No, I'm not dead, just in case you guys were wondering. Many, MANY apologies for the million-month delay, but I just haven't been in the right mood for this fandom. And it's summer. Busy days.
The only things that belong to me are Ophelia, Gary, and Oreo. The others are... property of their owners, and whatnot.
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Ninjas, Demons, and Hearts! Oh My!
Chapter Seven
Wednesday and Thursday sped by and still no luck from the moogle. Their days had sort of a routine: School for Ophelia, freetime for everyone else; she gets home, does her homework, by the time she's finished, everyone's hungry. They vote on what to eat, pick two movies (which the den group usually stuck around for), then bedtime.
By the time Friday rolled around, Kagome was practically in hysterics.
"My mother will worry herself sick! And what about Grandpa? And Souta, that stupid little brother, he better remember to feed the cat so mom doesn't have to!"
"Somebody shut the lass up!" Cait Sith begged.
Ophelia chuckled and continued to phone-in their mile-long order to Eggroll Express. Although, with all the background noise, she was surprised the employee could hear her at all. Then the doorbell rang. No one else bothered to get it, since she had specifically told them not to.
"Oh. Gary Gray and the Goblin King. Sounds like a bad sitcom, doesn't it?" she greeted the two visitors.
"Yes, it kind of does... Look. I'm not here because I don't have anything better to be doing. I'm here because you're taking too long," Gary said.
"Taking too... what?"
"Fer cryin' out loud girl. Don't you ever watch the news?"
"Who was at the—" Yuffie began, but stopped. "Oh, it's just Mr. Useless," she continued, then walked off. Gary glared at her until she was out of sight, then pulled out a disk.
"Somehow I knew you didn't so I recorded yesterday's and today's," he said, handing the disk to Ophelia. "It's pretty bad. You brought out some real freaks."
Then Jareth pulled out something as well. A small crystal ball, just like on the movie. He contact juggled it for a moment then tossed it to her. Ophelia caught it carefully, fearful it might shatter if dropped.
"If you find yourself in a tight situation, smash it," the Goblin King said. "Good luck."
And, in the blink of an eye, they were gone.
"Weirdos..." Ophelia mumbled, closing the front door. She looked at the two objects in her hands and decided to put the orb in her cargo pants pocket. Who knew when she might need it? As for the disk, Ophelia decided to watch it right away.
"'Scuse me," she said to some of the Naruto gang as she passed them on her way to the DVD player.
The big flatscreen TV lit up with the news. Everyone in the room turned to watch the goings-on of Orlando, Florida. Yesterday's news was on first.
"The investigators have not determined a cause of death for the Orlando Zoo's security guards," Sue, the news woman, said. Then it switched to a clip of a police officer standing in front of the Zoo.
"There were no puncture or stab wounds. No signs of suffocation, or poisoning. All three bodies are the same. Whoever did this was a professional and we advise everyone to be alert."
Then it went back to Sue. "The only animals stolen from the zoo were reptiles. All the snakes were missing by the time back-up arrived."
"Snakes..." Ophelia breathed to herself, staring blankly at the screen.
"So it seems Orochimaru has made the first move," Kakashi spoke up.
"Yeah," Ophelia agreed. "And those guards must have been murdered by Kanna. They're working together."
Then the TV abruptly changed to that day's news. Sue began.
"At Two AM this morning, five unidentifiable bodies were found outside of Blockbuster. The employees discovered no money to be missing, and only two movies were no accounted for..."
The rest was just background noise to Ophelia's racing mind. Two movies? She had a pretty good idea that those were related to the Villains' original ones. But what was their motive? How could they—
"No... Oh no, oh no!" she gasped out, realizing the horrible truth. "They're planning on bringing out more villains! They have the powder. They could do it if they wanted!"
Everyone was stunned as they realized how right she was.
"Then we have to find them before they can!" Sora declared.
"Odds are they've already done it," Cloud said. "If I know Sephiroth."
"No! I have friends out there! We have to stop them before more people die!" Ophelia demanded.
"Well then," Axel said. "You know the place better than any of us. Where would they be hiding?"
That stopped her. He was right. She was the only one there that would have the faintest idea where to find them. Ophelia made a mad dash to the library for a map of Orlando. She unfolded the newest one and glanced over it. She mumbled to herself, unaware that her audience had followed her. After a few more minutes she remembered a place she saw coming home from school.
Pointing to it on the map, she explained, "It was kind of fancy and it had some really good suites, but the customers always complained about mice." Mice. Perfect snake food, she thought.
"Who's going to see if they're there?" Yuffie asked.
"Oh... Uh, we'll need people that can fight, but not attract too much attention," Ophelia suggested. "I mean... we don't want the whole city to be watching." Then she paused, thinking. "But if we run into Orochimaru, Sephiroth, or Naraku... we need strong people."
"So it's decided," Kakashi said. "We check the hotel first."
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Jah. Short chapters. Sorry. I'll try to upload a lot soon to make up for my lazy-assness from the past few months.
