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Jeshi: Okies, no more wasting time!! Time to get chapter 8 all written out and it's DEFENITELY longer than chapter 7!! ^-^
Larry: …Go for it. ^_^ And she owns nothing from Mario!
Jeshi: XD My little sister asked me recently what I got her for Christmas ( we went Christmas shopping early because we will have NO time in December, lol ) and I told her " I didn't get you anything. " Sadly enough, she believed me. ^-^;;
Larry: O_O… so… you lied to your sister, is that it?
Jeshi: Yeah… kinda like when I " borrowed " my dad's lighter so that I could light the candles in my room… and I just… haven't had the time to return it yet… for the past 3 months… * shifty eyes *
Larry: O_O!! You are a thieving, lying girl!!! You are bad!!
Jeshi: O-o!? _ And what does that make YOU?!
Larry: @_@ No comment.
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The six koopalings snuck into the castle only shortly after Melinda had entered it herself. Going in through the window would have made more sense, but instead they had went through the front doors. Together, they searched in the most obvious of places where their dad would have been. (except for the throne room of course.. A/n: why no one checks there first is beyond me. Lol XD )When they had finally had the idea of looking into the throne room, they found Bower there, but Melinda along with him. She was already in the midst of telling him about how she was apparently "lonely" standing outside by herself and that she had decided to come to the castle to wait for Bowser. They stood in the doorway watching, until Melinda had noticed them. She tilted her head and gave a really puzzled look.
" Hello, children, " she said, " …where is Ludwig? He is always with you, is he not?"
Roy balled up his fists and had to bite really hard on his lip to keep from charging at Melinda in fury. But even that was barely working for him. Lemmy just shrugged and gave a "confused" look himself.
" We don't know. We are looking for him right now, " he answered.
" Well… he should be around here somewhere, shouldn't he? He always is, right? " she smiled, then left the throne room saying, " I will be right back, Bowser. "
" Alright, " he called after her, then called for a group of paratroopas and ordered them to tell Kamek that he would be gone for about a week. When he turned back and continued to get ready to pack, he had noticed that six of his children had then surrounded him.
" What are you all doing? " Bowser asked them.
" Dad!! Where are going?! " Lemmy suddenly asked. Bowser gave them a puzzled look and scratched his head.
" Going on vacation, you didn't know? " he answered.
His children all shook their heads and narrowed their eyes.
" Dad, you haven't told us ANYTHING lately!! " Iggy exclaimed.
" Well, I told Ludwig, I would guess that he told the rest of you, " Bowser gave a messed-up looking smile. The one that asked, " are you convinced yet? "
" He told us, Dad… but he can't tell us anything anymore! He's not here!" Larry said.
" What are you talking about? He's here. You all just said he was, you're just looking for him in the castle, even Melinda said that he must be here, " Bowser said and raised an eyebrow. Lemmy gave a furious look.
" NO! Dad, he's NOT here, and we know it!! Melinda threw him into a warp pipe, and now the warp pipe closed itself off, and we can't get in to help him, and he can't get out back to us! We don't even know if he's alive or not! " Lemmy said. Bowser gave him a perplexed look and then shook his head.
" What do you mean? Melinda has no idea where he is, she said she hasn't seen him anywhere, " he said.
" Dad!! You weren't there when this happened!! All six of us were right there outside when you left Melinda and headed to the castle, she… well, we don't know WHAT she did to Ludwig, but he's not here, and he won't be coming back either!!!! She's been doing this ever since she got here, she's pushed me down the stairs, the reason why Ludwig came home soaked the other night was because she set him up to be attacked by a Cheep Cheep and drown! And then she tried to push Wendy off the roof of the castle, she's causing lots of trouble, she's trying to kill us, Dad!! " Lemmy yelled.
" Lemmy!! How dare you speak about Melinda like that. All of those things could have maybe been accidents- " Bowser started.
" And how ironic? She was at EVERY one of those accidents! " Lemmy snapped sarcastically. Bowser gave Lemmy a very grim look, and a low growl could be heard from him. It made Lemmy bit his lip to quiet down suddenly and he cowered a little.
" You know better than to speak to me like that. You are probably just worried that I will pay more attention to her than to all of you, " Bowser said slowly. Wendy stomped her foot.
