A/N: Hello, I… can't think of anything to say actually. So… enjoy this chapter!
(Sorry in advance to all the Mara lovers. She doesn't get taken in this one or anything, there's just some word lashing.)
I don't own House of Anubis. If I did, I would have Nina, Mick, and Amber come back to epically save Sibuna in the last episode, and Jason Winkler would teach history and drama again. And season 4 would be absolutely wonderful!
Chapter 7
Sibuna
Joy's P.O.V.
What… no… I…Mick…
I couldn't help it, I fell to my knees, but I kept myself from sobbing; only shedding tears silently. No one said a thing.
Amber was quietly crying at the loss of yet other friend. Where did he go? Was this like the Senate game? But we're not even in the tunnels!
This isn't fair, why did he have to go? Why was he chosen? Nina was the Chosen One; it made sense when she was taken!
I looked at Fabian, who was trying to console himself. He was running his hands through his hair. I realized, even though Nina was the Chosen One, it wasn't any different. She is still our friend, like Mick is.
They don't deserve this! Why are this stupid spirits so obsessed with being gods or finding scrolls anyways? Can't they see how cruel and unfair they're being?! It makes my blood boil. I can't stand when the innocent are treated unfairly, or taken and forced to do things, like find stupid scrolls!
I'm not going to just sit here and let these spirits win! There is absolutely no way I'm giving up now! We're going to get Mick and Nina back, or die trying! No! Scratch that! We're going to get them back, period. No exceptions.
Once my mind speech was over, I began to calm down a little bit, but then I was overcome with this terrible feeling, like someone was yanking on my heart. I began to cry again. I realized that the feeling was from losing Mick. I wanted to sob, scream, and throw up all at the same time. Is this was Fabian felt like; wanting Nina to be back just like I wanted Mick to still be right next to me.
Suddenly, I realized another thing, if I was feeling the same thing Fabian feels, and it's pretty obvious that he's in love with Nina, does that mean… I'm in love with Mick?
My mind got side tracked from the problem at hand, and I smiled despite my sadness. Did I love Mick? As I was pondering this strange but surprisingly brilliant thought, Mara spoke up, after choking back a sob.
"I just… don't know what to say," she said, I wondered where she was going with this, "I wish I hadn't told him how I felt; he was just so sad these last few day. He was just so in love with me, I didn't want to hurt him. I'm going to miss him so much!" She said, and then buried her face in her hands. No! If my blood was boiling before, then I was burning right now!
"No!" Everyone looked at me in surprise, "You didn't care about him at all!" Mara looked at me in confusion.
"What?" she asked. Like she had no idea what I was talking about.
"You pretend like you care, but you don't! I know you don't! You broke his heart! First, by kissing Jerome when you were still dating him and he flew halfway around the world to see you! Then, he stayed just so he could prove to you he still loved you, even after that, and you turn him down! Plus you practically avoid his questions for weeks, leaving him confused and depressed, and you purposely try to get away from him every second you get, and flash around that you're dating Jerome all the time!
"You think he doesn't deserve you after he went to Australia (which, by the way, you let him go in the first place), but you don't deserve him! He's been sweet and caring to you all this time, but you toss him away without a second thought! You weren't ever trying to be his friend!
"You don't care about him, and yet, your saying you'll miss him! Here's a suggestion: let the people who love him miss him. While you and Jerome can continue your little love fest like nothing's ever happened." I turned around with tears in my eyes and walked quickly up the stairs, leaving everyone shocked behind me. I heard a few pairs of footsteps following. I seriously doubted any of them were Mara.
You may be wondering whether or not I care that I probably hurt Mara's feelings. Well I don't… okay maybe a little, but that's not the point. She needed to hear it. If she had cared about Mick at all, she should have showed it before it was too late. She doesn't even know how much I like him. She needed to take a hint.
"Joy!" Patricia said when we entered our room. Amber, Fabian, and Eddie had come up as well. Alfie probably decide it was best to go to his room or something, and not come up. He was Jerome's best friend after all, and he most likely didn't want to offend him by "siding" with me, who was against his girlfriend.
"What was that all about?" Amber asked. For a moment, I wanted to hang my head in embarrassment, but then I decided to stand behind my argument.
