Forced Emotions
A New Challenge
"AAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!" Mint and Rue yelled as they stumbled onto the kitchen's floor. Some cold and wet substance had fallen ALL over them. Both trying as hard as they could to stand, (scrambling upward, but slipping onto one another,) the royal princess and doll-boy, (hehe!:) finally gave up, not noticing the two laughing voices that came from the kitchen's darkness until they calmed down.
"HAHAHA!!!!!!!" the two now familiar voices howled as you could hear some thumps go down where Mint and Rue nealed. Mint, (getting another one of her crazy ideas,) flung herself forward which led into a tumble, and then whirled around, her Dual Haloes performing a new type of magic that lit up the whole room in a bright blue for a split second, then darkened as Mint froze the laughing Claire and Rod with the kind of ice magic. Flipping on the lights, Mint went to help Rue up by offering him her hand. Rue tryed to get himself up, even with the help of Mint, but he just slipped backward, bringing Mint down with him, (right, on, top, of, him...) Blushing, Mint started yelling at Rue.
"YOU KLUTZ!!!!!!!!!!" yelled Mint, strugleing to get up, but just fell back onto Rue.
"S-sorry...." Rue said, blushing a lot along with Mint. Still strugleing, (and not letting Rue the Klutz help her,) Mint tryed again, but landed only a VERY CLOSE few inches away from Rue's face. For that split second, they both just gazed into the other's eyes, not breatheing or blinking........
"?! Rod and Claire!" Mint brought up, rolling off to the side. THAT was a mistake... Mint knocked into the frozen Rod, and he began to tower over Mint. Now, Mint would have probably had some major injuries, if it wasn't for a flash of light that made the frozen Rod stay upright. Turning her head, Mint stared at Rue, who once again saved her life.
"...W-what was that?" Mint asked, creeped at how Rue could have saved her while still lying on the slippery floor.
"I don't know...." Rue trailed off, even though he had a theory about what just happened.
"Whatever. Let's get these clowns out of this ice, Dual Haloes!" Mint commanded, starting up a special kind of fire magic that easily melted Rod and Claire, both of them falling to the floor, unconscious.
"Mint, i've never seen any magic that you have been useing lately before," Rue said, him and Mint helping the unconscious jokers to their feet.
"I'll tell you later. Let's just take these two ta bed," Mint answered, taking Claire's arm around her neck and dragging her off to her wing of the castle.
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"hehehe...." Mint and Rue giggled, gathering 'supplies' to get their friends back for dumping two full buckets of chocolate syrup mixed with ice cream on them.
"hehehe! They won't know what happened to them in the morning!" Mint whispered excitedly, taking some whip cream and covering Rod's face with it, then handing the bottle to Rue, who took it and molded it onto Claire's face.
"Next, two slices of oranges!" Mint commanded as Rue got the split orange out of a bag.
"Oranges!" Rue whispered back, giving one of the slices to Mint and keeping one to himself. The two slid the oranges into their companions mouthes, giggling at how stupid they looked because the peelings were still on the orange, making them look some what like monkeys.
"Now, wheres the red marker?" Mint asked, pulling it out of the bag. "hehehe....." Mint giggled, wiping some of the whip cream off of Rod's cheek and drawing a realistic lip-print on it, doing the same to his other cheek and forehead.
"Oh man!" Rue said, ready to burst out laughing, but covering up his mouthe, afraid that he would wake up the sleeping criminals.
"Here," Mint whispered, (almost ready to burst like Rue,) handing the marker to Rue.
"What should I do with it?" Rue asked, not knowing what on Earth he could do to Claire with it.
"Make some lips on Claire's orange, and put a big red spot on her neck, but small enough so that it looked like it came from Rod's mouth!" Mint giggled out, making Rue's eyes bulge out.
"No way! I'm not gonna give Claire a hiccie, (hick-ee,) even if it's fake!" Rue whispered, although he did it anyway after Mint threatened to freeze him too and do the same.
"What next?" Mint asked, getting tired of doing all the thinking.
"How about this?" Rue whispered, pulling out a long sausage link.
"Perfect!" Mint whispered with glee, her and Rue wrapping the sausage around Rod and Claire, making them lay and touch each other side by side on the bed, looking like they were a cute couple.
