Chapter Eight – sugar makes the world go round
To bag means to make fun of. It's an Aussie term that I didn't know about, but it's perfect for the situation. Insulting wouldn't have the same feel as bagging. Oh, and I can't think of a witty title for this chapter. Gah.
I do not own SSBB, but I WANT IT. I played it on my friend's Wii yesterday, and it was so good. My favorite charries to play as was Lucario and Ike. I. Need. Brawl.
Nothing much happened during the school day to Conrad and Ken apart from the fact that Lloyd wasn't there. All day, Ken puzzled over the note from last night. It seemed ominous. Like something bad was going to happen.
But there wasn't much time for worrying about the note. Schooltime passed rather quickly and before long, Ken, Conrad and Oliver were at the school gate. Oliver was disturbingly happy about something.
"Hey, hey, hey, Connie and Kenington! We're going to so rock at the talent comp, I know it! I know it!"
"Why?" asked Ken.
Oliver smiled. "Just because!" And as far as anyone knew, Oliver didn't even have a spot in the talent competition. He couldn't sing or dance or even act.
And that was a good thing, because if he could…
Then, Oliver ran off. Ken noticed the chocolate bar wrapper in Oliver's pocket and shivered. He pitied the next person to come upon the sugar crazed Oliver.
Conrad must have been thinking the same thing, because he said, "We'll be lucky to find the poor victim alive."
"So, Lucas, can you prove that this person is Mark?" Aaron challenged.
"Lucas, why don't you read my mind and tell Aaron something about me that is Mark?" Ike suggested. He was getting rather annoyed and wanted to move onto more important things.
Lucas frowned. He closed his eyes and… "Um, you have a teddy bear called Fred?"
"Everyone and their mom knows that about Mark! Something else! Like, I don't know, the name of his distant cousin?"
Ike snapped.
He stood up, glared at the two and said, "Can we please stop focusing on who I am and go onto other problems?"
"I don't believe you're Mark, I think this is total bull and I'm going home!" Aaron yelled. He ran out the door and the two teenagers sighed in relief.
"Good riddance. And what other problems are there?" Lucas asked.
"The fact that if I go to my house looking like this, my mother won't even recognize me?" Ike said sarcastically. "That means that I won't have a place to sleep!"
"Oh. Well, you could always sleep here. You know my mum never checks this room, you could… stay here all day and play video games?" Lucas suggested weakly.
"Another thing that I'm noticing… is that I'm forgetting how to use modern technology," Ike said, strangely not worryingly.
There was even more silence.
"Oh."
Conrad and Ken had walked to the other school in the district for some fun, and unknown to them, this was the school Lucas, Mark, Alicia, Jordan and James attended.
"What kind of name is Sir Kirby's Academy?" asked Ken as he swung on the school gate.
"A stupid name," Conrad replied loftily.
Yes, they were bagging this rival school and having a lot of fun.
"I bet their grounds aren't as big as ours."
"I bet their teachers aren't as good as ours."
"I bet-" They were interrupted by a delicate cough. Conrad turned and found himself face to face with-
"Well, I can credit this school with one thing. They have hot chicks," Ken said. And yes, this girl was 'hot', at least in Ken terms.
"My name is not 'Hot Chick', it's Alicia." Conrad gasped. Alicia was a teenage singer that, even though she wasn't world renowned, was one of the best in this country.
Ken gave a wolfwhistle. "So you go to this dump of an education building?"
"It's my school, and you do know you aren't giving a good impression of your school," Alicia shot back.
"Our school will still trump yours!" Ken argued.
"I'm in the talent show. My partnership will win, and if it doesn't, our school will still take home the cash."
"Not if the winning group has kids from both schools," Conrad put in. "Then the money is shared."
"Not likely. There's only one group that has that so far. They're pretty good and funny, but we'll win. See you later, bores." And with that, Alicia stalked off.
"Bores? Bores?" Ken asked in disbelief. "We aren't boring."
"I think she meant 'boys'." Conrad stared after Alicia. She had a lovely voice, and was she humming 'Teddy Bear's Picnic' as she walked away?
Ken noticed Conrad staring. "Someone has a crush!" the boy mocked.
"Please shut up." Yes, she was. It sounded beautiful.
And from the roof of the building, a cloaked entity stood. Meta Knight, you will never have her! it thought, then it teleported away. Never!
Oliver finally arrived at Lucas's house. "Yay!" he said as he hyperly pressed on the doorbell twenty seven times.
Scratch that, he kept on ringing, and ringing, and ringing.
"The damn door is open, Oliver!" yelled a voice from upstairs.
"But I like your doorbell! It's cool!" said Oliver.
Ding, dong. Ding, dong. Ding…
There were several thumps, then the door opened and Lucas stared at Oliver. "What are you doing here?" asked Lucas.
"Don't you remember… Little Bunny Foo Foo?" Oliver said in a small voice.
"Oliver? I thought I told you I wasn't going to do that!" the blond said annoyedly.
Then, Oliver sniffled. "But – but – but, Lloyd told me he wasn't going to do it… And we need someone to operate the Powerpoint… Will you?"
Lucas sighed for the twenty fifth time this day. "Fine."
"Yaaaaaaaaay!" Oliver shouted as he ran past Lucas – and up the stairs.
