Hello hello dear readers, and welcome to another chapter of Miitopia: Invasion of the Lost Faces.
I'll talk more in the ending. Let's start reading!
Chapter 4: Full Party!
The sounds of the forest soon greeted us as we entered the lush vegetation.
We had entered the forest in high spirits, but we hadn't expected it to be so HOT. It wasn't long before all four of us were drenched with sweat.
Thank the Guardian we all prepared ahead of time. Each of us had a large, full canteen of ice cold water. As long as we didn't drink it all at once, we would be fine. Plus, on top of that, I had managed to purchase an HP banana for each of them just before we left, so we had that as a backup.
"Uhh… guys?" Brave questioned.
"Hm?" I hummed, looking back at her.
"My canteen's empty!" she exclaimed, shaking her upside down canteen. "Someone else must've drank my water, cause I haven't had a sip yet all day!"
"It wasn't me!" my Mii quickly defended.
"Don't look at me either!" Susie defended as well.
"I've got my own here too. I didn't steal yours." I quickly stated.
Brave glared at all of us for a moment, as if trying to see if one of us was lying, before she blinked. "Wait… oh yeah! I forgot, I drank all of it yesterday, I just forgot to fill it today."
"Seriously?!" my Mii angrly complained, looking a little miffed.
"Wow." Susie mumbled with a sideways glance.
"Not cool, Brave." I calmly stated with a shake of my head.
We continued on our way, after Brave quickly ran back to the Inn to fill her thing back up. Thankfully we weren't a really insane distance away, so it only took a few minutes.
Once we were sure everyone had everything, we continued on the path.
My Mii and Susie started talking not long after. "You know… as rough as this forest is, it is kinda pretty…" my Mii mused.
"Plus, smell all this clean air these trees are making!" Susie agreed, happily taking a deep breath.
"Yeah." My Mii agreed, smiling at Susie. "Clean air is something none of us can never get enough off."
"You'd better thank all these trees then." I chuckled. "They provide it for us, after all."
Susie seemed to take my response literally. "Well then, thank you trees! You keep our air fresh!"
I chuckled a little harder. "Hey, Brave? You okay?" I asked, seeing Brave skipping around and not hearing her speak for at least five minutes.
"Oh! I'm just thinking." she responded.
"'Bout what?" I asked.
"My career, mostly." Brave responded, nervously fiddling with her microphone. "After all, I wanted to be a Pop Star loved by everyone across Miitopia, but… do you think helping you guys could really help me take off?"
"It couldn't hurt." I offered.
Brave gave a somewhat half-hearted smile, then looked back at her mic. "I don't know, I just… I might've acted before I thought about what I could do for my future… I'm nervous about what might actually happen."
"YOU'RE nervous?" I asked, a little more surprised than reasonably should have been.
Brave smirked at me. "Yes, Cameron's look-alike, I can and do get nervous, even though I'm a bouncing ball of energy. Anyway… thanks for talking with me… and letting me join you guys. I really appreciate that."
I was just about to respond to that, when suddenly…
I turned on my heel quickly, staring wildly behind us.
I felt it again. That feeling of being observed.
"Dude, you okay?" my Mii asked, noticing me.
"I SWEAR I feel someone watching us." I mumbled, looking around carefully.
"Like who?" Susie asked, tilting her head.
"I might be wrong… but I have a very distinct feeling it's that Purple Guy character…" I murmured, still scanning the area.
"Hm?" Brave spoke up. "Thin guy with saggy eyes and a knife? Purple hair too?"
"Yeah, that's who… wait, how do you know who he-" I started to ask, turning around.
"I ran into him on the way out. He said that he wished me and the rest of us luck on whatever we were doing, then headed for the dining hall."
I looked back. 'He's… at the dining hall then?' I thought. 'But… I could've sworn…'
"Even if it wasn't him, we should be on our guard. It could be a monster you sensed…" Susie grimly reminded.
Still feeling as though we were being watched, we continued on the way.
Monsters came out of the brush every now and then, but we defeated them all one by one. Yet every victory only made me more on edge, as though we were being watched even closer.
