Yes, Ch.9 is up! I think this is my favorite chapter yet. A surprise guest comes in; my best friend Kapricia is Snowkat! She plays a big part in my story and she had her own slaves. Pretty cool, huh? Thank again for all the review you guys! And I'll try to get Ch.10 up asap.

Ch.9

I flew all night to get to New Zealand and still didn't arrive until late the next day. Once I landed on then island, don't ask me how I knew it was the right place I just did for some strange odd reason, I fell into a deep sleep in the pilot's seat. I have no idea how long I've been napping but when I awoke I was most defiantly not in the same place that I remember. Instead of having aches and pains from the upright position of the aircraft, I was covered by a soft sea of animal pelts. At first I was too drowsy to notice that something was wrong but as sleep slowly left me I began to check out where the heck I was.

It looked as if I was shrunken down to the size of a mouse and let lose in a thorny brush. Exotic rugs hung by the sharp thorns on branches, holes ripped into them. Despite their abusive state and color fade, the rugs still glittered in the little rays of light; showing off their creator's compassion.

I almost didn't want to leave my nice cozy bed, but I had too if I wanted to find out where I was. It was tough getting rolling out of the pelts though. They were so soft that it seemed to engulf me, as if it didn't want me to leave. I finally fought my way out and stood on the hard dirt floor. Again there was no sings of life, just a giant hole in the bush that looked like a door. I decided to explore the place just so I could get my barring and trotted over to the hole like door. Out side the door was a hall like structure filled with life of creators. They ran here, walked there, someone shouted something and the whole hall boomed with laughter. The atmosphere was uplifting and encouraged me to join in. The only reason that I didn't was that the creators were the monkey monsters….again.

"Man, these guys are all over the place."

I sneaked back behind the plant-like door, they didn't seem to notice me and I wanted to keep it that way. As soon as the coast was clear, I made a mad dash down the hall and hopefully an exit. As I ran the cuffs of my pure white pants quickly became light brown from the loose dust I kicked up. After a while I noticed something. My running stamina increased. Instead of running for like10 minuets, I was running for like 20 and I wasn't even close to being tired. I also increased in speed as well.

"Of course, I'm a great runner now. Where was this when I needed it for P.E.?"

But I didn't have time to figure my new found running ability; a group of approaching voices came from down the hall and the direction where I was heading. I skidded to a halt and turned around but voices came closer from that direction as well.

"Great, I'm surrounded."

I looked around for yet another escape route. I thought I could clime the shrub wall but the thorns warned me away. I franticly searched for a new way out, the voices coming closer and closer with every passing second. I finally spotted a strong looking branch over head that was free of thorns. The only problem was that it was 20 feet or so off the ground. Now the last time I checked I could only jump three inches off the ground, a foot if I bent my knees. I had no other present option and I was rapidly running out of time.

"Here goes nothing."

I took a deep breath, crouched down as far as I could and rocketed into the air. I must have used too much energy because I overshot my target branch and had to grab it on my way down. I dangled from my arms and carefully watched the two groups of mutated monsters chatted as they walked right pass each other as well as me. Once I felt it was safe to move, I pulled myself up, demonstrating the unknown strength I had.

"Hmm, let's recap here, shall we? First I can run with the stamina of a triathlon runner, then I get the jumping abilities of a frog and finally I can do bench presses. This is good…I guess…but….ugh…this is so complicated that I don't want to think about it."

I looked for other branches thorns, afraid if I jumped back down I would break my neck. Apparently no one care to trim the top of the giant brush because there were several more naked pieces of wood pocking out of the dark green leaves. But just my luck, the closes one was at least 18 yards away, or to me it was. Considering my luck before I took another deep breath …..and leaped across the empty air. I made it with the greatest of ease and looked back, no believing my eyes.

"I so rock," I was very proud of myself.

I continued to leap from branch to branch in the same direction I was heading before, doing back flips here and there. As I acerbated my way around, I somehow managed a monkey giggle that reminded me of Mandarin, but somehow didn't sound evil like him(come to think of it I never could do an evil laugh but I can to an insane laugh, heehee). While I was in my giggle-ish fit, I once again over shot my target and began to fall straight down. I covered my face to offer it some protection, but after a few seconds, I realized I wasn't falling anymore. I looked up at the branch and found my tail raped tightly around the large stick.

"I have never been so thankful for my tail as I am right now."

As I hung there I noticed that I was no longer in the hall structure, but instead was in what looked like a n air ventilation, that, or it was just a big hole in the wall. I must have been concentrating on my swinging so hard that I didn't notice the small change. I was just about to clime back up onto the branch when I heard it crack and felt a jolt.

