Chapter 12
The Reunion
Paul looked around as he fought off the last of his foes. Fire was surrounding his neighborhood. He couldn't place what was going on or what the creature was he had killed.
"Samantha, get Catherine out of here!" Paul yelled to the two girls huddling. The older one stood up picking up the little girl.
"Be careful Paul!" The older girl said. The little girl jumped out of her arms and ran to Paul.
"I'm scared." Paul picked her up and held her gently.
"I know, Catherine, I know. Me too." Paul whispered in her ear. "But sis will take care of you. Okay?" Paul looked at the older girl. "Be careful yourself Samantha." Paul said putting Catherine down. Samantha nodded as the two ran into the house. At that moment as soon as they reached the front doorway a bomb went off.
"NOOOOOOOOO!" Paul yelled running to his sisters. He jumped over debris and fences to get to his only remaining family. He reached Samantha first and checked her pulse. His body went cold as he began to cry. "No." Paul said looking at his dead sister. "Get up Sam, get up." Paul said through his sobbing tears. He got up and ran to Catherine as he checked her pulse. He completely broke down sobbing over his dead little sister. "NOOO!" Paul screamed to the sky. "WHAT THE HELL DID SHE DO?" Paul screamed shouting vulgar phrases. "All she did was want a home away from her abusive parents. So we adopted her." Paul said chocking on his tears he tried to fight. "We gave her a family that loved her." Paul picked her up and cried holding her tight. A man approached behind Paul speaking in a cold voice.
"Get up." Paul looked behind him to see himself holding a red sword. Paul looked at him oddly. "GET UP!" He demanded. Paul did so. Out of the sky dropped another red sword that landed next to Paul. "Fight me."
"Who are you?" Paul asked confused.
"I am your evil side, I am your hate, I am your every failure, I am YOU! The you you hide!" Paul grabbed the sword gritting his teeth.
"Don't you care about them?" Paul said pointing to his sisters. The evil Paul grinned shaking his head.
"I don't give a damn." He said coldly. Paul took the sword his anger filling him striking to tear his head off. The evil Paul blocked easily yawning. Paul regrouped as he struck as hard as he could. The evil Paul wasted no effort blocking each strike easily. He pushed Paul down and stepped on his chest.
"The little one is pushy, the older one is annoying. You always thought that." The evil Paul said pointing the sword at Paul's throat. Paul managed to get his evil self to fall on the ground as he twisted his blade in the evil Paul's stomach. The evil Paul laughed getting up ignoring the wound.
"You can't beat me!" Paul gritted through his teeth his reply,
"NOT TRUE!" The evil Paul threw Paul to the side and slashed at his exposed back. Paul screamed in pain as he whipped around smashing his self in the head. He slashed and swung the Masamune as if it were weightless landing blow after blow on the evil Paul. His evil self blew an electrical bolt at him knocking Paul back. Paul twitched all around as he squealed in pain from the electrical shock.
"HOW DOES IT FEEL?" His evil self snickered mockingly. Paul slowly got up to be kicked down. "TO BE BEATEN BY YOURSELF?" He said cutting his arm. "TO BE HURT." He slashed again. Paul was full of pain from each slash his evil self dealt. "TO BE NORMAL?" another slash almost killed Paul. "TO BE WEAK?" he said as he raised his sword in a deathblow. Paul managed to shove his sword into the chest of his foe. His foe backed off laughing pulling it out.
"YOU CAN'T WIN!" he said his voice getting colder and higher pitched. Paul felt the coldness of his locket on his chest. He gripped it tightly as he slowly got up. He parried a thrust at the impressed foe as he laughed striking again. With more confidence Paul blocked it. He continued to block strike after strike until he let loose on his self. The evil Paul was caught off guard until his sword was disarmed.
"I love my sisters with all my heart. And you think just because you're me you can talk down about them?" Paul said evilly. "You could never be me!" Paul said slicing the evil Paul's arm.
"What the hell? You aren't supposed to fight back!" He squealed in fear as Paul slowly advanced.
"I never hated them. Yes, a bit troublesome and annoying, but it came with the territory!" Paul said slashing again in the opposite spot. Evil Paul looked in horror as he no longer could move. "I never did like myself." Paul said quietly as he stabbed again into the heart of his self. The evil Paul looked at Paul hopelessly. "I only hated myself for one reason. And that's failing to meet the standards of myself. Which is too high for anyone anyways!" Paul said pulling the sword out. His evil self slowly vanished from the scene as Paul walked over to Samantha and Catherine.
"I don't know how to go on you guys." Paul said glancing at Catherine. "You were my way of thinking. And I will never forget that." Paul whispered as weird aliens approached him from behind. "Never." Paul whispered again noticing the presence of the people and the fact his sword disappeared. The aliens attacked Paul and knocked him out.
"He will be great for the element of Thunder." One alien said writing down stuff on a log. "Begin the process. As for his two sisters, bury them. And wipe his memory of them. They would cause him to defeat us. Then set him loose on subject R-246 for testing. If he does well then have him be a guard for our main base on this planet. If R-245 makes excellent standards like I hope for, then we will never be crushed. And then when we attack the other dimension the two will easily defeat anyone there. With them we will rule with no authority to dispute us." Paul nearly blacked out when he took the locket and placed it in his pocket.
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The sword fell out of Steena's hands as Shaun and Diss stared in disbelief. Steena fainted and Marcy went to her aid. The two girls, who were now known to be Paul's sisters, left the room saying,
"He will wake up eventually. We will come back then." Both left with tears in their eyes.
"He was going to kill me for testing." Diss said in disbelief. Shaun looked at Paul in a different way. Steena was placed on a different cot and everyone left the room.
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Steena looked at Paul's cot when she awoke and was horrified to see Paul's cot neatly made and empty. It was dark out and Steena jumped up. Shaun and Diss were sleeping, as did everyone else. She walked outside and saw no trace of anyone. She looked to the roof and found no one there.
"Where is he?" Steena asked herself. She looked to find all the boats in the same place. She walked into the forest until she found Paul sitting by him self alone sitting on a rock looking at the calm sea. She debated on seeing him, but her feelings told her to watch.
"I can't believe it." Paul said looking down with his gold watch in his hand. "I only had twenty minutes left to defeat myself before I died." Paul said throwing the gold watch in the ocean. "I won't bite." Paul mumbled loudly. Steena walked up to Paul and sat next to him.
"How are you doing?" Steena asked quietly. She looked at Paul who continued to stare at the ocean.
"I raged for two hours at the world and God about why my life sucks. Now I am reflecting." Paul muttered. "And so far the only good things in my life were my sisters, Diss and Shaun, Rachel, everyone else here, and you Steena." Paul said not moving at all. Steena looked at Paul for a while before she leaned on him.
"You had quite an excursion this past few weeks." Steena said trying to cheer Paul up. "I made everyone worry, I was stuck in a nightmare that would not end, and the stupid floating tower is still needed to be dealt with. Besides that, I had yet another fun filled, action packed adventure." Steena smiled as she finished Paul's infamous phrase in a sarcastic and happy tone that barley was heard.
"Yippee Skippy." Paul was motionless for a second before he began to laugh. He looked at Steena and smiled leaning on her. Steena just smiled holding Paul's hand.
"I missed you a lot." Paul said quietly after a few moments of silence. "I missed you as much as Shaun. But not as much as food." Paul spoke his next words as sarcastically as possible. "I'm hungry." Steena laughed as she looked at Paul who in return looked at a fish that was flopping around in the water. She kissed Paul and then leaned on him again. Paul looked at her awkwardly. He had no idea what to do.
"Just go with it." Steena said softly.
"Okay." Paul replied as the two watched the sun begin to break over the hills. "Steena." Paul said whispering looking at the sun.
"Yeah?" Steena replied.
"I love you." Paul said holding her hand tightly.
"I know. And I love Shaun. An odd triangle was established while you were gone." Steena said sarcastically. Paul looked at her eyes wide open. "I was kidding." Steena said amused as she kissed Paul. They leaned on each other watching the sunrise come over the hills. Paul felt it was the best moment of his life.
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"Paul's awake!" Marcy screamed into the air as she looked at the empty cot. Everyone jumped out of bed to see Paul missing. Diss thanked God and Shaun did a happy jig. Serge quietly sat smiling with Glenn. Marcy was running in circles yelling, "Hurray!" Viper grinned with delight as he saw Marcy happy for the first time in weeks.
"About time!" Shaun said happily continuing the happy jig. Fargo was laughing with his mighty pirate laugh patting a disbelieving Diss. Everyone cheered as Paul came down the ladder with Steena. Shaun ran up to Paul and hugged him.
"Don't do that ever again!" Shaun said with tears in his eyes. Steena smiled moving to a corner. Marcy ran up to Paul and gave him a hug. Paul just grinned as he managed to get over to Kid and Diss.
"I know, Diss." Paul said softly as Diss got up. "I know that you watched and cared for Kid more than you did for me." Diss was still in disbelief of how much Paul knew. "And if I was you, I would have done the same." Paul said grinning looking at Kid. Diss grinned as he hugged Paul.
