Warnings: swearing, multiple people get very on the edge.
Disclaimers: I don't own Weiss, I don't get money out of this, but Kotori, Graham Cracker, and every body who's not in Weiss on this thing are mine!
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Chapter 2: "Clue"
A dark yellow eye opened in the darkness, along with the sound of the licking of lips. "Can I go now?"
The glare of glasses in the moon light dramatically turned toward the source of the sound, "No, I told you. Not until Nagi comes back."
Suddenly a mass of orange appeared next to the source of the original voice. "Calm down, you'll get what you need by the end of the night. Don't you worry."
"This is so exciting, I haven't done this in so long. WHOA! I forgot about that! Farf! Look at this!"
"SHUT UP!" Schu said turning to Ken, "we all know about you're claw. It's nothing special, so just shut up. OK?"
"Oh right, sorry" Ken said lowering his head in shame. "But it's just sooo cool!"
"SHHHHH!" Farfarello, Schu and Brad said in unison.
"Sorry, I just got carried away, that's all."
Suddenly a voice came from behind, "OK, I found a way in, so we can go and do our thing."
"Good work Nagi, did you find out where Milton and Bradley were?" Brad asked.
"Not here, but I found out where some important people were though. They can tell us where they are."
"Damn." Schu said, "I was hoping I could get one of them. Hmmmm." Schu sat thinking for a moment, then suddenly he stood up. "I know! I could go and see if any body in the crowd could tell me where they were!"
"Oh no you don't Schu. You aren't going to go watch human rock 'em sock 'em robots." Brad quickly got close to Schu's ear, "Not without me you aren't, hehe," he then stood up quickly and said to Schu "You're coming with me.. Damn it!"
"That sounds like a plan Brad, I'll go see if any body back stage knows where to find him." Ken said, "c'mon Farf. Let's go investigate."
"OKAY!"
"Those guys, are so naïve. They have- YEAH!!! KNOCK HIS FRIGGIN HEAD OFF!!! Any way, no clue that we're down here." Schu said Brad with a slight chuckle.
"HAHA, those guys are so dumb sometimes."
"Hehe, those to have no idea how stupid they look down there, do they. You would think they were watching it. Eh Farf?" Ken asked.
"Yeah, but the jokes on them, they think that we're up here looking for clues, but in reality."
They then both said in unison, "WE HAVE BALCONY SEATS!!!"
Nagi let out a small laugh, "Those guys are so damn lazy, sittin' down there watching the show, and up there, thinking that they planned ahead. But they don't have seats with a mini-bar! Hehe!"
"Y'know Schu, we should ask a few people just so we get something done at least." Brad said dramatically.
"Good idea. Hey excuse me sir, but do you know where I can get a good drink around here?" Schu asked.
Brad looked reprovingly towards Schu. dramatically. "You better knock it off," he then proceeded to slap Schu in the face, taking him to the ground.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?! YOU WANNA START A BLOODY MOSH PIT?!?!?!"
A man from the crowd heard those two words and almost as a natural reaction screamed it out again, "MOSH PIT!!!"
Quickly Schu picked up Brad. Brad looked down at a Schu in a very confused manner. "I would truly appreciate it if you didn't do this Schuldig, I don't like it when you touch me."
Schu quickly smiled. He then proceeded to quickly move up to the balcony seats. They looked down at the mass of people attacking each other at the bottom of the stadium. The crowd closely resembled an ant colony recently flooded with water as the ants scrambled to get away from the main concentration of danger, all the while knowing that that in the middle is really where they wanted to be.
Brad quickly looked to the person next to him to find out where Milton and Bradley were currently located. He turned and found himself face to face with his annoying protégé, Ken. "Did you find anything out?"
"Uhhhhh.no?" "Damn it Ken, you know that I told you to look for leads on where the target's location might be."
"I know, I know, I guess I just got caught up in the whole, feel of rock 'em sock 'em robots." Ken said once again lowering his head in shame.
Brad tossed Ken's hair around, "Don't worry about it, we'll find them. It's not like you're in trouble."
"I'm not?"
"NO, you are." Schu said glaring.
"Dang."
"Yeah, I know, it sucks," Schu said "but Nagi will fix you up right, don't worry. I just wanna melt you again."
"You didn't melt him the first time you dip!" Farfarello screamed.
"You had better watch that little mouth of yours Farf. I might do something to Sally." Schu said followed by an evil laugh that resembled greatly that of a chipmunk.
"SHE'S DEAD YOU IGNORANT PRICK! YOU, OF ALL PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW THAT! YOU SON OF A BITCH!"
"Now, now Farf, there's no need to call names." Schu said in the crudest possible manner. "we all kno- WAIT A MINUTE! YOU KNOW! BUT. YOU. you weren't. I thought-. you-. ooooh scheisse."
"I got the info you needed." Nagi said from behind the arguing group of assassins. "They're currently at the Parker mansion 'playing' Clue, And from what I've gathered, these Parker guys seem to be Milton and uhh.. What was his name."
"Bradley" Farfarello said.
"What?" Brad dramatically answered.
"No, not you Brad, the other Brad," Schu explained.
"Oh I see. Wait, I'm confused," Brad dramatically said.
"We're talking about Brad. Not you, wait. You are Brad. Well it doesn't matter. We aren't talking about you, we're talking about Brad." Nagi explained.
"Oh, OK then."
"Any way, we're gonna have to take the Parker brothers out too," Nagi continued, "I just need to clear it all with Persia."
"So what do you want to do now?" Ken asked, "Ya wanna go home?"
"Sure" Schu responded.
"Yeah, I'm beat." Nagi said in agreement.
Farfarello stood there watching the crowd attack and maim each other. He then turned around and looked at every body. "What did you say?"
"Wait, so we're talking about.. You said. I think.. Wait.. oh never mind," Brad then turned and walked out to the car.
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An attractive young woman with dark brown hair walked down the corridor of the old mansion. She was in her late twenty's wearing a maid uniform. A sound was heard from one of the rooms. She began to walk at a slightly faster pace. The sound was heard again. It was a pounding against the wall, she hadn't a clue as to what it was and she went to a light jog. Her every move was elegant. As she ran she would glance to her sides as if waiting for something to happen. She didn't know what might happen, and she was not looking forward to finding out.
A man with dark hair stood in the rafters of the hallway. He hopped from cross-board to cross-board with ease following her every move. Then a voice came inside his head. "Where are you?" he quickly toned it out and continued to follow the woman down the corridor. "I know you're there," it said. He then looked down at the woman with surprise. She was leaned up against the wall breathing heavily. She had been running for at least half an hour since she had heard that sound.
There was a loud bang in the distance. She quickly got up and ran some more. She finally came to a turn. It had been the same turn she had taken ten minutes before. She decided to take the different route this time. She had already turned left twice. The sound grew louder and less distant.
Suddenly the woman fell to the floor. She was still breathing, but very heavily. The man jumped down and picked her up. Footsteps could be heard from around the corner. He carried her in to one of the rooms. He had never seen a ballroom so large before. Across the room was a windowsill with two red pillows. A grand piano sat in the corner, opposite the china cabinet. He sat her down on the sofa. She began to relax. "Are you hurt?" he asked.
"N-no, I'm fine. Thank you," she said in between breaths. Her voice was very feminine and petite, but still had a powerful sureness to it.
"Oh, good. I feared you had been shot," the stranger said.
"No, I'm just tired, that's all," she said reassuringly. "I've been running for a while. I keep hearing this odd sound,"
"Do you serve these people?" he asked.
