Dream: Alright, people! I'm finally going to try and make myself finish this fanfic! Yayz? Yayz. Anyway, I just reread the joke chapter and now I'm wondering about my mental state, I really am. But it was freakin' hilarious. XD
Oh, here are the poll results!
Poll: Put these characters in order of who you would most likely date (if they were real, of course).
Note: Only one person did the female list so the results aren't conclusive and, thus, are not included.
Everyone's favorite grumpy dragon Zero was the favorite among those who participated. Next was Vlad and Loki was third.
It's too bad Zero's too busy being missing to make a comment about his popularity…
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Last Time:
"We'll do it!" both girls yelled at the same time.
Loki and Vlad exchanged worried glances, as if to say 'Oh shit...what have those two gotten us into this time and who's going to be paying the hospital bills...?'
Now:
But mommy, there are monsters in my closet...and they're dancing!:
"So, umm…what's the challenge?" Autumn asked the ghost after a moment of eagerly waiting for something spectacular to happen.
"The what?" questioned the orb.
Autumn made frantic hand motions. "The challenge!"
"Autumn, shh!" Vlad attempted to quiet the girl.
"You said, and I quote, 'I won't let you go until you complete...my challenge...' just like that." Autumn crossed her arms and nodded.
The orb thought for a moment. "Oh yes, the challenge. Let's see…" With that the orb somehow managed to pull out a big book titled Ghostly Challenges for Dummies and leafed through the pages…somehow. Finally it found something satisfactory. "Ah! Here! Your challenge will be to face your greatest fears!"
"Oh nice going, Autumn! Way to remind the ghost about our punishment." Yusuke narrowed his eyes at the girl.
Flash rolled her eyes. "If she hadn't reminded it, I would have."
"But why?" asked Loki.
Autumn and Flash looked at Loki as if he was the stupidest thing alive, a stare that is usually reserved for Kuwabara. "We want the prize, duh," the girls said at the same time.
The orb put away the book and took out a plastic girly fairy wand with a shiny star and ribbons on the end. It waved it around. And then the world was gone. Kurama looked around at the expanse of black in wonder. Where am I?Wait…HANDS! I'm not a fox anymore!
Kurama's glee was cut short by the world suddenly becoming full of color. He was in his room. But it was all wrong. One of his eyes started twitching as he looked around. "Bu…Bu…Bunnies!"
Dramatic horror music played as Kurama was looked at from various zoomed in angles with his hands on his head screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Somewhere there was the scratch of a record player being turned on. The old record had the voices of young children singing the phrase 'I love you; you love me…' over and over. Kurama tried to find a place to sit down among all the miscellaneous bunny paraphernalia. That's when he noticed that his rug had a bunny pattern. He then tried to find a chair to hop onto, but they were all bunny shaped. The worst thing was the smile. The same creepy smile was on every bunny in the room. Kurama started to whimper.
"Hey Kurama, how's it going?" Hinote asked, suddenly appearing out of nowhere.
Kurama stared at him. "Are bunnies your worst fear, too?"
"Bunnies?" Hinote laughed. "No, that's lame. You're a loser. See ya! Lol…bunnies…"
Hinote then vanished. Kurama blinked and then stared at his feet in shame at the lameness of his fear.
Autumn was walking around in the black void. Suddenly she saw a blueberry on the ground at her feet. "Hay a blueberry!" Autumn pointed at it. She looked around before lifting her foot to squish it. Suddenly spikes grew out of the blueberry. She fell back in surprise and stared at it. Around her, the black void was dissolving. Slowly it came into view. (Remember folks, whatever it is, you can find it on Flash-bay!)
She was in a city. Armies of blueberries were marching around in the streets. A giant billboard on top of the tallest building sported a picture of a blueberry in a dictator's hat with a mustache. Next to it in bold letters was the word 'OBEY'. Autumn's mouth dropped open.
"Wow, this is neat!" Hinote exclaimed.
Autumn stared at him blankly for a moment, a very short moment, before standing up suddenly and putting one hand on her hip and using the other to indicate the blueberries. "Neat! You call blueberries taking over the world neat? This is the horrible fate I've been fighting against for so long! How can it be neat?"
"This is your greatest fear?" questioned Hinote. At Autumn's nod, he sighed. "This isn't a good fear either. Oh well, I'll keep looking."
Autumn looked around for Hinote after he disappeared. "What the…? Where'd you go?"
"Halt, human! What are you doing breaking curfew?" asked a blueberry sergeant.
Autumn squeaked and ran, blueberries in squishy pursuit.
Flash was sitting in her room playing a video game. Suddenly she felt her godly powers draining. "Uh-oh, time to recharge mah godly batteries," stated Flash, getting up and going down to the kitchen. She was whistling a tune as she opened one cupboard to take out a mug and another to get the coffee. She paused with her hand in the cupboard and blinked. It was empty. "Coffee…not here…?"
Now Flash was frantic. She started running around tearing open all the cupboards and drawers to look for the coffee. There was not a bean to be found. Finally, after tearing apart the kitchen, she slumped to the ground and hugged her knees to her chest. She started rocking back and forth with a crazed expression on her face and chanting the word 'coffee'.
"Hiya, Flash!" Hinote popped out of nowhere. "What's your greatest fear?"
"Coffee…coffee…coffee…coffee…" chanted the girl.
