Thanks everyone! Here's chapter two!
I woke with a throbbing head ache. I looked up at the world that was now tinged in shades of red. I saw tall gates and walls with a building inside. On one of the walls next to gate said Wammy's House.
"How could I have been so stupid? Mammy Winchester House, Wammy's House in Winchester! Gah!" I growled.
"Lily?" I heard someone ask. "How'd you get here?"
I looked over to where the voice came from. It was Liam. Above his head I saw Liam Ingham. Great, I had Shinigami eyes!
"Same way as you guys, but intentionally," Hannah said, cutting the rope that had tied us all together.
"Where are we?" Danny asked.
"England," I responded. "Wammy's House, Winchester, to be exact. And if I were to take a guess, it's somewhere between 2006 and 2007."
"What?! Why?!" everyone screamed at me.
"If you guys had listened to L's speech, we're to make Near and Mello become friends before he dies, so that would explain why we're a little younger than we were before."
"Ok, Lily, what's your plan to get in there? If you hadn't noticed, it's almost impenetrable!" Hannah pointed out.
"I already have that plan. You guys just come up with two fake names. One with a first and last name, and another with just one word."
I fake limped over to the gate and smeared some mud on my face.
"Please, s-someone, help! Please," I begged, forming fake tears.
Someone came rushing over to the gate and by that time the rest of the group had managed to fake injuries or muss themselves up a bit, Ashley doing both.
I recognised this person as Matt, although I saw Mail Jeevas floating above his head. It made me feel secure. I saw Hannah's eyes light up at the sight of his face.
"Who are you guys? Are you ok? I'll go get Roger," he said quickly, running back inside.
Roger let us in and Matt was right behind him.
"Who are you people?" he asked us in a harsh tone.
"I-I'm Rima Ryuzaki. And these people are my friends. We were kidnapped by th-this guy. He w-was really mean to u-us. We just escaped a few days ago," I explained.
"He killed our parents, sir," Danny added.
We sat in Roger's office and Matt had left. I stood in the same spot Mello would when he was to find out about L.
"So who are all of you?"
"Ally Ōkami," Ashley responded first.
"Hanna Hen," Hannah said.
"Daniel Hannaford," Danny chose.
"Luke Dale," was Liam's alias.
"Mike Richards," Michael lied.
"Rima, Ally, where are you from?"
"Kanto region, Japan," came 'Ally's' propaganda, not that my answer would have been any different.
"Ok, I'm letting you all in to Wammy's House, but you will all need an alias, first," Roger told us. We all pretended to think for a second.
"Notes," Ashley told him.
"Beast," Danny said.
"Bambi," Hannah decided.
"Duck," Liam had chosen his old nickname.
"Blade," was Michael's new name.
I hesitated. "... Purity."
We were all shown to our rooms. We all had separate rooms, and mine was between Mello and Bambi's. Bambi was next to me and Matt, who was next to Near. Across from Mello's room was Notes' room. Adjacent to mine was Beast's room. Blade and Duck were next, and then there was a spare room.
"Ok, so we have to show you guys around. I'll take Bambi and Duck," Matt decided, taking them away.
"I'm only taking one," Mello grumbled, snapping off chocolate in his signature way.
"I shall take Notes, Beast, and Blade," Near said, leaving with them behind him.
"Ok, Purity, you're with me," he snapped. "If we're going to be living near each other, I need to know, what foods do you like?"
"I love chocolate, cake, strawberries, apples, and strawberry jam," I said automatically.
"Really? I've never met anyone like that," he responded, looking at his chocolate.
"Ah... yeah... I love chocolate cake the most," I mumbled, "with strawberry jam between the layers and fresh strawberries on top."
I stared at my feet. I had no idea about why I was blurting all this out. I knew Mello probably better than myself, which may have been why. I looked at him. From what I could gather from the reddish world around me, he was about thirteen, turning fourteen in a few weeks, maybe four or five.
"Uh... what is the date?" I asked.
"November 29th, 2006," he responded. Two weeks until he was fourteen, sooner than I had thought.
"Uh... if you don't mind my asking, but what is with your eyes?" he asked in the most polite way possible... for Mello.
"I... I guess you will find out in a few years," I told him cryptically.
He laughed (kinda) and walked into the dining hall, where everyone else was, waiting.
"So how was it with Sheep, Notes, Blade, Beast?" I asked as I dropped myself between Notes and Bambi.
This was the first time I had seen anyone up close, and I didn't seem to have been the only one with an appearance change. Bambi's eyes went from a blue/brown to purple; Notes' hair was now the colour of dark chocolate instead of midnight black, and Blade's eyes were now deep blue opposed to the old plain blue. Beast and Duck hadn't changed at all.
"Did you just call the Sheep, Sheep?" Mello asked. I nodded. "No one else agreed with me on that fact ever before."
"I would appreciate it deeply if you would not call me that, Purity," Sheep said to me. "You do not even know me."
"I know you better than you probably do, River!" I shouted at him, standing up and walking to go get some food.
I suddenly found myself not wanting to follow L's instructions, but wanting to help Mello into first, and get myself into second. Then I'd get Matt into third, so the Sheep would be in fourth!
Oh, I'm an awesome sadist!
Picking up some chocolate cake with strawberry jam between the layers and fresh strawberries on top from the kitchen, I walked back to the table, where everyone stared at me.
"What?" I asked.
"Did you just sneak onto the kitchen to get that cake?" Matt asked.
"Yeah..."
"And you didn't get caught by Roger?! Whoa..."
"What do you mean, Matt? We've managed it many times," Mello reminded.
"Yeah, Mells, but we plan everything three times over. Purity just got here and managed it in a few seconds flat..." Matt retorted.
I could just tell I had a lot to answer for as Beast and Blade dragged me away.