"No, why?"'
"Well I was just curious about your attire."
"Oh, I have to dress like this, or at least that's what the old man told me. He also told me that I am 'Miss white'. I don't know what that means." tears streaked down your face. She sat there on the couch and began to sob. The man held her and comforted her. "I don't understand why they are doing this. I just wanted to ask him if he knew where a good flower shop was, then all of a sudden I was grabbed and I woke up here."
"I know a good flower shop. but I don't know if it still is running. I haven't been here in a while," he said in attempt to get her mind at ease.
"Heh, this is my first time here. I don't know any body," she looked up at him and smiled. "Thank you. We should probably get going, I think they are hunting me."
After few moments, they were back into the hallways of the house. Quickly they ran toward what they had assumed to be the kitchen. When they got there, they ran into a corner and sat, waiting for somebody to enter.
The woman sat playing with the small knob on the floor. She moved her finger around it several times before the man noticed its presence. "Get out of the corner, quick," he said. She quickly stood up and walked away, confused as to what he was doing. He sat pulling on the knob, and eventually he had pulled up a door. "C'mon, let's go down."
As they walked down the corridor they heard footsteps over their heads. Most likely from whatever had made the previous sound that had frightened the woman. Finally, after much silence, she looked up at the man and said, "what's your name?"
"Ran. And yours?"
"I'm Kotori," she said, "so how did you get here?"
"I came of my own free will," Ran said. "I saw you in the hallway and decided to follow, you appeared to be in some sort of danger."
Kotori smiled, "thank you, that's very sweet of you."
A small bit of light could be seen in the distance. Kotori let out a sigh, "I'm so glad you helped me. I owe you my life."
"Don't say that, I would rather have you be my friend than my servant," Ran said.
"Where are you, I know you are there. Aya."
"Shut up," Ran said.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you," she said lowering her head.
"No, it isn't you. I'm uhhh. just talking to myself," Ran said quickly. "Before we go into the room, we should rest. We don't know who or what will be waiting for us."
A rather nervous looking man quickly darted from one side of the hallway to the other. He wore glasses and a plum colored suit. The sound of footsteps could be heard in the distance. There was a loud bang in the distance. The man jumped at the sound and then ran into the nearest room.
It was a study, with small desk and a love seat in opposing corners. The carpet appeared to be coming up along one wall, but it was very neat and tidy. He ran behind the couch and crouched on the floor sweating profusely.
"I see you too, have heard the footsteps sir," a voice said.
The man sat there trying hard to suppress his heavy breathing so not to be heard.
"I know you are back there, so you might as well come out." The man said. He was a rather tall man. He wore a green coat and had orange hair, which partially covered his face. "Oh come off it Plum, I know your there. Knock it off."
The man reluctantly stood up. He stared at the green coated man. He then began to wonder, "who is this guy, how does he know what they called me?"
"I am Schu, I know all of the people in this mansion," Schu said as if answering questions he had heard. "Now, I would like to know what the hell is going on, and you are going to tell me."
"I don't know, I have only seen one person." Plum began. "She was wearing a maid uniform. God she was hot. Any ways, I was running down the hall. When out of the corner of my eye, I saw somebody entering the kitchen. So I looked over and she stood there for a moment, then she quickly ran inside. So I started to go toward the kitchen to see who she was. When I entered the kitchen she was gone. So I ran over here. I saw this room open earlier, so I figured maybe it was open, and I could rest here."
"Do you know how you got here?"
"No. I was walking along, when I saw this old blind man. I went to give him change, and then he jumped up and grabbed me. I woke up in the hallway. Hey, wait a minute. You're one of the people in on this aren't you?"
"Oh sit down you stupid little man. I just needed that information." Schu turned around and begin to talk to himself. "I wonder if Brad wants any information that I didn't get."
Brad stood in the library, pulling random books out of the bookshelf, in case one perhaps led to a secret passage. The door suddenly opened. An Englishman in Safari attire entered the room, breathing heavily. Brad glanced over, "oh good, I've been waiting for you."
"You what? What are you on about good sir?" the man asked.
"You will find out momentarily, right now I need you to tell me something. How did you get here?" Brad asked dramatically.
"I don't need to take this, I'm leaving."
Suddenly the door closed behind the Englishman. He turned around in shock. A young man stood in front of the doorway. "You aren't going to leave until you give him his answers."
"What what? I am too leaving and you can't stop me no matter what you do, so move you're bloomin' arse," the Englishman said defiantly.
"How did you get here?" Brad asked.
"I don't know, I was walking along. Then out of nowhere these men grabbed me. And when I woke up here, they had dressed me in this god-awful safari garb. Then they told me my name was 'Colonel Mustard'. I didn't understand what they meant by that, but I assumed they would tell me," he continued. "But I didn't have such luck, they looked at me and then told me. 'Run'.
"Do you want to go to the room now?" Ran asked, but when he looked down at her, he found that she had fallen fast asleep upon his shoulder. He let out a sigh; "I'll take that as a No."
"Are you going to tell me where you are yet?" a voice said in Ran's head.
"Leave me alone Schu, I don't want to take any of your crap."
Ken walked down the dark hallway with Farf further up ahead. Ken looked down and noticed a trace of light coming from the floor. As he looked closer he realized he had found the dining room. He beckoned Farfarello to come over. The sound of champagne glasses clanging together could be heard through the door.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" a voice asked from behind them. "Tell me now." A woman in a red evening gown stood behind them. She wore gold earrings, and arm length gloves and her dress was rather revealing. Ken stood and stared. As he looked closer he began to have a sense that he may have remembered this woman. He could not be sure in the little light.
A voice entered both Farfarello's and Ken's heads, "Both of you need to get to the study right now. Bring whatever you may have found."
Farfarello grabbed the woman and threw her over his shoulder and began to walk off toward the study.
Brad, Nagi and 'Colonel Mustard' sat together discussing where whoever was behind this was. When Farfarello entered the room. "Schu wants us in the study now."
"Okay sir you'd better come along." Brad said to the Englishman. "Schu doesn't like to be kept waiting."
"Jolly good. I don't mind. It'd be nice to stretch my legs a bit," he said springing to his feet.
'Professor Plum,' 'Colonel Mustard,' and a woman wearing a red dress sat at the love seat in the dimly lit study. Farf sat at the desk stabbing at the papers as he threw them into the air. Ken sat on the floor staring at the woman, trying to figure out who she was.
Brad and Schu stood at the door; deep in conversation as Nagi stood in the center of the room examining every aspect of its stature. When Nagi finally gave up and walked over to Brad and Schu and began to talk to them both.
"So we have absolutely no idea where these people are?" Schu asked in a hushed voice. "Don't you have any leads whatsoever?
"No, Schu, I've already told you," Brad said irritably, "we haven't found a single thing."
"We do know that there are four people at least here; both of the Parker brothers, Milton and Bradley" Nagi interrupted.
"What now?" Brad asked.
"Different Bradley. Not you," Schu explained.
Suddenly, Farf shouted, "Hey look! A wrench! I found it in the desk here!"
Ken thought for a second, then quickly got to his feet. He then looked at the woman at the seat and asked, "What did you say they told you your name was?"
"Ms. Scarlet. Whatever that means," she said, "why do you keep staring at me?"
"Hang on. wrench. Ms. Scarlet.Colonel Mustard. Professor Plum, HOLY BARREL OF MONKEYS!!! We're playing Clue!" Ken quickly ran over to Brad, "Brad, we're playing Clue."
