Bom bom bom...CCS does not belong to me.
I'm very proud to say this is the best chapter of BM so far, but of course, there will be better chapters. This one has a lot of action (I know that practically none of you read my author notes anyways, but just skip to the story, so I'll stop rambling on now and tell ya) PLEASE READ!
Caught
"We have GOT to capture this card!" I yelled, flying smoothly over the town on my staff. "Hmm."
"Sure got that right." Suppi said. "Hey look, there she is!"
"Yeah." I said. "All right, straight down at the park!"
"Ah!" Suppi yelled and hid behind my collar as we started down at a 45-degree angle. "Yuki, why aren't you juts flying? Why do you have to use a staff? Isn't that more like witchcraft and less like angels?"
"Oh, so now I'm supposed to be an angel, huh?" I asked, whipping the staff out from beneath me. I hung for a couple of seconds and then sprouting my wings, and tearing Rene's cloak. "This is why." Suppi shrugged as I landed right behind the Clow Card.
"All right, let's weaken it!" Kero cried.
"Kero, where are you?" I asked frantically.
"Over here!" Kero said, waving from the Clow Card's shoulder (or in other words, my twin's shoulder). "Yuki, hurry up."
"Get out of the way Kero!" I yelled. "All right, Shot Card, Release and Dispel! Shot!"
"Hmm." Kero said, jumping off my image's shoulder and flying over to our side. "Look at it. The Shot Card went right through it."
"What?" I asked, alarmed. "Windy!" The Windy Card went right through the Clow Card too. "Kero!" I yelled. "This is freaky. This could be a ghost!"
"It's very strong." Kero said, ignoring my ghost suggestions. "All right Yuki, you've got to think. What Card is this?"
"It creates an image like the Illusion." I said. "And it reflects like the Watery, and moves like a twin, like the Shadow Card."
"Hurry Yuki." Suppi yelled.
"Attack cards and incantations aren't going to work on this one." Kero supplied. "It's got to be a helix."
"Oh." I groaned. "This is so hard." I held out my staff at the Clow Card.
"Just be glad you aren't being thrown around like you were last time." Kero said, winking.
"Yeah, that's something to be thankful for. Oh?" The Clow Card was imitating my hands. "Oh!" I said, retreating a step. The Clow Card stepped back too. "Hmm."
"Hurry!"
"That's it!" I said. Raising my staff, I yelled, "Clow Card, you name is Mirror!" There came a flash and my twin disappeared, only to reveal the Mirror Card. "Mirror Card!" I said, rushing up to capture it. "Return to you Power, Confined! Mirror!" The Mirror Card was finally sealed.
"Whew." Kero said, wiping his head. "Oh, say, can we eat?"
"Don't tell me you haven't eaten for days." I said, spinning around.
"Ah, the harsh reality of life in a garbage can." Kero said, flying over. "Got to tell you, I'm sure glad to be back."
"And we're glad to have you back, right Suppi?" I asked. Suppi raised his head away.
"Hmm." He said. "Remember, my name is Spinel Sun."
We returned to Nakita's house pretty late. I insisted to buy Kero a desert, which made Suppi quite jealous, so I had to buy something do.
The door creaked as I opened it and peered over it. "Huh?" I said, closing the door behind me and looking into the kitchen. "Where is everybody?"
"Ha, I don't like the looks of this." Kero said.
"Looks deserted." Suppi said. "Oh? I hear tapping."
"It's typing buddy." Kero said as I ran up the steps.
"Never mind what it is." I said, rushing towards where it was headed. "Ah! Kanari? Rene?" I ran over to both of them, who were slumped over by the wall. Kelli was typing something into a computer. She whirled around.
"That look you a while." She said. "Listen, we have GOT to get out of here!"
"Why?" I asked.
"Because the whole town is planning to burn this place. Tonight!"
"Ah!" Kero cried.
"At exactly midnight." Kelli said, returning to her typing.
"That means that we've only got, er, FOUR HOURS!" I cried. "Whoa!"
"Exactly." Kelli said. "Vash is off on guard, and Snowy went to find out what else they're plotting. Rene and Kanari were helping keep guard, but it looks like those three, Martin, Jack, and Hugo have been round visiting."
"Oh no." I said.
"Here's the plan." Kelli said. "We have GOT to go back in time sometime between now and midnight. If we go after, we will return after midnight, and the changes we make might not be enough to alter the course of this house's fate. This house is Mrs. Gliverd's, her great-grandfather built it."
