It was early in the morning. The sun was just peaking over the mountains
when Olivia and Kaitlin snuck out of their tent, giggling evilly. Olivia
held a large brass pan, and Kaitlin held a stout stick.
"On three." Said Olivia.
"One, THREE!" Yelled Kaitlin as she struck the stick to the pan with all her might.
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! Everyone stumbled out of their tents, bleary eyed, tousle haired and duck-footed. Kate fell over and, by all appearances, fell back a to sleep.
"What's all the ruckus?" Asked Cleon, itching his bum.
"I don't know." Said George. "Must be some kind of bird."
"Stupid birds!" Yelled Neal, taking off his fluffy rabbit slipper and chucking it at the sky. It fell back and hit him on the head.
After a little while Kel decided that everybody should have some nice warm breakfast to wake them up. She found some fish by the fire circle and put them on a spit. Then she rummaged around in her pocket for some flint, which she found, and used to make a nice, roaring fire.
Liney sighed and started to walk around in a circle. She had been pacing around the same circle for ten minutes when a trench started to form. Liney, however, took no notice and continued on her trek.
"You've been walking about like that for like an hour." Said Caprice.
"Are you obsessive compulsive or something?" Asked Kaitlin.
"I'm not!" Said Kate. "I'm not! I'm not! I'm not! I'm not! I'm not! I'm not! I'm nooooooooooooooooot!"
"And you think I'm weird?" Asked Cleon, looking apprehensively at Kate.
"Nope," said Anne Marie. "That was me."
Kathryn looked at Cleon. "You had it coming to you. Rambling on about moronic things like Herman the plaid fish! I mean, sheesh!" She then lowered her voice and took something out of her pocket. She then started to stroke it. "Nothing will ever come between us. You're mine. My own. My precious."
"What was that you were whispering to?" Asked Krizsta.
"Nothing!" Exclaimed Kathryn. "My rocky! Stay back, fools!"
"Um, right." Said Diana.
"Hey!" Yelled Lady Light. "Anybody want to limbo?"
"What did you just call me?" Rosefyre screeched at Lady Light. "I am not a bimbo, I'll have you know."
"She said limbo, Rose." Raganas explained. "And sure! I love limbo!" She started to hum. "Dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, da!"
"That's the conga line song." Said Anne Marie.
"Conga line?" Asked Olivia. "Where? I wanna conga!"
"Wahoo! I'm a bird!" Yelled Peter, running around and flapping his arms crazily. "Look at me everybody!"
"Make the insanity stop!" Shouted Raoul, clutching his head, and cowering toward the ground.
Buri patted his back soothingly. "There, there." She said, calmingly.
Meanwhile Amy and Kaytee were arguing with Dom.
"You do too!" Yelled Kaytee. "I can see it in your eyes every time you look at her."
"Yeah," said Amy. "Your eyes get all starry and you can almost hear your heart going 'tha-thump, tha-thump'"
"I do not!" Pouted Dom. "You so can not!"
"We know you do, mister." Said Kaytee, prodding at Dom's chest with her finger. "Don't deny it."
"Back in Corus children listened to their elders." Dom said, unhappily.
"Good thing we're not in Corus then," said Amy. "It'd be a drag to have to listen to you all the time."
"And you're not going to steer clear of this topic that easily." Said Kaytee, still jabbing at Dom's chest.
"Just admit that you love Kel!" Said Amy.
"What's all this about?" Asked Kel, walking over. "I heard my name."
"Nothing." Dom, Kaytee, and Any said, innocently.
"Sure." Said Kel, eyeing them suspiciously. The second she turned around Dom made a very rude gesture t the two girls, who both returned the gesture before all three of them dissolved in laughter. They stopped abruptly, however, when a lout should of "NO!" rattled through the air.
"No, no, no, no, NO!" Screamed Liney. "I will NOT stop worrying!"
"Please?" Asked Gregory, hugging an almost sobbing Liney. "There's nothing we can do right now!"
"But that's the problem!" Liney cried into Gregory's chest.
"All we can really do is hope Maria and Daine can help." Said Numair. "Which I'm sure they can."
"Speak of the devil." Said Alanna.
At that moment two mice, one gray, one brown, came scurrying toward the camp. They stopped a few yards away from the group of people and ran into the surrounding woods.
