Chapter 3

We get to the end of the sewer. Hikaru goes first, then he helps Haruhi and Ageha out. Then I get out myself.

"HARUHI!" I know that voice. We all turn around and find Tamaki running up to us, Honey-Sempie is running next to him. Mori and Kyoya are walking behind them.

"What are you guys doin-" She was interrupted by Tamaki grabbing her into a hug and spinning around.

"I missed my little girl so much!"

"Tamaki-Sempie! Let me go!" Tamaki stopped spinning.

"So, that's the reason you came, because you missed Haruhi?"

"No, I missed my sons as well." He hugged us both.

"I wanted to see Ageha. She's so cute!" Ageha giggled. She liked being called cute.

"Ok, this is all fine and good, but we need to get out of here and to the hotel."

"Why in such a rush Kaoru? We just got here."

"We'll explain later."

"Yea, we need to go." There was a laugh. "Now!" We were about to run, but then the witches came on their brooms.

"Well, well, looks like we have more children to such dry."

"Um, Kaoru, Hikaru, what's going on?"

"Don't worry about that now, just run!" We started running, Tamaki got Ageha on his back, while Mori got Honey on his back. The witches were not far behind. When Tamaki grabbed Haruhi, she dropped the book, but luckily I picked it up. It was really heavy. They were gaining fast.

"Hikaru, take the book."

"Kay." I handed him the book and the witches were still chasing us. I felt arms wrap around me. "Kaoru!" I was lifted off the ground.

"Put me down." I elbowed the witch, I'm not sure which one it is, but I get free. I fall on the ground. "Don't worry, keep going." They listened and kept running, I caught up and we ran.

"Follow me!" Kyoya shouted at us. We followed him and he led us through a forest and we made it to an old school. We ran inside. "They will come in at any minute. This school has a kiln room, where they cook the clay pots and bowls. It could possibly kill them."

"Good idea."

"How do you know this?"

"Haruhi, you must have learned by now that I find out everything there is to know about every place." Kyoya is kind of creepy. Hikaru and I call him the Shadow King. "Now, let's get going, follow me." We followed Kyoya. "Tamaki, do you still have your tape recorder?"

"Why would Tamaki-Sempie have a recorder?"

"He's a crazy person, remember? Do you still have it?"

"No."

"Ok, hmm, does anyone have a cellphone I could use. I'll get you another one."

"I'll volunteer mine."

"Brilliant Kaoru. Hand it over." I hand him my cell phone. It's a cool shade of orange, like flame. He messes around with it and gets to the record button. "They are mainly after you three. Say something, now."

"Hey, I'm over here. Come get me, I'm not afraid of you ugly witches." He switches to Hikaru.

"Hah, nice one Kaoru. It's so true. It doesn't matter how many souls they steal, there will never be enough to make them even as pretty as a mule." He switched to Haruhi.

"Wow, you two are insane. I agree with you though. They might as well give up, it's fruitless, they won't ever be young and beautiful."

"I bet they wouldn't even change at all."

"Well said." Kyoya stopped the recording. "Ok, so, what do we do now?"

"We play it on loop. One of us is going to hide so that they can shut the door and lock it. Then turn it on. The faster one's would either be Tamaki, but he's a big chicken. Or the Hitachiin brothers."

"Well, leave Kaoru out of this. I'm the one who lit the candle, I'll shut the door."

"Ok, hide behind it."

"Ok."

"We'll get over by the wall." Hikaru nodded.

"Hika, be careful."

"I will Kao." He hid behind the door, Kyoya walked in and set the cellphone up. He walked back out and we followed him down the hall.

"I'm so nervous for him, what if it goes wrong?"

"Then Honey-Sempie can help him."

"Ok." I heard the witches coming and the recording going. They're falling for it. I heard a slam and a rustic shutting noise. I looked around the corner, Hikaru is turning on the kiln. The door is shut and locked.

"There, come on, let's get out of here." We left the school. "We must not let our guard down, they could escape."

