"There's nobody in the school block" Hotaru exclaimed.
Everyone felt terrified by the statement. They felt like their heart pumps faster than the usual rate. They indeed noticed that no one else but them responded to Sumire's scream.
"HAHAHA.." Mikan burst to laughter.
"You're guys kidding, right? You think that everyone in the school would take serious about her? If me, I would just leave her be cause she was on duty that time, right?" Mikan tried to deny the statement.
"But, you came along too actually" Natsume reminded her. She felt pissed by the answer.
Hotaru came to her and put her hand on her shoulder. " Baka, I know you scared. But do you saw someone else but us and Sumire?"
"Uhhh...well..." Mikan narrow her head and then face up again. She surprised by the face of her friends.
"DON'T YOU GUYS LOOK AT ME LIKE I SAW A GHOST!" Mikan claimed.
"But...yeah, you guys're right. There's no one else. Where could they be?" Mikan accepted the truth.
"Hotaru, what're we going to do?" Mikan asked her.
"Of course, finding out the truth..." Hotaru confidently suggested it which made Mikan awed.
"Hotaru-san, I admitted your attempt but...what's with those net and calculator?" Ruka felt awkward.
"If there's a ghost, this might gave me some fortune" Hotaru answered.
"You're actually don't care about the students, right?" Ruka thought.
The group then launched their attempt to find out the truth. They first planned to try the teachers' room. They probably might find something that would help them solve the mystery.
The door knob turned and the Hyuuga first entered the room.
"Well, this could be a problem" Hyuuga said.
The room was empty. No teachers were in sight. The stuff were also seem untouched. This worried Mikan and the gang. Even the teachers who had more experience with Alice also gone without a trace.
"No one's here. This is weird. Right?" Ruka asked.
"But I bet there must be something worth a look" Hotaru suggested to look all over the place to find potential clues.
"Hotaru-san, supposed you should find something worth a look, not something 'valuable' , right?" Ruka reminded.
"Don't worry, Nogi. There's no one else but us" Hotaru smirked.
"Just as I thought" Ruka felt disbelieved of his friend who was a girl.
Natsume who searches at Mr Narumi's desk found something odd. The drawer at his desk seem emitting light. It came from the tight spot from the drawer which not close tightly. He pulled the drawer and found something.
"Natsume-ku, what's that?" Mikan who happened close by, came and take a look at it.
It's shape like an emerald. It's look beatiful and it looks as clear as a crystal. This caught Hotaru's attention, she quickly took it from Natsume's hand.
"Hey Imai, don't you think there's something with it. It emits strange light and how the hell did Narumi had it in the first place?" Natsume felt strange the situation.
"This doesn't have nothing to do with all of this, right?" Mikan asked.
"I think it might have because not in our life we saw this thing" Ruka expressed his thought. Hotaru was examining the object with her gadget at the time.
"This thing had a strange reading" Hotaru said which caught the rest's attention.
Hotaru claimed that the emerald they discovered had unusual energy reading. She examined it and concluded that this thing was pretty odd to be here. She tought maybe it was for research by the Alice researchers. She felt sure that it must be more of it.
"We need to go to my lab. I can't think of more this than in my research lab calmly" Hotaru said.
Mikan, Natsume and Ruka agreed and decided to go with Hotaru's plan.
They exited the room as they planned to go to the lab for more information. As the moment Mikan's first step on the floor to exit the room, suddenly a strong blow of wind hit her which also flipped her skirt. She prevented the skirt from flipped with her hands.
"What was that?" Mikan said.
"Mikan, where's the emerald?!" Hotaru asked her friend.
"WHAT?! It was in my hand!"
"Actually, I think I know where is it. There..." Natsume pointed a blue figure leaning against the wall in the dark corner with the emerald in its hand.
"So, emerald was in the room after all" the unknown said to them.
"Yeah, so shame you couldn't find it" Natsume told the figure.
"You guys really are sneaky don't you think" the figure said.
"Who do you think are?" Ruka asked the unknown.
"You people should know me..." the figure steps out from the dark. He had blue colored fur and white colored at its chest to his stomach. He had spiky hair pointed to the back and he wears red pair of shoes. "I am Sonic...Sonic the Hedgehog"
To be continue...