Ghost Chasers

38

Well... when he said it like that, it sounded like a really bad idea. But somehow you couldn't compare the ghosts here with the ones from the hospital at all. They seemed so alive and therefore much less scary. They also reminded me much more of Taemin and he wasn't really scary... although he could be incredibly annoying. I smiled encouragingly at Hongjoong and he shrugged in response.

"All right... if I have to." he said slightly grumpily and then grabbed one of the dead Kai's legs. We continued walking until Raven let go of the other leg because he had to open a door.

"There's the entrance to the cellar," he explained and flicked a light switch. The cellar had definitely not been renovated, because as soon as you went all the way down the stone staircase, you felt like you were in a dungeon from the Middle Ages. Fortunately, there were no torches on the walls, but simple neon tubes shining from the ceiling, which didn't detract from the strange atmosphere.

"Which way do we have to go?" asked Kai, simply dropping his old body as he looked around. Piqued, Hongjoong shook his head.

"Ever heard of Love yourself?" he then wanted to know from Kai, who just looked at him with a grin.

"Even if I wanted to, I'm sure you wouldn't let me do it."

"That's really... I really hope you're just joking..." I replied, slightly disgusted, but Kai started to laugh.

"That earlier was just an excuse... How disturbed do you think I am?" he received clear looks from everyone present, except his corpse, and he huffed slightly offended.

"I mean... look at your brothers, none of you three can claim that everything in your head works according to plan... I'm just going by the odds here," I said with a grin and he gave me an evil glare.

"You can work out that you're probably about to catch one," he threatened half seriously and Hongjoong giggled.

"At least you're quick-witted," complimented Ravn, who seemed to have taken a liking to Kai from the way he was looking at him the whole time. It would be fine with me, but the ghosts should rather date each other, not that anyone else was keeping an eye on sweet Hongjoong, because I had somehow grown fond of him in the last few days.

"To the left is the heating, to the right is Asmodaeus' torture chamber... Or was it the other way around?" Ravn pondered and we looked at him skeptically, we didn't want to stumble into the torture chamber by accident.

We lifted the body up again and kept to the left until we found a door with the technical room and heating on it and entered it. We had to cross this room again, as the burner was located further back in another room.

Once there, Raven opened the hatch and we lifted Kai's body up with a groan and then threw him in.

"Close it before we smell the sizzling meat," I said and Hongjoong's face turned as green as the Grinch's, but what we smelled wasn't grilled meat.

"Ah, crap. Maybe I should have taken the weed out of my jacket..." Kai moaned, mourning his drugs more than his body. Shaking my head, I closed the hatch again and took Hongjoong by the arm to lead him out. In the corridor outside the door, we had only just taken a few steps when we heard an unfamiliar but slightly velvety voice.

"Look, little Hongjoong and his Hoseok. Long time no see."

Confused, we turned around and in front of us stood a beautiful young man who winked at us conspiratorially. How did he know our names and why was he licking his lips as he stared at Hongjoong? I pulled the little one behind me protectively and growled at the stranger. Wait, what? I... growled?