What a weird hotel

The darkness was overwhelming, but it did not distinguish his strong determination to save his master. Even though he was blindly fumbling around in this deep dark and cold column, his body was not flooded with fear like a normal person. The darkness only prompted him to think one thought.

Mitzuke would be terrified in this darkness.

It kept him climbing efficiently down the side of the wall, over the pipes, forgetting the slime, forgetting the fact that it had been a rash thought to jump out the elevator. Mori is usually silent, thoughtful and calm. But when a person you hold dear to your heart is threatened, you act very differently.

CRASH

The wall crumbled upon impact with Mori's fist. For the second time that night, his intense feelings gave rise to his new source of superhuman strength. Adrenaline was pumping through his body, and he tore himself through the hole. His intuition was always correct, and this time it was no different. Spot on with where he had punched, Mori had arrived on the second floor of the hotel. The whole floor was covered in darkness. Somehow, the lights had stopped working here. He made his way quickly and steadily down the hallway, eyes alert to anything that would lead him towards Hunny.

Mori stopped suddenly. He stood still, the heavy sound of his footsteps echoing and bounding off the hard white walls. It was that tiny stream of light to his right that had stopped him. Purely because, if Hunny was on this floor, if he had been running away from Tamaki, if he had been caught in this partial-one-floor-blackout, he would have headed towards any form of light. Mori knew better than anyone else, what Hunny's biggest weakness was. Hunny, despite being one of the best fighters in the world, had a phobia to do with darkness.

Mori had noticed how eerie and oppressive the hotel had become. It gave a sense of horror, like any moment he might stumble across a dead body or a monster. Mori shook his head, slightly amused at how he, of all people, was thinking these thoughts, but those thoughts did not go away. Fear always makes people irrational. Mori's intense fear towards Hunny's safety caused him to automatically reach for a broomstick lying casually beside him. It would serve fine as a sword. Mori was a master at kendo, and any horror he would come across, any obstacle, any boogie monsters (of which Hunny was particularly scared of), he would thrash them to death, and save Hunny from them! He was positive that a hundred monsters were just lurking from behind that door, because the light spilling from within that room was an odd out worldly green colour. Besides he could hear a crunching noise, oh yes that was a monster! Mori raised the broomstick high in air, ready to pounce and dashed into the room.

CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH

It was only Hunny; Hunny crouched inside a fridge and happily munching through an enormous piece of cake. But wait! There was more to this //innocent// picture.

"Takashi?" Hunny turned around to gaze at him. The fridge was enormous, it took up the whole kitchen room, and it emitted GREEN light. Hunny's mouth was smeared with GREEN cake crumbs. It wasn't just because of the light, the cake he was eating was actually GREEN. Hunny's eyes were oddly glazed over. "Come have some of this cake…" he sing sang in an abnormally high voice.

"Mitsuke.." Mori made a grab at the cake in his hands, but grabbed Hunny's wrists instead. "What are you eating?" He was struck with fear, because no one, absolutely no one, should ever eat GREEN cake from an unknown fridge, especially if it emitted GREEN light. But Hunny didn't know that. In fact, his other great weakness was that he could be bribed by cake to do anything in the world.

"Eat!" commanded Hunny suddenly, shaking off Mori's grip. His voice whipped Mori to submission. "I command you to eat!"

Mori's head shook from side to side. "No…" The cake! It could contain anything! It had done something terrible to Hunny. And now it was being brought closer and closer to his mouth. Hunny's small iron like fist pushed him to the floor, preventing him from escaping.

"Takashi…" Hunny tilted his head to stare at him with his wide innocent eyes, "You'll like this cake. I promise…"

"Kaoru! We need to get to that same hallway."

"I know," gasped Kaoru. "I don't like this. This whole floor is covered in darkness. And I know Hunny is an expert fighter, but isn't darkness his greatest weakness? Tamaki will chop him to pieces!"

"And Mori," said Hikaru suddenly, "his greatest weakness occurs when Hunny is taken away from him."

"That's true," Kaoru hesitated. "It feels as if this hotel has some sort of presence, like it's going to pick out our weaknesses and destroy us. I've been wondering Hikaru, why Tamaki would ever dream of being an axe murder on his wedding night."

"Maybe it has something to do with this freaky hotel. I mean why, out of all the nice places they could have picked, they had to pick this weird hotel?"

"I don't know. This feels just like a horror movie. I swear if we get separated, the monster will get one of us. Everyone knows that."

"The universal truth huh?" Hikaru chuckled. "Too bad there aren't multiple monsters. It's only one Tamaki rampaging around."

