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Chapter twenty-one
"Say what?" Kumi said, astonished what Kaya said to her on the phone.
"It's true, Haruhi's gone!"
"What happened?" Edith said, eating something during her call.
"Lobelia…they're back, and not only that, but they also kidnapped…Arisa."
Kumi who was just drinking her orange juice spits it out immediately.
"What? You mean they actually did that and she never killed them?" Kumi squawked, not understanding what is going on.
"Yeah, and it gets much worse…" Kaya trembled in her voice; no one in the group has ever heard her tremble in fear before.
"Wha-what?" Tomomi on the line asked, hoping she will not regret saying this.
"The boys don't know this, so we have to save her…and Arisa," Kaya added quickly.
"NOO!" Shelia cried. "Can't we just save Haruhi and leave Arisa?"
"No, that's terrible if we did that, girls!" Aziza said on the line.
Kumi, Kaya, Edith, Tomomi, Shelia and Aziza could not believe that this is happening. Their best friend, Haruhi, (and Arisa) are gone just like that! Kumi felt scared, she never rescued anyone before in her life and now she must do so in order to keep Haruhi alive. What the Lobelia academy is going to do to her is a mystery, but with determination and bravery, they could be able to save Haruhi.
"So, what shall we do?" Anime and Enime asked…wait, they were there on the line?
"WHAT THE HELL?" everyone screamed, how did Anime and Enime get into their conversation…and how long were they there during their conversation?
"Look, we got plans on getting in and out of Lobooblia-"
"It's 'Lobelia,'"
"No one cares; Anime, but what we can do is just going into the school and dress up as them so we can save Haruhi."
"And Arisa!" Anime added quickly.
"Can we not save that bitch?"
…
Arisa who is trapped in her changing room where the door is locked and the only thing that this place has is a mirror sneezed suddenly. It is known that if someone talks about you, you would sneeze and would think that someone could be talking about you. She actually hoped that it was her minions that are going to save her and Haruhi, but then again, if they do not save her…they are just going to regret that decision for the rest of their life. But it did not matter right now; she has to find a way out of this room so she could find Haruhi and get the hell out of this dumb of a school. As Arisa touched the door to see if it could be broken down, she heard a tap on the wall on her right. Arisa decided to look up and to her surprise and luck, she sees Haruhi tiptoeing as high as she could on her chair so she could see Arisa from the other side.
"Arisa, are you okay?"
"No, somehow I was knocked out by some gas and now I'm here," Arisa grunted unpleasantly. "What about you? I'm going to bust the door open and we'll try to get out of here."
"I tried, it's locked and I don't know what they want us for,"
"Then we might have to find another way to get out, maybe I'll climb by your side and see if we could make a tower of some kind to get over."
"That's too hard, I tried that with the chair but I-"she sinks back down suddenly but tiptoes up again. "I couldn't reach over."
"Well, at least you never thought about giving up and panicking at the spot like a complete buffoon would do,"
"Haha…yeah, you're totally right, Arisa." Haruhi did not want her to know one thing: she was actually thinking about doing that idea in the first place…
But she is right; it is no use of just running away and not facing your fears like a coward. But then, they both heard a click of a sound that came from their doors, meaning that someone must have opened the door to save them! When Arisa pushed her door slowly forward, she looks outside to see the whole room filled with racks of clothing for every occasion like Santa outfits. They seem to be inside the changing rooms by the looks of it, so Arisa walks out with confidence with Haruhi following behind her at all times. It seemed like the place is fine, no guards or anyone to stop them from getting out of the room…but then that was when three certain laughs were heard from behind. Arisa and Haruhi looked alertly behind to see the Lobelia students again, they seem to be perfectly well, but that could change when Arisa gets ready to fight them. But Benio who held her hand up meant that they mean no harm towards them.
"We wish you no harm, only to plea for your helpfulness," Benio said, the two friends of hers also copied her by taking their hands out for their hand.
"Why?"
"You see," Benio said. "Our star who is to play the leading part of our play broke her foot from a difficult piece that we're all playing and she was sent to the hospital. Now we don't have a star and thought that we can turn to one of you."
"One of you may leave if you wish," the small one said. "But one must stay and will be given rewards that will gland one of your hearts."
"Thanks," Arisa said sarcastically. "But not interested, so bye-bye." She starts to leave, looking for the door that was covered by these stupid racks of clothing.