"Stop being an idiot Ken, the Parker brothers, Milton, and Bradley are playing clue. We're just in their mansion," Brad said dramatically. "Barrel of monkeys? What are you? The boy wonder?"
"It seemed to fit the mood," Ken explained.
"Riiiiiiight," Nagi said, eyeing Ken. "So, you think we're playing Clue, eh?"
"Isn't it obvious? The wrench? The professor? Ms. Scarlet? The Colonel? I don't know how I could have missed it before, it's right there."
"Brad," Schu said, "the little snot does have a point."
"Wake up Kotori. We have to start moving again. Okay?" Ran said in the dark hallway.
"What? Huh? Oh, we're still here. Hey, how are you doing?" she asked with a smile on her face.
"I'm fine, sleep well?"
"Oh, oops, how long was I out?"
"You fell asleep on my shoulder. I don't know how long it was."
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to, all that running made me so tired."
"Well, I say we go. I mean, we've been down here at least a few hours."
"But it's safe down here."
"Hmmm. You have a point, but I don't think we're that safe just sitting here."
"Yeah, I guess you're right."
"I just don't want you putting yourself in danger for me. That's all" she grabbed his hand and placed it on her heart. "Do you feel that? My heart is racing."
"Don't worry, there isn't any thing to be afraid of, calm down." Ran said, slightly take aback.
"I'm not scared silly. My heart is racing because I'm with you. I don't know how to explain it, but you make me feel special."
"Are you sick?"
"I'm not sick Ran, I'm in love. You can't see it? Can't you feel it? It's obvious."
"I. ugh. don't know what to say."
"Just say what you are thinking"
"Wow those breasts are nice."
"Oh," she said, "Ummm well, I guess that's a start. Thanks though."
"Well, should we go?"
"As long as I'm with you."
"Oh yeah, I was just kidding about the breast thing, I don't really like serious situations, that's all."
"Okay."
"I have a problem with the whole love topic."
"Do you feel the same way about me as I feel about you though?"
".Yes," he paused. "Yes I do"
As they all sat in the study, a noise began to disturb the silence that had fallen over the room upon Ken's new discovery. There was a bang from the floor. Schu instantly stood up and began to examine the room. The bang repeated. Nagi began to feel the walls. The bang repeated this time louder than ever.
"What the devil is that bloody noise?" said the colonel.
The banging seemed to have stopped. Schu and Nagi looked at each other in confusion. Then they looked toward the corner of the room where the carpet had been pulled up at one part of the wall. There was complete silence. Then out of nowhere the carpet flew off and a door opened from the floor hitting Schu and knocking him off balance.
Schu stood up and dusted himself off. He looked across to the woman who had just entered the room. Her slightly ruffled appearance had no effect on her beauty. Although it did make the upper portion of her uniform slightly more revealing. The professor stared. Until he was hit by Ms. Scarlet. The dark hared man followed her up the stairs into the study.
"Oh God, of all the places a secret passage could wind up, it had to be the place with you, Schu." Ran exclaimed.
"Oh, well it's good to see you to Aya," Schu said sarcastically.
"Kotori, this is Schu, the man who puts the 'ass' in assassin. The guy in the glasses is Brad. The guy in the school uniform is Nagi, the creepy guy is Farf, and the one with the bitchin' jacket around his waste with the dumbfounded look of shock on his face is Ken. Hello Ken."
"A- A- A-. AYA?!" Ken asked. "Is it really you?"
"Yeah, it's really me. How have you been?" Ran said, "It's good to see- Huh?" Ken rushed up and hugged Ran, which took him very much by surprise.
"I missed you SOOOOO MUCH!" Ken yelled.
Ran looked around the room, he noticed three people sitting at a love seat. He walked over to Brad and asked, "so what's with Colonel Sanders, the giant grape, and the hooker?"
"That's 'Colonel Mustard,' 'Professor Plum,' and 'Ms. Scarlet,'" Brad dramatically explained.
"What is this, Clue?" Ran asked.
"What the hell? How did you figure that out in ten seconds when it's taken us all night?" Farfarello screamed.
"Are we seriously playing a giant game of clue?" Ran asked.
"Yes," Nagi said.
"Well, I guess we could do one of two things," Ran said, "We can finish this game, or we can get the hell out of here."
"We can't do either, we have a mission to complete," Ken explained.
"Mission? Who's giving you missions?" Ran asked anxiously.
"Persia is, Aya!" Ken said excitedly.
"Hmmm. Well, I guess we could hide all of the characters in the passageway then," Ran said. "Ken could be on one side of them, and Farfarello could be on the other, and they could protect them."
"Sounds good guys, let's do it," Nagi said.
Nagi walked down the dark hallway cautiously, knowing that at any moment, something could jump out at him, he wasn't afraid of it, but he didn't like being caught off guard. Closely behind him, came Schu. Schu was also being exceptionally cautious, if it were true that they were in a game of Clue, than there was no telling when the murder would happen. A sound of conversation had reached his ears, as he looked down the hall he could see a small light coming from underneath a door.
"You see that?" Schu asked, "It looks like a light from a room."
"Yeah, I see it. What do you think we should do?" Nagi asked curiously, "do you wan go check it out?"
"Of course, maybe we might find the people we're looking for," Schu said.
So they began to walk closer and closer. The sounds of a dinner seem to become less distant. Then the sounds of forks dropping onto plates began. Satisfied sighs from the people in the room could be easily heard.
A look of horror spread over Nagi's face. He quickly turned to Schu, "We have to leave now! They just finished, soon they'll be coming out to start the game!"
"We need help guys, Aya, I need you to tell me how to get out of here, you were here the longest," a voice said inside Ran's head. "Quickly please."
"Go up, there should be rafters above you," Ran said from the entry hall, "from there you should be able to make it to the kitchen, in a corner there is a secret passage way." "Thank you," the voice said, "much appreciated." "No problem Schu," Ran said.
Schu jumped up to the rafters, but Nagi was unable to make it. The sound of chairs scraping against the floor could be heard from inside of the room. Nagi turned and ran from the rafters. Schu followed. The door from the room slowly opened and the sound of laughing men came bursting into the hallways of the house. Schu quickly jumped down and scooped up Nagi. He then instantaneously jumped back into the rafters. The men from the room quickly turned their heads to see what the noise was. "What was that?" one of the men said, he was a tall man, with short black hair. He wore glasses that just barely stayed on his nose. "It sounded like it came from the kitchen." "Damn! They're gonna get there first if we don't hurry," Nagi said. At this Schu grabbed Nagi again and jumped from rafter to rafter getting to the kitchen within seconds. They jumped down and entered the room with caution. Inside the kitchen sat a woman in a blue evening dress. She was a woman in her early thirties, very slim and with a complexion as smooth as silk. Schu looked at her, and instantly said, "YOU! Come with me!" he led them down into the passageway where a smiling Ken greeted them. "Hey Nagi. Hey Schu," Ken said gleefully, "who's she?" "I think she's supposed to be Ms. Peacock," Nagi said inquisitively. "Okay then, put her with the rest of 'em I guess," Ken said pointing to the four people already nestled on the ground. "WHAT?" the woman screamed. "I am not going! I won't stand for this!" "Good, because you aren't going to stand, you're gonna sit. Now sit!" Ken said, forcing her to the ground. "We aren't going to hurt you, we're keeping you here so nobody else gets hurt." "Well I'm not going to take this, I'm going out!" she said in a stern voice. "No. You aren't. You aren't going anywhere. Now sit down, or you WILL get hurt," Nagi said, "I will use force if you don't make this easy for us," He put his hand in front of her face, "You have been warned, now stay there."
