Misael blinked as he slowly woke up. 'Ugh, why didn't my stupid alarm wake me up? I'll be late to school again. Wait, why is that a bad thing?' Misael sat up and looked around before remembering everything that had happened. He blushed again as he was ashamed of forgetting about Barian World and of remembering his life as a forced cross-dresser. "I am Misael, the true galaxy-eyes master. I am not some doll for humans to parade around," he said to wipe the terrible memory from his life. He pulled on his clothes and gloves before walking down the stairs for breakfast. Alit, Gilag, and Vector were all fighting over the cereal. Misael was actually surprised that Alit and Gilag were up so early. Vector, no since he was always up extremely early, usually to plan something terrible, but Alit and Gilag were usually never up before 8:30.
"What are you two doing up?" Misael asked.
"Vector dragged us from our beds while we were still asleep and dumped us in the river." Alit explained.
Ah, so that was why they weren't still hibernating. "Should've guessed..." Misael muttered as he snatched the cereal box and dumped out some cereal. He grabbed the milk carton and poured some milk into his bowl. Well, he would've if there had actually been fresh milk in there. Instead, he poured out chunky milk and some small lizards, rats, and snakes. Misael yelped and blasted the bowl with an energy ball, effectively killing the creatures as well as breaking the bowl and cracking the table.
"WHAT THE EVER-LOVING HELL?!" Misael screamed.
Vector shrugged. "We've been apart for fourteen years. Do you know how behind I am at pranking you guys and making your lives a living hell?"
"I f*cking hate you." Misael growled.
"Aww...now, Misa-chan, that's harsh." Vector said with an expression of mock hurt.
"THAT DOES IT! YOU'RE F*CKING DEAD!" Misael screamed. Vector stood still for one second before taking off like a rocket with Misael in hot pursuit.
"Should we stop them or..." Gilag asked.
"YOU want to get between them?" Alit asked.
"Good point, but shouldn't we wake Nasch, Merag, or Dumon up and have them deal with it?" Gilag asked.
"Again, YOU want to wake them up?" Alit groaned.
"Again, good point." Gilag acknowledged.
"Did someone say something about waking me up?" Gilag and Alit froze and slowly turned around to see Merag with her can of pepper spray at the ready.
"AHH! Merag! We weren't- what I meant was- we didn't mean to say we were too scared to do anything about it, just that waking you up would be certain death since you're a real beast when you get woken up- oh crap that came out wrong." Alit rambled. Merag narrowed her eyes and sprayed Alit in the face. Gilag backed up about five steps. Merag glared at him before storming off to deal with Vector.
"You okay buddy?" Gilag asked.
"Oooohhh... that stuff stings!" Alit wailed.
"Mmph. It's way too early for you guys to be fighting." Dumon muttered, rubbing his eyes as he walked down the stairs. He took one look at the broken bowl, crack in the table, burnt rat, lizard, and snake corpses, and the chunky milk. "I'll make eggs and bacon. And a large pot of coffee." he added as an afterthought.
Merag came back in the kitchen dragging Vector and Misael after her. The only injury Misael had was to his pride but Vector was a whole other story. He had a split lip and was blinking furiously to get the pepper spray out of his eyes. "Hello, Merag. Their fighting woke you up too?" Dumon asked as he cracked an egg into the frying pan.
"You bet it did. Need any help?" Merag asked.
"Yes, please. Could you get out the other frying pan and cook the bacon?" Dumon requested.
"Of course." Merag replied as she pulled out a silver frying pan.
"She doesn't snap at him ever and she says she doesn't have a crush on him...?" Alit muttered to Gilag. Gilag started to nod in agreement.
"I HEARD THAT!" Merag yelled. Gilag stopped nodding.
"Note to self: be quieter when talking about Merag's love life." Alit whispered.
"Heard that too!" Alit started running... right as Nasch came down the stairs. And of course, Lady Luck was probably sipping lemonade from a fancy glass as she took a cruise around the earth because Alit ran smack into Nasch at full speed. And Nasch was not a big morning person.
The violet-haired barian king gave Alit a death glare. "Alit, I want you to stay still for about thirty seconds, that'll be all the time I need." Alit wasn't one to stay still when faced with an angry... well, anybody who was really ticked and had the ability to beat him to a pulp. His fight-or-flight instinct kicked in and he chose the option any brave and self-respecting barian would choose: flight. He tore off in a random direction with Nasch chasing after him.
Vector smirked. "I want to follow them and see how this turns out."
"Why?" Dumon asked with a sigh.
"Why? Because I want to see someone besides me get the crap beaten out of them." Vector hurried to catch up to Nasch and Alit, who's chase had led them out the open door.
