| Lost In A Haunted House Yue looked up from the bowl of blue-colored punch and stared into the eyes of a young woman. The woman smiled at him, just as cheerfully as the first one had. "Hi. Punch?" she inquired. He glared at her. The woman slowly frowned and then glanced around, looking the lightest bit uncomfortable. No one was around and when she looked at Yue again she asked faintly, "Are you the guy who did in Helen?" Yue held out his hand to her. The woman paled, swallowing. "Look, you and I, we can handle this. No one has to know. I won't say nothin', I SWEAR it! Just...don't LOOK at me..." Yue tilted his head. "Is this punch...spiked?" he asked quietly. She looked like she was ready to cry. "No. BUT! But, I can change that! I can just go over to Sonomi-san and find some alcohol, I can!" she whispered hoarsely. Yue slowly shook his head and gazed at her. "I'm afraid not..." he murmured softly. And he reached out towards her punch bowl, fingers wrapping around its rim. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!" Eriol bumped into Sakura, falling back a bit. "Ah, gomen, Sakura-chan." He said, looking the slightest bit confused. Sakura peeked out from behind the potted plant she had managed to hide behind. "It's ok, Eriol-kun." She whispered and she slithered back further into her spot. Eriol paused, merely staring at her for a moment. "Sakura-chan...why are you hiding?" he asked slowly. Sakura peeked out once more, lifting a finger to her lips. "I'm hiding from Tomoyo-chan." She confided in a stage whisper. "She's acting a bit...strange..." Eriol nodded in understanding. "SHE is." He stated sounding the slightest bit sarcastic. Sakura looked around quickly and rose to her full height. "See, I came in and she told me that Syaoran was here already. But then later when I asked where he had gone she said she didn't remember ever even SAYING anything to me at all. She wasn't even aware you guys had shown up." Eriol frowned. "Daidouji-san?" he asked as if to confirm. Sakura nodded solemnly. Eriol blinked, confused. "But...she let us in when we first arrived." He murmured softly and he looked over to where he had seen Tomoyo standing only moments ago. The punch table had been cleared up and now a new woman was there, politely handing out cups of punch. "I'm getting a bad feeling." Sakura said softly. A whip snapped close by, causing Sakura to jump. A moment later Spinel Sun flew by, tail tucked between his legs and Nakuru followed, seemingly having stolen a cowboy hat from another party-goer for one rested on top of her head of burgundy red hair. "Hi-yoooooooooooooooooo, Silver! Awwaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy!!" she cried gleefully, swinging the whip around as if it were a lasso. Sakura looked at Eriol, a sweat drop falling down the side of her head. "Will you come with me to find Syaoran?" she asked him. He nodded. "Of course." He replied. Meilin looked around, confused out of her mind. She had to pee REALLY bad and there was no bathroom in sight. She stopped in the middle of the hallway and clenched her thighs together, pushing down on her bladder. Damn Yue and his spiked punch. For a moment she wondered if the alcohol in the punch was getting to her for the hallway seemed to shift the slightest bit. She blinked, leaning against the wall heavily and then looked again. The hallway was back to normal but now at the end there was a door, wooden and old-looking. "You don't look like a bathroom but I REALLY need to use you if are." She muttered and she staggered over to it, knees pressed tightly together. The door seemed to get older and uglier the closer she got to it and once she stood right before it she started wondering if she should just have checked another floor. "Oh, damn it, what the HELL." She said impatiently and she reached for the doorknob. Only to discover there was none. She frowned and looked again, hand patting the wood. "Oh, give me a BREAK!" she growled. She lifted her fist and punched the door furiously, the bang echoing throughout the hallway. "Let me IN! I gotta GO!" she shouted, smashing the side of her fist against the door with each outburst. For a moment there was nothing except the echoing of the bangs as they floated down the hallway. And then, with a sudden rush of wind came a low, furious voice. "GEEEEEEEEEEEEEET OOOOOOOOOOOOOOUT!" Meilin blinked, fist halfway to the door once more to