A/N: Sorry for the late update, I've got pre carpal tunnel sydrome so I've been trying to stay off the computer less because it hurts my whole right arm from the wrist to the shoulder to go on. Sniff. Hope you enjoy the saving chapter! WILL THEY BE REUNITED? Gasp, gasp, gasp.
Bandit's Hideout, Mystery Room
"Ah, Gippal…such an unpleasant surprise to see you," Saleed growled in a greasy voice. Gippal narrowed his eye more, focusing all his hatred at the man Saleed.
"Give me Rikku," he finally spat, relieved to see that the three Al Bhed traitors were staying well enough away from him. But Saleed continued to stand where he was, arms crossed and eyes filled with madness.
"Ah, trying to be brave, Little Boy?" he cackled, causing Gippal's left hand to tremble slightly. How was it that Saleed made him feel small and insignificant all over again? Because he's been haunting you for your whole life, doofus, thought his brain fiercely. Shoot him!
"Take a look around the room, Gippal. See if you can find and take your precious Rikku."
Gippal stared at Saleed for a few more moments, afraid to leave his gaze incase he tried to murder him. But Gippal couldn't stare at him forever. Damnit, I could use two eyes right now, he thought numbly, his one flicking around the room carefully.
It was a small, circular room. The walls were made of a sheet metal, as well as the walls and ceiling. There were no windows, only three silver uncomfortable chairs on one wall, and a silver table made for something like Frankenstein in the middle. A large machina sat beside the table, wires and gears and all innards of it clearly visible, as well as all weaknesses. It reached up to almost the ceiling, when it finally turned at a 90-degree angle with something like a tip of a giant pen on the end. It looked like it could rotate, for it was pointed at an odd 45 or so degree angle down at the metal table. Gippal squinted up at it, trying to see its use. But nothing came to mind. Nothing at all.
"Do you see her?"
Gippal was silent. He couldn't stand the taunting in Saleed's voice, and he was afraid he might snap if he spoke. But did that matter? He cocked his gun at Saleed's face. "I could kill you. You're no importance to me. I'm sure these three fine gentlemen won't mind telling me where Rikku is," Gippal said coolly, though inside his stomach was starting to flop around uselessly. Where could Rikku be?
The laugh that came from Saleed did not ease Gippal's mind. "These men know nothing. They're the monkey's, the get down and dirty men. If you want to find your girlfriend, you'll need me."
Gippal's hands started to shake then, more so from fury then fright. That gloating look on Saleed's face just made the experience all the more aggravating. Filthy, slimy, evil git. He ruined Gippal's life as a child, and now he was going to ruin it as an adult. He was surprised at how well he was keeping his temper in.
"You can put down the gun, Gippal."
Gippal glared at Saleed, who glared back. "Put it down, Gippal," Saleed hissed, his voice more low and menacing then ever. Gippal unwillingly put it in its holster around his belt, feeling like a little wooden puppet. Always doing as he said, always obeying…but not for long.
"There. You're not dead. Now tell me where she is," Gippal snapped.
"Ah, I'm afraid I can't do that. I need her for my…test."
"Test? You mean experiment?" Gippal snarled, taking one threatening step closer. A little voice in the back of his head was screaming, "stop! Stop! You're going to get us all killed!" but he didn't listen.
"I guess you could call it that. But whatever the title, it all means the same."
Gippal could tell he was on the verge of learning why Saleed wanted Rikku. "Why do you want her, Saleed?" he asked rather bluntly. "What's so important about her that you killed my parents in order to get someone close to Rikku to get information from? Why?"
Saleed merely chuckled. "Gippal, you have been known to escape from death. I can't trust such a deadly secret with you. No, not even these three monkeys know what she's for."
Gippal risked a glance over at Sunny, Liam, and Bilak, who all looked down at the floor uncomfortably. Except for Sunny.
"Sir, I think we do deserve a chance to know. After all, because of us she's here…"
"Silence!" Saleed barked. Silence immediately ensued, and Gippal ran a hand through his hair.
"Look, this is all fun and dandy, but where's Rikku?" He glared at Saleed, who merely shifted his arms.
"Fool. Sometimes they can be right under your nose."
Out of instinct, Gippal looked down at the floor, expecting Rikku to pop up in some kind of gypsy dress or something. But nothing came.