It got to the point where even the other's could start to sense it. "I don't like this…" my Mii murmured, nervously holding his frying pan. He couldn't stand still when he was nervous, just like me.
Susie kept making small glances side to side, trying to find anything that stood out. She seemed to be muttering some sort of prayer for safety, and it appeared like tiny runes were flying off her while she did so.
As for Brave, she settled her nerves on being even MORE dramatic in her speech. I learned that when she started to push some branches out the way, and one came back so fast it slapped me right in the face. Brave kept insistently apologizing for a good ten minutes after, while also insistently brushing me off and constantly straightening my shirt for me.
As for me, I swear I heard noises behind us every thirty seconds, and each one sounded a touch closer than the last.
Late afternoon finally rolled around a long time later. My nerves were slowly lessening. "Maybe we were paranoid about nothing…" I mused hopefully.
That thought was dashed quickly.
A very loud rustling came from in front of us, just out of sight.
And it sounded like it was coming closer to us.
The sound made my friends quickly draw their weapons and stare wildly in front of us. I held my breath as the sound slowly got closer, closer, and…
A mouse jumped out the bushes.
If that had been the end of the story, that would've been just plain embarrassing. But no, this mouse easily almost the same size as my Mii friends.
And then I noticed that it had no face.
"Wha… where's… the face?" I whispered, watching the mouse.
It hopped around on its little feet, its tail bouncing with it. The tail was long, and at the end it was ball shaped. It looked rather heavy for a tail.
Then, I was nearly blinded by a bright flash of light.
It disappeared as quickly as it came, but from the sky floated down a ball of light.
It had that one girl's face, Lucoa, from Greenhorne. You know, the Lovey-Dovey woman?
"Aiiieee-!" the face screamed, looking scared, and for good reason.
The face slowly started spiraling towards the faceless mouse. Two of those Smileshrooms also jumped out from the shrubbery, standing next to the mouse.
"It's a battle! Come on!" I yelled, gesturing for everyone to get ready.
My Mii sighed gently, as though the mouse was a major annoyance. Susie nodded with a smile, raising her stick. Brave did a small hype-up dance, making small cheers to herself and tossing her mic into the air to catch
Quickly, the face latched onto the monster. For whatever reason, I wondered what would happen if Mick Foley saw Lucoa now.
That thought quickly was forgotten when the mouse hopped forward and did a forward somersault, its tail whipping around over itself and then slamming down HARD into Susie. She nearly fell down with JUST the one hit.
"Oh dear." I squeaked, seeing the mouse do the same thing to my Mii. "We might not be strong enough for this one yet…"
Susie, the fastest of our group, did the smart move and healed herself up with Cure. My Mii followed up with a Flambé to one of the Smileshrooms, as per my direction.
Brave moved next, and it seemed like she was about to try something different. She pointed her mic at the monsters, as my 3DS started making noises. 'New Skill! Earworm!'
"This one goes out to you!" she cheered, before she started dancing in front of the monsters while singing a REALLY catchy tune.
By the time she let up, both of the Smileshrooms were dancing in place to themselves, not a care in the world. The mouse, not so much.
Brave grinned at me as she returned to her original position. "I've given us a chance to get rid of the dancing 'shrooms." she explained.
"I like that!" I grinned, seeing both of the plant monsters lose their turn to the really catch tune. Hell, I was about start dancing myself. I swear I could hear a very similar tune right now…
Then I realized that was my 3DS through my headphones. This whole time, it had been playing music for me, and I never even knew.
(If you wanna listen along, I'm gonna start marking certain parts of the game with music from the game, if you'd like.)
= Background Music: Boss Battle 1 =
Anyway, the Lucoa Mouse charged forward and slammed its tail into my Mii this time, doing damage, but not as much as it had for Susie. It jumped over to Brave too, but as she tried to dodge it…
The mouse instead spun in a large circle, it's tail following along. Brave had tried to jump to the side rather than back, so she still got hit HARD. To make matters worse, the attack also managed to hit Susie, though for not as much.
