Schala awoke early of the morning. Yes, yet another challenge awaited them. Perhaps it could be something exciting, like the chocobo race. As unlikely as it was, she could always hope, thought Schala as she made her bed.
After breakfast, the TV came on right on schedule. "Ah, good morning. I would normally announce today's challenge at this time, but today I have a special event planned. I'll get to the challenge later."
"You see, I've been broadcasting this experiment to a number of individuals via computer and television. Recently, I held a contest among the fans of this experiment, and the prize was to visit all of you. Let me introduce the winners..."
"Melissa!" The front door opened, and in stepped a thin blonde-haired girl wearing a pink t-shirt and a skirt. She waved at the housemates as she walked in with a huge smile on her face.
"Erin!" From the door came another teenager, this time a girl with long brown hair wearing a white shirt with KoN written on the front. She twirled her hair as she stood beside Melissa.
"Mark!" In walked a teenage boy with black hair, glasses, and a white shirt. Eyeing the housemates, he stood beside Erin.
"Sean!" Last inside was a red-haired boy dressed in all black. He slowly looked around as he took his place beside Mark.
"These four are going to be visiting you for today. I'll give you all a few minutes to get acquainted."
Magus began to walk forward when suddenly a pink blur rushed toward him. Before he could react, the fangirl Melissa was latched onto him. The wizard instinctively reached for his scythe to decapitate the enemy, only to realize he left it in his room. He didn't want to unleash his dark magic on her, but that seemed a more reasonable course of action every second Melissa had her arms wrapped around him.
"I love Magus!" squealed Melissa. "He's so kawaii!"
"Whatever kawaii means, I'm sure it doesn't describe me," said Magus as his pink-clad attacker held herself close to him. "Lucca, could you take care of this?" Lucca, nodded, and pryed the two apart using a wrench she had with her. She took Melissa aside, and explained why it's a very, very bad idea to annoy a wizard that could annihilate her in the blink of an eye even if he is cute.
Marle snapped her head around as she noticed an arm around her shoulder. Staring the fanboy in the face, she took his arm and removed it from her neck. "What do you think you're doing?" Marle yelled as she pulled out her crossbow and aimed it as Mark's head.
"Hey, sorry Marle!" said Mark as he raised his hands into the air.
Erin walked over to the Nu. "Actually," she said, running her fingers' through its hair, "I think the Nu's kinda sexy."
"Nu are asexual creatures," said the Nu.
Meanwhile, Sean started a conversation with Magus. "You know, you've always been my favorite. That cape's cool, and you've got the evil thing going on. That rocks. So... think you could hook me up with your sister?"
"No."
"You sure? I'd really appreciate it."
"No."
"Okay... I've got 500G on me. I'll give you all of it for one date with Schala."
Magus looked at Sean the fanboy with piercing eyes. "Do you realize what you're asking?"
"Forget you. I'll just offer her the money." Sean turned around to see a quite angry looking Schala with crossed arms beside an equally angry looking Frog.
"Ah, so thou thinkth of Schala as a harlot?" Frog accused as Sean backed away.
The television flashed back on. "Ah, good to see everyone getting along with their new friends. It's time for your challenge. Unlike previous challenges, this is a team challenge. The housemates will be one team, and they will compete against the four guests. The members of the winning team each get one thing they desire from the other team."
Marle, Lucca, and Schala looked uneasily at Mark and Sean as they smiled. The lovesick stares of Melissa and Erin didn't exactly make Crono and Magus feel better. For some reason, they didn't want to give the other team what they desired.
"There will be five contests. The first team to win three contests will be declared victorious. We will now begin the first contest: tug-of-war!"
In retrospect, that wasn't such a good contest. Pitting four normal teenagers against people who had fought countless monsters and defeated Lavos wasn't exactly fair. The next contest was much better: a one-on-one archery competition, with Marle excluded.
Crono and Sean stepped up the line, facing the Ozzie-shaped targets and the red dots in the center. The red-haired archers glanced at each other once, then lined up the arrow with the target. With a whoosh, the arrows shot toward the targets. Crono's arrow managed to hit somewhere in the top half of the circle, while Sean's lucky shot hit just to the left of the center.
"All tied up! Exciting, eh? How about a little game of chess?" Fifteen turns into the game, Lucca had Erin in checkmate.
