The Legend of the 576
o_o I'm updating. ^_^ Many arigatos out to my uncle Markie, for without him hepling me plot you would never be getting this update.
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"Duo," Heero pressed on, "did you or did you not put the note on my desk?"
"Well..." Duo hesitated, "do you believe in ghosts?"
Heero blinked. Why was Duo asking him if he believed in ghosts? "It... sort of depends."
"Well then," Duo said, "I've got some stuff to show you."
* * *
Heero blinked and turned to the side to look at Duo, the setting sun creating a perfect backdrop to match light amethyst orbs. "You want us to go down *there*?"
The cliff easily went down a nearly vertical path of about fifty to seventy feet, to be polite in judgements. At the very bottom of the valley, where the two cliffs met in the dried up river valley below, was an ancient, worn out bus. A crow appeared out of what seemed to be nowhere and flew over to the bus, landing with a completely audible clang on the slightly open door near the front and started pecking imploringly at the inside of the bus, searching for food. A light wind blew. The bird cawed and flew away.
"Yup. One of the things I wanna show you is down there... Or should I say, some of the stuff." Duo cracked a grin at Heero before he dropped down into a sitting position and dangled his feet over the edge of the cliff. "Well, let's not waste too much time. It'll take us a while to get down there." Duo turned around and gripped the edge of the cliff with his hands before kicking off and beginning his decent to the valley.
Heero watched as the braided wonder climbed down the cliff before he himself started on his way down.
.
Many grunts, slips, falls, and X-rated curse words later, the pair had reached the valley. Heero gazed up at the cliff which they had been standing on however long ago. He turned to Duo. "So what is it you wanted to show me?"
"Well, ya see that bus over there?" Duo pointed behind him with his thumb.
Heero nodded.
"It's in there." Duo stated as if it were the most simple thing imaginable.
"In there...?" Heero inquired, peering suspiciously at the ruined bus. "What could possibly be in there that you want to show me? Didn't they get everything out of this area when the crash first happened?"
Duo shook his head. "Nope. They forgot a lot. But I know where that lot is." he explained, pulling back the rusted door. "Come on in. Make yourself comfortable."
"Comfortable? How is it possible to be comfortable in this old wreck?" Heero inquired curiously.
Duo shrugged. "Easy. Just don't look at the steering wheel and the drivers' seat."
As fate and the power of curiosity would have it, Heero ignored Duo's words and looked at the steering wheel and drivers' seat. And immediately regretted it.
There, sitting quietly in the center of the seat, was a dusting pile of bones draped in faded blue cloth. The bones themselves didn't really creep Heero out, but the open-jawed skull sitting on the bar connecting the steering wheel to the dashboard did. Its' empty eyes peered at Heero in a way he had never known before; the stare was empty and dead, sullen and haunting. Heero shivered and murmured a sound of disgust.
"I told you not to look at the steering wheel." Duo stated casually from the very back of the bus, fitting in perfectly with the darkness created by lack of sunlight.
Heero 'hn'ed.
.
"Now, you know how they said they never found the body of the boy who died?" Duo asked, putting more emphasis in his voice this time.
"Yeah."
"Well," Duo said, yanking back the very last seat. "They didn't think of looking everywhere. Amature police officers, they were. Hardly knew a thing." Duo stepped aside to reveal a worn priest's outfit laying dessheveled, entertwined with the occasional visible bone. Heero knelt down and examined the bones, hesitantly pulling back the black fabric. Duo watched as his comrade inspected the area.
'I wonder if he's aware that he's touching my clothing.' He shrugged. "Well, this what I wanted to show you down here. Let's go up to the school. You don't wanna stay in this area when it gets too dark out." Duo nodded his head at the sky as it was changing from a darkened purple to a deep navy. The sun had already set by now, and Duo wanted to get out of there.
Heero nodded. "Yeah... let's."
* * *
A while later, Duo and Heero were standing in the darkness created by the closed door to the boys' locker room. Heero had only ventured into the room a few times so far, he had chosen to take a physical education class next semester, so he really didn't have any reason to come into the locker room. He waited patiently while Duo scouted around the dark room for his old gym locker, just for the sake of seeing if anyone had been using it lately, though Heero didn't think Duo could find the correct locker in the almost entirely pitch black darkness.
"Aha!"
Or not.
Shrugging, Heero wandered around aimlessly, following the sound of Duo's voice until he found him. He blinked. Duo was currently picking the lock of locker number 734*.
"Why don't you just do the code?"
'Crap,' Duo thought to himself, thinking quickly. "I'd rather be sneaky."
Heero smirked casually and waited for Duo to finish picking the lock. "What do you want to show me regarding that locker?"
