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The door opened to nothing. Really it was nothing. Merci frowned a little bit and looked inside but there was nothing there. She put a foot out to step into the nothing and almost fell inside. There was no floor. She shut the door and shook her head. Okay so maybe right wasn't right either.

Dio had helped steady Merci when she teetered on the edge there. He had to admit that he'd been relieved when she just shut the door. He'd no interest in trying to float out into that on his own. Course if he'd had to float out there Reyna probably wouldn't have been in that place anyway.

Merci inched toward the door that was opposite the one they entered the mirror room from originally. If this door didn't work she could try the left one and hope it stood still, but she was running out of options as far as directions were concerned. She put her hand on the knob and tried to pull the door open.

A flash of silver ran past them before back tracking to the open door. "Well hello there, sweetness~!" Reyna said as she reached out to drag Dio into a hug. Mystic and Hawk had both quite sternly warned her to play nice because of the hard time Dio was having. She petted at his hair and then laughed a little at his attire. "Nice outfit," she told him with a smirk.

"And here you go," she replied as she reached out and handed Merci a piece of candy. "Last piece, right?" she asked as she watched all of their surroundings dissolve into mostly nothing but a plain, albeit old, one-room house.

"Don't forget to turn them in to the shop for a prize, okay? I promise to get you something good for all your trouble," she said as she let go of Dio and reached to sweetly peck Merci on the cheek with a wink before taking off at a dead run out the door. Time to scare people who needed proper scaring~!

He was an idiot. An absolute idiot.

After receiving his final piece of candy back in the Addams abode, Algie had removed his wizard hat in order to scratch his head. Without a second thought he'd left, so relieved to be gone from that frustrating maze of monochrome mayhem.

Of course he had left his hat inside.

Without a second thought, or perhaps just assuming that nothing would change, he'd reopened the door to the house to reacquire his hat.

"Dammit!!" The swamp was once again a distant thought when the door slammed shut behind him. He was in a dusty, disheveled room that looked nothing like the old-time TV feeling of the Addams house. This just looked abandoned.. but AHA! His hat sat on an armchair, the upholstery torn by what looked to be claws.

"Well Bloo.. I think we are at it again." His eyes adjusted to the dim light. There was only one way through this room, one doorway to get him through. There was a creepy singing reaching his ears. He steeled himself for anything. Algie knew that after his last encounter with this place, anything really did go.

He opened the door and made his first steps toward what hoped would be fast freedom.

And Hawk's Eye seemed like an eerie ghost that stepped out from among the dolls that lined the wall.

'Coming back in just to find your hat. Tsk, tsk,' he teased, dropping a candy square into the palm of Algie's hand. Do ignore the fact that his hands looked like they were covered in blood and, perhaps, the candy may have been a little sticky as well.

'There's your candy for being brave, but you'll need to find Reyna and Mystic if you want to escape again ...' With that, the Seer started to disappear, but not before tossing one of the dolls at Algie.

Really. They were JUST dolls.

Maybe.

'Then it seems that none of it you shall have, for the moment,' Mystic laughed a bit cryptically as he phased into view from out of the inky darkness. He reached to drop another candy into Algie's palm before disappearing once more, his laughter echoing in the dank, dark room.

A panel of the flooring opened up prompted by the switch Algie incidentally pressed while struggling with the terrifying behemoth of a clown. Reyna's head popped up and she curiously climbed up out of the floor to see what all the noise was about.

"Eeww," she declared with a look of disgust, "Clownsss."

It was then that she noticed that Algie was struggling with the one before her. She took pity on the man and grabbed a hold of the clown's shoulders and yanked it backwards. She grinned viciously as the clown let go of Algie and instead focused its attention upon her.

"That's not very nice," she told the clown before grabbing a hold of it once more and hurling it down the hole she had popped out of with more strength than a womon of her size and stature ought to have.

She dusted her hands off and smirked over at Algie as the surroundings again faded away to nothing. "Aww... play time is over?" she snickered before handing the shaken looking man another piece of candy. "Here ya go handsome. Game is over for you it looks like. Take the door to the right," she told him as she headed for the opposite door on the left.

