Hello again peoples!
The last chapter was just plain depressing, so let's have some fun!
Annora: Your idea of fun is filling people's underpants with super glue.
Me: But that is fun!
So I hope you guy enjoy this chapter! Thanks again to CMR Rosa and TearsxOfxBlood for your great support! ( Did I spell those names right?)
( Breeze P.O.V )
We were all sleeping peacefully, until about 5:30 a.m. I woke up to the sounds of quiet sobbing. Turning over, I saw Annora crying into her pillow. River groaned and sat up. Blinking a few times, she yawned and gazed sleepily at our crying sister.
" Where's the oatmeal?" she slurred. Gently, I shook Annora's shoulders.
" Annora, it's okay..." I said. Annora sobbed for a few more minutes before she quieted down. After a moment of silence, she lifted up her face and wiped her eyes.
" Thanks..." she sniffed, looking absolutely depressed. " I was having a really bad dream..."
River nodded sympathetically.
" Oh, I've had those." she said. " It was about the Alpacalypse..."
Annora gave River a weird look.
" Alpacalypse?" she asked.
" The Alpaca Apocalypse." River explained. " Horrible stuff."
I looked at the clock. Well, no use going back to bed now.
" You go back to sleep Annora." I said. " River and I will start planing our day."
Annora nodded wearily, laying her head back against her pillow and squeezing her eyes shut. Silently, River and I got out of bed and tip-toed downstairs.
" What do you think she dreamed about?" asked River. I shrugged.
" Knowing Annora, it's probably something that neither of us would survive."
" I guess..." said River. " But we should ask her sometime. I would like to know."
" Yeah, well.." I sighed. " Let's think of something worth-while to do today."
( Annora P.O.V )
I was afraid that I was going to dream about something horrible again. I wasn't prepared when a hazy ghost appeared to me in my sleep. The ghost nodded to me.
" Hello dear." it said in a feminine voice. " Oh, how you've grown!"
" F-Freya?" I asked. The voice was so familiar. The ghost laughed.
" Well, I see you haven't forgotten me!"
Unable to process this information, I just stared. Freya sighed.
" Annora, my time here is short. So I'm going to skip all the advertisements and cut straight to the point."
Yep, defiantly Freya. Freya gazed sadly at me.
" I see you've been troubled by a disturbing dream, correct?"
I nodded miserably.
" Well dear," continued Freya, " Be glad of it."
" What?"
"They are warnings, glimpses of a future that will come to pass. Prophecies happen in the cartoon world."
My head was spinning rapidly. I'd almost forgotten that I was in the IZ world.
" Wait, what?" I cried. " You mean I'm going to almost get killed?"
Freya sighed.
" I haven't much time." she said. " You are to wake soon. Remember, futures aren't always what the seem. Your dream may not appear in the way that you think."
With that, my dream became white once more. As my head went blank, Freya called to me.
" Remember dear!" her voice echoed in my head. " I'll keep in touch!"
That's nice… I thought. My eyes snapped open, and I found myself in bed, hugging a pillow. Laying still, I tried to process the information that I had been given. Were all the things in my first dream going to come true? Was something really, really bad about to happen? Slapping my face a few times to clear my mind, I got out of bed and padded downstairs. In the living-room, I could hear River and Breeze speaking in hushed tones. River looked up and saw me.
" So!" she giggled. " The zombie wakes!"
Breeze gazed at me worriedly.
" Did you get any more sleep?" she asked. I nodded. River was bouncing up and down in her seat.
" You're not going to believe this!" she squealed. " But Breeze and I just got us into the school! We just talked to the principal and reserved our spots!"
She looked at me excitedly, expecting me to jump for joy. I blinked. The Skool? Really?
A smile spread over my face. I was ready to see some Invader Zim stuff, even if something bad was about to happen.
Especially if something bad was about to happen.
" Let's get ready." I commanded.
We stood in front of the Skool, with fall leaves whooshing around us in a cool autumn wind. I could see classes going on inside the building, which meant one thing: We were late. The three of us looked at each other.
" Well?" said River. " Are we going or what?"
Slowly, we mounted the steps to the entrance double-doors. Pushing them open, we marched straight to the front desk. The man behind the desk looked up at us.
