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money for Christmas presents. *Repeats* I do not own the Matrix or anything
to do with the Matrix, everything belongs to the brothers Wachowski (sp)
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Dylan: Glad I made you laugh ^_^ If you liked that then I'm sure you'll love this chapter, it's full of little funny things that I couldn't leave out. Careful you don't get dizzy : )
Megami no Inazumi: Aww, my poor reviewer : ( Wait a sec . . . *Hands over herbal tea. Reads note attached to cup* Drink and feel fulfilled. Hmm . . . maybe I got the wrong one . . . anyways *Reads* I cant torture anyone? Aww! That is so unfair. I'll just to leave it to latter chapters. *Eats cotton candy and changes MSN sign in name to "Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil"* You're so great ^_^
Triality: Thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou! You know what you just said, right? *Translates* "Name of God of brothel w***e of s**t of s*******e of idiot of s*****d one of your mother!" Tell me, why are you so angry? *Hands over cookie and resuscitates Triality* Mad . . . o_0
Tashilover: Okay, I read your review and tried to do as much as I could ^_^
Written more
Baked more cookies (Virtual ones) Added the Twins a bit more in this chapter
Put in another dream
No Merovingian jokes unfortunately but lots of little ones . . . And . . . I'm not doing that, not if you paid me. So there you have it, now go read it :D You like the pink wings?
Lady Lostunnun/Twin Elf: *Says out loud while reading review* I'm not? You mean the Second Renaissance, right? Well, thankyou for the review ^_^ Made me all happy inside.
Shivonne: SHI! You deserve the label, don't argue with the messiah's sidekick. No witty questions? No extremely funny banter? N- okay, enough of that. Read below for the next chapter.
Well, I typed this all up on Wednesday, took me six and a half-hours to do ten pages, then again, it was straight from my head. Its Saturday evening now . . . I love being evil ^_~ Anyways, Can I just rant a second please?
Arriva totally SUCK! They are discontinuing the bus service from my village to the place where I have college and re-running it from the next village, which means I have to walk two and a half miles every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to catch it. Grr . . .
Okay, I'm done, you can come out now.
*Gets hit on the head by a marshmellow*
Kit: LUCY!!!
Ahem, read on and enjoy . . .
Chapter 3
I sipped my soup slowly as she started to explain why she ran away, why she was here and why she was now twenty-five.
Chance began. "I never wanted to run away, the Agents came for me and I had no choice. I think that if I knew then what I know now, I would have run a little faster. Once I was freed I found out that I was a lot like Neo. I was indeed 'The Two', making me kinda of like a messiah sidekick.
"Well, you can ignore the bit in-between that because it doesn't matter much but when I came back into the Matrix again the Twins somehow managed to bring me here. The Merovingian wanted me to protect him because 'apparently' some Agents were coming to delete him, in exchange for the Key- Maker. I didn't believe him.
"The Twins spent a lot of time with me but I had to leave to give my crew an update of my situation. That's where I come in."
I was confused. "But I thought, what?!" I asked.
"Let me explain." She continued. "The real Amy, or as she is now known as Kit, created me, an exact replica, to take her place while she was gone so that the Merovingian wouldn't suspect anything. He fell for it and when she came back we both grouped together to defeat the Agents that were after the Merovingian.
"Unfortunately we still weren't as strong as Neo and were badly hurt. When we saw the Merovingian again he had worked out a bargain with the Agents so that he could stay in the Matrix, he didn't need us. He never saw me of course because I stayed hidden.
"He gave Kit leave but when she attempted to exit the Matrix we found out that the Agents had cute the hardwire. Kit had insulted the Merovingian before she had left his sight and he was angry with her. Kit finally managed to escape the Matrix and got back to her ship safe and sound.
"I couldn't go with Kit because I am a programme and I have to stay here, theres no way for me to leave. So, seeing as the only people I could trust were the Twins I had no choice but to stay here, which really isn't all that bad. I had to change my appearance, that's why I look like this, and I'm now an official bodyguard to the Merovingian. See, I'm wearing the ring." Chance finished and admired her new ring.