"What?! AoE damage?! That's a fat load of-" I started to swear.
Then a Smileshroom interrupted me and showed Susie it's funny face.
In moments, she was laughing so hard, she could barely stand. "Y-you… you were RIGHT, Cameron's look-alike!" she managed. "That IS funny! HAHAHAHA!"
I was panicking. Me laughing was one thing, I couldn't do anything. But one of our healers? How were we supposed to calm her down enough to fight again?
Then, my Guardian stepped in.
"Oh dear. Now that's a problem. If a Mii has a status effect, they can't do much until it wears off… which could be a while. Luckily for you, I have a solution to that. Behold!"
I glanced behind us. A small circle was suddenly there, gently glowing with a soft blue light. "This is the Safe Spot. I created it so that every time you battle, you'd have it behind you and your team. Simply put a Mii in that area for a rest, and they'll shake off status effect far faster than normal! Not to mention, it heals them a small bit! Though, you must understand, while they are back there… you'll be down a fighter until you take them out."
"That would've been useful to have when I was in a laughing fit…" I murmured.
The Guardian chose not to reply, probably because we had more than enough to deal with right now than getting pettily angry over minor details.
I quickly helped Susie get back over to the Safe Spot and helped her sit down safely. She gently rubbed her eyes and, still laughing, managed to say, "O-okay, Cameron's look-alike. I-Ha ha!-I'll stay here for now…"
"Just relax for a little bit. You'll be fine." I insisted, returning to the other two.
Without my knowledge, Brave and my Mii managed to defeat the two Smileshrooms while I was kept busy, leaving just the mouse. It tried again to whip its tail around, but thanks to the very obvious space between my Mii and Brave, it couldn't them both. It settled on just slamming into Brave on its next turn.
"We're getting beaten here!" my Mii insisted, bruises everywhere on his body, not to mention a fair limp in his leg. A large cut was also visible on his cheek.
"I don't feel so good…" Brave moaned, holding a cut on her side and bruises just as visible on her own body. "I'm… I'm dizzy…"
"Hang on!" I insisted, quickly grabbing my HP shaker bottle. Half of the stuff went to my Mii, while the other half went to Brave.
My Mii's limp went away and the cut on his cheek healed itself, and Brave was able to stop holding her side. Some, but not all, of their bruises healed up too, leaving them looking much better than they did just moments ago.
Despite being freshly healed, my Mii still looked upset. "We don't have enough power to beat this thing yet… and I just ran out of MP to do more skills."
I was about to pull out my MP shaker, when suddenly…
'First Energetic Quirk!' my 3DS beeped, and then, 'Cheer.'
Brave quickly jumped over to my Mii and started dancing and chanting, "C'mon, Cameron! We got this! Don't give up NOW!"
My Mii seemed to get his mojo back. "You… you're right. I can do this!"
And just like that, a little bit of his MP was restored. Not a lot, but a fair amount.
I glanced back over at Susie while my Mii aimed another Flambé at the mouse. She still seemed laughy, but her HP and MP were in fact getting restored.
Then she seemed to stop laughing, took a deep breath, and then stood up, good as new. "I'm okay!" she cheered.
"Perfect!" I laughed, signaling for her to come back over here. "We're doing… you know, okay."
That sentence came out at just the worst time possible, because just then the mouse spent its second turn whipping its tail around, with the center being at Susie. ALL THREE of my friends got hit with the tail, leaving them all on the ground barely standing up.
"Ow…" all three of them breathed at the same time.
I was starting to panic. "Oh no… we can't go down like this…!"
Susie did her best to patch up my Mii, leading to him cooking up food for Brave in return. Brave did as best as she could, but she couldn't take on that thing alone.
The mouse, low on HP but still going at it, continued it's brutal assault, pretty much reversing the healing effects of last turn.
I shook my head, sweating heavily. "At this rate, it's gonna wear us down completely…" I murmured nervously.
My Mii and Susie quickly healed themselves, leaving Brave to scarf her HP Banana down quickly. The mouse slapped each of them with its tail once again…
Then, out of nowhere…
The mouse glared at me.
