A/N: I liked the last chapter... Ok, big announcement. I won't be able to update nearly as frequently as I have in the past, just because right now I'm transferring to an art school(w00t!) where they'll actually EXPECT me to work! So I'll update as often as I can, but if I don't update for a while, don't lose faith in me, please!! I'll probably have to type up my chapters on the weekends, or something.
Anyway, this'll be one of those chapters where the MEANWHILE!!!!! thing is used a lot. All of the meanwhiles mean that I'm going to have material for the next few chapters! Yay! Ok, whatever. Shut up, Jordan! (Slap, slap, slap!!!) I originally had Pent characterized differently, but then I decided that he reminded me way too much of the way Ivanfanatic characterizes Pent, so I made he and Louise more like Don Quixote, if any of you know what that is.... At any rate, tell me how it goes. Thankies!
Ch.8: Kent's Replacement(s)!?
"Keeeeeennnt....."
'Hm?' Kent thought, 'Who's that?'
"Keeeeeennnt...." The same voice said, "Wakey, wakey..."
Someone else giggled, "Oh, just let him sleep, Farina!"
"I'll bet he was exhausted," a third voice said, "The poor thing. He was on watch for something like 72 hours straight."
Farina grabbed a stick and poked him.
"He probably won't wake up, Farina,"
Farina shrugged it off and continued to poke him
Eventually, Kent rolled over, "Mmeh..." he said, lazily waving his hand around like he were swatting flies.
"See? Now can we please leave him alone?" a nervous voice asked, "I'm not sure I want him to wake up..."
"Nah, don't worry, Florina! Kent's totally harmless! Wait! I've got an idea!! Both of you shut up!"
Farina cleared her throat, "KENT!!! IT'S LYN!!!!!"
Kent shot up as if he weren't sleeping like a rock two seconds ago, "Lady Lyndis?!" He looked around eagerly, but to his disappointment, all he saw was Florina, Farina and Fiora giggling like school girls.
Kent frowned, "What're you doing here?"
"We're your (Drumroll, please) REPLACEMENTS!!!!" The three said simultaneously.
"Oh,"
"Yes, sir!" Farina began enthusiastically, "Your replacements are none other than the Pegasus Sisters themselves: Farina,"
"Florina,"
"And Fiora!!"
"Yay!!!" they cheered.
"Oh,"
"N- now that we're covering your shift, you can go and shower!" Florina said, hiding behind Fiora.
"Shower?" Kent asked, ALMOST getting offended, but then he noticed his reflection in a mirror that was inexplicably hanging on a tree and saw that he was covered with dirt, grass and all sorts of nastiness. "Oh, Right."
Kent started on his way, but after a minute or two, he remembered that he forgot Maximus and Katrina-Bo, so he went back to get them. While he was there, he thought of something, "Hey, why are the three of you here? Just curious."
"Well," Fiora said, "Florina was the one who was originally asked to do it, but she was scared to do it alone, so she asked me to come along!"
"And I came because I could make some money!" Farina added.
"Yay!!!" They exclaimed in unison.
"Right." Kent said, "Well, have a good time!"
"We will!" They reassured him.
MEANWHILE!!!!!
Serra decided to give her tea party another shot. She invited the same guests as last time, but with the addition of Raven, Louise, Priscilla, and Pent this time around.
"Welcome to my party, everyone!" Serra announced, "I am SO glad that you could make it to 'Serra's Con'tea'nuation tea party!" She snickered at her stupid pun.
Erk just snorted and shifted angrily in the chair he was once again tied to, earning an evil glare from Serra.
"I'm very obliged to be here, milady!" Pent said, "Might I have another cup of tea?"
Serra was quite flattered, especially since he addressed her as "Milady", but then she remembered that he'd gone crazy a few days ago.
You see, he wasn't seated at a table like everyone else was, he was in the saddle of a horse WAY past its prime, wearing random peices of armor. Right next to him, Louise was seated on a donkey, equally past its prime.
"Pent, don't you--" Louise began.
"What? Are you talking to me, Louicita?"
Louise sighed, "Pent Quixote de la Mancha, Don't you think you've had enough tea?"
"Of course not, little Compadre! Now, another cup of tea, or it's off to the giants with you!!"
"Giants?" Erk said, "He really has lost it, hasn't he?"
