-Meilin and Schweppes are sitting on a couch, watching the tv-

TV (quotes spread out, not in direct order): "It can't be helped, you can not resist the roulette wheel of fate" a somewhat mechanical voice spoke.

"I totally agree. And on the other hand, master pig, your table manners so impeccable, it's always a pleasure to dine with you." A roasted pig, being eaten by this 'master pig' was talking, even with an apple in his mouth.

"I prefer my food not to talk back to me. Roulette wheel of fate my butt." A red-headed girl in a dress similar to the one Alice wore in Alice in Wonderland said, as she walked out a door and into a dance with vegetables... dancing vegetables.

The redhead is talking to 'master pig' and trips upon a penguin, "Oh no, not you guys again."

"Don't interrupt our dance!" The penguins point firecrackers in her direction.

"Don't interrupt our funeral!" The penguins point shovels towards this red headed girl.

"Hey Mr. Puppet master! The trick's your playing on me are just plain rude!" the red head walks up to a throne and sees that it's not the puppet master, but instead a friend, "Zel, Zel, wake up!"

Zel was being strangled by this red headed girl, "I can't breath! I was tired and I just fell asleep. Don't jump to conclusions!" Zelgadis said, wearing a Shakespeare-esk outfit.

(Yes, the red-head is Lina Inverse)

Zelgadis: What the hell are you watching!

Schweppes: My favorite episode! Ep. 67 of Slayers Try

Meilin: Mine too! Oh... And whatever's Anime on Demand right now. Did you know there was a mini plushie of you in Gourry's bra when he cross-dressed in episode 18, right before you came back? (NOTE: Anime on Demand is different for the different cable companies)

Zelgadis: -Sweatdrops, twitches, and squinty eyes- GOURRY!

-a summoned closet door appears on command and opens with a Gourry falling out, landing on his face-

Gourry: Where am I?

Zelgadis: What's this about? -holds up a picture of Gourry's stuffed bra, in the right a plushie of Zel is seen peeking out-

Gourry: I don't know what you're talking about

Lina Inverse: -walking out of the closet after Gourry- Zel! What are you doing here?

Zelgadis: Why is there a plushie of me sticking out of Gourry's bra? -holds up the picture for Lina to see-

Lina: Gourry has the memory of a goldfish.

Malik: Hey, you're the people on the TV!

Lina: Eh? What are you talking about? -looks at the TV-

-TV- Penguins: DON'T INTERRUPT OUR MARCH! -End TV time-

Lina: AH! Not them again!

Penguins: Don't interrupt our episode!

Lina: They're everywhere!

WARNING: This fic contains craziness beyond all belief... and yaoi. Schweppes would like Yuri... but the Yaoi overpowers. Here's some facts for you, if you say you want shounen-ai doushinji(sp?) in Japan, they'll think you're a pedafile and will probably tell you to leave the country. They also don't use Yaoi and Yuri like the western fans do... the western fans have their own language of sorts. I think Otaku's an insult there as well. My facts might not be true, I might have messed it up somewhere, so DON'T TRUST THE FACTS! They'll eat you if you're not careful. But from what I can remember (I have a bad memory) that was said by someone who's reasearched that kind of stuff for years.

Gir: We have a new reviewer! -does a little dance-

Schweppes: Yay! It's been so long!

Gir: Chillywilly101 says this:

((( OMG LOOK! YOU HAVE ANOTHER REVIEWER! AND I DON'T KNOW WHO THAT REVIEWER IS!

