Mystery of the Haunted Cabin
A/N: Hahaha! I'm so evil. I gave a cliffhanger on the first chapter and made you all suffer until I finally uploaded this chapter! Now wait a minute, that's not so evil, because I did upload the next chapter. Hm... does that make it good or bad? -_*
Disclaimer - Um... my birthday wish was to own CCS, but it never came true. Oh well.
Mystery of the Haunted Cabin
Chapter 2
Previously:
"I wonder what went wrong."
"I don't know, but you've got to be careful around your cards from now on."
"K."
Sakura heeded Syaoran's warning and the four of them went on to the ski lodge.
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"This place is really nice!"
Sakura seemed excited as the three of them opened the doors to the ski lodge.
"Let's get to our rooms so we can unpack and go skiing!"
"Calm down. You're scaring away all of the customers."
The three went up to the front counter to get the keys to their rooms.
"Excuse me, I would like to know how long it would be until we find out when we will get our rooms."
"I'm sorry, Miss. This place is getting jam packed and I don't know if you will be receiving one. I will do my best to look it up one more time if you wish."
"Yes, please."
The man at the front counter starting pulling up files to check for her account.
"Hoe?"
"What is it, Sakura?"
"I know that voice."
Sakura ran up and tapped the young lady on her shoulder.
"Excuse me."
"Yes?"
"Meilin!"
"Sakura?"
The stunned Meilin looked up to see Tomoyo and Syaoran as well.
"Meilin!"
The four of them were united again and they happily ran up to each other.
"What are you doing here?"
"What am I doing here?! What are you doing here?"
"We're here over the winter vacation to have some fun."
"That sounds nice. I'm here for the same reason, but sort of for another."
"What do you mean by that?"
"She means that she's not alone."
Another character came out of the crowd. (A/N: It's him!) He was Chinese and halfly part of the Li family. His dark brown hair and ebony eyes gave him a courageous look and his smile added to him a touch of a gentle manner. His clothes of dark violet, navy, and gold added a outgoing look to his appearance.
"Hey, everyone, meet Seijin."
*~*
"So how long have you had this new engagement, Meilin?"
"Just for a few months. After I realized that I couldn't push Syaoran into marrying me, I decided to find love on my own."
Seijin started to tint with red as he stared at the floor.
"That reminds me, Syaoran, how are you and Sakura getting along?"
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!!!"
Syaoran started defending himself even though he was quite pink from trying to hold off his blushing and yelling at the same time. Sakura received this as a shock and started blushing herself.
'Why am I blushing so hard? Is it because I actually like him?'
Sakura shook her head wildly as if she was trying to shake the thought out of her head. Tomoyo looked at her as if she were going nuts.
*~*
"Thanks again for letting us stay with you in your room."
"It's not a problem. We rented one giant room so that we wouldn't waste too much money."
"It's a good thing they had extra beds."
"Well, who wants to go skiing?"
"Wait for me!!!"
Sakura grabbed her skiis and flew out the door leaving the two males stunned beyond belief.
"I wonder if she even remembers how to ski."
"Is that girl always like this?"
Syaoran shrugged.
"Who knows."
*~*
"Ahhh!!!"
Sakura fell bottom first into the cold, wet snow.
"Hey, are you okay?"
"Hoe? I think so."
Syaoran helped pull Sakura up again on her feet.
"That's the twelfth time you fell on the bunny slopes."
"I can't help it. This is my first time skiing in a long time."
"Then why were you so eager to start skiing?"
"Because it looked so fun!"
"It can be dangerous if you don't know what to do you know!"
"I'm sorry."
Sakura had sad puppy face as her expression. Syaoran couldn't bear to see her sad, so he turned his head away.
"Maybe you should take a rest, Sakura."
Sakura sighed, but the idea of Syaoran buying her a hot chocolate slightly cheered her up.
"Where's Meilin?"
