Chapter 15

"Why did you go running off all of a sudden?!" Yume asked out of breath. Emi showed up a moment after.

"They're gone." Aoi answered.

"They're what?!" Yume shrieked. They ran in the room and looked around for anything out of place.

"They're beds are ice cold. They weren't in their beds last night."

"That can't be!" Emi yelled.

"But it's true." Aoi replied grimly.

"Wait a second." Yume stopped her. "What's this?" Yume picked up a piece of paper. It had Chinese writing on it. "Man! I can't read Chinese!"

"I can." Aoi said taking the paper out of her hand. She read it and dropped the paper. A horrified expression reached her face. She dropped to the floor her mouth open.

"What?! What happened?! What did it say?!" Emi and Yume crowded around her.

"Bri and Hal have been taken to Qu-Dong, by our enemy celestial warriors." She answered still shocked.

"Stolen?! You mean kidnapped?!" Emi started freaking out.

"Who did it?!" Yume asked.

Aoi looked up from the floor and gazed up at her friend.

"It doesn't say, but it did have a warning at the bottom. It said 'don't even think about following us, or about coming to get them. You will only face a horrendous reunion and fall to your death by your friend's hands.' "

Usagi and Izumi were in the same room but on two different walls. They were tied up on the floor and the ropes that tied them up were connected to the wall so they couldn't run away. The first to wake up was Izumi. The ground felt soft and cold against her skin. She opened her eyes slowly to find Usagi across the room from her.

"Hal!" She yelled. She would have been on her feet instantly but she noticed that her arms were paralyzed by something. They were no use to her right now. She sat up and struggled to get to her feet. When she was finally up, she tried to run to Usagi's side. She ran and then was jerked back against the floor. She let out a yelp of pain but didn't think anything of it. Her friend was lying on the floor not moving. "Hal! Please wake up!"

Usagi's eyes fluttered and she opened one eye. She closed it and rolled over.

"Its too early Bri." She said with a yawn. "Go back to sleep. The sun probably isn't even out. You may be the early bird of the group but that doesn't mean all of us only need two hours of sleep like you."

"Hal, open your eyes and tell me that you see my room around us."

Usagi let out a sigh and rolled back over. "I don't have time for you games Bri. And stop calling me Hal. It makes me sound like a guy." She opened her eyes and then shut them. She rolled back over. "We're in your-" Usagi rolled back over to face Izumi again and her eyes shot open.

"Usagi?" Izumi asked.

"Holy shat!" (A/N yes I did mean for her to say shat. It is a friend inside joke.)

"So I'm not seeing things." Izumi confirmed sadly shaking her head.

"Where the hell are we?!" Usagi screamed.

"Obviously not in my room."

Usagi looked at Izumi with narrowed eyes. "Obviously."

"Just calm down. I'll find out where we are." Izumi promised. Izumi pulled something out of her bandana wrapped around her head. She placed it on the ground in front of them both and pressed a button. A graphical hologram appeared in the room. It showed her exact pinpointed position.

"What's happening?" Usagi asked a little creeped out.

"Its a map of the whole world, in very specific detail." She explained.

"Where did you get that?" Usagi asked knowing that she didn't think of that kind of technology.

"You're right, you didn't think of this. There was one on the Internet but Jen didn't like that one. So she asked Jeni to help her make a smaller, more compact and carriable one."

"Oh. So how do you have it?" She asked.

"Um, don't you remember? I keep the entire spy ware stuff. This counts as a spy ware object. Jeni and Jen made enough for each of us but they didn't want it to be introduced to you guys yet, so the rest are at home."

"Oh. Yeah...."

"Just drop it." Izumi made a few more adjustments to the gadget and smiled in triumph.

"What, did you find where we are?"

"Yep. We're in Qu-Dong."

"That's nothing to smile about!" Usagi complained.

"Yes, but the good part is, Nakago nor Tomo stole us. In fact, I studied those papers that Jen brought back from Tomo's castle, about where all the Seriyu celestial warriors are and it seems that we were stolen by...."

(A/N I know I'm being evil by changing scenes now but just take a wild guess at who could've stolen them that would actually work together...)

"What happened?! Why'd you guys run off like that?" Tasuki asked.

The girls were walking into the dining hall glumly; all their heads were lowered to look at the floor.

"Geez... Who died?" Miaka asked.

"No one died." Emi said.

"But our friends were kidnapped." Yume added.

