near southwest of twilight town near the alley earlier, there was a crack on the wall. an abnormally huge crack. raine, ed, al was found there. " so... this is where the rat king told us to be? " al aweatdropped. " brother, he's a mouse and he has a name. " ed shrugged " whatever, rat .. mouse same thing! " raine doesn't seem to be all that excited. " you sure about this? what if that letter's fake? ... then what will happen then? "
ed cocked at her " could you be more negative? ... it's okay, things like this happen a lot, it's better not to think about it. " raine never really noticed how ed has changed, even though he acts tough and pretends to be cocky, he's still manages to know what to say all the time.
" we can't give up now, comming this far raine, so let's just go! " al exclaimed. she smiled happiliy feeling more confident now.
they began to walk through the opening, the forest was covered with darkness. to them it looked like a rain forest with no habitants. everything was quiet, which made al nervous,strage and alarming. it didn't take lomg before they saw light at the end of the tunneling forests.
raine gasped. the old mansion was almost like a castle hidden in a forest, it looked like an antique being hidden for years.
" is this where ansem lives? it's huge! "
ed looked arround and noticed that the gate was locked. al tried shaking it but it wouldn't open.
he examined it more and noticed there was a keyhole, it was... big.
" hey! look, that keyhole, must be a way to open the gate ... but how? "
" where's the janitor when you need him? "
" i'm serious ed!... how are we going to get in? "
ed wandered around " maybe there's a trick to opening locks? um... let me think ..." ed's eyes shot up , raised his hand and pointed to the gate." open!...please? " raine and al swaetdropped.
" uh... maybe that wasn't it ..." ed chuckled nervously.
there was a sound. a sound of footsteps heading this way, ed and the others noticed this and hid behind a patch of bushes. sooner or later it was roxas and pence that appeared before them.
" huh?... who are they? " ed stared blankly.pence explained to roxas about the last wonder of thier project. it was a girl that was said to be seen in this abandoned mansion. roxas looked up and saw her, he wasn't the only one who could though
raine, ed and al were able to see her too. al noticed her right away. " uh... ed! look ther's a girl behind that window. everyone turned their attention to her.
the girl seems to notice this, and turned her head to their direction, and smiled.
ed felt a little freaked out that she noticed them. after pence went back to the usual spot, roxas was left there to think. ' i'm not suppose to exist?... what does that mean? ' ed noticed the boy just stood there with no movement. " huh? why is he just standing there? "
the creatures that had attacked roxas before had returned.
there were ten of them, " you again? " roxas called out.then the keyblade appeared in his hand " again...? "
" those creatures! " ed and al noticed them, raine looked at them. " we saw those things earlier, they were attacking us as well." al explained.
ed jumped out of the bush. " damn those things!...they keep pop'n out, like DAISIES! " raine remembered something... shadow ...light...
ed was about to move in, " alright, helps on the way kid! "
raine went out as well, " we need to do this together ed, ... i need you to use alchemy and turn those trees into lighters...oklay? "
ed smirked " fine with me. "
they did so and raine took out her alchemy gloves. al asked " why lighters? "
" because ... their weakness is light!..."
the lighters shot out bright light. raine snaped her fingers. her gloves are made of ignition cloth, like roy, when she snaps it creates a spark. she then uses alchemy to turn the oxygen arround into flames.
" bang! bombs on command! " she said triumpitly.
there was alot of those creatures, roxas was not sure if he could destroy them all, then bombs of light flashed before him, and he took care of the rest. before he left the keyblade relased the seal on the gate, and the doors were open. he figured to leave before anything else happened.
raine and ed sighed with relief. ed looked at her. " how'd you know? " she told them that sheska mentioned it to her before they began this search.
ed smirked " you know... that kid wasn't that bad actually, and he opened the door for us...hum... but i wonder, how did he do it? "
they went inside and once they did the doors locked it self up again. " doesn't look all that good inside as it does outside. " they went scooping around the main floor, " what wierd taste in furniture." ed exclaimed.
ed and al went upstairs to investegate.
they went into a particular white room with white furniture. the walls were covered with pictures. they looked at them carefully, all the pictures seem to be about a blond hair kid and a brunette kid, a duck and a dog dressed in wierd clothing.
" someone has a one tracked mind! "
al laughed. " your one to talk, "
ed noticed this one picture with a girl with black hair holding hands with two others
the same boy in all the pictures and another guy with red hair.
he noticed something about the girl, she looked familiar. " hey ... al, doesn't this look like someone? "
there was no sound. " al..."
" oh, you know her, that's raine! " ed was a little shocked, al's voice suddenly went feminine. " al, what happend to yo- " he turned around but saw a girl, the same girl by the window, the girl had light blonde angelic hair with eyes that represent the colour of ocean waves, and mostly skin as pura as snow.
she smiled at him " hello "
ed frozed for a second before screaming " ahhhhhhhhh, a ghost! "
the floor shook as raine realized ed's scream had come from that room upstairs.
al noticed her as well. he and ed ran towards the door corner " ed! she's... she's comming! "
" i know that you idiot! " ed screamed in a hurry.