"Well," Jimmy glanced through his room, trying to think what the last game was. Unfortunately for the contestants, the first thing he saw was a manga comic lying open. "A wet t-shirt contest."
All the girls started shaking their heads. "Ah, quit whining. Erin, Marle, step forward."
The two unfortunate white-clad girls stepped forward. Suddenly, Erin's love of Nu-logic paid in saving her modesty. "Oh, it looks like Marle isn't wearing a t-shirt. I win by default. No need to even have the contest."
Jimmy opened his mouth to say something, but that was some good logic she used. Defeated, he came up with the last contest. "Mark and Magus will now face each other in a battle of wits. I will pose and a question, and you must give an answer and defend it. Your question is... In a battle between the Rainbow sword and the Magus's Reaper, which would win? You have two minutes to think."
Magus sat down and began trying to think of how Nu would answer. The Entity was insane, and an ancient and proven was to use the enemy's weapon against him.
"My answer is the Rainbow," said Mark. "It's a legendary sword made by a legendary craftsman from a legendary shell and a legendary stone. The Reaper's a farming tool."
Magus stood up. "Neither would win, because both are inanimate objects and incapable of moving on their own."
"Magus wins," said Jimmy, sick of Nu logic for the time being. "The housemates each get something from one of the visitors."
"Hey, this is lame!" yelled Mark. "Wait a second, I don't own anything they'd want. Heh heh."
Crono stepped forward first, and asked if anyone had anything sweet. After telling Melissa and Erin that they themselves didn't count, Melissa dug a few lollipops out of her purse and handed them to Crono. It'd been since the soda guzzling contest that he had a sugar rush, and he felt he deserved it.
Marle demanded an apology from Mark for putting his arm around her, and Frog made Sean apologize to Schala. Magus took Melissa's silver Magus necklace, which he thought look quite good on him. The contestants failed to have any monster cards, so Lucca took a handful of hard candy Erin had with her. Alfador didn't want anything except left alone, which Melissa found out when she tried to pet him.
Schala pondered. "Do you any of you have anything I would want?"
Sean pulled a rolled-up sheet of paper out of his pocket. "I drew some fanart of you," He unfurled the paper slowly for Schala to see.
"Why is her hair blond?" asked Marle, looking at the full-color drawing.
"It's artistic license," defended Sean.
"And why am I naked?" asked Schala.
"Umm.... umm..." Blushing, Sean handed Schala the paper.
Nu saw this as a golden opportunity. He pointed at Erin. "I want you." He took the fangirl aside to talk to her.
"Wow, I'm flattered, but I though you said Nu were well, you know..."
"I want you to join the Knights of Nu. Just sign here..."
"Wow! I get to be an official Knight and everything? Wow! I already have this honorary Knights of Nu shirt, but I never thought..." She put her signature on the page and Nu took the paper back. Ah, it was nice to have fans.
"Why don't you give everyone a little tour?" asked Jimmy before signing off. Frog decided this was a good idea, as it could kill some time that would otherwise be spent being annoyed by their guests.
"The room we occupy is known as the living room," said Frog as he gestured around the room. "Here, we pass our time when we hath not a challenge from the Entity." Frog led the guests forward to the kitchen. "Here, we have our meals." He started toward the stairs when Mark interrupted him.
"Did you always have the weird accent, or did you get it when you got whuped by Magus and turned into a frog?"
"Neither. 'Tis an interesting tale of how I came by this manner..."
"Do you think if you Magus turned you into a newt or something, you might talk like a rich old guy?"
"No."
"How about a turtle? You'd be a turtle with a sword fighting evil! How wacky's that?"
Frog was quickly becoming annoyed with Mark. "Yes, 'twould be a quite wacky thing. I believe this tour is not as enjoyable as I hoped..."
Morning came and went, with Crono, Marle, Schala, and Magus having to tolerate their fans, because incapacitating people the Entity considered friends would not be wise. Lunch consisted of spicy Power Stew prepared by Magus, though he wasn't looking forward to Melissa "repaying" him for the nice meal, as she promised (or threatened) to do.
Finally, just a little into the afternoon, Marle couldn't take it anymore. All day, Mark had been staring at her. It was almost flattering at first, but now it was just creepy. "Lucca!" she pleaded with her friend, "you've got to help me!"