"She's practicing on the slopes. There's a skiing championship tomorrow. She may be a rookie, but she's very skilled at it."
"You really know alot about her, don't you, Seijin?"
Seijin blushed slightly as he nodded to Tomoyo.
*~*
"Hi guys. Sorry I took so long."
Meilin came back to find only Tomoyo and Seijin waiting for her at the ski lift.
"Where's Sakura and Syaoran?"
Tomoyo pointed to a shaft where they sold hot chocolate and other items.
"Let's go spy on them!"
The three giggled all the way to the shaft to spy on the unsuspecting couple.
*~*
"Thanks, Li-kun."
"It's nothing."
Syaoran turned to watch out for anything suspiscious as Sakura drank her hot chocolate with delight. Meanwile, the three spies were peeking at the window close to Sakura.
"We're three feet away from them, and they don't even notice us!"
"What can I say. They probably have something on their minds."
"Or 'someone' most likely."
The three tried to contain their laughter as Syaoran suspected something strange around the window next to Sakura.
"Are you done?"
"Yep."
Syaoran payed and escorted Sakura out the door back to the ski lodge. Just as they left, Meilin peered in again to see what sort of information she could gain.
"Huh? They're gone!"
"What?"
As they all faced one another, they all sprinted back as fast as they could to the ski lodge.
*~*
"Whew! We made it just in time."
Tomoyo saw Sakura walking through the doorway.
"Are you sure about that?"
"Li!"
Syaoran startled the spies as Sakura walked right into him.
"Ow!"
Sakura stumbled on Syaoran's foot and would have fallen to the floor hadn't it been for Syaoran's quick rescue catch. Syaoran looked concerned at first and then turned his head away quickly to blush without anyone noticing.
"Are you alright?"
"Yes, thank you, Li-kun."
"Why were you walking around like that, Sakura? You don't usually bump into people when your walking."
"Tomoyo, I can't seem to find Kero. He's just disappeared."
"Are you sure he's not sleeping in your bag?"
Sakura shook her head furiously as her eyes started to tear up.
"Don't cry. I'll find that stuffed animal if its the last thing I do."
Sakura looked up at Syaoran, wiped her tears, and smiled the brightest smile of hope that she could give.
"Thank you, Li-kun! Arigato!"
Sakura squeezed the living daylights out of Syaoran who was just trying to catch a breath.
"Hold on to me... any longer and... I won't exist to find it!"
Sakura instantly stopped her squeezing and blushed with her head bowed down to hide it. Syaoran grabbed his coat and walked off in search of Kero.
*~*
"Great. No sign of him, and I can't go back empty-handed."
Li sighed as he continued searching through the snow.
"How am I suppose to call him anyway. Stuffed animal? Keroberos? Guardian beast of Clow? What am I suppose to do? I wish I thought of this earlier."
Syaoran remembered the smile on Sakura's face and the life-threatening hug he received.
"Well, if I find it, it will all be worth it."
Suddenly, Syaoran found some tiny footprints and some dragging marks on the floor.
"That can't be right. Something must be wrong with him for him to be walking instead of flying."
Syaoran followed the trail until he came to a cave. He used some fire magic to light up a torch as he walked gingerly inside. As he walked, Syaoran heard some weird crunching noises of something that was eating something... or someone. Syaoran sprinted after it to see what was going on.
"What!!!"
Syaoran yelled in disbelief.
*~*
The door to the cabin slammed shut to reveal a vexed yet horrified Syaoran walking in.
"Li-kun,... is he... alive?"
Sakura stared up at him with hopeful eyes wondering if he had been able to rescue poor Kero.
"He won't be when I'm through with him!"
"What's wrong?"
"Well, first of all, he ate all of our food supplies and managed to take all our money while we were gone. He went to the shop, spent every last penny on food, drinks, a gamble, and didn't leave a crumb for us."
"What!!"
