Shadow: *is rocking back and forth in a corner*

Kari: Poor girl. She just finished writing a huge paper...

Viper: Five pages, size 10 font, all about the history of Earth...

Kari: Sad...

Shadow: *whispers* I strongly dislike planet earth...

Viper: Wow. She must have gone crazy.

Shadow: I have gone absolutely nuts and bonkers. Hee hee...

Kari: *shakes head* Mad...

Viper: Let's back away slowly...

Shadow: Fear not! I'm not that crazy. I'm writing, aren't I?

Kari: Ok, whatever....

Viper: Shadow doesn't own us, or Golden Sun, or wine coolers--

Shadow: I love the wine coolers!

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*Ahem* Let's see here....'Garet and Piers--' Ack! Wrong news bulletin! Uh...here we go! 'Ivan made Piers fall asleep because Piers was boring the living hell out of everyone. So, they woke all the Adepts up from their coma-like state and are currently playing strip poker, waiting for the rest of the hall to wake up. Well, all except for Mia. She, at the moment, is running around in the woods doing who-knows-what. We now go live to the game of quick wit and no clothes, strip poker..'

******

"Ha! Read 'em and weep! Two pair!" Ivan said in a haughty tone. "Lesse...I want--"

"Hold it, small fry," Garet said. He showed Ivan his cards. "Full house. You know what that means."

Ivan grumbled as he began pulling off his tunic.

"Stop that, Ivan." Isaac told him.

"Huh? Garet won, so..."

"Yes. Even though it is amusing to see Sheba like this..." He gestured at Sheba, who was drooling and staring at Ivan with bugged out eyes.

"Like that...Heh heh. But I won though." Isaac announced. Garet pounded the table with a meaty fist.

"Damn! Isaac, I want Ivan to take it off!"

"Ugh. Garet, you realize how wrong that sounded?" Jenna informed him. "Eww.."

"What? No! He hasn't taken anything off yet! Both those midgets haven't!"

"Garet..." Sheba snapped out her reviere and said in a warning tone, "Remember the little talk we had about not calling us names?"

Garet cringed. He remembered that all right. We'll just say that it involved lots of cursing and lightning bolts summoned by angry Jupiter Adepts. "I'll be good."

"Yes, well, I won." Isaac displayed his cards for all to see. "Royal flush. Which means you're all ROYALLY screwed. Well, just Piers."

"Aren't you the comiedian," Ivan said dryly.

"Of course I am," Isaac informed everyone.

"Can you please ask someone else to take something off?" Piers asked, sitting in a pair of the little Ply angel'ed patterned boxers. "I'd rather not take these off...I feel self-conscience about me...."

"Oooh! I'll be the shrink!" Jenna grabbed Piers by the hair and dragged him over to a conviently placed couch. She laid him down, snagged a clipbored, and put on a fake goatee. "Now vat seem to be za trubble, Monsieur Piers?"

"Uh, well...." He began to tell a long sad story about kids, lighters, a tree, and a swimming Piers. "..And that's what happened? How can I make the hurt go away?"

Jenna stared at him wide-eyed for a few moments, then burst out laughing. "Ha! Aha!! Your life was terrible! Ha ha! Hey, everybody! Come hear why Piers can't take off his boxers!" She then told everyone the same story that Piers did. And, of course, they burst out laughing.

"Ha ha ha!" they all said. "Ha ha!"

"Wah!! Mommy! They made the hurt worse!" Piers cried. Suddenly a blue haired woman, who was mere skin and bones appeared in a flash, grabbed Piers, gave everyone a dirty look, and vanished with him.

"Uh...okay. Let's get back to our game," Ivan said, out of breath slightly.

******
A half hour later...

"Ha! Finally! All your luckyness is for nothing because finally I have won!" Garet said, showing off four aces. "Although you're really lucky Ivan, because there's something else I'd rather see more..."

Jenna was about to do something that would give all males an eyeful. So all males were staring at her and drooling.

"No." Felix said flatly. "I will not permit her to do this."

"NOO! I need low grade porn!" the guys yelled.

"Then ask Sheba. She seemed to have a good time when we needed money."

All eyes turned to Sheba, who was yet again blushing madly. "Damn you Felix! If you would have just let Jenna do it, like she'd WANTED to, I wouldn't have had to!"

Ivan was gaping at her, mouth hanging open.

"Wow," Isaac said. "So that's how you got all the money that you didn't steal from Garet and Ivan....and don't run to the bathroom," he added, when he saw Sheba's eyes flicker to the bathroom.

"This game ends here," Felix said.