"Wait," Kaoru pointed to their left, "Isn't that the way to the hallway from before?" Hikaru began to run towards it. "There's something glimmering from behind the door."

Hikaru opened the door and ran inside. That was when he realized he could no longer feel his twin besides him. "Kaoru?"

No answer. Fear snaked through his mind. "Kaoru?" he called again, a definite quaver in his voice. He had just been next to him a minute ago! Where was he?

It feels as if this hotel has some sort of presence, like it's going to pick out our weaknesses and destroy us.

Hikaru froze, terrified by his brother's previous words. My greatest weakness is when Kaoru isn't with me!

"KAORU!!!!" he screamed.

I swear if we get separated, the monster will get one of us. Everyone knows that.

Hikaru fumbled at walls for a light switch. I need to see him. He's has to be just a few metres away from me.

"YES!" Light flooded through the room. And that was when he realized…

A HUNDRED Tamaki's were racing towards him, and a HUNDRED axes were spinning in the air!

"ARGHHHHHH!!!!!" Hikaru was horrified.

"Shhh!" It was Kaoru!

"Kaoru!" wept Hikaru, throwing his arms around his twin. Now one problem solved, he had another. But he was okay with that. "Kaoru I'm so glad that if I had to die, if I had to be chopped up into pieces by a hundred Tamaki's, I'll die with you!"

"Hikaru!" hissed Kaoru, "Don't you realize? A hundred Tamaki's would never be possible."

"But-" The one hundred Tamaki were running around blindly, no longer heading straight towards them. In fact, one of them crashed down to the floor, as if it had bashed into a solid wall.

"This room…" murmured Kaoru, "is covered from floor to ceiling with mirrors."

"There's…" Hikaru was astounded. "There's a hundred of us too!" And then he was struck with another problem. "The door! Where is it? It's made of mirror too. Kaoru, we're stuck in this room, with Tamaki! And we have no idea what is what and who is who!" Hikaru, panic racing through his body, lifted his head up and screamed. "WHY DOES THIS STUPID HOTEL HAVE A ROOM COVERED COMPLETELY WITH MIRRORS!"

"Hikaru…" moaned Kaoru.

"At least I'm with the real you!" Hikaru grabbed his twin's hand and held it fast, but not before he saw a red gleam in Kaoru's eyes. His twin was clutching at his heart. Suddenly Kaoru leaned forward and pressed his lips against Hikaru's throat.

"W-What are you doing?!!!" yelled Hikaru, alarmed. A hundred Hikaru yelled. But there were only one hundred images of a Hitachiin, not two hundred. Kaoru had failed to appear on the mirrors.

"Mmmmm…"murmured Kaoru and his lips parted to reveal POINTY teeth.

"H-h-h-h-h…" Hikaru knew one thing. Vampires have pointy teeth, and vampires don't appear in mirrors.

Tamaki had recovered from running into a mirror wall, and now he was heading slowly towards them again. Kaoru's tongue had slipped out of his mouth and Hikaru could feel it rubbing against his neck.

Hikaru had never been more frightened in his life.

"Look," Haruhi said quickly, "Let's think this through. All the others are on the second floor. We have to get there."

"That true," agreed Kyouya. "We'll take the lift. It'll be quicker."

"Ok."

Haruhi and Kyouya ran back into the elevator and pressed the buttons. The elevator lurched downwards. BEEP, the door slid open, and the two rushed out. But there was no one there to greet them. The hallway was silent and empty.

"Where have they run to?" wondered Haruhi.

"Look, there are axe marks on the walls," Kyouya said quietly, examining the slashes and holes.

"We'll have to follow them to find Tamaki. Let's go," Haruhi said determinedly.

"Yes…" Kyouya let himself follow Haruhi. "Haruhi," he suddenly asked, "What led you to book his hotel?"

"Oh I don't know…" she replied vaguely. "Tamaki booked it. He said something about it being a really good private place, and he said that he wanted to show me his bravery because it would be romantic on his wedding night."

"Ah…" Kyouya tapped his glasses, "That would explain his choice. For Tamaki, heroism is romantic."

"What?" snapped Haruhi.

"You know Tamaki is terrified of the supernatural. Well, this hotel is known to be haunted."

"Please Kyouya," Haruhi was exasperated. "Ghosts and stuff like that doesn't exist."

"I don't know about that," replied Kyouya. "But there have been several stories about this hotel."

"Like what?" said Haruhi impatiently.

