The elevator door opens one last time before the group of boys let out an amazed sigh.
"And this floor is your living quarters." Zexion finishes as she walks out of the elevator and shows off the floor.
Just as they got off the elevator, the boys stepped on a soft cream colored carpeting that made up most of the room. To their left was a black themed kitchen with a gray granite island and a large stainless steel refrigerator. And to their right was a one sided window that took up nearly the entire length of the wall before it stopped at the edge of the large bookcase filled with different books, movies, and cds. Also hanging on the wall was a large flat screen tv that looked very expensive and too beautiful to touch.
"This is fancy!" Sasuke comments as he jumps onto the sofa and sinks into it.
"Is the fridge always stocked?" Musashi asks as he walks to the refrigerator and opens it to find so much different foods that he hasn't seen ever, since he is American, and drooled slightly at the beautiful sight of it.
"Not bad." Goemon nods his head and looks around the room before noticing the pile of suitcases that he believes are theirs.
"I'm not done. This is just the living room and kitchen. I shall show you to your rooms." The boys follow Zexion again and stand in front of two doors.
"This door leads to a room with two queen sized beds, a private bath, and also has its own tv in it." They walk into a silver painted room with the two beds lined parallel to each other. They faced the large tv screen that was symmetrically lined in the middle of the room. On the other side of the room was a door that lead to a good sized bathroom with a walk in shower surrounded by glass walls and lined with pebbles.
"Where's the closet?" Kotaro asks.
His question causes Zexion to grin before she walks to the opposite side of the room and plants her hand flat on the empty wall, before pushing on it gently and letting the secret wall open. All the boys looked in astonishment as they just witnessed a secret door that was nearly invisible.
"No fucking way!" Sasuke shouts and runs into the walk in closet. "This is so neat!"
"I still need to show you the other room." As the boys follow Zexion out, Kotaro stood still and watched them leave before looking back and throwing his backpack onto one of the bed, silently calling dibs on it.
"This room," She begins as she walks in and shows the room that was slightly bigger than the other. "Is more of a game room than a bedroom. I don't know why."
The room was painted a metallic green with the ceiling painted black. On one of the walls stood another flat screen tv with shelving around it that contained a PS4, xBox One X, and all the games imaginable. Right across from the tv station sat a sofa with a coffee table in front of it. On the farthest wall stood a bunk bed while the closest was also a bunk but had an office space instead of another bed.
Musashi and Sasuke take in the room before looking at each other with a blank stare.
"Top."
"Damn it."
The two walk to the bunk before getting comfortable and looking through all the games.
Saizo sighs. "I guess I'll bunk with them. Keep them from binge gaming."
"Looks like it's just you and me, Kotaro." Goemon looks back at the albino before he finds a slight rosy color dust his cheeks. "Hey, you okay?"
"Fine." He answers before walking away.
"That was easy." Zexion comments before walking back into the hallway.
"Hey, Zexion, what are those two doors for?" Kotaro asks Zexion, making her look back at him with a blank expression.
"Those are our rooms." Goemon and Kotaro look at her in confusion. "Alixa and I don't have our own floor. You're technically rooming with us."
The two look at the black door at the end of the hall and stared at it for a long moment.
"Can we see the rooms?"
Zexion stares at them for a moment before nodding and walking towards the door colored dark navy blue and slowly opens the door, as though not to alarm anything inside. As she opens the door wide enough for the two boys to walk in, a loud hiss was heard and the two find a defensive King Cobra standing tall in front of them with his hood flared out. Spooking the two men, they back into the wall and attempted to flee. But when Zexion casually takes hold of the snakes body and wraps it around her shoulders, Kotaro and Goemon froze and stared at the trap soothing the venomous snake and drop her binder on the desk next to her bed.
"This is Ax." She simply states as she strokes his head.
"You have a fucking pet cobra?!" Goemon hollers at her before the snakes hood flares out again.
"Yes." Blankly answering, Zexion takes him off her shoulders and lays him on the bed before he slithers towards the top and wiggles through the pillows and hides under the comforter.
"Now, you wanna see Alixa's room?"
Goemon and Kotaro look at each other timidly.
"Will there be a crocodile in there?" Zexion could only giggle before walking past them and towards the black door.
Knocking on the door, Zexion quickly opens the door this time and flies out of the door was a black and white fluffy ball before it attacks the albino without warning. Knocking him down onto the ground, the fluffy attacker begins to viciously lick Kotaro's face.
"That is Malu." The giant dog looks up at Zexion as she said his name and he immediately runs towards her. Jumping on his hind legs, he begs the trap for kisses and pets, but when she clicks her tongue and points to the ground, he sits down and stares at her curiously. "This is Alixa's guard dog."
