Somehow, MIRACULOUSLY, I did it!
Isaac: ::in the happy special rainbow colored marker "You finished
it?"::
Yup! ENJOY!


Chapter 12: Banquets and Not So Evil Ex-Henchmen

"Checkmate."

"AAARGH!" Saturos glared at the chess board. "That's the fifth
time you've won!"

"Want to go again?" Picard asked.

"Let's play a different game," Saturos said.

In a few minutes, Picard had already beaten Saturos at Checkers.

"A different game!"

And so it went, from Chess to Checkers to Black Jack to Go Fish.
No matter what Saturos tried, Picard won every time.

They were finally reduced to playing Tic Tac Toe after Saturos
burned both the chess board and the pack of face cards.

"I'm bored," Picard moaned.

"At least you're winning," Saturos glared at him, drawing an "X"
in the dirt with a stick. "Hey...wait...I won!"

"Huh?" Picard gave him a bleary eyed look.

"I WON!" Saturos bounced to his feet. "I won I won I won I won-"

"Am I interrupting anything down here?" Alex warped into the
hole.
"Alex!" Picard jumped up. "Wow, I never thought I would be glad
to see you!"

"Shut up, or I'll leave you down here," Alex glared at him, then
grabbed Picard's arm. "Hold on!"

"Hey, what about me?"

They looked over at Saturos, who had his best puppy dog face on.
It was kind of scary, actually, considering he was blue and had red eyes.

"You dug this whole in the first place!" Picard yelled.

"Well, I'm sorry!" Saturos shot back.

"And you work for Karst and Agatio!"

"Not any more," Saturos wilted. "They fired me."

"Well...well..."

"Hey, forgive and forget," Alex grinned at Picard, and put one
hand on Saturos' shoulder. "C'mon, let's go."

And they warped away.

*****

They ended up in what appeared to be a large kitchen. Everyone
was there, including Garet, who was stirring an enormous pot of stew.

"Picard!" Sheba, who was sitting at a small table snacking on a
cream puff waved him over.

"Sheba!" Picard ran over. "You got here safely! Thanks for
helping me out."

He gave her a hug.

Everyone else in the room had only one thing to say:
"Awwwwww..."

Picard blushed and backed away from Sheba, who was equally red.

"Three cheers for Picard!" Isaac, who was sitting in the corner,
called out. "For getting Sheba's cookies most of the way here safely!"

"Pow pow Picard!" everyone shouted. "Pow pow Picard! Pow pow
Picard!"

"Will it never end?" Picard groaned.

"Hey, guys, dinner's ready!" Garet announced, picking up his pot
of stew and taking it through double doors that lead into...

A huge dining room, complete with a long oak table set with
enough places to feed all of Vale.

"Thanks, Picard," Felix grinned. "All of this would have been
impossible without you."

They sat down to an enormous feast, citizens of Kalay coming in
and sitting with them, and dug in.

Saturos stood to the side uncertainly, watching everyone eat.
Sheba noticed him. "Do you want to join us?"

"R-really?" Saturos began crying tears of joy when she nodded,
and hurred to sit down.

*******
~*At the Bakery Shop*~

"Why isn't anyone coming in?" Agatio growled.

"They should be, we advertised all over town, I cooked the entire
thing myself," Sean frowned. "It must be your fault."

"MY fault? How is it my fault?"

"He has a point," Karst looked thoughtful. "You're big, scary,
and you have a nasty temper. People want to be fed by easy going guys
like Garet. It's all your fault."

"Wanna say that again?" Agatio looked very dangerous.

"You're a big stupid lug!" Karst screamed.

"Oh, yeah!" Agatio cast Inferno.

"YEAH!" Karst did the same.

The unfortunate Sean was caught in the cross-fire.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"

*********
~*Back at the Kitchen*~

"Hey, did you hear something?" Picard turned to Sheba.

"Oh, who cares?"

Isaac: ::in neon pastel pink "Hey, what about this myster marker that
Violet gave me?"::
She said you weren't supposed to use it.
Isaac: ::in neon pastel pink "Can I try it out? PLEASE?!"::
::sigh:: Fine.
Isaac: ::starts writing with the mystery marker, it blows up in his
face::
::laughs her head off:: GOOD one, Violet! Well, I would like to thank
EVERYONE who reviewed, it was you that made this possible! And if Isaac
hadn't of blown his dry-erase board up, he'd thank you for all of the
markers you gave him. ^_^ THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!! ::bows Japanese
style:: Happy Thanksgiving, and all of that fun stuff!
Isaac: ::holds up a sign that says "Can we go to Wal*Mart tomorrow?"::
If it's open. ^_^ Thanks again, guys. Alright, I'm off to work on my
other fics!