" May I help you?" he asked in a slightly wheezy voice.
" Um, yes." said Breeze. " We are the three new students, River, Breeze and Annora. We called this morning."
The man grunted and stood. He was much, much taller then I was.
" Follow me." he said blandly.
He led us down a hall-way, past some loitering students, and a couple of trash cans. He halted in front of a door. A label on the wall next to it read: Ms. Bitters Class.
River nudged us excitedly.
' Isn't this Zim and Dib's class?' she mouthed.
' Yes. Now shut up.' I mouthed back. I wasn't too excited to see them again. The man opened the door.
" Get in." he said. Suddenly, he picked up Breeze and River by the scruffs of their necks and tossed them into the class. With a gulp, I scurried inside before he could do the same to me. As he shut the door, I hear him say: " Doomed kids," before he turned and walked back down the hall.
" Jerk." Breeze said, sitting up and rubbing her back. River curled up on the floor and said something that sounded like: ' Mother, the gorilla asked for directions.'
" SSSSSSSSSSILENCE!" a loud hiss came from behind , causing all three of us to jump. We turned and saw the infamous Ms. Bitters sitting at her desk. She fixed us with an icy stare. River whimpered and hide behind me. Ms. Bitters turned forward towards the class that I just noticed. Zim and Dib sat in the front row, along with two other kids who's names I had forgotten.
" Class," Ms. Bitters said. " I would like you to meet the newest, most hopeless requests to the student body."
She turned to us.
" Children," she hissed. " If you want to say something, say it now, because after this moment, I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER SOUND FROM YOU!"
River stop breathing and started to have a seizure on the floor.
" Guuuuuuuuuuuuurgle..." she gagged. With a sigh, I yanked her to her feet and performed the ' Heimlich Maneuver.'
With a gasp, River started to breath again.
She hugged me around the middle and started to cry. I glanced at Breeze, who was trying hard not to laugh, but not doing a very good job. I bared my teeth.
" RIVER!" I growled. " YOU'RE EMBARESSING ME."
River stopped crying.
" Sorry!" she squealed. " I'm sorry-"
" Are you going to talk or not?" Ms. Bitters hissed.
" YES!" River giggled, standing up. She pranced to the front of the room.
"HI!" she squealed. " I'm River! I like sunshine, ponies, rainbows, bubbles and anything that has to do with caffeine! I think everyone here is going to become my bestest friend!"
She started to laugh. I turned to Breeze.
" What did you feed her this morning?" I asked. Breeze was about to reply when Ms. Bitters finger pointed at her.
" You. Speak. NOW!"
Breeze gulped and shuffled to the front of the room. She glance at me, and I gave her a ' Go-on' gesture. She smiled weakly and turned to the class.
" Hi." she said. " My name is Breeze. I am much...uh, calmer then my sister here."
She pointed at River, who was doing a dance in the corner.
" Please do not be alarmed by her. I think she was dropped on her head as a small child. Anyway, I like quiet so please, no shouting near me."
As Breeze was speaking, I glanced around the class room. Almost everyone was looking at us with interest. Zim caught my glance and cocked his head to one side. I narrowed my eyes at him and crossed my arms.
" Hello again..." I said dryly. Zim smiled.
" Yes, hello pitiful human worm-child." he replied. I rolled my eyes and glanced over a Dib. He had on an awkward expression: Mouth agape, eyes bulging and twitching, and a finger pointed straight at us. It was the same kind of expression that he had had on when Zim had first arrived in his class.
Uh-oh...I thought.
Breeze had finished talking and looked at me expectantly. River had started to laugh for no reason. Something in my head snapped. I stalked up to River and grabbed her collar.
" River." I hissed loudly in Polish. "Byc cicho I uczyhie was bardzo cierpa!"
River gulped and quickly quieted. When I spoke in a different language, she knew I was mad. I loved using them to yell at people. Letting go of River, I walked to the front of the room. Zim was now staring at me intensely, as if I had just done something amazing. I sighed.
" My name is Annora." I said, flashing a glare at River. " Before we start this school year together, I want to get two things very straight. One, do not cross me, and the poor janitor will be spared the job of scraping you off the lockers."
" Yes!" bubbled River, who had already forgotten my foreign threat. " Think of the janitor!"
I paused.