"The 'Giants'" she replied, doing the quotation things with her fingers, "Were a bunch of windmills we ran into the other day. He went totally beserk when he saw them."
"They were threatening the safety of the entireity of the Kingdom of Spain!!" Pent exclaimed, "Thanks to me and my little compadre here, you're all tea partying in peace today!!"
MEANWHILE, AT TABLE TWO!!!!!
"I'm so glad we could spend this lovely afternoon together, Lord brother!" Priscilla said, beaming with happiness.
"Yeah. Me too." He replied.
"I helped plan the tea party again!" Lucius said, just figuring that the two of them would want to know.
"And it's perfect!" Priscilla and Raven replied.
MEANWHILE, AT TABLE THREE!!!!!
Nino, Heath, Guy and Canas sat at a table.
"Heath, you sure are quiet today." Canas said, "What's wrong?"
". . ."
"Heath, your Turbie-Twist is falling out..." Nino pointed out.
"I don't care..."
"Aw, c'mon Heath! Cheer up!" Guy said.
"I miss my hair!!!" Heath weeped, burying his face in his hands.
Nino patted Heath on the back, "It's all right, Heath! We're all here to help you through this!"
"We sure are!" Guy said.
"Thank you!" Heath said between sobs, "I- I- I can m- make it through this!"
"You sure can!" Canas said, "Jolly good show!"
MEANWHILE, BACK AT TABLE ONE!!!!!
Erk began to chuckle, "Hey Serra! I hope nobody comes to crash your tea party this time!"
"I'm sure nobody will..... If they know what's good for them, that is....."
MEANWHILE!!!!!
Matthew, Hector and Eliwood were taking Lowen home.
"Lord Hector?" Matthew asked.
"Hm?"
"Nothing personal, but your cloak's on fire."
"What? AHHHHH!!!" Hector began screaming his head off and frantically running around in circles.
MEANWHILE!!!!!
"This is SO boring!" Farina whined.
The other Pegasus Sisters ignored her whining, cause she'd been whining about how bored she was since the first hour they started.
"This is SOOO boring!!!" Farina whined again a few minutes later, in case her sisters hadn't heard her the first million times she stated it.
Fiora put her hands on her head as if she were ready to tear her hair out, "We know!! You've told us a billion times!!"
"This a colossal waste of time!" Farina said.
"You're making money, isn't that motivation enough?!" Florina said, uncharacteristically forceful.
"The boredom I'm suffering is so NOT worth the money!"
Fiora began massaging her temples, "So what are you planning on doing? Just leaving?"
Farina laughed, "Of course not! I'm simply going to find a way to make more money!"
Florina looked frightened, "That could only mean...."
"Yup, you guessed it!" Farina declared, "We make like Gitano (Hi-ta-no) Gypsies and put on a street show!"
Florina and Fiora exchanged glances.
MEANWHILE!!!!!
"KA-BOOOOM!!!"
There was a giant explosion in the castle lockeroom.
"Cripes, Eunice! He got away again!" Hannah yelled, watching Karel prance out of the room mockingly, "Ow! My back!!"
"MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!! You'll never catch me!!!" Karel had a look of sheer enjoyment plastered all over his face. He'd never had so much fun toying with anyone in his entire life.
MEANWHILE!!!!!
Sain was having a peaceful afternoon at home.
"It's so wonderful not to have mother here! I only wish I could do this more often!!"
Currently, Sain was compiling El Principe Juanito Francisco María Don Pan III's to invite list.
"Hmmm... Who to invite." Sain thought out loud, "Let's invite Kent, Maximus, Lowen, Katrina-Bo, Marcus, The Great Buffoon St. Edward of Boredom," Sain stopped, "Was that the name of Marcus' horse?" after thinking for a moment, he shrugged his shoulders and moved on, "Lady Lyndis, Priscilla, Rebecca, Serra, Isadora, Jossi's Little Helper, Fiora...."
MEANWHILE!!!!!
"A street show?" Fiora asked.
"Not just ANY street show," Farina hopped on to a nearby rock to look cool and important, "we're doing CIRCUS DUCKS!!!"
Florina and Fiora sweatdropped, "Circus ducks?"
"Well, yeah. The whole having a goat stand on a tiny pedestal wearing a stupid hat with insane circus music playing in the background thing is SO unoriginal, so we're doing circus ducks." Farina explained.
"Hey, I have an idea!" Fiora said.
