Chapter Three: Ominous Situations

We all ran as fast as we could possibly move back to the cabin. We didn't stop to breath until we were sure that we were all safely behind the cabin door. "What was that?" Naruto said gasping for air as he slammed the door closed.

"I don't know what it was," Max said jumping under the covers, "But I don't want to find out at all. Ah man! My hand still works."

"Let's just try to relax here," Ryoma said keeping his cool, "We are now back inside our cabin. I don't think whatever made that sound followed us here, just try to be calm and try to think over what just happened."

"I'll tell you what just happened!" I said, "Something was eating something else alive out there and it all came from the Forbidden Bunk! Something is out there and I don't want to know."

"We got to figure out what happened out there!" Naruto said shaking, "M-Maybe we should go check out the bun-k?"

"Are you nuts?!" Max said as he crawled out from under the covers holding his hands, "I'm interested in finding out what it was as the rest of us are, but I rather not see what that thing was!"

"Come on," Ryoma said, "We should check out the bunk later on… in the daytime of course! We should take a look tomorrow!"

"Y-Yeah," Naruto said nodding, "We'll go check it out tomorrow to see what is up with that thing. Are you two guys with me or not?"

"I'm not going to the Forbidden Bunk," Max said.

"You're right," a voice said, "You're not going to the Forbidden Bunk tomorrow or any other day for that matter. That place is off limits." We all glanced to notice Ichigo entering the cabin. He had a scorn look on his face like he wasn't pleased at all with what we were talking about.

"I'd listen to Takahata if I were you guys," Ichigo said, "He wasn't kidding about not going there. It's a dangerous place to be you know." How long was there for? Was he spying on us?

"Why should we listen to you?" Naruto said with a look, "You haven't been actually a person we want to listen to, you know."

"I'm just warning you to keep you guys safe is all," he said with a look as he walked towards his bed, "I don't want you guys running into Sabre."

"Who's Sabre?" I asked.

"Sabre's more of an it," he said, "He's a legendary hollow that is suppose to walk these woods at night. He supposed to eat your soul along with all of your body as well. He's the most vicious hollow and creature on this planet."

"Y-You're just trying to scare us!" Max said.

"No," he replied flatly, "I'm just trying to keep you alive. That thing will rip your heart out."

We all glanced at each other. We were sure that we heard something out there, but we had doubts on what Ichigo was saying to us. "Fine," he said rolling his eyes, "But if you do want to meet him, just go out one night into the woods and say hello. But before you do that, make sure you leave your home address so we'll know where to send your stuff to."

We didn't get much sleep that night. We all had our eyes wide open and are ears as well. We weren't sure if the creature would be coming towards us that night, but we didn't want to be caught off guard if it would come, but we did manage to drift off to sleep at one point or another.

The next morning, we all got up and changed into some new clothing. We were all still thinking about what had happened last night so we were a bit on edge. We all walked towards the mess hall and found it in a busy state.

Everyone were walking around or chatting when we entered. Kids were all lined up in a single file line that lead straight up to where the chefs were handing out breakfast. We had scrambled eggs which we really slimy and seemed to slide down my throat as soon as I put them into my mouth.

A few people complained about how the breakfast tasted, but I found it ok, but the slimy eggs were a bit much for me to handle. Max mumbled a bit about how his hand still hurt and nothing Ichigo gave seemed to help him. I glanced at his hand and saw that it had really swollen up since last night.

"Maybe you should talk to Takahata about this," I told Max, "I'm sure he has some better medicine than what our counselor had." He nodded in reply and would do it the next time he saw him.

After we all finish breakfast, Ichigo, Shusuke, and another counselor called Jimmy Kudo summoned us all outside. When we got out, they told us about what would be happening today; we were going to be separating into groups of 10 for field activities that day.

As we were being separated, I glanced over at the main building for a second. There I saw a pay phone hanging on the wall of the building. I figured I call my mom to surprise her and tell her about what has happened so for if I got the chance.

