Jessica:
New school day, same as it was every day….. I hate History.. I thought, tapping my pencil to the paper that I was working on, showing no sign of enjoying what I was doing. Despite the fact that I had lunch next, I was worried. The dream from the night before bothered me; Being trapped in an hour glass, with a rather ominous voice saying "Time is short". At the mere thought of time, the bell rang, pulling me from my stupor.
"You ok, Jessica?" Nick asked, turning to see my startled expression.
"Y-yeah. Sure, I'm fine." I said quickly, gathering my things up before rushing down the hall and up to B-wing, hoping to catch Sydney before she went up to lunch. But coming up the stairs, I saw that another teen was seemingly harassing her. Without a second thought, I strode over to where the two where and proceeded to kick the boy in the ass.
"Is there an issue in which you would like to discuss with me?" I snarled to him, seeing that the redhead was scared.
"No! It's-it's nothing!" He sputtered before moving past me and Sydney, who'd taken refuge behind me. Turning to face her, I noticed that she seemed a little more awake than she had been beforehand.
"Get a good night's sleep?" I asked her. A slight bob of her head was her only response to my question, even though the dark circles remained under her eyes.
"I still am a little tired, though." Sydney said quietly, following me to lunch.
"Don't blame you for it, those nightmares of yours seem to be pretty scary." I replied, ruffling her shortened hair. Sydney giggled, and ducked under my hand, and gave a genuine warm smile.
"I… I did have another one last night... A regular dream. Still really weird though." She did point out. I frowned a little.
"Do you remember what happened in it?" I asked her, placing a hand on her shoulder in an attempt to comfort her. She didn't answer. "... I won't push it, but if you wanna talk about it, I'm all ears."
When we got to lunch, Amanda waved to us, signaling where we would be sitting. There were five of us, but one chair was empty. Sydney stared blankly at it, turned her head but then stopped, frowning.
"We know you miss him Syd, but they're gonna find Michael, don't you worry!" Kacey said. Sydney looked blankly at the seat still, not even blinking. I snorted and turned my attention to the others.
"So, you guys can make it after school, right?" A couple of nods followed by "Yep's" (Or in Amanda's case, yeppers). "Ok, so we'll met in the Library as soon as we can?" I asked, starting to get up for food. The others nodded and they went up into the line. I started to go up, but then realized that Sydney hadn't followed yet. "Syd, come-on, you goob. The chair isn't going to jump up and run away you know." I told her gently placing my hand on her shoulder. Flinching, she looked up at me and nodded, eyes slightly duller than before. Soon the two of us were in line with the others.
Lunch went by as it normally as it would any other day. It was when we got to English that things started to go down. It wasn't so bad being quite.. Until Kacey broke the silence with a rather loud, and almost perfect imitation of a siren. It startled half of the class, and sent Amanda in a near fit of screaming laughter.
"Someone was entering the school!" Kacey protested, seeing that Mr. Furlong was giving her a rather annoyed look, a couple of kids sniggering behind his back. Sydney only stared blankly at her, eyes wide and uncertain. Mr. Furlong announced that he was going to give us essay to work on in class, and somehow, at the same time, said essay that Mr. Furlong was going to give us to work on suddenly flew out the open window. Everyone, even the teachers that were in there, stared in shock. I glanced over at my friends, now unsure of what was going on. Amanda was getting a little bit twitchy, Kacey was holding in some mild giggles, Sydney was pulling what we all called 'a Caboose', and Emilee didn't really seem to care that the essay flew out the window. It wasn't long afterwards while we were all working quietly on the essay(New copies of it, of course), some quiet murmurings among the fellow students. Me? I was in deep concentration writing the essay, but every and then, I looked up to see Amanda glaring at the laptop she was using, not even typing. I raised an eyebrow, and glanced at Emilee. She had noticed the fiasco that Amanda was having with her laptop. Sydney leaned over, and took the laptop to see if something was wrong with it. After a minute, a sudden poke that Amanda gave to her caused Sydney flinch and give a little yelp, everyone looked directly at the trio.
