A/N: Yay!!!! I feel so cool! 8 reviews, people! Can you believe it!? I'm so happy!!!! And it's all thanks to you! Now for the "Reviewer Response" thingies that I love to do ever so much!!!

Nightmare: Glad you liked it! But, no. That's SO not my thing. But he will continue to be the total stud he is without more bashes to his dignity. Maybe. Any other requests?

Metal mario 1: Ok.... If you want to help, go ahead and put suggestions in your next reviews! Ha ha ha!! Who knew Matthew had a brother?! Are you like, his REAL brother or like "Brotha from anotha motha," kind of brother? Word, yo.

Sleepyhead: I am so glad that you've liked it!! Don't get me wrong about the whole making fun of characters thing, I'm sure they know I love each and every one of them! I just like to poke fun at things like Canas' monocle and Heath's haircut. But despite all that, I'm glad you liked it anyway!! By the way, there'll be a few explosions in the later chappies if you want 'em!!

I have to give Nightmare a cookie or something, cause he (or she) has reviewed every chapter so far! And a reward to sleepyhead for giving me the longest review thus far! Thank you for the reviews! They really brighten my day! And when they're flames, they brighten them even more!!!(no pun intended!) Mont-what's his bucket hasn't put another review. Hmmm. I think that review was a flame.... Do you guys think that I'm making Sain look gay? I don't think so. Oh! If any of you have ideas, be sure to tell me, because after chapter 7 or 8 my creative juices run a little low. (Chapter 7 is SO messed up! It ties for my favorite with chapter 5!!!) But please, let's keep with the good, clean fun, ok? I don't want to put the rating up. Thankies! Meh, now on with the fic!!

Ch.4: MEANWHILE!!!!!

Kent was in his 48th hour of guard duty. His blood-shot eyes darted about nervously as he muttered inaudibly to himself.

"Oh Kent!!" Lyn called as she ran toward him.

"AHHHHH!!!!!"

Lyn stopped and raised an eyebrow, "Are you feeling ok?"

"Yes,uh-huh,yeah," he said sounding like 'I'm-mentally-unstable-so-don't screw-with-me-or-I-might-just-freak', "I'mfeelingfantastic,justgreat,howaboutyou?"

"I'm good... Oh, yeah! About your replacement, I've been looking all over, but I can't find him!"

"That'sallrightI'mreallyonarollrightnow!InfactIcouldkeepgoing!!JustliketheEnergizerbunny,justkeepgoingandgoingandgoingandgoing!!!!!!" He began to laugh maniacally.

"I'm starting to worry about you, Kent."

"It isn't ME you should worry about!!! The one you SHOULD worry about is..." he looked over both his shoulders before continuing, "Is THEM." He pointed to a small flower bed with daisies and all manner of pretty wild flower.

"What? The flowers?"

"No! The colored things flying around!!" he gave the butterflies a very sour look, "Look at them, fluttering around like they own the place...."

But Lyn didn't stick around to listen to his lunacy and made haste to find a decent replacement for Kent.

Kent watched Lyn run off into the distance, then whipped around and shook a very angry fist at the flower bed and butterflies.

"Look what you did, you little SAVAGES!!! You're going to pay DEARLY for this!!!!" He jumped off Maximus and threw himself into the flower bed, swinging his sword around aimlessly, "GHAAAAA!!!!"

ELSEWHERE!!!!!

Nergal was at WalMart with Limstella and Ephidel.

"What shall we search for today, master?" Limstella asked, "Do you need another pair of slippers or, perhaps an evil spice rack?"

"No," Nergal replied, "I'm searching for something modern that I can use in some evil manner. It's about time we caught up with the times."

"Why here? Isn't there some other store, something like a 'Modern Items for Evil Use' shop we could check? Searching for things in a super store like this makes things rather difficult..." Ephidel suggested.

Nergal let out a sigh and rolled his eye(s), "Well Ephidel, if you CAN find that shop, be sure to notify me and I'll save your worthless hide at our first attempt to summon up a dragon, which we ultimately fail, instead of letting you be vaporized along with it." He replied sarcastically.