I later heard my name being called and found out I was in the same group as the people from my bunk. "Alright everyone," Ichigo said to all of us, "Follow me. You'll be playing softball with me today."

Including 8 other guys besides the people from my bunk and me, we all walked behind Ichigo as he leaded onto a forest trail that brought us out into a makeshift softball field. I ran up to Ichigo, who seemed to be in a hurry as he was walking fast, and asked him, "Are we just playing softball today or will we get to go down to the river to swim like everyone else was?"

"Maybe…" he said sounding like he wasn't too interested in what I was asking him, "But who knows? I'm just reading the schedule sheet Takahata gave me."

Once we reached the center of the field, Ichigo made us divide up into two groups, a red team and a blue team. When he called out Max's name, Max walked up to him and said, "I don't think I can play Ichigo."

"Come on," Ichigo said staring hard at him with a piercing look, "Don't be a baby, you can play. Just suck it up."

"But my hand hurts too much to play!" Max said holding up his hand to show him, "See?! My hand has swollen up!"

He pushed the hand out of his face and Ichigo pointed to a spot under a tree, "Why don't you go sit over there in the shade then?"

"Shouldn't I get some medicine or something for it?" Max said grasping his arm, "The pain has only increased since yesterday!"

"Just go sit over there. We'll talk with Takahata later about your problem." Max nodded and headed over to spot in the shade. Max looked like he was in bad shape. That bite must of did some real damage on him.

Ichigo then turned to look at all of us and said, "Since he won't be playing, I'll take his place."

He blew the whistle and we all head over into our teams. Ichigo and me were on the blue team, and Naruto and Ryoma were on the red team. Blue team was up and red team was out in the field when we first started.

After a while of playing, my team was winning with 12 to 6. Ichigo scored a few good home runs and moved pretty quickly to each base. I did pretty well; I made it to base most of the time and got one of my teammates to home plate as well.

Ryoma wasn't that good of a player though. He said to me the other day that he played tennis, but he didn't seem that good at softball. He was a good hitter, but he wasn't that good at catching and he was tagged out a couple of times.

Though one of the moments that caught my attention about him during the game was that he argued with Ichigo a few times. It wasn't any thing out of the ordinary. You know, just a typical sport argument. Though Ryoma didn't seem like the one to argue, it must be because he seemed like he never played before so he was upset about getting out so many times.

But that wasn't the biggest thing yet to come in the game. It was later during the 6th inning and Ryoma was up to bat. The pitcher on my team through a fast ball, but Ryoma hit it hard into the outfield where I was playing.

As Ryoma ran for 3rd base where Ichigo guarded, I quickly tossed the ball to him. Ryoma slid into the plate just barely before Ichigo caught it though. He gave him a smug smile when he stood up to dust himself off, and Ichigo just returned it was a narrow look and growl.

Naruto then came up to plate and hit a ball into Ichigo's direction. He missed the ball barely and it hit the ground. He picked it up and aimed to tossed the ball directly to first base, but then I saw him grit his teeth and turn around.

He took aim and launched the ball as hard as he could. I gasped and heard a loud thud. In just one second, Ryoma's hat fell to the ground followed by him in a big heap. Ichigo's expression then changed to a shock look as everyone turned to look at him.

"No way!" he said quickly, "It was just an accident! The ball just slipped!"

That was a lie. I saw him purposely aiming directly at Ryoma. I ran quickly to my fallen friend along with everyone else. He just groaned and moaned in pain.

"You ok?" I asked him as we all crowded around him.

"Alright everyone give him some room!" Ichigo said running up and, "Give him some room! Hey, you ok? The ball just slipped! It was an accident. Sorry about that."

Ryoma continued to moan. Ichigo took Ryoma's hat and placed it back on him before lifting him up. "Alright," he said, "We need to get you to the main lodge and check you out.

