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The first thing that happened the next morning was DQ angrily chasing Jack through the house because DQ had found that Jack had been using DQ's prized possessions as experimental objects and had destroyed half of them. As they were running out of the house into the field, Jack took a quick sip of his potion and he turned his head and yelled, "HEY, COOL OFF SIS'! YOU STILL GOT HALF OF YOUR STUFF! SEE, I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO YOUR BRACELET!" He pulled out her bracelet and presented to her as they continued to run. He then devilishly smiled and yelled, "YET!" He laughed gleefully and quickened his pace to keep away from his fast paced, enraged teenaged sister. "I'LL KILL YOU STUPID FOOL!" DQ fumed. Jack continued to laugh amusingly as he ran about with a bag full of DQ's belongings
While the two were running about, Glyde, Stalkid, and ZF watched them. "Gosh..." Glyde said. "They have been running for an hour already non-stop. How long can Dekus run?" Stalkid smiled and thought about the time he was following Jack through the swamp and began running. "I have no idea, but something like this happened before when I was the one chasing Jack." He softly laughed and continued to watch the two run. Glyde looked back inside the house, which had been trashed by the two speedy Dekus, and stated, "I also never knew that these so-called 'peaceful' Dekus could be so destructive." Jack began running back towards the house again and DQ was hot on his heels. Jack dashed underneath ZF's legs, causing her to shriek. DQ then trampled over Stalkid after her brother. "YOU'RE DEAD MEAT!" She screeched. Glyde sighed. "Well, it looks like they want to destroy the house even more." He then folded his arms afterward. Stalkid, Glyde, and ZF remained outside, listening to the sounds of fragile objects breaking and the two screaming at each other.
Glyde heard Jack running back out with his sister close behind. He sighed and grabbed Jack on his way out. "AHH! LET ME GO BEFORE I GET KILLED!" Jack screamed. DQ then tackled her brother and screamed, "WHERE DID YOU PUT THE REST OF MY STUFF?!" She then spotted her bracelet in Jack's hand and she snatched it away from him. Jack weakly smiled and said, "Hey, hey, don't worry! They're in-" DQ then snatched the bag that was strapped around Jack, opened it, and found her possessions that hadn't been destroyed yet. 'Dang it...' Jack thought. DQ glared at her devilish brother. "Do this again and I'll literally hurt you." Jack laughed and said, "Haven't you said that a million times in the past sis'?" DQ then angrily mashed her brother's face into a mud puddle and stomped her way back towards the house. "Would you mind helping me out with cleaning the house?" Glyde asked with a broom in hand. DQ bitterly replied, "NO!" and entered the house, slamming the door behind her. Glyde pulled his head back. "Fine..." He whispered. Jack continued to laugh despite the fact that his face had been mashed into a mud puddle. He got up and walked towards Stalkid and the others, laughing hysterically. Glyde smiled and said, "GEEZ! Go wash your face Jack! You look worse then swamp-thing right now!" Jack nodded and walked inside the house, still laughing.
Stalkid smirked and looked at Glyde. "Don't see that much now these days."
"Yeah..." Glyde agreed. "I just hope that this kind of stuff only happens outside from now on. I don't want the house look like a hazard area again." Glyde sighed and made his way back into the house and began to sweep up broken glass and spilt dirt in various areas of the house. Stalkid remained outside with ZF and looked up at the gray sky. ZF looked up as well, silently whispering to herself. "What's that you say, ZF?" Stalkid questioned. ZF shook her head and said, "N-nothing! I was... just talking to myself about something..." Stalkid nodded. "Yeah, I do that a lot too. I seem to think well if I just talk to myself. I don't know why, but I just do. Don't you agree?" ZF quickly nods in agreement and stood there quietly. 'That dream...' She thought. 'The circle of statues... and that child... what does it all mean?' ZF looked down and gently bites the tip of her finger and continued to wonder. 'Is this dream trying to say something... about DQ? Or could this be another one of my usual crazy dreams that deal with my weird imagination?' She sighed and looked up at Stalkid. "Stalkid..." She said.
"Yeah ZF?" He responded.
"Have you ever had a dream that... actually meant something?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Well, I mean, did any of your dreams give you like... a 'message' of some sort? Like a warning or an event that may happen?"