"Paul, would you care to join me in the ever infamous happy jig?" Shaun asked.
"Oh I would be honored." Paul said bowing doing a happy jig with Shaun. "Oh, Diss, I won't forgive you unless you dance." Diss grinned from ear to ear joining the happy jig. Glenn and Serge joined the forming happy jig causing everyone to laugh so they could hardly breathe. The jig lasted for ten minutes when Paul calmed everyone down.
"Let's not forget the task at hand." Paul started. "We need to take out that tower thing." Everyone nodded. Paul grinned. "But first. We eat, drink, and be merry! For tomorrow we die!" A loud cheer filled the room as Paul grinned sinisterly. He was happy to be back.
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Diss sighed sitting next to Kid. She smiled over at him before gently hugging him. He looked at her and spoke softly,
"Listen Kid.what we had earlier." Kid interrupted.
"What mate? What do ya mean?"
"When we were with Lynx. You and I were.closer than I normally wouldn't have gotten," Diss said slowly.
"What are you saying Diss? That you don't love me?" Kid asked innocently.
Diss sighed rubbing his temple, "Its just that. Christy is still alive and I know it. Everyone does now. and I can't leave her for you."
Kid nodded softly, "I understand perfectly mate, ya made a commitment to yer Sheila and now yer going to carry through with that commitment."
Diss smiled, "No kissing, that's the line you can't cross, no kissing, anything beyond that is off limits."
She nodded hugging him tightly, "Thanks for saving me mate."
"I don't abandon my buddies, even if they do make me mad at times," Diss said resolutely.
Kid smiled, "Then I'm glad yer my buddy mate, otherwise I would 'ave been in real trouble."
"Oh I think you still are, you still haven't talked to Glenn about the beating we gave him in Termina," Diss grinned.
"Do I 'ave ta?" She whined.
"Yes, or no more hugs." Diss said sternly before they both broke out laughing.
"Alright, Alright mate, I'll talk to him at the party later on. For now I had something to ask you." Kid said unusually unsure.
"What?" Diss asked confused.
"Diss, did we erm...sleep together?" She blurted out quickly getting it over with.
Diss blushed looking down a second. He laughed before answering, "Yes, but that was all we did... sleep. We hadn't gotten that far in one before Paul got me back." Kid chuckled relieving the tension.
"Good, otherwise I'd 'ave had to kill ya mate," she said jokingly. Diss chuckled before lying back on the cot. Kid looked at him before asking, "Ya tired mate?"
Diss nodded, "Yeah, I've been running myself pretty ragged up till now. I figure I'll sleep now, then wake up for the party later." He said as he stretched out. He was surprised when Kid lay down next to him. "What the-"
She stopped him, "Shhh.Just rest. I'm tired too, and besides if nothing happens then I'm sure ya Sheila will be ok with this one infraction." He nodded slowly before closing his eyes; Kid held onto him tightly as they both fell asleep resting peacefully for the first time in weeks.
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Paul looked at Diss and Kid and instead of being angry like he felt he should, he decided to smile and let them rest. He turned to Shaun who was talking with Glenn.
"But that's stupid." Glenn said to Shaun quietly.
"FORGET IT!" Shaun said angrily leaving throwing his hands in the air. Steena walked up to Paul and hugged him from behind.
"You taught Glenn your way of logic. Congratulations." Paul grinned holding her arms around him. Paul whipped around and looked at Steena grinning.
"We still have a few hours before the party." Steena grinned shaking her head.
"We'll wake some people up." Steena said looking at Kid and Diss. Steena looked behind Paul and saw the two girls smiling back. Steena got the general idea they wanted to be alone with Paul so she left in peace. Paul didn't bother to turn around as he felt his locket.
"I'm so sorry." Paul said in a half whisper.
"It's okay." Samantha said. "We still love you." Paul smiled turning around and looking at Catherine.
"Thanks." Paul said quietly slowly walking up to her. Catherine smiled running up to Paul and jumping in his arms. "Oh I missed you two so much." Paul said remembering it all again. Shaun walked in on them and was about to leave when Paul stopped him. He smiled as he spoke cheerfully. "I always wanted to introduce my family to my friends. This is Catherine." Paul said jingling Catherine in his arms. "My older sister Samantha and I adopted her from a family that abused her." Shaun smiled shaking her hand. "And that's Samantha." Paul said pointing to Samantha. "She's my older sister." Paul said proudly. The two shook hands saying "hello". Paul put Catherine down as he grinned.
"Paul," Shaun started grinning getting the same idea as Paul. "How long has it been since we had a party like the good old days?"
"To long." Paul said running to grab firewood. Shaun ran with him as the two girls laughed.
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Marcy and Steena were enjoying a fun game of cards as a loud crash was heard from above.
"WATCH IT!" came Paul's voice.
"I AM!" Came Shaun's reply. Marcy and Steena shrugged as they continued the card game. Kid groggily looked around as she looked outside. Her eyes grew wide in amazement as she spoke softly in a voice of wonder.
"Bloody Hell." Kid took another look and then turned to Steena. "What is Paul bloody doin?" Kid asked in her same tone. Steena smiled replying,
"He's getting the party ready." Marcy smiled dropping a card.
"Gin!" Steena looked at Marcy in disbelief.
"How? We just started thirty seconds ago!" Marcy smiled shuffling the cards. "HEY! YOU'RE A LITTLE CHEATER!" Kid busted out laughing as Marcy avoided an attempt to grab the cards by Steena.
"I coulda seen that a mile away!" Kid said falling into a chair. Marcy threw the cards away as she ran into the bedrooms. Steena gave up on the pursuit looking outside in wonder.
"Oh my god." Kid took another look.
"That Paul guy is a freak!" Kid said jokingly. Down the ladder came a girl in a green dress that was a little too short for comfort.
"Hey Steena!" the girl said.
"Orlha!" What the hell are you doing here?" Steena said hugging her friend.
"I'm only here to hang out for the party." Orlha said happily. "Shaun and Paul went to fetch me. They brought along some food with them to eat. When these guys say party they mean it." Orlha said her eyes getting wider. Steena smiled and hugged her again.
"That's my boyfriend." She muttered. Orlha looked like she wanted details. The two sat at the table and brought out the cards as Steena began the long story. Kid went up the ladder to see the huge amount of broken wooden items that wouldn't be of any use anymore.
"Hey, grab the food and set it over there." Paul said pointing to a table. Fargo was relaxing in a chair as he laughed his mighty pirate laugh. Kid walked up to Shaun and helped him carry the heavy stuff.
"Jesus!" Shaun said rubbing his back. Kid smiled as she walked over to Paul.
"Glenn, shut up." Paul said.
"But if hamsters really do migrate south for the winter how do they come home?" Glenn stated in a wining tone.
"They follow the ducks! I told you that already!" Paul barked back hurling something into the pile of unusable items. Glenn nodded understanding.
"Wait." Glenn said quietly getting confused. "Can hamsters look that high?" Paul looked at Glenn and gave the motion of shut up or die. Kid knew the conversation was way out of her league. Diss emerged from the Hideaway with Serge as the two looked in marvel at what Paul and Shaun did in the past three hours.
"I take it I start the bonfire?" Diss said happily. Paul nodded. As Diss started the fire a loud cheer erupted from the small group of people. Orlha and Steena walked out and joined Shaun and Paul. Marcy shortly followed with General Viper and Zoah. Everyone was impressed of what Paul and Shaun accomplished in less then three hours.
"Let the party start!" Paul said happily spearing Diss. Everyone was shocked to see Diss and Paul fighting each other.
"Is that all you got?" Diss said cheerfully smashing Paul on his back. "Come on punk! COME ON!" Paul got up and slowly looked around. From behind Shaun tackled Paul. The three were in a brawl and were enjoying themselves. After a few minutes they stopped and laughed like they never did before. They all shook hands and went strait to the food. Steena ran up to Paul and was about to smack him senseless.
"What was that for?" Steena said deciding to smack Paul. Paul smiled as he held Steena to him closely.
"It ain't a party till everyone knows who the boss is." Steena failed to see the logic in it, but smiled realizing there was no logic in Paul.
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Orlha and Shaun were happily talking and drinking together as Fargo enjoyed a nice cup of Joe by himself. Paul was attempting to show Steena the logic in hamster's migration patterns while Glenn was talking with General Viper and the other two Devas.
"I ave never seen anyone this happy before. " Kid said happily to Diss. Diss nodded in agreement.
"Paul and Shaun throw parties for that very reason." Diss replied. "Want another drink?" Kid nodded. Diss tossed her a cold beer in a coconut shell and he grabbed one for himself. Kid looked at Diss and thought of a clever little toast.
"Ta nothing. Because that's all we are in the grand scheme of things." Diss laughed softly clashing his drink with hers. They downed the beer and went to join the party.