She stepped almost the whole way through before turning back and yelling over her shoulder, "Don't forget your hat this time, kay!"

Pushing the door open Rhys and Tek moved ahead, the next room held a small table with two mannequins sitting at it. Rhys paused for a long moment, the two mannequins had been dressed up one as a well to do lady and the other as a gentleman in a fancy suit, Rhys noted that the man's suit looked very close in appearance to his own. A tea setting was placed on the table, moving closer Rhys looked over the setting nothing had been poured into the cups from the small teapot. "Doesn't look all that scary..."

Tek's mind voice came to Rhys quietly as if the fiend was nervous, the tone of Tek's 'voice' put Rhys on edge the little fiend didn't scare very often. We think you should look at their eyes.

Rhys realized he hadn't looked at the mannequins eyes he'd seen the joints on the hands and realized what they were and didn't bother really looking at their faces. At Tek's suggestion Rhys found that he really didn't want to look up and see their eyes, sucking in a breath he braced himself and looked up. Despite having readied himself Rhys took an automatic step back, the mannequins had human eyes. The eyes moved and followed Rhys movements, then the face of the female shifted and she bared her teeth as she spoke, "won't you have a cup of tea?" Blood glinted on her teeth as she spoke, Rhys started moving back his eyes widening as he saw that the mannequins were getting up. Both moved toward him and Tek quickly their frightening real eyes and blood covered teeth flashing in the light. "Have a cup of tea..." The female mannequin grabbed him and pushed him back toward the wall, Tek darted over attempting to put himself between the thing and his bonded. As Rhys hit the wall instead of coming in contact with a hard surface he fell through it and with him Tek, falling back he felt with a soft thud on his backside. The mannequins didn't follow and Rhys took a few moments to take in deep breaths letting his heart slow.

Glancing around he sucked in a breath of cool air and realized they'd been sent back to the front porch, standing up a bit shakily he looked to the door and reconsidered opening it again. Perhaps leaving was the best idea, but a stubborn part of him dug it's heels in ... he wouldn't be beaten by a doll. "We aren't done yet." Rhys glanced over to Tek.

Tek's tail flickered to and fro splitting and re-merging into one over and over, glancing up the fiend adjusted his super hero cape and mask and nodded waiting for Rhys to open the door.

Steeling himself Rhys pushed the door open and stepped inside again, they found themselves in the living room that they'd originally come in through. The room had changed, blood splatter reflected in the light and body parts lay about in various positions. Rhys stayed very still his first thoughts being that the mannequin creatures had gotten a hold of someone and tore them apart. Gulping down his rising terror Rhys stepped forward, Tek instead of darting ahead as he had been before clung to Rhys side his eyes opened wide.

"It's the mannequins..." Rhys voice held a note of confusion, looking down he could see that the arms and legs that were thrown about were jointed and the limbs were not bleeding they just had blood or rather blood colored liquid thrown on them.

This is getting weirder...

Rhys muttered slightly glancing to Tek, "yeah..." pausing he noticed that one of the arms from the mannequin was laying on the floor intact. Reaching down he picked up the thick plastic limb hefting it slightly. Nodding slightly Rhys rested the arm on his shoulder, it would make a good club if he ended up needing one later on, and then the sound of movement behind the two drew their attention. Rhys spun his hand tight on his makeshift weapon and his eyes wide looking toward the noise.

'... curiosity will get the space creature eaten,' Hawk murmured as he slipped through the open door way and past the two that were trying to head in. For a change he did not look covered in blood, but was soaking wet it seemed. 'Aren't you two done yet?' he asked, head tilting to the side before he shook his head as if not wanting to know the answer.

Dropping a blue candy on top of Tek's head, he began to float to the other side of the room and towards another door that appeared. 'Find Mystic and his bonded, Reyna and you'll have your last prize from the store - though what happens after that? Well, we most certainly do not like greedy guts taking ALL of our candy ...'