Sakura yelled her head off at Kero until she passed out from anger. Syaoran caught her and laid her down to rest as the guilty Kero stood in the corner, silently.
*~*
"Oh no! That's horrible!"
"How could the noble guardian beast of Clow do something so wretched and low!"
Meilin and Sejin were also getting on Kero's case.
"I don't know what happened. It's like something possessed me to do it or something."
"It sounds more like your stomach."
"I guess we'll have to earn our stay here, but what could we do?"
Meilin smiled as she had a brilliant idea.
*~*
"This was your idea?"
Syaoran growled as he rolled his eyes in complete disagreement.
"Sorry, Li, but this was the only thing I could think of."
Syaoran & Sejin were now bellboys and Sakura & Meilin were maids who were working at the luxury hotel next door.
"Um, Meilin, do I look okay?"
Sakura peeked out from the dressing room as Meilin skipped over to help her.
"You look great! Come on out, Sakura."
Sakura shyly came out of the dressing room with her maid outfit. Syaoran and Sakura's eyes met, but quickly departed. Syaoran tried not to let everyone know that he was tinting slowly while Sakura accepted Sejin's compliments about her outfit.
*~*
"Bellboy and maid 1 come to the front desk."
Meilin and Sejin responded to their calls and went to help their guests. Sakura wished them luck as Syaoran pondered over how to handle Sakura alone.
"Bellboy and maid 2 to the front desk."
Syaoran did not seem very pleased being numbered and used as a slave, but Sakura's cheerful attitude gave him a calm spirit.
"Yes?"
"The guests in room A302 just left, so we need the maid to clean the room and the bellboy to inspect and adjust the furniture to their original position. Got that?"
"Yes, sir."
*~*
Sakura opened the door to find that the room was a complete mess.
"It looked like they were trying to knock down this building."
Sakura and Syaoran got to work moving things around and cleaning up around them. The last thing they had to do was to spread the sheets for the bed. Sakura insisted that she could do it by herself, but Syaoran insisted that he could help her.
"Really, Li-kun. I can move the bed by myself."
"Tell that to the hospital physician."
"Just because I didn't have all the training you had doesn't mean that I'm too weak to move a bed!"
Syaoran just smiled and sat back.
"Fine."
Sakura started to pull the bed away from the wall when Syaoran saw a strange shadow lurking on the walls.
'Am I seeing things? What was that anyway?'
Suddenly, Syaoran heard a strange whirling noise coming straight for Sakura. In the blink of an eye, Syaoran grabbed the dagger that was coming at the now turned around Sakura, being one foot away from her with one hand around her waist in case that he missed.
"L-li-kun?"
Sakura barely stammered out the words in pure fright.
"Are you alright?"
"I... I don't know. I..."
"It's okay. Take your time. Sit down for a while."
As Syaoran took Sakura to sit down, he noticed that the dagger had a note on it. He took it off the blade and put it in his pocket to read later.
*~*
"It threatened Sakura to give up her cards?"
"That's what it said, and there was something else. The dagger handle had the inscription of Clow on it."
"No way! Let me see that!"
Kero flew over to Syaoran to see the dagger.
"I don't have it."
"What do you mean you don't have it!"
"It disappeared after I read the note."
"No way!"
Meilin, Sejin, and Tomoyo pondered over the situation as Kero and Syaoran kept fighting over who was telling the truth. Sakura sat in the corner, completely frightened.
'I almost lost all of my friends the time I was fighting against Void. Do I have to go through that situation again.'
Sakura hugged the cards tightly, crying for the battle that was to come.
to be continued...
A/N: Yep, yet another cliffhanger. That will be one of my guarantees during this story. Cliffhangers galore and faster chapters according to review numbers. -_~
A/N: Oh, another guarantee is that the longer I take, the longer the next chapter, k. And a hint about what's going on... a regular human being is not the one who is causing the commotion. OK, I think I said to much, but oh well. Do me a favor now and review please? Arigato. Until the next one, Ja ne.
