Chapter Four, Are you Alone?
Relena stared at him with surprise like the others. He seemed a little pissed at this. Did they suppose he was invincible and wasn't allowed to black out or get severally injured?
He blacked out?
"Why?" Relena questioned. It wasn't easy to knock him out, she and the other Gundam pilots all knew that.
He shrugged, annoyed at having to talk so much. It wasn't one of his favorite things to do, being told that silence was the best route. That way, he wouldn't have to worry about being shot on a mission. No wonder Duo was captured so many times it seemed: he was such a loud mouth! "My guess is as good as yours." He said simply.
"Duo's cross protected us, so does anyone else have one? Maybe if it's in view and all then it can protect us." Relena looked at the guy's; hoping one of them would have a cross too.
"I'm not the religious type of guy." Quatre said, scratching his head at this. Heero, Wufei, and Trowa shook their head, showing that they didn't have one either.
"Well, that kills that idea." She said, letting out a heavy sigh.
Heero looked around in the dark, after adjusting to the more shadowed corners when he spotted his black duffel bag. He got up, though his body exhausted tried to protest to this, but he still walked over to his bag and dragged it back to the other's. He opened it and pulled out a knife. He looked around, then spotted the broken furniture that the little boy had smashed and brought over pieces of wood, testing their sharpness and thickness along with durability as well.
"What are you doing?" Trowa asked, wondering what he was planning.
"Relena's idea made sense." Relena smiled at this, hoping she helped them somewhat. "So, all we have to do is make some crosses." He said simply, taking a piece of wood and leaning against the wall and started to whittle the wood.
"Alright. Leave it to you to figure that out and carry a knife to a vacation place." Quatre said, laughing slightly at the idea to relieve some tension in the room. Some lights flickered on; filling the room with some dim light that didn't help at all.
"I carry a knife with me every where." Heero said shortly, continuing his work. He finished one, which was designed nicely with some designs in it and a hole in the top, in no time. He bent down to his shoe and unlaced the shoelace and stuck it through the hole on the top and tossed it into the center of the room.
He started on another one and finished it in no time also. He took off the shoelace from his other shoe and tossed the next finished on with the other one. He picked up another piece of wood and slowed down his pace, having nicked himself on the finger when the lights came flickering on.
"I'll need another shoe lace." He said, looking down at his shoes (styled like a boarder would have, all scuffed up and loose fitting even with the laces) and pulled his eyes back up to his task at hand.
"Sure." Duo said, plopping down on the floor and pulling off his two shoe laces and tossing them to Heero, who didn't divert his eyes from his work as he caught them in the air. "Good idea, Relena." He said happily.
She smiled happily at this and reached behind her head to feel her braids. She pulled them loose, giving a blue ribbon to Heero and he took it, not looking up at her and muttering a small thanks to her.
He finished a third cross and started on a fourth. After that, he had one more to do. He did a lovely design like the other ones, slightly different and prettier than the others. He took Relena's ribbon and threaded it through the loop, giving it to her and taking one off the floor and tying it into a necklace. The other's did the same and slipped it over their necks like Heero.
He leaned against the wall, sighing as he did this, earning a stare from Relena. "Are you all right?" She asked, hoping that nothing was wrong.
"Hn." He replied simply. He closed his eyes and crossed his arms, leaning onto the wall more heavily than before. Whatever that ghost did to him sure sapped all his energy.
"'Hn' isn't an answer." She said sternly to him. He opened an eye and looked at her. He closed it again and then looked away and opened both eyes to look closely around the place. He had a feeling that it was familiar...like a dream forgotten long ago...
"Heero?" Relena asked, getting more worried. He had his eyes wandering around the place.
He jerked them back to look at Relena after hearing his name being spoken. "What?" He questioned. "Yes, I'm sure that I'm fine." He said, answering her first question. The other pilot's looked around the place with unrest in their eyes.
"So we are locked in a haunted house with no food or drinks, barely any light—"Duo said, after saying the light part they went out, plunging them into darkness. "Alright, no light then." He said grudgingly.
"The best thing we can do is get some sleep." Heero said through the darkness, feeling Relena move closer to him until her skin touched his. He could tell she was scared, though she acted quite strong considering what she had been through.
"Are you crazy?!" Quatre said, rather louder than he actually intended for it to be. "We are in a haunted house where we got possessed, someone tried to use Relena to kill you for some unknown reason, and all you can think about is...sleep?!" He said angrily.
Heero didn't respond but he could tell Relena flinched at that mark. He looked away, he was dead tired, but he would rather die than admit his weakness out loud. Who knows who or what might be listening!
"I have a bad feeling tomorrow is going to be a lot worse." Trowa said, hating sharing this with everyone. "Heero's right, we should all get some sleep. As long as we have these around our necks, we're safe." He pointed out. 'Hopefully.' He said under his breath and loudly in his mind as almost a prayer.
"Alright then, lets all huddle together so that we can all know where each other is at without having the life scared out of us." Relena said, almost regretting how she phrased her wording. 'The life scared out of us sounds so appropriate...' She though gloomily.
They all shuffled against the wall, each against each other and slowly drifting into an unwanted sleep for some, hoping the cross would protect them...thinking they were alone.
But where they?