"Can I come to?" Max said running up holding his hand, "I really need to get my hand checked out!"

"Yeah sure," Ichigo nodded, and then he said to everyone else, "Alright, the softball game is over. Go back to your bunks and get your swim gear. Go meet Shusuke out by the river for swimming, I'll take care this guy."

"At least Max and Ryoma were going to get checked out," I thought with a sigh. I still had a bad feeling though; Ichigo purposely threw that ball to hit Ryoma and knocked him down. There is no way things could get any worse at that point.

"Naruto," I said following behind as we walked back to the cabin, "Ichigo purposely threw that ball to hit Ryoma! I saw him, didn't you?"

"Sorry," he said, "I was too busy trying to get to base, but are you sure he threw that ball to hurt Ryoma? I mean, that guy isn't that nice and all, but are you sure he would really try to hurt us?"

"I know what I saw," I told him, "But I just don't know. I just don't know what to think anymore."

Later that day after we finishing swimming, Naruto and me returned to our cabin to get ready to write to our parents like Takahata had said to. We got back, we found the cabin deserted and empty. None of our bunks mates had returned yet.

I got out a piece of paper and began to write down everything that has happened to me to my mom. I glanced over at Naruto, he wasn't writing anything down yet. Maybe he was going to do it later?

After I finished with my letter, I thought I write another to Misty to tell her how I'm doing. As I began to write, Naruto sighed and said, "No one left besides you and me."

I nodded and said, "I hope Max and Ryoma come back soon. It's kind of dull in here."

Suddenly, the door opened up and Ryoma walked in, with Larry by his side. "Hey man!" Naruto said running up quickly to him, "Are you alright? Your head better?"

"I'm fine," Ryoma said tilting his hat in front of his face, "I had worse incident then this in the past."

"He'll be wobby for a while," Ichigo said holding a stern face, "But other than that, he should be ok."

"Also, my headache I had after that hit is almost gone now," Ryoma said walking back to his bed and collapsing on it, "I'll be just fine."

"Did you see a doctor or something?" I asked him.

"Takahata gave a good look over and gave him some medicine for the headache," Ichigo said, "Takahata said he'll be fine, he might just need to avoid playing any games for a while though. Anyways, did any of guys finish your letters yet? If you did, you can drop them off in the lodge on the way to dinner."

He started to turn away to leave, but I quickly said, "Hey! Where's Max? He is still at the lodge or something?"

"Most likely," he said beginning to walk away, "But then again, who really knows? I got to get moving now, got to set up for dinner."

"Before you go," Naruto said speaking up, "Do you have anything that treats sunburn? I think I got a bit burned while I was swimming."

"No," he said closing the door behind him as he walked out.

When the night began to fall, we all headed for the mess hall for dinner. It was some kind of meat with mash potatoes. It didn't taste good so I didn't eat much of it. Ryoma just poked at his food with a sigh.

We all sat at a corner of the room where the window was opened up. There was a nice breeze that came out of the window as well. During the meal, I noticed Naruto talking with another kid called Sora or something. They seemed to be having a good time.

I then realized I forgot to bring my letter along to send it. I walked back to the cabin just as the sun disappeared behind the trees in a hurry. Once back inside, I grabbed the letter quickly and notice that the whole area outside had now turned to night.

I decided to grab a flashlight to lead me back to the mess hall. I rummage around my bunk for a bit before I decided to check through my drawers. When I opened one up, it was completely empty!

"Hey!" I said to myself in surprise, "Where did all my stuff go?" That's when I realized something. This wasn't my drawer at all. It was Max's.

I pulled open more of his drawers and found there was nothing left in them at all! I even looked over his bed as well. Everything he had brought with him was gone! There was nothing left of his. What happened to him?

I quickly ran back to the mess hall, forgetting all about my letter and flashlight. Once I was in, I quickly glanced around the room and found Ichigo eating with all the other counselors. I ran up to him as he was talking with Shusuke, and said to him, "Ichigo! Max's gone!"