"What's a punk kid like you going to do to somebody like me? Look at you, you have no muscle whatsoever," she said with a chuckle, "You just watch me, I'm leaving." Nagi stepped back and looked at her with great anticipation, she looked up at him and saw the look on his face. She began to sink back into the wall. It was obvious that he was serious, and she didn't want to take her chances, what if he had a gun? So she moved over toward the rest of the group and introduced herself. "Thank you, I didn't want to hurt you," Nagi said.
Brad lowered himself against the table, he placed his fist down, and the stick in between his index and middle knuckle. He pulled the stick back, and then shot it forward. It hit a large ball causing it to go forward, ricochet off of the border of the table hitting another ball into a hole as it followed. "Score! Okay, your turn sir," Brad said excitedly. A balding man in a green suit walked up to the table, cue in hand. He paused for a moment, then looked over to Brad with a look of confusion, "So you mean to tell me that I am a character in a giant board game?" "I'm afraid that is exactly what I'm trying to tell you," Brad said. "You don't have to worry though, we have all of the other characters in a remote location, that way nobody can get killed." "Haven't you ever played Clue?" the man yelled, "one of the characters doesn't get killed! One of them is a killer!" "Wha- wha- what?" Brad stammered. "One is a killer?" "Yeah, I can't believe you guys. Geeze, every body knows Clue." "All right then," Brad said, "let's get going."
Ran sat in the entry hall, looking through each drawer for some sort of weapon, if every room had a weapon, then he was bound to find one. Once he did he would move on to the next room and take that weapon so to remove every weapon from the house, which would forbid the killer from doing anything. A knock came at the door; Ran quickly went over to the cabinet and replaced the drawer. He then went for the other doors, and went out. He pressed his ear against the door listening to see if it was anybody that he knew. "Ran?" a woman's voice came. "Ran are you in here?" it was Kotori, he let out a sigh. "Dang it, I wish I knew where he was, I don't like it here. Oh there I go again, talking to myself." Ran opened the door, and walked inside at one of the chairs sat Kotori, she looked at him, and smiled. Tears of joy flooded her eyes. "I was just thinking about how much I wanted to see you. I'm so happy," she said. "I need you to do me a favor, Ran. I need you to honestly tell me that you love me." Ran looked away. "Please, I need to hear it. Do you love me? Because if you don't you can say it. But I want to know, do you love me like I love you?" "Well. I suppose so, I mean. I have thought about it, but I really don't think I could love somebody after only knowing them for a few hours," Ran said. Tears streamed down Kotori's face. She looked at Ran with great sadness, wondering if what he said was true, did love really happen that fast? Was she really in love with him? She didn't know. She did care for him though; she knew that. "Here, I do care for you, I can feel that. And I think I could learn to love you," Ran said trying to comfort her, "it's just going to take some time." She smiled. She was very happy with the acceptance of her love, which meant that one day; they would both love each other. She stood up and walked towards the table in the center of the room sitting on the table was a candlestick. She picked it up and brought it over to him. "This is one of the weapons of Clue, so that limits what weapons the murderer will use."
"Thank you," Ran said with a smile, "I take it you're going to come with me to the lounge?" "If you want me to come along." "Sure, I'd like that." "Okay then, I'll go then."
"SCHU!" Brad screamed. "SCHU! WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE!" "Shut up, keep your voice down. What is it?" Schu said. "Have you ever actually played clue?" Brad asked. "Umm. No, I haven't," Schu said after a slight pause. "Well, in Clue, the character's aren't killed, one of them is the killer," Brad said. A look of shock was on Schu's face. He had been protecting four people in costumes and one psychopath. "Well. what exactly do we do?" "We have to find the Parker Brothers, Milton, and Bradley," said Nagi. "But somebody is going to have to stay with these guys still." "I'm right here," Brad said. "Other Brad. Not you Brad, evil Brad," Ken explained. "Oh yeah.right." Brad said, still terribly confused. "Well I'm going to go find those guys we saw earlier, they hired the killer to hunt these men. They must die, and not to mention the rock 'em sock 'em robots arena," Schu said. "Ah yes, the rock 'em sock 'em robots," Nagi said. The four of them stood there, with big smiles on their faces. "I'll come with you Schu." "Okay."
Ran and Kotori looked around the lounge for possible murder weapons. A round table stood near the door, and next to it sat a small arm chair. On top of the sideboard on the adjacent wall sat a flower arrangement and a few family photos. On the opposite wall sat two couches at angles with green upholstery. After about twenty minutes of searching, Kotori sat exhausted on the couch. Ran didn't notice at first, and continued his search. He looked on the windowsill drawing aside the curtains. He gave up on the window region and untied the rope around the curtain and closed the curtain. He then saw Kotori on the couch, fast asleep. She looked very peaceful, although it did make him think. He realized he was smiling. Which, when he thought about it, was not a real smile, but in fact a slightly forced smile. "I can't keep going like this," he said to himself. "I obviously don't love her, and probably never will. I can't just try and force myself. That wouldn't be fair." She began to wake up; she looked over at Ran, "Ran, did you find it?" "No, I don't know the weapons of Clue." "Oh, well there is the knife, the revolver, the rope-" "Rope?" "There's some rope," she said, pointing at the rope on the sill. "Thanks," he said, grabbing the rope. "All right, let's get out of here. On to the dining room!"
Mr. Green sat on the floor next to Ms. Peacock. She was fast asleep, and he sat there, looking down her dress. He had a large smile on his face as he observed her cleavage. And there was not a soul who could stop him. There was a large slapping sound followed by several loud groans performed by Mr. Green. He lay there, on the ground holding his hand to his face. "SERVES YOU RIGHT YOU DISGUSTING PERVERT!" Ms. Peacock screamed. "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ME LIKE THAT!" "I'm sorry." Mr. Green said, "but I didn't realize that you didn't want me to, I asked and you said yes." "BULLSHIT!" she screamed. "Ladies, ladies, calm down," Ken said, trying to ease up the tension in the hallway. "Mr. Green, you shouldn't have looked down the front of her dress." "I don't have to take this, I'm leaving right now," Mr. Green said, standing in protest, "and I would like to see a small punk like you try and stop me." Ken stood aside and let him walk down the hallway. As Mr. Green left, he realized that his dramatic plan was not going as well as he had hoped. Finally, Ken looked over to see how far he had gone. He then said, "fine then, but I hope you know that you WILL get killed out there, you're the only one out to be killed." Mr. Green laughed, and then the sound of a door closing could be heard in the distance. He was gone. "Well. uh. I don't know what the heck that was about, but it was sure a blessing," Ken said. "He talked so much I could hardly stand it, I would have killed him myself if he hadn't gotten out of here." "Well, I hope that he doesn't get killed, even if he is a disgusting perverse poor excuse for a man," said Ms. Peacock, "I'm going back to sleep thank you."
Brad, Nagi and Schu walked along the corridors searching for some sort of light. But it was no where to be found. Nagi began to become frustrated, and went into the conservatory to blow off some steam. It was just Brad and Schu now. They walked along in silence, looking for any sort of light that could possibly exist inside this house. They turned the corner from the conservatory and looked down at the kitchen. The door opened and a slightly plump man walked out. Brad squinted his eyes so he could see who the man was, but could not be sure. "I'll go check it out," Schu said to Brad. "Be careful, I don't want you getting hurt," Brad said to Schu, putting his hand on his shoulder. Schu turned around and looked at Brad. "Well, I wouldn't want to lose the one man who truly scares Ken."
