Chapter 10
After a flying in silence for long minutes a question arose in Buttercup's mind.
"Who's the friend?" Buttercup asked after flying up next to Blossom, but she remained silent.
"Do we know them?" Buttercup persisted. Blossom slowly nodded. Bubbles soon came up to her sisters, interested in the conversation.
"So, who is it?" Buttercup urged. After long minutes of silence, Blossom gave them her answer…
….
"WHAT! ARE YOU NUTS?" Buttercup yelled.
"It's the only way.." Blossom sighed. Buttercup continued to fume over it while Bubbles didn't speak; she just kept her head low and silent.
After awhile all of them became silent, flying quietly back to Townsville. In the middle of the night they came upon the largest mansion in the entire city. Reluctantly, Blossom used the heavy knockers against the massive doors.
After a sufficient amount of shuffling from inside the mansion, the doors opened by an old man, shoulders slackened by exhaustion. In an irritated tone, he greeted the three girls.
"May I help you?" he blandly stated.
"Um, we need to see, Princess." Blossom spoke, barely audible.
"The madam is sleeping, maybe you could come at a more reasonable hour..." as he began to close the door, before Blossom stuck her foot out and kept it open.
"Please, it's an emergency." The butler took another look at the girls, still hesitant.
"And are you familiar with madam Princess?" the butler asked.
"Yeah, we're her, friends." Blossom said, hating to ask for her help. The butler gave out a particularly long sigh, and then stepped aside for the girls to enter.
Their footsteps echoed through the chamber, resonating with emptiness with only the candles the butler was holding for light. When they came to Princess' room, all of them were wary of what might happen if they wake up the spoiled girl. The butler nodded towards the door, and then went down the corridor into the darkness. Blossom knocked on the door, with Buttercup and Bubbles unwillingly behind her. After waiting for an answer and none in near sight, Blossom decided to open the door, very, very slowly.
"Hello?" She barely whispered. A stir came from the enormous bed that lay in the center of the gigantic room. The three sisters froze, not moving an inch. There was a small click, and following the sound the room was taken in light, with an irritated Princesses face clear to see. For a moment a fear struck across her face, a mask of fury contorted her features at the sight of the three intruders. Through her teeth she seethed:
"What the Hell are you three doing here?" Princess raged. "I'm going to call my daddy and he'll call the police and then you all are going to jail!"
"Princess, please, try to understand, we wouldn't be here unless our situation had any other way to be avoided." Blossom explained.
"And WHY, should I helpYOU?" Princess snapped, anger rising up inside her.
"We'll give you whatever you want, please, just help us." Blossom said.
"What was that?" Buttercup said quietly, only audible to Blossom and Bubbles. "You didn't tell us we would have to give that little monster anything!"
Blossom's remark got Princess' attention, for there was one thing she could get from the Power Puff Girls that she couldn't get with all the money in the world.
"I'm listening, what do you want?" Princess stated, trying to show a lack of interest.
"Some bad guys are following us, and we need to be in a safe place, for only a couple days at most, to think of a plan and rest a bit." Blossom simplified.
"What, some villain that the mighty Power Puff Girls can't take down?" Princess replied bitterly.
"We never said we couldn't take them down!" Buttercup snapped.
"They're tougher than the others, we just need to think this through and figure out their weaknesses." Buttercup said. A long moment passed….
"I'll let you stay, if, I can become one of the Power Puff Girls!" Princess declared.
"What? That's insane! You Can't Become One Of Us, Are You Mental?" Buttercup yelled.
"We don't have a choice!" Blossom insisted.
"Yes, it seems you have no other way." Princess said with a smug smile, enjoying Buttercup's obvious rage. After a moment of silence, with electricity thick in the air, Buttercup managed to calm down a bit. Blossom looked at her with mild relief, then turned her head to Bubbles, who hasn't given any word or emotion since they entered the mansion. When Bubbles was about to meet that gaze an inpatient Princess interrupted them.
"Well? Do we have a deal or not?" Princess demanded as Blossom looked at Princess. Unenthusiastically, Blossom went up to the massive bed towards the Princess, and was about to shake her hand, but right before a thought crossed her mind. She pulled her hand back, with obvious irritation to Princess.
"What if you can't protect us?" Blossom questioned.
"Are you kidding? This is ridiculous, the walls are so thick that a tank couldn't get through, and with one little push of my button, all the windows will be sealed with stainless steel and bullet-proof glass, my security is the best in the entire city, and you doubt me?" Princess huffed.
"We seemed to slip by pretty easily" Buttercup whispered, obviously audible to Princess.
"Well, if you don't want my help…" Princess began. After a long pause Blossom broke the silence.
"No, we need to do this, we don't have time to argue amongst ourselves, we need to come together and fight these guys." Blossom said, trying to keep a steady voice. Just then, a rock smashed through the window, sending shattered glass everywhere in the room. Blossom rushed to the window to see who through it, while Buttercup went to the rock. Unfortunately, Blossom only saw the darkness outside and no one was to be seen.
"Guys, I think you should come look at this." Buttercup said. Her two sisters and Princess walked up to her, wary of the broken glass on the floor. On the rock in barely legible scribble were the words "We see you" …
For awhile they just stared at the rock, Princess in confusion but the three sisters knew exactly what it meant. Bubbles walked towards the window, staring intently at the darkness.
"How…..? How could they possible know that we are here? Even if they could fly we would have sensed them, and this is the last place we would go, so WHY ARE THEY HERE?" Blossom cried out.
"Blossom…." Buttercup began, trying to put her hand on her sisters shoulder, but was pushed away.
"NO! This isn't right there is absolutely no WAY they could find us. How could this not work, how could this happen!" Blossom bawled, tears beginning to glisten down her cheeks. Buttercup stopped her from almost falling to the floor on the broken glass, leading her to the bed.
"This is just, impossible." Blossom mumbled. Bubbles took no notice to her distress, continually staring out into the shadowy night.
"Don't worry Bloss, we'll find a way, I'm sure of it, we always do…" Buttercup began, but was also running low on confidence.
"Maybe you can do your little pep talk later, but what you need to figure out is how my window is going to get fixed!" Princess exclaimed. In response Buttercup gave a steely, murderous glare, which made Princess quiet down for the moment…. A long silence followed, hopelessness reaching into Blossom, uncertain of everything right now, Buttercup trying to do what little comforting she could while Bubbles continued to stare out the empty window.
After a time that seemed like forever, Buttercup was growing increasingly curious of Bubbles current state.
'She's not the one to give up and just stare out a stupid window, what going on?" Buttercup thought.
A long sigh came from Bubbles as she turned around and faced the other three girls in the room.
"Girls, I need to tell you something." Bubbles began.
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A/N
'So, any of you still care about this story? I understand if you don't, I haven't updated in like, what, at least a month? Well, the least I could do was try and make the chapter longer than usual. Please review if you still care, should I just stop here? Or try and begin something else? …. Oh, and what do you think about Bubbles huh? Did she tell on their whereabouts? Or another secret you didn't even see coming!
Thanks for reading this far, until next time…