*Damia and Wren enter the room*
Wren - "well, looks like you're getting a lot of reviews for this one,"
Damia - "I know, I'm getting cookies to, thanks Lady Estelle,"
Wren - "You know, Lady Estelle was our first Reviewer, I think we should give her a treat,"
Damia - "I got it, We'll grant her wish,"
Wren - "That works perfectly. Now do the review,"
Damia - You know me better than that, I don't like reviews," *Damia snaps fingers and Trowa appears*
Trowa - ". . . "
Damia - "So Mr. Big-tall-and-handsome, How about you do my review,"
Trowa - "Why?"
Damia - "Because I'm granting Lady Esteles wish and that should make you happy,"
Trowa - "Damia does not own SM or GW. May I go back to my flute now?"
Damia - "Yes," *snaps fingers and Trowa is gone*
Wren - "How come I can't do the little snappy thing?"
Damia - "Because you're not as special as me,"
Wren - "You ae so mean,"
Damia - "It's in my job description,"
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At the house, the girls had gone into the house and informed the man who had opened the door that they would wait for Quatre there. Mercury had pulled out her computer from no where and was typing away at it.
"What are you looking at?" Moon asked, walking over to the blue haired girl.
"I'm looking up information on weapons,"
"What kind?" Uranus asked, now interested.
"Any kind, especially those that are illegal and being sold on the black market," Mercury answered.
"You want another staff don't you?" Jupiter asked.
"They have to have one somewhere," Mercury answered. She sat and typed quickly. She was silently typing for about ten minutes and then, "AHAH, YAY YAY YAY,"
"Did you find it?" Neptune asked.
"Gee Nep, what would give you that idea?" Moon asked Sarcastically.
"Yes, . . . double sided, Titanium Alloy, Natural colored, Expandable to 5 ft, $150, . . . Perfect,"
"What's perfect?" Asked Duo. The guys had come in without anyone noticing.
"I found a replacement for an old toy," Mercury replied. Heero walked up behind her and looked over her shoulder.
"Those are Illegal," He commented.
"Yeah, I know," Ami answered.
"That's it?"
"yup, like it?"
"Hn," She looked over her shoulder at him.
"So talkative,"
"Hn," She turned back to her computer.
"Quatre, It will arrive here sometime tomorrow," She started to type again. The guys sat around the room.
"You should probably see your rooms," Quatre said.
"How many extra rooms do you have in this place anyway?" Venus interrupted.
"thirty seven," he answered, before Venus interrupted again.
"Can we choose our own rooms?"
"I-,"
"Please?"
"Well-"
"Unless you have a problem with it of course,"
"Actu-
"You don't have a problem with it do you?" The girls smirked at Quatre, you couldn't argue with Venus, there was no way once she really wanted something, she'd just starting questioning and talking until she had you convinced that you had come up with what she had wanted in the first place. Quatre stood there staring at her.
"There's no problem. Do you want me to show you the rooms?" Venus stood gracefully and hooked her arm through his.
"yes please," She answered. The girls all stood up to follow them, the boys right behind. Mercury closed her computer and followed them as well.
The first room they came to was done up in animal prints and the girls automatically disliked it. The next room had a Dragon on the back of a settee and was done in red and gold.
"This is mine," Mars said, pulling a duffel bag from no where and tossing it onto the bed.
"how'd you do that?" Duo asked, shock on his face. She winked at him and said.
"My little secret," then shoved him out the door. Hiiro grunted and left the little group. The next room had a dark green and gold motif, the girls looked at Jupiter, but she shook her head negative and they moved on.
"This is one of my favorites," Duo said as he saw Quatre opening a door. Inside, everything was a bright yellow and white. There was yellow wall paper and white trim, a white comforter with yellow daisies. Minako clapped her hands excitedly and jumped.
"I take it that you like this room?" Quatre asked.
"Oh yes," she put her arm out and an orange suitcase on rolly wheels appeared in her hands.
"Okay, once I can put down to not paying attention, but twice means that there is definitely something going on," Duo said, shaking his head.
"We'll explain it later," Mercury said soothingly.
"I wouldn't mind hearing this myself," Trowa said. Moon raised a brow.
"That's nice," she answered, walking out of the room. The others followed her, including Venus. When questioned why she informed them that she wanted to know where everyone else would be sleeping that way she could short sheet there beds properly. That only got her rude comments from Uranus, Moon, and Jupiter. The next room was sparsely furnished, and what was there was black silk and polished wood.
"I'm sure that this isn't something one of you would want to-" Quatre started. but this time he was interrupted by Saturn.
"It's perfect. you may now leave," She said in her quiet voice. Duo watched her, to see if she would pull something from thin air, but she just sent daggers at him with her eyes. He turned to flee. He turned at the last moment because of the sound of a zipper. Saturn had two back packs on her bed and she was pulling clothes from one of them. She turned to look at him and gave him rare smile and made 'shooing' gestures out the door. He went and followed the rest. They had just left Moons new room which was entirely white with a few pastel dots of color here and there and across the hall from Saturn's. The went onward to the next. This one had a sea theme. there was a light house lamp, and framed photo's of the ocean and other things like that. Neptune turned pleading eyes on Uranus.