A/N: Hahaha! I'm so evil. I gave a cliffhanger on the first chapter and made you all suffer until I finally uploaded this chapter! Now wait a minute, that's not so evil, because I did upload the next chapter. Hm... does that make it good or bad? -_*
Disclaimer - Um... my birthday wish was to own CCS, but it never came true. Oh well.
Mystery of the Haunted Cabin
Chapter 2
Previously:
"I wonder what went wrong."
"I don't know, but you've got to be careful around your cards from now on."
"K."
Sakura heeded Syaoran's warning and the four of them went on to the ski lodge.
*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*
"This place is really nice!"
Sakura seemed excited as the three of them opened the doors to the ski lodge.
"Let's get to our rooms so we can unpack and go skiing!"
"Calm down. You're scaring away all of the customers."
The three went up to the front counter to get the keys to their rooms.
"Excuse me, I would like to know how long it would be until we find out when we will get our rooms."
"I'm sorry, Miss. This place is getting jam packed and I don't know if you will be receiving one. I will do my best to look it up one more time if you wish."
"Yes, please."
The man at the front counter starting pulling up files to check for her account.
"Hoe?"
"What is it, Sakura?"
"I know that voice."
Sakura ran up and tapped the young lady on her shoulder.
"Excuse me."
"Yes?"
"Meilin!"
"Sakura?"
The stunned Meilin looked up to see Tomoyo and Syaoran as well.
"Meilin!"
The four of them were united again and they happily ran up to each other.
"What are you doing here?"
"What am I doing here?! What are you doing here?"
"We're here over the winter vacation to have some fun."
"That sounds nice. I'm here for the same reason, but sort of for another."
"What do you mean by that?"
"She means that she's not alone."
Another character came out of the crowd. (A/N: It's him!) He was Chinese and halfly part of the Li family. His dark brown hair and ebony eyes gave him a courageous look and his smile added to him a touch of a gentle manner. His clothes of dark violet, navy, and gold added a outgoing look to his appearance.
"Hey, everyone, meet Seijin."
*~*
"So how long have you had this new engagement, Meilin?"
"Just for a few months. After I realized that I couldn't push Syaoran into marrying me, I decided to find love on my own."
Seijin started to tint with red as he stared at the floor.
"That reminds me, Syaoran, how are you and Sakura getting along?"
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!!!"
Syaoran started defending himself even though he was quite pink from trying to hold off his blushing and yelling at the same time. Sakura received this as a shock and started blushing herself.
'Why am I blushing so hard? Is it because I actually like him?'
Sakura shook her head wildly as if she was trying to shake the thought out of her head. Tomoyo looked at her as if she were going nuts.
*~*
"Thanks again for letting us stay with you in your room."
"It's not a problem. We rented one giant room so that we wouldn't waste too much money."
"It's a good thing they had extra beds."
"Well, who wants to go skiing?"
"Wait for me!!!"
Sakura grabbed her skiis and flew out the door leaving the two males stunned beyond belief.
"I wonder if she even remembers how to ski."
"Is that girl always like this?"
Syaoran shrugged.
"Who knows."
*~*
"Ahhh!!!"
Sakura fell bottom first into the cold, wet snow.
"Hey, are you okay?"
"Hoe? I think so."
Syaoran helped pull Sakura up again on her feet.
"That's the twelfth time you fell on the bunny slopes."
"I can't help it. This is my first time skiing in a long time."
"Then why were you so eager to start skiing?"
"Because it looked so fun!"
"It can be dangerous if you don't know what to do you know!"
"I'm sorry."
Sakura had sad puppy face as her expression. Syaoran couldn't bear to see her sad, so he turned his head away.
"Maybe you should take a rest, Sakura."
Sakura sighed, but the idea of Syaoran buying her a hot chocolate slightly cheered her up.
"Where's Meilin?"
