The Clock Strikes Two
A/N: the second ghost doth appears to bewilder the poor writer, Eddie. Behold, the Ghostly Kame approaches! * ducks from a rotten egg * QUIT IT WU GUI! Anyway, I have been reflecting on my rather nasty treatment of Wu Gui. so this will probably be the only apology I'm going to issue.Sorry Wui Gui if I'm too nasty.So as a sorta sorry present, I hereby dedicate this chapter to Elena, that dratted girl who scored six marks more than me in the a maths test. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Disclaimer: Heck. I don't care. No. Like. Disclaimers.
THE CLOCK STRIKES TWO
Morpheus was slightly mollified at having Eddie back. He smiled and enjoyed the fic that Eddie was dream-writing, about Rukawa's sister, that watshername, Kurokoka, or something that. ahhhh, the perfect Mary Sue.
He was abruptly brought out of his deeply reflective state when he felt Eddie slipping away from him once more. Morpheus screeched, " Dammit! I hate stopping at Cliffies. stop! Let her finish the next few lines! Dammit." He growled as Eddie's dream form disintergrated.
The cause of Eddie's awakening was seated on the floor, calming screaming over her 'Hiei and Kurama' poster. She was quite composed over it, actually, by Elena-standards. Since Eddie was not expecting the ghostly visitor to scream, she joined in, if only out of surprise. Apparently, the alarm clock also enjoyed screaming. It joined in joyfully, ringing it's silly pink head off.
Eddie's father, who was working in the adjoining room, was not pleased with the noise level. he yelled, " Eddie! Get to bed! I'm working!"
Eddie and Elena immediately clamped their mouths shut. The alarm clock kept on ringing. Only now, it had decided to vary the noise with beeps and rings.
Eddie hastily and viciously smashed the alarm clock to the ground, damaging the pink monstrosity permanently.
The room as silent, except for Eddie's ragged breath and her small crow of victory at finally spoiling the hated alarm clock. She remembered to glare at Elena.
Elena looked vaguely sheepish, kept the first poster, took out another anime poster and prepared to start screaming in ecstasy.
She looked extremely alarmed. Immediately, she dove at Elena, trying to prevent any more ghostly screaming. She went through, as was the case with most ghost, and banged her head on the cabinet. " OWWW!" she yelped, rubbing the bruise.
At least she didn't bang her head in vain. Elena didn't start scream. She was staring at Eddie in puzzlement.
" Ah, Eddie-san, why did you go through me for? I'm a ghost!" Elena exclaimed in Mandarin.
Eddie replied in the same language. " Stupid Wu Gui, I was trying to save my skin! My dad would have killed me if you screamed once more."
Elena blinked in surprise. " Why ever for?" ( They were still conversing in mandarin.)
One of the Powers That Be shouted from the Place That Is. " STOP SPEAKING IN CHINESE! THIS IS AN ENGLISH FANFICTION, NOT A CHINESE TEAHOUSE OR SOMETHING!"
Both of them blinked. " Fine," they grumbled, in mandarin.
" WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT SPEAKING IN CHINESE?"
" Ok!" Elena shouted, pointedly in English.
Eddie scowled. " It's bad enough that I'm being changed to another person in this story, I also have to endure silly incidents like this!!!"
Elena shrugged. " I'm merely a pawn in the hands of the writer, don't complain to me!"
Eddie scowled, looking remarkable like Si En. Which was not a good sign. That could only be one Si En in the world. So Si En the writer quickly edited that portion.
Eddie scowled. She did not look like Si En.
Elena hurried, " We don't have much time now. so hurry up! As I was saying. why did you try to kill me again?"
Eddie sighed impatiently. " Because my dad could hear you."
Elena objected. " No he can't! I'm a ghost! Only you can hear me."
" Ai-yah, why didn't you say so in the first place? Now he thinks I'm nuts." grumbled Eddie, staring blackly at Eddie.
Elena sulked, " Not my fault."
Eddie growled most Si En likeishly. " You fault."
Elena groaned. " Stop sounding like Si En!!!"
Eddie looked mildly horrified. " Oh no! I hung out with her too often. sorry. As you were saying?"
Elena continued, " Let's go to somewhere safe, where I can scream at you in comparative comfort."
Eddie nodded, her eyebrow raised sceptically.
