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~*~Journey To Loire Mansion~*~
"Yeah, its gonna be a LONG day!" Selphie sighed jumping into bed next to Irvine. In less than 5 minutes, the three girls were sleeping and it was only a few hours time before they were soon going to be in the hands of Laguna Loire.
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"Wake up!" Selphie whispered loudly. She blew in Rinoa's ear. "Wake up!" she whispered even louder. Finally, fed up that Rinoa was still sleeping and her and Quistis were already ready to go, the young girl jumped on the bed and sat on her friend. She started to tap on Rinoa's forehead and yell "Wake up!"
Twisting and turning, the brown haired girl shot her eyes open only to see Selphie's face 4 inches from her own. She yelped and said, "Selphie what the hell are you doing?"
Selphie, satisfied that she had successfully awoken her friend, stood up and crossed her arms. "I was waking your lazy ass up! Quisty and I are already packed! Get your big butt up and move!" Selphie said pointing to Rinoa's massive heap of bags.
"Aw, c'mon! Lemme sleep a little longer!" Rinoa said turning to face Squall who was hanging off the other side of the bed with a little bit of drool coming out of his mouth.
"Rin, get up!" Selphie pouted.
"Chill Selphie!" Quistis started. "If Rinoa wants to be a beauty queen and sleep in, let her. She's just not as rugged as us. Too glammy." She said looking at her fingernails before picking up her own bags.
Rinoa turned to Quistis, glared and flicked her off before turning back to her pillow. Quistis silently cursed at having her plan fail but tried another approach anyways.
"Yeah, see? Told ya. Glam over there wants to look perfect for Laguna. Or perhaps maybe Squall." She grinned at seeing how fast Rinoa got up out of bed. She was great at persuading people.
"Forget you two! I am not glammy! I'm just tired is all!" Rinoa exclaimed. She started yelling at them while packing her bags. She hadn't even noticed what she had done til Quistis interrupted her.
"Looks like we're ready!" she said clapping her hands together. "Let's get the boys riled up though. We should really try to-" she stopped talking after Rinoa and Selphie had jumped to waking the boys up.
Selphie had ran over to Irvine and began to jump on the bed. He woke up startled and was screaming something about not touching Moo Moo. Selphie stopped laughing at hearing Moo Moo and gave him a funny look before jumping off the bed to go wake Zell up.
Rinoa had started to tickle Squall's face with her hair. She had seen it in a movie once and always wanted to try it. He itched his face and turned, throwing her off of his lap. Gettin frustrated that he wasn't waking up, she got on the opposite side of the bed and kicked him off. He flew to the ground pulling the sheets and Rinoa with him. She laughed while he was yelling angrily.
He shoved her off him, stood up and began to dust himself off as if he were dirty. Rinoa rolled her eyes before picking herself off the ground too from laughing.
Selphie had merely crashed on Zell's bed and tried to talk to him. Eventually she got the hint that he was hard to wake up as well and she threw the covers back. She began to draw on his rock hard muscular stomach and he woke up laughing.
"Heh heh, sorry Zell. But I had to wake ya up!" She smiled nervously but sweat dropped when she saw him smile back.
Quistis on the other hand was having a hell of a time waking Seifer up. She tried everything. Tickling, tracing, pulling back the covers, blowing in his ears, and even kicking him. He just wouldn't budge. Finally, she was fed up and stormed out of the cabin. Everyone watched to see what was going to happen.
She came back with a bucket full of water and threw it on to Seifer. The others were too stunned to laugh. Seifer began to sputter and yell at Quistis. She only yelled back. Seeing Seifer's wet state made everyone laugh except Seifer and Quistis. They were too busy glaring daggers at each other.
"Bitch!"
"Prick!"
"Snob!"
"Jerk!"
"Whore!"
"Dick!"
Quistis threw the bucket at Seifer before turning and collecting her bags. He caught it in the stomach and got the wind knocked out of him. He just threw it down and punched the wall before going to change and grab his things.
"Oh sheesh, a fight already." Selphie whispered to Rinoa.
"What a pleasant morning this is going to be." She replied, both girls rolling their eyes.
After everyone had collected their things, they started off with Zell and the girls in the lead and the other three boys walking 2 feet apart. Little did they know that they were already being followed and watched.
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"I will not bring all of my men to be under your power! They answer to me and only me and you shall not have the pleasure of controlling them without me there, Leonheart!" General Caraway yelled.
"You're a foolish man Caraway! With my help controlling your men, we can defeat anyone who tries to attack us!" Luke roared back.
"General Caraway! Master Luke!" The two gentlemen turned from their quarrel to look at who had called them.
"Yes Robert?" Caraway asked impatiently.
"Sir, Miss Rinoa and Master Squall never made it Paris! None of the children that were on the plane did!" Robert explained hurriedly.
"What?" Caraway and Luke asked in unison. They glared at each other one more time before running off in separate directions.
