YAAAY!!! CH.9!! Whoopee! I can't believe I've actually gotten that
far! Wow! YAAAY!!! Are you guys happy too? Not as many people
review anymore. But that's quite alright. I'm gonna write this and
it's like gonna have over a hundred words! (I hope) Unless I become
uninspired but there's no reason why that would happen. I'm starting
this 1/31/03. YAY!
SM: 2 DAYS!!! TWO DAYS!! WHAT DID YOU GET ME????
Megumi: uhh....you'll have to find out yourself...on you birthday...not now.
SM: PLEASE!! I'll act surprised on my birthday, even if you show it to me now.
Megumi: It's not ready yet. It'll be ready on your b-day.
SM: What? Is it not wrapped?"
Megumi: Yea, that too. AND DON'T GO INTO MY ROOM TRYING TO FIND IT! IF YOU DO THEN EVEN THE FAIRIES IN MY CLOSET WON'T BE ABLE TO HELP YOU!!!
SM: EEP! Note to self: stay away from Megumi's room.
Megumi: If you even get CLOSE I'll have MP set his psychic wrath upon you! MWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
SM: NOOOO!! Not that!! You wouldn't do that to me two days before my birthday, right?
Megumi: Go to my room and find out. *Evil grin*
SM: O.O N-NOO THANKS!!!!
Megumi: That's what I thought.
Disclaimer thingee ma bee: I DO NOT own Digimon OR Sailor Moon. I DO own the story plot, Kive, and also all my other original characters. I ALSO own Shadow Matt. ^^
SM: NOOO, you don't!!!
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If Darkness Could Befriend Chapter 9: Losses of Fire
Matt had finished telling them of the digidestined and they stood there, astonished. (I really expect you guys to know about Matt and the Digimon adventure. If not why are you reading this? Do you even understand? I sure hope so! ^_^)
"You're lying aren't you?" Kive said, snobbishly.
"C'mon! Like I could really make that up on the spot!" Matt argued, putting the crest carefully in his pocket.
"I don't know; you're a very strange dude." Kive said, suspiciously.
"Don't worry, I believe you Matt." Hotaru said, smiling.
"Thanks Hotaru," Matt said, smiling at her. He then turned to Kive. "Hey Kive. I've been wondering the whole time. I assume you killed the monster. I was too busy so I couldn't really see, but I know you must have because if you hadn't then it wouldn't have died. So how'd you do it?" Matt asked. (GASPO! You have NO IDEA how much I want to write Maar...*Sniff, sniff*)
"With this." Kive said, pulling out the small dagger. Matt stared at him, awed. It looked very intricate, dark, and deadly.
"It looks really sharp." Matt murmured reaching out to touch it. Kive pulled it away quickly.
"It is. My brother gave it to me." He said. "It's really important to me." He said, darkly. Matt and Hotaru looked at each other. They both wanted to ask Kive about his brother but they both knew it must be very personal if the small dagger was so important to him. They both shrugged and decided not to ask. Suddenly they heard a bunch of cries coming from the direction of the town. They all blinked. Suddenly Kiyon appeared.
"SOMEONE!!! SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!! THE RULER'S ATTACKING OUR VILLAGE!!! PLEASE! HELP!!" Kiyon cried. Suddenly they were all serious. They all ran over to Kiyon, worry sparking in their eyes.
"Kiyon! What happened?" Hotaru said, voice seeping with dread.
"Hotaru...I thought you were dead. You've been gone for over a day now. And then, about fifteen minutes ago the ruler came and attacked Delra and now it's on fire!" He cried, clinging to her skirt, little crystalline tears falling from his eyes. A day? They had been gone a whole day now? What the heck was going on? And why was the ruler attacking?
"Kiyon, stay here. We'll go back and see what we can do." Hotaru commanded sternly.
"But...but I don't wanna be eaten up bye the ruins!" He cried.
"Don't worry, just don't go on the cross in the center and you should be fine. Oh gosh, please say we can help." She said, rushing away. Kiyon stared after her with worry. Matt patted him on the head.
"We'll do our best to help." Matt said encouragingly and raced after Hotaru. Kive just shrugged and ran after them. Kiyon fidgeted around. He hadn't seen his brother. What if he hadn't gotten away? Kiyon banished the feeling. His brother was fine. He would escape and fine him and everything would be all right again. Or so little Kiyon thought.