"So your not really Amy, your Chance, but your still Amy, but your not Kit?" I said. I knew what I meant, I understood her explanation.
"That sounds about right." Chance said as she looked up at me.
There were two small knocks on the door. It opened to reveal the Twins who had an identical impatient expression on their faces.
"Take your time." One said sarcastically.
"Will you two please have some patience? I am almost finished talking to Amanda, if you'll give me a second." Chance said as she looked up at the two albino men.
"We'll be waiting." Two said as he closed the door again.
Chance continued to speak. I vaguely wondered if she would ever stop. Maybe if I paid her . . . "I'll be back here tomorrow to teach you your training. You'll be learning how to fight, now I know you already know, and your quite good at it, but your not quite good enough. And I have to teach you how to use those wings of yours."
"Okay." I was slightly stunned. Was I going to learn how to fly? Who knew, except for Chance?
"I'll see you tomorrow then, try to get some more sleep Amanda." Chance said lovingly as she got up and stepped towards the door.
"Wait. Tell me something please?" I said quickly.
"Yes?" Chance asked.
"Why black and white? Why Magpie wings? Why Chance and why twenty five?" I asked before she left. I wanted to know.
"Yin and Yang Amanda, Yin and Yang. I'm good, because I support the rebels, but I'm bad, because I also help the machines and I'm a programme. I can never be one or the other; I'm somewhere between the middle.
"The Magpie wings are a present from the Twins. I think they understood my situation and . . . went with the colour scheme. I'm named chance because Chance is French for 'Luck', and we all need a little of that. Remember, nothing happens by Chance, everything happens for a reason." Chance said as she grabbed the door handle.
"But why twenty five?" I asked as she swung the door open.
Chance took the Twins hands and started walking down the hall with them both. "I'll let you guess that one Amanda." She called back.
I smiled and got back into the room, remembering to shut the door. As it closed I heard it click. I suddenly realised what I had done, I had had my chance to escape, and not taken it. Maybe I wanted to be here . . .
~*~
"No, guys, stop it." Chance said, laughing ad smiling all the while.
"Why?" Two said as he started taking off Chances shirt.
"Because theres a young girl down the hall who might hear us" Chance gave her argument.
"So?" One said as he unbuckled Chances boots.
"So . . . what about the Merovingian? If he found out!" Chance said worriedly.
"He just left for a business trip with a few of our fellow guards." Two said as he attempted to take off Chances shirt with her wings still out.
"But what if-" Chance tried to say but was interrupted.
"You know you want to." One said as he slipped off her second boot.
"You make a very valid point." Chance said as she drew her wings in and relented.
~*~
I was going deeper underwater. It was dark all around me, above and below. I wondered how I could hold my breath for this long. I heard the whale again, I was following it. I didn't know why, just seemed like a good idea at the time.
I stopped for no good reason and floated there, in the water. I could hear something different, something scarier than the darkness around me. Amy had said once that the darkness was one of the reasons why she had quit scuba diving. "You never know what's going to come out of it."
I looked to my right and instantly did a double take.
Were Great White Sharks normally down this far?
The shark came towards me; it swam around me in a circle, dangerous though it was I tried to touch it. It felt smooth but rough at the same time. It continues swimming around me.
Suddenly the Great White turned sharply and came towards me with his jaws open. I screamed a silent scream underwater; there was no way I could get out of this one.
The shark came closer and closer and closer, until!
"AMANDA! Wake up! Holy Architect WAKE UP!"
I opened my eyes and looked up at Chance. "Morning." I said sleepily.
"Morning? MORNING?!" It's twelve-o clock! I've been trying to wake you up for a whole twenty minutes!" Chance shouted angrily.
"Is that why my face is wet?" I asked quietly.
Chance slapped her forehead. "Yes, that's why your face is wet. I thought splashing water on your face would work." She explained.
"So why is my hand bleeding?" I asked, looking down at the small spot of blood on the back of my hand.
"Oh, that was our idea." I heard from the corner of the room.