"Tricked you," Saleed whispered menacingly. Something started to whirr from above Gippal. He looked up, shocked, to see something not as pleasant as the floor.
………
"ATHILDA! Oh thank heavens you arrived!"
Athilda ran straight for the woman, clutching her hands on Karren's shoulders as she sobbed into her neck. Karren was crying too, but started to coo at Athilda to calm down as she had always done when they were younger.
Karen was pale and fragile, small for her size. Her eyes were an icy blue and her hair was platinum blond, seemingly luminescent. Her clothes were tattered and her natural beauty was hidden behind the make up of bruises over her skin. But Athilda didn't care. Her sister was back. She was back with her sister.
She had her family.
"Oh Karren, I thought I would never see you again…I thought they had killed you…"
Karren hugged Athilda tightly, her voice muffled by the material of Athilda's shirt on her shoulder.
"They were going to…once Rikku was killed, they were going to kill me too. Lady Rikku tried to save me, but her legs weren't used to movement…she fell…" Karren pulled away from her sister and looked into her eyes lovingly.
"Athilda, you came back…"
Athilda grinned shakily at her older sister. "Where're the keys? I'll try to get you out…"
"They took them," Karren said grimly. "Besides, it doesn't matter. This thing," she pointed to the metal band around her ankle, "doesn't have a keyhole anyway. So I don't see…" She stopped talking as Athilda stood up, her eyes squinted in thought. She walked over to the peg in the wall similar to Rikku's. She looked at it carefully, and then let out a small "aha."
"There's a keyhole on the peg that disengages it from the chain. You still have the metal band around your ankle until we could get it removed professionally…"
"But they took the keys!" Karren cried, her bottom lip trembling. She then grabbed for her younger sister's leg.
"Athilda, please don't leave me…please don't abandon me here with them…" She was sobbing now, and Athilda bent down to stroke her hair gently.
"Karren, don't worry. I promise not to leave you. I'll save you; I'll never abandon you, even if they lock me up. I've faced Saleed, I have magic he needed. I can use that to my advantage…" Athilda straightened up. "But first things first. I need the keys."
"But they – "
Athilda jiggled the key ring in her hands. "Don't have them," Athilda finished, grinning impishly as she stuck the key in the peg. The chain immediately collapsed from the peg, and Karren stood up shakily.
"Take your time," Athilda scolded. "You said Lady Rikku fell because she wasn't used to walking, and I don't want that happening to you either. Besides, I'm sure Sir Gippal can take care of himself."
………
Gippal bounded across the circular room, his ears burning from the laughs and hoots from Saleed and the trio of traitors. The giant machina that had once looked so still and solid had grown mechanical legs, and its pen shaped top was now chasing Gippal around the room. At first he was only afraid of the enormous feet that could crush him, and the jabbing pen top that bobbed down occasionally like a bird pecking for food. But that wasn't it.
It started to shoot lasers.
And the laser wasn't normal either. It was a blue, electric sort of substance, something so familiar to Gippal, and yet he couldn't place it.
And that wasn't the worst of it.
"Run Gippal!" cried a laughing Saleed. His laugh was no better than his normal, hoarse voice. "She might just kill you!"
"Yea, your girlfriend's finally turned her back on you!"
"Did you cheat on her Gippal? Did ya?"
"Um…ya!"
Gippal gulped, closing his one eye tight for a moment as he took two more swift steps. It was Rikku. Rikku was driving the machina. He hadn't seen her at first, because the top of the machina had been all the way up at the ceiling, which was enormously high. But there she was, sitting just behind the pen needle tip, chasing him without a word. Gippal had been in shock at first, only staring at her. And she only stared back. Nothing. Her face had showed no expression and her body moved almost mechanically. It was quite obvious something was controlling her. But what?
Gippal dove underneath the metal lab table for momentary protection. His breath was starting to run short, and the machina couldn't crush the table for a few minutes.
"SALEED!" Gippal roared, all fear of his enemy forgotten. Only anger and hurt surged through him now. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO RIKKU?"
"Absolutely nothing," Saleed called back calmly above the smashing and thrashing of the machina as it slowly wore down the metal table. "She did it of her own free will."
"OBVIOUSLY SHE DIDN'T!" Gippal shouted, eye bulging. "I'M NO IDIOT! WHAT DID YOU DO?"
