I just sit in the water thinking over what I heard but I can't even indicate which direction the voice was coming from. I sit there for about 5 more min before Tongetsu comes to get me. As we're walking back to the campsite I ask if he wants to hear what's been going on and not to tell the other two about it tell I could find out if it's in my head or not. I start telling him about the dream that I had when I was gone for that long period of time. I told him about the old man and what he told me. After that, I talked about what happened when I was washing up just a bit ago. He didn't think I was crazy like other people would but he didn't fully believe it and thought that I needed sleep. I agree with him and when we got to the campsite he wanted me to go get some sleep and we would discuss more of this in the morning.
Later that night after taking about 45 trying to get to sleep I awoke because of a loud noise outside the cabin down by the fire. I got up to go check what it was more than 90% of the people were sleepwalking down to the beach. I decide to follow them to see where they were going. When they arrived at the beach the walked toward the tree line on the right-hand side of the beach and scattered out in the forest. It couldn't be later than 1am when the person I was following stopped and collapsed to the ground. I carried him back to the campsite altho it was difficult to carry him. I had to force myself through the weed that would tie around my legs. It was about 1:45 a.m. when I got back to camp.
I started thinking why I was the only one that woke up to them leaving. There should have been five other people not including myself that didn't leave. I start looking around to see who the five other people were. I first look at Tongetsu, Ryna, and Taga to see if they were there. When I opened the door to the cabin and look around I only see Ryna laying there. I try to wake her up but it's no good. I never knew that she was such a heavy sleeper but that was least of my worries. I didn't see Tongetsu or Taga in the crowd when I was following them so I have no clue where they are and if she wakes up and they're not here she might flip. So I head out trying to find at least one of them.
It almost five-a.m. and I still haven't seen either one of them and have only run into one other person that I took back to camp. I decided that I would head back so she didn't have to worry about me as well as her brother and Taga. I get back into camp about 6:30 ish. My body almost giving up on me and wanting to collapse right where I stood but I muscled through it. I sat down to let my body rest for a few before Ryna wakes up. As I sit there, time feels like it's slowing down and my body getting lighter and less stable. I collapsed on the ground and pass out in front of Ryna's cabin.
Shortly after I pass out Ryna wakes me up and asked why I was sleeping in front of their cabin. I sit up to start explaining why and then I see Taga and tongetsu in the cabin. They were working on the walls of the cabin fixing it up so it was more livable. I started to think back on last night to try to put the pieces together. I do remember that everyone minus a few started sleepwalking and scattered out through the woods but it was no later than 7 now and that means that everyone returned back to the camp in the past 30 or so minutes I dreamed it all up. Either way all that matters is everyone is here.
A girl about 5 foot 6 ran out of her cabin, she had a short brown hair and if I'm correct her name was Hyomi Cujo. She stumbles to the middle of the of the campsite and asks for everyone's attention. This was very awkward considering that she is a shy bug and never talks to anyone. She started to speak in her loudest voice although that was still quiet.
"First thing is that if you look in your books or grimoires as they like to call it there is something that was added. The second thing is one of the people from our group has gone missing and we can't find them can you please help."
" If you look in the book there was something added and where unable to find one of our group members are any of you willing to help."
The first thing everyone does is run to their cabins to see if what she said about the books were true and sure enough everyone started reading it.
Don't trust anyone one else but your group, there are traders amongst you. It's up to all of you to found out who it is and banish them to another part of the island. They have already taken some of you already… Have fun trying to find out who it is.
The Observers
After everyone read that people were on high alert and have started to divide them self from people that they don't know very well. In less than an hour, no one trusted the other groups and everyone started to accuse each other of doing it. No one helped out Hyomi after the composition started. But really who would with that strange text in the books. If I wasn't crazy at the time I would do the same as everyone else. But I have no other members so what's there to lose here
"Hey, Hyomi do you have a minute to talk."