"Well, he would totally keep the place safe by licking the intruder to death." Kotaro sarcastically remarks as he wipes his face.
"Intruder alert. Intruder alert. Lick to death. Apple pie!" Suddenly, a white bird flies out of the room and begins talking to the people on the ground before landing on the dogs back. "Giddy up, doggo. Giddy up, doggo."
"And this is Jax, her cockatoo."
"The bird could talk?" Goemon asks with a raised eyebrow.
"You got a problem? Buddy, eh. You got prob?" Jax raises his crested feathers and bobs his head to the red head. "Square! Square!"
"I think he wants to square up with you." Kotaro suggests as he looks up at Goemon and curls his lips a little in amusement.
"God, well, what else she have? A tiger?" Goemon asks sarcastically.
"No, Jax is as exotic as she gets. But there is someone missing. But he will come out later."
Goemon and Kotaro look back at each other before shrugging their shoulders in unison. Kind of curious what else this singer has hidden to them.
~ Lovely Singing ~
Alixa strums a few strings of her electric guitar before the lyrics in her mind began to sing out to her. Closing her eyes, her fingers count the strings before her hands began to naturally play the guitar to the song in her head. Rocking her body and bobbing her head to the beat, Alixa loses herself in the flow of the music and the strums of the guitar.
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk a…
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone...
She finished the song by throwing her arm in the air. Her heart raced and her mind settled. She let out a deep breath of air before taking off her headphones and dropping them around her neck and taking off the shoulder strap to her guitar off her shoulders. Gently placing it back on its stand, Alixa stretches out her arms above her head lets out a yawn.
"Oh good, you're finished." Looking back, Alixa finds her cousin walking through the door of the instrument room before plopping down on the sofa and letting out a huge sigh.
"What's up?" She asks as she sits next to her and calls over Charm.
"Those guys are just interesting. Sasuke and Musashi get along like friends forever. Saizo is like their babysitter and somehow has a silent bond with Sasuke. Kotaro is Kotaro; gay. And Goemon is getting used to it."
"How was he convinced to come back?"
Zexion shrugs. "I bet your dad has something to do with it. I saw him walking back into the building with him."
Alixa sighs.
"That's another thing he will hold to me. Ugh!"
"And now, the 'Thank You'." Alixa gives her cousin a friendly glare before standing from the sofa and walking towards the door with her dog. "Good luck."
Alixa doesn't reply, only waving her hand before walking out of the room. Leaving Zexion alone with her thoughts.
~ Lovely Singing ~
"Dad?" Alixa peeks through the door of her father's office and finds him sipping on a glass of whiskey and looking through a file of some records.
"Ah, Alixa, come on in." At his words, the girl walks into the office and swiftly made her way to his desk before standing in front of it with her hands behind her back. "What do you need today?" He asks, thinking he knows what she wants from him.
"I just came by to thank you for talking to Goemon. That's it." Alixa declares to her father before bowing deeply; enough to get the tips of her cyan braids to sweep the wooden floors.
"Aw, anytime, sweetie." Her eye twitches at the name. "You know I would do anything for you." Then her eyebrow twitches.
"Yeah…" She simply responds before standing up straight and turning on her heel to get out.
"You heading to your room?"
"Yeah. It's late. I'm gonna get some sleep." Alixa replies to her father before finally getting out of the room and into the hallway.
Making her way down the hallway towards the elevator, Alixa looks to find Charm showing off his canines to the receptionist who just recently was hired and saw her cowering on the top of her desk.
"Three months and you still feel nervous around my dog." Alixa bluntly comments with a scoff before getting on the elevator and firmly calling Charm on with her.
~ Lovely Singing ~
Musashi, Sasuke, Saizo, Goemon, and Kotaro all hung out in the living room. Musashi and Sasuke played with the console with Saizo watching them, Kotaro was on his laptop, and Goemon looked through some of the latest photos from the photoshoot. They were all in their own world until something scratched Sasuke's feet.
"Ahh!" Jumping on top of the sofa, Sasuke screams once again like a girl and spooks everyone in the room.
And at that moment, Alixa and Zexion walk in to find the boys looking around in curiosity and fear before the demon finally showed itself.
"Shujuki!"
Running up to the singer and assistant, a tiny black rabbit runs up to their feet and stood on his hind legs before Alixa bends down and picks up the little black ball.
"Are you scaring people again?" She asks the little bunny and rubs his little nose.
"Oh, that's where he was. I was wondering." Zexion replies nonchalantly and walks away to her room.
The room was silent as the two walk away as though this was normal and leave the boys in the living to leave questions hanging in the air. But the silence doesn't last long before Musashi begins playing again.
"Boom, head shot."