Chapter 3: Monday..
A/N: Sorry it took so long… I had to get a comp that worked… But it's here, at last… though I must admit the thing that got me moving was the promise a friend made me… ' .. Anyway, here we go. OH! And I'm hoping to go to the ROM again soon.. YAY! Toodles! OH! And thank you to Tara and Lamia Angel of Death, who have reviewed every single chapter, even the authors note… lol Thank you very much!
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Disclaimer: I OWN NOTHING! I only own myself and the deck of cards… for full disclaimer see previous chapters…
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"I'm boooooorrrreed…"
That was the common phrase of the morning of Monday.
The latest outburst originated from Bri, who was poking Turel with a large piece of wood that she found. He tolerated it just 'cause it really didn't bother him, as the slivers just fell out as the flesh healed.
"I KNOW!" Sam cried, jumping up suddenly, scaring the bejesus out of everyone. "We can play HIDE AND SEEK!"
"OMFG! That's a great idea! It will alleviate our boredom and allow us to assassinate… erm… I mean... Assault… nah, assassinate… people we don't like, and NOT GET CAUGHT! MUAHAHAHAHA!" Brittany yelled out, throwing her arms out wide.
Everyone looked around awkwardly, while Season rolled her eyes and said "You are aware that by saying that you just put us all on alert?"
Bri blinked a few times and muttered "Shit… I gotta think before I say my schemes out loud…"
" Sure.. We might as well play hide and seek… I can't think of anything else to do today.. Well, nothing that won't open recent psychological wounds…" Kain said, being terribly OOC.
" Well, if Kain says we should…" Moebius said, sarcasm dripping from his every word.
"All right then. When or if you get caught, you'll come back to the café. There will be NO magic use! No illusions, no invisibility" At this, Raziel (dark reaver, remember?), Moebius, and a few of the others cursed under their breath. "I assume everyone knows how to play, or at least has the general idea?" When everyone nodded, she continued.
"Who wants to be it?" Emily asked. No one put their hands up.
"Okay then… I'm gonna spin around and point, and whoever I point at, will be it!"
Emily started spinning, orange Band-Aids flashing out from under the new outfit that no one had noticed had changed… In fact, everyone's outfits had changed, excluding the vampires and the Circle members. A/N I'm only putting this in because I love creating new outfits for these people… If you don't want to read it, just skip past.
They had changed due to the nastiness of the previous day... Uh... Chapter…
Emily was now wearing a black T-shirt that said, " I didn't say it's your fault. I said I'm gonna blame you" in red lettering, along with jingle bell earrings and a pair of black cargo pants. Her hair had become blonde/ light brown again, the evil having bleached the colour out overnight, and she had decided to cut her hair to just below her ears…
Justin was wearing a black T-shirt, black pants covered in chains, headphones around his neck and had randomly sprouted a little beard dealie. His hair was longer and jet-black. He had a pin with a Chibi Reno on it. Every so often, Emily would go over, poke it and giggle.
Bri, newly vampirized, was wearing the same pants as Emily (as Emily had stolen the pair Justin had), a brown T-shirt that said " I'm out of my mind, please leave a message" and a Turelim sash, the green clashing with the brown.. No one cared, really.
Sam was wearing a blue T-shirt over a white long sleeve shirt, and a blue tiered skirt over jeans. She had an orange, hand knitted headband keeping her hair back.
Chrissy had disappeared overnight, her mother having had serious issues with her being with all those vampires… And because she thought Chrissy was being exposed to non-existent hentai…
Tara had on a pair of green cargo pants and a shirt that said " Sora? Straight? PUH-LEEZE! He gets it up for Riku" (inside joke.. don't worry.. unless you've seen the icon…), and her hair was shorter too… A LOT shorter…
Season was wearing a Rurouni Kenshin T-shirt, and jeans. Her hair was pink and shorter too.. What's with everyone and cutting their hair?… Anyway…
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Emily stopped and pointed at… MELCHIAH! She was really dizzy at this point, and just happened to collapse onto Rahab, who, very nicely, scooped her up into his arms.. Authoress melts into a puddle of goo at the thought of.. Never mind
Melchiah looked sad for a minute then realised that being "it" meant that no one could lock him into a closet, or sneak up on him and so he smiled again.