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OMG I WANNA HUG GIR! -hugs- OMG HE'S SO CUTE! X3 )))

-Gir in little doggy disguise hunts down Chillywilly and hugs her with a Gir-style glomp-

Schweppes: So touching. (I'm wearing a Gir shirt... it says, "I still got a hug in me!" thought I should mention that... I didn't even notice) Oh, and to the new reviewer (TrolleyBounce), I wrote this chapter before I posted ch. 21, I just didn't want to stop writing. So I'll try and get Ariel into next chapter. (Do you mean the Disney one, or from something else?)
Trolley says: (((It's good. I like the Jack-miester.)))
-Gasp- She likes it too! -Squee!-

Jack: Jack-miester? o.O

Schweppes: DON'T QUESTION THE REVIEWERS! (Notice no Meilin? Shh, she doesn't know)

Disclaimer: Schweppes and Meilin don't own much of anything.. just the fic and the computer it's been typed on. but you should understand that by now... and the disclaimers live on (Why are love and live spelled so alike? Do you need love to live?)

Notes: ... (AN) ... -action- ... 'Riku thinking' ...
and that ff(dot)net is evil and won't let me use these characters (since I can't use them, I have to spell them out)

underscore, left and right arrow, asterisk (star), umm.. squiggly line (top left corner above tab using shift), brackets (squggly and boxy), equal sign, at sign, up arrow, and a ? and ! in a row... oh, and URL's

I don't understand why, but for some reason it hasn't let me use these or it would look better. -sigh- But when I remember to, I'm gonna put everything on my websight with prettyful colors and fonts, and basically non-edited. You don't have to read it if you don't want to, just scan it to see it glory. That will be fun. (up arrow, up arrow) lol. It works for now, I guess. Oh, I know how to get past that URL for last chapter...

http:(slash in the blanks... or words... hope it works! -end notes-

Last time: Footsteps were coming closer, feared to be Subaru's. She had turned the corner and had found us, up against the wall and closest to being able to hear anything about her meeting. Directly behind her were the other two who had been talking, Krim and the Silver Knight.

Toxicity
Chapter 22: The Battle

"Have you been eavesdropping?" This was the first thing Subaru said, and in a sharp manner.

"No, we've just been standing here, waiting for you." Jack took the liberty to answer for us.

Subaru looked from Jack to me, trying to decided if Jack was telling the truth, or only partial truth, or just a lie altogether.

Krim stepped forward, "Well, this doesn't concern me. I'll be going now."

As he started to walk away, Subaru grabbed him by the hair and pulled him back. "You're not going anywhere. You know more than you should if you're about to walk away."

"Aw, Subaru, don't ya trust me?" Krim was playing innocent.

"If Lady Subaru doesn't want you to leave, then you'll have to stay." Silver Knight put his hand on Krim's shoulder.

(Gourry: Nooo! Get off me!

-Zelgadis is strangling Gourry. Reason: unknown (bra thing forgotten)-

Hughes: What a lively bunch of people

Mustang: Yes, they're very annoying

Meilin: Where'd Ed go, I haven't seen him for a while, and why do all the chapters start with The?

Schweppes: The chapter thing, that's a coincidence, chapters just sound better starting with 'the'

Bakura: Ed fell though a hole in the floor, remember?

Meilin: Oh yeah, I forgot about that -sigh-

Schweppes: Due to popular request, I will now bring you a new game: Anime Bishies! Where we will have different categories and different bishies in each category. If the reviewer(s) wish(es) to vote on who wins, or nominate their favorite bishie... and this will basically be run by Meilin, for sexual preference reasons.

Sora: Popular request? Who requested it?

Meilin: I did, and I count for all of you! Muhahahahahahahaha!

Riku: Somehow, that just doesn't seem fair

Schweppes: We should have a fair too...

Riku: That's not what I meant!

Meilin: Hazaa! A Renaissance Fair! (we have attended one the previous weekend... and there was much rejoicing)

Schweppes: Anyone willing to volunteer their bodies for the Anime Bishie thing?

Dark: I'll volunteer! -hand upon hip, other showing the victory sign, and lastly showing gigantic dark (as in evil) smile- (ohh the puns)

Mustang: If Dark volunteers, then I will too

Hughes: And if Mustang volunteers, then I will too!

