In one of my DeviantART journals, I discussed my plans of doing two collaboration fics with my online friends, both of which I intend to make as part of my Game-Jumping Adventures series timeline. One of them, which you're looking at right now, is being done alongside JapanAnimeGirl. Now that I did the first and third parts while she wrote the second, not to mention the fact that we reviewed each and everyone of them to make sure they flow the story well, I'll be able to put them to good use here. Fortunately, I had permission to modify her second part of our fic to make sure it's virtually error-free. But without further ado, enjoy the first part of the story on how 9-Volt came to know Keyla, Vampire Princess of Roseland - and how they both met and befriended Patricia, Mistress of Bouncing Balls!

DISCLAIMER: WarioWare Inc. and Kid Icarus are properties of Nintendo; Contra is owned by Konami; Final Fantasy belongs to Square-Enix. Whereas I own my WarioWare fan character Phoebe, JapanAnimeGirl owns Keyla and her fellow vampires of Roseland, as well as the Lower Birth (let alone Patricia).

-The Freakshow Kids on the Block-

Part 1: First encounter

[Opening BGM: Outset Island (The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker)]

October 4, 20XX...

Before the young Mistress of Bouncing Balls warmed up to 9-Volt and became his guardian angel...Before there existed a place called Electric Ball Castle...and before they along with Keyla became the Best Bouncing Ball Buddies...

Their first meeting wasn't exactly on friendly terms.

But prior to that time, 9-Volt and Keyla spent one night at his house thinking back to the day he met and befriended the little Vampire Princess of Roseland. A while back in late July during 9-Volt's summer vacation in Roseland with his mom, when he first met Keyla, he was resting in his bed while she was hanging from the ceiling above him. When he woke up, he was shocked by her sudden appearance, but she was very friendly. She hopped down from the ceiling and sat next to him on the bed.

Hi! I'm Keyla, a 5-year-old Vampire Princess!

Despite being 5 years old, she was about 9-Volt's height. She introduced him and his mom to all the other vampires of Roseland, where she was born in. It was quite a long introduction, but 9-Volt do recalled a couple of them as he and Keyla reminisced...like Xizor, and Anthony, her older brother. On top of that, she did seem different from an ordinary vampire due to her immunity to a vampire's weaknesses against garlic, water, sunlight, and silver objects. It was rather unusual, but mostly because she has werewolf genes.

Speaking of werewolf genes, she was bitten by a werewolf back when she was two or something. Aside from all that, she was once human before she became a vampire. She had a rough life...and upon learning this fact, 9-Volt felt bad for her. It was then that he knew why she's got a cheerful personality: so that she wouldn't feel so sad all the time, given her past lifetime she had. They eventually became best friends, and of course Phoebe didn't mind meeting a Vampire Princess who had no intentions of harming 9-Volt at all. Then again, there were stories about how vampires drink people's blood to survive...

On the other hand, it was quite ironic that a vampire like Keyla likes drinking fruit juice instead of blood. But, 9-Volt guessed that's in her nature since she's half-werewolf. Also, she loves flying, swimming, sunlight, school, drawing and coloring, making friends, and even bowling! When they first went bowling together, he was amazed by her strength and talent when it came to bowling. Either way, he was glad to know that she's here to help him, just like Phoebe always did, whenever he had trouble with his bowling. He also recalled that she could handle a bowling ball up to a maximum weight of 16 pounds...then again, it had been a few months. What he didn't forget, though, was she once balanced a bowling ball on top of her head with no signs of it feeling heavy. Some say she equips an accessory to enhance her strength...

Aside from her bowling talent, she's stronger than the other vampires of Roseland due to her half-werewolf state. Being a genius, she took pride in her brain powers, but wasn't very good with social graces. Still, she's not afraid to get down and dirty if something threatens her beliefs, let alone her friends. It was then that she became 9-Volt's guardian angel, much to the shared reliefs of Phoebe, Mona and his mother. In fact, she liked being an angel, and magically made a white angel dress with wings for herself to wear. She had plenty of other magical outfits, aside from that and her normal one: there's a bowling outfit she wears to a bowling alley, and also red dress for formal occasions.

Over time, at least before the second half of the Alien Wars (or rather World War III) broke out on Earth, 9-Volt and Keyla have had our adventures together, although not really big ones, but at least they get to hang out with each other. Of course, they did run into occasional troubles, if not entirely life-threatening, but they usually stick together until it blew over. Much later after the heroic Contras and their friends defeated the evil Red Falcon for good, the Roseland vampires came to visit Diamond City and built Keyla a bowling alley right next door to 9-Volt and Phoebe's houses. It was by that time 9-Volt gave Keyla a nickname as the "Bowling Princess." Or maybe he did so long before they asked the vampires to build the bowling alley she coined as the "Bowling Kingdom."

As soon as 9-Volt and Keyla finished their flashback, he went to sleep while she hung from the ceiling upside down to watch over him. But when dawn came, they began hearing unusual noises coming from outside the house. Thus they looked out the window to investigate without waiting for 5-Volt and Phoebe to catch up, but hid themselves when Keyla recognized something scary...

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"What is it, Keyla?" asked 9-Volt.

"...It's them," she answered quietly, "the Lower Birth."

Then it hit him, metaphorically speaking: he'd need the help of his older guardian angels (Yuffie Kisaragi, Pit and Phosphora) soon enough, as Keyla was only 5 years old.

TO BE CONTINUED...

The circus is in town...but not the kind that anybody would expect in real life.