The darkness was all around them... Surrounding them from every direction relatively possible. The only light visible, was the one at the top of the hole, which was slowly shrinking into a tiny, miniscule dot, high above them.
Though, within the darkness, they could still somehow make out the shapes and very images of their friends bodies as they fell down, down, down, into the very depths of the hole. Though three of the five were perfectly fine with falling (for the most part) the other two were rather panicky with the way they acted as they fell. Calling Emma, Gina, and Chelsea all idiotic fools for risking all of their lives like this when they were obviously now all going to die. And Die in a hole, none the less. Not exactly the death a teenager wishes for.
"How could you!" Jialing yelled at them as they fell. This was an awfully long fall. The other three had to admit that, for in all honesty; Emma thought it would have been over by now.
Emma closed her eyes and plugged her ears, trying to keep them from popping in the fall. If she didn't go splat, she defiantly wanted her hearing... Especially if there were going to be new people to talk to. She loved talking. If there was one thing she loved more than her drawings, and more than Boris Airay from her Manga, it was hearing the sound of her own voice blithering on at some other poor unfortunate soul.
Well, to make it brief, they kept falling. They fell for what felt like ages. And just as she thought it was going to go on forever, PLUNK!
She looked below her to see that she had somehow landed, (along with her friends) un-harmed and untouched... and in front of her was a glass bottle with a heart cap also made of glass... Inside the bottle, or well... more of a fancy vile really, there was an odd pink liquid.
She held the bottle in her hand as she looked around at her surroundings... Everyone but Gina and her looking rather dazed as they attempted to bring themselves to their senses...
She looked at what appeared to be a cobblestone floor, or path of some sort, and up to a large tower... This... This couldn't be! She looked over to Gina wide eyed and excited! "Gina! Can you believe it?" She yelled, not caring who she disturbed or how she disturbed them.
"No, Not really dude, but is that the freaking Clock tower?" The two looked to be jumping in circles, holding their vies of the mysterious potion in their hands.
"I Call Dibs on Elliot!" Chelsea yelled, not wasting anytime. They looked together at the glass in her hand, and saw it was now empty as she ran off in an unknown direction into the forest on one side of the tower.
"Nuh uh! I doubt Elliott would like a stupid little Fangirl like you!" Gina called after her, "And Seriously? Calling Dibs? What are we? Five?" Gina was about to down the potion as well, but both hers and Emma's were snatched from their fingers as they were about to from the girl who neither of them had noticed was awake.
"You can't go drinking random Bottles of liquid! What if it's poisoned?" The girl yelled, doing her beast to keep the bottles out of the possession of the two fangirls who were nearly raging in front of her.
"Chelsea drank it and she's fine!" Emma yelled, jumping up, trying to get the liquid from her any way she possibly could.
"She drank it and ran off! Who knows, she's probably dead by now!" Jialing put the bottles in her pocket, taking Mitchell's too as he slowly woke up from the daze and brushed off his glasses. "We need to find someone to take us home. All of us." She stated clearly, looking up at the building in front of them.
While she was distracted, the two girls grabbed the potions from her, and popped off the lids of their two, leaving the other ones for them to open when they saw fit. "Alright, whatever, lets go in." Gina rolled her eyes after finishing the potion.
"Glad you see it my way for once unlike my idiot of a friend." She barked, as they walked trying to find the door into the building.
"Whose there?" A voice called, it was deeper and obviously male. They saw a shadow in the distance, at it appeared to be wearing a long jacket and a ponytail. "Who is it trespassing on neutral territory? State your business here." he stepped out, seeing the group of outsiders, especially the two with empty viles. "Oh dear lord no..." He groaned looking down at the floor rubbing his eyes...
"So who brought you four down? The rabbit? I thought he only targeted girls but..." He looked over at Mitchell who sat sipping the tea in his glass.
"Do you have something against teenage boys in this place?" He asked, putting down the glass.
"No, not at all," Julius rolled his eyes, "It's just... Unusual is all. Though many things for you all will be unusual here too." He stated looking at the heavy load of work he had waiting for him on the counter across the room. Boxes and boxes of clocks sat waiting to be fixed; for it appeared Ace didn't quite know the meaning of his job and used it as an excuse for useless, meaningless slaughter.
"Can I just go; I want to get to the amusement park!" Emma seemed to almost whine, straightening the wig that she had yet to take off.
"If whining is a habit of yours go ahead." Julius said sharply, giving her a dark, strict eye. "But you might want to listen so you can find your way to the park first." he said then grumbling something under his breath about how happy he was that he didn't have to house the whiney one.
"Is there anyway we can get home?" Jialing pointed between herself and Mitchell, who she had though hadn't drunk his potion just yet, but looking over, saw the bottle to his lips and the pink liquid gone. "Am I the Only one of us with common sense here?" She yelled, getting up and almost tipping over the chair. "I have school tomorrow, and I know that I don't want to miss it!" She said angrily, before being pinned to the floor, having her own bottle of pink liquid forced into her system by Emma and Gina together.
Julius sat, trying to block out the sound of the group by plugging his ears. "Now that you've had the potion, no. Not unless you can fill the vile back up again. It's all a part of the game." He stated before pulling out a map.
He pointed to the centre, "You are here. The clock tower, also the only neutral territory in the war that's going on at the moment." Julius started to explain, before getting interrupted.
"So I'm in a world with a bunch of Psycho-paths, and there's a war?" Jialing said angrily, "Of course. Why wouldn't I guess that?" She sighed, sarcastically looking back at the map. "I don't want to play some game. School is too important fro something small like this." She grumbled, giving off a glare to the side at Emma and Gina, one colder than even Julius' and she was barely even trying.
"It appears like it..." Julius grumbled, before the map was snatched up from his possession.
"Ya, we've both read the manga, and I've played the otome game, I think this is all we'll need," Emma smiled, "Thanks Julius!" She called, dragging Gina out of the tower. The blue haired man didn't seem to protest their leaving, what h was irritated about was the fact that they took his map... That was going to be Ace's next birthday present! Only god knew how much the knight of hearts needed it.