"Yea" In her shy voice
" If your still allowing people to help look for your lost group member I will be willing to help"
"Sure but if you don't mind me asking why you're wanting to help us" In a curious but shy tone
"Even if I head the warning I'm all by myself as it is and I don't want other people to feel that way plus you still asked for help even after reading the letter so how could I refuse then"
I also want to know what happen last night and this might be a clue to help me solve it. Shikuno-shi says in his head
"By the way what's your name" Hyomi askes in her shy voice
"My name is shikuno-shi sorry for my rudeness" Being gentlemen like
"It's ok don't worry about it" Getting partially flustered
Just in case she has something to do with the disappearance, I'll act like someone else for the time being. Shikuno-shi says in his head
"So where do you want to meet up at to start looking"
"I guess we can start at our cabin and continue from there but I want to go do something so in about an hour or so"
"Ok sounds good we will meet here one hour from now"
As she walks away Ryna walks up behind me curious on what I and Hyomi were talking about. Of course, I try to bypass that question so I ask,
" Where is Taga and Tongetsu it's been a long morning and we need to rest for a little does that sound good"
"Ok"
We start heading to the cabin when Taga stops us and asked to speak with Ryna alone and to not head to there cabin. To me, he seemed kinda on edge but a lot of things have been happening today the message in the book the group needing help to find a member and what happened this morning whether it was real or not.
I start heading down to the beach to see if there are any footprints in the sand from this morning. I kinda figured that I could go and investigate that to see if I was crazy or not. When I get down to the beach there was only one pair of footprints and they were mine as if I was the one sleepwalking. At this point, I don't think that me sleepwalking is that far off the truth but everything felt so real as if it really happened.
It was getting about that time for me to meet back up with Hyomi at her cabin to help look for one of her members. As I approach her cabin I am stopped by another girl standing firmly in front of Hyomi, and by how she's acting she must be one of Hyomi's friends.
"What do you plan on doing with Hyomi," She says in a stern voice
" I'm only here to help look for the missing member and that's all"
"How can I believe you" Keeping the same voice
" I can see why you wouldn't trust me like common who in their right mind would do this with what's was in the book, so having said that what would it take for me to be trusted"
" Tell us something about yourself that you would normally keep secret from other people"
"Ok let's see what do I keep a secret from other people…"
She cuts him off " like someone you like or something similar to that like a crush or something"
"Well sorry then I don't have a crush nor dating anyone at the moment, sorry to disappoint and if you think I'm lying because of that one girl that I was with earlier you would be wrong she is just a friend that known since we were little plus she's dating someone else"
"Do you have any interest dating anyone, Shikuno-shi?" She asks
"No not at all I like my peaceful life," He says in a jokingly tone
"But joking aside we should probably start to look for the missing member," He says in a serious voice
After they talked for a bit and finished introducing themselves Ikuno trussed shikuno-shi enough for him to help look for there missing member. We start off look in the cabin to see if she left any trace of where she was going or why she disappeared. Just before all three of use left her room to check to see if there was any evidence out in the rest of the cabin I spot something out of the corner of my eye, it looked like her book but it looked different from everyone else the color wasn't a dark brown like everyone else. I asked Ikuno and Hyomi if her book has always been different than everyone else book and they didn't even recognize it tell I matched something. Their response was very interesting, by what they say just a day ago it looked the same as everyone else but now it has a pink outline with a green leaf in the center. As we take a closer look at the book I also see a ripped paper hang out of it. We grab to check to see what it says
"Stay Away"
"Don't look for the girl or you will be lost too"
"Stay Away"
Reading that was a little scary but intriguing in some aspects. I also could have sworn that I have heard this once before but I couldn't remember where I have heard it before, I don't tell the other two about the little I know. But Instead, I ask if they want to continue looking or if we want to stop for the day. They wanted to keep look just of a little bit more but we didn't know were to pick up from. I investigate the note a few more times before asking us all to look outside to see if there are any out of place thing in the camp.
We headed out to check outside around the cabin for any more clues to help find her but there wasn't anything that really showed up no footprints or tracks that she left or was stolen all that there was, was the footprints of everyone that was walking around throughout the day. I look around to see if everyone has calm down but they are all still very tense. It was almost five o'clock when we stopped looking around for hints. We decided to pick this back up tomorrow after breakfast. They started to head over to where dinner was being served and I went up to my cabin to rest for a little before I got some food.
I was resting on the ground in my room when I decided to look at the book to see what was all in it right now. There were two things in it, there were the rules and what popped up just earlier today for the Observers whoever they are.
Rule 1 Form groups of three and live with your team in your respective cabin.
Rule 2 More rules will be added as the time goes on so keep looking.
