Queen of Hearts: Kiishim? 3-20-10
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Of course, leave it to me to get lost. Hell, I lived in the same town for 11 years and I still don't know the place. I wandered around for awhile until it got dark. I could've sworn I'd seen a tornado, but it seemed unlikely in a place like this. Ehh.
When I got sick and tired of walking in the dark, I scribed my way to Chun'yan's house. It's one of the upsides to being an angel. Well, part angel anyway. I wasn't surprised to see the guys outside.
"Su- What's going on?" Their expressions weren't exactly happy at the moment so I stopped myself from being too... American.
"Why can't I go with you? I need to avenge my mother!"Children, this is how vicious circles are formed. "Isabel-Chan! Help me convince them!"
"Sorry Chun'yan. I can't help you there."
"Well, you're going aren't you?"
"I am? I mean, of course I am."Fail.
"Why can't I go?"
"Because you can't defend yourself-"
"And you can?" I shot a dirty look at Kurogane who wasn't helping my argument.
"...and you need to stay here with Sakura. Believe me." she looked at me with a puppy-dog face that was utterly useless. Those faces don't work on me. I'm the youngest in my family...at least I was...
I walked off with the men, leaving the two girls behind me. A metal pole lay in my path that looked useful. I snatched it up.
"So Isabel-Chan can fight?"
"With daggers, yes. And poles. I'm good with poles." A 'hmmph' noise of disapproval came from Kurogane.
At the castle, we all stood around Syaoran looking at what looked like a mud-ball.
"Well, what do we do with this thing?" Kuro asked, breaking the silence that had formed only moments before.
"I say we-"
"THROW IT! Throw it at the force field!" I hate when small, freakish bunny things cut off my sentences. I couldn't help but flinch, by the way. I have sensitive hearing. I muttered a curse under my breath and nodded in agreement.
Syaoran took one last look at it, threw it into the air and drop kicked that thing into oblivion. I braced myself for a wave of sound that hit us as the barrier shattered.
"I think you broke something." Ah, comic relief. We waltzed in somewhat casually in a hallway that seemed to go on forever with no doors. As we kept walking I kept noticing what looked like a go stone but said nothing. The walking went on until Syaoran cut the silence.
"We're going in circles. I put this pebble here when we first entered just in case something like this happened." How come we didn't see you do that? I thought quietly to myself.
"I sense a strong force behind this wall..." Fai muttered turning to a seemingly normal wall. SEEMINGLY. Now that he had mentioned it, I had been sensing a magical force. I just thought it was him."Kuro-pyon, can you break this wall for me? Here" Fai asked in a sweet voice, handing Kurogane a hammer.
Kurogane just glared and grabbed the hammer. Not that he used it. He Put it into the fold of his shirt and said "Hmph. Please." and with that he punched the wall down. Now I could clearly sense where the energy was coming from.
A middle aged woman sat under a canopy in a grey room, Purple gem on her head sparkling. Nyeh...
We proceeded to walk up to her(much to my discontent). And talk to her.
"Something tells me this isn't going to end well." I whispered to myself. Fai caught my eye and gave me a look that said 'Don't worry.' His comfort wasn't helping and I started feeling worse.
"Hello children." She said in a smooth voice that wasn't helping either.
"Where's Tambal?" Kurogane yelled harshly.
"I suggest you not talk to me that way. You are just humans, insects I can easily crush." Condescending much? "If you want to get to the R'yanban you're going to have to face me first."
"Oh, joy." I mumbled. And in the 2 seconds it took me to voice my opinion, the floor and walls around me changed into a field of stone pillars(one of which I was standing on) and purple bubbles floating in a fog. One hit Syaoran's sleeve, burning it.
"Acid?"
"Precisely."
"Jeez." I deftly dodged a sphere headed straight for my face. I heard a hissing near me and turned to see Syaoran hit the water and figure out the hard way that the lake was acid too.
"Hey Kuro-nya, can you break this?" Fai called from on top of a light post. Kurogane glared but obeyed, breaking the pole in two. The only one without a weapon now was Syaoran.
"Well, the magic at the top seems weaker." Fai observed.
"Maybe we can have Kurogane-sama give Syaoran a boost. I can feel a different magic coming from there." We blocked a couple more spheres before Fai said anything.
"You said Kurogane-SAMA."
"What about it? I'm trying to get used to using titles."
"Yes, but you said Kurogane-SAMA!" I was almost hit in the face as he said this and lost my balance. I was falling toward an acid lake.
Goddamnit.