"Laptop isn't working… I think it short circuited itself." Sydney said thoughtfully, handing the non-functioning laptop to the teacher. He glared at Amanda, making her meekly smile. When he glanced at the clock, he blinked and told us that it was almost time to leave, and that we had homework. The whole class groaned, not wanting to work on the new homework. And then, the weirdest thing happened, I mean, the other things were kinda weird, but this topped it all off. The homework caught fire. Right in his hands, forcing the teacher to drop the flaming paper, and just as soon as it hit the ground, it was out. A good portion of the class bolted out of the room as soon as the bell rang, leaving a couple of dumfounded kids, the teacher, and our group of friends. I looked to Mr. Furlong.
"Well…. that was a rather interesting class." His response was a confused glance toward us.
".. And wasn't that so strange? Who's ever heard of homework self-combusting?" Kacey said, nibbling off the vending machines poptart.
"It was kinda cool…. But all the more it was more weird. Didn't you say that you heard someone coming inside of the school?" Emilee asked Kacey, followed by her nodding. "How did you know that it was a person?" Kacey paused, eyebrows suddenly dipping downwards, deep in thought.
"I…. I don't know how I knew… I just did." Was Kacey's response.
"Sorta how I didn't want us to do that homework, then it went-" Emilee did the impression of the papers going up in flames, making me laugh.
"Didn't you guys notice how fast time went? It only felt like we were all in there for 15 minutes tops. Was I the only that noticed that?" I asked them, tapping the pencil to the paper.
"Now that you mention it…. it did kinda go by fairly quickly." Sydney quietly stated, staring blankly at the social studies homework that Mr. Libby had given us beforehand. Kacey finally slapped her pencil down.
"Ok, Syd. What's the issue?" Kacey demanded, glaring. Sydney blinked owlishly.
"Ah… nothing?"
"I call bullshit." Emilee stated.
"BAD WORD!" We all flinched as Amanda snuck up from behind and screeched, earning herself a sharp 'SHH!' from the librarian. Amanda winced a little. "Sorry Mrs. Conroy, won't happen again." Mrs. Conroy glared a little at our table before returning to her computer. "Oh Syd! I meant to ask, how did you manage to convince your mom to let you stay after?" Sydney winced a little, and rubbed the back of her head a little, showing the scars on her arm.
"I told her that you guys would be with me, and that Danny's mom was gonna pick me up and drop me off at my house from the post office. That was her condition though."
"Cool, and another thing…" Amanda started to rummage through her backpack. A weird feeling started to creep up my back as I felt the hairs on my neck raise. A light blue stone suddenly appeared from her bag. Reactions varied; I nearly leaped up and almost fell out of the chair, Emilee fell out of her chair, Kacey lept up eyes wide, and Sydney looked like she'd seen a ghost.
"Ah…. why are you all acting like that?" Amanda asked quietly, confused at why we were acting like she pulled out a bomb.
"The hell is that?!" Emilee hissed, poking her head from where she was sitting.
"I have one two…" Kacey admitted, cause all of us to look at her blankly. "... I do." And she proved it by pulling out a bronze colored stone, same size and shape. Then Emilee revealed a red one, and me the clear one from last night. Sydney pulled out a dark blue stone and set it in the middle.
"Did…. did everyone have a dream last night?" Sydney's sudden question pulled us out of our panicked stupor. I blinked, suddenly confused.
"I did, and Emilee told me that she had one too." Amanda piped up, and Emilee retaliated with throwing a pencil at her. I nodded, speechless, and Kacey imitated me. Sydney looked… I don't know… It was a look I've never seen her make before.
"Well…. what we have before us are… Toa Stones." We all just stared at her, Amanda breaking the silence with a giggle. "I'm not joking Amanda. I've seen what they look like… well, some of them." Sydney deadpanned, eyes narrowing in a dangerous manner.
