Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon or Gundam Wing. I also don't own Alfred
Lord Tennyson's, The Lady of Shalott.
Duo ran throughout the mansion looking for the other boys. Running out of the kitchen area and into the living room, he saw the four other guys.
'Oh, so they didn't feel like coming to get me too, huh?' He thought as he sweatdropped. Quickly he ran over to the couches in which they were sitting on.
"Duo, where were you? We were looking all over the mansion, and we couldn't find you!" Quatre said as he stood up to greet the braided boy.
'Well it's good to know that one of them cares,' Duo thought again but quickly shoved that thought aside. "You guys have to come see this!" he cried pointing in the direction he had just come from.
"What's going on Duo?" Trowa questioned as he and the other boys stood up.
"I was chasing after the girls--."
"Still?"
"Shut up Wufei. As I was saying, I was chasing after the girls and they turned down this one hall and just disappeared. Stop!" Duo cried as he held his hand out in front of Wufei who had his mouth open and was ready to say something. Quickly he shut his mouth and glared at Duo.
"I walked down the hall that they disappeared down and searched through all of the rooms. When I came to this coat closet I figured that they would be hiding in there because that was the last door. When I opened the door and turned on the light, nothing was there. When I moved all of the coats aside to see if the girls were hiding behind them, I found this strange hole. It looked big enough for a girl to fit through and I think we could fit through it too if we tried hard enough."
"I am not going to squeeze my ass down some dusty old hole in a wall," Heero said as he glared at the red faced Duo.
"Well why not?!" Duo cried out in frustration. "We don't even know what's down there! There could be some sort of secret down there, and we could find out what it was," Duo looked at the guys hopefully. His eyes rested on Heero and he said, "We could find the girls because they're obviously down there."
"I'm in," Heero quickly and coldly. He wanted to get his hands on the girl with the blue dress. Nobody touches his belongings without his permission, let alone violates it and get away with it.
Quatre sighed. "If it will make you happy Duo, then I will go as well. But you have to promise that you'll keep your mouth mostly closed while we're down there."
"I promise Q-man! Trowa? Wufei? What do you say? Come on, you know you want to find some secret down there," Duo bribed eyeing the two silent boys.
"Whatever," Trowa said as he nodded his head as a way of showing that he would go. What the hell, why not find out some stupid secret? And it will probably keep Duo off of their tails for at least 1 week.
"Yes!" Duo jumped up. "Come on Wufei, you know you wanna go," Duo said slyly poking at Wufei.
"You know very well that I do not want to go you braided baka! I just want to get my hands on that girl in the white dress for jumping on my back and stuffing that cookie in my mouth!" Wufei cried out in frustration. "I do not want to go, but sometimes you have to make sacrifices for justice. I shall go," Wufei said trudging ahead of the other boys.
"Okaaaaaaaaaay, can you say strange?" Duo said walking after Wufei as the other boys followed. "He doesn't even know where to go." Duo ran up in front of Wufei and told the guys in which direction they should go.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Right here," Duo said pulling back the coats and showing the other boys the clean cut hole.
"Hmm, strange," Wufei said as he walked up the hole and stuck his hand inside of it. With a quick intake of breath he quickly tore his had back out.
"What's wrong Wufei?" Trowa asked slightly confused by the Chinese mans actions.
Wufei was looking at the hole in a way that said he was slightly frightened and slightly awed. "Nothing," he answered. "It's just a bit cold."
Duo frowned and stuck his hand in the hole too. "Nope, it actually seems kind of hot down there," he said as he started to go down. Slowly he placed his right foot in, then his left foot, and with quite a bit of wiggling he finally got his hips through. "Ah! See? We can make it through," and with that Duo seemed to disappear down a small slide.
Heero followed his actions and got down the hole with ease. Trowa then went in easily after Heero and soon only Quatre and Wufei were left. As Wufei was about to go down the hole he felt a hand on his shoulder.
"What is it Quatre?" He asked the blond boy.
"Wufei, you forget that I am empathic, please do share what happened to you not too long ago," Quatre said in a sympathetic voice.
"I don't want your sympathy, Quatre. It was nothing as I told you before," Wufei stated angrily as he batted Quatres hand off of his shoulder and slid through the hole.
Quatre sighed as he shook his head and easily fitted himself through the hole and slid down into the darkness.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Rei's eyes slowly opened to reveal nothing but pure darkness; making her wonder if she had even opened her eyes at all. Quickly she sat up remembering what had just happened, and then lay back down as a sudden pang of pain came rushing into her head.
