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Chapter three: Him
In the morning day where the birds are chirping loudly in the baking hot sun that shines everything in its path shows the one and only Partway Café in its ruins. The title on top is still holding up tall, with dirty yellow bold colors saying 'Partway Café' with power and normality.
Inside the Partway café may seem just a boring place without any excitement, but there is a secret to this place. It is haunted; it was actually haunted by the owners of Partway café which are all girls. But now, ever since last night, there are new helpers out and ready to go and help their fellow costumers. Inside the basement upstairs where dust was everywhere and cobwebs form up in the ceilings, Tamaki and his friends are all sleeping in as the small circle light brightens the whole room.
"Ta-ma-ki…wake up…"
"I don't wanna wake up…!" he mumbled, moving away and started sucking on his thumb.
"Okay, let's do this the hard way…" she mumbles.
SPLASH!
Tamaki screamed like a girl because Haruhi poured a bucket of water on his face, it was not that much water, but he made such a big deal on how his hair could have been in danger. He is, in fact, a very vain person to think so confidently about his hair.
"Rise and shine, Suoh." Haruhi greeted with a smile to reveal her teeth.
"You-you can't say daddy's last name!" Tamaki shouted at Haruhi who grins deviously. "How could you ruin my hair? And how can a ghost get wet, I'm dead aren't i?"
"You are, "she clarified. "I just used special water from the mountains that I get once and a while. This water is melted snow from the Fuji Mountain, known secretly to witches for its great powers for sending sprits away or replenishing the soul of one's heart. They even clean a sprit, not like evil aura stuff, like when they stink like you do."
Tamaki stared at Haruhi who was grinning for her knowledge of being such a great witch, but that was when they both heard an odd groan…then two groans…then five loud, angry groans which did not sound too pleasant. When Tamaki and Haruhi looked to their left, they saw all of their friends pissed off because of the loud noise Tamaki created.
Haruhi leaves Tamaki and closes the door behind her, later hearing loud crashing noises and Tamaki yelping in fear from his host members.
Haruhi got down from the creaking stairs and saw Hiyori looking at an old book, she smiles to herself quietly and caught a glance at Haruhi. Haruhi walks over to Hiyori and she shows her an album of pictures that survived.
Picture after picture are one of the great times they spent together, from Bisetsu running around to catch Tawny from her pranks to her mother managing the whole café with little Haruhi by her side. Hiyori looks sad at her, but tries to reassure her with a caring smile.
"TAWNY, WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU…!"
"Problem, Banshi! You don't have hands…!"
Tawny was running around the whole café, laughing out loud as Bisetsu chases her down because Tawny was able to cut her hands and took them! Tawny held up the hands as prizes as Bisetsu growls angrily when she runs faster to her, Bisetsu jumps up in the air and landed on Tawny who passed out from the attack. Haruhi ran up to Tawny, took the hands and starts fixing Bisetsu who was grateful to have a companion who cared.
Michelle was at the bar stand when she saw all of this, she was just perfecting some martinis for tonight before everyone comes. Rosalie was controlling herself because ever since Tawny did that trick, she has been laughing constantly for about an hour.
That was when they heard footsteps from the stairs and saw the boys groaning in pain because they are all feeling pain in their backs, they never have slept on the floor before which made Tawny laugh like crazy.
"Where's Tamaki?"
That was when they all heard a loud thump coming down the stairs and the girls gathered around Haruhi who knew who it was. It was Tamaki, covered in bruises and his nose seems to be broken from one of the guys punching him to utter livingness.
"Shit, he looks worse than Tarzan,"
"Was that supposed to be funny, Tawny?"
"I don't have any jokes involving pretty boys being beaten up by more pretty boys…"
"I'll go tend to Tamaki; you guys are free to leave this place. I was able to break the dark charm that kept you guys from leaving here."
"Yes, I can finally go shopping!"
"Taw, you never shop!"
"Just kidding, guys. I'm gonna check out the skateboarding place and see if I catch some newbies. Any of you boys wanna come, but I must warn you that I can kick some serious ass."
"Ha, as if!" Hikaru mocks Tawny.
"Oh, is that by chance a challenge?"
"I'm going to go to the park with them and climb some trees!" Rosalie shouted loudly and became an airplane, running away.
"I'm going to pee!" Tawny suddenly shouted.
Bisetsu kicks her behind on the butt and Tawny fell down, "Don't say inappropriate sentences like that!"
Tawny starts to cry, "And I was going to teach you how to skate board like a boss…no more cookies for you, Banshi!"
"I don't even eat cookies, Takahashi…"
"Still, no cookies!"
