Ouran Host Club Hostess (DISCONTINUED)

The Competition Begins and Everything Goes Wrong

Plan One: Ghost Scaring Strategy

An hour later, with no sign of the twins or Tamaki, I was beginning to feel very wary. I also hadn't been able to find Honey-senpai, or Mori-senpai, which was also suspicious. Actually, the only Host Club member I could find was Kyouya-senpai, and I really wasn't in the mood to talk to him since he was the reason I was in this mess.

Anyway, I was wandering around the beach and had just found Haruhi when the twins suddenly grabbed us. "Oi, Haruhi, Kyoko," they grinned at us innocently. "We're taking a few guests down to the caves to look around. Wanna come?"

Haruhi and I looked at each other and shrugged. I quickly forced myself to calm down. When I thought about it, the only thing I had to do was not be afraid of whatever they threw at me. There weren't that many things I was afraid of anyway, so I didn't think they would be able to find out before tomorrow. "Yeah, sure," I nodded.

The cave was dark, and damp, and it smelled like seaweed and moss. The stones were rather slippery as well, and I lost my footing a few times. Kaoru led the way with a torchlight, while Hikaru took up the rear and Haruhi and I examined the half-formed stalactites on the ceiling. "This cave doesn't show itself except when the tide is out," he explained in an unnecessarily creepy voice. "Despite this, there have been many people who have drowned here..."

"Oh dear," I murmured quietly. Haruhi nudged me playfully in the shoulder and I smiled.

"...and apparently," Kaoru continued to the terrified, trembling girls. I actually felt sorry for them, they looked like they would be stuck shivering for the rest of their lives. "Their grudges drag people that pass by into the abyss."

"What's that?" Hikaru pointed up. Something that resembled a ghost with glowing eyes was laughing from a ledge higher up. The girls screamed. I arched an eyebrow at it, more confused and sceptical than anything else.

A hand reached out of the darkness and landed on Haruhi's shoulder. "What is this?" She stared at the wooden hand. "Some kind of fear trial?"

"What?" Kaoru held up the laughing spectre, which was actually a fabric puppet on a stick. "You're not scared of ghosts at all?"

"Nope," I patted the terrified girls on their shoulders to calm them down a bit. "Not really."

"I've never seen one before, at any rate," Haruhi explained.

Status: Failed

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Plan Two: Dark and Claustrophobic Strategy

After we got out of the cave, and I forced the twins to make it up to those poor girls that they had managed to scare half out of their wits, Haruhi and I decided to wander around the beach and see if we could find anything interesting to do before dinner.

What we did find, however, was one of Kyouya-senpai's trucks and a bunch of secret police officers standing around it and looking highly suspicious while doing so.

"Haru-chan, Kyo-chan!" Honey waved to us from the back of the truck. "This way, this way!"

"Uh..." Haruhi and I gazed at the giant vehicle. "Is this okay? I mean, can we drive something like this on the beach?" Her questions went unanswered as we were hustled into the back of the truck and the door came down, trapping us in darkness.

Silence for a second, and then I spoke. "Huh," I looked around in the darkness. "Not bad. Kinda cosy. What do you guys think?"

"Meh." I could tell that Haruhi was shrugging.

Honey started panicking almost as soon as the truck was shut. "It's scary, it's dark, it's cramped in here! It's scary, it's dark, it's cramped in here! It's scary, it's dark, it's cramped in here!"