Queen Luana : Here we go, chapter nine. Muahahaa, who knows what'll happen to our heroes. Let's find out now, shall we? ;) And once again, thanx for all your reviews silver tsukino! Love ya!
Chapter IX – Copy
As they landed in front of Gohan and Goku's house, Luana got called. "Oh hi dad," she said, strikingly cheerful. "Yes... Yeah, I'll come home as fast as I can... I'm with a friend... No not Katrin, you don't know him... What? Yeah, hang on a sec." She held out the cell phone to Krillin. "Pretend your Goku." He smirked. "Yeah hello? ...No, it's no trouble at all." Goku knocked the door and it swung open. "AHA!" Chi-Chi cried and she grabbed his ear tightly. "We're gonna talk!" She pulled him into the house, Goku struggling to get out of her grip. Luana chuckled slightly. "Hey Luana." Krillin handed over her cell phone. "Your dad is going to pick you up here at seven." "Okay, thanks Krillin." "Don't mention it," he said smiling. "Well, I'm going back to Kame House. Wait till Master Roshi hears about all this!" Luana smiled and they shook hands. "Till some other time." "Yeah, see yah, Gohan. Say goodbye to Goku for me, arlight?" "Sure will, Krillin." Krillin waved slightly ran a bit and then shot into the air, lightening flashing around him, and out of sight. They watched the sky for a while, then Gohan smiled at Luana. "Well, in three hours you'll be gone." "Not forever," she said, blushing slightly. "I'll come and visit you as often as I can." "I guess I oughta thank Samara." She looked at him in confussion. "For what?" He smiled and stroke the hair from her face. "For you."
They walked around for the next three hours. Talking and laughing. Bringing up memories from the past. "There's one thing I don't get though," Gohan said while they were walking back to the house. "How did that tape ended up with us in the first place?" Luana sighed. "I'm still ashamed about how that happened." "Go on." She took a deep breath. "So my brother gave me that tape, and when I found out he was dead I knew something was awfully wrong with it. And I wanted to get rid of it as fast as I could. So one day, when I was selling cookies at houses I brought the tape along. Your mother was so friendly to invite me in and, when she went to the kitchen to fetch something to drink, I quickly hid the tape with all the others. The first days I was reliefed. Only then I realised what I had done. You would watch it and even more people would get killed. I'm the one who started those rumours in school in the first place. Hoping everyone would be careful on watching unlabelled tapes. Anyway, one week later I came back to pick it up and... I saw it was already too late." She sighed as they reached the door and sat down in front of it. "I would never forgive myself if anything happened to you guys." Gohan's hand rested on her shoulder. "It's okay, nobody got heard. We freed her and now we're safe. Okay?" She nodded. "Okay." In a distance they saw a black porche approaching.
2 days later...
"Looks like we're having fish tonight," Goku smiled as he and Gohan each pulled a huge fish back to the house. Chi-Chi was waiting at the door. "Ah, home at last! Gohan, that Luana is here. She's waiting in your room." Gohan looked up in surprise. "Oh..." He hadn't expected her back this early. And her mother's funeral was the next day as well. Hmm... Maybe she didn't want to go. "It's okay, I'll take yours with me," Goku said, taking over Gohan's fish. "Thanks." "Ask her if she's staying her for dinner!" Chi-Chi yelled as he ran up the stairs. "I will!" At his room he waited before enterring. Some habit he had created since the morning he first saw Samara standing in his room. He opened the door and found Luana sitting on his desk again, her hair falling before her eyes. As he closed the door Gohan could hear her cry. "What's wrong?" he asked and sat down beside her. She looked at him with red eyes and cheeks. "I can't go... I can't go to my mother's funeral... I saw her yesterday... I just can't..." "Hush, it's okay..." he whispered and pulled her against his chest. "Luana... I'll tell you what. You stay here for the night and tomorrow we'll go together. How does that sound?" "...okay..." He smiled and gently stroke her hair. "It's okay."
After dinner they sat down in Gohan's room against the bed this time. "You really don't mind, right?" she asked and looked up at him. "Of course not, else I wouldn't have said it, right?" "Right..." They went silent for a while. "Gohan, can I drink something?" "Sure, what?" "Anything with alcohol..." He smiled and went downstairs where he snatched two cans of beer from the fridge and ran back up again. He waited three seconds then enterred. She was now sitting on top of his bed. He threw her one of the cans. "Thanks," she said and Gohan settled himself down beside him. Watching his alarm clock he saw it was past nine. Luana shrieked. "What!" He relaxed when he saw she had spilled bear all over her black top and grey skirt. "Shit!" she cursed. "It's okay," Gohan said taking over the can and placing it on his desk. "You can pull on one of my shirts for now and I bet tomorrow you can borrow something of my mum." He whiped away most of the beer with his sleeve. "Aw... great..." He stepped over to his closet to pick out one of his shirts. When he turned a black one clutched in his hand his jaw dropped. She had pulled out her top and skirt and now stood there in black bra and underwear. She smiled vaguely. "Something wrong?" "Uh n-no..." he stumbled and closed his closet. "No not at all..." He suddenly felt her lips in his neck. "Ho! Luana!" he pushed her off. She just smiled at him. "Come on, Gohan." He could not speak and moments later she kissed him passionately.
