[IC] Fate Tied in a Knot

[XxLyraxX]

ONLY ONE POST PER PERSON RIGHT NOW UNTIL EVERYONE HAS POSTED AND i GIVE THE GO-AHEAD TO CONTINUE

Pairings:
1. Arabella Wren(XxLyaxX) + Jason Diabolus(Jasonhero)
2. Katherina Miedaas(ReaptheMusic) + Denny Cano(Me Da Insane)
3. Emma Kauniainen(Kiriyama) + Luke Schneider(Krein)
4. Chiyoye(Kautalya) + John Richardson(smarty0114)
5. Alessa(Fuzzy-mellon-lord) + Brandon(BKburke)

(EVERYONE HAS JUST GOTTEN OFF THE BOAT AND ARE WALKING UP THE PATH TO THE MANOR)



Yuè Xià Lǎo stood at the window, looking out at his expansive lawn. The elderly man had his hands folded behind his back as he gazed out the window with eyes that had a look of agelessness about them. His flowing white beard was trimmed and held together with a neat black bow; he was dressed in slacks, a dress shirt, a vest and a black tie. His cane was in its usual place in his hand, the dragon's claw winking in the light flooding in from the window. A young man with raven black hair cut in a style where it's short in the back and longer in the front and bright red crimson eyes. He placed a gloved hand over his chest and kneeled on one knee. "The preparations are complete My Lord. We are ready to receive them." He said in a smooth, flowing British accent. The old man stirred, glancing behind him at his servant. "Thank you Sebastian. They should be arriving momentarily." He said in a low, melodic voice; a voice that did not fit his appearance. The head butler nodded and stood, striding away as he gave orders to the other servants standing by. Yuè turned to gaze back out the window, spying a boat docking at his docks. "And so it begins. I do hope their hearts can handle it." He mused to himself.

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A young girl with auburn hair and burgundy eyes dressed in a long skirt and sweater stepped from the boat and onto the docks, shading her eyes against the sun as she gazed up at the manor resting on the top of island, glittering in the sunlight. As her eyes alighted on the grand building her mind starting whirring with all the possible drawings she could do with the way the light was hitting the windows. She also knew that their was going to be a great view from one of those windows of the ocean and she was itching to strode up the path and into the house so she could get to drawing.

The girl turned and smiled slightly at Alessa, a girl who went to her school. They had never really talked before, being in different social groups. Arabella had seen the girl in passing but never actually talked to her. "Isn't this exciting?" She said in a voice with a light and airy quality to it. Her eyes happened to glance down and she squeaked quietly, jolting forward and almost tripping over her feet as she scurried to grab her luggage that she almost left on the boat.

[Fuzzy-mellon-lord]

Alessa stared up at the mansion, trying to ignore the bright light of the sun by pulling her hat lower down on her head. She couldn't help but wonder what the inside of it looked like, it had to be amazing. There was also an off chance that it wasn't and the outside was the only thing that was beautiful. She had to admit that she was curious, she had only ever dreamed about places like this. She adjusted the large backpack carried that functioned as her luggage.

When the Auburn haired girl began speaking to her she flashed a small sideways grin. "Yeah i guess." When the girl squeaked, it took the black haired girl off guard. When she saw what the girl had gone running back for she laughed loudly. "Don't wanna forget that, do ya?" she joked before turning to examine the other people around them. She hadn't really looked at the others before, she didn't really care. The whole boat ride she had been a bit worried about her brothers being home alone pretty much. She had only decided to come because the eldest of her brothers had gotten a job and assured her that they would be fine. She wondered if there was a phone in the mansion for her to call back home with. She had to admit, she was a bit more nervous about this than excited.

[Me Da Insane]

Denny watched as the boat approached the island. He looked and admired what he could see of the island. Off in the distance he noticed the manor. Denny was surprised at how nice it was; he couldn't think of ever staying at a nice place such as this.

Denny straightened out his hoodie, and gave a quick glance at the other passengers that were on the boat. He wondered if he would become friends with any of them during this trip. Making friends on this trip wouldn't be so bad. Denny thought cheerfully. He threw his backpack over his shoulder and went to grab the rest of his stuff; when he noticed one of the girls come back for her luggage.

[smarty0114]

John felt his stomach drop as he stepped on the dock. He looked up at the mansion and nodded in approval. It would be a nice place to spend the next four or so months. He grabbed his duffle bag and started up the path towards the elegant house. He passed an auburn haired girl running back to the boat on the way. He was interested in this vacation, intrigued by why a bunch of teenagers were invited to stay at some random person's house. "Maybe it's a horror movie scenario and we're all gonna die," John thought to himself, and then smirked at his own stupidity. That was idiotic. It was probably some academic reward or something. Mr.Harrison had said he loved his paper he wrote about The Great Gatsby. Maybe he had submitted the paper for an award. It wasn't totally implausible.

