A/N: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF YU GI OH 5DS OR THE VANISHING OF ETHAN CARTER! ALL RIGHTS GO TO KONAMI AND THE ASTRONAUTS!
Chapter 6: The Red House
They stopped outside the strange house and Paul looked at the red house on a hill directly across from the other side of the dam. "Let's try going in that house," he suggested.
"You're the professional detective," Crow agreed and the others followed.
They walked over to it and they entered it. Strangely enough, they were now in the house they reconstructed before in the other house. It was like the two houses' interiors had swapped before. It surprised them, but Paul stayed his focused self.
They turned to a dresser with a lamp on it to see a picture of a family sitting there. They looked at it to show an entire family standing in the picture, including a young Yusei. Yusei wasn't smiling, but didn't seem that upset. The old man, Ed, seemed a bit grouchy and it was hard to see the eyes. One they recognized as Travis seemed somewhat like Yusei. The only woman there, no doubt the adoptive mother, seemed tense. The appearing to be husband of the woman seemed worried. And then the man on the far right seemed angry.
Paul flipped over the picture and they found something written on the back:
On the day the photo was taken…
Chad was mean
Dale was sad
Missy was mad
Travis was loud
Ed was quiet
"What does that mean?" Luna wondered.
"I'm not entirely sure," Paul answered.
They walked down the hall and into the dining room. They then heard a voice that sounded like a woman, "You need to talk to your son. He was poking around the old Vandergriff house again. Said he found some 'secret room'."
A man's voice, seeming a bit uncertain responded, "Oh, really? Okay, I will go talk to him."
"By 'son', do they mean Yusei?" Crow asked.
"It would stand to reason so. Even if Yusei was adopted, they were still his parents," Paul reasoned.
"That is true," Akiza agreed.
They turned back and went to the foyer to the right of the entrance. After they entered, the foyer, they went to the room on the first left.
The woman's voice rang out again, this time seeming angry, "What did you do? What did you wake up?"
"Nothing! I found a room. I walked into it. That's it!" the young version of Yusei replied. It went silent again.
They walked out of that room and went to the small room that the foyer continued to. A voice rang out again, seeming the same as the one yelling at Yusei about his stories before, "You can feel it, right? Something - Something coming from the Vandergriff house."
The female's voice responded, "I can feel it. Yusei disturbed the sleeper. He must be punished."
"Were they part of some cult or something?" Jack asked as they left that room.
"It would seem so. But what is this 'sleeper'?" Paul wondered.
"We'll find out, I guess," Luna replied. The detective nodded.
They walked upstairs and immediately turned to the room to the left. Suddenly, they heard a voice that seemed to be from the male from before, the father, "Pop, they're getting worse. They keep talking about this thing, this 'sleeper'."
"I know," Ed's voice responded. "What I don't know is if it's real or not." Then more silence.
They walked through the long hallway and into another dining room, by appearance. Travis' voice then spoke, "You have to help us. It's the only way. It wants Yusei."
"You're crazy. You've all gone crazy," the father responded.
"Is it possible the sleeper took Yusei?" Leo asked worried. "I mean, if it wanted him…"
"I do not believe so," Paul responded. "This all happened when he was about eleven. If that's so, it's waited too long to take him than what would be reasonable. So it wouldn't make sense."
"Then again, none of this 'sleeper' business makes any sense," Jack commented.
"I suppose. Until we know more we must keep our options open," Paul told them. "By the end of this, we'll know what happened to Yusei and his family, I'm sure."
They walked up to the attic and into the upper room. When they entered, they heard the sound of crying and Yusei's young voice stating through it, "It's not my fault! I didn't mean for any of this to happen!" Then silence once again.
They slowly walked out, having been to every room in the building. There were no other voices or clues to be found, either.
"So where now?" Crow asked as they headed towards the forest.
"Before I came to you guys, I had looked through everything I could find on Yusei while he was here. One thing I know is he had a small hideout in the forest. We should try to locate that to see if there is anything there," Paul suggested.
"Sounds like a good enough plan than anything else," Leo agreed. They headed that way, going off path.
I'm sorry this is a bit short. It's not too bad at 855 words, but it's still short to me. So sorry about that. I don't like making short chapters. Many of the readers who have read my other stories know this already.
Anyway, see you in the next chapter, guys!
-bricann