Me: You know that saying, "Money makes the world go 'round"? Yeah, well what if that was true! What if all the money in the world was burned! Would the world stop spinning! (starts flipping out) WE'D ALL DIE! IT'D BE THE APOCALYPSE! CIVILIZATION AS WE KNOW IT WILL CEASE TO EXSIST! MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WILL RUN INTO THE STREETS SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER! (starts running around in circles) Bloody murder! Bloody murder! Bloody murder!
Angie: What's wrong with Jane?
Chrono: I dunno…. Rosette! Did you give Jane Skittles again!
Rosette: (laughs nervously and hides something behind her back) He he… I don't know what you're talking about!
Me: (makes odd noises from in the distance) Mwrink… mwrink… mwrink… (suddenly goes limp but is still standing)
Chrono: Oh no! She's… she's… !
Me: (suddenly snaps head up) SKITTLES! (outstretches arms and sprints at the group, foaming at the mouth as well)
Angie: RUN! ROSETTE! WHAT DID YOU DO!
Remington: Maybe a little Mountain Dew will help to quell her! (pulls out a Mountain Dew bottle and holds it out to Jane who sniffs it like an animal before taking it and downing it)
RyouMahou: NOOOOOOOOOOO! REMINGTON! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE! (Suddenly just pops out of nowhere)
Remington: Wha'd I do? (acting innocent)
RM: That'll only add to her sugar high!
Me: (Throws empty bottle away and has a strange and some how demonically evil look in eyes) More……MORE! MORE! (Runs at group)
RM: Gosh dang you Remington! (runs away with the rest of the group)
Chapter 2: Spring Break Part 2
"Ros—I mean, Angie!" Chrono called after me, but I already had the pulled the door handle. It slowly groaned open inwards. It was dark inside and I couldn't see past five feet. My footsteps echoed as I stepped inside.
"It smells funny in here…" I said, my voice echoing into the darkness.
"It's stuffy. It hasn't been used in years," Chrono stated 'matter-of-factly' coming in after me.
"Why would people stop using such a pretty church?" I stepped into the darkness a little more and could see the light from the stained glass windows right in the center isle.
"Who knows… people don't always keep coming to church. They lose faith after a while," said Chrono.
"Yeah, well when I go to my church I find it a very nice time to take a mid-morning snooze and for my parents; they find it to be a good time to balance their check books," I said, putting my hands on the back of the pew.
KA-CHUNK!... KA-CHUNKKA-CHUNK! I jumped when the chandeliers over head turned on. I turned around and Chrono was kneeling on the floor, his hand inside of some sort of electronic box hidden inside the floor.
"Sorry for scaring you…" he said with a sheepish smile.
"I wasn't scared!" I shot back. But I was lying. I really was startled at first, but I wasn't going to tell him that. This place was kind of creepy… I had to admit.
I heard the sound of a door opening and hitting the wall. I whipped back around and whispered, "Someone's coming…"
I grabbed onto Chrono's sweatshirt and ripped him down to the floor with a "Nergh!" from him. We hid in between the wooden pews and kept quiet. "Who is it?" I whispered, peeking around the corner.
Even if this old place was run down and abandoned, I didn't want to be caught here. But Chrono stood up just as I tried to see who it was. "Chrono! I don't want to get busted!" I whispered loudly.
He waved me off and spoke to the person, "Father Remington…" That was the only thing that was said. I think everything else was spoken only through expression. He obviously hadn't seen this --I don't know, a minister maybe-- in a very long time.
"Chrono?..." I asked and he looked down at me.
"It's okay. You can come out now. There's someone I want you to meet," he said, smiling.
I poked my eyes over the pews and saw a young blond man standing at the altar. He stood expectantly holding his hands behind his back. He was handsome and had some sort of… whatever Fathers wear. His blue eyes were the most striking of him. I got on my knees and pushed myself up to my feet.
I looked over at Chrono almost saying, "Who is this guy!" but he answered me almost as if he read my mind.
"Angie, this is Father Remington. Father Remington, this is Angela Rosette Murphy," Chrono introduced. "She is my uh… he he… well, we'll go into more detail about this later. But she uses her adoptive parent's surname for now…" He said, putting his hand behind his head and smiling. I gave a timid wave to the Father and a strained smile. I was nervous about all of this. I didn't want to get into trouble. It was my first day here!
"Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Murphy. We all expect many great things from you," he said in a dashing British accent.
"Y-You've been expecting us—I mean, me? I mean--" I stuttered, being shoved into an awkward moment.
"Of course! Chrono told us about this visit some time ago. Follow me, please. And Chrono! We've got a lot to catch up on…" He walked away and Chrono followed. I shoved my hands into my pockets and brought up the rear.
He led us past the altar and through a door at the front of the church that was hidden at first glance. Father Remington pulled out a key and into the lock it went. The door opened and he led us through. It shut behind me and we were thrown into complete darkness again.
"Umm… sir? Where are we going?" I asked, feeling the wall at my left to make sure I wasn't going to fall down some bottomless pit or something random like that.
"You'll see in due time… I'm sure you're going to enjoy it very much. We've updated a lot since you've been with us last, Chrono," he said, over his shoulder.
My eyes slowly started to adjust to the dim light. But I still had no idea where we were. But just as I thought too soon, we stopped. I bumped straight into Chrono and apologized repeatedly.
"Why'd we stop?" I asked, rubbing my shoulder where I hit the wall when I ricocheted off of Chrono.
"My, my, Miss Murphy. You are the questioning type, aren't you?" He said in a joking manor.
I bit the inside of my cheek and shut up. Looking at my surroundings I noticed we came to what appeared to be elevator doors. But inscribed in the doors were some phrases in Latin or some freaky deaky Dutch or something. A large cross was also imprinted on the doors. Father Remington pressed a button to the side of the doors. He waited for a moment then a clear pad that looked like glass slid out from the wall. Father Remington set his hand down on top of it and waited. A purple light drew back and forth scanning the imprint of his hand. It beeped and a female voice filled the hall, "Welcome back, Father Remington."
The elevator door slid open and revealed a tiny little room. We stepped inside and waited as it shut. The annoying elevator music filled the room and I sighed. A whirring noise surrounded us and I knew we were moving but we weren't moving up or down… we were moving forward or… backward for me. I turned around and faced Father Remington.
"Why isn't this going up or down like normal elevators do?"
"This elevator is a lot different than most other elevators. This one can do back and forth, up and down, side to side, diagonal, etc…" he said, smiling at my question.
I was speechless. It looked so run down and abandoned on the outside, I'd never have thought something like this could be inside of it!
Father Remington must have seen my expression because he said, "If you're thrilled with this I can't wait to see you're reaction to what's coming up!"
The elevator slowed and came to a stop. The female voice came on again, "Thank you for using the Magda-Express. Please, make your way out of the elevator."
The doors on the opposite side of the elevator slid open and Father Remington stepped out. Chrono and I walked into the white light together and saw something you probably can only dream about!
All done for now! I can't wait to write the next chapter!