Expect many updates between now and January 4th or 5th.
Disclaimer: No, I don't own it. But I did ask for it for Christmas :D
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"Okay, so here's our plan of action." Tamaki whispered to his fellow hosts, pointing at a chalkboard covered with X's, O's, and many different lines. (A/N: Don't ask where it came from. Tamaki has magic pockets.)
They were standing outside the room they had been escorted to the night before. Fortunately, it wasn't the same that the girls had been using- except for Haruhi. She must have been sharing a room with their hostesses. They were discussing how to save her and then get the heck out of there. There wasn't a clock anywhere to be seen, but they hoped their kidnappers would still be passed out.
"How are we supposed to find Haru-chan in such big house?" Hunny asked worriedly.
"Assuming we aren't far from their room, I propose we search everyone of them until we find her!" The king proclaimed, thinking there surely couldn't be that many rooms in such a small area.
He had never been so wrong in his life. And this is Tamaki we're talking about.
Upon creeping into the hall, the group found that-
1.) There were indeed too many doors to count.
and
2.) The halls extended farther than the eye could see- eventually fading into a sort of white mist, or maybe it was fog….
There was a collective groan- except from Mori, but that was no surprise.
"Well, that's just great." Hikaru whined.
"How are we supposed to know which way to go?" Kaoru complained.
"Well thinking logically, there are six of us- if we spread out we can cover more ground." Kyouya reasoned, pushing his glasses farther up his nose.
"Good thinking!" Tamaki praised, making for the first door he saw.
He grabbed the knob and swung it open.
And then slammed it shut.
"What's the matter?" Hunny asked, the others giving him worried looks.
"I…Uh, I….Just…" The blonde stuttered, gesturing for them to take a look for themselves.
Kyouya, being the bravest, calmly took a look in the room. Even he seemed surprised by what he found.
The walls and floors were both made of a slimy, moss covered stone. Chains hung from the walls, some holding skeletal figures with empty looks in their eyes. A dark mist crept along the ground, filling the whole room with a chill that ran up your spine.
"Well…Why don't we just see where this hallway leads?" The Shadow King asked, struggling to keep his composure.
When the others nodded, he chose a direction and started walking. Unfortunately, this search was getting them nowhere. They seemed to walk for hours and nothing changed.
"Okay, that's it." The twins declared in unison, "We've been walking for forever."
Hunny nodded and said dejectedly, "We've passed our room four times already…"
Mori decided to just pick a door and go through it- surely they'd find some one eventually. Walking through the first door he saw, everyone stopped and stared as he appeared walking through a different one three doors down. (A/N: I like that band :3)
Sticking a hand through the first one, everyone watched as it came through the second door.
"What is this black magic?" Tamaki shouted, just about losing his wits.
"Hey…Guys, look over here." Kaoru said.
"What do you think it does?" Hikaru asked, examining the small red button his brother pointed at.
"Guess we should find out…" The first said, pushing it hesitantly.
They all expected something scary to happen- but not a giant bolder rolling down the hall, crushing everything in its path.
Nobody said anything, they just ran. After a few minutes, ropes appeared hanging from the ceiling. Hanging halfway across a deep, dark, gaping chasm that had NOT been there before.
"You've got to be kidding me…" Kyouya muttered.
"Now what do we do?" The smallest of them cried.
"No time for questions- just swing!" Hikaru and Kaoru exclaimed, jumping at the very edge of the pit and grabbing a rope- not as easy as it sounds when they both went for the same one. Just barely, the two landed safely on the other side.
Being the ninjas we all know they are, the others managed to do the same.
"Some one pinch me, so I wake up from this nightmare…" Tamaki said, for once not being over dramatic as he inspected a cut on his palm.
After taking a moment to catch their breath, the hosts stumbled to their feet and walked to the only door they could find.
It didn't lead to much- just an empty rom with another door on the other side. The six of them made their way through the door, wary of any hidden traps. However, this pattern of empty rooms continued. It kept going until they lost count and were near insanity.
So imagine how surprised they were to walk into a room straight from Alice in Wonderland. There was a table with vials of something on it and labels reading 'Drink Me'. Seeing as how the only way out of their was back the way hay came or through a tiny door much to small for even Hunny, they did as it said.
After being predictably shrunk down, leaving them in their…undergarments. They quickly located a conveniently placed wardrobe- but (because I love to torture them), it was full of costumes. A blue dress, cheshire cat outfits, and a whole jubilee of Wonderland themed things.
"Really?" Hikaru asked, annoyed.
"Might as well go with the ones we wore that time there was an Alice in Wonderland episode…" Kaoru decided, grabbing a cat outfit.
"I refuse to be a giant caterpillar again." Kyouya said.
"It's either that or a dress…"
And that is how Kyouya Ohtori ended up in that dreaded costume.
The group then exited via mini door.
"I'm not even surprised anymore." Mori said, taking a look around at the giant garden they had walked in to.
(I'm going to spare you the details of this whole trip- Let's just go with they had to relive episode 13, minus Haruhi)
"I'm…exhausted…" Tamaki huffed, falling to his knees in the middle of another long hallway, "Are we even in Japan anymore?"
"C'mon, or we'll leave you here." His dark friend spat, in no mood for the others shenanigans.
At the end was a door- which gathered a collective groan. These stupid things had brought nothing but trouble…
Inside was the strangest thing yet.
On the bright side, they had found the five girls and Haruhi.
On the other side, the boys wished they had never left their room that morning.
The floor was of dirt, and it appeared to be outside. The confusing part was that the sky was pitch black and scattered with stars. A large boulder, surrounded by a fire, sat in the center of a seven pointed star with the strangest designs intertwining around it.
Kyoko sat crossed legged at the head of it, legs crossed and wearing a large feather headdress. She had one fist pressed against her open palm, arms straight out. She was chanting something in a different language, growing ore intense by the minute. Her friends did some sort of strange dance, periodically tossing colorful powders into the flames- causing smoke of the same color to rise up and quickly dissipate. All of the girls were wearing clothing that resembled what Ancient Indians once wore- face paint and bare feet included.
Haruhi was laying spread out on her back on top of the boulder. She seemed to be asleep- or unconscious.
After what could have been minutes or hours, Kyoko's eyes snapped open. She stood up swiftly, and shouting something that sounded similar to 'Oh-way-ja-nor-say', tossed a fistful of black powder into the fire. A think black smoke came from it and spread about the room, causing the dumbstruck hosts to cough.
Silence engulfed the room as everything went black.
~~~~~ Cliff hanger? Nah… ~~~~~~
"Ah…!" Tamaki gasped, sitting up in his bed. Glancing around, he noted that everyone else was asleep. Trying to calm his breathing, he got up and ventured to the door. Cracking it open, he saw a perfectly normal hallway leading to a set of stairs. As he watched, Kyoko and Shizuki ascended them, immediately noticing Tamaki as he quietly closed the door behind him.
"Something the matter?" They asked in unison.
"Uh..No, I guess not…" The blonde said, passing a hand over his eyes.
Which was when he noticed the cut along his palm, just starting to scab over. With wide eyes, he looked at the girls in front of him.
"Oh-way-ja-nor-say." They whispered eerily, pushing past him and moving silently down the hall.
And was that black smoke they disappeared into, or was he imagining things?
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So…Yeah…Gotta have some kind of mystery in here ;D
This isn't the Christmas chapter. In fact, I'm going to be updating (if all goes well) twice by Christmas. And sometime in January.
Any ideas? Tell me- I'm always looking for suggestions.
-wishIwereanime