"What the hell did Squall do now? Hyne, what would have happened to make them not arrive in Paris safely? The pilot-' Luke stopped and gasped. He ran in another direction. This time to a phone, to call his wife. He was going to get to the bottom of this.
'Oh no! What if I lose Rinoa? I can't bear to not have any woman in my life.' Caraway thought to himself while running to his office. 'Hyne, I hope she's ok.' He ran into his office and picked up the phone.
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"Ugh! I hate the rainforest!" Rinoa complained.
"Me too!" Quistis agreed.
"Here here!" Selphie piped in.
"You girls are wimps." Seifer snorted.
"Shut up!" they all yelled in unison. Twigs and leaves were in their hair and they had scrapes on their legs from the branches that poked out.
"Are we almost there?" Selphie whined.
"Yeah! We only have a few more minutes!" Zell said smiling.
"Good!"
"Hey Sunshine! He has a pool! Lets make some waves when we get there!"
"Gotcha Zell!" Selphie winked and continued walking.
Five minutes later, they all arrived at the mansion and the girls stood there in awe.
"You said it was a big mansion but this is just huge!" Quistis exclaimed.
The girls were just standing there until they were pushed along by the guys.
Rinoa gasped and said, "Lets go get our rooms!"
The three friends ran ahead of their guys and headed towards the mansion doors.
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"Lord Laguna, the teens have arrived." Kiros said in a tired breath. "I ran here to tell you ahead of time."
"Thank you Kiros. You and Ward greet them and show them to their rooms." Laguna sat twiddling his fingers slowly, back turned to his assistants. "I shall meet them at dinner tonight."
"Yes sir." Ward said before turning on his heel and leaving with Kiros by his side.
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"Sheesh! Big honkin doors!" Selphie said.
"Yeah! Kinda creepy too." Rinoa said shivering unintentionally.
The girls grabbed on to each other's arms automatically.
"Knock Quisty!" Selphie whispered.
"N-No!"
Suddenly, the doors of the mansion opened up slowly to reveal two men and the girls stood there, frozen to the spot.
"G'day Ladies." One of the men said smiling cheerfully.
"How do ya do!"? The other said just as cheerful.
The friends stood there looking at them. Finally regaining consciousness, Selphie spoke up, Hiya! I'm Selphie! What are your names pals?" Quistis and Rinoa just turned to look at her. She was so calm and relaxed now.
"Ward here. Glad to meet ya Miss Selphie." Ward said shaking the girl's hand.'
"Kiros." Kiros replied repeating Ward's moves.
"Well ya'll seem pretty cool! This here is Rinoa and Quistis." Selphie said sounding like a cowgirl.
"Pleasure to meet the both of you." Kiros said nodding at the girls.
"Hello. Pleased to meet you too." Quistis said, shaking their hands.
"Yeah, hi." Rinoa said shaking her head and repeating what Quistis had done.
"Well, hello men!" Ward said brightly.
The girls turned around to see who he was talking to and saw the guys, looking emotionless. All except Zell who was still smiling.
"Put her there, Ward Ol' man!" Zell said doing a special high five with the two men.
The other three guys just nodded or mumbled small "hey's".
"Well, c'mon in! We have been waiting for you to get here." Kiros said leading them in.
"Just grab your bags and we'll take you to your rooms." Ward said shutting the door behind them.
They followed the men inside the mansion and began to walk up the massive staircase in front of them.
The steps were all white marble up until the split where it became black marble. Ward and Kiros took them up the right staircase. It was long and the girls were gaping at all the pretty paintings on the wall while climbing.
They walked down a long hall with deep crimson red carpet, still giving a clear view of the front door and then they climbed another staircase, not as long as the other one, with white marble steps.
"Sheesh! This is a long way!" Irvine whined.
"Oh shuddup you crazy hick! Its fun!" Selphie began laughing when Irvine stopped in his tracks from, being called a hick and she just started running up the steps giggling madly. Rinoa followed her laughing silently and Quistis just shook her head.
The walked down another hall with soft white carpet. Since Selphie was jumping up and down with Rinoa running behind her laughing, she bumped right into Ward and fell back on her butt laughing.
Ward chuckled and helped her up as Rinoa finally caught up with her.
"Here is the girls' room." Kiros said. The girls looked at each other before turning to see that massive white doors with pink lining and pretty designs on them. They giggled and Kiros opened up the doors.
Their giggles were stopped by their brief gasps.
"Oh Hyne!" Quistis whispered excitedly.
"This is great!" Rinoa said standing behind her.
"Goody gumdrops!" Selphie squealed.
The room was huge. It had very fluffy black carpet and a large balcony outside of two ceiling-high doors. The beds were tall and had canopies all far away. Three bathrooms were all on the right side of the room.
The bed closest to the balcony had a baby blue canopy with silk pink sheets and a white silk down comforter. Zigzags split the beds apart. The next bed had a yellow silk canopy with black and white silk sheets. The silk down comforter was a light, baby yellow color.