Ten or so minutes later, Daine and Maria walked out of the trees, fully dressed and looking very harried.
"Where are Maddy and Meron?" Asked Liney rushing up to Maria.
"Weren't you supposed to be getting them?" Asked Samkin.
"Hold on!" Yelled Buri. "Let them tell us their story."
Daine nodded to Buri in silent thanks. "It was like this," she said. "We were running around the castle as mice when we heard two people arguing."
"A man and a woman." Interrupted Maria.
"If you wouldn't interrupt, everything would be much easier." Said Kel.
"Too bad," Maria said.
"Anyway," Daine said. "We heard these people arguing so we decided to go and see what it was."
"It was this really pretty lady and a young man about nineteen." Said Maria. "And she looked to be seducin' him to get what she wanted."
"Did you catch their names?" Asked Krizsta, glancing at Gregory and Liney. "They saw a man and a woman too."
"I think it was Lillian and Ryan," said Daine, "but I wasn't quite sure."
"Could it have been Jillian and Bryan?" Asked Gregory.
Maria looked at Daine. "I told you that's what is was!" She exclaimed. "But did you listen? No." She dragged the 'o' out in 'no' so it seemed that she though that Daine was acting like a know-it-all.
"Yes, yes." Said Numair. "But all this isn't really important. Can we please get back to the story?"
"Oh." Said Maria. "Of course. So Jillian wanted Bryan to get some prisoners and bring them up to her room for questioning. Bryan didn't want to because he had heard the prisoners were feisty fighters or something."'
"Then Jillian decided just to send some guards even though Bryan would be more ideal because she didn't really trust the guards." Daine said.
"So we decided to go down to the dungeon to try and free Maddy and Meron before the guards came." Maria explained. "But on e of the guards spotted us and decided to use us as target practice. He was a lousy shot but we still didn't want to stick around."
Kel stood up from her place at the fire, several freshly cooked fish in her arms. "That's it?" She asked.
"Yes, that's pretty much everything." Said Daine, nodding and helping herself to a piece of meat that Kel offered her.
"That's all?" Asked Marc, already gnawing on his bit of fish from Kel. "What about Meron and Maddy?"
"We couldn't do anything!" Maria cried. "We were helpless. And even if we did manage to find their cell without being seen how would we get them out?"
"Well you could have snuck into some sort of mouse hole and come out when the guard stopped shooting." Said Kate.
"Maddy and Meron have weapons," Olivia said, poking at her piece of fish with a finger, just to make sure it was dead. "If you let them out, they would have killed the guards, no trouble. Then it would be easy to go from there."
Maria's eyes got bigger and she started to pound her forehead with her fist. "Stupid, stupid, stupid!" She said. "We're so stupid! Why didn't Daine think of that? And for goodness sake, why didn't I think of it?"
"Because you're stupid?" Asked Rosefyre, highly annoyed.
"Well, now that we've tried, it would be too difficult to do that again." Said Caprice, comforting a highly distressed Cleon.
"No we aren't!" Said Raganas stomping her foot. "If we stand strong and believe in ourselves, we can do anything!"
"Why is everybody so optimistic?" Asked Kathryn, shrugging. "We're all going to die here, anyway."
"Thanks for your positive outlook, Kathryn." Muttered Kate.
"Well, I don't know what we can't do." Said Alanna. "But I know that we can at least make some sort of plan for action."
"Great idea!" Said Cleon, brightening up slightly and wiping his eyes with his bit of fish. "Let's get started right now!"
~*~
Maddy sneezed. "AhCHOO!" She sniffled twice and wiped her nose daintily on her sleeve. Then she clapped twice. When Meron stared at her she said, "Clap twice to save the fairies." Meron shrugged and didn't ask for an explanation.
"OK," said Meron, digging around in his pocket for a clean handkerchief. He was unable to find one so he ripped off a bit of his sleeve and offered it to Maddy with a flourishing gesture. "Kindly accept my handkerchief, fair maiden."
Maddy giggled. "Thankies, gentle sir. I appreciate your generosity." Maddy then attempted to curtsy but she fell over and lay sprawled on the ground.
Meron laughed heartily and flopped down on the ground next to Maddy. They looked at each other. Maddy's eyes wide with curiosity untold, and Meron's eyes narrow with knowing. In that moment Meron shifted so his head and one of his arms was over Maddy. Maddy lifted her head to reach Meron's and he kissed her lightly on the lips.
