20 - Spirit Box

Earlier that morning after David and Sarah left.

Jack whose energy was full walked around the house thinking about what he could do that would bring a good fright to whoever returned first.

It needs to be something they haven't seen before and they won't expect but it's getting harder and harder to scare them as they almost always expect something to happen when they leave.

After walking around back and forth and looking around the house, At first, he wanted to move something around but after thinking about it, they probably are used to that and he wouldn't get much fear experience from that.

Eventually, Jack decided to wait in Angelica's room and open the curtain, spending a bit of energy, watching for anyone coming home before appearing as a shadow figure, maybe they will think somebody had broken inside again.

After waiting for a few hours and his energy was full, he was starting to get bored.

He thought at least Sarah would be back from the bus stop but she must've gone to do something.

However, as his patience started running out, Jack saw David park and get out of the car with someone else so he got ready to initiate his plan.

....

After driving for a bit in silence after their chat David and James got to David's house.

When they parked they both got out and started walking up the walkway to the front door of the house.

"That's weird, that curtain is never left open like that."

When they got halfway David noticed the curtain of Angelica's room was open and commented.

Hearing David's comment, James looked over as well, and as soon as he did they both saw a shadow figure move past the window.

"Do you know if anyone is home right now?"

They both froze and James asked David.

"My wife may be home." David said but then hesitantly continued.

"But that looked more like Jack."

"I see..." James said suspiciously.

They had just got here and they saw something like that. He started to question whether it was planned.

After they chatted and gathered themselves they walked to the door and David tried to open it.

"Locked... so my wife probably isn't home." David clarified to James.

He proceeded to unlock it with his keys and entered slowly while looking around and turning the lights on.

"Come in, welcome to my abode." David jokingly said and he led James inside.

As soon as James entered he almost immediately was overwhelmed by the energy he felt in this house. He started breathing heavily and his heart rate skyrocketed.

"Are you ok?" David asked when he saw him lean down and put his hands on his knees looking like he just ran a marathon and was out of breath.

"Yeah... I'm ok... it's just I'm sensitive to the energy of spirits after being exposed to it so often." James explained as he caught his breath and calmed down.

It's not that he hasn't felt powerful energy before but only very rarely was it this strong and concentrated in one place. It's almost like walking through mud.

"Alright if you say so." David said and waited until he was good to continue.

"Let me just check and make sure no one is here."

As they entered David said when they were passing the entry to angelica and the basement door.

James followed curiously and didn't see anyone in David's Daughters room.

He has honestly started to believe everything because of the energy in this place.

"This is my daughter's room." David explained as he looked around before he closed the curtains.

After that, they walked to the living room.

"Please, sit." David said politely as he took a seat.

"So what do we do?" David questioned James curiously.

"Well, to be honest, I'm already convinced but I still need to record something to bring back to the guys."James said as he started recording.

"Okay, so I'm going to record and use this device here called a spirit box to try and hear the spirit's voice." James explained as motioned to the camera he was holding and a speaker-looking device he took out.

As James prepared he saw that David was looking at the spirit box curiously.

"This device sweeps Radio Frequencies and produces energy and white noise for spirits to easily use to speak." James said to satisfy David's curiosity.

"Is there any specific spot where activity is very frequent." James asked after he finished setting everything up and started recording.

"Not particularly. it's the whole house." David replied.

"Alright let's get this started then." James said before he got up with the camera and spirit box in hand.

"Is there anyone here?" James asked after he turned the spirit box on and upped the volume.

Jack who was watching them was distracted by a couple of system notifications.

[Detected newly encountered spirit medium/s.

Name: Spirit Box

Effect: Two words per five energy.

.....

Name: Video Camera

Effect: Double appearance time.

]

Jack was distracted by this notification and didn't hear James' question.

Using the spirit box he can speak two words for the cost of one, and the video camera lets him appear on it for two seconds instead of the normal one second.

After Jack finished reading the system notification he noticed that James had already started.

"Is Jack here?" James asked after he received no answers to any questions he asked so far.

"I am." Jack said and then checked his energy.

[10/30]

He used 15 energy to appear as a shadow figure earlier, and then that response cost him another 5.

'Damn if I knew he would be here I would have saved that energy.' Jack was sad that he used half of his energy on a small prank earlier.

"I am, did you hear that?" James asked David for confirmation.

"Yeah, it sounded like the voice I heard a couple of times too. so it should be him." David confirmed and then clarified.

"Jack can you give us a sign that you are here." James asked.

Jack knew he had to do his best to scare this fresh blood so he gave up on words and walked behind him and patted his shoulder.

James not expecting to be touched almost jumped out of his skin and the next thing he knew he was three feet away scared to death.

"Are you okay?" David was concerned when he saw him move away quickly and looked behind him while swiping his back while pointing his camera where he just was.

" Yeah I'm good, something just touched my back." James informed David

"Yeah, stuff like that happens," David said while holding a chuckle back.

Jack knew if he wanted him to come back, he has to give him some good shots.

So he decided to stay still when he saw the camera pointed at him and used the rest of his energy to appear as a mist and float towards James.

Unfortunately, James wasn't looking at his camera when he did it.

James then proceeded to ask some more questions and asked for Jack to do something but didn't receive anything else so he decided to wrap up and go through the video camera when he went back.

"Alright, Can I get a ride back? You are welcome to stay at our nerve center so we can go over this video and see if I got anything else." James asked Davi as he prepared to leave.

"I'll just drop you off with my phone number, my daughter is going to be home from school soon." David said as he grabbed his keys to take James back.

"Alright, no problem. I'll give you a call later tonight about the guy's decision. I don't want you to get your hopes up but between me and you, your house is way more active." James said as they exited the house and got into the car.

Jack watched them leave and prayed they came to investigate as he looked at his gains.

[

Name:Jack

Race: Ghost(Phantom)

Lvl: 3 (80%)

Energy:4/30

Regen: 4/h

Haunt location buff: none

]