At the sound of that voice I bolted upright and looked to the corner of the room. The Twins were watching me, both leaning against the wall in exactly the same position.
"You said you trusted them?" I said uneasily.
"With my life." Chance said as she offered a hand to me. I just couldn't understand how anybody could trust those two . . . assassins!
"How can I trust them when I know that they killed my mum." I said coldly as I shot them a glare.
"Amanda, she was your only link to this world. She needed to be killed so that you would become independent." Chance said to me as I took her hand. She lifted me out of bed.
"Thankyou but I don't agree, those two are going to have to prove themselves before I trust them." I said slightly louder.
The Twins turned to each other and smirked before turning slowly back to me and staring me right in the eye. A shiver ran down my spine and I had to look away.
"They scare me, Chance." I whispered up to Chance.
"They scare everybody, just ignore them and you'll fit right in." she said with a smile.
"Well, if it works." I said sarcastically. "So what are we doing first?" I asked.
"Fighting." Chance said happily. She turned to the Twins and said lightly "It's time to teach the younger generation how to stand up for themselves."
~*~
Half an hour later we were in a dinning room, it had a big and long wooden table in the middle of it and there was a small table and huge vase of flowers in each corner. There was a huge oaken double door at one end and at the other end was a huge woven tapestry, depicting a battle scene.
The walls were a deep blue and the carpet was navy. There was plaster on the walls too, making pretty patterns and flowers wherever it was. Chance and the Twins looked right at home in the chateau.
Chance set up a laptop at one end of the table and started to type. The Twins sat either side of her; I was sitting at the side of the table close by.
After about fifteen minutes I started to get bored.
"How would you pass the salt?" I asked, not directing the question at anybody.
"You wouldn't, there would usually be a maid." Chance said as she continued to type. She looked up at me. "Bored?" she asked.
"You could say that." I answered.
"We'll be done soon, why don't you go for a wonder?" Chance suggested.
"A wonder? Like, walk around?" I asked. I thought she was a screw loose, this room was big but there was only so many times you can say hello to someone as you pass them by.
"In the chateau, go for a wonder . . ."Chance said without looking up.
"And you're okay with this? You don't think I might try to escape?" I asked, amazed.
"We trust you." Two said. He waved his hand. "Go, but be back here in fifteen minutes."
"Whatever." I said as I walked towards the door.
~*~
I roamed the hallways of the chateau, looking around every corner for danger. I figured I was wasting my time, I mean, the Merovingian had all of his other guards with him, right?
So why did I feel like I was being watched?
The hallways were long and winding, they had dark blue walls with a painted ceiling. The floor was boarded and there were candles on the walls. I looked down and was surprised to see skate marks on the wood.
"Strange . . ." I said aloud without meaning to.
"Not as strange as you my dear." Came a voice from the shadows.
I jumped about a foot at the sound of that voice. I whirled around and looked into the shadows in one of the many doorways along the corridor.
"Hello there." The voice said. I was so scared, I couldn't move, I was rooted to the spot.
"Sh- show yourself." I stuttered. Hey, my mum always used to tell me that I had to face my fears. I don't think she meant literally though.
A dark figure stepped out of the shadows. He was tall and thin; he wore all black, his boots, his shirt, his trousers and his trench coat. His hair was long and black and his nails were a dark shade too. His skin was pale and contrasted with the colour he wore.
"Better?" he asked in a rasping breath.
"Uhm, seriously? No." I said. I was scared now but my legs were regaining feeling.
"Well, who wouldn't be scared of a Vampire." He said and smiled, showing a row of pearly white and . . . pointed teeth.
I ran, all the way back down the corridor, they way I had come. I knew that as long as I was with Chance I was safe, she had said so herself. But then, did she include Vampires?
I pushed my legs harder and ran faster but my wings were slowing me down, they had open in my fear, stretched wide. I folded them behind my back and gained speed.
I looked behind me and saw nothing; maybe he had left me alone.
"Theres no use running." His voice came from in front of me. I turned my head back to face foreword and he was at the end of the hallway, standing before the door I was aiming for.