"Awww....but it was just getting good," Garet moaned.

"Oh, be quiet, you big wuss," Jenna told him.

"Meh." Garet said, slumping down in the seat.

******
Finally, when everyone woke up...

"Hey...what's going on?" a woman said.

"Is the boring person gone yet?" The professor asked hopefully.

"Can we go home now?" someone else asked.

"No..Ivan and Isaac have yet to go," Mia said softly, slinking in the door.

"Mia!" Isaac yelled.

Mia ignored him, and walked up to Jenna, who was shrinking away. "I'm sorry I ever fought with you. Can you forgive me?" she asked.

"Uhh...well," Jenna said. "Let's see. How's about: no."

Isaac punched her in the arm, making Jenna wince slightly. "Oh, fine. As long as you don't try to kill me again."

Mia smiled, and they embraced. "And Isaac," she said, turning to him. "I'm sorry I tried to break up your friendship for my own personal gain. Can you forgive me as well?"

Isaac smiled widely. "Done and done." He moved forward and kissed Mia on the top of her head.

"And the rest of you..." Mia said, turning to the crowd. "Can you...wait. I don't care about you."

"Hmph!"

"What made you apologize, Mia?" Garet asked.

"Well....I'd rather not say."

Sheba motioned slightly to Ivan and they crept up behind Mia. The both Mind Read her, and were amazed at their findings.

******
(Mia's Mind)

"Whoa." Ivan said, looking at a sign that read 'Space for Rent' on the interior of Mia's head. "She doesn't have that big of a brain, does she?"

"I guess not," Sheba replied. "She's what we call a 'dumb blonde' back in Lalivero."

"But she's not blonde."

"...so? Look at Garet. He's not blonde, and his brain is the size of a coin."

"Whatever," Ivan said. "Let's just find why she apologized, and get out. The airheadedness is making me altitude sick."

They walked until they came to a section of misty air that flashed, 'Do not enter the mist. These are Mia's secrets. Do not enter or else.' They entered anyways.

"Whoa. And that's all I'm gonna say." Sheba was busy looking at a small T.V.-like screen detailing Mia making out with Alex. "Ugh..."

"Found it!" Ivan yelled. Sheba ran over and peered into the screen. This is what it showed:

Begin transmission

Mia: *is walking down the path* I hope Isaac didn't mean that...

Kraden: *jumps out of bushes* Mia! I heard you and Isaac have a fight!

Mia: ...yes.

Kraden: *spits on hand and slicks back hair* What about ol' Kraden, eh? Wanna gimme a ride?

Mia: *panicking* Uh...uh...no! I was just thinking on how to say sorry! And look at that! I've found it! Goodbye! *runs away as fast as she can*

Kraden: ...darn. Ah! Ms. Tree! Care to give little old me a chance?

End transmission

"Oh dear," Sheba said softly. "I feel so sorry for Mia right now. And that's saying something, because I usually don't care."

"Ugh, well, let's get out...I think stupid juices are...AGGGH!!" Ivan yelled. He then promptly fainted.

"What? What's..." Sheba's eyes grew wide, at looking at a picture of Mia and Alex on the wall. "Eww...I never thought a person could bend that far.."

"I think I'm now mentally scarred for life," Ivan gasped. "I am getting out, and never ever ever coming back." He ended the Mind Read, and warped out. Sheba followed right after.

******
(Back in the real world)

"Mia, you have a scary life." Ivan informed her when he got back control over himself.

"Really. That's just wrong." Sheba added. "We're now mentally scarred for life, y'know."

Mia turned around, finally noticing them. "Did you...did you just look into my mind?"

They nodded.

"Well..." Mia was starting to get her gorilla face back on. "GAH! HOW DARE YOU!?!" She began chasing after the two unfortuanate Adepts, screaming death threats all the way.

"Oh dear," Isaac smacked himself. "Well, let's go and stop my crazy friend...." He began chasing after them, politely asking (well screaming over Mia, actually) for them to stop fighting.

"Geez." Garet commented. "She has the temper of...of Jenna say."

"What?!?"

This, of course, sparked another furious chase, with a crying Garet running away from a yelling Jenna wielding a table leg.

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Shadow: Wow, Sheba's been gone a while now, hasn't she?

Viper: *is putting up 'She's Gone' balloons* ...so?

Kari: *is doing a happy dance* Don't tell me you care.

Shadow: Of course not. I was merely commenting.

Kari: I'm getting really tired of saying this, but, review!

Shadow: And now I must go and rest my severely writers' cramped right wrist and drink some wine coolers.

Viper: ...oh no....