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Post by TruBellezzan on Apr 28, 2005 17:14:48 GMT -1
Arianna sat in the candle light, clasping and unclasping her fingers, watching and nervous. They all lay sleeping, talismans in hand. Luciano lay near her, breathing slow and steady. They'd all gone to stop the di Chimici and Enrico. She had been told to watch them, to make sure nothing happened to the talismans, while Cesare waited out in the hall so he could shout warning if the enemies came. Anxious, she watched them, wishing she could see what was happening. ********* Alessandro sat in the hall of the palace, waiting for the Grand Duke. he knew the others had stravagated already and were waiting for the time when he and Enrico turned up to take the things back. Enrico's talisman was nothing special, just a bit of branch broken of a tree, taken back by Alessandro to prove he could do it. He looked up as Fabrizio and Enrico entered the hall, Enrico's blue cloak swishing. "Grand Duke." he bowed respectfully. "Are you ready?" "Yes, your grace." "Are you trustworthy? Will you stay with the di Chimici?" No. "Yes your grace." "Good." his eyes glinted steely beneath the awful smile on his face. "Because I don't want to have to punish you if things go wrong, do I?" Rosalina's right, he thought, he really is awful. "No, your grace." "Right, come this way, and I'll take you to the chamber where you'll be... stravganzating?" "No, it's stravagating." "Yes, that's what I said. Quite right, too. Here we are." Alessandro stared. "But it's a cell." "That's right. It's a cell. It'll have just a maid outside, with a key. She's there just to show you that you won't be able to make even a maid unlock the door behind those bars." the grand duke's eyes glinted crazily. "Good night, sweet dreams." Alessandro shuddered as the door shut. He could at least think of a better quip. He was about to grab his talisman, when the duke reappeared. "Oh yes, and let me tell you, I know exactly where your friends are, and your sister, and I won't let them escape." Alessandro stared at the cell door in horror as Fabrizio's footsteps died away. He lay down on the floor of the cell and tried to slip into the unconsciousness that usually came so easily. But it wouldn't come. He twisted and turned, and tried to make himself comfortable, but he could still could not sleep. "Rosalina..." He breathed, his mind churning with despair. ******* "Duchessa! Run!" Cesare's shout came through the air, only to suddenly be muffled. Arianna looked this way and that in terror, realising that there was only one other door: onto the balcony. She dived for it and flung it open, then stopped. Luciano and the others were still in there. She went on to the balcony and was about to yell for help as loud as she could, when an arm gripped her waist, and pulled her back. In the dark of the night, no one could have seen her. She struggled and tried to scream, but a hand clamped over her mouth. She kicked back and the man holding her swore as her heel cut into his leg, but he didn't let go. Viciously, he dragged her back into the room. Men were in the room, picking up the bodies of the sleeping stravaganti. Arianna screamed into her captor's hand. "NO! Don't take them! Leave them alone! Don't take Luciano, please don't!" she screamed as they lifted him up and slung him into a better grip and took her away. Several of the men looked uneasy at her cries, and one said: "Maybe we should leave one... that Luciano she was screaming about?" "Why?" sneered another one, "don't like to see the ladies upset?" The man blushed and fell silent. "Don't you know that's the duchessa of Bellezza?" a different voice said, unease all over his voice. "I don't like it." "Who cares who she is? Orders are orders!" snapped the man holding her. Helpless tears of rage trickled down her cheeks as she watched them take the last stravaganti away, unable to stop them. ****** Alessandro jumped up. It was useless. He just couldn't go to sleep. He beat the walls in fury; he couldn't get to his sister and warn her that the di Chimici were after her. Exhausted, he slumped against the wall, and without him even realising it, unconsciousness swept over him in waves.
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Post by Rachel on Apr 28, 2005 17:29:39 GMT -1
OMG!!!
that was sssooo good!!! i cant w8 2 find out wat happens!!! wat r they going 2 do with the stravaganti bodies???!!!
plz write more soon!!!
