Upstairs and the Three Sons
Once they reached the house again, Syaoran climbed up the stairs and sat at the top.
"Hope. What exactly are we dealing with?" He asked.
"A man, who really was a demon, possessing his wife's spirit, or looks like it. And she, and the three sons, can't leave here till the demon is gone." Hope said.
"All that from a book? Man."
"Just guessing from everything else happening. But..this picture, I'm going to say, it wasn't always like this." Hope said.
"Are you sure?" Syaoran asked.
"In that room, the secret room, there were all those candles and books. This one included. It talks about curses and magics of the dark ages. This house has been cursed to the demon for a long time. If the husband, wasn't originally a demon spirit, they bought the house and he came with it. And he...possessed the husband as soon as the deal was made official." Hope explained to Syaoran.
Syaoran sighs. "Well, how do we do that? Help send them off to the great beyond?" He asked.
Hope didn't answer. She looked through the book hoping for something that would explain what they needed to do, but it didn't. It was only how to free the mother from the demon.
"I'm going to check out these bedrooms. You do still want stuff for your museum right?" Syaoran asked.
"You get the parents, I'll take on the boys room." She said.
Syaoran went into the parents room and Hope slowly made her way into the boys rooms.
The older boy, looked to have loved the color blue. He also had many pictures of a lighthouse with the family.
Hope looked closer at the picture to see, their mother wasn't in them. So, maybe the father used these other places. But..if they are public, someone would have found the bodies of children quickly.
So, what happened to them?
Checking the other room, one side was green and the other was more red colored. The red side of the room had huge billboards all over it with pictures of space, the planets, stars, and science reports. From possibly grade school? No way.
If this was back in Clow Reeds time, pictures should be the only thing here. So, why was there other things here? Unless...the family lived a lot longer past Clow Reed's disappearance.
Then there was a picture of an..star gazing building. Hope normally would know things but today her brain has been fried basically. Seeing that the other boy, the second eldest maybe, was standing in front of the building, it had to have been out in the public then.
Checking the green side, it was a picture of the greenhouse. And looking closer to the picture on the bedside table..."A girl?"
So the youngest, possibly, was a girl. And she loved the greenhouse.
"Wait. That's the same gh-" Hope saw a connection going on. "Syaoran!" She yelled for him.
Syaoran meanwhile, is looking through the parents room.
Seeing their family photos ad their couple ones too.
"She was pretty." He said seeing the wife in her white wedding dress.
The husband didn't look much of a looker, but that was just Syaoran. He walked around and there was a desk.
"Bingo." He sat in the chair and looked through the documents that were out in front of him before moving on to the drawers.
There wasn't much. Just birth records and plans of money and trips.
"Lighthouse, Observatory, Green- Wait. Greenhouse?" Syaoran checked and these were blueprints for building all these things. "Basement? Extra room?" Everything looked more resent then in the far past.
"Somethings off." Sure Clow Reed split himself and his two current sides live in the present time, but Clow Reed lived for many years. And that was a long time ago. There shouldn't be anyway that all of this should be here or done.
Then Syaoran found the most interesting thing, a map. "There's the house...the greenhouse...What are these other two places?" He asked himself.
Then he heard Hope. "Syaoran!" She yelled.
He took the map and blueprints and took off to find her.
Hope went down the stairs and back outside.
"Hope? What's wrong Another ghost?" He asked.
"No. But I think I know who that ghost was." She said. She showed him the picture. "The family, had a daughter. He side of the room is green, and she's inside the greenhouse in this other picture." Hope showed him everything she found. And he knew what needed to be done.
"I found something to. The dad, BUILT everything. The greenhouse. This observatory. And this lighthouse. He must have built them for his children. I don't think the dad was possessed. It think, the demon..took over the wife."
Hope looked confused. "How so?" She asked.
"I don't know. But check these dates." He showed her the blueprints.
"These...are years later." Hope said.
"I think daddy, was building these in memory of his children. He is still alive." Syaoran said.
It started making sense, but Hope wanted to talk to the ghost to make sure. "I'm still going back to the greenhouse." She said.
Syaoran didn't stop her. He followed along behind her cause Grace and Sora wouldn't be the only girls he'd have to worry about.
But in the forest, they were being watched. Dark yellow eyes slowly turn red watching them making their way to the greenhouse once again.
This knew it had to work hard to get rid of them. The first scare didn't get them to leave. But if this second time didn't work, there's just no choice.
There was no way it's plans were getting ruined by some teenager and kid.
"I will have no choice. I'm NOT GOING BACK TO THAT PLACE EVER AGAIN!"