Dib's Blog

An rp blog by the person that runs the Dib ask blog dib1. I decided to make a separate blog for rps so that I wouldn't interfere with that blog's canon and followers. That said, this blog is pretty much strictly for rp sessions. If you would like to ask Dib questions, I would prefer them to be sent to Dib1, please. Thank you :)

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

Dib shrugged. “I dunno. Irken, I guess.” He started heading back toward the stairs. What might Zim have been doing all this time? Hopefully time passed the same speed here as it did back home, or Dib could be in real trouble.

[stupidlittlelizard]

"I take it he really irks you then? Heheh!” Flora snickered before skittering off after BabyCharmander, who led the two down the stairs.

BC said little, only talking briefly with a Waddle Dee that scurried up to her to announce that the kitchen had been cleaned. Upon approaching the basement door, she turned to face Dib. “There’s a lot of junk down here too. Just don’t go messing around with too much—some of it’s dangerous. Someone accidentally ate a magical fruit they found down here once.”

"Tch, not that that’s a rarity," Flora said with a shrug.

BC ignored this remark, and turned to open the door to the basement. The stairs went down quite a ways—farther than one would expect for basement stairs—and the end of the stairs could not be seen from the light shining down from the main room. No lights were on, and a quick flip of the light switch confirmed that the bulbs were out, too. “Darn it… You guys go on ahead—I’ll get someone to fix the lights here and in the attic. And DON’T go causing trouble, Flora!” With that, she scampered off to talk with a couple Waddle Dees again.

"I won’t!" Flora called, holding her paws behind her back. She glanced at Dib. "Well, you ready?"

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"Yeah, let me just see if I have another flashlight." Dib dug around in his pockets, tongue poking between his teeth. He finally found a tiny penlight that had gotten buried. It wasn't much, but it was better than nothing. "Okay, let's go."

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

Dib narrowed his eyes. ‘Queen of the universe,’ huh? Right. For some reason she kind of reminded him of a tiny, female, mischievous Zim.

It took a lot of effort but he finally sawed off a small enough piece of the jawbone that he could pick up and carry with little difficulty. Unsure of what to do with the bone saw now, he almost handed it to Flora, then abruptly changed his mind and sat it down on the floor.

"Well… I could still take a look at it," Dib said, in response to BC’s remark about the boat. "And then I should probably try to get back home. Zim could have done any number of horrible things while I’ve been here!"

[stupidlittlelizard]

BabyCharmander relaxed visibly when Dib set the saw down, making a mental note to have Cadmus come and get it later. She then made another mental note to have someone else get it for Cadmus instead since the doctor was incapable of mounting stairs. “Right! We can head to the basement and take a look, but Iunno what we’ll find down there, mur,” BC said with a shrug.

Meanwhile, Flora cast a side-glance at Dib at the mention of the other person. “Zim? What kinda’ name is that?”

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

Dib shrugged. "I dunno. Irken, I guess." He started heading back toward the stairs. What might Zim have been doing all this time? Hopefully time passed the same speed here as it did back home, or Dib could be in real trouble.

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

At being suddenly pulled from behind, Dib tumbled backwards and landed hard with a yelp. He picked himself back up and shot a glare at Flora. Whatever, at least he had the saw out. Now he just had to find a likely piece to cut off.

The jawbone was already detached so he settled for that, crouching down and sawing away at one end of it. As for BC’s last question, he definitely had an answer. “Yeah, the green thing said something about a haunted boat in your basement.”

[stupidlittlelizard]

The jawbone didn’t yield easily; it seemed as though the skull and jaw were incredibly thick and strong. However, the hinge of the jaw had been weakened earlier, which was why it had fallen off in the first place, so that was likely the best part to try to saw off.

"Green thing?!" Flora spat. "The name’s Flora! Though ‘Queen of the Universe’ is also acceptable.” She batted her eyes, giving a sweet look.

BabyCharmander, meanwhile stayed on the other side of the attic, still keeping her distance. “Th-there is a boat in the basement, but it’s not… haunted, I-I don’t think, mur? No-one died on it, anyway.”

