HeartlessDevil: Yup, I suppose Daneira is now further pushed into the 'Hate List' of Kai. But here, you can also see… who else is in Kai's hate list (I think).
KaiKaiCutie: Hmm, Tala and adelie…. I had a funny feeling between those two…. I'll see if I can do more….
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Armith-Greenleaf: Tala the gambler – lol, that title suits him perfectly in my story. Yup, Daneira's the bitch – but every story must at least contain someone who isn't too friendly. Lol, the haunted rooms in our school is probably some make-believe story the seniors deliberately spun to scare the juniors. Lol, if our school looked like Hogwarts (which it doesn't – it's very modernised) – it isn't surprising if there were many hauntings.
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th3-curs3d-on3: Isn't all schools filled with at least several snobbish people – lol. In our school, half the popularity of students there are snobs – in the UK (well, where I come from), we call them NEDS – I think it's meant to stand for something… but I'm not too sure.
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Chapter 11
Pet Pet Blues
I groaned and grumbled as I felt something hitting my face gently, before opening my eyes finally. Kai was beside me using his hand to shake me lightly. I snarled at him under my breath as he withdrew his hand back at his side. We were still in the Waxwork's tent.
"Urrgh, what happened?" I asked groggily, touching my aching head. For some reason, I had realised that I was in a different spot than the one I was in a few minutes ago. Kai gestured to a huge moose dummy head with extra long horns on the floor near us and I stared at it, confused. He moved away and I suddenly got a full view of Adelie's face.
A figure got up from the ground unsteadily. "You won't get away with this, Hiwatari!" Ross screamed at us (we both looked up), with two black eyes and a bleeding lip, before giving me a death glare – and he limped on one foot after Daneira and her other fiendish pals – they had already left.
"You two okay?" Adelie pulled me up to my feet and helped me brush some dust off my hat.
Tala and Kai were standing up, engaged in conversation in the far corner.
"What happened?" I mumbled as I sat back up, rubbing my poor head. "How come you guys are here?"
"Oh, we just thought something was funny was happening so we came to check you if you two were going to be okay, and then we saw this guy trying to attack you with the moose head from behind while this girl distracted Kai but he hit you instead, and then, the guy who you're partnered with and Tala both beat the stuffing out of him." Adelie replied with a shrug. (Wish I could've seen that)
"I see." I said quietly.
"That's going to give you a nasty bump, Nuo."
"I know…. It hurts…."
Tala and Kai finally returned over. "Th - I mean, Adelie, we're going back to the House, Daneira and Ross won't pull anything funny from now. They've long gone left with their tails between their legs." Tala said.
"Okay. See you in twenty minutes, Nuo." Adelie waved.
"Yeah, you two take care, alright?"
Kai grunted at Tala. They both left quickly and I felt a bit lonely once more.
I thought for a while myself (which mentally hurt). Daneira must've been screaming because of the moose head that Ross was going to bring down on Kai's head from behind. Should we be grateful, no, I don't believe so. That bitch! That cow! Tha - Does that mean we should we be thankful – or what? No, I think Kai should be more thankful – after all, Daneira was trying to warn him in the most undecipherable way ever. He moved away and let it hit me full force.
What kind of friend lets that happen to people? What kind of friend is he, actually? Maybe he isn't even my friend? He's not even a hero; he packs a punch, but no heart. He's just this loner who thinks the world will bow down to his feet (I AM KING OF THE WORLD!).
I snorted and let my imagination run wild if Kai did rule the world (hell, I'd say). There'll probably be statues of him and mirrors everywhere so he can see how great he looks. He'll deduct every single person he sees in sight to a mere slave to give him foot massages and to hand-feed grapes and watermelon slices. He'll have every fan girl executed or stronger ones can battle against other fan girls for a small glimpse from Mighty Emperor Kai at his own coliseum or something, and me? I'll be erased from existence – probably sent to those places in his new palace where crazed fan girls go, thinking that Kai will one day whisk them away to the moon or something for a night.
Example of what Kai's Kingdom would be like: (From Nuo's childish imagination)
You are in the POV of a guard of the Palace-of-the-Crazy-Fangirls (driven to insanity by their love for Kai which hadn't been returned, unfortunately).
