AN: This'll be a chapter about how questions, answers, and how they become friends or foes and stuff.
Disclaimer: I no own sm, but wouldnt it be cool if i did?
Title: The Eimin
Chapter: 4 - 9 Teenagers, 4 Bathrooms. YIKES
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Aurora met up with Nox in their room in the Neo Palace. He was, which didn't surprise her, sleeping near their food and water. She walked over, nodged him, and he woke up.
"What?" he asked sleepily.
"I'm done," she replied. "Where are you going to summon them?"
"I was thinking somewhere in the Palace... don't care where," Nox mumbled.
"Princess Aradia is among them--" Aurora began.
"Well where do you want to put them?" he asked impatiently.
She stuffed out her chest and grimaced. "Listen, mister, it was your job to do the Senshi business, ok? You can't leave them frozen forever!"
He groaned and sat up. "Fine! I'll send them to the Earth! Thanks for your support."
"Earth?!" Aurora shrieked. "Are you insane? You have no Earth money, Nox! Where do you expect them to live, hm? They have to be together, you know."
"Well where would you put them?" he repeated.
She screamed in impatience. "~NOX~!!!!!! They aren't MY PROBLEM! THEY'RE YOURS!"
"ALL I KNEW WAS THAT I HAD TO COLLECT THEM AND TELL THEM WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO! I NEVER SAID I WOULD GIVE THEM A HOME!"
But before Nox's wife could scream a response, the door opened. They whirled around and gasped. It was Queen Dae, an old, yet pretty, lady with long gray-brown hair wrapped in a bun. She was covered with drapes and silks, with crystal ornaments hanging almost everywhere. She blinked at them.
"What is all this?" she asked. Her voice echoed throughout the marble walls.
"Your Majesty," both cats said, bowing. Tyronica meowed slowly.
"Your Majesty, i had no idea that i was to give them, the Neo Senshi, a home," Nox said.
"That is alright, Nox," Queen Dae said. "I have already taken care of that. I take it you have found them all?"
"Yes," Aurora said proudly, bowing again. "Yes, Majesty, we have them all."
"Good." The Queen cleared her throat. "Nox, i will send you to the new senshi's home. It is on Tokyo, Japan, and once you arrive you will be very clueless as to where the house is. But i assure you, the first thing you will see will be it, so don't stary far."
Nox nodded. "Yes, alright." He glared at Aurora, who glared back, then did a backflip and disappeared.
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The first thing Nox saw when he arrived was a giant oak tree. It was very old, very tall, and very fat. He blinked up at it and saw that chestnuts were growing in it.
"The Senshi are going to live ~here~?" he asked himself aloud.
There was a flash of light behind him, and he turned around to see Queen Dae standing there. He wondered how odd she would look to a pedestrian.
"Yes, Nox, they are going to live here," the Queen said. Her voice was surprisingly old and tired on Earth. "You will see a lone chestnut dangling from a vine if you look closely. Pull it."
He turned around again and did indeed see a chestnut protruding from a vine. He jumped up, snatched it by his teeth, then pulled. Suddenly the tree began to shake, but no chestnuts fell out which shocked Nox. Then, in the middle of the trunk, a portal appeared, big enough for a slouching teenager to go through. It was black with rainbow swirls, swirling around and around til it gets to the middle.
"It leads to a spare suite in my palace," Queen Dae explained. "However, it is the biggest suite i have got, and it only has four bathrooms. But not to worry, there are enough bedrooms for everyone!" She giggled slightly, but only slightly since she was beginning to cough.
"Are you alright?" Nox asked, turning around to face her. "You don't sound well."
"Don't you worry," she said hastily. "In my Palace, there are charms in almost every room is hallway that make me well. Here, i am just an old grandmother who is very, very sick." She smiled and shook her head. "Well, why don't you go in and summon them there? I really must get back. I could keel over any second." Queen Dae laughed again, then disappeared with a flash of light.
Nox smiled slightly, then turned and jumped inside the portal. At first it was all black, but suddenly he felt himself being pushed upward really fast as if he was in an elevator. But it stopped right when Nox felt himself becoming 2-D against the floor, and he was pushed into another portal.