"All right, I see, so is there a time machine on this somewhere?" I asked.
"It's on the laptop, but we've GOT to get back to our homes first to check on the illusions you've set on your houses." Kelli said. "I got a call from Rene from back home right before you came that the Illusion Card, since it had to keep disappearing from you to Snowy, had a hard time keeping up and made everyone a lot suspicious that something's going on."
"Oh no." I groaned. "But not to worry, I have the Mirror Card now."
"Yeah, and you can use that to make a copy of yourself again." Kero said. "It works better on personalities."
"That's settled." Kelli said.
"Where's Nakita?" I asked urgently.
"Downstairs, in the kitchen, preparing food and trying to help Reni keep away from her sister." Kelli said.
"She is?" I asked. "I didn't see her!"
"What?" Kelli spun around. "Uh-oh."
"That's not very good." I said, saying each word very slowly. "Okay, Suppi, you try to wake Rene and Kanari up, Kero and I'll go search for Nakita and Reni."
"Okay." Kelli said, retuning back to her computer. "Vash has taught me a lot during those few months I've been on your planet." She said. "It's extremely interesting, how this piece of metal works." She smiled, and then kept a serious face. "But we've got to get the Time Machine built."
"I'll come back at 10, whether I find them or not." I said. "Tell the other's to meet here."
"Okay." Kelli said. "Remember, time freezes here on instant when we return to the world, and it plunges the nine of us, doesn't matter where we are. We don't need a machine to be in, we just need a button to press."
"All right." I said, dashing out the door with Suppi behind Kero and me on my shoulder. "Kitchen, kitchen." I paused in front of the kitchen. "No one's here."
"It's been inhabited, all right." Kero pointed.
"Those must be the supply bags." I said, quickly going around the kitchen and stuffing things into them. Nakita must've been doing this.
"They." Kero said.
"What?" I asked, spinning around. "Oh!" On the counter was a glass half full of orangeade and behind it, a broken window. "Now, that wasn't there earlier."
"Five broken windows." Kero moaned.
"They're off to capture Nakita, because they don't want her to burn, and since Reni was gone, they took her too." I said, setting the packed bags onto the counter and crawling out the window. "Ow."
"Yuki, be careful." Kero said. "This is glass."
"I know." I said. "Look, footprints."
"This has GOT to be the work of Jack and Martin." Kero said. "Hugo wouldn't be able to get through the window."
"Why break another window?" I asked. "There's four already! Wouldn't that make more noise?"
"And this is definitely Hugo's print." Kero said, hopping down and looking round the ground.
"And Hugo's probably keeping them hostage." I gasped. "Hey, where's Doughboy?"
"Oh no." Kero said.
"The first place to look." I said, snatching Kero and running down the hill. "Is where they're holding the monthly meeting for the Grouge Club."
"The what?" Kero asked, startled.
"It's a club, organized without city officials." I said. "They do the fireworks and the celebrations." I added darkly, "Also the celebration of the slayers of witches."
"I thought you said she's not a witch." Kero said.
"Witch or NO WITCH," I said, my anger getting the better of me, "It doesn't really matter to me, Kero. Don't you see, that that's not the point? The point is, we're in a free country, and people are allowed to do whatever they want."
"This isn't America, you know, Yuki." Kero said. "Isn't that why the pilgrims came to America in the first place, for freedom of religion?"
"Have you been reading my old history books?" I asked.
"Um." Kero said, hanging onto my flying collar as I practically tumbled downhill. "I wouldn't put it THAT way."
"KERO!"
"Look out!"
"Whoa." Three came a series of crashes. "Why are three garbage can here? AH!"
"What are you doing here?" I felt myself being picket up. I opened on an eye, and found myself face to face with Jack, and two feet off ground. I smelt Hugo's breath. "And who are you?"
"Why does it matter to you?" I asked, sliding a frozen Kero into my pocket. "I'm coming to do some shopping."
"You live with the Gliverd's." Jack accused.
"So?" I asked. "I'm a friend of Nakita's." Big mistake.
"Hm." Jack said. "Take her with us."
"Oh." I groaned. They walked into a building, where there were people seated, listening to a man with a projector. On the other side was what looked like a jail, a place where there were bars and a small caged window. "What is this place, a courtroom?" People stared at me as Hugo walked over to dump me in the cell (which was rather narrow, but pretty long).