"hehehe!" Mint and Rue giggled, thinking that they better get back to sleep, gathering up their only evidence that led them to this hilarious crime and throwing it in a trashcan.
"Let's go!" Mint whispered, running out of the room and down the hall with Rue following her.
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"HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!" Mint and Rue burst out with laughter as they both went out onto a balcony in the hallway, both stumbling over one another but only laughing harder as they went falling to the ground, rolling on their backs.
"That was so fun! Do you do stuff like that around here?!" Rue asked loudly, continueing to laugh.
"HAHAHA!!! Heck yeah! I wouldn't be here if I didn't have the guts to do these kinda pranks!!!" Mint responded.
"Hehe-hehe! Really?! I've never done anything like that before in my life!" Rue said, his and Mint's laughter slowly fadeing away.
"Really?" Mint asked, but then again considering after she spoke that Rue was just a calm, quiet person, not a reckless, loud person like herself.
"Yeah..." Rue trailed off, putting his hands behind his head and looking up at the clear summer sky.
"Phew..... That was tireing..." Mint said, getting in the same position as Rue.
"No kidding. I thought I was tired after dinner, but that laughing makes you really exhausted," Rue added. A nice peaceful silence went on. There were only a few sounds that could reach Mint and Rue's ears, and that was the cricketing of bugs, the rustling of sleeping animals, and the steady breatheing of the two teenagers. Mint found the hardly noticeable sounds were soothing, and nearly fell asleep until Rue started talking.
"Heh, hey Mint? Y'know, you remind me of-" Rue started, but stopped when he heard Mint talking very silently to herself.
"-A girl, that I, once knew. I see her face everytime, I look, at you......" Mint began softly singing the song that her mother had sung to her when she was little, (hey, they don't have cd's and people like Usher!) Waiting for Mint to finish, Rue just gazed adoreingly at Mint, wondering if anyone could see the gentle, kind girl that he knew, instead of the rude, persistant princess everyone was used to.
Seeing that Rue was waiting patiently so he could continue talking, Mint stopped. "Sorry, it's just that my mother had sung that song to me when I was little, and you reminded me of it. I have forgotten all about it, until you just sparked my memory," Mint said, in a way thanking Rue for reminding her.
"Oh...." Rue said, not wanting to get Mint angry or make her cry when reminded of her mother.
"What were you going to say?" Mint asked.
"Huh? Oh, I was just gonna say: you remind me of, (this may sound silly,) but you remind me of the stars for some reason...." Rue choked out, not wanting to sound corny.
"Really?" Mint asked, turning towards Rue. "How so?"
"Well, it must be the way you can always look up into the night sky, and there you see millions of stars, gleaming their brightest, but one star always sticks out. It could be brighter, darker, shinier, or dimmer, but you'll always see it. Now, compare that with our world, everyone being a star. We all have different personalities, our own looks, our own lives. You were the one star that stuck out to me, Mint. When I first met you a year ago, you seemed normal, just like everyone else. You had your own personality, you had looks that expressed your personality, and you also had that pretty normal looking life of yours. But as I got to know you better, you seemed different everytime I saw you. I don't know why, but I sensed something different about you. You had a great personality, you looked like you would take on anything to get the [relic], and your life just seemed so adventurous, but then, when I came back after you wanted everyone to be here, something changed...." Rue trailed off, leaning up, resting his arms on the ground and continueing to look at the sky. "But, I just don't know what happened. Your soul just seemed to be so happy and spirited, then changed into something...I don't know... not you, I guess. Is there anything wrong? Was there something so wrong that you needed all of us to support you? Please tell me, Mint," Rue finished, laying his deep, concerned brown eyes on Mint's beautiful, clever auburn ones.
"Wow... Never considered myself a star... But... Yeah, you're right. Something isn't right...... Do you think you can wait until tommorow? When I tell everyone what's up?" Mint asked, feeling as if she was falling into Rue's enchanting eyes.
"I-I guess so..." Rue stammered, returning his gaze toward the sky. Lost in his trance, Rue nearly jumped straight up when Mint's hand found his.
