Al slapped him in the face. "Tea?! Tea?! I don't want no f-en TEA!!!!!"<br /> <br /> <br /> Meanwhile, Envy and Pein were scramblign to their feet. They held each other and walked closer to the sound, fear written all over their faces. "I really dn't want to go there" Envy stated.

Chandra flew from the room and slammed into the wall hard enough to knock plaster loose; Sebastian scooped Al into his arms and darted out of the way before the blonde could fall on them.<br /> "Shall we leave the dead to their own devices?" he inquired. Chandra groaned and didn't move. Sebastian shrugged, turned and walked off down the hall, still carrying Al. "We should find you some tea to calm your nerves," he said to her. "You're babbling."<br /> <br /> Downstairs, the soft sobbing had transformed to quiet pleas. "Someone help," an indistinct voice cried from nowhere. "I don't know where I am. I want to go home..."<br /> <br /> Meanwhile, Ava saw no ghosts and heard no voices. She merely followed Undertaker through the house, letting her mind wander as he muttered to himself.

Al snapped awake. "Oh my gosh! There was this old man in the one bedroom I was in. I didn't see his face, and he was all like 'how are you today', and I was like 'awesome, thank you' and then he goes, 'that's good', ad then he turns around and his head is hanging off by a thread! Was it a ghost, i dont know, but we aren't in Hogwarts anymore!"<br /> <br /> Envy grabbed onto Pein's shirt. "Dude, there is someone in there!" <br /> "So sh** sherlock." Pein walked closer, following the sounds.

"Quite sure. I'm only human, after all," Ava sighed.<br /> <br /> "Al?" Sebastian slapped Al smartly across the face. "Snap out of it. What did you do to stir up the ghosts?"<br /> "Ghosts," they heard Chandra groan from within the room. "Why did it have to be ghosts?"<br /> <br /> A cold breeze ghosted through the room Envy and Pein had entered, but otherwise it seemed empty and serene. The sobbing continued, still muffled, its origins unclear.

Undertaker skipped through the halls, following what wasn't there. He took turns without second guessing, went up and down some stairs with grace, and broke into a room without hesitation. "I think it's playing with me. Everytime my eyes look elsewhere, I see it move again!" He crossed his arms and huffed. "Are you sure you aren't see it, Ava?"<br /> <br /> Meanwhile, Al was in a daze and couldn't speak.<br /> <br /> Meanwhile, Pein and Envy were trying to figure out who was going into the room first. Envy pushed Pein in, but the redhead used his gravity attacks to push Envy in even more. This was continuing for a few moments before they both fell into the room.

Ava immediately searched for whatever Undertaker had seen, but found nothing. "I don't see why not. Al has Sebastian and Pein looking for her; I can afford to take a detour."<br /> <br /> Sebastian, meanwhile, sighed and stepped up to a nearby door. "Are you ready for this, Chandra?" he asked.<br /> "I'm going to have to be," she said grimly. She drew a wicked-looking dagger from her belt and moved to stand beside Sebastian, to one side of the doorway and out of sight of anyone in the room.<br /> Sebastian pushed open the door.<br /> Immediately, Al came flying out of it, slammed into Sebastian, and sent him careening into the wall opposite. He slid to the floor with a lap full of Al and stayed there for a moment, stunned.<br /> Chandra cursed and ducked into the room, keeping low and occupying the doorway as briefly as possible. Vases and porcelain figurines flew at her head and she ducked them, snarling while they shattered against the wall and showered her with broken pieces. She dove behind a settee and peered over the edge, but saw nothing but shadows from the area where the projectiles originated. "F*cking great," she groaned. "Ghosts."<br /> <br /> On the first floor near the rear of the house, a door swung slowly open, seeming to beckon Envy and Pein. Soft sounds emanated from beyond the door: a quiet groan, then a muffled wail, then something that sounded like a child sobbing.

