Lightbringer; Chpt. 3- Prey
Adalai- Alright Zena, Disclaimer!
Zena, Muse of Trajedy- Adalai does not own Kingdom Hearts, it's characters, worlds, ect. Those belong to Square and Disney. I do not own charter magic; that is the property of Garth Nix. However, Adalai ownz this fic, Asher, Ellos, Strife, Yul, Alma, Danya, Hector, Root May, Root Kay, The End, the plotline, any new concepts or ideas, and fills my food bowl and cleans my litter box, and that's what matters!
Authors notes at bottom.
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Research Report #3 (a.k.a. the Non-Existent Report)
A Note on the Nobody...
The Nobody are a paradox. They are mere shells, bodies without hearts. But many Nobodies have feelings, intelligence, personalities; these traits are only present in those who have hearts. So how can an empty body, a shell without a heart, display characteristics only present in beings with hearts?
Even I, who have studied them, and are one of the few people to have ever killed a Nobody, do not understand them. To understand the Nobody, you must be a Nobody yourself. It is not something that can be taught or described, only experienced and understood. But for the purposes of science and for those who will read this after me, I must try to put that which is the Nobody into words.
I can think of only one way which the enigma that is the heartless could be solved. But to understand it, we must take a look at the two types of Nobody.
There are two types of Nobody; Shells and NEOs (Non-existent ones). All Nobody have a certain amount in common, however; they all wear distinctive black raincoats, and they all died from having their heart destroyed by a heartless and mindless, their bodies disappearing into the In-Between Place.
Shells are exactly what they sound like; bodies without hearts, vessels of the raw power that is the very fabric of the In-Between Place. They have no emotion, intelligence, or any indicators of a heart; they have only two goals. Maintain the Balance (they do so by channeling whatever type of energy or matter that is lacking straight through their bodies from the In- Between Place into the Present World) and Keep all non-Nobodies out of the In-Between Place.
The NEO's, unlike the shells, have all the trapping of a heartened creature; personality, self awareness, ability to change and evolve to it's surroundings, to learn, to think, to reason, and to imagine. They, too, are interested in maintaining and creating balance, but unlike shells, they do not act, they calculate. Not as individuals, but as one, as if they're hearts were all entangled (see research report #2). If you ever have the misfortune of seeing more than one Nobody in battle, they behave as one, in both movements and attacks. They tip the scales by subtlety influencing the actions of others in the Present world; they are deceivers, manipulators, equivocators. I have never known a Nobody to lie, but the truth they say may not be the one you hear.
It is possible that, because of this unnatural ability to act as if they where all connected somehow, that the Nobody do have hearts, just not individual hearts. In order for a heartless or mindless to make another of it's kind, it must first break the heart. A mindless is only made from the darkness inside a heart and the part of the heart in which it resides. The same applies with the mindless, but instead of darkness, light. What happens to the rest of the heart? I believe that the part of the heart disappears with the body into the In-Between Place. There, one of two things can happen. The heart can leave the body, forming a Shell. But if the heart is strong enough, it will stay in the body, and flourish, becoming a NEO.
But for this to happen, outside assistance is needed, a source to provide energy for it's growth. It is possible that, to create new hearts, another Nobody has to entangle the piece of that heart with a 'master heart' which, in turn, is made of all the NEO's entangled hearts. A sum greater than the whole of it's parts, if you will.
A Note on the 6 bodies...
The NEOs have not one body, but six; Physical (body), mental (mind), causal (psyche), etheric (esoteric), emotional (astral), spiritual (soul/heart) that they can "project" outside or inside of their physical body. It is from these projections that most of their powers stem.
There are many theories as to the origin of these bodies. Some say they are shells of the NEO's heart, much like the NEOs themselves are shells. Some say that we all have these bodies, but that only NEO's can project them because they are dead. But I believe that the bodies are the leftover energy from the connection between the body and the heart. As you will see, most of the bodies have a dual existence; they exist both on mental and physical planes. They are listed in order of difficulty to manifest.
Physical (Body)- the body that a NEO manifests in most of the time, since it requires no energy or concentration to maintain. This is the human, physical body the NEO inhabited when they were a person. NEOs keep their hearts inside their physical body, the strongest of the six. Since they are already dead, their bodies do not die easily; the Neo's body must be completely destroyed, or it's head cut off, to kill it.
