Camp Lily

Night 2 - The Cabin

Lily and company searched around their new hideout, trying to get a feel for the area. The living room only had a torn-up couch, a broken TV, and a grandfather clock that somehow still worked. It looked straight out of a horror movie.

"kokone, you can let go of me now," Lily said to the brunette clinging onto her.

"No, I can't. Never."

Maika and Yuki checked out the creepy hallway, which led to a series of smaller rooms. One was a bathroom covered in filth and rot, which neither of them enjoyed looking at. Another was a completely barren room with absolutely nothing in it. Seemed like a waste of space. The last room was filled to the brim with garbage. Nothing useful, just torn up papers, wood, wrappers, bricks, and so on. No ghosts, but nothing of interest.

Gumi and Tei checked out the kitchen, which somehow looked worse than the rest of the house. When kokone finally let Lily go, she joined them in the dining area. Everything in sight was dirty and rotted, and all pieces of technology were broken. The fridge was empty, the old-fashioned radio did not pick up any signals, the mini TV resting on the table did not turn on, and nobody trusted the oven.

"Well, this place sucks," Gumi commented.

Lily looked around, trying to see all she could see in the tiny room. Apart from a few spider webs and broken dishes, nothing jumped out at her.

"Well, we're only staying here for the night. When the storm dies down, we'll go find Meiko and the others. I don't think we'll be going back to our own campground."

"I-I don't like this place! Let's go back out in the storm!" kokone poked into the kitchen and complained.

"Nonsense, it's perfectly safe here," Maika came up from behind kokone, spooking her. "Yuki and I just checked the entire place from top to bottom, no spirits anywhere."

"Of course you c-can't see any... Spirits are... i-invisible..."

"Enough of that, kokonut," Lily put her hand on kokone's shoulder. "If there are any spirits here, which there aren't, I could easily take them on."

As soon as Lily said this, an open cabinet in the kitchen slammed shut, causing everyone to jump back and look at it.

"Must have been a draft," Lily shrugged.

Deciding to ignore the possible sign of aggression, the six girls decided to try and get some rest. They retrieved a small blanket from the couch in the living room, but they had one tiny problem. There were six of them.

"We can't all fit under here!" Maika pointed out.

"You're right. This place doesn't have any sort of heating system, so it's too cold to sleep without any sort of coverage," Lily noted. "Maybe there's another blanket in the bedroom back there?"

"You could check. I don't remember seeing any, but maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough."

"I will. A blanket shouldn't be too hard to find in a bedroom."

The bedroom had become more of a trash room, as Maika and Yuki discovered. Regardless, Lily was determined to find at least one extra blanket. The ones they brought with them were still in the tattered tent, since they didn't take the time to salvage their supplies before running off. They had more pressing matters to attend to.

Leaving the others in the living room, Lily set off down the long, dark hallway to find the bedroom. For some reason, it seemed even darker for her than it did for Yuki and Maika. She nearly tripped over a stray brick in the middle of the hall, but she caught herself just in time. After shaking head out and trying to adjust her eyes to the darkness, she kept going.