"Syd, we all know how much you like Bionicle, but this is taking it to an extreme level here. Toa Stones? Really? It has to be some kind of prank."
"Really then? Then who do you know would play prank like this? And leave us having rather ominus dreams?" I recoiled at her statement.
"How did you-" A hot, volatile screech ripped into the air, causing everyone at our table to jump, and look towards the library entrance. Silence permitted, as the few other people and teachers stared blankly at the door. Another screech, and the speakers on the wall crackled to life.
"Code Red! I repeat! Code Red!" Almost everyone started to panic a little, even the speaker seemed shaken. I slowly stood up, utterly confused. Code red? Wasn't that for when there were shooters in the building? Mrs. Anderson ushered us into the room nearest to our table. Sydney grabbed the stones and hid them in her own bag. The door turned and clicked as the lock was shut. All the covers were down, making the room pitch-black. Well, mostly pitch-black, since Syd's bag was glowing the colors of the stones. We all could still hear the shrill screeches from whatever was making them.
"Oh shit… Sydney, calm down!" Kacey suddenly breathed out, and I could hear Syd's panicked and short bursts of breath. Oh crap. I knew that Syd would have panic attacks, but its timing was horrible.
"Oh god, oh god, oh god! Nononononononono! They're gonna find us!" She started to wail a little, I blinked at her, confused.
"Syd, the hell do you mean?" Emilee calmly asked.
"Rahkshi." Was all she said. Again, the hairs on my neck rose up.
"As in… The Makuta's helpers?" Amanda asked, peering over the wall and out the window, and earned a very nervous chuckle form Kacey.
"Guys, don't, those things aren't real." I said nervously, again the hairs on the back of my neck raising. Hissing slowly started to be heard, and I tensed up. What the hell was up with this feeling?!
"Fear reaction, kiddo's." Everyone jumped, and I glared, unsure of where things were going. "Geez, didn't know that you 5 where scaredy cats."
"We are not!" Emilee hissed, the temperature in the room starting to rise a little.
"Easy kid, I don't want you to burn this place down." The voice said. "But the 5 of you are going to have to listen very carefully to what I say." I sat there, eyes wide. And the headache that I had woken up to this morning? Came back full force, my vision going completely white. I…. I saw things that I could barely make sense of. People with glowing markings, one of them was me!... and… Others, biomechanical robots? Then there was a monster…. Dissolving into dust, as if..
As is the tides of time took its toll…
"Oi! Time girl! You listening or what?" I was pulled out of the strange vision by the floating voice to see the swirling vortex. I looked at everyone, and suddenly realized that they weren't staring at the floating purple vortex. But at the now shaking door, hissing could be heard from outside. Emilee was up on her feet, shaking, Kacey was staring wide eyed from her spot on the floor. Sydney and Amanda were clinging to each other. Bright purple seemed to illuminate the room. I vaguely remember hearing the voice that was speaking to us… I know it said that we had a choice… Either enter the portal and lose our home, everything that we know… Or die, and know that our deaths would be meaningless in the future. Neither option was great. I thought of my friends, and our families. They'd miss us, hell, they'd might even get hysterical. Then I thought of the world. Why would they care? All they would know is that 7 nameless kids disappeared into nothingness, and would possibly be on the news for a little while, with the mild mention of us for years to come. Then… we'd just fade away.
No. I don't want to fade. I strood over and grabbed Sydney's bag, and pulled out one stone at a time.
"Hold onto them, we're going in." They all looked at me dumbfounded as I handed each one their represented stone.
"Jess, what about our families?" Kacey squeaked, clinging to her stone as if it was a life line.
"When the time comes, they'll understand." I responded, holding the clear one. It, seemed to glow a little bit at my touch.
"What about the other people?" Sydney asked. I looked at her.
