Richard O'Brien owns everything, except for characters and things that I create. I think I might put my other stories on hold and concentrate on this one for a while. Enjoy :)
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Magenta was sound asleep, snoring softly. The light from the ever present moon shone through a chink in the velvet red curtains of her bed chamber, and it splashed across her face, illuminating her as if she were a Goddess or an angel. To the man running into the house and making his way into the bedroom, she was.
Riff Raff did not bother to be quiet as he barged in, for his intentions were to wake the whole household anyway. He started to shake his sister's shoulders to arouse her from her deep sleep. He shook them softly as to not alarm her too much, but hard enough for her to awake. She rolled over to face him and, blearily eyed, she flopped her hand onto his bony shoulder.
"Vhat is zit, Riff darling?" She mumbled in a croaky voice.
"We have to leave, now. Gather the children and I'll pack everything we'll need. Just be quick and I'll explain later" Riff Raff replied hurriedly.
"Explain now and we can try to sort this out" Magenta soothed, propping herself up on her elbows and rubbing the light sleep from her eyes.
"They've found out that we are incestuous," Riff Raff explained. Magenta suddenly sat bolt upright, fully alert and awake.
"Who have?" She demanded to know.
"The Furter's" Riff Raff replied bitterly. Hatred clung to every letter of his short sentence.
'The Furters' were the royal family that ruled Transexual. They wasted no time in punishing their people for crimes. If they arrested them then they were sure to be sentenced to death, their children too.
"Oh Goddess no!" Magenta whispered. She held her face in her hands and her brother comfortingly wrapped a skinny arm around her shoulders, "Vhere shall we go?" Magenta asked, her voice muffled by her hands. Riff Raff was hesitant before he replied.
"I'm sorry my darling, but I'm afraid we must return to Earth" He said softly.
Magenta looked up and firmly shook her head, so that her auburn hair flew about, "No, no, no!" She said.
"I know how much you hate it, Goddess I feel the same way! But it is our only chance of safety and we must" Riff Raff cupped her chin in his hands and kissed her softly on the lips, then he looked deeply into her eyes, "Now please" he said, "Follow my further instructions.
In a daze, Magenta nodded and swung her legs out of bed. Fighting back the tears she stumbled out onto the landing to wake her beloved children.
Ember's room was the closest. Magenta carefully opened the door to her daughter's bedroom and tiptoed across the room. She had no idea to as to why she was being so careful and quiet. Ember slept curled up in a little ball, her legs tucked under her chin and her mouth making little sucking sounds. The image of cuteness and innocence.
The tiny claws of her black kitten, Phineas, clung to the front of her white cotton nightdress. Ember was insistent that the cat, which she had received for her last Birthday from her parents, came with her everywhere. This included bed. The only place Phineas did not venture into with her was the Academy.
Magenta slowly lowered herself onto the bed, making the mattress creak, and removed the kitten from her daughter's chest. She placed it onto her knee and stroked it behind the ears.
Cats were unheard of on Transexual and that fact made Phineas extremely special, seeing as he was the only one of his species on the planet. This was the reason why Ember loved him and cherished him so dearly.
Magenta smiled to herself as she remembered how Phineas had came to be on the planet; whilst on the seven hour journey from Earth to Transexual, Riff Raff and she had decided to search the house on which they were travelling. They had found Phineas among the sequined garments of Columbia's wardrobe (but not was not a time to be thinking of Columbia). So Riff Raff had decided to freeze the creature and keep it preserved in chemicals. Eight years later, when it was Ember's twelfth Birthday, he had unfrozen Phineas and gave him to his delighted daughter as her present.
"Ember sweetheart, wake up" Magenta said, stroking her daughter's hair.
Ember's hair was curled and poofy, utterly uncontrollable, like her mother's. But the colour of it was blonde like her father's. And in the sun that graced Transexual with its golden presence every three years, it tinged auburn. Ember had her father's long face but her mother's beauty and height. She was a light sleeper, they all were, and soon sat up to face her mother, looking at her intently with her large crystal blue eyes.
"Is it time to go to the Academy?" She asked.
"No dear, but we have to leave. So please pack lightly and go down into ze hall to vait," Magenta replied.
"Why?" Ember asked, though she was already out of bed and stuffing few of her belongings into a bag.
"Just do as I say and your fazher promises to explain later" Magenta said. She kissed the top of her daughter's head as she passed her to leave.