I paled as it ran forward at me.
I tried to backup, but it came at me too fast and jumped up.
The tail moved for me in slow motion.
All I could do was cross my arms in front of my face and pray.
My friends yelled at me, each one with identical faces of fear.
And then…
FffpfffpfffpfffpFFFPFFFPFFFPFF-
And then something slammed into the mouse with the speed of a arrow shot from a bow.
The mouse fell over, stunned. For good reason too. I was nearly stunned still myself.
Then I saw the object that had come flying out of nowhere to save me.
A dagger.
And it was returning to the outstretched hand of Purple Guy.
"Alright kid, I'll admit it. You were right. I AM curious about you and your ragtag group here." he stated, casually cleaning off the blade with a rag. "I've never really seen someone like you before, and when I saw that you were parading around with a few other Mii's, I got real curious-like. So I decided to snoop on ya a little."
I didn't say anything, but Purple Guy must've read my mind. "Yeah, yeah, all that about following ya, blah blah. It wasn't really much of following, as it was… I just happened to be going in the same direction as you, so I decided to see what you were about. And I must say… you're all are much stronger than ya let on."
The mouse finally managed to stand back up, but it looked dizzy, if the swirls that were in the place of Lucoa's eyes were any indication.
"S-so… you… were lying to save face?" I summed up.
"More or less, kid." Purple Guy agreed. "When you get to be my age, you kinda learn to be wary of others. Especially after all I've seen."
Something about his voice and his somewhat frantic eyes made me believe him.
"So, I guess what I'm asking here is… you got room for one more on your happy train?" Purple Guy asked, crossing his arms in a very relaxed fashion.
The mouse apparently thought he was. After finally regaining it's bearings and glaring at Purple Guy, it charged at him and tried to swing its tail.
That's when my 3DS beeped. 'First Cool Quirk!' and 'Dodge.'
Faster than I could reasonably see, Purple Guy dodged out of the way of the tail, muttering a cocky, "Too slow." under his breath.
The mouse looked stunned, before trying again, but Purple Guy managed to dodge twice, now standing next to Brave. "I'll take your silence as a yes, then?"
I looked at my friends. They were… obviously confused, but my Mii seemed to shrug. "If you want him to… I won't judge you, bud."
I took a deep breath. "Well, seeing as how you just saved my hide a moment ago… to hell with it, why not?"
Purple Guy seemed to grin a little broader. "You aren't gonna regret that choice, kid. I promise you that."
Purple Guy joined the party!
The mouse clearly knew that things weren't going it's way at this point, because now it seemed far more jittery than normal, and Lucoa's face was now one of partial nervousness.
Susie restored my Mii's health, and I had my Mii did the same to Brave, seeing as she didn't have anything to restore herself with. Brave quickly threw her mic at the mouse.
Purple Guy casually twirled his dagger in his hand while they moved, then on his turn he ducked down and threw it almost like you'd throw a boomerang.
It whirled around in a wide arc, just like Brave did with her mic, only his weapon seemed a LOT more aerodynamic. It slammed into the Lucoa Mouse and then easily returned to Purple Guy's hand.
"How on Earth do you people DO that?!" I asked.
Purple Guy cracked a smile. "Practice makes perfect, kid."
The mouse jumped forward and slammed it's tail into my Mii twice in one last desperate attempt, but it was too little too late. Susie quickly healed my Mii, and after one Flambé, a toss from Brave and a slice from Purple Guy, it proved to be too much for the mouse.
It fell over, and I prepared myself. Once again, the whirling data lines of code came from the 3DS aimed at the mouse, and a HUGE force was acted upon me, pulling me towards the mouse faster than it was getting pulled towards me.
My friends, minus Purple Guy (he was staring at this in mild shock, which to be honest wasn't that much of a surprise), quickly grabbed my back and tugged with me, mostly stopping my movement towards the mouse. It VERY slowly got tugged towards me, into the data lines, and then, with a sharp POP!, it was back in the system.
