Recap:
They stood up and walked to the window.
"We'll climb down as far as we can. Then we'll jump." Serena explained.
"Right." Mina replied.
First Serena started climbing down, then Mina followed.
They were a fourth of their way down, when the guards poked their heads out the window.
"That won't work!" One of them yelled.
"We're trying it anyway!" Mina yelled back.
The two guards just watched them as they continued their climb down.
About half way down, they kept moving, but they were going nowhere.
"He's right. This isn't working." Mina told Serena.
"Now we jump." Serena told her.
Serena reached her hand up to Mina, and Mina took her hand.
"Now." They both whispered.
And they jumped.
Keep Her Safe Chapter Eleven
By LadyPrin
Disclaimer applies.
"They jumped!" One of the guards cried.
"They couldn't have! Nobody's that stupid!" The second one said. "Or that desperate. . ." He added as an afterthought.
The first guard made like as if he was going to jump after them.
The second one grabbed him by the arm.
"Are you nuts! Jumping after them won't do any good! You'll just be in the same position they are!"
"You're right." The first one sighed. "The Prince is going to kill us." He added depressingly as he watch the girls continue to fall.
The second one thought for a moment.
"Maybe jumping after them, isn't such a bad idea after all." He said grimly.
Mina was so scared that she was holding Serena's hand way too tightly. Serena's hand was turning white.
But Serena just ignored the pain, then ignored the numbness. She had something else on her mind.
'I call upon my forbidden birthright, help us survive this fall. I call upon my forbidden birthright, help us survive this fall.' Serena chanted that sentence over and over again, as they continued to fall.
They fell, and they fell. It seemed like they fell for an eternity to both the girls and the guards.
Then suddenly the ground was there!
Mina and the guards flinched instinctively. But Serena stared at the ground, still chanting.
But before they even hit the ground, they hit something else.
It felt like a big bubble of air.
They went into it alittle ways, and it knocked the breath out of them, but then they were flung back up into the air at an angle.
"What happened?" Mina cried.
"I'm not sure!" Serena yelled back, as rushing air filled her ears.
They had been flung with such momentum that they went higher than their tower room window.
The guards were in such shock. Their mouths were hanging open as they watch the girls progress through the air.
Mina managed to think through her fear, and realized something.
"Serena!" She cried, as they began to fall back down.
Serena looked up at her. Her hair was coming out of it's braid and billowing around her face.
"If we can do that again, we can direct our falls through the garden, and over the palace wall!" Mina yelled, pointing. "It'd save us allot of work!"
Serena's eyes went wide with understanding.
"Right!" She replied.
And that's what they did.
With each time they hit the air bubble, they were flung up at an angle, which they made to go in the direction of the palace wall. With each time they were flung up, they lost some speed. But they still had enough hight to make it to the top of the wall when they came to it.
Though only barely.
They went to bounce over the wall, but landed instead on top of it. They rolled off and fell to the ground.
This time they hit the ground.
Since the wall was three stories high, they hit the ground with allot of force.
Serena was still chanting, so they weren't killed, and nothing major was broken.
But they did come away with a couple of broken noses, bruised ribs, and allot of cuts and scraps.
Mina sat up, holding her bleeding nose.
"Okay, now what?" She said.
Serena sat up too, holding her nose as well.
"Well, I thing we should go to Ami's." She said.
"Okay." Mina replied.
And they made quick progress into the city, mingling with the crowd.
"Ami, you should go to sleep, it's been a tiring day for us both." Mistress Taknisha said to Ami, who was sitting on her bed looking out her window, still fully dressed.
"I know I should, but I just can't." Ami replied. "I feel like something big is about to happen. Something that I've been waiting for my entire life to happen. I just don't know what. But I feel like I should be ready for it when it does."
Taknisha sighed.
"Well, at least get dressed for bed." She told her.
"Okay." Ami replied.
"Goodnight then dear."
"Goodnight, Mistress Taknisha."
When the door was closed, Ami went back to staring out the window.
She immediately forgot to put on her night gown.
When they entered the medicine house for the second time, it was quieter than it had been when they left.
In fact, it was deserted.
They stood in the middle of the room for some time, wondering what to do.
"Rena?" A voice whispered from the dark beside a desk on their left.
"Sammy?" Serena whispered back.
Sammy came to them, but stopped short when he saw their bleeding noses and bruising skin.
"What the heck happened?" Sammy cried. "If those men hurt you, I SWEAR, even if he is the prince of the world, I'll teach him a thing or two!" He ranted.
"No, Sammy. They didn't do dis." Serena told him. "Dey don't even know about it."
"Good. Then what happened?"
"We fell." Mina said.
Sammy looked at her incredulously.
"From our tower room window." Mina added.
"Oh." He said looking at her, not sure if what she said was true.
Then he frowned, thinking: 'They should be dead, if that happened. . .'
But then he sat that thought aside, and told them to wait there.
He went upstairs to get Ami.
He found her with her head on her arms, leaning on the window sill. Fast asleep.
He touched her shoulder lightly, and she jumped half way into the air.
"What?" She cried.
Sammy flinched slightly.
"I'm sorry Sammy." Ami said softly, brushing some of her blue bangs out of her eyes. "I'm just jittery."
