I would have updated sooner but the dentist has me on Vicodin and it does stuff to the head. I feel all loopy so I was going away and coming back to this story. You know I don't really want to mess up the characters more then they're probably already messed up. Plus I have to have some clue of what I'm writing about when I write about Anielka because she has her own image to uphold and all. Well thanks for the reviews so far.
Kooky Slurry Hipple Hopple. (You know what this means by now I hope.)
"Um is Anielka Ivakina here?" Anzu asked a store clerk who looked at her in surprise.
"Yes, she's upstairs in her apartment. May I ask who you are?" The old woman said with a smile.
"She's Anzu Mazaki, that's Kailani Mahina, and I'm Miakoda Istas we're friends of Anielka." Miakoda said making the old lady smile more.
"Then go on up, she'll be happy to see you." The old woman said smiling even more if that were possible. Anzu nodded and the three went up the steps, on the way they saw at least ten different cats.
"If I was Christian I would have considered this a bad omen." Miakoda said getting a chuckle from Kailani.
"Here kitty." Anzu said before picking up a hissing cat. However the cat instantly relaxed in her arms. "I don't know; I rather like them."
"Only you could say that, after all you have some compulsive disorder involving strays." Miakoda said with a smirk before they stopped at a door with several things carved into it. The largest carving was of a large tiger baring its teeth at a phoenix.
"Come in." A voice said from the inside before any of them had time to knock.
Anzu rolled her eyes and pushed the door open with her foot before the three strolled into a rather messy room. Stacks upon stacks of old looking books were everywhere, little trinkets, dolls, and paintings were upon old looking selves. Miakoda looked down and saw many different jigsaw puzzles under a Plexiglas covering; they had many different pictures from Mother Mary to some poor man being eaten by a dragon. The most beautiful of the puzzles though had to be the sickest; it looked like a painting of the black plague in the eyes of a Christian beholder, hell. The windows were stain-glass windows that looked like they belonged in a church. From the ceiling hung many different wind chimes and mobiles. A model train rain on a track that looped through the rooms. A single couch was in the middle were the light from the window shown the brightest and it looked old and dusty. Looking up Kailani felt like she was looking into the universe since there were different paintings of the solar systems and planets. A few potted plants were here and there in china pots. Could you have seen the walls you would have been looking at a painting of a forest on all the walls, even the door looked like it was part of an actual tree.
This was the living room of Anielka Ivakina, a dear and old friend of all three girls. She was also by far the most intriguing of the group.
"Close the door, you'll let the ghosts in." A girl said coming in from the kitchen. She had long black hair that ended at her knees and her bangs kept getting in front of her dark emerald eyes. She was as tall as Kailani with pale skin and a dazed look to her face. Her voice was dreamlike, as if her mind wasn't in reality. She wore the most unusual clothes as well, she had on a dark blue long sleeve tunic, a mini skirt made out of a bunch of different colored patches most of the materials being strong and you could see the stitches. The skirt was over a pair of neon green running shorts, a pair of black nylons with white strips. She also had on a yellow vest and a lavender corset. On her feet were a pair of brown hiking boots and on her hand were a pair of black gloves that disappeared up her sleeves. To finish off her ensemble was a red bandana around her head and a bunch of gypsy like jewelry.
Miakoda kicked the door and it slid to a close. You see Anielka didn't like using the doorknob in case a fire was on the other side of the door and her hand would burn. "Hola Annie." Kailani said with a smile.
"The winds said you'd arrive soon, it is nice to see you've made it here in one piece." Anielka said before sitting down on a stack of books. "Sit where you like but not on the couch, my father is taking a nap there."
"Um, okay." Anzu said and the three found seats on the books. She was surprised for how dusty the place looked the room had rather clean air. "We came to see-"
"If I have a book with the Ouroboros on it. Yes, Hades has told me. I do have the book you seek but I can't seem to remember where I put it." Anielka said looking at the books around her. "There are four books of such a description, one red, one blue, one yellow, and the last-"
"Green?" Miakoda asked looking at a book in her hands.
