Schweppes: And we're back with a new chapter. Yay!
Meilin: Yay? This fic started 2 or more years ago. You abandoned it for a year, and you still want to write it.
Schweppes: ... I was busy. -sweatdrop- But at least this is the first moderner chapter!
Meilin: Riiiiight...
Sanosuke: I've been stuck here for forever! How could you do this to me?
Schweppes: Stop complaining.
Meilin: Schweppes does not own any of the characters in Rurouni Kenshin, Kingdom Hearts, Nightmare Before Christmas, Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of OZ, Yu Yu Hackusho, Yu-Gi-Oh, Inuyasha, Mickey Mouse, Slayers and Starbucks but they own Schweppes and Meilin and everyone's soul. Blah blah blah blah blah...
-Yahiko is seen off in the distance playing with his sword thing. Everyone's sitting around him and completely ignoring Meilin as she reads the incredibly annoying disclaimer. Meilin notices-
Meilin: Hey! If you're not going to pay attention when I'm reading this thing, then I'll make sure this fic never ends! MUHAHAHAHAHA!
-Everyone's eyes nearly fall out of their eye sockets-
Schweppes, Sanosuke, Yahiko, Riku: NOOO!
Yahiko: You can't do that! I'll... I'll kill you! You better believe me!
Meilin: -Holding Yahiko back with her foot- Hahaha! Like you will be able to kill the ALL MIGHTY MEILIN!
Schweppes: -Speachless- ...
Riku: Just shut up already! -Hits Meilin over the head with his keyblade-
Meilin: -knocked out-
Schweppes: ON WITH THE FIC!
Warning: Shonen-Ai (no lemons)
Notes: (A/N), 'thoughts', -actions- I also just realized that the Mayor seemed to disappear. We could pretend the Mayor got lost around chapter 11 in the Alice in Wonderland/Wizard of OZ forest. If you want him to, he can be back later.
Last time: As we keep on walking, nothing eventful happens, except for that cawing of the raven that doesn't want to seem to leave. If possible, the fog seems to get thicker and a ghost is standing in front of us.
Toxicity
Chapter Fourteen: Captain Souzo Sagara
"Who are you?" Meilin asked the ghost standing before them.
"I go by Souzo Sagara, most people call me Captain," He smiled at them, as if there was nothing unusual about this meeting.
(Sanosuke: Captain? Why couldn't I be in the story then? -pause- Will I be with Kenshin?
Schweppes: Can't you go 5 paragraphs without interrupting!
Riku: -Looks around curiously- How come I'm not in the chapter yet?
Schweppes: IT JUST STARTED! WE HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN TO THREE PARAGRAPHS!
-Jack walks in the door, hears the yelling and stops in his tracks-
Jack: Why the hell are you yelling?
Schweppes: We barely started the fic and they're already talking.
Yahiko: Sanosuke started it!
Sanosuke: Why you little...
Schweppes: We will now go on with the fic. I hope you didn't mind this intrusion.)
"Are you a ghost?" Kairi asked him. 'What a stupid question!'
"Ummm... I guess you could say that," Sagara responded in an awkward tone.
"Why don't we get going now?" Kurama was attempting to change the subject.
Kairi looked at Captain Sagara for a bit and walked off in the direction they were heading.
(Sanosuke: -sniffles- Goodbye Captain Sagara.
Meilin: This is pathetic.
Schweppes: ON WITH THE FIC!)
We finally made it to the village Kurama was sent out to. All that remained of the village were the ruins of burnt down huts. In the back of this small town there appeared to be a cemetery of sorts.
A woman walked up to Kurama the second she saw him, she had what looked like a tail and ears, "Oh, Kurama! It seems like I haven't seen you in forever!" she gave him a big hug.
"I know. But what happened exactly?" apparently this wasn't explained in the note.
A sadden expression came over the woman's face, "Some strange people came into the town and just started wrecking everything. They were killing people and burning everything down. As you can tell, we were robbed of the materials to help stop the flames. I'm one of the last people left, there's only 5 of us."
Around the time she had finished her tale, I adverted my attention to the others. They had instantly gone to the graveyard, possibly in search of Jack.
"Find anything interesting?" I asked them.
"Nope, just a bunch of these graves, but I haven't really looked yet," Sora responded to me.
We looked around a bit and were startled by a maniacal laughter.