"Since when did these people here care for us?" I asked, turning to face her. She stared at me. "Since when where we outcasts treated the same as them?" The door shook violently again, dust seemingly coming down. "So it's either that." I pointed to the door, again shaking. "Or we do something about our lives." Hissing was still heard, but the grim expressions on all of our faces seemed to permit the silence. The door rattled again, and Emilee looked at the portal.
"I'm going in." I looked at her. "I am not going to wait here for that door to come down." Emilee stated, walking towards the portal. She hesitated for a moment, then took a step forward and vanished, Amanda letting out a squeak at Emilee disappearing. The door rocked again, and I noticed that the hinges were starting to loosen. All four of us stared in horror. One final heave, the door fell, and holy shit. I didn't think any of us could scream any louder. The windows shattered, paper and laptops were flying all over the place. Hell, even the lights started to flicker with electricity dancing across them. Kacey and Amanda lept through, their screaming vanishing entirely. The portal suddenly started to static and shake, as if threatening to close. I had no time to think, so I did the most impulsive thing I've ever done. I seized Sydney's arm, and dragged her screaming into the portal, and with a final glance, saw the Rahkshi extending its arm towards us, fist clutching.
Sydney:
Why can't people have somewhat normal days? Were the odds not in our favor today? Or was it just Karma being a bitch and kicking us for something that we've done in the past…. Heck if I know. Cause today hasn't been a very good day at all. First off, Rahkshi, then the floating talking portal…. Now…. Heights. This isn't how I wanted to do my first skydiving trip. Hell…. We didn't even have the equipment to do this. Yet here we were, falling and flailing around, screaming our lungs out. Something I think must have happened with the portal, mostly because it felt like it was vibrating. It may have been just me though.
"FUCK! WHY'D I DO THAT!" I heard Jessica scream, and I twisted in mid-air to see her flailing about as she fell.
"WHOO-HOO!" I heard Amanda shout before she shot past the two of us, her arms at the side of her body as she rocketed forwards.
"Oh look, Amanda's Nora…."Jessica commented as Amanda did a flip before stretching out. However, this action soon led to something unexpected as half of her body seemed to glow and change, the rest of her body following shortly afterwards. My breath hitched up a little, the same prickling heat on my back from earlier. Casting a quick look at Jessica, I saw that her face had turned a deathly pale. Something was wrong.
"What the hell happened?" Jessica screamed as she started to glow as well. I gasped, and felt my eyes go wide. It didn't seem as if Jessica was aware of this, but as I watched on in horror her limbs slowly began to become like those you find on robots while her body began to expand outwards, as if her very bones were growing inside of her. Noticing me gazing at her, Jessica turned to me and ask me, "What are you-?," before noticing her own appearance. A look of horror crossed over her face, which had begun to develop what looked like red and white markings, before her body flickered like a shoddy video tape and disappeared into nothingness.
"... Jessie?" I asked, voice cracking as I realized the inevitable: I was alone.
Jessica:
Holy shit. Holy. Fucking. Shit. What the hell is happening to me! Thoughts just like that ran rampant in my mind as Sydney disappeared, her own body shifting and changing, with blue and gold markings developing like mine. I was still falling and flailing, watching in horror as my body began to change more. The wind was suddenly in my ears again, and buildings started to rush towards me. I panicked, and my arm shot out, grabbing a pipe protruding from the building wall. Something popped out of place in my shoulder.
"FUCK!" I yelped, nearly letting go of the pipe. My shoulder felt like it was on fire as I clutched onto the pipe like my life depended on it. I was gasping in pain, and struggled to ease myself down to a lower pipe to assess the damage. I failed miserably, my one arm gave out, and I fell the last ten feet in a heap. Groaning I sat up, and looked at my hands. I gulped, seeing that they'd somewhat enlarged and was coated in a red and white armor. This whole situation is so strange and bizarre…. But… Seemed familiar. Sounds filled the alley. A market place? Slowly getting up and wincing, I started to limp my way to the alley entrance, and poked my head out. Nope. Nope. Nope. Na-ah. I was not walking out with little robots running amok in the area. A sharp screech echoed in the alley way. Whipping around, I took several steps back, panting.