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

Dib narrowed his eyes. 'Queen of the universe,' huh? Right. For some reason she kind of reminded him of a tiny, female, mischievous Zim.

It took a lot of effort but he finally sawed off a small enough piece of the jawbone that he could pick up and carry with little difficulty. Unsure of what to do with the bone saw now, he almost handed it to Flora, then abruptly changed his mind and sat it down on the floor.

"Well... I could still take a look at it," Dib said, in response to BC's remark about the boat. "And then I should probably try to get back home. Zim could have done any number of horrible things while I've been here!"

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

In the few minutes that both of them were gone Dib hung around awkwardly by the skeleton. He couldn’t help wondering how something like that might have gotten in here and just… died.

He looked up when he heard Flora’s voice from below. At the sound of her throwing something at him, and knowing that she had left to get a bone saw, he screamed and scrambled out of the way, toppling over backwards.

When the saw stuck in the bone, quivering, he sat and stared at it wide-eyed, his heart pounding. After a second he exhaled and looked over at BC. “Thanks,” he said, standing up and spending several minutes trying to yank the saw out of the skull.

[stupidlittlelizard]

"Hehe! No problem!" Flora snickered.

"I… don’t do well with things like that," BabyCharmander said, looking at the saw warily.

"Tch! ‘Cuz you’re a wuss." Flora made a face at the lizard before hopping down by Dib again. She could have helped him pull the saw out, but she settled for watching in amusement as he tried to pull the thing out with his scrawny arms. While he was focused on that, she walked away, pretending to go elsewhere, but sneaked behind his back. As he gave a forceful tug, she suddenly whipped her vines over to him, grabbed his collar, and yanked on him just as he pulled the saw out, thus causing him to go flying backward. Quickly she let go, retracting her vines and wrapping them around each other again. “Oops.”

"Quit messin’ around, Flora!" BC shouted, lashing her tail a couple times before turning to Dib. "I-I guess you can use that thing to cut off a piece of one of the bones… I-is there anything else you wanted to investigate?"

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

At being suddenly pulled from behind, Dib tumbled backwards and landed hard with a yelp. He picked himself back up and shot a glare at Flora. Whatever, at least he had the saw out. Now he just had to find a likely piece to cut off.

The jawbone was already detached so he settled for that, crouching down and sawing away at one end of it. As for BC's last question, he definitely had an answer. "Yeah, the green thing said something about a haunted boat in your basement."

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"No, just… don’t call me anything that has to do with my head!" Dib said. At Flora’s last comment, he looked at her with one eyebrow raised. "What? A pirate? Seriously?"

An underground dock and an old boat with disembodied voices was intriguing, he had to admit. “All right, I’ll ask if I can look around the basement once I’ve tried cutting off a bone from this skeleton.”

[stupidlittlelizard]

"Yeah, a pirate! She got bonked on the head and thought she was a pirate for a few years," Flora said with a snicker. "Not sure how that happened… Not that she'd tell you!”

At his other statement, Flora looked toward the entrance to the attic. “All right. She sure is taking a while, though… I’ll go see if I can find her!” With that, she hopped off of the skeleton and scurried off and out of the attic.

Shortly after, Dib would be able to hear the puffball’s voice shouting up from the floor below: “WHAT?! THAT’S what’s taking you so long?!” A few moments later, the puffball was hopping up the stairs again, but before Dib could get a good look at her, she hopped onto some nearby boxes and chucked something in his direction. “CATCH!”

And since we would really rather not end this thread in a gruesome way, the bonesaw rammed into the skull of the strange creature, the saw’s teeth stuck into the top corner of its head.

BC shakily emerged from the doorway, looking a few shades paler. “I… I-I forgot what those th-things looked like,” she stammered, making no attempt to get any closer to the skeleton or the saw sticking out of it.

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

In the few minutes that both of them were gone Dib hung around awkwardly by the skeleton. He couldn't help wondering how something like that might have gotten in here and just... died.

He looked up when he heard Flora's voice from below. At the sound of her throwing something at him, and knowing that she had left to get a bone saw, he screamed and scrambled out of the way, toppling over backwards.