They trans-time-realm-located, to a nice rolling blue plains. There were nice fluffy yellow clouds in the nicely spinning red sky. The golden grass felt nice and velvety.
Elena waved her hand, indicated this strange and pleasant place. " My cubbyhole. In the ghost world. I store all of my fanfictions, manga, posters. basically, my preciouses." she hissed, failing entirely to sound like Gollum.
Eddie shuddered convulsively. " That was awful!!!" she protested.
Elena smiled sweetly. " Back to the original topic. your fanfics! I protest! I hate O.C.s. they are too perfect! Sickeningly perfect! Nooooooo, I protest! And how could you have named Si En Lavender? That is the most un- Si-Enish name I could think of! 'Stauch Fan', the plot was so, urgh! Clichéd! Horrific! Inexcusable! How could you!" ranted Elena passionately. She paused in her enraged tirade.
Eddie looked totally surprised. " I thought you liked romance."
Elena smiled sheepishly. " Well, I do actually. I'm sorry for giving you such a hard time. Cos Si En and Razz forced me to do this! It's not my fault! I swear, em, by Enali."
Eddie simply looked relieved. " You mean you didn't mean what you said?"
Elena explained, " I meant what I said, but I was not thinking about your fanfictions. so don't worry."
Eddie smiled in utter relief. " So you mean, my stories aren't clichéd, boring and horrific?"
Elena hummed and hawed. " I heard nothing!"
Eddie scream-ranted, " WU GUI!"
Elena put on her falsely innocent look (which happened to look only stupid and not innocent at all) " who me?" she fluttered her eyelashes at Eddie, a pathetic attempt to look and sound innocent. It obviously wasn't convincing.
Eddie purpled.
A note appeared in front of her. The lavender tinged paper had bold indigo words written on it. It read: Nice colour. After both Eddie and Elena read the note, violet flames consumed the paper, first turning it into ghostly ashes, then to ghostly nothing.
Both of them purpled.
Another note of the same hue and of the same message appeared once more in front of the two affronted girls. It also self-destructed in the same way.
Both of them screamed in exasperation. However, since they were in the ghost world, the majority of the ghost population could not hear Eddie. So it was thus that Elena's ghostly scream rang out in the ghostly air, sending ghostly shivers down several ghostly spines and thus creating, you guessed it, a ghostly effect.
Her neighbours William Shakespeare and Roald Dahl, both screamed back.
" Cease thy unseemly noise!"
" Go and boil your head!"
Elena winced. " Sorry fellas!"
Shakespeares commented loudly, " Rude young upstart!"
Elena scowled. She stopped scowling when her ghostly elephant-shaped clock waved it's trunk and trumpeted thrice. Once again, she winced.
" Uh oh! I'm running late! Uck, off you go! Si En is going to kill me! Shoo!" Elena chased Eddie back into the mortal realm with a panicked flick of her wrist. Too late, Elena realised her clock was half an hour fast. Eddie had already disappeared back into the mortal world.
" Damn."
She hurried scrawled a note for Eddie and sent it via ghost-post. The fee for emergency postage was 2 ghost Kou. Elena grumbled about the unnecessary wastage of money until her neighbours yelled at her to shut up.
Back in the mortal realm, Eddie found herself on the floor of her kitchen, dressed in her black pyjamas. She frowned as she realised Elena had probably misjudged the distance by a little. Eddie shrugged as she opened the refrigerator's door and took about another bunch of bananas. " I'd better take a sleeping-pill to get some sleep. there's still school tomorrow, oh, it's today."
She scared the furniture silly because of her black pyjamas on the way back to her room. When she reached her room, she found a note with the words: ghost due at 3am.
Eddie frowned. At this rate, I'll never get any sleep! Stupid Wu Gui. Stupid Fenny. Stupid everyone." As she said this, her posters stared at her reproachfully. " Fine, you guys aren't stupid."
She climbed back into bed, too tired to peel the bananas. She stuffed one unpeeled banana into her mouth and fell asleep.
The banana fell out of her mouth and landed next to her pillow. It was not amused. after all, it had been expecting an exciting trip down Eddie's oesophagus.
The house slumbered. the poor unfortunate Eddie only had half an hour's sleep in line for her. a certain short, grumpy ghost was due to visit her next.
