Reisei streched the next day as she lead Seiji, Dana, and Ryo into the mansion. "We got everything movied before noon, I never realized I had such a minimal amount of stuff in my apartment." She said. She was wearing a pair of blue jean shorts and a black tank top and tennis shoes. Seiji grinned, "Well, you're not exactly a pack rat." He said.
Dana smiled, "Where are our rooms?"
"This way, wait till you see them, they're beautiful." Reisei said, she lead them up a stairwell to the second floor and down to one door, "This is your and Seiji's room." She said. Seiji moved and stepped in looking around. Reisei lead Ryo down the hall a bit further and opened a door, "This is our room." She said.
Dana stepped in the room looking around.
Ryo stepped in the room and looked around
Seiji looked at Dana, "Nice." He said.
Reisei stepped inbehind Ryo, "You like it?" She asked.
Ryo nodded.
Reisei stepped up behind Ryo and hugged him around the waist setting her chin on his shoulder, she grinned, "Can you guess what I'm going to ask next?"
"Homework?" Ryo asked.
"Yep, do you have homework?" She asked.
Ryo shook his head, "Nope"
"Cool, we can explore together then." She said, she really hadn't wandered around the mansion after they got everything in, just sat around till they had to go get the guys.
"Cool" Ryo said.
Seiji walked over to the bed and sat down on it. "Oh, comfy." He said.
Dana shook her head.
"Or we could just goof off. Hmm." Reisei pondered it for a minute then tagged Ryo's shoulder, "Come get me!" She said and ran out the door, she bolted to Dana and Seiji's room, "We've got a round of tag going, I suggest if you don't want to be it you move now!" She said and took off running again towards the stairs. Seiji grinned and stood up."C'mon!" He said and grabbed Dana's hand.
Dana grinned and ran with Seiji.
Ryo laughed and ran after Reisei.
Reisei looked over her shoulder grinning and changed her mind and headed up the next flight of stairs instead of down to the first floor. Seiji pulled Dana towards the first floor.
Ryo ran after Reisei up the stairs.
Dana laughed running down the stairs.
"Is that *gasp* as fast as you can go?" Reisei teased as she got to the third floor landing and headed up to the fourth.
Seiji grinned and pulled Dana off, unknowingly, towards the library.
Ryo, "I could *gasp* go faster if you wanted me too.." He followed Reisei up the stairs.
"You might have to in order to catch me!" She said and pushed her legs harder reaching the fourth floor and bolting off down one of the dark corridors.
Ryo sped up as he reached the top of the stairs.
Reisei slid into a dark room and felt her way around to a bed, being careful to avoidnosie she ducked down and slid under the bed,
Seiji stopped and breahted heavily, "I think Rei-chan must be giving Ryo some real exercise."
Ryo ran down the corridor, He couldn't see where Reisei went off to so he did his best to look around.
Dana smiled breathing heavily as well, "No doubt.."
Seiji laughed.
Reisei snickered softly as she heard Ryo run by.
She reached out and brushed her hand against the back of his leg before pulling back under the bed.
Ryo turned around and entered the room looking for Reisei.
Reisei slipped out from under the bed, or so she thought, she blinked when she didn't see the light from the doorway anymore, she reached up, she could stand, so she did, and ran into cobwebs, she coughed and realized that somewhow there'd been some sort of opening under the bed that she must have slid into. She moved back until she reached a wall and knocked not knowing that the thick insulation in the house would block the noise for the most part.
Her next attempt was to pound on the wall. Which could be faintly heard.
Ryo heard the faint sound of knocking, "Reisei?" He called out.
"Ryo!" Reisei called, even though the voice was very muffled. She hadn't heard Ryo through the wall. "Great." She mumbled and kicked the wall then yelped, even through her tennis shoe it had hurt.
Seiji blinked, "They've been gone for a long time." He said.
"Reisei?" Ryo caled a bit louder.
Dana, "Yea..though you never know with those two.."
Reisei heard it barely, but couldn't tell where it was coming from. She called his name again, this time not loud enough to be heard. She began to blindly make her way down the tunnel. She reached out brusihng her fingertips along the walls as a bit of a way to track. Suddenly her feet went out from under her and she was on some sort of downward slant. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" She yelled as she zoomed down the shaft.
Ryo blinked."Reisei?"
Seiji looked around when suddenly he heard a scream that seemed to be getting closer, suddenly he heard something like a door creak and he spun around as a painting hanging on a wall opened like a door and Reisei tumbled out from behind it landing on her butt.
Dana blinked and held back laughter, "What happened to you?"