"Look out!" Zoah yelled as a rock nearly hit Diss' head. The rock was about the size of a basketball and it landed nearly fifteen yards away from Zoah. Paul walked up to Zoah and smiled. He went to pick up a rock and nearly broke his back. Everyone laughed as Paul tried several ways to get the rock in his hands. After awhile he kicked it and hurt his toe. He began bouncing on one foot cussing through his teeth. He looked at the rock and grinned beginning to roll it to where Zoah's was.
"I win!" Paul said triumphantly. Everyone laughed as Shaun took his turn. With no effort he tossed the rock too far to be seen. "Show off." Paul stated quietly. Shaun grinned as Orlha went over to Shaun and congratulate him.
Paul got on a table with Fargo as the two attempted to put on a sword dueling tournament.
"First ta fall loses." Fargo said happily. Paul acknowledged by nodding. The dual began and with a swift strike the now dead Masamune nearly sliced Fargo's arm. Fargo parried and thrusted nearly knocking Paul off the table into Orlha. Paul fell onto his back and grabbed Fargo by the arms placing one foot on Fargo's chest.
"Bye Fargo." Paul said happily launching Fargo off the table. Everyone cheered and clapped as Fargo slowly got up.
"Har, Har, Har Matey!" Fargo said clapping Paul on the back. Glenn got on the table with Steena and the two grinned.
"Don't hold back, Glenn." Steena said wickedly.
"Don't plan on it." Glenn replied. He attempted to strike Steena with full force but was caught off guard to see Steena flip over Glenn and grab his neck snapping it down.
"Hiya." Steena said in a mocking tone. She got back up and kicked Glenn while he was still down. Glenn tried to get up when he was pushed down again. Steena lifted Glenn up off his feet and hurled him off into Paul. Paul spit his coffee out as Glenn and Paul both screamed.
"HOLY-" and the two collided. Steena wiped a little hair away from her head as she hopped down.
"Sorry boys." Steena said getting some water and then hopping on the table. Paul pushed Glenn off of him as Paul hopped on the table. He twirled his sword in his hands as he looked at Steena. Steena pretended to swirl her blade around in her hands as she kicked Paul's blade out from his grip and reach. Steena dodged a spear by Paul and laughed to see Paul spear Diss instead.
"I hardly know you." Diss said to Paul in a sarcastic tone.
"Oh, but I know I love you!" Paul said getting up. The group laughed as they all clapped for Steena, the queen of blades. Paul and Steena hugged each other and then went to grab some wholesome chicken. Viper and Fargo continued to laugh with one another and Diss smiled enjoying the quality of the good time.
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It was well past dark and the bon fire continued to burn loudly. Paul and Steena sat under a blanket together near the fire next to Shaun and Orlha who had disappeared for the past hour. Diss and Glenn sat together trading stories with Serge. Marcy and Viper talked happily with Zoah when Paul got up.
"Diss, you aren't telling anybody about the Fire Dragon are you?" Diss grinned as Glenn and Serge laughed hysterically.
"What happened there?" Orlha asked to Shaun who was chuckling.
"You see, when the dragon quit he said we could get the relic if we let Paul." Thunder was heard in the background as Paul stalked over to Shaun. Steena grabbed Paul's arm and pulled him down.
"Lucky." Paul said mockingly. Paul rested in Steena's lap as Shaun finished his story.
"If Paul kissed the dragon's foot for an hour." The camp erupted in laughter except for Paul who didn't find anything funny about it.
"Ya well let's see you laugh when I tell them how you did against the Black Dragon." Shaun glared at Paul, as did Diss while everyone listened eagerly.
"We got our ass whipped. Diss was smashed into the wall. I was thrown into the pool nearly one hundred yards away from the blasted thing. Shaun was smashed into a wall and beaten to a pulp." Paul said shuddering reliving the moment.
"I told you." Steena said mockingly.
"If it wasn't for me we would have died. As I think of it, it wasn't all that bad." Diss said. Paul interrupted his next sentence.
"Diss, the thing didn't even try. It told me so. If the thing wanted to we would have died well before you were eaten." Diss looked at Paul like he was crazy. Steena just laughed. Diss laughed remembering the Green Dragon.
"What has bad breath and is a lizard?" Shaun and Paul groaned holding their stomachs.
"I take it you are referring to the Green Dragon?" Steena asked. Diss nodded.
"Man, that thing was so foul we nearly died when it exhaled before we issued the challenge." Paul said trying to shake the memory.
"Man, that thing was so foul my clothes stunk for weeks." Shaun muttered.
"I spotted a little flame and when it exhaled the flame grew into a flamethrower. So I launched a fireball into the beast's mouth and it jumped into the water. Paul handled the rest." Diss said pointing to Paul.
"He got quite a shock out of it." Paul said juggling a ball of energy between his hands. Everyone once again bursted into tears from laughing so hard. Diss looked around and couldn't help but smile, Paul's party was another success.
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After hours of story telling the men all got very noticeably drunk, which was fine. Paul went to get Steena more water when he returned with the beer container then chucked it in the fire. Paul whispered to Steena and Steena looked at Paul like he was stupid. Paul grinned showing he was going to do what he wanted to do.
"You can't be serious." Steena uttered getting up and dragging Orlha away from Shaun.
"HEY!" Shaun yelled. Paul silenced Shaun as he looked at Diss evilly.
"I suggest the ladies hightail it outta here." Paul said carefully. "Because things are going to get ugly." The girls looked at Paul as they slowly began to walk to the Hideaway.
"What's wrong matey's?" Fargo asked dumbly.
"Diss." Paul said his tone getting colder. "We're all out of beer." Diss got up slowly grinning.
"You know what that means." Shaun quickly got up in a fighting stance. Paul flipped a table over and charged at Diss tackling him and punching. Shaun grabbed Fargo and hurled him into Glenn. Serge tried to escape when Paul tossed him back. Viper and Zoah held off Diss and Fargo as a bar fight erupted. Shaun and Paul traded blows until Paul knocked Shaun out cold. Diss was picked up by Zoah and tossed onto Shaun. Diss failed to get back up as he slumped out of the fight. Viper and Fargo continued to beat the crap out of each other as Paul picked up Zoah by the waist and tossed him backwards. Serge and Glenn were attempting to rip each other to pieces as Serge was punched out lying on top of Diss.
"Arrgg" Fargo said checking Viper onto the ground on top of Serge. Fargo and Paul managed to beat Zoah down as he collapsed onto Viper. Fargo and Paul smashed coconut shells on each other's backs when Paul got the edge with a hit to the head using a wooden chair. Paul did a combination of punches when he finished with a swift uppercut. Fargo landed on Zoah and was too tired to get back up. Glenn and Paul faced each other starting with a combination of punches. Glenn bit the dust when Paul tossed him overhead onto Fargo. Paul raised his fist triumphantly when he collapsed from exhaustion onto Glenn.
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The next morning all the girls woke up refreshed and happy as some laughed at the pile of bodies by the bon fire that had doused out.
"Time to get up boys." Marcy said softly. They all moaned as they heard Marcy's voice.
"Not so loud." Glenn said tiredly.
"Now that smarts." Fargo said rubbing his head.
"Who is sitting on me?" Shaun asked stupidly. The girls laughed as Diss tried to resolve the problem.
"Who's on top?" No reply.
"I think I am." Serge said trying to move.
"No, I can see you Serge." Zoah said hurting.
"Marcy, be a good girl and help us please." Viper tried to say as best he could without looking like he had a hangover.
"No, you guys did this to yourselves. I'm not going to help you." Marcy said. Paul groaned holding his head.
"I do not have a hangover. I do not have a hangover." Steena tried not to laugh as she looked at Paul. "Okay, I have a hangover." Paul said holding his head.
"I want to see them try and get out of this." Orlha said smiling.
"Place ya bets ladies. Bidding starts at two gil." Kid said setting up a table.
"Oh, put me down for an hour." Marcy said dropping two gil on the table.
"I say forty-five minutes." Steena estimated tossing two gil on to the table. Kid placed two gil down for twenty minutes for the first person to think of an idea.
"Not funny." Paul muttered grabbing two gil. "Put me down for three hours."
"Hey!" Kid yelled. "That's my bloody money!" Shaun laughed then groaned in pain.
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The pot was lost as it took half a day to get the last person up. Paul and Steena went on a walk together and returned after a few minutes. Viper was telling Marcy the importance about not getting drunk and riding a dragon. Zoah pointed to a woman as he hurled throwing up.
"Oh sick." Paul said nearly barfing himself. "He still didn't take the helmet off."
"Diss.time to get up Honey," came Christy's clear voice.
Diss groaned, "Ten more minutes."
Kid watched the woman as she hunched over her fiancée, "If you don't get up now, I will force you out." Diss grumbled something that sounded like 'shut up'. Christy smiled, "Oh so that's how it's going to be? Well I do get to have some fun." She whistled shrilly in Diss' ear.
The effect was immediate. Diss jumped up looking around eyes wide before he fell to his knees clutching his stomach. He immediately revealed everything he had eaten last night to the entire camp as Christy rubbed his back slowly.
