School Day's 6.
Wu-fei slowly opened the large wooden door, clutching the note that had been tacked to it. He walked into the large marble foyer of the Sunset house and looked around. About 5 large mahogany doors were visible around the corridor. He looked back at the note:
Dear Wu-fei,
Hiya! Glad you could make it! I'll be in the training room. If you take the third door on your right when you get into the foyer, and then follow the corridor, then take the fifteenth door on your right and then go up the stairs, you'll be getting close! Then just follow the calf ;)
See you soon!
Kitty xx
Wu-fei sighed. He walked along behind a row of comfortable looking sofas and faced the door. It opened easily. He followed the corridor down, counting the doors he passed. Most of them were shut, and the fact that the corridor was dimly lit didn't make it any more homely. Suddenly a sound came into Wu-fei's ears. It was the sound of soft singing. He followed the sound the ninth door on the right. It was ajar. Through the gap he could see a woman in her late twenties washing clothes.
"These must be the servant's quarters," he said softly, straightening up and carrying on, "I wonder why she wants me to meet her in the servant's quarters." He continued down the dim corridor until he reached the fifteenth door. It was wide open. He walked through it, glancing around, on guard as usual. Of course, it being a privately kept home of two, ehem, rather tame characters, meant it was quite safe, and there were no monsters hiding in closets, or rather, soldiers hiding behind pot-plants, of which there were many. The room was deep red; contrasting with the cool marble with had been present up until now. The floor was mahogany, matching the door, and the walls and rugs were like blood. There were six doors around on the walls, and one archway at the back of the room, leading to a grand staircase. The rooms all had signs on them, such as 'Keep out!' or 'Cleaning in Process.' The sounds of vacuum cleaners and mechanical floor polishers could be head. Wu-fei continued on his way, following the note's instructions. This room contained two large palm trees, either side of a grand staircase. There were two doors on wither side, but they had locks on the front. Wu-fei walked briskly up the stairs. He was getting very tired of this game of cat and mouse; he was not a patient person. He finally reached the top of stairs to find himself once agin surrounded by another numerously doored corridor.
"This is like one big maze!" he sighed, leaning against the banisters. He looked at the note. "Follow the calf?" he said quietly, "well that makes sense!" Wu-fei turned quickly as he heard a snuffling sound from the left hand corner of the corridor, where turned off into another corridor.
"Who's there?!" he cried. There was a soft clatter of tiny cloven hooves as a silver calf stepped into the light, blinking at him. It had big brown eyes and small stubs of cream coloured horns. It swished its tail. Wu-fei rolled his eyes.
"And this is supposed to be normal?" he groaned walking over to the calf apprehensively. The calf looked up at him, blinking dumbly. Wu-fei growled.
"This is ridiculous! Aren't you supposed to lead me to Kitty?" The calf shuddered at Wu-fei's tone. It sniffed at his hand gently, and then snatched the note.
"Hey!" Wu-fei protested, reaching out for the calf, but narrowly missing. The Calf darted away and laid down the note. It sniffed at it for a moment, picked it up again and trotted off past Wu-fei and round the corner. Wu-fei growled.
"This is why I vow never to become a farmer!" he hissed, jogging off after the silver calf.
A few minutes passed, basically consisting of Wu-fei diving round corners after the calf to try and get his note back and failing miserably. Wu-fei growled as he watched the small calf run off down yet another dark corridor until it stopped in a patch of light and sat down. It dropped the note and watched Wu-fei for a while, before trotting off due to sheer boredom. Wu-fei walked slowly towards the note and picked it up gingerly. He read it through again and sighed. He looked down the corridor the calf had exited into, but it was nowhere in sight. He read the note again. He frowned. Wu-fei walked over to the radiator and held the letter over it, hoping for new message to appear. He was disappointed once more. He groaned.
"I am sick of this game! And besides, I have a Maths exam tomorrow!" he cried, crumpling up the note. From behind him and the glass illuminated window he heard a noise. It sounded like the squeak of trainers on a highly polished gym floor. He turned around, to find that the window was actually a door. He pulled it open and stepped out onto a balcony. The balcony was high above a yellow illuminated sports hall. Wu-fei walked cautiously to the edge of the balcony and peered over. The two opponents stood facing each other. The male brushed his blonde fringe off his damp forehead.
