Ok, so I lied. I haven't updated for a while, but lately I've been insanely
obsessed with Kurama from Yu Yu Hakusho. So here's the next chapter, I
really had some fun writing this one. Be warned, it's slightly mushy. Here
we go!
Chapter Four: Max, Tyson and Kai Die (sorta)
Taylor and the Bladebreakers climbed back up the stairs and turned into a different corridor. They came to a set of double doors and pushed them open. They entered a huge, dimly lit room with a giant, stained, glass chandelier hanging from the ceiling.
"Wow..."
Max walked into the middle of the room, right under the giant chandelier. He looked up.
"It HUGE!"
"And old," said Taylor.
"It's approximately 15 feet long and 10 feet wide," reported Kenny.
"It was probably a pretty sight back in its day," said Rei.
"Down please, Kai."
Kai set Taylor down close to the door. He sat down next to her.
"Oh dear, tired, uh oh."
Taylor yawned.
"Aw, Tay," said Tyson, checking his watch. "It's only...6:00."
"Hey, you weren't the one who Dart tried to gas, remember?"
There was a slight cracking sound.
"What was that?"
There was another cracking sound, louder this time. Everyone looked up. The ceiling near the chandelier cracked some more.
"MAX, LOOK OUT!"
There was a giant crunch and the chandelier began its slow decent down to the hard marble floor. Everything seemed to go into slow motion. Max could feel the adrenaline pumping into his veins. He lifted his feet and started running for all he was worth. The chandelier got closer and closer. He wasn't going to make it. No, he had to make it, for his mother's, the Bladebreakers and.Taylor's sake. The chandelier was almost on top of him. For a moment, time froze. 'Taylor and I are a lot alike,' thought Max. 'She's got this childish charm around her, so innocent and naïve, and yet at the same time, we can be tough if we want. I like her eyes. They're so warm and soft and comforting. I've gotta live. I'm gonna make it.' Time started up again and the chandelier came down like a storm of spikes. At the last second, he jumped out of the way of the chandelier as it hit the marble floor and exploded into tiny shards of glass, flying every which way.
"MAX!"
The whole floor was covered in pieces of shattered glass.
The Bladebreakers ran towards the prone form of their blonde friend.
"GUYS ARE YOU FORGETING SOMETHING?!!!!!!?"
Kai ran back to pick Taylor up.
Max was still lying motionless on the floor.
"Uhhhh..."
"Oh my gosh, Max are you ok?"
Taylor brushed the pieces of glass off Max. He moaned again. She began patting Max's cheek.
"C'mon, Maxie, wake up."
Max's intensely blue eyes fluttered open.
"Max, you're bleeding," said Taylor.
"Ohhh..."
Max slowly sat up and touched his shoulder, where a shard of glass was stuck in his arm. Taylor sucked in her breath.
"Oh Maxie."
He reached to pull out the shard of glass, but Taylor grabbed his hand.
"Ah ah ah," she said. "I've got the Magic Fingers."
Taylor pulled the shard of glass out slowly. Max didn't even make a sound. She squealed and threw the bloody piece of glass against the wall, shattering it.
"Ew, ew, blood, yucky, yucky, ew."
Taylor stuck out her tongue and shook her hands.
"Are you ok Max?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, thanks to you," he said. "That didn't even hurt."
Kenny looked up at the ceiling.
"It was another booby trap," he reported.
"Figures," said Taylor, looking up.
There was a perfectly cut hole where the chandelier was connected to the ceiling.
"It was probably being held there by an Electro-magnetic current," said Kenny. "Dart was just waiting for someone to walk under it to turn off the power and drop the chandelier on them."
Taylor sounded like a rhino, getting ready to charge.
"GRRRR! *short breaths* When I get my hands on Dart..."
She made a series of violent gestures.
"Deep breath...I'm OK!"
"Let's get out of here," said Kai, picking Taylor up.
"Ooh, careful, ooh."
Carefully, everyone picked their way through the broken glass to the other side of the ballroom. Taylor looked worriedly at Max, who was pressing on his deep cut on his arm to slow the bleeding.
"Are you sure you're okay Max?"
"Yes, Taylor, I'm fine," Max replied. "Don't worry about me."