Lucca called Schala over and began concocting a plan. "Now, I'm sure none of us want a fanboy like him around. I myself have some experience on the Internet. I know the ways of the fanboy, and I know how to defeat him. This may not be the most orthodox plan, but it will be effective. Now..."
Mark almost jumped when Marle took him by the arm and told him she wanted to see him in her bedroom. His eyes stayed wide open as Marle led him into her room, where Lucca and Schala sat on a bed, grinning at him.
All at once, the three walked up to him, and kissed him simultaneously on the forehead. Mark's eyes glazed over, and he fell to the floor. Lucca took his pulse. He was in shock, but he would live.
"Ugh," said Marle. "I didn't enjoy that."
"Me either," said Lucca. "But Ayla did the same thing with those Kiss and Charm techniques she had."
"She also ran around mostly naked," said Schala as she dragged Mark's unconscious body into the hall.
When everyone, sans the unconscious Mark, was back in the living room, Jimmy's face appeared on the screen. "Ah, I see you guests are enjoying spending time with everyone. However, all good things must come to an end. As an added unannounced bonus, one of you will get to stay the night here.
The housemates hid their groans as Melissa, Erin, and Sean cheered.
"For a twist, the housemates get to choose which one of you stays. Tell me when you've made your choice. Ta-ta!"
"So how do we choose?" asked Marle.
"Wait a second, this is our chance," Lucca said with a smile.
"For what?" wondered Frog.
"A challenge. After all the Entity's dished out on us, you bet we're going to be returning the favor."
"Please excuse us." Magus bowed to the guests. "We'll be outside for a while, please be patient."
Fifteen minutes later, the three were asked to come outside. An obstacle course, complete with pitfalls and spikes that shot out of the ground for no reason. "This is just part of the experience of being us. The first person through the course gets to say, and the others... they get sacked."
It actually was entertaining, watching the three scramble through. Sean was probably the strongest of the three, that gave him an edge in the monkey bars, but the girls made up by being faster in the sprinting sections. It looked like Sean would have won, but in the last leg of the race he stumbled and fell into Melissa, giving Erin the victory.
"Are you okay?" asked Marle as she got ready to heal the both of the them.
"What do you think?" said Sean. "I'm pinned to the ground and I have a girl lying... Actually, I'm doing pretty good."
"We have chosen, Entity," said Marle. "We choose Erin." Sean and Melissa waved goodbye as they walked through the Gate home. Erin jumped up and down, happy she was getting to stay the night.
Evening passed slowly, but it did pass. Erin managed to hold a few decent conversations with Lucca and Schala about what it was like living in dome for over two weeks now. Erin joined in a few of the card game later on, and by the end of the day progressed to a level of acceptance beyond even that of Tata and Ozzie: not annoying.
As the group prepared for bed, Magus led Erin up the stairs and began laying down a few rules. "This is Crono's room, this is my room, and this is Frog's room. You are not to enter them at any point during the night. This is the bathroom. If at any time you attempt to "accidentally" walk in on any of us, you will have to deal with the security system Lucca installed made from recycled and upgraded Ozzie traps."
Erin gulped as Magus continued.
"This is Nu's room. For the sake of your sanity, stay out of there. This is Alfador's room , where you will sleep tonight. If you at any time try to enter any of the bedrooms, an alarm will sound and Alfador will attack."
"Wasn't this a bit much just so I wouldn't try to sneak into your bedrooms?"
"Most likely. But Lucca had fun doing this."
Crono and Marle sat down beside each other. This was a long day. They both were exhausted mentally from dealing with the crazed fans. Crono felt like they deserved some kind of reward for all this.
"Are you okay?" the spiky-haired boy asked Marle.
"Just tired. We had to put up with those idiots. They're as bad as Tata in their own way. Don't we get anything for putting up with this?"
Crono slowly wrapped his arms around Marle, then gave her a tight hug. "We still have each other."
Marle rubbed Crono's nose playfully. "Aw, you're so sweet. Let me give you something for that. Close your eyes..." Marle wrapped her arms around Crono, and their lips met under the moonlight shining in from the window.