He didn't seem to notice me and continued to talk with the other guy. I was annoyed by this so I grabbed his arm, turned him around, and said to him, "Ichigo, listen to me! Max is gone!"

He only looked at me with a mean look, "Listen you, this table is just for the counselors, why don't you go sit with the rest of your bunk?"

I didn't give up talking to him and said, "But what about Max? Where did he go? All his stuff is gone!"

"I do not know," he said.

"Was he sent home or something?"

"Yeah maybe," Ichigo replied rolling his eyes.

My heart was pounding and I was beginning to sweat. What happened to my friend? Where did he go? "Wait a minute," I said to him, "So you don't know what happened to him? Aren't you suppose to know since he is a part of the same bunk as you?"

"I'm sure he's fine," Ichigo said turning away from me.

"Maybe he went for a swim," a counselor called Kabuto said with a snicker, "Maybe he got attacked by one of those Ursaring or stuff." He, Ichigo, and the rest of the counselors laughed. It was a sick joke.

I returned back to my table to talk to everyone at the table about what just happened. They didn't seem as worried as me. "Don't worry," Ryoma said, "He was just probably sent home because of that snake bite. I wish I could get bit so I could go home."

"Yeah," Sora said, "I got a look at that wound during the ball game, it looked pretty swollen and bad."

"But why wouldn't Ichigo tell us about this?" I asked them.

"Who knows?" Naruto said, "He hasn't been one of the nicest people around since we got here. Probably isn't interesting in talking to us about what happened."

That could be a reason, but I wasn't sure. Nothing was really making much sense since we got here. None of the people in charge around here seemed to care much about what happens to us.

After dinner ended, Takahata spoke to us about the event happening tonight. "I am please to announce our special event for the evening!" he said with a smile, "Tonight is Tent Night! Everyone will be sleeping out in the tents we prepared for tonight!"

A few of us moaned and groaned about how cold it was outside. Takahata hushed us down and said, "No need to be all sore about it, we are only having this event one night. Anyhow, you'll all be able to sleep with other people from different bunks tonight so this maybe a chance you get to make friends with others or not. Anyways, your counselors will take you back to your cabins to pack and lead you all out to the tents after you're all done!"

We all returned to our bunks and got packed. Ichigo lead us out into the field where we will be sleeping and then separated from us after we reached it. The moon came out a bit later after the clouds parted making it a nice and clear night.

After we all settled in our tent, Sora came in and joined us as well. We all talked for a bit and Naruto then said out of the blue, "Well, tonight is the night."

"Huh?" I said confused.

"We decided last night that we would check out the Forbidden Bunk," Naruto said with a nervous look, "You know, to investigate it and check it out. That's why Sora is here with us. He's going to check it out with me."

"No way," Ryoma said shaking his head, "I said we should check it out in the daytime, not at night."

"But this maybe our only time to see the bunk without being watched by the counselors!" Naruto said, "Look, I am just as nervous as you guys are, believe it, but I just want to see what is out there."

"I'm not going to," Ryoma said crawling into his sleeping bag, "And that's it for me."

"Fine," Naruto said to him, and then he turned and looked at me hard in the face, "How about you, Ash? Are you going to come and check it out with Sora and me?"

Author Notice: Nothing to report this time around, but I have a few ideas planned out for a few more parodies. I'll be trying to rewrite a version of Ghost Camp and the Horror of Jellyjam Camp, of course Goosebumps titles. But that is not all! I have recently picked up the second edition version of Uzumaki and have been completely blown away by how amazing this story has been! I'm thinking of doing a parody of it keeping the main storyline and setting, but with just different characters.

In the next chapter, we find out Ash's decision on whether he'll go or not to the Forbidden Bunk. Either way, a few of them will head out to the bunk to see what is all about, but without a price to pay.

Next to Come: Chapter 4: Sabre

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