"AAACHHOOO!" Eiji let out a violent sneeze as she sat down at the breakfast table.
"Wow. That was intense." Catherine noted as she watched her daughter slink into a barstool placed next to the island "Are you okay?"
"No." Eiji's voice sounded congested like her nose was being held shut with a close pin. "I don't feel good."
"You look a little peaky." Catherine felt her forehead with the back of her hand "You might have a bit of a cold." Suddenly there was the sound of loud footsteps down the stairs and soon enough Kala slid into the kitchen with the power of mother's adrenaline.
"YOU'RE SICK?!" Kala wrapped her arms around her daughter "GET IN THE CAR WERE GOING TO THE HOSPITAL!"
"Mom." Eiji called
"WHAT ARE YOUR SYMPTOMS? DO YOU HAVE INDEGESTION? CRYING BLOOD? GET THE ICE! AGAMINE GET THE THER-" Catherine grabbed her wife and gave her shoulders a gentle shake.
"Sweetheart calm down!" Catherine consoled her wife "She just has a little cold."
"PEOPLE DIED FROM THE COLD!" Kala screeched
"Like 100 years ago." Eiji pointed
"Did someone call me?" Agamine poked his head out from the staircase
"Agamine go get the thermometer!" Kala ordered "Eiji is sick!"
"It's just a cold. I won't have a fever." Eiji shrugged while she was coddled by her mother. She really did love her mother truly but she didn't really like people making a fuss over her, especially something so trivial.
"I bet it's from leaving the aquarium soaking wet." Agamine commented as he came down with the thermometer. Kala placed it in Eiji's mouth. 96.5 was her temperature
"Is that low for a human?! That seems low!" Kala fretted. Kala was a veterinarian that specialized in the health of marine mammals, so the human anatomy wasn't something she was adept at. "She's freezing to death!"
"That's almost perfect Kala." Catherine patted her on the back trying to bring her some comfort. "Your good to go to school Eiji go get dressed."
"She's not going to school!" Kala squealed "I don't care if she doesn't have a temperature she is still sick! She needs to rest!"
"I am not opposed to that." Eiji insured in her sickly voice not at all disappointed to miss the first day of school, sick or not.
"Oh come on, she's fine Kala. Plus it's the first day of school she doesn't wanna miss that." Catherine argued
"Well I'm sorry but health overrules the first few days of school!" Kala said firmly and that was that. Catherine knew better than to argue with Kala when she was like this. "Eiji up to bed! I'll bring you some soup and medicine.
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At first Eiji truly enjoyed getting to sleep in instead of going to school. Being able to just do menial tasks like reading and playing video games was quite nice, but the next day she was already getting stir crazy from staying in her room so much. Sure she enjoyed a lazy day every now and then but it got a little tedious after too long. It didn't help that Kala only let her get out of bed to take a hot shower.
"Mom can I please just sit outside for a little bit? 20 minutes that's all I want." Eiji pleaded with her mom who insisted on taking her temperature again.
"No Eiji you need to stay in bed." She said sternly removing the thermometer "its 97! Your temperature is rising!"
"Mom please? I'm dying in here." Eiji frowned "Can I at least open the window?"
"As much as I think it's important for everyone to get fresh air it's too cold out right now and you're sick Eiji I don't wanna risk you getting any sicker." Kala smoothed out her daughter's messy hair "I'm sorry sweetie, I'll bring you up some blueberries later okay?" She patted her daughter on the head and left the room to attend to other matters.
Eiji blew a raspberry through her lips and fell back onto her Narwhal themed sheets. She was so painfully bored it made her want to vomit up blood.
"Woof!" Queenie trotted into the room and jumped onto Eiji's Bed laying on top of her stomach her fluffy tail wagging expectantly.
"I know you wanna go walk but I can't, mom says no." Eiji looked into the eyes of her trusty hound who pouted and wined. "Although… maybe what she doesn't know won't hurt her…"
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Nightfall…
Eiji pulled on a black beanie with a skull and crossbones on it to keep her ears warm along with a dark blue sweatshirt with a cartoon narwhal on it and some black sweatpants. Everyone had already gone to sleep and Eiji wasn't the least bit tired since she had basically did nothing all day yesterday and today.
Queenie let out deep and quiet 'woof' wagging her tail excitedly.
"Shush!" Eiji scolded "Do you wanna go on a walk or not?"
"What are you doing?" Eiji froze, she turned around to see her older brother standing in the doorway his bright blue eyes showing the upmost curiosity.