Next came another zigzag to bring out the third bed. It had a dark green canopy, dark, dark, dark brown silk sheets that were almost black *there is a difference* and a light/dark green silk down comforter.
The three friends looked at each other before running in the room and jumping on any bed they could find.
They were laughing and giggling the whole time. Ward Kiros and the other guys left them to go and find the boys' room.
"Ah! This is so awesome!" Rinoa all but shouted.
"I know! This place is big!" Quistis agreed sitting up.
Selphie was jumping up and down squealing and shouting. "This place is gargantoumungo!"
Rinoa and Quistis looked at her. She bounced down on her butt and began laughing hysterically, Rinoa following her.
Rinoa was bouncing on the bed now. "This is just freaking cool!" Her and Selphie began kicking up and down until they fell down, laughing some more.
"Pineapples!" Selphie stated. "Pick a bed!"
The three girls ran to a bed. Selphie took the one by the balcony, Rinoa the camo one, and Quistis sitting where she was at the yellow bed.
"Doesn't work! These colors suck with me! Switcheroo!" Rinoa said before running over to the one Quistis was at.
The new arrangements were Selphie-camo bed, Rinoa-yellow bed, and Quistis balcony bed.
"Fiddlers suck!" Selphie pouted. "I hate the edge!"
"And no way in Captain Crunchies will I sleep in the middle! I need a window or a bathroom!" Rinoa replied.
"Switchum!" Selphie said running to the middle bed.
Rinoa was now at the balcony, Selphie in the middle, and Quistis by the bathroom. She had actually started to enjoy the running and switching around.
"Ah! Much better!" Rinoa said. She threw her stuff down, the others following suit and they all jumped on their beds screaming.
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Ward and Kiros continued walking another few feet until they came to the boys' room.
"Here you are, Guys." Ward said slapping Zell another high five. "Enjoy!"
The four teens walked into the room through the tall black doors and looked around. Seeing that it was actually one gigantic room split in two by a wall, they carried their stuff over to a bed and dropped their stuff in front of it. Zell took the one nearest the door they came in and the bathroom. Irvine took the one next to him leaving Seifer and Squall to walk through the large open doorway to the other two beds.
They grumbled, knowing they had to share the room but accepted it anyways. All the beds were the same style and had the same black sheets but the other set of sheets mixed in, were different colors on each bed.
Seifer's bed had black and gray sheets. Squall black and dark green, Irvine black and dark brown, and Zell had black with dark purple.
The all lay down except for Zell. "Whoo hoo! C'mon pals! Aren't you excited! This place rules!" He began to bounce on the bed and punch the air as if he were boxing.
"Shut the hell up man! We're tired!" Irvine grumbled.
Zell stopped bouncing and just looked at him as if he were a parasite. "You suck. You kill all the fun man." He just sat on the edge of his bed with his arms crossed.
Right when Irvine was about to fall asleep, there was a loud opening of a door and giggling.
"Hey partners! This is so great huh?" Selphie laughed.
"Definitely!" Zell agreed jumping up.
"I love it here! It's so beautiful!" Rinoa said. She was laughing with Selphie.
The two girls began spinning around in circles and were trying to run at the same time. Quistis just looked at them laughing but shook her head knowing they were crazy.
They kept spinning until eventually they crashed into each other and fell down on their butts.
Selphie giggled. "Chocomallow!" She said still giggling. Everyone turned to look at her and just stared.
Rinoa was the only one still laughing with her and she said "Poppykosh."
This time, all eyes were on Rinoa. She just kept laughing away and Selphie was the only one to agree that 'poppykosh' was a cool word.
"What does uh, chocomallow mean Sunshine?" Quistis asked, confused.
"Well hello! Chocolate and marshmallow. I love them together! It's my own! My precioussssssss." Selphie replied with a giggle. She sighed and continued on, "Don't ya just love Gollum?" She immediately began twirling again singing the ice cream truck song and just kept giggling.
Rinoa stood up laughing and ran over to lie on Zell's bed.
"So pals! What do ya wanna do?"
"Well Rin, we could sleep, how about that?" Irvine said stuffing his head back into his pillow.
"Or how about not!" Selphie piped in.
"We could explore the mansion!" Quistis suggested. This caused Selphie to stop her giggling and twirling and Rinoa to look over at her.
"Whoa! You wanna have some fun now!" Rinoa said laughing. "Bout damn time girly! Selphie! Get your crazy ass over here and let's go!"
"I'm coming!" Zell added.
"Okies! Let's move on out gang!" Selphie said. They all four linked arms and marched out of the room kicking their legs a little too high to be actually marching.
"Man, they're hella crazy." Irvine said before turning back to his pillow.
"Here, here." Seifer grumbled.
Squall was just lying there not really paying attention. 'Hell yeah they're crazy.' he thought to himself before drifting off to sleep.
