I am SO eager to getting to our epic battle, that I have become a write-aholic! 8D (oh, crap, here comes the Rehab for Authors team… *runs off*)
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Fangface the Second: Oh, yeah, the action will be building up, especially since the idea of it has been nagging at my mind and needs to be unleashed! …Good luck with your story, hope to read it soon! :D
Disclaimer: I don't own Fangface… otherwise the show would still be on TV (duh).
"Alyx!/Kaiser!/Toni!" Edwin, Kim, Kite, and Puggsy all exclaimed.
"Dad!/Mom!/Pugs!" Alyx, Kaiser, and Toni exclaimed back.
"YOU'RE ALIVE!" the six of them shouted. Alyx then hugged her father, Kaiser hugged both his parents, and Toni hugged her cousin.
"What, no one's happy to see me alive?" Luca commented, jokingly.
"I thought you were dead!" Puggsy said to Toni.
"Small world. I thought the same about you," Toni responded, then looked around. "Wait, where's the others?"
"The others are here, too?" Biff asked.
"Oh, yeah." Alyx said, turning to Kasandra and Fangs. "And you would NOT believe who we happened to meet…"
"GACK!" Puggsy choked as Dark-Al caught him in a chokehold.
"Hate to spoil the reunion, but I've got payback to do!" Dark-Al sneered. "And you're coming with me," With that, he and Puggsy dropped through a trap-door.
"Puggsy!" Kim gasped, diving and grabbing Puggsy's wrist, only to get pulled down with her friend.
"Kim!" Kite yelled, trying to grab his wife, but the trap door closed before he could.
"We JUST got reunited with our family, and we get split from them again!" Toni snapped, balling her fists, then began using every cuss word in the book, though in order to keep this story from getting closer to an 'M' rating, we replaced her words with language out of the Puggsy Dictionary. "Zombified, snakified, statutory, ranshacktified, ignorpotomases!"
"We've got to find them! I didn't come this far to lose my wife AND my best-friend!"
"How are we going to find them? That trap door could lead anywhere!" Gin said.
"I could help," a voice said, and Elliot appeared.
"Elliot! When did you get here?" Shang asked.
"I've always been here… I'm just shy around large groups of people." He ghosted his head through the floor where the trap-door was, then pulled it back up, sighing. "It's gone. It's like the trap-door never existed!"
"Then how are we going to trackify them?" Hardy griped.
"Your name's 'Tracker'. You got a plan?" Shang asked Tracker.
"Yeah, but I can't track them if the trap-door disappeared. There's no trace," Tracker replied.
Gin looked at the map she copied down, a smile coming across her face. "Yes we do!" she said, holding up the map, pointing at a series of red-lines. "All these read lines, I thought they were secret passages, but look- they connect to the X's that mark the traps! All we have to do is follow them, and we'll find Kim and Puggsy!"
"But in order to do that, we'd have to go through the floor," Luca said. "And, in case you haven't notice, not all of us are exactly ectoplasmic at the moment."
"If you keep making comments like that, you WILL be," Elliot sneered, then turned to the others. "I could ghost a couple of you through the ground, but I can only take two at a time."
"And we don't have much time left," Edwin said, looking at his watch. "The moon has already risen… and the eclipse will begin in less than 10 hours. It'll take us that long to navigate our way to Darkarai."
"Looks like we're going to have to split up," WG said.
"Are you nuts? We're as split-up enough as it is!" Stalker scoffed. "We've lost half our gang!"
"And we'll FIND that half," Biff said sternly. "Elliot, you, Fangs, and Kite go after Kim and Puggsy. We'll go after Darkarai."
"What about the others? We can't leave them out of the fun!" Kaiser said.
"I could help track them," a voice said, and Wolfsbane appeared.
"AUGH!" Fangs screamed, leaping into Eric's arms. "I-I thought you were d-d-d-"
"Dead? Nah. I faked my death," she snapped her fingers, then two of her appeared. "It's all part of the art of allusions. Nothing is always as it seems. When I got hit by a bullet, I quickly crawled into a safe area, making an allusion of my wounded-self appear for him to stab. I made more copies of myself to scout around the place, making it appear as if I were haunting it…"
"…When I'm actually alive," A solid Wolfsbane said, stepping up behind the gang, and her allusion-doubles disappeared. "It's a special gift I have,"
"Suh-WEET!" Eric, Luca, Shang, Kaiser, and Stalker all exclaimed.
"You need to teach me how to do that," WG said, hugging her fellow-fan. "I'm so glad you're okay."
"Ah, I knew you couldn't kill off your favorite OC." Wolfsbane said, then cracked her knuckles. "Now, lets split up, find our friends, and kick some super-natural butt!"
"Yeah, BEFORE Darkarai reaches full power, and Finneas and Lex form the X-wand." Edwin said.