Next was Titan's room. Titan was seventeen and the eldest child. He was rebellious with no respect for anyone. Riff Raff disliked him and they were forever arguing, but Magenta tried her hardest with him, feeling she had failed him as a mother and believing it was her fault he was this way.
Titan slept on his stomach, his legs and arms sprawled out. His ruffled black hair that reached the nape of his neck covered the ivory skin of his face. He snored loudly as he slept and Magenta suppressed a light chuckle. Titan took up the whole bed so Magenta simply knelt beside him on the floor, poking his arm and shaking him.
"Whatsamatter?" Titan mumbled.
"Titan wake up. We have to leave" Magenta said slowly, as if to make sure the words make sense to him in his sleeping state.
"Why?" Titan asked. He pushed his mother's hands away and sat up, pushing his hair out of his eyes to reveal his handsome face. He was naked except for a pair of black boxer shorts. He stared at his mother with murky, yet bright, green eyes.
"I'll tell you vhat I told your sister; just pack lightly and everyzhing vill be explained soon" Magenta said.
"No, I want answers" Titan shook his head, crossing his arms across his chest. Magenta laughed at his stubbornness, so much like her own.
"Oh I should of known you would have been the difficult one" Riff Raff said, appearing in the doorway, "Just put some decent clothes on and do as your mother says" He ordered.
"I'm sure whatever it is can wait for morning" Titan shrugged, and slipped back under the covers. Riff Raff stomped forwards and grabbed his sons arm, dragging him out of bed.
"Riff!" Magenta cried.
"Get the hell of me!" Titan shouted. He shrugged away from his father's grip and stood up.
"Good, now pack your things!" Riff Raff said. He smiled, pleasantly so, and left. Titan rubbed his arm and spat insults under his breath.
"You know not to anger him, Titan" Magenta said.
She rose from her place on the floor and smiled slightly at her son. Then she too left, but turned around at the doorway to make sure he was doing as he was asked. Thankfully, he was.
The last child to wake up was Troy. But he was only three months old and so all Magenta had to do was lean down into his crib and take him in her arms. He had wisps of blonde hair on his tiny head and was quite chubby. His fingers curled and his mouth puckered, as if he were going to start crying. Magenta sshed and rocked him.
"All set?" Riff Raff asked, appearing behind her. He wrapped his arms around her stomach and kissed her cheek.
"Yes. Did you pack all my things for me?" Magenta replied.
"Yes" Riff Raff said.
"And Riff … be easy on Titan, please?" Magenta said, biting her lip. She knew how short tempered Riff Raff could be, and the subject was never easy.
"He needs discipline Magenta! He has no respect for anybody" Riff Raff snapped.
"Yes, but zits ze vay you handle him! You remember how Dad…" Magenta was cut off as Riff Raff pulled her away.
"Its time to go" He said.
They left the nursery and stole quick glances into all of the rooms of the house. Riff Raff stopped at the steps to the basement, where his lab was kept. But he knew he couldn't take his equitment with him and walked away. Then they joined their two other children in the hall. Ember looked quite content and was pirouetting up and down the hall. Titan looked moody, as always, and simply glared at his father as he came walking towards them.
"Lets go. Quietly now" Riff Raff ordered. He opened the front door and his family filtered out. He closed the door behind him as he too left, but didn't bother to lock it.
They were all trudging across the garden until Magenta stopped, holding them all up. She lingered outside the block where she kept her Alsations, 'the kennels' she called it.
"Oh Riff I can't leave zhem! Zhey vill die" Magenta cried.
"We can't take them with us" Riff Raff shook his head.
"Oh please? Just my favourites?" Magenta begged.
Riff Raff sighed, he could never refuse his sister anything. She was definately his weakest spot. He sighed.
"Oh very well! Just your favourites though" He agreed.
"Oh zank you darling!" Magenta smiled and kissed him.
The dogs started to bark loudly as she entered the kennels, but just by raising one of her hands they grew silent. Magenta took three leashes from the many on the hook on the wall. She already knew who she was going to take with her; Basta, Mortimer and Trixie. They were all siblings and had always been her favourties. She opened the shared pen they had together and tied them all up.
"Sorry" Magenta said before leaving. She knew no one else would be there to care for her other animals, and so they would die. She felt awful but knew there was no way she could take all of them back to Earth with her, and was just thankful she could take the three she had.
"No more detours?" Riff Raff asked as Magenta joined them back outside. They all shook their heads, "Great. Then lets go!"
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I'm away for the weekend now so I won't be posting anymore until I get back. Please review if you have read this! Thanks :)