ෆ˚𐙚* The Mansion Incident *𐙚˚ෆ
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The abandoned mansion stood alone at the end of the street, dark and silent like it was waiting for something.
Broken windows stared outward like empty eyes.
The old wood creaked even when there was no wind.
Every corner inside smelled of dust, rot, and something strangely ancient.
And the deeper you went, the colder and quieter it became.
Normally, any sane person would’ve found it terrifying.
Not Maya.
Maya - “Oh, look at this beauty,” she said, placing her hands on her waist with a grin. “This is going to be fun.”
Behind her, Lila stopped walking instantly. She stared at the mansion for a full second before slowly turning around.
Lily - “Nope.”
Before she could leave, Maya grabbed the back of her hoodie.
Lila immediately started struggling.
Lily - “Release me. RELEASE ME!”
Maya - “Come on,” she said. “We literally just got here.”
Lily - “I’ve already sensed enough negative energy to know this is a terrible decision.”
Maya - “You say that about grocery stores.”
Lily - “Because last time the shelves started chasing us.”
Maya - “They fell over, Lila.”
Lily - “They fell over aggressively.”
Zoe walked past both of them, already shining her phone flashlight toward the mansion.
Zoe - “It’s an abandoned house, not a cursed temple,” she said calmly. “Most of the noises are probably just structural settling.”
A loud THUD echoed from somewhere deep inside the mansion.
The three girls froze.
Zoe stared at the front door for a long moment.
Zoe - “...Probably,” she finished quietly.
Lila pointed at her immediately.
Lila - “See? Even you don’t trust your own explanation.”
Maya grinned and marched toward the porch steps anyway.
Maya - “Come on. We look around for ten minutes, prove this place isn’t haunted, and leave.”
Lily - “That,” she muttered, “is exactly how horror movies start.”
Zoe - “That’s also how documentaries start,” she added.
Lily - “That does not help.”
The wooden porch groaned beneath their footsteps as they climbed the stairs.
Each creak sounded loud enough to wake the dead.
Lila hated that thought immediately.
Zoe aimed her flashlight along the walls and ceiling carefully.
Zoe - “Okay,” she said, slipping into her serious voice, “everyone needs to watch where they step. Houses this old usually have weak flooring, unstable support beams, possible mold, broken glass—”
Maya planted one foot against the front door.
Maya - “Got it.”
And kicked it open.
BANG.
The door slammed inward so hard the entire hallway echoed.
Somewhere upstairs, something crashed loudly onto the floor.
Dust exploded into the air.
A chandelier hanging above them swayed violently.
Lila let out a noise that sounded somewhere between a scream and a factory alarm.
Lila - “MAYA!”
Maya - “What?” she asked innocently, stepping inside. “The door was stuck.”
Lila - “You just announced our location to every ghost in the building!”
Maya - “There are no ghosts.”
The chandelier creaked again.
Zoe slowly looked up at it.
Zoe - “...We should move away from that immediately.”
The three girls shuffled sideways just as part of the chandelier snapped loose and crashed onto the floor behind them.
The sound thundered through the mansion.
Silence followed.
Then—
A distant thump echoed upstairs again.
Lila grabbed both Maya and Zoe at the same time.
Lila - “There is ABSOLUTELY something alive in here.”
Maya’s grin somehow widened.
Maya - “Good.”
Lila - “That is the opposite reaction you should be having!”
Maya grabbed a flashlight from Zoe’s hand and pointed it deeper into the mansion.
Maya - “If there’s something here,” she declared dramatically, “we go straight to the source.”
Lila narrowed her eyes.
Lila - “Why did you say that like a movie protagonist five minutes before dying?”
Maya ignored her completely.
Maya - “The basement.”
Zoe immediately shook her head.
Zoe - “Absolutely not. Basements in abandoned buildings are structurally unsafe, poorly ventilated, and usually the location where terrible decisions become headlines.”
Maya - “Exactly,” Maya said. “Adventure.”
