Special Thanks To XKeaXLaylaX & TheeDevil, it's thanks to you guys that this chapter finally came out, really couldn't have done it without your support, and don't worry, the next chapter's on its way and it will be longer than this one Also thanks to all of the people that helped motivate/force (my sister) me into completing/writing this chapter There's alot of stuff going on, my Dad's going to come back from overseas, and i think i'm getting a cold so I want to thank everyone for their support (-^.^-) Okay then, onto the Disclaimer!
Blossom: So who's gonna do it this time?
*Holds up a picture as she glares deviously at FKS*
Me: O-M-G She's got a picture of me at that Christmas after-party!
...oooh, that didn't turn out too well…
Bubbles: *Smiles sweetly at FKS*
Me: *Smiles back*
Bubbles: *Pretends to slit FKS's throat open*
Me: *Blinks and looks around*
No one saw that? Seriously?
Buttercup: Yeah…
*Trying to hide a giant hammer behind her back*
Me: How the hell does no one see that?
Me: Oh…umm, that's right…the Disclaimer
*FKS is being threatened, blackmailed, and about to be pummeled…*
Me: I guess I could make the Disclaimer longer…
*Hands girls their scripts*
From the top!
Blossom/Bubbles/Buttercup: FKS does not own or claim to own the Powerpuff Girls
*All three sigh in relief*
Me: What the-
Blossom/Bubbles/Buttercup: Nor does she claim to own any of the newer characters that will be appearing in this short chapter
Me: Short! I took forever try-
Blossom: That's it?
Me: Wait a minute, what do you mean-
*Bubbles cuts FKS off*
Bubbles: A script?
Buttercup: You sure have outdone yourself this time
*Rolls eyes*
Blossom/Bubbles/Buttercup: *Throw the scripts in FKS's face and walk out of the room*
Me: Everyone's a critic
Chapter 4
"We're moving…Again!"
"Master, it seems the girls are still strong, and they seem to be growing stronger, luckily I was able to locate them after the Professor's pathetic attempt at having them run away, it seems he has grown suspicious of our plans"
"Good, Sedusa" his strangely feminine voice seemed raspy and weak
"Master, I had warned you to not use such tremendous power in your current state"
"It doesn't matter, it wouldn't have been for nothing if that impotent girl hadn't gone and informed her sisters about her dreams, my interference, I'd have had her jump off of a cliff by now! Or at least bleed herself to death" He cackled, but ended in a series of coughs
"Sedusa" he rasped sternly
"How are the boys progressing?"
"I apologize master, I am not entirely clear about either of their situations very much, it seems that the Rowdyruff Boys and the Powerpuff Girls have been, getting along, and-"
"What?" The feminine voice asked, almost cheerfully in his state of confusion
"It seems that, they have been getting along, Master"
The reflection in the mirror burned and cackled, a gruff throaty roar almost cracking the glass
"Master, please calm down, the mirror will shatter"
He breathed heavily, the flames spewing from his demonic eyes
"Master, if you will, I believe we have been hiding in the shadows for too long, we must take action before their friendship grows"
"What?" He stood completely still, watching her through confused eyes, almost as innocent as a child, but it instantly disappeared and the flames returned, a shard of glass instantly tore off of the corner of the mirror and shot at Sedusa, who continued to stand in a bowing position as the shard pierced her cheek, she grimaced, but stayed motionless. She was leaning on one knee, her hand tucked in between her torso and the knee as her upper body bowed over it, her head lowered to the demon inside of the mirror, her other leg was placed on the ground.
"You believe, In other words you think? I don't need a servant that thinks, I need a servant that follows orders, understand?" The demon roared
"Yes Master, my apologies Master" Sedusa apologized
"But, may I ask, what precautions will we take? What exactly am I to do?
The demon remained silent for a moment
"Seeing as how you are not too clear of their situations, you are to connect with the children, find their weaknesses, do not worry" he replied to her sudden change in expression
"I will handle everything" and with a final cackle, the reflection disappeared and her reflection re-appeared, the portal had been closed, Sedusa sighed
"Sara, I'm sorry I put you in danger, I'll get you back from him" she thought to herself
Anastasia and Alexis quickly followed their sky-eyed sisters' screams
"Alexis!"
"Anastasia!" Arielle shrieked, suddenly both her sisters burst through Alexis' bedroom door as they traced their sister's screams, Arielle sat huddled on the bed with her eyes closed, just as the girls abruptly barged in she lunged at them.
"A-Arielle, i-it's okay" Anastasia tried to soothe her little sisters, who was whimpering as she clung to her leg.