[BKburke]

Brandon grabbed his luggage and walked off the boat. He looked around at all the scenery. It seemed to be a pretty nice view. Brandon sure though it was better than the boat. It finally felt good that he was on solid ground again. He reached into his pocket and grabbed a cloth to clean his glasses. After which, he put the cloth back in his pocket and took a sigh of relief. He looked to see a couple others already talking and then looked back ahead of himself. "I really do wonder who all got an invitation to this place. It does seem rather strange but it's better than sitting at home I guess." Brandon wasn't to sure on what to think on the subject. Then invite and all these people seemed alittle odd to him but it could make for a nice stay away from home and that was worth something to him. "Sure hope this stay ends out great; I wouldn't want to leave here with any regrets." Brandon grabbed his luggage and began to walk toward the mansion ahead. The place did look rather beautiful. It was much nicer than what he was used to.

[Krein]

Luke stood with arms crossed as he looked at the scenery before him. This was a really nice place, but that was understatement since everything involving the layout, gardens, and architecture of this "resort" far exceeded his expectations. It almost reminded him of how he thought the island of Circe or Ogygia looked like in the Odyssey, but the fact that this was the home of some Chinese guy sort of offset this image. Still... cool place.
Speaking of the guy, Luke wondered why he had received this invitation to a luxurious vacation. Academic achievements? Maybe, he had always done good in pretty much everything unless he didn't care about them. Sports? Also a good possibility, but less than academics since he honestly didn't focus that much on sports other than to have some form of physical activity. In fact, Luke quickly rules this out.

"Either way... free vacation. Now let's just hope this doesn't turn into a scene from Hostel," he laughed to himself when he heard a comment from one of the teens about this being a setup for a horror movie... intriguing idea to say the least. Luke immediately had several ideas of a story for this concept, about some ancient wizard who harvested the souls of young people to maintain himself youthful. Yes... this was a perfect place to have the entire day to write and to come up with new ideas for more stories.

Luke took a gander at some of the teenagers that had also received the same invitation. He frowned a bit. He never really thought too highly of most people his age, mainly because all he usually heard from them were stupid stories about party antics and an overidealization of their relationships. To him, these people were just stupid and shortminded, and Luke honestly hoped that this place's serenity wasn't going to be ruined by idiotic parties. He also hoped that maybe these other teens would be a bit more mature like himself.

[ReaptheMusic]

Katherina stared not at the glorious mansion, but back to the sea they had been ferried over. She didn't stand to get up and admire the lights of the mansion, She didn't belong in crowds. She sat on the seat, with her knees curled into her chest, wondering... what would it feel like to drown in that water? Would it be fast... fleeting... or painful? She brought her head back to the front of her knees, pushing her glasses into place. She grabbed up her bag and went to the others, deciding finally that being alone would help no one. It was funny. Many girls filled their bags with shoes alone, but Katherina stuck to books. She had many bags, all on a cart beside her.
Her family had seemed more than happy to let her be.
She looked down, waiting for everyone to part ways before getting off the ferry.

[Kiriyama]

Emma is a bit nervous about the idea going to a weird mansion in the middle of nowhere with some teenagers she had never met before. Why did she even come here? It was really hard to lie her parents about some "school trip". The would have never let her go if they knew it would be a meeting of some teenagers like from some horror movie! Hopefully this is worth the flight. It cost me a lot.

She notices that some of the teenagers that came here with her have already started to talk to each other. This could be a good chance to get some friends. She takes her luggage and gets out of the boat.

Unlucky for her, she stumbles and all of her 2 bags, almost fall in the water. Emma herself falls into the ground, and her glasses bounces on the dock until it stops in 3 meters away from her. Her backpack was in her back so it didn't escape anywhere. whole scenario makes a huge sound, so that everyone could hear it.

[JessieTargaryen]

Jason stepped off the boat and had a look around the mansion that was laid out in front of him. Never before had the boy seen something so big. Or worth so much money. It was insane. He pulled the earphones out of his ear and turned his phone off as he gazed ahead, walking with the crowd and pulling his luggage alongside with him

[Kautalya]

Chiyoye, the short girl grabbed a hold of the ledge from the boat and leaned forward. She was astonished by the scenery. It was a breathtaking house, she stepped off the ledge of the boat as well as tugging her luggage behind her. The mansion looked really expensive sweat drops fell down her forehead. "I shouldn't break anything inside..My auntie would kill me!" She shrived just by thinking about it. She gingerly placed her fingers on her purse and opened it up. "Teehee." Inside of her purse was filled with junk but she didn't care. Chiyoye buried her hands inside her purse to grab her camera. She zipped up her bag and gently threw it to the ground. Standing there, the young girl tip-toed to take a picture of little baby birds on top of a tree.
Click..
She couldn't help but squeal of how adorable the birds were. Just then, the mother of the birds came dashing in which threw Chiyoye off guard. "Ah!" She let out a squeaky yell and fell to the ground. Instead of crying like she would mostly do all she did was laugh it off. "Ohmahgawd." She couldn't stop laughing of how funny she reacted when she fell. "Shoot!" Chiyoye completely forgot. Running over to her bags she noticed a crowd around the mansion. She hurried over to them almost tripping over a rock.