Zoe - “That word means nothing to you anymore.”
A cold draft swept through the hallway.
Somewhere nearby, pipes rattled loudly inside the walls.
Lila nearly jumped into orbit.
Lila - “The house is breathing.”
Zoe - “The house is old,” she corrected.
Another CLANG echoed through the walls.
Lila pointed aggressively at the ceiling.
Lila - “You heard that, right?!”
Maya was already walking toward a narrow staircase near the back of the hall.
The basement door sat crooked on its hinges, covered in scratches and dust.
Lila - “Oh, this is definitely the monster door,” she whispered.
Maya grabbed the handle.
The door wouldn’t budge.
Zoe - “Locked,” he said. “That’s probably for the best.”
Maya stepped back.
Lila immediately recognised the look on her face.
Lila - “Oh no.”
Maya kicked the basement door open.
CRACK.
The entire frame split slightly.
The door flew inward and slammed against the wall hard enough to shake nearby pipes.
A horrible metallic BANG echoed through the basement.
Then another.
Then suddenly—
HISSSSSSSSS.
One of the old pipes along the staircase burst violently, spraying freezing water directly into Zoe’s face.
Everyone screamed.
Mostly Lila.
Zoe stood there dripping wet in complete silence.
Water continued blasting from the pipe beside her.
Maya tried not to laugh.
Failed instantly.
Lila pointed at the spraying pipe in horror.
Lila - “THE HOUSE IS ATTACKING US.”
Zoe - “It’s plumbing,” she said flatly, wiping water from her eyes.
Another pipe overhead suddenly rattled loose.
CLANG.
It dropped directly between them.
Now everyone screamed.
Maya grabbed an old broom leaning against the wall like she was preparing for battle.
Maya - “Alright,” she announced, pointing the broom downward into the darkness, “whatever’s down there is clearly getting aggressive.”
Zoe stared at her.
Zoe - “You caused all of this.”
Maya - “Allegedly.”
Water continued spraying across the staircase while the broken pipe hissed like an angry snake.
The basement below them sat in complete darkness.
Cold air drifted upward slowly.
Lila stared into it with pure distrust.
Lila - “No.”
Maya leaned farther over the stairs, flashlight raised like an explorer discovering ancient ruins.
Maya - “Yes.”
Lila - “No,” she repeated stronger. “That basement has murder energy.”
Zoe - “That’s not a real thing,” she said.
A loud metallic BANG echoed from somewhere below.
All three girls jumped.
Zoe adjusted her flashlight slowly.
Zoe - “...That one was concerning, though.”
Maya took one step downward.
The staircase groaned loudly.
Zoe immediately grabbed the back of her jacket.
Zoe - “Absolutely not,” she said. “Those stairs are one bad decision away from collapsing.”
Maya looked offended.
Maya - “You say that like it’s stopped us before.”
Zoe - “It literally hasn’t.”
Another creak echoed beneath the stairs.
Dust drifted from the ceiling.
Even Maya paused this time.
Lila pointed upward instantly.
Lila - “Yes. Great. Perfect. We listened to the warning signs. Let’s leave before the house consumes us.”
Maya looked back toward the darkness reluctantly.
Maya - “...Fine. Basement postponed.”
Zoe nodded with relief.
Zoe - “Excellent. For once, survival instincts are developing.”
Then a distant crashing sound exploded somewhere upstairs.
Everyone froze again.
The sound was followed by dragging noises.
Then silence.
Lila’s eyes widened slowly.
Lila - “There’s more than one.”
Zoe - “There is nothing,” she said immediately.
A loud scraping sound echoed through the hallway behind them.
Zoe spun around so fast she nearly slipped on the leaking water.
Maya grinned again.
Maya - “Oh, now THIS is getting interesting.”
Lila - “It’s getting haunted!” she snapped.
Another loud THUMP echoed from upstairs.
This time, it sounded closer.