"I'll try, but I can't make any guarantees."
The Bladebreakers and Taylor wandered through the dark hallway.
Taylor whimpered.
"Creepiness."
They suddenly entered a room similar to the ballroom. This time, it was much better lit and there was a long table set in the middle. The table was piled high with food, upon food, upon food. Naturally, Tyson immediately started drooling.
"Food! Great! I'm starved!"
He immediately rushed to the table.
"Hold your horses, Tyson!"
Tyson: *falls anime style*
"What? Can't you see I'm starving? I'm wasting away, here!"
"Idiot! We're in a booby-trapped house. What if that food is poisoned or something?!"
"Aw, but I'm hungry!"
"Taylor's right," said Kenny. "We shouldn't touch anything on that table."
"But I'm so hungry!"
"Get used to it, Tyson."
"Ooh, fondue!"
Before anyone could stop him, Tyson had dumped a bunch of strawberries into the fondue, fished them out with a fork and stuffed them into his mouth.
"Yum, good fondue."
"Nothing's happening," said Max, almost incredulously.
"I guess the food wasn't poisoned after all," said Rei.
As Tyson reached for a chicken wing, his hand bumped a candlestick. But instead of knocking it over, it kinda leaned over with a metallic grinding sound. The table was pulled away on a hidden track. There was a sproing- like sound as the table was flung like a catapult, flinging, not only food, but razor sharp forks and knives as well.
"TYSON!"
For Tyson, everything went into slow motion. Like the Matrix. Tyson saw the gleaming points shooting towards him.
Everyone ducked as the deadly sharp missiles thunked into the wooden walls behind them.
"YEOUCH! THAT SMARTS!"
Tyson was hopping around holding his.um.buttocks. The chair he was sitting in had been tipped backwards and they could see a few pointy projectiles poking through the seat.
"Tyson, you're alive!"
"Ow, my bottom." Tyson tried to look backwards to see the damage done to his rump. There were a few holes in his pants but nothing much more than that.
"Tyson, you're such an idiot," said Taylor exasperatedly.
"He might be an idiot," said Kai. "But he's also got fast reflexes." He nodded to the chair.
The gang continued down the dark, depressing hallways, trying to ignore the creaks and moans of the old house. They turned into a seemingly empty, bare hallway.
"Hey Kai."
Kai looked sideways at the girl he was carrying on his back.
"Are you scared?"
"What do you mean?"
Taylor looked back at the other Bladebreakers. Tyson was walking.funny, Max had a few cuts here and there, plus that bad one on his arm, Kenny had a bruise forming on his forehead, and everyone was still damp from their little dungeon swim.
"I mean afraid that you'll be next."
".Yes."
"But then again, everyone else made it through ok, more or less. Maybe you'll be just as lucky."
Taylor smiled confidently. Kai tried to hide the fact that he was blushing, and he was glad that the corridor didn't have too many lights.
'What is this? What's so special about Taylor that she's making me feel this way? I feel like there are butterflies in my stomach. Could it be.love?'
"Hey guys," said Max, "Does anyone else notice the hallway getting smaller?"
They stopped for a moment and watched the walls move in tiny inch by inch.
"It's another trap!"
They began racing for the end of the corridor, while the laughter of Dart rang around them.
"There's no end to this stupid hallway!"
The walls were getting dangerously close, so close that the Bladebreakers had to run in a single file line, close enough for Taylor to keep scraping her knees on the walls. Finally tired of wincing from scraping her knees raw Taylor just said,
"Ugh, Kai, just let me down, my knees are getting peeled raw."
Kai quickly turned around, kneeled down and let go of Taylor. She stood up carefully, and maybe if it wasn't for the walls being so close, she would have fallen down.
"Taylor, I want you to be in front of me."
Taylor stared Kai straight in the eyes, with her penetrating brown eyes. She turned to the other Bladebreakers.
"Go you guys, go!"
They quickly ran down the hallway as the walls squeezed them together.
"Uh, there's the end of the corridor," said Kenny, grunting with effort. They were all squeezing sideways through the hallway.
"Hurry guys, it's getting kinda tight back here!"