He found himself in a large room. It had loads of fluffy coaches and chairs. Behind this large room was what looked like a kitchen, with a large counter surrounding it like a fence, with only one place to enter. Then next to the kitchen was a long hallway, with six doors on each side and one door at the far end.
Nox walked around the living room and saw that there was also a balcony, that overlooked the Earth. Then he walked down the hallway and realized that the first two rooms on each side were the bathrooms, and the rest were large bedrooms that seemed color-coded. And the room at the far end was the largest bedroom, with a canopy bed and was all pink and fuzzy. Nox knew that this was for Princess Aradia, or Neo Sailor Moon.
He went back into the living room and lied down on the large and fluffy carpet. The moon on his forehead began to glow, then suddenly the room was filled with holographic people, the Neo Senshi. Most of them were in the same position, bent down with their hand outstretched to touch the moon on his forehead. Then suddenly the holographic-ness (ehh) went away, and they blinked and looked around. Seanna shrieked.
"What happened?" Emberlynn asked, straightening. "Who are you guys?"
Nox cleared his throat and they all looked at him.
"I will introduce everyone soon enough. Right now i must explain everything." He cleared his throat again. "The Sailor Scouts have met a terrible fate. Well, they met Princess Eris. Princess Eris has the power to put people in a deep, deep sleep. An eternal sleep. The truth is, though, that she doesn't ~own~ that power. She and someone else are sharing it, without the owner's awareness, i'm sure of it. Well anyway, Eris has put the Sailor Scouts in that eternal sleep and has kidnapped them. They are sleeping in her kingdom.
"It was only a little while ago that we all found out that her father, King Keitaro, has decided to destroy the Earth. We need the Neo Senshi, now. The Neo Senshi were chosen as backup a long time ago. If anything should happen to the Sailor Scouts, the Neo Scouts would take over." He sighed.
"The problem," he continued, "is that King Keitaro is very, very strong. We need not only the Neo Senshi to stop his plans, but also the Sailor Senshi. You must awaken them."
There was a pause.
"How?" Amaya asked.
Nox sighed again. "I don't know. No one does. But all the logical answers lead to you girls." He looked uncertain for a moment, then grinned cheerfully. "Well, welcome to your new home!"
"New home?" Faye asked, her mind popping out of the Senshi business. "Wh--what do you mean, 'new home'?"
"You heard me. You'll be living here from now on."
"But--" she began.
"Chill, would you?" snapped Sabrita. "I think it's--um--"
"Homey," Lora finished. The other girl smiled at her.
"Yeah. Homey," Allegra commented sarastically. "If you lived in a trailorpark."
Ember gasped and glared at her. Allegra looked back at her, realized what this meant, and laughed. Faye sighed sadly and sat down on the couch. Trinity just stared into space, literally, out the window. Amaya smiled grudgingly and sat down across from Faye. Lora and Macie looked at each other oddly, then sat down on the same chair, eyeing the other teenagers. Seanna was almost in tears.
"Nox!" she cried, looking at him. "How long will we be here?"
"Until you wake the Senshi," he said apologetically. "I'm sorry if you don't like it here--"
Allegra stopped laughing at the fuming Emberlynn and looked at Nox. "What!" she screamed. "No! No, no, no, no no! ~NO~! I can't live here that long! What if we never wake them!?"
Nox looked at the ground. "Let's not think of the future right now. Let's all take a nap, then you girls can explore Tokyo."
"We're still in Tokyo?" Sabrita asked miserably. "Why?"
"Because this was where Princess Eris was seen. And this was where the Sailor Scouts lived." He shook his head. "Let's take a nap. The rooms are color-coded, you see. Use common sense at the one that is yours', sleep, then you can get to know each other down on Earth. Good-night." He smiled, did a backflip and disappeared.
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Lora had an odd dream as she slept in her large and beautiful dream. She seemed to be floating between two pillars holding a golden rose, in an incredibly dark room. There only seemed light where she was, and the large oak doors two or three hundred yards away.
The pillars held bowls of marbles of some kind. Lora leaned over to get a better look, trying to not to fall out of place. She was surprised to see that inside the marbles was smoke of some kind, that seemed to be trying to get out.
Before she had a chance to pick one up, the large oak doors burst open. Lora gasped and straightened, as if examining the stone balls was against the rules. From the opening, a tall teenager walked in the room. She had long brown hair in a ponytail and was wearing a lightblue kimono with white flowers and doves on it.