Gippal started back as the table was crunched down on one half, right where his head had been moments ago. His stomach started to clench and unclench. There was no way to get out of this. He was trapped, and he would die unless he figured out what was going on. More crunching and thumping. And then he heard a buzzing. He glanced up to see the blue laser starting to cut through the table. He immediately scrambled back on his feet and the palms of his hands. "Not the hair!" he called at the laser, but it didn't seem to notice. Gippal stood up and scampered over to one of the metal chairs, which he crouched helplessly behind. "Think, think, think…" he muttered, rocking back and forth on his heels. The buzzing and thumping in the background told him the machina was coming closer. "The laser, what is it?"
"He told me to close my eyes and concentrate, and so I did, and I could feel my magic doing something, but I didn't know what. Then he told me to open my eyes, and that was it. I don't know what my magic had done…"
"Oh Yevon," Gippal breathed. "That laser is Athilda's magic!" Now, he didn't know exactly how it had happened, or if it was even possible, but he decided to accept the fact. But how, no, why was Rikku driving? What kind of spell had they put on her? And Gippal was pretty sure this wasn't the sort of thing Saleed wanted Rikku for. There was something else…
Crunch.
Gippal yelped as the chair smashed down in front of him, causing the foot of the machina to be staring him right in the eye. Well, sort of. Then Gippal felt something overpowering him. Something he wasn't used to. Sure, Gippal got angry, and sure, Gippal sometimes jumped to conclusions, but when you think about it, he wasn't that impulsive. At least, not compared to Rikku. With a whoop he jumped on the foot of the machina, causing it to start back. He grabbed onto a loose wire sticking out for a hold, and dug his foot into the empty spaces between the parts of the pieces.
"Always cover up the innards, Saleed!" Gippal cried suddenly, climbing up the machina like a monkey on a tree. He didn't know what he was doing, but it seemed to take forever to reach to the top, considering the machina was thrashing about, slamming against the steel walls to try and suffocate Gippal. He really didn't know how he continued to climb with battered and broken bones, sore muscles and aching limbs, but he did. After all, he came to save Rikku…and that's what he was going to do.
"STOP!" Saleed shrieked, anger causing his voice to tremble. "STOP, YOU FIEND! I COMMAND YOU – "
But Gippal wasn't afraid anymore. That, or he was going insane. He started to laugh and hummed a familiar tune…one that Rikku had taught them as children. Sooner than expected, Gippal reached the top, where he felt his heart starting to thud painfully in his chest. There, in front of him, was the back of Rikku. The same blond hair was hanging loosely over her shoulders. Only now she was wearing some sort of tight, uncomfortably clingy body suit. With a trembling voice, Gippal yelled above all the noise the machina was making, stomping around and trying to shake him off.
"Rikku! Rikku, can you hear me?" She didn't move. He tried again. "Rikku, please listen!" Nothing. "DAMNIT RIKKU, SNAP OUT OF IT!" Anger started to boil in his veins. He was sort of hoping that this would be like those soap opera's where the person snaps out of the trance when they hear the person they love's voice. He could clearly see that wasn't going to happen.
The laser began to spin haphazardly, and Gippal wondered numbly if his DNA or something was built into the laser. At least it couldn't spin back to where he and the driver were – that would have been unfortunate.
"Sorry Rikku," he muttered. Gippal took a deep breath and then lunged for Rikku's body, wrapping his arms around her waist and ripping her body out of the uncomfortable metal chair. The sudden movement and Gippal's unsteadiness sent the two toppling down twenty feet to the ground.
………
Everything was…was so fuzzy. What was she doing? …Controls? She must be driving a machina. I'm working for Cid, she finally decided, though she had no idea where the thought had come from. It was obvious she was in a room she didn't recognize, with a machina she had never handled. But the idea came to her all the same, and filled her mind until she believed it to be true.
"Pop!" she called, though she wasn't really calling. Her mouth made no movement. Only her hands, which were moving expertly along the board of complicated buttons and levers. What was going on? She wasn't even telling her hands to do such things.
Voices suddenly started. There was a familiar one…one she had been waiting for? Shaking the thought, Rikku listened to the one that had suddenly popped up unexpectedly, just like the one with Cid. She had to follow that familiar voice and strike it down with the machina. How was she going to do that? Immediately her hands flew to a yellow button, and a large buzzing sounded. A laser, a very odd laser came bursting out and towards the voice. Something like a yelp, and then…laughter? Something she hadn't heard in such a long time. But it was cruel and mocking. Rikku didn't like how she was feeling at all. Almost trapped. But she still didn't know what was going on. The word Cid firmly planted itself in her mind once more, and Rikku's doubts were silenced.