"That enough warm up for ya?" he asked casually. The female opponent stood bent over her knees, out of breath. She looked up at him.
"That'll do. Hey, remember, I haven't done this in a long while! Take it easy!" The boy laughed, smirking at his opponent.
"You should know me better. I don't take it easy." The boy walked over two a locker on the wall of the room. He pulled out a leather bound package. He unwound the leather coils and let them drop to the floor, revealing a golden hilted sword engraved with the ornate letters QRW. The girl looked up as the boy slotted the sword hilt through his belt. It was curved slightly. The girl raised a hand gently and shut her eyes. When she opened them they glowed a deep turquoise. Her finger twitched and the opposite locker swung open. Another similar leather bound article floated out, unravelling quickly. The silver hilted curved sword flew towards its master, and with a flick of the wrist, she caught it and slotted it through her own belt. The carved letters on this smaller hilt read CAW. The boy smiled.
"You didn't forget that trick I see?" The girl shook her head.
"'Course not. I use that one all the time. Now can we get this over and done with, I have an appointment." Quatre nodded.
"Alright then," he grinned. He quickly drew his golden scimitar from its sheath and lunged forward at his sister. She ducked nimbly out of the way and drew her silver article, bringing it up to her brother's. Silver blue sparks flew as the metal titans met and sprung apart almost as rapidly. Kitty somersaulted away, landing gracefully on her feet. Quatre leapt back and grinned.
"Better than I thought you'd be," he grinned. Kitty cocked her head.
"What can I say, I love surprises." She ran forward, bringing her blade crashing down against her brother's Quatre frowned and flung Kitty away with a mere gesture. She flew backwards, flat on her back, growling in anger. Quatre relived his aggressive stance and stood still. Kitty got to her feet.
"How dare you!?" she hissed. Quatre shrugged.
"That was a perfectly legal move," he said. Wu-fei nodded in agreement, "And besides, all's fair in sibling feuds and war." Kitty glared at him.
"Not amused, your gonna have to try harder." She sprang foreward again with renewed vigour, crashing the sword down again. Quatre was almost bent over backwards by the force, but it did not last long. He gathered himself again and pushed hard against his opponent. Kitty cried out as she flew backwards and stumbled over. She cat-leapt back up and attacked again, but Quatre was ready, with a flurry of sparks, Kitty crashed into the back wall of the gymnasium. Quatre sighed and sheathed his sword. Kitty staggered to her feet.
"That wasn't a fair fight, Quatre! I demand a rematch!" Quatre sighed, walking back towards his locker.
"Who do you think you are to demand a rematch? And besides, I used no foul play. Ask your houseguest." Kitty looked up at Wu-fei and blushed. She glared at Quatre.
"We will fight again tomorrow evening, then," she stated. Quatre slammed his locker.
"No, we won't, Kitty. You know full well I have to prepare a speech for the national peace conference on Saturday, and I've repaid my debt for the Polaroid incident. I'm going to revise now. I don't want to be disturbed unless the colony is falling apart." Kitty frowned.
"But what if I do some cooking and my hair catches fire?" she pouted. Wu-fei sniggered. Quatre walked towards the door, a towel over his shoulder.
"It's called a sink, Kitty, learn how to use it." He walked out of the room and disappeared from view. Kitty growled.
"Ignorant brat," she spat furiously, placing the sword away in it's locker. She looked back up at Wu-fei and smiled.
"Sorry you had to see that," she called, "Quatre's teaching me sword fighting." Wu-fei nodded.
"I can see that," he said, "you looked good. But you need to maintain power, that's your weakness. That and your anger."
"I am not an angry person!" Kitty bellowed. Wu-fei raised an eyebrow at her. She blushed again.
"Ok, so maybe I could work on that. Did Sagittarius being you up OK?" Wu-fei cocked his head. "You know, little silver calf?" Wu-fei nodded.
"Yeah, he did." Kitty smiled.