"We have achieved maximum fluff," said Jimmy as he watched on the monitor, looking slightly sick. "I deserved some type of award for this," he mused as he pushed his box of sugar-coated chocolate back. The only thing that could possibly make this any more romantic was... Ah, why not?
"Look!" exclaimed Marle and they pulled away, pointing out the window. "A shooting star! That must mean..."
"We're meant for each other," finished Crono, holding her hand tightly. "That or it's another Lavos."
Well, that killed the mood. "Nah, I'm pretty such it's the destined one," said Marle slowly. "I'm going to bed."
Lucca sat in the chair as she recounted how her ingenious plan defeated Mark. The whole time, Magus smiled that sadistic smile of his that he did instead of laugh.
"A kiss? You defeated him with a kiss?"
"Hey, it was three kisses. Simultaneous. A kiss from Lucca the Great was more than enough to knock him out."
"Magus thinks Lucca is a bit arrogant."
Hmph. Well, she'd just have to show him. She walked over to Magus, bent over, and gave him a kiss on the forehead.
"Well?" Lucca asked playfully.
Magus's face had taken on a bit of a red tint. "If I was 14, that may have worked. It'll take more than that to paralyze me."
"Oh, now you're just asking for it." Lucca sat on Magus's lap and gave him a kiss on each cheek. "That better?"
Frog and Schala sat together at their table, looking over Sean's fanart of Schala. Frog put his hand on his chin. "'Tis quite well drawn."
"Except for my face, it isn't even close to accurate," said Schala.
"What doest thou expect? Thy robes leave much to the imagination."
Schala folded the artwork and stood up. "I'm going to go take a shower. If you wish to compare the drawing to real life, by all means come with me." Frog laughed as Schala left the room and he settled into bed.
Nu decided to recheck all his plans one last time. He mentally checked the calculation... Then to this horror, he saw his original calculation was made inaccurate by the fact that he forgot to carry the two. He had to recalibrate all his plans accordingly, as well as compensate for the addition of Erin to his forces. In an strange twist of fate, the correct calculation showed Alfador was just a common housecat and was in no way standing in his way of world domination.
Jimmy smiled. For once, everything was going right. Fan day was a success, people were seducing each other on their own, and he had a cold carbonated beverage. All was right with the world.
After breakfast, the TV came on right on schedule. "Ah, good morning. I would normally announce today's challenge at this time, but today I have a special event planned. I'll get to the challenge later."
"You see, I've been broadcasting this experiment to a number of individuals via computer and television. Recently, I held a contest among the fans of this experiment, and the prize was to visit all of you. Let me introduce the winners..."
"Melissa!" The front door opened, and in stepped a thin blonde-haired girl wearing a pink t-shirt and a skirt. She waved at the housemates as she walked in with a huge smile on her face.
"Erin!" From the door came another teenager, this time a girl with long brown hair wearing a white shirt with KoN written on the front. She twirled her hair as she stood beside Melissa.
"Mark!" In walked a teenage boy with black hair, glasses, and a white shirt. Eyeing the housemates, he stood beside Erin.
"Sean!" Last inside was a red-haired boy dressed in all black. He slowly looked around as he took his place beside Mark.
"These four are going to be visiting you for today. I'll give you all a few minutes to get acquainted."
Magus began to walk forward when suddenly a pink blur rushed toward him. Before he could react, the fangirl Melissa was latched onto him. The wizard instinctively reached for his scythe to decapitate the enemy, only to realize he left it in his room. He didn't want to unleash his dark magic on her, but that seemed a more reasonable course of action every second Melissa had her arms wrapped around him.
"I love Magus!" squealed Melissa. "He's so kawaii!"
"Whatever kawaii means, I'm sure it doesn't describe me," said Magus as his pink-clad attacker held herself close to him. "Lucca, could you take care of this?" Lucca, nodded, and pryed the two apart using a wrench she had with her. She took Melissa aside, and explained why it's a very, very bad idea to annoy a wizard that could annihilate her in the blink of an eye even if he is cute.
Marle snapped her head around as she noticed an arm around her shoulder. Staring the fanboy in the face, she took his arm and removed it from her neck. "What do you think you're doing?" Marle yelled as she pulled out her crossbow and aimed it as Mark's head.
"Hey, sorry Marle!" said Mark as he raised his hands into the air.