Wolfsbane turned to Max. "I thought you defeated Lex,"
"I thought I did… but he managed to become one with FF2 like I did… and took control of me, forcing Silver out." Max said, hanging his head low. "Silver had so much purity in his own heart that Lex felt vulnerable, so he took over and… I don't know how, but it's like he just erased Silver out of FF2's soul-"
Wolfsbane turned every color of red with fury, her eyes literately flaming. "He WHAAAT?" She then began to cuss, making us having to replace her choice words with more of Puggsy's vocabulary for the sake of younger readers. "That monstrified son of an ignorpotomas! How DARE he use his grimmified power to get rid of Silver! I oughtta boulderize him into smotherines, then busterate his creepified skull!" She took several deep breaths, her nostrils flaring.
Everyone else gawked. "Geez, if she went on, she would've used up the whole dictionary," WG whispered to Tracker.
"Um… alright. We'll go after Darkarai. The rest of you, find the others." Biff said.
"Hold on. We need to make one little adjustment," Kite said, taking out a picture of the moon.
Fangface, Kitefang, Hunter, and Fangpuss then appeared. "(grr) Alright, take us to Pugs!" Fangface said to Elliot.
"Here's a copy of the map," Gin said after making two more copies, giving one to each Elliot and Wolfsbane.
The ghost nodded, grabbing Kitefang and Fangface by the wrists and they went through the floor, Wolfsbane went to track down the others, and the rest of the gang went to hunt down Darkarai.
Puggsy didn't know where the trap door took them, but he and Kim suddenly found themselves in a large, stone room. There was a dark hallway behind them, and a set of stairs that let into a wall of bright light. "Are we dead?" he asked, rubbing his head.
"You will be if you don't agree to my terms," a voice said, and they whipped around, seeing Darkarai standing beside a motionless Dark-Al, who had a large gash in his stomach. "I didn't want to kill this one off, but apparently he and a couple other villains were plotting to use you or one of your family-members to overthrow me and lock me back into that wretched book." She knelt beside Dark-Al. "See what happens when you try to turn against the most powerful being on Earth?"
"W-What are you going to do to us?" Kim asked, trembling. She screamed as shadowed tentacles shot out of the ground, grabbing her by the arms and legs and holding her down.
"I don't have much in mind for you," Darkarai turned to Puggsy. "It's YOU I have plans for."
"What do you want with me?" Puggsy sneered.
Darkarai smirked, circling around him. "I'd love to kill you, make the chances of me being sent back into that book dwindle… But, I've been watching you closely, and noticed a trace of darkness in you. I didn't notice until Nether-Girl's nefarious scheme helped it show. I began to think 'Perhaps this Vandeguarde descendant won't be so useless,' and since your wife is gone and your child isn't alive, you have nothing to live for."
Puggsy glowered. "I don't believe you,"
"Then look at this," Clicking a remote, Darkarai had a plasma-screen appear, showing an image of Keith shooting Kiff, and Brielle passing out. "That Bellington kid takes after his father with his disdain for werewolves, and perhaps Dark-Al was correct about Nether-Girl and Brielle being closely connected. No doubt FF2 is probably dead now, too. …So, tell me, how does it feel to have everyone you love out of your life?"
Puggsy clenched his fists, preparing to punch her. "You rotten-"
"Ah, ah, ah… you wouldn't want anything to happen to THIS lovely girl, would you?" She motioned over to Kim, snapping her fingers and making the tentacles yank the teenage-girl down. "And I'll do worse to your friends, too, if you don't accept my deal."
He scowled. "What deal?"
Darkarai pointed at the white light. "Step through that passage, it is how someone becomes a Blackheart. Surrender your soul and join my force… give up your love and faith, and be part of a world where you don't have to worry about losing anyone you care about- especially since you don't have anyone to care about you."
"Pugs, don't listen to h-" Kim tried to cry out, but another tentacle shot up and covered her mouth. "Mmph! Mmf!"
"Kim!" Puggsy gasped, then turned to Darkarai. "Let her go!"
"IF you do as I say. Cross into the light, surrender your heart. Your family is gone. There's no one to love you. …Otherwise, your friend dies. You have five minutes." With that, she disappeared.
Finneas and Lex stood in front of the monitors as Darkarai came back. "So, think he'll do it?" Lex asked.
"I bet you 50 bucks he's gonna do it." Finneas replied.
"I bet you 100 he won't,"
"I wouldn't make that bet just yet," Darkarai said, her arms crossed.
"Yeah. No one loved Puggsy more than Brielle and Kiff, so unless Kim makes some romantic confession, he's gonna do it."
Lex put his money on the table. "And I know he's not that stupid. He'll turn down the offer," he said.
Finneas put his money on the table. "You're on! I can tell Marluxio managed to cast a darkness spell on him. The only way to break it is for someone to show complete compassion toward him… and I know that Kim doesn't love him that way, so he's gonna do it!"
