EoS: Well, I wonder what will happen with the information that Alaude is a member of the Reinhart Family. Great.

Lauren: I still think that he's evil on soul count of being a member of the Reinhart Family.

EoS: Ex-member, thank you very much.

LexiconHuko:

Lauren: The latter.

PhoenixLord27:

EoS: I'm not going to do forced.

Leafeon of Flame:

EoS: Did I? I did not. That Alaude is in no way associated with the Reinhart Family.

Amalgam24:

EoS: All will be revealed in time.

TheLazyRiver:

Lauren: We shall see, won't we?

Moemon Ranger: Memories of Oblivia Revoir

Chapter 19

"So, we need to find Alaude, now." Petal said, frowning.

"What about Rin?" Kanone asked, frowning.

"I'm not sure." Petal said, frowning. "I think she's back at Lori's house."

"Sammy, go." Kanone said, tossing out a moeball, Sammy emerging.

"Sammy, I think that you should go see if Rin is at Lori's house." Kanone said, frowning.

"Then what?" Sammy asked, frowning.

"Bring her back here." Kanone said, frowning.

"Right." Sammy said, nodding. She disappeared, jumping off into the forest.

"Well, that should handle that." Kanone said, smiling.

"Hey, Petal!" Petal turned in surprise at the new voice.

"Murph?" Petal asked, shocked.

"Yeah, I'm here!" Murph said, running up, smiling.

"Who are you?" Kanone asked, frowning.

"I'm Murph." Murph said, smiling. "Executive something-or-other of the Moemon Rangers. When the Union realized that the sound tower had stopped transmitting, the Union decided to send me over to see what went wrong."

"How did you even get here?" Kanone asked, frowning.

"On that." Murph said, pointing out over the bay at an enormous ship. "The Union is the pride ship of the… Union. Weird. Anyways, it was my first time steering a ship, but I got here in one piece!"

"Well, this has been very nice, and very productive." Kanone said, frowning. "However, I have something else I need to deal with, and I think that I should just ignore you, and wait for Sammy to return."

Sammy kicked the door open to Lori's house.

"Rin, where are you?" Sammy asked, frowning.

"S-Sammy!" Rin said, surprised. "What are you doing here?"

"Master sent me to retrieve you." Sammy said, frowning.

"I have a better idea." Rin said, frowning. "You can help me look."

"For what?" Sammy asked, frowning.

"A while ago, I saw Lori had a book that titled that existence of that strange symbol." Rin said, frowning. "By some guy named Amun. It had the exact same symbol Petal traced."

"How do you remember that?" Sammy asked, surprised.

"Please, tell me you remember." Rin said, grinning. "I'm psychic. When I was with Lori in the hospital, he sent me a mental note about a certain book, and that book had a symbol similar to the one I saw Petal draw. I know it's gotta be here somewhere, I just need to find it…"

Suddenly, the phone rang.

"Should we answer it?" Sammy asked, frowning.

"Sure, I don't see the harm." Rin said, frowning. She picked up the phone, and answered it.

"Hello, Lori's residence, Rin speaking." Rin said, frowning.

"Rin, it's me, Lori." Lori's voice crackled over the phone.

"Lori, what are you doing calling your own house?" Rin asked, confused.

"I knew you would be there." Lori's voice was interrupted by a crackling sound, which Rin realized was Lori coughing. "I called you because I knew you were looking for the book."

"Yeah, I am." Rin said, frowning. "But I can't seem to find it."

"I don't have it anymore." Rin sighed in frustration when Lori admitted that.

"Well, where is it?" Rin asked, frowning.

"I gave it to my friend to look after." Lori said, frowning. "He's a bit of a recluse. His name is Kallin, and he lives in an old mansion in the forest. By that way, his real identity is…"

Lori's talking began to get interrupted by violent coughing, and he hung up the phone.

"Well, crap." Rin said, frowning. "Sammy, we're looking in the wrong place."

"Well, where should we look?" Sammy asked, frowning.

"Some old mansion in a forest." Rin said, frowning. "Crap, let's get going."

"Hey, Sammy…" Rin said, as the two walked down the street towards the mansion.

"Yes?" Sammy asked.

"I still don't understand." Rin said, frowning. "Why did you agree to go with that guy, Kanone?"

"It's strange…" Sammy said, frowning. "Cheri was immediately attached to him, but I didn't like him that much to begin with."

"But you eventually grew to like him, right?" Rin said, frowning.

"Yeah, I did…" Sammy said, smiling. "I realized that no one could ever love me as much as he could."

"I see…" Rin said, frowning. "Still, he is pretty cute, for a jerk. With those fox-like brown eyes, and that smile…"

"…" Sammy's face twisted into a wry grin.

"…Shut up." Rin said, frowning.

"Wasn't saying anything." Sammy smirked, the two walking across the cliffside.

"Hey, Sammy's back!" Kanone said, turning back to see the two of them, Rin frowning in disgust.

"What the heck?" Rin asked, glaring at Sammy, frowning.

"Master asked me to bring you back." Sammy said, frowning. "That's exactly what I did."

"You jerk…" Rin sighed. "Listen, Kanone, Petal, I thought of something."

"What?" Petal asked, frowning.

"That symbol you drew… The one on the ground, that summons Raikou, I've seen it before." Rin said, frowning.

"You have?" Petal asked, surprised.

"Yeah, I have." Rin said, nodding. "In a book that Lori showed me once. He said that the book belongs to Kallin, and he left it in a mansion."

"That must be the haunted mansion." Kanone said, frowning. "It's a rumor I heard. I think we should check it out."

"You sure?" Pichu asked, shaking. "That place seems so scary…"

"Oh, yeah, it'll be fine." Kanone said, smiling. "The only thing I know, though, is that it seems to be haunted by a mysterious floating ghost that resembles a school girl who's missing the lower half of her body."

"…" Pichu said, tears welling up in her eyes as she hid behind Petal.

"Geez, you're scaring Pichu." Rin said, frowning.

"Fine, sorry." Kanone said, frowning. "But it's the truth."

EoS: Kufufu…

Lauren: Aw, fuck yeah!