"Oh, you got to be kidding me," I ground.

The branch broke, sending me crashing through thorns, leave and pointy sticks. I screamed, of course, until I fell right through the layer of shrubbery and landed on something hard, yet fleshy, with a loud thud. Luckily for me that something broke my fall and I was miraculously unscathed.

"Oh dude, that totally hurts," I grounded and sourly got up.

I stood and began to dust myself off, completely oblivious to the fact that I crashed landed smack dab in the middle of a whole hard of mutated monkey monsters.(Try sating that five times fast) I was still be unaware of the danger until a monster snorted on the back of my neck.

"Please, oh, please don't tell me what I think that is," I gulped.

I slowly turned my head around and came face to face with big, black, glaring eyes. It snorted again, its hot breath making my spine feel numb. I flip around to face the monster, striking a karate pose I saw on Rush hour 2.

"I'm warning you, I am insane. There's no telling what I'll do!" I warned. "Even I don't know!"

"Dude, she just wants an apology," a strangely familiar voice pointed out.

"Huh?" I looked for the owner of the voice among the herd.

"You crashed landed right on top of her," the voice continued, "The least you can do id say sorry."

"Oh…ugh…sorry."

The monster said nothing but instead, nodded and brushed the dust of her fur. The monster then proceeded to make way for someone and bowed; as well as the other monsters. A single figure walked up to me. The being looked exactly like the other monsters except for a green and purple tie-dye bow tied near the tip of its tail. She (I'm guessing it's a she) had a kind and friendly look to her. She gave me a bright smile, showing off her sharp teeth as she looked down at me.

"Wow, I never thought I would ever be looking down to you," the monster giggled.

My eyes practically popped out of my head and my jaw dropped to the ground.

"Kapricia?" I asked. (Ka-pre-sha)(Don't worry, it took me a while to pronounce it right too)

"Straight up home-chan," Kapricia answered.

Man was I relieved! It was my best friend who moved to Texas about a year ago. (Waaaay back in Ch.1)

"Aw man, am I glad to see you! You don't know how frustrated I've been. I'm no longer sane in an insane world," I said quoting The Tick, a carton, "I'm insane in an insane world!"

"Um…ok.." Kapricia said.

"Yeah! First I can't remember ruling the stupid world, then my parents turn out to be evil monsters things, a freakyvoicestartstalking to me and I kill nova!" I gasped for air.

"Wait, wait. Who did you kill?" Kapricia asked, barely understanding what I just said.

I sighed, "Nova, you know, from SRMTHFG?"

"Why did you kill Nova?"

"I didn't mean too! There's this stupid voice in my head and it somehow took control of my arm and shot this black ball at her. You believe me right?"

"Of course I believe you, I'm a giant talking chimp. What did you expect?"

"I don't know anymore," I whimpered. "Can you make the voice go away?"

"What makes you think I can?" Kapricia asked.

"Cause you're smart'n stuff and you can work miracles."

"I'm not magical Taylor," my friend said bluntly.

"Why not ?" I loudly whined.

"I don't know. I just am."

I hung my head in defeat, "Can I at least have a hug?"

Kapricia gave me a quick hug and said, "Oh and for the voice, I think I know why it talk to you and stuff."

"Really! Tell me!"

"Yesh, yell at me why don't you."

"Kaaaaprrriiccciaaaa…" I whined miserably.

"Alright but before I tell you….guess what."

"Oh come on Kapricia, just tell me."

"I'm not telling you until you guess what."

"Eh! Fine. What?"

"MATH!" Kapricia giggled whit pure delight as I ground bitterly.

"Now will you tell me?" I asked.

But before Kapricia could answer, a low growling sound rudely interrupted.

"Taylor, why didn't you tell me you were hungry?" Kapricia said giving me a stern look.

"Ummm…'cause I just found out?" I answered nervously.

Kapricia rolled her soft brown monkey eyes. "You, yes you," she said to a passing monster, "get us some Thin mints and milk and lots of it."

"How the heck did you get girl scout cookies?" I asked.

"I tracked down a troop and took them," she answered.

"Really?" I said, not quite believing it.

"No."

"Oh…"

Kapricia laughed, "You're so gullible."

I just mumbled.

"I had one of my minions force the recipe out of a troop leader," Kapricia explained.

"Ooooo….what…you have minions? Since when?"

"Ever sine you ruled the world."

"And when was that?"

"About three months ago," Kapricia said as a monster came back with the cookies and milk.

"WHAT! Are you serious! I blacked out for three whole months?"

"I guess so," Kapricia took the plates of cookies and handed me one along with a glass of milk.