"You wanna bet?"
"We just did!"
Darkarai only rolled her eyes.
Puggsy stood at the bottom of the steps, looking into the light. Part of him kept telling him there was another way to free his friend, that Darkarai wasn't going to keep her end of the deal, that it would be the most dumbest thing he could ever do… Yet the darkness in him told him there was no other way, that even if they got out alive there would be no point, that it would be best if he could never feel love again, especially since there was no one who could love him back.
Or was there?
Kim bit the tentacle that covered her mouth, making it shrink back. "Pugs, you don't have to do this! Darkarai is wrong!" she cried. "You still have friends and family who love you!"
But the darkness wouldn't let her hear her words. They've got their own families… they don't have time to love you. No one does. it said in his head.
Not so fast… he thought in reply. "Kim," he said, without facing her. "When you admitted you felt a 'spark' between us… did you ever actually have a feeling that you might- love me, more than a friend?"
Kim bit her bottom lip, looking at the ground, wondering why he was bringing this up now. She thought back to all those 'romantic hints' WG put them through, all those sparks she felt… then realized, that's all she felt. A simple spark. Nothing more. "I DO love you, Puggsy… I always felt something between us… but, I don't think I ever was IN love with you."
He nodded. "Good that you finally got that off your chest. …Just make sure you never stop loving Kite and Kitefang. They love you more than you thought I could," he then began walking up the steps.
"Puggsy!" Kim tried to run to him, but the tentacles pulled her down, one covering her mouth again.
Puggsy walked up the steps. His heart kept telling him to stop, but it was drained out by the darkness that possessed him, forcing him toward the light, making his mind blank. He was a step away from it, slowly reaching his hand toward it, just an inch away.
"Pugs, NO!"
Suddenly, a pair of arms wrapped around him, pulling him away, and he felt fur brush against his face as Fangface held him close. Kitefang and Elliot in the meantime untangled Kim from the tentacles, the werewolf using his sword to slice them off of her.
Puggsy remained still as Fangface held him. "(grr) Please don't do it, Pugs," he whispered. "I don't want my best-buddy to turn into a shadow-creature that I'll have to fight. (snarl)"
The darkness tried to drain out his words, but somehow it was losing its strength, the spell weakening.
"I came close to losing you too many times in the past, Pugs. (grr) Too many times. I don't want to lose you forever… I love ya, Pugs. (grr) Love ya."
Any darkness that remained inside him disappeared, the spell breaking and shattering, and Puggsy gasped, nearly falling to the ground if Fangface wasn't hanging on to him. "Fangface? …Ugh, what the…?" he said, then stood up and backed away from the light, Fangface keeping an arm around him. "Jumping ignorpotomases, did I almost…?"
"Almost, but didn't, (grr)"
Kitefang watched them, smiling slightly. Kim hugged him tight, sighing with relief as she looked at their friends. Looks like Puggsy only needs one werewolf in his life… and Fangface is it. the werewolf thought.
"Um, guys?" We'd better get out of here," Elliot said, grabbing Kim and Kitefang, then running over and grabbing Puggsy and Fangface. Hanging on to one another, they shot through the ceiling and dozens of shadowed tentacles reached for them, but never caught.
They reached a hallway, catching up with the others. "Hey, you're still alive!" Toni said, smirking.
"Yeah, and if it wasn't for Fangface, I'd be a shadowfied creepo," Puggsy said.
"You're using your vocabulary again! IT'S A MIRACLE!" Stalker exclaimed.
"Rejoice later, Stalker." Hunter said. "We still have some other creepos to handle,"
The gang continued their way down the hallway. Puggsy paused, stopping beside Fangface, patting him on the back. "I owe you, buddy." he whispered.
"(grr) No one messes with my Pugs, (grr) no one," Fangface replied, hugging him.
WG's eyes became teary. "Confound it, guys! I just got done being emotional!" she griped, blowing her nose with a tissue. "Stupid fluff moments…"
"Hey. YOU'RE writifying the story," Puggsy retorted. "Now, c'mon. We've got a sorceress to huntify down."
Finneas stared at the screen, shocked. "No one could love Puggsy more, eh? Unless Kim made a romantic confession, he'd walk through, huh? Wasn't those your exact words?" Lex teased.
"Alright, so I over-looked the werewolf. Shut up!" Finneas snapped.
"I will, after you PAY up."
Finneas grumbled, handing over a hundred-dollar bill.
Darkarai scowled, facing them. "Don't just sit around gambling! Get to work on that X-wand!" she yelled, then faced the monitors, glowering at a screen that showed Lamone. "I am NOT going to lose this time…"
A/N: Don't get your hopes up, Darkarai XD Alright, folks, sorry for not warning you about that unsuspected 'fluff' moment… I just had to put one in. :3
Anyway, please review. Those who flame will be tied on a spit and roasted over a campfire.