Hey everyone, thanks for being so patient with me. I had the main computer I was using to type this crash and I had to wait forever to get it fixed. So I sigh and cry, but alas I must make this chapter short due to plot purposes. I hope you all can forgive me for this.
I was silent and my mouth was wide open in awe, how could I have smiled? I looked at Riku, he was grinning at my stupid face… I felt like I wanted to just run off, but decided it better to try to shake off the surprise over a few minutes. My thoughts were as suspected, should've run when I had the chance, instead, I had to put up with Riku for the next twenty minutes it took to get to my room.
"I'm gonna get ready for bed okay? See you tomorrow, or whenever." I closed the door to my room quickly and let out a sigh, Riku was definitely getting to my brain.
It wasn't going to be easy to ignore him either… It seemed like every time I would try to ignore him, he'd just keep going until it got to me or he was satisfied with whatever results he got out of me. I figured that I really could use some sleep, this would piss me off if I kept thinking about it for too long. Things always pissed me off if I thought on them for too long.
I slipped out of my clothes only leaving on my boxers and crawled into the bed tiredly. I had thought about all that had happened that day and as I drifted off into sleep, my last images were of Riku.
Why?
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"Lance, hey, get up you sleepyhead." I heard a young but firm voice just inches away from my ear and pulled the covers over my head, in an attempt to stop the sounds.
"Laannccee…" The voice came again, only a little softer this time, and very close this time.
I finally knew who it was, Riku… wait, why was he in my room? I thought silently under the covers then almost jumped when I felt a hand on my back.
"Lance, I know you're awake under there…" He said as he sat on the corner of my bed.
And of course he was right, but I wouldn't let him gain the satisfaction of it. I closed my eyes and tried to ignore him, tried to drift back off to sleep, but as one would suspect, I couldn't and was forced to peek a tired eye out from under the covers.
"What do you want? I'm tired, leave me alone…" I said with a yawn as I attempted to pull the covers over my head and having Riku stop me.
"I want you to get up Lance, I was sent out on a mission last night while you were asleep." Riku said this as if he had been lonely on his mission, he might have been, but was that really my problem?
"Really? What for, another princess?" I said, sitting up and stretching.
"Yeah, I had tried to get you awake, but you're a heavy sleeper at one in the morning." He made a sad face then looked at me.
"What?" I looked back at him with a cocked eye.
"Nothing, well at least you're awake now. Get up and get dressed, Ansem had his servants make breakfast…" Riku shook his head as he walked out the door. As if Ansem never had his servants make food before.
I stood up and stretched a little bit more then walked over to my dresser and pulled out a new pair of clothes for the day. I dressed quickly and turned to the door, then remembered. I went into the bathroom and found a comb, running it through my hair I quickly ran to the door and stepped out.
"Ready Lance?" Riku said as I walked at a slow pace, trying to stay out of a long conversation.
"Yeah, tired though" I let a yawn escape from my mouth as I looked around for a clock. "What time is it?" I asked as I looked at him, my eyes scanning him for a sign of change.
"It's about," He paused. "Eight thirty I think." He said, he seemed to be reviewing his answer to himself, and must have thought it was right.
"Oh ok, then I'll be fully awake in about an hour then." I said as we turned a corner and headed into the main dining hall.
"You okay?" Riku looked as if I had gotten sick all of the sudden.
"Yeah, why?" I was a bit uneasy having people who were worried about me, I was always the one being ignored by everyone and everything.
We walked towards the large mahogany table in the middle of the room and took seats on the opposite sides of the table. The table had many different types of food on it, as well as desserts of all sizes and flavors. Too much food for my liking, I hated to have a lot of food in the same place at the same time, one meal was enough for me. This much food was just sickening, and it was all very bright, unlike the rest of the castle and Riku and myself.
"Ugh, that's a lot of food…" I said as I grabbed a piece of toast and took a bite out of it.
"Lord Ansem usually doesn't give us that much food, I think he's trying to say we should take what we know won't spoil with us, but that's just my opinion." Riku said, trying to sound like he knew everything, again…
"Or maybe it's his way of saying that we did well on the last mission we were on." I said as I took another bite out of my toast.
"Yeah, I suppose you're right. That might be the case…" Riku said with a laugh as he took a bowl of cereal and poured milk into it.
"Why would he congratulate us with food though? I mean, I certainly don't eat much." I said, my voice wavered a little as I stifled a yawn.
"I don't either, maybe he's planning something? He's been doing a lot of that lately." Riku smirked, he always knew what Ansem was planning since he was his right hand man pretty much.
I thought about what could be going on and decided not to worry, Ansem had to know what he doing… Or did he?
"So, what are we supposed to do? Did he say that we should see him after this?" I asked Riku these questions with a low voice, he seemed to be thinking deeply about this conversation.
"He didn't say anything, just that we should come here and eat breakfast, he said nothing about plans, or whether or not we should see him." Riku got a confused look on his face and looked towards a silver clock on the wall.
I looked towards the clock on the wall, almost noon… Ansem had told Riku that there was food a little late, normally the food would be delivered to our rooms, or we got it ourselves. Ansem was definitely doing something different today, what it was neither me nor Riku could tell. I looked towards Riku again and studied his expression, he was thinking terribly hard about this and it confused me to no end as I thought of what to say next.
"Then we should probably go see him then, maybe something happened…" I stood up and walked towards the door, pausing to wait for him to follow me. "Let's go Riku." I said, then walked out the door into the hallway that lead to the Castle Chapel.
I walked down the hallway slowly, the sound of my own footsteps the only noise until I heard a chair move in the main dining room and footsteps clicking down the hallway after mine making my ears ring a little bit.
It didn't take Riku long to catch up, but as soon as he did a scream was heard coming from the main tower of the Castle Chapel.
"Get away from me! What do you want with me? Tell me!" A girl's voice came ringing down the hallway and Riku and I ran towards it quickly.
We slammed the doors open as we entered the main tower, Ansem had a girl chained to one of the walls and was sitting in a chair in front of her as she struggled to get free.
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Once again, thank you all who have waited so long for this chapter. Please, read and review. Nekomi needs some motivation….T-T