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Hotaru, Matt, and Kive stared in shock as flames leapt up from every single building. The vile orange peril was licking at all it could reach, catching it too in its heat. Black pillars of smoke rose everywhere clouding the sky, making their throats feel raspy and parched and clouding their vision and spring tears from their eyes. They searched around, anarchy ringing out everywhere. People were fleeing by the cluster, pushing their way out while the group pushed their way in. Matt glanced around. The heat was reopening his many cuts, causing little pangs of pain here and there, but the biggest pang of pain was knowing that he couldn't really help. It was like a furnace here. Using the ice spell here would be like throwing and ice cube into an oven. Why the heck was this happening? What exactly were they looking for? Hakiyo? Possibly. Hotaru, Matt, and, even though slightly, Kive had all hoped he had gotten out. But it was something else. They were trying to find the ruler. Get revenge for destroying the peace. Try to make him solve the disaster, make him compensate for this heinous dead. There were many reasons.
After several minutes they emerged in the square where Matt and Kive had fought and where Hotaru had helped Hakiyo with the bully. There, in the midst of the fire, stood the ruler, a sinister smirk wiped across his handsome face. Then he caught sight of the soot covered, wheezing, and teary-eyed trio. His smirk disappeared, replaced bye an indifferent stare.
"Give me the crest of Reliability." He commanded sternly. He definitely meant business.
"And if we refuse?" Matt coughed.
"Then I'll take it by force. But I don't see the point. How about you just run along and do whatever fools like you do? Just give me the crest and run along." He mocked.
"No." Hotaru said sternly. He tilted his head at her.
"You don't have it. Don't talk to me." He said to Hotaru while advancing in Matt's direction. Matt stood his ground while he pulled out his sword, radiating with blue light.
"You want to fight me? Want me to cut of your head too?" He retorted, pulling out his deadly blade, a few yards away. Suddenly, in a matter of seconds, he was on Matt, there swords meeting with a clang. Matt stumbled back from the sudden surprise. Suddenly he reached forward and quickly withdrew his arm. Then he jumped back. Matt regained his balance and then stared in anger, seeing that he was boasting the bottomless bag.
"GIVE IT!" Matt shouted.
"No. Not until I get what I want." He said icily while reaching his hand into the bag. He touched something and flinched. He wrapped his hand around it and pulled it up, grimacing from the pain. It seemed to Matt that he was being burned. He opened his hand once it was back, revealing the crest. Suddenly it flashed with a brilliant silver light. The ruler shielded his eyes and dropped the crest and bag, stifling a shout. Matt blinked. It didn't seem to affect him. He stared at the ruler as the light died away. In the glove he had been holding the crest it had apparently burned through, because Matt could see the singed edge cloth of the glove that peeled away from raw flesh. The ruler glared at crest in pure revulsion, as if trying to get it o tremble in fear. He shot a quick, powerful lightning spell at it, but as the smoke cleared and the crest was undamaged. He continued to stare at it.
"Stupid thing. I guess I'll have to wait until they're all together." He snarled bitterly. Then his gazed shifted to Matt and Hotaru, completely ignoring Kive. " Collect them for me, fools, and I shall collect them when the time comes." He directed in pure menace. "It does not make a difference to me when I get them, but sooner or later I will. That means you live for now. Once you serve me no more purpose I'll be sure to kill you, slow and painfully. You'll never be able to defeat me anyways."
"We'll see about that! We'll show you! We'll defeat you and then we'll see who's mocking who then!" Hotaru shouted. The whole time Kive stayed peculiarly quiet, which was abnormal with him, being as talkative as he was.
"Answer me one thing." Matt spoke up. "Why did you do this?"
"Why? Why? Hah." He quipped. "Do you nothing of power? This pitiful village is in my territory, thus I can do whatever I please with it. And anyways, it served its purpose. To draw you to it when I destroyed it. That was all it was good for to me. It was a useless, rebelling little town filled with rats and other such pests you insist on calling people. Good enough for you?" He said. Matt opened his mouth to speak but he was suddenly gone. Matt glared at the spot he stood. All of a sudden a smoldering beam from the cottage next to them fell down in front of them.