Mental (Mind)- when projected, this looks exactly like it's owner, except without any mass or weight; that is, it is made entirely of light, like a hologram. It can appear and reappear as it wishes, and go as far away as it's NEO wills it too; unlike the other bodies, it requires no extra energy or concentration to manifest the farther away from the NEO's heart it gets. Strong NEO's can make their Minds manifest in other ages than themselves, even in other worlds. When manifested, however, it and the NEO gain psychic powers; telekenisis, telepathy, pyrokenisis, mind reading, invisibility, ability to serve as a medium, ect. However, the mind cannot physically manipulate it's surroundings. It is mostly used to spy; because the NEO can look through it's eyes and it can become invisible, and to speak to others in dreams or places the NEO cannot go to.
Casual (Psyche)- The Psyche is what is called a person's character or personality. It looks like it's owner, except made of thousands of tiny bolts of lightning. It can be manifested outside or inside the body; when inside, it is the body which allows the Nobody to perform their famous acrobatic tricks. While the Psyche cannot physically manipulate it's surrounding, it can generate and control energy fields, such as light, gravitational and electromagnetic fields, changing it's surroundings through those.
Emotional (Astral)- The astral body is the part of the person that generates emotion and feelings. It also emanates an aura, in both NEO's and humans. NEO's astral bodies can read and manipulate auras. The Astral bodies have speed and strength that far outreaches that of an ordinary human. They can physically remove or 'copy' energy, memories, abilities or hearts from the bodies of humans and store them inside itself; or by manipulating the heart, turn that person into a heartless or mindless. They can enter into and control people's dreams. Astral bodies can shift between being able to manipulate there environment and not being able to; one example of how this is used is a astral bodies attacking humans with blades and even though the blade passes though the torso, only the internal organs are cut, leaving the rest whole. Astral bodies can also wield physical weapons, and many have weapons specially made for their own use out of energy, which are usually sharper and more deadly than their physical counterparts. They look like they are made of colored mist and a net of liquid lightning.
Etheric (Esoteric)- this body is the part of the person that stores memories. Etheric bodies can only be manifested inside the NEO's own body. It can convert energy to matter and vice versa. A NEO that can manifest an esoteric body can convert it's items into energy and store them in it's esoteric body. Many NEOs switch their vital organs with their corresponding chunks of energy in the esoteric body to protect them from harm. When a Etheric body is manifest, the NEO can take on the properties of elements; fire, water, wind, light, dark, ect.
Spiritual (Soul/Heart)- This body is the NEO's heart itself, which can only be manifested is the NEO's heart is fully formed. Again, this can only be manifested inside the NEO's body. When manifested, NEO's can pass through matter and energy freely, and teleport anywhere they wish; anywhere on the age they are on now, to a different age, or a different world altogether, unimpeded by the walls between worlds and ages. Only the Strongest of NEOs can do this.
A Note on Half Dead...
When a human manages to kill a NEO, the NEO's heart goes back into the In- Between Place, and the other 4 bodies (Mind, Casual, Emotional, and Etheric) remain with the human, manifesting in a wing. Thus the NEO's golden rule; you keep what you kill, which applies literally not only to dealing between themselves, but between humans as well.
Half Dead are strong and faster than normal humans, fly with their one wing, and have a better ability to learn and cast magic. They also have a strong mind connection with the entire Nobody, hearing Nobody thoughts and plans inside their head. Some Half Dead even become psychic. Half dead are advantageous to the Nobody. The Half Dead, since they are both human and Nobody, act as bridges that draw the In-Between Place and the Present world closer together and allow for easier movement of the Nobody between the 2 worlds.
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Consciously, Ellos' mind was very human. An interesting human, an interesting mind, but still, a human mind. Ellos' subconscious was a different story. It was significantly less human, a part of Ellos that was older and more powerful that the 19 year old human girl her conscious mind was; it was a whole new animal. Normally however, this part of her brain was just a door in her mind which she did not unlock, not knowing any better than anyone else what was behind it.
But sleep, however, was a different story. The door between conscious and subconscious was blown open; Questing thoughts from her past and from the Nobody ripped and tore at her dreams, and all the crazy hoodoo Elloses ran amok in her mind. Only in dreams was she not allowed the privacy of self.
The memory manifested itself in a visible metaphor.