"Ryo chased me up to the fourth floor and I hid under a bed and crawled through some sort of opening and as I was walking trying to find a way out I lost my footing and wound up here." Reisei said blinking.
Dana still holding back laughter, "Sounds like you.."
Reisei nodded and looked upward, "I guess I should go find Ryo shouldn't I?" She asked.
Dana, "Yea probably..."
Just then Wes walked in, "Found the horror slide, huh?" He asked, Reisei nodded, "It's better when the electricity for the lights is actually turned on, it's creppy as hell as a matter of fact, I'll go turn it on." He said and hurried off before Reisei could protest it. She stood up and made her way to the fourth floor, she found the bedroom she had entered and opened the door right as a soft green came from under the bed.
Ryo turned around, "Reisei? What happened?"
"That." She said pointing to the glow, "It's an in-house slide, that I just happened to find, but when I found it the electricity was off, Wes ran off to turn it on after I came tumbling out." Reisei said.
Ryo blinked, "o..k"
"It was...intresting...to say the least. I wonder what it looks like being able to see all the stuff." She said.
Ryo, "Why don't you go see.."
"No thanks. I ran into enough cobwebs my first time through." Reisei said.
Ryo, "Chicken?"
"Of course not!" Reisei said, thanking the dimly lit from for hding her red cheeks. The words 'horror' and 'slide' together didn't sound good to her.
"Then why won't you go see?"
"Because...The idea of potentially swallowing spiders isn't appealing..." She said.
Ryo laughed.
"I'm not that cracker jack warlord, I don't obsess over the things." She said.
Ryo laughed some more, he walked over to her and tagged her arm, "And by the way...Your it!" He grinned and ran out of the room towards the staircase and waited for her to come out of the room on the first step.
"Not if I can help it!" She said and turned to run after him only half relieved, because she didn't have to go down the slide, but also not so relieved because red was still quite visible on her pale face.
Ryo grinned as she came out of the room and ran down the stairs.
Reisei ran after him, "You don't want me to push my potential in running." She warned.
Ryo, "We'll see.."
Reisei speed up and began closing space between her and Ryo.
Ryo ran faster, when he made it to the first floor he ran all out towards the library, unknowingly.
Reisei shook her head thinking to herself that he'd asked for this, she pushed her legs as hard as she could into an all out sprint and caught up with Ryo, she tackled him to the carpeted floor. "I warned you." She said.
Ryo laughed.
Seiji heard a thud down one of the halls nearby and blinked, "Think she may have found another slide?" He asked Dana.
Dana, "No..Knowing Reisei she tackled him or something.."
Reisei grinned down at Ryo. The red on her face now unable to be divived between running or embarassment.
Seiji nodded. "Ryo would probably annoy her into going her full potential."
Dana laughed.
Seiji grinned, "It's true." Then he thought of something, "I wonder why she didn't go down the slide to see what it's like lit up."
Dana shrugged.
Seiji shook his head and looked towards the doors to the library, he peeked in, "Hmm, intresting." He said and walked into the library.
Reisei looked down at Ryo.
Dana, "What?" She asked following him.
"Library, a pretty old looking one at that." He said.
Dana, "Cool.."
Reisei stood up. "By the way." She tapped her foot against his knee gently, "You're it." She said and bolted back towards the stairs.
Seiji nodded.
Ryo sweatdropped and chased after her again.
Reisei had a plan this time, pushing her potential she was easily at the fourth floor and makign her way to the room. She got in and pushed the bed out of the way and crawled into the corridor and watched for Ryo to bolt in.
Ryo ran in the room.
"Over here!" Reisei called waving out from the crawl space then disappeared into it and stood up near the slide. She realized it was really errie in there lit up.
Ryo crawled into the corridor after Reisei.
Reisei grinned seeing him crawl in. "Come and get me!" She teased.
Ryo stood up and went after Reisei.
Reisei dived out of the way when Ryo came for her, which if her plans worked right would send him right down the slide and her grinning.
As Ryo started to go down the slide he grabbed Reisei taking her with him.
"No!" Reisei yelped as she was pulled down the slide, her first instinct was to cover her eyes, with damn good reason too, some of the stuff even at the very begining of the slide was hellish and enough to give any woman, no matter how strong or brave, nightmares.
Ryo laughed a bit at her reaction.
Has one of those rare moments where she could fit the description of a normal girl, not one with a mystical armor, powers, and an attitude that can be a hellsend at times. "Don't laugh!" She snapped and felt her cheeks turn red, she would never be able to live this one down. They hit a curve in the slide that Reisei hadn't noticed before, the next set of 'decorations' and images and junk would be enough to scare Ryo too. She didn't mention that she hadn't hit that curve before. Her fingers were still pressed over her eyes.