Kenny slipped out from between the crushing walls and into the empty hallway. He turned around and pulled Tyson out, followed by Max and Rei. Taylor felt the walls getting uncomfortably closer. She could barely squeeze herself through. Max reached in with his good arm and grabbed her hand and pulled. She was almost out.
"How you doin', Kai?"
"Not too good," he said, vainly trying to push back at the walls.
"C'mon, stay with me Sweet Thang. We're gonna get out of this alive."
Taylor slithered out and immediately turned around and grabbed Kai's hand. She pulled while the other Bladebreakers vainly tried to pry the walls apart. Kai gritted his teeth and tried to ignore the building pressure on his ribs. He winced as he felt something crack.
"Suck it in Kai!"
Kai took in a deep breath, not only to make himself skinnier, but to relieve some pressure off his ribs. He was just thin enough to slip through before the walls smashed together with a dreadful thump. Kai and Taylor fell on the ground.
"Kai, are you alright?"
A knife jabbed into his ribs every time he breathed. He put on a poker face.
"I'm okay," he said calmly.
Taylor poked him, right on his broken rib. He winced and clutched at it.
"That doesn't look like okay to me," she said raising an eyebrow.
Taylor gently brushed her fingers against Kai's ribcage. She was no expert in medical treatment, but there was definitely a bump that shouldn't be there and an uneven impression right over the rib in question.
"I think it's broken," she said softly.
"What are you gonna do?"
"I don't know."
Kenny spoke up.
"I don't think we'll get any medical treatment until we get out of this horror house."
"Do you think you'll be ok until then?"
Kai nodded.
"You sure?"
"I'll be fine," he said stubbornly. He knelt down for Taylor to get on.
She raised an eyebrow at him.
"Are you kidding me?" she said. "You can't carry me with a broken rib. Besides, I can take care of myself."
Taylor stood up unsteadily, but fell backwards, right into Max's arms.
"Sure Taylor," he said scooping her onto his back. "You can take care of yourself real well."
Taylor humphed and whacked Max upside the head.
So, whadya think!? I think this is pretty good. Except the fact that the next time I update, it'll be the end. Thanks 2 all who reviewed. I really appreciate it. So until next time!
SEEYA!
~LadyofAnime
Chapter Four: Max, Tyson and Kai Die (sorta)
Taylor and the Bladebreakers climbed back up the stairs and turned into a different corridor. They came to a set of double doors and pushed them open. They entered a huge, dimly lit room with a giant, stained, glass chandelier hanging from the ceiling.
"Wow..."
Max walked into the middle of the room, right under the giant chandelier. He looked up.
"It HUGE!"
"And old," said Taylor.
"It's approximately 15 feet long and 10 feet wide," reported Kenny.
"It was probably a pretty sight back in its day," said Rei.
"Down please, Kai."
Kai set Taylor down close to the door. He sat down next to her.
"Oh dear, tired, uh oh."
Taylor yawned.
"Aw, Tay," said Tyson, checking his watch. "It's only...6:00."
"Hey, you weren't the one who Dart tried to gas, remember?"
There was a slight cracking sound.
"What was that?"
There was another cracking sound, louder this time. Everyone looked up. The ceiling near the chandelier cracked some more.
"MAX, LOOK OUT!"
There was a giant crunch and the chandelier began its slow decent down to the hard marble floor. Everything seemed to go into slow motion. Max could feel the adrenaline pumping into his veins. He lifted his feet and started running for all he was worth. The chandelier got closer and closer. He wasn't going to make it. No, he had to make it, for his mother's, the Bladebreakers and.Taylor's sake. The chandelier was almost on top of him. For a moment, time froze. 'Taylor and I are a lot alike,' thought Max. 'She's got this childish charm around her, so innocent and naïve, and yet at the same time, we can be tough if we want. I like her eyes. They're so warm and soft and comforting. I've gotta live. I'm gonna make it.' Time started up again and the chandelier came down like a storm of spikes. At the last second, he jumped out of the way of the chandelier as it hit the marble floor and exploded into tiny shards of glass, flying every which way.
"MAX!"
The whole floor was covered in pieces of shattered glass.
The Bladebreakers ran towards the prone form of their blonde friend.
