3 Ways

Lost & Found

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"Well that doesn't fix it!" Victoria paced around underneath the dead lights panicky. "These freaking Shadows are still in our house and we won't be able to find them without light!"

"Just open the curtains or something; shouldn't be that hard," Namjoo muttered, "haven't you heard of saving electricity?"

"We're not saving it," Victoria stated matter-of-factly before turning to eye Chorong, who was currently pacing around frustrated in her own world, "it got killed on us!"

"Well," Chorong turned to Victoria, "not everyone knows how to control their powers on the first try. You made a bigger mess than either of us upon tapping into their gem!"

Victoria snorted and put her hand on her hips, "What?"

"Shattered glass, broken picture frames, and you even swung a chair out at me." Chorong pointed out.

"I told you the last one was an accident."

"Hello!" Namjoo raised her voice so that she could scream over theirs. She was in the living room by one of the windows, "Instead of you two arguing, why can't we open the freaking curtains together?! The sun hasn't gone down yet, we haven't got all day." She glanced around before asking, "Have you counted the number of windows we have in this house?"

Victoria groaned.

"Why don't you guys attack from one area, opening all the curtains will help the Shadows spread out, which will weaken your defense," Woohyun suggested.

"Well, if you're so smart, why don't you help us instead of just standing there!?" Chorong raised her voice at him.

"Whoa," he said sarcastically.

"Just joking," Chorong patted his shoulder, "can't have some fun with me?"

Woohyun snorted at her before following her into the sitting room, which had more space, and less valuable objects that could be broken and easily replaced.

"Namjoo, window," Victoria ordered.

She shot her a stare before moving over to the window beside the couch and sprung the window curtain open.

"Now what?" Namjoo asked staring at the window and the light it casted into the room.

The dark Shadow appeared so fast and lurched out that Namjoo screamed in surprise as she hurled toward the floor, throwing her arm out in defense. When she landed against the floor she heard Victoria's voice bellowing throughout the room. And when she looked up she saw that the curtain had caught fire.

"Water! Go get water!"

Upon the order, Namjoo rushed up to her feet, but was stopped by Chorong.

"Hold on," Chorong said, "I think the fire's attracting them to it."

Namjoo turned around to watch the Shadows move toward the fire one by one and heard them growl in pain before they popped and disappeared.

"Ok...so that worked," Namjoo nodded confused.

"Water, hurry before you burn down the house!" Victoria urged.

"Ok, ok!" Namjoo muttered walking into the kitchen.

Victoria turned away from the sight of dying Shadows and covered her ears. It was an awful thing to listen to and she was sure she'd get a nightmare from it.

"Hurry, hurry!" Victoria beckoned when she was sure the last of them had died off.

She watched her sister toss the bowl of water at the curtain, which immediately demolished the fire.