"Yeah.. Anyone home? We wanna buy the house!" Matt said anxious.

"Hello?" Sydney looked around.

The owners came. "Oh thank god your here!" The old woman said. She was trying to ditch the mansion for years.

Steve found his grandfather's spirit. "You better not do anything to scare them!"
GFATHER: "I won't promise." He chuckled.

Sydney went up stairs.

"Yeah, We're buying." Matt said. "Deal." The women said. They bought the house.

Sydney notice a room partially cracked. With an insane sense of curiosity, she went in.

The old women walked out, and drove away. "Sydney, you there?"

"She's coming in. Hide grandpa." They hid under a bed.

Sydney was lost in the view out the window. There wasn't much to see that she hadn't already seen a million times, but this view was restless, unserene, and lost.

Steve kept his grandpa under the bed. "Don't do anything stupid."

Matt walked to the room.

Sydney put her hands on the sill. She was tempted to open the window, but something prevented her.

Matt walked over to her side. "Sense something?"

"No." It was a lie. She knew something was up, she just did want to say it.

"Well, you seem.. interested in this window." He began to open it.

"It's not the window. It's the view." Sydney continued to look out it. The trees made an almost crying sound, and the creek and the bottom ran slow and hesitant.

He fully opened the window. "Whats wrong with it?"

"It's ... sad." Sydney looked closely. Even with sunlight shining through it was depressing.

Steve rose from under the bed. "Hello there."

Sydney was startled. "Don't do that!"

(Is that a spirit or actually him?)

(Spirit)

"This is my grandfather's mansion. He went crazy and killed my grandma and killed himself. It's not safe here."

"Why hide? There's no reason." Xemnas chuckled.

"Really?" Sydney felt a murderesque feel. The saddness was now enevitable. She broke down and cried.

"Oh, uh... did I offend?" Xemnas started to feel bad.

"Whats happening?..." Matt was confused.

Sydney kept looking out the window. Empathy was the worst to her. "I'm weak."

Matt held her hand. "How are you weak? You are the strongest girl i know..."

"Empathy." Sydney pulled away and walked around.

Matt felt like he had failed her. He just stared window as she did before.

"Don't let yourself down, Matt. It's not good for morale." He pats Matt on the back.

"But..." He couldn't help thinking about what she meant.

"Leave. Leave before you get hurt. Beware of him!" Steve warned.

"We can brace him. Right Matt? Sydney?"

"What? Brace who? Wait.. im confused.." Matt said confused.

"The ghost. Of Steve?" Xemnas facepalmed.

"No.. Your kidding right? I don't believe in paranormal activity. I'll believe it when I see it.." Matt said cautiously.

Sydney walked back in. "You should." Then she walked back toward the window

"Yeah. At least he can't see me right now though. He probably thinks you two are crazy right about now." Steve said.

"Oh well." She looked at the trees. "It's true that they're sad. I was always told you could tell the past from the trees."

"Yeah. I hear everything since I'm a spirit now. Everything tells me their stories. The trees, the sky, the water, the people, and the animals. I'm one with everything like this." Steve sighed. "I'm with my brother up here. I'm back with my family."

"That's good." Sydney felt terrible. "A power struggle isn't how they should've gone. Every time I saw you, my heart broke a little. I didn't have the heart to tell you the real reason they died was Josh and my obession with power."

"You killed my family because OF POWER?!" Steve gets really angry. Steve's family appears behind him. "HOW DARE YOU!"

"Oh my god.. i know I'm not high and seeing you guys talk to yourselves, because I haven't done that in a while.. I need to get some air.. Uh... Er..." Matt awkwardly walked out.

"Please forgive me. I killed my own familly for power. I bludgeoned in my own father's head. I don't know what's wrong with me." Sydney started to cry.

"OH MY GOD! IM GOING CRAZY!!!!!" Matt said crazily banging his head on the wall.

Steve hit Matt in the head with a chair. "That'll shut him up for awhile."