Far away, on the edge of the present world, between 2 miniscule, uninhabited worlds, an evil grew. A small amount of darkness and light existed, but it was flawed, incomplete. Instead of striving to achieve balance, at first they fought against each other, trying to destroy each other. Spreading, it came across it's creator. Dying, the man who created the evil became one with it.
And thus the End was born.
Unified, it began to grow, to evolve, to spread. Long tentacles extended to swallow worlds, small at first, so as to be unnoticed by the inhabitants of other worlds. Tentacles rained down darkness and lightning upon the worlds, each drop becoming a mindless or a heartless. It was cautious; It would not underestimate it's enemy a second time, weak and divided though its enemy was.
Suddenly, drawing all it's strength into it's self, a hand trust out of the mass, composed entirely of heartless and mindless. It stretched out across many worlds, all of them falling under its shadow. But it did not notice the fall of these worlds. It's mind was elsewhere.
Finally, It came upon a string of ages. Large, peaceful, lush ages; some deserts, some forests, some covered in seas, all home to advanced, peaceful, happy civilizations, guarded over by their protectors, mysterious beings that could create new ages. Each age they created bore their signature; huge, hollow trees, filled with plant and animal life, the width of large cities and so tall they reached out of the planet's atmosphere; their homes.
The End reached it's hand out and crushed these worlds in it's palm. Trees, cities, mountains, civilizations all crumbled to dust; the crust of the ages sloughed off like so many layers of grime and dirt from a flawless gem. Opening it's hand, only swirling balls of energy remained; the ages' hearts. The huge, hollow trees remained on the surface of the heart; their roots extending deep into the heart, gaining substance from it. From those hearts, an ancient race emerged. They were agents of chaos; their bodies mutable and constantly changing, composed of opposites; flesh and energy, light and darkness, animal and plant. Their bodies took the shape of things that had originally been on their worlds; things from nature, from the imagination, creatures long dead or from myth, from the civilizations on the planet; the only thing they had in common was a large, flower-shaped organ on the side of the head.
They fought bravely, but to no avail. The End simply shook them from his hand, each one of them falling into oblivion.
Except for one. Hanging on from the hand's thumb, was one of the creatures, in the form of a young women, only a few years old than Ellos, with vivid green eyes and gray skin and black hair. Screaming for revenge. Screaming against the End which had destroyed her home. Screaming against the Nobody, who had abandoned them to their fate. Screaming, Screaming...
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The Heartless where dust.
What advanced on us a column of swirling clouds of superfine black dust particles. Constantly shifting and changing, never less each cloud had some definition; they looked like vague forms of Neo Heartless. The Heartless crest was present on their stomach, etched by red particles; their eyes where made of tight clusters of black particles that glowed yellow, like heartless eyes. The swarms didn't move like them though; the heartless drifted over the ground, not moving their feet. The particles seemed the bob up and down, side to side, and in and out, with a sort of thrumming sound, patches of the black dust catching the sun, shimmering silver. Twisting one way, then another.
They where swarming.
As they came closer, they stopped, just outside of gun and arrow range. They seemed to be thinking, examining us; trying to see what they would do next. But that was impossible; heartless didn't think, didn't examine, didn't work together like this.
And yet they were thinking. Suddenly, each swarm of particles seemed to expand and grow larger, creating more particles and then condensing into a solid form similar to a Neo Heartless. They arranged themselves in a ragged line, preparing to charge.
On top of the hill, Kairi and the others where preparing, too. Kairi twirled her quarterstaff in front of her. It was about ¾ her height, hollow, and made of dull metal. I should have brought my pike, Kairi thought. It had a longer reach, and a blade at the end, but it would have been harder for her to control. Holding it out in front of her, she got ready for the heartless' charge. Concentrating, she fought her rising panic. What had happened? How had the heartless changed so much? Kairi fell into position, the void coming easily to her now, a state of relaxed concentration that was necessary to fight well. Glancing on her sides, she looked at the other two warriors next to her.
Auron, a big man in a large red coat, held his gun in front of him, looking down the barrel, aiming at the heartless. He was calm and composed, as always. On her other side stood a tall, busty woman with dark brown hair and sienna brown eyes that almost at times looked red. Holding a boxer's stance, she was dancing back and forth on either foot, hands at the ready. Tifa actually seemed excited by the heartless' presence; she had been complaining about how she hadn't had a good workout since she came to Destiny Islands. Although both very different in terms of personalities, they where both good warriors who had fought against the heartless before.