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"Shh!" Selphie said turning to her friends. Rinoa was behind her and decided to have some fun.
Suddenly Selphie was on the ground pouting.
"Hah! You shoulda see your face! You didn't know what was coming!" Rinoa laughed.
"You suck!" Selphie whined crossing her arms.
"Aw, c'mon Selph, it was a joke!" Quistis reasoned with Rinoa still laughing.
Selphie turned her head away and spotted something that interested her. Instantly she got up and started running.
"Ice cream!" was all her friends heard her say. The word finally clicking in their brain, they tore after her, Rinoa in the lead still laughing.
Selphie ran down stairs and dashed through hallways screaming and laughing. The three friends were right behind her but decided it better to let her find them again instead of them find her.
Eventually they just kept walking and found her.
"I don't see any ice cream!" Rinoa pouted.
"Huh? Ice cream? Who said ice cream?" Selphie asked confused.
"You did!" Quistis exclaimed.
"Oh yeah! But, I forgot about that a long time ago. I just wanted to run around!"
"Selphie, you're crazy." Quistis said, frustrated.
Selphie giggled. " I know! I like it! But, guess what I found? I found the kitchen!"
"Awesome!" Rinoa said.
Zell was just standing there smiling.
"Lets eat!" he said.
Selphie held open the door to the kitchen. It was huge and she just smiled.
They ran to the refrigerator and they were about to open until when, "What are you doing?"
They stopped and looked behind them.
There stood before them a tall woman dressed in crimson robes looking very strict.
"Hi! I'm Selphie! What's your name?"
The woman looked at her with disgust but said "I'm Edea. And, what are you children doing down here in the kitchen in your pajamas? You should be upstairs getting ready for dinner. Master Laguna expects all guests there by 7:00 sharp."
"Uh, ok! Sorry Lady! Sheesh!" Rinoa grunted. She turned and left with Quistis and Zell following her.
"Heh, we're sorry Ma'am. See ya at dinner!" Selphie smiled. "Oh! Do we must dress all formal? Cause I don't think I have formal clothes with me."
Edea gave her a sharp look and asked t be taken to Selphie's room.
Selphie sighed and led the way.
When they got there, Rinoa was having a fit. "That mean lady! What the hell did it matter if we were in our pajamas or not? I mean its not like we were breaking anything!" She huffed and plopped down on her bed.
Edea sighed and walked over to Rinoa. "Oh what are you doing here? Aren't you mad you're seeing us in our pj's again?" Rinoa asked huffily.
In a small whisper Edea replied with, "Sorry hun. I'm not really a heartless, snobby, bitch. I just have to look that way in front of everyone so Master Laguna thinks I'm like that. I'll explain it tomorrow. Well walk around the mansion. Til then, I hafta be all bitchy." She winked and stood up looking strict again.
"Yes, you are to dress formal for dinner. Gowns only and heels. Nothing raggedy." Edea walked over to a closet that was on the wall opposite all of the beds.
She opened up the two doors and revealed over a hundred dazzling gowns all with matching shoes and hang bags and jewelry.
"Dinner. 7:00. Don't be late." With that, she turned and left the girls. Zell was behind her heading towards hi own room.
"Wow!" Quistis gaped. "These are gorgeous!"
"You betcha! She's not so bad after all!" Rinoa agreed jumping off her bed and walking over to the large closet.
"Hunkydory! She came through for us!" Selphie said.
The three girls squealed and began rummaging through all of the dresses.
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Edea had shown the boys all of the tuxes in their closet and all of the shoes to match.
"Dinner at 7:00 sharp. Don't be late. I'll send Ward or Kiros up here to get you at 6:45." With that, she turned and left the boys to find their own tux.
"Damn! This place is just so awesome!" Zell exclaimed.
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"Master Laguna. They have received the information on dinner. Ward and Kiros will be up there to fetch them at 6:45." Edea reported to Laguna, bowing down to him.
"Thank you Edea. Do the girls like their gowns?"
"Yes, Master Laguna."
"How are they? What are they like?"
"Well Sir, they're all a bit giddy and jumpy but the short one is the most hyper. She is completely oblivious to anything wrong with the mansion and couldn't find a trap door if it was right in front of her."
"Very well. I shall win them over tonight at dinner. I will gain their trust. Now get out of my presence and do some work." Laguna barked.
"Yes Sir." Edea replied standing up and walking out of the room.
Standing outside the door, Edea sighed. This was going to be hard. She couldn't let anything happen to those teens. And, she would make sure nothing would happen to them.
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Here is the girl's bedroom set up:
Balcony Rinoa's Bed_ Bathroom Door
/ Selphie's Bed___ Bathroom Door
/Quistis's Bed___Bathroom Door
Closets____ C____ C____ __Door
A little better to understand? lol Miss Honey helped me on that one! The bathrooms are all spread out though don't worry! And uh yeah. It's just a cool but confusing room!