"A number of years ago, a woman died from eating the food that was served here. The maids had poured poison into the food because they were jealous of her wealth and beauty."

"Did that really happen here?"

"Yes. The thing was, the woman shouldn't have eaten the food because it was dead obvious it had been tampered with."

"How was it obvious?"

"She was served green cake."

"Green?" Haruhi was surprised.

"Yes. And ever since, the kitchen where she died, well there's always been a green light flickering around on some nights, and the sounds of someone eating."

"I don't believe that," said Haruhi in her practical way. She almost walked into Kyouya; for the man has stopped, and he was rigidly staring at something in front of him.

"Then how do you explain this?" he said a quiet voice.

"What?" Haruhi was confused. She peered over his shoulder and saw…

Mori and Hunny. GREEN smeared across their mouths. They were holding GREEN cake and their eyes were oddly blank. "Haruhi, your wedding ring!" Kyouya shouted.

"What?"

Kyouya pulled her hand out, and the light from the silver ring glinted, hitting Hunny and Mori squarely in the face.

Hunny blinked. "I feel so full," he chirped and rubbed his tummy. "Takashi! You've been eating cake too!"

Mori blinked several times and stared at Hunny. He took out a tissue and wiped Hunny's mouth. "Brush your teeth now," he said sternly.

Kyouya sighed. "Back to normal now."

Haruhi was staring at her wedding ring. "This design…"

"Yes, Tamaki told you didn't he?"

"He…" Haruhi said wonderingly, "He said that he would always protect me from the physical world, but he could never protect me from the supernatural world. He said this special cross would protect me from evil spirits. That's why he got this ring for me."

"And you called him an idiot I suppose?" Kyouya said wryly.

"Yeah…"

"Where are Hika-chan and Kao-chan?" Hunny asked, his big brown eyes filled with concern.

"We're here…"hissed two voices.

"AH!" Haruhi was slammed to the wall. Her eyes widened in fear. Kaoru and Hikaru were both staring into her eyes, and their lips parted to reveal pointy teeth!

"Haruhi!" shouted Kyouya, "The ring!"

Bang! She whipped her hands out and the ring gleamed. They dropped her to the ground.

"Since when were vampires part of this hotel?" gasped Haruhi.

"Well…"Kyouya was relieved. "This is Transylvania. Did you ever wonder why Tamaki chose to have his wedding here? The country of the supernatural. Of course, he wanted to show how brave he was when it came to vampires, a subject which he has never been able to get over before."

"Well, we're all united," groaned Hikaru. He rubbed his eyes, "I can't believe me and Kaoru got possessed by vampire spirits."

"And we got possessed by that woman's vengeful spirit," said Hunny brightly, "Though it wasn't too bad, at least I got to eat some cake."

Haruhi opened her mouth to say how she still didn't believe all this, but just when the words formed at her lips, the whole floor shook and crumbled!

"ARGHHHH!!!!!" All six of them fell screaming as the entire second floor vanished.

"Tamaki must have whipped his axe too much!" yelled Hikaru.

"He's technically destroyed this whole floor with his axe!" yelled Kaoru.

"Roll when you fall!!!!" screamed Mori and Hunny.

And so they did. They took that advice. None of them wanted to end up with broken backs and spines at the end of this.

Haruhi rubbed her eyes and squinted through the dust. She had fallen and rolled like mad. She was not hurt. Whew! The first floor was not covered in darkness. And she could see…Tamaki!!!

"Tamaki!" she choked. She loved him, and she couldn't bear to see him half squashed by a broken table. She rushed across the room and threw her arms around him. The ring was glinting in his face, and her love for him had never felt so overwhelming.

Love conquers all.

Apparently not.

"Haruhi!" yelled her six friends. Mori whipped her from Tamaki's arms, because you see Tamaki hadn't woken up. And the axe was still in his hands.

"It didn't work!!!" screamed Haruhi.

Kyouya was looking very grave. "He had to be awake for it to work."

"BUT that doesn't make any sense at all!!!!"

"I'm sorry Haruhi." Kyouya clicked his fingers. "We have no choice."

A hundred men suddenly appeared. Members of Kyouya's secret police force. They encircled Tamaki, and laser guns were in their hands. Poor Tamaki, like an animal twitched as a hundred laser lights focuses on him.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!!" screamed Haruhi. Mori held her fast.

"I'm very sorry Haruhi," repeated Kyouya. "This has to be done. It's the best thing for Tamaki." Kyouya clicked his fingers again. And after that, all they could hear was Haruhi screaming.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"