Hello! Sorry, for not updating. I know I've been a real bad girl, so don't... hurt... me... I hope I get all the OC's right. I want to know if they are good! SOMEONE TELL ME! Sorry if they're all a little bit mad in this chapter. I mean, if you got the love of your life suddenly ripped out of your knowing gaze, wouldn't you be angry too?
All Elizabeth received was a blank stare from three multicolored sets of eyes.
"Are you kidding me?" All three of them said at once. Elizabeth nodded slowly. "What do they look like? Where are they? What is going on?" Yuki asked frantically. Elizabeth held up her hands.
"Well... there was this cellar... and I was in it, I guess." She started. "And I went over to a cupboard-ish thing... and there was a trunk. I opened it, and there were just little things in there." She said, realizing what was coming out of her mouth made her sound crazy. "What tipped me off was that there was a card, a playing card, with a single heart on it and... Joker's whip." She said. Leanne must have seen the hurt in her eyes, because she laid her hand on Elizabeth's.
"Well... what do we do now?" Styrr's question broke the silence, and everyone started yelling at once. To an extent, they were all yelling the same thing.
"Obviously we go look for them!" An annoyed voice, Leanne's, came from the semi-darkness.
"We have to find a way to that cellar, if it's real. Then we have to find some way to unbreak the spell." Yuki's planning tone gave Elizabeth the chills.
"If we don't find them, who knows what will happen?" Elizabeth found herself yelling. She blushed slightly, hoping no one would notice.
"Okay, okay- I get it, jeez." Styrr said, affronted. "So we need to find them and break whatever magic hoopla that's going on here." Elizabeth knew that Styrr's red eyes were rolling, alone with the sarcasm in her voice.
"Uh... hoopla?" Elizabeth's small voice said questioningly. "Um..."
"I don't care about this right now, let's go back to sleep. In the morning, when we can actually SEE the sun, we'll set off." Yuki's voice sounded a bit annoyed that she hadn't gotten enough sleep.
This time, when they all laid down, no one was left awake.
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"Holy crap, that's bright." Leanne said, squinting up at the sun.
It was cool in the forest, the nearly unrecognizable forest, Elizabeth noted, and the sun was shining brightly down from the sky. Styrr had ordered everyone out of the tent, folding it up quickly with a grim expression on her face. She then had deposited it in Ace's red coat, and put that in her jacket pocket. How it fit, like the tent, Elizabeth had no idea.
"Where to?" Yuki asked happily, bouncing up and down on her toes. "Where to look?"
"Well... where's the most obvious place to look for something?" Elizabeth said, casting her eyes at the brunette.
"Um... Lost and Found?" She said, frowning. Receiving the Outsider's glare, she commented, "It is the most obvious place to look... you lose something, and go there to find it..." Elizabeth rolled her eyes.
"Not what I meant." Elizabeth replied, rather sassily. She internally smacked herself. "Anyways, I think we should look in Joker's forest."
"You just want to go there because you think he's still there," Styrr commented dryly. Elizabeth blushed again, a red flush creeping up her neck. It was very visible in the sunlight.
"No, I just think... that we should go there!" Elizabeth retorted. With the nodding of the three girls' heads, she turned in a direction. Any direction.
"Do you even know where Joker's forest is?" Leanne's question hit her like a pie in the face. She hung her head in shame.
"Let's go..." Leanne said, pulling her sideways. "It's no use standing here, you'll never be able to kiss him if you stand there like some really wacked-up statue of a lost goat." Elizabeth's blush, still present on her neck, flushed to a deep red color.
After walking through the forest for about thirty minutes, she wondered if they were lost. In an hour, she was almost positive.
"Are we lost?" Elizabeth asked Leanne, who scowled.
"No, we're not! It's just a long way away! We're not all directionally challenged," she snapped, shooting a dagger-glare towards Styrr. The shockingly red-haired girl smiled and waved, and once again, Elizabeth questioned herself if the girl had serious mental problems. And knowing her, she probably did.
"We're here," Leanne said, still scowling. Since Elizabeth had only been in this forest at nighttime, she hadn't noticed the signs and arrows pointing every which direction. Every tree was covered in red, yellow, blue, pink, purple, and every other color signs. She was speechless.
"Wow..." she muttered. "This is confusing..." She wandered around from tree to tree, looking for any sign of a trapdoor. When she found a door embedded in the side of a tree, she opened it.
"Since this is the closest I've found to a trapdoor... I might as well open it," she whispered to herself, twisting the handle slowly in some kind of slow motion action movie scene.
"Well, how are we now, my dearest friend?" A cruel voice slithered its way into Elizabeth's ears. "Looking for someone?" Elizabeth looked up, only to see Claire- a horrifying Claire. Her eyes weren't blue anymore- they were black, and her hair a bleach-white. Elizabeth hadn't really ever noticed appearances- only extreme ones, and this counted as extreme.
"Who are you?" She screamed, pulling her fist back. "What have you done to Claire?" She swung, only to hit something hard. Not-Claire had caught her fist, and was pushing it back towards her.
"Ahh-ahh-ahh! No violence, peace is the answer, friend." Not-Claire said silkily. "Anyways, I'm going to make this 'game' a little more fun. Find the tree with a silver arrow, a brown arrow, a red arrow, and a white arrow on it and look around the back. There's the trapdoor you've been looking for." The evil girl's black eyes seemed to bore into her own. She swallowed.
"How do you change them back?" She asked, her voice a rasp. "How do you get them back to normal?" Not-Claire must have seem something in her eyes- something that made her hiss.
"So you're in love, huh." Not-Claire said dismissively. "Who is it, then? Not that cat, I hope. He's trouble on legs." She hissed after the last words.
"H-how did you know?" She said, quivering with fear.
"I could see it in your eyes, dear. Someone in that trunk is very dear to you." Not-Claire said, smiling. "Like I used to be." Shoving Elizabeth down, the evil thing shut the door with a bang, and it disappeared from sight. Elizabeth sat there, shaking.
"What's up?" Yuki's peppy voice came from behind her. "Find anything?" Helping Elizabeth off the ground, she talked as she walked. "We haven't found anything but trees, trees, and more trees. Oh, and some arrows." Her voice filled the empty space.
"Yuki, we need to find a tree. A special tree." Elizabeth deadpanned.
"Huh? Okay..." The brunette's voice trailed off. "Hey, Styrr! Leanne! C'mere!" She shouted to the others. When they had all gathered around, she started talking.
"We need to find a tree. A big one, I think. It has four arrows on it- one silver, one brown- chocolate colored, I think- one red, and one white." The words sped out of her mouth like a moving train. "Then we need to go around the back of it, and the trapdoor's there." She finished, out of breath. Four girls stared at one another, until someone cracked the ice.
"We'd better get going, there are a lot of trees in this forest."
OKAY~ Hi. I'm sorry.. I looked back and saw that I never really had any kind of appearance for Claire. Um... sorry. Usually she has blue eyes and blonde hair. Blonde hair like regular blonde, not Malfoy. Um... on with the show!
~In the trunk~ (they can talk while they're in the object form... or communicate. Not really talk)
Ace: This is boring...
Vivaldi: How come we never got tea with Elizabeth? Not fair!
Blood: Everyone please shut up, and Elliot, bring me my tea.
Joker: Oh, some SERIOUS crap is gonna go down when we get outta this.
Nightmare: *coughs up blood* How could they curse a sickly demon?
Gray: Maybe it's the doctors again...
Julius: Now I'll have even more clocks to fix...
Gowland: I was working on a new ride! Crap!
... okay, it's not the most sane thing... so... um.. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO REVIEWED!