" Everyone know what's going on?" Tara said, looking around.
Ariel and Nupraptor, still making out heavily A/N I really can't think of anything else for these guys to do… Ariel just bitches most of the time, anyway.. Do you really want to hear that? No? Didn't think so… put their thumbs up.
" Coolness. You can start anytime now, Melchiah" Season said, thinking of places to hide..
"One… Two… Three…" Melchiah started to count…"WAIT! 3RD FLOOR IS OFF LIMITS!" Emily yelled, right before running off in the direction of the Hands on Ecology Section…
TEN MINUTES LATER!
" Ninety-nine… ONE HUNDRED! HERE I COME!" Melchiah yelled, uncovering his eyes. He decided to search the basement first and work his way up.
Melchiah chose the bathroom as the first likely hiding place. He walked in, looking around. He noticed the door to the supply closet was closed… He also noticed that the lock had been ripped right off … Someone was in there, his instincts told him... He was right; Dumah had chosen there to hide.
After sending Dumah back to the café, he checked the stalls. All were unlocked but one. Hoping to scare the person inside, he "lightly" slammed his fist into the door.
Zephon, who was in that stall, standing on the toilet, jumped… unfortunately for him, he landed right in the bowl, which was (obviously) full of water… It was clean, and that pretty, blue colour… But, it still burned, clean or no, blue or no…
Melchiah heard his loud yell of pain and, opening the stall, he sent Zephon limping back to the café, telling him to get some bandages.
He then checked the café, assuming that Nupraptor and Ariel would have gone right there, just because they really didn't care about winning… Okay, because they were too busy snogging… Happy?
Melchiah continued from there to the labs. In the first, all he found were a few Neanderthal skulls. After looking at those for a bit, he moved on to the second lab.
Within, he found a few racks with skeletons on them. They were really creepy, so he was going to go right by them… Until he noticed that one of them had a strange magical aura. He knew this was against the rules, so he called them on it. " THAT"S NOT ALLOWED!" Melchiah said, tapping the skeleton. It jumped under his touch and reverted to its true form: Sam, sitting on Dejoule's shoulders.
After he had checked the rest of the labs, he moved onto the first floor.
The first place he checked there was the section on Korea. Everything seemed normal at first, but then he realised something was out of place: this was a section that only housed Korean art, not armour. Which was what Moebius, Mortanius, Bane, and Azimuth were posed as.
Added to the fact that there was no armour, Moebius still had his staff in his hand. Melchiah casually reached over as if he didn't notice them, and, as if he were checking the material the people were made of, flicked Bane in the ear.
Bane jerked away and fell backwards, into Mortanius, who fell into Moebius, who clubbed Azimuth in the head with his staff, rendering her unconscious. Mortanius and Bane carried her back to the café, and Melchiah continued on his way.
Finding nothing in the other sections on that floor, he proceeded to the second floor.
Once there, he had a little trouble with going into the bird section. He finally decided that his pride as the one who was "it" far outweighed his fear and he went in.
Inside he found Justin, who had chosen to hide in an alcove, behind some shelves. He was, at the moment, in a state of panic because a bird had flown into the open window and landed near him. Melchiah removed the bird and Justin went down to the café.
Looking around the animal section, he noticed Brittany's backpack lying on the ground. He thought he heard a noise coming from it, but assumed it was her MP3 player going off on it's own. He decided to open it to turn it off. To his surprise, he found Bri inside, the inside being very, very large; roughly the size of a small house.
He sent her to the café, after deciding he didn't wanna know how the bag was so big on the inside, yet small on the outside…
He continued on to the one place he really didn't want to go: The Batcave. He knew he had no choice but to go in, as this was the most logical place for someone to hide.
