Here's some bios of people that were introduced last chapter:

Name: Plex Human Nickname: none Birthday: FeBlueBerry 14 Age: 17 Sex: Male Talent: cannot be physically harmed (still gets minor bruises and cuts) Eyes: Blue Hair: blonde (spiked). Spikes turn blue in sunlight Height: 6'1" Family: Mother(Dawn), Father(Jeff), older twin Sister (Ryoa)
Notes: tends to be a bit clumsy at times, hence his power. When he is
going to be hurt by landing on the ground, the ground becomes soft,
like a mattress. He tends to be very hyper at times, extremely lazy at
others. He is affected less by the madness than others, as he already
has a slightly crazy personality. He shares a telepathic link with his
twin sister.

Name: Ryoa Human Nickname: Ry Birthday: FeBlueBerry 14 Age: 17 Sex: Female Talent: can summon and calm/befriend dragons Eyes: Blue Hair: blonde. Blue tint in sunlight Height: 5'11" Family: Mother(Dawn), Father(Jeff), younger twin brother (Plex) Notes: she tends to be a very quiet girl, and is learning the dragon language from Grundy. Her temper FLARES whenever she sees someone she loves or is close to hurt. In a fit of rage, sometimes her talent acts of its own accord and summons a dragon to smite the person agitating her

one more note:

"blah" is talking
'blah' is a quote inside a quote
'blah' is telepathic talking
:blah: means an action

Chapter 1 – And It Begins

"Warning! Warning! Mom alert in 5 minutes! The time is 6:25!"

"Eugh," Plex groaned as her rolled over and smacked his alarm. He didn't want to get up! He was 17, almost 18, and it was the middle of Jamboree, meaning it was supposed to be a vacation, and yet his mother still insisted that he and his sister get up at the Crack of Dawn! 'It's so you keep a normal sleep schedule,' she'd told them...

Since when did he do anything 'normal'? Furthermore, define 'normal.' 'Normal' for who? 6:30 in the morning was NOT 'normal' by his standards.

He heard a similar alarm go off in the next room. His knowledge of his sister's habits told him that she, too, had rolled over and smacked her alarm. He got up and walked out into the hall. Halfway to the bathroom, he ran into his sister.

Literally.

"OW! Plex! Watch where you're going for once in your life!" Ryoa said angrily as she rubbed her head.

"You watch where you're going! And by the way, you got yourself one serious case of dragon mouth! Be sure to brush your teeth when I'm done."

Needless to say, neither of them were morning people.

"What do you mean when you're done? I got the bathroom first!"

"No, it's mine!"

There was a short pause...

"MINE!" they screamed at the same time and ran for the bathroom.

The door to the bathroom was closed, but it was also green signifying that it was unoccupied. Plex got an evil grin on his face as he pulled ahead of Ryoa, and ran straight for the closed door, not slowing down at all.

When he reached the door, it got a Plex-sized hole that closed immediately after he passed through it. He heard Ryoa smack into the now solid, red door.

"OW! Dammit Plex! That's the second time this morning! And you cheated!" Ryoa screamed after she recovered her senses, which had been knocked out of her head from the force of the impact.

"I mock you with my monkey pants," Plex said as he came out of the bathroom and pointed to his boxers... which had monkeys on them.

"Damn cocky brother," Ryoa muttered as she went into the bathroom. Plex smiled as he went back to his room and started to get dressed.

Just as he pulled on his blue jeans, his mother came in his room, not bothering to knock.

"Mom! Knocking! Learn it! Know it! Use it!" Plex shouted.

"Oh, Plex, I've seen you nude before, what's the big deal? Also, I'm your mother, I don't have to knock. Besides, you walk around in your underwear. Now hurry up and come down to breakfast." She turned and left, leaving the door wide open.

Ryoa walked into her room and started to get dressed. She heard Plex ranting about their mom knocking. 'Please,' she thought to herself,' the guy walks around in his underwear, but he still insists that mom knocks! Yeah, that makes sense...'

Ryoa sighed at her strange brother's antics and decided on a pair of brown, no, yellow, no, blue jean shorts.

She was, of course, already wearing her panties.

As she was pulling on her shirt, she heard her door open. She screamed lightly and jerked her shirt down quickly.

"Mom! Knocking! Learn it! Know it! Use it!" she yelled at her mother, who just rolled her eyes and sighed.

"Your brother and you are so alike, and you don't even realise it..." she trailed off. "But anyway, just come down for breakfast." She turned and left, leaving the door wide open. Ryoa sighed, brushed her hair, and went downstairs for breakfast.

"Aw, mom," Plex whined as his mother gave him mundane oatmeal for breakfast, "can't I just have the Wild Oats I found in the back yard?"

"PLEX!" Dawn shouted. "Jeff! Tell your son that he is not allowed to have any Wild Oats whatsoever!" she demanded, getting in two exclamation points.

