1Disclaimer: I don't own Psychonauts. psychonaut madz owns Tony and Misha, I don't know

owns Akiko Yukari for they didn't leave their name, and TheFarceHunter owns Hazel Mirnych.

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Chapter

Sharing a Secret. Or two.

"So what are you going to show me, exactly?" Alphonse asked.

Kisa looked at the water nervously. "You can use Clairvoyance, right?" He nodded. "Then use it."

Alphonse concentrated, and he was suddenly seeing through Kisa's point of view. She took a few steps closer to the water, and he let out a small 'woah'. A hand had raised out of the water, beckoning Kisa forward. He pulled out of her head. "What in the world was that?"

Kisa closed her eyes. "That was the Hand of Galochio. It's a curse on the Aquato family, placed by a rival circus family. It killed my papa's parents and cursed all of their descendants to die in water."

"Woah." Suddenly, he felt REALLY bad for trying to pry into it earlier. "I'm sorry, I didn't realize..."

"Of course you didn't. No one knows about it outside of the Aquato family and your parents, and even they found out by accident. They were on a mission and... something happened. My dad almost drowned, and he ended up telling them."

"Wow. Is your mom cursed too?"

Kisa shook her head. "No. She was spared the curse because she may have the name, but she doesn't have the blood. Listen, Alphonse, you can't tell anyone, not even Sarah. I shouldn't even have told you."

He frowned. "Why?"

"My dad is one of the highest ranked Psychonauts in the government. If anyone found out about this, they'd be after him fast. And if someone caught him, that would be the supreme torture." She told him. "Give me your word you won't tell anyone."

"I swear I'll keep this a secret until I die and after that."

"Good. Now if you don't mind, I'm leaving." She walked off toward the lodge. Alphonse took one last look at the lake as she left. Swimming was not something he felt like doing anymore. Not that he'd ever go swimming in Lake Oblongata anyway.

xXx

"Hello, earth to Kisa?" Sarah called, waving her hand in front said girl's face.

"Hmm?" She looked up from playing with her dinner, which she wasn't sure was edible in the first place.

"I was saying that our Shield and Clairvoyance teachers are sitting right over there." Sarah pointed a couple tables over.

Kisa looked over. Three tables away, two adults sat, talking quietly. She could faintly see a stream of psychic energy going between their minds, which meant they were holding a two-part conversation. She drew her eyes away from the link and looked at the teachers. Both were women, but they looked very different.

The first had pale skin and dark black hair held back in two ponytails that reached her hips. Her lips were bright bubblegum pink and she had large eyes. Not quite as bug-eyed as Misha, but very close, almost like an anime character's. She was wearing thigh-high white gogo boots, a ruffled black skirt, a halter top that was the same bright pink as her lips, white fingerless gloves, dice-shaped earrings, and a white cap with black skull pins on it. She looked to be about twenty.

The other looked a bit older, maybe a year. Brown hair that was cut in a short bob that sloped up from the front to the back and slightly slanted, green eyes a shade lighter than Kisa's. She had on a short jean skirt, a dark gray tank top, tennis shoes, and long, black socks with gray hearts on them. She was very thin and slightly tan.

"That's Akiko Yukari and Hazel Mirnych." The four girls turned around to see a young boy standing there.

Misha rolled her eyes. "Ugh. What do you want Tony? Never mind, don't answer that. I know what you want."

"Now is that any way to treat your twin? You could at least introduce me to your lovely friends."

She sighed. "Guys, this is my brother Tony. Tony, these are Emily Gingles, Sarah Nein, and Kisa Aquato."

"Nein and Aquato huh?" He asked. "You two wouldn't happen to be-"

Sarah grinned. "Yep. I'm Sasha and Milla's daughter, and she's Raz and Lili's."

"Cool." He blew some of his black hair out of his eyes, which were just as bug-like as his sister's. He was very tan, also like Misha, and was about, from what the girl's could tell, they were all sitting down, 4' 8". He was wearing blue, silk shirt with the top three buttons undone, black jeans, big black uniform shoes, silver gloves, and small silver hoop earring. He sat down next to Misha.

She sighed. "No one invited you."

"But I'm family."

Sarah laughed. "We don't mind, Misha."

"You will in a minute." Misha warned them. "He's a horrible flirt and a pervert."

"Hey, I resent that! I'm a wonderful flirter." Tony protested.

Kisa rolled her eyes. "Just don't try flirting with Sarah, she's already got a boyfriend, who, by the way, is thinking about setting you on fire."

Sarah shook her head. "He is?"

"Yeah. Your brother thinks it's funny."