"Good. Do you think you can find your way back to the west grand staircase?" Wuf-ei frowned.
"You mean the big red one, right?" Kitty nodded, "Sure, of course I can!" Kitty grinned.
"Right, I'll meet you by the bottom. See you there!" she dashed off out of the door, whilst Wu-fei wandered back the way he had came.
Kitty jogged towards Wu-fei, beaming, with a white towel embroidered with her initials around her neck.
"Heya!" she cooed. Wu-fei smiled.
"That was fast!" he laughed. Kitty smiled.
"Your an enigma Wu-fei, dya know that?" Wu-fei cocked his head. Kitty laughed and began walking back the way Wu-fei had come. Wu-fei followed.
"What do you mean?" he asked. Kitty just laughed. He grabbed her shoulder and spun her round.
"What do you mean?" he repeated. Kitty sighed.
"Well, I've heard some pretty weird stories about you, 'fei," she said slowly, "I mean, people have told me that you were real nuisance, always being bossy and moody and snapping at people, but I've never seen you act like that at all. Your always so sweet and kind and helpful when your with me." Wu-fei blushed.
"So that's why I'm an enigma? 'Cause I grew up?" Kitty frowned.
"I was only saying..." she said quietly. Wu-fei sighed.
"Look, don't worry about it. People just didn't get to know me, and I went through some rough times a while back, that's all." Kitty sighed.
"If you say so, 'fei. Now come on, Una will be waiting!" With that, Kitty marched off with Wu-fei in tow, back down the dark corridor and into Una's quarters.
Wu-fei sat on the steps of Sunset house, leaning on his hands, waiting for a taxi. He was renting a car for the dance, but unlike most of the people in his year, he didn't have one of his own. Quatre pulled back one of the curtains and sighed.
"You really shouldn't make him sit out in the cold, ya know?" he said. Kitty was doing a needlework patch for a cushion.
"I didn't make him," she said, "he said he wanted to sit alone and think. Something about making some choices, sorting something out." Quatre frowned, his promise to the other pilots rushing back into his head.
"Kitty?" he said meekly. Kitty looked up instanly, her eyes flashing turquoise for a second.
"What's wrong?" she asked. Quatre looked at Kitty and sighed.
"Nothing," he said quickly, smiling. Kitty frowned and shook her head, turning back to her needlework. Quatre peered through the curtains again and sighed, misery sweeping over him once more as he thought more and more about the pact.
Wu-fei shuddered a little as a cold breeze blew through the marble pillars of the porch, ruffling his shirt. He sighed and thought of the thing that preoccupied his mind most- the pact. How were they going to carry it out? When? And how was he gonna tell Kitty. Ah yes, Kitty, his other main preoccupation. No one had ever done this to him before. No one had ever made him feel wanted or special, not since his parents, back before he could remember. And they, like all th others, were gone. Destroyed. Failed by him. But Kitty didn't care about his past, or what he had done before he came to Equus high, before he met her. When he thought about it, that time seemed like an empty expanse of bitter battles and injustice. Injustice wasn't going to cease, he had learned that well, but when he was with Kitty, it seemed to fade from him, like ten thousand tonnes of weight from his chest. She wasn't like the others. She didn't judge or seek to know more than what came to her. Or so it seemd to him. She didn't pry, she didn't question, she just accepted. And if she felt the need to question, she squirmed and twitched, expressing her deep discomfort at being curious. And those eyes! Oh, if her sweet naivety wasn't enough, her eyes just stole him away. They were deep and dark like the ocean at night, yet they were clear and bright like a clear sky, and they shone a glittered like moonlit pools. He loved her eyes. They were his relief. If everday he could gaze into those beautiful eyes just once, he would be a happy man. heck, who knows, if all soldiers could see those eyes, maybe they'd be happy too, and wouldn't be such idiots to attack one another in the first place. Wu-fei sniggered to himself at the thought of people queueing up to see Kitty's eyes. He sighed again, but this time lightly and happily. He looked back at the house, with its cozy windows glowing with a warm yellow light from behind their net curtains. The taxi drew up and honked it's horn. Wu-fei got up, discreetly blew a kiss and dashed over to the taxi.
