Chapter 5
Melody's Stepmother
"Looks like Allaeyah's gone again," Cynthia said.
"It's probably because of her shard, she'll come back," Yunee assured us.
"Yeah, but what are we gonna do now?" I asked frowning.
"We can hide somewhere around here," Yunee suggested.
"How about saving that idea for later like when they're here," I said. Boy, for a genius, Yunee can come up with some bad ideas.
"I think it's time we get more help," Amaya said "We need Brianna's group."
"Yeah, we need alliances from everyone in our village, if we team up, we might stand a chance," I said.
"Let's ask Michael if he can host a meeting in his castle," Amaya suggested.
"Yeah, he can invite everyone there, I've heard a lot of them need help," Cynthia said.
"Well let's ask Michael," Amaya said.
"Sure," Michael said after we told him the story ,"But can you bring the food because we're running out."
"How about everyone brings one dish," I suggested.
"I guess that's fine," Michael said ,"So who's coming?"
"Let me see," Amaya said, "Everyone from the village, except Arrfat."
"Oh good, no Arrfat," Michael said, "I don't want him sticking up the castle.
"Yeah, I wonder what happened to him," Cynthia said. At that point I started imagining Arrfat getting eaten by a bear.
View changes to one of Jolie's "friend" Jessie
I'm still wondering why I decided to join up with Jolie. She's such a stupid btch. She's also a MAJOR drama queen. But I'm sure this will help my career. I don't know how, I don't know when, I don't know where, but I know one thing, it will. While I was thinking about this Jolie came up to Vicky and I and said "Let's go, girls" (yes Jolie is really corny).
"Where are we going?" Vickie asked.
"We're going to see what Cecelia's up to," Jolie answered.
"Who's Cecelia?" I asked.
"Melody's stepmother."
"So this is it," I said two hours later. We hiked down to the east valley and found a little hut there.
"Yeah," Jolie said dreamily.
"What are we here for?" Vicky asked.
"We're here to see how she can curse Cynthia," Jolie said.
"I see………" said a middle-aged woman as all three of us screamed from the shock.
"Oh can you please help us Cecelia-sama?" Jolie asked.
"Of course dear, but there's just one thing you have to agree on……." Cecelia said.
"What?"
"You must allow me to kill everyone in her group, there's no other way." Jolie looked a bit worried.
"But…Melody," Jolie said "She's my friend, and I don't want to hurt her." I dropped my jaw, I couldn't believe, Jolie's actually being loyal to someone?
Scene change to Melody
"Achoo!" I said as we (with Michael and his servants in front of us) were walking across the palace.
"Something the matter?" Amaya asked.
"Do you have a cold?" Yunee asked.
"Of course not," I said. I reached out to take a glass of water and (obviously) I started drinking out of it.
"Well, you know what they say," Michael said "If you sneeze out of the blue, someone's talking about you."
"Yeah right," I snorted.
"Well I don't know….." Amaya said.
"You know he could be right," Cynthia said.
"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MINDS. HOW THE HECK COULD I HAVE SNEEZED JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE WAS TALKING ABOUT ME BEHIND MY BACK!"
"Maybe it's because you just sneezed out of the blue," Michael said with the air of someone commenting on the weather.
"And you're not sick," interjected Yunee.
"Well who would be talking about me behind my back?" I asked.
"It doesn't have to be a bad thing," Amaya said.
"Oh come on, what are the chances of it being a good thing," I said.
"You never know….." Amaya said.
Scene change back to Jesse
"Fine," Cecelia said "After all, she is my stepdaughter. Here, this is a mirror, I will send to the executers and tell them to give it to Melody. There's no way that they can't recognize a violet-eyed girl."
"Who will the executers be?" I asked.
"That's for me to know, and for you to find out," Cecelia said smirking.
Scene change back to Melody
I can't believe everyone wanted to make a team! Here's what happened……….
When everyone was happily eating Michael started it all.
"Well, the reason I gather everyone here tonight is because of a very serious subject. As you can see, there are many youkai that would like to kill us all Naraku, Sesshoumaru, Kouga, the Inuyasha gang…."
"More like Inuyasha's gang would like to kill Cynthia because of the flirting," Vy muttered. Michael acted like he didn't hear this.
"Furthermore, like someone once said long ago, we are weak when we are divided ("Yeah, at least Cynthia when she's by herself," muttered Vy) but strong we are when united, which is why I think we should all join forces!" Michael looked around for applause but it never came. Everyone just sat there looking stunned.
"Are you sure that all these youkai are coming to kill us all?" Nikki asked.
"Dead sure." There was a bit of a whispered discussion from all her friends and finally Brianna said "Okay, we don't want to be roasted alive." Several people laughed at this.
"Me too," Chris the messenger said. I'd rather be killed by Sara then a youkai." We laughed. Sara was Cynthia's cousin who seemed to have Cynthia's obsession with boys.
"Why would she want to do that?" Veronica asked.
"Because she's crazy about me," Chris answered sadly.
"Oh she likes you?" Veronica asked, looking shocked.
"YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT!" Cynthia shouted "HOW COULD YOU NOT KNOW, SARA'S BEEN CHASING HIM WHEREVER SHE GOES, HOW ELSE DO YOU THINK CHRIS COULD RUN SO FAST?"
"Well, despite this," Dennis said "I, Prince Dennis, Leader of the Holy Scholars, have decided to agree on this." This started people chortling.
Soon, everyone (or every gang) declared that they were part of the alliance. Amaya, Yunee, and I started beaming at everyone. Cynthia was checking out some of the guys.
After the dinner, we stayed around the palace to help.
"Hey, where did all the sake go?" Michael asked. Amaya and I looked at each other.
"Well….." I started.
"We poured it over almost the dishes we just ate," Amaya finished. Yunee went over to the sink trying everything possible to get rid of the sake.