As I reached him I aimed a flying kick to his chest. I don't think he had seen it coming but he still managed to duck in time. I landed beside the door and quickly opened it and ran in, remembering to close it behind me.
I stood on the other side, breathing hard from running. Chance, One and Two looked up at me with confused expressions on their faces. I kept my weight on the door as I felt it being forcefully shoved from the other side.
"A little help?!" I said loudly, making sure they had heard me in the big room.
"What's going on?" Chance said as she got up from her seat.
"Vampire, scary looking, wore all black. Friend of yours?" I said sarcastically. Chance seemed to understand and moved faster towards the door.
"I'll handle this." Chance said casually as she swung the door open enough that the Vampire could see the whole of the room and everyone that was in it.
"YOU!" He shouted at Chance and his gaze quickly turned to me.
"Something you wanted, Vlad?" Chance said simply. Her eyebrows were raised, as if she was expecting an answer.
"One of these days I will rid this chateau of Ghosts and Angels." He spat the last word. "One of these days . . ." He went off down the hallway in a dark mood.
"I'll be sure to buy you a calendar for Christmas!" Chance shouted after him.
"That was too cool." I said, astounded and amazed. Chance was possibly one of the coolest adults I had ever known, though I didn't rally know many.
"Did he hurt you?" Chance asked as she looked me over. She was genuinely worried.
"No, I'm fine, he just gave me a fear of Vampires is all." I said while looking back down the hallway, Vlad was nowhere to be seen.
~*~
It had taken a mere five minutes for my programme side to accept the data that I needed.
Chance turned to me and took my hand. "Are you ready?" she asked as I looked up at her.
"Ready as I'll ever be." I replied but before I could even take another breath I was on the defensive. Chance was managing to hit me so fast, I was amazed.
She attempted a sidekick to my abdomen but I blocked it, unfortunately the sidekick was only a distraction from an elbow in my chest. The air was knocked out of me and I went sprawling across the floor.
I landed, to my dismay, right at the Twins feet. They looked down at me and smiled. I got a horrible feeling that I was doing badly. I breathed and got up again, straightening my clothes without taking my eyes off of Chance.
I got my predator grin then and there and I used it on Chance, she showed me hers and we ran towards each other.
She went to punch me but I dived through her legs and knocked her feet out from under her. She landed on the floor next to me but before she could move I punched her in the chest. She became breathless and found it hard to get up.
I got to my feet and stood over her. "Even?" I asked.
"Nice try pinks." Chance said, smiling. She grabbed one of my legs and pulled up sharply.
I flipped over and landed behind her, still on my feet. She got up slowly and we began again.
Chance punched me in the stomach and I sent her an uppercut that caught her chin nicely. We fought and fought, until we thought that we couldn't fight any more but we did.
Chance tried to kick me as she did a back flip but I back flipped at the same time and her foot hit only air. I jumped backwards and put my weight into my flip, my hands toughed the middle of the table and I ended up going over it.
As soon as I felt ground under my feet again I looked to where Chance was.
I couldn't see her.
I felt a large thud on the back of my neck and blacked out for a few seconds, when I woke up again I was lying on the ground, Chance was sitting on me and there was a pearl handled switchblade to my throat.
Chance pulled the blade back and got off of me. She offered me a hand and I gladly took it.
"That was very good, for your first fight." She said with a smile.
"Thankyou, but you still won." I pointed out. I felt like I wasn't good enough.
"You'll get better as time goes along." Two said from behind me.
I jumped and span around. The Twin ignored me, he asked for his blade back and Chance handed it over.
"Okay, were taking a break. We have an hour for lunch, sound okay to you?" Chance asked me. I nodded; I had to agree that I was pretty hungry.
"Wait, what are we doing after lunch?" I asked as we all walked towards the door.
"After lunch, we're going to teach you how to fly . . ."
~*~ Has anyone noticed in "Mona Lisa Overdrive", disk two, Matrix Reloaded soundtrack, Theres a part of the music where it sounds like someone's squeezing a rubber ducky? It's before the beat hits in but . . . I just noticed it when I started actually listening to it last week. Anyway, onto more important matters . . .