"Hey mate is this yer Sheila?" Kid yelled to the now conscious Diss. Diss nodded as he held his stomach unsure if he would hurl again. Christy looked at the speaker and smiled standing.
"So you're the one that my fiancée has been running around with." She extended a hand in greeting, "My names Christy."
Kid shook the proffered hand, "Me names Kid. Interesting trick with me mate Diss there."
Christy chuckled, "Well when you know things about him like I do you learn how to get him out of bed when you want him to."
"Christy? ITS CHRISTY!" Paul yelled as he raced over to his long time friend tripping over a discarded coconut shell. Christy laughed as she watched him run up to her.
"Morning Paul," She said before pressing on, "Rachel says 'hi' by the way."
"Rachel? I didn't know she was still being civil to me." Paul said slowly.
"She feels bad about what happened during the storm. I'm sure if you talk-" She was cut off by Paul.
"I wont believe it until she flat out says it to me. Tell her when I get back we will talk and not a moment later." Christy nodded sadly before turning to her fiancée.
"Diss you alive in there?" She asked kicking him gently with her toe.
Diss grunted a quick reply, "You've reached a non-lucid Diss at the moment, leave your name number and the time you tried to contact me and I'll get back to you as soon as this hangover passes over."
"Cute Diss, now get up I have a legitimate reason for being here," She said picking him up by the arm. He complied just barely still wobbly on his feet. "If you would be so kind as to get me a match and stick of kindling please?" Christy said to Kid. Kid nodded searching for the mentioned items. Finally she returned with the items handing them to Christy. Christy grinned lighting the stick and putting it under Diss' nose.
"Mmm... I love the smell of burning things in the morning." Diss mumbled coming around. Kid chuckled as Christy tossed the stick in the fire ring that held the bonfire. Diss looked at Christy before holding his stomach again.
"Hold on Diss, you already purged. Just hold onto what you got." Christy said rubbing his back. Diss stopped and seemed to feel better with the extended contact with his fiancée. "Ok, can I tell you what I needed to say or are you going to continue to be hung over after that stupid party you guys threw." She said half-annoyed.
Diss nodded, "Yeah give it to me now." He seemed better as he finally straightened out clutching his head.
"This is from our side, we got the dimensional gate on this side working. When you're ready to go just head back to where this whole mess started and enter the picture of our world," Christy said softly. Diss hugged her tightly, and she returned it wondering why.
"Eric came back." Diss said softly. She widened her eyes looking him in the face.
"How?" She asked quietly.
"They pulled him from my mind and planted him in a body. When he tried to kill me I got him barely," He whispered.
"Tell me when you get back, if what I'm thinking is right, Eric will be completely gone from you." She said.
"Who in tha bloody hell is Eric?" Kid asked making her presence known to them.
"Long story I'll tell you later Kid, just be patient," Diss said quickly cutting off Christy. She gave him a look, which he returned quietly explaining. Paul had long since returned to Steena as Christy watched him hugging Steena closely. She looked at Diss questioningly before he whispered, "Later, I promise you'll find out everything later."
"Maybe you should stop putting off stuff now and tell me what the hell is going on Diss." Christy said angrily. Diss nodded motioning to indoors. As they went Christy tripped and cried out in pain. Diss knelt by her and his eyes widened when he saw the small trickle of blood.
"You're bleeding." Diss said softly.
"I'm alright its just a scrape. Lets just go inside," Christy said distractedly.
"You aren't a projection are you?" Diss accused. Christy looked down her cover was blown.
"No, I'm not." She said softly as Kid watched unsure of what was going on.
"When did you--" Diss was quickly cut off.
"Yesterday, after they fixed the machine I said I would go deliver the message. They started objecting till I finally convinced them all. Once I came through I was able to find you quickly," She explained and braced for the argument sure to come.
"You go back tomorrow," Diss said plainly helping her up. She looked at him like he had gone mad. As Diss led her and Kid into the hideaway quietly, everyone prepared for the assault on the tower that loomed over them.
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"So, we make the boats fly. Simple as that." Paul said sitting between Steena and Christy. Shaun took over the conversation sitting up.
"Okay kiddies. Today we'll learn how to make boats fly." Everyone began chuckling. "You see, first we take the boats to Chronopolis, then you let me handle the rest." Paul stood up pulling up his pants.
"Okay then. Let's put on our big boy pants now, because-" before Paul could finish a little creature entered the hideaway with a fishbowl on his head.
"Starky beeen following youu." It said.
"What the bloody hell? IT CAN TALK!" Paul jumped onto a chair.
"BACK BEAST!" Paul yelled motioning it away with his hand. The little creature walked up to Shaun. Shaun and the alien looked at each other for a while.
"Youu can make things fly?" The little blue guy asked. Shaun nodded. "Can youuu help Starky goo hoome?" Steena thought the little guy was cute and made the 'awww' sound.
"SAY WHA?" Shaun asked. "Where do you live?" Starky pointed to the sky. "IN SPACE?" Shaun yelled. Starky nodded. "Okay. I'll just stick you on a rocket and send you on your way. Would you like a bike to go with that?" Starky nodded smiling obviously missing Shaun's sarcastic tone. Diss spoke up grinning.
"Oh come off it Shaun, send the little guy home. At least help him if you can. It's not like he is leading an invasion force." Shaun muttered and agreed to help Starky out. Paul grinned as he whispered to Christy and Steena,
"That's what they think." Christy and Steena couldn't help the small chuckles that drew everyone's attention. "Nothing." Paul muttered. "You will remember nothing." Paul said wiping two fingers in front of everyone's face. Shaun laughed and headed to the boats with Starky in close pursuit. Paul left with Steena and Kid took the opportunity to meet with Christy. Diss was stuck with Serge, Glenn, and Fargo. Once again the Devas took the opportunity to relax. It was off to Chronopolis.
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After the better part of a day everyone huddled around the docks at Chronopolis as Shaun and Starky were merrily talking about how to get the boats to fly.
"Exactly." Shaun said as he grabbed an Allen wrench. Starky was grabbing parts left and right as together they took the boats and made two weird machines.
"So what are you going to do? Throw the stuff on it?" Christy asked.
"Negative." Starky replied.
"We need to make sure the stabilizers hold." Shaun said poking his head over a big contraption.
"I don't follow, but hurry it up will ya?" Kid said tapping her foot.
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Three hours later Starky and Shaun lifted the odd contraptions onto the boat and grinned satisfied with their work.
"YOU BLOODY TOSSED IT ON THE BOATS!" Kid yelled.
"Negative." Shaun said quietly.
"YES YOU DID!" Diss and Christy yelled at the same time.
"Did nooot" Starky said. Paul became the voice of reason as he picked up the machine and dropped it in the boat.
"Yes, you did." Shaun and Starky held their heads low. "You guys just slapped a couple of wires together and screwed a ball together. Pathetic guys. You made it sound like magic, when even I could have done this."
"I know, that's really sad when Paul could do something." Steena said quietly.
"Ya-HEY WAIT A MINUTE!" Paul screamed looking at Steena. Steena laughed and hugged Paul whispering in his ear. Diss looked at Christy then pointed to the door.
"Time to go." Diss said sternly. Christy looked at Diss sadly.
"Diss, listen I can help you." She never finished as Diss started the argument she had been waiting for.
"And what? Risk everything I hold dear to me because you wanted to help? Christy I love you and the child you carry. If it was like olden times I might have been able to risk you, but when you hold my child I don't want to risk losing everything again," Diss said angrily.
"So I'm supposed to be a helpless pathetic woman. Just so that you feel better about risking everything I hold dear? Diss not this time I'm on for the duration," Christy snapped. It seemed as if the wind was taken out of Diss' sails as he looked at her before he chuckled.
"I have been stubborn haven't I?" He said shaking his head pacing back and forth. Everyone watched, as he seemed to change moods almost as quickly as Paul could.
"Yes, you have. I'm sick of it so now it's my turn to be stubborn," Christy said walking up to him.
"You always were stubborn when you were right," Diss joked as she hugged him tightly. Everyone sighed as the tension relieved miraculously. "Besides, who knows when we could use you? Just don't get killed." Diss said softly.
"I could say the same to you buddy, especially after Eric. I mean what the hell were you thinking?" Christy said looking him in the eyes.
"Endgame," Diss said softly. Everyone looked at Shaun and Paul who merely shrugged apparently it was a Diss-only thing.
"The next time you endgame I will make sure it's the last time you understand that?" Christy said tersely.
"Alright, but if you don't kill me I'm sure I will eventually," Diss joked until he saw the fire in her eyes," Sorry."
"Lets just kill this thing so we can go home. I'm sure your son will appreciate it," Christy said softly.
Diss nodded, "Alright." He turned to everyone, "You heard the lady. lets go kill something!"
"Lets go on another fun filled, action packed adventure! YIPPEE SKIPPY!" Paul cheered as he turned to the boats with Steena.