Slow footsteps creaked across the ceiling above them.
Step.
Creeeak.
Step.
The three girls stared upward in complete silence.
Lila slowly pointed toward the ceiling without taking her eyes off it.
Lila - “That.”
Another creak.
Lila - “THAT is not plumbing.”
Maya tightened her grip on the broom like a warrior entering battle.
Maya - “Finally.”
Zoe blinked at her.
Zoe - “You are disturbingly excited right now.”
Maya ignored her and started toward the staircase.
The old wooden stairs curved upward into darkness, the railing barely holding together.
Another FOOTSTEP echoed above them.
Lila immediately grabbed a nearby object for protection—
A dusty metal lamp.
Lila - “Okay. Fine. If we die, I’m taking something with me.”
Zoe looked around carefully before pulling a loose curtain rod from the wall.
The entire curtain collapsed onto her instantly.
Dust exploded everywhere.
Maya laughed so hard she almost dropped the flashlight.
Zoe shoved the curtain off herself with pure disappointment.
Zoe - “I hate this house.”
They slowly climbed the stairs together.
Every step groaned beneath them.
Halfway up, Maya tested one stair too hard.
Old family portraits hung crooked on the walls.
Most of the faces were too faded to see clearly.
Lila shined her flashlight toward one painting and immediately recoiled.
Lila - “Why does it look like it’s staring at me?”
Zoe glanced at it.
Zoe - “Because that’s literally what portraits are designed to—”
CRACK.
Her leg dropped through the wood instantly.
Maya - “WOAH—”
Lila screamed.
Zoe grabbed Maya’s jacket before she disappeared completely through the floor.
The stair beneath them sagged dangerously.
Everyone froze.
Maya slowly pulled herself back up.
Maya - “...Okay. That one almost killed me.”
Zoe stared at her flatly.
Zoe - “Character development.”
They continued upward much slower after that.
They reached the second-floor hallway.
Wind suddenly burst through broken windows.
Then—
FLAP. FLAP. FLAP.
Something exploded from the ceiling vents.
Lila screamed.
Lila - “IT’S MOVING!”
A flock of pigeons burst into the hallway.
Chaos instantly followed.
Maya raised the broom.
Maya - “AIRBORNE ENEMY UNIT!”
Zoe ducked.
Zoe - “They’re birds!”
Lila swung the lamp wildly.
Lila - “WHY ARE THERE SKY DEMONS?!”
A pigeon flew into a portrait.
CRASH.
Another hit a broken chandelier frame.
Feathers everywhere.
Total confusion.
Then—
Silence.
The pigeons escaped through broken windows.
Lila stood frozen.
Lila - “...Was that the ghost?”
Zoe - “That was wildlife.”
Maya - “Level cleared.”
BANG.
A door slammed shut somewhere nearby.
All three girls jumped.
Then—
Rapid footsteps sprinted down the hallway ahead of them.
Maya’s eyes widened excitedly.
Maya - “THERE!”
She charged forward immediately.
Lila - “WHY ARE WE CHASING IT?!”
Zoe sighed and ran after them anyway.
The hallway erupted into chaos instantly.
Maya swung the broom at a shadow near the wall.
SMASH.
The broom shattered straight through an old window.
Cold wind burst into the hallway.
Lila screamed again.
A nearby closet door slowly creaked open by itself.
All three flashlights snapped toward it.
Silence.
Then something shifted inside.
Lila raised the lamp shakily.
Lila - “I knew this house was evil.”
Maya marched over and yanked the closet door fully open.
The entire closet collapsed outward immediately.
Boxes, wood, and shelves exploded into the hallway.
Zoe got hit directly with a pile of moldy blankets.
Zoe - “...I’m starting to understand why this place was abandoned.”
Suddenly—
THUD THUD THUD THUD.
Fast movement echoed above the ceiling.
Lila looked upward in horror.
Lila - “THERE’S ANOTHER FLOOR?!”
