A/N: I was originally just going to make Elevator Entourage a one-shot,
but I just couldn't resist writing this 'sequel'. I hope you like it!
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"What are you whining about? It's just an elevator!" Percival argued with the blonde-haired knight in front of the open elevator doors.
Borus glared at the dark-haired knight beside him. "I'm not whining! You try being stranded forever in a crammed elevator. Let's just take the stairs."
"As I understand it, you were stuck in the elevator for a grand total of twenty minutes. That's hardly forever."
"It felt like forever."
"We have to take the elevator, otherwise we're going to be late for Salome's meeting. Besides, that all happened weeks ago! What are the chances of it happening again? You have got to get over this claustrophobia," Percival pointed out.
"I'm not claustrophobic!"
"Excuse me, but are you two tin-heads going into the elevator, or are you just going to block the entrance-way and bicker like some old married couple?"
The two knights turned to see Caesar standing behind them with his arms crossed.
Borus looked as though he were about to run the cheeky redhead through with his sword, but Percival moved aside from the elevator entrance, and came between Borus and Caesar.
However as Caesar passed them, Percival scowled at him. "You may be a reliable tactician from a renowned family, but you're still young and obligated to show those with authority the respect they deserve. Watch your tongue in the future."
"Shut it, gale boy. I don't have to stay in this hole of a castle you know. I'm helping you hopeless lot out of the goodness of my heart," Caesar replied without so much as looking at Percival.
"Why you-" Forgetting his phobia, Borus sprinted into the elevator to tackle Caesar, and Percival followed, and tried to hold Borus back.
"Hello! Have you three come to ride around in this little room too?"
The scuffle stopped as Borus, Percival, and Caesar all turned to see the elder Viki.
"Viki, what are doing here?" Caesar asked.
"This room is magic! When the doors shut and open again, you'll turn up in a different place! It's just like teleporting! I've been riding in it all morning."
The three exchanged glances.
"It's called an elevator, Viki." Percival said slowly to the girl.
"The magic room's name is Elevator? How strange."
"Argh, I'm out of this wretched elevator," Borus stated, and turned to leave.
Viki spoke up in protest. "That's not very nice Sir Borus. You might hurt Elevator's feelings."
Borus was just about out of the elevator when he crashed into something very solid. Backing up a little he saw he had just walked into Hallec.
"Sorry! I didn't mean to get in your way, my son!!! WAHHHHH!!!" The large man walked into the elevator, unintentionally pushing Borus back into Percival.
Right after Hallec entered, Cecile ran in. The little dog, Koroku, was at her heels, panting happily.
"Don't close the doors yet!" she called. "I have to go upstairs and find Thomas to give him the latest report."
"Right, let's get this rickety excuse for a lift moving," Caesar said, pushing the 'up' button on the elevator as Cecile and Koroku ran in.
Borus stiffened and tried not to show his discomfort, as he was standing in the middle of the elevator surrounded by six other people and a dog.
The elevator ascended smoothly for the first few seconds, and Borus suddenly realized something.
"Does anyone know where Shizu is?"
"Oh yeah," Cecile said. "She's acting in one of Nadir's plays. She didn't want to do it, but Nadir really had his heart set on her doing the part." She shrugged.
"But what will we do if-"
"Borus," Percival interrupted, "We're already halfway there. The elevator is not going to st-"
Percival was cut off as there was a loud clanking noise and the elevator came to a jerky halt.
There was a moment of silence.
Koroku whimpered. "Aroo?"
"Uh-oh." Viki said finally. "Sir Borus, I think you made Elevator upset."
"No..." Borus muttered. "Not again, please!"
"WUAAAHHHHHHHH!!? What's going on!!!" Hallec shouted.
"I'm sure it's just a temporary glitch. It will probably start moving again in a second..." Percival said with a hopeful shrug.
"I wouldn't count on it," Caesar replied, shaking his head.
Borus grabbed Caesar by the shirt. "You! How do we get out of here???"
"How would I know? I'm a battle strategist, not an elevator repair man! Let go!"
"You claim you have the brains to get us out of any sticky situation, so get us out of here!" Borus cried, shaking Caesar.
Percival grabbed Borus and pulled him off of Caesar. "Borus, get a grip!"
"I hate it in here!" the claustrophobic knight cried.
"Wait I do have an idea," said Caesar calmly.
"You do?" Borus asked, all the aggression leaving his face.