Stay with them and remember what you learned and you'll be ok, Kairi thought, trying to reassure herself. This would be the first time she would fight against a foe who was trying to harm her, not just one of her friends, training her.
The heartless where in 3 rows, one behind the other. They where looking at the sky, which was now filled of rainclouds, waiting for something.
"They're waiting for the rain." Auron said. "I don't know why, though."
With a tremendous clap of thunder, it started to rain. The heartless advanced, slowly at first, then gaining speed, until they where practically sprinting up the hill, charging head first at Kairi and the others.
"Stupid Heartless; you think they would know better by now." Tifa said, balling her hands into fists.
When the heartless where five feet away, she braced herself, expecting the heartless to slam into her.
But it didn't happen. And then the world slipped out from under her. Literaly.
The front row sank low and spread over the ground underneath them. The mixture of black particles and rain caused the ground to develop a black, slippery coating.
Kairi gasped as her feet shot out from under her, as if the ground under her was ice. On blind instinct, she thrust her quarterstaff into the ground, using it to stay up on her feet.
The rest of the warriors were not so lucky. What had originally been their asset of high ground was now their hindrance. Losing their footing, the others either slid downward into the waiting heartless or fell on the ground to be devoured by the black swarms.
Kairi looked around for Auron and Tifa. She didn't see Auron, but Tifa had fallen on the ground. Watching in horror, Kairi saw Tifa scrambled to get up again, but couldn't; she kept slipping and falling and sliding back down on the black surface. Particles drifted up into her nose, her eyes, and her hair, pouring down in her mouth and choking her. Her skin was turning red and she was screaming as if she was in extreme pain.
Kairi didn't stop to watch what happened next. Channeling the spell down into the black coating through her quaterstaff, she yelled "Gravira!" the coating stopped shifting under her, and began to vibrate, trying to break free of the gravitation forces imposed upon them by Gravira. Kairi ran to Tifa.
Sensing a weak spot in Kairi's spell, the swarm bunched up, forcing it's way to the surface, right in front of Kairi. It tried to form the shape of a neo-heartless, but because of Gravira, couldn't, only able to form a vaguely humanoid form with particles dropping in clouds from it's arms, it's movements slow and heavy.
Kairi didn't hesitate. She hit it on it's knees with her quarterstaff, sweeping it's legs out from under it. Now down on the ground and visibility struggling to keep it's shape, Kairi thrust her quarterstaff down on it's neck, normally a killing blow. But in this case, the head simply dropped off, the particles rejoining those on the ground. She kept on hitting in, tearing of limbs and pieces of it's torso until there was no more left. By this time, the vibrating had gotten so strong she could feel it through her boots. She ran off the Tifa.
Tifa was now on the ground, black from head to toe. Her mouth was a dark hole, particles streaming into it like a river, her breath coming in shallow, ragged gasps. Her eyes had turned from sienna brown to pitch black. Her legs stuck straight out, her whole body stiff and wracked with spasms, in the throes of a seizure. She was dying.
"Oh my god, Tifa!" Kairi rushed over, casting Fire to kill the black particles and casting Curaga on Tifa. Draping Tifa's arm over her neck, she dug the end of her quarterstaff in the ground the help her balance on the slippery surface; the Gravira spell had worn off by now.
Dragging Tifa with her, she thrust the end of her staff into the ground once again. The black coating on the ground was moving, shifting in big waves, trying to knock her off her feet. Above her, lightning flashed, as if in expectation of the spell she was about to cast.
"Thundaga!" Kairi yelled. Lightning from the storm raced downward and through her and her staff, which had become a lightning rod, strengthening her spell. Lightning raced out from the end that was thrust into the ground, through the swarms, causing the tiny particles to lose their shapes and drift off, dying, in the storm's winds. Lightning bolts came down from the sky, vaporizing the swarm heartless as well. Tiny lightning bolts raced over Kairi's body and hair.
Holding on as long as she could, she finally dropped on the ground, exhausted. Every heartless was gone; but everyone save her and Tifa was gone, too. Tifa had regained consciousness beside her, and was coughing up blood, black with heartless particles. Kairi had a feeling that the swarm heartless was doing more to Tifa than just choking her.
"Very, very good. Perhaps you to will make good Mindless after all."