"That is correct." Anielka said with a nod looking at the book that Miakoda held as well.
"Do you have all of them?" Kailani asked tilting her head a bit.
"That is correct." Anielka said her glazed over eyes looking through the stacks. Soon the other three girls were helping their friend search for the three books. Anzu found one, the blue one, being used to hold up a porcelain doll. Kailani fond another one, the yellow one, it was helping balance a scale with jewelry on the other end. Finally Anielka found the last one, the red one, in an unused fireplace.
"So in one of these should be the spell to help Shadi." Anzu said with a sigh as she held the red and the blue books in her hands.
"Help yes, but do not let them fall into the wrong hands. I fear a dark evil is lurking in your shadow. Hate and revenge walk hand in hand when someone close dies for an unjust reason to the beholder. Be wary of those you call friends. Life without freedom is a curse and freedom without life is a punishment. Remember to guard all carefully if you wish not to face a dark gloom lurking just beyond the bend. Wishing to help I shall stay here, adventure is not my cup of tea these months long. Be careful and safe my friends." Anielka said before pushing the door close.
It wasn't until then did the three others notice that they were standing in the hallway. "Ever wonder how we became friends with her?" Kailani asked the other two who blinked.
"Ever wonder if we'll ever understand her?" Miakoda asked getting a chuckle from Anzu.
"Basically, guard the books, watch our backs, don't get caught, and sorry but I can't come." Anzu translated for the Native American who had a thoughtful look on her face.
"How can you understand her?" Miakoda asked before having to quickly follow after her two friends.
"Hath not the feeling I that this will be the last I lay eyes upon you my dear friends." Anielka's voice drifted down the hall and stopped the three, as they were about to exit the shop below.
"May the Great Spirit help me understand were this road is going. The more we walk the more twisted it becomes." Miakoda said shaking her head before the three exited.
"So they are coming back from Russia soon?" Bakura asked as he sat in the Ishtar living room.
"Yes, with them they'll bring four books. In one is the spell that will separate you two and the pharaoh." Shadi said with a nod.
"I'm not getting the feeling that this will be easy." Malik said suddenly getting the feeling that things were going to be rather rocky from this point on.
"What I'd like to know is who Akio is. Anzu said the name before she left." Isis said with a thoughtful look.
"Miakoda told Ryou about him the first day she was here. Something about him being a cousin who wanted revenge for something Anzu did to his father." Bakura said with a shrug.
"Why didn't you tell us earlier?" Isis demanded with a glare that didn't have any effect on the spirit of the ring.
"You didn't ask." Bakura said with a shrug getting a chuckle from Malik.
"Doesn't it strike you as just a tad bit odd that Miakoda would know about it even before Anzu?" Isis asked still glaring but Bakura shrugged.
"Whose to say that Anzu didn't already know? Miakoda must have heard it from her and decided to tell Ryou for some reason. By then we already knew that Anzu liked the two of us anyway." Bakura argued making Isis blink.
"Oh, bad move." Malik said inching away from his sister.
"And exactly how did you know that?" Isis asked the calm spirit.
"Why do you need to know?" Bakura asked with a raised eyebrow.
"She's my friend Bakura, I have a right to know if you infringed on her privacy." Isis said calmly, a little too calmly if you asked them.
"I have my ways. Leave it at that, besides Anzu knows we know so there's no big deal. You don't need to know everything about her anyway." Bakura said before getting a sly look from Isis.
"So do you like her as well?" Isis asked getting a glare from Bakura.
"I don't think now is the time for you to worry about that." A voice said from the shadows.
"Who's there?" Malik asked as he and Bakura instantly stood to their feet. That's when the air filled with something, medicine it smelt like. Then all went dark for the four occupants of the room.
Oh no! What is to happen to our guys? Who was in the shadows? What will Anzu and the others do when they find out? Why am I writing questions? Why don't you REVIEW now to know what is going to happen? Oh and I kind of need a tinny bit of help as to how Anzu finds out the four are missing.