Xia's Mansion

MY Note: Aha! Chapter 5 is go! But wait. Ahem. Somebody mentioned in their review, that i was only writing porn. Well, this IS in the Erotica/Sex section you know. But, i'm gonna take it on board, soooo, ENTER PLOT! Although, you know this means less sex, right? At least, for this chapter. In fact... i doubt this chapter will have any! Also, i'm gonna seperate the story more, in the way of paragraphs. (Yeah, another reviewer with my best interests at heart... but they were kinda rude... Y'hear that?!) So, without further ado, here we go!


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Xia's leather-clad feet clicked loudly on the cold floor of the entrance hall as she walked. When she reached the center of the hall, directly under the ornate chandelier, she stopped.
"This place is so quiet... everybody can't be asleep... can they?" Her eyes wandered around the hall, looking for anything out of place. Then she heard a scream.
"Aha... there we go." She smiled. The scream echoed again throughout the mansion, followed by a deeper set of shouts.
"Hmm? ...Something's not right." A look of concern flashed across Xia's white face and she sped from the hall, moving with surprising speed for someone wearing thigh-high boots.

Daisy ran down the long corridor, throwing hurried looks behind her. Suddenly a figure appeared in front of her, emerging from a nearby room.
"Hold it there!" The strange man shouted. Daisy screamed, running straight into the man, bowling him over backwards. He grunted in pain as Daisy scrambled to her feet, stomping on the man's stomach as she did so. He made a wild grab for her leg, but she was already running, hurrying down another shadowy hallway.

Xia reached the room where she thought the scream had come from, but it was empty. However, several wall hangings were torn, and one of the bed legs was snapped.
"What's going on in my mansion...?" She muttered to herself.
"I've found another one!" A man shouted behind her, advancing slowly into the room. Xia looked shocked.
"Who, may i ask, the hell are you?" The man didn't reply, but drew a baton from his waist. Xia couldn't see his face behind the dark blue helmet, but she expected he was pleased with himself. Quietly, Xia started unwinding her whip from about her waist.
"DON'T MOVE!" He demanded, his voice sounding metallic. Xia ignored him, freeing her whip.
"I'm afraid i really must." She said apologetically, cracking the whip around his black baton and flicking it from his hands. He stepped backwards, breathing heavily.
"Don't let the door hit you on your way out." She said menacingly, kicking the man forcefully in the chest, sending him tumbling out of the room. He landed in a groaning heap. Xia narrowed her eyes and headed off towards the renewed screaming.

Serenity, Seth and Kay had their backs to a large pile of furniture blocking the doorway of the toy room. A bunch of soldiers were outside, charging the door. A resounding crash was heard and the three friends were flung across the room as the door flew open, a troop of men storming in. Kay jumped to his feet, adopting a fighting stance while Seth and Serenity crawled to their feet behind him.
"Grrr... there's too many of them..." Kay growled, eyeing up the opposition. The first of the soldiers charged at Kay. He dropped one of them with a roundhouse kick, then ducked a swipe from the second's baton before punching him, following with an elbow in his face. The rest of the soldiers looked nervously at each other, not wanting to be the next to face the red-haired fighter.
"Guys, go! I'll hold them off here!" Kay shouted. Serenity smiled.
"Thank you Kay, but there's no need to worry." She drew a large fan from inside her jacket as she spoke. Noticing Kay and Seth's puzzled expressions she just smiled again, flicking open the fan, displaying spokes of metal instead of pretty designs.
"A metal fan?" asked a bewildered Kay, as he knocking out another soldier with a headbutt, Serenity said nothing, but held the fan up to her face, covering it, exposing only her eyes.
"Mist!" She cried, her voice sounding strange and echoing through the metal fan. Slowly, the first creeping tendrils of mist flowed in through the window and door. Soon the whole room was enveloped in a thick white mist.
"Serenity? What did you do?!" Seth shouted. Serenity grabbed his and Kay's hands,
"It's an ancient art of magic I learnt from books, here in the mansion." She explained, leading them quickly through the throng of stumbling soldiers.

Soon they left the cloud of mist and headed down a quiet corridor.
"What's going on here?" Seth asked. Serenity shook her head,
"We've been living in this mansion for so long, we haven't been keeping track of the outside world. I expect something big is happening... and we definitely need to find Xia!" The two teens nodded in agreement.
"By the way, that magic? Impressive." Grinned Kay. Serenity smiled.
"Well, sometimes, as unbelieveable as it sounds, i get bored of sex. That's when i found the library... Xia has some incredible books! Some of them are hundreds of years old. I found a few on the subject of tessen, or war fans." She said, "Apparently, there used to be an art of magic which went with them. A huge book i found contained a load of complex diagrams and techniques, and at the back of the book, this fan was hidden in a section made to look like pages!" Seth looked amazed.
"But like... magic! It seems so unreal..." He stuttered. Kay grinned,
"I don't understand much of this, but i'm glad you found that book Serenity. My fists alone aren't enough to get us through this safely." Serenity frowned,
"We must find the others. There's going to be a lot more fighting so we're going to need to be well equipped. Here," She said, grabbing an ornamental shield from the stone wall and handing it to Seth, "Use this to defend yourself. And Kay, find some metal gloves or gauntlets or something, skin and bone won't pierce through armour." Seth nodded, handling his new weapon. It had a large leather strap and he slung it onto his back, the strap across his chest. Kay kicked over a nearby suit of armour, grabbing the arms and fastening them over his own. He broke off the metal fingers, allowing his own longer ones to come through.