"Okay?" Alexis exclaimed.
"What the hell were you doing in my room!" Arielle gave her a small, guilty smirk when Anastasia suddenly asked.
"Arielle, what's wrong? Why were you screaming?" Suddenly Arielle began to snivel once again as she cried teardrops, she pointed at the bedroom wall, both Alexis and Anastasia's gazes followed her hand to reveal a cockroach, instantly Anastasia turned back to her sister, who whimpered as she clung to her leg.
"You're kidding" she said as she gave her a bored expression, she turned to Alexis and smirked, expecting her tough, tomboy sister to let out a chuckle or two, but she stared in awkward confusion at her 'tough-girl' sister who lay huddled on her bed as she stared at the cockroach on the farther wall.
"Oh, yeah…Alexis hates bugs" she suddenly smirked
"Now should I make use of this situation or be a good girl" she rolled her eyes at the sudden thought and quickly called out to Alexis, who snapped her head around with wide eyes, Anastasia pretended not to notice her sudden composure, she floated over towards the wall and grabbed a Kleenex from the shelf beside her, and quickly snatched the cockroach off of the wall.
"Alexis, hurry up! Arielle is too scared to do anything so help me get this thing outside"
Alexis stared at her with startled wide eyes, she tried to remain cool but her attempt made Anastasia turn around, trying to hide and hold back a laugh.
"What? Are you scared?" She challenged with her eyebrow shooting up
"No! Of course not" Alexis quickly replied
"Then how about we play a little game of tag? The person that's It has to catch a person that's not It and tag them with the cockroach" She said it slowly, letting the horror sink in.
"No way!" Alexis shouted, but Anastasia simply inched closer towards her, taunting her with the cockroach in her hand.
"Come on Alexis, I know you love tag" she continued to inch closer, so close that the cockroach was at least an inch away from Alexis' face, but the next thing she knew Alexis dashed out of the room, her forest green light trailing behind her.
"Oh no, you don't!" Anastasia yelled as she followed her sister
Finally, Arielle was the only one left in the room; she sat on her knees at the front door, staring straight ahead at nothing in particular.
"I like tag too!" She chirped with her brows furrowed and instantly dashed behind her two sisters, "Arielle! Go block Alexis on the other side!" Anastasia ordered, Arielle smiled and did as she was told, a few moments later Anastasia was gaining on Alexis' trail, she stretched her hand with the cockroach out, shaking it in Alexis' face, Alexis let out a startled cry and instantly zapped bright forest green lasers out of her eyes, Anastasia dodged just in time and the bright light ended up tearing through the wall, but no one noticed, they didn't notice when Anastasia's multiple attempts to tag Alexis with the cockroach tore multiple holes through the walls, nor did they notice that the holes seemed to have small cockroaches crawling out of them, scattering around the house, all they noticed was their game of tag. Which, in the end didn't really work out very well because Anastasia flung the cockroach at Alexis in a last attempt to catch her, Arielle right beside her after cornering Alexis in didn't work, instead she flew past Arielle, leaving her spinning in the air, Alexis quickly zapped the cockroach with her bright, forest green lasers and that was that. The cockroach fell to the floor, dead; all three girls stared at it.
"Well that wasn't nice" Anastasia mumbled amidst the silence, staring at the dead cockroach, suddenly her two sisters gasped, Anastasia looked up to see why and was frozen, not even breathing, Alexis looked as if she was about to faint and Arielle was staring at them wide eyed with her hands pressed to her mouth, cockroaches. Millions and millions of little cockroaches crawled around their walls; one of the three girls screamed, but they were all to frozen to see who it was.
The doorbell rang, "I'll get it" Aido said as he stood up from his seat, he stepped out of the living room where his two brothers, and their new step-mom were talking, he sighed as he walked over to the door, the ringing growing more frequent, he pulled the door open, and froze. "Alexis! Don't ring the doorbell so much, it's rude!" Anastasia whispered as both her and her sister quarrelled, too busy to notice that Aido had opened the door; suddenly Arielle stepped up from beside the two girls, gazing at him with her wide, blue eyes. She smiled, "Umm, can we come in?" She asked sweetly, "y-yeah, sure" Aido replied, widening the gap, it seemed Anastasia and Alexis had realized that he had answered, they stepped in, Anastasia gave him a smile and a nod and Alexis merely popped her gum in his face as she stepped in, Aido turned back to and looked through the tiny gap in the door, just as it closed he saw a giant van that read: Exterminator in big black letters on the side, it was parked in front of the girls' home.