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~*~Journey To Loire Mansion~*~
"Yeah, its gonna be a LONG day!" Selphie sighed jumping into bed next to Irvine. In less than 5 minutes, the three girls were sleeping and it was only a few hours time before they were soon going to be in the hands of Laguna Loire.
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"Wake up!" Selphie whispered loudly. She blew in Rinoa's ear. "Wake up!" she whispered even louder. Finally, fed up that Rinoa was still sleeping and her and Quistis were already ready to go, the young girl jumped on the bed and sat on her friend. She started to tap on Rinoa's forehead and yell "Wake up!"
Twisting and turning, the brown haired girl shot her eyes open only to see Selphie's face 4 inches from her own. She yelped and said, "Selphie what the hell are you doing?"
Selphie, satisfied that she had successfully awoken her friend, stood up and crossed her arms. "I was waking your lazy ass up! Quisty and I are already packed! Get your big butt up and move!" Selphie said pointing to Rinoa's massive heap of bags.
"Aw, c'mon! Lemme sleep a little longer!" Rinoa said turning to face Squall who was hanging off the other side of the bed with a little bit of drool coming out of his mouth.
"Rin, get up!" Selphie pouted.
"Chill Selphie!" Quistis started. "If Rinoa wants to be a beauty queen and sleep in, let her. She's just not as rugged as us. Too glammy." She said looking at her fingernails before picking up her own bags.
Rinoa turned to Quistis, glared and flicked her off before turning back to her pillow. Quistis silently cursed at having her plan fail but tried another approach anyways.
"Yeah, see? Told ya. Glam over there wants to look perfect for Laguna. Or perhaps maybe Squall." She grinned at seeing how fast Rinoa got up out of bed. She was great at persuading people.
"Forget you two! I am not glammy! I'm just tired is all!" Rinoa exclaimed. She started yelling at them while packing her bags. She hadn't even noticed what she had done til Quistis interrupted her.
"Looks like we're ready!" she said clapping her hands together. "Let's get the boys riled up though. We should really try to-" she stopped talking after Rinoa and Selphie had jumped to waking the boys up.
Selphie had ran over to Irvine and began to jump on the bed. He woke up startled and was screaming something about not touching Moo Moo. Selphie stopped laughing at hearing Moo Moo and gave him a funny look before jumping off the bed to go wake Zell up.
Rinoa had started to tickle Squall's face with her hair. She had seen it in a movie once and always wanted to try it. He itched his face and turned, throwing her off of his lap. Gettin frustrated that he wasn't waking up, she got on the opposite side of the bed and kicked him off. He flew to the ground pulling the sheets and Rinoa with him. She laughed while he was yelling angrily.
He shoved her off him, stood up and began to dust himself off as if he were dirty. Rinoa rolled her eyes before picking herself off the ground too from laughing.
Selphie had merely crashed on Zell's bed and tried to talk to him. Eventually she got the hint that he was hard to wake up as well and she threw the covers back. She began to draw on his rock hard muscular stomach and he woke up laughing.
"Heh heh, sorry Zell. But I had to wake ya up!" She smiled nervously but sweat dropped when she saw him smile back.
Quistis on the other hand was having a hell of a time waking Seifer up. She tried everything. Tickling, tracing, pulling back the covers, blowing in his ears, and even kicking him. He just wouldn't budge. Finally, she was fed up and stormed out of the cabin. Everyone watched to see what was going to happen.
She came back with a bucket full of water and threw it on to Seifer. The others were too stunned to laugh. Seifer began to sputter and yell at Quistis. She only yelled back. Seeing Seifer's wet state made everyone laugh except Seifer and Quistis. They were too busy glaring daggers at each other.
"Bitch!"
"Prick!"
"Snob!"
"Jerk!"
"Whore!"
"Dick!"
Quistis threw the bucket at Seifer before turning and collecting her bags. He caught it in the stomach and got the wind knocked out of him. He just threw it down and punched the wall before going to change and grab his things.
"Oh sheesh, a fight already." Selphie whispered to Rinoa.
"What a pleasant morning this is going to be." She replied, both girls rolling their eyes.
After everyone had collected their things, they started off with Zell and the girls in the lead and the other three boys walking 2 feet apart. Little did they know that they were already being followed and watched.
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"I will not bring all of my men to be under your power! They answer to me and only me and you shall not have the pleasure of controlling them without me there, Leonheart!" General Caraway yelled.
"You're a foolish man Caraway! With my help controlling your men, we can defeat anyone who tries to attack us!" Luke roared back.
"General Caraway! Master Luke!" The two gentlemen turned from their quarrel to look at who had called them.
"Yes Robert?" Caraway asked impatiently.
"Sir, Miss Rinoa and Master Squall never made it Paris! None of the children that were on the plane did!" Robert explained hurriedly.
"What?" Caraway and Luke asked in unison. They glared at each other one more time before running off in separate directions.
