Something I just realised, my chapter are getting longer!!!!! Its bitter sweet, it means that I have to write faster to ensure there will still be a chapter to post next week, but you readers get more in each chapter. OH! If none of you have ever read Fruits Basket (it's a manga) then two of the character who are about to turn up may not make sense, don't worry, I shale explain who they work in a later chapter.
Mysterious person #1: Oh! Are you talking to your readers Peanut?
Me: Yes I am
MP #1: Can I say hello?
Me: They're listening *smiled and waves at computer*
MP #1: *Grins and waves as well* Guten Abend! Good evening!
Mysterious person #2: You two are idiot, talking to the computer.
Me: Don't ruin it! Jack, attack him!
Jack: Are you serious? I don't attack people, I do this *pulls one of his awesome cool scary faces and shrieks*
MP #2: *Clinging to roof*
MP #1: hahahahha, he jumped really high.
Me: Nice one Jack!
Ok now that you have met my new character I can also tell you that Steven will be featuring in this chapter!!
Disclaimer: MOOOOOO. A cow.
Read on~!
(Theme song) BAT MAN!
I woke to the sound of footsteps. I rubbed my eyes sleepily and yawned, stretching. As I did my hands smashed into something hard and metallic above me.
"OW!" I cried pulling my hands away and rubbing them, "What the hell?" I asked looking around and realising I was in a cage.
"Geez Peanut. What was that for? You startled me." Jack's voice drifted from above me,
"Oh, yeah. I'm here." I muttered to myself and looked around; Sirius was in dog form again and was curled up against the side of his cage nearest to mine. He was looking at me now, "Don't worry, I'm fine. I had a mental blank, that's all." I smiled and fell silent as I noticed the footsteps were growing louder. Three Lab Coats came down the row two of them carrying a bundle each.
The third Lab Coat opened the cage next to Jack's and one of the other Lab Coats put her bundle inside. Once that cage was locked again, the cage on my left was opened and the last Lab Coats put her bundle in it. They locked the cage and then left. Once their footsteps had disappeared I watched the bundle move a little, then a golden coloured rabbit emerged. It looked around looking frightened then caught sight of me and stared, unmoving.
"Hi there little guy." I smiled, "Now who are you?" I asked, the rabbit simply continued to stare. I sighed and then moved to the front of my cage, "Jack? Who was put in the cage?" I asked,
"Well not anyone really. Just some weird orange cat, perhaps an animal from another dimension?" Jack commented, this caught my attention as well. Hmm, a cat and a rabbit, something stirred in my memory.
"Well fair enough." I said, then lent against the back of my cage to think.
I watched Sirius sleep in his dog form for a while until I heard a fait pop, from the cat's cage and Jack and Sally cried out.
"What?!" I cried suddenly jumping to the front of my cage, "What's wrong?" I asked, but before Jack answered, I heard an identical pop next to me and turned to see a naked blond boy sitting partly covered by the bundle of clothes he'd been put in the cage with. He stared at me as if in shock with his big brown eyes, I tilted my head slightly and started at his face, "Momiji?" I asked quietly, the boy shrunk away from me, "Wait Jack, don't freak out. I know who they are!" I cried suddenly, turning to face his cage as best I could.
"Well that's good. The cat just turned into a boy with red hair." Jack said. He'd moved to the door to his cage, but he wasn't looking at me, he was watching whoever was in the cage next to him uneasily.
"That's Kyo. He's the cat zodiac. Don't worry he's safe, but a bit irritable." I called,
"You really worry me sometimes, knowing all these people you've never met." Jack said looking at me now,
"Yeah well, I wouldn't be me if I wasn't a little creepy." I smiled, "Oh, and try not to scare him. Living skeletons aren't part of his dimension either." I smiled, then turned back to Momiji to find he's put his cloths on and was watching me uneasily.
"Hi." I smiled cheerfully, waving at him, "I'm Peanut, nice to meet you." Momiji tilted his head a little, "Don't worry, we're all captives here. Doesn't really matter if you're a living skeleton," I said pointing up towards Jack, "Condemned killer," I pointed at the dog form of Sirius, "or a complete weirdo." I finished pointing at myself.
"How do you know me?" Momiji asked,
"I'd had to answer that question a few times now. Well you see, I do this kind of thing a lot. I know a lot of people who don't even know I exist. So it's easier just accept I know you, because you wouldn't really believe me if I told you." I said, and Momiji smiled slightly,
"The hell we won't believe you." I heard someone call from above me, "Explain why we're here right now or I'll…" the person continued,
"Oh shut up Kyo!" I yelled, "You won't to squat to me, seeing as you're in a cage and couldn't get to me anyway. Besides I'm in a cage to, so do you really think I'd know why you're here?"
"Well, I… how do you know of us if you don't know why we were kidnapped."
"I read it in a manga." I said plainly,
"What?"