"But we have information about your whole life, Arisa!"
Arisa froze…what did Benio mean by that? Haruhi looks worryingly at Arisa since she has no idea what they are saying to her, but Arisa glanced over to Benio who smiled that she has gotten her attention.
"We know about everything, dear maiden," Benio continued on. "We deeply understand your life and would like it if you could help us, and in return, we'll give you information about your family's disappearance."
Arisa stared at her, she then quickly turned her head away to think more clearly for a minute so she could figure out if this is a trap or not. But sadly, this might be her chance of a lifetime to know everything about her family….
…
"Kaya, why are we wearing these cloths?" Kumi asked, looking at her white blazer and long red skirt that went down to her knees.
"We need to fool them that we're members of this school, so that means we'll have to go in and pretend to be them."
"But Kaya, it has been said in my book of Academy Starlight's that in Lobelia, it states that girls who come here will turn into lesbians!" Anime said, pointing at her brown covered book in her hand.
Everyone then looked up at the school, it looked so magnificent with all of their buildings that reached nearly to the clouds as if they were castles and the girls who are walking by the gates just giggled sheepishly when they saw the girls coming into school. But one thing is for sure, Anime could have sworn that the girl with blond hair and green eyes from inside the school winked at her pervert-like. When they made it to the gates, Shelia starts fidgeting her skirt to fit her waist properly, it is just that she is not use to wearing boring skirts before. That was Edith realized that Aziza is not with them, but then from behind they heard a honk from the road and took their attention to it. They saw Aziza, but she is on a scooter…with Hiroshi! When Hiroshi stops in the middle of the road and Aziza gets off, they looked at the scooter to see it looks pink with flowers all over it.
"Don't…ask…" Hiroshi grunted, he reeves up his scooter and drives off into the streets.
The girls turned to Aziza for an answer.
"One of his fans from YouTube gave him a scooter, but it wasn't the right order so he got that instead." Aziza smirked, impressed with that little mistake that happened to him.
"Ooooh," they said, understanding the mistake.
"So, what're we waiting for?"
Nothing, they were waiting for nothing and start to walk away with their heads held up high and ready to go and save Haruhi themselves. At least it was nice to know that most of the girls inside the school just stayed away from them, thinking that one of them are taken in the group. But as they walked inside, they caught a group of what seems to be a tour with some girls wearing fan outfits for the Zuka club. All of them squealed uncontrollably and wanted to see the Zuka club right away, but their tour guide warned them that they have to wait in order to watch them do their play called Sweep me Away.
"WHAT?" Anime and Enime screeched in anger. "HOW COULD THEY LET THOSE UGLY ASS IDIOTS GO AND DO OUR PLAY? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE-THIS IS-"
But then Kaya punches both Anime and Enime on the head, they both touched their head and winced in pain because of her hard punch. But luckily, they did not get anyone in rage because no one even listened to them for some reason…
"Let's just remain focus, girls," Kaya told them all.
"Psst!"
What was that? It sounded like someone is calling for them, but who could it be? When Tomomi looked over the bushes where roses are blooming lovely in the day, she saw what seems to be platinum blond hair which is very long into a ponytail.
"Wake-chan!" Tomomi said, pointing at the bush which shook in fear but was glad that someone listened well.
"What're you guys doing here?" the bush said, shaking with some leaf falling apart.
"We're resucing Haruhi-"
"And Arisa!"
"What're you doing here?"
Wake gets up from the ground and has a twig in his long hair, he tries pulling the twig out of his hair but it was completely stuck. He said that when Haruhi never came back from the super market, he went out looking for her to end up learning from Ranka, Haruhi's father, that she was taken by the Zuka club. Kaya asked him why they would be wanting both Haruhi and Arisa, only he could answer for Haruhi because Benio likes her a whole bunch. Wake could not explain why would they steal Arisa, but they should be able go and save both of them anyway. Wake however said that he cannot go with them because he is a boy, and since he cannot just wear the uniform like any school girl, he has to go and spy around the school like an agent. And so, he sinks down in the bushes and all the girls could hear from him were just twigs breaking repeatedly.
…
"Haruhi, please try to remember this line," Benio instructed, pointing at the lyrics in the paper which Haruhi has to learn by the time of the play.