"Oh," Duo said, "It's not in here. I just felt like seeing what's in here."
"Isn't that your locker?"
"It used to be." Duo cursed inwardly, remembering how he said earlier he couldn't afford schooling. "Well, it was before money ran out..." One day Duo was going to have to admit to all his lies. He just hoped that day was far, far away.
"Oh."
Finally, the lock clicked and Duo grinned widely, pulling back the metal locker door and peeking inside. He smiled when he pulled out an extremely old looking notebook, bound by dusted metal rings. Flipping through it nonchantly, Duo shoved the notebook back inside the locker and stood, closing the door and turning back around to face Heero.
.
"Now. What I'm about to show you might very well scare the crap out of you." Duo warned as he grabbed Heero's hand and dragged him over to the old team banner. "Oh, just let me give you some background information on this school, first."
"Alright," Heero said curiously.
"Well, to begin, it's built on a cemetary." the comment was made as if it was the most obvious thing in the entire world.
"How pleasant." Heero muttered sarcastically.
Duo turned away from Heero momentarily and glanced at the team banner, proudly sporting the name 'Clairmont Demons' in large, capitalized letters. There it was, plain as day. The pulsating light he had seen so long ago. "It's behind here."
Heero arched his eyebrow. "Unless you plan on showing me a wall."
"It's not the wall. It's what's behind the wall."
"There can't be anything behind a wall except for another wall, which is infront of another room."
Duo crossed his arms and smirked. "You don't know that."
"...hn."
.
"Anyways... And no, I'm not gonna show you the ass of a poster... Do you see a kinda flickering light coming from behind the poster?" Duo asked cautiously.
Heero glared intensely at the banner, almost wiling himself to see whatever it was Duo was talking about. Finally, after a long and silent pause, Heero caught sight of a tiny, almost invisible flicker of light. "Yeah."
"Good. That'll make things one helluva lot easier on me."
Shrugging, Heero nodded and waited for Duo to do whatever it was he wanted to. He watched as the long-haired boy pulled back the banner and revealing a long, dark tunnel, at the end of which was a dim, glittering light. Heero stared in awe at the pure mystery of the scene before him, running over a million and one possible explinations for a tunnel just appearing suddenly out of nowhere. Actually, make that he ran over the million and one possible reasons for a tunnel to illogically appear from behind a banner, because Heero was plain confused and couldn't come up with a reasonable thought.
"See? I toldja there was something behind the wall. And not just another wall." Duo said as he climbed inside, beckoning Heero to follow him. He poked around with his amethyst eyes, checking the entire area for any sign of mortal danger.
Heero clambered inside the tunnel shortly after Duo had, slightly unnerved by the presence he felt, but he couldn't see anyone or anything else beside himself and Duo.
.
"So, Heero. Listen. You've gotta stick right by my side. This place isn't exactly what you would call safe. And you really can't afford to get lost."
Heero nodded, taking a careful mental note of everything he was being told just in case he needed the information later on. "What's in here?"
"It's not a what--"
"Not this again."
"I wasn't finished. It's more of a... who-what." Duo said, falling into step beside Heero.
The Japanese blinked. "A who-what?"
"Either." Duo explained as he and Heero turned a corner. Neither of them noticed the mist starting to take shape, until both boys felt an eerie presence forming somewhere infront of them. Duo turned around first, and immediately regretted taking Heero down into the passageway.
.
"SHIT!"
Cursing loudly, Duo grabbed Heero's wrist and ran as fast as he could away from the mist, which, unfortunately, he recognized as the very same mist which had almost brought him to the pits of doom so long ago. He dragged his Japanese comrade out of the locker room, through the main hallway, and outside and away from the campus at an almost inhuman speed.
Once they had barely managed to catch their breath, Heero noted the darkness of the night sky. "It's late." he said calmy.
"Yeah, it is," Duo agreed, wiping sweat from his brow and leaning against a pole sticking out of the ground. On top of the pole was a painted sign, bearing the numbers '576' and the bus' destination point beside the numbers. In the distance, Duo spotted a bus coming up. Adrenaline was still coursing through his veins as the bus pulled up, he didn't even realize he was boarding the last 576 of the night with Heero.
.
Only once he sat down and relaxed a little, did Duo realize just what kind of a mess he had just gotten himself and Heero into.
And he hated it.
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There you go! See? I'm not dead! *rises from dust* I LIIIIIIIIIVE! ^_^ enjoy.
...
Berrful Hunter
email: ilovetchan@yahoo.com / bringmetolife02@yahoo.com
OR
IM: Tsuiraku Hoshi
o_o I'm updating. ^_^ Many arigatos out to my uncle Markie, for without him hepling me plot you would never be getting this update.
