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The romance of Kyonko	By : geekc Category: +G to L > Haruhi Suzumiya Views: 4213 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, nor the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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Chapter 7 - The mysterious cave
As we were to enter the cave, we all stopped in front of the entrance. As usual Yuki's face was unreadable, and Koizumi's bore its eternal smile. The two other girls by my side were slightly shivering, not from cold but for different reasons; Mikuru was shaking in fear, whereas Haruhi was just seething with impatience. Personally I was also feeling a tad uneasy.
"Ready everybody?" asked Haruhi. And without allowing us to answer: "Let's go!"
As we moved forward I couldn't help thinking about how all of this started.

- xxx -
A few weeks earlier, the Monday after our bikini shopping
"So Haruhi, what is that legend you told us about?"
"In *****, where I booked us a week, there is a cave on the beach."
"And...?"
"We are gonna explore it."
"Why?"
"For a long time, this cave has been used during field trips for tests of courage. And from time to time, participants mysteriously disappear to reappear weeks later, in a trance-like state."
"And you want to investigate that case..."
"Yesssss!" she answered beaming.
We did not talk again about this until the beginning of the summer break, and our departure for our vacation place.
Once there, Haruhi announced us that the cave investigation will take place that very evening.
To prepare for the expedition, Haruhi had made us buy headlamps, and had prepared a backpack, in order to, according to her, "be able to face all the conceivable eventualities".
Over dinner she explained us the layout of the cave; from the entrance, there was a 60 feet long corridor, which lead to a larger room, in which a small altar can be found. All the disappearances took place near that altar. So our main goal will be to examine it.

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We were now some 5 feet from the entrance, and a bend in the corridor masked us the small patch of starry sky that was the cave opening.
As we progressed further, the temperature seemed to drop some degrees at once, luckily we all had a sweater vest on us.
Suddenly, as we were close to the half of the corridor, Haruhi, who was on the front, stopped.
"Why did you stop Suzumiya-san?" asked Koizumi.
"Didn't you feel it?" asked Haruhi, turning to us.
"What?" did I answered.
"A strange presence. A spiritual one. But not menacing. It's a positive one."
As if reacting to Haruhi's words, a strange light appeared just behind us.
Just in front of us, what first appeared like a wisp shined brighter and slowly swelled, to reveal a beautiful woman. She had pale skin, a fair face with bright blue eyes, and was wearing white robes under her long blond hair.
"Do not go any further fools, as at the end of this path, only danger awaits!" told us the apparition.
"And what kind of danger?" asked Haruhi.
"A dangerous spirit that can not be satisfied..."
"We are here to investigate. Maybe we will find a way to get rid of that evil spirit."
"Many have already tried, but a very few exited this cave unscathed..."
"We shall see... Come on guys! Let's go!" And with this words she started again toward the end of the cave.
As I went after Haruhi, I turned to the spirit and gave her a sorry, but she is always like that kind of smile. As a bend of the corridor was about to hide her from us, I distinctively saw her face-palming...
We were now at the end of the corridor, facing the altar sitting at the end of the cave. From it was coming an eerie pulsating red light.
We approached it slowly, inches by inches.
The pulsating light was coming from a small pagoda shaped metal box. We examined it from all possible angle, looking for any strange mechanism, or button, or notch... but no avail. The box was smooth, as if made from one piece of metal.
Suddenly, Koizumi straighten up, with hazy eyes, and started to spoke some strange, ancient sounding, languages, switching from one to another, as if somebody was trying to tune a radio. And as soon as he "tuned" to Japanese, the switching effect stopped.
"Who are you and what are you looking for weaklings?" asked transfixed Koizumi with a bass voice.
"We are here to stop you and sent you away from this place!" answered a fearless Haruhi, as a trembling Mikuru was hiding behind my back.
"For me to leave this place, you have to face my Question. Many have tried, but many also failed and had to face the consequences of their foolhardiness..."
"I do not fear failure."
"And what are those consequences?" I asked the spirit.
"I will rob you of what mankind has of most precious: Time. I will zap you to the future, depriving you from precious days..."
Turning to Haruhi I asked her, "Are you still sure about facing this trial?"
She answered, "Yes! Deep inside I know we can not fail".
"If it is what you want, here is the Question..." boomed Koizumi, "I want you to give me... chocolate!"
Haruhi, Mikuru and me were flabbergasted, even Yuki showed some surprise. We then had to wait a few minutes before being able to talk again...
"You want... chocolate?" I asked the spirit.
"Yes, I want to smell that precious, divine, and sweet creation of Nature..." it answered dreamily.
Haruhi's reaction was immediate. "Oh, if it is that you want, I think I have just the thing."
She went behind Koizumi, rummaged in the backpack, and came back with a handful of chocolate bars.
"So, which one do you want? Black, black with almond, black with hazelnut, milk, milk with almond, milk with hazelnut?"
"How is it we have all that chocolate?" I asked her.
"To be sure everyone get his preferred flavor." And turning back to Koizumi, "Which one do you want Mister Spirit?"
Mister Spirit seemed to hesitate, before answering "Black."
"And how must I give it to you?"
"Put it on the altar, in front of the pagoda."
As soon as Haruhi dropped it on the altar, the chocolate bar was shrouded in a red aura, and slowly disappeared.
"Strangers, you have faced the Question without flinching and answered it. Now I can leave this world forever..."
The light in the pagoda box quickly faded, and Koizumi's eyed snapped back to focus.
"Did I missed something?" he asked us.
His expression made us burst in laugh, Haruhi and me, and it took us a long time before we could calm down and catch our breath.
As we were walking back to the exit, we told Koizumi all that happened in the cave.
On our way back we met again the robed woman spirit, she thanked us for all we had done, and gave each of us a small peck on the cheek before vanishing slowly.
Once outside, I was glad to feel again the salty and fresh air, and to see again the beautiful sea-side night-sky.

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That night, before going to bed, we all discussed if the Brigade should or shouldn't brag about this case of chocolate-loving "evil" spirit. It was finally decided that tonight never happened.
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