[OT] Smash 'Em Up Sunday!

Pick a minimum of 2 of the following Usables:

[Setting] Haunted house

[Quotes] “Don’t give up on your dreams. Keep sleeping!”

[Random Sentence] ‘Suddenly it appeared out of nowhere.’

[Picture] CyberSkunk

[Random Sentence] ‘Foldable for easy storage.’

[Item] A bottle of whiskey

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Click. Click. Click. Sharp nails clicked upon the keyboard in a hurried tempo. The screen glowed blue and cast a haunting glow to the already creepy room. Dust covered every surface, the air was stale, and if FiFi didn’t know better she would think that she had seen something out of the corner of her eye. Just one more minute…

“Hurry up already! I think it’s coming this way!”

Fifi looked up from her work. Her tail twitching in anticipation. They were almost out of time.

“Ruu I’m trying. This line of code just isn’t working out.”

“What are you even doing again?”

“Trying to override the security system. If the previous owners knew anything, it was how to track the Humans.”

“It’s not like we can’t just hear them. They are loud. And big.”

“Yet the shrews who lived here before were murdered. I’m just trying to protect us Ruu.”

“Oh yeah? How do you plan on protecting us from ghosts?”

“You know that ghosts don’t exist. Now let's go, I finally go it working.”

Fifi was a skunk, and Ruu her best friend, a field mouse. They had discovered the house by accident after taking cover from a usually bad rainstorm. The had been out walking and suddenly it appeared out of nowhere. They had run to the nearest shelter, a covered porch. While waiting out the storm the had discovered how nice an abode it was. They had moved in the very next day, but as they met their neighbors, they found out the house was haunted. Or so they claimed.

“Fifi, leave that thing here!” Ruu insisted ignoring the fact that she was already packing up the computer.

“Ruu, its foldable for easy storage. Why would I leave it behind?”

They climbed into the walls, scurrying their way across the house from the inside. They had set up their living space adjacent to the human’s kitchen. The man who lived there was quite the slob, to Fifi and Ruu’s delight. The night before he had even dropped a nearly empty whisky bottle on the floor. Ruu was small enough to climb inside the mouth of the bottle and enjoy a drink. He even brought some out for Fifi.

They had gotten tispy that night, and after Ruu fell asleep he had sat up in his sleep, looking straight at her and said “Don’t give up on your dreams. Keep sleeping!”

When she had asked him about it in the morning, he had not remembered it at all. Living here hadn’t been bad. It was unfortunate what had happened to the shrews, and occasionally Fifi did think that perhaps she had seen a dead body laying in a trap, but when she looked again it would be gone and she would blame her overactive imagination. Or so she had thought until the Woman had showed up. The man didn’t seem to care about his furried roommates, but the Woman had screamed and yelled, telling him that he had to do something about the ‘infestation’.

Then the traps had started. First it was glue traps, then snaps. Fifi knew they were in danger, so she had started digging. She had found out that the shrews had hacked the human’s camera system, and so she had set upon trying to hack their hack. It had taken her days, and they had been cornered into the back room one night. Bringing us back to where we started.

As the cameras fell under her control Fifi was able to coordinate safe pathways in and out of the house. If the humans were at the front, her and Ruu would go out the back. It worked for a bit, but the strange instances of ghost shrews, if that’s what it was, was increasing to a daily rate.

Fifi was going outside when suddenly it appeared out of nowhere. A trap. One that she should have seen being placed by the humans. Yet, as she went inside and reviewed her video feed, there was static for a moment before the trap appeared, but on another screen both the man and the woman were in the living room, having another one of their screaming matches. So where had the trap come from? When she told Ruu that night, he put his foot down. It was time to get out of this haunted house. Away from the crazy humans, even if it meant giving up the smorgasbord that was the kitchen most nights. As they left the next morning, Fifi, for the first time, clearly saw the ghosts of the Shrew family, waving their goodbyes before fading into a blue haze.

Submitted January 07, 2019 at 07:21AM by LadyLuna21 http://bit.ly/2CUtIBo