fandomhigh | Hunting 101 - Class 2 (Wed period 7)

When students enter the Danger Shop they find themselves standing outside a large slightly rundown house. John was waiting for them, leaning comfortably against the side of an old impala. Beside him was a table, with the sign in sheet as well as another list of names paired up. It was also piled high with knapsacks.

"Welcome to our first practical class," John greeted them with a smile. "This is where we find out how well you apply what you've learned so far. Behind me is Elrod Manor. It's haunted by the ghost of a woman who was named Cassandra Elrod. She was killed by her husband Mark Elrod, who happened to be a serial killer. The legend goes that she found some rather grisly evidence of his activities and to keep her quiet he killed her and hid her body in the house.

"Since then her ghost has been seen countless times by many different people. They describe a very beautiful but sad woman who has appeared throughout the house but always disappeared at the end of the hallway on the second floor. There's also been an unusual number of accidents resulting in injury or death have occurred here. All of the victims have been married men. Those that have survived the attack describe a woman with features more horrific than beautiful."

He looked around at his students. "You're assignment is to lay her ghost to rest. Each of you will get one of this knapsacks that have everything in them that you should need to accomplish that. You'll work in pairs and each pair will go into the house in turn. As none of you are, to the best of my knowledge, married men, you should be relatively safe unless you antagonise her. My advice?" He smiled slightly. "Don't."

"Please pick up a knapsack and check the list to see who you are paired with and we'll get started."

When the students look inside the knapsacks they will find a flashlight, an EMF meter, an Infrared Thermal Scanner, a container of salt, lighter fluid and matches.

The list of pairings is as follows:

Sam Winchester, Will Vandom
Alec, Alanna Trebond
Belthazor, Dawn Summers
Pip Bernadette, Peter Pevensie
Seely Booth, Peter Parker
Bridge Carson, Conner McKnight
John Crichton, Charlie Kawalsky
Walter Dornez, Phoebe Halliwell
Jim Ellison, Pete Hutter
Dean Forrester, Hermione Granger

When everyone had got their equipment and found their assigned partners. John grinned at them wolfishly. "So, who's first?"

[ooc: ~~wait for~~ ocd is up! Go for it. If there is anyone who would actually fall under the category of "married man" please let me know so the ghost can react appropriately ;)

ETA: feel free once you've hooked up with your partner to just go into the house. We're handwaving the taking turns. Also forgot to put a flashlight amongst the equipment originally -- am adding it now.]

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"I dunno. People neglect their attics. Hey lady, you hear that? You haven't done your housework! Get down here and mop this up." He turned to John. "We should decorate someone's room with floral wallpaper."

"Peter Parker's?" John suggests immediately.

"You read my mind, my friend."

There was a noise in the corner. Kawalsky turned to face it. "Crazy laaady. If you come out, we'll let you help prank Peter Parker. Come on, who can pass up that opportunity?"

"If I were a ghost, that'd get me outta hiding," John says. "C'mon, Peter Parker is such a prankworthy person. We'll let you haunt his room!"

"John," Charlie said when the ghost went quiet again. "I think she's playing hard to get."

"We need to charm her out of hiding?"

As they continue to turn around and search, they may catch sight of a woman's silhouette in front of the small attic window.

"Whoa!" John taps Charlie ~~who might've gone to bed~~ on the shoulder. "Look look!"

"Hey! There's our girl. Women. Always have to be fashionably late. Uh, here kitty kitty kitty. We have treats." He offered to take one of the doohickeys and offered salt in return.

The ghost glanced at them and then turned and walked towards the far corner of the attic, where a number of boxes and several large trunks were crouched in the shadows.

"She's kinda creepy. I don't think we should take her for a drink. Let's let Peter Parker take her for a drink, then place bets on who'd win in a mud-wrestling match, her or Zero."

"Maybe she wants some chocolate?" John suggests. "All girls like chocolate."

The ghost seemed to have disappeared into the shadows, but the ITS scanner if they happened to wave it in that corner's direction shows a very definite cold spot.

John waves the scanner towards where he'd just seen their girl and it pings.

"Okay, she's over there. You wanna go first, Charlie?"

"No." He grabbed the salt back off John, shook a bunch into his hand and tossed it in that direction as a test.

"Me either," John admits and waves the scanner some more. "We need ghostbusting guns."

Several of the boxes shook in place and people with good sight may have noticed the ghost's silhouette sitting on one of the trunks before she disappeared.

"I don't think she likes us. After all we offered her. We offered you Monopoly, Twister, drinks at Caritas and a Peter Parker Pranking Experience!" He was starting to pull the lighter fluid and matches out of the bag now. "What more do you want, lady?!"

"Probably wants diamonds," John says, setting the scanner down. "Big fat rocks to show off to her ghost friends."

The boxes were trembling a bit more and one of them suddenly shot across the floor right at them. The ghost was still visible in the shadows though as not much more than a silhouette.

"Holy crap!" John shouts and hits the ground quickly.

Kawalsky also ducked and instinctively tried to run for cover. "HEY! We were being nice!" He tossed the lighter fluid to Crichton.

And John, whose on his knees, sprays the lighter fluid in an erratic pattern towards the pissy ghost.

The lighter fluid didn't seem to actually land on the ghost, but it did on the boxes and trunks around her. It also seemed to annoy her even more as another box went flying right for Kawalsky's head, followed a second later by one at John's head.

Kawalsky dodged again, but wasn't so successful this time. He got thwacked soundly by a box that knocked him off his feet. He scowled and fumbled for the matches. "And to think I was gonna play Twister with her." He lit one and tossed it at her.