Possessed

Chapter 1: Poking Around

I don't like how I made this chapter so I replacing it with my friend Millie_Astral otherwise known as Chibi came up with. It's much better anyway

On a particularly cloudy afternoon, two young boys were walking along a path that had long since disappeared to a particularly creepy destination. One was pale with light blue hair that arched forward and golden eyes. The other was one with black hair, a darker skin tone, and mismatch eyes of black and gold. The afternoon was chilly, so they both wore coats to fend off the cold. They walked hand-in-hand, the pale one looking forward worriedly while the darker one didn't seem to be frightened.

The pale young boy looked to his partner, his golden orbs laced with worry. "Are you sure we should be doing this Dark Mist?" he asked, hugging himself out of fright and also to warm up a little.

The other boy, Dark Mist, only smiled back. "You'll be fine Astral," he assured. "I'm here to protect you. I promise to stay by your side while we're doing this."

Astral narrowed his eyes, forgetting momentarily how frightened he felt. "You're not going to try and scare me again like the time we were watching that mummy movie are you?" he accused. However, Dark Mist's smile turned into a slightly foreboding grin, which made the fright Astral felt come back. He bit his lip, the worry was back in his eyes.

"No promises Astral," Dark Mist teased.

The pale young man puffed out his cheeks in an indignant pout. "Dark Mist, I thought you were going to protect me from all the creepy stuff in there! Not help it scare me half to death!"

"Fine fine," Dark Mist laughed. "I won't scare you."

Astral felt a wave of relief flooding him. Now that it was established that Dark Mist wouldn't pull any of his pranks, even if they were just for fun and not ill-intentioned, he could rest easier.

However, Dark Mist couldn't help but add, "Much." This sent a slight chill down Astral's spine, but since he didn't want to seem like a big baby, he kept himself from showing his fear. Dark Mist knew, however, that he was once again scared. They were together for a long time; at this point, Astral was an open book, easy to read no matter how hard Astral tried to hide his emotions.

"Dark Mist!" Astral cried out indignantly and smacked his arm. Dark Mist just laughed it off, knowing Astral wouldn't be mad for long.

Astral was about to give Dark Mist a scolding when they suddenly arrived at their destination. They looked up at Danvers State Hospital, also known as the Lunatic Hospital. In its time since it was first constructed in 1887, it was only made to handle 600 patients at most. However, it was inevitably overcrowded, as most mental hospitals were, with 2,360 patients by 1939. In thirty years, only portions of it were closed. By 1985, most of the mental hospital was shut down, and the entire hospital was closed for good in 1992.

Now, the building's structure was questionable at best, with portions of the wall cracked or rotted off. The roof had long ago caved in, but the door's frame was still mostly intact. It was surprising since it stood for many years after its final closure, unattended by anyone, not even to keep the weeds from overrunning the building. Vines climbed and broke down the walls outside; it wouldn't be surprising if they were to find the same plants and more invading the inside of the institution.

Astral and Dark Mist took in this rather creepy sight and shared a glance. Suddenly, checking out this place was seeming to be a bad idea.

"Still wanna do this?" Astral whispered even though there was no one else in sight. Everything was so silent that it just felt like he couldn't break the silence.

Dark Mist seemed to think the same thing. "Well, no backing down now."
"We can still go back." It was pretty obvious in his voice that Astral was all too willing to go back to the comfort of their home and forget about this whole thing. The hospital had an eerie vibe that was just too hard to ignore.

"Well, then we'd have come all this way for nothing, right?"

Astral was about to argue, but there would be no convincing Dark Mist to abort this crazy mission and go home. So, in reluctant agreement, he replied, "Alright, fine. You win this time. Just no crazy stunts, understand?"

"Yeah yeah sure, I promise no cray stunts." They approached the heavy wooden doors and pushed them open.