Phasmophobia - N.C.U. - Part 5
Key: FD, MC, Possession, Sleep
Description: Christine finds Carly in an empty room. Inside is an out of place, ghostly item, waiting to help her fall under its spell.
“Hey, wait a second!” Christine’s voice came over the radio, more excited this time. “I think I see something glowing near one of the doors down the hall. I’m going to go check it out!” The radio went silent as Eve watched Christine move out of range of the camera and into the darkened hallway of the south wing.
Christine moved to the closed door and noticed that there was a handprint visible in the UV light. It appeared to be about the size of hers, if a little thin and dainty. “What could have made this?” She wondered out loud, noticing that the handprint completely disappeared when she turned off the light. She turned around and scanned the hallway, finding another door several rooms down with the same print on it. “How many more of these are there?” She wondered again as she slowly examined the second print.
The second one matched the first exactly, a perfectly clear human handprint that glowed an eerie white in the purple light of the UV flashlight. As Christine moved closer to the print, she shined the light down the hallway and noticed another door at the very end. The same white glow was coming from it, however this one was cracked open ever so slightly.
She made her way to the door and happened to shine the flashlight inside as she examined the third handprint. As the light illuminated the outline of a person she let out an ear splitting scream until she realized the person in question was Carly. “Oh my god you scared me!” She said, laughing despite her annoyance.
Carly was standing in the middle of the empty classroom, staring in the direction of the desk and chalkboard. Her face was slack and her hair seemed unusually disheveled as her shoulders sagged. She didn’t really seem to move at all despite Christine’s scream, instead she just swayed on her feet and continued staring at nothing.
Christine, who wasn’t quite as oblivious as Jessy, immediately noticed that something was wrong immediately and stepped into the room, placing a hand on her friend’s shoulder. “Hey, are you alright? You look…well, kind of like you saw a ghost.” She asked worriedly, before lightheartedly adding “Or just in desperate need of some coffee.”
Carly wordlessly began to raise her hand. After a few moments she extended her finger and pointed at the teacher's desk, still completely silent except for the slow, rhythmic sounds of her breathing. Christine followed her finger as it pointed toward the desk. “What’s up?” She asked in confusion as she stepped over to take a look.
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Sitting on the desk was a dusty but rather elegant looking book. It was bound in red leather with gold trim, but had no title on it. “What’s this?” Christine asked as she reached out to pick up the book. She took a step back towards Carly as she began to flip through the pages. But to her surprise it was completely and totally…empty.
“That’s strange.” She said as she handed Carly the book to examine. “It’s completely blank. It looks like it should be a journal, but it’s way too fancy.”
Carly gave Christine the same blank stare and slowly held out her hands to take the book. She didn't move her head or her eyes at all, and never once looked at the book. Instead she continued blankly at Christine while she slowly opened the book and extended its blank pages out so Christine could see them.
Christine glanced between the book and Carly in confusion. ”Yeah…” she said a bit indignantly. “They’re blank. I already said… holy shit!” She exclaimed, stumbling backwards.
Writing was beginning to form in front of Christine on the pages of the previously blank pages of the book. “Do you see that?” Christine asked, almost in a panic, as she watched a thick, smooth line slowly curve around and around on the pages of the book.
The line seemed to be forming a circle…no…a spiral as it slowly curved around on the page in front of the confused young woman. The line appeared to become thinner and thinner as it moved deeper into the spiral. Meanwhile, Christine continued shining her light on the page, completely transfixed by the display in front of her as she slowly followed the spiral with her eyes. The deeper it moved into the page, the more her eyes followed it down.
“What is this…” she whispered as the line continued to swirl into the center of the spiral. And then words began to appear in the middle, slowly working their way through the white space that was between the lines slowly radiating out of the spiral. “There are words?” She glanced up at Carly in confusion as she leaned in closer to the book, trying to read the words that were appearing. Every swirl around the spiral seemed to grow, making it easier to read. “I can’t quite…” She struggled to read the words as they continued to appear. “Wait! There it is, I think!” She said as she rotated her head in order to read the words. “It says…Sleep, Christine Sleep… Sleep, Christine Sleep…Ssslleeeppp, Christiinneee… … … Sleeeeee…” The young coed’s eyes rolled up into her head as her arms went completely limp, causing her to drop the flashlight to the ground. It began flickering as it hit the ground with a thud.
Christine was bent over as her eyes slammed shut and her head fell forward. Her entire body began to pitch forward as she started to fall towards Carly. But then, out of nowhere, her body just stopped its descent. Her arms and head hung in midair and she looked, for a moment, as if she had been caught by someone. But there was no one there. No one but Carly, who was still holding the book with a vacant, empty expression. Christine hovered in the air for a few more moments before her arms and head began to twitch. But her body never completed its fall.
Instead, the young woman’s body rose back up, mostly upright despite still being slumped over with both arms limp at her sides. Her eyes slowly opened, but never focused on anything or anyone. They stared forward, glazed and unseeing as she began to turn towards the door. As she walked away, the flashlight on the ground stopped its flickering.
