Chapter 6: Room Search

Rose and Shego walked along the balcony until they came to another door, Shego opened it and they walked through to another hallway with a couple of doors leading off and the corridor carrying on round the corner.

Shego walked over to the door on the left, pulled it open and walked into the room. Rose followed close behind, smiling at the familiar surroundings that hasn't changed in four years. The curtains were red, with light lavender trim as were the bedcovers. A lavender vase full of red roses stood on a small chest of draws situated by a large double bed.

"This is your room," Shego told Rose. "The room next door is mine, it's teal and yellow."

"Just like the bathrooms," Rose agreed. "Yours is on the right and mine is on the left."

"I didn't bother to look behind the middle door." Shego said, making her way out of the room. "But I know there's a back entrance to the kitchen, behind the house."

"Then you're gonna hate walking outside and behind the house." Rose giggled, following out of the room. "There's a shorter way to the kitchen through the house."

Shego and Rose followed the corridor round the corner and came upon three doors, one at the end of the corridor and one either side of it. Rose opened the middle door and walked into the room, Shego came in and stopped in shock. The room was full of bookcases, rows and rows of them all full to the brim with books.

"Wow," Shego said, looking around, "I never seen so many books in one place before."

Rose nodded and said, "Only place I've ever seen this many books before was back at my older brother's friends' house, his library covered two floors. Though a pity that his parents didn't have any books on how to bring children up right."

Shego didn't hear the last part, she walked ahead and was gazing through the books in the first bookcase. She pulled out a book and was reading the back.

"Find anything interesting?" Rose asked, walking up to her.

"Nope." Shego said, putting the book back in it's place. She looked around once more and said, "I suppose there has to be some interesting books in here somewhere. Maybe if Drakken knew of this, I bet he'd know what some of these books explain about."

Rose shook her head and said, "Not exactly, these books are about Pokemon, my father does research them."

They continued walking through the bookcases till they come to a door at the other side of the room. Rose pulled the door open and they walked through it to a narrow corridor, which lead to a small staircase leading down.

They started down the stairs and found themselves in another small corridor, leading to another door. Rose opened this door leading to another corridor, with two doors to the right and one on the left.

"This should be the living room." Rose walked to the first door on the right, she opened it, peeking inside. "Yep, I was right!"

Shego walked in, she was awed. The room was large, the wall in front of them was mostly taken up by a large TV, from which various wires were attached connecting it to the stereo system. A video recorder, Playstation and N64 were also attached to the TV.

Huge bookcases filled with videos, computer games and CDs took up the left and right walls of the living room. In the middle of the room was a large red sofa big enough to seat four people, and two large red chairs.

"I know, Drakken will love this room," Shego said, not believing that the room was a living room.

"If he doesn't know about it already," Rose added, walking toward the door. "It's his house."

"You're right, he bought it." Shego agreed, following out. "But it is half mine, I think I'm gonna really like it here since you showed me the rest of the house that Drakken didn't mention."

They left the living room, and returned to the corridor, the next door was to the left. They opened that door and it lead into the dinning room they had seen from the balcony above. A large dinning table was the centerpiece of the room, there were a couple of chairs next to the table, but they looked like they hadn't been used in years. A large fireplace dominated the wall next to the door they had entered through, a picture of a Rapidash hung above it. There was another door at the other end of the dining area but after deciding it probably lead back to the main hall they decided to go back the way they'd come.

Back in the corridor they walked to the second door on the right, opened it up and walked inside. They finally found the kitchen, Shego was somewhat mad that she didn't know this short cut through the house earlier.

It was a large room, the walls covered with a multitude of cupboards, with two other doors leading off; one of which she could plainly see lead outside. There was a large cooker on one wall next to the sink and a small dinning table with four chairs.

"I know where this door leads," Shego went over to one door and pulled it open. Rose followed as they walked into a large storage room, which doubled as a wash room. A large freezer stood on one wall, next to that was a washing machine and tumble dyer. The other walls were covered in shelves filled with boxes of dried food, both human and Pokemon. They left the room and went back into the kitchen.

"Have you been in the backyard, yet?" Rose asked.

"No, I've been stuck in the basement with Drakken," Shego looked around the kitchen, a sinking feeling that something wasn't right. "I don't leave there except to eat and sleep. Now that there's more to the house and since you're here, I won't be down in the Laboratory that often."

"Maybe," Rose nodded hopefully. "I know Drakken wouldn't be that cruel and cold-hearted to not let you do anything. Heck, I know I'd let you do whatever, this was my house before he bought it."

Shego smiled, it wasn't evil or mad; just content and happy. So the world domination didn't go wonderfully as planned, the hostage was a definite good idea. Having someone new around just to talk and share problems was fun.

§To Be Continued§