"I mean what I said, she doesn't care about him, and she shouldn't have pretended that she did when she had already caused him all that pain." I said calmly.
"She does have a point," Patricia agreed, "I mean, all the things Joy said Mara did were true. I have to admit, she stabbed him pretty hard." I silently thanked her with my eyes.
"I thought it was cool." Said Eddie as he made himself at home on the nearest bed.
"Your both right, Patricia and Joy I mean," Fabian said looking pointedly at Eddie. I gave a slight giggle, "Mick had been so set on getting her back, and she let him down hard."
Amber turned to me, while Eddie faked hurt, "Joy," she said, "Is there another reason you lashed out at Mara over the subject of Mick?" she raised her eyebrows.
"What are you talking about Amber?" I said, trying to hide the embarrassment in my voice. Did she know I liked him?
"Do you like him?" Of course she knows.
I looked around the room. Fabian and Eddie stopped their conversation, Patricia was smirking, Amber was smiling super wide and clasping her hands in anticipation, and I was probably was as red as a fire truck. "No! Of course not! Why would you think that?" I sighed and sat on my bed, "Yes." I decided again that I wouldn't be humiliated by this. I smiled and looked up.
"Really?" Amber asked, and her smile widened (how? I do not know). I nodded confidently.
"That's great Joy!" Fabian said with a smile. I smiled back, "Now you could tell him, and he wouldn't be so down anymore… oh." My eyes went downcast. Fabian's smile vanished in an instant when he realized what he said, "Sorry. I just forgot for a second. Are you alright Joy?" I looked back up and wiped the few tears that escaped.
I nodded. "Maybe… we should go to bed," Amber suggested, probably wanting to spare my feelings, "We can figure out everything out tomorrow."
Eddie nodded, "Yeah, our first question will be 'what do we tell Trudy?' That'll be fun." We laughed along with him, even though deciding this would be no easy feat.
Alfie's P.O.V.
I don't know what to think about all this. I thought the house was done with 'claiming' people. It was bad enough that Nina was gone, but now Mick! This is getting worse and worse. I don't think the others are realizing this, but-
"Morning Alfie," Fabian said as he entered the room for breakfast. I noticed his voice sounded happy, but his face said something else. Nina used to do this, to keep us feeling like we didn't need to worry. That was one of the things I missed about Nina, she put on a brave face for our sake, even when she was as scarred as all of us. Fabian knew she did that too.
"Sup. So…" I paused as he looked up, "do you think that…" I was interrupted by Patricia and Amber entering the room.
"Hello everyone," Amber said, "I didn't sleep a wink all night!" she said. I smiled.
"But you still look as beautiful as ever." She smiled at me.
"Aw Alfie, you're so sweet!" she sat next to me as Patricia rolled her eyes at us from the far end of the table. Fabian was silently chuckling.
Jerome came in with an unreadable expression. I knew he was furious with Joy because of how she talked to Mara.
I decided to not get involved in any of that last night. We had more important things to worry about. We needed to focus on finding our friends, rather than fighting over things like this.
Speaking of fighting, of course Joy and Mara came in at the same time. (Eddie walked in with them too, but he made a smart choice by dashing out of the way, and to the comfort of the breakfast before us.) Mara glared at Joy, but surprisingly all Joy did was smile and sit down in her spot. Mara blinked, but said nothing.
"Morning sweeties!" said a bubbly Trudy. "How are you all today?" we looked to each other, none of us wanted to share the news. And surely none of us wanted to tell her the truth.
"We're great Trudy." Jerome said, with enough happiness in his voice to convince her.
She was about to go back to the kitchen, but then she stopped, "Where's Mick today?" she asked. We looked at each other again, "Surely he's not out for a run again, after last time. There was practically a blizzard last night!" she chuckled slightly, "Fabian. Eddie. Do either of you know where he is?"
"Um…" Fabian was at a loss for words. What could he possibly tell her? In a split second I decided to speak up.
"He's gone. He fell through the floor, and we think that the same thing happened to Nina. The only way we can save them is to find an ancient scroll and give it to something called Ami!" The others stared at me, shocked. Fabian was giving me the 'Shut Up!' look. Trudy looked as surprised as the others, but then she started to laugh.