Stalkid looked at ZF silently. "Why are you asking?" ZF glanced at the ground, then back up at Stalkid and answered, "I've been having these strange dreams ever since I came here." Stalkid sat down on a chair and asked, "What kind of strange dreams?" ZF got a chair and sat down across from Stalkid. She sighed, closing her eyes then reopening them, and then said, "The first dream I had started out with me laying in a flower bed. I woke up and saw that I was in a green field with the most beautiful sky I have ever seen. I stood up and I figured that I should take a look around. After walking a little ways, I see a circle of statues in the distance. I run over to the circle of statues and I see that all the statues were of DQ and Jack's race. A statue of DQ was in the very center of the circle, holding a red crystal in one of her hands. Each of the other statues was holding a crystal too, but the crystal that each of them had differed in color and structure. Each of the statues looked somewhat like DQ in some way, but then again, looked somewhat separate from her..." She paused for a moment and then Stalkid asked, "How did each of them look like?" ZF took a deep breath and continued. "Well, one of them looked like... a maniacal killer, the other looked like a clown, another looked like a barbarian, the next looked like a wizard, another looked like an arch-angel, and the last looked like a demon...."
"Did you see anything else other then the statues and the crystals?" ZF slowly nodded and said, "I saw a golden locket on the ground after I looked at each of the statues. When I went to pick it up, it disappeared. I look back up at the statues, fearing that something may happen. I suddenly hear the sound of breaking glass behind me and I turn around to see a young child that looked... identical to DQ. She was holding a doll and was giving me a blank stare. The surrounding area around us began to disappear and she told me that I 'don't belong here' and that I should 'go away'. Before I could say anything to her, I was hit over the head with extreme force by something. I then heard a group of people say 'free us'.... And then I woke up." Stalkid stared at ZF, confused. ZF then looked down at the ground and said, "It could just be another one of my wild dreams that I always have, but, I'm not sure about this one... I have a feeling that it means something... the statues and the child must symbolize something and-" Stalkid interrupted her with hysterical laughter. When he softened his laughter, her looked at ZF and commented, "I'm sorry, but, that dream seems so whimsical and all! I can't really imagine a dream like that symbolize something in DQ or what ever! I mean, DQ is just a normal Deku! Not some kind of important person! I mean, she is important as a friend, but not as a... um... you know...err... never mind..." ZF looked down and said, "I still believe that this dream may mean something about DQ and I'm going to see what it may mean." She stood up and made her way back inside the house.
ZF found DQ sitting in a chair and looking through the bag, taking out all of her belongings and placing them beside her. ZF sweetly smiles and chimed, "Hello DQ!" DQ looked up and replied, "Oh.... uh ....hi." ZF silently watched DQ and looked at her belongings, which was a heap of jewelry. "Those are pretty..." ZF commented. DQ weakly smiled and said, "Thank you." ZF looked at DQ as she dug her way through the bag and put her jewelry next to her quickly. ZF patted her knees and looked about the ravaged house. DQ then chuckled, "This is what happens when you have a little brother that is related to the devil!" ZF weakly laughs and looked back at DQ. "So...how did you end up here with the rest? Did you just kinda bump into them?" DQ stopped removing her jewelry from the bag and sat back. She then releases a deep sigh. "Uh... I shouldn't have asked... it looks like..." ZF stood up. "I'm sorry that I di-"
DQ interrupted, "No no... its ok... I'll tell you the whole story. Sit down." ZF got a chair and sat next to DQ. "I heard something about your home being burnt down and all... and that that army 'The Dark' was responsible for it. Stalkid told me that part of the story, but how did you meet Stalkid and Glyde?"
"Well..." DQ began. "Before that whole incident, Jack brought Stalkid to our village because Stalkid saved my brother's live in the market place in front of the swamp. He felt that Stalkid was a trust worthy person, which he is, so he brought him down into the swamp. Though when he got there, one of my... guards attacked him and was about to kill Stalkid. It was a good thing that Jack was there and I got there in time before Rollo could pull another move on Stalkid."
