Hi everyone. This is chapter 9. I think the spider thing in chap. 8 is so cliché. Sorry, people.

CHAPTER WARNINGS: (please read)

Sick characters

Rain

Horror

Fever

Chapter 9: Ghost and Fever

That night, Goku went to explore the inn with Danielle. She wasn't ready to even see freaky sights.

Later at a strange room……

"Aaaah!" was the shout of a young youkai who hid behind a samurai. "Hush, baka." Said the lady samurai, showing her fan.

They saw blood, blood all over the room, smearing the walls red. Danielle lit up a candle and shone it on the wall. There was a message:

"PLEASE HELP ME"

Goku shivered while Danielle twitched and dismissed it as nonsense.

At the inn room…..

"Where the hell is the monkey and the samurai?" asked Sanzo dangerously.

"They went ghost-hunting." Hakkai said, smiling. "I'm going out even if it's raining!" the monk went out in a huff.

Back with Goku and Danielle……

"Danielle, let's get outta here. We might die and I'm hungry!"

"Idiot!" they wandered into the room and saw something that looked like a chest. Goku opened it and saw……a picture of a person. (hehe, suspense)

"Wow, she's beautiful." Danielle said, looking into the soul of the picture. The woman in the picture had long, wavy, auburn hair. Her eyes were turquoise, shining like the stars in the night sky. Her face was fair and her clothes were elegant. A white off-shouldered gown layered by chiffon and silk. She had jewelry of a queen, made of pure gold.

"She must have been kind." Goku said, "I see it too. She may look like a rich, stubborn, no attention person but I see she's good, like Sanzo, misunderstood."

"Sanzo! No way!" Goku hollered. After that, a cold breeze entered the room and left petals of roses across the room. The blood on the wall was cleansed. The room looked orderly and clean. Then the room was so elegant. The bed had posts and large, white silk curtains. The mattress was so soft. The pillows were velvet; the quilts had fur and silk. The other furniture was made of solid mahogany, Philippine mahogany.

Then a white apparition appeared. "Please leave. I think something has happened to your friend who is like the sun." "SANZO!" yelled Danielle and Goku together.

Room………

"Gojyo, Hakkai, we had a good time ghost-hunting but the ghost told us something bad happened to Sanzo!" Goku said, "Is the ghost a woman?" Gojyo asked.

"Yeah, she is. No time for that. Hakkai, Goku and I will find him." Danielle said, running off like a sprinter.

At the path toward the forest….

"Ugh! A fork! Where do we go?" Goku complained. Just then, a wind went by and twirled like a small tornado to the right path and stopped.

"It went to the right fork, that's cool." "Well, let's just go for the sake of everyone."

Under a pine tree in the right fork…..

"Why, master, why did you leave me!" was the desperate thought of a monk. He burned with fever that night under the rain.

A nice 25 meters away from the pine tree…

"Sanzo!" "Where are you?" "I got your gun!" "There's a youkai in the forest!"

"Hm….we'll have to keep looking. Look! A bow and arrows!" Danielle said. She tied a fallen vine unto the back of the arrow. She pulled the bowstring and drew it backward. She released it and it flew into the forest.

"What was that for?" asked Goku, "If he sees the arrow he'll try to find where it came from and then um….he'll find us." "Good idea."

Under the pine tree……..

"Hmm….what's this arrow d-d-do-i-ng here?" Sanzo asked limply and held the arrow. He traced the vine weakly and it led to three people, one excited, one happy and one in a pose holding a bow.

"Goodness you're alright, Sanzo!" "A ghost even told us you're here." "Well at least this is a hap-!" Hakkai was cut off when Sanzo fainted to the ground. Danielle put the bow on her shoulder ad helped carry him up.

Back at the inn….

"Where are they?" asked Gojyo to himself. The door opened in a flash. It was Sanzo, Hakkai, Goku and Danielle.

"My gosh, what happened to corrupt monk?" Gojyo asked, "Fever." The one-word sentence was said by Danielle in 0.0002 seconds.

"Well, she's right, he's burning. Do you guys got medicine for fever?"

"Antipyretic medicine or aspirin might do. I'm no doctor. Trust me." Danielle crossed her arms.

"Well, I might as well put a sponge on his head." Hakkai said, "Yeah I know: you put a damp cloth soaked in icy water then re-soak it if it becomes hot. I know it." Goku said, "Well, if we want him to get well….."

After doing the towel-thing………

"Why am I here?" asked Sanzo to Hakkai, "We took you home." He said with a smile. "We're glad your fever is gone." a voice said while feeding the monkey. "All I know is I saw the samurai with a bow. You fired the arrow, didn't you?" "Yeah…who else would?" he got up and sat on the floor.

"Sanzo, hare hetta!" yelled Goku, THWACK! THWACK! THWACK! "Itaiiii! You are well already, no doubt."

"At least, monkey and monk are back to normal."