Chapter 3
England
Naru woke with mixed feelings. One year and six months had passed since he returned; yes he was happy to be home away from the country that taken his brother, yet sad as it had the girl he loved. Shaking his head, Naru got out of bed and walked into the Davis' gym down the hallway. Inside Lin and Martin were on the weights and Luella was on the tread mill.
"Where's Amber?" Naru asked. Lin set the weight above him down and grabbed his towel. "She's still asleep." Lin replied "And she's locked her door". Naru nodded and walked over to the rowing machine. Ten minutes passed and the gym door opened again. In the door way stood a female identical Naru only with hair reaching mid back, her fringe was pushed back with a bright neon blue Alice band and she wore rectangler glasses that covered her ocean blue eyes and part of her cheeks. She looked sleepily around before her eyes settled on her older brother, an evil glint in her sleepy eyes worried the young man. Yawning widely she walked up to him. "How was the wedding?" she asked. Naru stopped and glared at her. "What wedding?" he asked coldly.
"You know your wedding" Naru's eyes widened, Luella fell off her treadmill and Martin almost dropped his weights; Lin's eyes widened in surprise. "Where on earth did you hear that?" Naru spat angrily. "Modoka, she found a wedding invite for Oliver Davis and Amber Vidas. Care to explain?"
Naru groaned; he forgot about the fake invite he sent to Masako to get her off his back. "It was a fake" Naru stated. "Damn well better be; why is my alias on it? I thought incest wasn't your thing bro" That had set Luella off and started a round of laughter between Martin and Lin. Naru glared at his younger sister as she skipped off to a punch bag in the far corner while he had to listen to Luella make wild accusations about what Amber had said.
A few hours later in Martins Office the men talked about the case while Amber and Luella were out spending some quality Mother-Daughter time.
"What are we dealing with?" Naru demanded. "We are not sure, it sounds like a ghost but Amber and Lin are sceptical" Martin replied. Naru nodded and looked at Lin, as if telling him to explain. "The attacks could be done by a ghost yet something is off, one ghost can't do that much damage without being demonic." Lin began "I called Modoka and she says she will come and help along with her niece and the old SPR team, The SPR team land tonight Modoka says her niece needs to do a couple days of school, Then they will fly out in three days. They will meet us at the sight" Martin nodded. His ears still rang from when Luella squealed knowing Modoka was bringing her mysterious niece. Lin had been given a bone crushing hug from the woman after he announced the news; Naru and Amber had tried to hide their amusement. After Lin, Luella attacked poor Naru and Martin by pulling them into a humiliating dance with her. Amber had somehow managed to sneak out of the room leaving the men at her mother's mercy. All three men shuddered at the memory.
~Three days later~
The rest of the old SPR team left Heathrow airport tired and grumpy, especially Bou-san. He was slightly miffed that they were told to catch the 1 am flight to England. He spotted Lin and waved tiredly. Ayako, John and Yasuhara stood dosing.
"Welcome to England" Lin said in his usual tone. "Good flight?" Bou-san shook his head and started to complain about the food and seating arrangements i.e. he has to sit next to Yasu. After thumping her boyfriend, Ayako calmly put her seven bags into the van Lin had brought with him, the men helped her before putting their bags in to.
"How is Oliver?" John asked kindly. Lin gave a small smirk. "He's in a bit of a pickle at the moment, but otherwise he is the same". They all piled into the van and dosed as Lin drove them to the campsite near where they were investigating. Three hours later they arrived. In no time the four remaining SPR members where in their tents asleep.
"How in god's good name, does that moron think she is doing?" Yelled Naru, Martin flinched at the volume his son was addressing the current predicament. "How can she disappear on the FIRST HOUR!?"
"Well" Amber began walking up behind her brother. "I wanted to speak to the forest and BOY is it chatty" Amber said smiling. Naru glared at Amber, however she stood her gound and thus began another Davis glare match.
Martin smirked. While his boy was a brilliant supernatural scientist, his daughter was one of the few people who understood and often respected the old ways, i.e. she was a firm believer in ghost and demons but she also believed in fairies, ghouls and goblins too. This often set the two siblings at edge with each other.
This was going to be a long case.