The face soon flew out from the system, uttering a happy thanks in response. It flew off, and then we fell over.
I panted, wiping my brow. Between the natural heat of the forest, the tense battle, and the struggle of forcing the mouse back into the system, I was sweating like crazy, not to mention pretty winded.
"What just happened?" Purple Guy asked, leaning over me.
"What happens when we defeat an enemy." I explained softly, hearing two more small pops as money and food were released from my system.
Slowly we pulled ourselves up and dusted off. I picked up the money and the food, this time around two plates of tasty-looking mushrooms plus a plate of rather appealing cheese.
"So…" I murmured, gazing at Purple Guy. "I guess you're part of our group, now."
Purple Guy nodded. "Not exactly how I saw my day going, but I don't see anything but good coming from this… unless you all have any objections?"
He looked at each of the rest of us one by one. No one said anything.
If I had to guess, the others were just as curious about Purple Guy as I was, and that probably went vice versa with him too. We simply didn't know a whole lot about each other. I figured we'd get to know each other with time, but… I dunno, it just seemed kind of uncomfortable as of now.
Finally, my Mii cleared his throat and stated, "We should probably get moving. Our fight might have attracted other monsters in the area."
The rest of us agreed with that, and we soldered on further.
From that point on, I could've sworn the trees were starting to grow thinner, like we were reaching the other end of the forest. And it seemed like that was actually going to happen.
Suddenly, I realized that the others were walking ahead. Purple Guy was near me, cautiously looking at me through the corners of his eyes.
"Kid? Lemme ask you something." he stated once I glanced over. "What… what exactly are you? It's been on my mind ever since I met you back at the first Inn, and I haven't be able to put a name to it."
"I'm human." I stated simply.
"You make it sound like you're some sort of different race." Purple Guy noted.
"Well… in a sense, I am." I explained quietly. "I mean… well, it's a long story."
"Then wait. I'll listen to what you have to say when we get to an Inn." Purple Guy interrupted.
I nodded, understanding his reasoning. We were in the middle of essentially nowhere with no guarantee of safety. Starting the story now, when we could easily be beset by something of unfriendly nature…
I quickly sped up my pace to get to my Mii and the others, saying, "You guys see anything yet?"
"No… and it's only getting darker here." my Mii mumbled, looking at the sky through the now far thinner trees around us.
"Calm down." Purple Guy insisted, now walking with the rest of us. "We'll find something. The Inn's aren't that far apart from each other. We're sure to run into one sooner than later."
"What makes you say that?" Susie asked.
"Because there's one right in front of us." Purple Guy calmly stated.
We looked ahead. It was faint, yes, but… there seemed to be a sliver of a sign up ahead, and it looked very much like the big INN sign on all Inn's.
Everyone picked up the pace a little bit more, and sure enough, there it was. Right at the forest's edge, an Inn was placed here.
"How'd… how'd you know this would be here?" Brave asked.
"Because I've done a little, granted only a LITTLE, adventuring myself." Purple Guy responded casually. "I've got a map here of pretty much every Inn from Greenhorne to the castle. Beyond that, though… I got nothing for ya."
Susie whistled in amazement. "That's… actually pretty useful."
We all entered the Inn in a few moments.
Once Purple Guy got our rooms together, he herded us all into one room for a moment.
"Okay, I know everyone's tired…" he started, somehow snapping his 'fingers' (no Mii really has those, hey?) at my Mii, who was about to fall asleep just from sitting on a bed. "But I have some questions that I want answered before we go to bed."
Brave curiously sat on the edge of the other bed, her head tilted. "What questions?"
"For starters, what exactly are you four intending to do?" Purple Guy asked.
"We're tasked with stopping the Dark Lord from destroying Miitopia." I answered simply.
Apparently Purple Guy didn't expect that, if the way his eyes widened was any indication. "Woahwoahwoah, hold on… YOU four are the group I've heard of trying to save Greenhorne and then eventually Miitopia from the Dark Lord?"