" This threat also includes annoying siblings."
River got the message. She shut up.
" Finally." I continued. " You people do not need to be afraid of me that much. I'm not going to kill anyone, probably. I've been having a hard day so far so I'm a bit depressed, so yeah...that's pretty-much it."
" Finally, that's over." growled Ms. Bitters. " Now, you need a place to sit."
Her finger swept over the class, until...
" YOU!" barked Ms. Bitters, her gaze resting on the three kids behind Zim. " You three will be transferred to the underground class-rooms!"
There was a trio of screams as the desks disappeared beneath the ground and appeared again. Empty. I shuddered. Ms. Bitters pointed to the seats.
"Sit. NOW."
With a couple of salutes because it seemed like the right thing to do, we marched toward the open desks. Breeze took the last seat and River chose the second-to-last, leaving the spot behind Zim open. My sisters winked at me, knowing that I wasn't on great terms with the alien at the moment.
" Take your seat now, child." snarled Ms. Bitters as I hesitated.
With a glare at both of my sisters, I plunked down into my new spot. Ms. Bitters began her tutoring.
" Now class, and Dib." she hissed. " Today, we will be learning about the Big Bang, and how it is to be followed by the Great Crunch, when all the things in the universe will eventually IMPLODE UPON THEMSELVES!"
And so, Ms. Bitters went, on and on, starting her ever famous doom-ing. River started to snore in the seat behind me. I was starting to doze off, bored out of my skull.
That's when the phone in River's pocket rang. I recognized the tone. River had recorded her voice imitating a phone at the top of her lungs and used it as her ringtone.
" RING RING RING RING, PICK UP YOU MORON!" the phone screamed. Breeze yelped and jumped about ten feet into the air. Startled, I turned around and stared at River, who was just taking the phone out of her pocket. Checking the screen, her face paled and she looked up at me.
" It's a voice message from Auntie..." she whispered. I shuddered.
" Click it."
She did.
" RIVER, YOU NO-GOOD BRAT!" a high pitched voice screamed. " HOW DARE YOU DISAPPEAR LIKE THIS?! THE POLICE ARE ALL LOOKING FOR YOU, AND YOUR UNCLE IS BESIDE HIMSELF WITH RAGE! THIS IS THE LAST TIME I LET YOU VISIT YOUR SISTER ANNORA, UNDERSTAND? WHEREVER YOU AND BREEZE ARE, YOU COME STRAIGHT HOME THIS MINUTE, OR I SWEAR, I WILL PUT YOU BOTH UP FOR ADOPTION THE SECOND I SEE YOU!"
The message ended with a click. River held the phone out like it was an atomic bomb about to go off. She looked both terrified and horrified.
There were a bunch of things that I could have said to her. I could have told her that everything was fine, that I would never let her and Breeze get separated, and that no matter what, I'd alway find a way to see her.
However, having my mind jumbled up, only one thing came out.
" How the heck did you get connection here?" I asked. River flashed me a look.
" Auntie's mad..." she whispered. " She's going to starve me again."
" What?"
" Nothing."
I thought about what River had said.
' Auntie's mad. She's going to starve me again.'
" She starves you?!" I asked in disbelief. River turned her head away. Enraged, I turned to Breeze.
" That monster starves my sisters?!" I asked again, my voice rising to almost a shout. Breeze also turned away.
" Oh ou pouri, ti kras..." I growled, tightening my hands into fists.
" Annora, please!" Breeze cut in with an exasperated tone. I glared at her and then buried my face on my desk miserably.
" She's going to pay." I said.
" She's an adult." River said. " She'll sue you."
I gave a short laugh.
" I'd like to see her try."
Breeze rolled her eyes and gazed out the window.
Sitting silently for a while, I heaved a great yawn.
" This is very time consuming..." I said sarcastically. " But it's still better than-"
I cut off quickly before I said anything else, realizing that I was about to reveal something that would expose us as ' Dimension Travelers.'
" Okay..." a familiar voice said. " Did anyone else noticed the three aliens that just walked in?"
I snapped my eyes open and look over to the other side of the room. Dib was staring right at me.
" Well?" he said, flicking his eyes to the other students. Of course, everyone looked bored and uninterested.
" Not again Dib!" someone wailed. Dib's eye twitched.
