Dream: Hi everyone!
Everyone: … *cricket cricket*
Freckles: Hi everyone!
Everyone: *loudly* Hi Freckles!
Dream: ;_; waaa…. You don't like me! *cries*
Freckles: *sticks out his tongue* Ha ha!
Dream: *sobs* Well anyway here's chapter 14 which is appropriately titled 'Rabbit Torture'
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I cleared my throat, "I'm gonna sing now. Ahem, this is the song that never ends, cuz it goes on and on my friends! Some people started singing it not knowing what it was and they'll continue singing it forever just because… This is the song that never ends cuz it goes on and o—"
"Can't you sing something else?" Autumn twitched.
I nodded, "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how it goes bum bum bum…"
Everyone sighed and started walking again as I continued, "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how it goes bum bum bum… I know a song that gets on everybody's kidneys, everybody's kidneys, everybody's kidneys. I know a song that gets on everybody's kidneys and this is how it goes bum bum bum…"
"Kidneys???" Arielle asked surprised.
"I know a song that gets on everybody's gall bladder, everybody's gall bladder, everybody's gall bladder. I know a song that gets on everybody's gall bladder and this is how it goes bum bum bum… I know a song that gets on everybody's cantaloupe, everybody's cantaloupe, everybody's cantaloupe. I know a song that gets on everybody's cantaloupe and this is how it goes bum bum bum…"
Autumn burst out laughing as did Margaret and Mike. Kurama chuckled and Yusuke and Kuwabara laughed. Dariken shook his head before laughing. Thorn did the same. Arielle looked at everyone like they were crazy. So did Jin, Touya, and Hiei.
Pleased at these reactions I continued, "I know a song that gets on everybody's Sasquatch, everybody's Sasquatch, everybody's Sasquatch. I know a song that gets on everybody's Sasquatch and this is how it goes bum bum bum…" My singing continued for a while with me substituting in every random object I could think of.
"I know a song that gets on everybody's penguin, everybody's penguin, everybody's penguin. I know a song that gets on everybody's penguin and this is how it goes bum bum bum… I know a song…"
"Enough! Pick a different song!" Yusuke screamed.
I thought for a moment, "99 bottles of beer on the wall! 99 bottles of beer! Take one down pass it around, 98 bottles of beer on the wall! 98 bottles of beer on the wall! 98 bottles of beer! Take one down pass it around, 97 bottles of beer on the wall!"
Time passes…
"12 bottles of beer on the wall! 12 bottles of beer! Take one down pass it around, 11 bottles of beer on the wall! 11 bottles of beer on the wall! 11 bottles of beer! Take one down pass it around, 10 bottles of beer on the wall!"
"Is anyone else annoyed?" Arielle asked.
"He's only got 10 bottles of beer left, let him finish." Autumn said.
"Why?!? Why must we suffer through such torture?!?" Dariken whined.
"Stop whining and deal with it!" Autumn shoved her hands into her pockets.
"…take one down pass it around, 7 bottles of beer on the wall! 7 bottles of beer on the wall!"
Kuwabara clawed at his ears, "I can't take it anymore!"
Yusuke was smiling and whistling. Jin walked over to Yusuke, "Doesn't the singing bother you Urameshi?"
Yusuke didn't answer so, when Margaret deserted Hiei to cling to Jin, he tapped Yusuke's shoulder and asked again, "Doesn't the singing bother you Urameshi?"
Yusuke pulled a piece of cotton out of his ear, "Huh?"
"Ack! You had cotton and you didn't give us any???" Thorn fumed.
Yusuke shrugged, "I only had enough for me."
"…3 bottles of beer on the wall! 3 bottles of beer! Take one down pass it around, 2 bottles of beer on the wall! 2 bottles of beer on the wall! 2 bottles of beer! Take one down pass it around, 1 bottle of beer on the wall!" I yawned, "I'm tired of singing."
"WHAT?!?" Autumn glared at me with flames in her eyes, "THERE IS NO WAY I SUFFERED THORUGH 98 BOTTLES FOR YOU TO STOP AT 1!!!!"
"Nope, I'm not singing anymore."
"WHY YO—hey, what's that?" Autumn ran over to a sign in the middle of the road.
"Well, she gets distracted easily." Touya remarked.
"Yup, she's got the attention span of a gnat!" Mike nodded.
I kicked him, "Don't insult my human!"
Autumn was looking at the sign, "Hmm… 'Be kind to signs… OR ELSE! You've been warned. P.S. DO NOT TOUCH THIS SIGN!'" Autumn twitched before reaching out and poking the sign which fell over onto the ground.
