"Isn't this wonderful? So warm and wonderful?" said Saej in a sarcastic tone. He was not only complaining about the feelings, but also literally the warmness of the room.
"Can't you just
shut up for one second?" asked Gaaz, irritatedly, sipping his
hot chocolate. "I'm only out like this once in a while!"
"I'll
say whatever I want!" screamed Saej back.
"Or
maybe..." said Verath, rising up from behind them, his eye
twitching. "YOU COULD BOTH SHUT UP!"
He slammed their
heads together as he said this. There was a resounding bang, hot
chocolate spilled and mixed with ice water, and Saej and Gaaz shut
up. Saej stuck his tongue, and a finger, out at Verath. Xelfan12 and
Xelkitti were laughing.
"geez. For three beings who have to
share one body, you guys seem like you hate each other." Said
Xelfan12. "Well, when we split apart," started Verath.
"We
each take some traits from Verath the Collective," continued
Saej.
"And sometimes those traits dissagree with each other."
finished Gaaz.
"Oh,so is that why Verath contradicts himself
so often?" asked Xelkitti, taking a large swig of hot chocolate,
as Xelfan12 put his hand over his mouth, laughing.
"If we
were Verath the collective," started Verath.
"We would
definitely," continued Saej.
"Have kicked your ass for
that comment." finished Gaaz. Xelfan12 burst out laughing.
"I
don't see what's so funny." Xelkitti said to him. "I think
that the way-"
She was cut off by Xelfan12, who finished.
"they talk is very creepy." He burst out laughing again,
but Xelkitti just sweatdropped, and inched away from him. What was in
his hot chocolate?
"Oh yeah!" she said, talking to
Verath. "I have something to ask you. I wanted to know how you-"
Verath cut her off, and finished. "How I managed to be
Ryuzaku, mozaku, and human?" Xelkitti gave a disturbed nod. It
was bad enough that the three of them finished each others sentences,
but this was freaking her out.
"Uhhhh, do you mind letting
people finish their own sentences? This goes for all of you."
she looked at Saej and Gaaz, who gave her the thumbs up, although she
severely doubted that they would follow that rule.
"Very,"
started Verath.
"Well," continued Saej.
"Then,"
finished Gaaz. Xelkitti just looked at them. They all smiled in
unison, a big, goofy, 'am I annoying, or what?' smile. The smile
quickly turned into bleeding holes after Xelkitti punched all
three.
"Damn! If you keep doing that, I'm gonna have to eat
through a tube!" said Verath, counting his teeth, and stroking
his jaw, checking for damage.
"Whoops. Sorry.' said Xelkitti,
in a not-sincere-at-all voice.
"Well, as I nearly just bit
off my tongue, I'd better start before it falls off." said
Verath, to Xelkitti's alarm. "Just kidding!" he said, as he
caught another one of Xelkitti's punch. Apparently, this one was the
most like Verath in terms of annoying. "Now, seriously. I'm
starting. And this concerns all of you, so listen. Wait, not you Saej
and Gaaz. Go do something else. you know this already." Saej and
gaaz walked over to the giant jelly bean dispenser, and immediately
began trying to forcefeed each other black liquorice jellies, the
closest thing to death you will ever taste.
"Well, what I'm
going to tell you is from Verath the Collective's subconcious."
Verath said, to an increasingly interested Xelfan12 and Xelkitti.
"When we are all fused, that is where we lie, so we have access
to this knowledge when we are seperate." Xelkitti and Xelfan12
looked at each other for a second, worked it out silently, and nodded
happily. "As you already know, I, the human part, was created
out of the sheer will to live in one whole piece. However, the
Ryuzaku and Mozaku parts were not just created for any purpose. They
were created specifically for this experiment, in which it would be
determined whether or not a ryuzaku and mozaku could live conjoined.
It was to be a test experiment. A prototype of sorts."
"You're
a prototype? That sucks!" said Xelfan12, in an out of character
out burst. Xelkitti slapped her hand against her face, then slapped
the back of Xelfan12's head. "Geez. But seriously. Aren't
prototypes the ones with all the bugs that they work out in later
models?"
"Yes, well, it usually does suck being a
prototype," Verath continued. "But sometimes you get some
special features the mass produced models can't have. unfortunately,
we, meaning Verath the collective, were dropped as soon as it was
seen that we could not hold together very well. Fortunately for us,
that wonderful Mozaku, Xellos put us to use."
"I agree!"
said Xelfan12, hardily. "Xellos is awesome!"
"Yeah,
he gave us jobs, too." said Xelkitti. just then, several black
jelly beans hit her head. She turned around slowly, and saw Saej and
Gaaz, frozen in a fighting position, but wide-eyed in fear of what
they'd just done. "You guys just don't get it! Do you like being
punched or something?" Xelkitti asked, as she turned their
faces into bleeding masks of their former selves. She sat down again,
and motioned for Verath to continue.
"Yes, well," he said.
"I also serve as a peacekeeper for these two. They're fine and
upstanding Mozaku and Ryuzaku on their own, but together-" Saej
and Gaaz flew by, Saej attempting to give Gaaz a wedgie, and Gaaz
attempting to give Saej a wet willy. "well, you see what I mean.
Anyway, that's about it. unless, of course, you want to hear the
important stuff." Xelfan12 sat up attentively, as he nodded his
head, in unison with Xelkitti's.
"Well, ok..." said
Verath. "but some of this may disturb you. Well, first of all,
I'm guessing you want to know who it was that performed this
experiment?" asked Verath. Xelkitti and Xelfan12 nodded eagerly,
for about the 100th time in half an hour. "Well, it was actually
two people. One of them, you should know very well. The other, you
should have at least heard of."
Xelkitti and Xelfan12 got
closer to Verath. "They go by the names of Luna Inverse and
Beastmaster Zelas." Xelkitti and Xelfan12 moved backwards in
shock.
"No way, we would've known!" said Xelkitti.
"Xellos would have-"
"Uhhh, think about it,
Xelkitti." said Xelfan12. "Remember Lord Xellos's trademark
line?"
"Oh yeah," she said.
"Now, to the
part about you two." said Verath, much to Xelkitti's and
Xelfan12's surprise.
"Huh? I thought this was about you!"
said Xelfan12.
"Well, it branches off. And you two probably
don't know this, so you might as well listen. As you know, Xellos is
a general and a priest. Well, Mozaku don't just get a title. They're
designed for it. Apparently, the experiment Zelas performed lead to
more questions, such as what would happen if two mozaku were fused?
Simple. In a word, Xellos."
"Really? you mean she used
her first try at it as her general priest?" asked
Xelfan12.
"Isn't that kind of reckless?" asked
Xelkitti.
"No, because she didn't. You see, she did have a
first try, and it was not Xellos. However, the Mozaku didn't stay
together as long as she wanted them to, so she dumped them. However,
they retained their powers."
"And this has to do
with... Whoa. Shit. You're lying." said Xelkitti, catching
on.
"No, I'm not. You two were the prototype for a general
priest. You are practically the brother and sister of Xellos, and on
top of all that, you each have the power of a general and a priest
lying dormant inside you."
Xelkitti and Xelfan12 looked
shocked. Was all this true? Or was this Verath really just some
crackpot human they'd picked off the streets for a host? He sounded
truthful.
"Well," continued Verath, as if nothing
earth-shattering had been discussed. "We should really continue
planning, guys. Guys?" Xelfan12 and Xelkitti were too busy
staring at a blank wall, trying to work out what had just been
discussed to hear anything Verath said.
"Oh well. I warned
them..." he muttered to himself, as he motioned for Gaaz and
Saej to sit down.
