Haunted House I (story) (Pixiv Fanbox)

The year is fast drawing to a close and Halloween is finally approaching before Christmas. This is well known to a close-knit group of five friends who knew each other since kindergarden. Aisling, with green eyes and red hair, who is the leader of the group and has the most initiative, comes up with the fantastic idea of having the group of girls go to an abandoned house on the outskirts of the city to celebrate Halloween inside the place with a few pizzas and some beer. On the one hand, Sophie, a short white-haired girl with red eyes, since she suffers from albinism, who is the shyest of them all, and Shoryu, another girl with wavy brown hair and blue eyes, who is a bit more assertive, are dubious of Aisling's initiative. However, the other two girls, Cassandra (with short brown hair and green eyes) and Neshama (with purple hair and brown eyes), who are wilder and whose bodies call for adventure and danger, support Aisling's initiative. For the most part, they end up deciding to go to that haunted house, to venture and look for what they can find there, maybe it is a quiet place with nothing to bother them, although Neshama, addicted to the paranormal, would also love to meet a ghost, although Shoryu, the most rational of them all, worries that there may be some homeless living there and that when disturbed decides to attack them violently. Finally, days later, they all find themselves wandering around the abandoned house. That enigmatic place, with a big dry tree behind that makes the atmosphere of the house seemly more creepy when seen from afar, inside seems more ordinary and quite dirty, which makes Shoryu not doubt that some homeless lives there. [Drawing 1] Then the girls decide to split up to check if there is anyone there and if it is safe to camp inside the house, as the house is quite large and if they don't split up, they will have to wander around the house longer until they have explored it all. Sophie and Shoryu split from the main group to head to the kitchen. Even though the house looked disastrous in most of its space, for some reason the kitchen looks fairly clean and well-kept place, something that puzzles Sophie and Shoryu quite a bit. It causes both of them to wonder if there are still people legitimately living in that house. However, despite the appearance of the kitchen, when Shoryu tries to turn on the light with the switch, it is useless, as the house evidently has no power. [Drawing 2] Then Shoryu turns to Sophie, but, to her surprise, she is no longer there, and no footsteps are heard nearby either, as if she had decided to go to some other room, that makes Shoryu inevitably get scared and her skin bristles. She doesn't usually believe in ghosts and supernatural things, but where has Sophie gone? If she was there just a moment ago, did she leave without warning? However, even though no footsteps have been heard, there are footsteps that Shoryu decides to follow, hopeful that they are Sophie's footsteps. Those footsteps lead Shoryu to what appears to be a large, elongated room with dressing rooms on either side and a large mirror at the end of the room. Shoryu turns to all sides and illuminates what she can of the room with her hand lamp, although she doesn't see anything unusual and she doesn't see Sophie either, although she notices that the dressing room is spotless as well, as was the kitchen. Shoryu wonders... Is the house coming back to life by itself? Even though she realizes that it can't be possible. [Drawing 3] Then Shoryu hears Sophie's voice calling for help, even though Sophie's voice does not sound in a high pitch, but as if it were at a long distance and as if it were dissipating more and more. Shoryu follows the fainter and fainter trace of Sophie's voice until he stands in front of the mirror, where the voice seems to come from. Meanwhile, Shoryu trembles inevitably waiting for some other sign, while looking at the mirror. However, Shoryu didn't have to wait any time soon, because, after 1 minute of absolute silence in front of the mirror, he seems to be able to see Sophie's very dissipated face through the window. Sophie can't help but be startled and surprised, asking herself if it's not a prank made with technology or something, yet Sophie doesn't answer, but continues to plead. Then Shoryu decides it would be best to return to the main group and tell them what happened, but just as she turns his back to the mirror, a large tentacle in the form of a strange dark shadow comes out of the mirror and, against her will, sucks her into it as if it were a portal to another dimension. [Drawing 4] Several minutes later, Aisling, the redhead, receiving no response when she sends cell phone messages to her two companions, whom she has not seen for half an hour, goes to the kitchen trying to follow their trail. Finally, Aisling arrives in the dressing room. There she suspiciously finds two mannequins in maid's dresses posing, one albino and the other with brown hair, a look that cannot go unnoticed by Aisling. On the one hand, the mannequin with albino appearance, besides the hair, has a necklace that as she remembers is Sophie's, and has the same stature and the same anatomy, something that not everyone would notice, but that Aisling notices as she is very detailed and observant. [Drawing 5] On the other hand, the brown-haired mannequin has, somehow, a hair ornament that Shoryu had, as well as having her nails painted the same color as Shoryu's nails, and other details such as her height or anatomy. It seems as if someone or something had turned her two friends into mannequins, and Aisling is determined to find the person responsible, however incredible and implausible the situation may be. [Drawing 6] [To be continued]