" No, Daddy!! You HAVE been paying more attention to her! Everything has changed since SHE got here!! " she pouted.
" I have no idea what any of you are talking about. And if anything has changed, it's the fact that my kids have now become extremely mouthy with their father, " Bowser said sternly looking over all of them.
" NO!! " came Larry's voice. They all looked over at him. He had his own fists balled up and he looked on the verge of tears. They did not come of course, and he stood there and glared at Bowser, so hysterical that they could see he was shaking.
" You know WHAT has changed?! WHAT is sad in this life?! When a father actually takes some witch's word over his own children, the ones who he has known since THEY were born!! He's lived with them and he's raised them… and… and… ARRRGHHH!! " he screamed fiercely, turned and ran to the door.
His siblings practically froze right then and there. None of them even dared to say anything, not even Morton. They all just watched Larry approach the door and swing it open.
" Larry!! Get back here! " Bowser yelled at him.
" I hate you!! " Larry yelled back, not even turning to face Bowser. He slammed the door as hard as he could on his way out, making a loud echo throughout the throne room. A darkness had seemed to seep into and around the room at that time, and it gave everyone in the room a very creepy feeling.
The other five koopalings were prepared, ready for their dad to start yelling for the fact that not only did Larry lip him off, but he disobeyed him as well. But when they looked up at their Dad, he had done nothing but stared at the door, no expression appearing on his face at all. But something still did not seem right about how he looked at that time - he actually seemed like he was… hurt?
Bowser had then just shook his head and then headed for the door himself. His children stood around staring wide-eyed at each other, worried and not knowing what to do or say. Iggy ran ahead and out the door suddenly, whispering to his other siblings, " I'm going to go find Larry… " Lemmy on the other hand ran up ahead also and up to their dad who had just made it to the door.
" Dad!!! Come on, you can't do this! We're telling the truth, honest! " Lemmy pleaded the best he could. Bowser had just looked down at him and did not stop. He opened up the door, looked down at the ground, then back at Lemmy.
" You all just need to get used to her, " he answered, and then left the throne room. Lemmy stood there looking at the closed door, really upset with the fact that now the six of them were going to be left alone for a whole week with this crazy lady, and that their oldest brother was now gone. But he was also angry too. He was angry at his dad for just leaving like that, without even considering that they could be telling the truth. Lemmy had then too, balled up his fists, and glared angrily at the door. He spat out a short and snappy roar and stomped the stone floor with one of his feet. He turned back to his remaining brothers and sister.
" Hmph. Ludwig was right, he has had all the time in the world to speak to everyone else but US. And now that he did, he does not even believe us. What is this world coming to?! " Lemmy stomped around a few more seconds, then just collapsed on the floor and stared up at the far away ceiling. Roy, Morton and Wendy all looked at each other, a little panicked themselves and also angry, and then they had sat down themselves.
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Iggy had decided to check out Larry's bedroom first, assuming that that would have been the first place he would have went to. But he was not there when he looked.
Iggy wondered about this for a few minutes. He did not know another location as to where Larry could have been. Honestly, he never really paid much attention to his little brother, so why would he now? Well, with Melinda around, he would have to, but… he looked around the hallways nearest him. He was about to go running down back to the throne room when he noticed the little figure of his brother and the blue hair sticking up over his head. He was sitting crouched against a wall and glowered at the dark stone floor.
Iggy slowly approached him, then looked over Larry to see that he was sitting underneath a portrait. It was the portrait of the seven of them and their dad.
" So… uh… yeah, Dad just… he just left I guess. He didn't get mad though when you left the throne room, " Iggy said, smiling slightly. He sat down beside Larry, who was still glaring down at the floor.
" I want things to go back to the way they were, when SHE wasn't here!! " Larry pouted. Iggy patted him on the head and continued smiling.
" Aww, we'll be okay, Larry. Even if Ludwig is gone… I… I don't know… " Iggy said and looked around, " c'mon, we don't want the rest of them looking for us. " He got up and held his hand out to Larry. Larry looked up at him, still with a grim face, and then reluctantly took his hand and allowed Iggy to help him up to his feet. And then together, they both started on their way back to the throne room.
" Larry, I'm worried too… just so you know… " Iggy said quietly, and looked back down at his little brother. Larry did not look up at him, but nodded.