Ephidel's lower lip trembled, "I get vaporized?"

Nergal waved off Ephidel's question, "Meh."

"Why don't we consider other options, milord? It most certainly would be easier to go to another store, rather than wander about in this labrynth..."

"No, specialty stores jack up their prices too much. You can't find better prices anywhere but here..... WalMart's got that RollBack thing...." he trailed off.

They then arrived at the Electronics Dept. after 2 hours of walking.

"These are modern things, right?" Nergal asked.

"They would appear to be." Limstella replied.

Just then, a lurpy, greasy, pimply 17 year-old boy walked by carrying a box.

"You!" Nergal barked at him.

Lurpy looked around.

"Yes, you! The awkward one! Attend me!"

"Sorry sir, I've gotta get this box of puppies to the Gardening Dept. or the Boss'll skin me alive."

"Oh, nonsense! I doubt that he'd even want to TOUCH you!" Nergal scoffed, making Lurpy frown, "Now get your disgusting hide over here!" Nergal demanded.

Lurpy reluctantly put the yelping box of puppies down and went to Nergal's aid.

"Ok," he said, "How may I help you?"

"I'm looking for some modern contraption to aid me in calling forth dragons and eventually taking over the world." Nergal said casually.

"Uhhh...." Lurpy thought deeply as he scratched a zit on his forehead, "I'm not sure we carry items like that, but I'm new here. Go ahead and browse around, though. I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for. And don't hesitate to ask a staff member if you have any questions."

"USELESS!!" Nergal dismissed him with a wave, "Now get out of my sight! Your appearance is appalling."

The teenager scowled and took up the writhing box of puppies, storming away muttering angrily about worker's rights or something to that effect.

"Lord Nergal, when did Ephidel leave?" Limstella asked.

"He left?" Nergal replied, sounding somewhat astonished.

"Shall I go find him?"

"Yes. Check the Lingerie section first. That's where he got lost last time...." Nergal said, picking up a camera, "What in the devil is this?"

Limstella, being a morph of her (or his?) duty, had already left without a word in search of Ephidel.

Nergal in the meantime, was totally fascinated by the camera, his behavior mirroring that of a chimp, hitting the camera on the table, and every time it made a noise recoiling in fear.

"How could you possibly use a device such as this? All it is is a box!" Nergal took a look around in search of a staff member, but saw a happy poster of a man, some woman and a couple of brats that seemed to be having a good time. Good time having was one of those things that bothered Nergal most, but instead of overreacting at the sight of the poster and doing something rash and violent, he noticed something, "It appears that the man in that poster is using the same device!" he muttered to himself.

After he had studied the poster thoroughly, he attempted to mimic it.

"Ok." He said as soon as he was SURE that he had it positioned the exact same way as the poster man did. He took a deep breath, and pushed the button.

"What? Nothing happened!!"

He fooled around with it again for a while, pushing a few buttons, and finally it began to make noise, "EEEK!!!" he screamed, throwing it at the table and diving for cover.

After a moment or two, he finally decided that it wasn't going to explode, and went to fiddle with it some more.

"Maybe something will happen this time," He said, repositioning it. But unfortunately, since he's an old fart and his vision isn't what it used to be, he placed the camera backwards with his one good eye looking right into the flash.

He plucked up all the courage he could muster and counted down, "Ok, on the count of three. One... Two...Three!" he said, pushing the button.

"POOF!!" said the flash as it blinded him.

For a moment, he did absolutely nothing. Then, he finally lowered the camera, VERY SLOWLY, and sat it on the table after a little searching.

"What a strange contraption... when you look into it and push the button, it completely robs you of vision..." said an awestruck Nergal.

Then he decided it was best to stand there and wait patiently for Limstella and Ephidel and/or his vision to return, or by some small chance some sort of seeing eye dog to lead him home.

A/N: Heh he he he... I don't know why, but I think it's funny when Limstella says "Evil spice rack." That wasn't as good as I thought it would be, but the other chapter with Nergal at WalMart is really random, so it'll be worth the wait! And one of my favorite chapters is coming up!! I'm sure you guys are going to LOVE it as much as I do!!! And don't forget to review!!!