Serenity surveyed her team.
"Good thing Xia has medievil tastes in home decoration!" Kay laughed. Serenity smiled, but it soon vanished.
"This is going to be tough." She said quietly, "Let's hurry." And the three of them turned and ran down a flight of stairs.

Veil wiped a speck of blood from his pale arm and smiled. The corpse of a newly dead soldier twitched as Veil withdrew his katana from it. Flicking strands of white hair from his face he suddenly frowned and spun around, his sword pricking the neck of the newcomer. Sakura gasped, freezing in her tracks. On seeing it was Veil, she relaxed and he returned his katana to a sheath on his waist.
"What... what's going on?" Sakura whispered, her eyes taking in the three dead soldiers spread gruesomely around the white haired warrior. Veil smiled,
"Just some unwanted visitors. Come, Xia will be looking for us. Here." He handed her a long dagger from another part of his belt. "Just in case." Sakura took the dagger and followed Veil wordlessly as he ran from the room.

Xia entered the dining room quietly, slipping through the large doors. It appeared to be empty and she strode to the end of the room then stopped. She turned her gaze upwards, at a large portrait on the wall. The picture showed a small girl with pitch black hair, hanging in messy curls around her smiling face. The girl was sitting in a decorated throne and it was obviously the work of an expert. Xia sighed softly to herself.
"Maybe... Maybe there's a reason for this..." She whispered, clutching her chest, "I suppose things couldn't have stayed like this forever... It would have destroyed us all. Maybe this means there's hope, that we're needed again..." She shook her head slowly.
"Regardless... Things have gone too far. Everybody will be coming here. I expect. Coming to see you, sister." Suddenly, the doors at the end of the hall flew open and a small figure with vivid green hair burst in, tripping over her feet, but managing to keep her balance and run towards Xia.
"So they're coming now." Xia said under her breath, before hugging the gasping Daisy. Daisy's chest was heaving and her breathing was ragged.
"Xia... XIA! There's strange... strange men, they're here!" Xia smiled,
"I know. But, i won't let them hurt you, not in my mansion." Daisy nodded and Xia strode to a chest against the wall. She smashed the lock off with a sharp stomp of her heel and pushed open the lid. Rummaging inside she produced a metal rod, about medium length. She pulled it out and a length of chain came with it, followed by another rod, about the same length.
"Nunchaku?" Daisy said quietly, Xia just nodded, handing the weapon to Daisy.
"They're yours." Daisy looked puzzled, but the door was slammed open again, disrupting the girls.

"Seth! Kay! MOVE!" A woman screamed, hurrying into the large dining hall, two teenage boys ran in after her, followed by a crowd of shouting soldiers. Xia frowned.
"Leave my mansion immediately!" She shouted, running the length of the hall to help her friends. Serenity turned to face the oncoming soldiers, Seth and Kay on either side. Daisy appeared nearby, brandishing her new weapon. The soldiers entered the hall in a violent wave, all armed with metal batons and body armour. Together, the five stood their ground, weapons ready. Xia caught a soldier's ankle with her whip, tripping him, then grabbed another's helmet, discarding it and slapping him hard across the face. A soldier ran at her, only to be knocked sideways by a dropkick from Kay, who was almost hit with a baton before the soldier wielding it was knocked unconcious by Daisy's spinning nunchaku. Serenity stabbed left and right with her deadly metal fan while Seth landed blows on nearby soldiers with his shield. Before long, the troop of soldiers was demolished, men lying dead and bleeding all over the dining room floor.

"Are they all dead...?" Daisy whispered, her face white. Xia nodded, peering out of the doors.
"Good. The others are almost here." She said, seeing a white haired man speeding up the corridor, a brown haired girl in his wake.
"Now. We must rescue Rose and Eagle. I locked Rose in the pantry, anyone know where Eagle is?" Seth and Kay both grinned, remembering with pleasure the last time they saw the silent man.
"Locked in the basement." Kay informed her. Xia opened her mouth to speak just as Sakura and Veil entered the room, breathing heavily.
"Xia!" Sakura gasped, "They've got Rose!"


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Heeey... that was fun! I know, i know, super long, right? Okay, i know there was no sex, but there was plenty drama and action right? Well, feedback for the more plot fuelled story. I'm not entirely sure about the rest of the story. I've got a bunch of ideas... Well, we'll see. ANYWAY! Say whatever you're thinking, i'm talking about reviews. If i don't get any... i suppose nobody cares about this story. Thanks everyone.