Gohan moaned as he woke up and looked at his alarmclock. 11:04 PM. He turned over and saw Luana lying next to him, wearing his way too big black shirt. He smiled and kissed her on the forehead. Then he stood up and stretched. He himself was only wearing his pants and he smiled slightly, still not quite believing what he had done. He reached out for his can of beer and found it was empty. Moaning again he opened the door of his room in all silence and went downstairs. He spotted a light coming out of the living room while standing in the kitchen. Closing the fridge again he went to take a look. The tv was on. He groaned and turned it off. While heading back for the kitchen, behind him he could hear it turning back on. Slightly panicking he turned to see Samara's well. Her hand clutched over the edge of the well and soon her head followed, then her body. Gohan's eyes widened. They had freed her! What the hell was going on? She walked closer, reaching for the screen...
Luana opened her eyes and found the bed was empty. "Gohan?" She looked around but he wasn't in the room anymore. The alarm clock said 11:09 PM. Luana stood up and yawned. Something was wrong, she knew when walking down the stairs. Terribly wrong. "Gohan?" No answer. She as well noticed a light coming from the room. She clapped her hands in front of her mouth. The tv was on and Gohan was lying motionless in front of it in a puddle of water. Trembling she shuffled closer. Please don't let him be... She leaned over to watch his face. The entire neighbourhood could hear her scream.
A silver car stopped in front of their house. A young woman with long blonde hair stepped out of it. The house was surrounded with police cars and cops. Two corpses were carried into an ambulance and a women with black hair tied in a knot said there on her knees crying. The woman sighed and walked inside.
"That's the girl", one of the cops said pointing at a young girl sitting on a couche in front of the tv, muttering things to herself. "She found them?" "She found the boy. She's in shock, apparently. She just keeps saying things about a tape and one Samara..." "What's her name?" the woman asked, shivering herself. "Uh, Luana Potter." She took a deep breath then kneeled down in front of her. "Luana?" Luana kept muttering things. "We freed her... we were free... we weren't cursed anymore, no... we freed her..." "Luana, my name is Rachel Keller," she said. "Samara... Samara came back and we helped her..." "Luana, look at me," Rachel ordered and she turned to face her with a vague expression on her face. She stopped muttering. "Did you watch the tape as well?" Tears sprakled in her eyes. "Yes..." Rachel clasped her shoulder. "I know how to stop it, Luana." She smiled sadly and shook her head. "You're too late." She looked over at the tv and as Rachel turned she could see it turning on. She rose from the ground and took a few steps backwards. The well appeared on the screen, and soon Samara crawled out. With stiff movements she walked towards them, her hair still hanging in front of her face. "How?" Rachel turned to Luana who just stared at the screen. "How do you stop it?" Rachel swallowed. "You have to make a copy." Luana frowned and teared her eyes away from the screen. "Just a copy?" Rachel slowly nodded. Luana reached for something underneath the couch and held up an unlabelled tape. "That's all?" Looking up she saw Samara had reached the screen. Somehow, Luana had the horrifying feeling the glass was all that separated them now. And she was right. Clutching both edges of the screen, Samara pulled through, into the real world. She banged onto the ground and crawled towards Luana, pulling herself forward with her rotten hands. Rachel gasped in horror. Luana looked at the tape, then back at Samara and broke it on her knee. She pulled out the tape itself and tossed it against the wall.Then she waited. Samara pulled herself up at Luana's knees. As she did so, not only could Luana feel a shivering cold go through her, she also saw her nails were gone. As Samara brought her face up to hers, she couldn't hear her breathe either. Of course not, she thought. She's dead! Behind her black hair an angry face was lying watching her. And yet Luana grined. "Now I understand perfectly well why your mother killed you." Samara's hair slid away and reveilled a bright blue eye glaring at her. Then, Luana was no more.
The end.
Queen Luana: Oh, too bad! It wasn't a happy ending! PLEASE DON'T KILL ME! Hehehehee, you wouldn't right? Uh, I just couldn't think of a happy ending, alright? I mean, like how in the world would they else find out they had to make a copy! Perhaps if they bumped into Rachel Keller earlier... My first idea was to let everyone die except for Luana. That the end shot would be in the church at her mother's funeral. And then having flashbacks on her journey and all, saying how she would never forget them and all the mushy sad stuff. But I realised it's already surreal Rachel could get there before Luana died so, if she had to make a copy as well... Anyway, review please and don't hate me!