When the saw stuck in the bone, quivering, he sat and stared at it wide-eyed, his heart pounding. After a second he exhaled and looked over at BC. "Thanks," he said, standing up and spending several minutes trying to yank the saw out of the skull.

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"Yeah… don’t call me bighead," Dib said.

He knelt down, examining the bones again and trying to find one that he could cut off, should BC manage to find a bone saw. “So… what do you mean, haunted boat? Why would she have a boat in the basement? Is there water around here? And is it really haunted?”

He didn’t quite buy into Flora’s claim. She was kind of getting on his nerves.

[stupidlittlelizard]

"Should I call ya ‘fathead’ then?" Flora asked with a smirk.

"Yeah, it’s a haunted boat!" she exclaimed, finally hopping off of Dib’s head to hop onto the creature’s skull. "I hear voices comin’ from it sometimes, though I know nothing lives in it. There’s an… underwater dock in the basement. BC was a pirate once, but she doesn’t like talkin’ about it, heheh."

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"No, just... don't call me anything that has to do with my head!" Dib said. At Flora's last comment, he looked at her with one eyebrow raised. "What? A pirate? Seriously?"

An underground dock and an old boat with disembodied voices was intriguing, he had to admit. "All right, I'll ask if I can look around the basement once I've tried cutting off a bone from this skeleton."

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

Dib made another half-hearted attempt to wave Flora off his head, not expecting it to do any good. She was pulling at his hair. It hurt…

Okay, he’d also been hoping that there might be some smaller bones that he could take, but apparently not. Man this day was going downhill fast. “Um, do you have anything I could cut it with?” he asked BC lamely. “Maybe I could just take a piece of it.”

[stupidlittlelizard]

"Um…" BabyCharmander scratched the back of her head, cocking an eyebrow. "Cadmus might have a bonesaw?" she suggested lamely. "I think he’s amputated limbs before, so he should have something to cut through one of these." She tilted her head. "I’ll go get him. Be right back!" With that, she scampered out of the attic, tripping over things and yelping a few times before exiting.

"Good riddance!" Flora said, sticking out her tongue before looking down at Dib. "Now listen here, bighead. There’s somethin’ in this mansion that that lizard won’t tell you about… You’re lookin’ for paranormal stuff, right? Well, there’s something in the basement you’ll want to investigate…" She rubbed her paws together, grinning. "A haunted boat!"

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"Yeah... don't call me bighead," Dib said.

He knelt down, examining the bones again and trying to find one that he could cut off, should BC manage to find a bone saw. "So... what do you mean, haunted boat? Why would she have a boat in the basement? Is there water around here? And is it really haunted?"

He didn't quite buy into Flora's claim. She was kind of getting on his nerves.

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"Well… what kind of creature was that?" Dib asked. He walked toward it, not particularly caring that Flora might fall off his head. "If it’s a paranormal creature I could try taking a DNA sample from it, or… something. I didn’t really bring anything to do that with, though. Could I just take a bone?"

[stupidlittlelizard]

"Dunno! Just something I found up here," Flora said with a shrug, pulling at Dib’s hair scythe to stay on his head.

"It might’ve been something that came here from another world," BabyCharmander suggested. "That happens from time to time, though usually folks just show up on our doorstep, like you did. But go ahead and take one of the bones—that thing won’t be missing them, anyway."

The bones in question were… quite bulky. The skull was incredibly thick, with several sockets in it that the bones would fit into—and even in places where there hadn’t been any bones attached. The limbs, back, and flaps around the head were all the exact same kind of bone—a crossbone, like the one seen on a pirate ship flag, only… an actual bone—like two bones fused together in the shape of an X. The limbs were still stuck into the head, but they look like they could be pulled out with some force. The lower jawbone was still disconnected, however. All the bones were three feet across and three feet high—roughly as tall as Dib himself.

"R’you gonna be able to carry one of those things?" BC asked, putting her hands on her hips.

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

Dib made another half-hearted attempt to wave Flora off his head, not expecting it to do any good. She was pulling at his hair. It hurt...