Sarah got up and walked over to the table where Eli and Alphonse were sitting. "Ooh, they're in trouble now." Emily muttered. Sarah walked back looking quite proud of herself, while her brother and Eli looked a little bit scared.

"They're going to behave themselves now." She informed them, sitting down.

"What in the world did you just do?" Kisa asked.

"Nothing much, just threatened to castrate them both with telekinesis."

Tony flinched. "Ooh, painful."

Emily rolled her eyes. "She wouldn't ever do it. Though it is so much fun to watch you threaten them, Sarah."

"Yeah, I know."

Kisa stood up. "Well, I'm done, so I'll see you guys back at the cabin."

"Later." Came the unanimous reply, even from Tony.

"Tony, it's a GIRLS cabin. That means no boys allowed." Misha said.

"Aw come on. I'm your brother." Their argument faded away as Kisa walked out the door.

xXx

Raz floated out of the tree stump and into Sasha's lab. "Sasha? I'm here."

Said German peered out from behind the Brain Tumbler. "Ah, Razputin. I'll be with you in just a moment."

Raz looked around the lab. It hadn't changed much since the last time he'd seen it, which was actually just before Kisa was born. "You need to redecorate."

Sasha laughed. "I hardly have time to think about that." He walked over. "Are you ready to try again?"

Raz grinned. "As long as it's not going to send me into a mutated circus again."

"It won't, I promise. That only happened because it was picking up brain waves other than your own."

Raz walked over to the brain tumbler while Sasha readjusted its height. "How do you know you fixed it?"

"I've been testing it."

"On who?" A sly grin crept onto Sasha's face. "Yourself? Isn't that just a little dangerous?"

"More than a little, Razputin. That's why Milla doesn't know."

Raz shook his head. "You could've just asked me to come out here." He told him, putting his head back against the head thingy (a/n: so sue me, I don't know what to call it.)

"I think Milla would have been angrier if I'd been using you as a lab rat than if I had been using myself." Sasha walked over to the controls. "Are you ready?"

"As I'll ever be." Sasha had his hand on the lever when they heard the hatch open. Raz pulled away from the machine.

Milla floated down the stairs. "Sasha? Have you seen Morceau? I can't find him anywhere. Hello Raz."

"Hi Milla." He waved.

Sasha shook his head. "I'm afraid I haven't seen him, Milla."

Milla pouted a little. "That's odd. I've checked everywhere in the camp."

Raz frowned. "Did you check... never mind."

"What is it, Razputin?" Sasha asked.

"Well... I was going to ask if you'd checked out Thorny Towers." There was an awkward silence between the three agents. No one, Psychonauts or otherwise, had gone to Thorny Towers Home for the Disturbed since the incident.

"Why would you think that he was there, darling?" Milla asked.

Raz shrugged. "I don't know. It just popped into my head. Let's just forget that I said anything about it." Sasha and Milla nodded, grateful to change the subject.

Milla looked at the half raised Brain Tumbler. "Sasha, darling, you weren't about to use that on Raz again, were you?" Whoops. Busted.

xXx

"Rise and shine Emily!" Kisa called across the room.

Said girl shot up in her bed, smacking her head on the slanting part of the ceiling. "Ow! What, what, what!"

"It's time to wake up. We've got TK class with my dad." She said, slipping her goggles over her head.

"Why didn't Coach Oleander wake us up?" Emily grumbled, jumping down.

"Maybe he overslept?" Misha suggested.

Sarah scoffed. "The Coach? Oversleep? Yeah right, he'd sooner try to take over the world again."

Misha shrugged and turned to Kisa. "You said we have class with your dad first, right?"

"Uh, yeah. Why?"

The red-head looked at her like she was crazy. "Are you kidding? You're dad's awesome!"

Kisa knelt down to look under her bed. "I don't see him like that. He's just dad to me. Has anyone seen my ponytail holder?"

"Try under your pillow, that's where all of mine seem to end up." Sarah suggested. "We're just used to our parents being idolized, Misha. It's a natural thing for us."

"Yeah. Ah ha!" Kisa triumphantly held up a hair tie. "Found it! Right under the pillow."

Emily, who had gotten dressed at lightning speeds, walked over to the door. "Can we go then?"

All four walked out to see Tony trying to sneak away from the cabin. Emily grabbed him with telekinesis. "What are you doing over here?"

He grinned nervously. "Eh-heh... nothing."

Misha gasped. "You little perv! He was spying on us!" Three very angry sets of eyes turned to him.

"I should so set him on fire." Kisa growled, a hand raising to her forehead.

"What's going on?" Eli asked, walking up with a still half-asleep Alphonse behind him.

Misha glared at Tony, who was still a good five feet off the ground. "My pervert brother was spying on us!"