Where was she? And how did she manage to survive such a long fall? She would remember that for the rest of her life. It felt as if she was floating on air for about 60 seconds then, BAM! She hit the ground.
And what about that mysterious room? What was in there, and what had she kicked that had made the hissing noises to fill her head? She'd answer all of these questions later when her head wasn't throbbing, she could see, and when she knew where she was. Where ever she was, she had to find a way out. There's no telling what could be living wherever she was or, now that she thought about it, what was dead.
Rei's heart started to thump loudly in her chest as she realized that, 1) she couldn't see, so therefore eliminating an easy way out of wherever she was. 2) Whatever was making those hissing noises could be coming after her right now. And 3) her ankle was most definitely twisted. Not broken, but twisted.
She sat up on her knees and started to feel around for walls of some sort. As Rei searched for walls, the dirt beneath her knees was starting to hurt, so she did the best she could with one leg and stood up. Eyes wide open she jabbed her left arm out only to collide with a very solid dirt wall. Rei shook her arm to stop the pain and much slower placed her right hand out only to come in touch with another hard dirt wall. So it was some kind of passage way, only meant for people to walk one at a time.
Slowly she moved one foot in front of each other, grimacing with pain, and keeping both hands running along side the walls. There had to be a way out if someone had made this passage. It was probably a secret escape passage that was made a long time ago, but for what, or from what, Rei did not know. For all she knew, she could be going in the exact opposite way of the exit, but then again she could be going in the right way and one must start somewhere.
It was silent as Rei kept limping along. Not that it wouldn't be, seeing as there was absolutely nothing else down in the tunnel with her. Well, nothing that she knew of anyway. That she knew of, of course. The silence was so unnerving that Rei decided she would say a poem she learned in poems class, and then put musical notes to it.
Humming a suddenly made up tune, Rei began to fit the words of the poem into the song.
"There she weaves by night and day
A magic web with colours gay.
She has heard a whisper say,
A curse is on her if she stay
To look down to Camelot.
She knows not what the curse may be,
And so she weaveth steadily,
And little other care hath she,
The Lady of Shalott.
Rei smiles to herself as she sang the song she had just made up. Maybe she should sing it together with Minako and show Ms. Kanjai, the music teacher. She would be most impressed. Rei continued with the song.
"And moving through a mirror clear
That hangs before her all the year,
Shadows of the world appear,
There she sees the highway near
Winding down to Camelot . . .
Rei began to sing louder, as she thought that if somebody was down there, that maybe they could help her. Well, maybe that wasn't such a good idea, but she had already begun to sing louder and as she sang louder, her fears slowly drifted away.
"But in her web she still delights
To weave the mirror's magic sights,
For often through the silent nights
A funeral, with plumes and lights
And music, went to Camelot;
Or when the Moon was overhead,
Came two young lovers lately wed.
"I am half sick of shadows," said
The Lady of Shalott.
The singing overtook Rei, and it was like she had known the song forever, as if someone had taken over her body and was singing the song with all of her soul.
And down the river's dim expanse
Like some bold seer in a trance,
Seeing all his own mischance –-
With a glassy countenance
Did she look to . . ."
Suddenly a raspy voice cut in singing the parts that Rei had yet to sing.
". . . Camelot.
And at the closing of the day
She loosed the chain, and down she lay;
The broad stream bore her far away,
The Lady of Shalott."
Rei's blood ran cold at the sound of another voice, one that sounded like sandpaper rubbing against each other. The voice sounded far from human, though it sang the exact notes she had planned to sing. Footsteps could be heard behind her and Rei came to a sudden halt as did the other footsteps. Rei slowly took three more steps and heard the footsteps behind her again, then stopped suddenly hoping to catch the person; or thing off guard. But when she stopped she didn't hear anything.
"What do you want from me?!" She called out with a wavering voice. Suddenly the hissing noise started up again in her head. This time the sound was so loud that the pain was almost unbearable. Rei screamed loudly as she clutched her head and sunk to her knees.
"What do you want?!" She screamed again as tears began to form at the corners of her eyes. "Leave me alone!" But the hissing sound did not stop. Again Rei could tell that it was trying to tell her something, but she just couldn't understand it.
Again she cried out but this time in both pain and frustration. "I can't understand what you're saying! What are you saying?!"
Then one word came out loud and clear before Rei felt someone place her head on their lap and the same movement of air that she felt in the room that she had some down from. The word was,
'Lecta.'
TBC
Well, tell me if you like it. I promise that the other girls will come into play in the next chapter. And I know that my chapters are kinda short, but I'm workin' on it. Just give it some time.