"Well..." Jeff started, but trailed off, finding little reason to penalize Plex for his hormones.

Dawn shot him a Look.

Jeff gathered all of his courage, which had fallen onto his shoulder when he was looked at, and turned back to Plex.

"Plex, while I see no problem with it, your mother does not wish you to associate with the Wild Oats. But I do ask that, please, do us all a favor and wait a month or two until you try anything. No Conspiracy violation."

Jeff did not have the full concept of the Adult Conspiracy, having been born and raised in Mundania, and often let slip more than he should. That accounts for how Ryoa and Plex know More Than Enough when it comes to the Conspiracy.

When Jeff finished talking, Dawn reached over and cuffed him on the back of the head. Ryoa reached to do the same to Plex, but when her hand almost hit his head, it did not hit, but passed right through his head.

A light bulb appeared above her head, and Ryoa went to repeat her actions. But this time she stopped when her hand was in the middle of his head.

"Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle," she said sickeningly sweetly as she wiggled her fingers in Plex's head.

"Ow! OW! Brain! BRAIN! BRAIN!" Plex screamed as he did a little dance trying to get Ryoa's hand out of his head.

The three exclamation points stunned Ryoa, and she let her hand drop. Plex glared at her.

'Evil' Plex thought at her, rubbing his head. She hadn't hurt him, of course, she couldn't, but it had tickled like nothing else had or ever will.

'Serves you right' Ryoa thought back at him, glaring, but also grinning mischievously, and went back to her oatmeal.

"Hey, Mom?" Plex asked after a few minutes, "Can me and Ry go visit Ceito and his parents today?"

"May Ryoa and I visit," Dawn corrected him, "Yes, I suppose you may visit them after your spelling lessons." Dawn had changed greatly since her teenage years. Gone were the days when she and Eve would flirt ceaselessly with any and all males their age...or a bit older. Having children had completely changed her. Eve had also changed after having her son, who was three years younger than Plex and Ryoa.

"Aw, mamma," it was Ryoa's turn to whine. "Can't we have a lesson there? They are centaurs, after all."

Dawn sighed.

"Please?" both Plex and Ryoa said as they pulled the twin angel bit and got identical innocent looks on their faces.

Dawn saw little haloes and wings appear on her children. (p/n: liar)

"Well..." the twins added puppy-dog eyes to top it off, and saw their mother's resolve crumble away. "Ok, but you have to learn something while you're there."

"Yay! Thanks mom!" they cheered, still speaking and acting simultaneously. They jumped up, ran around either side of the table, hugged her, and ran off to get ready.

"I swear," Dawn told Jeff after Plex and Ryoa had left, "they may be conspiracy-age in a month, but they'll always be 3 years old, the way they pull that twin angel act." she sighed "and it works every time..."

Jeff sighed. "No matter how old they get in years, they'll always be our little angels, even if they can be a pain in the ass sometimes..."

"Hey, Ceito," Ryoa said as they approached the centaur's hut.

"Hello Ryoa, hey Plex," Ceito replied as he trotted up to them.

"Hey, our mom said that since we came here instead of doing our spelling lessons, we have to learn something while we're here," Plex told him.

"Ok, I'll tell my dam. C'mon inside."

inside

"Mom! Aunt Dawn said that Plex and Ryoa have to learn something here!" Ceito shouted across the hut.

"Ok," she called back. "Come in the kitchen."

Ceito's family was not your standard centaur family. They did many things like humans, because both of his parents had ran off and gotten lost when they were young. They had been taken in by a village of humans and had been raised as human children. When they had grown up and had foals of their own, they had raised their foals the same way that they had been raised.

Also, they all had magic talents.

Ceito's mother, Jane, could prepare food with her mind, and his father, Carl, had the talent that his coat was always magically soft, shiny, and un- tangled, no matter how much dirt and dust was gathered. (p/n: no, that's not 3 talents, it's all the talent of glamour...yes, odd for a guy, but they're entire family is odd. And I'm odd for thinking it up. Deal with it.) His sister, Klepto, could summon any object that did not belong to her.

Ceito's mom was making a mundane chocolate cake in the kitchen.

"So," she said as she turned to look at them, "Dawn says that you have to learn something here...I smell a loop hole. What lesson did you skip?"

"Spelling." Plex spat out the word as if it burned his tongue.

"Ok. Do either of you know how to make a mundane cake?" she asked with a glint in her eye.

"No, but we know how to eat them," Ryoa replied.

"Yeah!" Plex agreed.

"Good. Here's your lesson for today: How to Make a Mundane Cake. Plex, you write it down, and Ryoa can put it together."

"Ok," they both replied.

She set out the pre-measured ingredients for Ryoa, and set them both to work. After a while, she leaned over Plex's shoulder to see how he had done. She rolled her eyes at his genealogy. Ryoa joined her.