"She's practicing on the slopes. There's a skiing championship tomorrow. She may be a rookie, but she's very skilled at it."
"You really know alot about her, don't you, Seijin?"
Seijin blushed slightly as he nodded to Tomoyo.
*~*
"Hi guys. Sorry I took so long."
Meilin came back to find only Tomoyo and Seijin waiting for her at the ski lift.
"Where's Sakura and Syaoran?"
Tomoyo pointed to a shaft where they sold hot chocolate and other items.
"Let's go spy on them!"
The three giggled all the way to the shaft to spy on the unsuspecting couple.
*~*
"Thanks, Li-kun."
"It's nothing."
Syaoran turned to watch out for anything suspiscious as Sakura drank her hot chocolate with delight. Meanwile, the three spies were peeking at the window close to Sakura.
"We're three feet away from them, and they don't even notice us!"
"What can I say. They probably have something on their minds."
"Or 'someone' most likely."
The three tried to contain their laughter as Syaoran suspected something strange around the window next to Sakura.
"Are you done?"
"Yep."
Syaoran payed and escorted Sakura out the door back to the ski lodge. Just as they left, Meilin peered in again to see what sort of information she could gain.
"Huh? They're gone!"
"What?"
As they all faced one another, they all sprinted back as fast as they could to the ski lodge.
*~*
"Whew! We made it just in time."
Tomoyo saw Sakura walking through the doorway.
"Are you sure about that?"
"Li!"
Syaoran startled the spies as Sakura walked right into him.
"Ow!"
Sakura stumbled on Syaoran's foot and would have fallen to the floor hadn't it been for Syaoran's quick rescue catch. Syaoran looked concerned at first and then turned his head away quickly to blush without anyone noticing.
"Are you alright?"
"Yes, thank you, Li-kun."
"Why were you walking around like that, Sakura? You don't usually bump into people when your walking."
"Tomoyo, I can't seem to find Kero. He's just disappeared."
"Are you sure he's not sleeping in your bag?"
Sakura shook her head furiously as her eyes started to tear up.
"Don't cry. I'll find that stuffed animal if its the last thing I do."
Sakura looked up at Syaoran, wiped her tears, and smiled the brightest smile of hope that she could give.
"Thank you, Li-kun! Arigato!"
Sakura squeezed the living daylights out of Syaoran who was just trying to catch a breath.
"Hold on to me... any longer and... I won't exist to find it!"
Sakura instantly stopped her squeezing and blushed with her head bowed down to hide it. Syaoran grabbed his coat and walked off in search of Kero.
*~*
"Great. No sign of him, and I can't go back empty-handed."
Li sighed as he continued searching through the snow.
"How am I suppose to call him anyway. Stuffed animal? Keroberos? Guardian beast of Clow? What am I suppose to do? I wish I thought of this earlier."
Syaoran remembered the smile on Sakura's face and the life-threatening hug he received.
"Well, if I find it, it will all be worth it."
Suddenly, Syaoran found some tiny footprints and some dragging marks on the floor.
"That can't be right. Something must be wrong with him for him to be walking instead of flying."
Syaoran followed the trail until he came to a cave. He used some fire magic to light up a torch as he walked gingerly inside. As he walked, Syaoran heard some weird crunching noises of something that was eating something... or someone. Syaoran sprinted after it to see what was going on.
"What!!!"
Syaoran yelled in disbelief.
*~*
The door to the cabin slammed shut to reveal a vexed yet horrified Syaoran walking in.
"Li-kun,... is he... alive?"
Sakura stared up at him with hopeful eyes wondering if he had been able to rescue poor Kero.
"He won't be when I'm through with him!"
"What's wrong?"
"Well, first of all, he ate all of our food supplies and managed to take all our money while we were gone. He went to the shop, spent every last penny on food, drinks, a gamble, and didn't leave a crumb for us."
"What!!"
Sakura yelled her head off at Kero until she passed out from anger. Syaoran caught her and laid her down to rest as the guilty Kero stood in the corner, silently.