Disclaimers: I don't own Weiss, I don't get money out of this, but Kotori, Graham Cracker, and every body who's not in Weiss on this thing are mine!
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Chapter 2: "Clue"
A dark yellow eye opened in the darkness, along with the sound of the licking of lips. "Can I go now?"
The glare of glasses in the moon light dramatically turned toward the source of the sound, "No, I told you. Not until Nagi comes back."
Suddenly a mass of orange appeared next to the source of the original voice. "Calm down, you'll get what you need by the end of the night. Don't you worry."
"This is so exciting, I haven't done this in so long. WHOA! I forgot about that! Farf! Look at this!"
"SHUT UP!" Schu said turning to Ken, "we all know about you're claw. It's nothing special, so just shut up. OK?"
"Oh right, sorry" Ken said lowering his head in shame. "But it's just sooo cool!"
"SHHHHH!" Farfarello, Schu and Brad said in unison.
"Sorry, I just got carried away, that's all."
Suddenly a voice came from behind, "OK, I found a way in, so we can go and do our thing."
"Good work Nagi, did you find out where Milton and Bradley were?" Brad asked.
"Not here, but I found out where some important people were though. They can tell us where they are."
"Damn." Schu said, "I was hoping I could get one of them. Hmmmm." Schu sat thinking for a moment, then suddenly he stood up. "I know! I could go and see if any body in the crowd could tell me where they were!"
"Oh no you don't Schu. You aren't going to go watch human rock 'em sock 'em robots." Brad quickly got close to Schu's ear, "Not without me you aren't, hehe," he then stood up quickly and said to Schu "You're coming with me.. Damn it!"
"That sounds like a plan Brad, I'll go see if any body back stage knows where to find him." Ken said, "c'mon Farf. Let's go investigate."
"OKAY!"
"Those guys, are so naïve. They have- YEAH!!! KNOCK HIS FRIGGIN HEAD OFF!!! Any way, no clue that we're down here." Schu said Brad with a slight chuckle.
"HAHA, those guys are so dumb sometimes."
"Hehe, those to have no idea how stupid they look down there, do they. You would think they were watching it. Eh Farf?" Ken asked.
"Yeah, but the jokes on them, they think that we're up here looking for clues, but in reality."
They then both said in unison, "WE HAVE BALCONY SEATS!!!"
Nagi let out a small laugh, "Those guys are so damn lazy, sittin' down there watching the show, and up there, thinking that they planned ahead. But they don't have seats with a mini-bar! Hehe!"
"Y'know Schu, we should ask a few people just so we get something done at least." Brad said dramatically.
"Good idea. Hey excuse me sir, but do you know where I can get a good drink around here?" Schu asked.
Brad looked reprovingly towards Schu. dramatically. "You better knock it off," he then proceeded to slap Schu in the face, taking him to the ground.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?! YOU WANNA START A BLOODY MOSH PIT?!?!?!"
A man from the crowd heard those two words and almost as a natural reaction screamed it out again, "MOSH PIT!!!"
Quickly Schu picked up Brad. Brad looked down at a Schu in a very confused manner. "I would truly appreciate it if you didn't do this Schuldig, I don't like it when you touch me."
Schu quickly smiled. He then proceeded to quickly move up to the balcony seats. They looked down at the mass of people attacking each other at the bottom of the stadium. The crowd closely resembled an ant colony recently flooded with water as the ants scrambled to get away from the main concentration of danger, all the while knowing that that in the middle is really where they wanted to be.
Brad quickly looked to the person next to him to find out where Milton and Bradley were currently located. He turned and found himself face to face with his annoying protégé, Ken. "Did you find anything out?"
"Uhhhhh.no?" "Damn it Ken, you know that I told you to look for leads on where the target's location might be."
"I know, I know, I guess I just got caught up in the whole, feel of rock 'em sock 'em robots." Ken said once again lowering his head in shame.
Brad tossed Ken's hair around, "Don't worry about it, we'll find them. It's not like you're in trouble."
"I'm not?"
"NO, you are." Schu said glaring.
"Dang."
"Yeah, I know, it sucks," Schu said "but Nagi will fix you up right, don't worry. I just wanna melt you again."
"You didn't melt him the first time you dip!" Farfarello screamed.
"You had better watch that little mouth of yours Farf. I might do something to Sally." Schu said followed by an evil laugh that resembled greatly that of a chipmunk.
"SHE'S DEAD YOU IGNORANT PRICK! YOU, OF ALL PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW THAT! YOU SON OF A BITCH!"
"Now, now Farf, there's no need to call names." Schu said in the crudest possible manner. "we all kno- WAIT A MINUTE! YOU KNOW! BUT. YOU. you weren't. I thought-. you-. ooooh scheisse."
"I got the info you needed." Nagi said from behind the arguing group of assassins. "They're currently at the Parker mansion 'playing' Clue, And from what I've gathered, these Parker guys seem to be Milton and uhh.. What was his name."
"Bradley" Farfarello said.
"What?" Brad dramatically answered.
"No, not you Brad, the other Brad," Schu explained.
"Oh I see. Wait, I'm confused," Brad dramatically said.
"We're talking about Brad. Not you, wait. You are Brad. Well it doesn't matter. We aren't talking about you, we're talking about Brad." Nagi explained.
"Oh, OK then."
"Any way, we're gonna have to take the Parker brothers out too," Nagi continued, "I just need to clear it all with Persia."
"So what do you want to do now?" Ken asked, "Ya wanna go home?"
"Sure" Schu responded.
"Yeah, I'm beat." Nagi said in agreement.
Farfarello stood there watching the crowd attack and maim each other. He then turned around and looked at every body. "What did you say?"
"Wait, so we're talking about.. You said. I think.. Wait.. oh never mind," Brad then turned and walked out to the car.
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An attractive young woman with dark brown hair walked down the corridor of the old mansion. She was in her late twenty's wearing a maid uniform. A sound was heard from one of the rooms. She began to walk at a slightly faster pace. The sound was heard again. It was a pounding against the wall, she hadn't a clue as to what it was and she went to a light jog. Her every move was elegant. As she ran she would glance to her sides as if waiting for something to happen. She didn't know what might happen, and she was not looking forward to finding out.
A man with dark hair stood in the rafters of the hallway. He hopped from cross-board to cross-board with ease following her every move. Then a voice came inside his head. "Where are you?" he quickly toned it out and continued to follow the woman down the corridor. "I know you're there," it said. He then looked down at the woman with surprise. She was leaned up against the wall breathing heavily. She had been running for at least half an hour since she had heard that sound.
There was a loud bang in the distance. She quickly got up and ran some more. She finally came to a turn. It had been the same turn she had taken ten minutes before. She decided to take the different route this time. She had already turned left twice. The sound grew louder and less distant.
Suddenly the woman fell to the floor. She was still breathing, but very heavily. The man jumped down and picked her up. Footsteps could be heard from around the corner. He carried her in to one of the rooms. He had never seen a ballroom so large before. Across the room was a windowsill with two red pillows. A grand piano sat in the corner, opposite the china cabinet. He sat her down on the sofa. She began to relax. "Are you hurt?" he asked.
"N-no, I'm fine. Thank you," she said in between breaths. Her voice was very feminine and petite, but still had a powerful sureness to it.
"Oh, good. I feared you had been shot," the stranger said.
"No, I'm just tired, that's all," she said reassuringly. "I've been running for a while. I keep hearing this odd sound,"
"Do you serve these people?" he asked.
"No, why?"'