"What the hell did Squall do now? Hyne, what would have happened to make them not arrive in Paris safely? The pilot-' Luke stopped and gasped. He ran in another direction. This time to a phone, to call his wife. He was going to get to the bottom of this.
'Oh no! What if I lose Rinoa? I can't bear to not have any woman in my life.' Caraway thought to himself while running to his office. 'Hyne, I hope she's ok.' He ran into his office and picked up the phone.
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"Ugh! I hate the rainforest!" Rinoa complained.
"Me too!" Quistis agreed.
"Here here!" Selphie piped in.
"You girls are wimps." Seifer snorted.
"Shut up!" they all yelled in unison. Twigs and leaves were in their hair and they had scrapes on their legs from the branches that poked out.
"Are we almost there?" Selphie whined.
"Yeah! We only have a few more minutes!" Zell said smiling.
"Good!"
"Hey Sunshine! He has a pool! Lets make some waves when we get there!"
"Gotcha Zell!" Selphie winked and continued walking.
Five minutes later, they all arrived at the mansion and the girls stood there in awe.
"You said it was a big mansion but this is just huge!" Quistis exclaimed.
The girls were just standing there until they were pushed along by the guys.
Rinoa gasped and said, "Lets go get our rooms!"
The three friends ran ahead of their guys and headed towards the mansion doors.
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"Lord Laguna, the teens have arrived." Kiros said in a tired breath. "I ran here to tell you ahead of time."
"Thank you Kiros. You and Ward greet them and show them to their rooms." Laguna sat twiddling his fingers slowly, back turned to his assistants. "I shall meet them at dinner tonight."
"Yes sir." Ward said before turning on his heel and leaving with Kiros by his side.
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"Sheesh! Big honkin doors!" Selphie said.
"Yeah! Kinda creepy too." Rinoa said shivering unintentionally.
The girls grabbed on to each other's arms automatically.
"Knock Quisty!" Selphie whispered.
"N-No!"
Suddenly, the doors of the mansion opened up slowly to reveal two men and the girls stood there, frozen to the spot.
"G'day Ladies." One of the men said smiling cheerfully.
"How do ya do!"? The other said just as cheerful.
The friends stood there looking at them. Finally regaining consciousness, Selphie spoke up, Hiya! I'm Selphie! What are your names pals?" Quistis and Rinoa just turned to look at her. She was so calm and relaxed now.
"Ward here. Glad to meet ya Miss Selphie." Ward said shaking the girl's hand.'
"Kiros." Kiros replied repeating Ward's moves.
"Well ya'll seem pretty cool! This here is Rinoa and Quistis." Selphie said sounding like a cowgirl.
"Pleasure to meet the both of you." Kiros said nodding at the girls.
"Hello. Pleased to meet you too." Quistis said, shaking their hands.
"Yeah, hi." Rinoa said shaking her head and repeating what Quistis had done.
"Well, hello men!" Ward said brightly.
The girls turned around to see who he was talking to and saw the guys, looking emotionless. All except Zell who was still smiling.
"Put her there, Ward Ol' man!" Zell said doing a special high five with the two men.
The other three guys just nodded or mumbled small "hey's".
"Well, c'mon in! We have been waiting for you to get here." Kiros said leading them in.
"Just grab your bags and we'll take you to your rooms." Ward said shutting the door behind them.
They followed the men inside the mansion and began to walk up the massive staircase in front of them.
The steps were all white marble up until the split where it became black marble. Ward and Kiros took them up the right staircase. It was long and the girls were gaping at all the pretty paintings on the wall while climbing.
They walked down a long hall with deep crimson red carpet, still giving a clear view of the front door and then they climbed another staircase, not as long as the other one, with white marble steps.
"Sheesh! This is a long way!" Irvine whined.
"Oh shuddup you crazy hick! Its fun!" Selphie began laughing when Irvine stopped in his tracks from, being called a hick and she just started running up the steps giggling madly. Rinoa followed her laughing silently and Quistis just shook her head.
The walked down another hall with soft white carpet. Since Selphie was jumping up and down with Rinoa running behind her laughing, she bumped right into Ward and fell back on her butt laughing.
Ward chuckled and helped her up as Rinoa finally caught up with her.
"Here is the girls' room." Kiros said. The girls looked at each other before turning to see that massive white doors with pink lining and pretty designs on them. They giggled and Kiros opened up the doors.
Their giggles were stopped by their brief gasps.
"Oh Hyne!" Quistis whispered excitedly.
"This is great!" Rinoa said standing behind her.
"Goody gumdrops!" Selphie squealed.
The room was huge. It had very fluffy black carpet and a large balcony outside of two ceiling-high doors. The beds were tall and had canopies all far away. Three bathrooms were all on the right side of the room.
The bed closest to the balcony had a baby blue canopy with silk pink sheets and a white silk down comforter. Zigzags split the beds apart. The next bed had a yellow silk canopy with black and white silk sheets. The silk down comforter was a light, baby yellow color.
