Kagami And The Ten Dancing Princesses
Lucky Star is owned by Kagami Yoshimizu. I only own this story, which is used for entertainment purposes.
AN: Sorry for taking so long by the way, a lot of stuff seemed to be getting in the way and I had no time for any of this. I apologize once again :C
Anyways, why am I wasting your time with this? Enjoy :D
Chapter 13
"How the hell did you guys get up... there?" I ask Misao and Ayano as soon as I saw them up on my window still all of a sudden, but then shake my head and forget about it because it would probably be best that I do so. And that I don't know how. "Never mind forget it. So what do you guys want?"
"Well of course, we want to help you get the hightail out of here!" Misao replied. "There is a catch however... you'll have to glide down carefully or else you'll fall and hurt yourself."
"How is that a catch?"
"You'll be grabbing onto Ayano the entire time, silly."
"Kill me."
"No."
"Damn it."
"Yeah, this way, we can reach the place a lot quicker and find out what was behind the window. I could of sworn I saw someone with a different kind of vial." Konata added.
Oh, so that must be why she was looking at the windows from earlier, she must have seen something vital to our new mission. Still doesn't make any sense though.
"And even if that isn't the case, we can always go back to the Enchanted Pavilion and hatch up another cure... maybe two more just to be on the safe side!" Hiyori winked.
"Yeah, that sounds like a good enough idea... for once." I reply, sighing in a fake-ish toned despair.
Now all we need to do is hatch up a plan and make sure that no one else is watching us from down below.
Piece of cake, right?
"Now wait a minute, what about Minoru? He'll come back soon and notice that we're missing!" Miyuki reminded us.
"Oh yeah, he did leave to go get Tsukasa a drink, right?" Hiyori sweat-dropped.
"Yeah, he should be back any minute now..." Minami replied casually.
"Hey wait, shouldn't we just go out through the door while Minoru is out the doorway?" Patricia asked with her head tilted.
"But wouldn't we get caught easily if we get out that way? And he wouldn't go get her anymore drinks for Tsukasa overnight!" Misao commented.
"And it wouldn't be polite to do something so horrible like that..." Tsukasa chimed in.
"I agree, although she kind of does have a point." I added. "It's probably too late now, so we should just wait until he comes back with the—"
"Hey Tsukasa, I got you that drink you wanted earlier, sorry to keep you waiting!" Minoru cried out through the door.
"—or not."
As he enters the room and offers her the drink, Minoru couldn't help but give us some tad bit skeptical looks. "Um, do you mind if I asked what you guys were... talking about while I was gone?"
"Oh, um, we were just talking about... nothing. Sorry it's personal." Patricia replied.
"Ah, I see. Well, I'll be off then, good night."
"Good night and thank you for the drink." Tsukasa bowed down in gratitude.
"No problem." He leaves and softly closes the door behind us.
"Well then, now that he won't be bothering us anymore, we can head on out the other way to retrieve the thing." Misao whispered.
"You're right, but are you sure there is no other way to get down there by flying?" Tsukasa replied while drinking the water.
"Nope, sorry, but unless you have any better and safer ideas..."
"Alright fine, let's just get going. Now let's not all go since it'd be easier to get spotted and get in trouble." I mention. "Me and Konata will go with Misao and Ayano and the rest of you can stay here."
"Actually, I was thinking that I should stay behind and make sure nothing bad happens to them, I'll lend you and them a signal for when someone gets near to you or us. Ok?"
"Understood," Tsukasa finished her drink and sighed in happiness. "And in case you still can't find the vial, we can always go back to the Enchanted Pavilion and go get ourselves another one..."
"Yeah, good thinking, well we'll be off then, see you guys in a bit... hopefully." I wave goodbye to my fellow sisters [and Misao] and head outside along with Konata and Ayano.
.-.-.-.
"You sure this'll work?" I ask Ayano.
"Sure it will, we'll get down there safely for sure, just grab on and let's fly." She responded and opened up her wings.
I sigh disappointingly, knowing what'll come to me after this, walk over, and climb onto her so we can prepare for our launch.
She runs over to the window, leaps over it, and flaps her wings vibrantly... only for her to fall and face plant onto the ground shortly after. Well thank goodness her feathery body costume broke my fall. Wait, what the hell am I doing?
"See, what did I tell you? I knew this wasn't going to work."
"My wings just got tired from... flapping too much that's all. Well on the... bright side... at least we got down... safe and sound..." Ayano replied very weakly.
"Are you alright? You must be really hurt from that impact."
"Nah I'm fine, let's go."
"Wha- hey how did you get down here so fast?" I ask Konata as she appeared to be unscathed.