"This is the deal." Hugo said, dropping me onto the hard cement. "We kill your witch. We lock you up."
"So this is where you guys have been?" I asked, quite started. Nakita nodded, then put her hands over Reni.
"They insisted taking her along too."
"Hmm." I said, looking over at Snowy and Doughboy.
"They're proposing what's the best way to light the house on fire." Doughboy said. "Midnight, tonight. Snowy managed to get word to Rene, who came over here ASAP. Reni followed." Reni bent her head and looked at her shoes. "They formed some plan, I came to look for her, and got captured. They then snagged Nakita and Reni from the kitchen, and hurt Kanari and Rene, who were on guard."
"I know." I said. "But Kelli and Vash know some of it, but they don't know what's going on inside town and sooner or later, they're going to come down here to investigate what's going on."
"We have to get out of here somehow." Snowy hissed.
"I explained to Reni bout us." Nakita said. Everyone was dead whispering now. "And I don't think that we can use our powers. I think they're testing us too, to see if we're witches." She paused, and looked at Doughboy. "Or warlocks."
"What happened to wizards?"
"You're a warlock. Vash's a wizard."
"What's the difference?"
"One's more pure than other?"
I hopped up to the window and looked outside. The full moon was already up in the sky. I reached in my pocket and placed Kero on the windowsill.
"Kero." I whispered. "Do you understand fully what's going on?" Kero nodded. "Okay, go now and inform the others."
"Good luck." Kero said. "See if you can get away...somehow. I'll go warn the others." And he flew out.
"We can count on Kero." I said. "And now, all we can do is wait."
"How will we escape?" Reni asked.
"Well, they definitely won't leave us in a dark room alone, someone's always going to be watching us." I said. "Let's see and find out."
Teaser:
"Whoa!" I said. "What is this place?"
"Perhaps it would've been better if we had gone to Norway first and THEN activated the Time Machine." Rene said, tapping away at the laptop. "That way, we couldn't know where we are."
"This is my house however many years we went back ago." Snowy said.
"Uh-oh." Rene said.
"What's wrong?" Reni asked.
"I messed up." Rene said. "I typed in an extra zero. Instead of 50 years, we've gone back...500!"
I'm very proud to say this is the best chapter of BM so far, but of course, there will be better chapters. This one has a lot of action (I know that practically none of you read my author notes anyways, but just skip to the story, so I'll stop rambling on now and tell ya) PLEASE READ!
Caught
"We have GOT to capture this card!" I yelled, flying smoothly over the town on my staff. "Hmm."
"Sure got that right." Suppi said. "Hey look, there she is!"
"Yeah." I said. "All right, straight down at the park!"
"Ah!" Suppi yelled and hid behind my collar as we started down at a 45-degree angle. "Yuki, why aren't you juts flying? Why do you have to use a staff? Isn't that more like witchcraft and less like angels?"
"Oh, so now I'm supposed to be an angel, huh?" I asked, whipping the staff out from beneath me. I hung for a couple of seconds and then sprouting my wings, and tearing Rene's cloak. "This is why." Suppi shrugged as I landed right behind the Clow Card.
"All right, let's weaken it!" Kero cried.
"Kero, where are you?" I asked frantically.
"Over here!" Kero said, waving from the Clow Card's shoulder (or in other words, my twin's shoulder). "Yuki, hurry up."
"Get out of the way Kero!" I yelled. "All right, Shot Card, Release and Dispel! Shot!"
"Hmm." Kero said, jumping off my image's shoulder and flying over to our side. "Look at it. The Shot Card went right through it."
"What?" I asked, alarmed. "Windy!" The Windy Card went right through the Clow Card too. "Kero!" I yelled. "This is freaky. This could be a ghost!"
"It's very strong." Kero said, ignoring my ghost suggestions. "All right Yuki, you've got to think. What Card is this?"
"It creates an image like the Illusion." I said. "And it reflects like the Watery, and moves like a twin, like the Shadow Card."
"Hurry Yuki." Suppi yelled.
"Attack cards and incantations aren't going to work on this one." Kero supplied. "It's got to be a helix."
"Oh." I groaned. "This is so hard." I held out my staff at the Clow Card.
"Just be glad you aren't being thrown around like you were last time." Kero said, winking.
"Yeah, that's something to be thankful for. Oh?" The Clow Card was imitating my hands. "Oh!" I said, retreating a step. The Clow Card stepped back too. "Hmm."
