Fan Fiction |
by Jenny Tran
Guest Star:
Jessica Hsuan – Naja Lu
Aaron Kwok – Ted Kwong aka Libra
Ted and Mia looked around the bigger mirrored box, suddenly he pointed to a shadow he saw in the mirror. Mia nodded after seeing it too “Scorpio, be careful. I saw shadows lurking earlier.” Ted warned.
“What does it look like?” Brad asked.
“They were dressed in white.” Ted answered.
“Guy or girl?” Andrew asked while trying to find his way into the center.
Ted looked at Mia “Don’t look at me, I can’t tell. It was just a blob to me.” Mia replied.
Erin shook her head with a grin while she carried Timmy to safely “Blob?” she laughed “All those years in school and your best description is blob?”
Mia wrinkled her nose “Would you prefer indescribable shape?”
“Much better.” Erin teased. Suddenly her smile stopped as she was faced with about four people dressed in white, they all had masks on their faces “Team, we’ve got company.”
“Scorpio!” Brad muttered “Where are you?”
Mia shook her head “She’s in a maze, what kind of question is that?” but she too was worried for her friend. She turned to Ted “We can’t just stay here.”
He nodded in agreement “Come on.” He began pushing his way through the moving walls again.
The four people stepped towards Erin slowly as she back up against the wall, Timmy whimpered while he tightened his arms around her neck “You’re not getting away.” A deeper female voice announced.
Erin pushed at the wall and it budged, she turned back with a smile “We’ll see about that.” She slid through the crack and raced the through the maze, with her markings on the mirror, she was able to find her way around with ease. But she knew there would be no way to fight off the attackers if Timmy was still with her. She tried some of the marked mirrors and one of them budged, she placed Timmy inside the hidden trap “Stay here, sweetie. I’ll find you.”
He gave her a scared expression “I’m afraid…” his wide innocent eyes were reaching out to her.
Erin smiled while her hand stroked his soft face “Trust me. I’ll be back.” She assured him. She closed the moving wall and pushed her way through the maze to find the others. But in the game, she was the little white mouse. They quickly cornered her from each angle. She stood her stance “Let’s see what you girls got.”
“How do you know we’re all women?” a voice asked, it was hard to determine whether the person was a man or woman.
Erin shrugged “Just a hunch.”
The woman who seemed to be in the lead gave a quick wave of her hand while the other three began attacking Erin. She dodged as much throws as she could in the tiny room they had. Each punch was trying to knock her out but she wasn’t trained for years in the P.R.A. for nothing. Her mind thought fast when she received a punch straight in the stomach. She bent down to relieve the pain and at the same time pushed against a mirror, it gently gave way as she pushed through it.
Every so often, Erin would spin around to see where the white people were, they were still on her tail “Team…a little help might be nice.” She said with sarcasm. She was in true danger now. There were more of them that appeared.
“Scorpio, I can’t find you!!” Brad’s urgent voice was getting frustrated. In the mist of all the chasing, he was so angry that he punched one of the mirrors. Andrew reached up his hand to stop Brad but it was too late, his knuckles were bleeding and the glass came crashing down. Brad kneeled down with his head lowered, he felt useless for once in his life.
Andrew patted his friend on the shoulder “Don’t be like this, she needs you now. We have to keep moving.”
Brad looked up and suddenly his eyes brightened, the wall was broken, which meant all the walls could be broken “Team, I’ve got a plan!” He stood up and pulled out his metal flashlight swinging on his belt “Break the glass!”
Mia smiled “Why didn’t I think of that?!” she turned to Ted and they pulled out their own flashlights and began to break all the glass that they saw. Beteween the four doing it at the same time, their process was quick, they eventually found each other and behind them came Erin. She quickly regrouped with them “You okay?” Mia asked while Erin was completely out of breath.
“You think you could get away?” the lead lady in white cried with anger.
“We sabotaged your maze didn’t we?” Mia quipped.