Wu-fei slowly opened the large wooden door, clutching the note that had been tacked to it. He walked into the large marble foyer of the Sunset house and looked around. About 5 large mahogany doors were visible around the corridor. He looked back at the note:
Dear Wu-fei,
Hiya! Glad you could make it! I'll be in the training room. If you take the third door on your right when you get into the foyer, and then follow the corridor, then take the fifteenth door on your right and then go up the stairs, you'll be getting close! Then just follow the calf ;)
See you soon!
Kitty xx
Wu-fei sighed. He walked along behind a row of comfortable looking sofas and faced the door. It opened easily. He followed the corridor down, counting the doors he passed. Most of them were shut, and the fact that the corridor was dimly lit didn't make it any more homely. Suddenly a sound came into Wu-fei's ears. It was the sound of soft singing. He followed the sound the ninth door on the right. It was ajar. Through the gap he could see a woman in her late twenties washing clothes.
"These must be the servant's quarters," he said softly, straightening up and carrying on, "I wonder why she wants me to meet her in the servant's quarters." He continued down the dim corridor until he reached the fifteenth door. It was wide open. He walked through it, glancing around, on guard as usual. Of course, it being a privately kept home of two, ehem, rather tame characters, meant it was quite safe, and there were no monsters hiding in closets, or rather, soldiers hiding behind pot-plants, of which there were many. The room was deep red; contrasting with the cool marble with had been present up until now. The floor was mahogany, matching the door, and the walls and rugs were like blood. There were six doors around on the walls, and one archway at the back of the room, leading to a grand staircase. The rooms all had signs on them, such as 'Keep out!' or 'Cleaning in Process.' The sounds of vacuum cleaners and mechanical floor polishers could be head. Wu-fei continued on his way, following the note's instructions. This room contained two large palm trees, either side of a grand staircase. There were two doors on wither side, but they had locks on the front. Wu-fei walked briskly up the stairs. He was getting very tired of this game of cat and mouse; he was not a patient person. He finally reached the top of stairs to find himself once agin surrounded by another numerously doored corridor.
"This is like one big maze!" he sighed, leaning against the banisters. He looked at the note. "Follow the calf?" he said quietly, "well that makes sense!" Wu-fei turned quickly as he heard a snuffling sound from the left hand corner of the corridor, where turned off into another corridor.
"Who's there?!" he cried. There was a soft clatter of tiny cloven hooves as a silver calf stepped into the light, blinking at him. It had big brown eyes and small stubs of cream coloured horns. It swished its tail. Wu-fei rolled his eyes.
"And this is supposed to be normal?" he groaned walking over to the calf apprehensively. The calf looked up at him, blinking dumbly. Wu-fei growled.
"This is ridiculous! Aren't you supposed to lead me to Kitty?" The calf shuddered at Wu-fei's tone. It sniffed at his hand gently, and then snatched the note.
"Hey!" Wu-fei protested, reaching out for the calf, but narrowly missing. The Calf darted away and laid down the note. It sniffed at it for a moment, picked it up again and trotted off past Wu-fei and round the corner. Wu-fei growled.
"This is why I vow never to become a farmer!" he hissed, jogging off after the silver calf.
A few minutes passed, basically consisting of Wu-fei diving round corners after the calf to try and get his note back and failing miserably. Wu-fei growled as he watched the small calf run off down yet another dark corridor until it stopped in a patch of light and sat down. It dropped the note and watched Wu-fei for a while, before trotting off due to sheer boredom. Wu-fei walked slowly towards the note and picked it up gingerly. He read it through again and sighed. He looked down the corridor the calf had exited into, but it was nowhere in sight. He read the note again. He frowned. Wu-fei walked over to the radiator and held the letter over it, hoping for new message to appear. He was disappointed once more. He groaned.
"I am sick of this game! And besides, I have a Maths exam tomorrow!" he cried, crumpling up the note. From behind him and the glass illuminated window he heard a noise. It sounded like the squeak of trainers on a highly polished gym floor. He turned around, to find that the window was actually a door. He pulled it open and stepped out onto a balcony. The balcony was high above a yellow illuminated sports hall. Wu-fei walked cautiously to the edge of the balcony and peered over. The two opponents stood facing each other. The male brushed his blonde fringe off his damp forehead.
