Chapter III
Oishi was shocked... He stood there for a few seconds wondering how... Eiji just disappeared in front of his very own eyes. With trembling legs he started walking outside. Along the way outside he took his cellphone and called Tezuka.
"Tezuka! Where are you?!" Oishi asked before the Buchou had time to say something.
"I'm in the library... What is so urgent?"
"... I-I'm going there!" and closed the call... When Oishi arrived as fast as he could in the library, Tezuka-Buchou was already waiting for him.
"What happened, Oishi?" While he was asking his friend he noticed that Oishi's face looked a little bit upset. "Eiji! He disappeared! I saw it!" The frantic boy said. "What do you mean?" asked a serious Tezuka "We- We were walking out but he heard a noise... Then we ran back to the school and when he passed the door... he was gone...!"
"Oishi... are you sure -"
"Yes I'm sure! It reminds me of... of... t-there is only one reason how he could disappear..." When Tezuka was listening to his friend, who was shivered with fear, he perked his eyebrows up... "The S-seven..." Even Kunimitsu Tezuka, the boy who doesn't show any kind of feelings often... began stammering. "What we should do now, Tezuka?" Oishi asked desperately... "W-we have to inform the other... Oishi..."
"Yes?"
"Yudan sezu ni Ikou!"
"Usu" Oishi answered uncertainly.
Both of them called the others 3 third year regulars to gather at the library. Meanwhile the others arrive they were waiting there… thinking.
The boys also turned around and started running all the seven of them with full speed... The thing they just saw was...beyond description. They took the stairs and went to the last floor. The sound of the piano was very loud there... and it played an old melody "T- that sounds l- like an old horror-movie tunya~" Kikumaru mentioned, while he was hanging on Echizen's back. "T- that hurts!" Echizen complained, he and his friends were out of breath.
Kaidou who didn't said anything looked like a living zombie, his face was pale and his eyes were wide opened... Momo who was also scared noticed the emotional condition of his rival and friend and tried to cheer up on his way.
"Hey Mamushi... after all you stamina-training you are such a slowpoke... Everyone ran faster than you to this floor... Even a turtle could move faster than you, it can, you know"
"Turtle...You say!?" answered Kaidou changing his zombie like face to an angry one: "Fshuuuu... You only say nonsense stuff, idiot" It seemed like the beginning of another fight "Stop you two nya! We have to get out of here!" Eiji said with a scolding tone.
Right now they were in the top floor of Seigaku. Apparently the thing they were running away from didn't follow them... But to be sure
"Let's hide nya~! That thing could be heading this way." Eiji offered after a while, he was the senpai and had to take care of his kouhais. Kaidou tried to stifle his anger. His mood changed a little bit in a positive way and so he was able to calm a little bit down "I wonder why this... smoke or whatever it was, doesn't follow us to this floor...?" Katsuo asked the others... "Good question" Momo agreed. Suddenly he remembered when he was in the kitchen; the green thing stopped following the ichinen and changed its direction.
"We were running outside... so maybe it can't leave the first floor" Echizen inferred. "So... we are safe here?" Kaidou asked precautious, but then the horrible thing they saw short time ago appeared again at the end of the hallway... It was so terrifying; they all got up slowly... The thing came closer with a heavy fog... It was a woman with a red dress... But it had no visible face... and when it started walking the sound of heavy chains echoed...
The Pianos melody got wilder and wilder... the conjunction of those circumstances made the tennis club members sweat... "I- I THOUGH THAT MYSTERY WAS BAA-SAN?!" Momo freaked out after seeing that woman in her dress, it looked really a little bit like Ryuzaki sensei... just without face... the old wrinkles and her little thicker body in that negligee caused nausea to the boys.
"W- what shall we do now?!" Kachirou shouted in panic... "I think my eyes go blind now..." Momoshiro overacted. The woman got closer and closer... and closer... They only had one way out. The boys didn't waste any time and were running for their life, but while running toward the stairs a loud
"WAIT!" stopped the seigakus... The thing had graved two of the boys, one in each arm, and from the things back, two more arms were growing up. The thing got Kaidou and Ryoma... The fog in the hallway got heavier the piano was doing a horrible sound and the temperature dropped
"ECHIZEN! MAMUSHII!" Momo shouted after his captured friends. "This is bad... it totally is, right?" After the sudden disappearance of Ryoma and Kaidou, the bodies of the others were frozen by the huge shock. The Piano stopped playing... and outside it got light...
"Momo-chan-senpai! Kikumaru-senpai! Look out of the window!" the ichinen-trio wanted to show them that the black word changed back to its old state... But the senpai-tachi... weren't at their side any more "Whaa! Kikumaru-senpai and Momo-senpai... They aren't here!" Horio was the first who was saying it... Cause of the light which shines through the window and the few people they had seen in the last minute standing there, the ichinen could be sure they were back in their own world.
"W-we should tell this to the senpai-tachi now!" Kachiro said.
"But... Where would they be right now?" Katsuo asked.
They agreed to just go out and looking if the senpai-tachi were still in the school... When they passed the in front of the library they saw the other Seigaku Regulars...