Zoe - “There shouldn’t even BE another floor,” she said.
A loud dripping sound interrupted them.
Water slowly began spilling out beneath a nearby bathroom door.
The girls stared at it.
The dripping became pouring.
Then—
CRASH.
The bathroom door burst open.
Water flooded into the hallway.
Lila shrieked as freezing water rushed around their feet.
Maya burst out laughing immediately.
Maya - “THIS PLACE IS AMAZING.”
Zoe pointed furiously at the flooded hallway.
Zoe - “The pipes are failing because we keep destroying structural support!”
Another loud SCRATCH echoed from deeper inside the second floor.
Everyone stopped again.
Something moved at the far end of the hallway.
Fast.
Small.
Shadowy.
Lila saw it first.
Lila - “THERE IT IS!”
Maya charged forward with the broken broom handle.
Zoe grabbed a fallen piece of wood like a baseball bat.
And somewhere outside the mansion—
A neighbor’s porch light suddenly turned on.
The shadow disappeared around the corner at the end of the hallway.
Maya pointed dramatically with the broken broom handle.
Maya - “IT’S RUNNING.”
Lila tightened her grip on the bent lamp.
Lila - “Why are you saying that like YOU’RE the predator here?!”
Maya sprinted forward anyway.
The flooded hallway made that a terrible decision immediately.
The second her foot hit the water—
SLIP.
Maya flew sideways straight into the wall.
BANG.
An entire section of old plaster cracked apart beside her.
Dust exploded everywhere.
For one horrifying second, the wall made a deep cracking sound.
Then half the hallway bookshelf collapsed forward like a dying tree.
Zoe barely ducked in time.
Books rained across the floor.
One smacked Lila directly in the face.
Lila - “THE HOUSE IS THROWING THINGS NOW.”
Zoe shoved soaked hair out of her face.
Zoe - “Gravity is throwing things now.”
Another scratching noise echoed nearby.
Fast.
Inside the walls.
The girls froze.
SCRATCH SCRATCH SCRATCH.
Something moved rapidly above them.
Then inside the ceiling.
Then behind them somehow.
Lila slowly turned in circles.
Lila - “It’s in the walls.”
Maya grinned wildly.
Maya - “GOOD.”
Zoe stared at her.
Zoe - “You keep reacting to danger like you’re being recruited by it.”
A loud BUMP came from inside one of the bedrooms.
Maya immediately kicked the door open.
BANG.
The room was dark.
Dusty.
Completely destroyed.
A rocking chair slowly moved near the corner.
Nobody spoke.
The chair creaked again.
Lila whispered.
Lila - “Absolutely not.”
Then the flashlight beam landed on the actual cause—
A raccoon.
The raccoon froze.
The girls froze.
The raccoon hissed.
All three girls screamed instantly.
Maya swung the broom handle.
The raccoon launched sideways off the chair like a furry missile.
Lila panicked and threw the metal lamp.
The lamp missed completely.
Instead it smashed through another window.
GLASS EXPLODED outward.
Outside, a dog immediately started barking.
Then another.
Then several more.
The raccoon sprinted between their legs.
Lila jumped onto the bed screaming.
The bed collapsed instantly.
CRASH.
Now everyone was screaming again.
Zoe tried slamming the bedroom door shut.
The handle ripped off in her hand.
Zoe stared at it silently.
Zoe - “...I touched it gently.”
More scratching erupted from inside the walls.
Then another raccoon crawled halfway out of a vent near the ceiling.
Lila pointed upward in horror.
Lila - “THERE’S MORE OF THEM.”
The raccoon looked equally terrified.
Maya raised the broom like a knight facing a dragon.
Maya - “WE FIGHT.”
Zoe grabbed her shoulder immediately.
Zoe - “No. We retreat strategically.”
Lila was already halfway out the room.
Lila - “I HAVE BEEN RETREATING STRATEGICALLY SINCE WE ARRIVED.”