"How did people even start talking about that?" I asked. "I thought the only people that would've known we were trying to stop the Dark Lord would MAYBE be the people of Greenhorne, but both you AND Brave had made a mention of other people knowing about us trying to stop the Dark Lord."
"Word travels really fast in Miitopia." Brave explained. "I mean, think about it. I had four other friends I hang out with before becoming a Pop Star and meeting you guys. If each of them knew four people, and then each of THEM knew four others, then you could spider web outwards to pretty much EVERY Mii in Miitopia, everyone connected through just one person. And we Mii's love talking with each other about the latest gossip, so it wouldn't take long for some Mii to tell their friend about our group, them to pass that on to others, ectera ectera."
I digested that. It made sense, sort of. I still had no idea how these Mii's could pass word of us that quickly.
"Anyway, yes, we are." My Mii added. "We were commissioned to save the world after seeing the horrors that Dark Lord Chara plans to unleash on us all."
"Commissioned?" Purple Guy noticed. "Someone told you to go fight the Dark Lord?"
My Mii paled. He looked at me, silently asking, 'What do I say?'
I gave him a look that said, 'I got this,' before calmly sighing and saying…
"We were commissioned by the Guardian to do so."
That REALLY got Purple Guy's attention. "The… The GUARDIAN? The being that watches over all Mii-kind? You're kidding me. There's no way you could've met them. They… they watch over EVERYONE. They wouldn't have time to focus on just one group of people…"
"Why are you so sure about that, Mr. Afton?" the pendant around my neck suddenly glowed.
Purple Guy froze dead in place, his face quickly turning to the color of milk.
"Afton…?" I murmured.
"That would be your new friend's real last name. I don't understand why he prefers Purple Guy, exactly. But in any case, why do you doubt my involvement in this group, Afton?" the Guardian explained.
Purple Guy quickly bowed to his knees, his hands in a pray position. "F-forgive me, great Guardian. I-I just thought you would have enough on your plate already…"
"Mistakes are mistakes, Afton. Do not dwell on them for long, or they may consume you one day." the Guardian told him, before speaking once more. "In any event, I was about to speak to you all. You now have a full team! I can't be more happy for you and your group."
My Mii rubbed his neck. "Well, I'm just glad we have each other now."
The others agreed.
"The next step in your path ahead would be to find the remaining faces of Greenhorne. But I have news. Dark Lord Chara has been spotted. They were last seen in the rocky plateau to the north of your location." the Guardian quickly explained.
My eyes widened. "He might have put someone's face there, or maybe he's hiding there, waiting for us."
"I have no idea if he is actually there or not anymore. In any event, going there would possibly be a good course of action if you want to stop them. You DO want to stop them, do you?"
"Yes, we do." Susie agreed, grimacing slightly.
"I wanna get him!" Brave yelled, somehow looking pretty angry for someone who was wearing a frilly dress. "He's hurt too many people to be let off lightly!"
"I'm in this far, I'm not leaving till the end." my Mii responded, unusually confident-sounding.
Purple Guy slowly managed to collect himself. "I said I was going to help. I'm not going to back on that. That would be foolish of me."
"I'm not backing down either." I added at the end. "Maybe this isn't my world, but I'm not gonna let that stand in my way of helping."
"Excellent! I'm very glad to hear you all say that." the Guardian praised, sounding deeply pleased. "You all should rest tonight. You've had a long adventure."
The others slowly nodded. Everyone started doing their own thing for a moment. My Mii and Susie started having a quiet conversation together, while Purple Guy leaned against the wall in the corner, carefully inspecting his dagger for any sort of damage or blemish.
That left Brave, who looked as though she had become a LITTLE too enthusiastic in her statement to help, and now didn't know what to do with her leftover energy.
"You okay?" I asked quietly.
"Oh! Y-yeah, I'm fine." she stammered, blushing a little. "Just… a little high-strung right now."
"Here. Maybe some food will help?" I asked, reaching into my bag and pulling out some Butterfly Honey.
"Oooh! Thank you!" Brave thanked, quickly starting to eat the treat.
"Hey, kid?" Purple Guy asked, suddenly behind me. "You got more food in there?"
