Hello, thanks Cris and dimonyo-anghel for reviewing my last chapter, you have no idea how HAPPY you made me! Heh, or maybe you do. Anyway, here's ch. 6, hope u enjoy! P.S: Don't own any of these characters, everything else is mine though.
Emerald Eclipse : New Clothes, Avoidant Eyes, and Magic
The girls' rooms were all on the third floor. The guys had all of the second room floors. Apparently, Quatre's mansion has five floors in all, and the girls are not allowed in the basement, or on the fourth and fifth floors. When they asked why, Heero just threatened them. 'If I find you on those floors, I will kill you.'
The first floor has a kitchen, living room, dining room, several closets, a mini movie theater, three bathrooms and a 'video game' room. Around the back, connected to the living room, is an eight car garage. The second floor has five bedrooms, one walk-in closet and bathroom per room, one training and weights room and one very large library. The third floor has seven bedrooms, also with one walk-in closet and bathroom per room, an 'arts' room, and a mini museum. There are four stairwells, one for each corner of the squared mansion. The stairs on the third floor going up are blocked by locked doors as well as the one stairwell going down on the first floor. Every bedroom had a small balcony.
On their first night there, Quatre told them they would need to buy new clothes with something he called a 'credit card'. He would have one of his younger maids take the card and the girls out to the mall and show them everything and buy them everything they wanted. They would go the following day.
Giving them a little tour of the mansion, he led them into all the rooms on the first three floors except for the guy's bedrooms. The girls learned what a clock was and how to tell time. When asked how they knew the time of day in their own world, they said they could tell by the sun, moon and star phases. Quatre then led them through their own rooms and bathrooms. He showed them how their alarm clocks work, as well as how to lock and unlock their doors. He asked if they had showers in their world, they said they had baths in tubs such as the ones in his bathrooms, but that was it. So he taught them how to turn on the showers as well.
That night, Quatre had some of his maid's lend out night clothes as well as casual clothes that the girls could wear to go out shopping the next day.
In the morning, five separate, loud alarms were heard going off at different times. The first to wake up was Setsuna, who set her alarm at 5:07, liking the numbers five and seven. She stood in her nightgown, a smile coming to her face. It was a new place, and she thought it to be amazing. She left her room and walked down to where she remembered the library to be on the second floor. She walked all around, looking at all the different types of books. She laughed at the fairytale books and skimmed through an 'Inventions of the 21st Century' book. She finally settled into one of the many little sofas with a history book, determined to figure out the world she was now in. She looked up suddenly when she heard the sound of a page being turned by someone else not too far away. On the sofa directly across from her sat Trowa with one leg crossed sophisticatedly over the other and an unknown book sitting in his hands in his lap. His mysterious face covered by his long chocolate colored bangs.
When had he arrived?
It was 8:36 when Rei's alarm went off. She woke up with a gasp, forgetting where the sound was coming from. She looked all around her, then remembered it was the alarm clock. She blushed sheepishly and turned it off, then wanted to take a nice long shower. She remembered how the shower worked, and she made sure the water was steaming. In her part of the village, they often had a problem with getting hot water since they were quite far from the nearest body of water or well, here, the hot water came effortlessly. She undressed and sat in the tub, the hot water burning and reddening her skin. She didn't mind though, she liked it. She was in there for about ten minutes when the next alarm went off.
Makoto woke up with a start and slammed her hand against the little noise making box next to her head. Her hand seemed to of found the little button because it turned off as suddenly as it came on. She sighed and stretched. She got out of her bed and walked towards the full body mirror. She wore a night shirt and a pair of shorts. She then picked up the blue and white striped short sleeved shirt and a pair of blue pants made of a fabric she had never seen before. The woman who handed them to her called them 'blue jeans'.
"Blue jeans." She said allowed.
Just then, her alarm clicked and began to make noise again. It beeped, loud and annoyingly. She jumped as it started and ran to it to turn it off again. She couldn't remember how to turn it off for good. Then she saw the little ALARM ON/OFF dial on the side. She turned it so it faced the 'off' side. She then began to smell something, her supernatural Elvin smelling abilities kicking in. She followed her nose down the hall and the stairs to the first floor, where she saw Heero, heading for the same place. She entered the kitchen a few steps after the boy did and found a buffet of waffles, fruits, pancakes, scrambled eggs and toast. Makoto didn't recognize any of the food besides some of the fruit and the bread, but she knew it all smelled good. Wufei was sitting in silence in front of the counter, half the food on his plate devoured. He was reading a stack of papers with tiny sized writing and a few pictures. He was reading a newspaper. Heero grabbed a plate, filled it with a piece of toast and one of the smallest waffles and sat at a small kitchen table. He took out a lap top, took a bite of his toast and started typing and clicking away. Makoto raised an eyebrow, grabbed a plate, filled it up with as much food as would fit, then sat down across from Heero. She stared at him over his laptop as she ate, the odd boy never flinched or even glanced Makoto's way. Makoto was done with her plate when Rei walked into the room and stared at the food questioningly. Another alarm was heard by Makoto's Elvin ears as she smiled.
