Jura was pretty wiped out already, and knowing they had at least one more battle ahead of them wasn't helping things at all. They had a child with them, although technically he and Tria were kids too, but she was a much smaller kid. And then Tria was being generally annoying on top of all that, which just made the whole trip like a million times more stressful.
So yeah, he was gonna have to fight the BR Brigade with all of that, plus the fact that Nibbles was recovering in a hospital and he was very worried about him. The universe was conspiring to kill him.
As they got further and further in without running into goons, Jura could feel a sense of dread building up in his chest. That Elric guy said some stuff that sounded super world-ending and he'd been right about the cell thing, so the closer they got to the warble, the more he was wondering how tough of a battle this was going to be. After all, if this was that serious, there'd be some serious push back on the BR Brigade's end.
Then, after what felt like an eternity, they approached a narrow passage between two sheer cliffs that opened up into a clearing. Overhead was a distorted arch that looked sort of like a really long bubble texture-wise, and in the darkness it had a faint, eerie glow to it. Jura swallowed.
"That'd be the warble up ahead," Leon said suddenly, and Jura jumped.
"Alright, let's go kick some ass," Tria said, starting to press down on the gas again. Jura smacked her arm.
"Hold on," he said, forcing his voice not to shake, "Leon, can you, uh, try to call HQ again on the off-chance they stopped jamming your stuff?"
Leon shrugged. "Sure, won't hurt anything."
A few tense seconds passed as Jura heard more buttons being pressed. He really, really hoped they'd be able to get through, he didn't feel like dying today. Well, they probably wouldn't die, maybe.
"Yeah, it ain't workin'," Leon said, and instantly Jura felt his heart drop.
Tria laughed. "Dude, we gotta fight these guys, it's happening, get over it.
"Sorry I don't wanna get kidnapped," he grumbled in reply, crossing his arms. "Can we at least get a plan established so we're not screwed if we lose?"
"Laaaaaame," Tria said, rolling her eyes.
There was a pause, then Leon shook his head. "Nah, he's right, 'specially 'cause we got the kid with us."
That helped him relax just a little bit. Jura exhaled and felt his chest loosen up slightly. "Okay, thank god."
"It ain't gonna be anythin' crazy," Leon continued, clearly unimpressed by how freaked out Jura was. "Kid's going in last when we drive in 'n she's leavin' first, that's about it."
"Really? That's the best we can do?" Nevermind, he was still just as stressed as before.
"Yep," Leon said flatly. "You got that, kid?"
Daisy flinched when she realized she was getting talked to directly. "U-uh, yeah, Ah got it."
Leon responded with a stern nod. "Good, let's get 'em."
He took the lead driving in and despite his panic, Jura had to admit that Leon was doing a pretty good job keeping calm and taking charge. For a self-proclaimed loner, he sure knew how to keep everyone all rallied together. Then they reached the end of that passageway and all thoughts of anything other than dying left this head instantaneously.
There were three buggies in the clearing with some glowing ball floating between them, electricity occasionally sparking off of it. Jura recognized one of them as Kowloon's, and he assumed the other two were higher-ups as well. Tria confirmed his suspicion within seconds.
"That's the bitch that stole my trophy!" she said as eloquently as he'd expected.
Jura inhaled slowly. "An, uh, that's the buggy of the guy that stabbed Mei Lian."
Her eyes lit up. "Hell yeah, I was hoping I'd get to fight him!"
The monitor screen flashed and suddenly Kowloon was on it. Jura squeaked and tried to compress himself as far away from the image as possible.
"Well, well, well," he said, looking way more smug than Jura was comfortable with, "looks like I get to beat your head in sooner than expected, asshole!"
In the background of Kowloon's transmission, they could all hear an old and definitely evil-sounding voice say, "Kowloon, who the hell are these kids?"
He narrowed his eyes. "They're Wardens, sir."
"Well get rid of them! The time gate needs to finish stabilizing!"
HMMMMM. THAT WAS A LITTLE SUSPICIOUS. Jura shifted so he could hug his knees like the mature teenager he was.
The monitor image changed over to some lady who Tria just glared at, so that was the person who she fought before. "With greatest of pleasures!" she said in a clearly Russian accent, laughing like a totally normal person, so that was creepy.
"Yeah, I'd like to see you try," Tria scoffed.
Kowloon switched back to the screen. He seemed way too excited. "Let's kill some kids, Olga!"