"Spying on us whilst we were changing, no less." Sarah said.

Both boys glared at Tony. "You four get to class." Alphonse ordered. Emily let Tony drop and walked off.

Misha ran up. "That's it? That's all your going to do?"

Sarah grinned. "Please, Eli and Al can do just about anything when they're pissed. Let's just get to class."

"I think dad's in the parking lot." Kisa said.

"Vamanos! Let's move it people!" Misha yelled, running off.

xXx

The four walked up to see that already, Raz and the students around him were in a trance. "Uh-oh." Kisa muttered. "We're late."

Raz opened one eye. "Yes, you are. Now get over here." The girls walked over, into the range of the Psycho Portal on Raz's forehead. Insert more usual Psycho Portal behavior here.

xXx

Apparently, my dad's mind is amazing to those who haven't been in it before, because all three of my friends stared in awe at the circus before them. I've seen memories of what the meat circus looked like, and let me tell you now, that is not what my dad's mind normally looked like. It was just a regular circus, albeit there were a bunch of annoying figments, emotional baggage, and memory vaults. Seventeen of those had been opened by me, and I think there were still three or four running around somewhere.

But what I liked most about my dad's mind was that it was perfectly built for acrobats. Like me. I'd run this course so many times, physically and mentally, I knew it by heart. Unfortunately, this was Telekinesis class. Not one of my best.

"This is SO FREAKIN' COOL!" Misha squealed.

I looked at her. "Um, Misha, you do realize that it is my dad that you're idolizing?"

"Yeah, so?"

"Just wondering, because your obvious adoration is starting to creep me out."

Sarah shoved me. "This is so not fair. My dad's mind is boring with a capital 'b'."

"Get over it." I muttered, walking into the big top. I growled as I entered. All my paths had been blocked with something that was obviously to tall to jump on and to smooth to climb. I let out a frustrated breath and concentrated. All right... what did dad always tell me about TK? It's just a psychically controlled hand, just another way to make your thoughts solid. I opened one eye to see a dark violet hand grab the lump-thing and toss it halfway across the tent. Sweet. I scaled the ladder as the lump reset itself for my friends, who were just now entering.

I laughed and grabbed the trapeze. I was so going to beat them.

xXx

"I take back my earlier statement that I was going to beat them, all right?" I yelled to the air. Apparently, the tunnel of love rail-rider thing which I was awesome at (I'm not bragging. I'm really not. You'd be good at it too if you had to practice on it for like three hours at a time.) was not part of my dad's course. Instead, a whole field of those lumpy things replaced it. The point: to throw one lump into another and clear a path. Not. Fun. At all. Even more not-fun: Every two or three lumps, I triggered a Censor outlet. And I was almost out of mean little balls of hate. I blew up another two lumps, and a red circle with a single line through it popped up.

I groaned. My aggression energy was gone. Now I was just tired. A blue bullet flew by my head and blew up the Censor coming at me. I turned around to see Alphonse. "Hi."

"Hi. Duck." I did, another bullet whizzing over my head. After a few more shots, all the Censors were gone.

"Thanks." I breathed.

"No problem." He smiled. I blushed a little. He was cute when he smiled. His grin widened.

"Please tell me you didn't hear that." I said, my face probably crimson.

Alphonse laughed. "I would, but my mom always told me it was bad to lie."

I put a hand over my flushed face. I had NEVER been this embarrassed in my entire life. "Look, there's the exit!" I ran toward it. "Hi dad. Can I have my badge now?"

He laughed. "I guess, since you seemed to have mastered the art of throwing things at each other." He gave me the yellow badge.

"Cool. Bye!" I hopped through the exit portal as Alphonse walked through the doorway. Great, now I was going to have to avoid him for the next month. Well, if I figured out Invisibility in mom's class as fast as I'd picked back up on Telekinesis in here, then maybe it wouldn't be so hard.

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SC: Okay, here's the basic plan for the rest of the chapters:

Classes

Going home (there will be kissing in here! Give you a cookie if you guess who! Hint: There's more than one couple.)

Conflict starts

Kisa, Alphonse, and Sarah set out to solve conflict

Chaos ensues

A bit more chaos and a lot of mental fighting

Final Boss

End (this might actually take two chapters)

So, fear not readers! You have at least, AT LEAST, eleven more chapters. If you haven't noticed, there's one chapter per class. Then you just add the rest of the topics in there. So you've only got, like, five Whispering Rock chapters left, maybe a few more if I decide to make them go to Thorny Towers, but then it's back to wherever I decide to make them live. I believe I may make Sasha and Milla live in California. Poor Sasha... but Milla would love it!

Ja ne!

SC