For a long time Rikku followed the voice, feeling an anger that was not her own bubble up in her veins. She followed him, growling in her throat. "I hate you!" she cried to the voice, though once more, her mouth didn't move. And truly, she didn't hate the voice. In fact, she had fond memories of it. Memories that were fuzzy…
A scream. Something clambering up the side of the machina. Rikku started to feel her mind whirl. That wasn't right. The voice was supposed to stay in front of her, on the ground, not on the machina where she couldn't reach it! But she did nothing else other than trying to spin the laser around, trying to jostle the voice into the walls. Numerous times she muffled it and silenced it, and was hopeful it was gone. Then maybe she could be back to normal, back to…
To where? Suddenly the voice started again, and Rikku pressed buttons and such rapidly, but to no avail. Soon she heard the voice right behind her. Oh why wouldn't it leave her alone? She just wanted to sleep…she just wanted to go back to…to the Al Bhed…a certain Al Bhed? Was she even an Al Bhed? There was someone in her mind…someone that fit the voice…
Her body was yanked out of the chair, the only thing Rikku remember being in. Something changed. The fuzziness disappeared, and memories of her life started to reel so fast before her eyes she still remembered nothing. The buttons that had been her only friends that she could remember were getting further and further away. She screamed, but nothing happened.
Nothing happened until they hit the ground.
………
"Karren, this is crazy!" Athilda whispered hurriedly outside of the large metallic door. The small crack that Gippal had left open allowed Athilda to watch the whole episode, except for times when the machina crashed into the wall right above the door. "That evil man has used my magic for evil!"
"How can you tell it's your magic?" Karren whispered nervously, her eyes darting around the area. It was clear she wanted to leave, but Athilda wouldn't leave without Lady Rikku and Sir Gippal in tow. After all, it was her fault they were in this mess.
"Because it's kind of calling to me, you know? I feel a connection with it, even though it's been changed into something so different it's barely recognizable."
"Where are Sir Gippal and Lady Rikku?"
Athilda shuddered. "They…they fell, and then I didn't see anything because the machina decided to crash down right in front of the door."
Karren gulped. "Athilda, we have to do something, and fast. I don't know how they got Rikku into a trance, nor why she was in one up in the seats. Could she be connected to your magic somehow?"
Athilda stroked her chin thoughtfully and nervously at the same time. "I don't know, Karren. That's very possible, maybe even probable. And yet, it just doesn't make sense…"
"What about Saleed? Does he have a connection with your magic?"
Athilda paled and started to tremble slightly. "I hope to Yevon he doesn't, Karren. That'd be…that'd be terrible." With a shudder, Athilda dragged Karren back into her crevice.
"That's it. We're going in to help."
"But how?"
"We'll think of something…"
………
Rikku opened her eyes groggily, feeling as if she had fallen asleep in the early afternoon and was now waking before supper. "Pop?" she asked stupidly, feeling as though she had just been with him, or doing something for him…
"Sorry Princess, it's just us," a voice snarled. Rikku snapped her eyes open. Her vision was cloudy for a moment, but everything came into a sudden sharp, and painful focus. Her head started to pound rapidly as she blinked. There, standing above her, was Sunny with Liam and Bilak in the back. That slime, Saleed, was missing. Something flashed before her eyes.
"Stop!" Rikku screamed. "Stop, you can't do this to me!"
Saleed cackled almost happily. "Yes I can, Al Bhed. Did I tell you you're the only one that can drive my beauty?"
"Beauty?" Rikku eyed the machina carefully. It truly was beautiful, probably built by the three Al Bhed, but she wasn't going to admit such a thing. "That's the ugliest thing I've ever seen."
Saleed suddenly roared and came within an inch of Rikku's face, breathing heavily. His noseless face snarled in front of her, and it took everything inside of Rikku to stay calm without shrieking. He was way too close.
"Watch your mouth, dear," he whispered quietly. Rikku only stared him down until he stepped away, and then busied himself in a little cart beside the steel lab table, which Rikku was tied down on uncomfortably.