"Well, Rena and Mani are downstairs." Sammy told her.
"It'd be nice to see them again." Ami muttered, swinging her legs off of the bed, and stretching them out.
"But they're noses are broken and they're bruised all over." Sammy continued.
Ami paused in her stretching, to stare at him.
"How?" She asked.
"I don't know." Sammy replied.
Then Ami was off that bed and through the door, with Sammy hot on her heels.
After they were bandaged up, and their noses quit bleeding, the girls and Sammy sat at the table in the kitchen drinking hot steaming mugs of chocolate. A real treat considering chocolate was so expensive. This batch had been delivered just that morning, in gratitude for the prince's grandmother being so well, so soon.
Serena and Mina had just finished telling Ami and Sammy about they're deal with the prince, and about getting out of the tower. Though they did leave out the magic parts, or twisted it alittle to make it non magical.
"But why would you want to go to a battle field? Why would you want such a thing?" Ami asked.
"You do know that the battle will be between Japan and England right?" Mina asked.
"Yes. . ." Ami replied.
"Well, England is our home!" Serena replied. "And we know that the King and Queen would not do something like this. We don't think it's really England that the prince's army will be battling. And we want to some how stop the war."
"Stop the war. . . " Ami quoted quietly. She shook her head, and took a sip of chocolate.
"That's impossible!" Sammy cried. "There's no way that you two girls could stop a war! No way!"
"Like my mother used to say," Mina said. "anything is possible, if you just believe."
/nock/nock/nock/
"I wonder who that is." Ami muttered as she got up and went to the door.
When she opened it she found a long black haired, violet eyed girl, holding two cats in her arms, standing on the front steps.
"May I help you?" Ami asked.
The black cat climbed it's way to the girl's shoulder.
"Maybe." The girl replied.
"Are you hurt?" Ami asked.
"No." The girl replied. "I'm looking for someone."
"Well, I know half the city here. Please come in."
The girl stepped through the door, and as Ami quietly closed it, whispered: "Thank you, Ami."
The door shut with a thump!
Ami swiveled around to stare at the girl.
"Okay, this is really freaking me out! For the last eleven years of my life, I haven't had a clue who I was, now here you are! The third person in the last three days who's called me Ami! What is going on!"
"Who are the other two?" Rei asked urgently.
"Two girls whom I've come to like and admire. But I've also come to the conclusion that they're nuts! They're sitting in my kitchen plotting to stop a war." Ami gestured toward the kitchen.
The cats jumped from Rei's arms and ran toward the kitchen, with Rei hot on their heels. After a moment, Ami followed.
When they got to the doorway, they heard Mina's voice, urgently pleading with Serena.
"Please don't do this, Rena! I beg of you!"
Serena was getting ready to cook something on the stove.
"Don't worry so much Mani." Serena said calmly. "I know what I'm doing this time. And please be quiet, Mistress Taknisha is still asleep."
"Well, she's about to get a rude awakening when you blow up the kitchen!" Mina whispered furiously.
"I won't this time! I promise."
Mina looked around worriedly, and spotted Rei.
"Fireia! You found us!" She quietly cried.
Serena turned around and looked at her.
"Hey! I'm so glad to see you!"
Mina ran to Rei and pulled her by the arm into the kitchen.
"Please talk Rena out of this! She's got this strange notion that she's going to cook something!"
Rei held up both hands in the defensive gesture.
"Please, Rena, put down the pot! Please don't do this! You know that the last two times you tried to cook, you blew up the kitchen, and you made something that acted like fire!"
"I know!"
But still she kept on cooking.
Rei looked at Mina's crestfallen face.
"I'm sorry Mani. There is nothing I can do."
Rei pulled her over and sat her down on the far side of the table, beside Sammy. Who was finding this amazingly funny.
Rei then sat down beside Mina, and Ami slowly came in and sat down beside Rei.
Luna and Artemis sat down in front of the table looking up at Serena as she worked.
Serena started humming something as she worked.
Every few minutes she would put something into the pot, and everybody at the table except Sammy would flinch.
Then she added who knew what to it and ducked.
Everyone ducked, except Sammy, as the stuff in the pot exploded with a PUFF!
Serena straitened up, and proceeded to act like nothing had happened. The pot was still in one piece, as well as whatever was in it.
Ami, Rei, and Mina slowly came up from below the table, and proceeded to watch her.
After twenty-seven minutes of this, Serena took the pot off the stove, and as it started to melt, she quickly put what was in it, into a steel container that she had found in a cabinet.
"There!" She said when she was finished.
The others sighed with relief that the house was still standing, but watched nervously as the pot melted completely.
Serena looked at it for a minute.
Then she looked at the others.
"Sorry, about that. But I had to make this stuff! We might need it on the battle field!"
She came over to the table and sat down the container.
Everyone, including Sammy, watched it nervously. Waiting for the container to melt. It didn't.
"I left out the tuna, and I left out the noodles." Serena said.
Mina and Rei looked up at her sharply.
"It's THAT!" They asked.
"Yes! I'm calling my invention, Acid!" Serena said happily. "We might need it!"
Rei and Mina looked at each other. Then slowly started to grin.