Then the vivosaurs flashed out in front of them.
Jura recognized Zinodious immediately and she recognized him. Her already dark eyes seemed even angrier, if that was possible, as the feathers on her back stood on end and her crest flashed upwards. Similarly, the weird colored gorgo from Olga which was apparently called Gorgostroika, had itself all puffed up as well. A beckles with some stains of black stood to its left and looked absolutely mediocre in comparison to the furious feathered vivosaurs.
"Well, shit," Leon said, voice hinting just the smallest hint of uncertainty, and Jura remembered that only he and Tria had fought dark dark vivosaurs.
"They're, uh, not too much stronger than the normal counterparts!" Jura said. He hoped what he said was encouraging, but he kind of doubted it.
The older teen rolled his eyes. "You'd better be right, rookie," he said, and then he shot Scout out.
Jura smacked their battle screen and accidentally just sent Racer out again. He hadn't got beat up too bad, not nearly as bad as Scout, so he'd probably be fine to fight again. But, well, Leon was using Scout again anyways, so what did Jura know. And Daisy was using Annabel too, so clearly Racer wasn't the worst choice here.
Annabel still seemed pretty bubbly despite how hard their last battle had been, so more power to her, Jura supposed. Seeing her like that was putting Daisy at ease, which was good.
"Alright, let's go for a vaultin' upper on that there gorgo!" she said, surprisingly optimistic.
With a bright trill, Annabel hurtled across the ground and weaved through Zinodious' swipes. Her movements were insanely slow compared to the miniscule hypsi, who zoomed by and jumped at Gorgostroika. The much larger vivosaur couldn't move out of the way before Annabel's body collided with its chin and forced it into an upward stance. This time, Annabel oriented herself and landed on her feet, letting her get out without a lot of trouble.
Zinodious lashed her tail and ran at Racer. She was even bigger than he remembered, even bigger than Racer, so her claws were level with his body in their resting position. Her arm slashed up the front of him, nails scraping his chest and all the way up his jaw as she threw him backwards. Racer staggered backwards as he tried to stop from falling over, his underside vulnerable to attacks.
"Hooo boy, that's not good," Jura murmured to himself.
Scout was up next. "Chaos twister on the beckles!" Leon said, and his ptera dove down right in front of the large carnivore. He twisted around and shot back up, the force of his spinning smacking against the beckles' face and mildly concussing it. As Scout soared up into the sky, Gorgostroika charged right under him and straight at Racer, who was still off balance.
They bit the skin on Racer's throat and yanked, tearing through the flesh and bringing the rest of his neck further into their range. As he fell forward, the dark vivosaur grabbed the entirety of his neck and slammed him into the ground, drawing a pained groan from Racer. With a snort, Gorgostroika turned and trotted away from the other carnivore as he struggled back up to his feet.
Jura leaned forward so he could get a better view of their vivosaur. After a few tries, Racer finally pulled himself back up. Blood dripped from his throat, but not in the gross gushing way from horror movies that meant he was screwed so he was probably fine.
"You good?" Tria yelled out to their vivosaur, who nodded. She then looked over to Jura. "Alright, he's cool, you doing this fight or am I?"
He blinked. "I mean, I can do it."
"Then do it," she said casually, leaning back in her seat.
Jura, frustrated at how little she was taking this battle seriously, just said, "Okay," and then yelled out to Racer, "Get Zinodious with tail bash!"
Racer shook himself off once to help get himself psyched up, then ran at the larger vivosaur. Zinodious needed momentum to get moving fast, and as a result couldn't stop him from spinning around and smacking her in the side with his tail. He made contact right at her shoulder, and as he spun it forced her to spin with him, making her fall over and clumsily get up to her feet.
At about the same time, the beckles was headed towards Annabel. Once it got in range of her, it started spinning around and slammed its spiny tail into the significantly smaller vivosaur. The hypsi squeaked and smacked against a nearby tree, pulling herself back up with a surprising amount of resolve. She just shook her head a couple times and was jogging back over to everyone else.
"Good job, gurl!" Daisy called out to her vivosaur, and Tria whistled.
"I feel like you could shoot that thing in the head and it'd get back up," she said, folding her arms behind her head. Jura hated that he kind of agreed with her.
Daisy didn't seem to hear her, which was honestly for the best. "Another vaultin' upper on that Zinodious this time!" she said. This time Annabel paused for a second, during which it looked like she was taking one long breath, and then ran at the biggest vivosaur in the battle. Honestly, she deserved some hesitation after the abuse she'd been through that day.
