Hey, Rulers! Thanks so much for your support and feedback with this story! YOU MAKE MEH SO HAPPAY. Really. You do. Anyway, here's chapter ten. En-juh-hoy!

Chapter Ten

Sky's POV

I don't get it. How come I can remember everything except my best friend? How does that work? I put my arm up to run a hand through my hair. I yelp. Everyone stops looking apologetically at Deadlox and turns their attention to me. I shake my head. "It's fine, my arm just... hurts."

Deadlox mumbles something about Seto and potions and then leaves the room. "So... How'd you escape the squids?" Jason asks.

"I found a trap door, climbed through it, found a room filled with budd- NO! OH, NO NO NO! WHAT HAVE I DONE?" I scream at myself, beginning to hyperventilate.

"...What's wrong?" Ryan asks.

"THEY HAD A WHOLE ROOM FILLED WITH BUDDER AND I ONLY TOOK ENOUGH TO MAKE ARMOR AND SWORDS!" I wail.

"It's OK, Sky. At least we bested the squids, right?" Jerome asks.

I snap out of my gloomy mood and smile. "Yes, we did!"

"Woo, high-five!" Mitch yells, jumping up and running over to me.

"Woo!" I shout, high-fiving him.

Mitch catches on fire.

"AGH! WHY AM I ON FIRE?"

"Whoops?" I say, laughing.

Jerome stares at me, wide-eyed. "You actually enchanted your fists?" I nod and he backs away slowly, causing me to laugh more.

"Guys! I'm still on fire!" Mitch screams.

I cover my mouth in an attempt to stop laughing. "Well," I say, "there's some water over there." I point to the toilet.

He groans but jumps in. "I hate you guys so much," he mumbles, no longer on fire. I laugh even harder.

Suddenly, Seto pops into the room. "Are you OK?" he asks.

"Mitch isn't," I say.

Seto glances over at Mitch, who is still in the toilet, and raises and eyebrow. "Right. Do you need any painkiller for your arm?"

"That'd be nice," I say.

"I'll go get some. If you're feeling up to it, Seth built something in your honor right across the street," he replies. Then he pops out of the room.

"Lezzgo!" Mitch shouts, hopping out of the toilet. Then he spins around, spraying everyone with toilet water. I make a face and then run out the door, searching for Seth's creation. Soon I find it. "Is that..," Mitch starts.

"A giant..," Dawn says.

"TOASTER?" I yell. The toaster is twice the size of the hospital. Seth is flying near the pushy-down-thingy. He glances down at us and smiles before pressing a button. Two pieces of bread fall into the toaster. A few minutes later, there's a large explosion sound and the toast flies up into the air, landing on an emerald plate a few yards away. I gape at Seth as he uses a shovel to scoop some budder out of a green container. He smears it over the gigantic toast and grins at us. "Is it edible?" I whisper.

"Yeah. Go ahead, try it."

I sprint up to the toast and take a huge bite out of one. "YOU'RE AMAZING!" I scream at Seth. He laughs and flies away to do redstony stuff with the toaster. My friends stare at the toast for a minute, then step forward to try it. It's so big that even after we've all eaten our fill, the first piece of toast still isn't gone.

This is great, but I need to find Deadlox. I feel really bad about the whole 'I-don't-remember-who-the-heck-you-are' thing. Poor dude. He was just playing with his buddy one day, and then suddenly his buddy has no idea who he is. Why did I have to be so stupid? Why couldn't I have just waited to try that jump?

"I'm going to go find Deadlox," I say, taking one last bite of buttery toast.

"What about Seto? He went to get you some painkiller," Dawn says.

"I'll be fine, and Seto is a magical genius, he'll probably sense that I'm not where he left me."

Dawn nods. "Good luck remembering," she whispers. I smile and nod a thank you before running off to find Deadlox.

"Deadlox!" I yell as I run through the city. I sigh loudly. "Where is he?" I mumble, pulling out my phone. It rings a few times before he picks up.

"Hello?"

"Deadlox! It's me, Sky. I just wanted to say sorry for not remembering you."

"It's... It's alright," he says, but he sounds sad. "Sometimes life is unexpected."

"Yeah." In an attempt to lighten the mood, I say, "Remember during the tropical vacation jump map when you got the water sword that caught things on fire? That was certainly unexpected. Except that was actually pretty cool."

Deadlox gasps. "What did you just say?"

"Uh... It was cool?"

Deadlox sighs. "Wow, Sky. Just wow."

"What? What did I doooo?" I whine. "Tell me!"

"Sky! You remembered the tropical vacation jump map! You remembered me, something I did."

"Oh. Yeah. So what?"

I can hear him facepalming on the other end. "Sky! You remembered me!"

"Oh! Yeah! I did! SUCCESS!"

Deadlox laughs. "This is great!"

I nod, then realize that he can't see me. "Yeah. I'm gonna go tell the others that I remembered." He says goodbye and is about to hang up when I suddenly stop him. "Wait!" I say. "If you see Seto, could you tell him that I don't need that painkiller anymore?"

"Sure," he says. Then he hangs up.

And a deep, scary, annoying voice says, "You're going to wish you'd taken that painkiller, Sky."

Deadlox's POV

I cheer silently as I hang up. Finally, he remembers! Finally! I make a strange little whooping noise as I slip my phone into my pocket. Now I have to find Seto.

Suddenly, my phones rings again. I sigh dramatically as I pull out my phone. "Hello?"

"Deadlox!" Sky screeches. "Help! Squids!"

My eyes widen as I race down the stairs with my phone pressed against my ear. "Where are you?"

There's silence for a bit. Then Sky gasps and something wails and I hear the sound of feet hitting pavement. "I'm downtown, near the old coffee shop, sprinting around with eight squids right behind me. How is no one seeing this? We're right out in the open!"

"I'm coming, Sky!"

"Hurry!" he shouts. I burst through the doors of the building I was in and run out onto the street. Then I sprint past stores and restaurants, only stopping once to grab two budder blades. "ACK! Deadlox, I'm almost out of run! Eep! I'm out of run!"

I skid around the street corner to see at least thirty squids closing in on Sky. Shoving my phone into my pocket, I run forward and call out to him. "Sky! That is not eight squids!"

"Sorry!" he shouts back. "I didn't really have time to count!" I slash through squids to get to Sky, who is punching squids and somehow setting them on fire.

"How-?" I ask.

"Enchanted fists, bro," he says, laughing. Then a squid digs its teeth into his arm (The same one that was suctioned before) and he cries out in pain.

I drive my blade through the squid. The remaining squids make a mad scramble for the nearest lake in an attempt to avoid my sword, but I kill most of them anyways. "Is your arm OK?" I ask, using his uninjured arm to pull him to his feet.

He nods, but that doesn't stop me from observing how pale he is, or how his arm hangs limply at his side. "I'm fine," he lies. "Thanks for saving me."

I frown at him as I pull out my phone to call Seto. "Is the respawn machine fixed?"

Seto replies with a "Yes."

"Good. We're going to need a lot of painkiller."

xXx

So, yeah. That happened. :3