Now for another update… before my cold settles in :P

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Scoobycool9: Eh, I like to be weird ^-^ ; I hope so, too; Thank you; And alright ;)

Starspring: Because he paid attention in school, that's why (you need to know these things, especially when zombies are lurking about); No one ever notices the similarity; Yeah, otherwise this plot would suck; Good point; And of course it means mischief!

Elizabeth: Zombie Nerds FTW; …I never heard of Marchen, sorry; Yay, I gave you another memorable quote! ^-^; No, witchcraft is forbidden in churches, witches can enter as long as they don't use it; Yep… crap.; I had to look up 'otaku' to answer so… yes; I'd respond to the rest of your reviews, but I think I'll just say thanks and give you a box of muffins *gives*. Thanks!

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We began to search the church, looking for any secret compartments, or hidden rooms, heck even a hollow Bible that was probably used to store liquor! We searched all the pews, walked upstairs and searched the rooms, in the old organ, behind the choir booth, under the reverend pedestal, and even went as far as searching the bathroom.

You know what we found?

Zilch.

I was getting pissed. I was hoping on finding some mystic jewel, or a sacred artifact… I would even settle for another riddle! But no matter where we looked, we didn't find fuck. "I can't believe it! We came all this way, but there's nothing here!" Sai snarled.

"Maybe we're not searching in the right places," Pin guessed… and if we weren't in a church, I would have beat him black and blue, considering we searched everywhere.

I sighed, sitting down and looking out a window, seeing that all the zombies were now reading mangas and having pokemon tournaments, waiting for us to come out. I sighed and looked at the stained glass windows instead. There was one of Christ, one of a choir of angels, one of an angel with blue wings…

Wait. Blue wings?

I looked at it, seeing that the angel happened to be pointing somewhere. I followed the finger, seeing that it was pointing at a crypt outside… one that was painted blue. If that isn't a subliminal message, I don't know what is. I thought, standing up. "Guys, I think Pin's right," I spoke up. "We're searching in the wrong place,"

"Where are we supposed to search, then?" Puss asked.

"Out there," I pointed out the window at the crypt.

"You want us to go back outside and search in a tomb that might be infested with zombies?" Rosie questioned.

"Damn, and I thought the trip ended here!" Posie exclaimed.

"Pin, Puss, Sai and I will go out and search," I said, walking toward a back door, digging into my backpack as I did. "The rest of you stay here and wait for Wolf,"

"Right," Fangface II said with a nod.

We walked out, seeing that a few zombies were, in fact, lounging around and waiting for us, then began to stumble after us. I pulled a manga out of my backpack and threw it at a zombie who caught it, and let out an excited moan, which caught the attention of the rest of them, and they stumbled over to see. "What did you throw at them?" Puss asked in a whisper.

"A hentai manga," I replied. "I bought one at the last port- it's one thing zombie nerds can't resist, but we'll have to move fast, just in case some of them aren't perverted."

Sure enough, a few zombies weren't interested and began chasing after us. Sai took something off her belt and threw it, making it erupt in green flames and keeping the zombies at bay, while we raced to the crypt. "Why didn't you throw one of those before?" Puss demanded.

"I only use them in emergencies, or on someone who pissed me off," Sai replied sharply, and showed the bite on her arm. "And buddy, those freaks really pissed me off, and if I become a zombie, I'm going to spend my time kicking their undead asses all over this island!"

"You'd have to do it before your brain rotted and you'd grow interested in learning the quantum theory," I put in.

We reached the crypt, pushing open the door. "Someone should stand guard, just in case those zombies come near," Pin said.

"Puss, you do it,"

"Why me?" Puss snapped.

"Because, zombies prefer flesh with less fur, and I think some of them might have cat-allergies,"

"I'll stand guard with him," Sai said, giving Puss a dark glare. "Just in case opportunity springs for me to throw him at the freaks."

"For the last time, I didn't MEAN to cut your braid off!" Puss snapped.

Pin and I walked into the crypt, walking down the steps into the darkness. There was a torch on the wall which we lit and used to guide us, and all I could think about was that scene from The Haunted Mansion, where Eddie Murphy had to go down to a tomb to find a key… and I once again scolded myself for letting another thought like that enter my head.

