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Spooky Mansion
Chapter Eleven
"Look! It's Tsubasa and the others!" Tonouchi shouted when they saw Tsubasa and the others running towards them.
"What're you doing here?" Tsubasa asked. They stopped when they saw Tono, Subaru and Shuichi.
"Where are the others?" Yuu asked.
"They're outside! We're here to help you and the others!" Tono answered.
"Where's my sister?" Subaru asked worriedly.
"We need to hurry and look for them!" Tsubasa said. "They are in danger!"
"Let's go! We searched all the rooms excluding that area downstairs!" Shuichi exclaimed.
"I have a feeling that you haven't gone into the library!" Tsubasa exclaimed while pointing at a huge door.
"How did you know it's a library?" Yuu asked Tsubasa.
"Mochu and I went inside when we cleaned the living room." Tsubasa answered.
"Come on guys! Let's go, we are running out of time." Yoichi said while starting to run towards the stairs. They entered the library and scanned it with their eyes. They found no one.
"Where are they?" Kitsu asked.
"There's no one here!" Koko said.
"This was the only place left! I am sure they are here!" Tsubasa said.
Koko stumbled down because of the dark and accidentally pushed the angel figurine and the bookshelf from that side opened.
"I see! There's a secret opening here that means it's a hiding place!" Sakurano exclaimed.
"Let's go take a look!" Tsubasa shouted.
"Wait!" Koko shouted. Something suddenly showed up in the corner.
"What?" Subaru asked impatiently.
"Is that Ruka and Hotaru?" Koko replied. He's not sure because the light was dim. They looked at where Koko was pointing. They saw Hotaru and Ruka lying on the ground unconscious and holding hands. They immediately ran to where the two is and checked if they're still alive.
"They're still alive!" Subaru announced gladly.
"Thanks God!" Yuu exclaimed thankfully.
"Guys, someone should go on while the others help them! We are really running out of time." Yoichi said while looking at the others. It's already four in the morning. Subaru nodded.
"Yoichi, Shuichi, Tono, and Koko you should find the others. Kitsu, Glasses, Tsubasa and I will help my sister and Nogi. We will follow you immediately after making sure these two are alright." Subaru said. They nodded. The four continued to enter the secret place while the other four was left behind to wake the two up.
Ruka opened his eyes and looked at the people around. His head hurts. "Guys, what happened?" He asked.
"We should be asking you that. What happened to the two of you? Why are you and Hotaru unconscious?" Tsubasa asked. After mentioning Hotaru's name, he immediately looked at her. Subaru's checking his sister's vital signs.
"Hotaru!" Ruka called while holding her hand. Hearing his voice, Hotaru opened her eyes and rubbed her head.
My head hurts. Hotaru thought and winced in pain.
"I am glad you're alright!" Ruka and Subaru said in chorus.
"Now tell us what happened? Where are the others in your team?" Tsubasa asked. "Are they alright? Are they still alive?"
"We don't know! We ran there when Nobara accidentally opened a secret way. And then, we didn't know that it is a stairs going down because of darkness. They fell. We followed, but—" Ruka halted. He's trying to remember what happened.
"But?" Yuu repeated.
"While we were running in the stairs to where Natsume, Mikan and Nobara possibly end up, Ruka and I always end up being up here again. It happened three times. The fourth time we tried to find them, before we entered that entrance, Mochu, Luna, Wakoko, three senior students and others we don't know blocked our way." Hotaru explained.
"Mochu was gone!" Tsubasa said. "We don't know what happened to him."
"The three senior students, one of them can possibly be Hayate. He was eaten by a ghost. And we believed the ghost that ate Hayate was Luna." Subaru said.
"You mean the one who has a serious crush to Imai-san?" Kitsu asked. Subaru nodded.
"Their faces were so horrible, looks like they aren't a human anymore. They got near us walking like a zombie. Their heads turned upside and down. We were cornered by them and they tried to eat me, but Hotaru showed them this necklace and asked me to hold it with her. When I did, the one who tried to eat me… was burned. The others got angry and—" Ruka said.
