Chapter 5: Masquerade Party
The princess turned rebel walked beside her fellow revolutionary, Paige, as they came up to Reaver's massive estate. She didn't like this one bit, having to go on some rescue mission in some deviant's mansion, but she desperately needed Paige and her followers if she were to over throw Logan. The princess tugged at the waistline of her masquerade dress, uncomfortable with how it fit her. She would much rather have her form fitting highway woman outfit then this movement restricting dress.
How am I supposed to defend myself in this?
The rebel thought idly as Paige knocked on the door to Reaver's mansion.
An odd little man opened the door and greeted them,
"A bit light aren't ya? You missed half the rituals and all the drinking." The servant continued,
"All we got left is fizzy pop." Paige fumbled to find the words to say,
"Um…. We apologize."
The man shrugged it off and said,
"Eh, well just give me the password and we'll forget about it alright?"
Paige responded,
"Ehm, alright, the password…."
The man interrupted and said,
"No, I'm just pulling ya leg, come on in."
With that he gestured for us to move up the stairs.
"Master Reaver will be happy to have a few more conscious people around for the final ceremony." He said while the party of three walked into the enormous dining room. The princess looked with wide eyes around room. It was made less impressive with all of the unconscious people laying about the place, but it was still one of the most magnificent rooms she had ever seen! Perhaps even better then the castle's dining hall. The young rebel tuned back in to the little man saying,
"I wasn't kidding about the fizzy pop though. These light weights drink a lot."
The princess looked over to see a man in a mask stumbling into a room were she proceeded to hear barfing noises.
"There is cooking cherry in the kitchen, IF your desperate." He looked back to see our reactions then turned back around and continued his one sided conversation,
"Nah? Don't blame ya. Never touched the stuff myself, except in the morning."
Paige seemed to have had enough of his rambling and said in a steely voice,
"Just keep walking you strange little man." He quickly said,
"Of course, of course, you'll have to excuse me miss, I do have a habit of spewing words." He mumbled after,
"Master Reaver has often brought out the whip to rectify that very flaw in my character."
They soon came up to an ornate door and the servant turned around and said,
"Its just this way. Oh! You'll have such fun not drinking fun you know, but you'll get a good laugh I'm sure." He stopped then held up his hand,
"Now there are some ground rules. Master Reaver insists that nobody carry weapons into the ballroom, there have been some accidents."
Paige, thinking quick, raised both of her hands and said,
"I'm afraid I need to keep mine. I'm here to find some friends."
The man looked at us with sudden realization,
"Oh! You're the brave noble rebels! Why didn't you say so?" He looked both ways as if to make sure no one was listening then continued in a whisper,
"I'm an oppressed revolutionary myself! We're practically comrades!" He gestured toward the double doors and stated,
"If you just go through these doors you can sneak past the party and rescue you're fellow revolutionaries."
What the pair found behind the door was a huge cage dangling in the middle of a ballroom. The princess thought this was very suspicious, but Paige ran to the cage without a second thought,
"There's one of my men. Kidd! Are you all right?" Paige asked worriedly
The man the princess now noticed in the cage looked at them alarmed then yelled,
"Get out now!"
Paige didn't comprehend and asked,
"Where are all the others?" The princess couldn't just leave them so she stood slightly behind Paige and listened to the conversation.
"All dead! Reaver knew you'd come! He's been waiting for you."
All the sudden the cage began to rattle and lift off the ground. The princess, with lightning reflexes jumped up and grabbed onto the cage, and began to desperately try to pull herself up.
"I'll get him." She told Paige.
Next, the deviant himself came out onto a balcony over viewing the ballroom and said,
"My, my, my! More busy little bees here to steal Reaver's honey, so industrious, so committing, and so bloody annoying." He spit out the last part then continued,
"When will you people learn to enjoy life?"
Paige spat back,
"I'll enjoy killing you, does that count?"
"Oh your just full of spunk aren't you? A true heroine, must be lightning under the bed sheets." All of the people around him began chuckling.
"And as promised the evenings piesta de resistonce," He looked over and chuckled, "Another piece of the resistance."
The princess couldn't hold on much longer. She looked over to see the industrialist bend over and pull a, what looked like, a lever. She finally lost her grip and fell to the ground beside Paige.
Reaver looked down at us and said,
"Please put on a good show for my guest will you?"
Paige looked outraged,
"Put on a show, you expect us to entertain you?"
Reaver waltzed to the edge of the little balcony and said,
"Of course! It's just a game my little sweet!"
The deviant gestured down to the wheel, the princess had noticed when they walked in, and said,
"The Wheel of Misfortune! The rules are rather simple, I spin you die, we watch." He burst into laughter and said,
"Really it's a riot!"
Then, the wheel began spinning. After that everything passed in a blur for the princess as she and her fellow revolutionary battled their way through what seemed like endless waves of wolves, hobbes, hollow men, mercenaries, and then finally some strange foreign creatures called Sand Furies.
They emerged from the last room, when Reaver began to speak,
"You holier then thou idealists always thinking in the same, simplest, most binary of ways, but I agree this game grows boring and my guests… they grow restless." He said rolling the 'r'. The princess heard from somewhere behind Reaver, the little man that escorted them in trying to seduce one of the guests,
"Don't get restless sweet heart Barry Hatch is here to take care of you! Fancy a jig?"
The princess got distracted from listening when she saw the wheel was beginning to spin, yet again.
Ugh! I wish this would just end!
She thought to herself.
All the sudden she heard the man, Barry, yell to Reaver for help when a beastly roar rang through the estate.
Reaver simply looked over and said disappointedly,
"Oh, don't you brutes know how hard it is to find good staff these days?"
Then the rebel princess saw where the roar came from.
A huge belvarine jumped down from the balcony and perched in front of them.
She immediately tensed to attack and didn't relax until her last bullet was emptied into the last belvarine's skull.
The princess said exasperated to Paige,
"Well. This is the LAST party I take you to!"
Then there was a roar directly behind her and the sound of gun shot. The princess turned around with wide eyes and saw a belvarine laying dead directly behind her. Reaver's voice got her attention,
"Well, I suppose you made me out to be a somewhat poor host, rather rude of you to dispose of all guests."
Paige raised her gun and said triumphantly,
"Now it's your turn Reaver!"
What happened next the princess didn't quiet comprehend. It appeared that Reaver blocked the bullet with the cane he was holding in his hand. The rebel's stared at the bullet that dropped to the floor between them.
"Oh my dear girls, why not stop all this bickering, and the three of us could go up to my quarters and have a private party." The deviant said with a devilish grin.
"Do you have any idea who this is?" Paige shouted angrily up at him, "It's Logan's sister, the princess!"
"The king's sister I bona fide hero!" The industrialist said in mock shock, then continued,
"Well I wouldn't dream of coming between siblings!" Then muttered to himself as he began to walk out of the room,
"Well that's not entirely true… there was that one time. Hmm…. Anyway, tatty-bye!" Then he simply walked away.
Okay I have decided that you can either PM me or leave a review with an idea of a one-shot you think I should do! Also I will be posting a NEW story starring my OC Daniel and Logan :) so look at for that it is sure to be a good one. As always reviews are appreciated!
Tatty-bye(until next update)
~Alliekat