Brad walked over to Erin as he touched her on the shoulder “Are you hurt?”
She shook her head and by doing so, she was in eye contact with his bleeding knuckles “What happened?” she held onto his hand gingerly “Did you punch your fist in the mirror?” she guessed it.
He only smiled “You know me…irrational.” Brad turned to the group of people in white who surrounded them. “What do you want?”
“Isn’t it obvious?” the woman laughed “I want you all dead.”
Mia stepped up “Don’t be so cocky!” she stood in her fight stance “Come on, I can’t beat you if you’re standing so far.”
The woman clasped her hands behind her back and turned herself to the left side, it was the others cue to attack as they charged at them. The five gave a good fight, never giving up even when they were hurt. The guys eventually defeated their enemy while Mia and Erin helped each other out to finish one person at a time. A long moment later, the P.R.A. have defeated each and every woman leaving the head to stand on her own “Hmph! You’ve made the P.R.A. proud.”
The group looked at each other “How did she know?” Mia whispered.
“You guys are not a big mystery in this world, there are a handful of people that know exactly what the P.R.A. is. Leo, Scorpio, Aries and Pisces…this guy…” she looked at Ted “Must be Libra.” Her voice was saddened “I’ve always admired you guys. Too bad I have to kill you.”
Erin turned to Brad and they exchanged glances, she looked over at Andrew and his eyes darkened. He took a step up towards the woman “Let them go…they have nothing to do with this.”
Mia frowned as she turned to Erin, maybe their suspicion was right. Andrew knew more than he gave himself credit for. Ted was busy scoping the place, suddenly his eyes landed on a person lying unconscious on the floor by the broken glass “Is that Darren?” he whispered to Mia.
The other three spun their heads towards the body “Darren!” Mia cried.
The woman laughed, stopping Mia from running to his side “He’s not dead…yet. Why don’t you guys join him?” she spun around and raced towards the exit as she pounded her fist against a red button.
Andrew turned to them “We have five minutes to get out, it’s going to self destruct!” he ran to Darren while Mia gave him a hand.
“Timmy!” Erin shook her head “I have to get him.”
Brad nodded “I’ll help you, you guys go first.” The three turned to him with reluctant eyes “This is an order!!” he ordered, they nodded respectfully and followed Andrew who took them to the opposite exit.
Erin retraced her steps and eventually found the mirror with the sign she left behind, she opened it and Timmy instantly smiled as he hugged her “I told you I’d come back.”
“Come on.” Brad nodded as he took Timmy from her arms so she could run faster. They raced out the exit where Andrew was headed to. When they were on safe land, Brad closed out the wooden door as they ran as fast as they could away from the secret room.
“Get down!!” Andrew cried as the whole group dived into the sand and in a second the explosion came. It was like a loud thunderstorm with an earthquake following afterwards. A few pepples flew into the air as it pounded down on the ground like rain.
Mia leaned Darren’s head against her shoulder as she and Ted helped him up “How in the world did you know that was going to happen?” her eyes leered at Andrew with suspicion.
Andrew turned away but did not answer, Brad shook his head at Mia who wanted to have her question answered “You’ve got a lot of explaining to do.” He said to his co-worker. Andrew had no intentions of getting away, he was upset that it all had to come to this.
The group returned to headquarters with their uniforms caked with sand. The victims were put in resting rooms. When they returned to conference room, Dennis frowned “What did you guys do? Go for a swim?”
“Ha ha, very funny…you try wearing tight clothing and diving into the sand when a secret passageway blew up from under your feet.” She said it all in one shot.
Brad turned to Dennis “Andrew’s got something to tell us.” He turned to Andrew and patted him on the shoulder.
Dennis arched his brows “I already know.” He let out a sigh.
Everyone turned to him unexpectedly “But…how?” Erin shook her head in disbelief.