"I'm… taking Queenie for a walk." Eiji said honestly, there was no point in lying to her brother.
"In the dead of night?" Agamine inquired
"I…look mom said I can't going outside but I'm dying in here. I'm only going out for like 15-20 minutes." Eiji looked at her brother pleadingly "Please don't tell mom."
"But Eiji it's kinda dangerous to go outside at night." Agamine warned "How about I go with you?"
"You can't, they'll notice if we're both gone." Eiji tied on her black combat boots "I'll have Queenie with me anyway so it'll be okay." she adjusted some pillows under her covers to form a decoy Eiji, just in case someone came to check on her.
"…Okay… but I'll be texting you to make sure you're okay, and please stay in safe areas okay?"
"I will. Thanks." Eiji gave a little sneeze before opening her window and climbing out onto the awning. "Could you let Queenie out the front door for me?"
"Yep." Agamine pulled the large St. Bernard out of the room as Eiji Shut her window and shimmied down the drain pipe. She silently jogged over to the front door to meet Agamine who handed her the leash to Queenie. "I'm going to be texting you and you better be texting back or I will panic and tell mom."
"I will." Agamine shut the door and Eiji took off sprinting with her dog right beside her, wanting to get out of seeing range of the house.
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I'm fine Agi you don't need to text me every 2 minutes.
Eiji pressed send replying to the millionth text message from her concerned older brother. Tucking the phone away in her pocket she took a deep breath of the cool night air. It felt so good to be outside, she felt bad for disobeying her mother but it's not like she snuck out to party or anything she just wanted to walk the dog. The only other times she snuck out in the middle of the night was usually for tacos.
Suddenly the magnificent s.t Bernard started pulling on the leash with the force of jaws. She was growling and barking at something that Eiji could not see.
"Queenie stop it! Stop!" Eiji struggled with the large dog but in the end Queenie ended up slipping out of her collar and bounding down the sidewalk barking all the way. "Queenie get your majestic ass back here!" Eiji yell-whispered not wanting to wake any of the nearby households. She chased after her dog as it turned into the lot of an abandoned swim club and disappeared into the building "You have got to be kidding me."
The building looked like the place a hole to hell would open up and spew out demons or fire or whatever hell would spew. The stone building was falling apart chip by chip as windows were shattered and the shingles of the roof were long gone, the creepiest part was the painting of a child swimming had smudged down the eyes making them look they were crying blood or some kind of demonic ooze.
Eiji bucked up her courage sending a quick 'I'm okay' Text to Agamine before she jogged into the building, very carefully stepping through one of the broken windows. Glass crunched under her feet as she fully entered the building, she pulled out her phone and turned on the flashlight. "Queenie!" she yell whispered not wanting to awaken some crazed homeless person who was quite possibly in the abandoned structure. "Queenie come the fuck back I am *Achoo!* in no mood for this!" Eiji picked a direction and began to search for her lost hound, occasionally she would hear the scurry of a mouse or a bird flap around, she was glad she decided to wear her boots and not her sneakers due to all the broken glass… oh god she hoped Queenie didn't hurt herself.
"Queenie!" she tried again "You want a treat?" Eiji hoped the dog would take the false bait. But she would give her a treat as soon as they got back. As she turned a corner she gasped as 3 silhouettes of people appeared right on front of her. One of them just so happened to hold a flash light under Eiji's face creating a scary shadowing.
Two of the strangers screamed at the top of their lungs causing Eiji to wince as the unpleasant sound was amplified 10 fold due to the empty tile halls.
"SHUT UP!" Eiji bellowed in her scary voice causing the two people to cease their screaming "Do you wanna alert the entire vicinity!?" Eiji growled she casted her light over their faces to see 3 boys that couldn't be too much older than herself standing in front of her. The tallest one with brownish-olive green hair and complementary green eyes was shaking the most. His shorter friend, with Bluish-black hair and blue Eyes that held the essence of still water seemed almost bored with the situation at hand.
"Who are you?" The smallest of the trio, one with hot pink eyes and honey blonde hair asked.
"Who are you?" Eiji shot back shining her light in face "Were all trespassing here so don't start asking questions like you own the place." It seemed like Eiji was being mean but she was really trying to show them that she wasn't one to be messed with much like a Porcupine fish puffing out, she knew these guys just about as much as the next person and she didn't know what they would do.
"I'm sorry but you're kind of suspicious." Blondie pointed out as a matter of factly not at all trying to come across as aggressive
"I'm suspicious? Your buddy stretch here is the one with a shovel." Eiji gestured to the green giant almost accusingly "For all I know you guys could be burying a body."