(AN: Oooh! Kissy, kissy! *Rolls around on the ground giggling insanely* I just realized how all the guys are so polite! If only they were like that in the real world...)
Maddy inched up, slowly so that she wouldn't have to let go of Meron's warm lips, until she was in a sitting position. They stopped kissing for a moment.
"Again," said a slightly breathless Maddy.
"My pleasure," Meron said and pressed his lips to both of Maddy's eyelids, then onto her nose, then he found her lips.
"Haven't you had enough yet?" Asked a voice from outside the bars.
"Not nearly," said Maddy and Meron at the same time. "Come back in a few minutes."
"No way." Said the voice. "It's time for us to have a little fun." There was then a swish and a crack of a whip. Maddy cringed and Meron put his arm around her.
"Vlad, Holden, you don't really want to hurt us, do you?" Meron wheedled.
"We don't?" Vlad asked, stupidly.
"No," Meron continued. "You're just following orders, like good little minions. You actually really like us, but don't want to loose your jobs."
"No, we actually want to hurt you." Said Holden. "In addition to following orders."
"Oh." Said Meron. "It was worth a shot."
Vlad opened the door carefully and tied a rope around Maddy's neck as Holden tied one around Meron's.
Maddy snarled and tried to kick, scratch and bite at Vlad. But Vlad yanked the rope and lashed Maddy across the back with his whip. Maddy fell to the ground, clawing at the rope. She then scrambled back up wheezing and sobbing.
There was so much anger radiating from the two teens that you could chop it with a meat cleaver. Actually, you can chop almost anything with a meat cleaver...
Holden kicked Meron out the door and Vlad motioned for Maddy to follow Meron, or he would kick her out as well. Maddy stumbled out of the cell, snarling and glaring daggers at the two men.
"Walk quickly, you two." Said Holden, fingering the whip hung on his belt. "We're going to see the boss."
~*~
Wow, took me a while to write that one. It was so long on paper, but when I typed it, it shortened by like seven pages. How annoying. Oh, and I'm sorry I had to put you through the romance, if you don't like romance, but as you might be able to tell, I was in a psychiatric mood today. It was weird. Anyway, please review!
Luv,
LadyKnight
"On three." Said Olivia.
"One, THREE!" Yelled Kaitlin as she struck the stick to the pan with all her might.
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! Everyone stumbled out of their tents, bleary eyed, tousle haired and duck-footed. Kate fell over and, by all appearances, fell back a to sleep.
"What's all the ruckus?" Asked Cleon, itching his bum.
"I don't know." Said George. "Must be some kind of bird."
"Stupid birds!" Yelled Neal, taking off his fluffy rabbit slipper and chucking it at the sky. It fell back and hit him on the head.
After a little while Kel decided that everybody should have some nice warm breakfast to wake them up. She found some fish by the fire circle and put them on a spit. Then she rummaged around in her pocket for some flint, which she found, and used to make a nice, roaring fire.
Liney sighed and started to walk around in a circle. She had been pacing around the same circle for ten minutes when a trench started to form. Liney, however, took no notice and continued on her trek.
"You've been walking about like that for like an hour." Said Caprice.
"Are you obsessive compulsive or something?" Asked Kaitlin.
"I'm not!" Said Kate. "I'm not! I'm not! I'm not! I'm not! I'm not! I'm not! I'm nooooooooooooooooot!"
"And you think I'm weird?" Asked Cleon, looking apprehensively at Kate.
"Nope," said Anne Marie. "That was me."
Kathryn looked at Cleon. "You had it coming to you. Rambling on about moronic things like Herman the plaid fish! I mean, sheesh!" She then lowered her voice and took something out of her pocket. She then started to stroke it. "Nothing will ever come between us. You're mine. My own. My precious."
"What was that you were whispering to?" Asked Krizsta.
"Nothing!" Exclaimed Kathryn. "My rocky! Stay back, fools!"
"Um, right." Said Diana.
"Hey!" Yelled Lady Light. "Anybody want to limbo?"
"What did you just call me?" Rosefyre screeched at Lady Light. "I am not a bimbo, I'll have you know."
"She said limbo, Rose." Raganas explained. "And sure! I love limbo!" She started to hum. "Dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, da!"
