Chapter 10

"Oh god this is so cliché!" Ruka cried out.

"What?" Daisuke looked confused. "That's what bothers you?"

"Well in the movies, when the characters enter the creepy building they begin to hear the organ music. Then they follow it and meet an untimely demise!" Ruka explained.

"I see your point…" Daisuke said. His voice shaking slightly. "As much as I would like to run in the opposite direction, we have to find Suzuka."

"Oh!" Ruka exclaimed. "I almost forgot about her. Mom and Dad will flip if we come back without her." The two decided to follow the music. They found old stairs and began to go up. They walked down a small hallway. The music grew louder the closer they got.

Daisuke pushed open a door and there sitting on the bench in front of the old organ sat Suzuka. She continued to play the eerie melody. Daisuke and Ruka seemed paralyzed. They stood rooted to their spot in silence.

Suzuka finished her song. She turned to face them. "So what did you think?" she asked.

"What did we think?" Ruka couldn't believe what she was hearing. "You know what I think, I think you stop running off on your own!" she yelled.

"Didn't you hear us calling you?" Daisuke asked. Suzuka seemed to look annoyed by these questions.

"We're you scared?" she got up and walked to them. She looked curiously up at their faces.

"What does that matter?" Daisuke wasn't in the mood to play Suzuka's games today. "Come on we're leaving."

"But I don't want to. I want to keep playing." Suzuka pouted.

"Too bad." He said. He took her arm and began to leave.

"I'm not leaving!" She cried and resisted.

"Suzuka, cut it out!" Daisuke continued to pull.

"No!" She screamed. She continued to scream and struggle.

"Daisuke, if you keep pulling her arm like that, your going to hurt her!" Ruka said.

"Fine." He said. He grabbed her and threw her over his shoulder. She continued to scream and kick. "Now lets get out of here."

They managed to get out of the church. "How are you going to ride with her like that?" Ruka asked. Daisuke place Suzuka on the grass. The sky was beginning to turn dark. The thunder rumbled in the background.

"You have to stop fighting." He told her, but she continued to struggle. She some how managed to continue screaming, most girls would have run out of air.

"Suzuka, stop it!" Ruka tried to help. Daisuke took Suzuka by the shoulders. They were no longer annoyed. Now they were afraid. They had never seen her act like this before.

"What is wrong with you?" He asked. "Why are you acting like this?" Suzuka just continued to scream. The sky was now black.

Meanwhile

Tamaki and Haruhi had gone back to the house. They had not told the children that they were going to be leaving tonight. When they got back they were informed that the children had gone horseback riding.

"We haven't gone horse back riding for awhile." Tamaki said. "Why don't we go off and maybe run into the children while we're at it."

"Wouldn't it just be easier to wait for them here? Besides we still need to finish a few things up." Haruhi said.

Some how Tamaki managed to convince her to go. They rode along the lake. "This way seems to lead to the old church."

"That's probably where they ended up at." Haruhi said. They continued down the path. Haruhi had a strange feeling. As they rode, it sounded like organ music was playing in the background.

"What is that?" Tamaki said. "It sounds like a pipe organ. An out of tune pipe organ."

"Looks like its coming from the church." Haruhi said. "Probably the children. You know how they are." As they continued to ride, the sky became cloudier.

"We should probably hurry." Tamaki said as the thunder sounded. "Let's leave the horses here." They dismounted and continued to walk up the trail. Then they heard it. The screaming. Haruhi and Tamaki exchanged terrified looks and hurried to the church.

Meanwhile

Daisuke and Ruka didn't know what to do. Suzuka would not stop screaming and struggling. "She's going to hurt herself if we don't do something!" Ruka cried.

Daisuke had tried almost everything to calm her down, but nothing had worked. This was his last resort. He just hoped it worked. He raised his hand and slapped her across the face. Suzuka's screaming stopped.

"What the hell is going on here?" Tamaki yelled as he and Haruhi emerged from the woods just in time to see their son slap his little sister.

"She was screaming and we couldn't get her to stop.." He stammered as he tried to explain. Suzuka looked at him in fear. Her eyes welled up with tears. The bright hand print, still prominent on her face.

"Oh Suzuka, come to daddy." Tamaki held his arms out to her, but she did not budge.

"She won't leave." Ruka said. "That's why she was screaming. She refused to leave."

"Suzuka, its going to storm. We have to go back now." Haruhi said. Suzuka still did not move.

"What happened exactly?" Tamaki asked. This was becoming more confusing.

"Well she ran off again and we went to look for her." Ruka began.

"And so we ended up going inside the church and found her playing the organ." Daisuke said. "She started to act weird."

"Daisuke told her we were leaving, but she refused to go." Ruka said. "So she started to fight and then he to carry her out. She was screaming her head off. She wouldn't stop struggling and screaming and we couldn't get her to stop. So Daisuke slapped her as a last resort."

"When you say she was acting weird, what was she doing?" Haruhi asked.

"She asked me if I was scared." Daisuke said.

"Scared of what?" Tamaki as he and Haruhi exchanged worried looks.

"I don't know. The creepy organ music or her running off." Daisuke said.

"She said the same thing to me when we were riding. She asked me if I was scared of Ligeia and I said yes." Ruka said. "Her reply was "interesting." Mom, something weird is going on."

"Suzuka…." Tamaki said. She seemed to be snapping out her trance and she made a face and touched her cheek.

"My face hurts." She pouted.

"Do you want Daddy to kiss it and make it better?" he asked. Suzuka seemed to give him a look then.

"I'm not a baby, dad." She pouted and crossed her arms and turned away. Eerily similar to her older sister. She turned her head back a little. "Well maybe this one time…" She said and Tamaki gave her a kiss on the cheek.

"Suzuka, why did fight your brother and sister?" Haruhi asked sternly.

Suzuka shrugged. "I don't know. I couldn't help it."

"Couldn't help it?" Haruhi raised her eyebrow.

"I don't know I just couldn't." Suzuka said. The thunders rumbled again.

"Let's all go back to the house. We can continue our discussion there." Haruhi said. The storm was coming closer and she did not want to be in it

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