[Krein]

Luke was about to go and head off to the mansion on his own, away from the other teenagers, when he heard commotion come from two of the last people getting off the ship. A blonde and browned haired girl, it seemed both of them were unbalanced enough to fall flat on their face and drop all their belongings. Luke seriously hoped that these two weren't klutzes that were just going to be an annoyance for everyone else. Also, he figured that the guy who owned this place would be rather unhappy if two of the guests he invited to his home were going around breaking and toppling things over.

Assessing the attitudes of the two, Luke more or less had to keep himself from rolling his eyes at the blonde who was "ditzy" to the point of giggling at every single thing that she did. Kind of stereotypical and funny, but it would get annoying to him quite quickly. Luke then turned his attention to the brown haired girl who seemed more shy and embarrassed about her recent trip (PUN INTENDED HAHAHAHA). She seemed to be a bit more bearable than the blonde at least, but Luke noticed that her glasses had dropped quite a bit aways from her and to a spot closer to his own.

"Might as well go help her out, she'd be needing those glasses anyway."

Going over to and picking up the glasses, he then made his way over to the girl.

"Need some help?" He asked her as he held out his hand to help her up.

[ReaptheMusic]

Katherina, whom had been looking down, peered up as a handsome boy with blue hair and a recognizeable German accent helped a girl with brown hair and glasses with her belonging. Someone who also was from her country? Immediatley she wanted to flock to him, ask him where he was from and... just.. talk to someone... but she turned away, staring back at the ocean and waited for everyone to move. Of course... she was overlooked once more.

[Me Da Insane]

Denny got his last bag and he was about to get off the boat; when he saw a girl sitting by herself. He wondered if she needed help.might as well say hi, he decided. " Hey, need any help?" He said cheerfully, as he approached the girl.

[Fuzzy-mellon-lord]

Alessa looked around as the other teens started talking to each other. She wasn't really in the mood to converse, knowing she'd probably either get annoyed or make a fool out of herself, So she began walking towards the mansion. As she walked she pulled her headphones from around her neck and slipped them on her ears before starting her music.

[Kiriyama]

Emma sees a dark blue haired boy approaching her. She becomes a bit nervous that someone noticed her.

She then gets up with the help of this boy.

-Thanks... She said with a little blush on her face.
-H-have you seen my glasses in here...? They, um... I dropped them somewhere, and I can't see where they are...

Thankfully Emma is good at English, otherwise she would never even considered coming here.

[Krein]

"Yeah, I've actually got them right here," replied Luke as he handed the glasses to Emma. "Didn't know glasses could bounce that far, but be thankful they didn't bounce backwards into the water!"

Luke then began to gather Emma's bags in front of her so they wouldn't be so spread out along the dock. He considered offering his help, but he did still have his own bags to tend to first... maybe he could help her with only a few of them...

"Need some help with some of these?" He said anyway.

[ReaptheMusic]

As a boy with spiky hair approached her, offering his help, Katherina glanced at the blue haired boy again. She looked down, pushing her glasses back up to the bridge of her nose.
"No." She said coldly. She picked up her bags and pushed her cart of books, sick of being outside and headed within to the mansion. Why was everyone just standing around anyways?

[Me Da Insane]

Denny tried to apologize to the girl, but she was gone before he could. Hope I didn't offend her, he thought. Denny not really knowing what to do now grabbed his things; and headed for the mansion. He noticed a few people walking there already, but decided not to try and talk to them.

[BKburke]

Brandon looked behind him to see people talking and a couple things other things that he found entertaining. He turned to face the mansion and smirked at his thoughts. "Well I guess time here is going to be pretty interesting." Brandon was really wondering if the host had a schedule for everyone to follow or if could just do whatever they wanted. "This is gonna be one place I'm not gonna forget."

[smarty0114]

John stood at the front of the mansion, looking around at the others. Some were talking and others were just standing around like him. One girl came running up, almost tripping over a rock in her excitement. Who knew what this would have to offer. He might as well make the most of it though. "Does anyone know when we're gonna be let in?" John asked the others around him.