Mystery of the Haunted Cabin
A/N: Yep...I haven't updated in forver because I thought I was going to give up on this series. Then, I thought, Oh well, why not. Just get it over with so, here it is.
Disclaimer - Do I really have to do this every time? *sigh* I do not own CCS because I'm not a genious writer unlike CLAMP. Yeah...okay, anyways...
Mystery of the Haunted Cabin
Chapter 5
Previously:
After the judges passed out the medals to Tayori, Meilin, and Sapiyona, and Sakura was given a cheerleader teddy bear with the area's logo on it for being the best cheerleader there, they all walked back to their cabin for their party. Unfortunately, there was a spy who kept her eye on them.
'I don't get it. They lost, but they're still happy? That's impossible!'
"Tayori" left the skiing area as she became more and more... transparent.
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"Wee! Oh look at them go! They look like they're flying!!"
Sakura squealed with delight as the others excluding Seijin eyed her in disbelief and shook their heads. Seijin was in the kitchen.
"Sakura, you just watched it happen. Why are you so excited?"
"Well, actually, Meilin, I didn't get to see most of it. Ooh! They fell! That's gotta hurt."
"What to you mean?"
"Well, after my cheer and a little while after the beginning of the race, I felt a weird presence coming from somewhere. I used the time card to try to find out what was going on, but I couldn't find anything so I asked Li-kun to help me."
*~*
Flashback
"I don't get it. I know I felt something strange."
"Sakura, just what exactly did you feel?"
"Somebody was scanning for magic and the scanning censore ricochet off the wall behind me. It hit Tomoyo and some other people and went into her."
Sakura pointed at Tayori. Syaoran tried to inspect her, but he knew that Sakura was going to be low on her energy. Syaoran used his magic to put a protective shield around her and made it so that if Tayori used magic, it would bounce back on her.
"Sakura, this bounce back spell will only last a day. We'd better keep an eye on her. Tomoyo's probably recording this so try to watch for anything suspiscious."
Syaoran walked back to his seat and Sakura let go of time while she sat down to rest.
End of Flashback
*~*
"Well, we'd better do what Li-kun said then."
By now, everyone was staring intentively at the t.v., and when he came out with the food, it was Sejin's turn to raise an eyebrow.
"I was positive that I saw this before."
All eyes turned to each other and everyone seemed to be at a loss for words.
"Wait! Tomoyo, rewind that part!"
"Okay. Sheesh! Syaoran, you are so impatient."
Tomoyo rewinded the part right before they crossed the finish line and set it on the slow motion mode. Slowly and gradually, Tayori and Meilin came to the finish line when a glare blocked up half of the screen.
"There!"
Sakura screamed out while pointing to Tayori who seemed to have a green hue glowing from her.
"She was using ma..."
Syaoran quickly covered her mouth with his hands, making Sakura realize what she was about to say and making her tint at the same time.
"Did you say something, Sakura-chan?"
"mmhmmmphmmmnmmm..."
"Pardon? I'm sorry. I couldn't hear you talking with Li's hands over your mouth."
Syaoran quickly pulled his hands away.
"Oh, sssorry Sssakura-san!"
"It's okay, Li-kun, but what's with all the s' sounds? You didn't turn into a snake, did you?"
Normally, Syaoran would be furious if someone called him that, but because it was his crush and 1st in his heart who said that, he started blushing instead. Meilin raised a eyebrow and sighed.
"See, that's what happens when you like someone."
"Does that come from personal experience?"
Sejin teased Meilin as she just shook her head. Normally, she would start yelling at the top of her lungs, but Sejin was no ordinary guy to her. Meilin faced the crowd and shrugged with a smile.
"See what I mean?"
The comments instantly sent Sejin and Syaoran blushing. Now the rest of the group was giving them the weirdo treatment.
"Hoe? I think this raising an eyebrow thing is contagious."
*~*
'So Tayori has magic of some sort and tried to use it, but why? Especially when she was in the middle of a race. Was she trying to slow someone down and had it bounce back on her?'
New thoughts, new questions, new answers kept on flooding Syaoran's mind. He couldn't figure it out. What was going on? Just then, the door opened, sharpely yanking him out of his current thoughts.
"Li-kun? What's wrong?"
"Oh, Sakura-san. It's just you."
"Is there something the matter?"
Syaoran felt the blood rush to his cheeks as Sakura sat down next to him on the bed. He was just fixing up a few springs and making sure the desk was in order when Sakura had come in.
"N-no."
"Li-kun, who do you think is the one who is killing all these people and threatening us?"
"I don't know, Sakura-san. I just don't know."
"Can you clue me in?"
"Well..."
Syaoran peeked around the room. It wasn't necessarily the safest place to have a discussion so Syaoran led Sakura down to the main hallway in the cafeteria where it was too noisy for their discussion to be heard.
