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  Fortune and Glory

"You have entered the world of survival horror,the door to freedom has locked shut behind you and there are faint sounds in the distance,survi-.."

"Sanjuro,shut the hell,up,damn man this place is creepy enough"

Sanjuro smirked and closed the large front doors of teh mansion,the main hall was huge,one large staircase in the middle which split into two smaller ones which led up to the second floor,two doors on the right wall with a double door on the left and two staircases that led down behind the main stairs.

"wow,nice digs..."

Reiko nodded as he walked cautiously around it,his tail casting light in the empty hall,didn`t seem to be light by anything,he knew it was a bad idea to arrive at the dead of night.

"this is all your fault San,why did I let you plan our trip?"

"don`t ask me,your the crazy one"

<We lost yet?>

"No...not yet."

Midnight Legacy cast a glance over his shoulder, his body blending into the darkness of the mansion.

Sokuro's ears perked up. <Someone else is here...>

"Or something."

<Someone or something?>

"That's exactly what I'm talking about..."

He nodded roughly and pushed his black hair behind his face, the long silken threads falling paralell to his ears, bright cerulean blue eyes tried to focus into the dark, trying to see anything at all.

Sokuro padded up ahead of the MewTwo, but not by much.
<Just watch yourself.>

*Wolf silently exited the room she was exploring at the sound of the fronts doors. She had no clue who it was and took caution to the noise. Creeping to the edge of the upstairs balcany that looked over the whole front lounge, she carefully gazed down into the darkness below her. Light was being cast off from someone below as she could just make out the figures, they didn't seem dangerous, perhaps more people whom were invited here...*

"Welcome to the mansion of doom!" Wolf yelled out from atop her hiding place, her voice echoing throughout the silent room.

*She couldn't help herself, at times she just loved be the joker of everyone, but then she didn't know these people. She could only hope that neither of them would actually be scared of it. Walking silently over to the staircase, Wolf hoped onto the railing and slide all the way down, landing only feet away from the two strangers.

*At first she said nothing to the two strangers, just watching them with a curious eye as she always did. Right now she was having too much fun to be shy around them, she just didn't care...*

"Hey, my names Lone Wolf. Welcome to the place of your demise..." She told them with a light smirk and laugh.

Reiko looked up and gulped.

"uh,hi..."

"hey"

Reiko flicked his tail up over his shoulder and raised an eyebrow as Sanjuro quickly lept out of his arms.

"chicken shit"

"lizard prick"

The two sighed and looked up at Wolf.

Reiko : "so you got invited too,unless your the owner"

He craned his neck back further to see the chandalier.

"okay enough of the dark"

He took in a deep breath and kicked off the ground unfurled his wings shooting up to it and quickly letting out a quick gout of flame lighting the candles on it,landing back to the floor on one knee.The whole hall lighting up but from one of the few dark recesses a figure emerged and placed his hand on Sanjuros shoulder the bioriod nearly leaping out of his skin quickly spinning on his heels and jumping back from the figure.

"gooooood evening,my name is Alucarne Didit,I served master Conner until the day of his untimely demise,I am sure I sent out more invites than just who is here,would you kindly descend to this floor madam?"

OOC: Corvus, I'm Wolf this time around ^_~

*Wolf walked over to Alucarne and the others, giving a short bow, Amazonian style; putting her right arm over her chest and her left one behind her back, she then took a step forward with her left leg and bowed to all the strangers, then stood up straight. A light smiled was still on her face, she couldn't believe how easy it was to scare these two, she guessed it was going to be an interesting night.*

"As you can see I am not the owner... But you have still not told me your names..." She said to them, tilting her head slightly to the side.

*Glancing away from the three men, she turned her bright blue eyes to the area around them, looking at the beautiful mansion in all it's glory now that it was under the light of the candelier. The oriental carpeting covered the floor before the staircase and towards the door. Paintings of people were hung around the walls, most likely those of the family or the past owner...*

"This place is like the Ritz... or something..." Wolf said to herself silently.

<A bit bright...> Sokuro shielded his eyes, Legacy still holding his own in the dark shadows that were offcast.