You see from the window of the Palace, that there is a girl continuously hugging a bit of wood with something grey on the top.
"Kai loves me… and I love him… he'll come for me soon….. I know it…. If he doesn't, I'll tear him out… limb from limb… hehe….. and feast on his insides…. That way… he'll always be living within me…. As a part of me…. Ehehehe…."
You hear her mutter to herself repeatedly, eyes twitching in a horrible manner. You shudder and continue your job – patrolling the grounds for any intruder – what's this? BEEP BEEP BEEP! You check your round radar from your robe, argh, it's another break out from the east entrance, just opposite you!
"Code Red; We have another mad maenad on the loose! I repeat, mad maenad on the loose! Come to the east entrance immediately!" The beeper sounds.
You hurry over; there's a shadow, and you blink. The bushes ruffle, and soon, an eye peeks out from the twigs.
"Mad maenad! K21!" you yell quickly into the beeper. Soon, more guards like you come running out, and the girl from the bushes leaps out and tries to run away.
"NO ONE WILL TAKE ME AWAY FROM YOU, KAI!" she screeches. Guards lunge at her; and she screams and protests. "NOO!"
They drag her back into the room and throws her in, before locking it.
"Good work there." The chief compliments. "You have a sharp eye, now return to our usual post. We'll cover from here."
You return to the West entrance where you had been standing before.
"AARRGH! Look, it's Kai! He's finally here!"
The girl throws away her wooden plank and jumps up and down excitedly in her seat, and is soon followed by a whole crowd of young girls all screaming and pointing to the wide window of the Palace-of-the-Crazy-Fangirls. They yell and scream their recited love letters to him which they practise everyday every hour but he can't hear it because every girl there is shouting at the same time.
"KAI! KAI! KAI! KAI!" What you hear from outside reminds you of a continuous ambulance siren (or mice high on sugar) and you clamp your hands over your ears.
"Sheesh, crazy fan girls." You mutter as you walk past the palace. "He'll never look at you for a millions years to come."
Emperor Kai finally comes in person riding in a chariot, laughing at their demise, pulled by what scientists believed to be mythological creatures in fairytales – a phoenix with yellowish red feathers in the night sky to go to some fancy ballroom party with other evil rulers like him (lol).
The girls scream until their lungs blow up. "KAI! WE LUUUUUUV YOUUUUUU! (mwah – someone sends a blow kiss which Kai gleefully crushes under his fists)"
They use megaphones and banners to attract his attention, but Kai finishes eating his banana and throws the skin down. A girl catches it, and you watch in amusement as they fight, scratch, even kill, over that piece of rubbish the Emperor had just discarded. Overhead, Kai laughs insanely.
"That's right, fight! Fight for me! I want everyone in the whole world to fear my name!" (or driven to insanity)
My current possible status towards Kai (aka, 'what Kai thinks of me' or 'what I can do that will attract his attention' – though I don't really want that):
Worth staring at for a total of 2 minutes: 1 percent
Personality value: 8 and a half percent
Wealth value: 4 percent
Fan girl type: 40 – 50 percent (well, he is cute and I can't stand it but stare at him across the street – maybe I'll begin to stalk him if it gets way out hand – yikes! But then again I am not crazy for him like certain others...)
Appearance: 34 percent (actually my appearance matters much to me a lot)
Abilities that'll come in handy: 28 percent
Worth his time to talk to: 16 percent
Friend value: 0 percent (I don't know much of him, and he doesn't know much of me)
I don't think I stand a chance...
I checked my watch as I rubbed the new bump on my head under my hat. "Hey, we now have only fifteen minutes left of this trashy place (my imagination has killed five minutes – woohoo)! Thank god, this is almost over!" I stretched and stood up. Kai turned and then walked back out of the door. In minutes we were already back outside in the fresh air.
I stretched and began humming something to myself as we just sat there in silence. It was awkward – just like the time when we sat outside of the House of Mirrors. The moonlight didn't flow through the thick trees so it was pretty dark – the only thing keeping us able to see each other were our torches. We didn't sit near each other either, and I felt extremely cold and sneezed a lot. I ended up wiping my nose quickly with my old hankies that were rammed furthest down in my pocket. I quickly used them up. It was also quite hot now – probably because of the fact that I was wearing huge amounts of clothing and we had been running for quite a long time.
