AMAZING REVIEWS!
papaya-san- Thank you so much for your reviews. Honestly, when I reread my first chapters, I cringed at how choppy and to the point they were. No flow at all~ But anyway, I enjoyed reading your reviews.
pinkpocket23 - Thanks for the amazing review! I'm glad you liked it, but if there's anything wrong with any of my fics, just tell me and I'll work on it!
katniss everdeen124 - Thank you!
Death Melody
distan33
joyce09
Valknut
soffe-chann
Ally159
I don't own Gakuen Alice!
Chapter 13: Masks
"Hurry up and get changed, Mikan." The black-haired female ordered impatiently. A few moments later, a brunette stepped out of the enormous closet, her clothes covered in a dark brown cloak.
"Sorry, I couldn't get the cloak thing on right. It kept getting caught on my dress."
The girls stepped outside and began walking out of the hotel and onto a stone pathway. They were joined by others similarly dressed as they made their way through the gardens. Moonlight illuminated the wet flowers and the hoods of the group.
Mikan chuckled at the head of the group. "It looks like we're a part of a cult or something,"
"You thought so too?"
The brunette turned and smiled excitedly. "Tsubasa-senpai!" She hugged him as they walked. "Where's the rest of Dream?"
"They're at the back somewhere. Hotaru's with you, I guess, and Ruka and Natsume are already there." The bluenette looked ahead. "Whoa, so that's the Christmas Ballroom," His comment was followed by several other gasps as the enormous building came into view.
The entire glass dome was smothered in bright, twinkling lights and crisp, white snow. Trees lined the outside of the building, covered in layers of snow. The pathways to the building were bordered with small roses in red lights, illuminating the way to the entrance.
"Ok guys, time to put on the masks," He called to the group, and they responded by doing so. Mikan's peacock mask covered her eyes and the left side of her face, so that only the right half of her lips and cheeks were showing. Hotaru's purple one only covered half her face, and Tsubasa's only hid his eyes and nose. "Lets do this," He whispered, as they passed through the hall's arching entrance.
The inside of the hall was...breathtaking. Small booths lined the walls, selling masks, drinks, food, and filling the whole dome with the smell of hot chocolate.
The seats started a few feet into the room, then began to go lower underground. And they weren't just seats - it was just one huge cushion going all the way around the row, so people could fit as many as they wanted in the spaces.
The whole underground was illuminated by streams of broken moonlight and red and green lights covering the floor, giving it a mysterious look.
People were filling it like water, and just when the brunette began worrying if they would find seats, Tsubasa pulled them in front of a booth. He then turned around and whistled five notes super loudly into the crowd. Mikan stared at him in confusion for a few seconds before hearing a reply of five more notes. Tsubasa pulled the girls to where the music came from.
"What was that?" Hotaru asked, and Mikan looked to him for an answer.
"What, you're telling me you guys have never seen Kill Bill? Oh my god, we need to re-educate you two-"
"No, why did you do that?"
Tsubasa smirked arrogantly. "Well, yours truly had the idea to send Ruka and Natsume ahead to go find and save seats, and then we'd whistle each other when we got here. Oh, hey, Ruka!" He yelled, seeing a shining yellow mask. The boy turned around and they recognized the blue eyes.
"Tsubasa-senpai! Oh, Sakura and Imai-san!" He said, hugging the three in that order. Natsume, who was standing behind Ruka, quietly lead them to the seats where Misaki and the others were already sitting.
"Misaki-senpai!" Mikan whispered, greeting the tall hooded figure before all of the lights dimmed and a voice boomed on the intercom.
"Will everyone please take their seats?"
Mikan's jaw dropped. "Is that Koko?" She asked. Misaki grinned as the person on stage was put in a blue spotlight. "In a dress?" She hissed as their row erupted into laughter.
"As you all know, only the announcer is allowed to take off their cloaks before the actual ball. And as you all also know, I am Kokoro Yome, and I am, in fact, wearing a dress, because my coughidiotcough bandmate rigged a bet. And so, lets go past that and start the celebrating!" The crowd cheered in between chuckles. Koko looked at some cards in his hands and frowned. "Well, it says here that I'm supposed to welcome each band onstage and they give a speech, bla bla bla. No offense, but that'd be pretty boring, and I think we'll just move on from there..." He tossed half the cards behind him. "Oh, yeah, so now we're just gonna move onto the dancing. Everyone hold onto your seats, please."
This was supposed to be a warning for everyone to sit before Koko pointed some remote at the wall, and the seats began going down. Down, down, down...until the ground became level and everyone was sitting on the floor. They stood up hurriedly as they found themselves on a ballroom dance floor.
Koko, way too eager, began the count. "Sei, no-" And the cloaks were thrown into the air.
The room instantly became brighter. All the guys (aside from Koko) were wearing tuxedos in many different colors, some glittering, some silky, and some in weird designs. Natsume came in a silk crimson tux, Ruka in a white one, Kitsuneme in an orange one, and Tsubasa the show-off in a dark blue military style uniform. (FMA style ;D)
The girls all came in beautiful ball gowns; Hotaru in a dark purple sleeveless gown that matched her facade, Misaki in a bright pink and gold dress, Hana in a light green straight dress, and Mikan in an extremely poofy copper gown.
And everyone had a mask on, so when they were all swept in different directions, no one knew who anyone was...
Ugh, I hate summer school~
I can honestly say that my best work on FF is my oneshot for the TR Contest, One Stupid Person.I hope you all read it!
~animeoh