"We should've gotten to bed sooner last night." Dumon groaned as he poured himself some coffee, "Everyone woke up cranky."
"Got that right. I think I need some of that coffee." Merag grabbed a white mug and poured herself some coffee as well.
"I'll settle with tea." Misael sniffed as he got out a tea bag and microwaved a mug full of water in order to make his favorite drink.
…...
Vector quietly slipped behind a tree as Nasch tackled Alit. "AHH! I'm sorry Nasch-sama-sempai-sensei-san! I swear I never meant to run into you!" Alit begged.
Nasch twisted Alit's arm before getting off him. "You are so lucky I used up most of my anger chasing you."
"WHAT?! Aren't you going to beat him up?! I really wanted to see that!" Vector complained, giving away his hiding place.
Nasch glared at Vector. "If you really want someone to get beat up, I can see a certain carrot-head who is just begging for it."
"Aww, now, Naschie. Your baby sister has already given me a spanking~" Vector sang.
"You know she's right behind you." Nasch said. Vector whirled around with a look of panic on his face but relaxed slightly when he saw no one was behind him.
"That was really cruel, Naschie. I think I might've just had a heart attack." Vector whined.
"Barians CAN'T have heart attacks, human form or otherwise." Nasch rolled his eyes.
Alit tugged on Nasch's sleeve. "Really? Cause I think I just had one." Alit pointed to a couple of squirrels. Nasch was about to tell him off when he noticed those squirrels were the size of rabbits and had yellow, gunky eyes.
And they were looking straight at them.
"Run." Nasch ordered and he and the other two barians took off just as the squirrels started to give chase, alerting a couple of dogs nearby, all of them with yellow eyes. Within thirty seconds, the three barians were being chased by dogs, cats, porcupines, squirrels, rats, and a hamster in a plastic ball.
"Got to hand it to them, they can really get organized fast." Vector commented.
"Less complimenting the enemy, more running." Nasch snapped.
"Oh come on Naschie, they're so cu- YOW!" Vector screamed as the squirrels catapulted a porcupine and it landed on his shoulder, quills first. The porcupine started scratching Vector's hair and face. "AH! Damn Maldorian! Beat it! Screw you! Get off! OWWWW!"
"Get moving you two!" Nasch pushed Vector and Alit ahead to make them run faster. Vector was running slightly slower than usual due to trying to get the Maldorian off and cursing it but he was naturally fast so he didn't get left behind. The three barians dodged around cars, dumpsters, buildings, and basically everything they came across to throw the Maldorians off. Eventually, they managed to lose the Maldorians and Vector got the porcupine off his shoulder. They trudged back to the BARian in a really bad mood. Nasch pushed open the door and he and Alit fell down on the couch.
"What the heck happened to you?" Merag asked.
"We just learned a very important lesson today," Vector growled while wincing in pain, "Maldorians are little shits!"
"I'll get the first aid kit." Dumon rushed upstairs.
"You got attacked by Maldorians?!" Misael cried.
"Yeah, they're persistent, I'll give them that. At least Alit and I didn't get attacked by a Maldorian porcupine like psycho over there." Nasch panted while jerking his thumb at Vector who was rolling on the ground as the shock wore off and he started feeling the full effects of the pain.
"OoooOOooOhhhh... THIS HURTS SO FREAKING MUCH!" Vector screamed.
"Calm down and bite on this piece of cotton." Dumon ordered as he ran back downstairs holding a first aid kit in one hand and offering Vector a thick piece of cotton in the other. Vector, for once, didn't argue and put the piece of cotton in his mouth and clamped down hard on it. "Alright, this is going to sting a bit." Dumon extracted a pair of tweezers from the first aid kit and started plucking out the quills from Vector, with muffled screams from the psycho barian's part. After Dumon got all the quills out, he cleaned the area with soap and water and put neosporin on the cuts before putting a lot of band-aids on Vector's shoulder, neck and face. "You can spit out the cotton now."
Vector turned to Misael and spit out the cotton on the blond's face. Misael looked positively homicidal. "I'M GOING TO MAKE WHAT THAT MALDORIAN DID TO YOU LOOK LIKE A SCRATCH!"
"But Misa-chan! I'm injured." Vector whined.
"And I am about to make you more injured." Misael took a step towards Vector but Dumon stood between them.
"Don't fight. Vector's right, if he start physically exercising his shoulder, he could rip his shoulder up. Basically it'll be like connect the dots with his porcupine quill wounds." Dumon clarified.