Zinodious was still off-balance, so when the little hypsi slammed into her chest it did a good chunk of damage. Unfortunately, the hit did help her reorient herself, so as Annabel scrambled away she was already looking for her next target. Scout happened to flit sort-of in her direction, so Zinodious made a quick swipe at him that he easily flew out of the way of.
"Nice," Leon said with a grin. "Now get that beckles with another chaos twister!"
Scout rerouted from his position over Zinodious with ease, then dive bombed the beckles once more. As he looped back up, the gust he produced was actually strong enough to sweep the vivosaur off its feet. With a sharp cry, the beckles slammed back against the earth and flashed back into its gear. Leon silently smirked and Tria whooped.
"Fuck yeah, one down!" Tria said, elbowing Jura a couple times. He vaguely smiled.
Gorgostroika growled in the direction its teammate had just fallen, then took off after Racer again. Its jaws snagged his back as he tried to dodge it, but because it didn't grab his neck he still had some wiggle room. He snagged its small arm and yanked as hard as he could, forcing it to let go so it could pull its arm free and avoid a dislocation. However, as Gorgostroika staggered away from Racer, he lunged forward and grabbed the back of its neck, returning the solid throw to the ground. Gorgostroika flashed down to its gear just like that.
That got a full smile out of Jura. "Nice work, Racer!" he yelled to his vivosaur, who just snorted in reply.
That dark aura Jura remembered settled over Zinodious, indicating her Solo Power was kicking in. She didn't get a chance to attack right away, though, because Annabel was just that much faster.
"Middle blow, Annabel!" Daisy said, and the hypsi took off like a rocket. She seemed much more sure of herself after the last hit landed without an issue, and threw herself into Zinodious headfirst. She pushed off with her feet and u-turned out of there just as fast as she arrived. Zinodious just shook her heavy pelt of feathers and turned to Racer.
The muscles in her legs bulged as she took off running towards him as fast as she could. Racer attempted a lunge out of the way, but she pushed off the ground with her left foot and made the sharp turn with him. Her claws slashed his side, going in quite deep and drawing a lot of blood. As he cringed from the pain and slowed his gait, the claws from her other hand scraped around his chest from the other direction, and in a spray of red he sparked away into his gear. Zinodious grinned.
Jura jumped, his eyes wide. God, he hoped Racer would recover from that alright, he couldn't stand having two hospitalized vivosaurs, that was too much for him.
"It's one v. two, we got this, don't piss your pants," Leon said as rudely as he could, "Flying peck that bastard right in the head, Scout!"
Scout's beak grazed the top of Zinodious' head before she could even begin looking for him, scraping a good amount of feathers off her head and leaving them to twirl in the air in his wake. She snarled and turned in the direction he'd left in, not expecting Speedster to immediately kick in and give him the energy to get behind her once more. A huge blast of wind followed seconds later, causing Zinodious to get a good whipping of wind to her back. More feathers floated into the air.
Leon smirked. "See? On the ropes."
Daisy immediately popped in, taking advantage of how disoriented Zinodious was by those back-to-back attacks. "Get it with a middle kick!"
Annabel, quick as ever, leaped at Zinodious and bunny kicked her in the side. Even though her weight was absolutely nothing to such a massive-by-comparison vivosaur, the fact that she was all confused about where her opponents were made the completely unanticipated attack push Zinodious just a little bit.
She snapped in the general direction of Annabel, then caught sight of Scout once again flying by her. This time, however, she swiped fast enough that he didn't move, and her nails cleaved through his underside and part of his wing membrane. He shrieked and flapped out of range of another attack, sides heaving desperately.
"Ah shit, hang in there, Scout!" Leon yelled to his vivosaur, who was struggling to stay airborne with the tear in his wing. That was a fixable wound, but in the middle of this fight it was ridiculously bad. "Try to finish it off with a wing blaster!" he added quickly.
Scout winced as he started flapping his wings rapidly, kicking up a gust that was pushing Zinodious back slowly-but-surely. She was digging her claws into the ground to fight against it, but unfortunately for her, a greenish aura overtook Scout, and that meant it was all over. His boost skill was kicking in.