" NO! DON'T START THAT WITH ME!" Dib snapped. " I...HAVE..PROOF!"
His jabbed a finger in my direction.
" Yesterday, I saw them!" he said. " A rip opened in the sky, and they fell out! I swear, I saw it!"
No one seemed very interested. Dib glanced near the front of the room with a sour look on his face.
" And Zim saw it too." he added.
This grabbed minor interest. If there was another witness to Dib's claims, than it might be worthy for consideration. All eyes turned to the alien in the front row.
I felt a bead of sweat trickle down my forehead. If Zim admitted that we had fallen out of the sky, then my sisters and I could be in big trouble. Zim glanced around the room with a look of contempt on his face and then glanced backward at me. His eyes locked with mine.
Please... I thought, pleading with a stare. Please...
Zim's expression wavered slightly. He glanced back at Dib, his expression changing into a sneer.
" I didn't see anything." he said cooly. " Your glasses need to be checked."
Dib's face changed from pale to pink to bright red. Enraged, he balled his hands into fists.
" YOU!" he spat. " YOU'RE JUST SAYIN THAT BECAUSE-"
A thought seemed to occur to him. His mouth dropped open.
" You're...you're working together, aren't you?" he said. " You...you..."
Zim gave a toothy grin as a response. River gave a breath of frustration.
" No Dib, we're not aliens." she said. I rolled my eyes.
" He's not going to listen to you." I said. Dib glared at me.
" Well, how about when you spoke that other language?" he said. " How about that, huh?"
I stared at Dib. Assuming that he knew no other language besides english, he thought my bilingualism was actually alien communication. I bared my teeth at him.
" Why do you need to know?" I mocked. " Are you so caught up in your own little fantasy that you think every foreign person is an alien?"
Dib snorted.
" I happen to know the real aliens." he said, glancing at Zim as if it would prove his point. " And besides, I think I recognized bits of the language you were speaking. I've heard Zim say a few things when he thinks no one is looking."
" It's not just one language." I said. " And besides, I don't know Irken."
I second I said that, I could have slapped myself.
Dib grinned, knowing that I had let something important slip. Playing for more evidence, he didn't pry on it for too long.
" Well, if you say you can speak more than one language..." he said. " Then how about you give us some examples?"
I glared at him. He looked confident that I couldn't do it.
" Hablas espanol?" I said. " Parlez-vous francais? An bhfuil Gaeilge agat? Beszel magyarul? Spreekt u Nederlands? Je, kuongea swahili? Het jy Afrikaans praat?"
Dib narrowed his eyes.
" How many can you speak?" he said. I ' Humphed.'
" 1, 2097." I said. " And counting."
Dib snorted.
" Not possible." he said. " You probably just take bits of Irken and pretend they're completely different languages."
I winced as Dib brought up the 'I' word. I regretted ever opening my mouth, but I knew I had to continue arguing with him or else I might seem like I was giving up.
" The term Irken is used to describe the different genre of languages in the middle east." I lied, wincing at the lameness.
Dib didn't look convinced.
" Genre huh?" he said. " Then how come Zim looks like he got kicked in the stomach?"
I didn't want to turn around, but I did anyway. Zim looked absolutely shocked about the conversation, and when he noticed my stare, he turned around and looked at me. Instead of looking angry, he looked... Curious? And thoughtful?
" He knows that you know." Dib said smugly. " All of you are aliens."
" This conversation is a waste of my time." River said a-matter-of-factly. " Let's all just shut up, hmm?"
" You're not even talking." Breeze snapped. River frowned.
" I just did."
" Whatever."
" So, Dib..." I said. " Got any more proof?"
Dib grinned.
" No." he said. " But I'll find it. I always do."
" Huh..." I said, raising an eyebrow. " This day is off to a weird start."
" Bord now..." River sighed. " Going to play Temple Run."
" Wait, what?" I asked, turning to my sister who had taken out her phone again. She stuck her tongue between her teeth as she maneuvered the explorer on her screen through obstacles. Dib stood up on his chair.
" More proof!" he said. " Alien technology!"
River made a 'Meh' sound.
" It's just an iPhone." she said. " Not exactly 'alien technology'..."
Dib gave a great sigh.
