Beginning Notes: Aaaaaaaand Here's chapter 3. Creepiness! Mild creepiness... but still creepiness!

Disclaimer: Me own park. Me own plot. Me no own characters.

The Midway

Written By - Stripe

Chapter 3 - Mirrors, Radios, and Teacups

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"Kagome? Sango?" Miroku looked around the now quite frightening theme park, hoping to catch sight of one of his friends. "Kohaku? Rin? Inuyasha?" He still didn't recieve a response, as no one was around. The teenager walked down the midway, watching as the shadows passed by eerily in the beam of his flashlight. Even the doll left behind seemed somewhat frightening, its black bead eyes staring at everything and nothing. He gulped slightly and sped up his pace. They couldn't have gone too far, right?

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"Those damn kids... When I find them I'm going to strangle them, and then cut off thier heads and feed 'em to crocodiles, and-"

"Kagura."

"What?"

"Calm down. You did this to your sister on your sixteenth birthday too."

"Yeah... but we went to teepee Naraku's house! We didn't go to an old rundown amusement park! Plus, Kanna didn't care. She let us do whatever we felt like. Heck, she even gave us toilet paper!"

Sesshoumaru simply shook his head, finding no point in arguing the matter. Sometimes he wondered why he found himself attracted to Kagura, but some things, he decided, were better left unquestioned. Especially when it came to Kagura.

Some time went by, Kagura waiting for a response. Of course, with Sesshoumaru being normal ordianry Sesshoumaru, she never got one. "It's too quiet. I'm gonna turn on the radio," she announced, pushing the button to do so in Sesshoumaru's car. Immediately, a loud rap song filled with unnecessary swearing came blaring through the speakers.

"Ick." The red-eyed woman quickly flipped to another station, which was playing oldies music. "There's gotta be something better than this on..." She flipped to another station, which was playing 'country' music.

"I don't care about your stupid chicken!" she screamed at the radio, before flipping to another channel. The station she found was playing... carnival music?

"What the..." She shook her head, and continued switching stations. Luckily for both her and Sesshoumaru, the nextstation was playing actual music.

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"Man, these mirrors are dusty..." Sango commented as she bent over to get a better look ata couple of normal mirrors that were lying around."That's weird, though. The fun house mirrors didn't seem dusty at all..."

"We're not the first kids to come to the park. Anybody else might have just cleaned those mirrors off, got scared, then run off. I bet no one's been to this part of the park since it closed," Inuyasha replied, actually giving a reasonable answer for once.

"I wouldn't be so sure..." Sango had found some writing on the dusty mirror. All it was was the words "Heh heh heh", and a rather sinister looking smiley face, but she suddenly seemed to remember they were in a 'haunted' park.

"C'mon, Sango! I thought you were the only girl in our group who wasn't a scaredy cat! I mean, Rin and Kagome can barely stand watching the Sixth Sense!" Inuyasha snickered, remembering how scared the two girls had been when they saw it for the first time."Uh... Sango? Are you feeling all right?"He was faced with one of Sango's trademark deadly glares. She was not partial to being called a scaredy cat, or even a hint at the thought.

"Well who's fault is it that the scaredy cat girls ran off in the first place!" She turned from the mirror and stormed off, much like Kagome and Rin had a little earlier on.

"Hey! I thought we were supposed to stay together!" He called after her.

"Find 'em yourself!" Suddenly, Inuyasha found himself alone, neither Sango or anyone else in sight.

"Stupid girls..."

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"I knew my camera would come in handy!" Kagome laughed as she took a picture of Kohaku on a kiddy ride. He was cramped into the most frilly pink teacup they could find, with Rin posing behind him. Sometimes Kohaku wondered exactly why he let them do these kind of things, but he figured that it was probably better than Inuyasha's reaction, which would be somewhere along the lines of screaming and insulting his brains out. Still, even though Kohaku was a bit shorter than most of his friends, excluding Rin, it didn't make stuffing himself into a teacup fit for five-year-olds any more comfortable. And the longer he stayed, the more it felt like the teacup was trying to trap him in its horrible, tiny, pale pink, flower-covered compartment.

"Can we move on now?" he asked, trying to free his leg from the steering wheel.

"OK." Rin stepped out from behind the teacup to determine their next destination. "Hey, aren't the bumper cars nearby?"

Kagome looked at the park destination sign, examining the arrows closely. "Yeah... butthe animatronic theater is in the opposite direction..."

"Maybe we can go there later with everyone else..." Rin suggested, walking over to the sign as well. "But the haunted house is in the same direction as the bumper cars!"

"You actually want to got here?"

"Yeah! I'm not going to be called a scaredy cat any longer!" Rin announced, a large grin spread across her face.

"Ouch." Kohaku had finally pried his foot from the steering wheel, and in the process had fallen on the ground somewhat painfully. "Hey!" He noticed two shadows runnng off to the haunted house reflected in the mirrors that provided the background for the ride. Immediately, he got up and took after them, not wanting to be left behind.

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"Finally! We're here!" Kagura celebrated, nearly leaping out of Sesshoumaru's car. She stretched out her arms and legs. "So where are they? I don't see anyone here, genius," she turned back to face Sesshoumaru who was standing in front of a beat up truck.

"Unless Inuyasha parked his care here and ran off, I would presume they're in the park," he said cooly, examining one of the new dents in the car. "That, or the bodies are stuffed in the car."

Kagura raised an eyebrow. "Bodies? Bodies of what?"

"The passengers that were in the car," he peered through one of the cracked windows, to find the car was empty of both living and dead occupants. "I don't see anything, so they must be in the park. Let's hurry up and find them before Father decides to check up on us and finds we aren't home."

"Yeah, yeah," Kagura shrugged and climbed over the old sign that was lying in front of the entrance.

Sesshoumaru began to follow her, but something compelled him to look at the night sky. A few clouds covered the moon, giving them an eerie glow. And, for just a fraction of a second, he could have sworn they took the shape of a skull.

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Ending Notes:

So how'd ya like it? Creepy enough? It'll get worse, starting with Miroku. I shan't say any more than that. You'll just have to wait and see.

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