My arm hurt and I also realised that Kai was in agony too, his wound was still bleeding and I had no more flannels or cloths to block it. I resisted the urge to go back over to him to see if he was all right. I also suddenly realised that my vision was getting blurry behind my contacts. I sniffled and wiped the tears, trying to get away from him as soon as possible, but failed, badly. He must've realised I was fumbling too much and annoying his thinking space because his eyes were closed, engulfed deeply in thought.
"Why are you crying?" He asked curiously (though it didn't sound very much curious – more like 'Why are you crying?' Do you get the tone?).
"Eh?" My face grew red in embarrassment and I quickly dried them. I frowned at him. "Oh… eh… these tears… I er…. I'm tired, that's what!" I retorted back. "I'm crying because I'm tired!"
Kai didn't say anything and looked away from me.
Did he think that I was crying because of him? Feh. I turned my head away from him. If he thought that way he definitely needed a life! Then again, his life is probably just meaningless and full of ice. That's probably what his heart is filled up with.
Back at the main Directory….
"Okay people! I'll be gathering your cameras now!" Tyson said happily as we all handed ours into his plastic collecting bin bag. It just panged to me that I hadn't taken much interesting pictures. I cursed the facts that these cameras had our names on white stickers on them.
"Is that us over now?"
"I want to go home now."
"Yeah, there's a programme on TV I wanna watch. It's starting already!"
"I didn't see a ghost!"
"Does that matter?"
There was a string of complaints as we left. Adelie was looking a lot better when we found her with her partner from the House of Mirrors. Tala was grinning; it turned out she owed him over thirty pounds now; when he came out, I hauled him into a corner, punched him on the arm and glared at him.
"What was that for?" He moaned as he massaged his arm.
"I still can't believe you took advantage over her!" I shouted furiously.
"What do you mean – 'took advantage over'?"
"Adelie's a sensitive person! If you hurt Adelie I'd never forgive you!" I growled at him.
"What on earth are you talking about?" He asked tiredly as he looked away with a sigh.
I narrowed my eyes. "I'm watching you, Tala."
He rolled his eyes. "Whatever. What happened to your arm? I just saw Kai before he left – his knee was also bleeding. What on earth did you guys do? Did you also see any ghosts?"
"There are no ghosts, Tala." I said through gritted teeth. "It was all Daneira's doing, she's the one who set us up – or me, rather. I bet they probably have me screaming on camera already and they're selling copies to students-who-hate-Nuo."
"Aww, don't be like that." Tala patted my shoulder reassuringly. "Daneira huh? Her jealousy gets way out of hand. She would never try to film you. She's a cheapskate, even if with all those fancy clothing, and 2nd, with Kai here, she won't even dare."
"Oh yeah… about Kai." I said quickly. Does that mean that I had to rely on Kai from now on? I hated that thought immediately.
"Don't tell me – he totally ignored you during that time."
"It's not that, Tala. He's a downright, big jerk with an ego bigger than his head."
Tala looked all corner. "Sheesh, do you mind keeping it down? If Kai hears you speaking about him like that – he won't be happy."
"I don't care about him. I don't care if I hurt his feelings. Kai hurt my feelings back there. I bet he hurts everyone's feelings. And I think it's better if he did hear what I have to say so he can change himself."
But then again, having the image of Kai prancing in a field of flowers with the smiling sun shining down on him and forest critters leaping around him happily gave me the creeps.
Tala seemed to have tried not to look. "You sound so childish. Kai's like that to everyone."
"So how'd you know he's your friend then?"
"Hmm." Tala pondered. Hah! I must've talked some sense to him for once. "I trust him, and he trusts me. We've known each other since childhood. What else can I say?" He quickly said.
Next day back at home… Remember, it's still the weekend...I thought. Jealousy? Was Daneira jealous of me? Why should she be? She has the figure of a supermodel; she has better looks than me – yet her personality reeks of rotten tomatoes and sour milk. This didn't make any sense. And Kai. Oh how I have grown to hate him somewhat. So full of hot-air, ready to burst like a boil anytime. I even made him a voodoo doll of him – I stole Laney's old rag-dolls and covered the head with one of my old grey socks which I wore to Episcopal which I tried to cut spikes poorly – I ended up making broken threads and fabric on it instead, now the doll seems to have dreadlocks instead. Grr, who cares? I drew on the blank face with a felt tip pen of the same colour as Kai's eyes and drew a really detectable frown. Then I hung a sign – made out of card and string around the doll's neck with Kai's name on it.