With one final flap, Scout trilled and did one big loop in the air, tucking his wings against his body in the descent. Then, before anyone really knew what happened, he was sliding across the ground in the basic pterasaur quadrupedal position. Zinodious let out one long, loud groan as several large, criss-crossing cuts suddenly appeared on her body, and she fell forward. With one massive crash, she flashed away into her gear.
Scout himself immediately went back into his gear as well, too tired to stay out any longer. Annabel followed suit more because the battle had ended, and then Kowloon was up on everyone's monitors again looking extremely pissed.
"Alright that's it!" he yelled, brandishing his blades, "I'm gonna stab you little shits for-realsies now! And it's not gonna be like your little friend, I'm talking your guts on the ground!"
"Save it!" Leon shot back, glaring just as hard, "We kicked your asses, you're all goin' back to jail!"
At that moment, the monitor flashed over to some old guy with a crazy helmet, and while no one actually recognized him, they all wordlessly agreed that it was Dr. Blackraven. Wouldn't make much sense for it to be anyone else, really.
He seemed very confident for someone who's lackeys had just, as Leon previously stated, had their asses kicked. "Oh, really?" he said calmly, his words dripping with venom, "Are you sure about that?"
The glowing orb above the BR Brigade's buggies suddenly flashed, and then Jura was trying his best not to girl-scream when their buggy started sparking. All the lights turned off, the monitor turned off, everything turned off. The sparks continued, and Jura couldn't hear anything but crackling and Tria cussing more swear words than he knew existed while trying to get their vehicle started again.
It took about ten seconds for her to say, without a trace of worry to her voice, "Yeah, we're fucked."
Olga and Kowloon drove closer to them, and then Kowloon's door swung open and he pulled himself out and on top of his buggy with one fluid movement. His blades slid out of his sleeves, and through the light of that sparking ball overhead, Jura could see the grin on his face. It was giving him chills.
"Slice time, kiddos!" he laughed, pointing his blades at Jura and Tria. Jura just tucked his face into his knees and squeezed his eyes shut and hoped that would, somehow, keep him from dying in the next minute. Kowloon's statement was followed a few seconds later with him yelling, "Ah, fuck!"
There was a very loud crash, and Jura's head yanked back up to see what had made it. His heart leaped out of his chest when he saw the familiarly bright colors of Stryker's spino standing in front of their buggy, snarling. Kowloon was getting back into his vehicle just as fast as he'd gotten out of it.
"Sorry I'm late, guys! I drove out here as soon as I learned communications were down!" Stryker yelled breathlessly as he pulled up beside them. Jura almost wanted to cry. "As for you, Blackraven, it's over! You're not going back in time to stop your arrest, and you're certainly not hurting these Wardens!"
Jura leaned out his window so he could hear the response, given that their monitors were down, and just heard Kowloon say, "Damn, you're no fun."
Blackraven's maniacal laughter came a few seconds later. "My arrest? Stryker, you short-sighted idiot, I have much grander plans in mind!"
Stryker's spino rumbled in response to that statement, and Jura was starting to wonder why Stryker wasn't just sicking it on him at this point.
"Why go back time five years when I can go back millions of years!" Blackraven continued. He sounded like he was grinning from the tone. "With my mind control technology, I'll have dinosaurs following my every beck and whim! They'll be loyal down to their bones!"
Jura cringed when he saw Stryker's face suddenly look horrified. He was too exhausted from the day's stress and currently too scared on top of that to put any thought at all into what the implications of what Blackraven said were. Instead, he just assumed it was bad, and felt all freaked out.
"The more vivosaurs you revive, the more servants I'll have!" Blackraven said, and then he just broke out in a cackling fit. Ooooh, that's what he meant.
OH THAT'S WHAT HE MEANT.
Then, before anyone could really say anything, the energy ball floating over the BR Brigade's buggies sent out one giant burst of energy, and then expanded. And, as it grew larger and larger, it started sucking things in around it. Stryker's spino immediately noticed the increasing strength of the gateway opening up and started pushing the three non-functions buggies back.
Blackraven's laughter came to a slow end. "And look at that, my time gate just stabilized! This is the end for you Wardens!"
A sharp crackling sound filled the radio and then the time gate's pull increased ten-fold. The BR Brigade's buggies were suddenly lifted up and slowly dragged into the massive circle in the air that now resembled a black hole. Then, they were just gone, and the time gate dissipated.
"Dammit!" Stryker yelled, and then Jura was squeaking because their bone buggy fired up and scared him.
