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Mismatched Sun

Chapter 4

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The trio of adventurers came upon a great forest. "What's with all the COWS?" Jenna yelled. Excuse me, this is the Kolima Pature. Sheba frolicked among the flowers and the cows. "Hooray for cows! There's so many of them!"

Jenna put her hands over her face. "I can't believe this…"

Felix looked at the cows, up at the sky, down at his feet, and over his shoulder before saying, "What are we doing here, again?" Jenna smiled evilly. "We should be getting rid of all these cursed cows!"

Sheba nearly fainted. "What? How could cows possibly be a curse? This is preposterous! Why I-"

"Oh, SHUT UP!" yelled Jenna and Felix. Sheba pouted for a few seconds, then began giggling hysterically. "What's her problem…" Jenna mumbled. Felix turned around and gulped. "Uh…uh…" Sheba squealed. "That's a really big cow!"

"Really," replied Felix. "Really." Jenna looked like she was about ready to burst into tears as the giant cow began to speak. I AM THE LORD OF THE PASTURE, he said. "But, dude…" Felix sputtered. "You're a cow." WHAT'S YOUR POINT?, the cow asked him. ANYWAYS, THE PEOPLE OF KOLIMA TRIED TO EAT ME. SO NOW SOMEONE ELSE WILL EAT THEM! AHAHAAHAHA.

"…" said Felix. Jenna began muttering to herself something rather negative about cows, especially large ones. Sheba began to get angry. "You're a bad cow! Beware my mighty power of beef!"

WAIT, WHAT?

Then he was trampled by a large stampede of cattle. Sheba laughed. "This is all too easy. Some quest this is!"

The giant cow groaned in his trampled state. WAIT, I TURNED THE PEOPLE OF KOLIMA INTO COWS? Felix nodded. "Seems to be the case, though, it's no big deal."

"Felix!" Jenna shouted. "This is kinda important"

OH, WELL IT'S TOO BAD. NOTHING I CAN DO. The cow lord died. Jenna turned to the murderer of the giant bull. "SHEBA!"

"Whoops…."

Felix glanced around to make sure no one was watching them, then he grabbed the girls' arms and made a run for it.

Later that day, the three found themselves in some cave, far from the cursed pasture. Jenna shivered. "You know, it's getting kinda cold."

"Well, you know, that's what happens when you go north in the middle of the winter," replied Sheba. Felix looked around a corner of the cave. "Hey, what's that?" The girls stuck their heads around Felix, only to see a Ravager. Felix screamed like a girl and ran away, with Jenna in hot pursuit. Sheba began to summon her horde. "I summon th-" when she felt herself being dragged along the floor by her companions.

A while later, they reached Imil. "You know, it's still cold." Jenna complained. Sheba rolled her eyes as they were greeted by a strange blue-haired man. "Who? What? Huh?" he said. Felix sputtered for a moment. "Uh…" They see a flash of bright blue light. The blue-haired man smiled. "Oooh, pretty." He began to run off towards the lighthouse.

"Umm…."

A few minutes later, they all congregated around the entrance to the lighthouse. "Woe, is me! I can't get in!" the blue-haired ma- You know what? He's Piers. But no one really cares anyways.

Jenna sighed. "This is embarrassing. A few puzzles later, Piers turned to them and asked, "Wait, why are you still following me?"

"'Cause," Jenna replied.

"'Cause why?"

"'Cause"

"'Cause why?"

"'Cau-"

"SHUT UP!" Felix shouted over their stupidity. Jenna and Piers stared at him.

"What?" they said innocently. Felix just stomped off past them further into the lighthouse. The rest followed.

After long hours of solving puzzles, fighting monsters, and generally wasting time, they finally reach the aerie. They hear a voice. "Aha! IT'S YOU!" The looked over to see their mortal enemies, Karst and Agatio. Isaac gave them a big wave and said, "Hi!"

Jenna scratched her head thoughtfully. "Wait, you guys light the lighthouse hours ago! Why are you still here?"

Karst just cackled evilly. "MUAHAHAHAH….huh…well, I'm not entirely sure. Well, anyways, YOU CAN'T STOP US!"

Sheba raised an eyebrow. "You think we're here to stop you?" Karst stopped laughing. "Well…why else would you be here?"

"Umm…." said Felix.

"Because you have to?" Agatio helpfully supplied. Jenna beamed. "Yea! That's it!"

"Part of a divine plan?"

"Sure, sure."

Piers and Felix just stared. "Umm…."

"Anyways," Agatio said. "Karst, you should go"

"Oh, but I wanna beat 'em up nooowwwww!"

"No, no, not right now."

"You always ruin all my fun!"

Garet glanced around. "You know, I'm feeling really left out here…" The Wise One glared at him with his one eye. "Oh, shut up."

"No, really, it's no fair. I'm a main character too!"

"Just stop talking!"

"Geez, look who got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning…" Garet pouted.

"I don't sleep. I don't need sleep."

Karst stepped in on the conversation. "Are you ladies about finished?" Garet thought about this for a second, then said, "Hey, wait a minute…"

"Well, we're off then!" Agatio exclaimed, and pushed his companions onto the elevator. "Bye now!"

Felix blinked. "But what about not dying?" he whined.

They head Garet's voice from far below. "Oh you can die if you like. It doesn't matter much to me…"

"What??" Jenna screeched.

"Oh, uh, not you Jenna. No dying allowed!"

Jenna tried to look smug. "Much better."

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Hopefully I managed to stay in one tense. I kept catching myself switching from past to present and back all the time since I'm rewriting this from a script format. I get confused sometimes. Well, don't drown!