Here's chapter four. It's taken me a while to write it up but here it is. I've been needing some inspiration to continue on the story. I haven't been getting any inspiration at all lately, though. So sorry if they're kind of short and don't make a lot of sense...
Disclaimer: I do not own Elphame's Choice or the other part of the story.
Last time in Another World: "You've been invited to MacCallan Castle." "Who are you and what brings you here, young one?" "Damn you bitch!" Another dagger flew by and graced her cheek. "What kind of madness?"
Chapter 4 - The Secret Passageway
After Kuri was given her little history lesson, she decided she would help out a bit around the castle before she had to leave. As she walked around the castle for a while taking in every little detail so the next time she came, she wouldn't get lost. She slowly climbed up some stairs and when she reached the top, she froze in her tracks as she was hit with a vision. A vision of a war between demons and a king. Her eyes widened and her pupils delated as she saw how badly the kind was wounded. She wanted so much to reach out and help him. Give him the aid that he needed in order for him to survive. As she stood there watching the king die, tears formed in her eyes and her knees gave out beneath her. She fell to the ground sobbing. When she heard footsteps, she quickly whipped her eyes and stood up continuing on her walk but she was stopped by a voice, "You're the second person who's seen that vision of the great King MacCallan die in battle against the Fomorians. He tried so hard to protect his kingdom that he had no choice but to die in the flames.. Strong man, that he was. But now, we have a new MacCallan. A new Clan Chieftain has arrived and we're all happy that a new age has begun." He smiled as he looked at her. It had been the warrior from before that was with the twin demons. Her dark brown eyes met his baby blue ones, "We've never introduced ourselves to eachother. My name's Cuchulainn but I'm known as Cu. The two Fomorians that were with me were Curran and Nevin. It's a pleasure to meet you miss...?"
"Kurisutaru but I'm known as Kuri. It's nice to meet you too," She smiled as she reached out her hand for a handshake. She saw him hesitate a bit and then he reached out himself. They shook hands and smiled at eachother and then Kuri's eyes widened again as she had another vision. It was about a battle of both this world and another one that she couldn't make out. The two worlds clashed together in a bloody battle. A whole entire army verses only a few other people. They looked so familiar but she couldn't get the names to come out. As the battle in the vision continued, she heard someone yell out to her and the vision started to turn darker and darker as she fell into an endless fear of darkness...
Kuri's eyes slowly fluttered open and she saw some people standing over her. She was on the ground from the place she was last in with the warrior. As she lay there trying to sit herself up, she heard some people yelling out, "Back up! Give her some breathing space!" Hearing them yell some other things out, she stood up as quick as she could only to find herself fall back down.
In a low growl, she swore to herself and then stood back up with her eyes glowing red, "Everyone... SHUT UP!" The place literally shook and everyone and everything fell silent. "Much better. Now, if you don't mind telling me what time it is..." her eyes wandered around the crowd and heard some mumbling.
Before she could loose her patience with them again, Cu showed himself from the crowd, "The sun has just set, Kuri. You've been out for just a few hours. How are you feeling?"
He tried to reach out for her but she pushed him and yelled out, "Damnit! Son of a monkey's uncle! It's that late already! Oh man, oh man... Looks like I'm gonna have to work overtime tonight. What am I gonna do? Will they make me do extra work? What if I get kicked out?" She started pacing back and forth, talking to herself as if no one else was there. Everyone around her just stared at her with very confused looks on their faces. Some of them even scooted away from her just to be on the safe side. Kuri's claws started growing out and her fangs were popping out as well. When she felt a slight tap on her shoulder, she jumped up into the air and squeeked. She turend around to find the warrior standing just a few feet away from her.
"Is something the matter?" He took one step closer to her and she growled.