Lora looked down at herself to see what she was wearing, and was shocked to see a gown instead of the clothes she was wearing earlier. The gown was pearl white and was almost shining with elegance. At the trimmings were golden leaves, and she was also wearing a low cut golden vest with pearls for buttons. She didn't know if she was wearing any shoes, since her dress covered a foot below her feet.
She looked up at the teenager and saw that she was staring at her. Lora was almost frightened of the stranger, but didn't know why. She shrank back, but there seemed to be a invisible wall behind her.
The strange grinned and held out her hand. Lora knew she wanted the flower, and had no choice but to hand it to her.
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"Lora!" she heard a voice scream, and Lora was knocked out of her dream like a whip. She saw Macie, her best friend, looking at her from the doorway.
"Oh, it's you," she gasped.
Macie smiled. "We're going to Tokyo now."
Lora nodded and got out of bed. She didn't need to change since she slept in her clothes, but she didn't have anything to change into anyway. Even though her room was full of french dressers, there was probably nothing in the drawers. There was, however, perfumes and brushes and mirrors on the biggest dresser, and she used one of the plain brushes to get her hair straight.
"I don't know why you need all this," her friend remarked, gesturing toward the mirrors and perfumes. "You look fine--and smell fine--without this stuff anyway."
Lora giggled and walked out of the room, Macie at her heels. "Thanks ever so much," she commented.
When they got into the living room, she saw all seven other girls sitting there, while some were by a portal looking thing.
"About time," said the girl with short white hair, acidly. She had a French accent. "We were waiting forever."
"Only fifteen minutes," retorted Macie.
"Why didn't you just leave without me?" Lora asked.
"Nox told us to stay together, at all times," said a girl with black hair in a ponytail quietly. She looked at the girl for a moment, thinking that she almost looked like the girl in her dream.
Lora scanned her eyes at the others. Only two others looked annoyed at her: one with short light brown hair and greenish eyes, and one with long red/brown hair and darkblue eyes, who was wearing very heavy blue make-up.
"Well let's go!" said a girl with short curly blonde hair impatiently. "She's here, so we can leave."
One-by-one, the girl walked through the portal. Finally it was Lora's turn, Macie behind her, and she walked through it hesitantly. She was completely surrounded by darkness, which made her think about her dream again, but suddenly she felt herself going down really fast. But as soon as she knew that her feet would leave the ground, it stopped abruptly and Lora was pushed out, closely followed by Macie.
Grudingly, she got up off the ground and realized that she wasn't the only one who had fallen. The proper-looking girl with white-blonde hair in an uncomfortably tight bun was dusting off her blue gown. The girl who told her what Nox had said was fixing the ribbons that had fallen out of her hair. The girl who told us to finally leave was still on the ground, crossing her arms stubbornly and her eyes were narrow.
After Lora herself dusted herself off, she lent a hand to the girl. "My name is Lora," she greeted.
The girl looked up at her, smiled and took the hand. Lora helped her up. "My name's Seanna."
As soon as everyone was up and clean, they started to walk toward the street then down the sidewalk.
"Where did you live before--all this?" Seanna asked her.
"Maine," Lora answered. "United States, with Macie here." She nodded to her friend. "You?"
"Oh, i lived in New York," she replied. "Long Island, not New York City," she briskly added when some of the foreign girls looked at her.
The girl with red-brown hair and too much make-up smiled and slowed down to walk with them. "I'm Sabrita. I used to live in America too, except my family ~had~ to move here, for some reason. I was in Georgia."
The black-haired girl with ribbons in her hair caught up with them, also. "So did i! Except i was in California. My name's Amaya."
The tan-haired girl looked at them at the corner of her eye. "I also lived in California," she replied grimly. "But that doesn't mean we're friends."
Amaya blinked, then rolled her eyes at Lora. "What's her problem?"
Lora shrugged then looked at the grim girl. "Well what's your name, so we know when to steer clear whenever we hear it called?"
The girl smiled. "I don't mind being friends with ~you~, Lora. And my name is Ember."
She blinked. "Why me?"
Ember sighed, stopped walking and glared at her. "Because ~you~ seem to have a lot of spunk, unlike these dorks."