"Wow, the last thing I remember is the Skeleton King worm zapping me with a purple laser thing." I took a bite of a Thin Mint. "Fuut abbin?" I said with a mouth fill of cookie.

"What?" Kapricia asked.

I swallowed, "What happened?"

Kapricia scarfed down some of the minty goodness before suggest we sit down 'cause it was a loooong story. She ordered some of her minions to bring the 'big pillows' and when the servants came back they carried two square pillows the size of a queen size bed! It took four monsters just to carry one over their heads. I laid on mine, feeling the smooth, silky fabric. We continued to eat the tasty cookies as Kapricia began to tell her story.

"Three months ago the worm came and started to zap everyone into giant, ugly monkeys. The governments all over the world had, like, no time to assemble to defend Earth so everyone just screamed and yelled. A lot of people thought it was apocalypse which was kinda scary at the time. After everybody was monkeys they all split into tribes, kinda like my cat book." I nodded showing that I understood. "This is the part that has you in it. You actually scared me more then when you're angry and won't say anything. You came out of no where, but no you you, monkey you, whatever. Like I was saying, I was at home with my family when you came out of no where. You told me that you were going to take over the world and that you would let me be your second-in-command. I asked you how you were going to take over the world, you said by beating up the leaders of the tribes. You left and didn't come back until a month later. After you defeated all the leaders you made one big tribe, you as the leader no duh. A whole army of monkeys followed you where ever you went. You came back for me and our families and took us to New Zealand where you had your minions build a huge palace." Kapricia took another bite of a cookie. "But some of the slaves tried to kill you and take you throne but you totally kick their butts. One that I thought was really annoying was Zin; he kept saying how great he was. So you finally exiled him to some island after the third time he try to kill you. After that you ruled Earth without anymore problems."

"Well what about our families? What happened to them?" I asked.

"Well you put your sisters in charge of you army, one for offence and for defense, your mom was your advisor and you put your dad in charge of the dungeon and to take care of traitors. You gave my family and me our own part of the palace. Oh, and I was, am, I don't know, your heir to your throne," Kapricia explained.

"My parents told me that this Zin guy took my throne," I said.

"Oh, that," Kapricia took a drink of milk. "After the SRMTHFG! Came and beat you up, Zin returned and took over. He even kicked me out."

"The jerk! Why did he kick you out?"

"Gee, I don't know Taylor. Maybe its because I was your heir and was next to inherit the throne, "Kapricia said sarcastically. "Really Taylor."

"Hey. I'm insane, you be nice to me," I warned.

"You're not insane," Kapricia said.

"Oh, a voice telling me to kill people doesn't mean I'm crazy, just that I have a lot of free time on my hands. Really Kapricia," I also said sarcastically.

My monkey-fied friend shook her head and rolled her eyes. "Seriously, you're not the only one who hears an evil, creepy voice in their head, everyone who's been turned into a monkey hears it."

"Where do the voices come from?"

"You have to guess what again," Kapricia said smiling.

"Again? Can you just tell me?" I asked sadly.

"Guess what!" she insisted.

I grumbled bitterly. "I don't even know why I try the resist. " I sighed, "What?"

"Math," Kapricia giggled.

"Why do you keep doing that?"

"Because it annoys you so much."

I sighed once again. "You were saying?"

"What was I talking about again?"

"Voices."

"Oh, yeah. I got a hypothesis. See, I think the voices are just our evil side and the worm gave them their own will. But it also seems that some voices are stronger than others. Like yours, your voice actually took control of you. It might try too take over again, but I'm not sure."

"What about your voice? What dose it tell you to do?" I asked.

"It tells me to shop lift gum. Which is stupid since money doesn't exist anymore. You kinda burned it all." Kapricia said.

"Ah, well that's odd, but at least I'm not the only one who hears the voice. Splee!" I was so happy.

One of the greatest things I liked about Kapricia is how I feel around her. I could really be myself. I never felt like I had to hid anything from her and I could always be myself, no matter how random, and not feel embarrass. We told each other everything even after she moved away. We would call each other almost everyday and talk for hours.

We ate the rest of the Thin Mints and went through countless glasses of milk, making ourselves sick to our stomachs. As we recovered from our tummy aches Kapricia told me that one of her look-outs spotted my ship and brought me here. She joked that all her servants thought I was dead and that she had to convince them that I was really sleeping. As Kapricia and I talked, I decided to stay for a little while, just until I figures out where to go next.

Well, that's ch.9. Sorry if it was kinda long and aren't you glad something nice happened to Taylor? I am. Oh and it might take me awhile to get Ch.10 since sine I still have to type it out :sweatdrop: so I hope this will make you happy for a while. Until then!