Chapter Sixteen: Second Chances
Chiro sighed, "Great, now we lost Antauri..."
"You know Chiro, she might just not be evil," Gibson suggested.
Chiro sighed again, he wanted to believe it...but something inside him pushed him away from the subject. Maybe it was stubbornness or maybe he just didn't want his team to get hurt.
"Don't worry I'll go everything in my-my power to help you...as long as you don't squeeze me to death," Antauri said.
"Sorry," Cielle said as she let go of Antauri. "Antauri...um...about last night did you..."
"You can't beat yourself up like that Cielle. What your sister said may have been harsh but it was true. Cielle you tried your hardest and that's what counts and you need to start thinking about your own well being, it's alright you know," Antauri told her.
Cielle blinked a few times absorbing his lecture. "I didn't use to be like this...unh...now isn't the time to talk about this!" Cielle said with a soft smile.
"Antauri," Gibson said as he walked up to him. "I hope you'll accept my help," he told him.
"Of course Gibson, just don't run into the castle directory on the way back," Antauri said. Gibson gave him a irritated look. Cielle burst out in laughter nearly scaring the two monkey's half two death.
"You ran into the directory! How'd you manage to do that! It's like huge!" she said laughing.
"Alright, alright, yes let's all laugh at Gibson," Gibson said with a frown.
"I'm not laughing," Antauri pointed out.
"Yeah, well..." Gibson grumbled.
Cielle took a deep breath, "Ah, I missed laughing, sure has been a while."
"Your lovely when your happy," Antauri said.
"I feel lovely," Cielle said.
"Antauri," Chiro piped up as he walked towards the trio.
"Yes Chiro?" he asked.
"I guess...if you trust her...I do too," Chiro said.
"Thank you Chiro," Antauri said.
"Chiro," Cielle said as she walked up to him. She took his hand and looked into his eyes, "I'm sorry if I caused you any pain...I'm sorry that I attacked you...but I assure you it was against my own freewill. Thank you for trusting me and giving me a second chance." she said.
Chiro smiled, "No problem," he said.
"Alright then," Cielle said as she spun around. "We have a Princess stop!"
"Well...seems my plan didn't turn out the way I planned it...did it Ryo?" Princess Tsuki snapped.
Ryo smiled nervously.
"But don't worry, one I have Cielle's clones and Kevok up and running I'll be unstoppable!" she said.
"Kevok? But he's just a prototype, there's no way he'll b ready..." Ryo started.
"He will be ready!" Princess Tsuki snapped.
"Y-yes ma'am..." Ryo said sadly.
"Anyways... What Cielle said was true," Princess Tsuki said.
"That she's going to destroy you!" Ryo said.
"No you idiot!" Princess Tsuki yelled. "That my sister isn't coming back! She knows when she's been beaten and she's been beat!"
Ryo sighed and looked away from her, "Cousin Abbie isn't beat, she's just waiting for the right moment to come back...I know it," he thought.
"Look it's the castle! OOH! I'm soooooo excited!" Kirei said as she ran up the hill towards the castle.
Abigail sighed, "I forgot how excited she get's."
"How could you forget that?" Sparx asked shocked.
"Guess I've been gone to long..." Abigail said sadly.
Nova elbowed Sparx, "Way to make her feel better," she said sarcastically.
"So how are we gonna get past the Valencia?" Otto asked.
"I can shut them down through my laptop, I just have to link up the main signal that's controlling them," Abigail answered. The group made it up the hill and were now at the entrance of the castle. They hid behind the same bushes Gibson and Antauri had, while the Queen carefully took her laptop out of her bag. She sat down on the ground and turned it on, a small antennae shot out of the side and made a humming noise.
"Once the computer boots it should pick up the signal, then all we have to do is disable the signal and we won't have to worry about the Valencia," Abigail whispered.
"Wow, this is so kewl! I feel like I'm one of those kewl action movies!" Kirei said.
Abigail hushed Kirei and began typing on her laptop. 'There!" Abigail said as she stood up, picked up her laptop and walked out of the bushes. Kirei skipped happily behind her humming.
"Hold up! The Valencia are still there!" Sparx said. Abigail kept on walking followed by Kirei who had her utmost confidence in her. The Valencia spotted them and came rushing towards them with their swords. Otto, Nova and Sparx gasped as they ran out of the bushes and towards the Queen.
"Watch out!" Nova yelled.
"Huh?" Abigail asked confused.
They jumped in front of the Queen just as a Valencia was about to slice her in half. To there surprise the Valencia went right through them. They sighed a sigh of relief and sunk down tot he ground.
Abigail laughed lightly, "I do appreciate your concern, but they can't harm me at all. Don't worry they can't harm any of us. I wasn't able to delete them, that would have to be done by the main computer in the castle."
Nova sighed, "Guess we should have asked."
"Come on guys! Get up!" Kirei said with a twirl. The three robot monkys sighed and stood up.
to be continued...
L'arc en Ciel7: Yay! Kirei's back! Oh yeah! Raise the Roof! dances
Snowkat: Oh gosh...please stop!
L'arc en Ciel7: Whatever, your just jealous because I'm a better dancer then you. continues to dance
Snowkat: Yeah and I can paint like Monet.
L'arc en Ciel7: I still say your jealous! --;