Okay, he'd also been hoping that there might be some smaller bones that he could take, but apparently not. Man this day was going downhill fast. "Um, do you have anything I could cut it with?" he asked BC lamely. "Maybe I could just take a piece of it."

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"Hey!" Dib attempted to wave the creature off his head, which was perfectly normal-sized, thank you very much. "So, is that it? Were you the only thing up here? There’s not anything else paranormal I could try investigating, is there?"

Hadn’t the lizard—BC?—said something about a basement? Maybe they could check there, next.

…Or maybe he should just try to get home. He’d just been trying to investigate the house’s strange appearance in his town, not anything else.

[stupidlittlelizard]

Flora jumped up to avoid Dib’s hands, only to land back on his head, intent on annoying him as much as she could. At his questions, however, she leaned over to glare into his face. “What do you mean, ‘is that it?!’” she cried, glaring. “You found me! Aren’t I an amazing discovery?”

BC rolled her eyes. “Yes, Flora, it’s amazing how off-the-wall your pranks get,” she grumbled. “…Really, it is. How long has that skeleton even been here?”

The plant puffball only shrugged. “Beats me. I just thought it’d make a great prank.”

"Well… you can investigate that thing, if you want,” BabyCharmander offered, looking back at Dib and indicating the skeleton with a swish of her tail, “or we could head down to the basement to see if there’s anything weird there.”

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"Well... what kind of creature was that?" Dib asked. He walked toward it, not particularly caring that Flora might fall off his head. "If it's a paranormal creature I could try taking a DNA sample from it, or... something. I didn't really bring anything to do that with, though. Could I just take a bone?"

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"Why is that always the first thing people say?” Dib demanded. “It’s not even big!”

He glared at the green creature, whatever it was. Another paranormal creature that turned out to be nothing but a hoax. Terrifying as that alleged skeleton demon was, it had been pretty cool.

[stupidlittlelizard]

Flora immediately picked up on Dib’s annoyance, and a wide grin crossed her face. “Sure is! It’s huuuge! You could probably land a spaceship on that thing! Hehehehe…”

"That’s Dib," BabyCharmander explained with a snort. "He came here to investigate something-or-other."

"He should probably have his head investigated!” Flora exclaimed, covering her mouth with a snicker as she walked closer.

BC gave Dib a sideways glance. “Ignore her. She just likes to get under everyone’s scales.”

“Nope! Just some people’s!” With that, she hopped onto Dib’s head and indicated it with a light stamp of her foot. “Like this guy’s!”

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"Hey!" Dib attempted to wave the creature off his head, which was perfectly normal-sized, thank you very much. "So, is that it? Were you the only thing up here? There's not anything else paranormal I could try investigating, is there?"

Hadn't the lizard--BC?--said something about a basement? Maybe they could check there, next.

...Or maybe he should just try to get home. He'd just been trying to investigate the house's strange appearance in his town, not anything else.

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"Okay, who are you, really?" Dib said, one eyebrow raised. He left his position near the boxes and slowly started toward the skeleton. "Are you… I dunno, using a hologram or something? Telekinesis? Is that thing enchanted? Or are you real, but just really terrible at everything?"

[stupidlittlelizard]

"What are you talking about? I AM THE MONSTER OF THE ATTIC! I AM NOT USING TELEKINESIS AND I AM NOT TERRIBLE AT ANYTHING OW ow dangit this voice is really hard to keep up.”

The wind began to die down so it wasn’t quite so intense, and the gigantic, skeletal monster drifted closer to the floor. BabyCharmander, meanwhile, trotted up next to Dib, lashing her tail. “Hang on,” she said. “This voice sounds familiar.”

"THIS VOICE IS NOT FAMILIAR AT ALL BECAUSE YOU HAVE NEVER BEFORE SEEN THE SUPERNATURAL CREATURE NAME OF THE you know what, screw it.”

At that point the wind died down completely, the skeleton crashed to the ground in a pile of bones, and the wind took the shape of a short green creature sitting atop the pile, crossing her arms and weaving her two vines into a braid. “Tch, must be getting rusty if you found me out like that. Still, had you going for a while, didn’t I?” she asked, giving a smug grin.

