Sakura in Paris 2
Part Ten: Bad Dreams and Sleepwalkers

{ A'sN: If you're wondering why we're skipping all over the contiguous U.S., there's a good reason: I don't know my state locations. So basically, we're just hopping from state to state where ever we please. That, and the fact that me and Psycho are still sort of "WANTED" in Georgia, Tennessee, Nebraska, and Arkansas..... (Don't ask. Believe me, ya don't wanna know.)}
Ms. Sinic (shakily): Are we okay?
Raye: I think so. We're just a little low on gas now, but we're all okay. Physically anyway.
Christopher: Is there somebody by the side of the road, or is it just me?
Raye: There's someone there, Christopher. You can't be going crazy on us. You're the only non-mental one here.
Li & Sakura: What about us?
Raye: Sorry. Everyone but Christopher are mental cases.
Ms. Sinic: Should we stop and pick up whoever that is?
Raye: What if he's a werewolf?
Max: What are the chances of there being two in the same state?
Raye: When it's Nevada you're talking about, pretty damn high.
Psycho: Let's pick him up! He looks interesting.
Max: He sure does. Especially with that giant chainsaw and hockey mask of his.
Raye: What the Hell! I'm stopping!
Psycho: Come on in, stranger! What's your name and where're ya headed?
Stranger: The name's Jason. I just escaped the nuthouse prison for slaying 13 people on Friday the 13th. Anywhere out of state's fine with me.
Psycho: What a coincidence! We're all escapees, too! We just haven't killed anyone. Yet.
Raye: Welcome aboard! I just know we'll all have lots of fun together!
(The semi speeds off, its dense occupants and crazy killer singing loudly.)
Everyone: 99 BOTTLES OF MEDS ON THE WALL! 99 BOTTLES OF MEDS........

{Disclaimer}
The contents of Raye's purse.....
One nail file.
One hairbrush.
Four tubes of lipstick.
Three kleenexs.
One pad of paper and one pencil.
One note outlining the "Tragic Accidental Deaths of Clamp For Not Letting Me Buy CCS From Them."......


Li woke up near one 'o clock, when a loud creak startled him out of a dreamless sleep. Climbing out of bed and tiptoeing to the door, Li opened it a crack and peered out curiously.
"Sakura?" Li whispered in surprise.
Sure enough, it was Sakura walking down the dark hall, eyes wide open and her pace slow and measured.
What's she doing? Li wondered as he followed her down the stairs.
Sakura continued on through the mansion, passing the parlor, and ignoring the quietly sniggering Kero who was presently robbing the kitchen of its chocolate stores.
Without even pausing for a moment, Sakura continued on, out of the mansion and into the Garden.
As Li shut the sliding glass doors behind him, Sakura stumbled on the cobblestone pathway, stubbing her toe.
"Ow!" Sakura said in surprise as she sat down roughly on her knees. She looked around in surprise as she realized where she was.
"What am I doing out in the Garden?" Sakura asked aloud.
"That's what I was wondering." Li said as he helped her up. "You just started walking through the house."
"Huh. I don't remember getting up and walking around." Sakura said in a perplexed way.
"You must have been sleepwalking then."
Sakura shrugged. "Oh well. Let's go back inside."

An hour later, Sakura was up and moving again. This time, she walked straight into Li's room, much to his surprise.
Without a noise, Sakura curled up onto the large bed beside the stunned-into-silence Li, and promptly fell asleep.
With a sigh, Li grabbed a pillow and went downstairs, prepared to spend a sleepless night on the long sofa in the parlor.

Madison woke during the night to discover Sakura was gone. Sighing, she rolled over and tried to fall asleep again, her mind too sleepy to wonder where the girl was. But for some strange reason, Madison couldn't fall asleep again.
About an hour after trying to sleep with no success in sight, Madison got out of bed and left the room, deciding to go downstairs and see if Cooky or Jacque was awake yet.
After startling a gooey chocolate-encrusted Kero in the kitchen (prompting him to drop a squashy, half-eaten bar of chocolate on the newly-mopped tiles) and discovering that everyone was deep in La La Land, Madison headed back upstairs to try one more bid for rest.
But as she reached the summit of the staircase, she heard a faint cry for help. Hurrying down the hall opposite hers, Madison struggled to locate the room the cries were coming from.
Room 114. Wait a minute! Isn't this Shawn's room? Madison thought inwardly as she rapped quietly on the door.
"Shawn? Is everything okay?"
When no one answered her, Madison opened the door tentively. The drapes, which were normally closed in the night, were thrown wide open, and one of the balcony windows was open. Huddled on his bed and wrapped with several blankets, Shawn sat shivering, his eyes wide in terrror.
"Leave me alone! Get away from me! You can't take me again!!"
"Shawn!" Madison whispered loudly as she went to his bedside.
Still shivering violently, Shawn turned his fear-glazed green eyes on her in surprise. "Kanthel! What are you doing here?"
In the dim moonlight, Shawn looked different somehow. Strangely older, and his eyes were darker, more pain-filled.
"Shawn, it's Madison."
With a sudden shake, the fear left Shawn's eyes and he looked the same as always, only more forlorn and lonely. "Madison?"
"Yes. Madison."
"What happened?" Shawn whispered softly, some of the fear returning to his eyes.
"I'm not sure. I think you were having a bad dream."
Shawn shuddered fearfully. "It was the shadow again. It was trying to take me again."
"What shadow?" Madison asked softly as she pulled a small chair to the bed and sat down.
"The clawed one, with the soul-less red eyes. It was trying to take me back."
"Back where, Shawn?" Madison said comfortingly as Shawn started to relax.
"Back to Frainria."


Oooh! Mystery and suspense! What'll happen next? Who is Shawn really? What is Frainria?
Max: Shut up and drive.
Raye: Where's Ms. Sinic, Li, and Sakura?
Max: In the back, making even more mac 'n cheeze. (Begins fake gagging.) I don't see how you guys can eat that gunk every day after day.
Raye: You have to be a true cheeseiziod to love it as much as Ms. Heaven Sinic and I.
(Meanwhile, in the back of the truck...)
Jason: C'mere kiddy kiddies!
(Ms. Sinic, Li, and Sakura are squeezed up in the corner, watching in fear as Jason advances with his chainsaw squealing loudly. The killer laughs maniacally as he steps forward.)
Sakura: Why can't the others hear us?
Ms. Sinic: I'm not sure!!
(In the front of the truck, Raye and the others are singing along to the Sailor Moon tape blaring in the tape-deck at about 50 notch....)
Raye (singing along with the tape): IT'S THE POWER OF LOOOOOOOOOVE!!!!
Max: Is this Hell, or is it just me?
Ms. Sinic & Sakura & Li: HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!