"What fantastic, super-duper idea could you POSSIBLY have?" Farina asked sarcastically, rolling her eyes.
Her sisters frowned at her cutting sarcasm.
"That was uncalled for, Farina..." Florina said.
"My idea is way better than yours, Fiora."
Fiora knitted her brow, "How do you know that, huh?"
"Well, for one, I made them pay for my services, while you two joined for free."
They gave her a questioning look, "So?"
"Well, that just shows that you PLAINLY don't have an eye for money-making, and I do."
Still unsure how this really related to anything, the other two Pegasus Sisters continued to give her puzzled looks.
"I win." Farina said smugly, folding her arms.
"You can't say that my idea sucks until you've ACTUALLY heard it!" Fiora pouted.
"Oh fine!" Farina threw her hands into the air, "I'll listen if it'll stop your whining!"
MEANWHILE!!!!!
(True story!)
Jordan was sitting on her bed, leaning against the wall, listening to music and writing stupid stories. She was enjoying herself, swaying to the rhythm, singing and whatnot.
But, after a while she grew weary of her own stupidity and decided to stop writing and sit there instead. Some minutes later, for some reason she noticed her shadow on the wall, and suddenly began doing shadow puppets. Upon deciding that her right hand's shadow was a dog, she made it bark, "Woof, woof, woof..."
A few minutes later, she noticed her socks and had a lightbulb moment, "Hey... I could use my SOCKS as puppets!!"
So she took off one of her socks and began puppeteering. Inevitably, since she was listening to music, she began having the puppet sing the music. But it wasn't sufficient to have just ONE puppet when there are plainly TWO parts to the songs, so she removed the other sock so to have it sing harmony.
There she sat between the two of them rocking out, with her bouncing to the music, singing and the whole lot of them having a dandy time, which lasted for about an hour and a half, (End of true story) before Rebecca entered.
Dead silence.
"What're you doing?" Rebecca asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Rockin' out. And you?"
"I'm introducing my Great great great great great grandpa Gordon (twice removed) to everyone!" she replied cheerfully, either disregarding or completely missing the fact that Jordan was using the sock puppets to speak.
"That's," Jordan snickered a little, "GREAT!"
And the entire room burst into laughter over Jordan's left hand's pun.
"Great grandpa Gordon (twice removed) is from FE1," Wil said matter-of-factly, "Or whatever one Marth's in."
"Wow!" Jordan's right hand said, "The Green-haired archer kid and the Green-haired archer chick are related!!"
"The GHAK and GHAC! They're pronounced the same too!" her left hand laughed.
And once again, everyone burst out laughing, even if what her left hand said wasn't funny or relevent to anything.
Great grandpa Gordon (twice removed) narrowed his eyes in suspicion, "This is your 'Tactician?'"
"Yeah, Grandpa! Isn't she great?" Wil said.
"Great?" Great grandpa Gordon (twice removed) scoffed, "I'm starting to wonder why my progeny's lives are in the hands of someone who's currently using SOCKS to speak!"
"Don't be fooled by the puppets! She's really not as crazy as she looks!" Rebecca reassured him.
"Crazy or not, you whippersnappers ought to learn how to think for yourselves! Back in my day we didn't need any Tactician to give US direction!"
"That's cause back in YOUR day, everyone was weak and stupid." Jordan retorted, "Ooh! I love this song!"
Great grandpa Gordon (twice removed) was shocked and appalled, "How dare you! You ought to learn to respect your elders, little missy!"
"Actually Grandpa, you don't look old, considering we somehow surpassed the laws of space and time to bring you here in your teenage years." Rebecca pointed out.
"Yeah, and your pre-pubescent voice makes you sound like you're 12 or something, so maybe YOU should be respecting HER!" Wil pointed out further.
"Shut up!"
"Wow!" Jordan exclaimed with her eyes wide, "I found a Quarter in my pocket!"
"Quarter?" Great grandpa Gordon (twice removed) asked, "Quarter of what?"
Jordan rolled her eyes, " 'Quarter of what?' He asks. Now I know where Wil gets it from."
"What?" Wil asked, "What's that supposed to mean?"
MEANWHILE!!!!!
Kent took a bath and went to bed.
MEANWHILE!!!!!
Fiora told the other two Pegasus Sisters about her idea.