"C'mon, Let's go." Kive said, awoken from his period of silence. He turned on his heals and fled. Hotaru glanced back and did the same. Matt ran over and grabbed the bag and crest and held them. The crest definitely didn't burn him. Then he snapped out of his thoughts, realizing the fire was spreading quicker at the ruler's leave. He jumped back over the fiery beam and raced after Hotaru and Kive.
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It had been a whole day. All of the surviving villagers that the trio knew had fled to other villages that were on good terms with the ruler, fearing that the events of the day before would be repeated. Many had been in tears. Many had lost loved ones, precious possessions, and fortune. Every single one had lost their home. It all rested there in piles of ashes. Matt, Hotaru and Kive went back to Kiyon and found that he had not found his brother. They were all grieving the loss. The loss of Hakiyo, the loss of Delra, and just all the loss in general. Hotaru now had more hatred towards the ruler than he had when she first heard of him. He had taken many innocent lives in cold blood for the sake of drawing them out. They could all not help feeling slightly guilty. Hotaru vowed then and there that she would collect all the crests and show the ruler what she could do, for the sake of the people who's lives had been lost or destroyed. Matt had been abnormally silent since then and so had Kive. Hotaru couldn't blame them. She hadn't been in much of a talking mood herself.
"Kiyon?" She said quietly.
"Yea?" He asked, innocent voice tainted with pain.
"I don't know if your brother's coming back. If you'd like you can go with us." She said, smiling.
"Yeah, kiddo. We'll take care of you. Your brother probably escaped. He's cool like that! For now, just hang with us and maybe we'll come across him on our journey. And if we don't I promise I'll help search after this is all done. And believe me, we're going to make it through this, so when we do I'll help search for your brother if we haven't found him already. I refuse to leave without doing that." Matt said with fake hope, finally speaking for the first time this morning. His brotherly instincts had kicked in. Anyways, Hakiyo had been as close to a buddy as Matt suspected he'd let anyone get. He felt it as a duty. Kiyon stared up at Matt with hope shining in his blue eyes. He looked so different from his brother, Hakiyo. The kid had blue eyes and messy blonde hair, which so reminded Matt of his own little brother, Takeru. That settled it. He would help take care of Kiyon for his brother, in case he ever returned
"Yeah! What Matt said. We'll take care of you until you find brother!" She said, falsely happy. Kiyon smiled at her and hugged her.
"What about the scary guy? He isn't gonna eat me, is he?" Kiyon asked, eying Kive.
"Don't worry kid. I don't plan on eating you." Kive teased, finally talking, but still oddly serious. Kiyon frowned at him. Kive made a face at him, breaking the seriousness. Kiyon's frown turned into a smile instantly. And so a new addition was added to their little renegade group.
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The ruler rubbed his hands painfully. The stupid crest had burned him. He looked at the burn. It still hurt, but it wasn't serious. He thought to the crew. He despised Matt, just for opposing him so daringly. The boy had too much courage. He'd kill him first once they collected all the crests. Hotaru, the girl had lots of darkness. He could use her, though he didn't like her at all. She could lead to Matt's downfall, and once he was rid of Matt he would then, in turn, kill her. The other boy, he didn't know. He had remained oddly silent. What would he do with him? He'd probably kill him as well. He seemed oddly familiar though. He'd have to find out more about him. He'd find out about all of them. He began to plot. He had an idea. Something that would lead to their downfall. He laughed. They thought they could stand up against him. They were all pitiful fools. He'd learn about them, then he'd crush them like bugs and he had just the plan to do it.
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Soo...was it okay? Sort of short, I know. There wasn't too much to do with this chapter thus there is not much. But I refuse to post this until Lynn and Sairi review so I'm still waiting. If they have read it their reviews aren't showing up. Oh well. I'm bored. I need to go to sleep. But first I'm gonna read a little of Kel's series. Read Tamora Peirce. It's GOOD!! My favorite so far was Lioness Quartet! YOU RULE ALANNA! Okay...sorry. Please read Fate's Games! And please tell me what you think about all the character and stuff. Please? And I don't mind long reviews! ^_^ they are actually quite fun. I'm scared my mom will catch me. I was supposed to go off at 9:30 and it's like 10:00. Oh well. Please review! I love hearing all your comments! Please tell me what you think! Oh...if you like Tamora Peirce too you should read my friend's fan fiction. She writes super good! Her account is ThePenMage...okay? OKAY!!! She like has over 300 reviews! WOW!! I NEVER expect to get that far. NYAAAA!
