"The fouth is?" asked Sophia, her pupils dilated.
"Yukionna's claws in the great hallway's gold framed antique mirror. it says that if you go to that mirror at midnight and simultaneously open the art room's door which is a mirror paned door to express the art and which when opened, it's mirror faces opposite the antique mirror, so when you stand there in the middle of both mirrors, facing the antique one, yukionna would appear behind you. Yukionna or Yuki onna is the snow lady demon with a complexion as pale as a white sheet of paper, hair as black as a crow, long and straight, wearing a beautiful white Hanfu... and eyes as red as a ruby, lips as red as blood. and if you see her she will curse you for eternity with her claws" continued Lin Lu.
"Yusha, I'm getting scared" whispered her ladyship Kristina Monfort to Prince Yusha while pinching the fabric of his sleeves at his elbow. Yusha smiled and pat her head gently and leaned in to whisper back "It's okay, I'm here, besides these all just sound a bit stupid to me right now. There are always 7 mysteries of some sort in all Academies, they are youthful teenagers with wild imaginations afterall. Hold my hand so you don't get too scared during the meeting, okay?" Kristina nodded and proceeded in holding her fiancé's big hands all throughout the meeting.
"The fifth one is the 28th step of the staircase next to the great dining hall. For some reason everytime we reach that step we would inevitably slip and fall. The sixth one is the child spirit of girls' dorms hallway on the fourth floor. There's a room that's a bit odd on that floor and it's not in use, it's called the red room as it's fully painted in red and every bit of furnishings inside there is red, even the lamps. and the residents of that floor often heard weird noises there so one day a group of girls were having a tea party at night after lights out in one room when they suddenly heard laughter and a ball being kicked around. the girls grabbed their lamp and went out the room to see what was happening and suddenly saw a little girl in pigtails wearing hospital clothes running around the hallway with a pretty pink ball, she suddenly turned to face them and gave them a bright yet eerie smile and went inside the red room. The girls screamed at the top of their lungs and since then this entire floor has been unoccupied, however lately each even nights strange sounds can be heard from that floor." continued Miyuki.
"Suddenly I want to go back home..." said Lari who had goosebumps all over.
"what about the seventh one?" asked Rhydian.
"That one remains a mystery" answered Yang Mei Mei.
"Your mission is to find as much information as possible about these mysteries and solve them, I have a bad feeling about this, especially the fourth floor of the girls' dorms thing... now it's the bell, after-school activities are over, go back to your dorms and wear your uniforms again for dinner. Dinner will be in the great dining hall, just as breakfast is held there as well, together with all staffs of the school. After that it shall be bath time then homework time then bed time. Is that clear? Marquis Helio will be in charge of swordsmanship class for the boys and Marchioness Melody shall teach etiquettes of high society to the girls. you may fish out information from your students as well. now dismissed." Ordered Principal Oberon.
"I wonder what's for dinner... I'm getting a bit hungry hehe..." said Sophia.
Rhydian pinched her cheeks and teased her "you have a round face, you love food a bit too much that i worry your cheeks would get too chubby one day..."
"Hey hey heyy, it hurts and tickles, stop" exclaimed Sophia.
"Ugh Get a room please!" exclaimed Peter.
"Peter you were still here? I thought you had stayed behind." said Melody nonchalantly.
" You're breaking my heart here you know...just because I barely had any lines in the past few adventures does not mean that I'm invisible (it's the writer's fault for not giving me lines and for making the readers and main characters forget about me humph) You see I've been there all along. So if you adults are going to act like foolish lovey dovey teenagers , go get a room..." said Peter coldly and he departed with the boys to the male dorms.
"Sophia, what shall we do, he said we should get a room, should we?" smirked Rhydian. Sophia's face flushed and yelled at him "Y-y-youuuu perverttttt, I do not condone such perverse thoughts of yours humph." Rhydian chuckled "My little lass, what exactly am I thinking? I thought we could have fun playing a game of chess while having tea and biscuits and discussing the matter at hand.In this case, aren't you the little pervert here and not I? Let's go and discuss it in Oberon's Library where you slept in last night my little pervert." having said that, he patted Sophia's head and departed in the direction of the said library. Meanwhile Sophia went white and froze.
"Rhydian! you cheeky trickster!! I'm not a pervert!!!! oh hey wait up!" exclaimed Sophia at the top of her lungs and followed after the rest of her crew mates.
The discussion between the crew mates and club members went well and it was time to attend dinner in the great dining hall. Some delicious petit fours such as meat pastries, samossa, Taro leaf fried cakes, petit chou etc were served, then a most luxurious creamy mushroom soup, bread, stir fried brocolis, sauteed carrots in sesame oil and garlic, sauteed corn in butter and beef steak was served accompanied with Jasmine tea as beverage and lastly yagwa was served for dessert. "An excellent dinner it was" exclaimed Sophia and the others agreed.
few hours later all students and staff were all ready for bed, all bathed and were in their night robes, it was time to clock out and sleep. Rhydian and Sophia went to the library again to play a game of chess and Oberon had Ludmilla serve them tea and biscuits. The game was quite intense and both won't give in to the other. In the end it was a draw.
"So what do you think of the situation at hand?" asked Rhydian.
" I don't know, I'm not sure right now, let me go find some archives dated when the old school building was still in use, I also want to find the log diary of the members of the club during the past decade." said Sophia who got up to go find those but was suddenly flailing and Rhydian who quickly rose to catch her and stop her fall ended up tumbling and falling over with Sophia in his arms on the sofa. They stared at each other for a while, feeling the urge to kiss passionately when they heard a big 'Thud' sound that startled them. They listened carefully again and heard what sounded like something heavy was being forcefully dragged. Then a loud crash of thunder and lightning started followed by heavy rainfall as the storm was indeed still ongoing.