The girls stepped into the living room, it was, surprisingly, nice, the drapes were silky red, the couch was a dark shade of green and the carpets were all navy blue, a glass table was placed in the center of the room, surrounded by four Jade coloured couches, a large T.V in between two of the couches on the farthest wall from them; but what was more surprising than the couches was that both Alphonse and Aido were sitting on two separate couches, both opposite from one another, and that in between the two couches sat a woman, with light blonde hair on the verge of white with light pink streaks, she had wide, blazing amber eyes and long eyelashes, along with a bright red smile on her face, her hair stretched along her neck with two barely noticeable curls on the apples of her cheeks, she had freckles but they were barely noticeable. Two oval earrings drooped from her ears and shimmering pearls around her neck. She wore a white dress underneath a light pink sweater, along with tights of the same shade underneath; and a pair of strappy pink high heel shoes. The boys stared at the girls in confusion once they appeared at the large doorway of the living room, Alexis quickly seated herself on one of the couches, eying the lady curiously at first, Anastasia and Arielle on the other hand remained frozen at the door, staring at the woman. Anastasia parted her lips but was unable to let out a sound, she continued to stare at the lady uncomfortably, why was she there? Suddenly Alexis brought the uncomfortable silence to an end as she finally asked.
"Can we stay at your place for a while?"
Anastasia slapped her forehead as Arielle shook hers, now the boys stared at the three of them
"What?" They exclaimed at once, Aido had joined his two brothers, but he stood behind Arielle and Anastasia, he stared at them in disbelief
"You guys said we had a truce right? So what's wrong with us staying at your house?" Alexis continued, Anastasia finally stepped in, if their faith remained in their green-eyed sister, who knew what would happen next.
"What Lexi means to say is, our house is being exterminated for cockroaches, and we need a place to stay, but we don't know anyone else in Megaville, so, can we stay with you guys?" She asked, extremely nervous "j-just for a while!" She added "until the Exterminator says we can go back" she wouldn't make eye contact with anyone, but she shot a small glance upwards to see their expressions.
"Oh my goodness!" The pretty lady in pink suddenly chirped, all six figures' heads shot up to look at her.
"Uh-umm, I mean, oh! How sad, of course you can stay!" The blank faces that stared at the woman curved into smiles
"Really?" All three girls exclaimed at once
"Of course! Boys, remember you told me that you'd gotten extra beds when you moved?" The woman turned to the three guys that were staring at her, shocked, the boys glanced at each other, then nodded their heads.
"Perfect! Take the beds to your rooms, you can all be roommates!" She smiled, then stepped outside
"I have to check something, boys, don't waste time, these girls have had a rough night, I'm sure they want to go to sleep" she ordered as she pulled at the door behind her.
"Wait!" Arielle suddenly yelled, the lady's arm froze, she turned back to look at the sky-blue girl
"Yes?" She asked
"Umm, what's your name?" Arielle smiled
"Mrs. Goodlady, but you can call me Imma" and then she stepped out the door, closing it behind her.
"…So, is she your new Step-Mom?" Alexis asked Ace, who was sitting on his small, twin-sized bed in the top left corner of the room, on top of dark green sheets, Alexis was clearing the creases in her white sheets; it was one of the only bed sheets remaining. She shot a glance at Ace, who stared at her with intense eyes, he nodded, and she smiled.
"She's nice"
"It must have been Him…but, what do I do now? How am I supposed to get close to them?" she sighed, "Sara, help me, I just don't know what to do, the evil flame that drove me into doing heinous crimes has extinguished, I feel nothing anymore, I only have these masks, servant, mother, I just don't know myself anymore, since…since you left, Sara if you can hear me, I just wanted to say, I'm sorry" she took a deep breath "but I know you can't" she said aloud in a whisper, she gazed down from the cloud she was perched on, cross-legged, she'd transformed back to her true form and now watched the twinkling lights of the city in thought.
"The city of Megaville"
"The Powerpuff Girls"
"The Land of Glass behind the Mirrors"
"Sara…"
"Is there anyone out there to stop the evil to come? Anyone that can free me from these demonic binds? Anyone that can help me find her? Anyone? To stop the darkness that hovers, not just around me, but around this entire world? It's the reason I turned evil, so if it was gone, would I be able to turn my back, on all of this? Is there anyone out there that can help me-no, not just me, but this entire world?" As she closed her eyes and sighed one final time in disappointment, she concentrated, but just as the familiar, Royal Purple light engulfed her, a small, weak, but extremely familiar voice that startled her and at the same time brought tears to her eyes answered.
"Yes"