“FLORA!” BC cried, throwing her arms out in exasperation. “So that’s what’s going on!”

"Yep, found this pile of bones here a few months back and I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to use ‘em!" She snickered, kicking the discarded jawbone at BC and Dib. "So who’s the big-headed kid there?"

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"Why is that always the first thing people say?" Dib demanded. "It's not even big!"

He glared at the green creature, whatever it was. Another paranormal creature that turned out to be nothing but a hoax. Terrifying as that alleged skeleton demon was, it had been pretty cool.

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"We’ve got to find some way to incapacitate it!" Dib said back. He didn’t have anything with him that might help—all he’d brought was a notebook and a flashlight that was now on the other side of the attic and probably broken.

Maybe they should just leave while they still could.

No, Dib had come up here to investigate, and that’s what he was going to do. Pushing against the wind, he lunged toward the nearest box, flung it open, and pulled out the first heavy thing he got his hands on. It was an old, battered rotary phone from the 50s. Dib drew back his arm and threw it as hard as he could at the skeleton.

Instantly he regretted it. What would that even do? Well, if they didn’t have that thing’s full attention before, they would now. Great.

[stupidlittlelizard]

The old phone flew through the air (“Where did I even get that?” BabyCharmander wondered aloud), but the monster seemed to take no notice of it, even when it struck it in the lower jaw, causing the jaw to break off.

"HAHAHA, WHAT CAN YOU DO AGAINST THE AMAZING GREMLIN OF THE—wait.”

The skeleton had apparently noticed the absence of its lower jaw, in spite of the fact that it didn’t appear to be looking around. The wind refocused itself again, blowing around the skeleton and appearing to focus on the dislocated jaw.

"Stupid thing… just have to…" The jaw floated around from the wind, which was also rustling the bones of the creature, until finally the lower jaw moved backwards underneath the upper jaw. "There. HAHAHA, YOUR ATTACKS ARE PATHETIC AGAINST TH—shoot, is it off again?"

The jaw rotated until it was facing the right direction, and snapped back into place, at which point it finally began to move properly in time with the creature’s speech. "There! Where was I… Oh—YOU ARE PATHETIC AGAINST THE—doggone it!" The jaw fell off again, its joints apparently weakened from being struck with the phone and broken off once. "You know what, forget it. I AM INVINCIBLE!"

BabyCharmander, however, was not looking so scared anymore. “Somethin’ fishy’s goin’ on here,” she mumbled, putting a claw to her chin in thought.

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"Okay, who are you, really?" Dib said, one eyebrow raised. He left his position near the boxes and slowly started toward the skeleton. "Are you... I dunno, using a hologram or something? Telekinesis? Is that thing enchanted? Or are you real, but just really terrible at everything?"

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"How could you not have known about this? This is your attic!" Dib responded, gesturing towards the skull thing. He lost traction on the floor and the wind flung him into the wall. He cringed, struggling forward again.

What could possibly be this thing’s weakness? “Maybe it can’t handle sunlight!” he called out desperately, looking around to locate the window again.

[stupidlittlelizard]

"I-I don’t come up here often!" BabyCharmander stammered in reply. "It’s been ages! I… I-I didn’t know something like this was up here!"

"SUNLIGHT?" the creature boomed. "AHAHA! THIS IS WHAT I THINK OF YOUR FEEBLE SUNLIGHT!”

The wind picked up, seeming to be focused on the dusty, circular window in the wall, judging by the direction all the dirt and dust and cobwebs were flowing in. The skeletal creature went a bit more limp for a moment, apparently focused on using its powers on the window… which didn’t immediately budge.

"UM… HANG ON, THIS IS TRICKIER THAN IT LOOKS…”

BANG!

The window finally came loose, swinging open and banging against the wall, its glass shattering from the impact. Sunlight streamed in through the open window, lighting on the giant skeleton.

"There we go! HAHAHA! YOUR FEEBLE SUNLIGHT IS NO MATCH FOR THE GHOUL OF THE ATTIC!"