"Hurry!"
"That's it!" I said. Raising my staff, I yelled, "Clow Card, you name is Mirror!" There came a flash and my twin disappeared, only to reveal the Mirror Card. "Mirror Card!" I said, rushing up to capture it. "Return to you Power, Confined! Mirror!" The Mirror Card was finally sealed.
"Whew." Kero said, wiping his head. "Oh, say, can we eat?"
"Don't tell me you haven't eaten for days." I said, spinning around.
"Ah, the harsh reality of life in a garbage can." Kero said, flying over. "Got to tell you, I'm sure glad to be back."
"And we're glad to have you back, right Suppi?" I asked. Suppi raised his head away.
"Hmm." He said. "Remember, my name is Spinel Sun."
We returned to Nakita's house pretty late. I insisted to buy Kero a desert, which made Suppi quite jealous, so I had to buy something do.
The door creaked as I opened it and peered over it. "Huh?" I said, closing the door behind me and looking into the kitchen. "Where is everybody?"
"Ha, I don't like the looks of this." Kero said.
"Looks deserted." Suppi said. "Oh? I hear tapping."
"It's typing buddy." Kero said as I ran up the steps.
"Never mind what it is." I said, rushing towards where it was headed. "Ah! Kanari? Rene?" I ran over to both of them, who were slumped over by the wall. Kelli was typing something into a computer. She whirled around.
"That look you a while." She said. "Listen, we have GOT to get out of here!"
"Why?" I asked.
"Because the whole town is planning to burn this place. Tonight!"
"Ah!" Kero cried.
"At exactly midnight." Kelli said, returning to her typing.
"That means that we've only got, er, FOUR HOURS!" I cried. "Whoa!"
"Exactly." Kelli said. "Vash is off on guard, and Snowy went to find out what else they're plotting. Rene and Kanari were helping keep guard, but it looks like those three, Martin, Jack, and Hugo have been round visiting."
"Oh no." I said.
"Here's the plan." Kelli said. "We have GOT to go back in time sometime between now and midnight. If we go after, we will return after midnight, and the changes we make might not be enough to alter the course of this house's fate. This house is Mrs. Gliverd's, her great-grandfather built it."
"All right, I see, so is there a time machine on this somewhere?" I asked.
"It's on the laptop, but we've GOT to get back to our homes first to check on the illusions you've set on your houses." Kelli said. "I got a call from Rene from back home right before you came that the Illusion Card, since it had to keep disappearing from you to Snowy, had a hard time keeping up and made everyone a lot suspicious that something's going on."
"Oh no." I groaned. "But not to worry, I have the Mirror Card now."
"Yeah, and you can use that to make a copy of yourself again." Kero said. "It works better on personalities."
"That's settled." Kelli said.
"Where's Nakita?" I asked urgently.
"Downstairs, in the kitchen, preparing food and trying to help Reni keep away from her sister." Kelli said.
"She is?" I asked. "I didn't see her!"
"What?" Kelli spun around. "Uh-oh."
"That's not very good." I said, saying each word very slowly. "Okay, Suppi, you try to wake Rene and Kanari up, Kero and I'll go search for Nakita and Reni."
"Okay." Kelli said, retuning back to her computer. "Vash has taught me a lot during those few months I've been on your planet." She said. "It's extremely interesting, how this piece of metal works." She smiled, and then kept a serious face. "But we've got to get the Time Machine built."
"I'll come back at 10, whether I find them or not." I said. "Tell the other's to meet here."
"Okay." Kelli said. "Remember, time freezes here on instant when we return to the world, and it plunges the nine of us, doesn't matter where we are. We don't need a machine to be in, we just need a button to press."
"All right." I said, dashing out the door with Suppi behind Kero and me on my shoulder. "Kitchen, kitchen." I paused in front of the kitchen. "No one's here."
"It's been inhabited, all right." Kero pointed.
"Those must be the supply bags." I said, quickly going around the kitchen and stuffing things into them. Nakita must've been doing this.
"They." Kero said.
"What?" I asked, spinning around. "Oh!" On the counter was a glass half full of orangeade and behind it, a broken window. "Now, that wasn't there earlier."
"Five broken windows." Kero moaned.
"They're off to capture Nakita, because they don't want her to burn, and since Reni was gone, they took her too." I said, setting the packed bags onto the counter and crawling out the window. "Ow."