"See, just drop it. I can tell you though. That you are here because a bunch of scientists are collecting people from different dimensions." I said,
"What are you talking about?" Kyo asked. And that is how it came to be that I had to explain the whole dimension thing a second time in… well I don't know how long seeing as I'd been asleep for a while.
Cranberry juice
'Who's in the forest strolling?
The birds and the bees sing Momiji!
The frogs in the pond are calling,
Momiji, yes, it's true.
The trees raise their leaves together.
Who needs the sun when we've got you?'
Momiji and I sat in the centre of our cages and sang the entire song through as loudly as we could, then started again. Sirius was watching as he leant against his cage door and he was humming the tune I noticed. Jack had stopped listening ages ago, he was talking with Sally, and I could just make their voices out. Those three weren't bothered, and I didn't mind, it was Kyo I was after. We'd been going to at least and hour and I never got bored of this song, and Momiji seemed to be enjoying it just as much.
"WILL YOU SHUT UP ALREADY!!" Kyo yelled for the umpteenth time, I pretended not to hear. He cried out in annoyance than started yelling again, "I don't know how I'm going to survive much longer. These last few days have been agony!!" He yelled, and Momiji and I stopped singing and smiled at each other,
"Oh common Kyo! You're just grumpy." Momiji called happily,
"I am not! You two are so irritating!" Kyo yelled back,
"Don't freak out Kyo, it hasn't been that long. I don't really think we've been here for days." I called, "You're over-exaggerating."
"I am not! We're been fed like eight times!" He yelled,
"So? Maybe they're just giving us food ever hour or something." I said
"I don't get hungry every hour." Kyo growled,
"I don't know. You are a pretty lazy cat." I smiled
"SHUT UP!" he yelled, kicking his cage door and then fell silent suddenly as the sound of footsteps reached us. A group of Lab Coats came up to my cage. I shrunk away from my cage's door.
"Out now." One of them ordered, holding the cage door open while another pointed what looked like a gun at me.
"Peanut, be careful." Momiji whispered watching me with his worried brown eyes, and Sirius growling quietly at the Lab Coats in his dog form. I crawled out of the cage and stood up, the Lab Coat who'd told me to get out then proceeded to put a pair of Restrainers on me. I turned as saw Jack and Sally watching worried, and Kyo too, though he looked more irritated. I was then marched away.
As I walked I noted that the Lab Coat with the gun, was in fact holding a water pistol.
"Ha. A water gun, I thought it was real." I laughed as I walked; he turned to me looking taken aback. He looked young, for a Lab Coat, probably only in his late teens, probably a new recruit or whatever. His hair was slightly ginger and a hung in his eyes a big. He looked rather uneasy, so I smiled broadly at him, and received a whack over the head for my efforts. The Lab Coat behind me had been the one to hit me.
"Steven, don't get distracted by these creatures, they may try and trick you into their release." The guy scolded and the ginger Lab Coat, Steven, nodded and stared forward again, looking at little embarrassed,
"For you information I'm not a creature I am actually from this dimension, I'm hu…" I started in my defence, and received another whack, "You know I'm gonna bruise if you keep…" and anther one. I didn't talk after that.
The Lab Coats and Seven lead me into a large white room. This room was much bigger than the one I'd woken up in a few days earlier. There was a huge machine in middle of the room with what looked like a gun ray thing on the end that pointed to strange looking wall. The wall was shinny and seemed to glow a little with a mixture of colours. As I was herded to the centre of the room Dr. Cain came up to me.
"How did you enjoy your little stay in the storage room?" he asked,
"The rooms weren't bad, but the service here stinks." I muttered sounding bored,
"Well perhaps you'll be more willing to help us now." He smiled,
"Unlikely." I muttered rolling my eyes as Dr. Cain led me to the machine in the middle of the room.
"Do you know what this is?" Dr. Cain asked me gesturing to the machine. I examined the gun/machine thing for a moment then turned back to Dr. Cain.
"Um… an ice-cream mixer?" I asked with a completely straight face, the Doctor looked rather irritated.
"No." Dr. Cain said flatly, "It's out portal creature. It's called Transdimentional Portal Opener Ray 736." He explained proudly, I pondered this for a moment.
"That's pretty long. How about Tpor? That's much a much nicer name." I smiled, and noticed the ginger Lab Coat Steven staring at me in disbelief.
"Tpor? What kind of a name is that? That's like calling someone with the name Paul Oscar Peterson, Pop." The Doctor said chuckling at me,
"Hey! Don't pay out that name. I named my snake Teprac, and that's Carpet backwards!" I said frowning. Dr. Cain started at me for a second then shook his head and gestured to the Lab Coats to bring me to the machine's controls.
Once there the doctor proceeded to pull my dragon stone out of a protective bag thing and placed it on his upturned palm in front of me.
"You know what this is, I presume." He smiled slyly,
"Nope, I mean you stole it off me and all, but that doesn't mean I know what it is." I said sarcastically rolling my eyes, "Seriously though. Why do you keep asking questions you already know the answers to?" Dr. Cain glared at me, but ignored my remark,
"You are going to use this stone to open portals for our cause." He ordered harshly, "and if you do not, your minions will suffer."