"That's the conga line song." Said Anne Marie.
"Conga line?" Asked Olivia. "Where? I wanna conga!"
"Wahoo! I'm a bird!" Yelled Peter, running around and flapping his arms crazily. "Look at me everybody!"
"Make the insanity stop!" Shouted Raoul, clutching his head, and cowering toward the ground.
Buri patted his back soothingly. "There, there." She said, calmingly.
Meanwhile Amy and Kaytee were arguing with Dom.
"You do too!" Yelled Kaytee. "I can see it in your eyes every time you look at her."
"Yeah," said Amy. "Your eyes get all starry and you can almost hear your heart going 'tha-thump, tha-thump'"
"I do not!" Pouted Dom. "You so can not!"
"We know you do, mister." Said Kaytee, prodding at Dom's chest with her finger. "Don't deny it."
"Back in Corus children listened to their elders." Dom said, unhappily.
"Good thing we're not in Corus then," said Amy. "It'd be a drag to have to listen to you all the time."
"And you're not going to steer clear of this topic that easily." Said Kaytee, still jabbing at Dom's chest.
"Just admit that you love Kel!" Said Amy.
"What's all this about?" Asked Kel, walking over. "I heard my name."
"Nothing." Dom, Kaytee, and Any said, innocently.
"Sure." Said Kel, eyeing them suspiciously. The second she turned around Dom made a very rude gesture t the two girls, who both returned the gesture before all three of them dissolved in laughter. They stopped abruptly, however, when a lout should of "NO!" rattled through the air.
"No, no, no, no, NO!" Screamed Liney. "I will NOT stop worrying!"
"Please?" Asked Gregory, hugging an almost sobbing Liney. "There's nothing we can do right now!"
"But that's the problem!" Liney cried into Gregory's chest.
"All we can really do is hope Maria and Daine can help." Said Numair. "Which I'm sure they can."
"Speak of the devil." Said Alanna.
At that moment two mice, one gray, one brown, came scurrying toward the camp. They stopped a few yards away from the group of people and ran into the surrounding woods.
Ten or so minutes later, Daine and Maria walked out of the trees, fully dressed and looking very harried.
"Where are Maddy and Meron?" Asked Liney rushing up to Maria.
"Weren't you supposed to be getting them?" Asked Samkin.
"Hold on!" Yelled Buri. "Let them tell us their story."
Daine nodded to Buri in silent thanks. "It was like this," she said. "We were running around the castle as mice when we heard two people arguing."
"A man and a woman." Interrupted Maria.
"If you wouldn't interrupt, everything would be much easier." Said Kel.
"Too bad," Maria said.
"Anyway," Daine said. "We heard these people arguing so we decided to go and see what it was."
"It was this really pretty lady and a young man about nineteen." Said Maria. "And she looked to be seducin' him to get what she wanted."
"Did you catch their names?" Asked Krizsta, glancing at Gregory and Liney. "They saw a man and a woman too."
"I think it was Lillian and Ryan," said Daine, "but I wasn't quite sure."
"Could it have been Jillian and Bryan?" Asked Gregory.
Maria looked at Daine. "I told you that's what is was!" She exclaimed. "But did you listen? No." She dragged the 'o' out in 'no' so it seemed that she though that Daine was acting like a know-it-all.
"Yes, yes." Said Numair. "But all this isn't really important. Can we please get back to the story?"
"Oh." Said Maria. "Of course. So Jillian wanted Bryan to get some prisoners and bring them up to her room for questioning. Bryan didn't want to because he had heard the prisoners were feisty fighters or something."'
"Then Jillian decided just to send some guards even though Bryan would be more ideal because she didn't really trust the guards." Daine said.
"So we decided to go down to the dungeon to try and free Maddy and Meron before the guards came." Maria explained. "But on e of the guards spotted us and decided to use us as target practice. He was a lousy shot but we still didn't want to stick around."
Kel stood up from her place at the fire, several freshly cooked fish in her arms. "That's it?" She asked.
"Yes, that's pretty much everything." Said Daine, nodding and helping herself to a piece of meat that Kel offered her.
"That's all?" Asked Marc, already gnawing on his bit of fish from Kel. "What about Meron and Maddy?"
"We couldn't do anything!" Maria cried. "We were helpless. And even if we did manage to find their cell without being seen how would we get them out?"
