone down by a lot since there was practicaly no danger, she still didn't believe in ghosts and she had a gun with her. She never returned, while everyone only found that she left the next morning.
The ambulance had at last reached the freeway, from here on out it was all strait ahead, only thing they had to care was not to lose their turn.
They've been driving all day and night, David was exhausted, since he was the night driver and was sleeping next to Christing at the back of the ambulance,
leaving George and Tian up front.
"We have to be cautious, the ghost might appear at any moment, the ghost from the Ring doesn't discriminate day and night"
George explained, causing Tian to have a headache as he sat next to George whom was driving the ambulance at the time.
The next stop wouldn't be until hours later once the kid goes hungry. In truth however everyone was hungry, they had only eaten once yesterday and that wasn't enough to satisfy them at all. Tian said that they should get used to being hungry if they were to survive as long as himself.
Now however he was sort of hungry himself and wanted the kid to say something deep inside, but Aidan seemed off today.
He looked terrified, when Samson asked him if he was hungry, he shouted "No".
If george was there he would have told them that the child could see the future through paintings.
George saw a person in front of them, he was about to hit the break, when Tian pressed his foot.
"You idiot, that person you tried to evade was the ghost!"
George felt like an idiot, while the others wondered why there was a short bump on the road, waking David up.
Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.
Suddenly the back of the ambulance flew open, everyone was shocked to see the ghost in front of them, broad daylight outside, its skin white and pale, with black inklike lines outlining her features.
Normaly one wouldn't jump into "ghost" immediately, but they knew that what was against them was no mere goth girl, it was a ghost.
Was it by accident or because he was spooked, the first to react was David, whom had just woken up. What he did was heinous, he kicked Christin out of the ambulance right into the ghost, sending both of them flying. Christin's head popped up like a watermelon, but the ghost was gone, was this fair no, did he knew it would work, no again, he just panicked.
"Is everything alright back there"
George shouted backwards, mostly because Xiao was back there.
"Bloody incredible, we've found how to repel the ghost"
Jonas shouted, causing everyone to look at him questinably.
"All we have to do is give one person up to the ghost, it only takes a single person each time it appears"
The logic sort of stood, but seeing Christin's death, one could argue that it wasn't the ghost who took her life, rather her own partner.
"No diner stop, we are going strait to the mansion"
Tian said while taking over the wheel as they switched places and closed the back door. It was only a short stop, but the ghost didn't appear. Didn't appear immediately as her hair fell to the front of the car, the windshield wipers didn't work at all. Now they couldn't see, but as suddenly as he begun to drive, as the speed rose, the hair begun to little by little blow with the wind. The people in the back were hunging for life, because the speed was only rising, Tian didn't care one bit about visual, he had everything planned out, all he needed do was reach the turn in a few hours, probably 2 hours with the speed he was flying right now.
It was at 300km/h that they heard a slight bumping sound, the hair all gone by that time. The ghost couldn't hold anymore or something, but the people in the back were about the same, they did their best not to bump into the back doors of the ambulance while staying clear of David, in fear they might be his next victim.
Slowly the speed returned to regular good old 100Km/h, they were still speeding, but not as fast as before, if they weren't afraid of being stopped by cops on the way, Tian would have flown them 300km/h, all the way to the mansion.
"Did you open the siren?"
George suddenly asked and Tian could only curse as he begun to develop speed again.
Now it was an ambulance followed tightly by a police motorcycle, whom was keen on tailing them all the way to the mansion.
When he arrived next to them to tell them to stop with horror the officer of the law saw the nuzzle of a gun directed at him, it was the last thing he saw, Tian didn't miss, even when he was also driving with his other hand.
It was insane to think that he succeeded on the first shot, but that's what happened and now they also had a dead cop on their hands.
They were literaly flying now as Tian didn't seem to care about his passengers one bit. Everyone wished it just ended, but nobody believed that they could make it in one piece with a killer ghost haunting them.
As they were going, it wouldn't be strange if they crushed without the ghost having lifted a finger.
It was dark when they arrived at the familiar mansion, because of the country roads, they had to go slower.
They were however at last at their destination, now all that was left was getting Aiden inside.
"No! I don't want to die!"
Aidan tried to resist, but it was pointless, they were bigger and stronger than him.
=objective 4 throw Aidan into the well for 24 hours=
The objective was insanely evil, if before they believed themselves "heroes", now it felt as if they were the villains of the story.
David didn't even wait as he charged towards the secret piece, towards safety, he knew that the ghost wouldn't let them be and they had no way of defeating it.
Thanos dragged Thany and went after him, thinking that it would be safer with him, rather than with the group, after all everyone could guess where he was going.
Tian and the others were really disappointed with their action, after all Tian had assured them that they would be fine, he had a plan in mind.
Thany didn't know what to think as she was dragged towards safety by her brother, she didn't know whether to resist or thank him.
Little did they know that the ghost was right behind them, ready to murder at least one of them.
"Go!" Shouted Thanos as he stayed behind to stop the ghost, it went against anything he had done for her, sacrificing his life so that she could live on.
In all their life, he was the annoying brother that restricted her freedom to do what she wanted, like a thorn in her side. Now however she was terrified and he led her to safety, without even having the time to think she went up to the attic, towards safety, only sparing a glance and almost falling into despair as she saw the ghost holding him by the neck and squeezing tightly, while he was paralyzed by fear, she could hear the clicking of clacking of bones.
It was at this point that two people came from outside, into the safe space, it was David and Thany who made it back alive, swearing their fate.
When asked what happened, all they got is "shit happened" from David, while Thany was mortified and wouldn't even talk.
Down at the entrance Tian had them to suround him, and watch out for the ghost, the moment they saw it he would use "magic" to exorcize it.
Why he hadn't done so before, it was because they were in a moving vehicle and it's ill advised to spellcast while moving.
"I can feel my hair freeze, the ghost must be close!"
George shouted even as they were entering the mansion.
The others had left them behind as they headed towards safety, probably regreting their decision to be "heroes".
But were they really heroes, what they were doing right now wasn't at all heroic, it was abducting a child and throwing it into a well.
"I think I saw its hair over there!"
Samson shouted hinting at the stairs.
Everyone momentarily turned their face to the direction he had pointed out, it was the most logical thing to do, but reality played weird tricks.
The ghost didn't appear at all...
They could hear the squicky sound of the wood under their feet, the sound of their own frosty breaths, the sound of the salty winds entering through the creeks and cracks of the old mansion.
They went down to the basement, here Tian felt safer because they were in a constricted space, the ghost could only attack from so many directions.
The boy was terrified as he didn't know his fate, why these people had taken him to this place, what would follow next.
He could only hope they wouldn't kill him, he knew he would be killed, but not the how, all he saw was darkness and a ring of light.