A/N: the second ghost doth appears to bewilder the poor writer, Eddie. Behold, the Ghostly Kame approaches! * ducks from a rotten egg * QUIT IT WU GUI! Anyway, I have been reflecting on my rather nasty treatment of Wu Gui. so this will probably be the only apology I'm going to issue.Sorry Wui Gui if I'm too nasty.So as a sorta sorry present, I hereby dedicate this chapter to Elena, that dratted girl who scored six marks more than me in the a maths test. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Disclaimer: Heck. I don't care. No. Like. Disclaimers.
THE CLOCK STRIKES TWO
Morpheus was slightly mollified at having Eddie back. He smiled and enjoyed the fic that Eddie was dream-writing, about Rukawa's sister, that watshername, Kurokoka, or something that. ahhhh, the perfect Mary Sue.
He was abruptly brought out of his deeply reflective state when he felt Eddie slipping away from him once more. Morpheus screeched, " Dammit! I hate stopping at Cliffies. stop! Let her finish the next few lines! Dammit." He growled as Eddie's dream form disintergrated.
The cause of Eddie's awakening was seated on the floor, calming screaming over her 'Hiei and Kurama' poster. She was quite composed over it, actually, by Elena-standards. Since Eddie was not expecting the ghostly visitor to scream, she joined in, if only out of surprise. Apparently, the alarm clock also enjoyed screaming. It joined in joyfully, ringing it's silly pink head off.
Eddie's father, who was working in the adjoining room, was not pleased with the noise level. he yelled, " Eddie! Get to bed! I'm working!"
Eddie and Elena immediately clamped their mouths shut. The alarm clock kept on ringing. Only now, it had decided to vary the noise with beeps and rings.
Eddie hastily and viciously smashed the alarm clock to the ground, damaging the pink monstrosity permanently.
The room as silent, except for Eddie's ragged breath and her small crow of victory at finally spoiling the hated alarm clock. She remembered to glare at Elena.
Elena looked vaguely sheepish, kept the first poster, took out another anime poster and prepared to start screaming in ecstasy.
She looked extremely alarmed. Immediately, she dove at Elena, trying to prevent any more ghostly screaming. She went through, as was the case with most ghost, and banged her head on the cabinet. " OWWW!" she yelped, rubbing the bruise.
At least she didn't bang her head in vain. Elena didn't start scream. She was staring at Eddie in puzzlement.
" Ah, Eddie-san, why did you go through me for? I'm a ghost!" Elena exclaimed in Mandarin.
Eddie replied in the same language. " Stupid Wu Gui, I was trying to save my skin! My dad would have killed me if you screamed once more."
Elena blinked in surprise. " Why ever for?" ( They were still conversing in mandarin.)
One of the Powers That Be shouted from the Place That Is. " STOP SPEAKING IN CHINESE! THIS IS AN ENGLISH FANFICTION, NOT A CHINESE TEAHOUSE OR SOMETHING!"
Both of them blinked. " Fine," they grumbled, in mandarin.
" WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT SPEAKING IN CHINESE?"
" Ok!" Elena shouted, pointedly in English.
Eddie scowled. " It's bad enough that I'm being changed to another person in this story, I also have to endure silly incidents like this!!!"
Elena shrugged. " I'm merely a pawn in the hands of the writer, don't complain to me!"
Eddie scowled, looking remarkable like Si En. Which was not a good sign. That could only be one Si En in the world. So Si En the writer quickly edited that portion.
Eddie scowled. She did not look like Si En.
Elena hurried, " We don't have much time now. so hurry up! As I was saying. why did you try to kill me again?"
Eddie sighed impatiently. " Because my dad could hear you."
Elena objected. " No he can't! I'm a ghost! Only you can hear me."
" Ai-yah, why didn't you say so in the first place? Now he thinks I'm nuts." grumbled Eddie, staring blackly at Eddie.
Elena sulked, " Not my fault."
Eddie growled most Si En likeishly. " You fault."
Elena groaned. " Stop sounding like Si En!!!"
Eddie looked mildly horrified. " Oh no! I hung out with her too often. sorry. As you were saying?"
Elena continued, " Let's go to somewhere safe, where I can scream at you in comparative comfort."
Eddie nodded, her eyebrow raised sceptically.