"Let's get to bed. I'll show you your room," Mint said, smiling the smile that made Rue blush, panic, and quiver, all at once.
"Alright..." Rue whispered, wanting to stay and talk with Mint for hours, even though he was too tired to even stand up.
"Good. I'm beat! Let's go!" Mint said, getting up and yanking Rue's hand with her, making him stagger up with her.
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"Well, here's your room!" Mint announced, opening a heavy wooden door that led to Rue' sleeping quarters.
"Whoa...." Rue said, looking with big eyes around at his new surroundings. A what seemed to be wooden sleigh bed was by the wall that lay before them when they first entered, covered with blankets designed with green, silver, and white swirls. The same kind of wood made up a desk with a green wooden chair to go with it, with a beautiful vase that had freshly picked roses in it, a huge dresser that had two huge handles that opened up like a door, two nightstands that were on both sides of the king sized bed, both having a oil lamp on them, and another two doors that probably led to a closet and bathroom.
"THIS is a GUEST bedroom?!" Rue finally asked, coming out of his state of astonishment.
"Yeah, pretty cheap, huh?" Mint said seriously, leaning against the door frame, arms folded over her chest.
"You mean you have even MORE furnishings in your room?!?!" Rue exclaimed, not seeing how any room could be better than this one he was standing in.
"Duhhh, I'm royalty. I get waaay cooler stuff than you do," Mint said, finally sounding tired.
"No way....." Rue said, thinking of how stupid he must seem to Mint. Rue had been used to a nice single cot with a nightstand and small dresser, not like this pampered room.
"*yawn* I'm gonna go to sleep. My room's just down the hall, to you right. Last door at the end of the hallway," Mint said, turning to leave.
"Thanks, and goodnight.... Mint," Rue said as he watched the girl he loved walk out his door.
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A/N: I know, i probably talked waaay too much in this chapter, but just wait until the next one! *grins evily at the possibilities of making you read boring conversations* Thanks for reading, now start reviewing already! I'll post chapter 9, *squels with joy and pats self on back,* as soon as i finish it. Bye-bye 4 now!
~FirePheonix33
A New Challenge
"AAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!" Mint and Rue yelled as they stumbled onto the kitchen's floor. Some cold and wet substance had fallen ALL over them. Both trying as hard as they could to stand, (scrambling upward, but slipping onto one another,) the royal princess and doll-boy, (hehe!:) finally gave up, not noticing the two laughing voices that came from the kitchen's darkness until they calmed down.
"HAHAHA!!!!!!!" the two now familiar voices howled as you could hear some thumps go down where Mint and Rue nealed. Mint, (getting another one of her crazy ideas,) flung herself forward which led into a tumble, and then whirled around, her Dual Haloes performing a new type of magic that lit up the whole room in a bright blue for a split second, then darkened as Mint froze the laughing Claire and Rod with the kind of ice magic. Flipping on the lights, Mint went to help Rue up by offering him her hand. Rue tryed to get himself up, even with the help of Mint, but he just slipped backward, bringing Mint down with him, (right, on, top, of, him...) Blushing, Mint started yelling at Rue.
"YOU KLUTZ!!!!!!!!!!" yelled Mint, strugleing to get up, but just fell back onto Rue.
"S-sorry...." Rue said, blushing a lot along with Mint. Still strugleing, (and not letting Rue the Klutz help her,) Mint tryed again, but landed only a VERY CLOSE few inches away from Rue's face. For that split second, they both just gazed into the other's eyes, not breatheing or blinking........
"?! Rod and Claire!" Mint brought up, rolling off to the side. THAT was a mistake... Mint knocked into the frozen Rod, and he began to tower over Mint. Now, Mint would have probably had some major injuries, if it wasn't for a flash of light that made the frozen Rod stay upright. Turning her head, Mint stared at Rue, who once again saved her life.
"...W-what was that?" Mint asked, creeped at how Rue could have saved her while still lying on the slippery floor.
"I don't know...." Rue trailed off, even though he had a theory about what just happened.
"Whatever. Let's get these clowns out of this ice, Dual Haloes!" Mint commanded, starting up a special kind of fire magic that easily melted Rod and Claire, both of them falling to the floor, unconscious.