Meilin: Aww, but you're too old! -pointing at the military crew-

Dark: They're old? But I'm WAY older than them

Malik: You don't look older. You look much younger

Dark: Ya think so? Well, you're right! Don't forget prettier either

Bakura: And don't forget the gigantic Ego! -bows to the audience applauding (he hit play on a tape player)-

Schweppes: ON WITH THE FIC! We have been talking too long and the fic has been delayed! You shall all be sued, I bringeth you my lawyer

-out of dramatic mist Excel Excel emerges-

Excel: Muhahahaha!

Schweppes: This, is my lawyer.

Jack: You're seriously going to go though with this?

Schweppes: And if you want to beat me, then you'll all have to get lawyers as well

Meilin: -sweatdrop- You're crazy!

Schweppes: I will take everyone to court because they talk too much and stop the fic

Bakura: Doesn't anyone read the actual fic, or do they read just the notes?

Malik: They probably only read the notes, the fic's not as interesting

Schweppes: We can now continue with the fic, while lawyers are to be decided)

From behind us approached another person. This person had long white wings. "I have heard the rumors of new players who suffer the same troubles that Tsukasa went though." He addressed this to Subaru.

"Can you tell me who told you this, Balmung? I don't see how anyone would know yet." Subaru was getting annoyed.

He stepped closer to Subaru, "I am an administrator. No one has to tell me anything."

Sora interrupted the tension, "Umm... can you tell us what you're talking about?"

Balmung shot a threatening glare at Sora, "Are you the one that's been talked about?"

"I don't even know what you're talking about in the first place! How am I supposed to know if I'm the person or not?" Sora was on the verge of yelling.

The winged man turned away, "If you don't know, then it's probably not you."

"Oh, but it is them," Subaru informed him, "They're the one's that everyone's talking about."

Kurama spoke in a soothing voice, "If you don't mind, can you now tell us what you're talking about. If it's about us, then we have the right to know."

"Okay then. You are unable to get out of here, like we can. Tsukasa was the same way for a while. He just wandered around, he could feel the pain that we couldn't, he didn't have anywhere to stay that we knew of." Subaru told the tale. "People who usually have this problem were put into a coma when they fight the Data Bugs. But you told us that you haven't even played here once before."

"That's right. Our goal now, is to find all the keyblades that have been scattered about in many different worlds, so that they won't get abused, used for wrong purposes," Jack told them.

(Meilin: I don't think we should go on with this court thing. It's really stupid

Schweppes: Yes, but everyone's just getting so annoying, maybe if I do this, they'll shut up some.

Kouga: Fat chance

Tsukasa: Let's stop this stupid court thing and go on with the pageant thing

Schweppes: I guess you're right

Excel: Then what do I do?

Schweppes: Umm.. welcome to my world!

Hughes: I'm new here too -grin-

Mustang: That's nothing to be happy about

Gir: -spinning around on the floor- WHEEEE!

Excel: -picks Gir up by an ear- What the hell is this thing?

Meilin: That's Gir. He's a robot

DBZ Voice Guy: The categories are:

-- Best Quote
-- Bishie of the Fic (final category)
-- Most Seductive

And the rest will be chosen by you! The REVIEWERS! So if you want to nominate a bishie (will be decided if Schweppes and Meilin know who they are... internet search works too I suppose) or a category, REVIEW! There has to be more than one person reading this thing... maybe. If you believe in reviewers clap your hands and they'll live!

Gourry: Why are you doing this?

Sasame: Don't question them, it only makes it worse

Himino: I'll be going now! -runs as fast a possible to a closet --poof---

Meilin: We could've brought in Hayate for her.

-closet appears back, Himino steps out-

Himino: I think I'll stay now

Penguins: REVIEW!

Schweppes: We are starting to train these Penguins to say more than don't interrupt... blah blah)

Out of nowhere a green monster appeared about a foot away from them. It looked like a very big dog with a spiked collar and green flame around it.

"Balmung! They've never come to a city (is that what they're called?) before! It looks like a Hell Hound." Krim informed him.

Balmung turned around as quick as possible. "What is it doing here? We can't defeat it without Kite's bracelet!"

