/ Once again, I own NOTHING! Well, a couple of junk computers and a burned copy of Fedora Core, plus some pirate fansubs, but that's IT. So, if you sue me, I'll stick Lime on you! And on to the story! /

As the smoke slowly cleared, the form of a teenage girl was made more apparent. She cocked her bandanna-clad head and smiled.

"You... You're Lime!"

"Yup!" John felt embarrassed at his statement of the obvious, but then again, how was an anime character coming to life in a geek's bedroom obvious?

Lime grinned. "You must be my new master! Who are you?"

"Me? I'm... err... I'm John."

"John? I like that name! And I love you!" She hugged John tightly while giggling hysterically.

"What happened to Otaru?" John asked. After a moment's pause, he rather wished he hadn't.

"Otaru? He's not in this reality, so I had to start all fresh!" With the "fresh" she gave a wink, which seemed to move her whole body and not just her eye.

"Where are Cherry and Bloodberry?" He winced, now detesting his shock- induced autopilot.

"You haven't woken them up yet." She looked down, tracing the ground with her feet in a very uncharacteristic movement. "Oh yeah!" Her disposition perked up. "HA-O!"

John slapped her hand, giving a tired "ha-o" and feeling very stupid. "Oh yeah, where will I sleep?"

"You mean you're not sleeping in the bed with me?" John fell to the floor in a shower of arousal-induced nose-blood. "I'll take that as a no'."