"I do. Listen carefully. First, you stand in the middle of the elevator... Percival, and Hallec will stand on one side, Viki, Cecile and I will stand on the other."
Borus was listening intently. "And then what?"
"And then we grab a hold of you, flip you horizontally, and use your thick head as a battering ram to open these elevator doors."
Borus felt a twitch developing under his eye, and it was all he could do not to rip the spiky haired punk apart then and there.
"How is it that I end up stranded in the elevator with yet another wisecracker?" Borus growled. "And I thought no one could surpass Nash in arrogance or sarcasm."
"I have a question," Viki said suddenly.
They all turned and looked at her.
"Don't you think we might hurt Sir Borus if we ram his head into the doors?" she asked airily.
Borus looked as though he were going to explode with rage, although Caesar and Percival looked as though they were suppressing a laugh.
"Um... Viki," Cecile said softly.
Viki looked thoroughly confused. "Huh?"
"That's it!" cried Percival. "Viki, you can teleport us out!"
"Isn't Elevator teleporting us?"
"Just get us out of here!" Borus cried.
"Out of where?"
"The elevator!"
"You want me to teleport Elevator?" Viki asked, blinking.
"WAAHHHHHHH!" cried Hallec suddenly.
"I hear you Hallec," said Percival, rubbing his forehead. "I'm feeling the same way right now."
"Look, Viki, all you have to do, is teleport the seven of us out of 'Elevator' and back into the castle," Cecile said slowly.
But Viki wasn't listening. Her face was contorted in a strange expression, and her mouth was open.
"She's... She's going to sneeze!" Cecile cried.
"Oh no..." said Percival and Borus together.
"WAAAAAAAHHH!"
"ARROOOOOOOO!"
Then it happened. "AH-CHOOO!"
Next thing Borus knew, he was face-first on the elevator floor and there was a very heavy weight on top of him... Something feathery.
"Kueeee???"
"Borus!" Pericval called. "Are you okay?! When Viki sneezed, it looks like she teleported Fubar in here."
The elevator was now so full now that the large griffon was in it that barely anyone could move.
"Kueeeee!" cried the confused griffon.
"Mmmmph!" Borus' cries were muffled, and he was unable to breathe.
"Oh, hi Fubar!" called Viki happily, "What are you doing in here?"
"This is just great!" Caesar exclaimed. "I'm trapped in an elevator with a bunch of birdbrains!"
"KUEEEE!"
"I'm sure he didn't mean it as a personal insult to you, Fubar," Cecile patted the griffon on the beak.
"MMMMPH!" called Borus from somewhere under the griffon.
"I wonder what's wrong with Sir Borus?" Viki wondered aloud.
"Stop standing around and help me get this griffon off of Borus. He can't breathe!" Percival called at the others, pushing Fubar with both hands, but having no success in moving him.
Cecile put her arms around the griffon's neck and pulled in the direction Percival was pushing, but there wasn't enough room for the griffon to move.
Hallec grabbed the griffon around the middle and with the help of Cecile and Percival, lifted the Griffon off of Borus.
The young knight gasped for air, and he looked as though he was about to have a nervous breakdown.
"I. Must. Get. OUT OF HERE!"
He grabbed one of Hallec's axes and started hacking madly at the elevator door. This proved to be quite dangerous, because each time he swung the axe, the others had to move to keep from being hit by it. It was even more difficult being that there was barely any room to move.
"Ah.ah-ah--!" Viki looked like she was going to sneeze again.
"Nooo! Viki please, no more!" shouted Cecile.
"Arooooo! Arooooo!" Koroku was howling, confused and frightened at the ruckus going on around him.
"WAAHHHHHHHH! Give back my axe!" Hallec yelled at Borus.
"AHHH-CHOOOOOO!" sneezed Viki.
There was a great jolt in the elevator and everyone lost their balance, crashing into the person (or animal) next to them. However, when the elevator stopped shaking, there were still only the eight of them in the elevator.
Borus still hacked frantically at the elevator doors with the axe, and as the others watched him, they truly worried that the unfortunate man had lost his sanity.
Finally the elevator doors gave way and the eight of them tumbled out - into the courtyard's fountain.
Once again, Borus found himself being crushed. This time, it was by six people, a dog, and a griffon, and to top it off, he was drowning at the bottom of the fountain.
"Borus is drowning! Quick, everyone get off!" Cecile cried from somewhere within the mass of bodies.
