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Legends Die Hard
By: Moonglow
Ch 6: The Escape
I hate you too -- Me
It was early in the morning,
about eight when Circe woke up. She looked around quickly, aghast. Then
she remembered that she was in Mia's house. She looked at the other
bed in the room, no Lily. She got up, threw on her green silk robe and
made her way out into the hall. Mia hadn't shown them the house yet,
so she cautiously knocked on each door and then peeked in to see if
any of them were the bathroom. All of the rooms were deserted, except
the one that Kento snored in. For some reason, that kid drove her nuts.
Everything about him struck a bad note in her internal piano. All except
the fact that he was irresistibly cute. But that didn't matter. I didn't
matter to her if he was the cutest guy on earth. He was still a jerk.
She finally made it to the
end of the hall and opened the door at the end. It was only a closet.
The door to the right of it was a bathroom, and the one to the left
was a bathroom. But why? Who needs two bathrooms in one hall? She thought
for a moment, and then decided one must be for the girls and the other
for the guys. Or one was the guest and the other was the one that they
used all the time. She thought again, and decided to use the one on
the same side her room was. She walked in. She turned on the water for
the shower and got in after taking off her robe and pajamas.
Kento woke up at the same
time that Mia and Cye were usually making breakfast, quarter after eight.
He got up and looked at the other bed to make sure that Cye was up and
then jumped out of bed. His stomach grumbled as he started down the
steps, but a few steps down he stopped. He sniffed a few time, but there
wasn't the smell of food in the air. He kept going down, slower now,
and continued sniffing. Nothing. He looked into the kitchen, but no
one was there. Thoroughly puzzled, he went back up stair, and a sound
caught his ear. It was Circe singing again. He could also hear the water
running in the shower. He ignored it as he continued to search for somebody
else.
All of the bedrooms were empty,
and the guys' bathroom was empty too. He decided there was only one
thing he could do. He opened the door to the other bathroom cautiously
and then stepped in. He could see Circe's shape showering behind the
curtain. She was singing some love song that went,
"No one told me I was going
to find you; I expected what you did to my heart. When I lost hope,
you were there to remind me. This is the sky! And life is a road and
I wanna keep going, love is a river and I wanna keep flowing. Life is
a road now and forever a wonderful journey. I'll be there when the world
stops turning, I'll be there when the storm is true. At the end I wanna
be standing at the beginning with you."
She kept singing as Kento
tried to figure out a way to get her out of the shower. He looked around
the large bathroom and his gaze fell onto the toilet.
"I knew there was somebody
somewhere, I'd be lost in the dark. Now I know the dreams will lost,
now we've waited so long, nothing to tear us apart. Life is a road now
and forever a wonderful journey. I'll be there when the world stops
turning, I'll be there when the storm is true. At the end I wanna be
standing at the beginning with yooooAh!"
Circe shrieked as scorching
hot water poured down on her from the showerhead. She quickly grabbed
the towel she had hanging on the pole at the back of the shower hastily
wrapped it around her and threw open the curtain to see Kento standing
in front of her.
"Kento!" She screamed, "What
the heck to do think your doing?"
"Where is everyone?"
"What?"
"Everyone is gone. I don't
know where everyone is. Oh, and by the way, that towel should be pulled
up a little."
She adjusted the towel and
the glared at him, "Why don't you check your stomach. Are you sure you
didn't gobble them up in your sleep?" She taunted him in an acid tone.
"Harty Har Har. What about
Rowen?"
"What about him?"
"He's usually the last one
up, duh."
"How was I supposed to know?"
She yelled. "I've only been here for about a day."
"Yeah, yeah. Well, get done.
Were going to go look for them."
"No, I'm going to take a
shower. You can go look for them all you want."
"No, you're coming too."
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me."
Circe mumbled under her breath
a few choice words and turned on the water to rinse the rest of the
suds out of her hair. When she got out of the shower with the towel
on, she found Kento still there.
"Do you mind?"
"No." He told her. Then as
if remembering he added, "Oh, sorry." And filed out of the room. Circe
made her way down the hall after putting on the green robe, and she
could feel Kento staring at her from his room. When she passed, she
slammed the door on his peeping nose. His scream was priceless.
She went into her room and
changed into a quarter length purple shirt with a blue star on front,
a pair of blue windbreaker pants and a pair of sneakers. She grabbed
her green coat before she left the room. It was November! When she got
down stairs, the big tiger was pacing around. The animal made her nervous
for some reason. She didn't even know its name!
Kento was scarfing down two
eggs and a few pieces of toast. He was wearing a pair of blue jeans,
a brick red tee shirt and a pair of sneakers. When he saw Circe, he
tried noticeably to eat a little nicer. Not much though. She went over
to the cupboard and found a box of strawberry Cereal Bars. She grabbed
one and put the box away. They were a bit stale, but good. After they
had eaten, and Kento had cleaned up his mess, they went to the door
to start looking for the others. But it was locked. They tried the door
to the deck. It was locked too. Then they tried every other door in
the house. All of them were locked from the outside. And so were all
the windows.