A thought popped into my head just that instant and I took out the note that Lock, Shock and Barrel had left us in Dr. F's lair.
"We have Jack. Come to the place where we were once laid. The place that you stayed in for a while. Before you came here."
'Of course! If everyone in Halloween Town's dead, then they must have laid in a graveyard before they came. They must have been referring to the residents of Halloween Town.
(Bakura: You only mentioned the note because you forgot all about it.
Schweppes: So? At least I mentioned it! So now it can't be forgotten like a lot of other stuff.
Meilin: You forgot about Bakura, Malik, Sora and Kouga. And in the fic you forgot about Botan and Yusuke, and the keyblades.
Schweppes: Yeah, I know all that! I feel terrible, I forgot all about a lot of stuff.
Malik: You forgot all about me! How can you forget about ME?
Bakura: Poor Malik, how can anyone forget about you?
Jack: Gahh! Why do guys have to be that way? Be more manly.
Malik: This is coming from the man who had boobs and was in a skirt.
Jack: That wasn't by choice!
Schweppes: It was still funny.
Riku: Not for me!
Meilin: Sure it was.
Schweppes: Gahh, let's all just stop this and get on with the fic.)
"AHHHHH!" Kairi was screaming.
I looked over to see what was the matter. Standing in front of her was the same ghost we had encountered in the forest earlier. That Sagara guy.
"What the hell are you doing here!" Meilin was yelling at him.
At this point everyone had stopped what they were doing and staring at the ghost. Schweppes seemed to be studying him, where as Meilin was busy yelling at him.
"Yeah... Captain, right? Anyway, why are you hear? We just saw you back in the forest." Sora questioned him.
"I decided that the forest got really boring, so I followed you here. And it's much more interesting than that forest." Captain Sagara announced.
"Sooo... you're stalking us. Right?" Meilin asked him.
"I guess you could put it that way." Sagara pondered at her question.
(Sanosuke: I was just wondering, why is Sagara in hell? He never did anything wrong.
Schweppes: Yeah I know, but I wanted to put him in some time, so why not now. Better sooner than later I guess.
Sanosuke: But why hell?
Meilin: Just ignore him, you can't answer his question if it's not the answer he's looking for.
Sanosuke: How do you know?
Meilin: Because I'm smart.
Riku: She was more pleasant when she was a frog.
Mickey: I can change that!
-Mickey changes Meilin into a frog... again.-
Meilin: Shit
Schweppes: Where did Mickey come from? He just appeared out of nowhere. I wonder how he does that...
Mickey: Muhahahahahahaha!
-Yahiko and Jack back away from the mouse-
Yahiko: What is wrong with this place!
Bakura: I thought you'd be used to it by now.
Sora: -appearing from the closet again- What's with the evil laughter?
Riku: Sora! Where have you been?
Sora: Hiding, but there was too much noise, so I got curious and came out.
Jack: That's not the best thing to do.
Malik: Ha ha! You should have just stayed in that closet doing... whatever you were doing.
Zelgadis: Xellos and I decided that it was too boring out of here, so we came back.
Schweppes: Meilin, did you have something to do with this?
Meilin: -humming- I don't know what you're talking about.
Xellos: IT WAS ALL HER FAULT! -pointing towards Meilin-
Zelgadis: I don't know what you're talking about, did you just want to say that?
Xellos: Pretty much, but I still say she brainwashed you.
Schweppes: Let's agree that Meilin brainwashed Zel.
Xellos and Zelgadis: Okay.
Sora: ON WITH THE FIC!
Schweppes: Hey! I'm only supposed to say that!
Sora: But I've been wanting to for a long time!
Schweppes: I'll let you off with a warning, but there will be no more!
Sora: Agreed.)
Everyone was now talking to Captain ghost, so I went off to wander the rest of the graveyard.
'Wow, it sure is huge, I wonder how long it's been here, how long they've been burying people here.'
The maniacal laughter from earlier was now heard deeper in this graveyard. 'The laughter! I forgot all about it!'
I followed the sound of the laughter until I came across -
(Meilin: -In a whiney tone- Schweppes!
Schweppes: What! You completely interrupted the fic! And in mid-sentence too!
Meilin: Is there a bathroom here? ...I drank too much soda.
Schweppes: Gahhh! Use your own bathroom!