Once inside, he noticed that there was a very large bat in one of the sections. It rustled as he moved closer, making him shudder at the memory the sound caused.
" Raz…. I know it's you" Melchiah said, crossing his arms and tapping his foot.
"I'm not Raziel. I'm a bat. Go away" The "bat" said resolutely.
Melchiah sighed, remembering how stubborn and anoying Raziel could be at times… Then he decided he was glad he was being stubborn, rather than being a total Drama-Queen (which was quite often and annoying)
"Razzy-chan" he said, adopting the name that Emily called him, " I know where I can get a Supersoaker©. If you don't go down to the café now, I'm going to get it and HOSE YOU DOWN!"
At this, Raziel shrieked and dropped to the floor.
" NOOO! You can't! I'd be all blue again! I don't wanna go back to being so ugly!" He then realised he was talking to the guy who used human skins to cover his own mouldering flesh, and who would not take kindly to Raziel complaining about his appearance.
" I'll just go now"
Melchiah walked into the Children's Hands on Discovery section, shuddering at the horrific drawings. He paused to look at one particularly crappy picture and recognised the name: DUMAH. It was almost indecipherable, but it was there.
He kept walking and noticed 4 suits of armor. He wasn't sure which was Malek, at first. Then he realised that one of the suits was not like the others: It was partly purple, for starters, and was also breathing quietly. A/N I'm not sure if Malek breathes or not but, eh.. He sent Malek back to the café, but not after putting a few crayons into the slot of the visor and giggling like a little girl…
It took a while, but he found Kain hiding at the bottom of the massive horn display. He was tucked right up under the counter, but then he inhaled a bug. The subsequent coughing fit gave his place away. He too went to the café.
Melchiah continued looking in the hands on Ecology section, knowing that there was no where else for anyone to hide. Walking back towards the batcave, he noticed there was a reproduction of the Canadian wilderness, complete with leaves, trees and animals. He noticed a pile of leaves that was oddly placed. It was obscuring the view of a squirrel… Up in a tree…. He shook the tree, and the leaves fell away revealing…Anarcrothe and Turel!
Shaking his head, he sent them to the café to join the others.
Going back to the Hands On Ecology section, he finished searching.
He went to the café and noticed that, while he thought he'd caught everyone, he had missed 4 people: Rahab, Emily, Tara and Season… They all decided to look for the others after they realised that they were unlikely to have separated.
2 HOURS LATER!
" EMILY! TARA! SEASON! REHAB!" Sam yelled, hoping they would make the mistake of yelling back. No such luck…
It was Turel who had the brilliant idea to get down on the floor and look for any hiding places down low. Sure enough, there was a little cave-thingy under the Former dwelling place of the moose.
Inside were Tara, Season, Rahab and Emily, playing cards. Tara and Season were sitting cross-legged, while Rahab was lying on his stomach. Lying happily on his back was Emily, looking smug as she helped him play War and Go Fish.
"Aww… do we have to get up?" Tara said, putting the cards back in the box.
"Yeah, but you guys win… It took so long to find you that we gave up and decided you guys had won" Melchiah said, still surprised that Rahab was allowing this human to use him, essentially, as a pillow.
" YAY! the group said in unison.
" One problem…" Tara said " How are you and Rahab gonna get out?" She asked Emily as she crawled out.
Emily thought for a moment, then said, " I guess I just clamber off then he crawls out backwards…"
TEN MINUTES LATER… AGAIN!
They got out of the hiding place alright, and were all now back in the café, drinking tea and eating cookies that Emily had baked. They were all tired, and the game had taken a very long time to finish.
" Well, today wasn't as exciting as yesterday, but it was still fun" Sam said as she shook out her sleeping bag.
There were sleepy murmurs of agreement as everyone bedded down for the night.
The green eyes were there again, but they too winked out as if in sleep.
Emily turned out the lights.
"Oh, and Sam?… IT'S RAHAB! NOT REHAB! DID THE COMIC TEACH YOU NOTHING!"
END.. For now…MUAHAHAHAHA!
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