After the incident with Aaron, Lucas didn't want anyone to find out about Ike. So he ran after the hyper kid, yelling, "Oliver, don't go up there! OLIVER!"
But then, Oliver ran into the bedroom, saw Ike and – gave him a big hug.
"Yaaaaaaaay!" the hyper kid said. "We're going to rock at the comp!"
"Get off me, crazy kid!" Ike gasped.
"Yaaaaaaaaaay!" Oliver said in response and he hugged the unfortunate Ike even tighter.
"Get him off me!" Ike pleaded as Oliver continued hugging him. I'm suffering here!
Lucas was watching from the corridor. He was wondering if he could get away with not telling Oliver the whole truth.
"Never! My cousin isn't here so I must hug you for her!" Oliver announced. This stopped Lucas and Ike in their tracks.
"Why would your cousin know me?" asked Ike.
"You're Ike from Fire Emblem, right? Path of Radiance or that Japanese-y title or something. My cousin has a crush on you, so I must hug you for her because you exist!" Oliver chirped.
"I'm from a game?" Ike asked slowly.
"My cousin lives in Japan and she gets all the games before we do, she's sooo lucky! And she understands Chinese!"
"Shouldn't that be Japanese?" said Lucas numbly. He was trying to process the fact that his friend may have metamorphosed into a video game character. It was very hard to grasp.
Oliver pulled away from Ike. "Chinese, Japanese, press the buttons and out comes these!" he said, pulling his eyes up, down and then stretching his hands outwards.
Ike was also trying to process this fact. He sat back down and stared at the wall.
"What's wrong? Did I do anything? I'msosorryi'msosorryi'msosorry!" Oliver said in a rush.
"Oliver, can you please go to the bathroom for a moment?" asked Lucas. Oliver happily ran off.
The blond turned to Ike and frowned. "I think we need to research, because I have never heard of Fire Emblem." He then went over to the computer, the stunned Ike following.
The sky outside was dark, but Ken wasn't scared. No matter how scared he was last night, today would be the day he'd find out who threatened him.
So he jumped out the open window, and flew.
He flew in the direction of the woods, and the stars were out.
God, how he loved flying.
If anyone could have seen Lucas at that moment, they'd have thought he was mad. With his eyes riveted to the computer screen, mouth wide open and sort-of drooling, he resembled a braindead zombie.
Behind him, Ike was staring at the screen intensely. Just yesterday, the computer was his life. Now, he had no clue how to use it. But I still know how to use a sword, Ike thought ruefully.
"What's that?" asked Lucas as the other teen's thought crept into his mind.
"Nothing."
The blond returned to staring at the computer. "Wikipedia has only a teensy weensy bit on you!" he complained. "Teensy! Weensy!"
Ike said nothing.
"Still, it's a bit of shocker that my friend turned into a character from a video game."
Just before Ike could reply, the door opened. "Can I come back in now?" yelled Oliver from the corridor.
"Yes! Do you know anything about Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance?" Lucas yelled back.
Oliver came into the room and ran over to the computer, shoving Ike aside. "Go to Miniclip! Go to Miniclip!" he said hyperly.
The annoyed Ike glared at the other kid. "Do you mind?" he growled.
Oliver didn't notice, but Lucas definitely read the murderous thoughts. He whirled around. "Ike, please don't kill Oliver," he said tiredly.
The taller teen snorted. "I won't."
Lucas wasn't sure if Ike wouldn't kill Oliver, but the most important thing was finding information. He sighed and turned back to the computer.
"Whoooo!" yelled Ken as he swooped over the forest. He shouldn't have screamed, but flying was just too exhilarating! It was great!
Then there was a flash of gold, lit up by the moonlight… Ken dived down and landed in the clearing. There was no one there.
"Helloo?" Ken called out quietly. "Helloo?"
Then, there was the cling of a sword and something metal was at his throat.
"You don't read notes, do you?" asked the surprisingly childlike voice. "You really don't. 'Cause if you did, you wouldn't be here."
"Did you… send me that thing?" Ken asked nervously.
"I wrote it with Roy's help, Pichu 'sent' it. But I don't like you. You really shouldn't be here and if you had a brain, you'd stay far from the woods." The calm voice sent shivers down the winged boy's spine. "But I can't kill you, or the Doctor will kill me."
There was a rustle in the bushes and a teenager with red hair walked up to Ken. He was gripping another teen's arm and they were in shadow.
The boy looked like Lloyd.
"L-lloyd?" Ken asked. Lloyd said nothing.
Ken's aggressor stepped in front of Ken. He looked like a younger version of Lloyd and from the dim light of the moon, he seemed to be wearing green.
"Oh, is the name his 'parents' named him Lloyd? Nice name. Old. Quaint," the boy in front of Ken remarked. "My name is Young Link, but you can call me Tom."
"Shouldn't we just let them go?" asked the teenager in the shadows.
'Tom' hesitated. "I'm going to let Pit go in a second, but I recall that Mewtwo wants Lloyd for an experiment. Yes, an experiment."
"Let him go!" Ken shouted. Young Link gave a dirty look at Ken and… threw him into the air with amazing power. Ken caught the wind in his wings and hovered for a second.
The kid whipped out an arrow and aimed it at Ken. "Because you haven't fully shifted yet, this arrow will cause major problems to you. Leave. NOW."
And because Ken didn't want major problems, he left quite quickly.
:P Long chapter is looong.