"Remove your elbow from my stomach, and I would be glad to oblige," choked Caesar.
"When Viki sneezed that last time, she must have teleported the entire elevator into the courtyard!" Percival cried.
"KUEEEE!"
"WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!" exclaimed Hallec for what must have been the hundredth time.
"Arroooooo!" Koroku squirmed out of the stack of bodies and splashed around in the fountain.
After another minute or so of complete chaos, they finally managed to crawl out of the fountain, and save Borus from a watery death.
"Borus are you alright?" Percival kneeled beside Borus, who was laying on the ground, gasping for breath.
"Do you think his mind snapped?" Caesar asked with a smirk.
"It's not funny! What if he really did snap?" Cecile asked, fearfully.
Percival was still concentrating on Borus. "Borus, how many fingers am I holding up?"
Borus raised an eyebrow, as Percival wasn't even holding up his hand. "None."
Percival nodded. "Where were we going just now?"
"To Salome's meeting."
"I know now isn't the time for me to break this to you, but you must know. Nash and Chris eloped."
Borus bolted upright. "What?!? That dirty, conceited, bigamous, hooligan! I'll have his head for deceiving Lady Chris!" However, when Borus saw Percival's grin, he fell silent and realized Percival had been only been testing him.
Percival smirked and looked back at the others. "Yeah, he's alright."
Caesar raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure?"
Percival nodded. "Positive."
"Well I guess we should go report this accident to Master Thomas," Cecile sighed.
They were all about to leave when Viki spoke up.
"I have a question."
"Yes Viki, what is it?" asked Cecile.
Viki pointed at the broken-down, displaced elevator. "Shouldn't we take Elevator to the infirmary?"
They didn't even bother to answer her, and they walked away, leaving Viki pointing at the elevator sitting in the middle of the courtyard's fountain.
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A/N: Once again, this was written late at night when everything sounds like a good idea for a fic. I think it was a good deal crazier than the first one though. 0_ o No one is going to believe I like Borus as a character after reading this... But I do, really! I like Borus a lot! It's just... Well as I stated in another one of my fics, is fun to write about him getting into a jam.
Anyway, I hope you liked this okay, leave me a (friendly) review to let me know!
Thanks for reading!
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"What are you whining about? It's just an elevator!" Percival argued with the blonde-haired knight in front of the open elevator doors.
Borus glared at the dark-haired knight beside him. "I'm not whining! You try being stranded forever in a crammed elevator. Let's just take the stairs."
"As I understand it, you were stuck in the elevator for a grand total of twenty minutes. That's hardly forever."
"It felt like forever."
"We have to take the elevator, otherwise we're going to be late for Salome's meeting. Besides, that all happened weeks ago! What are the chances of it happening again? You have got to get over this claustrophobia," Percival pointed out.
"I'm not claustrophobic!"
"Excuse me, but are you two tin-heads going into the elevator, or are you just going to block the entrance-way and bicker like some old married couple?"
The two knights turned to see Caesar standing behind them with his arms crossed.
Borus looked as though he were about to run the cheeky redhead through with his sword, but Percival moved aside from the elevator entrance, and came between Borus and Caesar.
However as Caesar passed them, Percival scowled at him. "You may be a reliable tactician from a renowned family, but you're still young and obligated to show those with authority the respect they deserve. Watch your tongue in the future."
"Shut it, gale boy. I don't have to stay in this hole of a castle you know. I'm helping you hopeless lot out of the goodness of my heart," Caesar replied without so much as looking at Percival.
"Why you-" Forgetting his phobia, Borus sprinted into the elevator to tackle Caesar, and Percival followed, and tried to hold Borus back.
"Hello! Have you three come to ride around in this little room too?"
The scuffle stopped as Borus, Percival, and Caesar all turned to see the elder Viki.
"Viki, what are doing here?" Caesar asked.
"This room is magic! When the doors shut and open again, you'll turn up in a different place! It's just like teleporting! I've been riding in it all morning."
The three exchanged glances.
"It's called an elevator, Viki." Percival said slowly to the girl.
"The magic room's name is Elevator? How strange."
"Argh, I'm out of this wretched elevator," Borus stated, and turned to leave.
Viki spoke up in protest. "That's not very nice Sir Borus. You might hurt Elevator's feelings."