"I'm hungry too, what do you got?" My Mii quickly called out.
"Is it time for a late-night snack?" Susie asked hopefully.
I sighed. 'Brought this on myself.' I chastised myself in my head.
I quickly started handing out some food for the others. Purple Guy tried some of those mushrooms we got from the Smileshrooms, the Mushroom Sauté. He seemed to like it a lot, despite his best efforts to hide his expression.
My Mii settled on the cheese platter, called Mouse Treat, which was essentially two pieces of rather tasty-looking cheese on a small platter. He thought it was okay. "Could use something, though." he added through a small bite of the stuff.
Susie eventually settled on more Goblin Ham. "I'm still surprised I like this stuff…" she murmured. I shrugged.
Anywho, once everyone finished their food they started wandering about, about to head into bed.
I crawled into my little rollout bed, which was a lot more comfy than you'd expect, and started to do my nightly routine of checking everything.
However, just as I plugged my 3DS in and was about do the same to my phone…
It buzzed.
My eyes widened. "Wh-wha…?"
I turned on the screen. I… I had a text message!
I quickly opened up the phone and read the message. It was from… some number. I didn't recognize it.
"Cameron… where are you? I'm all alone."
I texted back, just trying to see if it was someone I knew, "Who's this?"
"Please, Cameron… find me…" the next message read.
"Who are you?" I responded, then added, "I can't help you if you won't tell me who you are."
"But you already know me. You should, anyway…"
"Sorry, but I don't have anything. Your number isn't familiar to me."
"Whatever… just please…"
"H"
"E"
"L"
"P"
"M"
"E"
"C"
"A"
"M"
"E"
"R"
"O"
"N"
That last bit came in with one letter being sent every two seconds.
"Just tell me who you are so I know who to look for." I insisted.
No response.
"Hello? Mystery person?"
Nothing.
"Okay then, well… I'll certainly keep an eye out for you. Good night."
I turned off the phone and then carefully plugged it up.
"What were you doing?" my Mii suddenly asked, standing next to me.
I jumped up a little. Without my knowledge, my Mii had been standing next to me for a good five seconds.
"Oh… erm, you see, I got this text message from someone, and it was kinda creepy." I explained, pulling up the text menu again. "They claim to know me, but…"
My Mii stared at the screen for a moment. "I… don't know what I'm supposed to be looking at."
"You look at the conver-" I started to say, looking at the phone myself.
There was nothing there. No sign of the messenger, no sign of my own messages back.
"-sation." I finished quietly, quickly scouring my phone to try and see if I clicked off of it somehow. I didn't. It was still the same number. But… the conversation was just gone.
"Are you sure you're okay?" my Mii asked, genuinely concerned. "You seem… a little pale now…"
"I swear there was a message here…" I insisted. "It said something like, 'you know who I am,' 'I'm all alone,' and 'help me Cameron.'"
"I… I have no idea." my Mii responded. "Maybe you just imagined it…?"
"I can't imagine something that vividly…" I responded quietly. "I seriously saw that. I know I did."
"Hey, don't stress about that." my Mii instructed. "It won't do you any good to dwell on things you can't change, you know?"
I slowly sighed. "I guess you're right… you heading to bed soon?"
"Yeah… actually, small issue… I think Brave and Purple Guy have kinda claimed the beds in these rooms already." my Mii murmured.
I looked at the beds. Indeed, it seemed as though Purple Guy and Brave had already picked out their beds, with Purple Guy reading and Brave jumping on the bed happily, trying to burn up a little bit more energy.
"That's fine. After all, the rollout is here, and I'm tired…" I whispered, a yawn escaping me.
My Mii shrugged. "Alright. See you tomorrow, then." my Mii stated, leaving the room with a wink at me.
I made sure everything was put away neatly before taking off my glasses and closing my eyes.
The lights soon were turned off in the room, and we all quickly fell into a deep sleep.
For me, however, I had more dreams. Dreams that made even less sense.