Next came another zigzag to bring out the third bed. It had a dark green canopy, dark, dark, dark brown silk sheets that were almost black *there is a difference* and a light/dark green silk down comforter.
The three friends looked at each other before running in the room and jumping on any bed they could find.
They were laughing and giggling the whole time. Ward Kiros and the other guys left them to go and find the boys' room.
"Ah! This is so awesome!" Rinoa all but shouted.
"I know! This place is big!" Quistis agreed sitting up.
Selphie was jumping up and down squealing and shouting. "This place is gargantoumungo!"
Rinoa and Quistis looked at her. She bounced down on her butt and began laughing hysterically, Rinoa following her.
Rinoa was bouncing on the bed now. "This is just freaking cool!" Her and Selphie began kicking up and down until they fell down, laughing some more.
"Pineapples!" Selphie stated. "Pick a bed!"
The three girls ran to a bed. Selphie took the one by the balcony, Rinoa the camo one, and Quistis sitting where she was at the yellow bed.
"Doesn't work! These colors suck with me! Switcheroo!" Rinoa said before running over to the one Quistis was at.
The new arrangements were Selphie-camo bed, Rinoa-yellow bed, and Quistis balcony bed.
"Fiddlers suck!" Selphie pouted. "I hate the edge!"
"And no way in Captain Crunchies will I sleep in the middle! I need a window or a bathroom!" Rinoa replied.
"Switchum!" Selphie said running to the middle bed.
Rinoa was now at the balcony, Selphie in the middle, and Quistis by the bathroom. She had actually started to enjoy the running and switching around.
"Ah! Much better!" Rinoa said. She threw her stuff down, the others following suit and they all jumped on their beds screaming.
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Ward and Kiros continued walking another few feet until they came to the boys' room.
"Here you are, Guys." Ward said slapping Zell another high five. "Enjoy!"
The four teens walked into the room through the tall black doors and looked around. Seeing that it was actually one gigantic room split in two by a wall, they carried their stuff over to a bed and dropped their stuff in front of it. Zell took the one nearest the door they came in and the bathroom. Irvine took the one next to him leaving Seifer and Squall to walk through the large open doorway to the other two beds.
They grumbled, knowing they had to share the room but accepted it anyways. All the beds were the same style and had the same black sheets but the other set of sheets mixed in, were different colors on each bed.
Seifer's bed had black and gray sheets. Squall black and dark green, Irvine black and dark brown, and Zell had black with dark purple.
The all lay down except for Zell. "Whoo hoo! C'mon pals! Aren't you excited! This place rules!" He began to bounce on the bed and punch the air as if he were boxing.
"Shut the hell up man! We're tired!" Irvine grumbled.
Zell stopped bouncing and just looked at him as if he were a parasite. "You suck. You kill all the fun man." He just sat on the edge of his bed with his arms crossed.
Right when Irvine was about to fall asleep, there was a loud opening of a door and giggling.
"Hey partners! This is so great huh?" Selphie laughed.
"Definitely!" Zell agreed jumping up.
"I love it here! It's so beautiful!" Rinoa said. She was laughing with Selphie.
The two girls began spinning around in circles and were trying to run at the same time. Quistis just looked at them laughing but shook her head knowing they were crazy.
They kept spinning until eventually they crashed into each other and fell down on their butts.
Selphie giggled. "Chocomallow!" She said still giggling. Everyone turned to look at her and just stared.
Rinoa was the only one still laughing with her and she said "Poppykosh."
This time, all eyes were on Rinoa. She just kept laughing away and Selphie was the only one to agree that 'poppykosh' was a cool word.
"What does uh, chocomallow mean Sunshine?" Quistis asked, confused.
"Well hello! Chocolate and marshmallow. I love them together! It's my own! My precioussssssss." Selphie replied with a giggle. She sighed and continued on, "Don't ya just love Gollum?" She immediately began twirling again singing the ice cream truck song and just kept giggling.
Rinoa stood up laughing and ran over to lie on Zell's bed.
"So pals! What do ya wanna do?"
"Well Rin, we could sleep, how about that?" Irvine said stuffing his head back into his pillow.
"Or how about not!" Selphie piped in.
"We could explore the mansion!" Quistis suggested. This caused Selphie to stop her giggling and twirling and Rinoa to look over at her.
"Whoa! You wanna have some fun now!" Rinoa said laughing. "Bout damn time girly! Selphie! Get your crazy ass over here and let's go!"
"I'm coming!" Zell added.
"Okies! Let's move on out gang!" Selphie said. They all four linked arms and marched out of the room kicking their legs a little too high to be actually marching.
"Man, they're hella crazy." Irvine said before turning back to his pillow.
"Here, here." Seifer grumbled.
Squall was just lying there not really paying attention. 'Hell yeah they're crazy.' he thought to himself before drifting off to sleep.