"Oh hey, we're functional," Tria said, still extremely casual. Jura was half wondering if she'd just zoned out during the last five minutes, which would honestly be extremely impressive.
There was somber silence other than Tria for a few seconds. Everyone seemed to have a general understanding, other than her, that something extremely bad had just happened. Jura especially wanted to know whatever Stryker had to say about this, he was the most experienced with Blackraven, after all.
Finally, Stryker just sighed. "Let's get you guys back for a rest, you deserve it after what you've been through today."
Jura could agree with that.
"Damn, sorry you dudes, like, ran into so much trouble."
It'd been way too much of a day, so all Jura had the energy for was a shrug in response. "It happens," he said.
Tria, on the other hand, had plenty of energy to answer Sean. "Yeah, not a big deal, man, you just sent us to some random place."
He perked up slightly from that statement. "Well, technically Becks, like, sent ya' to some rando place." And he laughed.
Jura just sighed.
It wasn't anywhere near time for him to sleep, it was only like 2 in the afternoon in Asia but he was exhausted. He wanted to check on Nibbles, he wanted to sleep for a million years and wake up and find out Blackraven was arrested, he wanted everything to turn out fantastic. But most of all, he didn't want to be at this goddamn emergency meeting.
Sean was currently the only one there besides them and Stryker, and Jura didn't normally mind Sean but he was too tired for enthusiasm at the moment. He didn't think Sean could be anything but enthusiastic.
The elevator finally dinged and there was Becky, who Jura could relate to way too much because they both had anxiety. She looked like she was seconds away from losing it, and he'd never felt more validated in his life.
"Sorry it took me so long," she said, stopping once she was next to Sean, "Had to talk to Leon about something quick."
Sean, with the absolute stupidest grin Jura had ever seen, said very sarcastically, "Had to talk to Leon about something quick, huh?" and immediately got shoved.
Oh shit, Leon was supposed to go on a date with Becky tonight.
Stryker just smiled. "It's fine, Becks, everyone's not even here yet."
"I know," she said, relaxing a little. For some reason, Jura thought it was weird that he called her Becks, but he couldn't actually think of anyone that didn't call her that. Maybe it was just a 'because it was Stryker talking' thing.
Liu Ren arrived a few minutes later, and he was way calmer than Jura was expecting. He just wordlessly walked up to everyone else and stood there. It was a few seconds before Jura was bugged enough to finally ask, "Where's Mei Lian at?"
Tria snickered beside him and he just elbowed her while Liu Ren gave him a confused look.
"She's 15, why would she be here?"
"Fair enough," he said as fast as he could.
Tria leaned around him and said, "We're 16, though."
No one answered that, which just made Jura suddenly feel like an absolute child.
Then finally, finally the elevator dinged and hopefully that was gonna be Europe so they could get the hell out of there.
Sean turned around and said with the same amount of joy as a dog seeing their owner coming home, "Vi! You, like, look like shit!"
Drake and Violet both looked exhausted, which Jura was confused about until Violet was nice enough to say, "It's five in the bloody morning in Europe, I've been awake for 24 fucking hours because of this."
"Come here, girl," Sean said jokingly, pulling her into a hug.
"My eyes hurt, I've got a bloody awful headache," she whined into his shoulder.
Sean just pat her on the back. "I hear ya', that sounds like a fuckin' bummer."
"Lucky's been asleep for like 8 hours, I'm insanely jealous."
While that was happening, Jura was starting to realize this was the first time he'd ever seen Drake standing up and holy crap he was tall. Like, to a certain extent, it was pretty obvious just because Violet always looked so small standing next to him, but she was just generally small. Jura himself was decently tall, but he still had to actively look up at Drake, who at that very moment seemed just about as exhausted and done with all of this as he was.
After a couple minutes of Violet whining, she sighed really loud and walked back over to Drake, who's arm she immediately grabbed and leaned against, so literally nothing had changed. "Alright," she said, talking in a normal but still grumpy voice again, "let's get this bloody-well over with."
Stryker cleared his throat. "Right," he said, crossing his arms behind his back to signal it was official business time. "So, as I'm sure you're all aware of, Dr. Baron von Blackraven managed to travel back in time."
He paused for a moment for comments and didn't get any, so he continued. "We know that he's planning on enslaving the minds of every dinosaur on the planet, which would mean that every vivosaur in the present time would obey him."