It was decided that everyone will go to the park today, the sun was shining and the children laugh around with their friends as each of them chase another. Tawny was rigged up with her very own board with flames and a skull on the back; she did not wear a helmet and was preparing to challenge Hikaru. He did not know how to do it, but he is not going to chicken out now and make her win this round of their first fight.
Kaoru and Hiyori decided to take a walk together, hoping to avoid Hikaru and Tawny who will eventually have an argument on who cheated. Bisetsu went with Kyouya, not wanting to take any sort of participation with this.
Mitsukuni decided to talk a walk alone; he looks around himself to see nobody seeing him as he walked all alone in the concrete path. He saw a tiny pebble and tries to kick it, but his foot just kept going through the stone.
"New comer, eh?" said a voice behind.
Mitsukuni turned around to see nobody behind him, but when he turned his head back around, he saw a tall teenage boy with long black hair and wore dark glasses. He is bear chested and wore only pants; he seems to be like some kind of shirtless model.
"It happens, you just gotta focus on the object and it'll do the rest. It can help, and I'll let you in another secret," he bends down and Mitsukuni took out his ear to listen. "You can go inside a person for a period of time, but it'll make you feel weak in the process if you take too long. And, whatever you do, don't talk to the man without a face."
The mysterious man stands up and smiles to Mitsukuni for giving him information, Mitsukuni was about to say something when he heard something from the distance.
"Someone, call the ambulance!" someone shouted panicking.
"Someone's in trouble!"
"Let that guy be," the man said. "He's not going to make it, I seen it all the time. Come with me, we'll see his fate together."
The man walks away who wore no shoes and Mitsukuni follows, worried still about the person dying right now. Mitsukuni saw down below the hill to see an old man who wore a male kimono and seems to have a heart attack, but suddenly light was shimmering down upon him and sparkles of light start to go up. He saw one of them clearly to see him giving some clothes to some homeless people, the man explained that those are good deeds that he did before he died.
"He's lucky…he could've been 'those' people. You never know, kid."
"Wait, I didn't get your-"
But he was gone when Mitsukuni turned to look at him, Mitsukuni looked around him and he is no longer in sight.
"Where did he go?"
"Who?"
He turned to see a small innocent girl with black hair in pigtails and wore a yellow rain coat. Her eyes shined like black beetles as he gazes to her.
"Are you my brother?"
"No, I'm just a guy who's a spirit. Why are you covered in…dark shadows?"
"Hey, come and play with me!"
"I'm sorry, but I have to find my fri-"
The small little girl starts to weep and whine. He did not want to leave this poor girl alone who some reason has dark shadows roaming all over her, so he must comply with her request. She decided to play hide and go seek, if he wins the first round, he does not have to worry about her. She said she will hide and he must count to ten, once he is done, he goes to search for her and he must tag her on the shoulder to show he has captured her.
He agreed with the rules, so she transforms herself into nothingness and he heard footsteps fading away. He starts to count each number mentally, not needing to close his eyes for she is completely invisible which a disadvantage to his search is.
"Hey, I'm ready!"
Mitsukuni begins his search, his surroundings are difficult and he knows sadly that he must find an invisible girl. He wanders aimlessly around the green grass as the cool winds blew dead leaves around the park; he looks around the whole place and looks around the big oak tree that seems pretty ancient. He had a gut feeling that she was around here, he just could not see her until something caught in his eye, and a shadow of a little girl is shown. It is the little girl!
"Gotcha!"
"Ah! You found me, you found me!"
The girl transforms back, he could no longer see the dark shadows loaming around her body and she smiles happily to him. He won the game, he admit to the little girl that she is such an excellent hider and had a hard time looking for her. She could not believe it, she thanked him and confesses she played the game so much that it made her one of the best hide and seek players ever.
Mitsukuni asked her again why she had weird black things floating around her and she said she had them since she was in a car accident; a man with no face said she committed a sin of some kind and will eventually turn into a shadow. Mitsukuni looked up to see someone behind her; it was the boy with long black hair without a shirt who came back! The little girl looked behind her and she starts to bring out tears of sadness and joy, she leaps to him and gave him a huge hug. Mitsukuni was glad she found who could be really his brother, but it was sad that she created a sin that made her look like that.
The boy goes up to Mitsukuni and gave him a small punch on the shoulder, it was just a token of thanks for taking care of his sister while he took care of some business he must do. Soon, the boy took the little girl and they walked away together, hand-in-hand as a bright light blinds Mitsukuni suddenly and they are gone.