Weak, Kairi looked around for the speaker. Her eyes fell of the hem of a black robe. Traveling upward, she saw a figure, a little on the short side, wrapped in a black raincoat, thin and muscular, holding 2 spiked wheels in either hand. Traveling farther up still, she saw a man's face, with triangular scars under evilly glinting green eyes, just a hint of insanity in them. He had her round face, with her small, well sculpted features, and her red hair.
"But, I might just kill you instead if you tell me where Sora is."
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"Curse the fool boy!" Ellos roared. She was mad, really mad. Strife seemed to be the only one who could piss her off like that, with his infuriating smirk and superior attitude of his. Mad enough to take a twilight walk on the surface of Yul.
Not that you could really call it walking. More like slipping off hot boulders, sliding down volcanic slopes, cutting yourself on volcanic glass, dodging lava bombs, jumping into and out of crevices, and pausing to kill heartless and mindless as more or less a distraction between heavier jobs.
The heartless saw her coming and scattered. Not because they where afraid of her; heartless did not feel emotion, or fear. Heartless had no language; they communicated, to some extent, through how they moved and simple gestures. Ellos, having grown up surrounded by heartless, had learned these motions and their meanings. Eventually they became second nature to her, so that when she was angry, she moved in the same way a heartless did when it wanted others of it's kind to leave her alone.
"Piss off, pip-squeak." She said, kicking a Shadow heartless to the side. Instead of moving away, as it should have done, this heartless disintegrated into a cloud of superfine dust, which divided into 3 groups, cutting off her exit and advancing toward her.
Ellos grinned. She had hoped she would find some of these.
They where called Predator Heartless. Newer than the original heartless, they appeared in Kingdom Hearts about the same time she had arrived. They were the same as any other heartless, except for one thing; a sort of artificial intelligence, called PREDATOR, built into them.
PREDATOR and the normal notion of AI were vastly different, however. In AI, rules are written to cover every very possible contingency. But then the program would make mistakes and new rules would be made to correct the mistakes. Soon the program was huge, and it would be huge and have so many bugs it would fail completely. PREDATOR was different. The approach was bottom up; their where little or no rules, only a defined goal; take hearts and reproduce. The behavior of individuals or the heartless as a whole was not defined. Instead, the behavior emerged on it's own, the result of thousands of small interactions with the it's environment, building on past experience and evolving accordingly.
Specifically, PREDATOR was designed to help define secondary goals to achieve the primary goal modeled after predator/prey dynamics and models. Because of this, it could sometimes have surprising and lifelike results. As they encountered different environments, they evolved into different types of heartless, radically different from the original types. Not only that, but new types where constantly emerging, and old types changing to adapt to their environments.
Ellos watched. These were Swarm heartless. They were made of millions of tiny particles, to the size of around 100 nanometers, which looked like swirling clouds made of superfine, black dust. Ellos pulled out her gun and began to load it.
Something whizzed by her ear, hitting the crevice wall just above her shoulder, stone chip's flying. Ducking instinctively, she turned around and saw a bullet, buried in the stone, made of the same black dust as the swarm heartless.
Tricky little things. Condensing black particles in a small mass and propelling it out of their bodies, they had copied the exact design of the bullets to her gun, probably from memory, and used it as a weapon against it's owner; the irony did not escape Ellos. Before the Swarm heartless could prepare another bullet, she reached into the Charter, plucking out 3 signs, and released them on the heartless. Originally a spell to completely immolate a body into ashes so it could not be used to make a Dead Hand, it completely destroyed the Swarm heartless around her.
Something so simple...
Something so natural as the joy of the kill. After all her darkness, all her pain, all her abuse and neglect, how something so simple and human as killing could bring her happiness and peace. Maybe she had a heart. Even if it was full of darkness and anger.
From the ashes of the swarm rose the heart, like a phoenix from the pyre. Pieces of red and yellow floated up, reforming in a heart, then turning blue and grey. It was a Shade, a dead heart. Drifting off, it headed towards the Heart of Kingdom Hearts, if such a thing existed.
Looking around, she shivered. Night was coming; she needed to get inside before she became a giant Ellos-sicle. Snow began to fall, not made of frozen water, but of dry ice. Fingering the bullet she had pulled from it's surrounding stone, she remembered the events that had brought her here, starting innocently enough with a chess game with gun shells. Walking fast, Ellos headed for a nearby molehole, anger forgotten. If she could live in either hell or Yul, she'd go live in hell. At least the climate was consistent.