Borus was just about out of the elevator when he crashed into something very solid. Backing up a little he saw he had just walked into Hallec.
"Sorry! I didn't mean to get in your way, my son!!! WAHHHHH!!!" The large man walked into the elevator, unintentionally pushing Borus back into Percival.
Right after Hallec entered, Cecile ran in. The little dog, Koroku, was at her heels, panting happily.
"Don't close the doors yet!" she called. "I have to go upstairs and find Thomas to give him the latest report."
"Right, let's get this rickety excuse for a lift moving," Caesar said, pushing the 'up' button on the elevator as Cecile and Koroku ran in.
Borus stiffened and tried not to show his discomfort, as he was standing in the middle of the elevator surrounded by six other people and a dog.
The elevator ascended smoothly for the first few seconds, and Borus suddenly realized something.
"Does anyone know where Shizu is?"
"Oh yeah," Cecile said. "She's acting in one of Nadir's plays. She didn't want to do it, but Nadir really had his heart set on her doing the part." She shrugged.
"But what will we do if-"
"Borus," Percival interrupted, "We're already halfway there. The elevator is not going to st-"
Percival was cut off as there was a loud clanking noise and the elevator came to a jerky halt.
There was a moment of silence.
Koroku whimpered. "Aroo?"
"Uh-oh." Viki said finally. "Sir Borus, I think you made Elevator upset."
"No..." Borus muttered. "Not again, please!"
"WUAAAHHHHHHHH!!? What's going on!!!" Hallec shouted.
"I'm sure it's just a temporary glitch. It will probably start moving again in a second..." Percival said with a hopeful shrug.
"I wouldn't count on it," Caesar replied, shaking his head.
Borus grabbed Caesar by the shirt. "You! How do we get out of here???"
"How would I know? I'm a battle strategist, not an elevator repair man! Let go!"
"You claim you have the brains to get us out of any sticky situation, so get us out of here!" Borus cried, shaking Caesar.
Percival grabbed Borus and pulled him off of Caesar. "Borus, get a grip!"
"I hate it in here!" the claustrophobic knight cried.
"Wait I do have an idea," said Caesar calmly.
"You do?" Borus asked, all the aggression leaving his face.
"I do. Listen carefully. First, you stand in the middle of the elevator... Percival, and Hallec will stand on one side, Viki, Cecile and I will stand on the other."
Borus was listening intently. "And then what?"
"And then we grab a hold of you, flip you horizontally, and use your thick head as a battering ram to open these elevator doors."
Borus felt a twitch developing under his eye, and it was all he could do not to rip the spiky haired punk apart then and there.
"How is it that I end up stranded in the elevator with yet another wisecracker?" Borus growled. "And I thought no one could surpass Nash in arrogance or sarcasm."
"I have a question," Viki said suddenly.
They all turned and looked at her.
"Don't you think we might hurt Sir Borus if we ram his head into the doors?" she asked airily.
Borus looked as though he were going to explode with rage, although Caesar and Percival looked as though they were suppressing a laugh.
"Um... Viki," Cecile said softly.
Viki looked thoroughly confused. "Huh?"
"That's it!" cried Percival. "Viki, you can teleport us out!"
"Isn't Elevator teleporting us?"
"Just get us out of here!" Borus cried.
"Out of where?"
"The elevator!"
"You want me to teleport Elevator?" Viki asked, blinking.
"WAAHHHHHHH!" cried Hallec suddenly.
"I hear you Hallec," said Percival, rubbing his forehead. "I'm feeling the same way right now."
"Look, Viki, all you have to do, is teleport the seven of us out of 'Elevator' and back into the castle," Cecile said slowly.
But Viki wasn't listening. Her face was contorted in a strange expression, and her mouth was open.
"She's... She's going to sneeze!" Cecile cried.
"Oh no..." said Percival and Borus together.
"WAAAAAAAHHH!"
"ARROOOOOOOO!"
Then it happened. "AH-CHOOO!"
Next thing Borus knew, he was face-first on the elevator floor and there was a very heavy weight on top of him... Something feathery.
"Kueeee???"
"Borus!" Pericval called. "Are you okay?! When Viki sneezed, it looks like she teleported Fubar in here."
The elevator was now so full now that the large griffon was in it that barely anyone could move.
"Kueeeee!" cried the confused griffon.
"Mmmmph!" Borus' cries were muffled, and he was unable to breathe.
"Oh, hi Fubar!" called Viki happily, "What are you doing in here?"