"Minions? What the heck are you talking about." I asked staring at him confused,
"You know perfectly well who I mean." The doctor snapped,
"Ok… but if they were simply minions and not partners. Why the hell would I care is they suffered?" I asked still a little confused. Dr. Cain opened his mouth to answer, but faltered lost for words. I smirked triumphantly, then received another wack on the head from that Lab Coat guy. "WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR…" I yelled clutching my aching head, but stopped abruptly and flinched as he raised his hand again to strike me,
"Richard. Don't damage her, she's still valuable." Cain said
"Sorry sir, but she was badmouthing you." the Lab Coat said evenly, I stuck my tong out at him, and turned back to Dr. Cain.
"Girl, you will do as I say or there will be repercussions." He ordered, I smiled inwardly seeing Steven watching a little uncertain, time to see if I could make a new ally.
"Ok sir, but please don't punish Steven because I was so rude to you! He didn't really mean to betray you and help me." I pleaded, falling to my knees in a kind of bow, "He was only trying to help." I continued tearfully, glancing to my left to see Steven looked stunned, staring at me rooted to the spot.
"What's this boy? You tried to help these creatures?" Richard, the dork who kept hitting me over the head if you don't remember… though you probably do, shouted turning on the still stunned Steven. (Knocked for six, that's another way of saying surprised according to my Word processor thing! I thought it was pretty cool to.)
"I-I didn't sir! I-I have no idea-no idea what she's talking about!" Steven stuttered taking a step back from the outraged Richard and Dr. Cain. As he did a group of Lab Coats ran up behind him and grabbed him by the arms, restraining him. "No, wait. I didn't, really. I haven't talked to her before!" Steven called glancing between Richard, Dr. Cain and myself. I was retraining my giggle and keeping a straight face, I'd make it up to this guy later.
"You will oblige now!" Richard yelled turning his anger on me now, my inward giggle died and fell out of my sky of happiness like stones. He grabbed me by the hair, as I cried out in pain, and slammed me against the controls. Winded I slid to the floor, leaning against the control panel. Richard hauled me to my feet again, by the arm this time, and shoved my dragon stone into a little slot on it. As he did so I glanced over to me right to see Dr. Cain looked pleased, and Steven sort of confused still.
"You know that-" I started but was cut by Dr. Cain who came over to me, smiling a little,
"Richard calm down, she will help us wether or now she wants to." He said and removed the Restrainers from around my wrists; before I could do anything thought Richard grabbed my left wrist and forced me to place my palm on the dragon stone. I struggle a little, but Richard was surprisingly strong and I didn't have any dragon powers.
The moment my hand touched my stone I felt a drain on my energy immediately as magic was pulled from me.
"Geez, how big are you making this portal." I breathed as I quickly began to feel faint.
"As large as we need it." Dr. Cain smiled as my knees began to shake and I knew I was about to pass out. On the wall directly to my left a portal began to open as the machine directed my magic at it.
In seconds the paddle-pop like swirl stabilised and the energy drain secede abruptly, Richard let go of me and I fell to the ground in a partial faint.
"Squad Alpha proceed!" Dr. Cain ordered and a group of about ten Lab Coats ran into the room in a tight formation and through the portal, "That portal is far stronger that any one we've ever made, it should hold for a little longer, we should guard this end till it closes." Dr. Cain ordered and a few Lab Coats pointed guns at the portal. I watched from my position on the floor, I was lying on my stomach, my head resting on my one my arms, watching the world fade in and out of focus.
"You three, see that the boy is disciplined for his offences." Richard barked at the Lab Coats restraining Steven. A look of utter panic crossed Steven's face, but before he could say anything a several Lab Coats cried out in shock and two figures fell from the ceiling.
And so ends chapter 10! YES!! I've finally reached double digits! I'm growing up! And my group of people in my room is growing too, (Teprac says hi).
Steven: That was a dirty trick you pulled on me. I was scared stiff.
Me: I'm terribly sorry, but if I hadn't done that they you'd still be a Lab Coat! And that would be horrid!
Kyo: And then I'd kick your arse.
Me: Oh good, Kyo, you've come back down from the ceiling. I'm glad.
Jack: I didn't think I'd scare you that badly.
Kyo: Shut up *crosses arms and glares at wall*
Momiji: Kyo's grumpy! *smiles sweetly*
Frog: *Creeps up behind Momiji and glomps him* you are SO cute.
Momiji: *Turns into a golden rabbit in a poof of smoke*
Sirius: That is incredibly creepy, and it's completely involuntary?
Kyo: Yeah, every time I girl hugs-
Me: *Throws myself at Kyo, turning him into a cat*
Kyo: Darn you!
Teprac: Ssssssssssss
Ok see ya!
Peanut!