"… I want Ludwig back… " he answered.
The two of them had decided to take a short-cut through a large room back to the throne room, obviously to save them time. ( a/n: **sings the Sherry Bobbins song from the Simpsons which she does not own** If you CUT every corner there'll be more time to pllaaayyy!! It's the American wayyyy!! …O-o… though I'm not American, I'm Canadian, EH? ^-^ )
Larry though had still seemed very upset even after Iggy tried to tell him jokes on their way through the room. But even Iggy himself was not in a joking mood at this time. Besides, his jokes were not even funny. If anything, Lemmy could get a laugh out of someone somehow, even if it meant for him to make an ass of himself somehow.
It was then that Larry had looked up finally, and his eyes had gone wide.
" Iggy - watch it!! " he yelled and shoved Iggy out of the way of a chandelier that had come crashing down, just skinning Larry's arm when he too had jumped out of the way.
Iggy slowly and shakily had gotten up and looked around, though that was hard to do for he had again lost his glasses. He fished around for a few seconds with his hand skimming across the area on the floor around him until he could feel the familiar feel of malleable metal and the huge plastic lenses ( a/n: =P I know what glasses are like, don't tell me any different! I have glasses myself! ^-^ @_@ Though I wear contacts most of the time… unless I'm just too lazy to put my contacts in… I'll shut up now XD ) in his fingers. He slid them back on his face and looked around at the shattered glass everywhere. Just a few feet away from him, he could see Larry standing beside the fallen and bent up chandelier, the side of his arm now bleeding. He stared at Iggy, fear in his eyes.
" Larry… Larry are you okay? " Iggy asked him, and ran over to Larry to and started checking his arm over. Larry growled at him and pulled his arm away. Iggy grabbed his other hand and continued walking out of the room dragging Larry behind with him.
" Come on, we have to go, " Iggy said, still pulling Larry, who was busy trying to pull his hand out of Iggy's.
Iggy and Larry had a few seconds later stumbled into the throne room and sat around with the other koopalings. Lemmy jumped and ran over as soon as he saw Larry's arm.
" What happened?! " Lemmy asked frantically as he examined Larry's arm, daring himself to attempt prodding Larry's cuts with his fingers.
" Ow!!! That hurts!! " Larry yelled at him and started pulling away from Lemmy violently.
" Larry, you're hurt, I just want to check your arm, " Lemmy said, attempting to fight his little brother back from pulling his arm away.
" Lemmy!! Let me go! " Larry yelled at Lemmy. Lemmy sighed and let go of Larry's arm. Larry took off to another side of the room and glared at him.
" Melinda, that's what the problem here is! " Larry pouted and crossed his arms. His older siblings all nodded their heads in agreement.
" And Daddy doesn't believe us, " Wendy sulked.
" And now she's going to get rid of us! She'll kill us even if she has to, and we'll never see Dad again! Oh, how horrible, how terrible, how cruddy and no good, those are all the words for one word that will perfectly describe it all! BAD! All of it!! BAD BAD and BAD! What is the world coming to when we can't even LIVE in it?! What is the world coming to when we can't even- " Morton had started announcing, before Roy ran over and pushed him over.
" Shut up, ya little bag a' scum!!! Before I pop you back to the time where they would hang you up by your toes in the public when the king ordered you to SHUT UP, but you didn't!!! " Roy bellowed heatedly. Morton gave him a confused look for a few seconds, then went to open his mouth to say something again, but when Roy held his fist up to Morton's face, Morton actually thought twice before saying another word.
" I got an idea! Let's just run away! Run away and never return, either way, we'll never see Dad again! " Larry yelled from across the room helplessly as he plopped down on the floor.
" What are you talking about, Larry?! We don't need to go anywhere- " Lemmy started.
" Earth to Lemmy!!! Ludwig is GONE!! He's long gone! Haven't you noticed something ever since Melinda first came here? LUDWIG has been the one helping us through everything she's done to us! HE has been the smart one, the one with the ideas, like a leader! And YOU know what happens to the crew after the leader takes the plunge, don't you?! They ALL go down! Down, down like flies! We're doomed, Lemmy! Finished! " Iggy exclaimed.