“I’m not a lieutenant for nothing.” He pointed for everyone to sit while he stood up and paced the front of the room “I’ve suspected this has been going on for years…yet I didn’t find enough evidence to pinpoint the person.” He looked over at Erin “At first, I thought exactly like you…that Andrew was behind this.”
Mia snapped her head up “He’s not?” she too had her suspicion.
Dennis shook his head “No, he’s only a pawn in her game of chess.”
“Her?” Mia shook her head in disbelief “Who is she?” Erin and Brad exchanged glances and Mia had a questioning look “You knew? You two knew all this time and you didn’t tell me???!” she was shocked “At least I don’t feel so bad since Ted has no clue…right?” she turned to him for reassuring.
But to her dismay, he shook his head “Sorry…”
“Oh great! I’m the only stupid one!” Mia threw her hands up with exaggeration.
Erin looked at her friend sympathetically “I was afraid that after you found out, you would be too distraught that our plans would be ruined because of your feelings towards this person.”
“Who is it?!” she was growing more frustrated.
Everyone turned to Andrew, who let out a tired sigh “It’s Reina.”
Mia stood up, not sure if she heard correctly. She arched her ears at Andrew “What did you say? I thought you just said Reina.” She laughed nervously.
No one laughed but they all bowed their heads unable to confirm it with her. Everyone knew how close the two girls were but to find out from someone else that your friend was really the bad guy, it was not only hard to swallow but difficult to believe. Erin was the only comforter at the moment, she got up and smiled at Mia “We were afraid of this reaction.” She said softly while stroking her hair “I didn’t want to believe it either, but the more I researched the more fingers pointed to Reina.”
A single tear fell from Mia’s eyes as she sat down with a thump, her tear filled eyes looked up at Andrew “What do you have to do with this?”
He shook his head “I’ve been in love with Reina since the day I could remember. But she was always so angry at the world, I tried to make her happier, lead her back to the good person that she is. But the more I tried, the more she backed away. Eventually, I joined in her team but at the same time I didn’t want her to dig herself a deeper hole. I couldn’t let her live the lie anymore.”
Dennis looked up at Erin “What did you find out on Naja?”
Brad and Mia looked up startled “What? She’s involved?” Brad asked.
Mia eventually nodded “Yes…of course she is.”
“She is Reina’s older sister.” Erin let out a short sigh as she turned to Ted “We found her file, she was not convicted of many of the charges. Somehow someone always got her off. The two of them came from St. Mary’s Orphanage, their parents died in a fire and they were immediately put into the orphanage. They could not find the girls a home together so they were forced to be split up. Reina was upset, therefore it explains her hatred towards the orphanage.” Suddenly she wrinkled her brows “But I’m not sure why she would have something against Darren?”
Mia nodded “Yeah, don’t forget about Timmy.”
“It’s not just Darren, but it’s the whole Chiu family. Darren’s father was her father’s boss. She witnessed the man degrading her father at the harbor one day and it’s been etched into her heart ever since. She vowed to herself that one day she would make the Chiu family payback for all the pain and suffering they bestowed on nice families. She was in denial for too long.” Andrew explained.
Dennis nodded “I wanted her to step into the trap when I allowed her to stay overnight and watch Timmy. Little did she know that her every move was already known by the P.R.A. head. That room was built in secrecy, no one knows how to get in but the Lieutenant and Captain.” His eyes landed on Brad “Anyone else… it would have been an insider.”
Erin looked over at Andrew, she had a question that she didn’t understand “What I don’t get is why she has this special hatred towards me. I could see it in her eyes when she talks to me. I always figured it was because she and Mia were so close that she didn’t like to share. Plus Gemini usually has two faces.”
Andrew shook his head “That was something she never told me before.”
“Alright guys, you’ve all had a rough day. Why don’t you guys go freshen up?” The group was about to stand up when Dennis stopped them “For your own safety, the head has requested you all stay here for tonight. So tell your family or roommates you won’t be coming home. We don’t need a search party to be sent out.” He warned.