Macie gasped and clenched her fists. Seanna raised an eyebrow, and muttered something. The proper girl also stopped walking, or rather floating, and looked back. The girl with white hair also stopped.
"At least ~some~ of us have brains," she remarked, earning a glare from Ember.
"I feel insulted, getting a 'complement' from Frenchie, here," Ember snapped.
The proper-girl's eyes widened. "'Frenchie'?" She also had a French accent. (AN: in my own little world, everyone speaks the same language, except they have accents ^__^) "What--?"
Ember groaned. "Another French person! What's ~your~ name, hmm?"
The girl clenched her fists, just like Macie. "It's Faye."
"And mine's Allegra," said the girl with white hair.
"Well Faye, Allegra, i suggest you--" Ember glanced at Lora, then continued, "--'steer clear' of me and Lora."
Lora glared at Ember. Faye put a gloved hand over her mouth and giggled. Allegra snorted.
"Can do," she said, then they continued walking.
Lora walked up to Ember. "What makes you think i want to be your friend when you insult my other friends?"
Ember rolled her eyes. "What, Frenchie 1 and 2 are you're friends?"
"They could be!" she snapped. "And Macie, Amaya, Sabrita and Seanna are my friends." She stopped talking with a sigh, then looked at the girl with long braided black hair. The girl had been very quiet and kept a vague expression, and Lora couldn't help feel bored looking at her.
Ember spoke again. "Freckle-face is your ~friend~?!" she laughed.
Lora looked at Macie and saw that her best friend's face was crimson. She looked back at Ember and almost felt like punching her, but instead she just slowed down to walk with her other friends.
"So where are we going to go?" she asked aloud, to everyone.
"I have a suggestion," Sabrita offered. "I've been ~dying~ to go to the arcade, but never had a chance. It's just up the block, here."
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Well thats it. Next chapter, they go to the arcade and meet Andrew and Darien and Luna/Artemis/Diana, and maybe Molly and Melvin. teehee... REVIEW!!!!! PLEASE!!! Oh and sorry for the delay, but ive been re-reading the Tamora Pierce books... well the circle of magic and the circle opens quartet, at least. Those r my favs. REVIEW!
Disclaimer: I no own sm, but wouldnt it be cool if i did?
Title: The Eimin
Chapter: 4 - 9 Teenagers, 4 Bathrooms. YIKES
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Aurora met up with Nox in their room in the Neo Palace. He was, which didn't surprise her, sleeping near their food and water. She walked over, nodged him, and he woke up.
"What?" he asked sleepily.
"I'm done," she replied. "Where are you going to summon them?"
"I was thinking somewhere in the Palace... don't care where," Nox mumbled.
"Princess Aradia is among them--" Aurora began.
"Well where do you want to put them?" he asked impatiently.
She stuffed out her chest and grimaced. "Listen, mister, it was your job to do the Senshi business, ok? You can't leave them frozen forever!"
He groaned and sat up. "Fine! I'll send them to the Earth! Thanks for your support."
"Earth?!" Aurora shrieked. "Are you insane? You have no Earth money, Nox! Where do you expect them to live, hm? They have to be together, you know."
"Well where would you put them?" he repeated.
She screamed in impatience. "~NOX~!!!!!! They aren't MY PROBLEM! THEY'RE YOURS!"
"ALL I KNEW WAS THAT I HAD TO COLLECT THEM AND TELL THEM WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO! I NEVER SAID I WOULD GIVE THEM A HOME!"
But before Nox's wife could scream a response, the door opened. They whirled around and gasped. It was Queen Dae, an old, yet pretty, lady with long gray-brown hair wrapped in a bun. She was covered with drapes and silks, with crystal ornaments hanging almost everywhere. She blinked at them.
"What is all this?" she asked. Her voice echoed throughout the marble walls.
"Your Majesty," both cats said, bowing. Tyronica meowed slowly.
"Your Majesty, i had no idea that i was to give them, the Neo Senshi, a home," Nox said.
"That is alright, Nox," Queen Dae said. "I have already taken care of that. I take it you have found them all?"
"Yes," Aurora said proudly, bowing again. "Yes, Majesty, we have them all."
