They finally arrived after a very long and windy flight. Raine's hair was all messed up, and she was furiously swiping at it with her hands trying to fix it.
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"Raine… Settle down..." Genis said.
"Ohhhh, alright…" Raine sighed.
"Your hair's FINE." Zelos said, annoyed. "OKAY! Let's find her! NOW!"
"You seem… Anxious." Genis replied.
"Well, yeah! I mean… I lo---" Zelos stopped in the middle of the sentence.
"What?"
"Nothing..."
"Zelos…"
"We REALLY need to find her! Kuchinawa could be hurting her!"
"Yeah, we should try Orochi's! He's bound to know something about this."
With that said, they all headed for Orochi's house, hoping he would have some clues to where Kuchinawa brought Sheena. Zelos reached the door, and knocked on it.
Zelos waited for a minute or two. No one answered. He knocked again.
"Hello? Is anyone there?"
He grew impatient, and decided to open the door. He took one step into the house, and saw something he didn't expect.
"Orochi!"
Orochi was tied up to a chair with rope, and had another piece of rope covering his mouth. Zelos ran to him.
"What? Orochi! What happened?"
There were tears streaming down his face, and were getting soaked up by the rope that was tied around his mouth. Blood was dripping onto the floor. Zelos quickly cut the rope so he could speak. Orochi let out a gasp when there was nothing covering his mouth.
"Are you okay?" Zelos said, nervously.
"Ku-Ku-… He…" said Orochi in an uneven voice.
"Why are you bleeding!"
"He--- Kuchinawa--- made me…Tell…"
"Tell what?"
"He… Tortured—me…" Orochi said as he struggled to move his hands, which were bound together.
"O-Oh, lemme help you with that..." Zelos said as he walked to the back of the chair.
Zelos knelt down to free Orochi's hands.
"Wh-What did he--!"
Blood was seeping from underneath three of the fingernails of his right hand, which were slightly pulled up from the skin. Kuchinawa obviously tortured him to find something out…
"What did he want you to tell him?"
"He—" Orochi stopped talking. His head dropped and fell to one side.
"Orochi!" Zelos yelled and came from behind the chair. He examined him, he had just fainted. As Zelos began untying him, he looked up. In the doorway, all of the party was watching, all silent, and all with pale faces.
"Well, I should try to bring him back to normal. Otherwise, I'll have to decipher all of these riddles he's telling me now." Zelos said.
Raine stepped inside first.
"We should get him some food and tea. That should relax him."
"Yeah…" Zelos said, concentrating on the rope that had Orochi tied to the chair. When he had finally untied him, he brought him over to the bed and placed him on it. Raine went into the kitchen to make tea and food. Genis rushed into the house.
"Hey, Raine? Maybe I should--"
Raine hissed.
"AHHH! Hey! Raine! Come on! You don't want to kill him, do you?"
"WHY WOULD I KILL HIM!"
"With your… Cooking? Uhhh…. Oops…..H-Hey! WAIT! RAINE!"
Raine picked him up and sat down in the chair.
"You need a spanking…"
"NOOOOO!"
Wham. Wham. Wham. Wham. Wham. Wham.
Pretty soon, Genis was in tears. While Raine was distracted, Collette had taken the job of cooking. Raine didn't seem to notice…. Until…
"Okay, the soup's done, Zelos!"
"WHAT SOUP!" Raine said, just becoming aware that Collette was cooking.
"Uh oh…"
"I thought I was cooking the food."
"Well… Y'see... Uhhh…" Collete said uneasily. "You seemed kinda busy, and we really need to get Orochi back to normal."
"Oh! Is that it?"
"Y-Yes! It is!" Collette said, surprised that Raine bought it.
"Well, okay! I'll make the tea, then!"
"Oh, God…"
Regal barged into the kitchen.
"CAN I HELP!"
Everone stared.
"W-Well…" Collette said. "No."
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!"
"OH ALRIGHT! IF YOU SHUT UP!"
"Yay!"
Regal ran to the stove and pulled out a pot from one of the cabinets. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a moldy piece of cheese.
"Hey, Regal? What're you gonna do with that---" Collette said.
He dumped the cheese into the pot, and turned the stove on. It sizzled and soon the smell of rotten cheese filled the kitchen.
"You're not going to actually… Make him… Eat that…. Are you?"
"It's smells delicious, no?"
"Uhhh… No. Seriously, that will probably kill him."
"WHAT DO YOU KNOW!"
"I know that THAT particular piece of cheese probably has enough bacteria living in it to kill an elephant… Probably several."
"WELL, I NEVER!" Regal yelled, and took the boiling pot of moldy cheese off the stove.
"You know what! If you don't like it, I'll eat it myself!"
"Regal--!"
"Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!" Regal said as he poured the boiling cheese into his mouth.
"Doesn't that hurt---!"
"Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!"
"Whatever…"
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