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Ellos and Strife were playing chess. Ellos had drawn the board in the dirt on the floor of the Roots' chamber. Unloading shells from her gun and placing them on the second row of the board, Ellos' pawns maintained the shape, if not the form, of their predecessors in the present world, as well as her other chess pieces.
To the casual observer, Strife appeared to be studying his chess pieces intensely, despite the impediment of his blindfold. But in reality he was lost in thought. Unable to see the chess board in great detail, he constructed a mental map of the chess board in his head. Fingering the plasma shell that was to be his pawn, Strife made his first move. Pieces moved on boards both physical and mental.
Ellos moved her own pawn, calling out the move for Strife's benefit. It was silver, not black, despite the rules that the black side must go second. Strife's side of the board also was not white; white never seemed like a good color for Strife, for some reason. Each piece was a different color; silver shells from Ellos' gun, coppery purple-red plasma shells, yellow plastic shotgun rounds, neither side completely white or black. More like real life, that way.
"Describe, in your own and in as few words as possible, the String Theory." Root Kay called from her perch on the wall, where she was reading a book. This is the way in which Ellos was educated. Ellos would be assigned to read a book. After she was finished, they would randomly and without warning quiz her on subjects in the books. Points where rewarded for clarity, quickness, and ability to summarize.
Ellos responded, not taking her eyes from the board. "Quarks are not particles but 2 dimensional vibrating strings of planck length, which is 1 x 10ˆ-66 centimeters"
Strife had no idea where or how they had gotten books from. There where certainly no bookmakers on Yul. This was just one of many things he did not understand about Kingdom Hearts; shades, Nobody, how they provided atmosphere in the Shelter and kept it from getting to hot or cold, the use of the machine in the bottom of the cavern.
Ellos turned to Strife. "You turn." She said, fingering her shotgun shell-turned-bishop.
But Strife was thinking. Snapping from his revere, Strife asked "What are shades?"
"A shade is what a heart becomes after a person dies."
"How do shades get into Kingdom Hearts?"
Ellos looked at Strife. She knew what he was insinuating. "Through the High Road." The High Road was a sort of road that went through all the ages of Kingdom Hearts, built long ago by the original inhabitants of Kingdom Hearts. It was protected from heartless and mindless and from the deadly conditions of the ages it passed through.
"I was thinking" Strife said, "that since the shades enter Kingdom Hearts on this road, it must have some kind of entrance into the Present World. One we can pass through."
Ellos stared at the ground. She was battling two emotions; desire to keep a promise she had made many years ago, and wanting to tell Strife all she knew about the High Road so that she could see the home he had talked so fondly of, Destiny Islands. So she could see the ocean. Finally, Ellos decided on a compromise.
"Don't try. No one knows where the High Road is on this age, and besides, only hearts can pass through it's entrance."
"And you would know that how?" Root May asked. There was deathly silence in the room.
Ellos got up. "I think I'll go topside this evening. Get some stuff." Masking her true feelings and thoughts, she grabbed her jacket and left.
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Adalai: Wootage. This chapter is dedicated to Charon-of-the-depths, who is my first reviewer! And a fine chapter it is; complete with my first real battle scene! Sorry for being so rough on Tifa. Gets knifed by Tifa fans Thanks for your support! Nice to know I have a fan. Zena, show Charon his/her prize! And go read Charon's Story, A light in the Darkness. Vivi the black mage is my favorite character. :D
Zena- and Charon gets... a gallon of mint chocolate chip ice cream! The good kind, not the low carb kind!
Adalai: hey, where's Stinky and Sora? They're not under the endtable anymore!
Goes upstairs and finds Strife playing on the PS2 and Sora on the sofa
Sora: Defence! Whoo Whoo! Defence!
Strife: ok, ok! It was funny the first time, but you didn't have to do it SEVENTEEN TIMES!!!!!!
Adalai: Whatcha doin'?
Sora: well, Strife's playing the Bouncer, and every time he increases his defense, I go...
Adalai: you know what, I just realized I probably don't want to know...
Zena: fine, Sofa, just help Adalai put up the mirror.
Sora: It's Sora.
Zena: fine, Sosa...
Sora: Sora!
Zena: Whatever, just GET!
Zena: Ok, Sora and Ellos are putting up the mirror hears crashing sounds in background Uhhh... check that. While Sora and Ellos replace the mirror, you will have to review. So review please, and get free imaginary ice cream.
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I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you Nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
- Nobody, By Emily Dickenson