Ouran Host Club Hostess (DISCONTINUED)

Rescue Missions Gone Bad

"Everyone!" We all turned to Tamaki, after the general shock had worn off. "Quick, after Honey-senpai! The pool here is the shortcut!" He pointed to a smaller river-like pool that joined the wave pool. We would probably find Honey-senpai if we followed it. "Charge!"

We all sprinted in that direction, all except Kyouya-senpai because, as it turned out, that place was where they kept crocodiles. Yep, you read that right. Why the Ootori family had seen fit to let freaking carnivorous reptiles roam free in a supposed spa-like environment was beyond me.

"WHY ARE THERE CROCODILES HERE!?" I yelled once we had run back to safety, twice. "HOW DOES ANY OF THIS MAKE SENSE!?"

Kyouya was scribbling something into his notebook. "That pool over there is for tropical animals," he commented, and I wasn't sure if he was talking to himself or to us. "Unfortunately, I can see that breeding crocodiles in the pools was a rather dangerous decision. Well, it looks like the location switch on the wave pool is a far bigger problem." Then he looked at us with a smile on his face. "Thank you everyone, I was able to get some good data from today!"

"YOU WERE WHAT?" The twins had to hold me back from attacking Kyouya right there and then. Screw my belief in not messing with people like Kyouya, I was going to kill that guy!

He led us to a large board with a map of the entire water park. "This is the area map of the Tropical Aqua Garden," he gestured to the brightly coloured and labelled map. He pointed to a small red 'x' near the corner. "This is our current location. To get to Honey-senpai's estimated location," he tapped a part of the map that was all green with a few buildings scattered inside it. Oddly, a bunch of the buildings in that area had question marks. "We'll have to go through the jungle area in the south block. Distance wise, it's about 800 metres."

Haruhi glanced at Kyouya curiously. "It seems like this area is filled with a lot of unknown places," she commented. I nodded, feeling wary of the vast area of uncharted territory. God knows what was crawling around there.

"Those zones are still under construction," he explained to us.

"Then wouldn't it be dangerous to go wandering in there?" I asked, eyeing him. I was still pretty angry with him.

"It seems like there would be more dangerous things..." Hikaru said.

"...than crocodiles in there," Kaoru finished.

I looked over at Mori-senpai, and folded my arms across my chest. "I don't care. Honey-senpai is alone out there, and we have to find him before something happens to him!"

"Okay!" Tamaki yelled in his team captain voice. This was the voice he had used when planning how to prevent everyone knowing Haruhi's gender during the physical examinations. Needless to say, I wasn't prepared to hold a lot of faith in whatever plan he came up with. "This is a survival battle plan! We shall penetrate through this jungle area and rescue Honey-senpai, no matter what!"

...okay, I had a little more faith in him now, even though his plan was rather vague.

We set off into the jungle, which was a lot like a real jungle if I had ever seen one. There were tropical birds in the trees, and I could hear buzzing and hissing sounds that I prayed came from some hidden speaker somewhere. Still, considering the crocodiles we'd encountered previously, I didn't hold out too much hope for that.

"Those animal calls..." Hikaru slid his gaze over to Kyouya-senpai.

"...better not be real, right?" Kaoru finished, also staring at Kyouya.

"Who knows?" Kyouya replied nonchalantly. "No matter what we do, the Ootori family always strives to make things as real as possible."

"Is that why you put giant crocodiles and snakes in a spa?" I muttered under my breath so that only Haruhi could hear me. We both exhaled softly, and then I noticed the look on Mori's face. It was completely blank. He was normally very blank and stoic to begin with anyway, but now he just looked...kind of expressionless.