Sora and I took our fighting stances, ready to fight this monster with our keyblades. "We'll help." Sora told them.

The Data Bug looked right into my eyes and I charged, yelling in anger and adrenalin at it. Before anyone else even got there I took the Ultima Blade and slashed at it, causing the monster to roar.

"You idiot! You don't know what you're doing!" Silver Knight was yelling at me as he too ran up to it and attacked with his sword, "Everyone, if we join together, with their new weapons, we might be able to defeat them! It's weakness should be water!"

Subaru gasped, "I knew I sensed a strong aura, but I didn't know it was coming from your weapons." She stared in awe at the keyblade, just realizing how much power it had.

By now, everyone except for Subaru was attacking the monster.

"Okay now, on the count of three we all use Blizagara." Sora instructed us. Waiting for the cue, we got our keyblades ready. Hiei held out his Metal Chocobo and Kurama with the Divine Rose, "One..." Jack with the Oblivion, Meilin with the Oathkeeper and Schweppes with the Pumpkinhead, "Two..." Sora held out the Kingdom Key and I gripped tightly onto the Ultima Blade waiting for the last word to be spoken, "THREE!"

The second Sora yelled 'Three', everyone yielding a keyblade shouted "Blizagara". Subaru, Krim, Silver Knight, and Balmung just stared while an icy substance shot at the Data Bug, causing it howl in pain, momentarily putting the fire out that had surrounded it.

Foreign footsteps echoed in the distance, moving quickly, the sound speeding up. Tsukasa ran over as fast as he could, proving to be the owner of these rapid footsteps.

The boy then situated himself, holding out his staff facing it towards the Hell Hound and yelled, "Data Drain!" All eyes were on Tsukasa, who noticeably had the Spellbinder at his side, as well as his staff in his hands. He hovered in the air and a bright light came from his staff, consuming the Data Bug, holding it up, and making it immobile, again letting out another earsplitting shriek of pain. Tsukasa was panting an intent gaze upon the hound. He watched the green dog fall and slowly disintegrate until it disappeared. Everyone stayed quiet as they watched this event, making the only audible sounds the sounds of the dying monster.

When the Hell Hound had disappeared, the first noise came from Subaru, "Tsukasa! I didn't think you'd come! But how did you do the data drain? I thought that Kite was the only one who had that ability."

Tsukasa didn't say a word as he looked at her and smiled, a small laugh escaping his mouth. When he looked away from Subaru, he turned towards me and Sora. "Can you tell me," he held out the keyblade that hung at his side, "how to use this?"

I took the keyblade and examined it, even though I knew the condition from looking at it earlier, "Yes, I'll show you. It's not much different than using a sword." I handed back the Spellbinder and took a fighting stance.

Meilin: Time to end the chapter or else it will be too long

Schweppes: Yes, leave cliffhangers and they will come

Jack: You guys seem to be forgetting about me more and more as the fic goes on

Schweppes: Yes, I know. There's just so many people that I'm bound to forget someone... my memory's not the best anyway

Meilin: Ha, that's an understatement!

Bakura: We should have another anime of the day, that was fun

Malik: Yeah, but you should tell us who before you put it up there so we don't go getting any ugly people

Meilin: Ugly people, eh? That rules out Miyazaki's works. His style isn't all that attractive

Sasame: Is that the only reason you chose Pretear? Because I was pretty?

Schweppes: No, the anime's good too. Plus Himino's here too

Himino: Are you saying I'm ugly now?

Schweppes: Uh, no, of course not!

Meilin: It's time to end the notes now, so that this time they won't go on for forever

Schweppes: Yes, that's always a good thing

Kouga: Feh, where's Inuyasha anyway?

Schweppes: What didn't you get about the fact that you're not in your world anymore?

Kouga: I know that. But I was just wondering where he was

Meilin: Aww, he misses him. He wants us to bring in Inuyasha, right?

Kouga: Ummm... I guess so

Schweppes: NEXT TIME... now goodbye