SM: 2 DAYS!!! TWO DAYS!! WHAT DID YOU GET ME????
Megumi: uhh....you'll have to find out yourself...on you birthday...not now.
SM: PLEASE!! I'll act surprised on my birthday, even if you show it to me now.
Megumi: It's not ready yet. It'll be ready on your b-day.
SM: What? Is it not wrapped?"
Megumi: Yea, that too. AND DON'T GO INTO MY ROOM TRYING TO FIND IT! IF YOU DO THEN EVEN THE FAIRIES IN MY CLOSET WON'T BE ABLE TO HELP YOU!!!
SM: EEP! Note to self: stay away from Megumi's room.
Megumi: If you even get CLOSE I'll have MP set his psychic wrath upon you! MWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
SM: NOOOO!! Not that!! You wouldn't do that to me two days before my birthday, right?
Megumi: Go to my room and find out. *Evil grin*
SM: O.O N-NOO THANKS!!!!
Megumi: That's what I thought.
Disclaimer thingee ma bee: I DO NOT own Digimon OR Sailor Moon. I DO own the story plot, Kive, and also all my other original characters. I ALSO own Shadow Matt. ^^
SM: NOOO, you don't!!!
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If Darkness Could Befriend Chapter 9: Losses of Fire
Matt had finished telling them of the digidestined and they stood there, astonished. (I really expect you guys to know about Matt and the Digimon adventure. If not why are you reading this? Do you even understand? I sure hope so! ^_^)
"You're lying aren't you?" Kive said, snobbishly.
"C'mon! Like I could really make that up on the spot!" Matt argued, putting the crest carefully in his pocket.
"I don't know; you're a very strange dude." Kive said, suspiciously.
"Don't worry, I believe you Matt." Hotaru said, smiling.
"Thanks Hotaru," Matt said, smiling at her. He then turned to Kive. "Hey Kive. I've been wondering the whole time. I assume you killed the monster. I was too busy so I couldn't really see, but I know you must have because if you hadn't then it wouldn't have died. So how'd you do it?" Matt asked. (GASPO! You have NO IDEA how much I want to write Maar...*Sniff, sniff*)
"With this." Kive said, pulling out the small dagger. Matt stared at him, awed. It looked very intricate, dark, and deadly.
"It looks really sharp." Matt murmured reaching out to touch it. Kive pulled it away quickly.
"It is. My brother gave it to me." He said. "It's really important to me." He said, darkly. Matt and Hotaru looked at each other. They both wanted to ask Kive about his brother but they both knew it must be very personal if the small dagger was so important to him. They both shrugged and decided not to ask. Suddenly they heard a bunch of cries coming from the direction of the town. They all blinked. Suddenly Kiyon appeared.
"SOMEONE!!! SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!! THE RULER'S ATTACKING OUR VILLAGE!!! PLEASE! HELP!!" Kiyon cried. Suddenly they were all serious. They all ran over to Kiyon, worry sparking in their eyes.
"Kiyon! What happened?" Hotaru said, voice seeping with dread.
"Hotaru...I thought you were dead. You've been gone for over a day now. And then, about fifteen minutes ago the ruler came and attacked Delra and now it's on fire!" He cried, clinging to her skirt, little crystalline tears falling from his eyes. A day? They had been gone a whole day now? What the heck was going on? And why was the ruler attacking?
"Kiyon, stay here. We'll go back and see what we can do." Hotaru commanded sternly.
"But...but I don't wanna be eaten up bye the ruins!" He cried.
"Don't worry, just don't go on the cross in the center and you should be fine. Oh gosh, please say we can help." She said, rushing away. Kiyon stared after her with worry. Matt patted him on the head.
"We'll do our best to help." Matt said encouragingly and raced after Hotaru. Kive just shrugged and ran after them. Kiyon fidgeted around. He hadn't seen his brother. What if he hadn't gotten away? Kiyon banished the feeling. His brother was fine. He would escape and fine him and everything would be all right again. Or so little Kiyon thought.