I laughed evilly and decided to have some fun; I slapped the doll on both cheeks and stopped for a moment. What would happen if Kai was suddenly walking down the street and then felt a stabbing pain on both cheeks? I imagined him having two red handprints when he came to school, and laughed evilly again.
"What are you doing lying on the sofa like that? Move your butt and let us sit." The two brats kicked me and I ended up spiralling to the edge. They were each holding a cup of hot chocolate. "How did ghost busting go?" They asked.
I moaned. "How'd you know?"
"Read your diary."
I almost fell.
"We're only joking." Billy and Jimmy replied.
"You'd better be." I growled at them threateningly, shaking my tiny fists at them.
"Eurydice told us."
"Oh."
"What's that?" They pointed to my Kai Voodoo doll and I stuffed it under my shirt.
"Nothing."
They eyed my curiously.
We three sat together on our huge white sofa. I was just staring into space. The brats were messing around with each other. Kicking and playing silly hand games.
"Will you two cut that out? I need some room here." I barked at them.
They ignored me. "Do you know what we need, sis?" Jimmy asked as he clambered onto the next seat.
"What's that?"
"A pet." Billy replied, going to the other so I had more space to myself.
"A pet?" I said, blinking.
"A pet." They repeated.
"Why would we want an animal? Nana won't like it."
"Come on, sis." Billy said.
"We already asked Eurydice if we could get a German shepherd dog. But she said no." Jimmy added.
"Yeah and we also asked Nana but she said no." Billy whined.
"So we can only – " Jimmy's turn.
"Turn to you." They both replied in unison.
"What can I do?" I asked with my hands in defeat. After all, most decisions WERE forced upon Eurydice, not me. "And why do you want a German shepherd?"
"First, you're second oldest - " Billy noted.
"And we want a German shepherd to bite and scare our enemies." Jimmy replied.
That didn't sound too bad.
"What about Laney, what does she want?"
"Oh, she told us she wants a pony."
"We can't get more than two pets." I said.
"We know."
Eurydice came into the living room. "What are you two doing now? Didn't I say – "
"We don't need your consent, after all, Nuo is still second oldest, we can always ask her." The brats stuck their tongues at Eurydice who was beginning to seethe.
"Okay." She said calmly. "I thought about it too. So what'll it be? I actually want a kitten." She said as she joined us.
A new voice filled the room from the stairs.
"Cats are boring, I want a pony!" Laney clambered over my lap and shoved her baby blue Destiny Dream toy horse into my face. "They're pretty."
"Horses are too big." I said.
"Then a dog?" The brats said hopefully.
"I don't know."
"What are you talking about?" Nana wiped her hands on her apron and sat on the rocking chair beside our huge corner sofa.
"The pet thing. We need some more company here." The brats said quickly.
"Now that I think of it, a goldfish doesn't seem bad." Nana scratched her head thoughtfully.
"They're boring too. All they do is hover in the water and open their mouths. They also die easily." Laney said.
"I don't like dogs." Eurydice spoke up. "Cats are more gentle."
"No!" whined the brats. "Cats have claws. They can scratch us if we're not careful!"
They all looked at my direction. "Well, Nuo, what about you?" They all said.
I blinked. "Er… me? I er… I could go to the nearest animal home and see…."
Therefore I found myself holding a map, clutching my shoulder bag tightly in my fist as I looked at each passing bus at the bus station the day after the debating ceremony at home. It turned out that all my family members were now counting on me to get their dream animal. The brats even tried to bribe me their pocket money for the dog. Laney began crying hard but I ignored her. Eurydice didn't seem to do much. Nana reasoned with me that having a dog or cat in the kitchen would be bad for our hygiene. Okay, it says I need to take the number sixty six, and then get off at the bus stop just outside the retail park. I blinked. Eh? Isn't that road totally deserted? I remembered that Nana drove us past that road after getting home from a picnic trip. The road was so dusty the path seemed reddish yellow. And there was nothing to be seen except from green grass and farm animals. I shrugged, and saw my bus. I ran to get it. I paid my bus fare and looked inside. There wasn't anyone else on the bus. I might be early or something.
