A New Clue, Another Abduction
By: silver gem yuki
At the soccer field, the boys were practicing as hard as ever.
"I need a break!" Ishizaki complained.
"I think he's right…" Teppei said, totally agreeing to Monkey Boy.
"We have to cancel today's training!" Mr. Katagiri exclaimed.
"Does my ear serve me right…?" Ishizaki said and leaned in closer to the coaches.
Eavesdropper.
The coaches gathered the players around.
"We'll have to cancel today's training. After Japan's four best players disappeared, the Japanese Embassy decided we take this matter seriously. You may do whatever you like as of today, but tomorrow we'll be training double!" Mikami shouted.
The players cheered and hooted.
"Now, off you go! We still have to set out." Katagiri said.
The trainers decided to help fix the boy's mess.
"Eww…it's not everyday that I clean boy's clothes in Beverly High…especially if it's dripping with sweat!" Sam nitpicked and held out a dirty shirt all wet with sweat courtesy of Ishizaki.
"Well, we better start at least try to get used to it." Yuki said as she scrubbed of the dirt off one of the shirts.
"Hey, girls. Mind a few more clothes?" Ken asked from out of nowhere as he handed out his shirt and pants.
"It's all right, I guess." Yuki said and accepted the clothes.
"Thanks. Oh, and Sam! I think one of the cheerleaders -Clover, was it not?- was finding you." Ken said.
"Thanks, Ken. Tell them I'm busy as of now and I'll call them later." Sam said with hearty eyes.
"Ok, bye! Takeshi and Sorimachi are waiting for me inside! Ja ne!" Ken bid goodbye and left the girls to do the laundry.
"Takeshi? You mean the little twerp with the almost bald hair numbered 15 and the other one numbered 21 or 20 or was it 19…?" Sam asked.
"And what's with Ja ne? What does that mean?" Sam asked.
"Ja ne in Japanese means See you." Yuki explained.
"Oh." Sam said.
"Can I wash Ken's clothes?" Sam asked suddenly.
"Sure. Here." Yuki said and handed Sam the said clothes.
"It's a dream come true!" Sam exclaimed.
"Whatever." Yuki said as she sweatdropped.
After hours of tireless scrubbing and washing, they finally finished the laundry.
"Thank God we're done!" Yuki said as she wiped her forehead and hung the last of the clothes.
"Now let's go to Clover and the others." Sam said.
Yuki nodded.
They found the cheerleaders lounging off at the dorm's living room along with the soccer team.
"There you are! We've been waiting for you guys for like, eternity here!" Clover said as she looked up from the magazine she was reading.
"Miyuki decided to cancel off today's training till she thinks of a routine! We can go shopping!" Lina said.
"What!" Yuki and Sam exclaimed.
"What's the matter?" Alex asked.
"We've been slaving away out there doing our jobs while you guys are relaxing out here! Why didn't anyone tell us!" Yuki shouted.
"Gomen…I thought you guys knew!" Riza exclaimed and shook her hands.
"Suiko! Why didn't you inform us?" Yuki exclaimed.
"I was busy helping Krizzie out of her mess…" Suiko replied.
"We wasted very valuable sopping time here…" Sam said.
"We're very sorry…" Riza said.
"Well. We better get going! There's a nearby shopping district here. It's Shizuoka's shopping central." Teppei informed them.
The girls scattered around like mice before finally getting ready.
They rented two buses before heading out to Shizuoka Central, Shizuoka's shopping central. (Making up this part. Don't know if there's such a thing called that.)
Krizzie and Yuki were busy chatting away.
Everyone looked at them.
"What are you guys talking about?" Izawa asked from his seat.
"There's a clothing store our parents own here. We're still thinking if we'll be able to find it here." Yuki replied.
When they got to their destination, Yuki and Krizzie started yet another heated debate.
You could see the dark clouds and thunder surrounding the two as they shared a glaring contest.
Everyone just sweatdropped.
Just when they got onto the second floor did they realize how big the mall was.
"This is a shopper's heaven! How come no one told me about this place?" Clover exclaimed.
"This is just like the mall back in Tokyo!" Yuki exclaimed happily.
"Really!" Lina asked.
"The one with the free entrance tickets!" Suiko exclaimed.
Yuki nodded happily.
And the Mikan girls talked nonstop about this mall and that mall, comparing which one is the best.
When they got to the store recommended by Krizzie and Yuki (with the help of a little debating and argument) they started picking out their garments for the grand party.
The girl spies decided to go with the color of their uniforms.
The boys were in a separate place from the girls.
"Why is it that mom just had to create a boundary for the garments of girls for the clothes of the boys?" Yuki asked.
"Don't ask me! I don't know anything about all this shenanigans…" Krizzie said.
A loud scream was heard from the boy's side.
"What was that?" Suiko exclaimed.
"Time for us to find out." Alex said and ran to the place where the scream came from.
The rest of the spies followed them.
The soccer players were there, lying around.
"The culprit must have done this!" Riza said.
"Anybody missing?" Lina asked.
"Yeah! Jun Misugi and Hikaru Matsuyama were just abducted!" Izawa said.
"Did you guys see what the culprit looked like?" Diana asked.