"And?" Kitsu asked impatiently, he's getting scared by their stories, but is curious to what happened next.
"The last thing I remembered was they opened their mouth very wide. They shouted at us very loudly that made us be thrown in the wall hardly." Ruka said while massaging his head and back.
"How sweet, even you two were thrown hardly at the wall, you didn't let go of each other!" Tsubasa exclaimed. Ruka and Hotaru blushed.
Seriously, at a time like this? Kitsu smacked him in the head. "Baka!"
"Ouch!" Tsubasa uttered.
"We need to save them!" Ruka said when he remembered Natsume and the two girls.
"But before that, I don't think they won't let us pass again." Hotaru said while looking behind guys. They looked at their back and were surprised to see a lot of guests coming towards them. They stood up and prepared themselves to face the evil spirits.
"When I was young, my parents used to tell me that I should not be scared of ghosts because ghosts can't hurt us but a live person can. Now, I don't think I can believe that anymore!" Tsubasa exclaimed.
"Shut up Andou! Be serious! These evil spirits don't know how to joke!" Subaru snapped.
"Okay-okay! Do you know a way to defeat these guys then if you can't even touch them?" Tsubasa asked.
"Yoichi-kun, Sakurano-sempai, Tono-sempai, we've been running for years here! This stairs have no end!" Koko exclaimed. He's damn tired of running down. The only light they have is a single flashlight.
"I think so! We've been running in a circle! I can't see the end!" Tono exclaimed. All of them are exhausted. The light of the flashlight has been turned off, forcing them to stop.
"Guys, move closer!" Sakurano exclaimed. "The battery is empty." He said and threw the flashlight, but after he threw it, the light opened again, but it was gone after it fell. They moved closer to each other. Koko felt something cold touches his shoulder.
"What should we do?" Koko heard Tono said it behind him.
"Tono-sempai, you're so cold!" Koko said.
"How did you know?" Tono asked.
"Baka! You're touching me, aren't you?" Koko snapped.
"No, I am not!" Tono said.
"Then who's—" Koko looked at his back, his eyes widen. He can only see two bright eyes staring at him. He shouted, but before Yoichi can hold him, he was gone with the ghost.
"Yome!"
"Koko!"
"This is getting worse! We should hurry up before no one will be left alive!" Tono said.
"Let's stop here! I will call someone's spirit to help us!" Yoichi said. He took out a candle and lighted it. They positioned themselves around the candle making it their center.
They seated like an Indian in the middle of the stairs and hold each other's hand.
"Whatever happened, don't let go!" Yoichi commanded. The two nodded. Then he began to call the spirit.
"There are too many spirits coming to us Misaki-sempai!" Aoi exclaimed. Everyone is scared like her.
"What should we do Misaki?" Kaname asked.
"Just don't let go, we need to pray for a miracle!" Misaki answered them. All of them nodded. They held each other's hand tightly and prayed.
"Mikan!" Nobara called the brunette.
Mikan stopped walking when she had reached what caught her attention. It's a painting on the wall.
"This girl looks like me! I think she's Miaka." She said. Miaka's wearing a black silk gown. She read the name below, Miaka Sakura. She looked at another painting next to it, "And who's this?" She can't read his name because it has been scratched.
She put her hand into her pocket. She felt something. It was a necklace. She then remembered when Yoichi hugged her in the garden. Yoichi must've put it here, that brat! She thought then put on the necklace on her neck.
"Don't scare us like that, Polka!" Natsume exclaimed behind. Nobara's supporting him to stand up and walked. His right hand is on her shoulders.
"I was just looking at these paintings." Mikan said while looking at them again. She was shocked when the guy that was painted was gone, but the girl's still there. She stepped back, but she stumbled down because of her hurt ankle.
"Mikan!" Nobara gasped when she saw what she's wearing. Natsume was shocked too. She's wearing different clothes now. Mikan varied her gaze at her body. She's now wearing the black silk gown that she just saw in the painting.
End of Chapter Eleven
To be continued…