"Well it's a good thing I came down here from the mattresses you formed out the window yesterday or else I would have suffered the same rate. Besides, we'd be way too heavy for her to carry."
"Yeah, whatever, let's just go and get to the bottom of this."
"Alright then."
.-.-.-.
As we walk down the corridors slowly and quietly, we notice some more shadows lurking around the place. It must be them again, trying to make sure that no one ends up taking the vial for sure.
"Remember... this time... no fail... got it?!" I hear a woman say.
"Yessss... my lieeege." I heard another wo- man say.
This does not bode well. I whisper to the others about the plan. "Alright, now we should make absolute sure that we do not let them know that we are here sneaking around the—"
Konata throws our only light source at the shadows. "—castle?"
They soon freak out and notice us as we make a run for it.
"What the hell were you thinking? Now they know we're here!" I retort to Konata as we try to hide from them.
"I was trying to get them away from the room of yours, she should be in there." She responded in her normal tone.
"Wait, how do you know that? AND WHY ARE YOU SO CALM!?"
"Just because?"
"Well, if that is the right place we need to go to, I'll need to get them further away so you guys can get through." Ayano uttered. "Wait for my signal, follow my lead, and then go on without me, ok?"
"Wait what?" I was confused by this. "Why would you—"
"Now go!" She told us and ran to a different direction screeching "CAW-CAW BEEEEEP!" out loud.
The others have noticed the sound and picked up the light source to track it down. There was no other option but for me and Konata to go and get the vial back in Mother's room. I just hope that she was right. There's no turning back on this.
.-.-.-.
We sneakily walk past Ayano and the shadows as they begin to chase her around the place, soon after, we finally arrive to the building that had Mother's room in it. Oh Mother...
We walk around the building to try and pry the door open, but it appears to be locked from the inside. Maybe she is trying to take a nap and Daisuke is there comforting her so we wouldn't be able to wake her up so abruptly.
"It's locked; I guess we can't get in from here..." Konata muttered in sadness.
"Well of course, there's no way she'd leave it open like that, not since there be a 'criminal' afoot." I retort. "Also, are you SURE that this is where Mother is?"
"Certainly, come, take a look for yourself." She takes me over to the windows beside it and there I saw, Mother was lying down in the bed, with her hands folded across from her body, looking all sad and sick.
She looked a lot worse than before that's for sure. I just stare there, I place my hands on the window, tears started to form around my eyes. "Mother..." I whispered softly and sadly. I stared at her, wondering if I'll ever be able to see her or hear her again, and if she'll see and hear me too.
Of course Konata had to ruin this nice moment by tapping on my shoulder and pointing out that: "Hey, look, I see a vial on that coffee table there, maybe that's where we'll find the cure! Although, it looks kind of different from the other one, doesn't it?"
"Konata, how can you bring that up at a time like this?"
"What? I just wanted to point that out to you, we did come here for that to save your mommy remember?"
"Oh shut up" I whisper-yell at her at random. "How dare you talk about Mother like that?"
"Hmm, you really do care about mom, do you?"
"...Yeah."
"Hey, who's that?" Someone asked from afar.
"It must be them, let's get THEM!" Another spewed out.
We were in deep doo-doo, thankfully Ayano came in just in time to get us back to the castle dorms.
"Girls, we have got to abort the mission and get out STAT!"
"Right you are, let's go!" Konata and I follow Ayano and avoid the other suspicious shadow people on the way there.
.-.-.-.
When returning back (by using the stairway), Misao has the nerve to ask: "So, did you guys find it?"
"Well I think we found it, but it doesn't seem to look like the one before..." Konata answered.
"Oh, well then we can always go back to the Pavilion and get another one, ya see while we were gone the other princesses have already wrapped it up and opened it up for you while you were gone!"
"Wow, without my help? That's a first..." I unintentionally snark rudely at her.
"Hey, I'm just trying to help!" She protested right back to me.
"She's right you know, might as well take it as an advantage..." Yutaka added.
"What?"
"Hey thanks, now let's get going." I respond. Apparently little Yutaka doesn't know what the word advantage really means.
So we all walk down the spiral stair case and try to get back the vial for our sickly mother... then, suddenly, right when I was about to get in myself, the backdoor slammed open and a shadow lurker from underneath it.
I turned to see who it was, and then I knew, the shadow came from under the darkness and revealed to be Akira Kogami. What a surprise. Insert sarcasm. And just then, the other shadow came out and was revealed to be Daisuke. WHAT?
"Oh, there you are Kagami" Akira started, "I was wondering what you were doing roaming about in the middle of the night."