"WHAT?!?!?!" They all gasped. Aoi handed Hotohori the note. He silently read it and shock rose to his face.

"What? What's going on?!" Hokie asked.

"They're right. They were kidnapped by one of our enemies."

"That can't be! Izumi is a pretty light sleeper, wouldn't she have woken up?" Tasuki asked.

"No. When she wants to be, she can sleep through a hurricane or a war. There is no possible way to tell if it's true or not-" Aoi answered.

"Guys? Guys can you hear us?!" A small voice bellowed from the earpieces of Aoi, Emi and Yume. They all gasped.

"Izumi?!" They yelled together.

"Yep, its me."

"Hey! Don't forget about me!" Another voice yelled.

"Usagi?!" They cried in unison.

"Yep, we're both here and we're both fine, don't worry." Izumi said.

"Where are you?" Aoi asked.

"We're in the west part of Qu-Dong."

"Do you know who's kidnapped you?" Yume asked.

"Yes, actually." Usagi answered.

"Our kidnappers are-" At that moment, everyone's earpiece received unwanted interference.

"Izumi?" Aoi yelled.

"Usagi!" Emi cried.

"Guys?!" Yume screamed.

"What? What happened?!" Chichiri asked.

"I don't know, but," Yume paused for effect. "They're gone." She finished and they all exchanged glances.

"Guys? Guy, can you hear me?!" Izumi and Usagi tried over and over again.

"What happened?" Usagi asked.

"There must be some interference of some kind." Izumi answered. She fell back on the floor.

"What are we going to do now?" Usagi asked.

"Well, it doesn't mean we can't do anything. They know where we are, we just have to live until they get here."

Usagi was silent for a couple of seconds. "You know, that's not helping."

"Sorry, just telling it like it is." Izumi started observing the room more thoroughly. Her eyes landed on an object that could help them. "Yes!"

"What?" Usagi caught her gaze.

"I think that we can probably get out of here ourselves. We just have to get my stuff through that hole in the roof."

"And how do you suppose we do that?" Usagi asked confused.

"Well let's see here. My spy bag has a device in it that can locate us and come here on its own. It was my own invention just in case." Izumi pressed on the top of her ring and it opened up, revealing a navigational device of some kind. "I just have to set the coordinates and it will be here in a few minutes." Izumi pressed a button in her ring and the ring closed. "Now all we have to do is wait."

"Her bag's gotta be in here somewhere. She wouldn't be able to take it with her if she was kidnapped!" Yume exclaimed.

"Well we just have to search her room again." Emi replied.

"We might just have to."

"Wait a second. Look!" Aoi pointed. Izumi's bag was floating in mid air.

"There it is! How did you find it Aoi?" Yume asked.

"My question is why is it floating in the air?" Emi walked over to touch it. It zoomed by her and out the door.

"Follow that bag!" Aoi yelled.

They all ran out the door and were on hot pursuit of the floating bag. They ran into the dinning room where surprisingly, everyone was still there thinking about what to do.

"What the-" Tasuki started.

"No time to explain, just go get horses and follow that bag!" Yume screamed. Tamahome, Taka, Tasuki and Chichiri jumped up and ran to the stalls. Everyone stayed seated. The bag led outside and started to go faster than the girls could keep up. They stopped in their tracks.

"Oh no, now what are we going to do?!" Emi cried.

Aoi looked around her and found a huge rock under them. She bent down, yanked off her crystal stone and pressed it against the rock. The rock started to float.

"What do you think we do? We go after it of course!" Aoi yelled. "You guys coming?" She asked when she looked back. They didn't waste anytime. Yume and Emi jumped onto the rock and the rock went flying after the bag. The boys finally caught up with the flying heroines. They gazed at them in amazement but didn't say a word.

"Can I ask how that thing is flying now?" Tasuki asked.

"It has a device in it that locates people and comes to their exact pinpoint." Aoi explained.

"Well if that's true, then why didn't they think about doing this earlier?"

"After we lost contact with them, they probably knew that we would be in Bri's room and decided to show us where they were with the bag." Yume answered. (A/N poor Yume, she doesn't have it right at all. )

They followed the bag through town and villages and finally ended up in Qu-Dong. The horses were tired and they stopped. The girls stopped as well. The bag was heading straight for the palace. It went up to the roof and disappeared.

"Well guys, I think. I think we found our place." Aoi said.

"Well then, as Izumi says, lets rock!" Yume exclaimed.

TO BE CONTINUED