Don't trust anyone one else but your group, there are traitors amongst you. It's up to all of you to found out who it is and banish them to another part of the island. They have already taken some of you already… Have fun trying to find out who it is.
Sincerely The Observers
As I was reading the little bit of the book I also remembered that on the first day we came here that we would only have food given to us for the first three days. The problem we're running into was popping up right when those three days are about to end and how chaotic it has been over the past few days everyone has probably forgotten about that and will not like what in two days. I will have to remind Tougetsu and them about that before I met back up with Hyomi and Ikuno tomorrow to continue help look for there the last member. But now that I think of that they still haven't told me what the member's name is yet, I should probably ask tomorrow it probably just slipped their minds.
It was getting to be around Six and mostly everyone has gotten their dinner about now so I start heading down to get me some of the food. As I walk down the path I see Ryna with Taga, so I start walking over to them to tell them. I got about 30 feet away from them when Taga noticed me and started walking away with Ryna. I felt like I was being avoided by Taga as if he thought I was a threat to him and his group. To me, it doesn't make any sense to me on why he's doing it to considering we have been friends since we were young.
I had to get my food when I see Tongetsu out of the corner of my left eye, he seems to be waving to me to come over so I head over there. When I get over there I start asking about what's going on with Taga.
"He woke up this morning avoiding the other groups and that was before reading the book, after that he completely blocked out the other groups. He even told both of us not to talk to any other group including you but he still hasn't told us why" Said Tongetsu
" If that's the case then you should stop talking to me until he gets his head out of his ass and comes around plus it would be better if you don't get on his bad side" Said Shikuno-shi
" Yea probably, well with that I guess I will be taking my leave" Said Tongetsu
"One more thing before you go, remember when we first got here those people said that we would have three days of food then we would be one our own tomorrow's the third day keep that in mind by how chaotic it has been I'm almost pretty sure everyone has practically forgotten about it" Said Shikuno-shi
"Yeah you're probably correct about that, I won't lie I forgot myself," Said Togetsu
"I have something else to say but you need to be leaving so let's meet up later tomorrow when you know he isn't watching you." Said Shikuno-shi
And with that Togetsu leaves without saying anything. I continue to walk over to the center of camp to get dinner. Tonights surviving was spaghetti with a side of mozzarella sticks. After grabbing my food I started to head back to my cabin like normal before I'm stopped by Hyomi. She asks me to come over to by there cabin for a minute to talk to me for a sec. When we got over there she started to say that Ikuno went missing and rambling off other stuff. I ask her to slow down and fully explain what happened.
"Me and Ikuno went to get food after we were done looking for our last member earlier and she went down to take a bath and clean up, I said that I would be right behind her and when I got there she wasn't there and I've been looking around for her" She said in a worried voice
"It would probably smart if you come up to my cabin for the night, at least then you'll have someone else around just in case unless you have other friends you can stay with then that would probably be smarter, better in numbers then being alone," He says in consideration
" No I don't have any other friends minus Ikuno and Venra," She says in a sad tone
" Don't worry we will find your friends Hyomi,
Well, let's get you settled in at the cabin and then we will come and get some food".
They head up to Shikuno-shi's cabin and when they get up there Shikuno-shi overlooks the camp. As they head into his cabin Shikuno-shi hears a loud snap on the side of his cabin but it was hard to tell which side it came from.
"Hey Hyomi did you hear that?"
"No please don't do that again you about gave me a heart attack"
"Sorry i'm just a little on edge considering people disappearing"
"It fine"
They head into his cabin and he stared to prep a room for Hyomi before it got too dark to see.
"Do you mind if I help, I don't what to be feel like i'm just staying here with out helping at least a bit"
"Go right ahead I don't mind"
Once they were done preparing the room they sat down at chatted for a bit before going to bed.
Shikuno-shi decided to stay up throughout the night while Hyomi was sleeping to make sure nothing happened to her, you can kinda say this is like a knight watching over his princess. He pasted the time by recalling yesterday and if was even a smart idea to stay around the camp or if it would be better off leaving and finding a better place to set up camp.
"You know come to think of it the place I found when I was exploring a bit would be a good place to go there's water and I can always hunt for food plus it was a very lovely area to talk my mind off thing"
After a while it was hard for him to stay up because he didn't have anything occupying him like games or videos. And there was no light so he couldn't really work on the cabin even if he didn't plan on staying there long.