Oh Hope ~ 2
By *~A White Rose Petal~*
Disclaimer: Same as last time!
A/N: Part 2…The birth of the newborn is coming quickly… Hope gets kidnapped! What will happen? R/R PLEASE! *~A White Rose Petal~*
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Hitomi was in her room with Van. Merle was watching Hope.
"You're kidding…right Hitomi?" Hitomi smiled and shook her head no. Another… two kids… YES! "YES!" He said out loud. He didn't know whether he meant to or not. Hitomi giggled.
"Well, that settles that…if you don't mind-" Hitomi said waving her hand to the door, "I need to raid the kitchens like I did three and a half years ago!" She turned around the door. Leaving Van still grinning. He sighed. This is the life! He thought.
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Merle was playing with Hope in her room. They were playing hide-n-seek. Even though Merle was 'to old' in her opinion, she like playing it.
Hopes room was a little smaller than her parent's room. It wasn't as crowded as it sometimes got in there though. Hopes room was filled with flowers. Some things came from the Mystic blue moon, she never went there. She met her grandmother who was from there when she was an even smaller infant of the age of…well her grandmother, grandfather and uncle (Her mom's younger brother) were, how her parents said it, came through a long brilliant white light that came out of the clouds and delivering the three unexpected humans when she was born. Of course she didn't really meet them. She was only like a day old! She wished that she could truly meet them one day. But right now, all she wanted to do was beat Merle at hide-n-seek. Merle at the moment was the seeker. Hope was in her closet with tons of clothes that were hers. Hope was trying to stifle her giggles when she heard Merle look under the bed for her. Hope however could not see what Merle was doing through the door. Merle was just standing by the door and made sounds that went with what she was saying.
Inside the closet in which Hope was, a small trap door opened up swiftly. Hope didn't notice any of this. She let out silent giggles that were loud enough to keep her from hearing the trap door open. Merle however heard something within the closet; she dismissed it by thinking it was only Hope. A small figure, probably upon five years old came out of the door. He slowly walked over to Hope. Hope heard a noise around her and turned around swiftly. Her eyes widened. She was about to let out a scream when the boy, pushed his hand against her mouth and pushed her towards the door making a small thumping sound. He was able to turn her around so that he could grab one of her flailing arms. His hand still over her mouth. Who thought a pampered princess could be so strong? He thought. Hope was still trying to fight him the best she could with her left arm. The boy let go of the right arm and pulled a small handkerchief and tied it around her wrists the best he could with one hand. He trained for this since he turned four. He was trained how to fight. He took out another handkerchief out of his pockets and quickly replaced his hand that was over her mouth with it. He now used his right hand and grabbed her hands. He slowly moved her towards the trap door and pushed her through the hole. She dropped about two feet. She landed on what seemed to be a small podium. The actual length of the tunnel seemed to be five feet high. The boy climbed down and ducked. He walked down the platform and pulled Hope off of it.
He then re-climbed back up the platform and shut the trapdoor firmly.
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Merle couldn't hear anything in the closet anymore. She started to get worried. She slowly lowered her hand towards the knob and opened the door quickly. She gasped. Hope wasn't inside. Merle looked all around the room. She looked under the bed. And under all of the things that Hope could hide under. When she saw that Hope was no where in her room, she scrambled out of the room as fast as she could, to find Van and Hitomi to tell them the dreadful news.
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Van and Hitomi were walking down the hall with linked hands. They were coming to the great hall when they heard someone gasping for breath behind them. They turned around and saw no other than Merle.
"V-Van! H-Hitomi!" She gasped.
"Merle what's wrong?" Hitomi asked while taking her hand out of Van's.
"H-Hope…she's, she's…"
"YES?" Van and Hitomi said in unison.
"…missing…"She whispered. Hitomi looked confused, Van the same.
"What do you mean by missing?" Hitomi said, cocking an eyebrow 'Please let her be joking! Please! '
"Hitomi I mean it! We were in her room playing hide-n-seek, Hope was in the closet 'hiding', when I heard these noises inside of it-"
"What closet?" Van said immediately. Hopes room had three closets in it. Each for all of the clothes and toys she has. Merle turned around and pranced over into Hope's room. When all three of them got there Merle pointed to the door and Van went over and opened it up. He seemed to be looking for something.
"V-Van?" Hitomi stuttered. Van didn't pay any attention. Hitomi bit her lip. Merle kept on trying to look around Van to see what he was doing but had no luck. Van was purposefully blocking out Hitomi and Merle's view. Suddenly they both heard a low creaking sound.
"Shit!" Van cursed.
"Van what is it?" Hitomi asked. Van looked through the trap door.
"It's an 'escape route' that Falcon built when he was nine years old-"
"What did he have to escape from?"
"Dad's wrath." Merle and Hitomi both rolled their eyes.
"Back to the matter at hand!" Hitomi shot in. Van and Merle both nodded their heads in agreement. "Where does it go to Van?"
"Well…Falcon actually started it when he was six years old and worked on it everyday. He FINISHED it when he was nine…from what he told me…you walk down here-" Van said while putting his hand all the way down and grasped some dirt off the side. He crunched the dirt up in his hand and held it above the tunnel. "Which is about 1/2 a mile long…and then at the end of the tunnel…there are two sides. Each side is about a mile long but-"
"But what?" Merle said. Hitomi seemed to still be frozen with shock about the news of her daughter.
"I never actually went down here. I never had to so…"
"You don't know where they go?"
"No. Falcon said he made a special tunnel but I never really went and looked for it. I looked all over the house sure but…one of the clues…"
"YES?"
"One of the clues he gave me was 'where you wouldn't expect it.' I expected it to be in the closet or something like that when I was younger…" Van chuckled. "I can't believe I believed that!"
"Well…let's get going!" Hitomi said. Van nodded. Merle bit her lip but agreed too.
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The boy and Hope walked down the tunnel and they both turned. Merle's eyes widened. She came to an oddly clean white marble door. The boy went over with Hope's hands in his left. He knocked a special way on the door. Knock, knock, knock. The door steadily opened up and the walked into a what seemed like a room to the castle. Hope then realized that the walls were made out of the same substance as the walls in the dungeons were. Where am I? She thought. She couldn't talk with the handkerchief over her mouth. Her eyes widened. There on the, what seemed like a throne sat a woman in a blue dress with brown hair that went to her knees. Hope's mother and father talked about somebody who looked like this. Suddenly Hope remembered the name.
"Gabriella!" She gasped before she felt a knock on her head and got knocked out.
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A/N: Sorry that took so long! I hope you liked it! Don't forget to review!
Hitomi-And if they do forget to review?
*~AWRP~*- shrug I won't get the next part out as fast.
Van- You didn't get this part out fast!
*~AWRP~*- That's because I had homework and writer's block!
Hope- Looks at her parents and *~AWRP~* with wide eyes An-ee-way don fowget to weview owe me and mommy and daddy have to stay stuck were we awe wight now! Bye-bye! Good weviews pweeze!
*~AWRP~*- looks over And for all of those people who don't review but read and like my stories…REVIEW! Got that? Good! Bye now!