Mikaa- Okay, that was a very, very long review. Keep it up, your long, long reviews are very interesting indeed for many reasons and if I did keep on like this you could get more than three lines but I might start to sound like Kraden when he decides to go off on one of his infamous rambling sessions and that could be very annoying because Kraden is indeed a very annoying person and I should hate to be associated with a very annoying person simply because nobody likes to be associated with very annoying people. gasps for breath Perhaps Isaac didn't have thoughts about Kay because he's hardly seen her so far anyway and he probably wants to avoid her... just like everybody else! Mia hates Alex, fair as that, and she needs to get rid of him somehow... and due to my inadequate knowledge of Star Trek, those kinds of jokes are fairly unlikely. And speaking of your birthday, Love Bites is being updated on your birthday! How about that? HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKAA D
Wolf Demon- You'll see this chapter... dishcloths can be so convenient... )
Lord Cynic- Yes, amusing, but I feel Felix's been hurt enough... so far... heh heh...
Jupiter Sprite- Ignoring the incest comment from Mikaa, there will be Windshipping sometime... Ive already got plans for that
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"Um, Jenna, just what are you doing?" Garet asked nervously as Jenna proceeded to loop some rope around him and knot it tightly, binding him to the tree, with his arms fast at his sides. The tree was located just outside the mouth of the Vale cave, beyond the fence, where few people went anyway. "Jenna! I've got to do chores, you can't do this to me!"
"Oh, dear Garet," Jenna smirked, stepping back and admiring her work, nodding in satisfaction. "I just have a problem with the fact that you refuse to tell me why your sister is making you do chores. If you tell me, then I'll release you and you can go running back to do your lovely chores."
"No!" Garet exclaimed in immense horror, struggling against desperately against the cruel rope that Jenna had so carefully and so expertly tied, a bead of sweat rolling down his head. "I can't tell you..." Jenna turned away and made as if to walk off. "... My life depends on these chores! If I don't do them, then I'll be in danger!"
"Very funny," Jenna sighed and wiped her brow. "I seriously doubt your sister is capable of murdering you. Somehow I just don't think that's why she's making you do the chores. So, looks like you'll be stuck there for a while... and then we probably will find out what happens if you don't do your chores because you're not doing them today!" Jenna cackled maniacally.
"What if I shout for help and somebody comes to free me?" Garet asked hopefully, a hopeful smile gracing his face. He began to feel very proud of himself, he believed that he had found a flaw in what Jenna thought was a perfect plan and that made him very pleased. Perhaps escaping would not be so difficult now.
"Ah yes, I remember now why I brought the dishcloth along," Jenna looked fondly at the dishcloth she held in her hands. She swung around to face Garet and stepped towards him, smiling wickedly. "It's a nice dishcloth, isn't it? I particularly like the blue and white check pattern."
"Wh-what are you going to do with that?" Garet blurted out. "You're not going to kill me with it, are y-MMMF!" He promptly found out why Jenna had brought along the dishcloth as she balled it up and crammed it fully into his mouth. Jenna cackled maniacally then turned around and ran off, vaulting over the fence and disappearing.
'Fantastic,' Garet thought mournfully, looking up into the sky. 'I'm tied to a tree with some filthy cloth in my mouth that I can't even spit out and Felix is so going to kill me when Kay tells him about me wanting to marry Jenna. I hope I die of starvation first or something... I so don't want to see what Felix's capable of... I'm scared...'
Kay stepped into the kitchen and looked around disbelievingly. The kitchen was dirty, the table only half wiped. The worst thing was that Garet was actually not in the kitchen... she immediately suspected that he had dared to skive off his chores and he probably hoped that she would not find out as well. Kay's mouth curved into a wicked smile and then she burst into cruel, maniacal laughter, even crueller and more maniacal than Jenna's laugh.
Upstairs, Aaron was reading in his bedroom. The book fell to the floor as Aaron screamed and scrambled underneath his bed, frightened almost to death by the sound of his sister's cruel laughter. It made him feel scared that blood might be spilled tonight, he had a very bad feeling all of a sudden. When Kay laughed like that, it usually meant that someone was going to get hurt.
Kay promptly marched out of the kitchen, her mind set on seeking out a certain brownhaired Venus Adept. She felt the need to... talk to him about certain matters which may be of his concern. Hopefully, she thought, it might involve someone getting hurt. Particularly Garet. For not doing his chores as he should be. He had full well known the consequences of shirking his duties and if he chose to do so, then fine. His loss.
His funeral.
Kay's smile widened and her eyes gleamed red as she activated her automatic homing device, making a beeline for Felix who would surely be nearby.
Nearby, Jenna was watching but she did not follow, she instead decided to worry very much for her boyfriend despite the fact that she had tied him to a tree and stopped him from doing chores. Jenna sighed and threw a fireball at the flowerbed, before realising what she had done and then she ran screaming, hoping there were no witnesses. It would be bad enough if Kay unleashed her wrath on Garet, but Jenna simply did not want it on her. She had seen Kay as she walked out of the house... and it terrified her.
But of course Jenna would never admit that to anybody. Not even Garet. Unless he admitted it first.
"Okay, I'm done with the list!" Mia exclaimed, jumping to her feet. Alex squealed in delight and started hopping up and down like a lovesick puppy who had sighted a bone and wanted it very badly. Isaac almost vomited but he managed to hold it in, he was worried he might gross Mia out even if he carefully aimed it at a certain Mercury Adept... the same one who was trying to steal his girlfriend.