"Now, what do you notice about the machine?" he asked quietly, almost like a teacher talking to a student about a difficult math problem. Rikku looked up, the only way she could. The tip of the laser pointed dangerously and threateningly at her face.
"I notice it's pointed at me, and that it's not at all welcoming."
Saleed snapped his fingers, and the machina started to buzz. The laser tip started to rotate carefully, cocking every which was as if searching for something.
"Well, if you truly understood its beauty, you'd notice that it attaches itself to people, or even large groups, by DNA."
Rikku gawped at him. If it could attack groups, it would be possible to wipe out Guado's, Spirans, or even…Al Bhed in one shot. Rikku gulped nervously.
"But a laser couldn't do that…"
"Ah, but this is no normal laser. It contains the magic of a nervous wreck, the magic of a lonely person who had much anger and emotion inside. Something an angry machine would need is an angry power to fuel it."
Rikku didn't care where the magic had come from at the moment. "What do you need it for?"
Saleed chuckled as he tinkered with a small item Rikku couldn't see. She felt her stomach clench and unclench repeatedly, but she forced herself to stay calm.
"Silly girl, isn't it obvious?"
Rikku was silent for a few seconds, wracking her brain.
"No."
Saleed sighed heavily and turned around to face Rikku, hiding something behind his back. He took two steps towards her and bent down until their faces were nearly touching. The cold and black eyes of Saleed's seemed endless and evil, and Rikku forced herself to look back into them, unblinking. It was like looking into two empty bowls.
"I want to destroy anyone that stands in my way."
Rikku sighed heavily, rolling her eyes and moving her head to the other side so she didn't have to look at Saleed. "No offense, but that's SO cliché," she snorted, hiding a smirk.
Saleed took a step back. "What do you mean, fool?" he hissed. It was clear Rikku had the momentary advantage to her death; so she played it up a bit.
"I mean, come on, anyone that stands in your way? To what? Ruling a world that's empty because you killed everyone? And why do you want to own Spira anyway? We're not THAT special. No great resources like gold or anything that would lead you to power or anything…"
Saleed was silent for a few moments, and Rikku saw, no, hoped that he was thinking things over. She was right, he was wrong. He'd let her free and kill himself…or something.
"No, no, no," he said softly, and Rikku felt her heart sink through the table. "No, that's not why I want to kill everyone. No, I want to OWN them. I want to make them my slaves. That laser, it doesn't kill people." He chuckled darkly, and brought a needle from behind his back. Rikku stiffened, eyes wide. "It only brainwashes them. The magic inside of it has been controlled by me, and I've sent it to do my bidding. After all, wouldn't it be a perfect world where everyone is a slave to me?"
Rikku could have spit on him, but she didn't. She didn't say a thing. She might as well learn all she could before dying. "But why stalk me?"
"Because, you are the only one that can drive this machina."
"Look, the magic isn't MINE, I don't know how I can be the only one to control it –"
"I've had this plan ever since you were born, Rikku. I felt your presence the moment you were alive. You hold a strong power. No, it's isn't magic, no, it isn't physical fitness. And no, it isn't stubbornness…" He fell silent for a few moments. "I knew I needed you for future plans to take over Spira. I knew I needed an insider. So I murdered Gippal's parents so he would have to go to Home. I forced him to become your friend, to learn everything about you. And then he started to tell me odd things, like Rikku made Little Jimmy get her a sandwich, or Rikku made this kid that was yelling at her go quiet by glaring at him…you held a power. A power to control things – to control others. It was the power I yearned for – "
"I CANNOT control people!" Rikku finally cried, her voice shrill. "I haven't made anyone do anything, EVER – "
"You don't know when it happens. It almost seems natural. The person doesn't feel controlled, or anything like that. I have studied your power for many years, Rikku, and with just an emotional thought, the person will usually do the bidding."
"No," Rikku snarled. "That isn't true. If it was, I could control you right now. I could tell you to kill yourself, I could have controlled Sunny into giving me the keys, all the times I wanted to so badly. I could have controlled Athilda and sent her away, or controlled Gippal to stay…"
"Sad thoughts and angered thoughts won't hurt. Rikku, you are never afraid. You are always exhilarated, never afraid what you NEED to be to use this power is afraid."