"W-were not!" the tallest defended his voice cracking "We were just looking for something we buried here when we were kids!"
"Yeah and you have a rope! What if you were tying someone up?" The blonde fired back
"It's a leash dipwad." Eiji held up the leash and collar to the light "I'm looking for my dog."
"You lost your dog?" The tallest asked with sympathy in his voice "What kind of dog is it?"
"She's a St Bernard, her name is Queenie." Eiji explained her stance taking on a more relaxed one once she deemed the 3 harmless.
"We can help you look if you want!" The blonde suddenly bouncing from the interrogator to Boy Scout.
Eiji made a displeased face "No thanks, she wouldn't have gone far." Eiji Stepped passed the trio and began on her way but froze when she heard additional footsteps ominously pad down the hall. "…Friend of yours?" she inquired but she didn't get an answer as they watched the figure step into the low light of the moon. He was wearing a neon yellow and black tracksuit with a matching hat his maroon hair poking out from underneath.
"Ah." He said.
"Who's that?" The blonde turned to his taller friend.
"I don't know." The taller said with uncertainty.
"What are the odds?" he reached back behind his head grabbing the loop of his hat and snapping it to his head. "I didn't think I'd run into you here." He removed his hat to reveal eyes that matched his hair almost perfectly. Something about the matching maroon hair and eyes gave Eiji a sense of familiarity but she shrugged it off as Déjà vu.
"Rin!" The two responsive guys gasped in realization while the one who hadn't said a word widened his eyes in what couldn't be depicted between horror and utter shock.
The blonde grabbed his hands "Wow! I can't believe your back from Australia!"
The conversation no longer interested Eiji so she walked away from the strangers and continued to search for her dog. She didn't get to far down the hall before the guy with the Maroon hair and the One who didn't talk stormed past her. Soon after the rest of their group followed after them.
"Hey guys wait up!" Blondie ran past along with the green giant.
Eiji checked a few open doors to see if Queenie had run in there before heading to the end of the hall were the pool was where she almost ran into the Maroon haired guy.
"Watch where you're going." He snapped without even looking at the girl as he stepped around her. It was then Eiji noticed that Rin had triangular shark like teeth. Eiji rolled her eyes and stepped fully into the Pool area where she yet again rolled her eyes.
"What is wrong with you people? Why are you half naked?" Eiji shined her flashlight over to the quiet one who was wearing a purple and black set of swim trunks. Before anyone could explain there was a bark and Eiji looked down into the pool to see Queenie chasing a mouse around the pool. "No! Bad Queenie!" Eiji jumped into the empty pool. "Leave the mouse *Achoo!* alone!"
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After about 5 minutes of chasing Queenie around the pool she managed to get her to settle down and was able to place her collar back on tight enough that there was no way she would slip out this time. Eiji lifted the dog out of the pool before lifting herself out her trusty hound tugging on her sweatshirt to help her. Eiji went to exit the way she came before a sharp unfamiliar voice rung out in the air.
"Hey! What are you kids doing in here?!"
"Shit. Cops" Eiji cursed to herself as she heard the people she met earlier try to explain to the Cop what they were doing. Heavy footsteps padded down the hall getting louder and louder with each step. They were heading straight for Eiji!
With quick thinking she ran to the nearest broken window, smashing the rest of the glass around the edges with her foot. She Jumped out and beckoned her dog to follow suit. Eiji saw the door open and a bright light shine through and that's when she booked it as fast as she could cutting through and alleyway with her dog close beside her.
Eiji ran for a good couple minutes until she felt like she was far away enough from the abandoned building that she wouldn't seem suspicious. She texted Agamine that she was on her way back home and asked him to unlock the front door. A few minutes later she arrived at her house removing the leash from her dog and letting her though the front door and locking it with her keys. Running around the house she climbed up the drain pipe and back into her room. Quickly she removed her dirty boots and hid them under the bed. Throwing her clothes somewhere in her room she tucked back under her covers and went to sleep thinking about those weird boys she had met earlier.
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REVIEWS MAKE ME WRITE FASTER KEEP THAT IN MIND! ;;)
So this is the new chapter 2! I hope you guys like the extra content. Please let me know what you think of the re-write! I'm a very busy college student so im sorry I cant update this more but I will update as much as I can
If you guys like anime fanfictions go check out My ouran Highschool host club fanfiction 'Under the Hat' Or my Ghost hunt fanfiction 'Foutuneteller Fourtuneteller'