"Good." The Queen cleared her throat. "Nox, i will send you to the new senshi's home. It is on Tokyo, Japan, and once you arrive you will be very clueless as to where the house is. But i assure you, the first thing you will see will be it, so don't stary far."
Nox nodded. "Yes, alright." He glared at Aurora, who glared back, then did a backflip and disappeared.
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The first thing Nox saw when he arrived was a giant oak tree. It was very old, very tall, and very fat. He blinked up at it and saw that chestnuts were growing in it.
"The Senshi are going to live ~here~?" he asked himself aloud.
There was a flash of light behind him, and he turned around to see Queen Dae standing there. He wondered how odd she would look to a pedestrian.
"Yes, Nox, they are going to live here," the Queen said. Her voice was surprisingly old and tired on Earth. "You will see a lone chestnut dangling from a vine if you look closely. Pull it."
He turned around again and did indeed see a chestnut protruding from a vine. He jumped up, snatched it by his teeth, then pulled. Suddenly the tree began to shake, but no chestnuts fell out which shocked Nox. Then, in the middle of the trunk, a portal appeared, big enough for a slouching teenager to go through. It was black with rainbow swirls, swirling around and around til it gets to the middle.
"It leads to a spare suite in my palace," Queen Dae explained. "However, it is the biggest suite i have got, and it only has four bathrooms. But not to worry, there are enough bedrooms for everyone!" She giggled slightly, but only slightly since she was beginning to cough.
"Are you alright?" Nox asked, turning around to face her. "You don't sound well."
"Don't you worry," she said hastily. "In my Palace, there are charms in almost every room is hallway that make me well. Here, i am just an old grandmother who is very, very sick." She smiled and shook her head. "Well, why don't you go in and summon them there? I really must get back. I could keel over any second." Queen Dae laughed again, then disappeared with a flash of light.
Nox smiled slightly, then turned and jumped inside the portal. At first it was all black, but suddenly he felt himself being pushed upward really fast as if he was in an elevator. But it stopped right when Nox felt himself becoming 2-D against the floor, and he was pushed into another portal.
He found himself in a large room. It had loads of fluffy coaches and chairs. Behind this large room was what looked like a kitchen, with a large counter surrounding it like a fence, with only one place to enter. Then next to the kitchen was a long hallway, with six doors on each side and one door at the far end.
Nox walked around the living room and saw that there was also a balcony, that overlooked the Earth. Then he walked down the hallway and realized that the first two rooms on each side were the bathrooms, and the rest were large bedrooms that seemed color-coded. And the room at the far end was the largest bedroom, with a canopy bed and was all pink and fuzzy. Nox knew that this was for Princess Aradia, or Neo Sailor Moon.
He went back into the living room and lied down on the large and fluffy carpet. The moon on his forehead began to glow, then suddenly the room was filled with holographic people, the Neo Senshi. Most of them were in the same position, bent down with their hand outstretched to touch the moon on his forehead. Then suddenly the holographic-ness (ehh) went away, and they blinked and looked around. Seanna shrieked.
"What happened?" Emberlynn asked, straightening. "Who are you guys?"
Nox cleared his throat and they all looked at him.
"I will introduce everyone soon enough. Right now i must explain everything." He cleared his throat again. "The Sailor Scouts have met a terrible fate. Well, they met Princess Eris. Princess Eris has the power to put people in a deep, deep sleep. An eternal sleep. The truth is, though, that she doesn't ~own~ that power. She and someone else are sharing it, without the owner's awareness, i'm sure of it. Well anyway, Eris has put the Sailor Scouts in that eternal sleep and has kidnapped them. They are sleeping in her kingdom.
"It was only a little while ago that we all found out that her father, King Keitaro, has decided to destroy the Earth. We need the Neo Senshi, now. The Neo Senshi were chosen as backup a long time ago. If anything should happen to the Sailor Scouts, the Neo Scouts would take over." He sighed.
"The problem," he continued, "is that King Keitaro is very, very strong. We need not only the Neo Senshi to stop his plans, but also the Sailor Senshi. You must awaken them."
There was a pause.
"How?" Amaya asked.
Nox sighed again. "I don't know. No one does. But all the logical answers lead to you girls." He looked uncertain for a moment, then grinned cheerfully. "Well, welcome to your new home!"
