Silver Dragon: This is the second chapter, and it's for Gnome! Hurrah! Anyway, I tried to fit in the ribbon thing, so there. Oh! There was a question. The Spirits need money to make more bets, and for another reason, which will be mentioned in this. Enjoy!

Diclamer: Same as the first one.


Party!

"Party at my place and nobody is invited!" Gnome yelled, and all the Spirits looked at him with a 'what?' look on their faces.

"Why did you tell us that…?" Celsius asked, perplexed.

"Just kidding! Party at Undine's place and she isn't invited!" Gnome laughed. He always did this when he had his weekly parties. He'd kidnap a Summon Spirit, and use their house for his insane parties, and this week it was Undine! Sylph was still cleaning up from last time.

In a closet

The Summon Spirit of Water was banging on the door loudly, followed by her colourful curses. "Gnome! When I get out of here, I'm going to kick you ribbon wearing head into the sea!"

At Undine's House

Gnome walked around the room, beaming. It seemed that this week's party was the best yet, except that there had seemed to be a problem with the food.

Flashback

When Gnome wasn't partying, he was plotting for another party, staring down at a piece of paper, he muttered to himself.

"Hmm… I think I can get away with kidnapping her…"

"Yo, Boss, you said to get food, but what kind of food?" Big Brother asked.

"Good food, no wait, awesome food!" Gnome cried, smashing his fist against his desk.

"That doesn't help much."

"It helps plenty! Use your brain for the rest!"

"I don't know Boss, we aren't even invited to the party…"

"Well, you're going to get the food, or I'm not going to pay you!"

"… You pay us?"

Gnome looked around quickly, then his gaze rested on a picture. There was a long silence. "Yeah… With pies…."

"Oh! I like pie! We'll do it!" Big Brother ran off to get the 'awesome' food.

Gnome paused for a second, and looked towards the doorway. "Shorty!"

The small creature appeared in the doorway again, visibly steaming. "Yeah…" He gritted out.

"What did you do with last month's pay?"

Big Brother looked surprised, and then panicky. "Um… Threw it at someone's house…"

"Whose house?" Gnome responded.

"Someone… Just, whatever you do, don't look up." Said Shorty.

Gnome's eyes narrowed. A whitish goo dripped onto his head. "Custard. Alright. I'm going to count to zero."

Several intense pummelings later, Big Brother and his assorted siblings were on their way to the market. Or the hospital. Whichever was closer.

End Flashback

Gnome stared down at the food in front of him. "More than half of this food is vegetarian! Who in the world eats this stuff!"

Shadow raised his hand, and Gnome ignored him.

"Anyone?"

The envoy of the dark abyss raised his hand higher, almost waving it in the air. Gnome continued to ignore him.

"See, nobody eats vegetarian!"

Shadow glared at him.

"I guess this calls for an emergency fridge raid…. I wonder is Undine will get mad at me…" Gnome said, scratching his head. "Of course she won't! She loves me!"

With all doubt gone, Gnome raided Undine's fridge and got some more 'normal' food, which everyone was happy about.

In the closet

Undine had stopped banging on the door a while ago, to stop and think. The Earth seals and wards Gnome put on the door were quite strong, so she couldn't blindly attack; she had to think it through.

"Hopefully he hasn't destroyed my house, or else I'd have to strangle him…" The Summon Spirit paused. Where did Gnome's head end and his shoulders begin? It was really difficult to tell. "Ah, forget that plan, I'll just drown him."

Turning to the door, she started to scout out weaknesses, Gnome didn't usually think things through when a party was on his mind… Ah ha…

Undine's House

The other Spirits were giving him high fives and other congratulations on a job well done, except for Origin, who never came. Gnome didn't care, as long as the others were here and having fun, it was great.

Though… Shadow seemed to be mad at him for some unknown reason.

Yutis poked Gnome on the shoulder. "Gnome? I have to ask you something…"

"Yes?"

"I overheard you saying that Undine loves you, where did you get that idea?" Yutis asked, an amused look on her face.

"Well, she's always staring at me lovingly."

"She's glaring." The Spirit said simply.

"Really? Well… Why is she always hugging me?"

"She's trying to strangle you, but your neck is quite large, so she can't get her hands, or arms, around all the way."

"Oh…" It slowly dawned on Gnome, if Undine was trying to kill him even if he hadn't done anything wrong… Then…. "Okay, I'm going to have to cut this party short! Everyone out!"

Everyone left with some grief, and it was now a simple matter of trying to make things right again. "First things first, reverse the fridge raid…"

After stuffing all the food he could find, including the vegetarian, and duck taping it shut when the door refused to close on all the cabbage. "Right, now that that's done, there is only one thing to do…"

"Umm… Origin? Hey. Yeah, I'm sure you do. So how's…. Waiting for a pact-maker going? Umm…. It's hard to find my neck, so I don't think you could. Listen, I need a favour. What? I haven't even told you the favour! No! Don't hang up! I'm sorry about the horse incident! I did pay the hospital bills! Alright. Now, I need you to come here and clean Undine's house. What? What do you mean, 'why?' Because I'm lazy, that's full well why! The gnomelettes? They're… On vacation. As of now they can. Anyway, you're the only guy I know who would voluntarily waste their time cleaning a house. No! Wait! Waaaaiiiit! I'll give you…" Gnome skimmed his mind for any possessions of his that had any remote value. "… Pie. Lots of pie. You'll do it? I knew you'd come around. Thanks pal." The Summon Spirit of Earth placed the 'telephone', a newfangled magitechnology Undine had, back on its cradle.

Gnome, content with the state of affairs, he left with house, with Undine's keys.

Later

Undine burst into her house, ready to rip apart anything, preferably someone, to shreds. She was also expecting the worst possible state her house could be in, but she wasn't expecting this.

Everything was clean, perhaps even shining, even the door handles. Undine looked around, hoping to find the flaw that would prove Gnome had been here, but there was none.

The Summon Spirit of Water walked further into her home, maybe the stupid Spirit didn't have his party, but that was impossible, wasn't it?

Just then, Origin walked around the corner with a duster in hand, and pause when he saw Undine. All she could do was stare at the apron he was wearing. "I won't ask if you tell me where Gnome went."

"I do believe he went back to his house."

"Ah… He did have a party here, right?"

Origin looked around. "No?"

"He was here, and I'm going to get him and his ugly ribbon for it…" Undine marched out, and slammed the door behind her.

Origin shook his head, who would have thought that the Spirit of Water needed anger management classes?

The End

Silver Dragon: And there you go, I hoped you enjoyed it. Review, pretty please! And if you do, the next chapter will come, and it will be about our dear Origin, who is the only one who cares about the job.