Hinote tilted his head to the side. "But I thought you loved coffee?"
"Coff…eeeeeeeeeee…?" The girl's head turned to the head in a way that Hinote was sure was impossible.
Afraid of the look in Flash's eyes, he began to back away. "Ok…well…I'll be leaving now…"
"COFFEE!" Flash screeched in an ungodly voice as she jumped up and lunged at the disappearing Hinote.
"BWAA!" Hinote screamed, even as he appeared in a new place.
Hiei stared at him. Before he got the chance to ask what the hell Hinote was doing there, Loki, Yusuke, and Kuwabara appeared. They all stared at each other. Yusuke laughed. "I guess we must all have the same fear, huh?"
Hinote was going to respond when a booming voice shook their surroundings. "OBEY ME!"
The five boys looked to the source of the voice. It was a gigantic Flash with flames in the background. The boys cowered in fear. The godly one boomed more commands. "GIVE ME COFFEE. GIVE ME MONEY. OBEY. OBEY!"
Hinote frowned. "I don't like this fear anymore. See ya!"
And with that he was gone. The others looked at each other before starting to wish themselves out of their fear. It wasn't working. Flash got closer and closer…
"OBEY! OBEY"
Hinote was in a new place. It was completely dark. He looked around sadly for any of his other friends. No one was there. He sighed and squatted down, hugging his knees with one hand and drawing circles on the ground with the pointer finger of his other.
"What's wrong with you?" asked Hinote's demon half, Vlad, walking up to stand in front of him.
Hinote stood quickly. "Are you my greatest fear?"
"No…" Vlad raised an eyebrow.
"Oh…" Hinote sank back into his previous position. "I can't find my greatest fear…Everyone else has one but me!"
"Your greatest fear is not having a greatest fear," Vlad responded.
Hinote sighed again and sobbed. "I don't have a greatest fear…this is terrible…"
Vlad groaned and took out a marker and plain T-shirt. He wrote on it 'Not having a greatest fear' and then put it on. He cleared his throat. Hinote looked and jumped up in excitement.
"Oh my Flash! My greatest fear must be not having a greatest fear! And here you are! I am facing you, my greatest fear!"
There was clapping and cheering. The cemetery returned along with all of his friends. Kurama was once again in his fox form and Hinote was once again in Vlad's form. The announcer was clapping and cheering. There were other random clapping people around and confetti was in the air. Everyone was looking around in bewilderment.
"Congratulations Hinote! For successfully facing your fear, you've won the prize!" announced the announcer.
A large man—complete with beard stubble and thick glasses—in a bikini walked up and handed Vlad a rock. Autumn pouted. "No fair! I want a rock!"
Flash, who was still suffering the effects of her fear, stared at the strange floating coffee cup. She started drooling and her pupils became coffee cup shaped. She walked up to the coffee cup and held it. The others stared at her in wonder as she held the orb.
"Hey…what are you doing?" asked the orb.
Flash lifted the orb and began to drink it. When she was done she set the empty glass ball back in the air and wiped her mouth. "Ah! Extra-extra-extra caffeinated! My favorite!"
Autumn pointed at a scarecrow hopping towards them. "Hay it's my aunt!"
Everyone turned to look. The scarecrow stopped. It was wearing a plaid dress with straw popping out the sleeve ends. Its head was a jack-o-lantern with an oddly carved face and a happy worm popping out one of the eyes. Its voice seemed to echo in the pumpkin's hollow head. It was a sweet voice that would sometimes grow deep and scary. "Why hello there, sweet TASTY Autumn dearest! What brings you and your SQUISHY friends to my neck of the DEADLY woods?"
"Your aunt's a scarecrow?" Loki asked.
Autumn and Ellema laughed. Autumn waved a hand. "No, silly! My aunt's not a scarecrow! That would be weird! My aunt's the worm!"
"And that isn't weird?" Hiei muttered under his breath.
"…" Vlad stared blankly. Suddenly he exploded (I feel that I need to clarify that I don't mean that literally since in my stories, characters literally exploding is actually a normal occurrence…) "You mean you brought us all this way to see a worm? How is she going to help us if she has no arms? ARMS! Arms are necessary to do things!"
"Foolish FLAMMABLE creature! That is why I have this scarecrow MINION to make my potions and things. She has POINTY arms…" Ellema answered.
"But she doesn't have hands," Loki protested.
Ellema turned to the boy. "But she does have arms. She can do anything EVIL."
Yusuke turned to Autumn to ask the question on everyone's mind: "Are you serious?"
"I heart you Aunt Ellema!" Autumn squealed in delight.
Ellema grinned a wormy grin. "I heart you too Autumn MORSEL!"
"Hey there, Ellema. Listen, we need a potion to make our friends not pink…" Flash pointed her thumb at Hiei, Vlad, Youko, and Terminator.
"You're in UNFORTUNATE luck! I have just such a potion back at my house OF DEATH! Come with me, DELICIOUS children!" Ellema's scarecrow turned and began to hop away. Flash and Autumn started following happily. The others exchanged worried glances before following as well, certain that they were walking towards their doom…
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Dream: Well, it's short, I know. But I didn't feel like writing anymore tonight and I figured you readers would prefer a short chapter now rather than waiting for months without knowing whether I was still going to continue this, ne?