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Post by TruBellezzan on Apr 28, 2005 17:34:56 GMT -1
o yeah there's a new bit on page 8 as well, just in case people dont notice it - read that bit first. ;D
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Post by Lavita on Apr 28, 2005 18:53:19 GMT -1
nice work TruBellezzan...thoroughly enjoying the fanfic! ;D
Keep it up
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Post by Alex on Apr 28, 2005 20:39:52 GMT -1
oooh yea post more ;D.....he hee..maybe gettin captured was part of the plan ;D
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Post by TruBellezzan on Apr 29, 2005 7:15:08 GMT -1
are you sure she'd be screaming if it's part of the plan?
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Post by Duchessa on Apr 29, 2005 18:20:12 GMT -1
omg tru, this is sooooo good!
U want 2 b a write wen u leave skool? me 2!! U totally could b, this is excellent stuff! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxox
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Post by Alex on Apr 29, 2005 18:58:45 GMT -1
ha sherlock! im on to u..maybe ur just tryin to lead me of the trail....i could be totally rite..altho..if i was..u might change it
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Post by TruBellezzan on Apr 30, 2005 6:18:44 GMT -1
Watson, dear fellow (!!!), why would I want to do that? I just was simply pointing out an obvious fact, that maybe you overlooked? But seeing, as I, wrote and am writing it, maybe you should just trust me on this one and realise that their plan has just gone horribly wrong? That was the image I was trying to create... lol just keep to the mystery on the polls, I think that should be in your capabilities...
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Post by TruBellezzan on Apr 30, 2005 6:19:32 GMT -1
No offence intended ;D (laughs evily behind hand)
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Post by Alex on Apr 30, 2005 17:48:53 GMT -1
...umm.oki..ur the sherlock here anyways ;D ..just thought that might be a really cool twist..i luv when stuff like that happens..like in ocean's 11 and 12
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Post by TruBellezzan on May 1, 2005 8:48:33 GMT -1
yeah i suppose... but if it was then it would mess up the rest of my plotline which i really dont want... ;D
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Post by Alex on May 1, 2005 16:42:23 GMT -1
oooooh..ok i gotcha ...im intrigued...*looks impatient for more story*
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Post by TruBellezzan on May 1, 2005 18:13:34 GMT -1
hey i think i might just do some more! yeah i will Alessandro came to in a back alley. It was about eleven o'clock judging by the light, and he was in the back alley he always stravagated to. There was no one around, there wasn't anyone usually, no one ever came here. He set off, knowing that he would have to go and meet Enrico. Where was he? He was meant to come here... then he saw a flash of blue cloak. "Poggi!" he hissed. The man turned and his face twisted into a sneer. "Oh. There you are." "Are you completely insane? You can't just go out like that! You'll cause a riot... Well, actually they might just take you for some guy who dresses up to make money, but still... you'd give the game away somehow! Wait there, don't move! I'm going to get you some clothes." "I've got some." "Didn't you get anything I just said? Those are useless here. You need proper ones." Enrico strode up to him. "Just because we're in some place new, doesn't mean that you get the upper hand. I can kill you at any time." "And risk getting stuck here? What if you fail the mission? What then?" Enrico scowled. "Just go." Alessandro went, and found a nearby cheap second hand clothes shop. He went in and bought what he needed, roughly guessing size. Then he went quickly to the park. The stravaganti were easy to see, a group of anxious people, waiting for him. All of them looked uncomfortable in their clothes apart from Rosalina and Luciano. They all looked relieved when they saw him, but no less tense. "Alessandro! Where have you been?" Rosalina came forward. "What's wrong?" "I think Fabrizio is going to do something bad for the stravaganti! He doesn't trust me! Right now m body is in a cell and I'm meant to be getting clothes for Enrico!" "Well, you know Fabrizio... It's probably an empty threat." oh wait a min, i've got to transfer to another computer...