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Undertaker rubbed his hands together. "It seems to have gotten a little bit chillier in here, don't you agree?" He exhaled and analyzed the breath that came out. His attention was drawn away from his creation when something moved in his peripheral vision. "ohhhh~ Ava-dear, care to take a little detour? I saw something that caught my interest." He smiled and cocked his head to the side.<br /> <br /> <br /> Meanwhile, in another part of the mansion, Pein and Envy were aimlessly wandering around. Envy was in the form of a dog now and his snout was on the ground. Pein had his hands in his jeans (miraculously) and a uninterested look on his face. "Why are we here again? I only came here to take Al back but it seems like all you guys had other ideas."<br /> <br /> Envy raised his head and looked to his side, at a deserted hallway. "We were already planning to take a trip to the Shinigami world, but I guess fate had another choice for us. Sssshh, what's that?"

Ava stared at Undertaker and then at the old wooden manor before them. 'I... do not think there will be any fangirls in there,' she thought. 'I'm not sure they can live in this kind of environment.' Aloud, she told her companion that she would keep her eyes open. Then she followed him toward the house, glancing back once to see the portal to Hogwarts slide shut behind them. "That's ominous," she muttered. "And where are Envy and Pein? Two seconds ago they were right beside us?"<br /> <br /> "Where the f*ck is Al?" Chandra hissed. She and Sebastian had thoroughly searched the ground floor and now stood in the first-floor drawing room, which looked out on a veranda that would have been charming if not for the dark forest lurking at its edge.<br /> "Maybe she went directly upstairs," Sebastian suggested, but his attention was not on Chandra, but on the mahogany-framed French doors that led out onto the patio. The blonde snarled a bit at being ignored, but said nothing and instead followed his gaze to a window at the far left which did not match the others at all. It was ebony-framed, and set above a knee-high ledge. Chandra could not see trees beyond its panes; only deep grey mist. She blinked. "Could Al have gone through there?" she asked. Sebastian smirked.<br /> "I doubt it. Let us check upstairs." With that, he turned and swept up the front stairs Chandra gave the mismatched window a distrustful look and followed him. As they reached the second-floor hall, they heard two things simultaneously: a scream from a nearby chamber that sounded a lot like Al getting into trouble, and the familiar sniping and whining that signaled that Envy and Pein had finally joined them in the house.

Undertaker flipped his hair again. "I suddenly feel like a burden has been lifted off of my shoulder. But I'm afraid that I might be trampled over some fangirls, would you mind letting me know if you spot a rabid fangirl nearby, Ava? But, I'll take care of anything after that." He raised a finger to his face and winked. <br /> <br /> "Now then, off to the mansion!" He twirled around and skipped alongside Ava.<br /> <br /> Meanwhile, Envy and Pein were already inside the mansion.

"Hang on." Ava sat for a second, trying to process the idea that Undertaker had seen Final Destination, but then she shrugged. She took Undertaker's hand and allowed him to pull her to her feet, then she looked from Envy and Pein to the creepy panorama before them.<br /> "Well, I know *I* haven't cheated Death lately," she said. "But you're right; something does seem off about... that." Keeping close to Undertaker's side, she stepped toward the portal with an air of fascination, then stopped, waiting for her companion to lead her.<br /> <br /> "This is so f*cked up," Chandra muttered to Sebastian. They both stood before the tall, stately manor house and stared at its dark windows. The house looked well-kept, but grey with age, and the straggly willows that surrounded it gave it an eerie look. Giant oaks reared up behind the house, and a dark forest began at the edge of the veranda at the right side. "This doesn't look like the sort of thing I'm used to dealing with, Seb," the blonde said quietly. Her posture was tense, and her tone held a hint of the sort of nervousness that could explode into violence at any moment.<br /> "It's so familiar," Sebastian repeated, and stepped up to the front door. It swung open easily, and the demon beckoned to Chandra before disappearing inside. Chandra took a deep breath, steeled herself and followed.