"Who's Rollo?" ZF asked. DQ looked about the room and then answered, "He was the leader of my army... he also... was a dear friend of mine..." She looked down at the ground, "I banished him from my Kingdom after what he had done... He was extremely angry at me for the decision I made upon him and had wished for my down fall to come... he left soon after he said that." ZF looked at DQ for a while then asked, "But, isn't hard to do such a thing to your friend? I mean, you banished him... didn't you feel some regret?" DQ nodded in agreement. "I did... he was my best friend ever since me and him were very young..." She sighed. ZF then asked, "What happened to him?" DQ wiped her eyes, "He was over taken by DarkZero with the use of black magic and Rollo had become a slave... like the rest of DarkZero's army... after he returned with DarkZero and the army, 'The Dark', I was forced to fight Rollo..." DQ wiped her eyes again, "I killed Rollo... but, in a way, I'm glad I had done that... I saved him... or so he said... he told me, with his dieing breath, to kill DarkZero and Kalinia so that the people that had been killed and the ones who are under their control can be freed from their grip..." DQ looked up at ZF, her eyes watering, "Rollo had also said something about me... but... he never got to finish what he was about to say to me...." DQ's expressions then changed from sad to angry. "I was so enraged at DarkZero... I couldn't control myself and I flew into a frenzy and I attacked him, injuring him...." DQ trailed off with the things she had done to DarkZero under her breath, then finally said in a louder voice, "Before I could finish off the demon, Kalinia appeared out of no where in the air and lifted me up into the air. I tried to fight back... but it was no use... She was about to kill me right there... until some unknown person came in and saved me. Kalinia, DarkZero, and the army disappeared. Stalkid was already knocked out and I was about to fall into that kind of state any second. The man who saved me walked up to me... but I couldn't make out what he was saying and his face was blurred. I then black out and awaken to find myself here with Glyde..."
DQ looked back inside the bag and reached her hand inside, pulling out an earring. "That's how I got here... I can't believe that I'm still alive after all of that too..." She sighed and placed the earring next to her and began to pull out her jewelry one by one again. ZF then silently got to her feet and stated, "I think we should help out Glyde with the house..." DQ looked around and weakly smiled, "Yeah... and I should apologize for what I said to him too." DQ quickly threw her jewelry back inside the bag and hid the bag behind the futon in the room. "Ok... let's go and help him out." DQ suggested. The two left the room and made their way to where Glyde was sweeping up broken glass. After they had left, Jack jumped out of the kitchen cabinet where he had been hiding. Snickering, he walked behind the futon and snatched the bag.
The first thing that happened the next morning was DQ angrily chasing Jack through the house because DQ had found that Jack had been using DQ's prized possessions as experimental objects and had destroyed half of them. As they were running out of the house into the field, Jack took a quick sip of his potion and he turned his head and yelled, "HEY, COOL OFF SIS'! YOU STILL GOT HALF OF YOUR STUFF! SEE, I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO YOUR BRACELET!" He pulled out her bracelet and presented to her as they continued to run. He then devilishly smiled and yelled, "YET!" He laughed gleefully and quickened his pace to keep away from his fast paced, enraged teenaged sister. "I'LL KILL YOU STUPID FOOL!" DQ fumed. Jack continued to laugh amusingly as he ran about with a bag full of DQ's belongings
While the two were running about, Glyde, Stalkid, and ZF watched them. "Gosh..." Glyde said. "They have been running for an hour already non-stop. How long can Dekus run?" Stalkid smiled and thought about the time he was following Jack through the swamp and began running. "I have no idea, but something like this happened before when I was the one chasing Jack." He softly laughed and continued to watch the two run. Glyde looked back inside the house, which had been trashed by the two speedy Dekus, and stated, "I also never knew that these so-called 'peaceful' Dekus could be so destructive." Jack began running back towards the house again and DQ was hot on his heels. Jack dashed underneath ZF's legs, causing her to shriek. DQ then trampled over Stalkid after her brother. "YOU'RE DEAD MEAT!" She screeched. Glyde sighed. "Well, it looks like they want to destroy the house even more." He then folded his arms afterward. Stalkid, Glyde, and ZF remained outside, listening to the sounds of fragile objects breaking and the two screaming at each other.