"Of course there's something the matter! I'm late just 'cause of passing out on the floor and not waking up for who knows how many hours! Now I'm late and Sutasu-san will kill me! Now, if you don't mind, I'm gonna leave and come back again tomorrow or something. Good day to you and to everyone else here," she pushed pass him and ran down the stairs. She ran past Elphame, Etain, and Lochlan mumbling the whole time. Once outside, she just stood there and looked up mumbling some words and then she dissappeared. Kuri felt two people following her but when she turned around, no one was there so she just continued running. Passing all the webs and the moss that she was staring at earlier in the day and passing some of the animals that had listened to her song. Just ahead of her was the little area that Kuri found from the start. She stopped there and waited for a few minutes then yelled out, "Whoever's out there, show yourselves please. I'm in no mood for playing games."
The two demons that held her back jumped out of the trees and landed just a few feet infront of her. The memory of their names came rushing into her than she stood there and blinked. Then one of them started speaking and since she didn't know who was who, she didn't know who was speaking but it was the tallest one, "Our deepest appologies for following you but we were just curious as to where you were going. I mean... you did just get here."
"That would be none of your concern. I'm just late for something important and 'bout to get my ass fried 'cause of it. So if you would please just quit following me, I'd be getting on my way again," she was quite mad at being followed. Especially by people that she didn't know.
"Hey, my brother did appologize for following you. No need to go sour on us. Oh, and my name is Nevin. My brother is Kurran. We were also wondering if we could come with you. Since we have no use here anymore for now..."
"ABSOLUTELY NOT!" Kuri yelled out. Her rage grew from just being mad to being furious with them. First they follow her and now they're asking to come with her to another place, "First of all, I don't belong here and obviously you do. And secondly, there is no where in hell my boss would let you stay. And lastly, there is no place for you to stay there. So I suggest you get your little fanny's back to that castle." As her eyes grew from bright red to dark, blood red, they backed off a bit and nodded. She calmed herself down a bit and then tried her best to smile at them, "Look, I know I just got here and all but I just can't risk you coming over. On top of that, Sutasu-san would kill me. You know, strangers and all. Plus you'd be too noticable in the city... no offense of course. But yeah.." The two demons just nodded again and then flew off back towards the castle. At least that's what she hoped they headed for. She looked around and double checked to make sure no one else was there and then she ran back off in the direction she was heading in. She then came upon a large stone that had some carvings in it and some vines covered it. She looke around once more and then entered but she didn't noticed the two pairs of eyes watching her. A bright lighted glowed from the inside of the stone and Kuri just walked right through it. Not too long afterwards do the two demons follow as well.
Once through the little portal, Kuri was standing behind a garbage can in a dark alley next to a bar. A light was shining above the doorway saying, "Moonshine Bar." She snapped her fingers and she changed into a little dress and ran out of the alley and into the bar. The demons slowly crept behind but instead of getting out of the alley, they decided to watch from a window just above them. Inside, there was a brightly lit room with a bunch of tables and costumers occupying each seat. They saw Kuri enter and start getting yelled at by Sel again while getting smacked upside the head. She was dragged upstairs by Sutasu-san to make sure she doesn't cause a scene again. Another guy with blonde hair and blue eyes approached her and looked like he was giving her a little lecture.
"I'm really sorry Nozomu. I couldn't help myself. And it's not my freakin' fault that I fainted ya know. It's not something that happens to me every single day unless I've also been loosing my mem," Kuri growled. Some people turned to look at her to see what was going on but when she glared at them, they just turned around and started minding their own business again.
"Nevermind, we'll discuss this later. Just go up on stage and entertain these people. They've been leaving little by little ya know," Nozomu said a bit annoyingly and watched and Kuri bowed slightly and skip up to the stage.
Kuri got a hold of the microphone up there and tapped on it, "Excuse me, may I have your attention please? Hello? Umm..hi. Sorry for the wait with the entertainment and stuff but it shall begin now. But since it's only me, it might not be that entertaining. My sister is kind of ticked at me right now to be doing anything so... forgive me if it's boring." She smiled sheepishly and went to put in a CD when she saw Sel jump up on the stage.