"Eat it, its good! All of it!" Makoto exclaimed, pointing out her now empty plate. She turned back to look at the boy seated across from her and gasped slightly. He was staring directly at her. They stared at each other for about a minute as Rei sat down next to Makoto and started to eat.
Makoto began to blush under Heero's cold stare, but she couldn't turn away. She was lost in his Prussian orbs. She was beginning to see inside of him, she saw more to him than a cold stare and hardened face. She saw emotions and feelings swimming in fear, wrapped in anger. There was confusion, loneliness, pain, hatred. She only knew him for less than a day, but she knew she was seeing something that most likely no one else has ever seen before.
Heero didn't know what was happening to him. He was staring into this girl's eyes, her emerald green eyes. So easy to read, like an open book. All the places she's been, feelings she's felt, all you have to do is stare into her emerald irises and you could feel these things too. Like sharing a brain, a mind, and a soul. He felt like he's felt these things his whole life and he didn't want it to stop. It was like he was getting high while getting lost in her shimmering orbs. Makoto's beautiful orbs.
He shook his head violently and stood up quickly, glaring at Makoto between her eyebrows. He couldn't dare look into her eyes again. It was like she was some sort of witch that casts spells on whosever eyes she captures with her own. Heero wouldn't let her do that to him again. He was going to watch the girl from now on. He grabbed his lap top and walked out of the kitchen.
Makoto sat there stunned, blinking crazily at the spot Heero's eyes had once been so full of sorrow and hope and other emotions. In there, somewhere, she swore she saw innocence and the need of a companion, a friend, someone's love. What could be so bad in his life that he needs that so desperately or thinks he doesn't have it? She was now determined to pry.
"Makoto?" Rei began carefully, bringing Mako out of her own thoughts. "What was that all about?"
Makoto just shook her head. "I don't know." She said before leaving the kitchen quickly to go back to her room. On her way up, she ran into Hotaru and heard the last alarm go off and a tiny shriek.
An hour later, the girls all sat in the living room, showered, dressed and fed, talking to Quatre and Duo who just got out of his bed and was still in his pajamas. It was 10:20, and Quatre's maid had just walked in to take the girls out.
"Well, ya' babes ready to go?" Duo asked. The girls smiled.
"Of course, Duo." Minako winked.
"Great," Duo raised his eyebrows and gave a wicked smile. "I'll be down in a minute." He ran back upstairs leaving everyone with a very confused look. In about two and a half minutes, he ran back down wearing a Hawaiian shirt, jeans and sneakers.
"Duo, I meant for only the girls to go shopping..." Quatre's voice trailed off.
"Ah, but I'm sure I know more of the area than this beautiful young lady does." Duo retorted putting one arm innocently around the young maid's shoulders. "Besides, we have nothing else to do today. This won't hurt anyone."
Quatre gave in, then warned him about getting too 'happy' while shopping with the girls. Duo just smiled and rushed all the girls out of the house. They filed into a black stretch limo. The girls were all amazed since they do not have cars in their own world. They first stopped in a large parking garage. After they all got out, they walked, chatting aimlessly, up a few sets of steps and through a large pair of double doors. Then, all of the girls talking ceased. The mall was enormous, as big as some castles that they had been in. It was bigger than Quatre's mansion as far as they could tell.
"How many levels are in this 'mall'? Hotaru asked quietly as she looked up to the smiling Duo standing next to her.
"Six, not including the two garage levels underground." Duo smiled at the beauty next to him, now holding onto his arm lightly.
"Oh." Duo noticed that she was wearing an unflattering grey T-shirt and a pair of jean shorts reaching down to her knees. He could see that they were a little loose around her waist as she was also wearing a belt. She was wearing the pretty light purple shoes that she wore with the gown when she and the other girls 'fell in' on them. Seems they needed to buy some shoes and sneakers, too, he thought. Then his eyes flicked to her ears. They weren't human, but you could only tell if you looked real close. They could pass as a birth defect. Minako's ears were similar and thankfully, Rei and Setsuna's ears were human. Makoto's ears are the only ones to cause a problem. Her ears are obviously not human, anyone could tell from a first glance. To be safe, she had to wear one of the girl's sashes around her head which made her look like a worker.
Duo and the young maid began leading the five 'foreigners' to different stores. Within about two hours, all the girls got a ton of clothes: Shirts, pants, jeans, shorts, a few got skirts, belts, sweaters, pajamas and capris. Every hand in the group was full. The maid quickly sent Duo to go drop off the bags he was carrying into the limo, then come back to get some more. Duo was carrying all of Hotaru's bags as she was helping Minako to carry all of hers since she had the most. As Duo turned to go drop off the bags in the limo, the maid faced all the girls and smiled.