Its jaws opened wide as it laughed, showing its two prominent fangs at  their full foot-long length. BC, meanwhile, looked back at Dib desperately. “Th-this isn’t going well…!”

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"We've got to find some way to incapacitate it!" Dib said back. He didn't have anything with him that might help--all he'd brought was a notebook and a flashlight that was now on the other side of the attic and probably broken.

Maybe they should just leave while they still could.

No, Dib had come up here to investigate, and that's what he was going to do. Pushing against the wind, he lunged toward the nearest box, flung it open, and pulled out the first heavy thing he got his hands on. It was an old, battered rotary phone from the 50s. Dib drew back his arm and threw it as hard as he could at the skeleton.

Instantly he regretted it. What would that even do? Well, if they didn't have that thing's full attention before, they would now. Great.

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

Dib threw his arms up, shielding his face from the wind and dust. He squinted at the skeletal creature hovering in the air. “Oh, man! What is that thing?!” He’d never seen anything like it before. It definitely didn’t look natural.

His grip on the flashlight wasn’t as tight as it might’ve been, and the wind finally ripped it out of his hand. It flew across the attic and the light cut out. Dib pressed a hand to his glasses, suddenly worried at the prospect of them flying off his face too—although that seemed unlikely.

"We’re here for an investigation!" he shouted at the skeleton.

[stupidlittlelizard]

"HOLY MUR!” BabyCharmander cried, digging her claws into a nearby box to keep from getting blown away. “I-I dunno what that is! You’re the investigator, aren’t you?!”

"INVESTIGATION?!" the monster bellowed, its jaw flapping wildly as it spoke. "THE DEMON OF THE ATTIC IS NOT HERE TO BE INVESTIGATED! YOU ARE NOW IN MY SACRED GROUNDS, AND NOW YOU MUST DIE!”

"D-d-d-demon?!" the lizard stammered, taking several steps back and cringing down lower to the floor. "S-sacred grounds? B-b-but this is my attic!" She looked helplessly at Dib, suddenly appearing far less confident than she had before. "G-go on! Go investigate it, or something—t-try to find a weakness!"

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"How could you not have known about this? This is your attic!" Dib responded, gesturing towards the skull thing. He lost traction on the floor and the wind flung him into the wall. He cringed, struggling forward again.

What could possibly be this thing's weakness? "Maybe it can't handle sunlight!" he called out desperately, looking around to locate the window again.

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"Haven’t found anything yet," Dib replied. "Where’s that breeze coming from? Is there a window open in here?"

The flashlight in his hand flickered and he hit it a few times. Darn, he’d forgotten to bring extra batteries. What would happen if it died? They probably wouldn’t be able to get back out of here in the dark without either tripping over every single thing in their path or setting the entire place on fire, which would just make the predicament worse.

[stupidlittlelizard]

"Well, there’s one window here and I don’t think…" BabyCharmander looked up from where she was sorting through a box, noticing very quickly that the window was shut. "…Where is that breeze coming from?”

Said breeze was only picking up, knocking more and more scraps of paper and leaves and dustbunnies of all sorts around the old attic, and BC had to shield her eyes to avoid getting blinded by the dust. The wind continued to grow in speed until it was outright howling, and yet there was no visible source for it.

Should Dib have been shining his dying flashlight toward the far side of the attic, the flickering light would have picked up an enormous form—six feet tall and three feet wide—rising up from the floor and hovering in the air.

It appeared to be the skeleton of a bizarre creature, its gigantic head the shape of a perfect cube, with three crossbones sticking out of the back-top corner and back-sides, and two ram-like horns sticking out of the sides. Its body was made up of another crossbone, connected to the head at the back-bottom corner, and it had two more crossbones for the legs, one on the front and one on the back of the body. Most horrifically, it had two fangs jutting out of its mouth—fangs that looked like they should be far too long for the mouth to even close properly, though closer examination showed that they retracted into the upper jaw like a serpent’s fangs.