"HEY!!!!!! DIDN'T YOU READ THE SIGN??? IT SAID NOT TO TOUCH!" A squeaky voice said from the bushes.
"Autumn can read?" Margaret blinked.
"Yes I can miss I-don't-know-what-1+1-equals."
"Hey! I do too know what 1+1 equals! It equals 24." Margaret nodded.
Everyone turned to stare at her. I scoffed, "Even I know that 1+1=2"
Autumn poked the sign with her foot. A little creature smaller than me jumped out of the bushes. It had a white body and had two blue mouse ears and a blue tail ending in a pompom. It had big black eyes and two white furred feet. It was holding a mini arrow type thing in its mouth.
"Aww! Cute!" Autumn reached out to pet it. It poked Autumn's hand with the arrow, "Ouch, stupid thingy that hurt!" Autumn was putting pressure on the spot to stop it from bleeding.
"HA! YOU WILL PAY FOR KNOCKING OVER THAT SIGN!!!! YOU'LL NEVER LEAVE THIS VALLEY ALIVE!" The creature laughed maniacally.
Autumn raised her eyebrow, "Poisoned arrow?"
The creature stopped, "Well, no, actually I was hoping you'd bleed to death…"
"From a tiny little puncture?" Autumn was the one laughing now.
"Shut up! I couldn't find any poison!"
Kurama sighed, "Autumn, please don't touch anything else while we're here unless you know it's safe. If it had been a poisoned arrow, you could have died."
"Aww, Kurama was worried." Thorn said in a sweet tone.
"I think I know what we're here to investigate." Dariken said as he pointed out ahead of us.
There was a mountain with a cave at its base not all that far from us. The cave's mouth was curtained by vines and bushes. An eerie dark aura surrounded the entrance. Beyond the curtain was a dark void. As we approached the cave I could feel the wind beckoning us into the ebon heart of the mountain.
Autumn shivered, "I don't like this…"
The little creature moved closer to me, "Do we have to go in there?"
I turned to look at it, "We? Since when are you a part of this expedition?"
"Expedition? Damn you Autumn! Even you're rabbit is smarter than me!" Kuwabara yelled.
I looked at Kuwabara, "Everything is smarter than you Kuwabara."
My remark caused laughter to erupt among the group. Yusuke pointed at Kuwabara, "You just got insulted by a rabbit!"
Dariken was again looking at the cave, "When I was younger I dared another one of the young kitsune from our village to go into this cave. He never came out. There were so many stories about this cave. No one really knows what's in it."
"I don't want to go in there… I have a bad feeling about it." Autumn shivered again.
"Yeah, I have a bad feeling too." Kuwabara said.
"Let's push Kuwabaka in there. If he dies then we know it's not safe. Plus we'll get rid of him once and for all." Arielle nodded.
"I like that plan." Margaret said.
The little creature spoke, "If you feed it, it will want more!"
"Feed what?" Kurama asked.
"The monster! It lives in there and feeds off of those foolish enough to enter the cave!"
"I've heard that story before. It's an old one. The monster supposedly prefers the blood of young ladies. It isn't true." Dariken said flatly.
"How do you know it's not twue?" The creature asked suddenly reverting to a childish manner of speaking…err…squeaking.
"My sister tested it. She walked down the cave until she came to a bend and stayed there for an entire night." Dariken smiled, "Harmony was never afraid of things like that. I'd say that her only real fear was losing her family. Unfortunately that's just what happened. She stopped responding to the name 'Harmony' after that. She wanted to be called Phantom because she felt like a phantom of her former self."
"So if dere's no monster, what is in dere?" The little creature asked.
"I said no one knows that, she-who-has-no-name." Dariken replied.
"I do too have a name! It's Chuchu!" The creature said proudly.
"Chuchu? Even you're name is cute!" Autumn smiled at Chuchu.
"My human. Get your own." I glared at Chuchu.
Margaret was clinging to Jin again. He smiled, "I'm starting to like this."
Kuwabara screamed, "I'm getting a really bad feeling about this place, guys. I really don't want to be here…"
"Well that's too bad because you'll be spending the rest of eternity here! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" a familiar sounding voice yelled before everything went dark.
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Dream: o.O funness…
Freckles: Maybe I can get this fic to be 20 chaps long…
Dream: tiredness…
Freckles: Well if this was chap 14 then I have 6 more to go.
Dream: zzzzzzzzzzzz….
Freckles: Well tune in next time! *jumps around all hyper and stuff*