"This is just great!" Caesar exclaimed. "I'm trapped in an elevator with a bunch of birdbrains!"
"KUEEEE!"
"I'm sure he didn't mean it as a personal insult to you, Fubar," Cecile patted the griffon on the beak.
"MMMMPH!" called Borus from somewhere under the griffon.
"I wonder what's wrong with Sir Borus?" Viki wondered aloud.
"Stop standing around and help me get this griffon off of Borus. He can't breathe!" Percival called at the others, pushing Fubar with both hands, but having no success in moving him.
Cecile put her arms around the griffon's neck and pulled in the direction Percival was pushing, but there wasn't enough room for the griffon to move.
Hallec grabbed the griffon around the middle and with the help of Cecile and Percival, lifted the Griffon off of Borus.
The young knight gasped for air, and he looked as though he was about to have a nervous breakdown.
"I. Must. Get. OUT OF HERE!"
He grabbed one of Hallec's axes and started hacking madly at the elevator door. This proved to be quite dangerous, because each time he swung the axe, the others had to move to keep from being hit by it. It was even more difficult being that there was barely any room to move.
"Ah.ah-ah--!" Viki looked like she was going to sneeze again.
"Nooo! Viki please, no more!" shouted Cecile.
"Arooooo! Arooooo!" Koroku was howling, confused and frightened at the ruckus going on around him.
"WAAHHHHHHHH! Give back my axe!" Hallec yelled at Borus.
"AHHH-CHOOOOOO!" sneezed Viki.
There was a great jolt in the elevator and everyone lost their balance, crashing into the person (or animal) next to them. However, when the elevator stopped shaking, there were still only the eight of them in the elevator.
Borus still hacked frantically at the elevator doors with the axe, and as the others watched him, they truly worried that the unfortunate man had lost his sanity.
Finally the elevator doors gave way and the eight of them tumbled out - into the courtyard's fountain.
Once again, Borus found himself being crushed. This time, it was by six people, a dog, and a griffon, and to top it off, he was drowning at the bottom of the fountain.
"Borus is drowning! Quick, everyone get off!" Cecile cried from somewhere within the mass of bodies.
"Remove your elbow from my stomach, and I would be glad to oblige," choked Caesar.
"When Viki sneezed that last time, she must have teleported the entire elevator into the courtyard!" Percival cried.
"KUEEEE!"
"WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!" exclaimed Hallec for what must have been the hundredth time.
"Arroooooo!" Koroku squirmed out of the stack of bodies and splashed around in the fountain.
After another minute or so of complete chaos, they finally managed to crawl out of the fountain, and save Borus from a watery death.
"Borus are you alright?" Percival kneeled beside Borus, who was laying on the ground, gasping for breath.
"Do you think his mind snapped?" Caesar asked with a smirk.
"It's not funny! What if he really did snap?" Cecile asked, fearfully.
Percival was still concentrating on Borus. "Borus, how many fingers am I holding up?"
Borus raised an eyebrow, as Percival wasn't even holding up his hand. "None."
Percival nodded. "Where were we going just now?"
"To Salome's meeting."
"I know now isn't the time for me to break this to you, but you must know. Nash and Chris eloped."
Borus bolted upright. "What?!? That dirty, conceited, bigamous, hooligan! I'll have his head for deceiving Lady Chris!" However, when Borus saw Percival's grin, he fell silent and realized Percival had been only been testing him.
Percival smirked and looked back at the others. "Yeah, he's alright."
Caesar raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure?"
Percival nodded. "Positive."
"Well I guess we should go report this accident to Master Thomas," Cecile sighed.
They were all about to leave when Viki spoke up.
"I have a question."
"Yes Viki, what is it?" asked Cecile.
Viki pointed at the broken-down, displaced elevator. "Shouldn't we take Elevator to the infirmary?"
They didn't even bother to answer her, and they walked away, leaving Viki pointing at the elevator sitting in the middle of the courtyard's fountain.
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A/N: Once again, this was written late at night when everything sounds like a good idea for a fic. I think it was a good deal crazier than the first one though. 0_ o No one is going to believe I like Borus as a character after reading this... But I do, really! I like Borus a lot! It's just... Well as I stated in another one of my fics, is fun to write about him getting into a jam.
Anyway, I hope you liked this okay, leave me a (friendly) review to let me know!
Thanks for reading!