The two girls ran down the corridors and all the way to the bottom of the lair where they guessed to be the dungeons hearing the shrilling cries of the prisoners growing louder and more painful than ever. The two now panting heavily with sweat forming on their brow due to an insignificant blast of heat in the air, guessed there was a furnace not too far away as they stopped, to regain their breath.
Once they regained their breath and were both quiet, they then both literally jumped when they heard a moan and groan of prisoner next door.
Hitomi signalled to Kotori to stay where she was while she checked it out as she peeked her head round the doorframe, looking in she could see there were two guards sat at a table playing cards and drinking a lot of wine and seemed to be very merry. But then something else caught her eye as she looked beyond the guards she could see several prisoners in the cell, three, which looked to be very familiar and not looking too good.
The cell looked dirty and very dark while outside the cell to which the two guards sat was spotless and had plenty of light that you could see the light shining on the brick wall it was so well lit.
Hitomi then drew back and told Kotori of what she'd seen, as they both came up a plan to distract the guards so they could get to there friends.
The two girls soon came up with a plan similar to the one with the other guard to which Hitomi spiked his drink as the two girls then came out the hiding places and confronted them.
The two guards at the table looked up when they saw two girls dressed up as dancers confront them dancing gracefully along towards them. The guards immediately placed their cards down on the table and allowed the two dancers to entertain them as they came round the table and circled round them.
The knights sat from their place in the cell, looking miserable, as they knew what this wizard wanted them for as does any other human except for Hitomi and Kotori, their secrets.
They had seen the two dancers enter the dungeon and thought it to be unwise for them to be down here, but all the more watched them dance as they seemed to be quite skilled in their dancing even though their style was different.
The two girls continued to perform their dance, when they finally decided to end it as the two circled behind each of the guards before hitting them straight on the back of the neck, knocking them unconscious instantly as there heads fell flat on the table.
The knights had painfully and slightly stood up but couldn't stand up properly since they had already been tortured harshly by the wizard and his guard as they saw the incident occurred and listened intensively when one of the dancers said
"Well that was easy"
"Yeah, a little too easy" said the other dancer.
"Come on, let's free the others," said the first dancer.
After a little bit of fiddling with the keys the dancer with the red dress then finally found the right keys as she inserted into the keyhole when one of the knights which happened to be Sir Plucki said
"Who are you and why do you free us".
"Honestly, you've known us for years, and you still don't know who we are by now" said the dancer as she began to turn the key.
Sir Plucki leaned forward in confusion and very puzzled as he looked at the dancers he soon recognised them when he said in barely a whisper, as he was so speechless and looked at them disbelieving
"Kotori, Hitomi" he barely whispered as Kotori opened the door to their cell.
"Hi guys" said Kotori taking away her veil.
The knights soon wore a shocked expression on their faces when the two girls took away their veils revealing who they were.
"Come on, let's go," said Hitomi impatiently, by the doorway.
The knights walked out of their cell and began to follow the two girls since they knew where they were going.
They followed the two girls down several corridor and corner and began to wonder whether this place was to be a maze inside the lair, but still they followed when they passed a huge room they could hear drunken speech as Hitomi and Kotori quickened there pace. They had just reached near the entrance of the lair when Hitomi turned round and said
"You better hide here (pointing to a large caved in hole that was very well covered and passing them each a black cloak as to disguise themselves) Kotori and Me have another mission to accomplish" said Hitomi.
"And what's that" asked Kotori.
"To make the wizard powerless" said Hitomi with an evil grin.
"But how we going to do that?" asked Kotori.
"Well, I researched a little bit about the wizards (rustling can be heard as Hitomi is searching through her bag before pulling something out) and I found that in order to make a wizard with a staff powerless is to take the stone from his staff" said Hitomi.
"Cool" said Kotori as an evil smile soon spread across her face.
The Stone to which Hitomi held in her hand was gigantic red stone shining brightly like the ruby on the wizard's staff.