"Well I was just curious about your attire."
"Oh, I have to dress like this, or at least that's what the old man told me. He also told me that I am 'Miss white'. I don't know what that means." tears streaked down your face. She sat there on the couch and began to sob. The man held her and comforted her. "I don't understand why they are doing this. I just wanted to ask him if he knew where a good flower shop was, then all of a sudden I was grabbed and I woke up here."
"I know a good flower shop. but I don't know if it still is running. I haven't been here in a while," he said in attempt to get her mind at ease.
"Heh, this is my first time here. I don't know any body," she looked up at him and smiled. "Thank you. We should probably get going, I think they are hunting me."
After few moments, they were back into the hallways of the house. Quickly they ran toward what they had assumed to be the kitchen. When they got there, they ran into a corner and sat, waiting for somebody to enter.
The woman sat playing with the small knob on the floor. She moved her finger around it several times before the man noticed its presence. "Get out of the corner, quick," he said. She quickly stood up and walked away, confused as to what he was doing. He sat pulling on the knob, and eventually he had pulled up a door. "C'mon, let's go down."
As they walked down the corridor they heard footsteps over their heads. Most likely from whatever had made the previous sound that had frightened the woman. Finally, after much silence, she looked up at the man and said, "what's your name?"
"Ran. And yours?"
"I'm Kotori," she said, "so how did you get here?"
"I came of my own free will," Ran said. "I saw you in the hallway and decided to follow, you appeared to be in some sort of danger."
Kotori smiled, "thank you, that's very sweet of you."
A small bit of light could be seen in the distance. Kotori let out a sigh, "I'm so glad you helped me. I owe you my life."
"Don't say that, I would rather have you be my friend than my servant," Ran said.
"Where are you, I know you are there. Aya."
"Shut up," Ran said.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you," she said lowering her head.
"No, it isn't you. I'm uhhh. just talking to myself," Ran said quickly. "Before we go into the room, we should rest. We don't know who or what will be waiting for us."
A rather nervous looking man quickly darted from one side of the hallway to the other. He wore glasses and a plum colored suit. The sound of footsteps could be heard in the distance. There was a loud bang in the distance. The man jumped at the sound and then ran into the nearest room.
It was a study, with small desk and a love seat in opposing corners. The carpet appeared to be coming up along one wall, but it was very neat and tidy. He ran behind the couch and crouched on the floor sweating profusely.
"I see you too, have heard the footsteps sir," a voice said.
The man sat there trying hard to suppress his heavy breathing so not to be heard.
"I know you are back there, so you might as well come out." The man said. He was a rather tall man. He wore a green coat and had orange hair, which partially covered his face. "Oh come off it Plum, I know your there. Knock it off."
The man reluctantly stood up. He stared at the green coated man. He then began to wonder, "who is this guy, how does he know what they called me?"
"I am Schu, I know all of the people in this mansion," Schu said as if answering questions he had heard. "Now, I would like to know what the hell is going on, and you are going to tell me."
"I don't know, I have only seen one person." Plum began. "She was wearing a maid uniform. God she was hot. Any ways, I was running down the hall. When out of the corner of my eye, I saw somebody entering the kitchen. So I looked over and she stood there for a moment, then she quickly ran inside. So I started to go toward the kitchen to see who she was. When I entered the kitchen she was gone. So I ran over here. I saw this room open earlier, so I figured maybe it was open, and I could rest here."
"Do you know how you got here?"
"No. I was walking along, when I saw this old blind man. I went to give him change, and then he jumped up and grabbed me. I woke up in the hallway. Hey, wait a minute. You're one of the people in on this aren't you?"
"Oh sit down you stupid little man. I just needed that information." Schu turned around and begin to talk to himself. "I wonder if Brad wants any information that I didn't get."
Brad stood in the library, pulling random books out of the bookshelf, in case one perhaps led to a secret passage. The door suddenly opened. An Englishman in Safari attire entered the room, breathing heavily. Brad glanced over, "oh good, I've been waiting for you."
"You what? What are you on about good sir?" the man asked.
"You will find out momentarily, right now I need you to tell me something. How did you get here?" Brad asked dramatically.
"I don't need to take this, I'm leaving."
Suddenly the door closed behind the Englishman. He turned around in shock. A young man stood in front of the doorway. "You aren't going to leave until you give him his answers."
"What what? I am too leaving and you can't stop me no matter what you do, so move you're bloomin' arse," the Englishman said defiantly.
"How did you get here?" Brad asked.
"I don't know, I was walking along. Then out of nowhere these men grabbed me. And when I woke up here, they had dressed me in this god-awful safari garb. Then they told me my name was 'Colonel Mustard'. I didn't understand what they meant by that, but I assumed they would tell me," he continued. "But I didn't have such luck, they looked at me and then told me. 'Run'.
"Do you want to go to the room now?" Ran asked, but when he looked down at her, he found that she had fallen fast asleep upon his shoulder. He let out a sigh; "I'll take that as a No."
"Are you going to tell me where you are yet?" a voice said in Ran's head.
"Leave me alone Schu, I don't want to take any of your crap."
Ken walked down the dark hallway with Farf further up ahead. Ken looked down and noticed a trace of light coming from the floor. As he looked closer he realized he had found the dining room. He beckoned Farfarello to come over. The sound of champagne glasses clanging together could be heard through the door.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" a voice asked from behind them. "Tell me now." A woman in a red evening gown stood behind them. She wore gold earrings, and arm length gloves and her dress was rather revealing. Ken stood and stared. As he looked closer he began to have a sense that he may have remembered this woman. He could not be sure in the little light.
A voice entered both Farfarello's and Ken's heads, "Both of you need to get to the study right now. Bring whatever you may have found."
Farfarello grabbed the woman and threw her over his shoulder and began to walk off toward the study.
Brad, Nagi and 'Colonel Mustard' sat together discussing where whoever was behind this was. When Farfarello entered the room. "Schu wants us in the study now."
"Okay sir you'd better come along." Brad said to the Englishman. "Schu doesn't like to be kept waiting."
"Jolly good. I don't mind. It'd be nice to stretch my legs a bit," he said springing to his feet.
'Professor Plum,' 'Colonel Mustard,' and a woman wearing a red dress sat at the love seat in the dimly lit study. Farf sat at the desk stabbing at the papers as he threw them into the air. Ken sat on the floor staring at the woman, trying to figure out who she was.
Brad and Schu stood at the door; deep in conversation as Nagi stood in the center of the room examining every aspect of its stature. When Nagi finally gave up and walked over to Brad and Schu and began to talk to them both.
"So we have absolutely no idea where these people are?" Schu asked in a hushed voice. "Don't you have any leads whatsoever?
"No, Schu, I've already told you," Brad said irritably, "we haven't found a single thing."
"We do know that there are four people at least here; both of the Parker brothers, Milton and Bradley" Nagi interrupted.
"What now?" Brad asked.
"Different Bradley. Not you," Schu explained.
Suddenly, Farf shouted, "Hey look! A wrench! I found it in the desk here!"
Ken thought for a second, then quickly got to his feet. He then looked at the woman at the seat and asked, "What did you say they told you your name was?"
"Ms. Scarlet. Whatever that means," she said, "why do you keep staring at me?"
"Hang on. wrench. Ms. Scarlet.Colonel Mustard. Professor Plum, HOLY BARREL OF MONKEYS!!! We're playing Clue!" Ken quickly ran over to Brad, "Brad, we're playing Clue."