"Maybe you should give them a scare." he spoke softly.

Sokuro nodded and launched a psychic ball at the chandalier. The candles all burned out and fell to the ground, both of the troublemakers gone from the area in an instant.

Sanjuro held a hand to his chest trying to settle his breathing,the chandalier smashing just beside him.

"me names Sanjuro,Sanjuro Light..and what the excuse my french,FUCK was that??"

Reiko growled slightly,he didn`t like the feel of this place but it wasn`t from the chandalier.

"....my names Reiko Valor...hmmm.."

Alucarne grumbled and walked to the middle of the first floor,as he passed Reiko he realised why this place was so dusty,the butler only had one arm behind his back and none in front.

"how`d that happen?"

"...work related accident I`m afraid,not unlike the accident just now,now what we,erhem 'do' is wait for the others to arrive and then I shall explain more into this situation"

All of the sudden, a downpour started in the house, lasting only a few seconds.

<You done yet?>

"Yeah..."

Reiko quickly clutched his tail and covered the flame with his hand,when the rain stopped he was shivering,never one for water.

"hate water....hate water..."

Sanjuro was just standing blank.

"I`ve been suprised twice,nearly killed and now drenched...why me god,what did I do...."

The butler barely even seemed to notice,Reiko putting it down to his advanced years so not as sharp as he might`ve been.

"hmm...I must fix that leak in the ceiling.."

"So this is the place." Jeric looked around carefully as he took off a wide brimmed black hat.

<Don't be stupid. This is the address, so this is the place.>

"Something's off here. One armed Butler, cute girl, lizard guy with a flame on his tail...nope, nothing's wrong here." Jeric started forward.

<You do realize what you just said don't you?" Gospel trailed slightly behind, looking at everything or at least trying to.

White-Jet: This is it!?

Rock: Look's like it.

White-Jet: Are you sure you're reading the map right?

Rock: The words on the top of the letter says "this side up", I have to be right.

Voulnut: This...wasn't what I picutred as a good vacation get away.

Doyle: Do you mean that literally, or figuratively.

White-Jet: Who cares, let's just go.

The group headed towards the mansion and opened it to find the floor...a bit wet.

ProtoX: Wow. Someone must love cleaning the floors.

Doyle: I don't know. The water doesn't look like it came from a bucket.

"Hmph...."

<Don't be having second thoughts now!>

"I'm not...I'm just wondering why so many people are here for just one mans inheritence....and none of them are the right family members."

<You're complaining? What if you get something nice out of it.>

"As much as I hate some humans...it's not right to act like you're false to get someone elses rightful inheritence."

<Understood...> Sokuro hopped up on the banister rail above the rest of the group.

"Aren't you afraid of being seen?"

<They know me. I'm not afraid..but you can stay there as long as you'd like.>

"Oh, believe me I will"

*Wolf watched the chandalier come crashing to the floor in front of her, it seemed she didn't even move at all from it. The only thing that moved about was the long strainds of her hair from the slight breeze the crash created.*

"Hmmm... I wasn't aware that this place was falling apart..." She said with another one of her smirks.

*Just as this was done a small downpour of water washed over the whole group and the whole first floor. Wolf was indeed in need of a bath, but she didn't think that it would be a publich one.*

"This is rather embarrassing... now I'm all wet..." Wolf said to herself, sighing a little.

*Shivering slightly like a cat she was able to remove most of the water, though she had to ring out her hair several times to remove all of the water from it. But just as she finished the door behind her seemed to slowly open as more people stepped through it into this slightly strange mansion, though she knew that the resent happenings were not by anything supernatural.*

"Greetings new comers," Wolf began, "This is the last mansion you will ever visit, welcome to your demise..." She said with a light chuckle as she disappeared into the darkness that was now accompanied by the shattered chandalier. There were beginning to be a great many people here and the loner within her seemed to want to get as far away from them all as possible.

Alucarne looked around teh main hall to see if anyone else was lurking around.

