Penguin: ... Um, hey. So, here's an update. Yeah...

Okay, so... yeah. (Most fail sentence in the history of me.) Anyway, I was being pulled along, courtesy of Ace, when I fell asleep. Now, it was one of those situations where you don't remember exactly when you fell asleep, you just know that you did, like if you're in a car and you fall asleep, then you get to where you were going and wake up and you're like 'When'd I fall asleep?'

Yeah. Overly long explaination/ramble is overly long. But, I digress.

I was in a pretty nice place, actually. The bed was soft and... floofy, for lack of a better word. And no, that's not supposed to be fluffy. Anywho, said floofy bed had white sheets with shamrock green embroidery (six tries to spell that right) with little bits of gold here and there. The walls were dark gray with green and gold, and the floors were some dark, charcoal-y colored stone, though there was a green (surprise, surprise) rug on it. I blinked around the room for two reasons: 1) This is not where I fell asleep, and 2) Ace was gone. Not that I care, or anything. Heh, eheheh...

I got up and went over to the door, opening it all ninja-like. I looked out in both directions and almost winced. The halls had the same color scheme as the room I was in. I wandered down the left side of the hall until I came to a stairway. There were annoyed voices floating up from whereever it led to. Be it Narnia or an evil merman's lair, I would soon be there.

I grinned and slid down the hand rail.

When I got there, I saw, not mermen, not Tumnus, but three men. Three exceedingly attractive men. The two with blue hair seemed to be having a snippy comment and glare war. The third, a pirate with silver hair was just sitting on the sidelings with an amused look on his godly face. I coughed lightly to get their attention just as the volume of the snippy comments escelated, and they couldn't hear me. I coughed, slightly louder, as the blue-haired hotties got even louder. I coughed violently and loudly, making all three men turn to look at me. I stared at them as they stared at me. I coughed awkwardly into my fist; fake coughing really took a number on my throat...

"So I heard you liek mudkipz..."

Honestly, I blurted that out without thinking. It just... came to me, like Team rocket to a fail. Or annoying cheerleaders to Gary Oak.

... Okay, no more Pokémon references...

... Yo momma's so fat, I'd need two pokeflutes to wake her ass up...

Okay, I'm done. No more. Whew.

You are such a nerd.

The correct term is 'Pokémon Master'.

I'm ashamed to know you.

I blew a raspberry at Inner and flipped her off.

I blinked and came back from space cadet camp with a shake of my head. Looking at the hot guys, the blue-haired ones were staring at me with looks that questioned my sanity, and pirate-man looked like he was holding back a torrent of laughter. Suddenly, he stopped and looked at me with a strangely pouty look on his face.

"I'm not a pirate."

Okay, I must have said that out loud. I comtemplated the now not pirate and came to a conclusion. "Well, you must be a viking, then." I decided, tapping my chin comtemplatively with my index finger.

"I'm not a viking, either!" he whined.

"... So you're just some guy wearing an eye patch?"

He nodded happily then seemed to realize something. "Oh, Jezebel, I forgot to introduce myself!" I ingored how creepy it was that he knew my name. For the time being at least. "I am Nightmare Gottschalk, esteemed lord of Clover Tower." He gestured flamboyantly to the guy with short blue hair and amber eyes, who I now noticed had an awesome lizard tatoo creeping up the side of his neck. "And this is my assistant, Gray. Gray." Nightmare of the Awesome Name elbowed Gray, apparently and nodded pointedly to me.

He looked like he resisted the urge to roll his eyes at Nightmare and held out a hand for me to shake. "Gray Ringmarc." I grinned and glomped him instead.

"Jezebel Anderson, at your service." I muffled into his chest before 'nyah'-ing and stepping back to look at his face. He looked surprised, and there was a little hint of pink on his cheeks.

Score! We got an ice-cube to blush!

Ice-cube?

Oh, one of those cool, emotionless guys from an anime with all the fangirls. Like... Sasuke or Itachi. Pretty much all of the post-massacre Uchihas. Well, maybe not Madara; we don't really know much about him. I still can't believe that he's-

Jezebel, honey, I love you, but if you spoil Naruto for our readers, I will slit your throat.

You'd slit your own throat!

Oh, yeah... I'd make it feel like you have a hangover all the time!

To prove this, she gestured around my mind, mumbling gibberish. When she was done, I got a massive headache. I fell to my knees with a gasp and screwed up my eyes. Those lights were too bright! My head falling back onto the hard floor didn't help, either.

Nightmare was at my side in an instant. "Jezebel, are you okay?" he asked as he pushed some hair back out of my face.

He grabbed my head and set it on his lap. I ignored the implications of this and growled, "Yes, Nightmare, everything is all puppies and unicorns and- No, I'm not fucking okay!"

"Gray, go get me some water. Julius, get some pain killers, extra strength." Nightmare ordered, seemingly unperturbed by my snippiness.

Julius, apparently, and Gray left to get their respective... things, while Nightmare rubbed my temples soothingly.

I took this time to find Inner and hurt her.

When I went to my mind, though, it was filled with water. I waded around in it, not seeming to need air.

"Inner!" I tried to yell, but all that came out was some bubbles. I choked on the water I had accidentally inhaled and started having a coughing fit in real life.

Nightmare sat me up quickly and rubbed soothing cricles on my back.

Gray and Julius chose that time to rush back in. I gotta say, Gray looked pretty with about twenty bottles of water in his arms. He set them on the floor and hunched down to my level. He lifted my chin gently and looked into my eyes. I'm sure mine looked pretty disoriented. He held up a finger for my eyes to follow and waved it back and forth. I did that without trouble. He frowned a bit and said, "Clockmaker, hand me a bottle of those painkillers."

I stared at his face as, somewhere out of my field of vision, 'Clockmaker' handed Gray a bottle of pills. He deftly opened the child-proof seal and slipped two green and white pills out of it. He grabbed a bottle of water and held it out to me along with the pills.

"These will help with the pain and cause you to fall asleep." he explained as I chugged the water to get the monster-sized pills down. almost immediately, I felt drowsy.

Damn. This place has some strong medication.

Another thing that happened after I swallowed the pills was the water in my mind draining. Inner was still MIA, though.

Gray picked me up bridal style easily. He started carrying me somewhere as he talked to Nightmare and Julius quietly.

"The painkillers will cause her to fall asleep eventually. It's strange, though, she exhibited almost hangover-like symptoms."

"Yeah. Strange." Nightmare said faintly.

This was the time when I fell asleep. That always happens at the most inconvenient times... Like line breaks on a chapte-

Penguin: Okay, I broke the fourth wall twice in this chapter, and it felt pretty damn good.

Anyway, on a completely unrelated note, it's my birthday today! ^o^ I am one year older! Uno yearo oldero! Huzzah for me! Now, as a hobbit-style birthday gift from me to you, i am giving you all the birthday cupcakes my mom makes! (Thay have pudding-y stuff in the middle!)

Anywho, don't expect any updates for a while; I'll be playing my new video games. :P

See! I'm so excited that I'm using emoticons! I almost never use those! :D

So, while I foam at the mouth, you all can enjoy your virtual cupcake!

Ciao!,

Penguin~