"The ring that the old woman had is the same one that Seijin had, but Tayori was a girl. She had magic that could have done something. Which one is which? Even with that solved, when we put the bounce back spell on her, she wasn't affected by her own magic. It was like it just went right through her."
"Maybe it did."
"Huh?"
Sakura looked at her watch. Their shift was over. Sakura dragged Syaoran back to their cabins and popped the video in again. They watched closely when they noticed that the magic really did go through Tayori and hit someone else. That was the last skiier who had fallen before the final stretch between Meilin and Tayori in the end.
"It's almost like she's a ghost," Syaoran pondered aloud.
"Wahhhh!"
"What! What?"
Sakura trembled near Syaoran. Syaoran was confused. Was it something he said that made her scared? A few seconds later, Syaoran nearly slapped himself.
"I'm sorry, Sakura-san. I forgot you were afraid of ghosts."
"It's okay, Li-kun. I just got a little jumpy since that dagger incident."
Syaoran and Sakura both sighed at the same time. Syaoran took a quick look at his watch before getting up off of the floor. It was nearly dinner time, and the gang decided to eat out before heading their respective ways.
"Come on. The others will be waiting for us."
Sakura nodded and followed.
*~*
"They're still happy! They're still happy? How could they be!"
A loud crash was heard in the darkness of a corridor. It was much too dark to see who was there. The figure looked roughly at a medium height, but the voice was so eerie and had a double tone, making it impossible to determine whether it was a male or female.
"Tonight. Tonight is when it begins."
*~*
"Goodnight, Sakura-chan."
"Oyasumi, Tomoyo-chan. Goodnight, Li-kun, goodnight, Meilin-chan, goodnight, Seijin-chan, 'night, kero-chan."
"Goodnight, everyone."
"Same here."
"Me too."
"Me three."
A sigh came out in unison from the group as they all turned over in one direction or another to go to sleep. Sakura immediately fell asleep. Tomoyo drifted off a little later. A few minutes later, the snoring of a certain Kero was heard coming from the drawers. Syaoran covered his ears.
"Baka stuffed animal," Syaoran grumbled before turning over and going to sleep.
Meilin and Seijin smiled at each other when they discovered that they were both awake.
"Can't sleep either?" Seijin whispered.
Meilin nodded at his remark and sighed. The moon was shining brightly on the matresses they were sleeping on. A few moments slipped past when Seijin got up and headed toward the door. Meilin shifted when she saw him move.
"Where are you going?"
"I'll get us a glass of water. Maybe it will help us fall asleep."
Seijin smiled back at Meilin and turned the doorknob. Meilin turned her gaze back to the moon when the door closed with a light clunk. Meilin sighed happily. It was hard getting over Syaoran in the beginning, but when she noticed it was only attachment and not love, she started getting over it. Then, she would walk around campus to notice that couples stood out a little more easily. It was during math when Meilin spaced out and the teacher rapped on the desk.
"Meiling, what is the answer?"
"Um...It's..."
Meilin flipped through the pages of her book when a whisper caught her attention.
"Three hundred forty seven."
Meilin answered the question correctly thanks to her helper. Since then, they stuck together and eventually got to the point where they really liked each other. Meilin smiled at the moon and closed her eyes from the memories when a distant and soothing melody caught her attention.
---
Come to the garden of magic
Come hear the fountains of life
Come hear my song of enchantment
Little tiger, come here to me.
---
Meilin didn't think that such a voice existed other than Tomoyo's, but surely she was asleep by now, wasn't she? Meilin looked at the clock. Seijin had already been gone fifteen minutes. Something was awfully wrong. Meilin got up to see what was going on when she heard something shatter.
'Seijin!'
Meilin jumped up out of her room to find water and glass pieces littered on the floor. Seijin stood in the hallway, completely intoxicated by the melody and brough into a trance.
"Seijin?"
There was no reply. By this time, everyone from her room woke up and ran outside to see what was going on.
"Meilin-chan? What's going on?"
Meilin took a step closer when she felt something move from the shadows. Meilin whirled around to see what may have happened when she heard a muffled shout.
"Run, Mei-mph!"
Meilin whirled around. The spot where Seijin once stood was empty. Meilin's eyes widened as she collapsed on the floor where her beloved once stood.
"Meilin!"
Sakura and the others gathered around Meilin to see if she was all right when they heard another voice calling out in the darkness.
"The raven is next."
A/N: O.O I actually updated...That's a surprise. Okay, so I got back into the mood of the series again. It took me a while alrighty. Well, I hope it's going to be easy from now on. Yes, I do realize it's a cliffy. Gomen, but I needed to do that. Who is the raven? I dunno. I haven't decided yet. ^^;; Oh well. I'll get there eventually. Until then, Ja ne.