~~~*~~~
"Duo," Heero pressed on, "did you or did you not put the note on my desk?"
"Well..." Duo hesitated, "do you believe in ghosts?"
Heero blinked. Why was Duo asking him if he believed in ghosts? "It... sort of depends."
"Well then," Duo said, "I've got some stuff to show you."
* * *
Heero blinked and turned to the side to look at Duo, the setting sun creating a perfect backdrop to match light amethyst orbs. "You want us to go down *there*?"
The cliff easily went down a nearly vertical path of about fifty to seventy feet, to be polite in judgements. At the very bottom of the valley, where the two cliffs met in the dried up river valley below, was an ancient, worn out bus. A crow appeared out of what seemed to be nowhere and flew over to the bus, landing with a completely audible clang on the slightly open door near the front and started pecking imploringly at the inside of the bus, searching for food. A light wind blew. The bird cawed and flew away.
"Yup. One of the things I wanna show you is down there... Or should I say, some of the stuff." Duo cracked a grin at Heero before he dropped down into a sitting position and dangled his feet over the edge of the cliff. "Well, let's not waste too much time. It'll take us a while to get down there." Duo turned around and gripped the edge of the cliff with his hands before kicking off and beginning his decent to the valley.
Heero watched as the braided wonder climbed down the cliff before he himself started on his way down.
.
Many grunts, slips, falls, and X-rated curse words later, the pair had reached the valley. Heero gazed up at the cliff which they had been standing on however long ago. He turned to Duo. "So what is it you wanted to show me?"
"Well, ya see that bus over there?" Duo pointed behind him with his thumb.
Heero nodded.
"It's in there." Duo stated as if it were the most simple thing imaginable.
"In there...?" Heero inquired, peering suspiciously at the ruined bus. "What could possibly be in there that you want to show me? Didn't they get everything out of this area when the crash first happened?"
Duo shook his head. "Nope. They forgot a lot. But I know where that lot is." he explained, pulling back the rusted door. "Come on in. Make yourself comfortable."
"Comfortable? How is it possible to be comfortable in this old wreck?" Heero inquired curiously.
Duo shrugged. "Easy. Just don't look at the steering wheel and the drivers' seat."
As fate and the power of curiosity would have it, Heero ignored Duo's words and looked at the steering wheel and drivers' seat. And immediately regretted it.
There, sitting quietly in the center of the seat, was a dusting pile of bones draped in faded blue cloth. The bones themselves didn't really creep Heero out, but the open-jawed skull sitting on the bar connecting the steering wheel to the dashboard did. Its' empty eyes peered at Heero in a way he had never known before; the stare was empty and dead, sullen and haunting. Heero shivered and murmured a sound of disgust.
"I told you not to look at the steering wheel." Duo stated casually from the very back of the bus, fitting in perfectly with the darkness created by lack of sunlight.
Heero 'hn'ed.
.
"Now, you know how they said they never found the body of the boy who died?" Duo asked, putting more emphasis in his voice this time.
"Yeah."
"Well," Duo said, yanking back the very last seat. "They didn't think of looking everywhere. Amature police officers, they were. Hardly knew a thing." Duo stepped aside to reveal a worn priest's outfit laying dessheveled, entertwined with the occasional visible bone. Heero knelt down and examined the bones, hesitantly pulling back the black fabric. Duo watched as his comrade inspected the area.
'I wonder if he's aware that he's touching my clothing.' He shrugged. "Well, this what I wanted to show you down here. Let's go up to the school. You don't wanna stay in this area when it gets too dark out." Duo nodded his head at the sky as it was changing from a darkened purple to a deep navy. The sun had already set by now, and Duo wanted to get out of there.
Heero nodded. "Yeah... let's."
* * *
A while later, Duo and Heero were standing in the darkness created by the closed door to the boys' locker room. Heero had only ventured into the room a few times so far, he had chosen to take a physical education class next semester, so he really didn't have any reason to come into the locker room. He waited patiently while Duo scouted around the dark room for his old gym locker, just for the sake of seeing if anyone had been using it lately, though Heero didn't think Duo could find the correct locker in the almost entirely pitch black darkness.
"Aha!"
Or not.
Shrugging, Heero wandered around aimlessly, following the sound of Duo's voice until he found him. He blinked. Duo was currently picking the lock of locker number 734*.
"Why don't you just do the code?"
'Crap,' Duo thought to himself, thinking quickly. "I'd rather be sneaky."
Heero smirked casually and waited for Duo to finish picking the lock. "What do you want to show me regarding that locker?"