"Kotori, you will exchange the stones while I distract the wizard, okay" said Hitomi to which Kotori nodded her agreement.
The two set off down the corridor back to the main room to which the celebration held as the knights stared after them.
They had heard the two girl's plan and thought it to be crazy and outrageous, but they also knew that no matter what they did or said they couldn't stop the girls from doing what they wanted to.
Hitomi and Kotori had just reached near the main room as they put on their veils again as to cover their faces since they took them down in the dungeons to reveal to there friends who they were.
They could hear that the song had just finished and was beginning to start another as they entered swiftly, Hitomi making her way towards the wizard while Kotori remained dancing in the crowd awaiting for the wizard to place his staff down so she could exchange the stones.
The wizard could see the dancer swaying gracefully towards him but he didn't care. He did however noticed that this dancer and the other in the crowd where not of his clan, as his suspicion grew he decided that he would get this dancer alone and deal with her, oh, he would make sure of it.
Hitomi confronted the wizard and continued her dancing of persuasion and seduction as she sat in his lap to which he stiffened at immediately and drew in his breath, before she got off and started dancing in front of him again.
The wizard found this dancer to be very cunning and determined and for the first time during the celebration his face changed from a miserable bored expression to an enjoyable, lively one. He stood up and placed his staff down beside his throne as he joined Hitomi in the dance like he was a young wizard of the age of twenty again.
The crowd of which was the wizard army, began to gape in astonishment at Hitomi and the wizard as they looked to be dancing each other off their feet.
Kotori on the other hand began to set to work on her task immediately when she saw the wizard place his staff down she reached the side of his throne and sat down, pretending to be tired and needed a rest. When she was sure nobody was looking she quickly brought out the stone and exchanged them, making sure that the staff clicked onto the fake stone before she left.
Hitomi had seen Kotori exchanged the stones over just in time when the song finished as round of applause could be heard cheering for the wizard and the dancer as they began to close in on them. Hitomi saw this as her chance to get away as she pushed her way through several of the drunken men and made a dash for the exit.
As she ran just slightly behind Kotori she flung off her belt as she over took Kotori and told her to do the same thing.
The wizard sat down after the applause and felt slightly exhausted from the dance as he watched the two dancers leave. He put his hands on the arms of his throne as he grabbed his staff and immediately felt a change, it felt powerless. He knew instantly whom it was that had done it as he shouted order to his so very few sober men to chase after them.
Hitomi and Kotori had just reached the knights as all of them heard the wizard's cries of orders and immediately soon after heard a thunder and beats of feet stampeding were heard coming towards them.
They began running down the corridor with Hitomi in front as to guide them out, followed behind her was the knights and then Kotori who looked to be fiddling to get something off and cursing as she went along.
"Come on you stupid belt, come on…" said Kotori running as she tried to take her belt off as to throw the guards off track when her belts ripped, she threw it ahead of her.
Kotori gained a little bit more speed and was now just a few metres behind her friends when she looked behind she gave a yelp as she cried
"AH, run for your life, WAHHH!" said Kotori seeing the wizard guards behind him as she fell over her belt and went rolling down the steep slope.
Kotori began roly-poly down the hill overtaking the knights and Hitomi as she never seemed to be slowing down instead speeding up as she came in sight of the entrance to which they managed to easily surpass the guards. She was still speeding fast at about 50mph and lucky for her the two guards seemed to be in deep conversation and didn't noticed her till she smacked straight into them knocking them out. She laid there on the ground extremely dizzy and sick and said
"Owe" she said when Hitomi caught up with her and picked her up saying
"Kotori, you shouldn't be laying around, we've got work to do" she said as the knights caught them up.
They were about to run onto the forest green grass and into the wood when something in a form of a blue light appeared in front of them. They hadn't time to stop themselves running through it as it engulfed the two girls and the knights before disappearing like nothing had ever occurred there.
End of Part IV
Part V coming soon!
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