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Hotaru, Matt, and Kive stared in shock as flames leapt up from every single building. The vile orange peril was licking at all it could reach, catching it too in its heat. Black pillars of smoke rose everywhere clouding the sky, making their throats feel raspy and parched and clouding their vision and spring tears from their eyes. They searched around, anarchy ringing out everywhere. People were fleeing by the cluster, pushing their way out while the group pushed their way in. Matt glanced around. The heat was reopening his many cuts, causing little pangs of pain here and there, but the biggest pang of pain was knowing that he couldn't really help. It was like a furnace here. Using the ice spell here would be like throwing and ice cube into an oven. Why the heck was this happening? What exactly were they looking for? Hakiyo? Possibly. Hotaru, Matt, and, even though slightly, Kive had all hoped he had gotten out. But it was something else. They were trying to find the ruler. Get revenge for destroying the peace. Try to make him solve the disaster, make him compensate for this heinous dead. There were many reasons.
After several minutes they emerged in the square where Matt and Kive had fought and where Hotaru had helped Hakiyo with the bully. There, in the midst of the fire, stood the ruler, a sinister smirk wiped across his handsome face. Then he caught sight of the soot covered, wheezing, and teary-eyed trio. His smirk disappeared, replaced bye an indifferent stare.
"Give me the crest of Reliability." He commanded sternly. He definitely meant business.
"And if we refuse?" Matt coughed.
"Then I'll take it by force. But I don't see the point. How about you just run along and do whatever fools like you do? Just give me the crest and run along." He mocked.
"No." Hotaru said sternly. He tilted his head at her.
"You don't have it. Don't talk to me." He said to Hotaru while advancing in Matt's direction. Matt stood his ground while he pulled out his sword, radiating with blue light.
"You want to fight me? Want me to cut of your head too?" He retorted, pulling out his deadly blade, a few yards away. Suddenly, in a matter of seconds, he was on Matt, there swords meeting with a clang. Matt stumbled back from the sudden surprise. Suddenly he reached forward and quickly withdrew his arm. Then he jumped back. Matt regained his balance and then stared in anger, seeing that he was boasting the bottomless bag.
"GIVE IT!" Matt shouted.
"No. Not until I get what I want." He said icily while reaching his hand into the bag. He touched something and flinched. He wrapped his hand around it and pulled it up, grimacing from the pain. It seemed to Matt that he was being burned. He opened his hand once it was back, revealing the crest. Suddenly it flashed with a brilliant silver light. The ruler shielded his eyes and dropped the crest and bag, stifling a shout. Matt blinked. It didn't seem to affect him. He stared at the ruler as the light died away. In the glove he had been holding the crest it had apparently burned through, because Matt could see the singed edge cloth of the glove that peeled away from raw flesh. The ruler glared at crest in pure revulsion, as if trying to get it o tremble in fear. He shot a quick, powerful lightning spell at it, but as the smoke cleared and the crest was undamaged. He continued to stare at it.
"Stupid thing. I guess I'll have to wait until they're all together." He snarled bitterly. Then his gazed shifted to Matt and Hotaru, completely ignoring Kive. " Collect them for me, fools, and I shall collect them when the time comes." He directed in pure menace. "It does not make a difference to me when I get them, but sooner or later I will. That means you live for now. Once you serve me no more purpose I'll be sure to kill you, slow and painfully. You'll never be able to defeat me anyways."
"We'll see about that! We'll show you! We'll defeat you and then we'll see who's mocking who then!" Hotaru shouted. The whole time Kive stayed peculiarly quiet, which was abnormal with him, being as talkative as he was.
"Answer me one thing." Matt spoke up. "Why did you do this?"
"Why? Why? Hah." He quipped. "Do you nothing of power? This pitiful village is in my territory, thus I can do whatever I please with it. And anyways, it served its purpose. To draw you to it when I destroyed it. That was all it was good for to me. It was a useless, rebelling little town filled with rats and other such pests you insist on calling people. Good enough for you?" He said. Matt opened his mouth to speak but he was suddenly gone. Matt glared at the spot he stood. All of a sudden a smoldering beam from the cottage next to them fell down in front of them.
"C'mon, Let's go." Kive said, awoken from his period of silence. He turned on his heals and fled. Hotaru glanced back and did the same. Matt ran over and grabbed the bag and crest and held them. The crest definitely didn't burn him. Then he snapped out of his thoughts, realizing the fire was spreading quicker at the ruler's leave. He jumped back over the fiery beam and raced after Hotaru and Kive.