"It seems like they have a team-meeting at this time"... it was 18:35... Almost a half hour after Eiji disappeared while he passed the front entrance... The ichinen-trio eaves dropped their senpai-tachi.
"That was all that happened... but Eiji can't vanish... I mean the moment before we were talking to each other and now he is... I had a bad feeling." Oishi explained with a sad undertone in his voice, tried to be strong. "I see..." Fuji was cupping his chin in his hand. "When I was entering the boy's changing room earlier... they said strange things... Like I told them 'the Truth about the 7 Mysteries of Seishun Gakuen' but I was on the court the whole time before and just entered the changing room then." Fuji finished his sentence and at that moment:
"Senpai! Senpai!" The ichinen-trio entered the library, running toward to them. "We know what happened!" Horio said to them "You know? What happened?" Oishi asked with a bit of hope. "We (Kachiro, Katsuo, Momo, Kaidou and Ryoma) were transported to a black world!" Horio started to tell them the story.
"Once there we saw a lot of strange things!" Kachirou continued "And at one point Eiji senpai appeared there too!" this time it was Katsuo who was speaking... Oishi looked sceptical with bit anger in his eyes... "D-d-d-d-don't fool us with your ghost stories... we have a great problem... And-" Tezuka interupped the hot-headed Vice-Buchou...
"So is that really the truth? A doppelganger, a green smoke, a huge cat... Eijis appearance and that..." He harrumphed one time and continued: "... that woman in the Negligée who looked like Ryuzaki-sensei... without face..." All regulars took short time to imagine that terrible sight and made a disgusted face... "Yes! And then when it captured Kaidou-senpai and Echizen, then we were suddenly back in our word..." Horio explained. "This is a big problem!" Oishi thought loud once and had calmed a bit. "There is nothing we can do to save them!" Oishi was beginning to get panicky again "What we have to do is...
Eiji and Momo were hidden in a small closet, once they noticed they were alone they started running and found a door at the end of the hallway "What should we do now!?" Momo asked to his catlike senpai " I-I don't knya"...
It was cold; really cold he took a while to wake up properly "fhuuuu"... "Why it is so cold here..." the Bandana boy asked himself when he was shivered from the cold breeze... "You are finally awake... Kaidou-senpai?" The voice of his kohai sounded through the naked room. "Echizen... What's this place?" he took a look at the ichinen and recognized that Ryoma and himself didn't wear their Seigaku uniforms any longer... to their terror they donned negligées... A red one for Ryoma and a green one for Kaidou...
"What the hell is this!?" Asked the red faced Kaidou...
"When I woke up... we were like this..." Ryoma answered, leaning with his back to the wall. "And this room... doesn't have any window or doors...?!" At this Kaidou looked around... How was it possible to be in a room without exit... "Ne, Echizen... we had to came in here somehow... so a door or something like that must exist...right?" Kaidou asked while he was blushing more and more... not only because it was embarrassed to wear a negligée... he also tough that Echizen look kind of cute in his one... "NHAAA...fshuuuuu" he freaked out for just a moment but then he calmed down with breathing the way he always did. Just a second later, the two boys heard a mechanic sound... "What was that?!" Ryoma looked to the ceiling of the room... then he noticed, that the wall, where his back was leaning at, ... was vibrating... then that same wall opened itself and he almost fall back. All the others walls and even the floor did the same.. Then they started moving around. Ryoma and Kaidou agreed to hold their hands to not get separated. While avoiding the moving walls suddenly all stopped and started to get closer to them. "W-we will get crushed!" Kaidou exclaimed, still holding hands with Ryoma, both were waiting. When the room became really tight, with the small space of 2x2 meter... the walls stopped again moving... Before they got the chance to get relieved... the small space started to get filled with water from the floor... they will drown in short time, if they can't escape... Kaidou trembled more than Ryoma and pressed his hand strong while the water came out of the walls. It was a really strange situation, but there was no time to waste by thinking about it... Ryoma knew that his Senpai wasn't in the state to think about a solution. So more and more water was running into the small room...
"HEEEEEELP! WE NEED HELP!" - Something like that sounded in the boys bathroom, where Momo and Eiji hided from the mysterious monster they saw... "Senpai, wasn't that Echizen?!" Momo startled. "You're right! This is OUR ochibi! So he is alive... Thank goodness! Nya- But..." Eji stopped - "HE-" suddenly the shouts vanished... The catboy and his Kohai faced each other, nodded and run out of the boys bathroom, in the direction of the last shout... "Echizen! Mamushi!" -
The water reached their heads... Kaidou and his kohai were forced to pull their faces in front of the ceiling. Both of them took a deep breath before the water filled the small room completely... They weren't able to shout anymore for help. How long could they bear this situation? Ryoma was in a bad condition... in opposite of Kaidou, who does everyday a lot of stamina training, it was hard to breath for the little ichinen. When Kaidou saw Echizen alomost drowned, he decided to took his head with his hands and near his lips with his own... to share the last oxygen he had in his lungs...
"It came from here!" Kikumaru said. "Huh... water?" Momo recognized water on the whole ground... and an unfixed flagstone... He poke it up and saw "OH MY GOD MAMUSHI?! ECHIZEN?!" He blushes after seeing what Kaidou planned to do to save his Ichinen Friend.
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