" Why do I eve try to prove it this much?" he wailed. " Can't anyone see that they're trying to take over the world?!"
I grinned, deciding to have a little fun with him.
" That's what I like." I said. " Ignorance. It makes destroying things go a lot faster."
Dib's eyes bulged.
" ALIENS!" he screamed, nearly shattering my ear drums. " SHE ADMITTED IT!"
Before I could tell Dib that I was joking, he jumped off his desk and ran screaming from out the room.
" Oooookaaaaaay..." Breeze said slowly. " Weird..."
" Yeah..." River nodded. Brushing back a strand of hair from my face, I shrugged.
" He asked for it."
The bell rang for lunch. Squabbling, the students made their way towards the door. Side by side, my sisters and I went with the flow, laughing as we remembered Dib's expression.
We were so busy having fun, that we didn't notice a certain green boy trail us all the way to the cafeteria.
My sisters and I sat down at one of the many empty lunch tables. River had taken one good look at the food, and had decided that water was good enough for her. Breeze was nibbling on a stale cookie. I had decided to skip lunch altogether. We were all sitting there, enjoying each others company and laughing about the day, when a certain green alien plopped down in the seat next to me.
" Um, hi Zim." I said uncomfortably. Zim didn't answer, but he leaned towards me with the same expression that he had had on during class. I started to fidget in my seat.
" Uh, nice to see you sooooo, uh, involved in something, but, uh, what are you..."
I trailed off. Zim still had not spoken.
" Bonjour? Hola? Anything up there?" I asked. No reply. I turned to Breeze and River. Breeze shrugged. River was busy playing Temple Run and taking huge swings of her water as if she were a drunk.
" Okay..." I started. " This is just really-"
" Are you dead?" Zim asked suddenly. His question caught all three of us be surprise. River spat her water all over the floor, making everyone in the cafeteria to look at us. Peering sheepishly around, I saw that Dib had a smug look on his face. I turned to look at Zim.
" Excuse me?" I asked politely. River was busy choking. Breeze was rubbing her back. She gave me a look that clearly meant What-was-that-all-about? Zim dropped his voice so only the three of us could hear.
" Zim has asked if you are an dead. You know, a human who comes from the heaven place. Where dead people are."
He stared at me.
" It's in the sky. You fell out of the sky. So, are you dead?"
He cocked his head to one side slightly.
" Are you?" he asked again. I was speechless. Me? Dead? Was I actually that pale?
River had finished having her episode and turned to Zim.
" No, she's not dead." she said. " But if she doesn't eat soon, she will be."
Zim shrugged. By now, the room was back to normal and people were ignoring us again. Dib was still staring smugly at me, like he had though of a brilliant idea. I stuck my tongue out at him. A cough from Zim caused me to turn. Zim stared at me like what he was about to say was too divine for our puny human ears.
" Zim is a normal human boy..." he began. " And as a normal human boy, he wants to make friends."
" Uh-huh..." I said, nodding slowly. Zim forced a smile.
" So Zim wants to ask, will you...?"
He paused with a grimace, as if it was too painful to finish his sentence. I rolled my eyes.
" Yes."
" Good." Zim said, his air of authority returning. He turned away and smiled to himself evilly.
" Yess... Very good..."
He began to laugh, soft at first, but picking up volume as he went along.
" HehehehehahahahaHAHAHAHAHAMUAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!"
I rolled my eyes.
" How much sugar did you have today?" I asked dryly.
Aaaaaaaaaand there you go! It took such a long time to find all the different languages! And yes, they do say something. Here is the list:
( In order of appearance... )
#1: Polish = River, be quiet or I will make you suffer greatly.
#2: Haitian Creole = Oh you rotten, little...
#3: The made-up language is actually made up and called in my world " Melentia."
#4: Languages ( In order ) = Spanish, French, Irish, ( Yes, it's a language! ) Hungarian, Dutch, Swahili and Afrikaans. All of them translate to " Do you speak..." and then the language name in that language.
Pretty cool, huh? I hope you think so.
This was such a long chapter! I had to do it all in secret, while my family was at my brother's soccer game. Anyway, I hope you guys like my stories! More are on the way!
See you all next chapter!
Annoyed, I switched to Haitian Creole.
" Oh ou pouri, ti kras..."