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It had been a whole day. All of the surviving villagers that the trio knew had fled to other villages that were on good terms with the ruler, fearing that the events of the day before would be repeated. Many had been in tears. Many had lost loved ones, precious possessions, and fortune. Every single one had lost their home. It all rested there in piles of ashes. Matt, Hotaru and Kive went back to Kiyon and found that he had not found his brother. They were all grieving the loss. The loss of Hakiyo, the loss of Delra, and just all the loss in general. Hotaru now had more hatred towards the ruler than he had when she first heard of him. He had taken many innocent lives in cold blood for the sake of drawing them out. They could all not help feeling slightly guilty. Hotaru vowed then and there that she would collect all the crests and show the ruler what she could do, for the sake of the people who's lives had been lost or destroyed. Matt had been abnormally silent since then and so had Kive. Hotaru couldn't blame them. She hadn't been in much of a talking mood herself.
"Kiyon?" She said quietly.
"Yea?" He asked, innocent voice tainted with pain.
"I don't know if your brother's coming back. If you'd like you can go with us." She said, smiling.
"Yeah, kiddo. We'll take care of you. Your brother probably escaped. He's cool like that! For now, just hang with us and maybe we'll come across him on our journey. And if we don't I promise I'll help search after this is all done. And believe me, we're going to make it through this, so when we do I'll help search for your brother if we haven't found him already. I refuse to leave without doing that." Matt said with fake hope, finally speaking for the first time this morning. His brotherly instincts had kicked in. Anyways, Hakiyo had been as close to a buddy as Matt suspected he'd let anyone get. He felt it as a duty. Kiyon stared up at Matt with hope shining in his blue eyes. He looked so different from his brother, Hakiyo. The kid had blue eyes and messy blonde hair, which so reminded Matt of his own little brother, Takeru. That settled it. He would help take care of Kiyon for his brother, in case he ever returned
"Yeah! What Matt said. We'll take care of you until you find brother!" She said, falsely happy. Kiyon smiled at her and hugged her.
"What about the scary guy? He isn't gonna eat me, is he?" Kiyon asked, eying Kive.
"Don't worry kid. I don't plan on eating you." Kive teased, finally talking, but still oddly serious. Kiyon frowned at him. Kive made a face at him, breaking the seriousness. Kiyon's frown turned into a smile instantly. And so a new addition was added to their little renegade group.
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The ruler rubbed his hands painfully. The stupid crest had burned him. He looked at the burn. It still hurt, but it wasn't serious. He thought to the crew. He despised Matt, just for opposing him so daringly. The boy had too much courage. He'd kill him first once they collected all the crests. Hotaru, the girl had lots of darkness. He could use her, though he didn't like her at all. She could lead to Matt's downfall, and once he was rid of Matt he would then, in turn, kill her. The other boy, he didn't know. He had remained oddly silent. What would he do with him? He'd probably kill him as well. He seemed oddly familiar though. He'd have to find out more about him. He'd find out about all of them. He began to plot. He had an idea. Something that would lead to their downfall. He laughed. They thought they could stand up against him. They were all pitiful fools. He'd learn about them, then he'd crush them like bugs and he had just the plan to do it.
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Soo...was it okay? Sort of short, I know. There wasn't too much to do with this chapter thus there is not much. But I refuse to post this until Lynn and Sairi review so I'm still waiting. If they have read it their reviews aren't showing up. Oh well. I'm bored. I need to go to sleep. But first I'm gonna read a little of Kel's series. Read Tamora Peirce. It's GOOD!! My favorite so far was Lioness Quartet! YOU RULE ALANNA! Okay...sorry. Please read Fate's Games! And please tell me what you think about all the character and stuff. Please? And I don't mind long reviews! ^_^ they are actually quite fun. I'm scared my mom will catch me. I was supposed to go off at 9:30 and it's like 10:00. Oh well. Please review! I love hearing all your comments! Please tell me what you think! Oh...if you like Tamora Peirce too you should read my friend's fan fiction. She writes super good! Her account is ThePenMage...okay? OKAY!!! She like has over 300 reviews! WOW!! I NEVER expect to get that far. NYAAAA!