" Fini! " Morton added with a mockingly French accent. ( a/n: No, I'm not dissing the french. ^-^ Why would I diss them? I'm partially french. Lol O-o… then again, I diss Canadians, and I'M a Canadian myself… uh… @_@ I think I'll shut up now ) Roy rolled his eyes at him.
" What are you guys talking about?! We just can't leave!! " Lemmy said, trying to get his siblings to reconsider.
" Yes we can, we've got no other choice, not now since Ludwig is gone, " Iggy said shaking his head.
Lemmy stared at all of them in disbelief. He could not believe this. It was as if the seven of them were a huge building, and Ludwig was the base, the very foundation that actually held up the entire structure. And now that the base was gone, everyone was going to give up, just like the building decides to fall.
He looked around at his siblings' faces. They were all so discouraged, they had fear in their eyes. Even Roy looked like he was very tense, even though Lemmy could barely see his eyes through his dark shades. Lemmy looked over at Larry on the other side of the room, arm still bleeding. Larry was holding it protectively and just staring at it, he was shaking too. They all were, at least that was what Lemmy could see. What was wrong? They were never like this when Ludwig was actually around. That was quite odd, seeing as how the younger siblings would always tell him that he was insane. But supposedly back then it was no big deal, but now they really seemed to need him… him and his crazy wacko ideas. ( a/n: O_O… kinda reminds me of… me… my little sisters ALWAYS tell me that I'm insane @_@… my parents even say so… even my co-workers… my teachers… random people on the street… neighbours… customers at the restaurant… oh, the worker guy at laser quest, yeah, you can't forget him… no, I'm serious * )
But just looking over his younger siblings like this gave him a weird feeling. He seemed to pick up a little bit more confidence in himself, like all the responsibility had suddenly fell onto his shoulders. He then considered this to be the case.
" No. We're not leaving… and she's not going to make us leave either, " Lemmy said, narrowing his eyes. His brothers and sister gave him all puzzled looks, and he continued.
" If Ludwig was here, he would not have wanted us to just give up now would he? No, I didn't think so. He would have wanted us to keep going on, the best we can. Come on, guys. We are koopas! We NEVER go down without a fight! Honestly, what do you think Dad would do?! " Lemmy asked them. They all shrugged, still confused.
" Let's see… um… he'd probably… LEAVE, " Iggy said as he flicked a ball of lint on the floor with his fingers. The others nodded.
" Yeah, Dad would leave. He just did, " Roy said. Lemmy glared at all of them.
" I can't believe you guys!! After what we've gone through so far, you're just going to give up!? Some family YOU all are! We've been through so much in our lives right now, and just because some crazy lady shows up wanting to maybe KILL us, you want to just… just… GIVE UP?!?!? You're all mad!! " Lemmy yelled.
" That's the plan, " Roy answered smugly. Lemmy smirked at Roy.
" What's happened to you, Roy? You used to be tough…" Lemmy said. Roy froze. He gave Lemmy an icy look and adjusted his shades.
" WHAT did you just say? " he asked darkly. Lemmy smiled.
" You want to just give up. I thought that that was what the weak did. Unless you've become weak, " Lemmy answered. Roy spat on the ground and glared at him fiercely.
" Roy, just don't listen to him, " Larry called, " you don't even know what point he is trying to make. " Roy glared over at Larry.
" Shut up! I wasn't asking ya, I'd rather come over there and pulverize you! " Roy yelled at him.
" No, YOU shut up, Roy!! I'm tired of having to listen to you boss us around, and I don't want to listen to you before I die! " Wendy screeched at Roy. Before anyone knew it, they were all yelling at each other, except for Lemmy. Lemmy stood there and watched them all fight amongst themselves. He shook his head, his jaw slightly ajar. He then glared fiercely at them.
" HEY!! THAT'S ENOUGH!!! " he screamed at them. Surprisingly enough, they all stopped fighting and looked over at him. They were all surprised that Lemmy had actually yelled at them, as if he was scolding them for something. He gave a harsh glare to all of them and breathed very deeply after he had finished yelling at them.
" We are NOT going to give up!! None of us are, you got that?! You all know damn well that Ludwig wouldn't want us to give up, so don't give up! We can do this! Sure, our " leader " is gone now, but even if ONE member of our team is gone, we can survive without them. It may be hard because he's older and smarter than us, but there's still US. C'mon, there's ONE of her and six of us, if we just keep together we can- " Lemmy explained to them, but was suddenly cut off.