"That does not mean you can tease Misael," Nasch said, "If you do, I'll knock you out cold with a baseball bat. Don't think I'm kidding."
Vector moved away. "Yeah, yeah. I know you're not. Buuuuttttt..." Vector smirked, "Can I pick the movie we watch tonight? You know, since I'm injured and it'll make me feel better." Vector gave them all puppy dog eyes.
"Against my better judgment and every fiber of my body screaming no, fine." Nasch groaned.
One R-18 rated grotesque horror movie later
"WHAT THE HELL?!" Misael screamed at Vector as the movie ended. "WHAT THE F*CK IS WRONG WITH YOU?! WHY THE FRIK WERE YOU LAUGHING AND SMILING THE ENTIRE TIME?!"
"Because did you see how much blood there was?! Seriously, that thing ripped that girl completely in half!" Vector giggled in ecstasy.
"W-w-whi-which one?!" Alit whimpered while hugging Gilag and hiding with him behind the couch.
"In the first part of the movie. The other girls got devoured alive, had their body parts grafted onto each other, and/or were turned completely inside out~" Vector laughed.
"Oh God-" Alit moaned. Dumon quickly handed Alit a paper bag and Alit hurled into it and threw it in a trash can with a lot of other brown paper bags.
"Time for bed." Nasch ordered.
"HOW THE HELL ARE WE SUPPOSED TO GO TO SLEEP?!" Misael cried.
"Try knocking yourself out with something heavy and blunt." Nasch said as he went upstairs.
A few minutes after he had gone to bed, Nasch heard a knock on his door. "Unless it's Vector, come in." The door opened and every barian, excluding Vector walked in.
"We want to sleep with you tonight. That movie made everyone too scared to sleep alone." Merag said.
"WHAT?!" Nasch cried. "In case you haven't noticed, my bed isn't big enough for all of you."
That's why we brought Gilag's bed and mine too." Merag said as Gilag and Alit pushed two beds in the room and set them up next to Nasch's.
"You have got to be kidding, all of you?!" Nasch complained.
Dumon looked a little embarrassed. "Well, my king, that movie was...absolutely terrifying."
Nasch threw up his hands. "FINE! But Merag is sleeping on my right side and you are all sleeping on my left. So no one get any funny ideas." the barians cheered and jumped into bed. Nasch groaned and plumped his head on his pillow. After an hour, Nasch was just drifting off to sleep when,
"Hey Nasch?"
"What the heck is it, Alit? Go to sleep." Nasch mumbled.
"I was just thinking."
"What about?"
"Well, two things." Alit turned over to face Nasch, "First, why do you wear pajamas with little chibi sharks on them?"
"You have five seconds before I throw you out of my room." Nasch growled.
"Never mind the first one! The other thing I was thinking was that it's really great to be together again." Alit said.
Nasch sat up. "We've been back together for two days already, you're still thinking about that?"
Alit shrugged. "Well, yeah. And... none of us exactly had the best human lives when we were apart so this is the best thing that has happened to us in fourteen years."
Nasch blinked as he realized Alit was right. Nasch himself was basically ignored by his parents unless he messed up and then they would yell at him and he was picked on every day. Merag was a cruel diva and, while she didn't realize it, she had given up everything that she truly cared about. Vector was abused, picked on at school, and had only Dumon as a friend. Dumon also had no friends except Vector and was picked on. His parents were never around and Vector couldn't come over because he was too busy getting beaten to a pulp by his parents so Dumon must've been lonely. Nasch had no idea what happened to Misael but it was bad enough even Dumon thought it was too bad to speak of to the other emperors. Gilag had to mug people and engage in other criminal activities just to try to save his mother. Alit had constant fights with his dad because he wasn't the son he wanted him to be.
"Yeah, the rest of us had no real friends and all of our family lives sucks." Nasch sighed.
Alit looked at him. "Why do you think I had any friends?"
Nasch blinked. "You're Alit. You're naturally friendly and funny."
"Yeah, I was the class clown but that was only to get some attention. If I wasn't joking around, nobody paid any attention to me. At lunch, nobody wanted to sit with me. After school, no one wanted to hang out with me or even talk when I tried to talk with them. They just shoved me aside and laughed at the, 'loser clown kid'." Alit sighed.
Nasch felt a pang in his heart. The emperors had been badly hurt over the last fourteen years. He reached over Misael and Dumon to hold Alit's hand. "Alit, I promise you, as soon as we can, we will find out who made us come to earth as amnesic babies and make them pay. Whoever it was who did this to us won't get away without retribution."
Alit nodded. "Okay Nasch." he leaned back and closed his eyes. Nasch smiled and finally managed to get some sleep.