"well I beleive I may as well inform you of this odd circumstance,now as I said I served lord Conner and he died without any blood related family so,not wanting his wealth to go to waste tasked me with sending out those invitations to certain people he had heard about"

Reiko : "how did he hear about KMT studios?"

"I only served my lord in daily matters,his private life I knew nothing of,he was a very secretive man..now let me explain he placed several crests somewhere in this establishment and depending on how many a person collects they are entitled to that share of his entire estate and property,there are 10 crests each one with a unique symbol so that no forging could be done...however I must inform you that certain noises have been echoing through these halls during the night,I did not see the creature that took my arm from me"

"so wait a minute,this place is full of killer beasts"

"one two,two dozen I have no idea they appeared after I came back from lord Conners funeral,the place has also changed somewhat..maybe its just my old age..ah well"

Reiko shook off like a dog and let go of his tail as it flicked irritably.

"so let me get this straight,some old coot scattered some trinkets around a creaky old mansion"

"and its grounds"

"-and its grounds,facing god knows what and facing death at any corner,am I correct in that?"

"that you are"

Reiko turned on Sanjuro and lifted him up by the scruff.

"this is the last time I ever listen to you"

"Ohhh... the temptations of certain death! I am so in! The money means nothing to my tribe or to me... I'm only here for the hunt..." Wolf said aloud from the darkness, her voice seeming to echo about the room.

*She wondered if they were to travel in groups or alone, some of the people here she could tell would not be able to travel alone, especially Reiko and Sanjuro, but she was used to the loneliness. Places like this did not scare her, she believed that there were some things beyond explanation; like vampires, ghosts and the such, but she did not fear them. After all, whatever was made from matter could easily be destroyed. Even those that claim their immortality will one dya fall by something more powerful then them.*

"So, when do we begin and will we be traveling alone?" Wolf asked Alucarne.

*She now appeared on the edge of the balcany, she was hanging upside down, her legs tightly clamped around the guard rails that stopped one from falling and her especially. She thought that this place was quite amazing and she wouldn't mind living in it herself, though it brought back a certain longing for her real home, one she had not had in a long time.*

"you may travel in any number you wish,you can hand over crests to give another the advantage,I would not advise travelling alone though it is up to you...now with my job done I shall reside here in case anyone else shows up,you may begin your search at anytime"

Reiko nodded and walked off immediately,San deciding to just sit it out for a moment until his heart calmed down.

---

"a dining room I guess"

His tail fire was teh only light in this long room,in the center of it was a massive table reaching from the door he had come in from to the fire place he could see ahead,several pictures were hung up and as he walked to the fireplace he spotted a few unsettling things,several portraits were slashed up and he noticed a section of the floor was covered in broken glass.

"....I have a bad feeling about this"

Kneeling down at the hearth he felt around in it,fresh wood and coal,taking in a breath he let out a quick burst of flame which set the fire alight pretty quickly,looking around he finally stood up,noticing a patch of his jeans was sticking to his shin.Reaching down he felt something wet on the material and on bringing it up to his face and a quick sniff.

"blood....fresh too...some reason I feel like Tom would love this place...hooh boy"

Sokuro hopped down and followed a soft shadow as the MewTwo kept his body in the shadows.

"This just doesn't seem right."

Sokuro shrugged a little. <I think I've seen worse.>

"You think?"

<Well I haven't seen the evil beasts yet have I?>

Midnight Legacy heard a low whimper and looked down to see that, also hidden in the shadows, there was a colourful pokemorph curled up in a corner. It peeked its head up over its knees and tail, and immediately yelped and scooted away from him. "D-don't hurt me, please, I got here before everyone, so I got scared and hid when I heard someone else coming."

Standing by herself in a hallway, Solrana pulled her jacket closer to ward off the chill caused by her drenching. She had been wandering around by herself for quite a while, until she had heard the crashing of the chandalier and she had gone to investigate. She got to almost where she had heard the sound before she recieved the drenching of her life.
"What the hell is this?" she muttered quietly as she rubbed a hand through her soaking wet hair. "At least, I won't need a bath tonight, though I wish I had some choice in the matter." Solrana kept walking down the hallway, wondering where the hell she was, and if there was anyone else at all in this creepy place.
Suddenly hearing a noise somewhere behind her, Solrana froze and reached a hand into her jacket to put her hand on the sheathed silver dagger she kept hidden there. "Is someone there?"