"New home?" Faye asked, her mind popping out of the Senshi business. "Wh--what do you mean, 'new home'?"
"You heard me. You'll be living here from now on."
"But--" she began.
"Chill, would you?" snapped Sabrita. "I think it's--um--"
"Homey," Lora finished. The other girl smiled at her.
"Yeah. Homey," Allegra commented sarastically. "If you lived in a trailorpark."
Ember gasped and glared at her. Allegra looked back at her, realized what this meant, and laughed. Faye sighed sadly and sat down on the couch. Trinity just stared into space, literally, out the window. Amaya smiled grudgingly and sat down across from Faye. Lora and Macie looked at each other oddly, then sat down on the same chair, eyeing the other teenagers. Seanna was almost in tears.
"Nox!" she cried, looking at him. "How long will we be here?"
"Until you wake the Senshi," he said apologetically. "I'm sorry if you don't like it here--"
Allegra stopped laughing at the fuming Emberlynn and looked at Nox. "What!" she screamed. "No! No, no, no, no no! ~NO~! I can't live here that long! What if we never wake them!?"
Nox looked at the ground. "Let's not think of the future right now. Let's all take a nap, then you girls can explore Tokyo."
"We're still in Tokyo?" Sabrita asked miserably. "Why?"
"Because this was where Princess Eris was seen. And this was where the Sailor Scouts lived." He shook his head. "Let's take a nap. The rooms are color-coded, you see. Use common sense at the one that is yours', sleep, then you can get to know each other down on Earth. Good-night." He smiled, did a backflip and disappeared.
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Lora had an odd dream as she slept in her large and beautiful dream. She seemed to be floating between two pillars holding a golden rose, in an incredibly dark room. There only seemed light where she was, and the large oak doors two or three hundred yards away.
The pillars held bowls of marbles of some kind. Lora leaned over to get a better look, trying to not to fall out of place. She was surprised to see that inside the marbles was smoke of some kind, that seemed to be trying to get out.
Before she had a chance to pick one up, the large oak doors burst open. Lora gasped and straightened, as if examining the stone balls was against the rules. From the opening, a tall teenager walked in the room. She had long brown hair in a ponytail and was wearing a lightblue kimono with white flowers and doves on it.
Lora looked down at herself to see what she was wearing, and was shocked to see a gown instead of the clothes she was wearing earlier. The gown was pearl white and was almost shining with elegance. At the trimmings were golden leaves, and she was also wearing a low cut golden vest with pearls for buttons. She didn't know if she was wearing any shoes, since her dress covered a foot below her feet.
She looked up at the teenager and saw that she was staring at her. Lora was almost frightened of the stranger, but didn't know why. She shrank back, but there seemed to be a invisible wall behind her.
The strange grinned and held out her hand. Lora knew she wanted the flower, and had no choice but to hand it to her.
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"Lora!" she heard a voice scream, and Lora was knocked out of her dream like a whip. She saw Macie, her best friend, looking at her from the doorway.
"Oh, it's you," she gasped.
Macie smiled. "We're going to Tokyo now."
Lora nodded and got out of bed. She didn't need to change since she slept in her clothes, but she didn't have anything to change into anyway. Even though her room was full of french dressers, there was probably nothing in the drawers. There was, however, perfumes and brushes and mirrors on the biggest dresser, and she used one of the plain brushes to get her hair straight.
"I don't know why you need all this," her friend remarked, gesturing toward the mirrors and perfumes. "You look fine--and smell fine--without this stuff anyway."
Lora giggled and walked out of the room, Macie at her heels. "Thanks ever so much," she commented.
When they got into the living room, she saw all seven other girls sitting there, while some were by a portal looking thing.
"About time," said the girl with short white hair, acidly. She had a French accent. "We were waiting forever."
"Only fifteen minutes," retorted Macie.
"Why didn't you just leave without me?" Lora asked.
"Nox told us to stay together, at all times," said a girl with black hair in a ponytail quietly. She looked at the girl for a moment, thinking that she almost looked like the girl in her dream.
Lora scanned her eyes at the others. Only two others looked annoyed at her: one with short light brown hair and greenish eyes, and one with long red/brown hair and darkblue eyes, who was wearing very heavy blue make-up.
"Well let's go!" said a girl with short curly blonde hair impatiently. "She's here, so we can leave."