"GUYS ARE YOU FORGETING SOMETHING?!!!!!!?"
Kai ran back to pick Taylor up.
Max was still lying motionless on the floor.
"Uhhhh..."
"Oh my gosh, Max are you ok?"
Taylor brushed the pieces of glass off Max. He moaned again. She began patting Max's cheek.
"C'mon, Maxie, wake up."
Max's intensely blue eyes fluttered open.
"Max, you're bleeding," said Taylor.
"Ohhh..."
Max slowly sat up and touched his shoulder, where a shard of glass was stuck in his arm. Taylor sucked in her breath.
"Oh Maxie."
He reached to pull out the shard of glass, but Taylor grabbed his hand.
"Ah ah ah," she said. "I've got the Magic Fingers."
Taylor pulled the shard of glass out slowly. Max didn't even make a sound. She squealed and threw the bloody piece of glass against the wall, shattering it.
"Ew, ew, blood, yucky, yucky, ew."
Taylor stuck out her tongue and shook her hands.
"Are you ok Max?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, thanks to you," he said. "That didn't even hurt."
Kenny looked up at the ceiling.
"It was another booby trap," he reported.
"Figures," said Taylor, looking up.
There was a perfectly cut hole where the chandelier was connected to the ceiling.
"It was probably being held there by an Electro-magnetic current," said Kenny. "Dart was just waiting for someone to walk under it to turn off the power and drop the chandelier on them."
Taylor sounded like a rhino, getting ready to charge.
"GRRRR! *short breaths* When I get my hands on Dart..."
She made a series of violent gestures.
"Deep breath...I'm OK!"
"Let's get out of here," said Kai, picking Taylor up.
"Ooh, careful, ooh."
Carefully, everyone picked their way through the broken glass to the other side of the ballroom. Taylor looked worriedly at Max, who was pressing on his deep cut on his arm to slow the bleeding.
"Are you sure you're okay Max?"
"Yes, Taylor, I'm fine," Max replied. "Don't worry about me."
"I'll try, but I can't make any guarantees."
The Bladebreakers and Taylor wandered through the dark hallway.
Taylor whimpered.
"Creepiness."
They suddenly entered a room similar to the ballroom. This time, it was much better lit and there was a long table set in the middle. The table was piled high with food, upon food, upon food. Naturally, Tyson immediately started drooling.
"Food! Great! I'm starved!"
He immediately rushed to the table.
"Hold your horses, Tyson!"
Tyson: *falls anime style*
"What? Can't you see I'm starving? I'm wasting away, here!"
"Idiot! We're in a booby-trapped house. What if that food is poisoned or something?!"
"Aw, but I'm hungry!"
"Taylor's right," said Kenny. "We shouldn't touch anything on that table."
"But I'm so hungry!"
"Get used to it, Tyson."
"Ooh, fondue!"
Before anyone could stop him, Tyson had dumped a bunch of strawberries into the fondue, fished them out with a fork and stuffed them into his mouth.
"Yum, good fondue."
"Nothing's happening," said Max, almost incredulously.
"I guess the food wasn't poisoned after all," said Rei.
As Tyson reached for a chicken wing, his hand bumped a candlestick. But instead of knocking it over, it kinda leaned over with a metallic grinding sound. The table was pulled away on a hidden track. There was a sproing- like sound as the table was flung like a catapult, flinging, not only food, but razor sharp forks and knives as well.
"TYSON!"
For Tyson, everything went into slow motion. Like the Matrix. Tyson saw the gleaming points shooting towards him.
Everyone ducked as the deadly sharp missiles thunked into the wooden walls behind them.
"YEOUCH! THAT SMARTS!"
Tyson was hopping around holding his.um.buttocks. The chair he was sitting in had been tipped backwards and they could see a few pointy projectiles poking through the seat.
"Tyson, you're alive!"
"Ow, my bottom." Tyson tried to look backwards to see the damage done to his rump. There were a few holes in his pants but nothing much more than that.
"Tyson, you're such an idiot," said Taylor exasperatedly.
"He might be an idiot," said Kai. "But he's also got fast reflexes." He nodded to the chair.