Now, review or Amanda gets it!
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Dylan: Glad I made you laugh ^_^ If you liked that then I'm sure you'll love this chapter, it's full of little funny things that I couldn't leave out. Careful you don't get dizzy : )
Megami no Inazumi: Aww, my poor reviewer : ( Wait a sec . . . *Hands over herbal tea. Reads note attached to cup* Drink and feel fulfilled. Hmm . . . maybe I got the wrong one . . . anyways *Reads* I cant torture anyone? Aww! That is so unfair. I'll just to leave it to latter chapters. *Eats cotton candy and changes MSN sign in name to "Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil"* You're so great ^_^
Triality: Thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou! You know what you just said, right? *Translates* "Name of God of brothel w***e of s**t of s*******e of idiot of s*****d one of your mother!" Tell me, why are you so angry? *Hands over cookie and resuscitates Triality* Mad . . . o_0
Tashilover: Okay, I read your review and tried to do as much as I could ^_^
Written more
Baked more cookies (Virtual ones) Added the Twins a bit more in this chapter
Put in another dream
No Merovingian jokes unfortunately but lots of little ones . . . And . . . I'm not doing that, not if you paid me. So there you have it, now go read it :D You like the pink wings?
Lady Lostunnun/Twin Elf: *Says out loud while reading review* I'm not? You mean the Second Renaissance, right? Well, thankyou for the review ^_^ Made me all happy inside.
Shivonne: SHI! You deserve the label, don't argue with the messiah's sidekick. No witty questions? No extremely funny banter? N- okay, enough of that. Read below for the next chapter.
Well, I typed this all up on Wednesday, took me six and a half-hours to do ten pages, then again, it was straight from my head. Its Saturday evening now . . . I love being evil ^_~ Anyways, Can I just rant a second please?
Arriva totally SUCK! They are discontinuing the bus service from my village to the place where I have college and re-running it from the next village, which means I have to walk two and a half miles every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to catch it. Grr . . .
Okay, I'm done, you can come out now.
*Gets hit on the head by a marshmellow*
Kit: LUCY!!!
Ahem, read on and enjoy . . .
Chapter 3
I sipped my soup slowly as she started to explain why she ran away, why she was here and why she was now twenty-five.
Chance began. "I never wanted to run away, the Agents came for me and I had no choice. I think that if I knew then what I know now, I would have run a little faster. Once I was freed I found out that I was a lot like Neo. I was indeed 'The Two', making me kinda of like a messiah sidekick.
"Well, you can ignore the bit in-between that because it doesn't matter much but when I came back into the Matrix again the Twins somehow managed to bring me here. The Merovingian wanted me to protect him because 'apparently' some Agents were coming to delete him, in exchange for the Key- Maker. I didn't believe him.
"The Twins spent a lot of time with me but I had to leave to give my crew an update of my situation. That's where I come in."
I was confused. "But I thought, what?!" I asked.
"Let me explain." She continued. "The real Amy, or as she is now known as Kit, created me, an exact replica, to take her place while she was gone so that the Merovingian wouldn't suspect anything. He fell for it and when she came back we both grouped together to defeat the Agents that were after the Merovingian.
"Unfortunately we still weren't as strong as Neo and were badly hurt. When we saw the Merovingian again he had worked out a bargain with the Agents so that he could stay in the Matrix, he didn't need us. He never saw me of course because I stayed hidden.
"He gave Kit leave but when she attempted to exit the Matrix we found out that the Agents had cute the hardwire. Kit had insulted the Merovingian before she had left his sight and he was angry with her. Kit finally managed to escape the Matrix and got back to her ship safe and sound.
"I couldn't go with Kit because I am a programme and I have to stay here, theres no way for me to leave. So, seeing as the only people I could trust were the Twins I had no choice but to stay here, which really isn't all that bad. I had to change my appearance, that's why I look like this, and I'm now an official bodyguard to the Merovingian. See, I'm wearing the ring." Chance finished and admired her new ring.