The second they ran back into the hallway—
The flooded floor betrayed them again.
All three slipped at nearly the same time.
Maya crashed into the wall.
Zoe slammed into Maya.
Lila somehow spun completely around before colliding into both of them.
CRACK.
Another section of wall broke open.
For one horrible second—
Everyone heard the house groan.
A deep.
Ancient.
Unhappy groan.
Dust drifted from the ceiling.
The floorboards creaked loudly beneath them.
And downstairs—
A loud metallic CLANG echoed from the kitchen.
Silence.
The girls slowly looked toward the staircase.
Another crash came from below.
Maya narrowed her eyes.
Maya - “...Round two.”
Lila looked genuinely exhausted now.
Lila - “Why does this house have boss battles?”
The girls stood frozen in the ruined upstairs hallway.
The bin rolled again somewhere below them.
Slow.
Deliberate.
Lila’s voice dropped to a whisper.
Lila - “I don’t like that. I don’t like how it’s moving like it has a purpose.”
Maya stepped forward immediately.
Maya - “There’s something in the kitchen.”
Zoe didn’t even argue this time.
Zoe - “Good. Then we know where it is.”
Lila turned sharply.
Lila - “That is not comforting!”
Another loud CLANG echoed from downstairs.
Something metallic hit the floor.
Then scraping.
Then silence again.
Maya grinned.
Maya - “Finally. A direction.”
Zoe pointed down the hallway.
Zoe - “We go carefully. No more breaking things unnecessarily.”
Maya looked at the broken wall, collapsed closet, and half-flooded floor behind them.
Maya - “Unnecessarily is doing a lot of work in that sentence.”
Zoe didn’t respond.
She just started walking.
The staircase groaned as they descended.
Each step felt heavier now.
Not because of fear.
Because the house itself seemed... annoyed.
Lila stayed in the middle.
Lila - “If something jumps out, I’m leaving reality.”
Maya - “You can’t leave reality.”
Lila - “Watch me emotionally.”
Zoe shined her flashlight ahead.
The kitchen door was slightly open.
Just enough to show darkness inside.
And something moving low to the ground.
Scratching.
Soft.
Then stopping.
Maya pushed the door open slowly.
It creaked.
Too loudly.
Inside the kitchen was dim, dusty, and oddly still.
Broken chairs. Old cupboards. A table slightly tilted.
Like it had already survived something earlier.
Zoe stepped in first.
Zoe - “Alright. Everyone stay calm. We assess the situation first—”
Maya pulled out a chair and sat down.
The chair immediately snapped.
CRACK.
Maya dropped slightly.
Paused.
Then slowly stood up again.
Maya - “That one was personal.”
Lila didn’t sit.
Lila - “I’m standing for the rest of my life.”
Zoe walked toward the counter.
Then stopped.
Something rolled near her foot.
A small bin lid slowly rotated across the floor.
No wind.
No sound.
Just movement.
It drifted toward the corner and stopped.
Lila pointed instantly.
Lila - “That is NOT normal behavior for a bin lid.”
Maya stepped forward.
Maya - “It’s just—”
The bin moved again.
But this time it didn’t roll.
It slid.
Slowly.
Like something had nudged it from inside.
Zoe lifted her flashlight.
The beam hit the bin.
Nothing.
Then—
Two eyes reflected back.
Small.
Sharp.
Blinking.
Silence.
Lila - “...No.”
Maya grinned immediately.
Maya - “Ohhh. Kitchen boss fight.”
Zoe’s voice dropped.
Zoe - “That’s a raccoon.”
Beat.
Lila blinked.
Lila - “...A what?”
The bin suddenly flipped over violently.
A raccoon burst out.
Hissing.
Then another from under the sink.
Then a third from the cupboard.
Instant explosion of movement.
Maya grabbed a broom handle from the floor.
Maya - “WE’RE DOING THIS AGAIN!”
Zoe backed up.
Zoe - “Why is there a PATTERN forming?!”
