Claimer: This is my story, I made it up. I also own all Talent Pops, dice games, shelters, YogoPops, and books mentioned.
Now, enough of my prattling, on to the story!
POYO!
I came to and jumped to my feet.
"Come on Peanut! No time to sleep!" I yelled dragging Peanut up by her arm.
"To the shelter!" She yelled. I grabbed Ed and Oryx and pulled them after me down the stairs, with Peanut and Al following behind.
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-Sue-
We ran into the steel encased, concrete floored, purple tinged, but not air tight, shelter and I shut the door. Peanut and I curled into balls in our respective corners while Ed, Al, and Oryx looked on in confusion. I put my hands over my ears and lay on the concrete ground motionless, until I slipped into a light, fear filled, doze. I woke to Al and Oryx chatting and playing cards and Ed trying to talk to Peanut. He sighed, gave up, and walked over to where I was sitting.
"You okay now?" He asked with a grin on his face.
"Yeah, panic is over now." I pulled out my hand-made dice and offered them to Ed. "You wanna play a couple games?" I asked, he rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, during the apocalypse, you gamble." I shrugged and rolled the dice.
"I call this game 'Naming ritual' you roll the dice and have to think up a word with the same number of syllables or letters in it. The game ands when one person can't think of a word, or gets one wrong. " I rolled and got four. "Rave!" Ed grinned and rolled, six.
"Access." Ha said, and handed the dice over. We played until Peanut crawled over and asked how long we were going to stay down in the shelter. I considered this.
"Well, if you think about it, the destruction of the earth could either take seven days, or several hundred millennia. So I thought we'd take a nice medium and go with 'till tomorrow morning." Peanut smiled, I snatched up the dice and walked over to where Al and Oryx where finishing up their card game. We sat in a circle talking for a while, until I decided it was time for a snack break.
"Talent Pop anyone?" I asked pulling a box out and offering them 'round the circle. We opened the Talent Pops and took cautious licks.
"Mine tastes like Singing!" Al said joyously, licking the sun yellow ice block.
"Mine tastes like Dancing!" Oryx said, licking her own purple one.
"Well mine tastes like…Being…Stupid…" I looked at my lime green Talent Pop with a tilted head.
"That's not a talent!" Ed said.
"I know…I'm confused." I said, Ed snorted.
"Well mine's gonna be one. It tastes like…" He took a lick, "Paper…"
"That's not a talent either!" I said loudly. Peanut giggled and licked hers.
"Mine tastes like… The Apocalypse!" I took the Talent Pop off her and licked it.
"No Peanut, that's strawberry." Peanut took it back off me and licked it again.
"Oh, right. But that's not a talent either!"
"Um, I got it! That one was a leftover from the YogoPops box." I looked down at my Talent Pop.
"Mmm, strawberry." Peanut took a huge lick of her Talent Pop.
"Stupidity it is." I began to eat mine, Ed just shrugged and bit into his Paper flavoured Talent pop. Al started singing a song he made up: 'Dancing in the monsoonal rains,' while Oryx danced with an umbrella she found in the corner. We ate our Talent Pops and played dice games before falling asleep around a campfire.
I'm taller than my parents that!
We emerged from the shelter the next morning and I sent Peanut on her way, it was always nice to catch up with her. Oryx and Al went for a walk in the meadow of sad flowers, to try and cheer them up, and I went to the Fiction floors of the library, while Ed studied more Alchemy.
He took a break eventually and came to find me, I was reading 'Refraction of Light'; a tale of magic, in which the heroine dies tragically at the end, or so you think, and had the sequel, 'Mirror Force', on the table in front of me. Ed sat down on the black couch next to me, looked at the book title, and sighed.
"I don't know how you can read that." He said, shaking his head. I slipped an ash leaf into the book, put it on top of Mirror Force, and turned to Ed.
"What did you say?" He motioned to the book.
"That stuff is illogical." I frowned.
"It's a story. They don't need to be logical."
"But they're impractical, life isn't a fairy tale!"
"I know that, the people who wrote these knew that, they're offering an escape for people who need it! A world where the impossible is possible!" I stood up and swept my hand in the direction of the books, my voice rising.
"But the impossible can't be possible! That's why it's impossible!" Ed stood up too, pointing at the book I was reading.
"Well we don't all think like you! Imagination is still important you know!"
"Of course I know, but it still doesn't make these books any less illogical!" We were yelling now.
"The world doesn't always need to fit into your logical rules and calculations!" I was yelling louder now.
"Why can't the world be logical?" Ed was staring defiantly up at me.
"Because…'cause…You don't get it!" I screamed, and ran out of the library, grabbing my books as I left.
That's what she said!
In bed!
With a leaf!
I curled up in a ball under the covers in my bed my arms over my head. I heard the castle door creak open, then slam shut. I sat up and ran over to the window, it was pouring rain outside, I squinted through the rain and spotted Ed's retreating back. I sighed, he probably needs to cool off and think, so let him.
Idiotic Peasant Frog!
Oryx turned over for the fifteenth time in ten minutes, sighed, and wriggled out of bed. She crossed to the window and watched the rain slide down the pane. She saw something moving through the sheets of water and squinted to make it out.
They were wearing a red coat… They had blonde hair… Edward! Oryx watched him walk past the castle and out of sight, wondering why he was walking about in the rain. She yawned suddenly tired and walked back to the bed. Oryx made a mental note to ask Frog about Ed in the morning. She wormed back under the covers and Al wrapped his arms around her as she drifted to sleep.
And that was yet another chapter of CCC. You can find the other chapters simply by clicking the appropriate title in that drop down menu thing. Don't run into a wall when you leave!
Next time on CCC: Hamsters attack! (Not really I'm making that up.)