"Okay Alfie, whatever you say," she giggled, "Now where's Mick?" She looked around at all of us, and found that we all wore serious faces. Suddenly her grin faded.
"Oh, you're not serious, are you?" she pointed at us, "after last time, and it was nothing…" She was referring to the time Fabian, Nina, Amber, and Patricia tried to tell Trudy about the first mystery and Victor's general creepiness.
"Trudy, that's just it," Patricia said. "It wasn't nothing. Not last time. Not this time. You have to believe us." At that moment, I saw something in Patricia's eyes. They showed complete desperation. She needed Trudy to believe us. I think Trudy saw it too…
Amber's P.O.V.
Trudy decided that she would trust us one more time, but if things went like the last time we tried to tell her about the mystery… Well, they just won't! We made sure of it. Surprisingly, Victor was still sleeping, so that meant he couldn't go down to the cellar to hide everything this time, and ruin our first stop on the "Mystery through the Years" tour.
Eddie, ignoring Trudy's protests, unlocked the cellar door with a hanger, and we went down one by one.
"Oh my word!" Trudy shrieked when she saw the terrible, and creepy, truth.
"I know, right. Isn't it disturbing?" I said to the shocked Trudy.
"And all these chemicals were down here the whole time?" she asked. Fabian nodded.
"Two years ago, this freaked us all out to, but it isn't the worst part, sadly. There's more," he said. Trudy opened her mouth, but said nothing.
Joy went to the shelf and spun the numbers to read '1890' while Trudy watched incredulously. Based on how she reacted to Victor's chemicals, I can't even imagine how she would take the sight of huge, dangerous tunnel work under the house.
The door opened, "Oh my!" Trudy shrieked. We began to walk into the study, but Trudy stopped us, "Is it safe?" she asked. Fabian chuckled, and then nodded in reassurance. Trudy hesitantly followed.
She marveled at the room she never knew existed, "It's Robert Frobisher-Smithe's study," Fabian explained, "and behind the book shelf…" he gestured to the shelf, and Alfie got ready to pull the book out.
Wait! Pause! Hold on! Okay, let me fill you in on some very important information.
Last week, I had a genius idea! With myself being the first person to be blinded by the booby trap behind the bookshelf, I didn't want that to happen again, to me or anyone else. I knew that we didn't have enough amulets for everyone, and we couldn't go through the library all the time, so I thought,
"Why can't we just use a mirror? It's just a light anyways."
And then Fabian was all, "Amber you're a genius! You're totally the brains of the group!" Okay, maybe no the last part, but I'm still a genius.
(A/N: Sorry, I know Eddie is the one with this idea, but I thought Amber should have the idea instead… sorry again, I just love Amber so much.)
We all had our mirrors ready, and decided to carry them with us everywhere, just incase. Mara's mirror was by far the cutest; it was a cute little compact with a beautiful flower design on the back.
Fabian was so adorable, he went up to my room a few days ago, in need of a mirror. He asked if he could take out Nina's box (you know, the one she kept everything to do with the mystery in), and took out her music box mirror. The one from the reflector task. I smiled as he left. It was like he had a piece of her everywhere he went. So cute!
This has been an Amber Update.
Okay! Back to the bookshelf, I handed Trudy an extra mirror, "What's this for?"
"There's a trap behind the door," I clarified as she took the mirror from my hand, "Hold it in front of your face, it'll protect you." Alfie pulled the book out, and he turned around into the tunnels with Jerome and Eddie. Trudy's eyes widened again, but I think she was getting used to the surprises by now. I took her hand, and led her to the entrance of the tunnels.
"Are you sure about this?"
"Yes Trudy, we'll be fine, I promise. You'll just have to trust us." She held my hand as Fabian stood on the other side of her and pulled out the book.
We held our mirrors in front of our eyes. Trudy jumped as the light started to appear, but it was over in a few seconds, and we relaxed as we found that our plan had worked.
"Brilliant Amber, simply brilliant," Fabian said with as he high fived me, this time the full five, not just a three.
Joy, Mara and Patricia joined us, and we headed to the third task after the cube-triangle thing, hopscotch… deadly hopscotch.
