I wrote this a LONG time ago. Seriously long time ago….. like several years ago.
Disclaimer: I own Jewel, Oden, and the house; that's ALL!
Chapter 2
"Wow…." Quatre muttered. Trowa nodded. Duo sat, wide-eyed. Wufei was surprised, but kept a watch on the cat-demon. Heero grunted, but was a bit distracted by the hilarious face that Duo was making. Oden smiled slightly at his little sister and Jewel looked around at the gundam pilots. They all accepted the mission.
"Alrighty then! Let's see what I can whip up!" Jewel exclaimed as she bounced up and said a weird word that sounded like 'home.' Suddenly, they were sitting on the lawn of a huge mansion surrounded by a forest. "Here we are," Jewel chirped happily, "Oden will show you around. I need to roundup the others." Jewel bounded off cheerfully as the gundam pilots looked around them, a bit dazed. Oden called their attention and led them into the house of horrors.
The house was well kept, clean and quite modest.
"My sister and I live here alone most of the time, except when we need to do something to affect the outside world. We don't have much, but this is our home. Your rooms are upstairs and all other rooms except the bathrooms are downstairs. That door," pointing to a dark brown door with pine green leaves painted on the lapel, "leads to Jewel's kitchen. Don't try to steal anything from there or anywhere unless you want to get seriously injured by Jewel's guardians. The door over there," points to a door painted deep purple, "leads to the living room; that one," gestures at a grayish green door, "opens to reveal the den. The one over there," indicates a black antique door with a pewter handle, "lets you go to the cellar, mind yourself if you go down there—it's a bit dangerous and I'm not talking about the junk that's down there. I'm talking about some of the vampires, werewolves, zombies, and who knows what else is down there, waiting for some unknown person to go down there so they can……..never mind. Anyway, upstairs, once you choose a room, your name will appear on the door. The rooms already taken have names on the doors. Do you want to choose your rooms now or look around the house and grounds?" Oden said, stopping for a breath. The gundam pilots choose the upstairs. "Alright, I'll be in the den should you need me," Oden says casually over his shoulder as he walks out the door, leaving the five 15-year olds in the entryway.
They cautiously tiptoe up the stairs and look around. The hallway they were in was extremely confusing. There were over thirty doors leading to different rooms alone. The other doors led to bathrooms and closets. Doors were marked with names and some were locked.
A dark blue door with silver linings had Jewel's name in silver on it. Another door had the name Oden on it. Another had Blue-Eyes White Dragons, Obelisk the Tormentor, and the name 'Kaiba' on it. One right next to it was black and had the name Hiei in white on it. A door with the Dark Magician, Sypher the Sky Dragon, Summoned Skull, Exodia, Dark Magician Girl, and Curse of Dragon was christened Yugi Moto.
Each chose a different door and the moment they stepped inside there was a blast of color and sound then suddenly the room was the room of their dreams, the perfect room.
Heero's room was efficient and had a million different places to hide anything from pictures to ammo. Duo's was filled with pictures of the past and present. Trowa's was covered in lions, cats, and things to do with the circus. Quatre's was decorated in pale colors of green and gold. Cats and lions were everywhere. Wufei's was covered in dragons and pictures of Neko, amazingly enough. Wufei was a bit scared at first, but thought a bit and decided that Neko wasn't as bad as his first meeting with her was.
They met in the den after thoroughly going through their rooms. Snacks lined the coffee tables and shelves of movies were everywhere. Oden was chatting quietly with a tall brunette in a trench coat in a corner. A short person with spiky tri-colored hair came up behind Quatre and tugged lightly on his sleeve. Quatre turned around to greet his cousin.
"Yugi! You're here?" Yugi nods enthusiastically.
"Yep, we're going to help with a thing called mnemonics later on. You can help too, if you want to," Yugi said, grinning happily. Oden turned around to ask Yugi some questions and the tall brunette sat there emotionlessly. Duo tried to start a conversation with him, but he ignored him.
Jewel came in and asked them to take a seat or two, relax and eat some snacks if they were hungry. Duo gave up on the tall brunette and began chomping down on the snacks. Heero greeted the tall brown-haired person with a 'hn' and the person 'hn'ed back.
A short black-haired person walked in calmly, but was knocked over by the tall red-head running away from the evilly laughing cat-demon.
"Kurama, you knocked over Hiei!" Oden teased, pointing at the fallen demon. Hiei growled at Oden and bared his fangs. Jewel and Quatre thought that face was adorable, but since Kurama was still sitting on the diminutive demon, he could only glare at them. Kurama jumped up and picked Hiei up into his arms.
"I'm so sorry, Hiei. I didn't mean to fall on you. Neko was chasing me and….." Kurama tried to talk to the now fuming fire demon. Hiei bounded out of Kurama's grasp and curled up near the tall still-unnamed brunette, who clucked his tongue at Kurama. Kurama glared at said person.
"Seto Kaiba, if you don't quit that I will cut out your tongue and feed it to my guardian plants," Kurama threatened, glaring at the stoic CEO. Kaiba raised his hands in surrender, but didn't say a word. Yugi asked him if anything was wrong, but Kaiba only shook his head. Jewel looked closely at Kaiba and grinned slyly, but said not a thing. Trowa looked between Jewel, Kaiba, and Yugi; a slight smile graced his face, but none saw.
Jewel stood and quiet was found quickly even though it had to be looked for under threats of cut tongues, bashed in heads, and roping to a chair in a swamp full of crocs and gators. Hiei, Kaiba, and Heero didn't need to be told, much less threatened, but Duo had to be silenced by tape and Heero's vise like grip to hold Duo from escaping. Kaiba said nothing, but Hiei made fun of Duo the whole time. Oden chuckled while helping Heero.
Kurama finally called a guardian plant to hold Duo where he could hear, but not let him speak or disturb anyone. Finally, Jewel was able to tell them about the mission.
"OK. The point of the mission is to make up a humorous skit for learning the symbols on the keyboard. Well, 1 through 0 at least. Later we'll be doing another skit also using mnemonics to help others learn the pegs and words on several lists. Any who, shall we get started?"
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