Mundane choklit kake

1. tak egs oil and water
2. miks slowlee with kake miks (bake-ing Tsoda sugar and flower
koko powder)

"Flower? Are you sure Great-Grandpa Dor didn't write this? And what's bake- ing Tsoda sugar?"

"It's supposed to be 'baking soda, sugar' and I read it in one of my books!" Ceito exclaimed as he ran across the hut to the bookshelf.

"'Baking soda: the product of letting Tsoda Popka sit in the sun for too long. Doing this erases the "T" and the "Popka" leaving behind a soft, white powder used for baking.'" He read aloud.

"You're too smart..." Plex complained as he wrote.

"Moving on..." Jane cut in.

"'Tak kake miks and ad al contents inn two a bole'" Ryoa read over Plex's shoulder. "You get more like Grandpa Dolph and them every day!"

"Yeah, well, you get more like mom and them every day!"

"What's a kake miks?" Ryoa asked, ignoring Plex's comment.

"Cake mix," Jane corrected.

"I think it might be a special combination of music just for baking..." Plex mused aloud.

"No Plex, though you're only a few words off," Jane said. "A cake mix is a special combination of ingredients that are given so that one doesn't have to make the cake from scratch. In this case, the mix has flour, cocoa powder, sugar, and baking soda. It's just a way to save time," she explained.

"Oh," both Plex and Ryoa said.

"Do you have everything mixed, Ryoa?" Jane asked.

"Yes."

"Ok. Pour it into the pan and we'll set the timer to bake it."

"Ok." They put the batter into the oven and set it to bake. Jane made some instant cookies, using her talent, and they all sat around the table.

"So," Jane struck up a conversation, "what are your guys' plans to do?"

"I plan to start looking around for a potential mate," Ceito stated calmly.

"I wanna sleep as late as I can," Plex replied.

Ryoa blushed and answered, "I think it's about time I started looking for my true love..."she said very quietly. Plex looked a little shocked, this was news to him, and he didn't particularly like it.

"Why would you wanna go and do that for? Are you getting bored with hanging around with me?" Plex looked and felt very dejected.

"NO! Of course not! It's just that, well, you're great to hang around with, but I'm starting to want someone who I can be romantic with. And incest is icky. Even worse if it's twincest. " Ryoa told him.

"Yeah, you have a point. It's nasty even thinking of banging my twin sister...it'd be like me banging a female me..." Plex shuddered. "and that's just...eww" :twitch:

"Plex!" Jane scorned. "Watch that mouth of yours, mister! You're not quite 18 yet." True enough, the twins and Ceito's ears had turned a bit red at Plex's profanitive (p/n: ok maybe that's not a real word, according to Microsoft Word. It is for me, so too bad.) language, even if it wasn't a technical conspiracy word, being mundane and all. Dad's mundane-ness strikes again.

"If only I knew who my true love was..." Ryoa mumbled with a sigh.

"Why don't we ask Humphrey?" Ceito proposed.

"That's it!" Jane shouted. "Go to Humphrey and ask a Question! That'll be sure to give you something to do."

"OK, sounds good to me. Let's go," Ryoa stated as she stood and left the kitchen, Plex and Ceito right behind her.

"Bye Mom! We'll be back later!" Ceito called as they left the hut.

:cheezy traveling music Plex gets fed up with the traveling music, presses a "stop" button, and changes the CD to one he made himself:

Leaving from the centaur's cottage, Ryoa, Plex and Ceito headed towards the Good Magician's castle, or in the direction it was supposed to be anyway. Ryoa had summoned up a dragon, more specifically a large-winged firedrake, to ride to the castle.

This particular dragon was a frequent guest at the twin's home, and today would not be the last time it would visit the girl. They went on the trail with little distraction, and even went over the Gap Chasm without hindrance, thanks to both Grandma Ivy and Ryoa's talent.

But, soon the group came upon a extremely large wall, that was made of a smooth brick, making it impossible to climb over, and it extended as far as the eye could see, making it impossible to go around, leaving only one choice. Plex and Ryoa slid off the drake to converse with Ceito on the ground.

"Ry, you're going to have to fly over it," Plex said to her.

"I can't! I'm too afraid of heights! What if I die!" Ryoa was starting to panic.

"What's more important to you? Your fear of heights, or your lo-your question getting answered?" Ryoa, failing to notice his little slip of speech, nodded and climbed back on the drake. Plex climbed up behind her, and Ceito allowed himself to be gently taken in the dragon's claws.

Ryoa's stomach had decided to stay on the ground as they flew up.

"See?" Plex said softly. "This isn't so bad. Look we're landing right now."