The Reunion
Paul looked around as he fought off the last of his foes. Fire was surrounding his neighborhood. He couldn't place what was going on or what the creature was he had killed.
"Samantha, get Catherine out of here!" Paul yelled to the two girls huddling. The older one stood up picking up the little girl.
"Be careful Paul!" The older girl said. The little girl jumped out of her arms and ran to Paul.
"I'm scared." Paul picked her up and held her gently.
"I know, Catherine, I know. Me too." Paul whispered in her ear. "But sis will take care of you. Okay?" Paul looked at the older girl. "Be careful yourself Samantha." Paul said putting Catherine down. Samantha nodded as the two ran into the house. At that moment as soon as they reached the front doorway a bomb went off.
"NOOOOOOOOO!" Paul yelled running to his sisters. He jumped over debris and fences to get to his only remaining family. He reached Samantha first and checked her pulse. His body went cold as he began to cry. "No." Paul said looking at his dead sister. "Get up Sam, get up." Paul said through his sobbing tears. He got up and ran to Catherine as he checked her pulse. He completely broke down sobbing over his dead little sister. "NOOO!" Paul screamed to the sky. "WHAT THE HELL DID SHE DO?" Paul screamed shouting vulgar phrases. "All she did was want a home away from her abusive parents. So we adopted her." Paul said chocking on his tears he tried to fight. "We gave her a family that loved her." Paul picked her up and cried holding her tight. A man approached behind Paul speaking in a cold voice.
"Get up." Paul looked behind him to see himself holding a red sword. Paul looked at him oddly. "GET UP!" He demanded. Paul did so. Out of the sky dropped another red sword that landed next to Paul. "Fight me."
"Who are you?" Paul asked confused.
"I am your evil side, I am your hate, I am your every failure, I am YOU! The you you hide!" Paul grabbed the sword gritting his teeth.
"Don't you care about them?" Paul said pointing to his sisters. The evil Paul grinned shaking his head.
"I don't give a damn." He said coldly. Paul took the sword his anger filling him striking to tear his head off. The evil Paul blocked easily yawning. Paul regrouped as he struck as hard as he could. The evil Paul wasted no effort blocking each strike easily. He pushed Paul down and stepped on his chest.
"The little one is pushy, the older one is annoying. You always thought that." The evil Paul said pointing the sword at Paul's throat. Paul managed to get his evil self to fall on the ground as he twisted his blade in the evil Paul's stomach. The evil Paul laughed getting up ignoring the wound.
"You can't beat me!" Paul gritted through his teeth his reply,
"NOT TRUE!" The evil Paul threw Paul to the side and slashed at his exposed back. Paul screamed in pain as he whipped around smashing his self in the head. He slashed and swung the Masamune as if it were weightless landing blow after blow on the evil Paul. His evil self blew an electrical bolt at him knocking Paul back. Paul twitched all around as he squealed in pain from the electrical shock.
"HOW DOES IT FEEL?" His evil self snickered mockingly. Paul slowly got up to be kicked down. "TO BE BEATEN BY YOURSELF?" He said cutting his arm. "TO BE HURT." He slashed again. Paul was full of pain from each slash his evil self dealt. "TO BE NORMAL?" another slash almost killed Paul. "TO BE WEAK?" he said as he raised his sword in a deathblow. Paul managed to shove his sword into the chest of his foe. His foe backed off laughing pulling it out.
"YOU CAN'T WIN!" he said his voice getting colder and higher pitched. Paul felt the coldness of his locket on his chest. He gripped it tightly as he slowly got up. He parried a thrust at the impressed foe as he laughed striking again. With more confidence Paul blocked it. He continued to block strike after strike until he let loose on his self. The evil Paul was caught off guard until his sword was disarmed.
"I love my sisters with all my heart. And you think just because you're me you can talk down about them?" Paul said evilly. "You could never be me!" Paul said slicing the evil Paul's arm.
"What the hell? You aren't supposed to fight back!" He squealed in fear as Paul slowly advanced.
"I never hated them. Yes, a bit troublesome and annoying, but it came with the territory!" Paul said slashing again in the opposite spot. Evil Paul looked in horror as he no longer could move. "I never did like myself." Paul said quietly as he stabbed again into the heart of his self. The evil Paul looked at Paul hopelessly. "I only hated myself for one reason. And that's failing to meet the standards of myself. Which is too high for anyone anyways!" Paul said pulling the sword out. His evil self slowly vanished from the scene as Paul walked over to Samantha and Catherine.
"I don't know how to go on you guys." Paul said glancing at Catherine. "You were my way of thinking. And I will never forget that." Paul whispered as weird aliens approached him from behind. "Never." Paul whispered again noticing the presence of the people and the fact his sword disappeared. The aliens attacked Paul and knocked him out.
"He will be great for the element of Thunder." One alien said writing down stuff on a log. "Begin the process. As for his two sisters, bury them. And wipe his memory of them. They would cause him to defeat us. Then set him loose on subject R-246 for testing. If he does well then have him be a guard for our main base on this planet. If R-245 makes excellent standards like I hope for, then we will never be crushed. And then when we attack the other dimension the two will easily defeat anyone there. With them we will rule with no authority to dispute us." Paul nearly blacked out when he took the locket and placed it in his pocket.
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The sword fell out of Steena's hands as Shaun and Diss stared in disbelief. Steena fainted and Marcy went to her aid. The two girls, who were now known to be Paul's sisters, left the room saying,
"He will wake up eventually. We will come back then." Both left with tears in their eyes.
"He was going to kill me for testing." Diss said in disbelief. Shaun looked at Paul in a different way. Steena was placed on a different cot and everyone left the room.
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Steena looked at Paul's cot when she awoke and was horrified to see Paul's cot neatly made and empty. It was dark out and Steena jumped up. Shaun and Diss were sleeping, as did everyone else. She walked outside and saw no trace of anyone. She looked to the roof and found no one there.
"Where is he?" Steena asked herself. She looked to find all the boats in the same place. She walked into the forest until she found Paul sitting by him self alone sitting on a rock looking at the calm sea. She debated on seeing him, but her feelings told her to watch.
"I can't believe it." Paul said looking down with his gold watch in his hand. "I only had twenty minutes left to defeat myself before I died." Paul said throwing the gold watch in the ocean. "I won't bite." Paul mumbled loudly. Steena walked up to Paul and sat next to him.
"How are you doing?" Steena asked quietly. She looked at Paul who continued to stare at the ocean.
"I raged for two hours at the world and God about why my life sucks. Now I am reflecting." Paul muttered. "And so far the only good things in my life were my sisters, Diss and Shaun, Rachel, everyone else here, and you Steena." Paul said not moving at all. Steena looked at Paul for a while before she leaned on him.
"You had quite an excursion this past few weeks." Steena said trying to cheer Paul up. "I made everyone worry, I was stuck in a nightmare that would not end, and the stupid floating tower is still needed to be dealt with. Besides that, I had yet another fun filled, action packed adventure." Steena smiled as she finished Paul's infamous phrase in a sarcastic and happy tone that barley was heard.
"Yippee Skippy." Paul was motionless for a second before he began to laugh. He looked at Steena and smiled leaning on her. Steena just smiled holding Paul's hand.
"I missed you a lot." Paul said quietly after a few moments of silence. "I missed you as much as Shaun. But not as much as food." Paul spoke his next words as sarcastically as possible. "I'm hungry." Steena laughed as she looked at Paul who in return looked at a fish that was flopping around in the water. She kissed Paul and then leaned on him again. Paul looked at her awkwardly. He had no idea what to do.
"Just go with it." Steena said softly.
"Okay." Paul replied as the two watched the sun begin to break over the hills. "Steena." Paul said whispering looking at the sun.
"Yeah?" Steena replied.
"I love you." Paul said holding her hand tightly.
"I know. And I love Shaun. An odd triangle was established while you were gone." Steena said sarcastically. Paul looked at her eyes wide open. "I was kidding." Steena said amused as she kissed Paul. They leaned on each other watching the sunrise come over the hills. Paul felt it was the best moment of his life.
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"Paul's awake!" Marcy screamed into the air as she looked at the empty cot. Everyone jumped out of bed to see Paul missing. Diss thanked God and Shaun did a happy jig. Serge quietly sat smiling with Glenn. Marcy was running in circles yelling, "Hurray!" Viper grinned with delight as he saw Marcy happy for the first time in weeks.
"About time!" Shaun said happily continuing the happy jig. Fargo was laughing with his mighty pirate laugh patting a disbelieving Diss. Everyone cheered as Paul came down the ladder with Steena. Shaun ran up to Paul and hugged him.
"Don't do that ever again!" Shaun said with tears in his eyes. Steena smiled moving to a corner. Marcy ran up to Paul and gave him a hug. Paul just grinned as he managed to get over to Kid and Diss.
"I know, Diss." Paul said softly as Diss got up. "I know that you watched and cared for Kid more than you did for me." Diss was still in disbelief of how much Paul knew. "And if I was you, I would have done the same." Paul said grinning looking at Kid. Diss grinned as he hugged Paul.