"Stop being an idiot Ken, the Parker brothers, Milton, and Bradley are playing clue. We're just in their mansion," Brad said dramatically. "Barrel of monkeys? What are you? The boy wonder?"
"It seemed to fit the mood," Ken explained.
"Riiiiiiight," Nagi said, eyeing Ken. "So, you think we're playing Clue, eh?"
"Isn't it obvious? The wrench? The professor? Ms. Scarlet? The Colonel? I don't know how I could have missed it before, it's right there."
"Brad," Schu said, "the little snot does have a point."
"Wake up Kotori. We have to start moving again. Okay?" Ran said in the dark hallway.
"What? Huh? Oh, we're still here. Hey, how are you doing?" she asked with a smile on her face.
"I'm fine, sleep well?"
"Oh, oops, how long was I out?"
"You fell asleep on my shoulder. I don't know how long it was."
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to, all that running made me so tired."
"Well, I say we go. I mean, we've been down here at least a few hours."
"But it's safe down here."
"Hmmm. You have a point, but I don't think we're that safe just sitting here."
"Yeah, I guess you're right."
"I just don't want you putting yourself in danger for me. That's all" she grabbed his hand and placed it on her heart. "Do you feel that? My heart is racing."
"Don't worry, there isn't any thing to be afraid of, calm down." Ran said, slightly take aback.
"I'm not scared silly. My heart is racing because I'm with you. I don't know how to explain it, but you make me feel special."
"Are you sick?"
"I'm not sick Ran, I'm in love. You can't see it? Can't you feel it? It's obvious."
"I. ugh. don't know what to say."
"Just say what you are thinking"
"Wow those breasts are nice."
"Oh," she said, "Ummm well, I guess that's a start. Thanks though."
"Well, should we go?"
"As long as I'm with you."
"Oh yeah, I was just kidding about the breast thing, I don't really like serious situations, that's all."
"Okay."
"I have a problem with the whole love topic."
"Do you feel the same way about me as I feel about you though?"
".Yes," he paused. "Yes I do"
As they all sat in the study, a noise began to disturb the silence that had fallen over the room upon Ken's new discovery. There was a bang from the floor. Schu instantly stood up and began to examine the room. The bang repeated. Nagi began to feel the walls. The bang repeated this time louder than ever.
"What the devil is that bloody noise?" said the colonel.
The banging seemed to have stopped. Schu and Nagi looked at each other in confusion. Then they looked toward the corner of the room where the carpet had been pulled up at one part of the wall. There was complete silence. Then out of nowhere the carpet flew off and a door opened from the floor hitting Schu and knocking him off balance.
Schu stood up and dusted himself off. He looked across to the woman who had just entered the room. Her slightly ruffled appearance had no effect on her beauty. Although it did make the upper portion of her uniform slightly more revealing. The professor stared. Until he was hit by Ms. Scarlet. The dark hared man followed her up the stairs into the study.
"Oh God, of all the places a secret passage could wind up, it had to be the place with you, Schu." Ran exclaimed.
"Oh, well it's good to see you to Aya," Schu said sarcastically.
"Kotori, this is Schu, the man who puts the 'ass' in assassin. The guy in the glasses is Brad. The guy in the school uniform is Nagi, the creepy guy is Farf, and the one with the bitchin' jacket around his waste with the dumbfounded look of shock on his face is Ken. Hello Ken."
"A- A- A-. AYA?!" Ken asked. "Is it really you?"
"Yeah, it's really me. How have you been?" Ran said, "It's good to see- Huh?" Ken rushed up and hugged Ran, which took him very much by surprise.
"I missed you SOOOOO MUCH!" Ken yelled.
Ran looked around the room, he noticed three people sitting at a love seat. He walked over to Brad and asked, "so what's with Colonel Sanders, the giant grape, and the hooker?"
"That's 'Colonel Mustard,' 'Professor Plum,' and 'Ms. Scarlet,'" Brad dramatically explained.
"What is this, Clue?" Ran asked.
"What the hell? How did you figure that out in ten seconds when it's taken us all night?" Farfarello screamed.
"Are we seriously playing a giant game of clue?" Ran asked.
"Yes," Nagi said.
"Well, I guess we could do one of two things," Ran said, "We can finish this game, or we can get the hell out of here."
"We can't do either, we have a mission to complete," Ken explained.
"Mission? Who's giving you missions?" Ran asked anxiously.
"Persia is, Aya!" Ken said excitedly.
"Hmmm. Well, I guess we could hide all of the characters in the passageway then," Ran said. "Ken could be on one side of them, and Farfarello could be on the other, and they could protect them."
"Sounds good guys, let's do it," Nagi said.
Nagi walked down the dark hallway cautiously, knowing that at any moment, something could jump out at him, he wasn't afraid of it, but he didn't like being caught off guard. Closely behind him, came Schu. Schu was also being exceptionally cautious, if it were true that they were in a game of Clue, than there was no telling when the murder would happen. A sound of conversation had reached his ears, as he looked down the hall he could see a small light coming from underneath a door.
"You see that?" Schu asked, "It looks like a light from a room."
"Yeah, I see it. What do you think we should do?" Nagi asked curiously, "do you wan go check it out?"
"Of course, maybe we might find the people we're looking for," Schu said.
So they began to walk closer and closer. The sounds of a dinner seem to become less distant. Then the sounds of forks dropping onto plates began. Satisfied sighs from the people in the room could be easily heard.
A look of horror spread over Nagi's face. He quickly turned to Schu, "We have to leave now! They just finished, soon they'll be coming out to start the game!"
"We need help guys, Aya, I need you to tell me how to get out of here, you were here the longest," a voice said inside Ran's head. "Quickly please."
"Go up, there should be rafters above you," Ran said from the entry hall, "from there you should be able to make it to the kitchen, in a corner there is a secret passage way." "Thank you," the voice said, "much appreciated." "No problem Schu," Ran said.
Schu jumped up to the rafters, but Nagi was unable to make it. The sound of chairs scraping against the floor could be heard from inside of the room. Nagi turned and ran from the rafters. Schu followed. The door from the room slowly opened and the sound of laughing men came bursting into the hallways of the house. Schu quickly jumped down and scooped up Nagi. He then instantaneously jumped back into the rafters. The men from the room quickly turned their heads to see what the noise was. "What was that?" one of the men said, he was a tall man, with short black hair. He wore glasses that just barely stayed on his nose. "It sounded like it came from the kitchen." "Damn! They're gonna get there first if we don't hurry," Nagi said. At this Schu grabbed Nagi again and jumped from rafter to rafter getting to the kitchen within seconds. They jumped down and entered the room with caution. Inside the kitchen sat a woman in a blue evening dress. She was a woman in her early thirties, very slim and with a complexion as smooth as silk. Schu looked at her, and instantly said, "YOU! Come with me!" he led them down into the passageway where a smiling Ken greeted them. "Hey Nagi. Hey Schu," Ken said gleefully, "who's she?" "I think she's supposed to be Ms. Peacock," Nagi said inquisitively. "Okay then, put her with the rest of 'em I guess," Ken said pointing to the four people already nestled on the ground. "WHAT?" the woman screamed. "I am not going! I won't stand for this!" "Good, because you aren't going to stand, you're gonna sit. Now sit!" Ken said, forcing her to the ground. "We aren't going to hurt you, we're keeping you here so nobody else gets hurt." "Well I'm not going to take this, I'm going out!" she said in a stern voice. "No. You aren't. You aren't going anywhere. Now sit down, or you WILL get hurt," Nagi said, "I will use force if you don't make this easy for us," He put his hand in front of her face, "You have been warned, now stay there."