The monster skeleton rattled and shook as it hovered in the air, the wind blowing all around it, and finally it spoke in a booming voice:

"YOU HAVE ANGERED THE MONSTER OF THE ATTIC! WHY DO YOU COME TO THIS PLACE?!"

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

Dib threw his arms up, shielding his face from the wind and dust. He squinted at the skeletal creature hovering in the air. "Oh, man! What is that thing?!" He'd never seen anything like it before. It definitely didn't look natural.

His grip on the flashlight wasn't as tight as it might've been, and the wind finally ripped it out of his hand. It flew across the attic and the light cut out. Dib pressed a hand to his glasses, suddenly worried at the prospect of them flying off his face too--although that seemed unlikely.

"We're here for an investigation!" he shouted at the skeleton.

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"Right…" Dib said, shining his flashlight around the place. The mention of a nasty creature that could be in here put a damper on his original plan, which had been to split up. It didn’t seem like such a great idea after all.

Used to taking charge in investigations despite the fact that the person he’d be leading around actually owned this place, he said “Follow me” and started heading forward. He skirted around the piles of boxes, shining the light into each nook and cranny.

[stupidlittlelizard]

BabyCharmander nodded silently, following the boy as he shone his flashlight around. “Good thing you have that,” she said. “Can’t really do that with my tailflame without setting stuff on fire. Not that that’s always a bad thing, but I’d rather not burn up the stuff I have stored here, mur?”

As Dib shone his flashlight around, the light reflected off of something shiny, though this only turned out to be a strip of clear tape that was just barely stuck to one of the cardboard boxes, and was fluttering in a light breeze. A few papers—scrap paper, torn labels, and an old instruction sheet—drifted by as well.

"You find anything yet?" BC asked as she opened one of the boxes, blinking as she unearthed what appeared to be a portable CD player with a pair of cheap headphones still attached. "Who even used this?” she muttered.

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"Haven't found anything yet," Dib replied. "Where's that breeze coming from? Is there a window open in here?"

The flashlight in his hand flickered and he hit it a few times. Darn, he'd forgotten to bring extra batteries. What would happen if it died? They probably wouldn't be able to get back out of here in the dark without either tripping over every single thing in their path or setting the entire place on fire, which would just make the predicament worse.

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

Dib followed the lizard quickly up the stairs and couldn’t help sniggering a little when she was buried under a mountain of brooms and mops, though he tried to hide it. Who even had that many brooms?

When BC opened the right door and started heading up the stairs, Dib hung back and pulled out a flashlight, flicking it on. He then followed her up, swishing the light around to take in the walls and the stairs and make sure there was nothing weird about them. They seemed normal enough. Hopefully the rest of the attic wouldn’t be the same, otherwise this trip would be pointless.

[stupidlittlelizard]

The stairs to the attic continued to take a few turns as the two went up a ways before finally reaching the top. The place had only one window—a round one somewhere toward the center, but it was covered in so much dust that a negligible amount of light came through. BabyCharmander moved to flip the lightswitch, but was only met with a dull “click” and no light turning on. “Hrm. Guess we never fixed the lights in here.” She turned back to Dib. “We’ll have to make do with my tail-flame and your flashlight.”

Swinging her tail in front of her, she grabbed it close to the tip and held it out to get a better view of what they were facing.

The attic was a maze of old crates and boxes ranging from labeled ones (many featuring technical drawings of kitchen and laundry room equipment) to completely unlabeled ones, some with crude markings scratched off or scribbled over. Some of the boxes were quite large and difficult to see over, while others were shorter and might be climbed over. But from their current position at the far end of the attic, it was impossible to see the entire place.

"Welp, here we are," she said, holding out her free paw to indicate the mess. "Never really bother with this place much, so there could very well be some nasty critter lurking in here or somethin’."

[theboyinthetrenchcoat]

"Right..." Dib said, shining his flashlight around the place. The mention of a nasty creature that could be in here put a damper on his original plan, which had been to split up. It didn't seem like such a great idea after all.

Used to taking charge in investigations despite the fact that the person he'd be leading around actually owned this place, he said "Follow me" and started heading forward. He skirted around the piles of boxes, shining the light into each nook and cranny.