Duo ran throughout the mansion looking for the other boys. Running out of the kitchen area and into the living room, he saw the four other guys.
'Oh, so they didn't feel like coming to get me too, huh?' He thought as he sweatdropped. Quickly he ran over to the couches in which they were sitting on.
"Duo, where were you? We were looking all over the mansion, and we couldn't find you!" Quatre said as he stood up to greet the braided boy.
'Well it's good to know that one of them cares,' Duo thought again but quickly shoved that thought aside. "You guys have to come see this!" he cried pointing in the direction he had just come from.
"What's going on Duo?" Trowa questioned as he and the other boys stood up.
"I was chasing after the girls--."
"Still?"
"Shut up Wufei. As I was saying, I was chasing after the girls and they turned down this one hall and just disappeared. Stop!" Duo cried as he held his hand out in front of Wufei who had his mouth open and was ready to say something. Quickly he shut his mouth and glared at Duo.
"I walked down the hall that they disappeared down and searched through all of the rooms. When I came to this coat closet I figured that they would be hiding in there because that was the last door. When I opened the door and turned on the light, nothing was there. When I moved all of the coats aside to see if the girls were hiding behind them, I found this strange hole. It looked big enough for a girl to fit through and I think we could fit through it too if we tried hard enough."
"I am not going to squeeze my ass down some dusty old hole in a wall," Heero said as he glared at the red faced Duo.
"Well why not?!" Duo cried out in frustration. "We don't even know what's down there! There could be some sort of secret down there, and we could find out what it was," Duo looked at the guys hopefully. His eyes rested on Heero and he said, "We could find the girls because they're obviously down there."
"I'm in," Heero quickly and coldly. He wanted to get his hands on the girl with the blue dress. Nobody touches his belongings without his permission, let alone violates it and get away with it.
Quatre sighed. "If it will make you happy Duo, then I will go as well. But you have to promise that you'll keep your mouth mostly closed while we're down there."
"I promise Q-man! Trowa? Wufei? What do you say? Come on, you know you want to find some secret down there," Duo bribed eyeing the two silent boys.
"Whatever," Trowa said as he nodded his head as a way of showing that he would go. What the hell, why not find out some stupid secret? And it will probably keep Duo off of their tails for at least 1 week.
"Yes!" Duo jumped up. "Come on Wufei, you know you wanna go," Duo said slyly poking at Wufei.
"You know very well that I do not want to go you braided baka! I just want to get my hands on that girl in the white dress for jumping on my back and stuffing that cookie in my mouth!" Wufei cried out in frustration. "I do not want to go, but sometimes you have to make sacrifices for justice. I shall go," Wufei said trudging ahead of the other boys.
"Okaaaaaaaaaay, can you say strange?" Duo said walking after Wufei as the other boys followed. "He doesn't even know where to go." Duo ran up in front of Wufei and told the guys in which direction they should go.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Right here," Duo said pulling back the coats and showing the other boys the clean cut hole.
"Hmm, strange," Wufei said as he walked up the hole and stuck his hand inside of it. With a quick intake of breath he quickly tore his had back out.
"What's wrong Wufei?" Trowa asked slightly confused by the Chinese mans actions.
Wufei was looking at the hole in a way that said he was slightly frightened and slightly awed. "Nothing," he answered. "It's just a bit cold."
Duo frowned and stuck his hand in the hole too. "Nope, it actually seems kind of hot down there," he said as he started to go down. Slowly he placed his right foot in, then his left foot, and with quite a bit of wiggling he finally got his hips through. "Ah! See? We can make it through," and with that Duo seemed to disappear down a small slide.
Heero followed his actions and got down the hole with ease. Trowa then went in easily after Heero and soon only Quatre and Wufei were left. As Wufei was about to go down the hole he felt a hand on his shoulder.
"What is it Quatre?" He asked the blond boy.
"Wufei, you forget that I am empathic, please do share what happened to you not too long ago," Quatre said in a sympathetic voice.
"I don't want your sympathy, Quatre. It was nothing as I told you before," Wufei stated angrily as he batted Quatres hand off of his shoulder and slid through the hole.
Quatre sighed as he shook his head and easily fitted himself through the hole and slid down into the darkness.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Rei's eyes slowly opened to reveal nothing but pure darkness; making her wonder if she had even opened her eyes at all. Quickly she sat up remembering what had just happened, and then lay back down as a sudden pang of pain came rushing into her head.
