Usagi groaned. For some reason, she couldn't find any sleep. She took a look at Luna, who was snoozing next to her. The bed was big enough for three Usagis, so she felt a little lost.
She almost giggled when she imagined Mamoru lying next to her, instead of Luna...
Carefully, so she wouldn't wake Luna, she climbed out of the bed. Perhaps drinking some milk would help her... She tiptoed out of the room.
Now where was the kitchen again?
"Damn this maze of a mansion..." she murmured and decided to ask Haruka. It wasn't thaaat late, she would still be up, right?
She opened the door to the comtesse's bedroom. "Haruka, do you..."
That's when she saw someone wearing dark clothes pulling the unconscious Haruka through some sort of door.
Usagi screamed. "NARU! WAKE UP! Hey you, stop right there! Or I'll... I'll... I'll punish you in the name of the comtesse!"
The mysterious person must have heard Usagi's yell, but whoever that was, he didn't turn around. The masked person pulled Haruka behind the secret door and closed it. Usagi tried to reach it in time, but it got shut before she could reach it.
Usagi hammered against the wall. "Hey, open up! What are you doing to Har... um, to the comtesse?"
Naru and Luna entered the room in a hurry. "Usagi, what happened?" Naru asked. "Where's Haruka?"
Usagi pointed to the wall. "Some creep kidnapped her and pulled her through some secret door. But... I can't find the handle!"
"Most secret doors don't have handles," Luna said. "Let's search through the whole room. There has to be a hidden switch somewhere."
The tried everything, from turning the bedposts to knocking on the walls. To no avail... the door stayed closed.
"It's no use," Luna shook her head. "Whoever wants to go through that door must know how to do it... that means the kidnapper must know this place."
"Poor Haruka," Usagi sniffled. "I wonder who could do something like this?"
Suddenly, someone entered the room. "Do you need some help?"
Usagi and Naru stared. "You!"
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Groggily, Haruka opened her eyes. "My head..." she moaned. "Feels like that time Setsuna bopped me with her Garnet Rod..."
Suddenly, she was aware that her hands and feet were being shackled to whatever surface she was lying on. She also realized that she was in a big room with crude walls. It somehow looked like a cellar... Several candles standing on an old shelf provided the room with some light. "Hey, what's going on?" Haruka shouted.
"Ah, so you're finally awake," a voice said. "I was getting bored, you know?"
Haruka looked to the right and groaned. "Great... another double..."
It was true, the girl standing next to her looked nearly identical to her... and the comtesse, of course. However, this girl was considerably shorter than both Haruka and Carlotte. And her face... Well, let's put it like this: Haruka was a beauty queen compared to that girl.
"Don't play dumb," the girl huffed. "Don't tell me you don't recognize your own twin sister. You know how similar we are... except for your..." she snarled. "Good looks."
The girl walked around the table on which Haruka was lying. "You and Gabrielle have always been mother's and father's favorite daughters... And everyone adored you! You boys were worshipping you... the girls were envying you... But not little Valerie, nooo... No one ever took someone as small as me seriously, just because of my stupid birth defect. I couldn't even find a decent job. Everyone just laughed at me..."
She grinned. "But finally, the time of revenge has come, Carlotte..."
Haruka struggled against her shackles. "Hey, I'm sorry how everything turned out for you, but I'm not your sister, got it? I have no part in your little family tragedy."
Carlotte's twin sister giggled madly. "Aw, stop it! You seriously expect me to believe something like that? What's next, you'll try to convince me you're me?"
She snickered and went over to an old cupboard. "Well, that won't be that far from the truth, you know..."
She turned around and brandished a polished saw, it's teeth shining in the light of the candles. "I will make sure that your looks will resemble mine a little closer... by cutting off the part that makes you bigger than me!"
Grinning like a mad woman, Valerie approached the bound Haruka with the saw raised high above her head.
Haruka started to sweat. If she only had her transformation pen...
"Dammit... this day just keep getting better and better..."
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(Posted Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:09)
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