"And now that he's gone, we are going into the lingerie store."
"What's a lingerie store?" Rei asked suspiciously.
"You'll see. Now come on, follow me!" She walked past the girls giddily and led them past a few more stores; a book store, electronics store, men's suits store and another woman's clothes store. They stopped in front of the elevator and waited for a few minutes. As the elevator door began to open, Duo came into view.
"Hey, how come you babes moved? Where ya' all going?" He asked.
"There's an excellent dress store upstairs I wanted to show them, here, grab some more bags." The maid handed Duo the four bags she was holding and one more of the ones Hotaru had stuffed in her hands. "We'll be upstairs." She said before rushing into the elevator with the rest of the girls. Duo sighed. He was waiting for the lingerie store to come along, and he didn't want to miss it because he had to put all the bags into the limo. That's when it hit him. The lingerie store was upstairs! He really was going to miss the girl's in his favorite store! Noooo. Duo groaned out loud. He began running out to the limo. He would not miss the lingerie store!
The girls walked into the large lingerie store and the young maid herded a few of the workers over to them, flashing the golden credit card in their faces.
"Please help them find any good bras and underwear." She said to them before turning to the girls. "Girls, leave your bags with me and I'll wait in front of the store for Mr. Maxwell to come once he figures out where we are." With a bunch of thank you's, the girls each followed their individual 'helpers' around the store.
Within another two minutes or so, Duo came running up to the lingerie store, spotting the young maid to the side with all the bags and a slight smile on her face.
"Mr. Maxwell, how sweet of you to run back to help us! Here." She said, handing him another five bags. Before Duo could reject them, she said, "And don't worry, the girls just got in there, they'll be a while." Duo reluctantly closed his mouth and rushed back down to the limo. In another five minutes, the same thing repeated, and five minutes later, it repeated again. And then it repeated again for a fourth and fifth time. Duo finally arrived back, sweat barely leaving his brow. There were no bags left to carry back, so he smiled at the maid.
"You know you still can't go in there Mr. Maxwell, or I'd have to tell Mr. Winner that you went against his wishes, and he'd ban all sweets in the house for a week again."
Duo growled, then smiled smoothly. "Don't worry; I just have to run in to buy a little something for my girlfriend." He said, making his way passed the maid and into the store.
"You don't have a girlfriend, Mr. Maxwell."
Duo chuckled, looking around the store until his eyes settled on Hotaru. "Not yet." He then made his way over to the girl standing outside the dressing room. The young maid just rolled her eyes and walked toward Rei and Setsuna who were standing in line to buy their items.
"Heya babe, need help with anything?"
"No," Hotaru answered with a slight smile. "I'm just waiting for the others to finish before we go up to pay."
Duo frowned slightly, then smiled again. "So, what are you getting?"
Blushing, Hotaru answered, "Underwear."
"Anything sexy?" Duo asked, eyes darkening, hands behind his back innocently.
"Duo, leave her alone!" Duo and Hotaru both looked up to see Makoto and Minako walking out of the dressing rooms.
"What? I wasn't doing anything." Duo smiled innocently. Minako started laughing and Hotaru grabbed Duo's hand, pulling him towards the entrance of the store.
"Duo, none of us are going to try anything on for you, Quatre already warned us about that when you were getting ready this morning. He also said that if you started annoying us, we should give you this." Hotaru then let go of Duo's hand and took out a little card. "I don't know what it is, but it looks like one of those credit card thingies that bought us everything today."
Duo knew exactly what it was and smiled devilishly, grabbing the card from the shorter girl's hand. "This, my fair lady, is called a gift card. This allows me to buy things at my second favorite store in the mall: The magazine store." With that, he kissed Hotaru's cheek, winked, and began walking to a nearby stairwell. Confused and blushing madly, Hotaru turned and walked back towards the rest of the girls in the line.
In another twenty minutes, the girls, the maid, and Duo arrived back to Quatre's mansion. After three trips, all of the bags were in the owners' room, and they were told to put the clothes into their dressers.
Everything was calm for the next few hours. Duo taught Minako how to play a video game and Hotaru watched. Rei explored the mini museum, and then found herself in the arts room, listening to Quatre play a violin. Wufei sat outside in Quatre's garden, meditating. Trowa and Setsuna found themselves in the library, at first lost in their own books, then Trowa began teaching Setsuna random things of this dimension. Heero spent his time on his laptop, then entered the training room. Makoto spent some time in her room, staring at the Uka.