"What the heck is going on?"
Circe screamed in frustration. She started to walk out of the room and
down the hall, but the tiger was there. When she tried to walk past
him to go downstairs, he started to growl.
"Down Simba." She told him
negligently. When she tried again, he snarled louder. "Okay, nice kitty.
I'm going downstairs kitty cat. Okay?"
"He has a name stupid." Kento
told her.
"I know that Einstein. I just
don't know it."
"It's Whiteblaze."
"Okay then. Whiteblaze, I'm
just going down stairs to get away from this strange kid." Whiteblaze
growled more as she said each word. He walked down the hall to Kento,
who stood looking at Whiteblaze in shock.
"What your problem 'Blaze"?
Kento asked him. The tiger only growled more and pushed Kento with his
muzzle down to Circe.
"Turn into a tiger Kento."
Circe told him.
"Come again?"
"You're a sorcerer. Turn into
a tiger."
"Why?" "Then you can ask
him what his problem is."
"Why don't you?"
"Because I don't want to."
"Fine." He thought about
what Adela had said the day before. He put the shape of the tiger in
his mind, then flowed himself into the image. When he was done, he looked
down and saw orange fur.
"My, aren't we a wittle cute
tiger. Yes we are, yes we are." Circe said to him scratching his ear.
It felt really good, but he didn't want her talking to him like that,
so he snapped at her. "Hey!" She yelled.
"Awww, An unspoken attraction."
Whiteblaze rumbled.
"To that skinny little brat?
Are you out of your mind?"
"No."
"What's your problem?"
" I have orders from
Ryo to keep you two together."
"He told you to what?"
"You heard me. So, I have
to obey."
"What if you didn't, and I
gave you a big old steak?" Kento asked him persuasively.
"Raw?" Whiteblaze asked enthusiastically.
"Yeah."
"No."
"Why not?"
"I can't. It's my job to protect
you people, and do what the leader, Ryo, says."
"Fine. See yah later. Oh,
by the way, I see why you tigers like to be scratched behind the ear."
"Yeah, isn't it great. Maybe
you should do it to me more often. Oh, and your supposed to read the
note on the coffee table." He told him.
"Thanks." Kento put his own
shape back into his mind, which was much easier than being a tiger and
was back to normal in no time.
"What did he say?" Circe asked
him when he was back.
"That's going to come in handy."
He said to himself, then turned to her and said, "That he has to keep
us in the same room."
"What?" She screamed. "I
can't stand even being in the same house as you, let alone the same
room!"
"Well, go take it up with
Ryo. He told him too keep us together, not me. Oh, and we have a note
to read."
When they got downstairs,
they looked on the coffee table, and low and behold, there was a note.
Circe read it out loud. It said:
Dear Kento and Circe,
We all know that by now you've
probably found out that we've locked you in. You can't get without helping
each other and working together and getting along. That's the whole
point. We're tired of you two screaming at each other already, and we
want it to end. And if this doesn't work, were leaving you both behind.
So this is your first and last chance to straighten up.
-- Us
Ps. Mia says if you do anything
to her house she'll gorge out your eyes and feed them to you.
"Ewwww." Circe exclaimed.
"Do they know who their talking to?"
"Yeah, I'm sure they do.
I have an idea. Turn into a mouse."
"A mouse!" Circe screamed.
"Are you out of your mind?"
"Okay, then a bat."
"That's just a mouse that
can fly!"
"Okay, then I'll turn into
one."
"No!" She shrieked.
"Fine. Then what do you suggest.
We can't blow out a wall or break any doors unless you like being blind."
"Just lift me up to that
window up there."
He looked at her suspiciously.
"Don't be such a prude. Just
do it."
He lifted her up to the window
and then unexpectedly shoved her hand into it, shattering it into a
thousand bits.
"Are you crazy?" He yelled
at her, as the glass fell down onto him.
"No. I know exactly what I'm
doing. Now, shove me out and I'll pull you out." He gently lifted her
out the window and let her go as closely to the ground as he could.
The he jumped up to the sill of the window and then waited for her to
move then jumped.
They looked at each other,
then laughed and threw their arms around each other. Then realizing
what they were doing, they jumped back and Kento rubbed his arm warily.
Circe didn't even think, she just wrapped her strong arms around his
neck and kissed him soundly. Kento flinched but then relaxed as he discovered
that he liked it. He kissed her back, but from behind him; he could
feel someone staring at him. He broke off the kiss and turned around
to see the others staring at him. Ryo opened his mouth to speak but
Mia cut him off.
"What did you do to my window?"
She screamed at them.
"Oh, get over it Mia." Circe
told her. "I'll fix it." She raised her hand and muttered the word glass
and it was fixed. "Really Mia, you need to learn how to get a grip."
She told her.
"We never should have let
you two stay at home by themselves." Cye was telling Lily. "I think
I'd rather have them arguing than all lovie dovie."
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