Oh wow! Look! An... UPDATE! What is this sorcery? And it's only been... a week or so...
Idk. It felt like longer.
Crowd: Wish it was longer.
Me: Oh wow thanks.
Crowd: Anytime.
Me: THAT WAS SARCASM!
Crowd: Oh! I know sarcasm! *Sarcastic voice* Isn't this just the BEST STORY EVER? I love love LOVE it sooooooo much!
Me: ...shut up. Time to respond to reviews!
Three reviews, guys? Disappointment.
But thank you to the people who did review!
Mrs. Moonlark: Thank you! Lol, the nicknames. I do like Fitzalier and Foskets, but... Sophiemelt is a no. Wanna know why? It's because FANGIRLMELT (Me + Mallowmelt) is the OTP. Hopefully you don't slap me! I do have a Shady Black Belt Protection Squad ™. Yay! I will!
Eva L: Thank you! It took me a long time to tie it all together (though tbh most of it was stolen.) Glimmer actually is a pretty good name. The Hunger Games, right? Anyway... I'm not sure about Glam, but if they don't end up together I like their friendship. Marellinh, though, is glorious. And yes, so is the Sophitz fight. Mallowmelt jokes are indeed life, as is mallowmelt itself. You're welcome! Don't get used to it XD.
A River Of Ink: Thank you! You are, don't worry! As a matter of fact, I do know my Hogwarts house! I'm a Slytherdor (Half Slytherin half Gryffindor). How about you? Anyway, thanks! I had a hard time with Glimmer, but I finally actually like the theory!
Anyhow, ONTO THE CHAPTER!
"Actually." Marella said. "While we're doing confessions and stuff, Linh and I have something to tell you guys."
Linh gave Marella a strange look. "We do?"
Marella gave Linh a duh look. "Yes, we do." It was then Sophie noticed that the two girls' hands were entwined, and Marella's thumb was brushing Linh's knuckles. Even Sophie's oblivious-ness could come up with a few theories on what that "thing" would be.
"Oh! Right! We do! Sorry. Um, okay. Yeah."
Silence followed. It was only broken when Mr. Forkle rolled his eyes and said "Well, will you kids get on with it?"
At the "you kids," Glimmer snorted. Tam whispered to her "It's funny now, but then it'll get annoying."
Glimmer shrugged and said "Yeah, probably. Anyway, I agree with Fork Man. Spill the tea."
"Um, okay. The tea shall be spilt." Marella said. "So, the thing is, um... Linh and I are..."
"Dating." Linh finished.
A fangirl shriek escaped Biana's mouth. "Oh my gosh! You are! It seems so obvious! Can I be maid of honor at you guys's wedding? And- oh! I just had an even better idea! Tam should be the flower boy!"
If Keefe was here, he would draw a million pictures of Tam in a flower girl dress and torment him with it, Sophie thought wistfully. Dear Mallowmelt, she was wishing for Keefe to come annoy everyone! That's how much she missed him! Sophie shoved that thought away and gave her congratulations to Linh and Marella. Though she wasn't sure the two girlfriends heard her over Biana still making wedding plans.
"-ooh, and when one of you throws the bouquet, you better be aiming it at me! And you guys, like, need me to help pick out your dresses! Oh my gosh, this is so EXCITING!"
"Calm down, Biana." Fitz said.
"YOU DO NOT TELL A FANGIRL TO CALM DOWN!" Biana half-shrieked.
"Fangirls are psychopaths." Fitz muttered under his breath.
"Hey!"
Once Fitz and Biana stopped arguing, and Biana stopped fangirling (verbally, at least), Marella and Linh waited for the rest of the group to give their reaction.
"Congratulations!" Sophie said enthusiastically, (though not as enthusiastically as Biana).
"How long have you guys been together?" Dex asked.
Linh blushed bright pink. "About a month."
Biana made some sort of inhuman noise.
"So, you guys are, like... okay? With this?" Marella said, a little sheepishly.
Sophie cleared her throat. "I'm the moonlark. I have five abilities. I have been completely genetically modified. I'm a human experiment. I have brown eyes. I grew up with humans. I'm a regent and I'm only in level five. I have five bodyguards. I'm part horse. I really don't think I'm allowed to judge you guys."
Dex and Fitz applauded. "Well said."
"Tam? What do you think?" Linh peeped.
All heads turned to Sir Salty Shadows, who was staring intensely at the couple. Finally, he said "Marella, if you hurt Linh, I will literally murder you. Understood?"
"Yes."
"I think Grady should be taking notes." Sophie whispered to Dex.
Dex nodded and laughed. "Same with Sandor."
Glimmer cleared her throat. "Okay, so, that's out of the way... anyone else have any big confessions to make?"
Everyone looked around the room, as though expecting someone to shout out "My secret identity is Councillor Bronte!" or "I like Twilight better than Harry Potter!" (Even though of course none of her elf friends had read those books... which seems kind of sad, now that Sophie thought about it) or something. Eventually, Tam turned his Intense Salty Shadows Look ™ to Mr. Forkle.