"From the legends, it needs to be dawn before the spell is broken."

"It's a good thing that you know so much."

"Yes and you still didn't listen to him to not light the candle, but you did anyway."

"How was I supposed to know? I thought it wasn't real."

"You thought it was just some 'hocus pocus?"

"Yes."

"You're insane." We walked back to the hotel and went up to our room. "I guess you guys can stay with us."

"no need."

"What?"

"I knew what hotel you were staying at so I booked a room on the way here."

"You are prepared for everything, aren't you?"

"Yes he is."

"We'll see you tomorrow." They walked out, except for Tamaki.

"So, Haruhi sleeps here with you guys?"

"Yes, Kaoru and I share one bed, while Haruhi and Ageha share a bed. We aren't shady like you think, Boss."

"Ok then, I'll see you tomorrow then." He left the room. There was a boom of thunder. I could not see Haruhi at all.

"Haruhi?" Hikaru turned around and looked around.

"Ageha, where's Haruhi?"

"She is hiding under the bed." Hikaru walks over to the bed and looks underneath.

"Haruhi, come out."

"No, I'm fine here."

"I know that's not true silly." She soon came out with help from Hikaru. Another bang of thunder caused her to try to run, but Hikaru caught her in time and hugged her close. "Calm down, Haruhi, you're ok." He let go of her. "Stay there, don't move." He went to his suitcase and dug through it. He walked back to her, with headphones? The headphones were put on her head.

"thank you."

"no problem." We all went to bed, at least, I think, I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.


~Hikaru's Pov~

My little siblings get into bed. So does Haruhi. They fall asleep pretty fast. And Kaoru forgot to take off his shoes…again. I remove his shoes and cover him with the blanket. He's so adorable. Both of them are adorable when they sleep. I look to Haruhi, I can feel a blush come to my face. She looks so cute when she sleeps. I know I like her, but I can't admit it. I don't know how. I crawl into bed next to Kaoru, luckily he doesn't snore. I noticed something on his hand. I gently remove his hand from under the pillow and looked at it. There was what looked like a burn. It was in the shape of a crescent moon. Maybe the book with the eye ball will have an answer. I get up and walk over to it. I open the book. Ok, table of contents, potions, curses, counter-curses, defense spells, offense spells, chicken spells? Ok then…hmm. One chapter has my interest, soul powers. I flipped to that page and I looked through it. To my surprise, there is something about a crescent moon as the first thing. "A child that bares a crescent moon on their hand has one of the most pure souls. If a witch takes their soul, that witch will never die, no matter what happens to them." There was a picture of the crescent moon on a hand. It looks exactly like how Kaoru's does. They're after my little brother. I will not let that happen. Maybe I can draw a burn looking crescent moon on my hand. I don't want to boast, but I'm actually a pretty good artist. I grab my suitcase and pull out my travel art kit, never know when inspiration will hit you. I open it, pull out the charcoal pencil, and look at Kaoru's hand. Luckily it's on his left hand, we're both right handed. I draw the basic shape and color it. It look a lot like the burn, except for the charcoal pencil outline. I erase the charcoal and not affect the drawing on the burn. I put on some fingerless gloves that I have. Ageha thought it would be funny to cut off the tips of my gloves. I kept them anyway. I don't want it rubbing off on my face. I crawl into bed again and fell asleep.

"Hikaru." I woke up and I saw Ageha standing in front of me.

"What is it sissy?"

"Can I have something to drink, I can't reach the cups."

"Yea, sure." I get up and walk into the kitchen. I look in the cupboards, I forget where the cups are. What do you know, the very last cupboard I check has cups. Hate it when that happens. Like they say, leave no rock unturned. I grab a cup and fill it with water from the fridge water filter. I walk back and Ageha is nowhere to be seen. "Ageha?" I look around. "Ageha?" Haruhi sat up.

"What are you doing up?"

"Ageha woke me up needing something to drink and now I can't find her." Haruhi got out of bed

"Ageha, where are you?" I look to see if Kaoru is asleep. My heart starts racing when I see he's not there.