"Paul, would you care to join me in the ever infamous happy jig?" Shaun asked.
"Oh I would be honored." Paul said bowing doing a happy jig with Shaun. "Oh, Diss, I won't forgive you unless you dance." Diss grinned from ear to ear joining the happy jig. Glenn and Serge joined the forming happy jig causing everyone to laugh so they could hardly breathe. The jig lasted for ten minutes when Paul calmed everyone down.
"Let's not forget the task at hand." Paul started. "We need to take out that tower thing." Everyone nodded. Paul grinned. "But first. We eat, drink, and be merry! For tomorrow we die!" A loud cheer filled the room as Paul grinned sinisterly. He was happy to be back.
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Diss sighed sitting next to Kid. She smiled over at him before gently hugging him. He looked at her and spoke softly,
"Listen Kid.what we had earlier." Kid interrupted.
"What mate? What do ya mean?"
"When we were with Lynx. You and I were.closer than I normally wouldn't have gotten," Diss said slowly.
"What are you saying Diss? That you don't love me?" Kid asked innocently.
Diss sighed rubbing his temple, "Its just that. Christy is still alive and I know it. Everyone does now. and I can't leave her for you."
Kid nodded softly, "I understand perfectly mate, ya made a commitment to yer Sheila and now yer going to carry through with that commitment."
Diss smiled, "No kissing, that's the line you can't cross, no kissing, anything beyond that is off limits."
She nodded hugging him tightly, "Thanks for saving me mate."
"I don't abandon my buddies, even if they do make me mad at times," Diss said resolutely.
Kid smiled, "Then I'm glad yer my buddy mate, otherwise I would 'ave been in real trouble."
"Oh I think you still are, you still haven't talked to Glenn about the beating we gave him in Termina," Diss grinned.
"Do I 'ave ta?" She whined.
"Yes, or no more hugs." Diss said sternly before they both broke out laughing.
"Alright, Alright mate, I'll talk to him at the party later on. For now I had something to ask you." Kid said unusually unsure.
"What?" Diss asked confused.
"Diss, did we erm...sleep together?" She blurted out quickly getting it over with.
Diss blushed looking down a second. He laughed before answering, "Yes, but that was all we did... sleep. We hadn't gotten that far in one before Paul got me back." Kid chuckled relieving the tension.
"Good, otherwise I'd 'ave had to kill ya mate," she said jokingly. Diss chuckled before lying back on the cot. Kid looked at him before asking, "Ya tired mate?"
Diss nodded, "Yeah, I've been running myself pretty ragged up till now. I figure I'll sleep now, then wake up for the party later." He said as he stretched out. He was surprised when Kid lay down next to him. "What the-"
She stopped him, "Shhh.Just rest. I'm tired too, and besides if nothing happens then I'm sure ya Sheila will be ok with this one infraction." He nodded slowly before closing his eyes; Kid held onto him tightly as they both fell asleep resting peacefully for the first time in weeks.
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Paul looked at Diss and Kid and instead of being angry like he felt he should, he decided to smile and let them rest. He turned to Shaun who was talking with Glenn.
"But that's stupid." Glenn said to Shaun quietly.
"FORGET IT!" Shaun said angrily leaving throwing his hands in the air. Steena walked up to Paul and hugged him from behind.
"You taught Glenn your way of logic. Congratulations." Paul grinned holding her arms around him. Paul whipped around and looked at Steena grinning.
"We still have a few hours before the party." Steena grinned shaking her head.
"We'll wake some people up." Steena said looking at Kid and Diss. Steena looked behind Paul and saw the two girls smiling back. Steena got the general idea they wanted to be alone with Paul so she left in peace. Paul didn't bother to turn around as he felt his locket.
"I'm so sorry." Paul said in a half whisper.
"It's okay." Samantha said. "We still love you." Paul smiled turning around and looking at Catherine.
"Thanks." Paul said quietly slowly walking up to her. Catherine smiled running up to Paul and jumping in his arms. "Oh I missed you two so much." Paul said remembering it all again. Shaun walked in on them and was about to leave when Paul stopped him. He smiled as he spoke cheerfully. "I always wanted to introduce my family to my friends. This is Catherine." Paul said jingling Catherine in his arms. "My older sister Samantha and I adopted her from a family that abused her." Shaun smiled shaking her hand. "And that's Samantha." Paul said pointing to Samantha. "She's my older sister." Paul said proudly. The two shook hands saying "hello". Paul put Catherine down as he grinned.
"Paul," Shaun started grinning getting the same idea as Paul. "How long has it been since we had a party like the good old days?"
"To long." Paul said running to grab firewood. Shaun ran with him as the two girls laughed.
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Marcy and Steena were enjoying a fun game of cards as a loud crash was heard from above.
"WATCH IT!" came Paul's voice.
"I AM!" Came Shaun's reply. Marcy and Steena shrugged as they continued the card game. Kid groggily looked around as she looked outside. Her eyes grew wide in amazement as she spoke softly in a voice of wonder.
"Bloody Hell." Kid took another look and then turned to Steena. "What is Paul bloody doin?" Kid asked in her same tone. Steena smiled replying,
"He's getting the party ready." Marcy smiled dropping a card.
"Gin!" Steena looked at Marcy in disbelief.
"How? We just started thirty seconds ago!" Marcy smiled shuffling the cards. "HEY! YOU'RE A LITTLE CHEATER!" Kid busted out laughing as Marcy avoided an attempt to grab the cards by Steena.
"I coulda seen that a mile away!" Kid said falling into a chair. Marcy threw the cards away as she ran into the bedrooms. Steena gave up on the pursuit looking outside in wonder.
"Oh my god." Kid took another look.
"That Paul guy is a freak!" Kid said jokingly. Down the ladder came a girl in a green dress that was a little too short for comfort.
"Hey Steena!" the girl said.
"Orlha!" What the hell are you doing here?" Steena said hugging her friend.
"I'm only here to hang out for the party." Orlha said happily. "Shaun and Paul went to fetch me. They brought along some food with them to eat. When these guys say party they mean it." Orlha said her eyes getting wider. Steena smiled and hugged her again.
"That's my boyfriend." She muttered. Orlha looked like she wanted details. The two sat at the table and brought out the cards as Steena began the long story. Kid went up the ladder to see the huge amount of broken wooden items that wouldn't be of any use anymore.
"Hey, grab the food and set it over there." Paul said pointing to a table. Fargo was relaxing in a chair as he laughed his mighty pirate laugh. Kid walked up to Shaun and helped him carry the heavy stuff.
"Jesus!" Shaun said rubbing his back. Kid smiled as she walked over to Paul.
"Glenn, shut up." Paul said.
"But if hamsters really do migrate south for the winter how do they come home?" Glenn stated in a wining tone.
"They follow the ducks! I told you that already!" Paul barked back hurling something into the pile of unusable items. Glenn nodded understanding.
"Wait." Glenn said quietly getting confused. "Can hamsters look that high?" Paul looked at Glenn and gave the motion of shut up or die. Kid knew the conversation was way out of her league. Diss emerged from the Hideaway with Serge as the two looked in marvel at what Paul and Shaun did in the past three hours.
"I take it I start the bonfire?" Diss said happily. Paul nodded. As Diss started the fire a loud cheer erupted from the small group of people. Orlha and Steena walked out and joined Shaun and Paul. Marcy shortly followed with General Viper and Zoah. Everyone was impressed of what Paul and Shaun accomplished in less then three hours.
"Let the party start!" Paul said happily spearing Diss. Everyone was shocked to see Diss and Paul fighting each other.
"Is that all you got?" Diss said cheerfully smashing Paul on his back. "Come on punk! COME ON!" Paul got up and slowly looked around. From behind Shaun tackled Paul. The three were in a brawl and were enjoying themselves. After a few minutes they stopped and laughed like they never did before. They all shook hands and went strait to the food. Steena ran up to Paul and was about to smack him senseless.
"What was that for?" Steena said deciding to smack Paul. Paul smiled as he held Steena to him closely.
"It ain't a party till everyone knows who the boss is." Steena failed to see the logic in it, but smiled realizing there was no logic in Paul.
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Orlha and Shaun were happily talking and drinking together as Fargo enjoyed a nice cup of Joe by himself. Paul was attempting to show Steena the logic in hamster's migration patterns while Glenn was talking with General Viper and the other two Devas.
"I ave never seen anyone this happy before. " Kid said happily to Diss. Diss nodded in agreement.
"Paul and Shaun throw parties for that very reason." Diss replied. "Want another drink?" Kid nodded. Diss tossed her a cold beer in a coconut shell and he grabbed one for himself. Kid looked at Diss and thought of a clever little toast.
"Ta nothing. Because that's all we are in the grand scheme of things." Diss laughed softly clashing his drink with hers. They downed the beer and went to join the party.