They trans-time-realm-located, to a nice rolling blue plains. There were nice fluffy yellow clouds in the nicely spinning red sky. The golden grass felt nice and velvety.
Elena waved her hand, indicated this strange and pleasant place. " My cubbyhole. In the ghost world. I store all of my fanfictions, manga, posters. basically, my preciouses." she hissed, failing entirely to sound like Gollum.
Eddie shuddered convulsively. " That was awful!!!" she protested.
Elena smiled sweetly. " Back to the original topic. your fanfics! I protest! I hate O.C.s. they are too perfect! Sickeningly perfect! Nooooooo, I protest! And how could you have named Si En Lavender? That is the most un- Si-Enish name I could think of! 'Stauch Fan', the plot was so, urgh! Clichéd! Horrific! Inexcusable! How could you!" ranted Elena passionately. She paused in her enraged tirade.
Eddie looked totally surprised. " I thought you liked romance."
Elena smiled sheepishly. " Well, I do actually. I'm sorry for giving you such a hard time. Cos Si En and Razz forced me to do this! It's not my fault! I swear, em, by Enali."
Eddie simply looked relieved. " You mean you didn't mean what you said?"
Elena explained, " I meant what I said, but I was not thinking about your fanfictions. so don't worry."
Eddie smiled in utter relief. " So you mean, my stories aren't clichéd, boring and horrific?"
Elena hummed and hawed. " I heard nothing!"
Eddie scream-ranted, " WU GUI!"
Elena put on her falsely innocent look (which happened to look only stupid and not innocent at all) " who me?" she fluttered her eyelashes at Eddie, a pathetic attempt to look and sound innocent. It obviously wasn't convincing.
Eddie purpled.
A note appeared in front of her. The lavender tinged paper had bold indigo words written on it. It read: Nice colour. After both Eddie and Elena read the note, violet flames consumed the paper, first turning it into ghostly ashes, then to ghostly nothing.
Both of them purpled.
Another note of the same hue and of the same message appeared once more in front of the two affronted girls. It also self-destructed in the same way.
Both of them screamed in exasperation. However, since they were in the ghost world, the majority of the ghost population could not hear Eddie. So it was thus that Elena's ghostly scream rang out in the ghostly air, sending ghostly shivers down several ghostly spines and thus creating, you guessed it, a ghostly effect.
Her neighbours William Shakespeare and Roald Dahl, both screamed back.
" Cease thy unseemly noise!"
" Go and boil your head!"
Elena winced. " Sorry fellas!"
Shakespeares commented loudly, " Rude young upstart!"
Elena scowled. She stopped scowling when her ghostly elephant-shaped clock waved it's trunk and trumpeted thrice. Once again, she winced.
" Uh oh! I'm running late! Uck, off you go! Si En is going to kill me! Shoo!" Elena chased Eddie back into the mortal realm with a panicked flick of her wrist. Too late, Elena realised her clock was half an hour fast. Eddie had already disappeared back into the mortal world.
" Damn."
She hurried scrawled a note for Eddie and sent it via ghost-post. The fee for emergency postage was 2 ghost Kou. Elena grumbled about the unnecessary wastage of money until her neighbours yelled at her to shut up.
Back in the mortal realm, Eddie found herself on the floor of her kitchen, dressed in her black pyjamas. She frowned as she realised Elena had probably misjudged the distance by a little. Eddie shrugged as she opened the refrigerator's door and took about another bunch of bananas. " I'd better take a sleeping-pill to get some sleep. there's still school tomorrow, oh, it's today."
She scared the furniture silly because of her black pyjamas on the way back to her room. When she reached her room, she found a note with the words: ghost due at 3am.
Eddie frowned. At this rate, I'll never get any sleep! Stupid Wu Gui. Stupid Fenny. Stupid everyone." As she said this, her posters stared at her reproachfully. " Fine, you guys aren't stupid."
She climbed back into bed, too tired to peel the bananas. She stuffed one unpeeled banana into her mouth and fell asleep.
The banana fell out of her mouth and landed next to her pillow. It was not amused. after all, it had been expecting an exciting trip down Eddie's oesophagus.
The house slumbered. the poor unfortunate Eddie only had half an hour's sleep in line for her. a certain short, grumpy ghost was due to visit her next.