Authors Note: I can't quite say I'm sorry for not updating since November because… I'm not. I had to save no less than 3 different species of turkey vultures from the ongoing threat of violent video games. Sadly, the last sentence was a complete lie. What I was really doing was playing Maple Story since I'm now addicted to it. I'm a level 31 Spearman on the Broa server. I just wanted to tell that to someone.
Chapter 5:
The moon hung overhead as the small group emerged from the tunnel. For some reason, Regal had brought the strange Yellow firearm with him and explained that it was actually a lightning Gun used to assassinate JFK by the illuminati's elite ninja team. Lloyd on other hand wasn't paying any attention to Regal's droning, and was instead more interested with the strange ninja girl and the two rat things that were seemingly hiding from something.
"… And that's why The Question doesn't show his face to anyone. Not even Batman." Regal finished.
"I don't think that he was paying any attention to you." Genis told Regal quietly.
"That's because Lloyd is to busy starring at…" Zelos broke off after seeing what his companion was staring at.
"LLYOD IS STARING AT A GIRL! THEY'VE MANAGED TO BREECH THE TRIET BORDER! Quickly everyone! Put on the Gas masks I gave to you earlier! I also prepared an antidote for the cooties. We'll all take a dose as soon as we get out of the infected area! I have an emergency escape route planned so-" Zelos felt a large slap on the back of his head.
"I always wanted to be on the other end of that." Genis said with a smug expression on his face.
"Did your mom ever tell you you're a little prick?" Zelos asked as his eyes narrowed. Of course, they were hidden under his gas mask.
"Did your mom ever tell you you're a SHUT UP?" Genis replied a bit annoyed with Zelos's behavior.
"Could you guys please just shut it for a sec? I think that ninja is up to something." Lloyd asked his friends as Genis used his kedama to shoot Zelos with a sword made out of thunder.
"Shit! If she hears us she'll probably-" Lloyd turned to face the strange girl. No go. She had most likely spotted them and ran away.
"Nicely done! However, next time we try to get rid of them, I would prefer if the brat didn't shoot me with swords the size of Halley's comet." Zelos said as he removed his mask.
"You know what Zelos?" Genis asked in an all-too-sweet-for-Genis voice.
"Waddaya want?" Zelos asked back, secretly fearing that the diminutive half-elf might shoot him again.
"You're a goddamn idiot." Genis replied in the same voice, though his eyes gave away that he was infuriated. CRAZY infuriated.
"You're just saying that shit because you wanted to get with her! Just like you're pathetic attempts at making passes at my sister." Zelos said, as he turned away from the group.
"H-H-Hey! So what If girls with pink hair turn me on! At least I'm not an immature cootie-phobic." Genis replied, his face now flushed. "Besides, what would you say if you were hitting on girls?"
"Not like it's ever going to happen but I'd probably say…" Zelos stood up to his full height, combed his hair back and said in a voice that sounded pretty deep and impressive for his age "Hey there my cool hunnie, care to take a spin on my new reihard?"
"Girls aren't going to be impressed by that you twit!" Genis croaked.
"Yeah, well it's better that saying things like 'S-Seles you look r-r-really g-g-g-g-g-ood in that hat.'" Zelos said as he did a terrible impersonation of the silver haired half elf, how was now seething with rage.
"Anyway, I wouldn't ever associate myself with the enemy. If I catch the cooties, then I'm as good as dead. Besides, My dad caught the cooties and died from it. I don't plan on going the same way he did." And with that, Zelos turned away and walked over to where Lloyd and Regal were standing.
Lloyd thought that he saw a small gleam of light at the base of the cliff. He had asked Regal if he could see any kind of activity using the snip scope on his LG (short for lightning gun, just so you know), but he cold only spot silhouettes of people, who seemed to be recovering from some kind of attack.
Come to think of it, if there were people down there, he should probably go and help them. After all, he was a hero, and if he helped them, he could put it on his college application as "community service".
After calming Zelos and Genis down, the group made their way down the cliff, As they made their way to the campsite, Lloyd could spot a man who could only be a couple of years older than him, a woman in a disturbingly revealing ninja style, and… Colette?
"Lloyd! I didn't know you were on a journey of regeneration too! Anyway, we got attacked by a couple of fox things earlier, and now we're going to roast marshmallows and tell ghost stories!" Colette said as soon as Lloyd's group reached the camp.
"I'm not on a journey of regeneration! We got kicked out of the village because we errr… well let's just say that Lumpy doesn't have a place to live anymore. " Lloyd replied, not at all embarrassed, remembering the look on Forceystus's face when he discovered that his mansion had been reduced to a pile of fried sludge.
"Lloyd, I hope you're not going to tell me that you burnt Forceystus's house down after the mayor hit you with that non-aggression treaty that would you're fellow classmate to torment you to extremes while all you're complaints were ignored by the people of the village and the other teachers back at the school..." The woman in the stealth suit said, in a voice that Lloyd Genis and Zelos recognized all to well.
"Raine, please tell me that's not you in the suit." Genis said, taken a bit aback. His sister was wearing some kind of huge rubber like assassin suit, and was constantly trying to get the guy with the brownish-red hair's eye. Genis wasn't sure if she knew that he was asleep. Granted, it was a bit hard to tell, because he seemed to be standing.
"Oh. Yeah. The suit… I'm sorry I never told you kids that I'm a professional Assassin, but I figured that if you kids didn't know, I would somehow be protecting you. Since the Bad guys never go after kids who are ignorant an all…" Raine said as she removed her ninja mask that was part of a Halloween costume at wal-mart.
"I guess now that you know my deepest secret, I'll have to tell you kids about how Colette's journey has gone so far."
Raine briefly explained how their journey had gone. Apparently, all that had happened was that two rat things and an inept ninja failed at taking Colette's life twice.
"It looks like the journey is going to be pretty smooth from here on out. No more fighting Desian Leaders, no more dueling Gigantic monsters, and it looks like the seal won't be to hard to get rid of. Eyup. Things are only going to get easier from here." Lloyd thought to himself as he drifted into slumber.