CHAPTER 2- BY GABS

The duo continued to listen with baited breath, not sure what to expect. "What is it Xena? what do you hear?" Gabrielle whispered. Xena glanced at her. "I'm not sure... but it can't be good." By now, Gabrielle also heard the noise. It sounded like singing, sorta. Actually, not really. To be honest, it sounded more like a pair of idiots screeching. Gabrielle grimaced. For once, she wished the obnoxious noise was Joxer. But not even he was that bad. She took a step back and readied her staff.

Moments later, a mysterious duo burst through the trees to their right. The first one to become visible was a bright blue color, having psychotic looking orange eyes. It held a small, white, funny looking object in one hand, and a bunch of multi colored circular objects in the other. It stared at Xena and Gabrielle before suddenly shrieking out something that, to the confused pairs uncertain ears, sounded an awful lot like "Jeffyjeffyjeffyjeffyjeffyjeffyjeffyjeffy!" The other being stepped forward then, proving to have a red hue and odd, frightening pink eyes. In one hand it held a small black object, that obviously had the potential to be messy. The other hand contained multi colored squared things.

"What in the name of Ares?" Gabrielle blurted without thinking. Xena turned to stare at her. "What did you just say?" The bards response was cut short by a blue flash. "You called, my dear?" Then, Ares noticed Xena. "Oh shit." He quickly pulled his right hand away from the flower he had been clutching, now choosing to cover his eyes in a failed attempt to hide. He peeked out between his fingers, hoping that he wouldn't see a pissed off warrior princess. No such luck, naturally. He then attempted to hide behind Gabrielle. Xena waved her sword around menacingly. "What in Tartarus is going on?" The red being chose this time to make its presence known, with a shout of "Shitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshit!" This drew all attention to them. "What the hell are those?" Ares shouted, drawing his sword. "We don't know yet. Let's try talking to them, see if they understand Greek. Maybe we can find out what they are and where they're from," Gabrielle suggested. She stepped forward. "Hi... my name is Gabrielle. This is Ares, and that's Xena. Who are you?" she asked gently. "And what the hell are you holding?" Xena added.

The blue one shifted slightly, though neither said a word. All of a sudden, both started dancing around, flipping and standing on their heads. Xena, Gabrielle, and Ares all stepped back. Finally the things stopped. "Hi!!!! You can call me..." the blue one paused to think. It took a while to resume, needing some gentle prompting, via a slap to the head, from the red one before it continued. "Sorry, lost my train of thought. Anyway, yeah..." It paused again, again requiring a slap to continue. "Sorry. I'm the Skittles Idiot! This here is my sidekick, Rob Van Spork-" indicating the white object- "and these be Skittles!!!!!" The red one bounced up and down. "Hiya hiya hi hi! I's be the Starburst something or other, and my sidekick, Metal Gear Pen"- in reference to the black object- "and these is Starburst! But you cant have any," it added quickly.

There was a long silence.

"Don't worry, I'll save you," Ares promised. He took a step forward, held up his sword, and... quickly turned, grabbed Gabrielle, and disappeared. "Ares! Gabrielle! Get back here NOOOOOOWWW! Ooooh! Why, when I get you, I'm going to..." she let loose with a string of violent words and phrases. When she finally stopped, it was to see the Skittles Idiot and Starburst something or other both wide eyed and slack jawed. Skittles was holding a hand over her sidekick. "Can't let him hear that type of language," she finally explained. "Whatever. The point is, I need to get Ares and Gabrielle back here- no way I'm going to let her win just like that!" A familiar voice spoke from the shadows. "You'll have to beat me to him Xena. Ares... is mine!"