One-by-one, the girl walked through the portal. Finally it was Lora's turn, Macie behind her, and she walked through it hesitantly. She was completely surrounded by darkness, which made her think about her dream again, but suddenly she felt herself going down really fast. But as soon as she knew that her feet would leave the ground, it stopped abruptly and Lora was pushed out, closely followed by Macie.
Grudingly, she got up off the ground and realized that she wasn't the only one who had fallen. The proper-looking girl with white-blonde hair in an uncomfortably tight bun was dusting off her blue gown. The girl who told her what Nox had said was fixing the ribbons that had fallen out of her hair. The girl who told us to finally leave was still on the ground, crossing her arms stubbornly and her eyes were narrow.
After Lora herself dusted herself off, she lent a hand to the girl. "My name is Lora," she greeted.
The girl looked up at her, smiled and took the hand. Lora helped her up. "My name's Seanna."
As soon as everyone was up and clean, they started to walk toward the street then down the sidewalk.
"Where did you live before--all this?" Seanna asked her.
"Maine," Lora answered. "United States, with Macie here." She nodded to her friend. "You?"
"Oh, i lived in New York," she replied. "Long Island, not New York City," she briskly added when some of the foreign girls looked at her.
The girl with red-brown hair and too much make-up smiled and slowed down to walk with them. "I'm Sabrita. I used to live in America too, except my family ~had~ to move here, for some reason. I was in Georgia."
The black-haired girl with ribbons in her hair caught up with them, also. "So did i! Except i was in California. My name's Amaya."
The tan-haired girl looked at them at the corner of her eye. "I also lived in California," she replied grimly. "But that doesn't mean we're friends."
Amaya blinked, then rolled her eyes at Lora. "What's her problem?"
Lora shrugged then looked at the grim girl. "Well what's your name, so we know when to steer clear whenever we hear it called?"
The girl smiled. "I don't mind being friends with ~you~, Lora. And my name is Ember."
She blinked. "Why me?"
Ember sighed, stopped walking and glared at her. "Because ~you~ seem to have a lot of spunk, unlike these dorks."
Macie gasped and clenched her fists. Seanna raised an eyebrow, and muttered something. The proper girl also stopped walking, or rather floating, and looked back. The girl with white hair also stopped.
"At least ~some~ of us have brains," she remarked, earning a glare from Ember.
"I feel insulted, getting a 'complement' from Frenchie, here," Ember snapped.
The proper-girl's eyes widened. "'Frenchie'?" She also had a French accent. (AN: in my own little world, everyone speaks the same language, except they have accents ^__^) "What--?"
Ember groaned. "Another French person! What's ~your~ name, hmm?"
The girl clenched her fists, just like Macie. "It's Faye."
"And mine's Allegra," said the girl with white hair.
"Well Faye, Allegra, i suggest you--" Ember glanced at Lora, then continued, "--'steer clear' of me and Lora."
Lora glared at Ember. Faye put a gloved hand over her mouth and giggled. Allegra snorted.
"Can do," she said, then they continued walking.
Lora walked up to Ember. "What makes you think i want to be your friend when you insult my other friends?"
Ember rolled her eyes. "What, Frenchie 1 and 2 are you're friends?"
"They could be!" she snapped. "And Macie, Amaya, Sabrita and Seanna are my friends." She stopped talking with a sigh, then looked at the girl with long braided black hair. The girl had been very quiet and kept a vague expression, and Lora couldn't help feel bored looking at her.
Ember spoke again. "Freckle-face is your ~friend~?!" she laughed.
Lora looked at Macie and saw that her best friend's face was crimson. She looked back at Ember and almost felt like punching her, but instead she just slowed down to walk with her other friends.
"So where are we going to go?" she asked aloud, to everyone.
"I have a suggestion," Sabrita offered. "I've been ~dying~ to go to the arcade, but never had a chance. It's just up the block, here."
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Well thats it. Next chapter, they go to the arcade and meet Andrew and Darien and Luna/Artemis/Diana, and maybe Molly and Melvin. teehee... REVIEW!!!!! PLEASE!!! Oh and sorry for the delay, but ive been re-reading the Tamora Pierce books... well the circle of magic and the circle opens quartet, at least. Those r my favs. REVIEW!