A moment later, the book that Carly had been holding hit the floor with a thud, as she slowly stepped over it and followed Christine out into the hallway. In the pale light of the flashlight, the words “You’re mine!” began to form on an empty page of the book.
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Eve sat at the computer, once again flipping through the cameras as quickly as she could. “Where the hell is everyone?” She muttered, pressing the button for the radio. “Hello… hell….” She stopped trying, realizing that the radios had once again gone to nothing but static. “What the hell is going on in there?” she asked no one.
“I have no idea.” Rayne said, leaning over Eve’s shoulder to look at the screen.
Eve, of course, lost her shit. She screamed at the top of her lungs and jumped back from the computer, rapidly spinning around to face Rayne. That, of course, caused Rayne to lose her shit and jump back against the wall of the van, holding her chest as she tried to calm down.
“Don’t do that!” Both girls said in perfect unison as they tried to catch their breath.
Eve finally spoke up once her heart rate lowered to a more acceptable 150bpm. “The radio has gone to static again.” She said, panting.
“I know.” Rayne said, having recovered slightly quicker. “That’s why I came back here, I couldn’t find anyone at all in the building. It's like they all just disappeared, so I figured I would come and check on you. I’m glad you were here, otherwise I was going to get the fuck out of dodge.” She said matter-of-factly.
“I know, right?” Eve said, sitting down and looking at the camera again. “I get a glimpse of a person every now and then, but nothing concrete.” She said, flipping through two more cameras and coming to a stop. “There!” She said, pointing to the screen.
Rayne leaned in and both girls examined the screen as a clearly human figure appeared at the far end of a hallway. Unfortunately they were also surrounded by a good deal of maintenance equipment. “I can’t tell who it is?” Rayne said nervously.
Eve peered in more closely, squinting at the screen. “I think It's Laura.” She started. “I can’t tell for sure, but she’s the only one with a ponytail that fluffy.” Before either of them could confirm who it was, the figure turned down a hallway and out of range of the camera. Eve sighed in frustration and moved through the other cameras, attempting to locate her again, but to no avail. “And…she’s gone.” She sighed, falling back against the chair.
“Are we sure they are still in there at all?” Rayne asked, clearly becoming more unnerved by the situation.
Eve spun around to grab what looked like a pill bottle from the desk as she pointed to the map board behind Rayne. “Yeah, I’ve been able to keep track based on the movement and sound sensors. Everyone seems to still be inside. I’ll get a hit on one end of the building…” Eve paused for dramatic effect and, as if on cue, one of the motion sensors went off in the hallway. The same one they thought they had seen Laura in just moments ago. “See?” She continued. “And then in a little bit we’ll get another reading somewhere else. So everyone is still in the building, I am just having a hell of a time telling who is who. And they seem to be just randomly wandering. And since the radios keep going out more often than Christmas tree lights. I can’t really coordinate anything with anyone.” She finished with an air of frustration as she popped open the pill bottle and downed the entire contents. She casually tossed the empty bottle over her shoulder, where it landed in a small pile of other medicine bottles on the floor in the corner behind her.
“Ummm.” Rayne began, looking rather concerned about what she had just witnessed Eve do. “What was that?”
“Sanity Pills.” Eve chewed the pills as she reached into the drawer next to her and pulled out a bottle, extending it to Rayne. “Want some?” she asked, mid chew.
Rayne quickly took the bottle and read the label. “Sanity Pills: Fukidol, 50MG. Take one pill until you are calm. Repeat as needed.”
“You shouldn’t take pills you don’t…” Rayne paused as she finished opening the bottle and looked inside. “Are these M&M’s?” She asked, confused.
“Yup!” Eve said, swallowing the candies. “Dark chocolate ones, too!” She said with almost no expression, turning back to the computer to examine the cameras.
Before Rayne could respond they both heard a strange clicking noise and turned to look at the end of the van, into the open school foyer. “What was that?” Rayne asked nervously.
Eve turned to look at the screen again and flipped through a few of the cameras. “I don’t know for sure, but it looks like we blew the main breaker. All of the lights that were on in the school seem to be off.” She sighed in annoyance.
“But how are the cameras working?” Rayne asked, confused.
“They have a battery in them.” Eve responded. “When the breaker is on it charges the battery, so they will still work for a while before they die.”
Behind Rayne the motion and sound sensors started to go off, enough to imply that the girls in the school were either moving or making noise. “Sounds like they are all freaking out in there.” Eve said in frustration.
“Yeah… Yeah…” Rayne said in annoyance as she knocked back the entire bottle of Sanity Pills. “I’ll go get the breaker. '' She said, more annoyed than before as she grabbed the largest flashlight she could find off of the shelves. With a sigh, she turned it on and headed into the pitch black school.
To be continued…
Curious what it might look like to see Christine possessed in a completely different way? A way involving a ghost writing in cursed book? You can find the alternate chapter available here: Phasmophobia - Part 5 - Alt Scene!
Thanks to :Iconsleepygirl586: for doing the editing for me.
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Featuring: Rayne, Klaire, Laura, Christine, Jessy, Eve, Carly