"Hey, are you alright?" I turned my head to see one of the small robots had come up to me, clearly concerned. I also took note that various others had taken interest.
"I….. I think I'm lost.." I stuttered quietly , kneeling down to match his height, and wobbling a little. The little robot seemed to raise its eyebrow, reddish eyes starting to narrow.
"I would say so. I've never seen you around here on Metru Nui." He stated, in which I noticed he'd started to twirl his staff. I twitched a little, unsure if he was even safe to be around. The screech sounded again, and the whole street went dead quiet. The little robot stiffened a little bit, and readied his staff.
"No… Run.." I sputtered out, Rahkshi coming into view, snarling. It looked very pissed off. "Little guy, take my word for it and run. That thing is very pissed off… and it's after me." I pointed out, stiffening more as I stood up and glared at the green reptilian monster. I could see that the other little robots started to back off, some took off running, as if frightened. The Rahkshi screeched, and took off running at me. Fuck this. I pushed the robot I was talking to right, and went right into the alley behind where I was standing. I could almost feel the inevitable doom looming over me. But better it following me than going after the little robots.
Jaller:
Jaller stared in awe as the red and white Toa took off running, Lerahk in hot pursuit. The Toa was the one that really got him. Little guy? Really? New to the island or not, all Toa usually know what a matoran was, yet she didn't. Also not to mention that the Toa seemed a bit disorientated. Also there was also the fact of how organic she looked too. Jaller shook his head and stood up. He was going to report this to Tahu as soon as he could.
"Toa Tahu!"
"Lerahk! It went down the alley!"
"By Pit, who was that Toa?"
"Don't know, but she isn't doing a very good job at her job."
"Haha." Jaller sent a glare at the offending matoran, causing him to snap his mouth closed.
"Jaller, what happened?" Tahu asked firmly, looking around for danger. Jaller pointed down the alley that the Female Toa ran down.
"Apparently there's a new Toa here. And for some reason, she has a Rahkshi chasing her, a Lerahk to be precise." Tahu stiffened at the last part. His eyes dangerously narrowed at the last sentence, and Jaller took a hesitant step back. It'd been a awhile since he'd last seen that face.
"Do you know which way they went?" Tahu asked through clenched teeth. Jaller just simply pointed in said direction. Tahu took off running. And Jaller prayed that the female Toa was alright.
Jessica:
Left, left, right, left, right, right. I kept changing directions in hopes to shake off the green monster. One look back told me that it was wrong.
"The shit!? You can fly?!" I yelped, shifting right. A hum filled the hot air, and a screech answered me. I was panting, suddenly realizing how hot it was in this area. The little robots sure did like their industry. I´m not used to this heat! I feel like I might pass out soon! I thought, taking a left turn. In pain, feeling like I was gonna pass out, and losing steam. And the Rahkshi was gaining. A final turn, and I realized that I was screwed. A dead end, filled with nothing but pipes and garbage laying around. "Fuck!" I spat, twisting around to hope to back track. Sadly, it proved to be no longer an option, the Rahkshi blocked the only way out. I backed up, the feeling of impending doom was now. Breath hitched, backed to a wall, and with no way to escape. The prickling heat came back, only with more force. I was trembling with fear, anticipation…. Power… it wasn't something that I'd normally think about, but it felt as if I had the power to do something to stop this. I didn't realize that the Rahkshi was running full force at me, knocking and made an attempt to pin me. However, a burst of heat rushed at me and something hit the Rahkshi, sending it tumbling a few feet away from me screeching bloody murder. I looked at it confused, then looked towards the exit. Oh shit… those were my exact thoughts, and my breath becoming hitched. Right there, was a very angry looking robot, his red eyes boring holes into me. He's going to kill me… I'm going to die! The Rahkshi screeched, clearly showing its distaste at the new arrival. The bigger robot looked away from me and his(?) expression went very dark. In a few quick strides, he stood in a defensive stance. Something was wrong with me though. My vision was kind of blurring a little, and sounds seemed to be fading in and out.