The Uka. She had to protect it. She failed the first time, she lost the Ryuu. How could she do that? How could she fail her home world so easily? She was the Amazonian princess, the strongest of any other warriors in their dimension. This sorcerer, he beat her and the others like it were nothing. His powers were far beyond her own, he could kill them all. What if he found them? The Ryuu could bring him to this dimension just as the Uka brought her and the others here. But maybe the Ryuu would bring the sorcerer somewhere else. How many dimensions were there anyway? And what if the Uka just brought them to another dimension instead of bringing them home? When would they even be able to try and go home? Could that sorcerer still do much damage to their world with just the Ryuu? Would them keeping the Uka here do anything? Were they being fools and cowards? What if the sorcerer decided to attack here as well? Would her own powers work well here? Do her powers work now? She didn't even test them out! How could she be so careless?
All these thoughts and questions were racing through her head. She was overwhelmed, she felt light headed. She wanted to cry, but she wouldn't. She was stronger than that, no one in her family cried so easily. She looked out of the window, from her position on her bed. Clouds were forming, gray clouds. She felt the rain inside of them, but they did not fall.
"You're just stressed out, Mako; just stressed out." She said to herself as she sighed. She stood from her bed and walked down to the training room. She needed to cool down, somehow. She was wearing her new black shorts and white beater over her new underwear. She had her new white ankle socks and white and gray sneakers on as well. She was comfortable in all of her new stuff.
Before she reached the doors to the training room, she heard the sound of someone inside. She heard his breathing, the movements of his hands and feet as he moved and punched the air. She swiftly cracked the door open to watch. It was Heero. She watched him punching the air around him, then swooping and kicking close to the floor. She listened to the sweat bead off his forehead, neck, arms. She saw the dampness of his t-shirt and messy hair. Then he felt her gaze, and stopped.
"Sorry Heero." She opened the door all the way and walked toward a big bag hanging from the ceiling. "How does this thing work?" She heard him growl and his footsteps as he walked toward her and the bag. He picked up a pair of puffy gloves when he reached her. Grabbing her hands, he put them on her. The skin to skin contact made Makoto blush.
"You punch it." He said and stood back to watch.
Makoto looked at Heero who was glaring at her, but not into her eyes. She turned to the red bag in front of her and frowned. She moved into a fighting stance and punched the bag. It flew back and circled. She caught it as it made it's way back to her.
"Like that?" She asked. Heero shook his head and headed for the door.
"Figure it out yourself." Then he closed the door. Makoto glared at it after him.
"So a lap top is a small portable computer?" Setsuna asked, staring at the lap top on the table by one of the windows. Trowa nodded, staring at the beauty in front of him.
"They're very useful devices."
"I see," Setsuna turned her attention back to the tall man sitting next to her on the sofa. "Considering everything you just told me they can do. That's amazing! We don't have anything like that back home."
Trowa smiled. "You come from a very different place then, obviously. What is considered technology there?"
Setsuna thought about that for a second. "We don't have anything that we consider technology. Most things like this are run on magic."
"Magic?"
"Yeah, our dimension is very," Setsuna paused for a second. "Magical, I guess you can say. We use our magic, those of us who have it, for most things."
"Most things?"
"Like transportation, making things to use or to sell, healing, moving things, food, lighting, so many things."
"Do you have magic?"
Setsuna looked up at the man. His chestnut bangs were covering his left eye as he gazed at her. His beautiful green eye stared into her own crimson one. His shoulders were squared away from her, but he was as close to her, and even leaning closer, as he could possibly get. She only realized now that she was leaning into him now as well. They had been talking for about three hours straight, and all she wanted to do was kiss him. She was losing her mind.
"Yes, I have powers, not as many as Mako, or any as strong," Setsuna leaned back against the arm of the sofa. "But I do have them and they work very well."
"Show me one."
Setsuna nodded. Will her powers even work in this dimension? The thought only now crossed her mind. She would find out soon. Concentrating slightly on the cup of tea in front of her, she lifted the remaining liquid into the air. She twisted and curled it. In her opened hand, a ball of energy formed. She pushed the energy ball toward the tea. The liquid went into the ball of energy and it created a transparent sphere. Setsuna grabbed the sphere and gave Trowa a closer look. The tea inside was creating an image. Soon, the image was clear. It was a castle, very detailed, with a garden surrounding it and an outer wall with an open gate. A cloud moved above the castle with a sleeping woman on it.
"This is my home, Zenohara."
Trowa stared at the globe only a little bigger than his fist. He was quite amazed. It looked like a snow globe, only the inside was the color of tea. She made this, she created this. What else was she capable of? What else were they capable of?
I know, I know, not much to do with the plot, same with the last chapter…im just trying to get things settled before I get too much more into the plot. Next chapter should be a good one. I hope you like it…PLEASE REVIEW! You'll make me a VERY happy person! Thanx! MiLeggie