Reiko took a few steps back,from the blood and rubbed it off his hands before returning to the group.

"well I managed to get a fire going here so anyone thats still wet and isn`t fond of getting pnuemonia(no clue on spelling and I be tired) can get warmed up in here..cept you San,you can freeze"

"oh thanks"

"heheh I`m kidding"

He closed over the door and walked back across the dining room and kneeled down at the fire place,ah the gentle touch of flames like silk to him.

"much better...grah this shirts drenched"

He slipped off his t-shirt and used his tail to hold it in front of the fire as he stretched his wings.

"ah better,though must be a walkway upstairs for that glass to get here.."

"Where'd the blood come from?" Jeric had stripped of his overcoat and hat and was standing in front of the fire near Reiko, though it would seem the question were directed elsewhere.

<Don't know, too many conflicting smells...>

"Well..?"

<I say we get the hell out of dodge.>

"Normally I'd agree," Jeric frowns, "but this place holds too many mysteries to just walk away from."

<Or get killed by...> Gospel's tail swished lightly as he shook what water was left off of him.

"I doubt that." jeric was looking into the fire.

<This place has taken lives before.>

"Human lives Gospel. I'm not human."

<That doesn't make you immortal>

"You're no fun."

<Did i forget to mention I've seen at least a few dozen movies that start with this kind of situation?>

Legacy took a step back from the cowering mass of furr. His spots began to glow a dull white color (that means he's nervous ^-~)

Sokuro, being fearless as always...or in this case...braver than the average chicken, padded up to the morph.

<Who are you? And if this place scares you so...why hide in one place so the monsters can get you?>

*Wolf flipped down off the railing and walked into the other room, it seemed most of them were gathered by the fire trying to dry themselves off. She could sense a few other stsill behind in the lounge area and one person still seemed to be wandering around the first floor rooms. This was probably where she would leave herself, the company of the others was not something she particularly needed and she would enjoy doing this alone.

*Moving past the others, she looked around this giant room at everything that was in it, but of course there would be no chrest, it was too close to the entrance of the house. Spotting a door on the far left side, she walked over to it and gently opened it just a crack, peering inside of what lay beyond, but the next room was not very well lite, it seemed done so purposefully. There was just enough lite to know where you were going, but not enough to properly enplore.*

"Great..." She said silently, "Someone forgot to turn the lights on in this place... No matter. What is dark to you is light to me and lay's forever in my shadows shall be of nought..." She spoke aloud.

*This was a simple spell to give her the ability to see in the dark, it didn't affect her ability to see in the light either, it just made it possible for her to see what lay hidden in the shadows that the others couldn't. Without a second thought, she walked into the doorway and closed the door behind her. The room around her was not much of anything, a tv sat in one corner surrounded by a couch and loveseat. A table was in the middle of all that with a set of lite candles upon it, wax dripping down forth to the table, though none of it seemed to reach.

*At the other end of the room was a small hallway, along the walls were candle holders that were lite as well, but she could now see everything that they did not afford her. Just then she thought she heard movement in the hallway, but when she took a close look, there was nothing...*

Avalar got out of the taxi and looked at the mansion.

"Good luck! AHAHAHAHAHA!" screeched the taxi cab as he drove away.

Avalar gulped and slowly went up the stairs to the entrance. It wasn't a bad-looking piece of property, but there was just...something in the air. Smelled like rotten deviled eggs. He crept up to the front door, and reached to turn the knob. Suddenly, something grabbed his shoulder. He gasped sharply, yet quietly. He turned his head slowly, but got pushed out of the way slightly.

"Out of my way, kid." Ein said smuggly, and quickly entered the mansion, leaving the door open. Avalar blinked, shifted his tail, and entered in after him.