"I'm" She stopped. "I'm sorry. Steve, will you forgive me."

Matt was knocked out, bleeding from his head. "What... hit me.."

"I'll think about it. Put some ice on that wound of his. He'll feel better in no time." Steve spirit leaves.

Sydney cleaned up Matt's wound and gave him some ice.

"Was... I dreaming..?" He said confused.

"Sure." Sydney knew what he was referring to.

"This... This is insane... But, it all felt so real..." Matt said holding the ice to his head.

"Just don't worry." Sydney smiled at him.

"But... you..." He fainted.

She walked away and outside. Only outside was the answer to the house. It was something about the trees.

"Well, it was a dream... I think.. Ah, ill just get over it!" He laughed at himself.

Sydney quickly climbed in an oak tree in the middle of the yard. "You can see into the master bedrom."

Matt walked into the master bedroom, and went to the window. "Hey Sydney!"

"Hi." Sydney figured someone would have climbed it. She hopped down and climb up another. This one looked into another bedroom

Matt unpacked his suitcase, and took a change of clothes out. "Better change." He headed to the bathroom.

Sydney hopped down again. She climbed into another tree. This one look into an empty room.

Matt began his shower.

Sydney got down and headed inside. It was strange that every tree looked into a room, and every room was looked into.

Matt finished his cold shower. "Oooh, that was nice." He dried off, and put on some clothes.

Sydney went upstairs and looked in each room.

Matt combed his hear into a spike. "Looking good Matt. Looking good."

Sydney thought about the format of the yard. The distances made it seem sporadic, but they were well organized

Matt looked out the window, at the trees. "Hey... She is right.. Something... eerie.."

"That's strange." She kept walking up and down the hall.

He noticed. Every tree looked into some room. He walked over to Sydney. "Do you think we can chop these trees?... They are... scaring me.." He said pathetically.

"The trees... they never die. No matter what. That's what drove my grandfather crazy." Steve sighed from the clouds.

"They look into every room. I know. Anyone could go in the backyard and see what we're doing at any time." Sydney was wierded out.

"Should we.... get out?..." He said awkwardly.

"I don't know." Something drew her to the house almost like an invisible bond.

"I feel sketchy being here..." He shivered. "Someone could have seen me in the shower..."

"Those trees. Planted over rotting bodies. That's why they are evil. I should tell them." Steve finds Sydney and tells her.

"Doubt it. I was the only one out there." Sydney realized that didn't come out correctly.

"Don't believe me huh?" Steve's spirit digs under the trees to show a bunch of corpses. "Told ya."

Xemnas stumbled upon them. "Hm... Evil spirits... That explains something," he said.

"Okay, there is something your not telling me. This isn't a dream. I know it..." He said scared.

"This place is most likely haunted, Matt. I'm starting to have second thoughts..." Xemnas paused. "Ok. I say we purge the place of ghosts!"

(Gurf. Forgot about this again.. From what i can tell, Xemnas and co. have found a haunted house, correcto?)

(Yessiree.)

(...I'm probably going to have trouble popping back in, aren't I? I'll just wait until they get outta the house, 'kay-o?)

(Fine. I can wait.)

Matt was confused...

(If ever you get lost message me) Sydney woke up.

"I wonder if they're leaving. They should it's dangerous there." Steve shivered.

Sydney got up and scretched. It felt like she had slept an eternity.

"I hope they're alright. The spirits buried under the trees are killer."

She started toward the door. It was awkward that ghosts drew her to strangest places. The paranormal was so fascinating to her.

"Sydney... I'm scared. Can we. er.. get out of here?" Matt said scared, but sounding like a baby.

"One more night." Sydney was persistant to figure out what was up with the house.

Matt thought to himself: Crap.

Sydney grabbed a note pad from the table and started to write down the conditions outside. "I thought you didn't believe in the paranormal."

Matt followed her. "Well.. There was always a slight bit of.. fear behind me.." Matt didn't wanna sound like a wuss in front of her.