Schweppes: We will start out with an anime of the day.
Meilin: Today's anime is...
-dramatic music-
Himino: PRETEAR!
Sasame: Hello, I am Sasame from Pretear, and that is Himino, she is the main character.
Meilin: We just wanted an excuse to get Sasame in here.
Bakura: I say we have a vote on who should leave.
Schweppes: Why would we do that?
Meilin: I guess it is hard to keep track of all these people.
Schweppes: Fine. I will put all your names on pieces of paper, you will check off who you want to leave.
Meilin: While Schweppes is busy writing the damn papers for some pointless reason... -inturrupeted-
Malik: IT'S NOT POINTLESS!
Meilin: Fine, for some semi-pointless reason. I will now recite the pledge of allegiance... I pledge allegiance to all anime of the United Otaku Inc. and to the otaku for which anime rules, one fanfic, under our spell, undivided, with manga and anime dvd's for all! AMEN!
Everyone: -clapping and cheering- Woo Hoo!
Meilin: -bows- Thank you, you're so kind.
Schweppes: Where did that come from? You've never said it before. And it's divided into chapters.
Meilin: I dunno... it just came to my mind as I said it. (It's the truth) And they're all on the same sight.
Schweppes: That doesn't mean they're not divided. And they're on two sights. and my websight which I haven't touched in forever so it looks like crap.
Sora: This argument may go on for a while. -mumbling- fucking stubborn people.
Bakura: I will announce that the writing for people who leave now begins!
Jack
Schweppes
Meilin
Bakura
Riku
Malik
Tsukasa
Zelgadis
Xellos
Sora
Kouga
Ed
Mustang
Dark
Shuichi
These are the people you can choose from. Himino and Sasame don't count because they just got here.
Meilin: While we're waiting for everything to calm down, ON WITH THE FIC!
Schweppes: NO ONE WITH THE FIC! OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!
-card soldiers come out of know were running after Meilin with various weapons-
Schweppes: -way too nice sounding voice- Now, will anyone say the disclaimer?
Dark: -sweatdrop- I... I'll do it, what do I have to do?
Schweppes: -hands Dark a piece of paper- Just read it. -back to angry voice-
Dark: meep. Okay, Schweppes and/or Meilin don't own any rights to the anime's or games, or movies present. So no suing.
Notes: ... -actions- ... 'Riku thinking' ... (AN)
Last time: Kurama leaned down and tried talking to her in his soothing voice, "Kairi, if you can hear me, can you tell me how you got that keyblade? Why you're doing this."
Kairi again didn't respond.
---
Toxicity
Chapter 18: A Night At Jacks
"Gahh! It's no use, she's just not going to answer us!" I let out a scream of frustration. This is not the Kairi I know.
Kurama had a rather saddened expression on, knowing that his attempts were futile, that there's even a chance she will never get back to her normal self, either Kurama's princess, or the girl who I grew up with.
Sora walked off, in the direction of the pumpkin field.
Meilin was the first to notice, "Sora, where are you going?"
He didn't even respond, all he did was to look back, acknowledging the fact that she has spoken to him at all and kept walking, his Kingdom Key over his shoulder.
I started to follow after him when I felt a hand on my shoulder. Upon turning around, I found the owner of the hand was Jack, who had remained silent during all of this.
The skeleton smiled, "I think he'd like some time alone. He'll seek you out if he needs you." And without even waiting for a response, he walked away. Probably back to doing what he was before the scream.
Kurama was tending to Meilin, looking to see if she got hurt, where as Hiei was just watching, he face expressionless as always.
So all that were left was Schweppes and I, for the Mayor had left like Jack.
It didn't seem like Schweppes wanted much to do with anyone else. For the most part, everyone wanted to be alone. No one knows what's gotten into Kairi and being at a loss for solving our other puzzles, we all just seemed to get into a depressed state.
Kurama was the first to break the silence, "Do any of you know where to find a place to stay for the night?"
Schweppes had responded, "Well, last time we were here, we just stayed over at Jack's house, he had some extra rooms."
