Haruhi lay on her stomach, the twins sitting cross legged either side of her. Kaoru was idly plaiting a section of her hair on her left while Hikaru was holding different sets of ear rings to her ear to see what suited her on her right. Mori sat at the foot of the beg, legs stretched out and Honey eating cake on his lap. Kyoya was at a table with his laptop, but it was closed and he was drumming his fingers across it, head leaning on the palm of his hand. Tamaki lay on his back on the floor, blowing his fringe out of his eyes every three seconds. Hikaru looked up from his small mountain of ear rings.
"This is boring." He said dully. Kaoru nodded his head in agreement.
"Pa-thet-ic." The twin drew out the word. Haruhi leant her head in Kaoru's lap as he braided her hair and blew a few strands of hair from her face before reaching up and brushing Hikaru's fringe away from his eyes. He flashed a smile before returning to studying the ear rings. Then she slanted a glance to Tamaki, still sprawled on the floor.
"I thought you said this was going to be fun." She drawled in a monotone. Tamaki froze, hair falling back over his face.
"This is fun." He said, phrasing it as a question. Everyone shook their heads at him. He looked panicked for a second before pointing an accusing finger at Honey. "Well, it was his idea!"
"No it wasn't Tamaki!" Haruhi said hotly, standing up in defence of the childish boy, whose eyes had welled up with tears. A heated argument broke out, screaming and yelling and pointing fingers and blaming others. At one point Kyoya stood and yelled loudly above all of the ruckus.
"I'm going to the loo before world war three really gets off." Everyone paused and turned to blink at him. Then they turned back to their quarrel. Even Mori said his bit, angry that Tamaki had made his friend cry.
Kyoya re-entered the room to find them all still quarrelling. The twins and Tamaki were playing Tug Of War with a frustrated Haruhi while Honey berated Tamaki and Mori tried to free the captured girl. In his hands was a box. He glared at them all and they all froze. Then in a rush of movement all but Haruhi and Mori mobbed him, staring at the box he held.
"What is that?" asked Honey curiously.
"You've been snooping!" Tamaki accused, yelling and jabbing a finger at the Shadow King. Kyoya merely pushed his glasses up his nose and smirked.
"Only a little." He said calmly, smugly.
"What is it?" Honey repeated impatiently.
"It's an Ouija board." Hikaru said ominously.
"For contacting ghosts." Kaoru added, wiggling his fingers in the air, imitating a spectre. Haruhi huffed and rolled her eyes.
"Let's play it let's play it!" The twins and Tamaki, fight forgotten for the moment, chanted. Mori looked up for it, and Kyoya wasn't objecting, though Honey looked terrified.
"I really don't think we should be doing this." Haruhi objected. Hikarou stuck his tongue out at her, and she returned the favour, earning a snicker.
"I'm scared." Honey murmured. Haruhi picked him up and placed him on her hip. She ran her finger down his nose, tickling him.
"Well, it's not as if it's even going to work. It's all a load of hogwash." Kyoya placated him. Everyone looked at him weirdly, and then the twins burst out laughing.
"Hogwash?" they repeated through their hysterics. He looked affronted.
"What?" He asked defensively. "It's a word."
They looked at each other and shrugged, tugging the Ouija board from the Shadow King's hands. They sat around it, all their hands on the penny that was to move around and indicate letters to be turned into words. The penny began to move, and Kyoya read out what it spelled.
"I am Rosalind. I am a spirit from far in the past."
All the other boys made little noises to show they were impressed. Haruhi just rolled her eyes. She gently removed Honey from her lap and stood, leaving the room. The boys completely ignored her, focusing on the moving penny. Even Honey, hesitant at first, was captivated. This time Tamaki read out what 'Rosalind' was saying.
"Hold… on."
The boys looked at each other, voicing their confusion. Then the lights went out suddenly, and all who had contact with the board felt a sharp jerking behind their naval, and were sent spinning in the darkness, tumbling down and down and down into the abyss.
Haruhi walked into the room again, glass of water in hand, to find all boys missing and Ouija board broken. She blinked.
"Huh?"
Then reality set in, and a tight knot of panic curled in the pit of her stomach and she began to scream and run around, searching under the bed and in cupboards, calling for them.
"Kyoya? I wouldn't expect this from you! Come out! Guys? You've freaked me out, and this is not funny anymore! Guys?"
She stopped running and slumped, falling to the floor, tears gathering in the corners of her eyes. "Guys?" she whimpered.
The boys sat up. Kyoya scrabbled on the floor for his glasses, Mori rubbed his head, Honey grabbed his Usa, Tamaki cradled his head in both hands and the twins looked at Tamaki.
"You owe us lunch." They informed him. He lifted his head, confused. They pointed at a pile of puke behind them. A light bulb went off in Tamaki's head and he winced.
"Uh, guys?" Honey asked, cuddling Usa closer to his chest. "Where are we?"
The oldest question in the book, the biggest cliché, but the fact is they didn't know. It was obvious they had moved-slash-been taken somewhere, but where?
Everyone blinked and looked around. Tamaki and the twins' mouths hung wide open.
"Oh." Tamaki said.
"My," Hikaru added.
"God." Kaoru finished. Kyoya sat down heavily on the dirt floor. Mori immediately swept Honey into his arms, as if it were safer there, and looked around so that he could do the same with Haruhi.
"Where's Haruhi?" he rumbled in his deep voice, sending everyone into a frenzy. This was not the place to get lost.
Behind them, a dinosaur raised its mighty scaly head.