"Well you could have snuck into some sort of mouse hole and come out when the guard stopped shooting." Said Kate.
"Maddy and Meron have weapons," Olivia said, poking at her piece of fish with a finger, just to make sure it was dead. "If you let them out, they would have killed the guards, no trouble. Then it would be easy to go from there."
Maria's eyes got bigger and she started to pound her forehead with her fist. "Stupid, stupid, stupid!" She said. "We're so stupid! Why didn't Daine think of that? And for goodness sake, why didn't I think of it?"
"Because you're stupid?" Asked Rosefyre, highly annoyed.
"Well, now that we've tried, it would be too difficult to do that again." Said Caprice, comforting a highly distressed Cleon.
"No we aren't!" Said Raganas stomping her foot. "If we stand strong and believe in ourselves, we can do anything!"
"Why is everybody so optimistic?" Asked Kathryn, shrugging. "We're all going to die here, anyway."
"Thanks for your positive outlook, Kathryn." Muttered Kate.
"Well, I don't know what we can't do." Said Alanna. "But I know that we can at least make some sort of plan for action."
"Great idea!" Said Cleon, brightening up slightly and wiping his eyes with his bit of fish. "Let's get started right now!"
~*~
Maddy sneezed. "AhCHOO!" She sniffled twice and wiped her nose daintily on her sleeve. Then she clapped twice. When Meron stared at her she said, "Clap twice to save the fairies." Meron shrugged and didn't ask for an explanation.
"OK," said Meron, digging around in his pocket for a clean handkerchief. He was unable to find one so he ripped off a bit of his sleeve and offered it to Maddy with a flourishing gesture. "Kindly accept my handkerchief, fair maiden."
Maddy giggled. "Thankies, gentle sir. I appreciate your generosity." Maddy then attempted to curtsy but she fell over and lay sprawled on the ground.
Meron laughed heartily and flopped down on the ground next to Maddy. They looked at each other. Maddy's eyes wide with curiosity untold, and Meron's eyes narrow with knowing. In that moment Meron shifted so his head and one of his arms was over Maddy. Maddy lifted her head to reach Meron's and he kissed her lightly on the lips.
(AN: Oooh! Kissy, kissy! *Rolls around on the ground giggling insanely* I just realized how all the guys are so polite! If only they were like that in the real world...)
Maddy inched up, slowly so that she wouldn't have to let go of Meron's warm lips, until she was in a sitting position. They stopped kissing for a moment.
"Again," said a slightly breathless Maddy.
"My pleasure," Meron said and pressed his lips to both of Maddy's eyelids, then onto her nose, then he found her lips.
"Haven't you had enough yet?" Asked a voice from outside the bars.
"Not nearly," said Maddy and Meron at the same time. "Come back in a few minutes."
"No way." Said the voice. "It's time for us to have a little fun." There was then a swish and a crack of a whip. Maddy cringed and Meron put his arm around her.
"Vlad, Holden, you don't really want to hurt us, do you?" Meron wheedled.
"We don't?" Vlad asked, stupidly.
"No," Meron continued. "You're just following orders, like good little minions. You actually really like us, but don't want to loose your jobs."
"No, we actually want to hurt you." Said Holden. "In addition to following orders."
"Oh." Said Meron. "It was worth a shot."
Vlad opened the door carefully and tied a rope around Maddy's neck as Holden tied one around Meron's.
Maddy snarled and tried to kick, scratch and bite at Vlad. But Vlad yanked the rope and lashed Maddy across the back with his whip. Maddy fell to the ground, clawing at the rope. She then scrambled back up wheezing and sobbing.
There was so much anger radiating from the two teens that you could chop it with a meat cleaver. Actually, you can chop almost anything with a meat cleaver...
Holden kicked Meron out the door and Vlad motioned for Maddy to follow Meron, or he would kick her out as well. Maddy stumbled out of the cell, snarling and glaring daggers at the two men.
"Walk quickly, you two." Said Holden, fingering the whip hung on his belt. "We're going to see the boss."
~*~
Wow, took me a while to write that one. It was so long on paper, but when I typed it, it shortened by like seven pages. How annoying. Oh, and I'm sorry I had to put you through the romance, if you don't like romance, but as you might be able to tell, I was in a psychiatric mood today. It was weird. Anyway, please review!
Luv,
LadyKnight