"No one here is gonna get bored! AND!" she turned toward Kuri and pointed at her, "You're NOT going to hog all the fun." She smirked and then looked at her sister, "Put in CD 11 number 1...7. Get ready peeps 'cause this is gonna be a dancing mania battle!"
Kuri nodded and did as her sister said so. Once the CD was in and she turned to the numer she was told to, the music started playing. She got up and then they started to circle around eachother a bit. Out of no where, they popped out streamers and moved them around a bit. There was a little container int he handle of the streamers that allowed them to throw out glitter. As the circling continued, some snaps were heard and then the streamers were flipped into the air letting out more glitter. Once it was caught, they did a cartwheele and then stood up again the singing began.
'I see right through to you
See right through to you
See right through to you'
Then the acrobatics began again as more flips and snaps were heard withing the dancing battle. Sel jumped into the around doing some spins while twirling her streamer around. Giving Kuri some cuts every now and then, but they continued nontheless. When a few seconds had passed, Kuri started singing.
'I see right through to you
It's not like I don't feel your mood
What you have for me is different than the rest that moves
I'll be posotive I know that I could be there too
'Cause you have it all
Have it all'
After flicking her wrist and snapping her streamer at Sel, Kuri and sel started singing in a duet.
'I see right through to you
See your every move
I see right through to you
See your every move'
The lunged at eachother and Kur slide down between Sel's legs both tripping her and whipping her with the streamer. When she stood back up, they glared at eachother and started circling eachother again. After a few more whipping, Kuri started singing once more.
'I know you now
I read your mind
You've shown somehow
What I could find
On the inside
There you will see
We're all alike
You and me...'
They pushed eachother away and started the fight up again. They were using the handles of the streamers like swords and so they were head to head now. The two demons from the window stared with awe at the preformance. Not being able to get their eyes off of it they continued watching while they did more flips, cartwheeles, and summersaults. Though they've seen people do those things before, they've never seen them done in this type of way. As they continued watching, Sel started singing.
'I see right through to you
See your every move
I see right through to you
See your every move'
There was more acrobatics and then when only the tempo and beat of the music could be heard, the started circling again while glaring at eachother. Then, before anyone new what was going on, it looked as if they were getting ready to continue singing again. But, to their utter amazement, they just noticed that the two girls were at the edge of the stage and started running at eachother at full speed. When the last beat was heard with a clashing sound, Kuri did one last tumble and fell to the ground and Sel pretended to be wounded. Silence was heard throughout the bar as no one said a word. Even the people who worked there were amazed. There was a puddle of red glitter coming out from underneath Kuri making it look like blood. Some of the glitter came out from Sel's stomache as well. When everyone snapped out of their little shock of the preformance, applause were being given out. You could hear whistles, cheers, and other good compliments being yelled out. The two sisters stood up straight and then went next to eachother. Bowing deeply at the costomers, the smiled brightly and jumped a little, shaking the stage.
A few hours passed by and the bar was now closed. The demons were still in the alley trying to get over the large preformance that they saw. The looked at eachother and then down the alley wondering if they should go in or not. Then they nodded to eachother, turned around and headed back for the castle to tell everyone about what they had saw and experienced.
"That was the most funnest and most exciting preformance that I have seen out of your girls! It was amazing! Never thought you could do anything like it. I swear you gotta go that more often. Do you know how much more money we made than the usual? It's ten... maybe a thousand times more than what we usually get!" A guy with lots of peircings started screaming out. Ears and a tail popped out of him and he started running around the bar, tripping over his own feet. "Nozomu! Oboro! Misturu! Do you know what this means? THIS MEANS THAT WE CAN GO ON A DECENT VACATION!"
The guy named Misturu growled, "Someone put a sock in that stupid werewolf's mouth. I'm going to bed..." With that, he went upstairs.
Then Sel and Kuri said at the same time, "Night night peeps!"
A/N: END OF CHAPPY! Ok, I didn't think this was a bit longer than my other chapters and this chapter has been dedicated to a friend of mine on a site. PLEASE R&R!