"So your not really Amy, your Chance, but your still Amy, but your not Kit?" I said. I knew what I meant, I understood her explanation.
"That sounds about right." Chance said as she looked up at me.
There were two small knocks on the door. It opened to reveal the Twins who had an identical impatient expression on their faces.
"Take your time." One said sarcastically.
"Will you two please have some patience? I am almost finished talking to Amanda, if you'll give me a second." Chance said as she looked up at the two albino men.
"We'll be waiting." Two said as he closed the door again.
Chance continued to speak. I vaguely wondered if she would ever stop. Maybe if I paid her . . . "I'll be back here tomorrow to teach you your training. You'll be learning how to fight, now I know you already know, and your quite good at it, but your not quite good enough. And I have to teach you how to use those wings of yours."
"Okay." I was slightly stunned. Was I going to learn how to fly? Who knew, except for Chance?
"I'll see you tomorrow then, try to get some more sleep Amanda." Chance said lovingly as she got up and stepped towards the door.
"Wait. Tell me something please?" I said quickly.
"Yes?" Chance asked.
"Why black and white? Why Magpie wings? Why Chance and why twenty five?" I asked before she left. I wanted to know.
"Yin and Yang Amanda, Yin and Yang. I'm good, because I support the rebels, but I'm bad, because I also help the machines and I'm a programme. I can never be one or the other; I'm somewhere between the middle.
"The Magpie wings are a present from the Twins. I think they understood my situation and . . . went with the colour scheme. I'm named chance because Chance is French for 'Luck', and we all need a little of that. Remember, nothing happens by Chance, everything happens for a reason." Chance said as she grabbed the door handle.
"But why twenty five?" I asked as she swung the door open.
Chance took the Twins hands and started walking down the hall with them both. "I'll let you guess that one Amanda." She called back.
I smiled and got back into the room, remembering to shut the door. As it closed I heard it click. I suddenly realised what I had done, I had had my chance to escape, and not taken it. Maybe I wanted to be here . . .
~*~
"No, guys, stop it." Chance said, laughing ad smiling all the while.
"Why?" Two said as he started taking off Chances shirt.
"Because theres a young girl down the hall who might hear us" Chance gave her argument.
"So?" One said as he unbuckled Chances boots.
"So . . . what about the Merovingian? If he found out!" Chance said worriedly.
"He just left for a business trip with a few of our fellow guards." Two said as he attempted to take off Chances shirt with her wings still out.
"But what if-" Chance tried to say but was interrupted.
"You know you want to." One said as he slipped off her second boot.
"You make a very valid point." Chance said as she drew her wings in and relented.
~*~
I was going deeper underwater. It was dark all around me, above and below. I wondered how I could hold my breath for this long. I heard the whale again, I was following it. I didn't know why, just seemed like a good idea at the time.
I stopped for no good reason and floated there, in the water. I could hear something different, something scarier than the darkness around me. Amy had said once that the darkness was one of the reasons why she had quit scuba diving. "You never know what's going to come out of it."
I looked to my right and instantly did a double take.
Were Great White Sharks normally down this far?
The shark came towards me; it swam around me in a circle, dangerous though it was I tried to touch it. It felt smooth but rough at the same time. It continues swimming around me.
Suddenly the Great White turned sharply and came towards me with his jaws open. I screamed a silent scream underwater; there was no way I could get out of this one.
The shark came closer and closer and closer, until!
"AMANDA! Wake up! Holy Architect WAKE UP!"
I opened my eyes and looked up at Chance. "Morning." I said sleepily.
"Morning? MORNING?!" It's twelve-o clock! I've been trying to wake you up for a whole twenty minutes!" Chance shouted angrily.
"Is that why my face is wet?" I asked quietly.
Chance slapped her forehead. "Yes, that's why your face is wet. I thought splashing water on your face would work." She explained.
"So why is my hand bleeding?" I asked, looking down at the small spot of blood on the back of my hand.
"Oh, that was our idea." I heard from the corner of the room.
At the sound of that voice I bolted upright and looked to the corner of the room. The Twins were watching me, both leaning against the wall in exactly the same position.