"Yay!" Alex clapped his hands in delight, his eyes turning into big red hearts. "Quickly, give me the list!"
"Better do as he says," Isaac whispered to Mia. "Might have a heart attack if you don't... actually, don't!"
"Here you go," Mia thrust the list into Alex's hands and stepped back, watching him expectantly. "And you've got to do all of them."
"Number one, fix Kraden's roof?" Alex nodded and stuffed the list into his pocket, patting it protectively. "I shall do that."
"NOW!" Mia ordered. Alex immediately rushed off, squeaking in joy. "The nerve of that guy..."
"Fix Kraden's roof?" Isaac looked wonderingly at her.
"Yeah, I don't want Kraden roping you into it," Mia answered matter-of-factly. "It might hold the old man at bay a while as well."
"Good..." Isaac was relieved. "Um, what else was on the list?"
"Well... there was teaching a purple camel to talk," Mia held up her hands and counted off her fingers. "Getting two polka-dotted penguins to have a little giraffe baby, getting blood out of a stone, bury self in the snow and stay there for five years without leaving, going to Alhafra and calling the mayor rude names until he gets thrown in jail, licking his elbow, staring into the sun for ten minutes without flinching, oh, and jumping down Gaia Falls."
"Mia, you are truly a legend!" Isaac was awed. "You are so clever and beautiful and intelligent..."
"Now with any luck, we'll never see him again, because he'll freeze to death or be trampled by a camel or have his eyes pecked out by penguins or at least be blinded!" Mia grinned wickedly. "And if he ever does come back, I'll just let Serac get him over and over until he runs off crying or something."
"You think he really will do everything on the list?" Isaac wondered.
"Of course!" Mia exclaimed laughingly. "He's Alex!"
Ivan suddenly gasped and clutched his forehead, falling to his knees and looking horrified.
"Ivan?" Sheba glanced at the stricken Jupiter Adept. "What are you playing at now?" First he had fainted, then he had woken up and shouted some gibberish before remembering where he was, and now he was acting stupid. She was beginning to get quite tired of his erratic behaviour.
"I... had a vision..." Ivan shuddered. "I saw blood... being spilt..."
"Blood?" Sheba frowned. "Really?"
"Yeah..." Ivan nodded, trying to recall the vision. "A brunette... a redhead..."
"A fight?" Sheba went pale. "Between a redhead and a brunette?"
"Yeah..." Ivan cringed. "The... blood..."
"Who won?" Sheba asked after a short pause.
"The brunette," Ivan answered.
"Then I feel very sorry for the redhead," Sheba clasped her hands together in silent prayer.
Picard watched on, sweatdropping, as two of his fangirls got into a slapping fight, a girl with brown hair and a girl with red hair. For a short while, it looked like neither side was winning until the brunette changed her tactics and smacked the redhead in the nose, giving her a pretty red nosebleed. The redhead screamed, declared that she loved Picard more than her rival did, and stormed off, wiping her bleeding nose.
And thus, the blood that Ivan had envisioned had been spilt.
"Psychos," Felix commented, staring at the brunette as she yelled vulgar words at the redhead's back, unable to think up a better comeback. "You really are dangerous, Picard, girls are killing each other over you."
"A nosebleed wouldn't kill anybody," Picard sighed, as a fangirl blew a kiss at him and swooned to the ground. "Fainting off a cliff might... but I don't think that these girls are that stupid. Obviously, you've already called them stupid."
"Yeah, well... maybe they are!" Felix exclaimed, turning away and frowning as Kay came walking towards him, a demonic smile on her face. "Picard, I'm scared."
"It's only Kay," Picard brushed it off casually, unaffected by the glowing red eyes and the wicked smile. "There's nothing to be scared of."
"Then you obviously don't know Garet's sister very well..." Felix braced himself for whatever she was about to say, hopefully she wasn't planning on shouting at him, it wasn't like he had done anything. Automatically, he started trying to recall if he had ever damaged any of Kay's flowers but he could not really remember doing so, so maybe he was safe for now.
At least, he hoped so.
Feizhi was bored again. The escorts were already black and blue so she couldn't practice any more of her karate, chi, whatever she called it this time. Her escorts were desperately peppering her with suggestions, including taking a walk or flower picking, but Feizhi simply was not interested in those sort of things. She sat on a chair, her elbows propped on a desk, deep in thought and ignoring the escorts who were talking away at a high speed.
And then it came to her.
"I know what I shall do!" Feizhi exclaimed, pushing back her chair and sending several escorts flying, screaming as they flew. "I shall accomplish something today! I, Feizhi, will face my worst fear and I will triumph over my fear!"
Feizhi turned and casually marched off, pushing aside the anxious escorts who were now declaring that they wished for her to do no such thing. It wasn't as if they ever had an effect on her anyway, they were just there to be annoying, oh and be shields for her against monsters. The Vermin bites on their legs proved that fact.
Once Feizhi was outside the inn, she took a deep breath and willed herself to be strong as she started walking towards north.
It was quite obvious at that point.
Her worst fear was Kraden.
And she was doing something very stupid.
Feizhi was going to Kraden's cottage again. Even after last time when she had been nearly talked to death. But that was the whole point of facing your worst fear, wasn't it? Risking your life. Well, depending upon the fear anyway. People who were scared of flowers or ianimate objects wouldn't really be risking their life. Unless they tried to hug a Venus Flytrap.
