A/N: I'm baaaaack! ((Everyone backs away slowly)) Okay, yes, I have returned with chapter 4! Enjoy!
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A Long Way From Sanity
Chapter 4: Part Two: Courtyards are Confusing
A week and two days had finally passed. Artemis was walking towards the specified courtyard.
When he arrived, he was surprised to see that only Foaly was there. He had thought he was a bit late, but...guess not.
He sat down on the bench next to Foalyand asked him, "Where is everyone?"
Foaly responded with a slight smirk, "Waiting for you."
"Huh?" Artemis was confused.
"SURPRISE!" shouted the rest of the group, jumping out from behind various bushes.
"Oh, um, hi," said a shaken Artemis.
"Now everyone is here!" shouted Grub, then proceeded to pull out a jump rope and start jumping.
No one seemed to take any notice of this.
Just as people began fanning out and doing their own stuff, a giant cat appeared from behind a tree.
"Giant kitty!" shouted Foaly, and then everyone began running away.
The kitty purred innocently.
The group inched closer.
The kitty licked a paw.
The group inched ever closer.
The kitty suddenly turned into a monster and began to rampage the courtyard.
The group inched closer yet, then realized what was going on and backpedaled furiously.
"MEEOOOOOOOW!" hissed the kitty venomously, and charged right for the group.
"We have to do something!" yelled Holly.
"WE KNOW!" yelled everyone else. A tree branch smacked her on the head.
The kitty lunged, reaching for Root's head, and missed by a hair's breadth.
Root pulled out a fungus cigar, sat on the bench, and went into his happy place.
–Inside Root's happy place–
Fungus cigars danced around, chanting something that sounded oddly like "Off with your head" in sickly sweet tones. A picture of a demon hung beautifully on a transparent wall. A white couch danced playfully with a zebra, while a palm tree did the disco. A giant, evil, mutant mouse from hell sipped a glass of cherry coke. It wore a frilly dress. A cocktail waitress was having her body buried in the sands of the beach, which was bordered by wonderfully sparkling gray, dismal water. Someone was screaming.
–Back to the courtyard–
Holly got out her Nutrino and zapped a hole in the kitty. It fell over in mid-growl and died.
Everyone let out a breath that they didn't know was being held.
Guards rushing in from the office building next door, screaming about how this venture was unsafe and why were they here, anyway?
Trouble explained about the flyer.
The guards looked puzzled for a minute, then both starting laughing.
"What?" asked the group as a whole.
One guard cleared his throat and said, "This courtyard was set up for five giant evil cats to have a playdate. You want that courtyard." And he pointed a courtyard across the street.
All was silent, then...
Zap. Zap.
Two guards lay, painfully wounded, on the ground.
Holly smirked, holstered her Nutrino, and walked out of the courtyard.
Tree branches whacked the remaining group members on the head.
The End
Strange, eh? Then again, all of my stories are...
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The Insane Lugian