How DO they get the little Ms on the M&Ms? It remains a:
Mystery
The door had always been there, but why and what for Kagome never knew. She passed it occasionally, never giving it much thought. It was smaller than most doors, and strangely positioned down in the basement. But ultimately, it was just another room in the house. Perhaps if her schedule was not so hectic, what with school and chasing jewel shards, she would have wondered about it more. But as it was, she did not.
"Hey, Kagome! There's a full moon tonight! You better lock all the doors!" laughed Kagome's younger brother, Sota. He added a dramatic 'Whooo!' for effect, which was cut short by the pillow Kagome threw at him.
"Stop goofing around! Mom and Dad left me in charge and it's past your bedtime. So beat it!" Kagome scolded. She had a test the next day, which did not improve her temper.
"Gosh, you're so grouchy tonight! Maybe it's because you're a werewolf!" Sota teased.
Kagome rolled her eyes. "Well, if I'm a werewolf, you'd better run!" she threatened.
"Oh, fine! You're no fun!" Sota slunk away down the hall to his bedroom.
Kagome sighed. She didn't like to be so mean to her brother, but she had to study. She heard Sota shut the door of his room and turn off the light. The next couple of hours were long and boring, and Kagome was dismayed when she glanced at the clock and found it was a quarter to midnight. I'm never up this late! She was about to get up and go to bed when a noise sounded through the quiet house.
Tap-tap.
Kagome stopped and listened. Probably just my imagination, she thought.
Tap-tap.
There it was again. Kagome's heart pounded, then she checked herself. Sota! The little creep! She padded down the hall to Sota's room and opened the door.
"Sota!" she hissed. "Cut that out!" She listened. Nothing but Sota's heavy breathing until:
Tap-tap.
Kagome drew a sharp breath. The sound had not come from this room. It had come from the basement. She shut the door, her heart doing a drum roll against her ribs. It's probably nothing! I'll just go to the basement, and there will be nothing there, she told herself. She retrieved a flashlight from her room and was back in the hall when:
Thump.
The sound was louder now. Kagome's nerves jangled as she descended the steps to the basement.
Thump!
She followed the source of the noise until she stood trembling before the strange, small door. It had a red marking on it that she had never seen before.
THUMP!
She took hold of the doorknob and turned it. The door creaked open to reveal only a yawning darkness and cold that chilled her to the bone. She waited tensely. A line from a poem she had once read crossed her mind.
'Darkness there and nothing more...'
She was just about to shut the door when a pair of red eyes appeared in the darkness. Her heart stopped. The eyes blinked, and the air was suddenly filled with a cold, piercing wail that penetrated every inch of Kagome. She crumpled to the floor, dropping the flashlight. The bulb broke and she was plunged into darkness. But it didn't matter anymore; she was already speeding away, down, down into blackness...
Kagome awoke in bed the next morning and remembered nothing of the encounter. But for years afterward, after she'd gone to bed and was drifting at the threshold of sleep, she once again glimpsed the mysterious blood-red marking...
A/N: Don't you just love a good unsolved mystery? Yes, that's all there is to this story and you'll have to just use your imagination for some answers.
How terrible.
Do even I have a clear idea of what happened in this story? Maybe.
Special cookie points for anyone whocan guessexactly what poem that line is from.