"I can't see anything. I won't see anything. My eyes are closed and aren't opening until I feel the ground beneath my feet." Her stomach decided it liked her better than sitting by itself, and came back as soon as they landed. Ryoa opened her eyes and heaved a sigh of relief. They traveled on, avoiding the loveliest paths that, more likely then not, would lead to a tangle tree. And then, yet again, they came upon a wall.

This one seemed no different then any other wall you might come upon, besides the fact that it was the same width as the last on and impossibly tall, but as Plex ran towards it to get through to the other side, knowing that Ryoa would not fly over, he discovered that his talent didn't work. He crashed hard into the wall.

"Stupid wall! You are a retarded excuse for a wall and you..."

several minutes later

"How dare you defy me you stupid pile of bricks and there's a door...right...there..." Plex said, looking rather sheepish. Plex let out a soft "baaa" as his sister dismissed the drake, opened the door and walked through, closely followed by Ceito, and finally by Plex, who gathered up the shreds of his dignity and stepped through.

Once again, the small party came upon a wall. This one had words inscribed on it's surface.

"You are driving a bus. It can hold 30 people, and at the first stop, the bus becomes 1/3 full. At the next stop, 3 people get off and 5 get on. Then, all passengers except one get off, and 20 people get on. 3 people get off at the next stop. What is the name of the bus driver?"

After it had been read, the words disappeared.

"OH! Oh! I know! Pick me!" Plex shouted, raising his hand and waving it wildly while jumping like a little kid. "I know the answer! It's morujg..." Ryoa covered his mouth with her hand.

"Quiet, you. This is Ceito's challenge. You already had yours. Remember the wall?" Plex looked down, like a puppy who knew he had done something wrong.

"Umm..." the highly-intellectual centaur was stumped.

"Maybe the answer is easier and simpler then you think. Use that memory, think about every sentence," Ryoa hinted in the most off-hand vague way.

"Yeah, I mean, I got it in a few seconds," Plex added.

"Well, if Plex got it, it must be very simple. Ok, lemme see...'I'm driving a bus...' OH! Duh...in this case, the driver's name is Ceito!" and the wall disappeared.

The trio walked forward and was met by Ivy.

"Hello Ryoa, Plex, and Ceito," Ivy greeted. "Wira's sick today, that's why I'm filling in, but Humphrey will see you one at a time. Ryoa, ladies first."

Ryoa climbed up the staircase and entered Humphrey's study. He barely grunted an acknowledgement, but it was enough to signal her to ask her Question.

"How do I find my true love?" Ryoa asked.

"Ret-"at that moment, just before he could complete the first word, Plex burst through the door. Literally.

"WAIT!" he shouted. Both Humphrey and Ryoa stared at him. "I want to hear, too."

The girl and the gnome rolled their eyes at him. Plex shrugged. With a reproachful glare, Humphrey returned to his book and said,

"Return what Klepto stole - and don't even bother sending the centaur up here, his answer is the same. There will be no fee as you are of the royal line."

Plex and Ryoa, knowing that this was all they were going to receive from the runt, headed back downstairs. Halfway down, Plex tripped and rolled the rest of the way down. The Gorgon was waiting at the bottom of the stairs, and simply shifted out of the way as Plex rolled past her.

Then Plex saw the tray of cookies the Gorgon was holding.

Plex dived for them, but was stopped by Ceito's hoof, which sent him sprawling back to the floor.

"In the kitchen, Plex," Ceito scolded.

"Aw, you mean I gotta walk all that way just for a cookie?" Plex whined. "Eh, it's worth it." Plex side-stepped to the left, just inside of the doorway to the kitchen, and snatched a cookie before anyone could stop him. He took a bite and plopped down contentedly in a chair. He finished the cookie in record time. (P/n: all the while looking like a squirrel.)

Ryoa sighed and shook her head. "Such a dork." She muttered as she sat gracefully across from Plex ...and snatched a cookie in the same manner that Plex had.

"Hypocrite," Plex muttered as he took another cookie. In his head, an image of Ryoa sticking out her tongue at him appeared. He physically stuck out his tongue at her in return and then turned to Ceito. "Ceito, what was your Question? Whatever it was, it ha the same answer as Ryoa's."

"Mine? Well, my dam wanted me to find a respectable filly, so I can to find one that I would like as well."

Plex made a face. "Eugh, all of this romantic stuff is making me sick." Sure enough, his face had acquired a green-ish tint.

"Oh, Plex. Do us all a favor and grow up, ok?" Ryoa shot at him. "You're just being stupid 'cuz you know that no girl will ever go for you."

"Am not!" but his ears were smoking from that burn he had just received. "I could get any girl I want, I just haven't found one that I want yet. I'm waiting for the perfect person for me." He crossed his arms in a pout.

Ryoa sighed and rolled her eyes. 'Brothers' she scoffed to herself.

end chapter 1

and that's chapter one.

- the comment about incest and "twincest" belongs to baneofJean from her X-men: Evolution fic, "Reconciliation"

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