Me: Yeah. I'm bored. So, I'm starting this late at night. So, it will probably be finished tomorrow. May be finished today, though not likely.
Deadpool: Let's get this show on the road!
Discord: I agree. *he snaps his fingers and is in a directors outfit* Lights! *lights appear in mid air with a Deadpool controlling them, all of them aiming right at my face* Camera! *A camera with a Deadpool appears, it knocking me into a closet* ACTION! *the door closes* Enjoy the chapter.
The others continued to stare. Shifu shook himself out of it and asked, "So, what exactly must be done?"
DB turned to him and replied, "We must discuss this at the Jade Palace. Let's go." With that, they paid for their meals and headed up to the Jade Palace.
Jade Palace, courtyard
All the warriors entered and the second the gates closed, DB began to explain while walking. "Okay, the ceremony must take place in a very natural area where the evidence of anyone being there is just the presence of those there. In another area, where there can be more evidence of people there. As in, anywhere. There, we will be having a very specific meal. Everything must be made in that specific way. Any deviation and..I don't want t think about it. I am the only one here who knows how to make it, so I will be the only one in the kitchen until it is done. I'll also clean up my mess."
Shifu nodded. "So, what needs to be done?"
"Well, we have to get ready for our trek to find the Crystal of Death. Then, I will destroy it and find out how to protect the Crystal of Life."
"What exactly must we do to prepare?" Without warning, DB threw ninja stars at each of the warriors, all of them either blocking or dodging. "What did you do that for!?"
"It was to help you prepare. The Crystal of Death will be well gaurded with several traps and we must be able to react within a split second and even dodge two at the same time. Like, a pit and poison darts."
"So, we will be training more?"
DB nodded. "Yep. And I will be the one setting the training regiment."
"Very well. As long as we are all able to live through it."
"Of course. The author wouldn't let me kill you guys."
Tigress asked, "What is this author you talk about all the time?"
DB smacked his forehead. "Keep forgetting. You guys can't break the fourth wall. Just, don't worry about it whenever I talk about it."
"I too am wondering about this author. So, we will do what we can to get you to tell us."
DB chuckled. "You won't be able to."
"And why not?"
"Because. Being able to break the fourth wall allows me to do a scene change before you can do anything." With that, he reached down and flipped it to the next scene.
Midnight
DB was sitting on the roof of the Palace, overlooking the valley. "You can stop trying to sneak up on me."
Tigress sat down next to him. "How did you hear me?"
"You aren't perfectly silent, you know. What are you doing here?"
"I was going to ask you the same thing."
DB was silent for a few seconds. "I guess I'm just thinking about being given this honor. And how everything was going in my dimension, if my doppleganger could really handle it. I mean, I was struggling to juggle it all, but was able to by slowly having it all come to me. He is instantly thrust into it. He will have help to do it, but he will still have a bunch of responsibility."
"I see."
The two lapsed into silence. DB broke it when he said, "What did you really come up here for?"
Tigress sighed. "Honestly? Because I'm scared."
DB chuckled. "Confessing your feelings does that."
Tigress blinked in surprise and began to ask, "How did yo-"
"How did I know that's what you were scared of?" He cast her a knowing smirk. "Because I know the feeling." He looked back out to the valley. "I had fallen for someone myself. I was scared stiff whenever I thought about telling them. I was scared of rejection or they'd take it wrong or I'd lose them or they'd kick me where it counts and leave me to drown in my tears." He chuckled. "Sometimes, I wonder why I was afraid of that." He smile vanished, replaced by an expression she had never seen him with before. Sadness. "I told her. She said she felt the same way."
"Well tha-"
"But. She said it wouldn't work out for multiple reasons, even if she wished it would. The next day...she was killed. I avenged her death. But, it tok me a while before I could ever begin to work like I had before. It took the help of my friends and my masters to get me back on my feet." They were both silent. DB finally said, "I'm not saying this to scare you into not telling him. But, to tell him. Hope he feels the same. I know I felt elation at the fact she felt the same way, even though we couldn't be together. If he feels the same way about it, you two will be able to be together. And that love will be your strength. I've seen it many times."
Tigress nodded and let the information sink in. "I understand. Thank you. And, I'm sorry about your loss."
DB waved off the last part. "It was years ago. And, you're welcome."
"I do have a question. Why do you just call him your doppleganger?"
"Because he really doesn't have a name. At all."
Tigress raised an eyebrow. "Oh? Why not?"
"Because, he was never really born. He was just a culmination of my evil desires into a living form, though with some good in him, that eventually became a bigger part of him than before, thus making him more like me, though his former affiliation with evil has changed his personality to be different from mine."
Tigress nodded. "So, he is an entity made from you?"
DB raised an eyebrow at this, but still replied, "In simpler terms, yes."
"Then, wouldn't that technically make him your son?"
DB thought about this for a little while before responding. "I...guess... In a sense? But..what does that have to do with anything?"
Tigress smirked. "Well, then that would make it your responsibility to name him, would it not?"
DB opened his mouth, then closed it. Opened it again and closed it again. He opened it yet again, and it was open for a few seconds before he finally said, "You know..you're right. This is gonna be a fun thing to bring up to him next time I see him." DB chuckled. "He'd be angry, but it'll so be worth it."
"We should probably get to bed. A lot going on tomorrow."
"Right. Goodnight." DB threw down a smoke bomb and he was gone.
Tigress looked around, slightly confused. In the end she shrugged it off and headed inside.
Me: And that ends that chapter.
Discord: The day after you started it.
Deadpool: But, at least he is keeping his posting more consistant than most other authors.
Discord: I'd prefer is he did it more sporadically and in the incorrect order. Oh, the chaos that would ensue.
Me: That would be funny, but I'm never going to do that. Maybe some of my audience would like to do something like that. I'd read it. Even if it had no ryhme or reason to how it was posted. Wow this got way off topic.
DB: Of course it did. Have you seen who your co-hosts are?
Me: Good point. Well, review and poll! And, DB, get back in the story.