A/N: Yep...I haven't updated in forver because I thought I was going to give up on this series. Then, I thought, Oh well, why not. Just get it over with so, here it is.
Disclaimer - Do I really have to do this every time? *sigh* I do not own CCS because I'm not a genious writer unlike CLAMP. Yeah...okay, anyways...
Mystery of the Haunted Cabin
Chapter 5
Previously:
After the judges passed out the medals to Tayori, Meilin, and Sapiyona, and Sakura was given a cheerleader teddy bear with the area's logo on it for being the best cheerleader there, they all walked back to their cabin for their party. Unfortunately, there was a spy who kept her eye on them.
'I don't get it. They lost, but they're still happy? That's impossible!'
"Tayori" left the skiing area as she became more and more... transparent.
*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*
"Wee! Oh look at them go! They look like they're flying!!"
Sakura squealed with delight as the others excluding Seijin eyed her in disbelief and shook their heads. Seijin was in the kitchen.
"Sakura, you just watched it happen. Why are you so excited?"
"Well, actually, Meilin, I didn't get to see most of it. Ooh! They fell! That's gotta hurt."
"What to you mean?"
"Well, after my cheer and a little while after the beginning of the race, I felt a weird presence coming from somewhere. I used the time card to try to find out what was going on, but I couldn't find anything so I asked Li-kun to help me."
*~*
Flashback
"I don't get it. I know I felt something strange."
"Sakura, just what exactly did you feel?"
"Somebody was scanning for magic and the scanning censore ricochet off the wall behind me. It hit Tomoyo and some other people and went into her."
Sakura pointed at Tayori. Syaoran tried to inspect her, but he knew that Sakura was going to be low on her energy. Syaoran used his magic to put a protective shield around her and made it so that if Tayori used magic, it would bounce back on her.
"Sakura, this bounce back spell will only last a day. We'd better keep an eye on her. Tomoyo's probably recording this so try to watch for anything suspiscious."
Syaoran walked back to his seat and Sakura let go of time while she sat down to rest.
End of Flashback
*~*
"Well, we'd better do what Li-kun said then."
By now, everyone was staring intentively at the t.v., and when he came out with the food, it was Sejin's turn to raise an eyebrow.
"I was positive that I saw this before."
All eyes turned to each other and everyone seemed to be at a loss for words.
"Wait! Tomoyo, rewind that part!"
"Okay. Sheesh! Syaoran, you are so impatient."
Tomoyo rewinded the part right before they crossed the finish line and set it on the slow motion mode. Slowly and gradually, Tayori and Meilin came to the finish line when a glare blocked up half of the screen.
"There!"
Sakura screamed out while pointing to Tayori who seemed to have a green hue glowing from her.
"She was using ma..."
Syaoran quickly covered her mouth with his hands, making Sakura realize what she was about to say and making her tint at the same time.
"Did you say something, Sakura-chan?"
"mmhmmmphmmmnmmm..."
"Pardon? I'm sorry. I couldn't hear you talking with Li's hands over your mouth."
Syaoran quickly pulled his hands away.
"Oh, sssorry Sssakura-san!"
"It's okay, Li-kun, but what's with all the s' sounds? You didn't turn into a snake, did you?"
Normally, Syaoran would be furious if someone called him that, but because it was his crush and 1st in his heart who said that, he started blushing instead. Meilin raised a eyebrow and sighed.
"See, that's what happens when you like someone."
"Does that come from personal experience?"
Sejin teased Meilin as she just shook her head. Normally, she would start yelling at the top of her lungs, but Sejin was no ordinary guy to her. Meilin faced the crowd and shrugged with a smile.
"See what I mean?"
The comments instantly sent Sejin and Syaoran blushing. Now the rest of the group was giving them the weirdo treatment.
"Hoe? I think this raising an eyebrow thing is contagious."
*~*
'So Tayori has magic of some sort and tried to use it, but why? Especially when she was in the middle of a race. Was she trying to slow someone down and had it bounce back on her?'
New thoughts, new questions, new answers kept on flooding Syaoran's mind. He couldn't figure it out. What was going on? Just then, the door opened, sharpely yanking him out of his current thoughts.
"Li-kun? What's wrong?"
"Oh, Sakura-san. It's just you."
"Is there something the matter?"
Syaoran felt the blood rush to his cheeks as Sakura sat down next to him on the bed. He was just fixing up a few springs and making sure the desk was in order when Sakura had come in.
"N-no."
"Li-kun, who do you think is the one who is killing all these people and threatening us?"
"I don't know, Sakura-san. I just don't know."
"Can you clue me in?"
"Well..."
Syaoran peeked around the room. It wasn't necessarily the safest place to have a discussion so Syaoran led Sakura down to the main hallway in the cafeteria where it was too noisy for their discussion to be heard.