" Lemmy!! Shut up, just shut up already! " Roy yelled at him. Lemmy turned and glared at Roy again.
" No, YOU shut the hell up and listen!! ALL OF YOU! " he looked around them. He had their attention… all five of them. Roy had a surprised look on his face, he had not expected Lemmy to turn around and shoot something right back at him.
" We are all going to fight back, just like we were going to in the first place. I say we will, and that's what is going to happen, " Lemmy continued, " and I say we stay. We are not going anywhere. We are going to stay in the pairs that we had been given before, and why? Because it worked. Of course there will be no goofing around at the bridge, and no one will leave their partners. Just like what Ludwig had said, if we are going to survive, we have to work together and cooperate. We have to pull together as a team to beat her. She's smart, but if WE all just work with each other, we are too! Even without Ludwig. But you all just have to calm down, we all have to calm down, we have to relax. She can't see our fear, our tension. She can't see that we are intimidated by the fact that our older brother is probably DEAD by now. She might not know if we know, but just in case she does, she can't see that it bothers us. Besides, if we slow down and think about things thoroughly, then we'll get much more accomplished, right? "
His siblings all looked around at each other, their fear fading away slightly. Even Larry had calmed down and inched closer to the group, he was now even worrying more about the fact that his cuts were bleeding. But Roy still wasn't thoroughly convinced. He smirked at Lemmy and crossed his arms.
" Hmph. Who died and put YOU in charge? " Roy asked smugly, and glared at Lemmy. Lemmy glared back at Roy.
" Besides Ludwig, I'm oldest. And as the second oldest, I should be the second-in command, should I not? " Lemmy answered. Roy took a step closer to him.
" Yeah? Well, I think that I would make a better leader than YOU would, " Roy sneered.
" Don't count on it, " Lemmy snapped, " and what kind of battle techniques were YOU planning on using to fight back with? "
" Actually, I think that we should just go and beat her up, then we just kick her outta the castle, " Roy answered arrogantly, apparently proud of himself. Lemmy shook his head and smiled mockingly.
" Yeah right. THAT'S your plan? And with WHAT kind of weapons are you going to use? She's older and bigger than all of us combined. She's even bigger than you, how is that going to work out? " Lemmy asked with some sarcasm in his voice.
" Well, that's why we all just gang up on her at once! C'mon, there's only one of her, and six of us! " Roy answered. Lemmy shook his head at him.
" No, Roy. Because guess what? Before there were also SEVEN of us and she got rid of Ludwig, didn't she? "
" Yeah? Well… how do YOU know that that will happen again, huh?! " Roy demanded.
" Well, I don't KNOW, Roy. How did we know that what happened outside just minutes ago would even happen at all?! Huh?! " Lemmy shot back at him. Roy continued to glare at him, then grunted and shook his head. He had muttered something, but none of them had heard what it was.
" …I trust you, Lemmy, " Larry said softly and slowly made his way back to his other brothers and sister. Larry walked up to Lemmy, sighed and stuck his arm out reluctantly to him. Lemmy smiled and started looking over his arm again, for any shards of glass that had managed to get stuck in the cuts.
" Phht. I can't believe this! " Roy huffed and then turned to the door, on his way he had managed to trip over his own feet and land with a loud 'thud' on the floor.
" Have a nice trip, Roy? " Lemmy asked still looking at Larry's arm. Sniggers came from Iggy, Wendy and Morton. Roy got up and stomped off to a corner of the throne room and leaned against the stone wall. He crossed his arms and rolled his eyes at them.
How could Lemmy have said such a stupid thing? Roy was a good leader, at least that was what Roy thought, and he definitely thought that his opinions always counted, whether anyone liked them or not. And what were the matter with his ideas? He was sure that they would work. But no, all of his siblings had to choose the " Ludwig Worshipper " over him. He did not understand how that worked out, and actually he did not want to know. All he knew right now was that he had wanted nothing to do with Lemmy, but then again, he never wanted anything to do with him in the first place. So for now, Roy just glared up at the ceiling and tried to ignore them all.
" Well?! What's the matter with it, Lemmy!? " Larry demanded once he had gotten impatient with Lemmy looking over his arm.