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Post by TruBellezzan on May 1, 2005 19:10:50 GMT -1
"No I swear its not. Well, actually I don't know. But please go and check one of you!" "All right. It makes sense." Rodolfo turned to Luciano. "Will you go? I know I can trust you." Luciano nodded. "Shall I go now?" "At once. We need to get on with this." "All right." He closed his eyes and vanished. Alessandro turned and started to walk away. "Where are you going?" "I need to get these clothes to that awful Poggi man, don't I?" "Yes but what about us?" "I don't know the plans. Follow us. Rosalina? You know London pretty well don't you? Well then, follow us. We're going to 23 Dr. Brown's Street. You know where that is? Good. See you there." He ran off to see Enrico, slowing before he got there to make it look like he hadn't been running. "Well you took your time, didn't you?" "Look, do you know anything about shopping here? No. Keep out of it! Plus I had to choose something appropriate." "Let's have a look." He pulled the red and luminous green checked shirt. No wonder someone gave it away, thought Alessandro. "This is what they wear here?" Not usually. Most people wouldn't be caught dead in it. "Yes. It's the latest style. All the range." Enrico eyed him suspiciously. "You sure? Oh I don't care. Just go around a corner, and don't even think about beating it. I'm changing." Alessandro went, half-grinning to himself. ***** Luciano woke up on cold, hard floor. Where was he? He had a stiff neck and he was stiff all over. He slowly stood up and looked around him. He was in a large cell with the sleeping bodies of the other stravaganti sleeping peacefully on. He began to panic. Why was he here? Had the di Chimici got him? Had they gone to the hotel? And where was Arianna? Oh, God, he thought. Arianna, not Arianna. "Where am I?" he called out. No response. "For God's sake, where am I?" That time the cell door opened, and Fabrizio stepped in with a couple of guards. "In the Remoran palace of the di Chimici, I do believe." "Why have you brought us here?" "To sabotage the sabotage you were trying to wreak upon my mission." For heaven's sake, thought Luciano. "Fair enough," he said aloud, boiling with anger. "Where's Arianna?" "The Duchessa? Oh, don't worry we haven't done anything to her... yet." his eyes glinted. "Where is she?" his voice rose in desperation. "I've got Cesare. Would you like to talk to him? He'll be able to tell you." And frighten you by the tales of which he can tell, thought Fabrizio. Frighten you enough to call off your whole little mission. Cesare was brought in, with a big bruise on his head. "They knocked me out." he said, weakly. "Got me straight away." Luciano was panicked. "Where's Arianna? What happened?" "While you were stravagating, they came. They got me and took your bodies here." "Arianna?" his frustration was mounting. Cesare looked uncomfortable. "Ah. Well, they've got her, but I don't know where. Pretty stupid to get the Duchessa of Bellezza like that." Fabrizio scowled. "They'll have no proof. Plus, an accident can be arranged, or blame can be laid on someone else." Luciano swallowed. That was true. "Well, what did they do to her?" "I don't know, I was outside." he hesitated, but went on under Luciano's glare, "but I heard a scuffle and then she started screaming... something about not taking you... and to leave her alone." "Oh goddess! What have you done with her?" Luciano yelled at Fabrizio, who just smiled. "Like I said before, she's fine." Cesare had gone to Rosalina, who lay sleeping, unaware. "You won't hurt her, will you?" he asked, looking down at her. He didn't want to be like Luciano, whose eyes were terrible with the fear for his Duchessa. It looked awful... "It depends, my dear man." Cesare clenched his fists. "If you dare hurt her..." "You'll what? I have two guards, better trained than you, if you've had any training at all." Fabrizio smirked. "Luciano, go back! Warn them!" "Yes, tell them to call it off." the Grand Duke's eyes bore into his. "Tell them to come back." Luciano just lay down and shut his eyes, hands tight around his talisman. ****** Just after he'd gone, he reappeared. They looked at him. "Well?" He was gasping for breath. "It's terrible! They've got our bodies in a cell and Cesare is there too. They took Arianna! I don't know where