Meanwhile, Tawny is flying in the air and did a spin around the air as she dives down to the tunnel and spins around. Hikaru is hot on her trail to catch up, soon they were neck-and-neck together and one of them is going to win. But that soon changed for Tawny when she saw something from the distance, it was…
"Hikaru, we gotta get out of here!"
"What? Why?"
"Just follow me!"
Tawny sped faster and Hikaru follows, not sure of what is going on with her. Tawny was in a frantic position, she saw Him and things are not going to turn good if he catches her or him or the others. I have to get the others before He does, but where the hell are they? Tawny thought as she took Hikaru by the collar and they both turned to find Kyouya and Bisetsu together.
"Banshi, it's Him! He's coming right now; we gotta get out before it's too late!"
Bisetsu knew she was not playing one of her devious tricks on her, so she took Kyouya by the hand and they start to run as fast as they could. Soon, Hiyori and Kaoru are collected later from the fountain where they talked about their childhood together.
As much as Hiyori wanted to talk to Kaoru more, they knew they are in a dangerous situation and must leave right away. Soon, they all found themselves running away, but soon remembered Takashi, Mitsukuni and Michelle are not with them.
They have to find them fast, or else they will be in huge danger with Him. Where could Michelle, Takashi and Mitsukuni be in a time like this?
"Michelle, can I ask you something?" Takashi asked.
"Yes, what is it?"
"That day you died, what happened? What happened when the whole place went on fire?"
Michelle and Takashi looked at each other; he wonders what had happened when she and all her friends were trapped in the café without a way out.
"What happened was it was another day like any other, I was making some drinks and Tawny was making perverted jokes at Boss Sasaki. Hiyori was preparing her first debut in the stage; she made the whole place fall silent in the tune of her smoothing voice. People were enjoying themselves and didn't have a care in the world…"
"Then what?"
Michelle continues on with her recorded tale, she said she suddenly smelt smoke coming from somewhere in the café. The sprinklers were not working and it was odd, Bisetsu said that they were in need of fixing so they had to wait another day for someone to come in. the odd smoke was still in her nose, she explained that she heard something inside the wine cellar and went to check it out. She said when she opened the door, fire was everywhere and she screamed.
Everyone started running to the doors, but it was closed and they could not get out. The windows were shut tight and no one could believe this was happening, she said they all went to Bisetsu who would know what to do. But she could not think of a plan, so she took her and everyone in a circle and just sang to them, hoping that they would calm down.
"And everyone died,"
Michelle nod, looking at the grey colored pathway with dried leafs lying around aimlessly without a care in the world as they are blown away by the strong winds. Takashi looks up the sky which oddly became dark grey as the white clouds became light grey and flew faster than ever.
"Michelle, who is Him?"
"He's the one who takes anyone to hell. You must've not listened to Haruhi when she was tending to Tamaki."
"He just takes anyone to hell?"
"Yeah, unless you solve these seriously impossible riddles, you might save your ass and not have to worry too much. The whole reason why everyone would run away is because of that, since nobody could solve them. Only Bisetsu knows them, but sometimes the riddles will change if someone solves all three of them, before he changed them because of Bisetsu when he tried to take everyone to hell!"
"What are they now?"
"No one knows because he would search a person and try making them do it."
"MICHELLE!"
When they both turned around to look who it was, it was Tawny and the others who are all running like lightning speed.
"HE'S COMING!"
"Ah, crap! Takashi, we need to go."
Michelle was starting to run, but Takashi suddenly picked her up and carried her in a bridal style which made her shock for the first time. Meanwhile, Mitsukuni was slumping around while he walked around the whole place like a worthless zombie, he did not know what to do with his dead life now. People are going away like a snowflake; they just fall on the ground and disappear in the snow. How am I going to live like this if I just start to run and hide from this Him guy?
Mitsukuni looked up the grey sky which did not have any feeling to it whatsoever; feeling left out and unwanted in the despicable world filled with people killing everyone and people stealing each other constantly. People started running away from the park, some passed through Mitsukuni as he walks away sadly to himself.
Then, he suddenly heard someone…someone was singing a song. But this song he heard, he could make it out and it was such as sad song that she sang. Emotions are filled in the sad tune, making his heart melt to the very core as he starts running towards this person who sang sweetly to the despairing song she sang.
A long time ago
In a world so far below
A little fairy came to me
What could she really be?
The little fairy said…"I am your friend, can you be my friend?"
"But I don't know you," is what I said, and that was the end
She leaves me alone
Now I know I am alone…
To be continued…
As the hero saves the desperate princess from the dragon
He must surpass many riddles and face the dragon
Let us hope he do not go to the dungeons
And let us pray for his swift recovery