Chapter 2

"Please?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because I don't want to."

"But I want to."

"Are you the Lord of Chaos?"

"No, I'm the best friend of chaos, now come on!" Eliza was dragging Klarion through his house. "You were the reason I didn't get to buy that shiny thing, you are gonna go with me. Teekl! Hexe! We're gonna be gone for a little bit, no getting into trouble!"

"Don't worry Eliza, we'll be fine." Hexe said telepathically to her.

"Good, and I'm still mad at you Hexe Katzen!" Eliza said.

"Ooh the full name, what pissed you off?" her cat said.

"Lock the door next time you and Teekl are… just lock the door or give us a warning or something!" Eliza said.

"If you haven't noticed, I'm a cat, I don't have opposable thumbs. But I'll warn you next time. It's your fault for coming to look for us when we were busy." Hexe said.

"Oh shut up." Eliza said.

"Yelling at Hexe with your mind?" Klarion asked her, noting the unusual silence.

"Yes. Yes I am." Eliza said.

"I yelled at Teekl last night after you fell asleep." Klarion said. He had stopped protesting and was now just walking next to Eliza instead of having her drag him. The townspeople would see it as him being weak if he couldn't stand up to her. They got to the market. Eliza ran back into the magic shop.

"Hi Aunt Autumn, still have that amulet?" she said to the elderly witch working there.

"Yes, dear, I saved it just for you, but how are your parents doing?" she asked. Klarion walked in mumbling something about girls and insanity.

"I started a new game with them. I turned them into fish and left them out in the open air to suffocate and I put a spell on them so that they wouldn't die and just keep experiencing dying without the whole salvation part." Eliza said.

"You're getting soft, Eliza, anyways, why did you run off yesterday?" her aunt asked.

"Klarion was throwing a tantrum." Eliza said. He glared at her. "Not like I'm lying." The lady looked like she wanted to laugh but held it back. Eliza looked a little closer at the amulet again. "This come in purple?"

"Afraid not, we only have green or blue." Her aunt said.

"Ok, how much do you want for it?" Eliza said.

"I'll give you a discount since you're family, so 150." Her aunt said. Klarion turned away and looked out the window. "I hate shopping…" he thought. "You want anything else? We just got in some new shiny objects for familiars, I'm sure you could find something for Hexe." This caught Klarion's attention.

"Do any of them help with healing or tying someone down to another dimension? Teekl got hurt yesterday and I want to go back to Earth." Klarion said.

"I think we might have something… let me check." Eliza's aunt went to the back of the shop and started looking through the pet section. "Humanoid transformations… invisibility… oh here it is." She grabbed a collar and handed it to Klarion. "This should help her heal. She should be ready to go tomorrow if you give that to her soon. Also does something about force fields."

"How much?" Klarion asked. They heard a crash and a squeak from Eliza.

"Sorry!" she said. Her aunt sighed and went to get a broom to clean up the mess.

"I really can't leave you alone. You always get into trouble." Klarion said, finding Eliza standing next to a bunch of broken glass.

"I blame Hexe." Eliza said.

"He's back at my house." Klarion said.

"But what if he isn't, what if he followed us and knocked this over, leaving me to take the blame." Eliza said.

"The collar is 325, you can leave the money on the counter, I'm going to be searching for glass shards for a few minutes." She said. Klarion nodded and got out his money. He put it on the counter and dragged Eliza out of the shop.

"Now are you happy I made you come with me?" she said.

"I still hate shopping." Klarion said. "And you really had to knock that thing over?"

"It was pretty… and I still blame the cat." Eliza said.

"Oh come on, let's just get back so Teekl can heal. We still have to go back to Earth and piss of those heroes." Klarion said.

"You're that mad at them?" Eliza asked. "I mean, yeah they attacked your cat but she'll heal, you've never come back this pissed off about it."

"Well that's because before I had always come back when I was tired, wanted a break from causing ultimate chaos, I've never been kicked out of that dimension. It's humiliating." Klarion said. Eliza rolled her eyes.

"Get over yourself, besides, more humiliating than being forced to go shopping?" she said.

"Surprisingly, yes, now hurry up! I want to get this to Teekl!" Klarion said.

"Fine, fine, race you!" Eliza yelled, taking off. Klarion started running after her.

"No fair!" he said, slowly catching up to her.

"I'm a witch, fair isn't exactly a word I live by!" she yelled. Klarion smiled. She hadn't changed in years, always the same girl that became his best friend back when they were six. He started trying to run faster, she beat him back then, but it wouldn't happen again. They were almost at his house, he was a few feet behind her but still gaining. They both got there at the same time.

"I won!" Klarion said.

"No, I won." Eliza said.

"But you cheated." Klarion said.

"Cheated? I prefer to call it 'finding an easier solution that just happens to be against the rules.'" Eliza said.

"Oh sure… when I cheat you win by default, but when you cheat that rule doesn't apply." Klarion said.

"Exactly."

"Why?" Klarion asked.

"Because I'm me, I don't need to make sense. You are the almighty Lord of Chaos, where's your reasoning?" Eliza asked.

"I'm a teenage boy, I'm not supposed to make sense. Just ask the earthlings in the other dimension." Klarion said.

"Maybe they are smarter than we give them credit for." Eliza said. "But I still won, so come on. You need to get that collar to Teekl." They walked inside.

"Teekl! We got something for you!" Klarion yelled. Teekl ran down the stairs and up to them, Hexe close behind.

"Is it a mouse? Or a bird? Or one of those things with the feather on a string? Ooh, wait, it's my own human to torture... Right?" she said. Hexe told Eliza what Teekl said so she wouldn't be left out of the conversation.

"Um, no, no, no, and wrong. It's a new collar, it will help you heal. And something else but I kind of stopped listening after I heard about the healing part." Klarion said.

"I guess that's good too." Teekl said. Klarion switched out her collar.

"Now go heal or something, I didn't read the instructions, so go take a nap. Maybe that will work." Klarion said.

"I can live with extra naps." Teekl said. She and Hexe ran out of the room.

"Wow, not even a thank you," Klarion said.

"Eh, if I were a cat I would have wanted a mouse more. Now come on, we need to go make plans for when we get to the Earth dimension." Eliza said.

"Why? There are two of us and they barely beat me alone last time." Klarion said.

"They will probably send Nabu and those super brats after us, besides, we can't just wander around causing chaos." Eliza said.

"That's what I do." Klarion said.

"Before you went after the helmet you just had Jason and Batman trying to get you, now you want to piss of the Justice League's little pets and a Lord of Order." Eliza said.

"How should they be different?" Klarion said. Eliza sighed.

"You are impossible."