Hiei walked past Schweppes, into the direction that Jack had left off to. Schweppes followed in suit, leading in front to guide us to Jack's house, Kurama carrying Kairi.
---At Jack's House---
When I had reached the room I had slept in the last time we were here, I thought about Sora.
"What if he never comes back? What if he gets kidnapped like Jack did?" I thought to myself, alone in the room.
But alas, it's pointless to ask these questions, all they will do is to get me more worried, more sleep deprived.
Even though some time had passed, I was still awake and reading a book I had found, 'The Scientific Method'. It was sitting upon a whole bunch of Christmas books. 'Nothing about it interests me, but I still wonder why Jack would read this.'
All of a sudden, Sora came into my room. "Riku! You're awake. Kairi's gone crazy! She took the keyblade's away from me and started to attack me. I was still sitting in the pumpkin field."
"Holy shit," I mumbled so it was barely audible and ran out the door, towards the pumpkins.
By the time we got there, Kairi was gone. There wasn't even a single sign that she was there to begin with.
"Sora do you know where she went to?" I asked him, hoping the answer was yes.
But he lowered his head and replied, "I'm afraid not. I was busy running away from her. I wouldn't trust her much with keyblades. And she even had two."
"Well, I guess the only thing we can do now is go warn everyone else." I walked off back towards Jack's house.
Once we got there, everyone was still sleeping, so Sora and I decided we might sleep as well.
---The Next Day---
We were around the center of town, the area where Jack had gone missing.
"Might as well try to find her. Let's get to the portal and find out where to go from there." Meilin suggested.
Hiei nodded as everyone else replied with a yes of sorts.
But once we reached the closest portal, it had lost its glow and wouldn't work at all.
"This isn't good, what now?" Kurama looked to us for an answer.
Jack replied in an excited tone, "I know, there are doors deep into the woods, they're kind of like portals. That's what got me to Christmas Town."
Schweppes shrugged, "Better than nothing."
The mayor was still sleepy and hardly awake, "Ya know what, I think I'll just stay here to look after the town, Jack can go with you."
"Fine, you just slowed us down anyway," Hiei said coldly.
So we trekked off into the woods, searching for these doors.
Sora broke the silence that seemed to overwhelm us, "I've been thinking. Maybe the portals didn't work because it's a full moon. With the moon being so big here, I noticed how dark it was."
I smiled to hear his voice, "Sounds like it could be possible."
More conversations slowly erupted after that and we made it to the doors.
Schweppes was staring at something, her gaze not adverting. I was about to go over, to find out why she was staring like that when she walked forward away from the circle of trees.
Curious to know what was going on, I followed Schweppes away from the others who were standing there, looking at the trees and wondering which would be the best to enter.
A couple feet from where Schweppes had stopped walking, I saw another tree, like the others, but this one was not a holiday. The icon instead was of a computer. I had one back home, but I didn't use it much.
After a while of wondering why the tree wasn't with the others, Sora noticed that we were missing.
"Hey Riku, what're you looking at?" he asked as he walked up behind me and put his chin over my shoulder.
His voice had startled me out of my trance and once again smiled at his presence.
"It's a computer. But where would a computer lead?" I was asking Sora.
Another voice joined in, this time it was Meilin, "Back in our world, there were online games. RPG's that you could play with people around the world."
Everyone had joined us now. All wonder why this tree was here, where the door was a monitor, where it should be plain bark.
"Mei, what's this 'RPG'?" Jack questioned the acronym.
Meilin put her hand to her forehead as she thought for a bit, "An RPG? How do I describe it... Well, it's short for Role Playing Game. It's where one person acts as someone else, or even themselves and goes on adventures like we have."
Jack smiled and accepted this answer.
"What do you say? Should we go through this door?" Kurama asked us.
I shrugged and looked towards Sora who was looking at everyone else for the answer.
Schweppes shrugged, "Sure, I don't see the harm in it," and opened the monitor-shaped door.
"If Schweppes is going, then I'm going too," Meilin commented.
Kurama smiled and walked to the tree, "Look's like we're going here." He looked around a bit for approving faces.
