This is actually supposed to come after Wild Faerie Dance, but I just couldn't help it - it's on my mind even as I work on the chapters for the other story now. Hopefully, as I post this, my hunger for it will be satisfied and I can actually finish the other one :/ And the titles for the chapters are all going to be lyrics from Florence and the Machine songs...yeah :)


Eris sighed. Fate was so frustrating, especially when she wasn't allowed to tamper with it! Why wasn't she allowed to screw up the lives of four people she hated? It just wasn't fair; chaos was her forte, she was supposed to make everyone miserable. It was her job. She really, really wished she could just, just this once, mess everything up without breaking rules - it would, by far, be the best disaster she'd caused amongst the immortals for ages - ages meaning weeks, in Eris' terms. (The last best pranks/tamperings she'd contrived consisted of putting a scorpion down the back of Mother Nature's dress and managing to convince Jack Frost that Autumn was trying to murder him in his sleep.)

Curse rules. Curse them over and over and over, she repeated in her mind, sighing again and weaving some quick glowstrings - sending them outside to wreck havoc. It was a habit of Eris' to express whatever she felt in her powers...most of the time that meant she was mad and taking it out on innocents. Almost immediately, the side of a nearby building collapsed.

She didn't mean to make them that strong. I must be really mad if that's how much damage two glowstrings do. Crap.

A tap on the shoulder interrupted her thoughts. Melanctha stood there, looking curiously at her with misty-grey eyes. She signed out a sentence so quickly that Eris had to ask her to repeat it.

"What's wrong with you, you just wrecked the new building! You weren't supposed to-"

Eris held her hands to stop her from talking - Melanctha hated that, and harrumphed.

"What's wrong with me is, we've had the most interesting development in the line of Fate since the admission of the Snowflake as one of the Guardians. Involving, of course, the lovely poly-polar leaf queen, our brethren in the man-dress-"

Melanctha snorted and shook in silent laughter.

"Inspectress Cavity and Shock-White Freaksnow - and yes, that's a pun on freakshow...the greatest mix, I know right?! But honestly, I can't even mess it all up. Agh! You have no idea how bad I want to!"

"I do too have an idea - you want to mess this up just as much as you like peanut butter and pickles, am I right?" Melanctha signed.

"Yes, just like peanut butter and pickles. It would be so. Deliciously. Chaotic. And. Cruel. But I can't!" Eris made a sound that was the very embodiment of aggravation (one often supported by her,) and sat herself down on a chair - black and cushiony, two things Eris liked best in furniture. (Besides tatters, rips, and shreds, since destruction always came first.)

Melanctha smiled in the motherly way that was Melanctha - knowing just how much Eris enjoyed destruction.

"Oh, Melanctha, I wanna ruin it so bad it's killi-eh-eh-ing me! The best. Thing. Ever. Is. Right. There. For. DESTRUCTION!" Eris giggled darkly, then reverting again to being angry. "Stupid rules!"

'Maybe if you give whatever it is time to think about, you can find a way to tear it to pieces without breaking rules,' Melanctha suggested.

"Good idea...yea, I'll just wait a while. I'm sure Mother Nature could use another dose of hecticness...hmm. Hey, don't you think it's weird that Mother Nature isn't in charge of the seasons? All she really does is plant stuff...ah, well. Melanctha, can you get me some peppermint? I've got to concentrate. Maybe the solution to this'll be in my library."

Melanctha nodded and headed to the cabinets (all painted different colors). She knew that Eris was smart, and coy, and very determined...but sometimes she could be a bit rash. Melanctha remembered when they were young, Eris thought it would be hilarious if she sent a disease to ravage the people...what had they called it? Oh, the Plague - or the Black Death...it hadn't turned out so well, and that was the cause for all of the rules that Eris had to go by.

If there was a solution at all, to whatever Eris' problem was, Eris would find it, Melanctha knew. Eris was the best of the best.

Melanctha just hoped that she wouldn't overdo it.

Melanctha also knew that if it was up to Eris, the whole world would tumble into disorganization and doom, so overdoing it was a reasonable concern. That was why Eris was the head of the Council of Darkness, and not her, or Hadrian, or Crevan, or anyone. (Of course, Eris never attempted to do that to the world, since that was against the rules. There had to be balance.)

And wasn't that the reason why the Council expelled certain members? Attempting to distort that balance?

Melanctha glanced over at Eris (having already gotten the peppermint), already noticing the mischievous glint in those mismatched eyes.

Here we go again.

"Now, I can't do anything to help the speared..." Eris muttered, "But maybe, maybe I can do something to alleviate that burden..." she laughed. It was one of the familiar, sinister laughs that Melanctha had heard before Eris created...

Well, chaos.

She'd heard the same laugh when Eris watched the misery of others with pleasure - whoever was speared, was in for it, and in for it big time. Her best friend never missed an opportunity to get inside someone's head. Sometimes, Melanctha thought it was funny.

Considering the prementioned crowd that Eris seemed focussed on, Melanctha was anxious. Her friend's plan couldn't be good, for anyone, really...oh, bother, and if she'd have to fix it in some way, shape, or form...Eris was going to pay. She could already tell, it wasn't a good idea...

And if she had to make Eris pay, Melanctha knew exactly how. She was, after all, the Silencefae, and a member of the Council of Darkness herself.

"Hey, Melanctha, check this out! I didn't know we had a lineage book," Eris called from her chair, and Melanctha turned to find a huge book almost covering Eris herself.

"And...ohmystingleafinggoodness, come look! Look at that! I cannot believe...now that is something I can mess with. Think Mother Nature knows who at least one of her parents is? Booyah! I can screw with him about that, too...man, Melanctha, this is so awesome...but it's not going to help me this time. Can you put this in the keepers pile?"

Melanctha sighed. She would have to use glowstrings - the book was so big, she didn't even know how Eris had picked it up - to move it into the pile that filled the corner of the room. Sometimes, only sometimes, these habits of Eris' got annoying.

Eris was laughing again, digging through a book titled 'The Minds of Darkness' greedily. Yes, Melanctha had a very, very bad feeling about this. Very, very, very bad.

'Eris,' she signed. Eris didn't seem to notice, so Melanctha cautiously approached her in her chair and tapped her on the shoulder.

"What?"

'Are you sure this is going to be alright? I mean, the people you mentioned are kind of important-'

Eris grabbed her hands again. Melanctha growled involuntarily, glaring at the Doomfae, who didn't seem to catch the hint - Melanctha knew that even if she had, she probably wouldn't care, since she really had nothing to threaten Eris with at all.

"Absolutely positively, it is. What could happen that I can't fix? Besides, you're going to love what I've got planned. If it all works out, we'll have the most unlikely and troublesome scandal there ever was, with just a hint of calamity."

Melanctha shrugged, doubting Eris. The Doomfae sighed and reclined in her chair, nonchalantly placing the peppermint in her mouth. "Evrbody luff c'lam tead," came out the garbled sentence, "speshussly weh it sshh people theh doan lihk."

All the Silencefae could do was roll her eyes, play along, and hope, no, pray, that nothing would go horrifically wrong.


I'm sure you can imagine that it will, but, um, I'll apologize beforehand for leaving you with only this chapter. I won't be updating for a while, not until Wild Faerie Dance is done, probably. Ciao, ciao all! (quoting Megamind there, hehe)