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"Shh!" Selphie said turning to her friends. Rinoa was behind her and decided to have some fun.
Suddenly Selphie was on the ground pouting.
"Hah! You shoulda see your face! You didn't know what was coming!" Rinoa laughed.
"You suck!" Selphie whined crossing her arms.
"Aw, c'mon Selph, it was a joke!" Quistis reasoned with Rinoa still laughing.
Selphie turned her head away and spotted something that interested her. Instantly she got up and started running.
"Ice cream!" was all her friends heard her say. The word finally clicking in their brain, they tore after her, Rinoa in the lead still laughing.
Selphie ran down stairs and dashed through hallways screaming and laughing. The three friends were right behind her but decided it better to let her find them again instead of them find her.
Eventually they just kept walking and found her.
"I don't see any ice cream!" Rinoa pouted.
"Huh? Ice cream? Who said ice cream?" Selphie asked confused.
"You did!" Quistis exclaimed.
"Oh yeah! But, I forgot about that a long time ago. I just wanted to run around!"
"Selphie, you're crazy." Quistis said, frustrated.
Selphie giggled. " I know! I like it! But, guess what I found? I found the kitchen!"
"Awesome!" Rinoa said.
Zell was just standing there smiling.
"Lets eat!" he said.
Selphie held open the door to the kitchen. It was huge and she just smiled.
They ran to the refrigerator and they were about to open until when, "What are you doing?"
They stopped and looked behind them.
There stood before them a tall woman dressed in crimson robes looking very strict.
"Hi! I'm Selphie! What's your name?"
The woman looked at her with disgust but said "I'm Edea. And, what are you children doing down here in the kitchen in your pajamas? You should be upstairs getting ready for dinner. Master Laguna expects all guests there by 7:00 sharp."
"Uh, ok! Sorry Lady! Sheesh!" Rinoa grunted. She turned and left with Quistis and Zell following her.
"Heh, we're sorry Ma'am. See ya at dinner!" Selphie smiled. "Oh! Do we must dress all formal? Cause I don't think I have formal clothes with me."
Edea gave her a sharp look and asked t be taken to Selphie's room.
Selphie sighed and led the way.
When they got there, Rinoa was having a fit. "That mean lady! What the hell did it matter if we were in our pajamas or not? I mean its not like we were breaking anything!" She huffed and plopped down on her bed.
Edea sighed and walked over to Rinoa. "Oh what are you doing here? Aren't you mad you're seeing us in our pj's again?" Rinoa asked huffily.
In a small whisper Edea replied with, "Sorry hun. I'm not really a heartless, snobby, bitch. I just have to look that way in front of everyone so Master Laguna thinks I'm like that. I'll explain it tomorrow. Well walk around the mansion. Til then, I hafta be all bitchy." She winked and stood up looking strict again.
"Yes, you are to dress formal for dinner. Gowns only and heels. Nothing raggedy." Edea walked over to a closet that was on the wall opposite all of the beds.
She opened up the two doors and revealed over a hundred dazzling gowns all with matching shoes and hang bags and jewelry.
"Dinner. 7:00. Don't be late." With that, she turned and left the girls. Zell was behind her heading towards hi own room.
"Wow!" Quistis gaped. "These are gorgeous!"
"You betcha! She's not so bad after all!" Rinoa agreed jumping off her bed and walking over to the large closet.
"Hunkydory! She came through for us!" Selphie said.
The three girls squealed and began rummaging through all of the dresses.
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Edea had shown the boys all of the tuxes in their closet and all of the shoes to match.
"Dinner at 7:00 sharp. Don't be late. I'll send Ward or Kiros up here to get you at 6:45." With that, she turned and left the boys to find their own tux.
"Damn! This place is just so awesome!" Zell exclaimed.
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"Master Laguna. They have received the information on dinner. Ward and Kiros will be up there to fetch them at 6:45." Edea reported to Laguna, bowing down to him.
"Thank you Edea. Do the girls like their gowns?"
"Yes, Master Laguna."
"How are they? What are they like?"
"Well Sir, they're all a bit giddy and jumpy but the short one is the most hyper. She is completely oblivious to anything wrong with the mansion and couldn't find a trap door if it was right in front of her."
"Very well. I shall win them over tonight at dinner. I will gain their trust. Now get out of my presence and do some work." Laguna barked.
"Yes Sir." Edea replied standing up and walking out of the room.
Standing outside the door, Edea sighed. This was going to be hard. She couldn't let anything happen to those teens. And, she would make sure nothing would happen to them.
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Here is the girl's bedroom set up:
Balcony Rinoa's Bed_ Bathroom Door
/ Selphie's Bed___ Bathroom Door
/Quistis's Bed___Bathroom Door
Closets____ C____ C____ __Door
A little better to understand? lol Miss Honey helped me on that one! The bathrooms are all spread out though don't worry! And uh yeah. It's just a cool but confusing room!
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