"Yuki, be careful." Kero said. "This is glass."
"I know." I said. "Look, footprints."
"This has GOT to be the work of Jack and Martin." Kero said. "Hugo wouldn't be able to get through the window."
"Why break another window?" I asked. "There's four already! Wouldn't that make more noise?"
"And this is definitely Hugo's print." Kero said, hopping down and looking round the ground.
"And Hugo's probably keeping them hostage." I gasped. "Hey, where's Doughboy?"
"Oh no." Kero said.
"The first place to look." I said, snatching Kero and running down the hill. "Is where they're holding the monthly meeting for the Grouge Club."
"The what?" Kero asked, startled.
"It's a club, organized without city officials." I said. "They do the fireworks and the celebrations." I added darkly, "Also the celebration of the slayers of witches."
"I thought you said she's not a witch." Kero said.
"Witch or NO WITCH," I said, my anger getting the better of me, "It doesn't really matter to me, Kero. Don't you see, that that's not the point? The point is, we're in a free country, and people are allowed to do whatever they want."
"This isn't America, you know, Yuki." Kero said. "Isn't that why the pilgrims came to America in the first place, for freedom of religion?"
"Have you been reading my old history books?" I asked.
"Um." Kero said, hanging onto my flying collar as I practically tumbled downhill. "I wouldn't put it THAT way."
"KERO!"
"Look out!"
"Whoa." Three came a series of crashes. "Why are three garbage can here? AH!"
"What are you doing here?" I felt myself being picket up. I opened on an eye, and found myself face to face with Jack, and two feet off ground. I smelt Hugo's breath. "And who are you?"
"Why does it matter to you?" I asked, sliding a frozen Kero into my pocket. "I'm coming to do some shopping."
"You live with the Gliverd's." Jack accused.
"So?" I asked. "I'm a friend of Nakita's." Big mistake.
"Hm." Jack said. "Take her with us."
"Oh." I groaned. They walked into a building, where there were people seated, listening to a man with a projector. On the other side was what looked like a jail, a place where there were bars and a small caged window. "What is this place, a courtroom?" People stared at me as Hugo walked over to dump me in the cell (which was rather narrow, but pretty long).
"This is the deal." Hugo said, dropping me onto the hard cement. "We kill your witch. We lock you up."
"So this is where you guys have been?" I asked, quite started. Nakita nodded, then put her hands over Reni.
"They insisted taking her along too."
"Hmm." I said, looking over at Snowy and Doughboy.
"They're proposing what's the best way to light the house on fire." Doughboy said. "Midnight, tonight. Snowy managed to get word to Rene, who came over here ASAP. Reni followed." Reni bent her head and looked at her shoes. "They formed some plan, I came to look for her, and got captured. They then snagged Nakita and Reni from the kitchen, and hurt Kanari and Rene, who were on guard."
"I know." I said. "But Kelli and Vash know some of it, but they don't know what's going on inside town and sooner or later, they're going to come down here to investigate what's going on."
"We have to get out of here somehow." Snowy hissed.
"I explained to Reni bout us." Nakita said. Everyone was dead whispering now. "And I don't think that we can use our powers. I think they're testing us too, to see if we're witches." She paused, and looked at Doughboy. "Or warlocks."
"What happened to wizards?"
"You're a warlock. Vash's a wizard."
"What's the difference?"
"One's more pure than other?"
I hopped up to the window and looked outside. The full moon was already up in the sky. I reached in my pocket and placed Kero on the windowsill.
"Kero." I whispered. "Do you understand fully what's going on?" Kero nodded. "Okay, go now and inform the others."
"Good luck." Kero said. "See if you can get away...somehow. I'll go warn the others." And he flew out.
"We can count on Kero." I said. "And now, all we can do is wait."
"How will we escape?" Reni asked.
"Well, they definitely won't leave us in a dark room alone, someone's always going to be watching us." I said. "Let's see and find out."
Teaser:
"Whoa!" I said. "What is this place?"
"Perhaps it would've been better if we had gone to Norway first and THEN activated the Time Machine." Rene said, tapping away at the laptop. "That way, we couldn't know where we are."
"This is my house however many years we went back ago." Snowy said.
"Uh-oh." Rene said.
"What's wrong?" Reni asked.
"I messed up." Rene said. "I typed in an extra zero. Instead of 50 years, we've gone back...500!"