Chapter 21: Oh No
Rin's p.o.v.
I have to say, I thought I was dead. Now I know what it feels like to be shot. NOT. FUN. I really hadn't opened my eyes yet.
I decided I might as well; make sure I'm not in Heaven...Or Hell, that's even worse! I opened my eyes. Nope, I wasn't dead. I was hovering mid-air in what seemed to be a cage.
I looked over my shoulder, everyone was also tied up and looking around. Len was next to me. Meiko tried to talk, but realized she couldn't. She made a bored 'are-you-kidding-me' face and shook her head like nuts, and then the gag flew off.
"Ah, much better." She said.
We all followed her lead, and soon enough, we could all talk.
"Ok, how do we get out of thing?" Teto said.
"I don't know…" I said, still thinking hard.
"I have an idea." Haku said.
"Of course you do, you always have the plan." Luka said.
"I can't reach my phone!" Neru suddenly yelled.
Everyone stared at her and sweat dropped.
"Neru, don't yell so loud or we'll get caught!" Gakupo hissed, trying to get his katana.
Gumi just leaned back on one of the bars and sighed. Tei managed to scooch over to Len.
"Len, I'm so sorry!" she said.
He looked at her for a minute, and said what everyone didn't expect him to.
"It's fine."
"HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH?" Miku said. "How are you forgiving her?"
"Well, she regrets it doesn't she?" Len said.
Kaito stared at Len like he was an alien from another planet.
"Len, you're such a softy." He finally said rolling his eyes.
"Yeah I know. Anyway, Haku, what's your plan?"
"Well, it's kind of like when Teto flew us toward the Desert. Before the little falling accident…Heh..?Anyway, if we can somehow open these cages, Teto can fly out and untie herself by that pointy stone there and come back here for us."
"Smart." Teto said. "I'll try." She concentrated on getting her wings free, and when she did, they were gruesomely bent.
"Guess Zatsune was expecting that plan from Haku." I said.
Everyone looked disappointed.
"We're not giving up yet." Meiko said.
She inched her way to one of the bars and started kicking at them with both of her feet very hard.
"Meiko, I don't think that will work." Haku said.
"You'd be surprised what she can do." Luka mumbled, but loud enough for all of us to hear.
She was right. Suddenly, the cage burst open. And fell down. Then we heard something sizzling.
"What was that?" Neru said, still trying to get her phone.
"I don't know…" Gakupo said.
Gumi inched over to where Meiko was and looked down.
"Oh Kami-sama." She said.
"What?" Miku asked.
"Zatsune is a little smarter then last time. Turns out we are hovering above a pit of lava."
"Great." Kaito said.
"Ugh. You guys are such babies. I got this. Luka, can you reach your whip?" Meiko asked.
Luka nodded and shifted around in her binds. it must have hurt a lot because she winced. Finally she got the whip. Her hand was bleeding.
"Got it." She said and tossed it to Meiko.
She almost missed, but Meiko caught it anyways.
"Thanks." And with that, Meiko managed to stand up and jump out of the cage.
"MEIKO!" Kaito screamed.
Miku had another look of jealousy in her eyes. Was she jealous of Meiko going out with Kaito? We heard a thud and something scream "OW!" Kaito looked down and noticed that Meiko had hit the side of the pit but thankfully ended up on the ground.
"Meiko are you ok?" Kaito said.
"Yeah, I'm fine, baka." She said.
She got up and headed toward a very sharp rock and cut the rope on it. She then took Luka's whip out of her—never mind, and whipped it up so that it hooked onto the cage. Then she tied the other end of the whip to the stone. The climbed the whip back up to us and untied us.
"Ok guys, I hope you're not afraid of heights."
"Uuh…" Miku, Luka, Gumi, and Tei said at the same time.
"Oh my God." Meiko groaned, and did a face palm.
"I can carry Luka and Gumi." Gakupo said.
"I'll carry Miku." Kaito said.
Miku looked happy.
"I'll take Tei." Len said.
Tei's eyes lit up.
Gakupo carried Luka bridal style and had Gumi on his back. Len was carrying Tei bridal style too and she was blushing madly. Kaito was also carrying Miku bridal style. She was also blushing madly, and Meiko scowled at her. Finally, we got down.
It was scary almost falling into a pit of lava. We tried to get out, but all the chambers had been sealed.
"Oh no." Tei said.
Then her face lit up, when she looked up. Luka had her whip back and Gakupo used more of his cheesy samurai outfit to clean up her wrist wound.
"Will you guys need my whip again?" Luka asked.
"Uh, yeah." Tei said.
She gave Luka a look like 'Well-duh!'
"Fine." Luka handed her whip to Tei.
"Kaito come here." Tei said.
When Kaito went up to her, she tied the whip around his waist despite all his whining and made everyone hold on. Len and I smiled at each other, glad to be reunited at last.
"OK guys, hold on tight. Now Kaito, there is a huge tub of ice cream waiting for you at the top of the cage where that little rope latter is. Go get it!"
Kaito's eyes widened and he yelled, "ICE CREAM!"
He then started darting on the edge of the cave like he was in one of those ninja movies.
"HOW-"
*Jump*
"IS-"
*Jump*
"HE-"
*Jump*
"DOING THAT?" Gakupo screamed.
Suddenly, a big rock was in our way. Len was making sure Tei was ok. She was the last one holding on. She screamed and pointed at the rock with her eyes wide. By the time Len turned around, it was too late.
The rock hit him smack in the face. He let go of the whip and started falling.
"AAAAAAAAAH!" Len screamed.
"LEN!" Tei and I screamed at the same time.
Everything seemed to go in slow motion. Len looking up at us with desperation on his face, madly clawing everywhere as if the air would freeze and he'd grab it. Tei tried to catch him, but missed his hand by a centimeter. A stupid, fucking, CENTIMETER! Len plummeted to the ground with a deadly thud.
He didn't move at all. When we got on top of the cage, everyone was staring down in silence while Kaito was spazzing all over the place saying,
"Where's my ice cream? WHERE IS IT?"
"KAITO SHUT UP!" Meiko punched him in the face so hard he started to stumble and almost fell off when Miku caught him.
"Remind me not to take him to any stores OR buy him ice cream ever again!" She then added grumbling.
All we could do was look at Len's crumpled and still body. My eyes were wide. My stretched out hand was shaking. My voice was coming out in shaky breathes.
"Len…" I said with tears in my eyes. "LEN…" The tears came faster. I took one more big breath, and screamed.
"AAAAAAAAAAGH!"