Mary hated the time she was in the hole. Everything around her was pitch black, she couldn't see her own hands. She heard her friends scream, but their voices started to quite down, until there was a creepy silence.
She knew that wasn't true though, she was still screaming her head off. She could feel how her vocal chords vibrated, but the sound didn't reach her ears anymore. She was still holding Ann's hand, both of them holding on so tight she thought they would break each other's fingers, but after a while she couldn't feel it anymore. Slowly, all her senses stopped working, and for a few seconds, she was captured in her own head.
She felt terrified. Would this be how she was going to die?
At once everything came back. The sounds were deafening, the light blinded her, the scents made her feel nauseous, and everything that touched her skin hurt her. Everybody kept still for a while, until their senses were slowly turning back to normal.
When everybody could hear and see normally again, they started to get up from the little stones which covered the ground of what appeared to be a small ally.
It took a while for everybody to calm down, and Mary wiped her forehead with her arm. But she didn't feel the stiff fabric from her judo clothing, like she expected, but a soft silky one. Surprised she looked down.
She was wearing an elegant red dress. She felt a tight corset under the bodice of her dress, which had half long sleeves. The corset was a bit too tight, it caused her to have troubles with breathing. She looked at Ann, and saw the girl was wearing a similar dress, only hers was purple, and had shorter sleeves. Ann's hair was up, and Mary realized hers probably was too.
It was not like Mary hated dresses, not at all, She loved the one dress she had hanging in her closet. But this one was different. It was beautiful, but obviously not designed to be comfortable.
"is everybody okay?" Aaron asked. He was the first one to speak, like he was most of the time. He always tried to compensate the age difference with his hyper attitude, but he didn't notice it made him appear even younger than he really was.
Mary looked at the boys. They had gotten a complete makeover too, Aaron was wearing a white shirt with a brown jacket over it. He had blue trousers on, and was wearing brown boots.
Levy was wearing a white shirt to, but his was a little bit too big. His brown trousers fitted perfectly though, and he had tall boots on.
Achmed had a blue jacket over his white shirt, and he was wearing brown trousers, but he wasn't wearing shoes. He was the only one with a weapon to, he had a small knife tugged between his trousers and his belt. He wore a hat and an eye patch too, but when Levy raised an eyebrow at him, and said he probably wasn't able to take his friend serious like that, he pulled it off.
Collin was wearing a red bandana on his head, and had a dark blue shirt on. His trousers and boots were brown. Next to Collin was Yuri, who wore pale red trousers, and a black jacket above his brown boots. And a few bananas.
"what's with the bananas?" Arvin asked, causing the others to laugh. Arvin was wearing a simple white shirt, with a brown belt over it. He was wearing dark red trousers, and had brown boots too. Arvin wasn't wearing a hat or a bandana, so they could see his short gell-less (probably not a word, right?) hair. And Ann and Marry giggled over it a bit, but the corsets they were wearing prevented them from actually laughing.
While everybody was checking up on each other, Mary walked to the end of the ally. She looked around, and what she saw, shocked her.
~line brake~
Martin ran back to the hall when he'd heard Mary scream, But he'd been too late. He arrived just in time to see Arvin fall in to the black hole on the mat. He just stood there, frozen. That couldn't be right? He was probably hallucinating, or maybe he hadn't recovered from Pfeiffer properly, and he was heaving a fever dream.
He was checking all the options, because there was no way, that his students just got swallowed by a black hole.
Martin tried to figure out what he should do. There wasn't anyone else in the dojo, and the police probably wouldn't believe him. 'Completely understandable.' he thought, he could hardly believe what he just saw himself.
While he was thinking that, he unconsciously walked to the mat. When he noticed what he was doing it was too late.
The hole, which covered half of the mat by now, sucked Martin in to it. And when the teacher had disappeared, it closed itself.
~line brake~
Slowly Mary turned back to her friends. "Ann! Collin!" She shouted, sounding almost hysterical. Ann immediately grabbed Collin by his shoulder, and dragged him with her to her best friend. Mary stood there, with a pale face, staring in to the larger street.
Ann and Collin saw a market, but it looked old fashioned, like it was a market four hundred years back in time. But that couldn't be, the stalls were all brand new. Then they heard horse hooves clic-clacing on the pavement. From their right, a carriage, pulled by two horses came closer. When it rode passed them, they could see two women in the same sort of dresses as Mary and Ann.
"This can't be true, right?" Collin asked.
"I don't know."Ann said softly. This couldn't be possible, right?
For the first time since she called her friends, Mary spoke. "It sure looks like it."
Collin nodded, and walked back to the other boys. They were eating the bananas Yuri had together. Levy pulled a piece of the remaining banana and offered it to Collin. "no thanks, I'm not hungry." Collin muttered. Arvin looked at his friend strangely. Collin didn't decline food most of the time.
Yuri also got suspicious. "Collin what's wrong?" he asked.
Collin hesitated, thinking about what to say. "well as you might have noticed, we aren't in the Netherlands anymore." He started. The other boys nodded, it was warmer than at home. Achmed just shrugged. "well yeah." He stated.
Collin ignored him and continued. "we aren't in our own time anymore either, I'm afraid." He said, almost in a whisper.
"Duh" Achmed said simply. Arvin and Aaron immediately gave him an annoyed look. "It was a quarter to eight when we fell." Achmed stated simply. Arvin raised an eyebrow at him. "so when we were trying to save the girls, you were checking the time?" he asked. Achmed just shrugged again, not noticing the sarcasm in Arvin's words.
"Collin is right, you know." Ann stated. The boys turned around. They hadn't noticed Ann and Mary getting back.
"you know where we are?" She asked. But before anyone could answer, Mary said something that shocked them.
"We are in Tortuga."
A/N: Hey everybody. I wanted to thank you for the tree reviews I didn't say it last time, but review if you want to say something about the story, grammar of spelling. Oh, and the characters are based on people I know, I used their appearance, and a bit of their character, but that doesn't mean their feelings and behavior are exactly right.
Love, Piuletta