Reality
Summary: The strange things always happen in anyone's life. So what will happen if they land onto a secondary school which has a long history? The mystery bases on the true story in my school. You will find it quite scary. Some characters's names and the school's name are replaced.
(A/n: Thank you everyone for viewing. Sorry for the spelling and grammars mistakes. From chapter 4 there will be a lot of things that related to history and uncommon things so I will explain it by remarks. )
Disclaimer: I do not own TRC. It belongs to CLAMP. I only own the students and teachers in X school.
Pairings: Kurofai, SyaoSaku.
Chapter 4: The bomb shelter
Another peaceful night at X school, wind blew through the school yard and the temperature became lower. The moonlight was dancing on the ground, along with the leaves.
But behind a big poster, there were 9 shadows, correctly, 10, were whispering to each other.
"Did you all call your parents?"
"Yes." Four of them answered.
"Good."
"Oi, how did you explain to your parents?" The dark voice echoed.
"We usually stay at night at Charlotte's house, so we told them that we slept over tonight. Luckily, her parents aren't at home, so we could follow the plan."
"Should I say you are clever or good at lying?" A light giggle.
Yes, they were the INSANE team and the travellers.
Charlotte came out and looked over the window (*).
"Ok, all clear. PP, you two get out first."
Polly and Petria followed her to the small, old and husky door that was sticked to the wall under the stairs. If just looked from the outside, no one would recognized it. Even the travellers agreed that its cover was designed very well.
Because it was a bomb shelter – the only way to go underground in this school.
They moved the table which blocked in front of the door very carefully, and tried to opened it.
After a while, made sure that no one approached, Charlotte gave the others a signal and all of them sneaked out and sat around the table.
"Should we go down now?" Syaoran asked impatiently. Nicole frown:
"We should prepare first. Take the boots, gloves and a hat. You must always hold a flashlight because it's really dark down there."
Taking all the necessary things, Charlotte looked people at once:
"Who is going?"
"Me!" Syaoran, Petria and Polly raised their hands immediately. Then Fai and Kurogane.
"Alright, I'm the leader. Nicole, Nonoe, Sakura, you stay here. Keep your eyes open okay?"
"Yes…" Sakura and Nonoe said weakly. Nicole nodded but still stared at the window.
"Before going, I have two conditions. First, stick together, no matter what happens. The place we are going to is like a maze, I'm not sure if you are save or not once you get lost. And…"
Everyone looked at her nervously…
"I will keep Mokona, she is so cute that I can't even leave!" She grabbed the white creature on Kurogane's shoulder.
"…"
The team opened the door. Darkness was the only thing they could see from their high positions. Turning on the flashlights, they stepped down.
"Good luck." Nonoe whispered when the door was closed.
"Will they be fine?" Sakura looked at her new friends. Nicole comforted with a smile:
"Don't worry. After all, we had went down for three times and everything was fine." Well, except Nonoe, who fell and wet her shirt, but Nicole would never tell Sakura about that accident.
"But somehow I think things won't go easy this time…" Listening to Nonoe's mumbles, she sighed. Because she felt the same.
"It's a quite deep stairs." Kurogane commented. Polly opened a small notebook and lighted at it:
"This stairs has exactly 42 steps, the height is about 850 to 900 m."
"Hyuu~ You girls even took note like that carefully about it ?" Fai surprised.
"Stop your stupid 'hyuu' already!" The black man yelled. His voice echoed around them. Mokona reprimanded:
"Kuro-puu, you scared everyone with your barking!"
"You manjuu, do you believe that I will eat you right after we get out of here?!" He reached Mokona, but failed because of small hands in front of him. Charlotte stared at the black-haired man:
"Hey, don't you dare do anything with her!"
"Kuro-tan is yelled, Kuro-tan is yelled~" Fai and Mokona sang.
"Why am I stucking with an idiot and a talking pork bun?" He massaged his temples. Petria grinned:
"I think you deserved it."
"Absolutely right." Everyone nodded – except Kurogane, of course, and Syaoran. He reminded them:
"Quickly please, no time for teasing!" So they moved on, ignored the swearings and threatenings like "You will regret!" from the tall man.
The tunnel were getting darker, and when flashlights lighted at a wall, they stopped. In front of them, the road was splitted into two ways. All the gound was filled with water(**), and some rubbish as well.
"From now on, I think we should divided into two groups. You can choose."
As the captain, Charlotte ordered.
"I will go with Kuro-daddy!" Fai grabbed Kurogane's hand. He growled:
"Why do I have to go with you?!"
"Right. Polly, you go with them to the left. I, Syaoran and Petria will go this way." She pointed to the right.
"Ok."
"Hey, what's this?" A millisecond after Polly's nod, Fai found a white bag in the left's entrance. The bag looked really big and bulging. Charlotte turned her head back:
"That? Don't open it!"
"Huh?"
"There is a dead body inside!" Petria added. Fai smiled:
"This isn't a good joke." He flipped the bag up. It was empty.
"Ha ha, we just want to know if you are smart or not." She glared at him.
"Childish." Kurogane smirked.
When they were laughing, the bag suddenly glowed and nobody noticed. Hardly when they separated then the light tentacles which was growing out of it rolled around Fai's legs. He gasped and fell down. Kurogane was the nearest one and hold his arm. Fai tried to push them away but he couldn't and neither could the ninja pull the wizard.
"Damn it!" He swore. He could have left Fai's hand, but he held even more tightly. They were being dragged into the shining hole. The right team has left a few steps but recognized something was wrong they turned around.
"What's going on?" Polly ran to them, but she was stopped by an invisible wall. The same with Charlotte and Petria. Syaoran came last, because he went too far, and too late to catch them. They could only inert looked at both of them dissapeared after a final blinding lights. Along with the now-mystery bag.
"Ouch!" Fai massaged his pounding head and pushed the ground.
'Eh? Why is the ground so soft and warm? And why can't I move my right hand?'
He opened his eyes and immediately saw a tanned skin man's face. He froze.
It was Kurogane.
"Uh…" The ninja groaned. Fai pulled his hand away, blushed sightly, and got off his body.
"Ku…Kuro-tan…"
"Shit, mage!" Making sure Fai and himself was fine, Kurogane shouted. "Now you make us not only be kicked into the middle of nowhere, but also be a joke in front of the kids!"
"I'm sorry. I didn't know we will be like this…" Fai pouted, and pointed at him. "But didn't you agree with me at that time?"
"…" Now Kurogane was speechless.
"Wait… Do you smell that?"
"What?" He looked around them. The thick smog was floating everywhere. They couldn't see anything but the brown ground under their foots. Kurogane sniffed, and frown:
"Blood. Also pungent smell."
"Yes." The blonde suddenly grinned. "Doesn't Kuro-sama have a dog's nose?"
"Shut up!" Kurogane grabbed Fai's shirt.
Suddenly, the ground was shaking, and then a big noise. Dust, sand, rocks and something more flew everywhere. They covered ears, eyes and sat down.
The shaking finally stopped after three minutes.
The smog faded away and they could catch the vision.
"Now where are we?" Kurogane growled.
But their eyes opened wide.
It was a war.
(*): This is a design from my school. The hallway has windows, and so does classes.
(**):The bomb shelter was really filled with water. We haven't known where it comes from yet, but definatly not from the plumbing leaks.
History appearances: The bomb shelter was built in the beginning of the resistance against the French colonialists. My school was the Zone 2 in this war.
Happy Tet holiday everyone!^^ And the next chapter will be updated late *cry*