Meilin: But I gotta go now.
Riku: You're a frog now, you can go wherever you want.
Schweppes: As long as it's not a carpet. This place can be whatever you want it to be, it's up to the reader. It can be a meadow, a mountain, in a cave, near a waterfall... the options are endless.
Meilin: Then can it be a pond?
Schweppes: Sure.
Yahiko: Then I say it's in the forests of Shimoso.
Sanosuke: Yeah!
Bakura: How about in Egypt?
Schweppes: Gahh, it doesn't matter! Now let's just get on with the fic.)
... until I came across none other than -
(Zelgadis: Hey! Can it be at Starbucks?
Schweppes: YES! ON WITH THE FIC!)
... none other than Ansem.
"Ansem! What the hell are you doing here!" I took out my keyblade, ready to attack.
(Meilin: Ya know, you also need to use these keyblades more often. You always forget about them.
Schweppes: I know this! You people don't need to tell me! Now let's just get on with the fic already!)
But before Ansem could answer, he had vanished and was nowhere to be seen.
Meilin: Seems mostly single lined.
Schweppes: Yeah, but we got up to page 7, which is what I usually wait for the least amount. Of course, with these ending notes, I could have started this 3 pages ago and end up at page 7
Sanosuke: It seems that the fic would die without these notes, you'd lose interest, something like that.
Yahiko: Sano, you really need to get back to the dojo, you're not acting yourself.
Meilin: I don't think it matters how you act in here. You're free to be yourself.
Malik: What is this place, some sort of Nirvana?
Bakura: Might as well be, I like it here.
Riku: That's what you say now. But after a while, you'll want to get out of here. Schweppes will get to you.
Schweppes: And what is there exactly that would get to you, Riku?
Riku: Nothing! Nothing at all.
Sora: You're such a wus
Riku: And you're not? You're always hiding in the closet!
Jack: You people are really starting to annoy me. I'm definitely sick of this place.
Sally: Hey, at least I'm here now.
Schweppes: When did you get here?
Sally: Just now, I felt bad for Jack and decided that I couldn't leave him here alone with you people.
Meilin: I remember in the beginning when Jack wanted to stay to see if he was going to be saved after he had been kidnapped. What happened to that?
Jack: I've been kidnapped for far too long and I figure I probably won't get back into the fic, maybe they'll get bored and go back home or something.
Zelgadis: We're back after a short little break to the local Starbucks.
Xellos: He was staring to get twitchy.
Meilin: When did you leave? I forgot you were here.
Xellos: Gee... thanks. But we left some time during the fic.
Zelgadis: MY COFFEE!
Yahiko: ... O.O
Xellos: He's been doing this ever since some guy's hand got too close to the cup.
Meilin: A little addicted, don't ya think?
Zel: No, of course not. I just need it, I'm not addicted.
Schweppes: For some reason, I didn't believe that.
Sanosuke: Wow... I'll have to try this coffee some time. (just out of curiosity, when was coffee invented?)
Zel: No! It's mine!
Xellos: God, calm down already!
Sora: I got an idea -puts Zel into the closet- There, now he won't get on our nerves as much.
Riku: Sora, you're so smart.
Jack: There we go again. Stop with that... that thing you keep doing.
Riku: I don't know what you're talking about.
Mickey: Hehehe -zaps Zel's cup into a rock-
Zel: NOOO! I'm so sick of rocks, get that away from me. Damn you Rezo!
Xellos: Huh? -opens closet door and sees Zelgadis without his coffee- Mickey!
-Mickey poofs away-
Sally: I don't think I should have come here after all.
Kouga: Where am I?
Schweppes: Where have you been?
Kouga: I don't even know where I am, how am I supposed to know where I've been?
-Malik is seen backing towards the door-
Meilin: Malik, why are you leaving? I thought you didn't want to leave.
Schweppes: Wait, does this have anything to do with Kouga?
Malik: Maaaayyybe.
Bakura: Just don't talk or you'll really get into trouble.
Meilin: So you know about it too.
Bakura: I never said that, did I Malik?
Malik: ...
Bakura: You're supposed to back me up!
Malik: But you told me not to talk.
Bakura: You could've talked then!
Malik: Well, then why didn't you tell me that?
Meilin: Something's wrong with you.
Schweppes: Wow... these notes are long. I had fun! Well, see you next chapter.