"The ring that the old woman had is the same one that Seijin had, but Tayori was a girl. She had magic that could have done something. Which one is which? Even with that solved, when we put the bounce back spell on her, she wasn't affected by her own magic. It was like it just went right through her."
"Maybe it did."
"Huh?"
Sakura looked at her watch. Their shift was over. Sakura dragged Syaoran back to their cabins and popped the video in again. They watched closely when they noticed that the magic really did go through Tayori and hit someone else. That was the last skiier who had fallen before the final stretch between Meilin and Tayori in the end.
"It's almost like she's a ghost," Syaoran pondered aloud.
"Wahhhh!"
"What! What?"
Sakura trembled near Syaoran. Syaoran was confused. Was it something he said that made her scared? A few seconds later, Syaoran nearly slapped himself.
"I'm sorry, Sakura-san. I forgot you were afraid of ghosts."
"It's okay, Li-kun. I just got a little jumpy since that dagger incident."
Syaoran and Sakura both sighed at the same time. Syaoran took a quick look at his watch before getting up off of the floor. It was nearly dinner time, and the gang decided to eat out before heading their respective ways.
"Come on. The others will be waiting for us."
Sakura nodded and followed.
*~*
"They're still happy! They're still happy? How could they be!"
A loud crash was heard in the darkness of a corridor. It was much too dark to see who was there. The figure looked roughly at a medium height, but the voice was so eerie and had a double tone, making it impossible to determine whether it was a male or female.
"Tonight. Tonight is when it begins."
*~*
"Goodnight, Sakura-chan."
"Oyasumi, Tomoyo-chan. Goodnight, Li-kun, goodnight, Meilin-chan, goodnight, Seijin-chan, 'night, kero-chan."
"Goodnight, everyone."
"Same here."
"Me too."
"Me three."
A sigh came out in unison from the group as they all turned over in one direction or another to go to sleep. Sakura immediately fell asleep. Tomoyo drifted off a little later. A few minutes later, the snoring of a certain Kero was heard coming from the drawers. Syaoran covered his ears.
"Baka stuffed animal," Syaoran grumbled before turning over and going to sleep.
Meilin and Seijin smiled at each other when they discovered that they were both awake.
"Can't sleep either?" Seijin whispered.
Meilin nodded at his remark and sighed. The moon was shining brightly on the matresses they were sleeping on. A few moments slipped past when Seijin got up and headed toward the door. Meilin shifted when she saw him move.
"Where are you going?"
"I'll get us a glass of water. Maybe it will help us fall asleep."
Seijin smiled back at Meilin and turned the doorknob. Meilin turned her gaze back to the moon when the door closed with a light clunk. Meilin sighed happily. It was hard getting over Syaoran in the beginning, but when she noticed it was only attachment and not love, she started getting over it. Then, she would walk around campus to notice that couples stood out a little more easily. It was during math when Meilin spaced out and the teacher rapped on the desk.
"Meiling, what is the answer?"
"Um...It's..."
Meilin flipped through the pages of her book when a whisper caught her attention.
"Three hundred forty seven."
Meilin answered the question correctly thanks to her helper. Since then, they stuck together and eventually got to the point where they really liked each other. Meilin smiled at the moon and closed her eyes from the memories when a distant and soothing melody caught her attention.
---
Come to the garden of magic
Come hear the fountains of life
Come hear my song of enchantment
Little tiger, come here to me.
---
Meilin didn't think that such a voice existed other than Tomoyo's, but surely she was asleep by now, wasn't she? Meilin looked at the clock. Seijin had already been gone fifteen minutes. Something was awfully wrong. Meilin got up to see what was going on when she heard something shatter.
'Seijin!'
Meilin jumped up out of her room to find water and glass pieces littered on the floor. Seijin stood in the hallway, completely intoxicated by the melody and brough into a trance.
"Seijin?"
There was no reply. By this time, everyone from her room woke up and ran outside to see what was going on.
"Meilin-chan? What's going on?"
Meilin took a step closer when she felt something move from the shadows. Meilin whirled around to see what may have happened when she heard a muffled shout.
"Run, Mei-mph!"
Meilin whirled around. The spot where Seijin once stood was empty. Meilin's eyes widened as she collapsed on the floor where her beloved once stood.
"Meilin!"
Sakura and the others gathered around Meilin to see if she was all right when they heard another voice calling out in the darkness.
"The raven is next."
A/N: O.O I actually updated...That's a surprise. Okay, so I got back into the mood of the series again. It took me a while alrighty. Well, I hope it's going to be easy from now on. Yes, I do realize it's a cliffy. Gomen, but I needed to do that. Who is the raven? I dunno. I haven't decided yet. ^^;; Oh well. I'll get there eventually. Until then, Ja ne.