Erin walked over to the Nu. "Actually," she said, running her fingers' through its hair, "I think the Nu's kinda sexy."
"Nu are asexual creatures," said the Nu.
Meanwhile, Sean started a conversation with Magus. "You know, you've always been my favorite. That cape's cool, and you've got the evil thing going on. That rocks. So... think you could hook me up with your sister?"
"No."
"You sure? I'd really appreciate it."
"No."
"Okay... I've got 500G on me. I'll give you all of it for one date with Schala."
Magus looked at Sean the fanboy with piercing eyes. "Do you realize what you're asking?"
"Forget you. I'll just offer her the money." Sean turned around to see a quite angry looking Schala with crossed arms beside an equally angry looking Frog.
"Ah, so thou thinkth of Schala as a harlot?" Frog accused as Sean backed away.
The television flashed back on. "Ah, good to see everyone getting along with their new friends. It's time for your challenge. Unlike previous challenges, this is a team challenge. The housemates will be one team, and they will compete against the four guests. The members of the winning team each get one thing they desire from the other team."
Marle, Lucca, and Schala looked uneasily at Mark and Sean as they smiled. The lovesick stares of Melissa and Erin didn't exactly make Crono and Magus feel better. For some reason, they didn't want to give the other team what they desired.
"There will be five contests. The first team to win three contests will be declared victorious. We will now begin the first contest: tug-of-war!"
In retrospect, that wasn't such a good contest. Pitting four normal teenagers against people who had fought countless monsters and defeated Lavos wasn't exactly fair. The next contest was much better: a one-on-one archery competition, with Marle excluded.
Crono and Sean stepped up the line, facing the Ozzie-shaped targets and the red dots in the center. The red-haired archers glanced at each other once, then lined up the arrow with the target. With a whoosh, the arrows shot toward the targets. Crono's arrow managed to hit somewhere in the top half of the circle, while Sean's lucky shot hit just to the left of the center.
"All tied up! Exciting, eh? How about a little game of chess?" Fifteen turns into the game, Lucca had Erin in checkmate.
"Well," Jimmy glanced through his room, trying to think what the last game was. Unfortunately for the contestants, the first thing he saw was a manga comic lying open. "A wet t-shirt contest."
All the girls started shaking their heads. "Ah, quit whining. Erin, Marle, step forward."
The two unfortunate white-clad girls stepped forward. Suddenly, Erin's love of Nu-logic paid in saving her modesty. "Oh, it looks like Marle isn't wearing a t-shirt. I win by default. No need to even have the contest."
Jimmy opened his mouth to say something, but that was some good logic she used. Defeated, he came up with the last contest. "Mark and Magus will now face each other in a battle of wits. I will pose and a question, and you must give an answer and defend it. Your question is... In a battle between the Rainbow sword and the Magus's Reaper, which would win? You have two minutes to think."
Magus sat down and began trying to think of how Nu would answer. The Entity was insane, and an ancient and proven was to use the enemy's weapon against him.
"My answer is the Rainbow," said Mark. "It's a legendary sword made by a legendary craftsman from a legendary shell and a legendary stone. The Reaper's a farming tool."
Magus stood up. "Neither would win, because both are inanimate objects and incapable of moving on their own."
"Magus wins," said Jimmy, sick of Nu logic for the time being. "The housemates each get something from one of the visitors."
"Hey, this is lame!" yelled Mark. "Wait a second, I don't own anything they'd want. Heh heh."
Crono stepped forward first, and asked if anyone had anything sweet. After telling Melissa and Erin that they themselves didn't count, Melissa dug a few lollipops out of her purse and handed them to Crono. It'd been since the soda guzzling contest that he had a sugar rush, and he felt he deserved it.
Marle demanded an apology from Mark for putting his arm around her, and Frog made Sean apologize to Schala. Magus took Melissa's silver Magus necklace, which he thought look quite good on him. The contestants failed to have any monster cards, so Lucca took a handful of hard candy Erin had with her. Alfador didn't want anything except left alone, which Melissa found out when she tried to pet him.
Schala pondered. "Do you any of you have anything I would want?"
Sean pulled a rolled-up sheet of paper out of his pocket. "I drew some fanart of you," He unfurled the paper slowly for Schala to see.