And Rikku realized it was true. She was never truly afraid. Always lost, confused, sad maybe, but never afraid. She groaned. "And my power…"
"Will control the magic. It is too wild for myself, too wild for even Athilda, the wielder of the magic to control. After all, she has trouble controlling her magic, does she not?"
Rikku merely shrugged, feeling her life ebbing away. No wonder she had never noticed her power. She had never been afraid!
"But Rikku, your power will finally come in handy." Saleed came closer with the needle and stuck it in her arm. "Say hello to fear…"
………
"I need Gippal," Rikku spat, not even realizing he was in the room. Sunny sighed and pointed to the corner almost boredly. Rikku scanned the area and saw Gippal in the corner, his head propped up by being sat in the corner. Rikku gasped, surprised, stood up shakily and ran to him, ignoring all the Al Bhed around her, and didn't even worry about Saleed.
"Gippal! GIPPAL!" she cried almost happily, had their situation been better. She got no reply. His eye was closed and he wasn't responding. Rikku gasped as she knelt down beside him, seeing bruises and blood everywhere.
"That voice…" Rikku moaned and let her head fall onto his chest with a dull thump. "Oh Gippal, I'm so sorry! I didn't know – I didn't know it was you…" she began to sob uncontrollably, clutching the cloth on his shirt and crying into it. All the weight of the past few weeks began to wear off as she just sat there crying, hoping and praying Gippal woke up.
I wish I were afraid, she thought numbly. Then maybe he actually would wake up. But I'm not afraid…I'm alone.
"Rikukkkki?" Gippal moaned, his one eye fluttering. Rikku gasped, sitting up and looked expectantly at his face.
"Gippal? Gippal, answer me! It's Rikku!" Rikku felt her heart bubbling up. He had come to save her. He had come to rescue her. She knew she loved the right guy right there and then.
"Rikku?" he mumbled, lifting up a hand. Rikku grabbed for it and clung on tightly.
"Gippal, you must have fallen on the ground first or something, you softened the blow for me…"
Gippal grinned lopsidedly, though he still looked half dead. "Always lookin' out…for you, Princess," he said through ragged breathing. Rikku clutched his hand tighter, grinning stupidly into his face. Not until now did she realize how much she loved him.
"Gippal, I'm so sorry for everything, all the pain…" She moved her arms to hug him tightly around the neck. Gippal slowly moved his arms to wrap around her waist.
"S'okay." His reply was slurred, but it was filled with care. "I would've done it any other time…"
Rikku sobbed into his shoulder even though she was smiling. "I'm just – I didn't realize how much I'd miss you…"
The two looked at each other for a moment, both smiling. They were reunited. No kiss was needed to prove the love they felt for each other right there.
"What's this?" A voice barked into the room, causing Rikku to look over at the door. Saleed stood there, his eyes blazing. "Who reunited the two?" His voice was so deadly calm that no one answered.
"Bah, it's useless. You're all fools," he spat, turning over to Rikku and Gippal. "So," he said coolly, gazing at them with an evil look in his eye. "You managed to escape my baby, eh Rikku? Pity. You were made to control it. Made to make Spira my slaves."
"I would never do such a thing!" Rikku cried, standing up abruptly. Her legs suddenly had feeling in them, and she gazed at Saleed with a hatred she hadn't felt for so long. "Go back to the hole you crawled out of, scum!" she cried, pointing at him with a trembling finger. "You are the most vile, the most…" Rikku stopped in mid rant as she saw a familiar figure in the door behind Saleed. Athilda. She placed her finger to her lips, and Rikku, without knowing, obeyed. She was still angry with Athilda. After all, she didn't know the whole story as Gippal did. The two would have to catch up after.
"What's wrong, Rikku? Lost your courage?" Saleed asked in a taunting voice. Rikku only glared at him, placing her hands on her hips.
"No way. I've had it all along," she replied stiffly. Then, deciding to be cheesy, she shot back his cliché line that he had sent her way before he stuck her with the needle.
"Say hello to your worst nightmare," Rikku snarled, letting out an Al Bhed whoop and running at the man.
A/N: Eek. Nine pages. I'm dead. I know it's a dumb thing. I'm SORRY, I couldn't think of any other stupid power for Rikku. I have terrible writers block but I just wanted to update the story. Only one more chapter, I think! Might be two though, I dunno. I hope you liked it, and I'm super sorry for dumb plotline. I'm just so out of ideas. Review please!