"Mint, i've never seen any magic that you have been useing lately before," Rue said, him and Mint helping the unconscious jokers to their feet.
"I'll tell you later. Let's just take these two ta bed," Mint answered, taking Claire's arm around her neck and dragging her off to her wing of the castle.
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"hehehe...." Mint and Rue giggled, gathering 'supplies' to get their friends back for dumping two full buckets of chocolate syrup mixed with ice cream on them.
"hehehe! They won't know what happened to them in the morning!" Mint whispered excitedly, taking some whip cream and covering Rod's face with it, then handing the bottle to Rue, who took it and molded it onto Claire's face.
"Next, two slices of oranges!" Mint commanded as Rue got the split orange out of a bag.
"Oranges!" Rue whispered back, giving one of the slices to Mint and keeping one to himself. The two slid the oranges into their companions mouthes, giggling at how stupid they looked because the peelings were still on the orange, making them look some what like monkeys.
"Now, wheres the red marker?" Mint asked, pulling it out of the bag. "hehehe....." Mint giggled, wiping some of the whip cream off of Rod's cheek and drawing a realistic lip-print on it, doing the same to his other cheek and forehead.
"Oh man!" Rue said, ready to burst out laughing, but covering up his mouthe, afraid that he would wake up the sleeping criminals.
"Here," Mint whispered, (almost ready to burst like Rue,) handing the marker to Rue.
"What should I do with it?" Rue asked, not knowing what on Earth he could do to Claire with it.
"Make some lips on Claire's orange, and put a big red spot on her neck, but small enough so that it looked like it came from Rod's mouth!" Mint giggled out, making Rue's eyes bulge out.
"No way! I'm not gonna give Claire a hiccie, (hick-ee,) even if it's fake!" Rue whispered, although he did it anyway after Mint threatened to freeze him too and do the same.
"What next?" Mint asked, getting tired of doing all the thinking.
"How about this?" Rue whispered, pulling out a long sausage link.
"Perfect!" Mint whispered with glee, her and Rue wrapping the sausage around Rod and Claire, making them lay and touch each other side by side on the bed, looking like they were a cute couple.
"hehehe!" Mint and Rue giggled, thinking that they better get back to sleep, gathering up their only evidence that led them to this hilarious crime and throwing it in a trashcan.
"Let's go!" Mint whispered, running out of the room and down the hall with Rue following her.
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"HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!" Mint and Rue burst out with laughter as they both went out onto a balcony in the hallway, both stumbling over one another but only laughing harder as they went falling to the ground, rolling on their backs.
"That was so fun! Do you do stuff like that around here?!" Rue asked loudly, continueing to laugh.
"HAHAHA!!! Heck yeah! I wouldn't be here if I didn't have the guts to do these kinda pranks!!!" Mint responded.
"Hehe-hehe! Really?! I've never done anything like that before in my life!" Rue said, his and Mint's laughter slowly fadeing away.
"Really?" Mint asked, but then again considering after she spoke that Rue was just a calm, quiet person, not a reckless, loud person like herself.
"Yeah..." Rue trailed off, putting his hands behind his head and looking up at the clear summer sky.
"Phew..... That was tireing..." Mint said, getting in the same position as Rue.
"No kidding. I thought I was tired after dinner, but that laughing makes you really exhausted," Rue added. A nice peaceful silence went on. There were only a few sounds that could reach Mint and Rue's ears, and that was the cricketing of bugs, the rustling of sleeping animals, and the steady breatheing of the two teenagers. Mint found the hardly noticeable sounds were soothing, and nearly fell asleep until Rue started talking.
"Heh, hey Mint? Y'know, you remind me of-" Rue started, but stopped when he heard Mint talking very silently to herself.
"-A girl, that I, once knew. I see her face everytime, I look, at you......" Mint began softly singing the song that her mother had sung to her when she was little, (hey, they don't have cd's and people like Usher!) Waiting for Mint to finish, Rue just gazed adoreingly at Mint, wondering if anyone could see the gentle, kind girl that he knew, instead of the rude, persistant princess everyone was used to.
