Master Chapter 11:

Story:

We had finally finished the tour and was heading back to our "place". I had seen many extraordinary sights, like an amazing flower bed in the expansive gardens that we had roamed about. Danny also said they sometimes had to tidy. There were many enormous rooms that amazed me; but also shocked me at the same time. We all headed back to the "Servants Quarters" and when we arrived we were pleasantly surprised by a temptingly delicious tea Emi had served up for all of us -including herself- .

While everyone else was chatting away with glee, I slowly devoured the meal in silence; I couldn't have a laugh or a joke when bestowed before me was a my uncertain destiny: I did not have the desire to follow a "Master". By now I should be registered as missing, right? It felt forever since I had seen my friends! Lost in thought, I did not even realise I had finished my tea of mash and pork: Emi took away my empty plate. She then instructed Hattie to take me back to my room. When the two of us arrived back at my "bedroom" the younger girl handed me a blank notebook and a black ballpoint pen that was on the dull bedside table. I guessed she wanted me to write about my day since on my schedule I remember it saying something about a diary. Once she had left, I begun to let the words flow, I wrote about all of my emotions and experiences.

All I hoped was that no one would read it's exposing,meaningful elements.

I eventually fell asleep, even after all the distracting thoughts that attempted to stop me from dreaming away in my sleep: but I really mean nightmares at the end of it all. I was asleep for a few hours, but it wasn't peaceful. Tossing, turning: I couldn't stop. There just so many perplexing,bothering worries spinning all around my mind. Horrifying nightmares that just circled and circled: never stopping.

After all the torture dreams, I opened my eyes when my ears grasped a faint ringing noise of a bell; sitting up in a tiresome state, I noticed a rusty,ancient bell in the corner of the glooming room after my tired eyes had blinked a few times. Even though I didn't want to, I pulled myself out of bed and with exhaustion, I checked the timetable Emi had gave me the previous day.

Schedule for Matsukaze Tenma:

1) 6:00am wake up

2) 6:00-6:10am get dressed

3) 6:10am Meeting with everyone

4) 6:30am prepare breakfast

5) 6:35am eat breakfast

6) 6:45am dust around the rooms with Hattie

7) 7:20am clean your room

8) 8:00am maths problems and reading

9) 8:20am prepare veg for lunch

10) 8:50am wash clothes

11) 9:05am take out the rubbish

12) 9:10am football/soccer practice

13) 11:30am Get lunch ready and have it

14) 12:10pm clean up the stuff used at lunch

15) 12:30pm free time

16) 1:30pm collect dinners ingredients

17) 1:50pm dust around the manor

18) 3:50pm prepare dinner

19) 4:20pm eat dinner

20) 5:00pm go back to common room

21) 5:20pm go back to room

22) 5:21pm write in journal (provided in the common room)

23) 6:30pm be in bed

*any questions talk to Emi for answers*

I assumed it must be 6:10am, so I immediately took out the task of getting dressed. I changed back into my "everyday" outfit. Giving me a schedule just felt like they were trying to keep me here forever, against my will. I knew I would have to escape: but how was the issue. I couldn't just ask one of them "Hey, do you know how to escape here by any chance?". That would have no succession. I would have to be a lone wolf, opposite to when I used to play as a pack with my teammates. We were one big wolf pack that always had each others back; now I have lost my pack but a desperate wolf can succeed if they give all there might to survive. I'm like a resistant,stubborn cub that is hating of the idea of another pack taking me in. I just wanted my old life back! Was I now a slave?

Was I now a slave to the horrible person who kidnapped me? Was I now a slave to "Master"? I would not bow down to a sick creature like him. The kids are just being friendly so they cover up this truth, or maybe they have been brainwashed into that way. There was no way of telling; they seemed so happy and alive, like nothing had ever scared or worried them..After lots of drawn out thinking, I had finally got dressed then and with a slight hint of worry I went and opened the door and sneakily opened it. Peeping my head out I noticed Hattie outside who seemed to be waiting for me.

"Good morning Tenma," She spoke politely, "We are going to a meeting with everyone okay?". She gestured towards the left and I followed in her lead. We ended up in a hall room where everyone else was; the walls were tatty and attached to them were broken,unfixable air conditioning vents that looked they had not been in use for a hundred million years. Every place in the whole "Servants Quarters" I had seen looked more like a run down, ancient castle rather than a place fit for living: but it is for "servants" after all.