"You said you trusted them?" I said uneasily.
"With my life." Chance said as she offered a hand to me. I just couldn't understand how anybody could trust those two . . . assassins!
"How can I trust them when I know that they killed my mum." I said coldly as I shot them a glare.
"Amanda, she was your only link to this world. She needed to be killed so that you would become independent." Chance said to me as I took her hand. She lifted me out of bed.
"Thankyou but I don't agree, those two are going to have to prove themselves before I trust them." I said slightly louder.
The Twins turned to each other and smirked before turning slowly back to me and staring me right in the eye. A shiver ran down my spine and I had to look away.
"They scare me, Chance." I whispered up to Chance.
"They scare everybody, just ignore them and you'll fit right in." she said with a smile.
"Well, if it works." I said sarcastically. "So what are we doing first?" I asked.
"Fighting." Chance said happily. She turned to the Twins and said lightly "It's time to teach the younger generation how to stand up for themselves."
~*~
Half an hour later we were in a dinning room, it had a big and long wooden table in the middle of it and there was a small table and huge vase of flowers in each corner. There was a huge oaken double door at one end and at the other end was a huge woven tapestry, depicting a battle scene.
The walls were a deep blue and the carpet was navy. There was plaster on the walls too, making pretty patterns and flowers wherever it was. Chance and the Twins looked right at home in the chateau.
Chance set up a laptop at one end of the table and started to type. The Twins sat either side of her; I was sitting at the side of the table close by.
After about fifteen minutes I started to get bored.
"How would you pass the salt?" I asked, not directing the question at anybody.
"You wouldn't, there would usually be a maid." Chance said as she continued to type. She looked up at me. "Bored?" she asked.
"You could say that." I answered.
"We'll be done soon, why don't you go for a wonder?" Chance suggested.
"A wonder? Like, walk around?" I asked. I thought she was a screw loose, this room was big but there was only so many times you can say hello to someone as you pass them by.
"In the chateau, go for a wonder . . ."Chance said without looking up.
"And you're okay with this? You don't think I might try to escape?" I asked, amazed.
"We trust you." Two said. He waved his hand. "Go, but be back here in fifteen minutes."
"Whatever." I said as I walked towards the door.
~*~
I roamed the hallways of the chateau, looking around every corner for danger. I figured I was wasting my time, I mean, the Merovingian had all of his other guards with him, right?
So why did I feel like I was being watched?
The hallways were long and winding, they had dark blue walls with a painted ceiling. The floor was boarded and there were candles on the walls. I looked down and was surprised to see skate marks on the wood.
"Strange . . ." I said aloud without meaning to.
"Not as strange as you my dear." Came a voice from the shadows.
I jumped about a foot at the sound of that voice. I whirled around and looked into the shadows in one of the many doorways along the corridor.
"Hello there." The voice said. I was so scared, I couldn't move, I was rooted to the spot.
"Sh- show yourself." I stuttered. Hey, my mum always used to tell me that I had to face my fears. I don't think she meant literally though.
A dark figure stepped out of the shadows. He was tall and thin; he wore all black, his boots, his shirt, his trousers and his trench coat. His hair was long and black and his nails were a dark shade too. His skin was pale and contrasted with the colour he wore.
"Better?" he asked in a rasping breath.
"Uhm, seriously? No." I said. I was scared now but my legs were regaining feeling.
"Well, who wouldn't be scared of a Vampire." He said and smiled, showing a row of pearly white and . . . pointed teeth.
I ran, all the way back down the corridor, they way I had come. I knew that as long as I was with Chance I was safe, she had said so herself. But then, did she include Vampires?
I pushed my legs harder and ran faster but my wings were slowing me down, they had open in my fear, stretched wide. I folded them behind my back and gained speed.
I looked behind me and saw nothing; maybe he had left me alone.
"Theres no use running." His voice came from in front of me. I turned my head back to face foreword and he was at the end of the hallway, standing before the door I was aiming for.