I took out the compass, seeing that it kept pointing in the direction we were heading. "Stop," Pin said, holding his arm out and holding up the torch. We had reached the bottom of the steps… and noticed something we didn't expect.

There were no tombs, no zombies… but a sword stuck in a jewel-encrusted rock. Symbols were etched around the blade, ones that we could hardly read, though there was English written on the hilt: "Whosoever pulls Excalibur II out of this rock shall rule all of Fairytale Land and inherit the sword's power."

"You're kidding." I said, stunned. "We have to pull a King Arthur?"

Pin shrugged. "Hey, it might help," he said.

"How would pulling out a sword help me get my house back, exactly… other than helping me chop off Jared's head?"

"We won't know unless we try,"

I sighed, telling myself that, as soon as I die and meet my parents, I'm going to have a long discussion with them about inheritance. "Alright," I grabbed the sword, then tugged.

And tugged.

And tugged.

And tugged.

It was stuck tight. "Let me try," Pin said, then tried to pull out the sword, but it was stuck as well. "I can't get it. Maybe we need to-"

"AAAIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!" Came a scream, and Puss bolted down the stairs, his tail all bushy. Sai was right behind him, throwing shurikens at a few zombies.

"What's going on? You guys were SUPPOSED to be guarding the entrance!" I demanded.

"It's hard to guard a door from a whole swarm of zombies!" Sai snapped, then whipped out her swords and tried to keep the zombies at bay, Puss at her side.

Pin drew his sword and ran forth. "Blu, you keep working on the sword! We'll hold them off!" he ordered.

"Are you fucking nuts?" I snapped, once again pulling at the sword. "This thing isn't going to come out no matter-" A zombie then tackled Pin, biting into his neck. "PIN! HANG ON!" I then ran forth and cut the zombies head off, kicking it across the floor.

I paused, realizing that I had the sword in my hand now, and the blade was ablazed with blue flames. I didn't have time to be mystified, because the zombies were starting to crowd the room. I swung the blade, and an arc of fire shout out, scorching them. Cool. I then pointed the blade, and a bolt of lightening struck another zombie, reducing it to ashes. By this time, the other zombies' remaining brains began to kick in, and realized that if they didn't back off, they'd be roasted, and started to retreat.

But I wasn't going to let them off that easily. With a yell and a leap, I swung the blade, making another arc of fire, longer and thicker than the last one, and scorching every single one.

"Daaaaaaaaamn!" Sai commented, impressed. "Mind if I steal that sword off you sometime?"

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We raced out of the tomb and back into the church, just in time to see that Wolf had returned, and Pedro and Tink were with him. "Hey, we were wondering where you two went off to," Pin commented.

"Just felt like messing with some zombies." Tink said with a shrug, then noticed my sword. "Hey, where'd you get that?"

"Apparently, my parents left me the most epic weapon in history," I said, holding up the blade.

"I got the medicine, too." Wolf said, treating his half-brother's wounds. "No one's gonna be getting zombified today."

"Thank God," Sai said with a sigh, sitting down and rubbing the antidote on her wounds, then passed it to Pin.

"By the way, how did you finally get the sword out?" Pin asked me as he treated the bite on his neck.

I shrugged. "I just saw some zombie tackling you and wanted to kick its ass, and the sword just popped out for me," I answered.

"Love," Lox said.

"Pardon?" Rosie asked.

"That sword must have been enchanted, so that the only time you could pull it out was if you wanted to defend someone you loved, and that was the only way it would work,"

"You swiped one of those zombies' Inuyasha mangas, didn't you?" Posie scoffed.

I had a few choice comments myself, but in a way I had to agree with Lox. When we first tried prying out the sword, all we thought about was just getting it and going home… but when I saw that Pin was in trouble, I wanted to help him, and the sword came out then. …Though, I wasn't about to admit this to anyone just yet.

"Eh, guess we just got lucky," I said, sheathing the sword. "Lets get back to the ship and head home,"

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A/N: Sorry for the short chapter, but I figured we'd get to the point again… though there's still a few loose ends to tie up.

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