"Fine," Uranus said, throwing her hands into the air. Neptune gave a beautiful smile.
"This room is mine." Neptune said as Haruka left out the door. She walked into the hall and the room over there had dark blue walls and sandy furnishings. an odd contrast, but Uranus liked it.
"Mine," She said simply, before moving back into the hall.
"How many people do we have left?" Mars asked, coming down the long hall to them.
"Two," Quatre answered, while Venus pointed at Mercury and Jupiter.
"Do you have a library?" Mars asked him.
"Yes," Quatre answered, "Down the next hall and-," He was interrupted yet again, this time by Mars.
"Do you have any open bedrooms down that hall?" She asked.
"Yes,"
"Then let's go over there." Quatre shrugged and walked down the hall and around the corner. He opened a door on the corner and there was a baby blue and light gray furnished room with a large desk in the corner. Mars smirked at Wufei and held up a thumb just as Mercury sat on the bed happily.
"Thank you, this will do just nicely," She said with a contented sigh.
"Your welcome." he answered as she did the same thing as the others, only with her computer.
"Wha-"
"Don't bother asking, you wont be answered," Wufei interrupted Duo. Then walked all the way to the other end of another long hallway and Quatre opened the door. The room was white wicker and grass green cotton. Quatre looked questioningly at Jupiter, who nodded happily.
"Now that this is over with, would someone explain the magicians tricks?" Duo asked.
"Magicians tricks?" Uranus asked warningly before Neptune put a hand on her arm.
"hey Wu-man, what would you call their little tricks?"
"MAXWELL"
"What?"
"How many times do I have to tell you not to call me that?"
"What? Wu-man?"
"That's it, your Braid is MINE," he pulled out his Ketana, which still had a purple ribbon around the hilt and started to chase him. Mercury came down the hall just then her computer in her hands, reading as she walked. Duo ran down and hid behind the tiny tenshi, and the computer disappeared. "You wouldn't hit a harmless little girl, would you?" Duo asked him. Mercury smiled innocently at Wufei.
"Sure," Wufei sneered, "Hide behind some weak woman," He turned around and got a kick to the middle of his back which sent him sprawling on the floor.
"Better a weak woman like me, than an infantile egomaniac like you," Mercury sniffed.
"Whoa, The Brain made a comeback," Venus crowed. Wufei stood up quickly and stormed off.
"So, are you going to tell us what that whole appeary thing is?" Duo asked.
"Gee, the term 'one track mind' comes to me," Neptune said drily.
"Really? I thought that required a mind to begin with," Moon replied, walking away.
"There really is a simple explanation," Mercury began, "It's a sub space pocket, . . . Damn" Her computer came into her hands. It bleeped at her. She opened it and started to type. She glanced up at the group. They were all looking at her expectantly, "Where's your other friend?" She asked angrily.
"Hiiro? I dunno," Duo answered.
"Well, expect him here at any moment in a very bad mood," Ami remarked before looking down at her computer, hitting the key board once, and then having it disappear again. Twenty seconds later, a very irate Hiiro Yui stood in front of them.
"What the hell did you do to my computer?" he asked angrily of Mercury.
"You were trying to hack into my computer, and I might as well tell you now, it's impossible to do, so I told my computer to give you a warning," The group looked from Hiiro to Mercury, then Venus noticed something blue in Hiiro's hand.
"What's that?" She asked.
"My computer," Hiiro growled. He held it up. It was covered in ice. The girls started to giggle.
"You brought it upon yourself," Mercury told him.
"How is that?"
"You tried to hack into my computer. There are so many safeguards around it for beings more powerful than you, that you didn't have a chance," Mercury told him.
"Undue this," Heero shouted.
"It will wear off by tomorrow," Mercury answered.
"I want it gone NOW," Heero yelled in her face.
"You're just going to have to live with it," she said calmly back. They stood there, staring each other in the eyes. Heero growled and stalked off.
"I want to go see a movie," Venus said, hands on her hips, a smile on her face. The others (except Duo) sweat dropped. Duo nodded his head enthusiastically.
"Yeah," he agreed turning to the two men left, "please?" he gave them puppy dog eyes.
"Girls?" Venus asked, looking at them.
"Fine," Moon answered, walking toward her own room. Venus smiled happily.
"I'm staying," Saturn said, walking away. The rest decided they would go and Quatre and Trowa allowed themselves to be taken as well.
Saturn was now the only girl in the house. She couldn't believe it when Quatre had told them that they were the only females in the house because he only employed males. At first a few of the girls were miffed, but when they found out that he had twenty nine sisters, they understood.
"Time to explore," Hotaru told herself in her room. She had changed her clothes so that now she was wearing a pair of black jean flaires and a purple tank top that was solid to right below her breasts and then went sheer. She left her sparsely furnished room and walked down the hall to see what was going on. She found the Library first. She was amazed by the size, there were books lined from ceiling to floor. She shrugged and walked out.
Next she found the kitchen, where an over weight old man was icing a cake.
