Chapter 2: Let me Show you
"What would you think if I said that weird dreams also come true?"
"Can't you wait just a little longer" –the black haired girl asked while eating some more of her dinner
"Oh C'mon tell me!" –Sakura asked for the umpteenth time
"We'll have to wait 'till night, when Miss Aikawa is asleep" – an enigmatic smile showed up on her pale face.
She knew that Sakura's curiosity wouldn't let her rest until she knew what was going on, but they'd be in serious trouble if they were discovered.
In the end the emerald eyed girl had to wait, she knew her friend was impossible to convince once she made up her mind, but finally night had arrived and everyone in the house was asleep. Everyone, except two certain girls.
They hadn't their pyjamas on yet. They were still wearing that day's clothes.
"So? What is it?? Are you finally telling me Kek-chan?" – Kek was only her nickname, Sakura didn't even know what does it mean.
"Sheesh, you can't be patient can you? Ok, ok I'll show you, [but don't call me Kek-chan]" – she said the last part really low, maybe Sakura didn't hear her.
The amethyst eyed girl leaned on the lower bed and searched for something under her pillow. A silver pocket watch with a small chain.
"This is it? You wanted to show me an old watch???" –she slapped herself for being so impatient over this... this thing.
Kek-chan, as she was called, even though she didn't like it because it wasn't her name, made the single hand to go round twice, and then secured the chain around her right wrist and held the watch facing the closed bathroom door. A light appeared on it, she grabbed Sakura's arm and ran against the door. The last one, thinking that they'd only crash against the door, closed her eyes tight, but to her surprise, it didn't happen.
"Where are we?" – Sakura asked kinda scared holding the other girl's arm.
The scenario was beautiful, they were standing on a cloud, and the sky was as blue as ever, the sun was warm, and a little farther they could see a city. A city above the clouds. It just seems like a dream.
"Don't be scared Sakura-chan, you can walk on the clouds" – she jumped from one to another, until she was somehow far from her still scared friend –"See? Come here, I'll take you somewhere else" –she seemed to be having fun, as if this was something she always wanted to do, like the time Miss Aikawa and her boyfriend took them to a theme park.
Finally Sakura arrived and they got near the citadel so that they could use the wall to repeat the process. This time, the watch keeper only turned it once backwards. The same happened, the light on the wall and them running against it, now they're somewhere else.
"This... this place... it's kinda familiar..." –her green eyes were analyzing every inch of the scenario.
It was dark, but the light of the many stars that could be seen made it brighter. It seemed like a platform in outer space. A big metallic platform with at least four metallic buildings, three stories each, some metallic flowerpot stands, palms here and there, and a big metallic bridge to the right of everything. It could be compared with a university, a big, metallic one.
"Everything's so..." –the brown haired lass paused.
"Magical? Pretty? Mystical?? Dream-like??" –the other one tried to finish.
"...metallic" – a sweat drop was on Kek's head.
The raven haired girl seemed to know her way around already, she led Sakura under the bridge where a small elevator was, her pale hand pushed a button and soon the elevator arrived, taking them to the only other floor there, something that seemed like a basement or a mall's underground car-parking. And it was also metallic.
And as the car parking it looked like, there was something parked, not exactly a car though, but it had its size.
"Now, what's that Kek-chan?" –she said pointing to the spaceship-thing-like.
"Uhm... a spaceship I guess [don't call me that]"
"We're not gonna ride it right?" –a smile appeared on her friend's face.
"There's somewhere I still haven't gone to yet" –said that, she pushed several buttons and literally dragged Sakura in.
For some reason, anyone going with her would have noticed that she really didn't know how to manoeuvre the spacecraft. A little farther was another platform. This was round and had some lights at its edges.
At this point Sakura was wondering if she was dreaming all of this.
"Nothing makes sense, it's like a fairy tale, a very weird one by the way, it seems so unreal... I wonder if I went nuts... Maybe those candies made me have bad dreams... Sheesh I'm so confused..."
When Kek-chan managed to 'park' the spaceship, [or should we call it spacecar?], they jumped off, one of her pale hands made its way to her necklace and softly held the moon. They both walked to the centre, where a purple light was flashing on and off and stood there until they were practically absorbed by the light.
"Where are you taking me Kek-chan? [Is this even real??]"
"I told you not to call me that" –her hand swapped away some dark hair strands that were blocking her sight.
"How should I call you then? [I've always called you that]" – absent-minded Sakura might not even know her best friend's real name...
"Let me see... was it to the right?" – she completely ignored Sakura's last question, and tried to remember the path she took last time so that this time she'd take the other one –"Then we go left" –she could still hear her friend complaining about her not knowing how to call her but she didn't paid any attention as they were now somewhere she hadn't seen before.
The room had nothing in it except water, it was a square-shaped room, really, really big divided in six... maybe eight very big square pools, and in the other side of the room was another door.
"It seems we have to swim" –the lilac eyed girl launched herself to the water and started swimming, but just as she was climbing the first division she had a bad feeling.
"I must hide it, I must hide it now!!"
She pressed her necklace against her chest and without warning, a blonde girl fell from the ceiling right to her side, actually from a hole that was there. The girl started to attack her and she tried to fight back, but just wasn't very good at it. All Sakura could do was watch, unlike her friend, she didn't know how to swim. The blonde girl then started to strangle Kek-chan, but just then another girl fell from the same hole and freed the victim from her aggressor strength leaving her unconscious in the water and dragging Kek-chan all the way to where Sakura was.
The amethyst eyed girl began to cough some water before the other 'fallen' girl started yelling at her.
"Where is it?!?!" –her clothes, a chinese-like white and red dress with the ying-yang symbol on her chest, were soaked, as well as her the rest of her.
"Where's what?" –replied the girl still holding her neck, where a pair of hand marks could be seen clearly.
"The crystal piece!!! The one that girl was looking for!!" –her dark hair was tied into two pigtails.
"Don't yell at her!! She was almost strangled in there!!"
"Meiling come back here, now!" –the stranger's radio could be heard. It was a male voice.