" do you think she's an evil spirit? ... brother "
she backed away a little " wait i can explain "
" RAINE! HURRY AND BURN THE GHOST! "
as fast as she could she hurried to the white room. " stop screaming ed, i hear you. "
this situation was starting to ring a bell.
" what now ..." she finally came to the room. she saw ed and al huddled into a corner by the door, staring intensly at the ghost, which was actually the girl from earlier. " you..." she pointed out. the girl went towards her " let mye introduce myself, my name is namine "
ed and al exchange glances " so,... your no a ghost? "
she giggled. " oh no... of course not "
raine smaked them on the head " well, that was certainly rude of you two! "
ed and al just rubbed thier heads and gave an awkward smile.
namine laughed noticing how amusing they can be. " so what brings you here? "
edward and alphonse got up " you see, were looking for a guy named ansem, he's suppose to live here isn't he? "
namine smiled " well, i don't know of any ansem , but a man named diz lives here now. he is very wise indeed. maybe he could help you? "
they all lit up in interest. " i see..." namine pionted over at a distance " he's just over there, i could take you to him if you want? "
ed and raine nodded. " sure, thanks "
they followed her willingly. raine thought to herself. ' man, what a mess! what have i done? i not only draged ed and al in this but i also got us lost?
no this can't be right... i have to know for sure if this is the right place, and if it's not ... then we'll just find another way '
" you shouldn't worry..." namine said as she faced raine with a smile. " i'm sure diz will know exactly what your looking for, he's knows a lot. "
raine smiled back. ed whispered to raine " don't you think this diz might be just like that cornello in lior? "
raine made a face " huh? the prophet? no way... he can't be, well he's not exactly worshiped or anything... but if he does start any trouble, i'll be sure to report! "
ed twitched his eyebrow " hate it when you say that..."
namine looked at ed's direction and smiled. " what are you smiling at? "
al glanced " she's picturing you taller! "
" SHUT UP AL! ...NO SHE ISN'T "
namine laughed. " your really lucky to have brothers like them, does it bother you that they sometimes are annoying, thats what people in town always say about their siblings. "
raine just laughed slightly " thier not my real brothers but they sure act like it, i mean were closer than family. "
her smile then faded " i do have a brother... but's he's not close to being one, if you ask me "
namine could tell thier was a strange bitterness comming from her words.
" by the way mr edward, i think i may have something..." ed cocked an eyebrow. " something like what? "
" oh you know, something that won't stunt your growth! i fed some to my plants and they blew up the ceiling, "
raine rolled on the floor laughing.
ed however was red in in face colour and steam began to form arround him " who are you calling a shrimp so small you wanna throw across the room! "
al sweatdropped. " brother... she didn't say that! "
namine stayed behind raine holding onto her arm " say away from him he's dangerous! "
al was holding onto ed trying to restrain him from attacking namine. " LET ME AT HER! LET ME AT HER! "
ed and the others finally came to a room across the hall, it looked normal until namine did some thing that made it change into one of theose secret hide outs for super heros or evil villans.
" whoa! " they all gasped. never had they seen so much contraptions all looked like computers. not even the cetral labratories had any of this stuff.
" everything is so ... technologetic " al gasped.
" yes well we do need alot of these things to do what we do. "
ed was curious. " just what is it exactly you do? "
this perked the interest of both raine an al.
" we-...um, we should get going, diz is expecting you "
ed thought 'well that was freakish! she's definately hidding something right? ' raine thought to herself ' i wonder...'
they entered another room and another, it almost seemed endless ' remind me never to take a tour in this house again 'they all thought.
it was then the last room happed to be a secret chamber with an under ground room.
that was when namine looked around, it looked like alll the cameras there where torn apart.
ed glanced " what... what the hell happened here? "
raine and them ran towards the broken materials. " who could have-" raine glanced at a slide in door. a second later a man with a dark cloack came out.
" what have you been up to little girl? " he chucked sarcastically.
ed thought in disgust. ' this guy is as bad as roy mustang! '
namine's eyes went wide " how did you get in? "
he sighed. " you think little cameras are gonna stop me from comming here, you should know me better than that namine! "
she glared at him. " now then, let's get down to buiseness, where's roxas? "
ed and al glaced at eachother " who's roxas? " " your asking the wrong guy..."
ed turned to raine " what's this crack pot talking about? "
she wasn't listening. lost in her thoughts. ' that tone of voice, where have i heard that before? '
ed waved a had in front of her face " yo!.. is anyone in there? "
al shrugged " she has ways of tuning out people..."
the cloaked man glanced arround and did a double take when he saw raine
" ugh... you! " sh was suprised as his words reached her, she felt her heart pound vigorously.
" you look familiar... " was all he said.
she then retured him with a smirk " you too... mind telling me your name or do i have to start guessing? "
she could here a small chuckle from him " you have spunk girl... i knew someone like that once. "
it was silent for a couple of minutes until a stange sound came from one of those machines that were out for display.
a man entered the room where all the action was.
raine:
if you haven't already figured out who the cloacked figure is, do not worry, he'll be revealed next chapter
who was the man who entered the room? why does raine remember something about this strange man?
are you into it yet? i hope so, see you soon.