"Why is her hair blond?" asked Marle, looking at the full-color drawing.
"It's artistic license," defended Sean.
"And why am I naked?" asked Schala.
"Umm.... umm..." Blushing, Sean handed Schala the paper.
Nu saw this as a golden opportunity. He pointed at Erin. "I want you." He took the fangirl aside to talk to her.
"Wow, I'm flattered, but I though you said Nu were well, you know..."
"I want you to join the Knights of Nu. Just sign here..."
"Wow! I get to be an official Knight and everything? Wow! I already have this honorary Knights of Nu shirt, but I never thought..." She put her signature on the page and Nu took the paper back. Ah, it was nice to have fans.
"Why don't you give everyone a little tour?" asked Jimmy before signing off. Frog decided this was a good idea, as it could kill some time that would otherwise be spent being annoyed by their guests.
"The room we occupy is known as the living room," said Frog as he gestured around the room. "Here, we pass our time when we hath not a challenge from the Entity." Frog led the guests forward to the kitchen. "Here, we have our meals." He started toward the stairs when Mark interrupted him.
"Did you always have the weird accent, or did you get it when you got whuped by Magus and turned into a frog?"
"Neither. 'Tis an interesting tale of how I came by this manner..."
"Do you think if you Magus turned you into a newt or something, you might talk like a rich old guy?"
"No."
"How about a turtle? You'd be a turtle with a sword fighting evil! How wacky's that?"
Frog was quickly becoming annoyed with Mark. "Yes, 'twould be a quite wacky thing. I believe this tour is not as enjoyable as I hoped..."
Morning came and went, with Crono, Marle, Schala, and Magus having to tolerate their fans, because incapacitating people the Entity considered friends would not be wise. Lunch consisted of spicy Power Stew prepared by Magus, though he wasn't looking forward to Melissa "repaying" him for the nice meal, as she promised (or threatened) to do.
Finally, just a little into the afternoon, Marle couldn't take it anymore. All day, Mark had been staring at her. It was almost flattering at first, but now it was just creepy. "Lucca!" she pleaded with her friend, "you've got to help me!"
Lucca called Schala over and began concocting a plan. "Now, I'm sure none of us want a fanboy like him around. I myself have some experience on the Internet. I know the ways of the fanboy, and I know how to defeat him. This may not be the most orthodox plan, but it will be effective. Now..."
Mark almost jumped when Marle took him by the arm and told him she wanted to see him in her bedroom. His eyes stayed wide open as Marle led him into her room, where Lucca and Schala sat on a bed, grinning at him.
All at once, the three walked up to him, and kissed him simultaneously on the forehead. Mark's eyes glazed over, and he fell to the floor. Lucca took his pulse. He was in shock, but he would live.
"Ugh," said Marle. "I didn't enjoy that."
"Me either," said Lucca. "But Ayla did the same thing with those Kiss and Charm techniques she had."
"She also ran around mostly naked," said Schala as she dragged Mark's unconscious body into the hall.
When everyone, sans the unconscious Mark, was back in the living room, Jimmy's face appeared on the screen. "Ah, I see you guests are enjoying spending time with everyone. However, all good things must come to an end. As an added unannounced bonus, one of you will get to stay the night here.
The housemates hid their groans as Melissa, Erin, and Sean cheered.
"For a twist, the housemates get to choose which one of you stays. Tell me when you've made your choice. Ta-ta!"
"So how do we choose?" asked Marle.
"Wait a second, this is our chance," Lucca said with a smile.
"For what?" wondered Frog.
"A challenge. After all the Entity's dished out on us, you bet we're going to be returning the favor."
"Please excuse us." Magus bowed to the guests. "We'll be outside for a while, please be patient."
Fifteen minutes later, the three were asked to come outside. An obstacle course, complete with pitfalls and spikes that shot out of the ground for no reason. "This is just part of the experience of being us. The first person through the course gets to say, and the others... they get sacked."
It actually was entertaining, watching the three scramble through. Sean was probably the strongest of the three, that gave him an edge in the monkey bars, but the girls made up by being faster in the sprinting sections. It looked like Sean would have won, but in the last leg of the race he stumbled and fell into Melissa, giving Erin the victory.
