A/N: Yeah so here's where thing get a little dicey...

Up till now I've been pretty consistent as far as the actual layout of the rooms go... But now I'm gonna change the order to suit the purpose of my story line.

Just a little heads up. I'll eventually go through all the rooms.

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Chapter 11 : Captivate

We walked into a wide, red room with another door opposite to the one we just entered. There were a few paintings and two large statues, but other than that, it was fairly empty.

"Okay now what, Ib? You remembering anything?" Seiran looked over at me.

"Yeah. There's suppose to be a key here. I... just don't remember where..." So much for the puzzles being easy...

We searched the room for anything that looked remotely like a key.

.

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"Anything?"

'Nope."

"Hmm..." Seiran looked around the room for the eighth time. "Wait...We didn't check over here yet..." He walked over to a corner on the right side of the room. There was a painting.

"The lady in Red." He read the title out loud. He stared for a moment, but never flicked his gaze up to look at the painting. He turned around. "There's nothing here. You sure there's a key?" He started to walk back to me.

Crash!

The lady in Red painting had jumped off the wall and was now crawling on the floor.

A phrase popped into my mind. "The women here... like to play loves me loves me not."

"Seiran! Don't let her touch your rose!"

She stopped crawling.

"Seiran? Master is that you?" She whispered.

He turned to look back at her, realization dawning on his face.

"Hey Red." He smiled.

I gaped. "It talked."

"I," She said emphasizing that she was in fact a person, "Can do a lot more than that girlie." She gingerly griped her frame and... stepped out of it. Oh... This was soooo not happening... Her frame was no more than a blank background. Before me stood a full body version of the Lady in Red. She had a very... curvaceous figure and, like the title says, she was dressed in all red. She stood a good head shorter than Seiran, but then again, Seiran had to be at least six feet something...

I noticed she also looked me over. "Hmf! I remember you. You're the one who ruined my sister's game. She was quite enraged by it too, since we hardly get any visitors to play with."

Her sister was... the lady in blue right? And she was playing loves me loves me not with... Garry's rose...

"Master Seiran... Why are you hanging around that little twit? Play with me instead! Remember all the fun we had?" Ugh... She had practically draped herself over Seiran's arm.

He chuckled. "I'd love to Red, but we're on some sorta mission." He whispered to her like it was some sorta dirty secret.

She pouted. "What kind of mission?" Translation: What could be more important than me?

"We seek to revive the Forgotten one."

"Awww~! But that'll take forever!" I perked up.

"Do you know how to revive him?"

"Of course! It's protocol." She cringed as i leaned towards her in anticipation.

"Oh, please tell me!"

"No." Oh, come on. I was so close to finding out what I needed to know.

"Please?"

"No, no, no, no~!" She sang.

Seiran move her so that he had his hands placed on her shoulders. "Red." He said sternly."The faster Ib finishes her task, the faster we can play. Tell her what she needs to know."

She had this dreamy looked of ecstasy. "Only because you asked master..."

She turned to glowered at me. "Listen up because I'm only going to say this once."

She began to recite, "To revive what has been lost, it's not hard to do. Talk to the bride and groom and listen well too. The gallery has a secret from which it must hide. But beware, not all painting are on your side. The elixir can only revive, it cannot change. It shows what the true inner soul is like."

"Who's the bride and groom?" I asked, my mind drawing a blank.

"Dunno." I could tell that she really didn't, and she was happy about that. She turned back to Seiran. Practically throwing herself at him, that seductive smile playing at her lips, "So what do you want to do first? I don't want to go back to the grey room and share you with all the other Ladies..."
He smiled.

"Disgusting..." I walked around them to pick up the red key that had fallen off the back of Red's frame. I walked over to the door and unlocked it.

"H-hey Ib. Wait for me." Seiran struggled to free himself from Red's cuddling.

I ignored him and entered the next room. It was a library, each section was labeled alphabetically. A few moment's he followed me, followed by a string of complaints. "Oh, don't leave me again! So soon? Stay and play! Wait, are you going in there? Master don't go! Curse these doors!" I rolled my eyes.

"Ib."

I turned around. Seiran had his hands in his pockets, a sheepish expression on his face.

There was scratching and pawing coming from the other side of the door. "I think someone wants your company." I said with a smirk. His face reddened ever so slightly.

"What...? There wasn't much of a selection" He muttered.

"Whatever. I got a quest to finish." I turned to leave. Seiran followed me.

We stepped into another red hallway. This was... the place where I met Garry. A barricade of lost memories flashed in my mind.

"What are you thinking about?" Seiran asked me.

"Nothing much. Why?" We'd stopped walking.

"You had a very straight expression; I just wanted to know why."

I sighed. "This is the place where I first met Garry."

"Oh..."

"It's not a bad memory. I'd gotten his rose back from the lady in blue and healed it. We sorta teemed up after that." I looked over at him. He was staring at me. "What?"

He shook his head. "It's nothing... I thought that you... Never mind."

"Okay..."