So one by one we went into the door, unsure of what will await us at the end.
---
Meilin: Time to end the fic!
Schweppes: Awww, but it was starting to get good, normal fics would last longer.
Meilin: Well, this isn't a normal fic. Get used to it, you should have by now. And as I was saying, I so "rudely" interrupted to say that the papers are finished and we're here to decide who the one to leave is.
-----Time to think!-----
Jack: -thinking- Hmmmm... lets see. Bakura's really annoying, but so are Riku and Sora. I think I'll put down... ummm... Riku.
Schweppes: He he... Meilin. -evil laughter, in it's quietest form-
Meilin: -in her own little corner type thing- Mustang, cuz he hunted down Ed.
Bakura: Kouga... damn bastard wanted to eat me.
Riku: Whatever Sora picks...
Malik: Yahh! Everyone! But it's just one. Xellos, he put me in a straight jacket.
Tsukasa: Either Bakura or Malik, cuz they creep me out. Let's go with Bakura, he seems to be the mastermind behind them.
Zelgadis: I haven't been here in a while, have I? Anyway, I'll go with Koga, he doesn't talk that much anyway.
Xellos: Malik. Damn he annoys me! -evilly loud laughter is now heard coming from Xellos' direction (yes, it's loud)-
Sora: -writing- Whatever Riku picks...
Kouga: Schweppes. She stops me from leaving and eating.
Ed: Mustang, he's a stalker.
Mustang: Meilin... she thought Dark was pretty, and Ed's obsessed with her.
Dark: Krad.
Shuichi: I don't even know most of these people. First person to come to mind -thinking hard- Malik.
Himino: -talking to Sasame- Sasame, I don't know any of these people.
Sasame: I don't either, let's just choose Schweppes because she's the only name I remember.
-many hours of hard thinking later...-
Schweppes: The results are in! -sweatdrop- WHO THE HELL PICKED ME!
Meilin: RUN! -random pieces of what used to be where the floor is are flying past Meilin's head-
Schweppes: -thinking- everyone left, so can't find out who lost... after all the person who lost was Schweppes, who is me.
-everyone slowly comes back into the room, once it's safe-
Schweppes: -calmed down- Okay. Now we have 3 votes that don't count. Riku saying what Sora wants, Sora saying what Riku wants, and... Dark, Krad's not even here.
For normal votes: Riku got one vote, Meilin got 2 votes, Mustang got 2 votes, Kouga got 2 votes, Xellos got 1 vote, Bakura got 1 vote, Malik got 2 votes, and I got one vote.
-for those of them that can do the math, they realize that there seems to be 2 votes missing. Fear of having to run away again is enough to stop them from asking why... ARMAGEDON!-
Sora: Riku, you were supposed to pick something.
Riku: But Sora, I didn't want to pick anything
-Riku and Sora huddle up in a corner-
Riku: -whispering- I don't want anyone to leave.
Sora: -whispering as well- Same here. But if we choose, I say it's Xellos
Riku: Sounds good.
Dark: I just got here, why do you want me to choose?
Schweppes: Himino and Sasame got here after you and they chose someone
Dark: -on impulse- Bakura!
Bakura: Hey! Why me!
Dark: -holding out a feather- Back off tomb robber!
Bakura: ... how do you know I was a tomb robber?
Dark: I was back there then, a phantom thief, stealing art -very proud-
Bakura: So you know what happened?
Dark: I don't remember much.
Malik: Do you remember me?
Dark: Ummm... no.
-Malik falls to the ground, feet sticking straight up. I guess it's like his body just flipped-
Jack: With the new replies, that leaves Xellos up two and Bakura up one. So now that Xellos has 3 votes, the highest number, he is banished for the time being. Possibly not forever.
Xellos: Yay! I'm finally free of this place! -jumping with joy-
Zelgadis: Does this mean I can go too? -nearly begging to Schweppes-
Schweppes: No, Zel, you stay.
Zel: -sigh-
Meilin: And is all for now. Fin (of just this chapter, the fic must go on)