The gang continued down the dark, depressing hallways, trying to ignore the creaks and moans of the old house. They turned into a seemingly empty, bare hallway.
"Hey Kai."
Kai looked sideways at the girl he was carrying on his back.
"Are you scared?"
"What do you mean?"
Taylor looked back at the other Bladebreakers. Tyson was walking.funny, Max had a few cuts here and there, plus that bad one on his arm, Kenny had a bruise forming on his forehead, and everyone was still damp from their little dungeon swim.
"I mean afraid that you'll be next."
".Yes."
"But then again, everyone else made it through ok, more or less. Maybe you'll be just as lucky."
Taylor smiled confidently. Kai tried to hide the fact that he was blushing, and he was glad that the corridor didn't have too many lights.
'What is this? What's so special about Taylor that she's making me feel this way? I feel like there are butterflies in my stomach. Could it be.love?'
"Hey guys," said Max, "Does anyone else notice the hallway getting smaller?"
They stopped for a moment and watched the walls move in tiny inch by inch.
"It's another trap!"
They began racing for the end of the corridor, while the laughter of Dart rang around them.
"There's no end to this stupid hallway!"
The walls were getting dangerously close, so close that the Bladebreakers had to run in a single file line, close enough for Taylor to keep scraping her knees on the walls. Finally tired of wincing from scraping her knees raw Taylor just said,
"Ugh, Kai, just let me down, my knees are getting peeled raw."
Kai quickly turned around, kneeled down and let go of Taylor. She stood up carefully, and maybe if it wasn't for the walls being so close, she would have fallen down.
"Taylor, I want you to be in front of me."
Taylor stared Kai straight in the eyes, with her penetrating brown eyes. She turned to the other Bladebreakers.
"Go you guys, go!"
They quickly ran down the hallway as the walls squeezed them together.
"Uh, there's the end of the corridor," said Kenny, grunting with effort. They were all squeezing sideways through the hallway.
"Hurry guys, it's getting kinda tight back here!"
Kenny slipped out from between the crushing walls and into the empty hallway. He turned around and pulled Tyson out, followed by Max and Rei. Taylor felt the walls getting uncomfortably closer. She could barely squeeze herself through. Max reached in with his good arm and grabbed her hand and pulled. She was almost out.
"How you doin', Kai?"
"Not too good," he said, vainly trying to push back at the walls.
"C'mon, stay with me Sweet Thang. We're gonna get out of this alive."
Taylor slithered out and immediately turned around and grabbed Kai's hand. She pulled while the other Bladebreakers vainly tried to pry the walls apart. Kai gritted his teeth and tried to ignore the building pressure on his ribs. He winced as he felt something crack.
"Suck it in Kai!"
Kai took in a deep breath, not only to make himself skinnier, but to relieve some pressure off his ribs. He was just thin enough to slip through before the walls smashed together with a dreadful thump. Kai and Taylor fell on the ground.
"Kai, are you alright?"
A knife jabbed into his ribs every time he breathed. He put on a poker face.
"I'm okay," he said calmly.
Taylor poked him, right on his broken rib. He winced and clutched at it.
"That doesn't look like okay to me," she said raising an eyebrow.
Taylor gently brushed her fingers against Kai's ribcage. She was no expert in medical treatment, but there was definitely a bump that shouldn't be there and an uneven impression right over the rib in question.
"I think it's broken," she said softly.
"What are you gonna do?"
"I don't know."
Kenny spoke up.
"I don't think we'll get any medical treatment until we get out of this horror house."
"Do you think you'll be ok until then?"
Kai nodded.
"You sure?"
"I'll be fine," he said stubbornly. He knelt down for Taylor to get on.
She raised an eyebrow at him.
"Are you kidding me?" she said. "You can't carry me with a broken rib. Besides, I can take care of myself."
Taylor stood up unsteadily, but fell backwards, right into Max's arms.
"Sure Taylor," he said scooping her onto his back. "You can take care of yourself real well."
Taylor humphed and whacked Max upside the head.
So, whadya think!? I think this is pretty good. Except the fact that the next time I update, it'll be the end. Thanks 2 all who reviewed. I really appreciate it. So until next time!
SEEYA!
~LadyofAnime