"Unfortunately, no. It just disappeared out of the window. When we heard Matsuyama and Jun shout, we saw them falling out of the window." Martin replied.
"The strange thing was when we saw them falling out of the window, nobody was there. We just saw a portal open up and swallow them." Teppei informed.
"They were about to get Takeshi, Ken and the Tachibana twins but we were able to pull them out." Hajime said.
"Ok, this is definitely getting weirder by the moment. Who would abduct Japanese soccer geniuses and why?" Sam asked seriously.
"Maybe the other teams have a grudge against the Japan team that's why they're abducting them one by one!" Krizzie concluded.
"Why?" Clover asked, totally confused.
"Don't you know? In the last World Cup, the Japan Team beat the heck out of the European Teams! In the last game against Germany, they decided to give the World Cup title to Japan and Germany since it was a tie!" Yuki said.
"Are you guys that good?" Martin asked.
"Naturally. Duh." Izawa replied sarcastically.
"But which team would be evil enough to do that?" Suiko asked.
"That's what we're about to find out." Clover replied.
"Time to search for clues." Yuki said and roamed around the scene of the crime.
After minutes of endless finding, Clover suddenly blurted out…
"Does this count as a clue!"
She pointed to a strand of hair on the cactus.
"It could belong to anyone." Krizzie said.
"But I was pretty much damn sure that I saw a girl behind there during the abduction." Izawa said as everyone gathered around the cactus.
The soccer players were still lying around.
They probably fainted or something.
"Now, come to think of it, I also saw the same silhouette of a girl back by the dorm, creeping around the time of the paroxysm." Teppei said in a know-it-all voice.
"What kind of silhouette did you see?" Lina asked.
"It was a girl about this tall (raises his arm up to the height same as his) and had elbow-length hair and was wearing a long-sleeved shirt and a skirt up to the mid-thighs. She was about in her thirties." Hajime said as he described as best as he could the culprit.
"Do you have, like, a photographic memory?" Riza asked.
"I don't think so…" Hajime replied.
"No time to worry about that. Scan it through the compowder." Martin urged.
"Ok, ok…whatever." Clover said at the very impatient Martin as she removed the hair from the cactus and placed it on her compowder.
Suddenly, Izawa's wallet-style compowder rang.
Izawa answered it and there appeared Jerry.
"Hello, spies! How's the mission going?" Jerry greeted casually.
"Not good so far. 2 more got abducted." Izawa informed.
"Oh, my…" Jerry said in a concerned tone. "Anyway, I just called to inform you another discovery we've found: Yumiko Kamino was dead about a few months ago. They were experimenting on different things to try and revive Kamino Industries."
"Just one question: Why do they try to keep on reviving Kamino Industries?" Krizzie asked.
"Kamino Industries is a long-running business in the family line of the Kaminoes. They treasure it very much. When the tradition is broken, a curse was anointed on the last Kamino family member who took charge of the Industry." Jerry replied.
"So they were trying hard to revive the Kamino Industries because it's a part of the Kamino tradition? Interesting…" Suiko said as she closed her eyes.
Clover's investigation finished.
"The hair's from Yumiko Kamino." Clover declared.
"You sure?" Sam asked.
Clover nodded.
"Gotta go! Catch you some other time spies." Jerry said and disappeared.
Izawa folded his wallet and returned it to his back pocket.
"So are you saying that Yumiko was back from the dead to get revenge?" Lina asked.
"I believe so." Diana replied.
"But I'm sure I've heard about Kamino Industries before…Yeah! That's right! Kamino Industries! They're the ones who create uniforms for different sports clubs and support them all the way!" Yuki said enthusiastically.
"Why didn't you tell us these before!" Riza said.
"Gomen…it took me a while to remember that…" Yuki replied.
"Apparently, they haven't heard of the success of the Japanese Soccer Team, that's why they don't support them. I've once been on the Japanese Volleyball Team and boy! Do they support them a lot!" Yuki said in a thinking position.
A moment of silence.
"I'll run on about Yumiko Kamino on the Legendex." Martin said and opened his U-watch.
A little screen appeared from it and he pressed some buttons on the screen.
He scanned the little screen.
"Apparently, this curse that they run on the Kamino family is that once the Kamino Industries had failed to function properly, the elder spirits of the family puts a curse on the last one who ran the business. They turn them into…" Martin said but stopped.
Everyone was anxious.
"…Bloodthirsty vampires that hunt down the players of the best team in Japan." Martin finished.
Everyone was horror-stricken.
"What a weird curse…" Suiko said.
"What's worse…" Yuki started.
"Those who just got kidnapped may have been turned into vampires as well!" Krizzie finished.
"Apparently, they don't start the ceremony until all the players on the team are present." Martin said.
"So, we just have to keep an eye on these players and they'll be safe as long as they're not abducted by a bloodthirsty vampire." Lina said.
"That also means that…" Krizzie started.
She looked at Izawa, Teppei and Hajime.
Everyone else followed her gaze.
"You guys can be abducted too." She finished.
Chapter 7 ends here! I'm very sorry for the long delay! I'm thinking of deleting this but then replacing it. But I just continued it anyway. Please review! I first placed this on the Totally Spies section but decided to place it here instead. Please review! And to all those who reviewed, thank you! It's been very inspiring!