"Hey!... alright?... need to…. Now!" Every few words he said faded out, and as he spoke he fired a quick blast at the green menace, then turned to face me, that dangerous look still in his eyes. I started to hyperventilate, that same power was still building, almost to the boiling point. Scrambling back to my feet, I tried to make myself look at least intimidating. He looked at me strangely, before taking a step forward, along with the Rahkshi, who'd recovered and was dashing towards the two of us.
"STAY BACK!" I screamed, throwing my hands forward, the power suddenly seemed like a river, flowing far too fast and far too quickly. Both of the robots were sent flying backwards, only the Rahkshi started to dissolve. Much like the vision I had earlier… The red robot though, groaned and sat up, rubbing his head. I could feel my legs wobbling uncontrollably. I felt extremely tired, almost like I'd had an extremely stressful day. Everything was fading, and I felt my legs give out. Everything went black before I hit the ground. And the same voice from before spoke up.
'Welcome home.'
Spirit watched Scribe look over the paperwork, healing runes floating around him.
"Scribe, are you sure that you don't want me to help you out with that? There's quite a bit of paperwork there. And didn't the healers say that you should take it easy for a few days at least?" She inquired, gesturing to the rather large stack of papers on the table. Scribe only glanced up at her before returning to work on the papers.
"Well, these do need to be in pretty soon, and you don't know half of the things that need to be filled out." He pointed out.
"I've been here for almost 3 centuries Scribe. I know a good deal of things that need to be done and filled out." Spirit said, rolling her blue eyes. Scribe bit visibly bit his lip.
"Like how you remember who you are?" He snapped mildly. Spirit stiffened, and looked down. She knew that he hated to say that, even though it was true. She could barely remember who she was before she was chosen to join their ranks. Scribe stared for a few seconds before returning to the paperwork, grumbling. Spirit sighed, and pulled up the world tab that they were assigned to. Bionicle based, like the one Spirit was from, seemed pretty stable.
That was until Spirit saw 14 little dots clustered in a spot on the planet. Squinting, Spirit zoomed in on the map to bring up Metru Nui, and her eyes widened. Right under their noses, 14 people form a different realm had managed to sneak past them, but this was also given the fact that the two of them were on a mission to stop a zombies from invading another universe. When in the name of Karzahni did this happen?
"Something up, Spirit? You look like something's happened." Scribe asked, causing the the Andre Toa to flinch.
"Um, it's nothing really, possibly just an anomaly in the system."She said quickly, closing the world tab and standing up.
"We both know that the chance of there being an 'anomaly'," Scribe looked at her with suspicion in his eyes, and the two started at one another for several seconds before his head began to bob.
"Then maybe my world tab needs to be updated or something, I'll be back, uh, 15 minutes tops? It'll be quick, promise." She stammered, and Scribe looked at her with heavy-lidded eyes before waving her off.
"You go do that, I'll… I'll get this paperwork finished…" He murmured as his head dropped closer and closer to the stack of papers below him. Spirit blinked a couple of times.
"Dude…. Go to bed, you're dead tired, you haven't slept since we've gotten back." Spirit firmly pointed out, walking to the door. "And if you're not in bed-" She was cut off as the sound of snoring began to fill the room. "Oh for the love of…. Mata Nui above." Spirit shook her head and snapped her fingers quietly, pulling a blanket out of her dimensional pocket and grabbing a small pillow from one of the seats in the room. After she'd give Scribe the two items in question, she slowly tip-toed out of the room before closing the door behind her.
"Thank Mata Nui that he was almost out cold when I saw that…" She muttered before hurrying down the hall down to the Rifters teleportation area.
