Chapter II
In the middle of the black, Ryoma was walking and walking alone to get to somewhere, but there was nothing, only the black void. Starting to become desperate, he began running and after a while Ryoma finally saw something "The school" the boy said breathing hard because of running.
It was weird enough he got to the school from the back side of it. "Nyaa Nya" he turned around "Karupin!"... The little cat was only sitting in front of its master... "What are you doing here?" Ryoma was so glad to see a familiar face, he smiled at his cat with light tears and put his arms around his beloved Karupin. While he was carrying his little animal friend, Ryoma reached finally the school building, where he saw suddenly how the ichinen passed in front of him running, but they quickly disappeared in the dark.
"Uhh" he started to walk toward the school and when he was close enough, Ryoma heard two screams. Karupin in his arms scratched his way out of them "Aw! Karupin!" But the cat was suddenly nowhere. With bloodied arms, the boy ran to the school principal door and saw there Kaidou and Momo, with "KARUPIN?!" How was that possible, Karupin ran in another direction... so how he could be there? By his senpais side?
Trying to stop his bleeding arms, he stumbled in front of Kaidou and Momo... "ECHIZEN!" Momo shouted surprised. - While he was lying on the ground, Ryoma was watching at Karupin on Kaidou's legs... The expression on the cat face was racked with pain and anger. After hearing bone cracking sounds multiple times, because Karupin bit in his hand, Kaidou pushed the cat intuitively away.
"Echizen?! What happened to you?!" Momo asked with worried voice. "My arm... i-it is ..." Ryoma tried to answer, but Momo interrupted him. "What's with your arm? I can't see anything" - To Momo It seemed like...Normal. He couldn't see anything. However Kaidou went pale at the first glance of the blood
"E-Echizen... What happened to your arms?!" Kaidou almost screamed, after pushing Karupin away "What? You can see something? The irritated Momo asked... "I found Karupin and he scratched me" Ryoma said while getting a better look of the damage "But he ran in another direction" ...Then they heard a bone creaking sound again, when they turned around... It wasn't Karupin anymore... It was... It was a huge... 30 foot high monster?! A chimera... a mix of cat, and some other animals, with the result, that the little cute kitten Karupin looked like a ravenous prison dog. Out of his mouth fresh blood dropped down to the ground... Kaidou had an uneasy feeling around his stomach region... The blood he saw was the one of his left hand... The leg shaking boy startled up, he began to shout - Momo turns his head to his classmates direction.
"Why are you shouting that loud Mamushi?! You can't be frightened by a cat, you can't!" Kaidou stared at Momoshiro while he was pointing a finger at the monster: "A-A-a-aRE YOU BLIND YOU IDIOT?!"
"BLIND!? What did you mean?... Oi.. Kaidoh... where are you going?! Ah! Echizen, you too?!" Momo followed them quickly... Both of them had a horrified face "MOMOSHIRO B-bAKA! Can't you see THAT!?" Kaidou screamed while running... Momo looked back and he only saw "Karupin" following them "What? The cat? Guy's, you can't be afraid of a cat! You can't!" But they kept running and running... It seemed like they could never got back to the school - THUD... Kaidou and Momo stopped and looked back... Ryoma was lying on the floor quite suddenly and the Cat (-Monster) was getting close...
"ECHIZEN!" Kaidou shouted panicky... "Jeez... Bit by bit I begin to believe you really saw a huge monster cat..." Momo sighed deeply. "Yosh! I will rescue him! So you little coward can find a good hideout!" Kaidou gazed at his rival wide-eyed. "Coward...?!" he muttered but kept running. "Go out of MY WAY, MAMUSHI! You can't save a PRINCESS, if you're scared, you can't right?!"
Momo ran back to his fallen friend 'Karupin' was already quite close to them, so he lifted Ryoma quickly and ran back to Kaidou... they were running and this time the got it inside the school building... But at the same time the ichinen-trio entered too. All were shocked (except Momoshiro) because of what they just saw. They seated on the ground and... "WHAAA?! The false Kaidou-senpai followed us?!" Horio screamed and got up with a jump.
"The false Kaidou? So he really exist?!" The real one got an attack of sweating by hearing the ichinen's story. "Don't fool me! This isn't possible! - Calm down, Calm down!" The frightened boy with the bandana repeated that sentence a few times to get his 'cool' back, but it didn't really helped... Because the Monster cat or what it was, was waiting in front of the building for its lunch... the delicious 6 Seishun Gakuen students...
Ryoma was sitting with his back to a wall... He checked his arms over 10 times...and even he could swear 5 minutes ago, that it hurts... the pain disappeared.