*~*
"Oh no! That's horrible!"
"How could the noble guardian beast of Clow do something so wretched and low!"
Meilin and Sejin were also getting on Kero's case.
"I don't know what happened. It's like something possessed me to do it or something."
"It sounds more like your stomach."
"I guess we'll have to earn our stay here, but what could we do?"
Meilin smiled as she had a brilliant idea.
*~*
"This was your idea?"
Syaoran growled as he rolled his eyes in complete disagreement.
"Sorry, Li, but this was the only thing I could think of."
Syaoran & Sejin were now bellboys and Sakura & Meilin were maids who were working at the luxury hotel next door.
"Um, Meilin, do I look okay?"
Sakura peeked out from the dressing room as Meilin skipped over to help her.
"You look great! Come on out, Sakura."
Sakura shyly came out of the dressing room with her maid outfit. Syaoran and Sakura's eyes met, but quickly departed. Syaoran tried not to let everyone know that he was tinting slowly while Sakura accepted Sejin's compliments about her outfit.
*~*
"Bellboy and maid 1 come to the front desk."
Meilin and Sejin responded to their calls and went to help their guests. Sakura wished them luck as Syaoran pondered over how to handle Sakura alone.
"Bellboy and maid 2 to the front desk."
Syaoran did not seem very pleased being numbered and used as a slave, but Sakura's cheerful attitude gave him a calm spirit.
"Yes?"
"The guests in room A302 just left, so we need the maid to clean the room and the bellboy to inspect and adjust the furniture to their original position. Got that?"
"Yes, sir."
*~*
Sakura opened the door to find that the room was a complete mess.
"It looked like they were trying to knock down this building."
Sakura and Syaoran got to work moving things around and cleaning up around them. The last thing they had to do was to spread the sheets for the bed. Sakura insisted that she could do it by herself, but Syaoran insisted that he could help her.
"Really, Li-kun. I can move the bed by myself."
"Tell that to the hospital physician."
"Just because I didn't have all the training you had doesn't mean that I'm too weak to move a bed!"
Syaoran just smiled and sat back.
"Fine."
Sakura started to pull the bed away from the wall when Syaoran saw a strange shadow lurking on the walls.
'Am I seeing things? What was that anyway?'
Suddenly, Syaoran heard a strange whirling noise coming straight for Sakura. In the blink of an eye, Syaoran grabbed the dagger that was coming at the now turned around Sakura, being one foot away from her with one hand around her waist in case that he missed.
"L-li-kun?"
Sakura barely stammered out the words in pure fright.
"Are you alright?"
"I... I don't know. I..."
"It's okay. Take your time. Sit down for a while."
As Syaoran took Sakura to sit down, he noticed that the dagger had a note on it. He took it off the blade and put it in his pocket to read later.
*~*
"It threatened Sakura to give up her cards?"
"That's what it said, and there was something else. The dagger handle had the inscription of Clow on it."
"No way! Let me see that!"
Kero flew over to Syaoran to see the dagger.
"I don't have it."
"What do you mean you don't have it!"
"It disappeared after I read the note."
"No way!"
Meilin, Sejin, and Tomoyo pondered over the situation as Kero and Syaoran kept fighting over who was telling the truth. Sakura sat in the corner, completely frightened.
'I almost lost all of my friends the time I was fighting against Void. Do I have to go through that situation again.'
Sakura hugged the cards tightly, crying for the battle that was to come.
to be continued...
A/N: Yep, yet another cliffhanger. That will be one of my guarantees during this story. Cliffhangers galore and faster chapters according to review numbers. -_~
A/N: Oh, another guarantee is that the longer I take, the longer the next chapter, k. And a hint about what's going on... a regular human being is not the one who is causing the commotion. OK, I think I said to much, but oh well. Do me a favor now and review please? Arigato. Until the next one, Ja ne.