Mori sat with his legs crossed and Usa on his lap, watching four idiots run around like headless chickens. They had been doing this for approximately two hours now. He drummed his fingers across his knee, wondering idly where they got the energy. Beside him, Kyoya was stretched out on the ground looking lost. His laptop was back in the Twins' bedroom, his little black book was next to his laptop and his phone was smashed when he landed in Prehistoria. What was he meant to do now?
Suddenly, he sat up, glasses sliding down his nose. a vague memory, a blur from out of the corner of his eyes had surged to the forefront of his mind. Haruhi had left the Ouija Board, which means that she hadn't come with them. he jerked his head round to look at Mori, who blinked at him.
"Should we tell them?" he rumbled. Kyoya blinked before shaking his head, a smirk crossing his face. Mori raised an eyebrow. Kyoya's glasses flashed.
"Let them suffer a little longer." he muttered, reflecting on all the money those four had wasted.
"Do you think she's ok?" Mori asked after a few seconds. Kyoya turned to look at him again, thinking. Haruhi would probably be angry at first, but then be rather upset. that is, unless something had happened to her as well. Slowly, he shook his head. The corners of the two boys' mouths pulled down as they shared a meaningful look. The time for petty revenge was over. they had to figure out how to get back.
Haruhi hadn't moved. She stayed, crumpled, where she had fallen. Tears streaked her face, but she made no move to brush them away. Her fists clenched and unclenched, knuckles white. Her shoulders trembled slightly. Gone. Where? Why? How?
Oh who cares. They were gone and it was her fault for not keeping an eye on them. What was she going to do now?
Four sets of wide, wild eyes stared at the two stoic boys, before in a single move they slumped to the floor.
"How are we going to go back?" Hikaru asked in a small, meek voice. Everyone looked at him in surprise. He had always been the more tempestuous twin, and now here he was, insecure and small looking. Cautiously, Kaoru wrapped an arm around him, while everyone else shrugged.
Honey pointed, a gasp escaping his mouth. A white effulgence, starting as a pinprick against the sky, slowly growing brighter and brighter as the misty light expanded. Slowly, the mist began to form a shape, before a beautiful woman hovered a few inches above the hot, dusty ground. She had a serene face, pale skin and pale blue eyes, and a sweet mouth with upturned corners.
She looked at the six boys, who looked right back at her.
"I," she stated in a voice like a prayer, "am Rosalind."
This caused an uproar. Tamaki and the Twins started yelling, Kyoya began radiating an evil purple aura and Mori tensed all his muscles. Honey approached the specter, blinking up at her with big eyes.
"Why did you bring us here?" he asked childishly. Rosalind smiled demurely at him, reaching out a hand as if to touch his face but stopping a few millimeters short.
"To right a great wrong, child." she said. "However, I have brought you back millennia too far, and for that I apologize."
Kyoya scowled. "Send us forwards then." he growled. Rosalind just shook her head.
"I do not have the power. you shall have to find the bits of the shattered Ouija Board that are scattered throughout the ages. They shall transport you to where you need to go."
The boys, who had calmed listening to her lilting voice, nodded their heads.
"What about Haruhi?" Kaoru asked.
"And what wrong are we supposed to right?" Hikaru added.
"And when are we supposed to be?" piped up Tamaki. But Rosalind just shook her head, and dissolved again with a secret smile.
A white glow surrounded the broken figure of Haruhi, causing her to jerk her head up. Before she could even take a breath, the light contracted around her, and with a flash, Haruhi was gone.
Mori had gone back to drumming his fingers across his kneecap. How were they supposed to find pieces of the Ouija Board? Especially here in Dino-land? Kyoya looked as if her were pondering the same thing, whilst everyone else was oohing and ahhing at the dinosaurs and the plants. Suddenly, a roar sounded behind them. Mori whipped round to see what could only be a tyrannosaurus rex charging towards them, eating up the distance with great bounds and comically tiny arms waving.
Kyoya swore, and he and Mori scrambled to their feet. Mori caught up Honey and swung him up onto his shoulders, while scooping up Kaoru up into his arms as well. Kaoru was was the weaker twin, the weakest of them all, really, , and couldn't run as fast. He also fell a lot, had periods where he couldn't breathe easily and got sick easily. Therefore, no running for Kaoru, otherwise Kaoru gets eaten by angry dino.
They ran, further and further away, into a cave they saw a few miles away from where they originally started. There they sat, panting, while Honey shook and Kaoru coughed. Hikaru sat next to him, head lent against the stone wall and eyes closed, but a protective arm around his brother. Tamaki was curled in the foetal position, staring at the wall. He stared, unblinking at it, tracing the cracks with his strange purple eyes. Then, something odd happened. New cracks started forming, white light streaming from the fissures. They stretched across the wall Tamaki was gazing at, creating shapes.
"A map." stated Kyoya calmly from where he had been watching behind Tamaki. Said eccentric blond jumped a foot in the air, screaming and flailing his arms.
"Kyoya!" he pouted, hands on hips and leaning into Kyoya's personal space. Kyoya just knocked him out of the way and studied the markings. Then, he sighed.
"It tells us where the Board piece is." he told the four waiting boys, ignoring the one sulking in a corner of the cave. However, Tamki bounced back, launching himself across the cave and latching onto an annoyed Kyoya, sending them both sprawling to the floor. Kyoya shoved at Tamaki again, glaring and exuding his menacing purple aura. The blonde went back to sulking whilst Kyoya brushed himself off.
"Well?" coughed Kaoru impatiently.
"Where is it?" Hikaru asked.
"The T-rex's tail." Kyoya sighed.
The Twins fainted.
Haruhi landed with a huff on the cold hard ground. Something soft and ticklish fell around and on her face, clogging her nose. She reached her hand up to brush it away from her face, and found it to be hair. Her hair. What? She looked down to find herself dressed differently too. A Victorian dress cinched in her waist and made it hard for her to breathe, the long skirt trailing annoyingly around her feet.
Was this part of the trick the guys were playing on her? No, they weren't playing a trick, its been hours. Either they would have stopped when she'd cried or they'dve gotten bored by now.
So, where was she? Because she couldn't possible be in actual Victorian England, could she?