"That enough warm up for ya?" he asked casually. The female opponent stood bent over her knees, out of breath. She looked up at him.
"That'll do. Hey, remember, I haven't done this in a long while! Take it easy!" The boy laughed, smirking at his opponent.
"You should know me better. I don't take it easy." The boy walked over two a locker on the wall of the room. He pulled out a leather bound package. He unwound the leather coils and let them drop to the floor, revealing a golden hilted sword engraved with the ornate letters QRW. The girl looked up as the boy slotted the sword hilt through his belt. It was curved slightly. The girl raised a hand gently and shut her eyes. When she opened them they glowed a deep turquoise. Her finger twitched and the opposite locker swung open. Another similar leather bound article floated out, unravelling quickly. The silver hilted curved sword flew towards its master, and with a flick of the wrist, she caught it and slotted it through her own belt. The carved letters on this smaller hilt read CAW. The boy smiled.
"You didn't forget that trick I see?" The girl shook her head.
"'Course not. I use that one all the time. Now can we get this over and done with, I have an appointment." Quatre nodded.
"Alright then," he grinned. He quickly drew his golden scimitar from its sheath and lunged forward at his sister. She ducked nimbly out of the way and drew her silver article, bringing it up to her brother's. Silver blue sparks flew as the metal titans met and sprung apart almost as rapidly. Kitty somersaulted away, landing gracefully on her feet. Quatre leapt back and grinned.
"Better than I thought you'd be," he grinned. Kitty cocked her head.
"What can I say, I love surprises." She ran forward, bringing her blade crashing down against her brother's Quatre frowned and flung Kitty away with a mere gesture. She flew backwards, flat on her back, growling in anger. Quatre relived his aggressive stance and stood still. Kitty got to her feet.
"How dare you!?" she hissed. Quatre shrugged.
"That was a perfectly legal move," he said. Wu-fei nodded in agreement, "And besides, all's fair in sibling feuds and war." Kitty glared at him.
"Not amused, your gonna have to try harder." She sprang foreward again with renewed vigour, crashing the sword down again. Quatre was almost bent over backwards by the force, but it did not last long. He gathered himself again and pushed hard against his opponent. Kitty cried out as she flew backwards and stumbled over. She cat-leapt back up and attacked again, but Quatre was ready, with a flurry of sparks, Kitty crashed into the back wall of the gymnasium. Quatre sighed and sheathed his sword. Kitty staggered to her feet.
"That wasn't a fair fight, Quatre! I demand a rematch!" Quatre sighed, walking back towards his locker.
"Who do you think you are to demand a rematch? And besides, I used no foul play. Ask your houseguest." Kitty looked up at Wu-fei and blushed. She glared at Quatre.
"We will fight again tomorrow evening, then," she stated. Quatre slammed his locker.
"No, we won't, Kitty. You know full well I have to prepare a speech for the national peace conference on Saturday, and I've repaid my debt for the Polaroid incident. I'm going to revise now. I don't want to be disturbed unless the colony is falling apart." Kitty frowned.
"But what if I do some cooking and my hair catches fire?" she pouted. Wu-fei sniggered. Quatre walked towards the door, a towel over his shoulder.
"It's called a sink, Kitty, learn how to use it." He walked out of the room and disappeared from view. Kitty growled.
"Ignorant brat," she spat furiously, placing the sword away in it's locker. She looked back up at Wu-fei and smiled.
"Sorry you had to see that," she called, "Quatre's teaching me sword fighting." Wu-fei nodded.
"I can see that," he said, "you looked good. But you need to maintain power, that's your weakness. That and your anger."
"I am not an angry person!" Kitty bellowed. Wu-fei raised an eyebrow at her. She blushed again.
"Ok, so maybe I could work on that. Did Sagittarius being you up OK?" Wu-fei cocked his head. "You know, little silver calf?" Wu-fei nodded.
"Yeah, he did." Kitty smiled.