As I reached him I aimed a flying kick to his chest. I don't think he had seen it coming but he still managed to duck in time. I landed beside the door and quickly opened it and ran in, remembering to close it behind me.
I stood on the other side, breathing hard from running. Chance, One and Two looked up at me with confused expressions on their faces. I kept my weight on the door as I felt it being forcefully shoved from the other side.
"A little help?!" I said loudly, making sure they had heard me in the big room.
"What's going on?" Chance said as she got up from her seat.
"Vampire, scary looking, wore all black. Friend of yours?" I said sarcastically. Chance seemed to understand and moved faster towards the door.
"I'll handle this." Chance said casually as she swung the door open enough that the Vampire could see the whole of the room and everyone that was in it.
"YOU!" He shouted at Chance and his gaze quickly turned to me.
"Something you wanted, Vlad?" Chance said simply. Her eyebrows were raised, as if she was expecting an answer.
"One of these days I will rid this chateau of Ghosts and Angels." He spat the last word. "One of these days . . ." He went off down the hallway in a dark mood.
"I'll be sure to buy you a calendar for Christmas!" Chance shouted after him.
"That was too cool." I said, astounded and amazed. Chance was possibly one of the coolest adults I had ever known, though I didn't rally know many.
"Did he hurt you?" Chance asked as she looked me over. She was genuinely worried.
"No, I'm fine, he just gave me a fear of Vampires is all." I said while looking back down the hallway, Vlad was nowhere to be seen.
~*~
It had taken a mere five minutes for my programme side to accept the data that I needed.
Chance turned to me and took my hand. "Are you ready?" she asked as I looked up at her.
"Ready as I'll ever be." I replied but before I could even take another breath I was on the defensive. Chance was managing to hit me so fast, I was amazed.
She attempted a sidekick to my abdomen but I blocked it, unfortunately the sidekick was only a distraction from an elbow in my chest. The air was knocked out of me and I went sprawling across the floor.
I landed, to my dismay, right at the Twins feet. They looked down at me and smiled. I got a horrible feeling that I was doing badly. I breathed and got up again, straightening my clothes without taking my eyes off of Chance.
I got my predator grin then and there and I used it on Chance, she showed me hers and we ran towards each other.
She went to punch me but I dived through her legs and knocked her feet out from under her. She landed on the floor next to me but before she could move I punched her in the chest. She became breathless and found it hard to get up.
I got to my feet and stood over her. "Even?" I asked.
"Nice try pinks." Chance said, smiling. She grabbed one of my legs and pulled up sharply.
I flipped over and landed behind her, still on my feet. She got up slowly and we began again.
Chance punched me in the stomach and I sent her an uppercut that caught her chin nicely. We fought and fought, until we thought that we couldn't fight any more but we did.
Chance tried to kick me as she did a back flip but I back flipped at the same time and her foot hit only air. I jumped backwards and put my weight into my flip, my hands toughed the middle of the table and I ended up going over it.
As soon as I felt ground under my feet again I looked to where Chance was.
I couldn't see her.
I felt a large thud on the back of my neck and blacked out for a few seconds, when I woke up again I was lying on the ground, Chance was sitting on me and there was a pearl handled switchblade to my throat.
Chance pulled the blade back and got off of me. She offered me a hand and I gladly took it.
"That was very good, for your first fight." She said with a smile.
"Thankyou, but you still won." I pointed out. I felt like I wasn't good enough.
"You'll get better as time goes along." Two said from behind me.
I jumped and span around. The Twin ignored me, he asked for his blade back and Chance handed it over.
"Okay, were taking a break. We have an hour for lunch, sound okay to you?" Chance asked me. I nodded; I had to agree that I was pretty hungry.
"Wait, what are we doing after lunch?" I asked as we all walked towards the door.
"After lunch, we're going to teach you how to fly . . ."
~*~ Has anyone noticed in "Mona Lisa Overdrive", disk two, Matrix Reloaded soundtrack, Theres a part of the music where it sounds like someone's squeezing a rubber ducky? It's before the beat hits in but . . . I just noticed it when I started actually listening to it last week. Anyway, onto more important matters . . .
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