Emi pointed to me and began to talk, "So you all have met Matsukaze right? Well Hattie, you are going to dust around with him at 6:45 am and I want it spotless since there is now two of you doing it,". Hattie sighed and glanced at Emi then turned to look at me: I awkwardly smiled back at her. Emi then rambled on about things like notices that were important to some of the others but not me. We all then headed to the kitchen in a bustle so we could eat some breakfast.

Alyssa and Danny both raced to a creaky cupboard and when Danny got the cornflakes first they began to fight custody over the box.

"Give me it now Dan!" Alyssa screamed in frustration when suddenly Emi and Hattie broke them apart my sheer force.

Emi began to angrily speak, "You stupid idiots! Why are you always fighting!?". The two didn't respond and instead sighed while Alyssa gave Emi the box of cereal. "Thank you..." She sighed.

Emi looked at me, "Since you're new you can have breakfast first Matsukaze,". I grabbed the box and then searched for a bowl in the cupboards. I was successful at the third cupboard and took out one of the 10 bowls. Once I poured my breakfast everybody else had theirs. Hattie decided to sit next to me while we ate.

"Can I look at your schedule Tenma?" She asked, I pulled the list out of my trouser pocket and handed it to her. She gazed at it and said, "We are dusting around later together!" She smiled. When we finally finished she took me to a store cupboard. Cobwebs hanged from the ceiling and dusters that lay on wooden platform- reminding me of a school store cupboard. The younger girl grabbed two dusters, she handed on to me. Then until 7:15 we dusted around ; we also saw some other of the kids as well.

At 7:20 she told me that we don't need to tidy my room and neither did she had to do hers either; instead said we could start early with our maths and reading. She took me to her room.

Her room was much better decorated than mine; she had orange painted walls and a pine wood bookcase filled with many,many books. In other aspects her room was similar to mine, her bed was in the same position and she also had a desk but hers had pencils, pens, notebooks, highlighters and loads of other stationary equipment.

"Do you like my room Tenma?" She questioned as she pulled a maths textbook out of a draw below her desk.

"It is lovely Hattie!" I happily replied, "I would love my room to be like this, mine is all boring,".

"Well I'll help you paint it in the near future, agreed?" She asked.

"Yeah... okay," I hesitantly answered. Hattie seemed like a wonderful girl; I would class her as a friend even but I didn't really want to stay in this place. A lot of kids seemed generally nice (and then there is moody Charlie); although I refused to stay her against my free will.

Hattie ignored my hesitance and instead opened the maths textbook and asked me if I could do multiplication. I of course immediately nodded in response then was sat down my Hattie into the chair.

"I'll go and get a chair for myself, I will be back in a sec," She left the room, leaving me alone in an unfamiliar place. I took the opportunity and began to explore her room.

She had a pretty normal bedroom but what sparked my curiosity was a black cardboard box residing under her metal-framed bed. In fear of her returning when I was looking in it, I willingly did not budge out of my seat to take a peek inside of it. As expected, she returned with another chair, she then sat down next to me and also pulled a two pieces of paper out of the draw. We then began to work out some multiplication questions:

65x78= 5070

94x34= 3196

543x75= 40725

56x56= 3136

35x96= 3360

ect...

I managed to get all of mine right but Hattie did end up getting a few odd ones wrong. It had been a 30 minutes now and when we were just about to begin on addition when Emi entered the room.

"Hi guys, why are you in here Tenma?" She curiously asked while creating a nervous tension in the small room.

"We didn't need to clean our rooms so I decided we should get a head start on our learning," Hattie quickly replied.

She understandably nodded then left the room, we both sighed in relief before the younger girl began to speak.

"Emi sometimes seem scary when she is asking questions but that is just the way she talks," She paused then began again, "Don't feel scared to respond to her...". I felt her gentle hand touch mine but only a few seconds later she began to whisper (unlike before when she was talking). "Tenma I would understand if you're afraid of anyone here because I was to when I first arrived, I know you didn't have a choice coming here and neither did I,".

"Tenma I want you to help me escape..." …

To be continued...

Author note:

Wow, this is a long chapter! It took so long to arrive because of my intent for it to be long but I hope you enjoyed it anyway.

By Alice/Catmeow123