Ryo blinked and closed his eyes. This slide was just plain creepy.
Reisei pried one of her eyes open enough to see Ryo had closed his eyes, her thoughts of teasing him for it were smashed when she saw another image that made her yelp and shut her eyes again, she found her voice, "This isn't how I remember it! Last time it was much shorter!" She said.
Ryo nodded hastilly.
The slide faded to a black light glow with no more images, of course Reisei couldn't see that.
Ryo couldn't see it either.
Seiji had found a book and sat down looking at it. "I wonder what's taking them so long to play tag." He said.
Dana sat down by him, "Think they tried out the slide?"
Reisei cracked opened her eye again, "It's all clear." She said and then added with a bit of uncertainty, "I think..."
Seiji shrugged, "Maybe, but how long does it take to slide down four stories?"
Ryo opened his eyes, "We need to shove Seiji and Dana down this one of these days.."
Dana, "Like I said, You never know with those two"
"Good idea...I think I'll lure her up here when I get off this hell ride and do it myself." Reisei shivered even thought it was fairly warm in the slide.
She was looking streaight ahead going over ways to get revenge on Ryo if he even told a soul that she'd covered her eyes and yelped on the slide from hell. She hadn't made him swear not to, and she wasn't going to now, that would reaffirm it.
Seiji nodded, "They act like a couple te..." Seiji paused and realized how stupid what he was going to say would have sounded. Of course they acted like teenagers...They WERE teenagers.
Dana laughed realizing what he was going to say.
Seiji blinked.
Dana smiled at him, "Your cute! You know that?"
He grinned, "Thank you pretty lady." He winked at Dana.
Dana blushed and giggled.
Reisei felt another curve on the slide, it suddenly felt familiar, like it had the first time she went down, she got ready and saw the picture/door swing open and she slid out, landing gently on her feet this time. She slightly watched to see if Ryo landed without hurting himself.
Seiji heard a creak from out in the hallway. "They're hereeeeeeeeee!" He said and got up setting his book down and going to the door.
Ryo landed on his feet.
Dana grinned and got up and followed Seiji to the door.
Reisei turned back as the library door opened. "Hey!" Seiji said, he walked over, "So, was it fun?" He asked Ryo.
"It was..interesting to say the least.." Ryo said.
"Cool." Seiji said. "Hey Dana, if we can talk Reisei into showing us where it is do you wanna go down it?" He asked turning to Dana.
Dana, "Good luck getting me to go down THAT thing!"
"Oh you really should try it." Reisei said finally speaking up.
Dana, "HA! I'm not going down it!"
Seiji prooded Dana by poking her ribs, "Scared?" He asked.
"So?" She asked.
Reisei mentally winced, one of the other differences between her and Dana. She was so used to acting strong and brave she was afraid of the reactions that she'd get to not acting strong and brave, Dana on the other hand had no problem with admitting it. "I'm sure it's not that bad!" Seiji said.
"Yes." Seiji said, "You are." He grabbed Dana and hauled her over his shoulder, Reisei pondered this, she could keep up the act and subject Dana to nightmares for the next week, or she could actually do something about it.
Dana yelped, "Hey! No fair! Your mean!"
Ryo shook his head.
Seiji began down the hall, Dana slung over his shoulder, "Wait!" Reisei called after him. Seiji turned back blinking, "I really, really don't think Dana should go down that slide." Reisei said. Seiji looked at Reisei and then at Ryo like 'Ok, how much did you pay her to drop the big and bold act?'
Ryo blinked, that wasn't the reaction he was expecting from reisei.
Dana blinked, "Yea! What she said!"
Seiji, "Ok, I'm not sure what you promised Reisei to get her to say that but I'm sure the slide isn't *that* bad!" He said.
Ryo, "Why would I do anything like that?"
Seiji shook his head, he didn't believe that Reisei could be scared of a slide, he headed down the hall again with Dana on his shoulder.
Dana, "No! Put me down right now! Hey! Are you listening to me?"
"Nope." Seiji said grinned like the cat that ate the caranrie. He was listening, but he wanted to take Dana down this slide.
Reisei shook her head, "I'm not acting, I'm not playing, and no one promised me anything to do this." She said walking after Seiji. "That slide is friggin scary and I'd really prefer it if you didn't force Dana to go down against her will." Reisei said grabbing Seiji and spinning him around to face her.
Dana, "Put me down right now!!! I don't wanna go down that thing!!!! Stop this!!!!"
Dana blinked, "Yea!! Again! What she said!"
Seiji finally sighed and sat Dana down, "I give!" He said.
Dana, "YAY!"
