Inexperienced Heart

Chapter 27: The Memory

"Come on, we've got to find the others," Landa finally told Mira and Peter.

"The others?" Mira and Peter asked.

"You don't think I came here alone, do you?" Landa asked. She then told them a quick summary of her events and the new friends she acquired.

They soon arrived at the open space in the great hall where all the paintings were. Only now it no longer was silent or peaceful. All was chaos.

"Come on!" Landa motioned for Mira and Peter to follow her. They passed men and women dressed all in red, carrying whatever they could get their hands on, and throwing it at their opponents. Landa only assumed their opponents were her friends, which meant that her friends were way outnumbered.

"I must reach my friends," Landa thought desperately.

Back in the hallway, the others were not yet aware of Landa's disappearance. They walked as if nothing had happened.

Then, Logan, feeling that something was wrong, looked behind and gasped.

"Landa is gone!" he cried.

Galadriel and Goldtin, worried, looked around them and increased their speed. Galadriel led them into the great hall. It was silent, dead silent. Then, suddenly, out of nowhere, appeared hundreds of red-dressed people ambushing them into an attack. The trio saw the size of the group and despaired. In addition to the size, they had no weapons. But they also noticed that their enemy had no weapons either. They were just using whatever was closest to them. The three of them spread out and did the same. Galadriel and Goldtin used their canes to knock people out. Logan used his belt to whip people. He literally took it off his pants and used it as a weapon. It's not like his pants were falling off. He always wore a belt, for fashion.

As Landa searched for her friends, some of the people attacked her. She kicked and punched them with a good hit.

Sensing she was being followed, she turned around and knocked the man down. Then, she noticed that Mira and Peter were no longer behind her. "I must have lost them. Oh well, they probably started fighting," she thought reasonably.

Her assumption proved correct. As they were walking, a man, big in built, blocked their way. Landa walked on. Mira and Peter fought him and by the time they finished him, they had lost sight of Landa, so they decided to keep fighting.

Landa had located Galadriel and Logan, but not Goldtin. As she was about to go up to them, she heard a moan. Thinking it was a prisoner's plea for mercy, she followed the noise.

She found herself in a large room with white walls. There was hardly anything else in the room, except a few devices that looked like printers with keys on them, computer keys. She saw Roco standing by these devices and remembering her promise, showed no recognition of him.

She looked to the front of the room and saw Aldrich Palson standing tall.

"I knew you would fall for that," he bragged. "Play it, Roco."

Landa glared at the father and looked at Roco as he hit a button on the 'printer'. She heard the moan that led her here.

"You evil, corrupted, vile, foul fraud!" she screamed at him and turned towards the door, but it closed on her with another hit of a key by Roco.

"How dare you!" she turned on Roco.

Aldrich laughed. "Now, make yourself comfortable while I recall your memory." Landa reluctantly stood by the door, arms crossed.

"Hit it, Roco," ordered Palson. Roco hit yet another key. Landa faced forward and saw that the wall in front of her was lit up. The light was dimmed.