"I would like to request a confession," he said.
"Meaning...?"
"As Linh said, it's kind of important to know who someone is before you trust them. We've been working with the Black Swan for about a year and we still have absolutely no clue who half of your members are. I'd like to know some of their real identities- since, you know, I've trusted you guys for a year without knowing who some of you are. I think we've all earned the right to know. Sophie especially."
Honestly, Sophie really agreed with Tam. Voicing this opinion, she added "You know everything about me, probably more than I know about me. I totally deserve to know at least something about you guys- such as, you know, your actual identities."
Mr. Forkle sighed. "You kids," he muttered. "I'll hail Blur and see if he feels comfortable sharing his identity with you."
A few minutes later, Blur was walking through the walls of Havenfield into their living room. Quite literally, since he was a Phaser and could break down his body into tiny particles. Still partially phased (Is that the right term? It is now), Blur waved a smudged hand at them. "Hey guys."
"Hi." Linh responded.
"So, Mr. Blur, (sir,) would you mind un-phasing yourself for those kids?"
"He even does it in the third person..." Glimmer muttered.
Blur's blurry head nodded- and then it became un-blurry and turned into a normal head. Now that his features were actual features, Sophie knew the round cheeks and full lips looked familiar beyond that one brief glimpse of Blur she got, but still, she couldn't place it.
Marella tilted her head to the side. "I think I recognize that guy... wait! Wait, I know how I know him! He's Jensi's brother, um... um... hang on, I know your name, I just can't think of it right now... was it..."
"Jaxx?" Blur supplied. (Credit to the name goes to Undecided13! I used it in Legacy, what is a Legacy too!)
"Um. Yes. That. Right. I knew that." Marella laughed.
"Keeeeeeep telling yourself that." Tam joked. Marella playfully punched his shoulder.
"How do you know, um, Jaxx?" Sophie asked Marella. She was fairly confident that she'd never seen Jaxx before, (aside from that one time water splashed him, of course). He did look familiar though, like she knew someone related to him.
"He's Jensi's brother." Marella clarified, and it clicked into place for Sophie. She felt a little stupid for not figuring it out, but then again she hadn't really seen Jensi for a while. Honestly, Sophie felt a little guilty about that- but she knew she'd feel way more guilty if she had dragged Jensi into the whole Black Swan/Neverseen stuff. It was sad that leaving behind a friend was a good thing because otherwise they'd be in danger. Stupid Neverseen, it was their fault she couldn't just hang out with people and not worry about them getting hurt because of her.
"Oh, okay," Dex said, snapping Sophie out of her thoughts.
"Don't see why that had to be a secret." Tam said. "It's not like any of us have ever met him, other than Marella."
"I know you guys see my little brother a lot, and my family has no idea about my 'secret identity'. I'd prefer to keep it that way, so kindly refrain from telling him."
Sophie shrugged. "It's not like we see him much anyway." Another memory randomly popped into Sophie's mind. "Didn't you say that explaining your identity was a long story?"
"Eh, I figured it would be a longer story if my brother was here while I was explaining. The story of how I joined is kinda long, though. I'll leave out the details."
"Ooh! Story time!" Marella said. "Spill the tea!"
"Okay so basically..." Jaxx started. "Um, I manifested as a Phaser late. Like, really late. You guys know there's a rule in Foxfire, that if you don't manifest by midterms of Level Five you have to stop attending after the break?"
Everyone except Sophie nodded. Used to being out of the loop when it came to elf stuff, Sophie just shrugged. "Guess I know now."
"Yeah, so, I still hadn't manifested, like, a week before midterms. And before that, for like, a year, everyone figured I would never get an ability, so you can imagine how nicely everyone treated me. That was fun. Anyway, Mr. Forkle, who was in Sir Astin form at the time, felt bad for me so he helped trigger my ability. Literally the day before midterms, I manifested. In true leave-everything-until-the-last-minute fashion. So, yay! I have an ability! Huzzah! But my friend, who I basically only hung out with because we were both talentless outcasts, never manifested and never returned to Foxfire after the six-week break. And I was really annoyed with the council and the school and Elvin society in general, so Mr. Forkle recruited me the the Black Swan. The end."
Marella applauded his beautiful storytelling skills. Sophie was about to say "Well, I guess that's all. Bye," but before she could, Tam look over at Glimmer and said "Hey Glimmer, you okay?"
Sophie turned around to see Glimmer staring at Blur as though she was trying to figure something out, or remember a memory just out of reach. Eventually, she muttered "I think... he's also... Mist."
MUAHAHAHAHA THE CLIFFIES ARE BACK! Lol. Hope you enjoyed it! Especially...
THE MARELLINH! That was totally my favorite part? Plot developments about the Black Swan? Pfft, how cares about those? Marellinh! Whoo! Go Marellinh! (By the way, this does not mean I've stopped shipping Dexella and Lylie- I'm just a multishipper and decided on Marellinh for this particular story. No, Dylie is not going to happen. I doubt that's a thing.)
Anyway, please review!