Glyde heard Jack running back out with his sister close behind. He sighed and grabbed Jack on his way out. "AHH! LET ME GO BEFORE I GET KILLED!" Jack screamed. DQ then tackled her brother and screamed, "WHERE DID YOU PUT THE REST OF MY STUFF?!" She then spotted her bracelet in Jack's hand and she snatched it away from him. Jack weakly smiled and said, "Hey, hey, don't worry! They're in-" DQ then snatched the bag that was strapped around Jack, opened it, and found her possessions that hadn't been destroyed yet. 'Dang it...' Jack thought. DQ glared at her devilish brother. "Do this again and I'll literally hurt you." Jack laughed and said, "Haven't you said that a million times in the past sis'?" DQ then angrily mashed her brother's face into a mud puddle and stomped her way back towards the house. "Would you mind helping me out with cleaning the house?" Glyde asked with a broom in hand. DQ bitterly replied, "NO!" and entered the house, slamming the door behind her. Glyde pulled his head back. "Fine..." He whispered. Jack continued to laugh despite the fact that his face had been mashed into a mud puddle. He got up and walked towards Stalkid and the others, laughing hysterically. Glyde smiled and said, "GEEZ! Go wash your face Jack! You look worse then swamp-thing right now!" Jack nodded and walked inside the house, still laughing.
Stalkid smirked and looked at Glyde. "Don't see that much now these days."
"Yeah..." Glyde agreed. "I just hope that this kind of stuff only happens outside from now on. I don't want the house look like a hazard area again." Glyde sighed and made his way back into the house and began to sweep up broken glass and spilt dirt in various areas of the house. Stalkid remained outside with ZF and looked up at the gray sky. ZF looked up as well, silently whispering to herself. "What's that you say, ZF?" Stalkid questioned. ZF shook her head and said, "N-nothing! I was... just talking to myself about something..." Stalkid nodded. "Yeah, I do that a lot too. I seem to think well if I just talk to myself. I don't know why, but I just do. Don't you agree?" ZF quickly nods in agreement and stood there quietly. 'That dream...' She thought. 'The circle of statues... and that child... what does it all mean?' ZF looked down and gently bites the tip of her finger and continued to wonder. 'Is this dream trying to say something... about DQ? Or could this be another one of my usual crazy dreams that deal with my weird imagination?' She sighed and looked up at Stalkid. "Stalkid..." She said.
"Yeah ZF?" He responded.
"Have you ever had a dream that... actually meant something?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Well, I mean, did any of your dreams give you like... a 'message' of some sort? Like a warning or an event that may happen?"
Stalkid looked at ZF silently. "Why are you asking?" ZF glanced at the ground, then back up at Stalkid and answered, "I've been having these strange dreams ever since I came here." Stalkid sat down on a chair and asked, "What kind of strange dreams?" ZF got a chair and sat down across from Stalkid. She sighed, closing her eyes then reopening them, and then said, "The first dream I had started out with me laying in a flower bed. I woke up and saw that I was in a green field with the most beautiful sky I have ever seen. I stood up and I figured that I should take a look around. After walking a little ways, I see a circle of statues in the distance. I run over to the circle of statues and I see that all the statues were of DQ and Jack's race. A statue of DQ was in the very center of the circle, holding a red crystal in one of her hands. Each of the other statues was holding a crystal too, but the crystal that each of them had differed in color and structure. Each of the statues looked somewhat like DQ in some way, but then again, looked somewhat separate from her..." She paused for a moment and then Stalkid asked, "How did each of them look like?" ZF took a deep breath and continued. "Well, one of them looked like... a maniacal killer, the other looked like a clown, another looked like a barbarian, the next looked like a wizard, another looked like an arch-angel, and the last looked like a demon...."
"Did you see anything else other then the statues and the crystals?" ZF slowly nodded and said, "I saw a golden locket on the ground after I looked at each of the statues. When I went to pick it up, it disappeared. I look back up at the statues, fearing that something may happen. I suddenly hear the sound of breaking glass behind me and I turn around to see a young child that looked... identical to DQ. She was holding a doll and was giving me a blank stare. The surrounding area around us began to disappear and she told me that I 'don't belong here' and that I should 'go away'. Before I could say anything to her, I was hit over the head with extreme force by something. I then heard a group of people say 'free us'.... And then I woke up." Stalkid stared at ZF, confused. ZF then looked down at the ground and said, "It could just be another one of my wild dreams that I always have, but, I'm not sure about this one... I have a feeling that it means something... the statues and the child must symbolize something and-" Stalkid interrupted her with hysterical laughter. When he softened his laughter, her looked at ZF and commented, "I'm sorry, but, that dream seems so whimsical and all! I can't really imagine a dream like that symbolize something in DQ or what ever! I mean, DQ is just a normal Deku! Not some kind of important person! I mean, she is important as a friend, but not as a... um... you know...err... never mind..." ZF looked down and said, "I still believe that this dream may mean something about DQ and I'm going to see what it may mean." She stood up and made her way back inside the house.