Well, if the map says so – this might be the right place.
Now I found myself desperately fanning myself with the map that seemed to have crumpled in my pocket as I stared at all the empty and isolated space here. I did end up in the lonesome red road. It wasn't 'follow the yellow brick road', it was 'follow the dusty red road'…. There was lush green grass filled with chomping animals everywhere yet I felt as if civilisation wasn't near. Wow. I checked my bottle filled with ice-cold water. It was almost empty. I shielded my eyes from the boiling hot sun and walked to find at least a house to make sure I wasn't alone.
I wiped my moustache of sweat and eventually found something interesting in the horizon. A truck! There were also a couple of small houses ahead. I quickly ran over. The house actually seemed large up front. It consisted of several smaller buildings behind, and barbed wire fences dotted around the field indicating how much land they owned. It was also actually a farm. I could see farm animals behind the fences. It also smelled a lot stronger and nasty in the humid weather. I resisted to hold my breath when I realised I wasn't the only human here.
There were two guys there in the truck talking to each other.
I waddled over to them, and gulped. "Erm… excuse me?" I squeaked.
The guy with the black and red hair was the first to notice me. He looked no older than I did and I blinked at him as he leapt down from the truck. "Yeah?" He replied gruffly as he eyed me up and down. "What can I do for a city girl like you?"
He was half naked and I had hard time trying to concentrate on what I was going to say. "H-H-Have you any idea if there are any bus stops around here?"
He looked over the horizon, and then turned back to me. "What, are you lost?"
I blinked again. "Er… kind of. I have a map though. I just can't…. read it." I paused. "It's not that I can't read words, it's the directions, I can't read…. Er…" I babbled quickly. My face grew red with embarrassment.
The guy smirked. "Heh, fancy seeing that. Come inside. I'll show you."
Clutching my bag again, I was unsure whether to trust him or not. The other guy in the truck also leapt down. He was big and huge, and had chocolate coloured skin with yellow hair and a red bandana covering most of his head. He ignored me after giving me one look and returned back to the truck.
The guy from before turned to me. "My name's Ozuma, and this here is Dunga. We live here so we know this place top to bottom, you can trust us."
Huh, he says it as if I wouldn't – which I would. I still don't trust these two. I warily followed them inside the house. It was surprising to find that it was air-conditioned. Ozuma gestured me to sit at the couch just at the door, but I found it better to stand up. I quickly took out a flannel and began drying myself.
"Uh… Ozuma?" I asked as I tilted my head over to get a better look at him. "Is this…. A farm?"
"What does it look like?" He replied as he handed me a can of cream soda. "Take it. It's not everyday that we get 'visitors'."
"Oh, thank you." It just happened that cream soda was my favourite drink of all times. I decided to drink only a little at the moment and leave some for later – I ended up pouring the cream soda from the can into the bottle, some of it spilled down onto the floor and I went pale. "Well er…. since you introduced yourself, I should too. I'm Nuo."
"Where are you meant to be going anyway?"
"The Animal Home."
"To get yourself a pet?"
"Uh-huh."
"You just need to get the bus number 42 – it passes the telephone box just outside our house every twenty minutes. One just passed ten minutes ago before you got here." Ozuma replied.
"Oh." I said, disappointed. "Is this near the town?"
"Yeah. I sometimes walk here to go to St Mango's Chapel. I have friends there."
"St Mango's Chapel? I go to Mango's High!"
He didn't look surprised and blinked his emerald eyes.
"Okay!" I said happily, clenching my fist. "I'll be going now, thanks for your hospitality."
"You're welcome." He smirked delightfully at me. I shuddered a bit.
I followed him back out, to see a sight. "Hey, what are you doing to those animasl?"
Dunga was dragging some kind of goat and cow up inside the truck, where a caged sheep, chicken and duck were in. Dunga heaved. "Oh them?" he said. "They're going."
"…. Going where?" I asked.
