Mystery Girl
A/N Well all I have to say is welcome to day 7 of the 12 days of Fanfiction.
"What's this?" Yumi said picking up the ribbon. She then heard some rustling in the bushes and saw Odd, Ulrich, Aelita, and Jeremy come into the clearing.
"Hey Yumi what do you have there?" Aelita asked in regard to the ribbon.
"Well when I went into the forest I saw the little girl and she was singing. When I tried to talk to her she started running towards here. When we got here she turned to look at me for a second before dropping this ribbon and running up the stairs while fading away." Yumi explained.
"Let me see that." Jeremy said taking the ribbon from Yumi. Hey there is something written on it." Jeremy said.
"Well don't keep us in the dark. What does it say?" Ulrich said.
"It says set me free. Help. Anya S, Well the first part is pretty self-explanatory, but who's Anya S.?" Jeremy asked.
"Well Anya must be her name, but what could the S. stand for?" Aelita asked.
"Stones, Sari, Sam, Schaffer,-" Odd said continuing to name last names starting with S. "Hey maybe it's Schaffer
"Odd there is a very slim chance if any that the last name is Schaffer." Jeremy said.
"But, that must be it why else would she lead Yumi here and why we are the only ones that can see her." Odd explained.
"You know what else could it be. Odd's right no one really knew about this place except for me, my father, the Men in Black, and apparently this girl Anya." Aelita explained.
"Why don't we go and look inside the house for any clues." Aelita suggested.
"Sure ok." The others said. And they headed inside. What surprised them was that when they went inside the house looked brand new. Nothing was broken or anything.
"Guys please tell me that you are all seeing this right?" Aelita asked fearful that she was having visions.
"If what you're seeing is a brand new Hermitage than yes." The others agreed.
"Shh listen do you hear that?" Yumi asked quieting the others. They looked up the stairs to see a little girl about the age of 11 running down the stairs with a bright yellow bunny in her hands. She ran into the living room to the piano and began playing on it.
"Good Job Anya you're getting better and better." They heard a familiar voice say. Then walked in Franz Hopper congratulating the girl on her piano skills.
"Thanks." Anya said. "Can I go play with Aelita now?" She asked.
"Of course child she's in the garden with Mr. Puck." Franz said. "Be careful though you never know what's out there" He called after her. Then the scene disappeared and they found themselves in the living room of the ruined Hermitage.
"Well that was weird." Ulrich said.
"Wonder what she was doing here." Yumi asked.
"Maybe my father taught her piano before he started doing the returns." Aelita suggested.
"She must have been a close friend of yours if your father let her come over so often." Jeremy commented.
"So where should we start looking?" Odd asked getting everyone's attention.
"Well Aelita and me will check the top floor. Yumi you and Ulrich will check this floor and Odd go check the basement. "Jeremy planned.
"On it." Odd said heading to the basement.
"Ulrich and I will start in the study." Yumi said pulling Ulrich in the direction of the study.
"And we'll head up stairs Aelita." Jeremy said as they started up the stairs.
In the basement
'Wow Franz you need to learn how to clean up a place.' Odd thought as he was heading into the shed. What he found in there were several toys that looked very old. He continued looking around and decided to check the backyard after not finding anything els inside.
Once outside he found a small garden with plants long since dead. By the garden there was a little sign. It was made of white wood and in pale blue paint said Anya's Garden.
'Maybe they had a garden together.' Odd thought. Seeing as there was nothing left to see he headed back into the house.
With Ulrich and Yumi
"Find anything Yumi?" Ulrich asked. They had been looking around for almost 20 minutes already and had not found anything.
"No not yet this is the last shelf though." She went over to the shelf and started going though it. Unfortunately once she pulled the first book out the shelf collapsed on top of her.
"Yumi are you ok?" He asked moving the fallen books off of her.
"I'm good. Hey what's this?" She asked picking up a scrapbook with a picture of a younger Franz Hopper, Antea, a much younger Aelita, and in Anthea's arms was a baby maybe a few months old in a pink blanket. "Look at that!"
"You don't think that that's Anya do you?" Ulrich asked looking at the cover.
"I think we're done here Ulrich lets go find Odd." Yumi said holding the book.
"Ok." He said and they went to find Odd.
With Jeremy and Aelita
"Jeremy do you even think we will actually find anything?" Aelita asked.
"I'm not sure Aelita. Since we've already checked your room lets check the one next door." Jeremy said.
"The door is stuck. Maybe we should get the others and hey can get the door open." Aelita suggested.
"Ok I'll wait here while you do that." Jeremy said watching Aelita go down the stairs. A few minutes later she returned with the others.
"What's the problem Jeremy?" Yumi asked.
"Me and Aelita want to check this room, but we can't get the door to budge." Jeremy said.
"Here let me take care of that." Ulrich said delivering a kick that made the door swing open. Inside was another bedroom, one that looked like it belonged to a little girl. The strangest thing of all was that unlike the rest of the house the room was untouched.
A/N Oooo cliffy