"Right, I got it,"
Benio walks over to the radio and pushes the button again; Arisa and Haruhi who are both stuck in a cage sadly have to sing in order to get it right.
The place has many mirrors around the room; it is a dancing studio with many people stretching up for their rehearsals. People wore weird tights that seemed like they could stretch their whole body out to Arisa, she was glad that they do not have to wear those outfits.
"Arisa, pay attention!" Benio shouted, rewinding the radio again.
Arisa growled, no one ever tells her what to do. And so, she has to lip-sync with Haruhi along a song which was hard to remember. The music is calming; the music makes everyone stop just to hear the song for a short period of time. But while they start mouthing all the words, Arisa glanced outside to see Anime waving to her with a smile, Arisa could not believe that she came here to save her…but wondered why an idiot would come and save her instead. Arisa pretends that she did not saw Anime and continues to mouth the words, the others from under the window pulled Anime down so she could not be seen by anyone. Tomomi looked around, she wondered why many people have come here to watch the Zuka club perform like this, nothing but large produtions are outside as they all go inside the stadium by the crew who are offered to help.
"Okay, so what now?"
"We'll…" Kaya trails off.
"We'll what?"
"We…should watch the play,"
"WHAT?" Enime shouted in rage. "You want to see a pathetic excuse of a play when you could just wait naturally and see it in the time of winter?"
"Well, that's the whole point, we'll watch their play for a minute and grab Haruhi in a flash!" Kaya hissed.
"And Arisa," Anime added, making sure they did not forget her. "Tomomi, are you okay?"
Tomomi is…spacing out herself as she hears the music from inside the dancing studio…it did sound calm and relaxing…
You said if you could fly
you would leave all this far behind you
and soar off to the sky
so blue, so blue, that sky so blue
The sadness and pain that you've learnt me to feel
are holding me tight
my prayers echo through night
if only I could tell these feelings to you with my words
but they choke me down so much it hurts
as you awake
from your dreamy state in to this world
so cruel and cold
you want to spread your wings and take off for a flight
You said if you could fly
you would leave all this far behind you
and soar off to the sky
so blue, so blue, that sky so blue
if there's a place for us, we'd never come back down
so blue, so blue, that sky so blue
With that sound that went through me as you opened your eyes
the rusted old window broke
and we could see through the smoke
You're being sick of the cage that surrounds us around
and prisons us tightly into the ground
what you see
in this reality
it makes you feel
so lonely
you wanna spread your wings in to a flight
You said if you could fly
you would leave all this far behind you
and soar off to the sky
so blue, so blue, that sky so blue
you said if you could run
you would find everything you needed
you're breaking chasing it
so blue, so blue, that sky so blue
-
You're finally falling down
from your haven up above
but still you fight
to reach the light
and fall again for a new flight
You said if you could fly
you would leave all this far behind you
and soar off to the sky
so blue, so blue, that sky so blue
if there's a place for us
you'd be sure to take me with you
we'd never come back down
so sky, so blue, that sky so blue
so blue, so blue, that sky so blue
only you, only you, only with you
…
"How can I know these idiots?" Wake asked himself, looking down at Kaya and all the girls who are now sleeping off the rest of the day like idiots…
Wake wanted to help them wake up, but he felt it was such a bother to go and waste his time waking them up in the middle of the afternoon. He had to do the whole saving by himself, he was able to find Haruhi going outside for a brief break to find him and begged him to get her out of this place. But, since they are members, he took out his black cellphone and with the volume in death-like high, it starts to ring in a demonic tone with drums and guitar bursting out. The girls all woke up from their dreaming time and found themselves on the ground, Edith and Tomomi have drool drooling out of their opened mouths as Kaya and Shelia started to strech their arms out.
Kaya then realized what happened, "Quick, we gotta save Haruhi!"
"And Arisa!" Anime reminded her.
"Too late," Wake grunted, grinning in pain with cruel eyes glaring at them all. "I saved them and you shouldn't worry about them anymore…"
"That's nice to know, I didn't like having to sleep on a hard ground like this," Kaya said. "Let's go and get something to eat, it'll be my treat."
"I know a good Pizza Hut not too far away from here," Shelia said. "We'll get some there."
"As long as Tomomi gets salad, Tomomi's going," Tomomi said, secretly worried about her weight as she blushes on to herself.
And so, they all started to walk away with big grins on their faces…leaving Wake all alone to himself…
To be continued…