"Good. Do you think you can find your way back to the west grand staircase?" Wuf-ei frowned.
"You mean the big red one, right?" Kitty nodded, "Sure, of course I can!" Kitty grinned.
"Right, I'll meet you by the bottom. See you there!" she dashed off out of the door, whilst Wu-fei wandered back the way he had came.
Kitty jogged towards Wu-fei, beaming, with a white towel embroidered with her initials around her neck.
"Heya!" she cooed. Wu-fei smiled.
"That was fast!" he laughed. Kitty smiled.
"Your an enigma Wu-fei, dya know that?" Wu-fei cocked his head. Kitty laughed and began walking back the way Wu-fei had come. Wu-fei followed.
"What do you mean?" he asked. Kitty just laughed. He grabbed her shoulder and spun her round.
"What do you mean?" he repeated. Kitty sighed.
"Well, I've heard some pretty weird stories about you, 'fei," she said slowly, "I mean, people have told me that you were real nuisance, always being bossy and moody and snapping at people, but I've never seen you act like that at all. Your always so sweet and kind and helpful when your with me." Wu-fei blushed.
"So that's why I'm an enigma? 'Cause I grew up?" Kitty frowned.
"I was only saying..." she said quietly. Wu-fei sighed.
"Look, don't worry about it. People just didn't get to know me, and I went through some rough times a while back, that's all." Kitty sighed.
"If you say so, 'fei. Now come on, Una will be waiting!" With that, Kitty marched off with Wu-fei in tow, back down the dark corridor and into Una's quarters.
Wu-fei sat on the steps of Sunset house, leaning on his hands, waiting for a taxi. He was renting a car for the dance, but unlike most of the people in his year, he didn't have one of his own. Quatre pulled back one of the curtains and sighed.
"You really shouldn't make him sit out in the cold, ya know?" he said. Kitty was doing a needlework patch for a cushion.
"I didn't make him," she said, "he said he wanted to sit alone and think. Something about making some choices, sorting something out." Quatre frowned, his promise to the other pilots rushing back into his head.
"Kitty?" he said meekly. Kitty looked up instanly, her eyes flashing turquoise for a second.
"What's wrong?" she asked. Quatre looked at Kitty and sighed.
"Nothing," he said quickly, smiling. Kitty frowned and shook her head, turning back to her needlework. Quatre peered through the curtains again and sighed, misery sweeping over him once more as he thought more and more about the pact.
Wu-fei shuddered a little as a cold breeze blew through the marble pillars of the porch, ruffling his shirt. He sighed and thought of the thing that preoccupied his mind most- the pact. How were they going to carry it out? When? And how was he gonna tell Kitty. Ah yes, Kitty, his other main preoccupation. No one had ever done this to him before. No one had ever made him feel wanted or special, not since his parents, back before he could remember. And they, like all th others, were gone. Destroyed. Failed by him. But Kitty didn't care about his past, or what he had done before he came to Equus high, before he met her. When he thought about it, that time seemed like an empty expanse of bitter battles and injustice. Injustice wasn't going to cease, he had learned that well, but when he was with Kitty, it seemed to fade from him, like ten thousand tonnes of weight from his chest. She wasn't like the others. She didn't judge or seek to know more than what came to her. Or so it seemd to him. She didn't pry, she didn't question, she just accepted. And if she felt the need to question, she squirmed and twitched, expressing her deep discomfort at being curious. And those eyes! Oh, if her sweet naivety wasn't enough, her eyes just stole him away. They were deep and dark like the ocean at night, yet they were clear and bright like a clear sky, and they shone a glittered like moonlit pools. He loved her eyes. They were his relief. If everday he could gaze into those beautiful eyes just once, he would be a happy man. heck, who knows, if all soldiers could see those eyes, maybe they'd be happy too, and wouldn't be such idiots to attack one another in the first place. Wu-fei sniggered to himself at the thought of people queueing up to see Kitty's eyes. He sighed again, but this time lightly and happily. He looked back at the house, with its cozy windows glowing with a warm yellow light from behind their net curtains. The taxi drew up and honked it's horn. Wu-fei got up, discreetly blew a kiss and dashed over to the taxi.