Undertaker raised a finger and held it up in front of Ava. "I'm starting to think that something is going on. You know, like how in final Destination there was "death" and it managed to control the character's actions. I'm starting to think the same is happening here. Something doesn't feel right."<br /> <br /> He stood up and straightened out his robe. He extended his hand out to Ava. "Want to take a walk?"

Ava grinned at Pein. "With the group we have with us, I'd say that's a constant danger for me." She then moved to Undertaker's side and flopped to the ground. "What's up?"<br /> <br /> Meanwhile, Chandra moved silently over strangely dark grass and her grey eyes scanned the equally grey scenery with sharp wariness. She investigated several trees and moved toward the mill pond, but stopped and did not approach its edge. "Something about this place seems very off," she murmured to Sebastian, who walked beside her with none of her watchful tenseness.<br /> "I know," he replied, and his eyes narrowed on the pool of still, dark water nearby. "Something about this place seems very... familiar."<br /> Chandra's eyes followed his to the mill pond and darkened with distrust. "We should find Al," she said. "I don't want her stirring up whatever's here that makes my skin feel all crawly like this."

Undertaker shrugged. "As long as there are dead people, then I'm all for it. But if there are more Shinigami in there, I'm staying put." He pulled out another dog biscuit and threw it into his mouth. A strand of gray hair moved out of the way and his eye was visible. He waved his hand at Ava and patted the ground next to him. "Want to come here for a moment? I wanna talk to you~"<br /> <br /> Pein placed a hand on Ava's shoulder. "He might make you fangirl. Watch out."

Chandra stared at Envy and Pein, then turned a thoughtful expression on the "haunted" house. "Your friend is not very..." she began.<br /> "Cautious?" Ava suggested.<br /> Chandra sneered. "We'll pretend that's what I was going to say."<br /> With that, the blonde leapt lightly to the ground, touched Sebastian on the elbow and gestured for him to follow her. The pair walked silently through the portal that Google had provided and vanished from sight around its edge.<br /> "Undertaker," Ava said as she watched them go, "something about this place seems right up your alley. Care to take the lead?"

Al looked at the mansion. "Did Google seriously turn into that? I didn;t know it was capable of doing that! Well, haunted mansions are my thing, let's go!"<br /> <br /> With that, Al jumped off Sergaent Sprinkles and ran into the mansion. Envy lifted his head and hissed. "we can't let her go in there on her own. Who knows what trouble she'll run into. She might end up calling the ghosts of Google past and future." <br /> <br /> Pein placed a hand on Envy's head. "Let's go inside."

Ava sighed and called out for Google, which appeared from the woods dragging a bloody deer carcass. It jumped up into Chandra's lap, smearing blood over her clothes, and the blonde cooed and cuddled and praised it. "Google, where are we going?" Ava asked.<br /> Google chittered, leapt to the ground and transformed into a panorama of a dimly-lit manor house surrounded by straggly willows. "Well, that looks dangerous. And haunted. So we can either go there and do just as much nothing as we've done here, or stop relying on me to run this show."

Al turned and looked at Ava. "you're the guide. You tell us where to go. And while you do so, I'm going to figure out how to break the FIFTH wall."<br /> <br /> Envy shifted into a snake and curled around Pein's neck. "IS that even possible?" he hissed.

Chandra grabbed Envy by the back of his shirt and yanked him away from Al. "She exists outside of fiction. She's allowed to break the fourth wall."<br /> "Besides, anything I'm involved with barely HAS a fourth wall anyway," Ava said.<br /> Sergeant Sprinkles pawed the ground and gave a whimsical whicker, tossing his magical mane and causing unexplained flickers of rainbow light to flicker through the air around him.<br /> "I think the totally unnecessary mythical creature is getting impatient," Chandra said. She dropped Envy onto the ground and leaped up to sit sidesaddle behind Ava on the flaming unicorn's back. "Who's our guide and where are we going?"

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Al pouted. "Oh, you guys are just terrible. Care to make even more innuendos? Oh, well what do youknow? The title of this-"<br /> <br /> Envy ran over to Al and covered her mouth. "Do NOT break the 4th wall!"

"Weeeeellll," Ava pondered. "The Sergeant is, as you can see, flippin' huge, so he can carry two or three people."<br /> "Or we could all ride you." Chandra gave Envy a speculative look. "You can get pretty big, right?"<br /> "Mustnotsayit, mustnotsayit, mustnotsayit," Ava muttered, hiding her face in her hands,<br /> Sebastian stepped out of the trees and grinned, his Cheshire tail twitching smugly. "That's what she said," he said.