"I mean it! If someone is there, please come out where I can see you!" Solrana glanced up and down the hallway nervously. Shivering from cold and perhaps a little from fear, she pleaded with the semi-darkness around her, "Please?" After a few more minutes of trying to find the source of the sound, she sighed and kept on moving down the hallway, thinking perhaps she imagined the sound.
After all, creepy sounds in a place this large should be normal, right? She kept that train of thought until, as she passed a door to her right, she heard the noise again, coming from behind the door. Knocking on the door, she said loudly, "Excuse me, but is someone there?"

Reiko watched Wolf leave the room and wrung out his t-shirt before sticking it back on and turned to Jeric.

"you getting a creepy vibe from this place too?"

---

San was pacing back and forth in the hall,jumping slightly as lightning struck far from the grounds,lighting up the entire hall for a second or two before a there was a deep rumbling of the thunder,turning to the butler San tried to lighten up the mood.

"...what was your name again?"

"Alucarne Didit...sir.."

"wait wait,repeat that last name"

"Didit.."

"ah so the butler Didit..."

He tried to keep a straight face and backed away to the dining room before he burst out laughing,almost falling over but keeping his hands on the table to hold himself up.

---

Now that they all seemed to be here Alucarne slowly started to back up the stairs before silently slipping away into the recesses of the ancient house.

---

A knock came from the other side of the door Solrana was at along with a deep growl before another impact on it,the door shaking on its hinges.

"What the hell?!?" Solrana yelled as she jumped backwards away from the door. Drawing her dagger, she looked at it, then at the shuddering door, and decided that discretion was the better part of valor until she got a waaay bigger weapon, and began to run down the hall, since she knew for a fact that the exit was not the way she came.

"Will you hurry and get up!" Legacy shook his head in frustration and headed off back into the shadows.

Sokuro tilted his head to the side and nudged at the weird Eevee morph.

<Come on. You heard him. Let's go>

*A few clashes of lightning and rumbles of thunder were all the echoed throughout the hallway Wolf stood in. She was being as quiet as possible, not wanting to stir up anything unnecessarily, right now she wasn't in the mood for a fight, specially after seeing the butler with only one arm, but then he was only a butler, probably with no special training.*

"Hmmm... this is quite an interesting place..." She said aloud.

*Moving down the hallway she perceived three doors, the two off to the sides were normal doors of no ornate decor, but the one at the end was of a beautiful crimson red colour, was double doored and had small designs carved into it's wooden structure.

*Walking over to it, she tightly grasped the handle and threw open the right side door. Inside she perceived spikes to be on all of the walls and the room was much smaller then when he first anticipated it to be. It was most definitely a trap and as she opened the door more there seemed to be a skeleton just barely hanging on to the protruding spikes. Placing her hand gently on it's leg, the thing immediately fell off with a loud crash to the floor, and Wolf jumped back in surprise not expecting it...*

"I think I'll choose door number two, Bob..." Wolf said.

"Yea, reminds me of any number of horrer flicks," He looked up and saw the deer head above the mantle. "Mind taking a step or two away from that thing?"

Gospel looked around and padded off quietly. <I'm going to the kitchen, you go on your little scavanger hunt.>


"Riiight"

White-Jet: A vacation, huh? (Glaring at her plushies, who all laughed nervously)

T.A.X: Hey, come on! We had no clue this was a haunted mansion.

White-Jet: There was a reason I never accept invitations over mail and phone.

Doyle: Let's check it out anyway.

The group decided to split into two, White-Jet going with Rock, ProtoX and Zero and Doyle going with T.A.X, Voulnut and Liger Zero.

Reiko looked up at it but was already heading for the door that Wolf had gone through.

"yea..look I`m gonna grab that woman...what was..ah yes Wolf"

"why,in case she finds something first?"

"no,I just don`t like the idea of people wandering off by themselves in this place..."

As he walked through the door it was about the time the skeleton went clattering to the floor and he jumped slightly.

"great...get a hold of yourself Reiko...better stop talking to myself as well..Wolf you here?"

---

Sanjuro wiped a tear from his eye and as he straightened up a chill went up his spine..

"...hello?"