"Look out!" Zoah yelled as a rock nearly hit Diss' head. The rock was about the size of a basketball and it landed nearly fifteen yards away from Zoah. Paul walked up to Zoah and smiled. He went to pick up a rock and nearly broke his back. Everyone laughed as Paul tried several ways to get the rock in his hands. After awhile he kicked it and hurt his toe. He began bouncing on one foot cussing through his teeth. He looked at the rock and grinned beginning to roll it to where Zoah's was.
"I win!" Paul said triumphantly. Everyone laughed as Shaun took his turn. With no effort he tossed the rock too far to be seen. "Show off." Paul stated quietly. Shaun grinned as Orlha went over to Shaun and congratulate him.
Paul got on a table with Fargo as the two attempted to put on a sword dueling tournament.
"First ta fall loses." Fargo said happily. Paul acknowledged by nodding. The dual began and with a swift strike the now dead Masamune nearly sliced Fargo's arm. Fargo parried and thrusted nearly knocking Paul off the table into Orlha. Paul fell onto his back and grabbed Fargo by the arms placing one foot on Fargo's chest.
"Bye Fargo." Paul said happily launching Fargo off the table. Everyone cheered and clapped as Fargo slowly got up.
"Har, Har, Har Matey!" Fargo said clapping Paul on the back. Glenn got on the table with Steena and the two grinned.
"Don't hold back, Glenn." Steena said wickedly.
"Don't plan on it." Glenn replied. He attempted to strike Steena with full force but was caught off guard to see Steena flip over Glenn and grab his neck snapping it down.
"Hiya." Steena said in a mocking tone. She got back up and kicked Glenn while he was still down. Glenn tried to get up when he was pushed down again. Steena lifted Glenn up off his feet and hurled him off into Paul. Paul spit his coffee out as Glenn and Paul both screamed.
"HOLY-" and the two collided. Steena wiped a little hair away from her head as she hopped down.
"Sorry boys." Steena said getting some water and then hopping on the table. Paul pushed Glenn off of him as Paul hopped on the table. He twirled his sword in his hands as he looked at Steena. Steena pretended to swirl her blade around in her hands as she kicked Paul's blade out from his grip and reach. Steena dodged a spear by Paul and laughed to see Paul spear Diss instead.
"I hardly know you." Diss said to Paul in a sarcastic tone.
"Oh, but I know I love you!" Paul said getting up. The group laughed as they all clapped for Steena, the queen of blades. Paul and Steena hugged each other and then went to grab some wholesome chicken. Viper and Fargo continued to laugh with one another and Diss smiled enjoying the quality of the good time.
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It was well past dark and the bon fire continued to burn loudly. Paul and Steena sat under a blanket together near the fire next to Shaun and Orlha who had disappeared for the past hour. Diss and Glenn sat together trading stories with Serge. Marcy and Viper talked happily with Zoah when Paul got up.
"Diss, you aren't telling anybody about the Fire Dragon are you?" Diss grinned as Glenn and Serge laughed hysterically.
"What happened there?" Orlha asked to Shaun who was chuckling.
"You see, when the dragon quit he said we could get the relic if we let Paul." Thunder was heard in the background as Paul stalked over to Shaun. Steena grabbed Paul's arm and pulled him down.
"Lucky." Paul said mockingly. Paul rested in Steena's lap as Shaun finished his story.
"If Paul kissed the dragon's foot for an hour." The camp erupted in laughter except for Paul who didn't find anything funny about it.
"Ya well let's see you laugh when I tell them how you did against the Black Dragon." Shaun glared at Paul, as did Diss while everyone listened eagerly.
"We got our ass whipped. Diss was smashed into the wall. I was thrown into the pool nearly one hundred yards away from the blasted thing. Shaun was smashed into a wall and beaten to a pulp." Paul said shuddering reliving the moment.
"I told you." Steena said mockingly.
"If it wasn't for me we would have died. As I think of it, it wasn't all that bad." Diss said. Paul interrupted his next sentence.
"Diss, the thing didn't even try. It told me so. If the thing wanted to we would have died well before you were eaten." Diss looked at Paul like he was crazy. Steena just laughed. Diss laughed remembering the Green Dragon.
"What has bad breath and is a lizard?" Shaun and Paul groaned holding their stomachs.
"I take it you are referring to the Green Dragon?" Steena asked. Diss nodded.
"Man, that thing was so foul we nearly died when it exhaled before we issued the challenge." Paul said trying to shake the memory.
"Man, that thing was so foul my clothes stunk for weeks." Shaun muttered.
"I spotted a little flame and when it exhaled the flame grew into a flamethrower. So I launched a fireball into the beast's mouth and it jumped into the water. Paul handled the rest." Diss said pointing to Paul.
"He got quite a shock out of it." Paul said juggling a ball of energy between his hands. Everyone once again bursted into tears from laughing so hard. Diss looked around and couldn't help but smile, Paul's party was another success.
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After hours of story telling the men all got very noticeably drunk, which was fine. Paul went to get Steena more water when he returned with the beer container then chucked it in the fire. Paul whispered to Steena and Steena looked at Paul like he was stupid. Paul grinned showing he was going to do what he wanted to do.
"You can't be serious." Steena uttered getting up and dragging Orlha away from Shaun.
"HEY!" Shaun yelled. Paul silenced Shaun as he looked at Diss evilly.
"I suggest the ladies hightail it outta here." Paul said carefully. "Because things are going to get ugly." The girls looked at Paul as they slowly began to walk to the Hideaway.
"What's wrong matey's?" Fargo asked dumbly.
"Diss." Paul said his tone getting colder. "We're all out of beer." Diss got up slowly grinning.
"You know what that means." Shaun quickly got up in a fighting stance. Paul flipped a table over and charged at Diss tackling him and punching. Shaun grabbed Fargo and hurled him into Glenn. Serge tried to escape when Paul tossed him back. Viper and Zoah held off Diss and Fargo as a bar fight erupted. Shaun and Paul traded blows until Paul knocked Shaun out cold. Diss was picked up by Zoah and tossed onto Shaun. Diss failed to get back up as he slumped out of the fight. Viper and Fargo continued to beat the crap out of each other as Paul picked up Zoah by the waist and tossed him backwards. Serge and Glenn were attempting to rip each other to pieces as Serge was punched out lying on top of Diss.
"Arrgg" Fargo said checking Viper onto the ground on top of Serge. Fargo and Paul managed to beat Zoah down as he collapsed onto Viper. Fargo and Paul smashed coconut shells on each other's backs when Paul got the edge with a hit to the head using a wooden chair. Paul did a combination of punches when he finished with a swift uppercut. Fargo landed on Zoah and was too tired to get back up. Glenn and Paul faced each other starting with a combination of punches. Glenn bit the dust when Paul tossed him overhead onto Fargo. Paul raised his fist triumphantly when he collapsed from exhaustion onto Glenn.
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The next morning all the girls woke up refreshed and happy as some laughed at the pile of bodies by the bon fire that had doused out.
"Time to get up boys." Marcy said softly. They all moaned as they heard Marcy's voice.
"Not so loud." Glenn said tiredly.
"Now that smarts." Fargo said rubbing his head.
"Who is sitting on me?" Shaun asked stupidly. The girls laughed as Diss tried to resolve the problem.
"Who's on top?" No reply.
"I think I am." Serge said trying to move.
"No, I can see you Serge." Zoah said hurting.
"Marcy, be a good girl and help us please." Viper tried to say as best he could without looking like he had a hangover.
"No, you guys did this to yourselves. I'm not going to help you." Marcy said. Paul groaned holding his head.
"I do not have a hangover. I do not have a hangover." Steena tried not to laugh as she looked at Paul. "Okay, I have a hangover." Paul said holding his head.
"I want to see them try and get out of this." Orlha said smiling.
"Place ya bets ladies. Bidding starts at two gil." Kid said setting up a table.
"Oh, put me down for an hour." Marcy said dropping two gil on the table.
"I say forty-five minutes." Steena estimated tossing two gil on to the table. Kid placed two gil down for twenty minutes for the first person to think of an idea.
"Not funny." Paul muttered grabbing two gil. "Put me down for three hours."
"Hey!" Kid yelled. "That's my bloody money!" Shaun laughed then groaned in pain.
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The pot was lost as it took half a day to get the last person up. Paul and Steena went on a walk together and returned after a few minutes. Viper was telling Marcy the importance about not getting drunk and riding a dragon. Zoah pointed to a woman as he hurled throwing up.
"Oh sick." Paul said nearly barfing himself. "He still didn't take the helmet off."
"Diss.time to get up Honey," came Christy's clear voice.
Diss groaned, "Ten more minutes."
Kid watched the woman as she hunched over her fiancée, "If you don't get up now, I will force you out." Diss grumbled something that sounded like 'shut up'. Christy smiled, "Oh so that's how it's going to be? Well I do get to have some fun." She whistled shrilly in Diss' ear.
The effect was immediate. Diss jumped up looking around eyes wide before he fell to his knees clutching his stomach. He immediately revealed everything he had eaten last night to the entire camp as Christy rubbed his back slowly.