"The slaughterhouse." Ozuma brushed his hair back as he leaned on the fence, over to me.
I paused as I tilted back a little. "Why?"
"Because we don't have enough room here in our small ranch, and no other farms or markets are accepting them."
"But… But…." I watched the sheep bleat at me. I watched the cow moo at me. I watched the duck squawking nervously – and I fell in love. In fact, I was too busy in love with them that Dunga had already shoved their bodies halfway in, before I finally snapped out of my symptoms.
"You can't!" I yelled loudly.
Dunga raised a bushy eyebrow. "Oh yeah? Tell that to other animals which had already been taken to the Slaughterhouse."
He had a point.
I thought for a while as Dunga continued struggling. "Can I buy them off you?" I asked.
Ozuma almost leant off the fence. Dunga let go of the rope so the struggling sheep flew into the corner. Dunga didn't notice. "What?"
"I said." I swallowed. "I'll buy these five animals off you. It's just these five which are taken to the slaughterhouse for the moment, right?"
They both gawked at me.
"Er… Are you sure?" Ozuma asked. He was staring at me as if I had gone mad. Maybe I had?
"How much are you willing to pay for them?" Dunga said, eyes lit up.
Later….
I quickly tied a rope around the cow's neck and hopped over it. It was big enough to allow me to ride it – like a horse. It felt funny, but I felt proud. I quickly got off the cow and tugged on the rope. It was secure enough.
"It'll only take you about an hour to reach town." Ozuma said as he patted the sheep and the goat.
"Okay, thanks for selling me them. They're so precious!" I stroked the duck and the chicken in my bag and waved to Ozuma and Dunga. "Okay, I'll see you two big guys later, bye, and thanks again!"
I was only leading the animals just several centimetres away before Ozuma came running up to me. "Wait, Nuo!" He shouted.
He waited until he caught his breath, so I just decided to ask him several questions.
"Who else do you know from mango high? I can tell them you said 'hello'."
"Well…." Ozuma scratched his chin. "I know a girl named Miriam; long blue hair, green eyes….she has a little brother named Joseph."
"Oh yeah! I know her! She's in my PE class; dark blue hair tied into a high ponytail?"
"Right."
"Okay, I'll tell her your greetings then….." I swallowed a bit as a short silence engulfed us both.
He smirked. "Okay. Where do you live? If I have time, I could go down to the city for a short visit."
"Er…. Maybe you could call me instead and I'll tell you?"
I had to take out the two birds and into Ozuma's hands as I fumbled around my bag for a pad and a pen. I scribbled down my mobile number only, and handed it to him. "There. Will you give me yours?"
"Er… sure." He wrote his down on a spare sheet in my pad and gave it to me.
"Don't worry, my mobile's always open. You can call me whenever you like."
"Hey Ozuma! We need to get back to work!" Dunga yelled to us.
Ozuma looked back. "Okay! Wait for a moment." Then he turned back to me. "I'll see you around then, bye Nuo. Thanks for your number."
"No sweat, Ozuma. See ya!"
Then it was back to leading the cow by its horns down the path to home. It was lucky it was still broad daylight. I checked my watch – it was only lunchtime. I stroked the cow and it mooed again at me, shaking its head so its golden bell rattled. I just learnt the breeds of the animals I just bought. The cow was a Guernsey cow; I also bought a Nubian goat, a merino sheep, a khaki Campbell duck and a leghorn chicken. I tied the rope around the Guernsey – which I had named Moo Moo, and the rope was also tied to my goat, which I had named Amaltheia, and also to the sheep that I'd just call Merino to remember. The chicken and duck were safely resting in my plastic carrier bag, I hadn't given them names yet, but I was thinking of it as we walked forward. I actually wondered what would happen when I'd return home with a cow, goat, sheep, chicken and duck.
I'd go; "Hey guys, I couldn't get any domestic animals, but I got farm animals instead. How's that?"
And they'd probably go; "Nuo, you idiot! What can we do with farm animals!"
And I'd say in protest; "We can teach Merino to fetch or something, right?"
And then Nana will say; "Great! We can have roasted Khaki Campbell duck tonight!"
Great.
-O-
I'm terribly sorry if this sortof twisted a bit from the Ghost story to the farm... sorry!