Seeing that Rue was waiting patiently so he could continue talking, Mint stopped. "Sorry, it's just that my mother had sung that song to me when I was little, and you reminded me of it. I have forgotten all about it, until you just sparked my memory," Mint said, in a way thanking Rue for reminding her.
"Oh...." Rue said, not wanting to get Mint angry or make her cry when reminded of her mother.
"What were you going to say?" Mint asked.
"Huh? Oh, I was just gonna say: you remind me of, (this may sound silly,) but you remind me of the stars for some reason...." Rue choked out, not wanting to sound corny.
"Really?" Mint asked, turning towards Rue. "How so?"
"Well, it must be the way you can always look up into the night sky, and there you see millions of stars, gleaming their brightest, but one star always sticks out. It could be brighter, darker, shinier, or dimmer, but you'll always see it. Now, compare that with our world, everyone being a star. We all have different personalities, our own looks, our own lives. You were the one star that stuck out to me, Mint. When I first met you a year ago, you seemed normal, just like everyone else. You had your own personality, you had looks that expressed your personality, and you also had that pretty normal looking life of yours. But as I got to know you better, you seemed different everytime I saw you. I don't know why, but I sensed something different about you. You had a great personality, you looked like you would take on anything to get the [relic], and your life just seemed so adventurous, but then, when I came back after you wanted everyone to be here, something changed...." Rue trailed off, leaning up, resting his arms on the ground and continueing to look at the sky. "But, I just don't know what happened. Your soul just seemed to be so happy and spirited, then changed into something...I don't know... not you, I guess. Is there anything wrong? Was there something so wrong that you needed all of us to support you? Please tell me, Mint," Rue finished, laying his deep, concerned brown eyes on Mint's beautiful, clever auburn ones.
"Wow... Never considered myself a star... But... Yeah, you're right. Something isn't right...... Do you think you can wait until tommorow? When I tell everyone what's up?" Mint asked, feeling as if she was falling into Rue's enchanting eyes.
"I-I guess so..." Rue stammered, returning his gaze toward the sky. Lost in his trance, Rue nearly jumped straight up when Mint's hand found his.
"Let's get to bed. I'll show you your room," Mint said, smiling the smile that made Rue blush, panic, and quiver, all at once.
"Alright..." Rue whispered, wanting to stay and talk with Mint for hours, even though he was too tired to even stand up.
"Good. I'm beat! Let's go!" Mint said, getting up and yanking Rue's hand with her, making him stagger up with her.
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"Well, here's your room!" Mint announced, opening a heavy wooden door that led to Rue' sleeping quarters.
"Whoa...." Rue said, looking with big eyes around at his new surroundings. A what seemed to be wooden sleigh bed was by the wall that lay before them when they first entered, covered with blankets designed with green, silver, and white swirls. The same kind of wood made up a desk with a green wooden chair to go with it, with a beautiful vase that had freshly picked roses in it, a huge dresser that had two huge handles that opened up like a door, two nightstands that were on both sides of the king sized bed, both having a oil lamp on them, and another two doors that probably led to a closet and bathroom.
"THIS is a GUEST bedroom?!" Rue finally asked, coming out of his state of astonishment.
"Yeah, pretty cheap, huh?" Mint said seriously, leaning against the door frame, arms folded over her chest.
"You mean you have even MORE furnishings in your room?!?!" Rue exclaimed, not seeing how any room could be better than this one he was standing in.
"Duhhh, I'm royalty. I get waaay cooler stuff than you do," Mint said, finally sounding tired.
"No way....." Rue said, thinking of how stupid he must seem to Mint. Rue had been used to a nice single cot with a nightstand and small dresser, not like this pampered room.
"*yawn* I'm gonna go to sleep. My room's just down the hall, to you right. Last door at the end of the hallway," Mint said, turning to leave.
"Thanks, and goodnight.... Mint," Rue said as he watched the girl he loved walk out his door.
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A/N: I know, i probably talked waaay too much in this chapter, but just wait until the next one! *grins evily at the possibilities of making you read boring conversations* Thanks for reading, now start reviewing already! I'll post chapter 9, *squels with joy and pats self on back,* as soon as i finish it. Bye-bye 4 now!
~FirePheonix33