Reisei let out a semi-relieved look and went to head past when suddenly one of the doors flug open and Wes slumped out, one hand clutched to his chest the other one pressed on the floor trying to keep him up as he gasped. Out of some sort of instinct Reisei didn't even know she had she sprinted towards Wes and as soon as she was within ten feet she could feel it, she didn't know how, but she could feel what was wrong, like it was happening to her, maybe it was, it was becoming to clouded for her to tell. Her heart was pounding rapidly, at the same time feeling like it'd burst through her ribs, and about a hundred undescribable feelings also shot through her chest.
Dana & Ryo, "Reisei!" They Ran over to her, "What happened?" Dana asked.
Dana, "Seiji please check on Wes.."
"Wes!" Reisei hissed, the guy made no remark, Reisei did the first thing that came to her mind, she punched him in the chest, not to hard, but at the same time forced her special, her electricity through him, not to much, just enough to shock his heart back into it's normal rythm. As soon as his went back to normal so did hers and she slumped even further onto the floor. Wes was still trying to catch his breath. Reisei looked up at Ryo and Dana, "I don't know..." She gasped.
Seiji had followed them over and leaned over Wes, "You ok?" He asked. Wes nodded catching his breath.
Dana, "Wes, do you have any idea about what happened?"
Wes hadn't noticed how Reisei had reacted when she got closed, "I have, a heart problem. I tried my medicine but it didn't work. Thank God for Reisei punching me in the chest, even though it felt like she hit me with a lightning bolt too..." He said breathing deeply.
Dana nodded.
Reisei forced herself to stand up, she'd talk to Ryo later about it, she felt weird, something she'd never experinced just happened.
Wes looked up at Reisei, "You ok?" He asked, Reisei nodded. Seiji looked from Wes to Reisei and then at Ryo. Reisei looked at Ryo, "I'd like to go upstairs, if that's ok." She said softly.
Ryo and Dana nodded.
Reisei put her arms around her gut, cupping her elbows with her hands and she turned to head upstairs, she didn't know if Ryo or Dana would follow, she didn't mind, her mind was still trying to figure out why she felt that. Once Reisei was out of sight Wes stood up slowly, "She's a real life saver." He said. Seiji nodded watching Reisei walk off, he looked at Ryo and jerked his head in Reisei's direction as if telling his friend to follow. Reisei must have hit her potential when she wasout of sight though because she was already upstairs and in the bedroom, white blaze had been laying at the foot of the bed, they had went and got him after school before coming to the mansion, the tiger her gotten up when Reisei came in the room. It was weird, Reisei had figured White Blaze was friendly to only Ryo and Yuli, but she was proved otherwise by the massive tiger. She let herself slide to the floor and White Blaze walked over looking at her as if asking. She hugged the tiger's neck.
"That was so weird." She said to the tiger, feeling like one some level White Blaze did understand.
Ryo nodded to Seiji and headed towards the bedroom.
Wes looked at Dana and Seiji and sucked in another deep breath to make sure his heart wasn't going to go on the fritz again.
Reisei, after some time, heard footsteps in the hall, but she just didn't have it in her to let go of the tiger and stand up, so she just sat there petting white blaze and hugging the tiger's neck.
Ryo walked inot the bedroom and smiled at the scene, he sat on the bed, "How are you feeling?"
Dana, "Is there anything I can get you?"
"Odd..." Reisei said.
Wes shook his head. "I'm sorry, I probably scared Reis pretty bad...She seemed like it at least." Wes said.
Dana, "Reisei's a trooper, she'll make it through it easily..at least I think so.."
"I saw Wes come out that door and collapse and part of me just screamed to get there, and then when I got within ten feet I felt what was going on in his chest, my own chest went into the same, every rapid, unpronounced beat, every jolt that shouldn't have been there, I felt it, and then when I jolted Wes and his attack stopped so did mine." Reisei said.
Seiji nodded. Wes turned slowly and headed back where he'd come from, letting the door close behind him.
Ryo, "I wish I could offer an explanation but I can't.."
Reisei continued to pet White Blaze's head. "I felt his panic too, it felt like I was going to die." Reisei looked up at Ryo and for a second that he may or may not remember Wes' face seemed to flash right by Reisei's, pointing out every similarity perfectly.
Ryo, "I don't know what to say.."
Seiji looked at Dana, "Did you see Reisei's face when she got close?" He asked.
Dana, "What do you mean?"
Reisei hugged White Blaze's neck again.
"She looked like she had, I don't know, she had the same expression Wes had, an 'oh shit I'm going to die' expression." Seiji said.
Dana, "No..I didn't see that.."
