"Well, here it is." Dr. Kamui said.
"Um, not to be a downer, but this is the library." Zatsune said. "We've aready looked here, and there was no hidden passage."
"Ah, but did you look everywhere?"
"Pretty sure. We pulled all the books off the shelf." She pointed to a corner of the room where a pile of books had accumulated.
"Who said is was a book that was the switch?" He walked over to the desk and flipped one of the pens resting in their holder in the opposite direction. The wall behind the desk slid aside, revealing a corridor.
"Huh. Didn't expect that." Zatsune said, clearly impressed.
"I knew that was there the whole time." Meiko grumbled, a bit angry that this stranger could find the hidden passages when she could not.
"So, this lab is just ahead, yes?" SeeU asked as they walked down the corridor, using their cell phones to illuminate the way. Even with all six of them, the resulting light wasn't much, so they all stayed close.
"It should be... uf!" Gakupo tripped and fell. "Something caught my foot!" He pulled at the object to reveal a small yellow device, the strap of which had been what tripped him up.
"Its a cellular phone." SeeU observed. "But who does it belong to?"
"Thats Neru's." Haku said, retreiving the device from Gakupo. "I'd recognize it anywhere."
Suddenly, it rang. She looked at the device in surprise.
*BLOCKED NUMBER*
Frowning, she answered it. If it was her parents or brother, she could always just lie.
"Hello?"
"Hello, detective. Would you be so kind as to put me on speaker?" The voice said. Haku did as she was told, fearing that this person might have the missing guests in their possesion.
"Please continue." She told it.
"Hello, guests." The voice said. "I suppose you're wondering where Ms. Megurine and Ms. Akita are."
"What did you do to them?" Zatsune demanded.
"Oh, nothing Ms. Zatsune. Nothing yet."
"What do you mean... yet?" Miki asked, clearly afraid.
"Tsk tsk, Ms. Furukawa. Your fear is showing. I mean that if you continue your little game, then you will have two less players."
"Little game?" Meiko snorted. "You think we're playing a game? Games don't involve the pointless deaths of five innocent people, two of which were still children!"
"Mrs. Shion, contain yourself." Miki said. "This person has killed five people and holds the lives of two more in their hands. We must watch ourselves."
"She's right, Mrs. Shion. I won't hesitate to let two more corpses join the rest."
"Not so fast." Haku said. "Prove to us that Luka and Neru are with you. Let us speak to them."
"Very well." There was the sound of a phone being put down, and something being dragged.
"H-haku?"
"Neru! You're alive" Haku said. "Is Ms. Megurine with you as well?"
"Yes, I'm here." Luka said. "Please... help us."
"Don't worry you two, we're coming."
"I don't think so." The voice said. "If you continue to play hero, then I will kill them." The two women screamed in the background.
"Don't touch them!" Meiko shouted. "We'll do whatever you want, just don't harm anyone else!"
"A wise choice. If you want your friends back, leave this corridor and go to the mausoleum where you laid Mr. Shion to rest. I shall leave Ms. Megurine there. If you want Ms. Akita, then you will follow my directions."
"No!" Luka shouted in the background. "Let Neru go, keep me! I'll be of more use!"
"Quiet you!" The person growled. "I'm the one in charge."
With that, they hung up. Everyone remained quiet, until SeeU broke the silence.
"So... what are we gonna do?" She asked.
"We don't have a choice, Ms. Park." Gakupo said. "If we want to see Ms. Megurine and Ms. Akita alive again, we must do as this person tells us."
"Well what are we waiting for?" Zatsune asked. "Lets go!" she ran back to the library, the others following.
She stopped when they entered the foyer, causing the others to nearly crash into her.
"Whats the matter?" Miki asked.
"The bodies. They're gone." she said, shocked. The others looked over her shoulder only to realize she was telling the truth. The four bodies were supposed to be laying in the center of the foyer with a sheet over them. But they were gone, sheets and all. Even the bloodstains were gone.
"This is freaky." Miki said, walking in a circle around the area where the bodies were supposed to be.
"Well, they couldn't have just got up and walked off... could they?" SeeU asked, shaking.
"Don't be stupid." Zatsune snapped. "They were clearly dead. The dead don't just get up and walk away."
"But who could've taken them?" Gakupo wondered. "There was no way they could have transported four dead bodies and cleaned up the mess in the time it took for us to walk from here to the library."
"Unless, of course, they aren't working alone..." Meiko said, wide-eyed.
"We don't have time to dwell on this." Haku said. "We still have two living people in trouble. I think that should be our top priority."
"Detective Yowane is right. You all need to stop arguing." The group turned around to see two young women standing in front of the door.
"Cheif officer Uta Utane." The first girl said, brushing her purple hair out of her eyes. "This is Officer Momone." She motioned to a woman next to her, who currently had her green eyes focused on her ledger.
"Defoko, Momo, good to see you both. I can assume the phone lines are back up?" Haku asked.
"The emergency lines, at least. I got a call from this house saying their was a murder? Which one of you phoned that in?"
Everyone shook their head. It wasn't any of them.
"It could very well have been one of the others." SeeU said.
"Others?"
"Yes. There hasn't been one murder, but rather five. Along with two kidnappings. The problem is, the bodies of the victims have gone missing. We think the suspect, or suspects may have taken them."
"Yeah, glad the dead bodies are more important than us." Everyone turned around (again) to see Neru and Luka.
"Ms. Megurnine, Ms. Akita!" Miki said. "But how?"
"Turns out Luka here is a pretty good fighter. She was able to save me and beat the living daylights out of the jerk who kidnapped us." Neru explained.
"Speaking of, who did kidnap you?"
"It was qejmgjoadinkaddnkaiiisniwg
"Haku, dinner!" Dell called, coming up the stairs. "What are you doing?"
Haku was laying on her back. Her cat, Yowaneko, was sitting on her face.
"mmphmmm"
"I can't hear you with the cat on your face."
Haku removed Yowaneko, who let out a 'meow' of protest, and sat up. "I'm trying to finish this story, but I have writer's block!" she cried, smacking her keyboard.
"Story?" Dell asked.
"Yeah, based on my song 'The Meloncholy of Detective Haku Yowane'."
"The one you recorded with that 'Owata' dude, right?"
Haku nodded. "Thats the one. But... I don't know how to end it. I don't know who the villian is!"
"Well, come take a break. That always helps me when I'm stuck."
Haku laughed. "You take breaks?"
"Just come on, your dinner is getting cold." He grumbled and stomped downstairs. Thats what he gets for being nice.
Haku closed her laptop and left, Yowaneko burying herself back under the covers of Haku's bed.
"Now, Yowaneko. Don't mess up my story while I'm gone, okay?"
"Meow."
A/N: A story within a story? I'm so original! (NotReallyButOkay)
So, who could it be? Who committed these crimes? And what did they do with the bodies?
Leave your answer in a review, and if enough people say the same thing, maybe Haku will agree with you!
Was it one of the guests? Maybe one of the victims wasn't really dead, and they did it! Or maybe it was someone totally new!
But only you know the answer...