The few I remember are of our group heading into a cave of some kind…
...a giant rock falling from the sky…
...the Dark Lord laughing at me from above, with me forcibly on my knees before him…
...my Mii and Susie yelling at each other, angry…
None of these dreams made any sense to me.
Most of them were nightmares, but a few were good dreams too…
My Mii and Susie hugging it out…
Purple Guy dodging a massive strike…
Brave sining a really beautiful song in front of a huge crowd…
Just to name a few.
These dreams helped balance out the bad dreams.
The final dream I had was the strangest, one I'm not entirely sure if I would call good or bad.
It was a dark area. So dark, I couldn't see anything in front of me.
Suddenly, a voice called out.
"Where… where am I?"
It sounded like it was directly in front of me.
"I… I'm so lost…"
The voice sounded almost… familiar.
"Can… can you hear me?" the voice asked. With a start, I suddenly realized it was talking to me.
"I… I can't see you… but I know you're there. You have to be…" the voice responded. "Cameron? Can you hear me?"
I tried to speak, but I couldn't.
"I… I don't know where I am." the voice murmured. "But… you have to find me. I can't stay here forever… it's so hot here. I'm burning up just being here… please, Cameron, promise you'll find me…"
I tried, again, to speak, but I couldn't. My voice was completely silent.
"... I think I'll take that as a yes, then." the voice responded. "Please, Cameron, you have to find me… PLEASE!"
And then the dream ended.
I slowly opened my eyes. Morning sunlight was streaming through the window.
Purple Guy and Brave were already up and about. I slowly sat up as Brave turned towards me. "Oh! Cameron's look-alike! I'm sorry, did we wake you?"
"Nah… I'm fine…" I murmured. "Just woke up."
"I was just about to partake in one of my daily routines to wake myself up." Purple Guy explained. "Some morning stretches, you know. The basics."
I yawned. "I could use a little more of a wake up call…" I murmured.
"Well then join us!" Brave inisted. "This'll be fun!"
I got up with them.
"Alright you two, let's hone our bodies into ultimate weapons!" Purple Guy started.
"It might hurt now, but future us will be glad!" Brave added.
"TRAINING TIME!" they yelled, and then, they both quickly dropped to the floor and started doing sit-ups.
I joined in with them as best I could. Sit-ups were about the only exercise I didn't completely suck at. We kept it up for a good five minutes, with Brave at one point yelling happily, "We're so in sync!"
That seemed to make her and Purple Guy go even FASTER, which I attempted to keep up with, to no avail.
Finally, after what felt like years, they finally called it off.
I was panting. My muscles felt like they were burning, and don't even get me started on how much sweat was pouring off me.
"That, lady and gent, is how I get my morning exercise." Purple Guy explained, not even a LITTLE bit tired or worn out. Rather, he looked well and ready to go.
"That was fun!" Brave smiled, also raring to go. "What about you, Cameron's look-alike?"
They suddenly seemed to notice just how much that had taken from me to attempt to keep up. "I… I think I need… a shower…"
They helped me up and got me to the bathrooms, where I took a long, LONG shower.
If that was just the START of the day…
What would the rest of it hold?
And another chapter wraps up!
Okay, yeah, I've started to slow down on this story too, but cut me a LITTLE slack, okay? I've been up to my armpits in things I have to do for not only school, but I'm also preparing for college, not to MENTION that I have my own personal life too. I can't just type on this thing 24/7.
In the meantime, however, there's plenty of other stories out there about Miitopia that are probably much better than this one. Not to mention they probably update a LOT more frequently than I ever could. Like, EmberTheDraconian's story, A Tale of Chaos? That story is great. It also has a great person writing it, so yeah. Give it a read. =D
Anyway guys, I hope you all enjoyed the chapter. I'm still REALLY into this story. I hope you guys are, at the very least, mildly into it.
If you guys have any questions for me, PM me and I'll do my best to answer. Oh, and please let me know if you guys have any particular side character you'd like to be. I'd be more than happy to include you! Beats just coming up with random names and references, after all.
Until next guys, I have just one thing to say…
Stay awesome! =D