"Hey mate is this yer Sheila?" Kid yelled to the now conscious Diss. Diss nodded as he held his stomach unsure if he would hurl again. Christy looked at the speaker and smiled standing.
"So you're the one that my fiancée has been running around with." She extended a hand in greeting, "My names Christy."
Kid shook the proffered hand, "Me names Kid. Interesting trick with me mate Diss there."
Christy chuckled, "Well when you know things about him like I do you learn how to get him out of bed when you want him to."
"Christy? ITS CHRISTY!" Paul yelled as he raced over to his long time friend tripping over a discarded coconut shell. Christy laughed as she watched him run up to her.
"Morning Paul," She said before pressing on, "Rachel says 'hi' by the way."
"Rachel? I didn't know she was still being civil to me." Paul said slowly.
"She feels bad about what happened during the storm. I'm sure if you talk-" She was cut off by Paul.
"I wont believe it until she flat out says it to me. Tell her when I get back we will talk and not a moment later." Christy nodded sadly before turning to her fiancée.
"Diss you alive in there?" She asked kicking him gently with her toe.
Diss grunted a quick reply, "You've reached a non-lucid Diss at the moment, leave your name number and the time you tried to contact me and I'll get back to you as soon as this hangover passes over."
"Cute Diss, now get up I have a legitimate reason for being here," She said picking him up by the arm. He complied just barely still wobbly on his feet. "If you would be so kind as to get me a match and stick of kindling please?" Christy said to Kid. Kid nodded searching for the mentioned items. Finally she returned with the items handing them to Christy. Christy grinned lighting the stick and putting it under Diss' nose.
"Mmm... I love the smell of burning things in the morning." Diss mumbled coming around. Kid chuckled as Christy tossed the stick in the fire ring that held the bonfire. Diss looked at Christy before holding his stomach again.
"Hold on Diss, you already purged. Just hold onto what you got." Christy said rubbing his back. Diss stopped and seemed to feel better with the extended contact with his fiancée. "Ok, can I tell you what I needed to say or are you going to continue to be hung over after that stupid party you guys threw." She said half-annoyed.
Diss nodded, "Yeah give it to me now." He seemed better as he finally straightened out clutching his head.
"This is from our side, we got the dimensional gate on this side working. When you're ready to go just head back to where this whole mess started and enter the picture of our world," Christy said softly. Diss hugged her tightly, and she returned it wondering why.
"Eric came back." Diss said softly. She widened her eyes looking him in the face.
"How?" She asked quietly.
"They pulled him from my mind and planted him in a body. When he tried to kill me I got him barely," He whispered.
"Tell me when you get back, if what I'm thinking is right, Eric will be completely gone from you." She said.
"Who in tha bloody hell is Eric?" Kid asked making her presence known to them.
"Long story I'll tell you later Kid, just be patient," Diss said quickly cutting off Christy. She gave him a look, which he returned quietly explaining. Paul had long since returned to Steena as Christy watched him hugging Steena closely. She looked at Diss questioningly before he whispered, "Later, I promise you'll find out everything later."
"Maybe you should stop putting off stuff now and tell me what the hell is going on Diss." Christy said angrily. Diss nodded motioning to indoors. As they went Christy tripped and cried out in pain. Diss knelt by her and his eyes widened when he saw the small trickle of blood.
"You're bleeding." Diss said softly.
"I'm alright its just a scrape. Lets just go inside," Christy said distractedly.
"You aren't a projection are you?" Diss accused. Christy looked down her cover was blown.
"No, I'm not." She said softly as Kid watched unsure of what was going on.
"When did you--" Diss was quickly cut off.
"Yesterday, after they fixed the machine I said I would go deliver the message. They started objecting till I finally convinced them all. Once I came through I was able to find you quickly," She explained and braced for the argument sure to come.
"You go back tomorrow," Diss said plainly helping her up. She looked at him like he had gone mad. As Diss led her and Kid into the hideaway quietly, everyone prepared for the assault on the tower that loomed over them.
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"So, we make the boats fly. Simple as that." Paul said sitting between Steena and Christy. Shaun took over the conversation sitting up.
"Okay kiddies. Today we'll learn how to make boats fly." Everyone began chuckling. "You see, first we take the boats to Chronopolis, then you let me handle the rest." Paul stood up pulling up his pants.
"Okay then. Let's put on our big boy pants now, because-" before Paul could finish a little creature entered the hideaway with a fishbowl on his head.
"Starky beeen following youu." It said.
"What the bloody hell? IT CAN TALK!" Paul jumped onto a chair.
"BACK BEAST!" Paul yelled motioning it away with his hand. The little creature walked up to Shaun. Shaun and the alien looked at each other for a while.
"Youu can make things fly?" The little blue guy asked. Shaun nodded. "Can youuu help Starky goo hoome?" Steena thought the little guy was cute and made the 'awww' sound.
"SAY WHA?" Shaun asked. "Where do you live?" Starky pointed to the sky. "IN SPACE?" Shaun yelled. Starky nodded. "Okay. I'll just stick you on a rocket and send you on your way. Would you like a bike to go with that?" Starky nodded smiling obviously missing Shaun's sarcastic tone. Diss spoke up grinning.
"Oh come off it Shaun, send the little guy home. At least help him if you can. It's not like he is leading an invasion force." Shaun muttered and agreed to help Starky out. Paul grinned as he whispered to Christy and Steena,
"That's what they think." Christy and Steena couldn't help the small chuckles that drew everyone's attention. "Nothing." Paul muttered. "You will remember nothing." Paul said wiping two fingers in front of everyone's face. Shaun laughed and headed to the boats with Starky in close pursuit. Paul left with Steena and Kid took the opportunity to meet with Christy. Diss was stuck with Serge, Glenn, and Fargo. Once again the Devas took the opportunity to relax. It was off to Chronopolis.
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After the better part of a day everyone huddled around the docks at Chronopolis as Shaun and Starky were merrily talking about how to get the boats to fly.
"Exactly." Shaun said as he grabbed an Allen wrench. Starky was grabbing parts left and right as together they took the boats and made two weird machines.
"So what are you going to do? Throw the stuff on it?" Christy asked.
"Negative." Starky replied.
"We need to make sure the stabilizers hold." Shaun said poking his head over a big contraption.
"I don't follow, but hurry it up will ya?" Kid said tapping her foot.
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Three hours later Starky and Shaun lifted the odd contraptions onto the boat and grinned satisfied with their work.
"YOU BLOODY TOSSED IT ON THE BOATS!" Kid yelled.
"Negative." Shaun said quietly.
"YES YOU DID!" Diss and Christy yelled at the same time.
"Did nooot" Starky said. Paul became the voice of reason as he picked up the machine and dropped it in the boat.
"Yes, you did." Shaun and Starky held their heads low. "You guys just slapped a couple of wires together and screwed a ball together. Pathetic guys. You made it sound like magic, when even I could have done this."
"I know, that's really sad when Paul could do something." Steena said quietly.
"Ya-HEY WAIT A MINUTE!" Paul screamed looking at Steena. Steena laughed and hugged Paul whispering in his ear. Diss looked at Christy then pointed to the door.
"Time to go." Diss said sternly. Christy looked at Diss sadly.
"Diss, listen I can help you." She never finished as Diss started the argument she had been waiting for.
"And what? Risk everything I hold dear to me because you wanted to help? Christy I love you and the child you carry. If it was like olden times I might have been able to risk you, but when you hold my child I don't want to risk losing everything again," Diss said angrily.
"So I'm supposed to be a helpless pathetic woman. Just so that you feel better about risking everything I hold dear? Diss not this time I'm on for the duration," Christy snapped. It seemed as if the wind was taken out of Diss' sails as he looked at her before he chuckled.
"I have been stubborn haven't I?" He said shaking his head pacing back and forth. Everyone watched, as he seemed to change moods almost as quickly as Paul could.
"Yes, you have. I'm sick of it so now it's my turn to be stubborn," Christy said walking up to him.
"You always were stubborn when you were right," Diss joked as she hugged him tightly. Everyone sighed as the tension relieved miraculously. "Besides, who knows when we could use you? Just don't get killed." Diss said softly.
"I could say the same to you buddy, especially after Eric. I mean what the hell were you thinking?" Christy said looking him in the eyes.
"Endgame," Diss said softly. Everyone looked at Shaun and Paul who merely shrugged apparently it was a Diss-only thing.
"The next time you endgame I will make sure it's the last time you understand that?" Christy said tersely.
"Alright, but if you don't kill me I'm sure I will eventually," Diss joked until he saw the fire in her eyes," Sorry."
"Lets just kill this thing so we can go home. I'm sure your son will appreciate it," Christy said softly.
Diss nodded, "Alright." He turned to everyone, "You heard the lady. lets go kill something!"
"Lets go on another fun filled, action packed adventure! YIPPEE SKIPPY!" Paul cheered as he turned to the boats with Steena.