"Hello there," he said in a friendly fashion. Saturn looked at him with her large purple eyes.
"Hello,"
"Would you like a cherry?" he asked, indicating the bowl of cherries that were obviously going to be used to decorate the cake.
"Yes please," she said picking one out of the bowl. She watched him for a few moments.
"What's your name young Miss?" he asked.
"Hotaru," she said without thinking. Her eyes widened fractionally in surprise, but if you didn't know her very well, you wouldn't have noticed it.
"Well Miss Hotaru, I am Wickett the cook," he told her with a smile.
"I should go now," she said quietly. He watched her leave with sad eyes. She reminded him if is granddaughter. Not in looks, but in personality. She was so quiet and reserved. A frail little thing, unless riled. She could hold her own, but she sure didn't look it. Miss Hotaru had that same look about her. Like she had the weight of the universe on her small shoulders. And those eyes, like the darkest Amethyst, young and naïve, yet as old as time and wiser than any other. he shook his head and went back into the kitchen.
"What are you doing here?" Wufei growled when he noticed Saturn walk into the gym. She looked at him with her dark eyes.
"I was just looking around," she said quietly, and then turned to leave. She wandered around the large house until she got tired of seeing the same thing, over and over again. She decided that she must be lost. She Looked around and saw a man dusting. He was youngish. She'd say about nineteen or twenty. She smiled at him and walked down to where he was.
"How may I be of service," he asked her, his eyes raking over her body.
"I'm lost," She told him.
"Well, where were you heading?"
"My room,"
"Do you where it's located?"
"The hall behind the Library,"
"Really?" he stroked his chin softly, lust lighting in his eyes, "well now that's on the opposite side of the house," he put his hand under her chin. She glared at him and pulled her head away.
"I'm going to go now," she said quietly. She turned and he grabbed her arm and pulled her back, "I suggest you let me go right this moment, or you will be in severe pain," she said quietly.
"Now, I don't think that right. you see, I heard the other servants talking, the Masters don't want you here, I don't think they care what happens to you at all," he turned so that she was facing her. She had absolutely no emotion on her face at all. He had expected Fear and Anger, but to show nothing? that was strange. He shook his head.
"Why do you think it will be them that do something to you?" She asked.
"Shut up," He slammed his mouth down over hers, and she pushed against him. Unfortunately, She wasn't strong in the physical department. He punched her as hard as he could and she stopped fighting. He picked up her almost limp body. She shook her head and then raised her head groggily.
"Put me down," she demanded weakly. he laughed in her face.
"Not likely," He told her, finding an empty room immediately. He put her on a couch and locked the door. She took a big gulp of air and started to scream her head off. He walked over to her and slapped her. She screamed again so he slapped her again. She closed her mouth. Twenty seconds later, there was a pounding as two sets of feet came running down the hall. The man glared at her and covered her mouth with his hand. he could here the faint sound of voices arguing I the hall. The noise started to fade away. he took his hand away and replaced it with his mouth. She shuddered in disgust. The man was so pathetic. She kneed his groin and he cursed at her. She stood shakily on her feet, and walked to the door. The man stood and grabbed her waist, tossing her onto the bed.
"Bitch," he cursed before grabbing her ankles and tying them together. Hotaru screamed again. She wasn't scared, but she didn't want to kill the idiot. Even if he did deserve it. He slapped her.
"untie me," she said evenly.
"no can do," he tied her hands to the head board. There was no noise outside the room.
"You are going to be sorry, if you don't"
"by the time anyone finds out, I'll be long gone and have all the information I need to give the prince," he finished tying her hands put his hands on her waist, slowly sliding them up under her shirt.
"I really didn't want to have to do this," Hotaru told him. A purple glow erupted form her and he was thrown back and out the door. Heero and Wufei came to the door immediately and saw her there, her shirt up a little, her hands and feet tied, then looked at the man now unconscious on the floor across the hall. They went inside and helped the girl get untied and then she stood and looked at them both.
"it took you long enough," She said in an annoyed tone. The two guys were a little disconserted. She looked exasperated, they had expected fear, maybe anger and shock.
"we couldn't figure out what room it was," Wufei said quickly.
"Well, I suppose I could have screamed again, but he was really annoying and I'd figured I just get rid of him then," She looked at them with sadness in her eyes, "I hope I didn't kill him,"
"I would think that you would want to kill him," Heero remarked. She looked at him.
"He said something about that once you found me he would be long gone and have all the information on us girls that his prince wanted. I want to know what he as talking about," Wufei raised a brow. Hotaru stared back.
"Why would he want information on you eight?" Heero asked, gun out and pointed at her.
"Don't bother, if you kill me I'll just be brought back to life yet again," Hotaru said, putting her finger on the barrel of his gun.
"What?" Wufei asked.
"I'll explain it whe-," she stopped as she started to wheeze, "oh god, not now," She cried as everything around her went black. Heero reached an arm out and caught her. He looked at Wufei.
"grab him," he said, kicking the fallen man. Wufei grabbed the mans leg and started to drag him down the hall.
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