Where was she? And how did she manage to survive such a long fall? She would remember that for the rest of her life. It felt as if she was floating on air for about 60 seconds then, BAM! She hit the ground.
And what about that mysterious room? What was in there, and what had she kicked that had made the hissing noises to fill her head? She'd answer all of these questions later when her head wasn't throbbing, she could see, and when she knew where she was. Where ever she was, she had to find a way out. There's no telling what could be living wherever she was or, now that she thought about it, what was dead.
Rei's heart started to thump loudly in her chest as she realized that, 1) she couldn't see, so therefore eliminating an easy way out of wherever she was. 2) Whatever was making those hissing noises could be coming after her right now. And 3) her ankle was most definitely twisted. Not broken, but twisted.
She sat up on her knees and started to feel around for walls of some sort. As Rei searched for walls, the dirt beneath her knees was starting to hurt, so she did the best she could with one leg and stood up. Eyes wide open she jabbed her left arm out only to collide with a very solid dirt wall. Rei shook her arm to stop the pain and much slower placed her right hand out only to come in touch with another hard dirt wall. So it was some kind of passage way, only meant for people to walk one at a time.
Slowly she moved one foot in front of each other, grimacing with pain, and keeping both hands running along side the walls. There had to be a way out if someone had made this passage. It was probably a secret escape passage that was made a long time ago, but for what, or from what, Rei did not know. For all she knew, she could be going in the exact opposite way of the exit, but then again she could be going in the right way and one must start somewhere.
It was silent as Rei kept limping along. Not that it wouldn't be, seeing as there was absolutely nothing else down in the tunnel with her. Well, nothing that she knew of anyway. That she knew of, of course. The silence was so unnerving that Rei decided she would say a poem she learned in poems class, and then put musical notes to it.
Humming a suddenly made up tune, Rei began to fit the words of the poem into the song.
"There she weaves by night and day
A magic web with colours gay.
She has heard a whisper say,
A curse is on her if she stay
To look down to Camelot.
She knows not what the curse may be,
And so she weaveth steadily,
And little other care hath she,
The Lady of Shalott.
Rei smiles to herself as she sang the song she had just made up. Maybe she should sing it together with Minako and show Ms. Kanjai, the music teacher. She would be most impressed. Rei continued with the song.
"And moving through a mirror clear
That hangs before her all the year,
Shadows of the world appear,
There she sees the highway near
Winding down to Camelot . . .
Rei began to sing louder, as she thought that if somebody was down there, that maybe they could help her. Well, maybe that wasn't such a good idea, but she had already begun to sing louder and as she sang louder, her fears slowly drifted away.
"But in her web she still delights
To weave the mirror's magic sights,
For often through the silent nights
A funeral, with plumes and lights
And music, went to Camelot;
Or when the Moon was overhead,
Came two young lovers lately wed.
"I am half sick of shadows," said
The Lady of Shalott.
The singing overtook Rei, and it was like she had known the song forever, as if someone had taken over her body and was singing the song with all of her soul.
And down the river's dim expanse
Like some bold seer in a trance,
Seeing all his own mischance –-
With a glassy countenance
Did she look to . . ."
Suddenly a raspy voice cut in singing the parts that Rei had yet to sing.
". . . Camelot.
And at the closing of the day
She loosed the chain, and down she lay;
The broad stream bore her far away,
The Lady of Shalott."
Rei's blood ran cold at the sound of another voice, one that sounded like sandpaper rubbing against each other. The voice sounded far from human, though it sang the exact notes she had planned to sing. Footsteps could be heard behind her and Rei came to a sudden halt as did the other footsteps. Rei slowly took three more steps and heard the footsteps behind her again, then stopped suddenly hoping to catch the person; or thing off guard. But when she stopped she didn't hear anything.
"What do you want from me?!" She called out with a wavering voice. Suddenly the hissing noise started up again in her head. This time the sound was so loud that the pain was almost unbearable. Rei screamed loudly as she clutched her head and sunk to her knees.
"What do you want?!" She screamed again as tears began to form at the corners of her eyes. "Leave me alone!" But the hissing sound did not stop. Again Rei could tell that it was trying to tell her something, but she just couldn't understand it.
Again she cried out but this time in both pain and frustration. "I can't understand what you're saying! What are you saying?!"
Then one word came out loud and clear before Rei felt someone place her head on their lap and the same movement of air that she felt in the room that she had some down from. The word was,
'Lecta.'
TBC
Well, tell me if you like it. I promise that the other girls will come into play in the next chapter. And I know that my chapters are kinda short, but I'm workin' on it. Just give it some time.