"Are you okay?" asked Marle as she got ready to heal the both of the them.
"What do you think?" said Sean. "I'm pinned to the ground and I have a girl lying... Actually, I'm doing pretty good."
"We have chosen, Entity," said Marle. "We choose Erin." Sean and Melissa waved goodbye as they walked through the Gate home. Erin jumped up and down, happy she was getting to stay the night.
Evening passed slowly, but it did pass. Erin managed to hold a few decent conversations with Lucca and Schala about what it was like living in dome for over two weeks now. Erin joined in a few of the card game later on, and by the end of the day progressed to a level of acceptance beyond even that of Tata and Ozzie: not annoying.
As the group prepared for bed, Magus led Erin up the stairs and began laying down a few rules. "This is Crono's room, this is my room, and this is Frog's room. You are not to enter them at any point during the night. This is the bathroom. If at any time you attempt to "accidentally" walk in on any of us, you will have to deal with the security system Lucca installed made from recycled and upgraded Ozzie traps."
Erin gulped as Magus continued.
"This is Nu's room. For the sake of your sanity, stay out of there. This is Alfador's room , where you will sleep tonight. If you at any time try to enter any of the bedrooms, an alarm will sound and Alfador will attack."
"Wasn't this a bit much just so I wouldn't try to sneak into your bedrooms?"
"Most likely. But Lucca had fun doing this."
Crono and Marle sat down beside each other. This was a long day. They both were exhausted mentally from dealing with the crazed fans. Crono felt like they deserved some kind of reward for all this.
"Are you okay?" the spiky-haired boy asked Marle.
"Just tired. We had to put up with those idiots. They're as bad as Tata in their own way. Don't we get anything for putting up with this?"
Crono slowly wrapped his arms around Marle, then gave her a tight hug. "We still have each other."
Marle rubbed Crono's nose playfully. "Aw, you're so sweet. Let me give you something for that. Close your eyes..." Marle wrapped her arms around Crono, and their lips met under the moonlight shining in from the window.
"We have achieved maximum fluff," said Jimmy as he watched on the monitor, looking slightly sick. "I deserved some type of award for this," he mused as he pushed his box of sugar-coated chocolate back. The only thing that could possibly make this any more romantic was... Ah, why not?
"Look!" exclaimed Marle and they pulled away, pointing out the window. "A shooting star! That must mean..."
"We're meant for each other," finished Crono, holding her hand tightly. "That or it's another Lavos."
Well, that killed the mood. "Nah, I'm pretty such it's the destined one," said Marle slowly. "I'm going to bed."
Lucca sat in the chair as she recounted how her ingenious plan defeated Mark. The whole time, Magus smiled that sadistic smile of his that he did instead of laugh.
"A kiss? You defeated him with a kiss?"
"Hey, it was three kisses. Simultaneous. A kiss from Lucca the Great was more than enough to knock him out."
"Magus thinks Lucca is a bit arrogant."
Hmph. Well, she'd just have to show him. She walked over to Magus, bent over, and gave him a kiss on the forehead.
"Well?" Lucca asked playfully.
Magus's face had taken on a bit of a red tint. "If I was 14, that may have worked. It'll take more than that to paralyze me."
"Oh, now you're just asking for it." Lucca sat on Magus's lap and gave him a kiss on each cheek. "That better?"
Frog and Schala sat together at their table, looking over Sean's fanart of Schala. Frog put his hand on his chin. "'Tis quite well drawn."
"Except for my face, it isn't even close to accurate," said Schala.
"What doest thou expect? Thy robes leave much to the imagination."
Schala folded the artwork and stood up. "I'm going to go take a shower. If you wish to compare the drawing to real life, by all means come with me." Frog laughed as Schala left the room and he settled into bed.
Nu decided to recheck all his plans one last time. He mentally checked the calculation... Then to this horror, he saw his original calculation was made inaccurate by the fact that he forgot to carry the two. He had to recalibrate all his plans accordingly, as well as compensate for the addition of Erin to his forces. In an strange twist of fate, the correct calculation showed Alfador was just a common housecat and was in no way standing in his way of world domination.
Jimmy smiled. For once, everything was going right. Fan day was a success, people were seducing each other on their own, and he had a cold carbonated beverage. All was right with the world.