Lila grabbed a frying pan instantly.
Lila - “I AM ENDING THIS HOUSE’S CAREER.”
A raccoon jumped onto the table.
Knocked over plates.
Glass shattered.
Another leapt into a bowl of flour—
POOF.
White explosion everywhere.
Maya swung the broom wildly.
CRASH—a cupboard door fell off.
Zoe tried to ‘strategically contain’ one raccoon using a pot.
It immediately escaped through her legs.
Zoe - “...That was statistically improbable.”
Lila screamed and hit nothing but air and fear.
Lila - “WHY ARE THEY FAST?!”
Maya - “I DON’T KNOW BUT I RESPECT IT!”
Another raccoon sprinted across the counter.
Knocked a kettle off.
Water sprayed everywhere.
The kitchen is collapsing into full chaos.
One raccoon jumps into a hanging pot rack.
It swings violently.
Everything rattles.
Zoe looks up.
Zoe - “...That structure is not stable.”
CRASH.
The entire rack collapses.
Metal, pots, and chaos everywhere.
That is the final trigger.
Maya yells.
Maya - “RETREAT!”
All three bolt out of the kitchen screaming.
Raccoons remain inside like they own the place.
The mansion behind them creaks again.
Almost satisfied.
The front door of the mansion burst open as the three girls sprinted out into the night.
Cold air hit them instantly.
Behind them—
CLANG.
CRASH.
Something fell inside the kitchen again.
Maya didn’t even slow down.
Maya - “WE HANDLED IT!”
Zoe, still dripping wet and covered in flour, nearly tripped on the front step.
Zoe - “We absolutely did NOT handle it!”
Lila ran a few steps, then immediately stopped once she hit the grass.
Lila - “I am never emotionally returning to that building.”
Lights were now turning on everywhere.
One house. Then another. Then another.
Dogs were barking nonstop.
A man stepped outside in a dressing gown, staring at the mansion.
Neighbor - “What on earth is going on in there?!”
A woman across the street pointed nervously.
Neighbor 2 - “It’s the haunted house again!”
From inside the mansion.
BANG.
Something else broke.
The whole building seemed to groan in response.
Lila immediately grabbed Maya’s arm.
Lila - “It is NOT haunted.”
Another crash.
Silence.
Then a loud scraping sound from the kitchen area.
Even Zoe hesitated now.
Zoe - “...We should not correct them.”
Maya nodded proudly.
Maya - “Let them believe what they want.”
Lila turned slowly.
Lila - “We just got into a WAR with raccoons.”
Zoe - “And lost structurally.”
Another window shattered inside the mansion.
That was enough.
A neighbor yelled.
Neighbor - “I’m calling someone!”
Maya waved without looking back.
Maya - “We’re busy!”
The girls finally walked away from the mansion, still hearing faint chaos behind them.
As they disappeared down the street, the mansion stood there again—
Quiet... but somehow worse than before.
Back home.
Everything is silent.
Too silent.
The living room is dim, messy, and covered in leftover dust and debris from their adventure.
They collapse inside one by one.
No energy left.
Maya...
Sleeping on the sofa, still holding the broken broom handle like a sword.
One arm draped over it like she’s guarding a kingdom.
Maya - “...we won...” she mumbled in sleep
Lila...
Wrapped completely in a blanket like she’s hiding from invisible threats.
Holding the metal lamp tightly like a shield.
She whispers in her sleep:
Lila - “The shelves... they’re coming back...”
Zoe...
Sitting upright in a chair she refuses to trust.
Holding a frying pan in one hand and a notebook in the other.
Half-asleep, she mutters:
Zoe - “Statistically... that raccoon was too coordinated...”
Then slowly leans forward without letting go of anything.
The house is quiet.
But on the table between them.
A broken broom
A bent lamp
A frying pan
Flour still in their hair
Evidence of absolute chaos.
And somewhere far away...
A faint raccoon screech echoes in memory.
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