she is!" They stared at Luciano, who looked awful. "We've got to go back!" Paolo said, taking a step. "No, what's that going to do?" Rosalina said, laying a hand on his arm. "How is that going to help? What have we got to lose if we stay? He's got us either way!" "Our lives! That's what we've got to lose!" "Our lives against the future of our world?" "But they'll kill Arianna! They'll kill us!" Luciano said, "And they've got Cesare, they'll kill him." Rosalina's eyes opened wide and filled with tears. "We have to risk that. The di Chimici can not get hold of the horrors in this world!" Luciano flinched at that. "But Rosalina, please..." his breath caught and he was unable to go on. He knew she was right, but he couldn't bear the thought of the people he knew and loved dying... Rodolfo, Paolo the Ram's horsemaster, Cesare were all some of his greatest friends and Rosalina was so nice as well... and Arianna. He couldn't lose her. His eyes conveyed all this to Rosalina, but she shook her head. "I know this is hard..." she gulped, as tears came up, "But we've got to go!" Luciano looked at her for one long minute, then nodded. ********* Arianna came to, with a splitting headache. She realised where she was. The di Chimci had got her, taken the stravaganti, taken Luciano and knocked her out... "So you're awake?" Fabrizio stood in the doorway, looking smug. "Yes I'm awake!" She stood up straight, managing to look regal and dignified even with her ruffled appearance. "I suppose you want to know what's what?" She disdainfully nodded, eyes averted as if he was a dirty thief. "I've got all the stravaganti in a cell all deeply asleep, stravagating. But your Luciano came back, to check and my, did he have a surprise!" he enjoyed watching her flinch. "I told him exactly what I'd do to you if he didn't call it off and make the others stop-" "And that is?" "Harm you, of course. Kill you if I have to." His eyes were full of madness, grief over his father's death, the hate of the stravaganti, deep in his mind. "And you told him that! He can't call it off! He'll do his best, even if it means giving up me! He's strong!" "Oh really? Are you sure? Because from the way he looked at me, as if his world had crashing down before his eyes and the way he yelled at me... well, I just don't know. And Rosalina will know I have Cesare and that he is completely despensable as he is not a stravaganti." Arianna nearly put her head in her hands, then thought better of it. She wouldn't let him see her break down! She stared at the wall, tears appearing in her eyes but not falling. "And, oh yes, while we're at it, let's say that unless you sign the treaty to make Bellezza a di Chimici city, Luciano dies. Agreed?" He swung out, leaving Arianna staring at the wall, completely motionless. Like a statue.
dum-dum-dah! sorry, but that had to be totally dramatic for effect, and lots of L&A!!!!
tell me if you think it was too dramatic and i dont know, weird... I'm paranoid! I haven't written anything like that before!
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Post by Duchessa on May 1, 2005 20:05:26 GMT -1
argh!!! L&A sooo well done! Drama is exactly what you want in something like this, don't worry! More soonest, i want to see how this turns out...are you thinking of killing either of them? I do love goodbye scenes...ahem.. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxox
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Post by Alex on May 2, 2005 2:19:49 GMT -1
waaaaaaaaaah..no goodbye love scenes !!!!!!! nice happy ending reuniting love scenes ....i mean..Duchessa do u really think that you'd be able to kill off Luciano??? ok that aside...wicked piece ;D L&A all the way (no dyin tho )!!!
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Post by TruBellezzan on May 2, 2005 7:22:39 GMT -1
Don't worry I'm NOT going to kill either of them... and i swear i will kill anyone who tries to in fanfic or through stravagation. I know where you are...
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Post by Duchessa on May 2, 2005 7:25:09 GMT -1
heehee....*whistles nonchalently* could you do more now? xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
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Post by Neliana on May 2, 2005 9:07:14 GMT -1
More, more, MORE!
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