Patricia's P.O.V
Hopscotch was up next, and honestly, I was a little worried. Mara, Jerome, and Trudy have never done it before. I was scared for Trudy the most, I wondered if she had ever played hopscotch. She probably has, but I couldn't be too sure.
We went over the pattern, and Amber, the best out of all of us at this task, demonstrated. Then I went, and then Alfie, Fabian, and Joy. We couched Mara through easily, and Jerome managed, but was slightly hesitant. Last was Trudy.
"Okay come on Trudy! You can do it!" Joy and Amber cheered. Fabian spoke out the animals and Trudy did her best to jump to the right tiles.
She reached the end without one mistake, "Yes!" she shouted and we all hugged her at once.
"Okay, time for the next task," Eddie said. Trudy's eyes widened.
"There's more?" she asked. We laughed.
"Unfortunately," I sighed.
We passed the beam test with surprising success, and of course the fear tunnel, spider web, chemical, horn, and reflector tasks were nothing because they were already solved and we could walk straight through, smirking at their patheticness.
Lastly was the Senate game. Ah… such great memories… pitfalls and what not.
"So… you just fell, through the floor, if you made a wrong move."
"Pretty much," I said. Joy explained to her how the game worked, the consequences… excreta.
"This is all so unreal, I…" Trudy paused, "So, Victor has been part of this, this whole time and I never knew about it?"
"Yes, unfortunately, but there's much more to the story other than these tunnels. If you'll listen," said Fabian.
"Okay, but… start from the beginning, I want to hear everything."
Jerome's P.O.V.
Okay, just a few things left to share with Trudy, and to her it might not be, uh, great news per say.
"So," she said, "Where exactly are Nina and Mick?" Fabian and Joy both looked downcast.
"The house, like, claimed them. You could put it that way, I guess." Alfie answered when no one else did, "We don't know where they are… but… we're going to get them back."
Still Jerome's P.O.V.
So Trudy was in, so I guess we don't have to hide anymore. Oh wait, Victor. Well that certainly puts a damper on things. I honestly thought he would be dead by now… eh, maybe we'll just wait a few more days…
Not that he was that much of a threat anymore; he barely comes out of his office. I guess his days of failing at making elixir, forming pathetic societies, and being defeated by teenagers about 4/25th of his age are over.
That last sentence was really depressing. He needs to get a girlfriend. Wait, no. That'd be weird. I guess there really isn't any hope for him. Oh well, he'll survive… maybe. I'm still giving it a few more days.
There is something else (besides Victor) that needs to be addressed. Joy Mercer. I thought she was done bashing everyone, or at least Mara. What was her problem anyways? All Mara did was show sympathy for losing Mick, like any normal person would, and Joy explodes at her.
Mick got what he deserved when Mara turned him down; he gave her up for Australia. He shouldn't have expected her to just drop everything and date him again. Ridiculous.
And now Mara feels guilty, and she doesn't need to. Goodness, this house, I swear there's something wrong with all of us…
A/N: I am so sorry this took so long! Usually chapters only took me a few hours, but I kept getting distracted, so I've been working on this one since last Sunday! Ah!
I had so much homework this week in English. We had to write 3 poems (1 concrete, 1 lyric and 1 ode. I still need to finish the last one by the way) and we also have a poetry log to do on top. Sigh… now we're starting to read And then There Were None by Agatha Christie, so I probably won't have so much to do in English.
I might do another chapter today even, maybe tomorrow.
Please, please, please, tell me how I'm doing. What do you like, what do you dislike, what can I change, how can I make it better? Please tell me!
How did you like the Amber Update? I thought it was very… Amber-ish.
Oh, and what couple do you want to go on a date in the next few chapters? I was thinking Eddie and Patricia. But I could also do Alfie and Amber or Jerome and Mara, if you like.
Sorry if you didn't like the drama between Mara and Joy this chapter, but I thought this was how they might react.
How did you like everything with Trudy? Was it rushed or boring?
I know a lot of people ask questions at the end of chapters, so I thought, why not?
What's your favorite line from all three seasons of House of Anubis?
Farewell
-I'm not saying anything without my lawyer.