ZF found DQ sitting in a chair and looking through the bag, taking out all of her belongings and placing them beside her. ZF sweetly smiles and chimed, "Hello DQ!" DQ looked up and replied, "Oh.... uh ....hi." ZF silently watched DQ and looked at her belongings, which was a heap of jewelry. "Those are pretty..." ZF commented. DQ weakly smiled and said, "Thank you." ZF looked at DQ as she dug her way through the bag and put her jewelry next to her quickly. ZF patted her knees and looked about the ravaged house. DQ then chuckled, "This is what happens when you have a little brother that is related to the devil!" ZF weakly laughs and looked back at DQ. "So...how did you end up here with the rest? Did you just kinda bump into them?" DQ stopped removing her jewelry from the bag and sat back. She then releases a deep sigh. "Uh... I shouldn't have asked... it looks like..." ZF stood up. "I'm sorry that I di-"
DQ interrupted, "No no... its ok... I'll tell you the whole story. Sit down." ZF got a chair and sat next to DQ. "I heard something about your home being burnt down and all... and that that army 'The Dark' was responsible for it. Stalkid told me that part of the story, but how did you meet Stalkid and Glyde?"
"Well..." DQ began. "Before that whole incident, Jack brought Stalkid to our village because Stalkid saved my brother's live in the market place in front of the swamp. He felt that Stalkid was a trust worthy person, which he is, so he brought him down into the swamp. Though when he got there, one of my... guards attacked him and was about to kill Stalkid. It was a good thing that Jack was there and I got there in time before Rollo could pull another move on Stalkid."
"Who's Rollo?" ZF asked. DQ looked about the room and then answered, "He was the leader of my army... he also... was a dear friend of mine..." She looked down at the ground, "I banished him from my Kingdom after what he had done... He was extremely angry at me for the decision I made upon him and had wished for my down fall to come... he left soon after he said that." ZF looked at DQ for a while then asked, "But, isn't hard to do such a thing to your friend? I mean, you banished him... didn't you feel some regret?" DQ nodded in agreement. "I did... he was my best friend ever since me and him were very young..." She sighed. ZF then asked, "What happened to him?" DQ wiped her eyes, "He was over taken by DarkZero with the use of black magic and Rollo had become a slave... like the rest of DarkZero's army... after he returned with DarkZero and the army, 'The Dark', I was forced to fight Rollo..." DQ wiped her eyes again, "I killed Rollo... but, in a way, I'm glad I had done that... I saved him... or so he said... he told me, with his dieing breath, to kill DarkZero and Kalinia so that the people that had been killed and the ones who are under their control can be freed from their grip..." DQ looked up at ZF, her eyes watering, "Rollo had also said something about me... but... he never got to finish what he was about to say to me...." DQ's expressions then changed from sad to angry. "I was so enraged at DarkZero... I couldn't control myself and I flew into a frenzy and I attacked him, injuring him...." DQ trailed off with the things she had done to DarkZero under her breath, then finally said in a louder voice, "Before I could finish off the demon, Kalinia appeared out of no where in the air and lifted me up into the air. I tried to fight back... but it was no use... She was about to kill me right there... until some unknown person came in and saved me. Kalinia, DarkZero, and the army disappeared. Stalkid was already knocked out and I was about to fall into that kind of state any second. The man who saved me walked up to me... but I couldn't make out what he was saying and his face was blurred. I then black out and awaken to find myself here with Glyde..."
DQ looked back inside the bag and reached her hand inside, pulling out an earring. "That's how I got here... I can't believe that I'm still alive after all of that too..." She sighed and placed the earring next to her and began to pull out her jewelry one by one again. ZF then silently got to her feet and stated, "I think we should help out Glyde with the house..." DQ looked around and weakly smiled, "Yeah... and I should apologize for what I said to him too." DQ quickly threw her jewelry back inside the bag and hid the bag behind the futon in the room. "Ok... let's go and help him out." DQ suggested. The two left the room and made their way to where Glyde was sweeping up broken glass. After they had left, Jack jumped out of the kitchen cabinet where he had been hiding. Snickering, he walked behind the futon and snatched the bag.