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Authors Notes:
"This is talking."
'This is thinking.'
'This is a spirit.'
"This is singing."
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A shadowy organization called "Twilight's Hammer" was seen plotting, Lincoln had a discussion with his parents, and there was some citrus.
Now let us once again join our cast as they explore the next act.
Chapter 11: One Week Later
In the week that passed after Lincoln's discussion with his parents and his 'talk' with Luna, nothing bug had happened. Lincoln made sure to give Lisa the donation cup the morning after and she disappeared into her lab only reappearing for meals. Three days later as Lincoln was standing in line for the morning shower Lisa called his name causing everyone to turn in her direction to which she took aim and fired, strait at Lincolns genitalia. The injection of the mutagen had a numbing effect so it didn't hurt as much as he remembered.
"LISA!" Lynn Jr. yelled from her spot behind Lincoln. "WHAT THE HECK?!"
"I am fulfilling my half of a bargain I made with our male sibling unit." Lisa explained. "Not to mention that if that is the worst possible action I could make in his hallucination of the future then best to get it out of the way."
"What kind of deal requires..." Luan began to ask gesturing at Lincoln's groin. "...that?"
"One that, ugh..." Lincoln said as he climbed back to his feet having fallen down due to the numbness spreading from his groin to his legs. "Will protect any of my future offspring from genetically inherited diseases." Lincoln glanced briefly at Luna, before looking away with a blush. "Where..." Lincoln cleared his throat. "Where is Lori? I haven't seen her since the party when I came home." He asked trying to change the subject.
"Well she is trying her hardest to get into law school dude, not to mention her part time job. She rarely has time to drop by any more cept Thanksgiving and Christmas" Luna explained.
"Oh." Lincoln replied. "Hey Luan, why do melons have weddings?"
"Because they Cantaloupe. Gotta do better then that Lincoln." Luan giggled. "What's brown and sticky?"
"A stick, come on that was weak." Lincoln groaned. "Can February March?"
"No but April May." Luan chuckled. "How many apples grow on a tree?"
"All of them." Lincoln smiled. "How much money does Pirate pay for corn?"
"A Buccaneer." Luan laughed. "What do you call someone who plays pranks on Halloween?"
"Prankenstien." Lincoln chuckled. "Why do you never see elephants hiding in trees?"
"I..." This brought Luan up short. "I don't know. Why?" Lincoln's smile turned almost feral as all the girls attention was now on him and Luan.
"Because they are so good at it." Lincoln finished the punchline. It took a few seconds for his sisters to get the joke. Luan letting out a full belly laugh and falling to the floor, whilst the rest of the sisters quietly chuckled. Lynn Jr. laughed more at Luan for getting beat in a joke off then the joke itself. After that everyone went about thier buisness.
Of couse Luna had a talk with Rita which started off quietly enough.
"Luna dear, don't you think that maybe this is just a phase you both are going through?" Rita asked after Luna explained why she felt the way she did to her mother.
"A PHASE!" Luna screeched in discust.
"You have to admit dear, that it's not normal to love your brother like you do." Rita continued on trying to get her point across.
"A FUCKIN PHASE?" Luna roared. "You think I haven't thought about every possible outcome, every minor detail. I know its not 'normal'." Luna spat. "I have never been bleedin 'normal'. I never told you all this but Sam who I dated a bit last year."
"Yes? What about Sam? He sounds like such a nice boy, why did you two ever break up?" Rita pushed on not seeing the ticking time bomb that Luna was becoming.
"Sam, is a girl." Luna deadpaned. "And she broke up with me because she was too bloody chicken to be seen dating another girl in public. She said I was a phase, a way to rebel against her parents. I don't need Lincoln to rebel against you. I have my music. So fuck your self rightious attitude towards Lincoln and I. We can wait until we don't need you approval to be together." Luna snarled and stormed out.
"Oh dear." Rita said to herself. A few hours later Rita found Luna in the garage tuning her axe.
"I'm sorry." They both said at the same time, before laughing. After calming down Rita sat down in the offered chair while Luna sat on one of her amps.
"I don't know that I will ever truly understand why you and Lincoln feel the way you do, but I want you to be happy. That's all I've ever wanted for you." Rita said as tears formed in her eyes. "This past year without Lincoln was torture. I love you both so much, all of you. And if you are truly happy together then who am I to stop you. Just..." Rita faltered. "Be safe, and for the love of god don't let the little ones find out."
"Too late for that." Luna mumbled while staring at the ground, looking up she saw Rita's questioning gaze. "Lisa has known for a while, and Lucy is a bloody ninja in the vents. Lana and Lola don't know as far as I know. While Lily seems to have adopted Lincoln and I as a second set of parents." Luna explained. Rita sighed.
"Well she is the youngest and Lincoln has always been great at taking care of her." Rita responded. Luna chuckled.
In the dimly lit room the ten masked people gathered around the table with thirteen candles in the center.
"I would like to hear progress reports on our current projects. Deamon let start with you, have you found the white haired boy?" Khaos asked.
"Not yet, but I did find out the little shit's home town. He lives in royal woods and only got out of the hospital after a year long coma. The hospitals security is run by Merriweather Security Consulting, that's one of the main reasons we couldn't find the punk kid for the last year." Deamon snarled.
"That's a nice segue into Bahak's project. Bahak, your report." Khaos said turning to another male in a mask.
"Infiltrating Merriweather has taken some time, I have befriended Devin Weston the money behind the company. If we control him we control Merriweather." Bahak stated.
"Good, good." Khaos nodded. "Sage how goes replacing our lost members?"
"I have found a suitable replacement for Raiden." Sage replied. "He is an older gentleman who lost his wife to childbirth, and his son died in an incident at a boarding school. He owns a investment banking firm in New York, and has stocks in several companies including Apple, Microsoft, and Samsung. He frequently attends high societal functions with major players in business and government." Sage said as she slide a folder across the table to Khaos. Opening the folder a picture of an older looking Lynn Loud Sr. Only the man in the picture looks gruff and unhappy in his business suit, his dark brown hair greying on the sides.
"Bring him in for an interview, either he joins us or we kill him and take his resources." Khaos commands.
Short chapter this time sorry about that but I thought that some of this needed to be out there to tie everything that has happened together.
Also just a short note I have updated the first 7 chapters cleaning up Spelling mistakes and punctuation and changed the length of time that passed in Lincolns dream so Liby's age is closer to Lily's.
Hope you have enjoyed every thing so far.