"Maybe it's just something new I developed from the armor or something." Reisei suggested, right now any explination sounded good.
Ryo, "Maybe.."
Seiji shook his head, "It was weird..."
Reisei stood up and walked over to the bed and leaned forward hugging Ryo. White Blaze gave her a 'Hey! I was having fun!' look.
Ryo grinned at his tiger hugging Reisei.
"I do believe my tiger is jealous of me.."
Reisei laughed some, "Awwww. White Blaze knows I love him too."
Ryo laughed.
White Vlaze let out a growl, not threatening or anything, more or less maybe jealous as Ryo said, Reisei cocked her head to the side, "Awwww, don't get huffy White Blaze, you get to stay with me all day, so it's only fair that Ryo gets me when he gets home!" She said, the tiger gave her one of those one of a kind 'I don't care' looks. Reisei laughed softly.
"Stubborn tiger." Reisei said.
Ryo, "Tell me about it!"
Seiji walked back towards the library thinking about what he'd seen.
"Well, look who he's been around forever." Reisei grinned teasingly and poked Ryo's side.
Dana, "I'll be right back..I'm gonna go change out of my uniform." She said heading upstairs.
Ryo mock pouted.
Seiji nodded as he went in the library.
"Awww did I hurt your feelings?" Reisei asked putting on a mock pout of her own.
Dana picked out a light blue turtle neck sleeveless shirt and a pair of white jeans. She put away her uniform and headed downstairs to the library.
Ryo, "I can't stand up to your pout! I admit defeat!"
Seiji looked up as Dana entered the library.
Dana, "What'cha thinking about?"
Reisei smiled.
Seiji shrugged.
"Not much." He said.
Dana sat down next to him, "It's been a long week...and its only wednesday!"
Seiji nodded. "Well, at least we haven't heard from the dynasty." He said.
Dana, "Well now you just jinxed us!" She teased.
Reisei stood up, "I'm going to go for a walk." She smiled and then snapped her fingers, White Blaze was instantly on her heels, she looked at Ryo and winked, "He obeys his mistress!" She said teasing, the tiger, maybe trying to act proud, stuck his nose up in the air. Reisei couldn't help it, she laughed.
Seiji shook his head, "Nah. They'll wait till this weekend if we're not lucky, next week if we are lucky."
Ryo laughed, "I'll go with you"
Dana, "They appreciate a good education?"
"Ok." She said, she really felt like just walking arround and exploring.
Seiji laughed, "Not that I know of, maybe they come into the mortal realm nine to five every monday through friday and try to make a real life for themselves." He joked.
Dana,"If they appreciate a good education I'll be severly frightened.."
Seiji nodded, "Really. Then again maybe Arago wants someone on his team who knows how to put 2 and 2 together. Aparently nonee of his current warlords can."
Reisei looked at Ryo, waiting for him to get up to join her on the walk.
Ryo stood up to join her on her walk.
Dana, "22?"
Seiji snickered.
Dana grinned.
Reisei smiled and walked towards the door.
Ryo followed.
Wes blinked as he walked through the main portrait gallery with a rag, one of his eyebrows cocked up as he stopped to look at one of the paintings. Suddenly his cell phone rang and he nearly jumped out of his skin. He answered, "Oh! Hi grandma!" He said.
Reisei walked out into the hallway, and decided to go a little deeper into the hallway.
Ryo kept up with her not sure what to say.
She reached out and found Ryo's hand and interwound it with her own. "It's a beautiful mansion." She said.
Ryo, "Yea it is.."
"Creepy at points, but beautiful." She admitted smiling.
Ryo nodded.
"Something bothering you, Ryo?" She asked, maybe it was just her, or her brushes with death over the week, but she kept getting the feeling that something was bothering Ryo.
Ryo, "No I'm fine"
"Ok." She said and continued to walk slowly.
Wes got off the phone and looked at the picture again, finally he took the rag he'd been using to wipe dust away and tossed it over the face of the painting. "Creepy." He mumbled.
Wes walked out of the portrait gallery. Reisei looked around as they walked, shifting some under the silence, and the thoughts running through her own mind.
Suddenly Reisei felt something creep it's way through her and she turned glancing towards the stairwell just in time to see Wes come into veiw coming up the stairs.
Ryo turned to see what Reisei was looking at.
Wes looked up and grinned waving to the couple as he headed into a bedroom opposite Reisei and Ryo's. Reisei turned back to their walk. "He just shows up everywhere, doesn't he?" She asked. (Knowin Ryo he's dumbfounded. Suspisious. or getting hot headed about Wes showing up, lol)
Seiji came out of a daze he'd slipped into and looked around the library.