"You…. You want to go to world 44672?" The rifter at the teleporter asked, looking very confused at Spirit. Nodding, Spirit pointed to her wrist as she spoke.
"Yeah, it's been awhile since Scribe or I have gone, so it needs to be checked, to see how it's doing."
"But isn't that what your World Tab is for?" The Rifter pointed out, looking at her suspiciously.
"Kid… We just like to do the checks ourselves, we never know if it'll malfunction or not." Spirit said calmly. The rifter just looked at her before rolling his eyes and went back to calibrating the portal.
"Al…. Alright, coordinates are locked in. Just be back before I have to explain to my supervisors why I let someone through."
"Don't worry… I will be." Spirit murmured before stepping into the swirling vortex.
The first thing Spirit noticed once she stepped out was the sweltering heat of Ta Metru. She didn't mind the heat, but it usually bothered her after a while. Quickly looking around, she noticed that she was close to the Ta Suva, which may have explained the heat there. The area around though seemed deserted for the most part, only a few scattered matoran. That was when she saw Toa Tahu, carrying something in his arms towards his Suva. Spirit tilted her head, kneeling down to get a closer look at him. Tahu seemed to be in a hurry, almost panicked. From what she could tell, Tahu was carrying a red and white female toa, who appeared to be unconscious at the moment. Spirit stared in confusion, there was only one Toa of Time that she knew of in this universe, and he'd and his team had gone MIA sometime ago. Most were presumed dead due to them just vanishing the way that they did. But this couldn't be one of their grand-kids, it couldn't be! They weren't supposed to be here until they were at least 18… or older! She couldn't remember how old they right now. Something was up…. And The Toa of Spirit knew that she needed to figure it out before Scribe woke up… or without him finding out. But then again… it wouldn't hurt to check now would it? Shifting to her more 'intangible' form, Spirit swiftly followed Tahu into his Suva. The heat in there was near unbearable, it must have been coming from his symbol. She paused when Tahu suddenly turned right into a spare room, before barging out again; this time heading to the market. Something was definitely up. Stilling her intangible form, Spirit entered the room. Right in the bed she lay, in an entirely different form than the one she was born in: Jessica Sawyer, granddaughter of the only known Toa of Time. Spirit didn't know how she recognized her right off the bat, but she knew. Spirit remembered the telling of the new generation. She could only hope that it wouldn't come to pass.
Toa-of-Spirit: Heeeey guys… remember when I said I was gonna try and update a little more often?... Yeah… that might not happen for a little while… But me and Scribe are going to see about reamping some of the older chapters!
Jessica:... You've made your readers wait almost a whole f***** year to tell them this?
Toa-of-Spirit: I'm officially out of school. So until I find a job, I have more free time on my hands… also, things have been pretty hectic lately….
Jessica: That's no excuse, woman!
Scribe of Thanatos: Trust me, she's lucky in not having a job…
Toa-of-Spirit: You have a job? Since when?
Jessica: OMFG!? REALLY YOU TWO!
Tahu:... Why are you so hot-headed?
Scribe of Thanatos: Kind of ironic, considering who's speaking...
Toa-of-Spirit: HAHA! That's funny!
Tahu & Jessica: *glare at the two*
Toa-of-Spirit:... Should we run?
Jessica: Maybe. Maybe just you…
Toa-of-Spirit: Scribe… could you be a dear and finish this up? *Dashes off*
Scribe of Thanatos: Alright then. In that case, until next time, everyone! *Turns back to Tahu and Jessica* As for you two, *raises hand up* Cold Front! Atomic Calibration! Good luck getting us now, suckers! *Runs off in a different direction from Toa-of-Spirit*
*Tahu and Jessica stare at him*
Jessica: Um…
Tahu:... I'm gonna get him…
Scribe of Thanatos: *Turns back to face them* Grease!
*Both Tahu and Jessica slip, and a whole string of different verbal swearing is heard*