pound. And with a small shrug, heart in her mouth, she said, "Ok." And fled, running down the hallway as if pursued by the demons of hell. Syaoran pounded on the door, sweat dripping down the sides of his face. "Meilin! MEILIN!" he shouted, listening for her knocks again. He had just heard her, right outside, and now it was as if he had imagined it all. "MEILIN!" The girl was still in the room with him and he looked over his shoulder at her, swallowing. "She won't hear you." The girl said sadly. "They never hear." Syaoran frowned. "Meilin hears if I BREATHE." He muttered, turning to the door once more. "You've been nothing but disrespectful since you got here!" the girl cried and when he turned she was back to looking like the skeleton he had first encountered. He jumped, plastering himself against the door as she floated up to him. "Do you KNOW how long I've been here?" she demanded, her voice coming out of the open jaws of the skull. "Hell, not even ~I~ know how long I've been here! And I never get ANY visitors! Do you know why I'm LOCKED here?" Syaoran swallowed again. "Probably because your mom didn't want to associate herself with you due to lack of SKIN?" he asked innocently, hands reaching behind for the doorknob once more. What was the USE? Every time he looked he didn't encounter one. The girl literally shrieked at him, the room shaking with her anger. "NO, BAKA!" she shouted. "I'm here because they locked me in and they left me to DIE!" she floated backward, hands crossing over her bony breastplate. "Couldn't they have stuck someone fairly INTELLIGENT in here with me?" she asked rhetorically. Syaoran frowned. "Wait. Are you the girl from the story?" The skeleton swiveled to look at him. "Story?" she asked, sounding eager. "They have a story on me already?" Syaoran paused thoughtfully. "Well, Daidouji-san was telling me about this girl who was in love with some guy and he came to visit her all the time in her haunted house-" The girl shrieked once more, throwing up bony arms. "They didn't even get the STORY right!" she wailed. "How can the house have been HAUNTED if I hadn't DIED yet??" Syaoran paused. "Eh?" The skeleton lifted her hands almost in a sign of peace. "He did NOT come to visit me! His MOTHER made him come see me! We were betrothed and he didn't even LIKE me! Which was more than I could say for him because he was just damn BORING! Always talking about himself. 'I am the richest bachelor in this town.' Or 'When I get married my wife will have NONE of my money.' What a self-absorbed..." she broke off and sighed. "Anyway, one day he came to see me and he was drunk out of his mind! He kept saying something about how he was going to go away and never see me again. I was absolutely HEARTBROKEN of course. I practically packed his bags for him and wished him off. But then he said he couldn't leave until I was out of the way." Syaoran frowned, lips parting and he took a step toward her, not noticing the outward appearance anymore. "What...happened?" The skeleton seemed to shift and slowly, the girl's original appearance took over, red hair falling around green eyes. "He killed me. He poisoned me, strung me up in this room and left me for dead." She shrugged. "I fought it for a while. Even hanging by my neck I was so MAD I didn't DIE. But then the poison took over and I got HUNGRY and NO ONE came to feed me, which really sucked because I was locked in anyway." Syaoran arched an eyebrow. "But after a while, the world went black. And I saw my entire life flash before my eyes and I'm thinking, 'This is IT! I'm going to DIE! YAY!'" she sighed. "Nope. I woke up and I'm STILL here. What a lousy hell. I know hell is supposed to suck but this is just plain CRUEL." She turned away and floated over to the bed, throwing herself upon it. "What I didn't know at the time was that he was this big magic user. He put up this spell around the room so I'm basically stuck here for all of eternity. No one knows this room exists, no one knows it's even here. The house was torn down a while ago and then another was put up in its place and no one knows I'm here. Which is cool for me because now I have a new friend." And she spared him a quick glance. Syaoran stared at her for all of a moment. And then he shook his head and turned back to the door, resuming his frantic pounding. "Oh, noooooooooo. Let me OUT! HELP!!" |
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