"Kaoru! Where are you?"

"Kaoru's gone too?"

"He's not in bed." I walk to the bathroom, the light is off. I open the door and turn on the light. Nobody is there. I look under the beds, nothing. Behind the curtain, n-n-no. "No."

"what?"

"The screen is ripped and the window is wide open."

"Oh no. The witches, it must have been them." The book is missing too.

"It had to have been them. I'm such an idiot. I let my guard down and my little siblings were taken. Though we know where they are going. I heard a faint song outside. I look out. The song went.

"Come little children, I'll take thee away, into a land of enchantment. Come little children, the time's come to play, here in my garden, of magic." There's kids starting to walk down the street. No. They are not getting away with this.

"Haruhi, how awake are you?"

"Pretty awake, now."

"Good, let's get going. We are going to save my little siblings."

"Ok." We got our shoes on and left the hotel room. We knew the way there.


~Kaoru's Pov~

I heard Ageha's little voice. I was starting to wake up. I opened my eyes and looked at Ageha, her face had fear and shock written all over it.

"K-K-" A hand was placed over both our mouths. I was pulled off the bed. The witch called Mary was covering Ageha's mouth. It was probably the witch, Sarah, who was covering my mouth. I was about as tall as her. We were dragged to the window. They pushed us out, but brooms caught us. Am I still in my dream world?

"Sarah, it's time to sing. You know the song."

"Ooh my favorite." She started singing the same song as earlier. We landed in front of their house, dragged in, and tied to a chair.

"Please, let my sister go. I'm the one you want. She doesn't have the crescent moon on her hand, I do. So please, let her go."

"Why should we?"

"She's only a little girl. She has so much more to live for than me."

"then she could lead that idiot you call a brother here with that ugly cross dresser."

"Hikaru is not an idiot. Haruhi is the most beautiful girl in the world. Unlike you hags. You can't tell how ugly you are because your ugliness broke your mirror." I normally didn't get that mad. Sure Hikaru does stupid stuff sometimes, but he's not an idiot.

"Yea, have you seen yourselves lately?"

"Ageha, stay out of this."

"Enough of this stalling, let's get the potion started up." I saw them start to mix random ingredients inside the cauldron. Winifred said something about dead man's toe then Sarah started spinning around saying 'dead man's toe!' Great, crazy people have kidnapped us. "Ah, it's finally ready. Which one shall be first?" She dipped a giant wooden spoon into the cauldron and approached me. I kept my mouth shut as tightly as I could. "Mary, hold his nose." I felt her hold my nose so I couldn't breathe. I could tell my face was starting to turn color from no oxygen coming to my lungs. A knock at the door. "Sarah, open the door." The door opened and Sarah screamed.

"Kaoru! Ageha!"

"Big brother Hikaru!"

"Hika-" I wasn't thinking and the spoon was put in my mouth. I tried spitting it out but Mary knew this and covered my mouth.

"Kaoru, No!" I make sure not to swallow. She tilted my head back and made me swallow. She removed her hand. Hikaru ran up to Mary and hit her away from me. Sarah and Mary were knocked out. Winifred used her powers to knock Hikaru back. I felt weaker and weaker. There was an orange mist around me.

"Ah, perfect. I'm going to drain every part of your soul from you." Suddenly she fell forward. Haruhi was behind her and hit her with her own book. She then untied me and Ageha. I felt so weak, I couldn't move.

"Hikaru, you ok?"

"Yes, fine. Is Kaoru and Ageha ok?"

"Yes, their fine. Kaoru seems low on energy though." I heard Hikaru get up. The orange mist has disappeared by now. Hikaru looked at me.

"Here, I'll carry you, Kaoru." With Haruhi's help, I was now on Hikaru's back. We all left, but I heard a crash before Haruhi came out.

"Sorry, had to take care of something. There is no potion for them now."

"Just in case, let's go to the graveyard."