I bet you thought you would have to wait for the next chapter well you didn't so whether you're pleased or unpleased my muse is back and I will be writing as long as it decides to grace me with it's presence.

Twitchy Eyes and Meatheads

Chapter Five

dude I can't believe I've kept up this long)

"M-m-m-m-m-m-m….," mumbled Prune.

"Spit it out I thought I taught you to speak better than that BEEEEEEP," snapped Yuki.

(Author interrupts: that BEEEEEEEEP was Prune's name, but do to technically difficulties it has been edited out. If and when these technical difficulties surrounding the pronunciation of Prune's name are solve you will know her name, but as it is you will have to live with her nickname; Prune. End author interruption.)

"Mother. It worked, the spell-potion thingamajig worked," shouted an exultant Prune.

Yuki raised her eyebrows slightly and said, "So that's why I'm alive. You see I was stuck in limbo with you father."

"Stuck in limbo?"

"I didn't finish what I set off to do in life, so I was stuck in limbo."

"Oh, why was Father there?"

"I can only assume he, too, had unfinished business," answered Yuki icily. "Why did you bring me back?"

Prune hesitated, then said, "I need help killing Ani. I can't do it. I've been looking for her and when ever she pops up and I go there she's gone again. It's frustrating." Prune finished lamely after the words tumbled out in an uncontrolled babble.

"Yes, I know. She's difficult to track. The one thing she knows how to do with any efficiency and skill is cover her own ass, other than that she has no basic life skills and that my dear, dear daughter is her very, very large weakness. On a different matter. Why did you bring my dear formerly deceased former husband back from the dead?"

"It was an accident," replied Prune. "I meant to bring back only you. I can only deduce that you chased him into the portal." Yuki nodded.

"Now time find Neal. Time to find Ani. And high past the time to kill them."

"Uhh, Mom, I already killed Neal."

"Yes, but you brought him back, so it's cancelled out."

"O….k, but I still think that I should get credit for killing him that first time."

"I told you it gets cancelled out its like adding -1 plus 1, you get nothing."

"But this is life, not math."

"Excuse me but I think that I'm the one who knows more about the subject."

"Not really."

"I'm the one in a position of authority."

"How so?"

"I'm your mother."

"Neal's my dad should I listen to him?"

"NO!"

"But-"

"SILENCE BEEEEEEEP (Prune's name again). You will listen to me. It cancels out you will not get credit for killing Neal."

Prune sulked.

Neal had found Ani in the Bo-Babb-Jab Islands. After the first shock of seeing Neal capitated (or is it un-decapitated?) things went back to normal. Ani filled Neal in as to what had been happening while he was dead. Prune was apparently the most powerful sorceress the world had ever seen, the little girl who predicted Prune was the next Lady Knight had gone into a depression because she got the future wrong, and Ani had been running from Prune.

(Author's Note: Prune is not the Lady Knight because Neal met Ani and the course of Destiny was changed for the worse. As you can see it's all Ani's fault, of course, and that she never should have come to Tortall, but without her there would not be a story so I think we need to forgive her for her unforgivable existence in Tortall. To Ani: No worries Ani I love you platonically of course. The Author's Note is a necessary literary/humor device which if you step back and look at it objectively you will see that I am right. It is necessary. Thank you for your time everyone back to the story and Ani I am truly deeply, sincerely, genuinely, truly, verily, most wondrously, miraculously sorry if you are offended in anyway.)

With Neal and Ani back together the chase was on. The Teams: Prune and Yuki and Neal and Ani, the Game: catch and kill the latter team and run as fast and as far away from the prior team.

(Scooby-Doo chase music plays and fades out.)

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