To which Sean almost instantly said while looking extremely disappointed, "Duuuuuude, can't, like, believe my man Arsen would be a little bitch like that."
"Sean, shut up," Becky said flatly.
"We need to act quickly!" Liu Ren added, voice on edge, "but if we're here and he's there…"
Drake just straight up whimpered, which Jura hadn't at all been expecting to hear.
"H-hold me," he barely managed to get out.
Violet shifted from his arm to hugging his midsection, because she was that much shorter than him that that's where her arms went. She was way too tired to even hold back being all sappy. "Aww, I've got you, baby."
"Ew, Vi, shut the hell up," Sean said from Jura's right, barely sarcastic.
"Anyways," Stryker interrupted, the faint amount of frustration in his voice making it extremely clear that meetings getting weird was very common, "we've got one chance to stop Dr. Blackraven, and as crazy as it sounds, we're going to have to follow him into the past."
Jura, who was hearing this part of the plan for the first time, just started blinking super fast because it suddenly hit him that he'd probably be doing this, based on Stryker's track record, and that was a terrifying thought. Tria, on the other hand, just said, "Hell yeah."
"I-is that even possible?" Liu Ren said, cocking his head slightly. Stryker just grinned.
"Well, we have the formula that Dr. Blackraven left in his cell, and it worked for him so it should work for us," he said confidentially, nodding once at the end of that statement. "Prof. Little's working out the details of that as we speak, so we'll probably meet up for more specific instructions in a couple days."
"Bro, it's, like, so sick we got total smarties workin' for us," Sean said as if that was a normal way to phrase that, "This shit's, like, too complicated for my dumbass brain."
Becky rolled her eyes. "Everything's too complicated for your dumbass brain."
"It is!" he said in genuine agreement.
Stryker just sighed very softly. "Right, well, we have the necessary Mega Electrominite fossil, we just need to find cosmonium." He took a deep breath at this part, "Now, Prof. Little is currently developing a cosmonium detector, it'll be ready in a day or so. Once it's finished, I'll be tasking you all in finding cosmonium, so you have at least a day to prepare."
"Thank god," Violet muttered, and Drake also exhaled at about the same time.
With a quick laugh, Stryker nodded to himself that he'd covered everything. "Alright, I think that's everything for now. Go sleep."
Jura was very surprised to see that that managed to get Drake to sort of smile for like a second. Violet just laughed. "Yes, sir."
"Aight, see ya', cuz," Sean said, shooting Stryker a couple finger guns and heading towards the elevator. Everyone except Jura and Tria started to file out after him, and Jura just stared at them with tired envy.
"God, you might have to carry me back," Violet said, leaning against Drake again.
Drake, not even changing his expression, said, "Y-you say that like it's hard." And Violet broke out in especially stupid giggles.
"Vi, oh my god, like, keep it in your pants," Sean said, hands on his hips, "We all gotta, like, be in this grody elevator with ya'."
And then the door slid shut and Stryker relaxed noticeably. "God, Sean and Violet take it out of me."
"They do seem pretty, uh, excitable." Jura said, rubbing his arm. He really didn't want to see Tria's reaction because she was just as excitable as they were.
She just shrugged. "Eh, it's hard to bug me."
Well she wasn't wrong.
A pause, and then Stryker took a breath. "Right, um, good work today you two."
Getting some praise made Jura feel a little better.
"Once the cosmonium detectors are finished, you two should split up and help the leaders at all three branches with their searches," he said, making sure to smile at the end of that sentence. "In the meantime, get some rest. You've been through quite a bit today."
"Will do!" Jura chirped. And there it was, the end of the meeting. He almost wanted to cry, he was so happy.
Time for some food and a 12-hour nap.
Can't believe I made it to 30 chapters! Here's another fast update for everyone, I did some mega procrastination to get this done before I go write my 9 page paper and like 40 slide powerpoint eoifgjegj, but it's fine, it's chill
I'm gonna say next update is gonna be next weekend bc I'm excited to write again out of left field! We're going for faster updates now bc I don't wanna take like 2 years to get to the post game lol, big shocker. I have Reasons to be excited for post game characters, and one of them is the Bling sisters bc they are my favs UwU
Btw, I know this is kind of a ways out but I've posted three chapters in less than a week and am starting to think I'm gonna get there kinda soon, should I do post game stuff as a separate fic or just keep throwing it on the end of this? Just curious! Shoot me your opinions, I'd appreciate them!