" Well… you have cuts… there's no glass in your arm… " Lemmy answered.
" Well!? And what? Is there anything else?! What should I do? " Larry asked, glaring at him. Lemmy smiled.
" Uh… a cold cloth. Run it under water and put it on your arm, " Lemmy replied, still staring at his arm.
" What?!!? You took that long just to look over it and tell me that I should just get a cloth on it?! That's not funny!! Then again, NONE of your jokes are funny, Lemmy! " Larry shouted angrily at him. Lemmy nodded.
" Yes, Larry. It took me only three minutes to tell you that you should put a cloth on your arm, " Lemmy replied sarcastically. Larry started walking around yelling ( if we recall from chapter one, Wendy seemed to have done that a lot ) and ranting about Lemmy. He then stopped and sat on the floor out of breath. He honestly could not see HOW Wendy was able to do that for hours on end.
Lemmy could do nothing but laugh at them. It was just funny to see Larry try to do something that Wendy had clearly had more practice with.
The good thing for Lemmy now was that his younger siblings had trusted him, ( Roy being the one exception ) the bad thing on the other hand… what was he going to do? It was true, Ludwig had had all the ideas, the only ideas that Lemmy had were ones that included laughing hysterically at something or someone, and those were not the ideas that they had needed now. He figured that maybe it was about time that he was serious about something, though he had been since he had talked to their dad. And now that he was their new appointed " leader " he had to watch out over ALL of them. He honestly could not see how Ludwig could have done so and yet kept them all in line… sort of. He was even able to give the younger ones confidence, something that Lemmy had had trouble with. But as long as they were convinced that they could trust Lemmy, things should have worked, right?
It was then that Lemmy had noticed that his siblings were still standing around in the throne room. They were all looking at him, as if waiting for some kind of order. Lemmy raised an eyebrow and looked over all of them.
" Umm… uh… you can go now? Just… remember to stay in you pairs? " Lemmy suggested. Morton, Wendy, Roy and Iggy had all re-grouped and left the room, leaving Larry behind with Lemmy. Lemmy gave out a sigh of relief. He was glad that that was over now, but now he needed some ideas of his own… that did not involve trying to make a joke out of things. He walked over to Larry who was giving him a curious look and pet him on the head. Larry shook his head angrily, he did not like it when people did that to him, it made him feel small and short.
" Come on, Larry. Let's go fix up your arm, " Lemmy said. And then together, the two of them left the throne room.
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Jeshi: Oh my god, I'm SO sorry for that wait people!! T_T I was so busy, and… and yeah… you COULD say writer's block, but you couldn't in a way? It was more like… a lack of inspiration. The WILL to actually write the story! XD I had to blare my music REALLY loud in my ears to get it work my brain! That and I've had homework, work, I've been playing the Sims ( shut up, I just bought two more expansion packs on the weekend. XD ) and we got the driving times for our driving class thingy. @_@ Oh, and now I'll be doing basketball scorekeeping ( Kaira-chan, you did not hear the announcement in the middle of 2nd and 3rd period, did you? 'Cause you weren't in the office when we had to see Mr. Pearce. Yes, it was at THAT time XD unless you just weren't at school? )
Larry: O_O! Hey! Quit hogging all the author note space!
Jeshi: =P BLEGH! I've got to tell the readers the reason why I haven't updated! Before I'd update every few days to a week! And now, this thingy took me maybe… two weeks?!
Larry: So?!
Jeshi: It MATTERS! =P And I WAS serious about the laser quest thing people. -_-; My friend and I had gone to Laser Quest in grade 7, (back then, me laughing like Marge Simpson was a habit… an unintentional habit!! * and I hated it! No matter what, I could NOT stop laughing like her! @_@ ) and we were just looking over team names to call ourselves, and we had found "Beavus and Butthead" and started laughing. Well, because of my crappy Marge Simpson laugh that I had at that time, the laser quest worker there at the desk looked at me wide-eyed and backed away saying, "Now THAT is just SCARY!!" @_@ it was funny, yet embarrassing. ANYWAY, I'm sorry for boring you with my long story and author note (no, the laser quest story, not the actual story!! *) so you can go and review now, or just not, whatever. But I'd accept the review more, without flames though, because that's not good. ^-^
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