"What if we put on some sort of street show with our pegasi?" she suggested, "Then we won't have to worry about where we're supposed to get the ducks from!"
"It's not that hard to find ducks, Fiora." Farina said, "There are plenty of people here that own ducks."
"What? You were planning on buying them?" Florina asked.
"You forget, Florina, that I'm a total cheapskate."
"...Oh..."
"You'd steal ducks from other people's houses?!" Fiora looked shocked.
"Uh, yeah." Farina said with a subliminal 'Duh.'
"... Stealing's bad, Farina." Florina said.
"Well, Circus ducks is a total moneymaker! We'd be able to pay the duck's owners TWICE of what the ducks are worth once we make it big."
"Yeah, ONCE we make it big. If we EVER make it big." Fiora said skeptically.
"I really don't think that Fiora's idea is that bad, Farina...."
Farina only responded with a bratty-pout face.
". . ."
". . ."
". . ."
Suddenly, they heard someone screaming.
"AHHHHH!!! Somebody do something!!! I'm on fire!!!"
Hector suddenly rounded the corner, running like an Olympic sprinter ...... With its cape on fire.
"Oh wow! Maybe he'll pay us if we put him out!!"
"OUTTA MY WAY!!!" Hector said, pushing the Pegasus Sisters aside, throwing the front gates open, and dashing into the castle courtyard.
"Hector! I keep telling you, Stop, Drop and Roll! Stop, Drop and Roll!! All your running is feeding the flame!!!" Eliwood yelled, running through the gate after him.
The Pegasus Sisters sat there for a moment, stunned.
"Wait a sec..... HE PUSHED US OVER!!" Farina said, suddenly getting indignant.
"I can't believe he did that!" Fiora exclaimed.
"I-I think I landed on a rock," Florina cried, "M-m-my bum hurts!!"
Fiora went to comfort her little sister, "There, there Florina."
"You made Florina cry! Hector! We, the Pegasus Sisters, shall have our revenge!!" Farina vowed.
Suddenly, there was a crash heard followed by a piercing scream that could be recognized as Serra's.
A/N: Not too shabby eh? I think this one holds the record for being the longest!! 7 pages! Can you believe it?! I thought that this chapter was going to turn out bad, but it actually DIDN'T! Yay! Now on to reader responses!
Guardian Arrow: It was a little scary, wasn't it? Funny thing is, that it all just started with the term "Thinking Throne." I'm glad you like my chappies! I love them all too!!! (Hugs her chapters lovingly)
Brooke: Um, thanks Mom...... That's my mommy!! And what a coinkidink! I AM incredibly good-looking! Woah, talk about WEIRD!
Neonn: Geez, it's been a while since I've heard from you! Have you really played Fire Emblem?
Way to ruin the chapter! GOSH! Of course he doesn't have one! But don't worry, I still love you!(GLOMP!) Now I'll just have to dodge around it.... like I've been doing almost the entire story! MWA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
Now, answer me this, WHEN are you going to put another chapter in Butterfly effect?! I wanna know what happens!!
Hey, is Jossi still using the term 'Silly Moo?'
Destin the Mercenary: I'm glad that you liked it! What'd you like about the humor? Examples?
Believe me, I know about some of the typos if they involve words not being correctly spaced. I hate this stupid space bar! It's all messed up cause Marty types like a freaking Mongloid! I'm just gonna start blaming all the problems in my life on this blasted Spanish keyboard! And we'll name him Marty to mirror how much I also dislike my host brother! STUPID MARTY!!
Nightmare: Don't sweat the double review thing! Or the Eliwood thing, either! I've done my fair share of character bashing, too. I'm planning on doing TONS of bashing to Renault, because I hate him.
I'm planning on the wishes coming true, but I want more stuff between that. That'll probably be way later, along with the B-day party. Or not. This really has no set plot line!
Queen of the Insects: I don't hate Vaida. I just imagined Lowen as being the kind of guy that'd be totally scared of her. No, really, I don't hate Vaida! She practically RUNS the next chapter!
Ooh! I'll keep Athos and Brammimond in mind for later! Especially Brammimond! Hee hee hee.... What a silly it.
Thank you to all who reviewed! You are the lifeblood of this story! No, seriously, I wouldn't be putting chapters up were it not for you! GROUP GLOMP!!! Be sure to stay tuned for next chapter! Jaffar's in it! And Karla, too! YAY! I love you all!