Jeric was about to answer but San gave a gesture to show he wasn`t speaking to him.There was a shuffling sound,well sounded like something dragging across the floor.

No answer..but he knew he heard something...

Looking up he noticed dust falling through the floor boards above as they were disturbed by something,a creak,then another..San slowly reached for his rolling cutter and tensed up as the creaking got louder before it hopped up onto the railing and squawked.

"....a...crow?"

Beside the odd looking bird another hopped onto the railing beside it,then another and another,all squawking in unison almost like they were chanting.

Legacy took this time to form a ball of fire between the palms of his hands, each spot on him began to glow a bright bright red.

He had wandered into the same room Jeric and Sanjuro was, and he hoisted the fireball at the crows, smacking them dead on.

They fell to the ground smoking and the young MewTwo was already sweeping his way around the other two men, keeping silent and close.

Still smoking two of the crows got back up,flapping their wings they took to the air around dark Legacy,the rest also getting back up except for a few and assailing the three.Sanjuro quickly slid beneath the table.

"jeez reminds me of Hitchcock"

White-Jet could hear crows from the door in front of her. Curious, she opened the door and peaked in, seeing crows circling the air. Rock, ProtoX and Zero also stuck their heads in...only to have all four tumble into the room.

White-Jet: How many times do I have to tell you, I'm not a table!?

Zero: Sorry, we couldn't help it.

He growled and shot off Flame Wheel, his body glowing even a bit more red than before.

The birds were fried, once again, and he was hoping they might stay that way.

He nodded and got up, looking around as he did so. "I'm Ta Kaiinu... or just Kaiinu. I'm very sorry, I just wasn't sure if I should be here... and so when I heard someone coming, I didn't want to get in trouble. And... your friend," he looked down, "...also scared me."

*Wolf turned around at the sound of a voice, she was ready to gut and kill whatever it was, but the familiar face of Reiko was there instead of an enemy. She was too used to battle and her instincts were to kill anything that moved. Watching him for a few minutes, she wondered what he was doing here, she hoped he wasn't trying to persuade her to coming back into the room or to come with her, for both of those options were probably unlikely...*

"Uhhh... Can I help you?" She asked him silently. It was quite apparent now that her shy nature was returning to her.

*Just then she felt a deep shiver run up her spine and she knew nothing was amiss as the hairs on the back of her neck stood straight up on end. Something was wrong, the room with all the others in it, something was going on in it. But just as she turned to go back into it the slight noise of movement behind her, made her freeze in her tracks. It was a rattling noise that tickled her senses.

*Turning around she was met with a now standing skeleton, but it wasn;t a skeleton anymore. Flesh, blood, tendens and sinews were beginning to form over the skeletal remains as blood came cripping in from all ends. And without a seconds notice it grabbed her tightly by the neck and slightly hoisted her up off the ground. Trying desperately to breath, she kicked at it's torso, but did nothing but make the creature wobble about slightly. The thing had great strength for something that should be dead and not moving before her vary eyes and crushing her throat...*

Reikos tail flame turned blue and he quickly lept up against the wall,pushing off it and slamming into the corpse,knocking it off its feet,unleashing his claws he slashed at its arm,trying to cut it off before it got too attached,finally out of desperation sank his jaws into the arm snapping it in two quickly helping Wolf back from it he let out an ember shot,the flame burst impacting and setting light to the corpse for a few seconds before it fizzled out.

".......this place is seriously fucked up...are you okay?"

He wiped his mouth and spat out the blood,his tail flame going back to a warm red orange.

---

Sanjuro peeked out from under the table and extended out his rolling cutter to poke one of the crows,no movement.

"....this is very....weird..."

<Kaiinu...Kaiinu....> Sokuro repeated the name in his head so he could remember it. <How did Midnight Legacy scare you? I asure you, even though he seems really tough and cold, he's still just a kitten.>

The magic mew circled around Kaiinu and sniffed him a few times before eyeing him down and studying his form.

<What brought you here anyway?>

-----

Legacy shook off and darted into a dark hallway, keeping as much away from anyone as possible.