"Oh," Duo said, "It's not in here. I just felt like seeing what's in here."
"Isn't that your locker?"
"It used to be." Duo cursed inwardly, remembering how he said earlier he couldn't afford schooling. "Well, it was before money ran out..." One day Duo was going to have to admit to all his lies. He just hoped that day was far, far away.
"Oh."
Finally, the lock clicked and Duo grinned widely, pulling back the metal locker door and peeking inside. He smiled when he pulled out an extremely old looking notebook, bound by dusted metal rings. Flipping through it nonchantly, Duo shoved the notebook back inside the locker and stood, closing the door and turning back around to face Heero.
.
"Now. What I'm about to show you might very well scare the crap out of you." Duo warned as he grabbed Heero's hand and dragged him over to the old team banner. "Oh, just let me give you some background information on this school, first."
"Alright," Heero said curiously.
"Well, to begin, it's built on a cemetary." the comment was made as if it was the most obvious thing in the entire world.
"How pleasant." Heero muttered sarcastically.
Duo turned away from Heero momentarily and glanced at the team banner, proudly sporting the name 'Clairmont Demons' in large, capitalized letters. There it was, plain as day. The pulsating light he had seen so long ago. "It's behind here."
Heero arched his eyebrow. "Unless you plan on showing me a wall."
"It's not the wall. It's what's behind the wall."
"There can't be anything behind a wall except for another wall, which is infront of another room."
Duo crossed his arms and smirked. "You don't know that."
"...hn."
.
"Anyways... And no, I'm not gonna show you the ass of a poster... Do you see a kinda flickering light coming from behind the poster?" Duo asked cautiously.
Heero glared intensely at the banner, almost wiling himself to see whatever it was Duo was talking about. Finally, after a long and silent pause, Heero caught sight of a tiny, almost invisible flicker of light. "Yeah."
"Good. That'll make things one helluva lot easier on me."
Shrugging, Heero nodded and waited for Duo to do whatever it was he wanted to. He watched as the long-haired boy pulled back the banner and revealing a long, dark tunnel, at the end of which was a dim, glittering light. Heero stared in awe at the pure mystery of the scene before him, running over a million and one possible explinations for a tunnel just appearing suddenly out of nowhere. Actually, make that he ran over the million and one possible reasons for a tunnel to illogically appear from behind a banner, because Heero was plain confused and couldn't come up with a reasonable thought.
"See? I toldja there was something behind the wall. And not just another wall." Duo said as he climbed inside, beckoning Heero to follow him. He poked around with his amethyst eyes, checking the entire area for any sign of mortal danger.
Heero clambered inside the tunnel shortly after Duo had, slightly unnerved by the presence he felt, but he couldn't see anyone or anything else beside himself and Duo.
.
"So, Heero. Listen. You've gotta stick right by my side. This place isn't exactly what you would call safe. And you really can't afford to get lost."
Heero nodded, taking a careful mental note of everything he was being told just in case he needed the information later on. "What's in here?"
"It's not a what--"
"Not this again."
"I wasn't finished. It's more of a... who-what." Duo said, falling into step beside Heero.
The Japanese blinked. "A who-what?"
"Either." Duo explained as he and Heero turned a corner. Neither of them noticed the mist starting to take shape, until both boys felt an eerie presence forming somewhere infront of them. Duo turned around first, and immediately regretted taking Heero down into the passageway.
.
"SHIT!"
Cursing loudly, Duo grabbed Heero's wrist and ran as fast as he could away from the mist, which, unfortunately, he recognized as the very same mist which had almost brought him to the pits of doom so long ago. He dragged his Japanese comrade out of the locker room, through the main hallway, and outside and away from the campus at an almost inhuman speed.
Once they had barely managed to catch their breath, Heero noted the darkness of the night sky. "It's late." he said calmy.
"Yeah, it is," Duo agreed, wiping sweat from his brow and leaning against a pole sticking out of the ground. On top of the pole was a painted sign, bearing the numbers '576' and the bus' destination point beside the numbers. In the distance, Duo spotted a bus coming up. Adrenaline was still coursing through his veins as the bus pulled up, he didn't even realize he was boarding the last 576 of the night with Heero.
.
Only once he sat down and relaxed a little, did Duo realize just what kind of a mess he had just gotten himself and Heero into.
And he hated it.
~~~*~~~
There you go! See? I'm not dead! *rises from dust* I LIIIIIIIIIVE! ^_^ enjoy.
...
Berrful Hunter
email: ilovetchan@yahoo.com / bringmetolife02@yahoo.com
OR
IM: Tsuiraku Hoshi