The only evidence that something was happened was the blood on his T-shirt... All the others were talking, distracted about the Monster cat was walking away from the building "Sooo! You could be the false Kaidou?!" Yelled Momo pointing his finger to his rival. "I'm not the false! Baka! Do you want to fight again!?" yelled the bandana-boy back. It looked like a typical Momo-Kaidou fight... Until... the whole building trembled. It was the Monster cat that was charging against the door! ... To break it... And then...
It was almost 6 o'clock. Kikumaru wondered where Echizen and Momo were. Like every Tuesday they wanted to visit the Burger restaurant, this time, Momo wanted to treat them both a meal, but Eiji's friends weren't coming to the school gate... So Kikumaru decided to walk back to the boy's changing room... While the boy was passing the main entrance, he heard a quiet sound from the door. When the Senpai wanted to open the door, Oishi who came from a meeting with Tezuka wanted to call for him for going together to their favorite container...
Kikumaru sharp ears picked up a faint sound again. "Wait! Did you hear that? Nya" The cat boy asked his friend, while starting to walk with him to the exit. "What?" asked Oishi... "Fhuuu!" After hearing the sound a third time, Kikumaru walked back to the main door of the school again... Oishi followed him "Eiji! What did you hear?!"The boy asked worried... Running behind his... "I hear a loud BUM...Nya!" Then the cat boy entered the school... And disappeared in front of his Doubles partner shocked eyes..."Eiji?!"
The door was almost broken... and in the last blow something got inside... But they were prepared!
Kaidou, even his legs were shivering, hold an old broom in his injured hands. Ryoma and the other ichinens were armed with some pans and other kitchenware. Momo used a rusty bucket as helmet (especially to protect his hairstyle) and a huge ruler from the first classroom at this corridor... When the door was broken away, the 6 frightened tennis club members started attacking the 'Thing' which entered the school...
Eiji got inside the school and was suddenly on the floor "WHAAAAA!" ... The 6 scared boys started hitting the 'Thing' with their eyes closed until... "STOOOOOP NYAAAAAA!"
... Nya? all of them thought about it and stopped their movements. "Eiji-senpai!?" Said Momo wide eyes " How did YOU get here!?" Momo asked surprised...
Just a moment later, Kikumaru was putting a cooling bag on his head... "Nya~ it hurts..." he sulked."Why did you hit my head ~nya? And why are you guys acting that weird? ... my poor head ~nya..." Eiji sighed while he was looking at this incredulously friends. "Kikumaru-senpai, I'm really really sorry!" Kaidou apologized immediately.
"We are really really sorry too!" Momo excused with a long bow... Pushing his 4 kouhais to do the same. "But! it is really a shock Senpai! A big shock! How did you get here!?" the boy questioned standing again.
"What do mean? Nya... I just entered the school.. Nya~" Eiji face got a confused expression. "Just look outside Senpai!" Ryoma pointed his finger to the window "There is nothing here..."
"Huh? Nya-thing?!" Eiji walked slowly to the window Ryoma was pointing at... It was true... There was only ground. Within a radius of 30 meters... after it was only the black void. "NYANTE?! WHAT HAPPENED?! How is THAT possible nya~?!" after the catboy was shouting in panic he thought of "OISHI! He was behind me! He must be here to! I know he will find a logical explanation for this nya~...!"
Without wanting to destroy his Senpais dream, Momoshiro noticed "Ano... Oishi- senpai didn't enter the main entrance after you..."
"... Only you came here" the boy continued. "Impossible Nya~! He was close behind me!" Eiji disagreed. "Then... Oishi-senpai saw Eiji-senpai disappearing?" Ryoma mentioned. "Ah! That have to be good!" Horio thought.
"They will know something weird happened!" Katsuo finished Horios thought..."What shall we do now? Nya~" Kikumaru questioned the others... and then he remembered of the events...
The events of the past, when he was an ichinen himself...
"T-t-the 7 Mysteries of S-s-seishun Gakuen...NYAAAA?!" Eiji seemed to become insane bit by bit... "KIKUMARU-SENPAI CALM DOWN! CALM DOWN!" When Momo tried to reassure his friend, the ichinen heard again a melody, played by a piano... "T-t-t-t-that is the piano again!" Horio shouted accidently.. "P-P-P-PIANO... NYAA~?!" Hearing that word gave Kikumaru the creeps. The moment he turned his head carefully around... the green smoke appeared... "W-W-W-W—WHAT IS T-T-THA-" 'Cause of is fear, the scared boy wasn't able to finish his sentence. After the other members noticed Kaidou stammering, they also turned around and...
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