"What's a punk kid like you going to do to somebody like me? Look at you, you have no muscle whatsoever," she said with a chuckle, "You just watch me, I'm leaving." Nagi stepped back and looked at her with great anticipation, she looked up at him and saw the look on his face. She began to sink back into the wall. It was obvious that he was serious, and she didn't want to take her chances, what if he had a gun? So she moved over toward the rest of the group and introduced herself. "Thank you, I didn't want to hurt you," Nagi said.
Brad lowered himself against the table, he placed his fist down, and the stick in between his index and middle knuckle. He pulled the stick back, and then shot it forward. It hit a large ball causing it to go forward, ricochet off of the border of the table hitting another ball into a hole as it followed. "Score! Okay, your turn sir," Brad said excitedly. A balding man in a green suit walked up to the table, cue in hand. He paused for a moment, then looked over to Brad with a look of confusion, "So you mean to tell me that I am a character in a giant board game?" "I'm afraid that is exactly what I'm trying to tell you," Brad said. "You don't have to worry though, we have all of the other characters in a remote location, that way nobody can get killed." "Haven't you ever played Clue?" the man yelled, "one of the characters doesn't get killed! One of them is a killer!" "Wha- wha- what?" Brad stammered. "One is a killer?" "Yeah, I can't believe you guys. Geeze, every body knows Clue." "All right then," Brad said, "let's get going."
Ran sat in the entry hall, looking through each drawer for some sort of weapon, if every room had a weapon, then he was bound to find one. Once he did he would move on to the next room and take that weapon so to remove every weapon from the house, which would forbid the killer from doing anything. A knock came at the door; Ran quickly went over to the cabinet and replaced the drawer. He then went for the other doors, and went out. He pressed his ear against the door listening to see if it was anybody that he knew. "Ran?" a woman's voice came. "Ran are you in here?" it was Kotori, he let out a sigh. "Dang it, I wish I knew where he was, I don't like it here. Oh there I go again, talking to myself." Ran opened the door, and walked inside at one of the chairs sat Kotori, she looked at him, and smiled. Tears of joy flooded her eyes. "I was just thinking about how much I wanted to see you. I'm so happy," she said. "I need you to do me a favor, Ran. I need you to honestly tell me that you love me." Ran looked away. "Please, I need to hear it. Do you love me? Because if you don't you can say it. But I want to know, do you love me like I love you?" "Well. I suppose so, I mean. I have thought about it, but I really don't think I could love somebody after only knowing them for a few hours," Ran said. Tears streamed down Kotori's face. She looked at Ran with great sadness, wondering if what he said was true, did love really happen that fast? Was she really in love with him? She didn't know. She did care for him though; she knew that. "Here, I do care for you, I can feel that. And I think I could learn to love you," Ran said trying to comfort her, "it's just going to take some time." She smiled. She was very happy with the acceptance of her love, which meant that one day; they would both love each other. She stood up and walked towards the table in the center of the room sitting on the table was a candlestick. She picked it up and brought it over to him. "This is one of the weapons of Clue, so that limits what weapons the murderer will use."
"Thank you," Ran said with a smile, "I take it you're going to come with me to the lounge?" "If you want me to come along." "Sure, I'd like that." "Okay then, I'll go then."
"SCHU!" Brad screamed. "SCHU! WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE!" "Shut up, keep your voice down. What is it?" Schu said. "Have you ever actually played clue?" Brad asked. "Umm. No, I haven't," Schu said after a slight pause. "Well, in Clue, the character's aren't killed, one of them is the killer," Brad said. A look of shock was on Schu's face. He had been protecting four people in costumes and one psychopath. "Well. what exactly do we do?" "We have to find the Parker Brothers, Milton, and Bradley," said Nagi. "But somebody is going to have to stay with these guys still." "I'm right here," Brad said. "Other Brad. Not you Brad, evil Brad," Ken explained. "Oh yeah.right." Brad said, still terribly confused. "Well I'm going to go find those guys we saw earlier, they hired the killer to hunt these men. They must die, and not to mention the rock 'em sock 'em robots arena," Schu said. "Ah yes, the rock 'em sock 'em robots," Nagi said. The four of them stood there, with big smiles on their faces. "I'll come with you Schu." "Okay."
Ran and Kotori looked around the lounge for possible murder weapons. A round table stood near the door, and next to it sat a small arm chair. On top of the sideboard on the adjacent wall sat a flower arrangement and a few family photos. On the opposite wall sat two couches at angles with green upholstery. After about twenty minutes of searching, Kotori sat exhausted on the couch. Ran didn't notice at first, and continued his search. He looked on the windowsill drawing aside the curtains. He gave up on the window region and untied the rope around the curtain and closed the curtain. He then saw Kotori on the couch, fast asleep. She looked very peaceful, although it did make him think. He realized he was smiling. Which, when he thought about it, was not a real smile, but in fact a slightly forced smile. "I can't keep going like this," he said to himself. "I obviously don't love her, and probably never will. I can't just try and force myself. That wouldn't be fair." She began to wake up; she looked over at Ran, "Ran, did you find it?" "No, I don't know the weapons of Clue." "Oh, well there is the knife, the revolver, the rope-" "Rope?" "There's some rope," she said, pointing at the rope on the sill. "Thanks," he said, grabbing the rope. "All right, let's get out of here. On to the dining room!"
Mr. Green sat on the floor next to Ms. Peacock. She was fast asleep, and he sat there, looking down her dress. He had a large smile on his face as he observed her cleavage. And there was not a soul who could stop him. There was a large slapping sound followed by several loud groans performed by Mr. Green. He lay there, on the ground holding his hand to his face. "SERVES YOU RIGHT YOU DISGUSTING PERVERT!" Ms. Peacock screamed. "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ME LIKE THAT!" "I'm sorry." Mr. Green said, "but I didn't realize that you didn't want me to, I asked and you said yes." "BULLSHIT!" she screamed. "Ladies, ladies, calm down," Ken said, trying to ease up the tension in the hallway. "Mr. Green, you shouldn't have looked down the front of her dress." "I don't have to take this, I'm leaving right now," Mr. Green said, standing in protest, "and I would like to see a small punk like you try and stop me." Ken stood aside and let him walk down the hallway. As Mr. Green left, he realized that his dramatic plan was not going as well as he had hoped. Finally, Ken looked over to see how far he had gone. He then said, "fine then, but I hope you know that you WILL get killed out there, you're the only one out to be killed." Mr. Green laughed, and then the sound of a door closing could be heard in the distance. He was gone. "Well. uh. I don't know what the heck that was about, but it was sure a blessing," Ken said. "He talked so much I could hardly stand it, I would have killed him myself if he hadn't gotten out of here." "Well, I hope that he doesn't get killed, even if he is a disgusting perverse poor excuse for a man," said Ms. Peacock, "I'm going back to sleep thank you."
Brad, Nagi and Schu walked along the corridors searching for some sort of light. But it was no where to be found. Nagi began to become frustrated, and went into the conservatory to blow off some steam. It was just Brad and Schu now. They walked along in silence, looking for any sort of light that could possibly exist inside this house. They turned the corner from the conservatory and looked down at the kitchen. The door opened and a slightly plump man walked out. Brad squinted his eyes so he could see who the man was, but could not be sure. "I'll go check it out," Schu said to Brad. "Be careful, I don't want you getting hurt," Brad said to Schu, putting his hand on his shoulder. Schu turned around and looked at Brad. "Well, I wouldn't want to lose the one man who truly scares Ken."
