Okay guys, chapter 11! Halle is here!
-Saph
'BAM!' the sound as the black-and-white chequered ball is kicked into the net.
"YAY! Halle scored again!" The children cheer.
A few of the children run to said person. Halle smiles, he is glad he came, but a part of him wants to kick himself for leaving Alle behind. That b$7rd better not have done anything to Alle. He thinks, referring to their father.
He can't wait to get back to Alle and tell him about camp. On the first day he won three consecutive games and secured a spot on the starter's team. He is a mid-fielder, and is pretty good at that. There are three more days left for the starters to perfect their teamwork. From then on, they will be going to the city tournament. Halle will have to tell Alle that he will be going, carrying his team all the way to the nationals.
"Hey, Halle, you phoning someone again?" The coach calls.
Halle is at the phone, trying to reach Alle. That's odd, there's no answer. He knows that Alle will be alone at home at this time of day, so why isn't he answering. Then again, Alle never touches the phone.
He had advised his brother to stay in the cellar in case their father came back drunker than ever. Perhaps he can't hear the phone down there, or he just doesn't care for that matter. Either way, he still has two more days of camp. The last two days are for the starters to touch up their play. Halle is getting used to playing with the other starters. He and this other boy, Shiki, are the two mid-fielders and they work well together.
"Halle, practice is starting!" Shiki calls.
"R-Right!" Halle calls back, putting the phone down and running to catch up with Shiki.
He has a smile on his face but he can't stop the nagging feeling in the back of his mind that something bad has happened to Alle.
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"Darn it! I lost again!" Setsuna yells.
Neil laughs.
"Idiots." Tieria states.
He has decided to join the group of children instead of locking himself inside his room. He reasons that it is because he wants to make the new kid, Alle, feel welcome; or that it's only polite. Either way, he has come out of his room and is sitting on the armrest of the couch, watching the game. That doesn't mean he doesn't spend quite some time shut up in his room though.
"Of course." Allelujah states, smiling.
He is sitting on the back of the couch, right beside Tieria, watching the screen. He declined the invitation to play again; knowing he will just lose. But the real reason he doesn't play is because of something he has sworn to himself. He will not allow himself to have fun until Halle can be there to enjoy it with him.
"Of course you lost! Neil-nii is the best! You wouldn't be able to beat him in a thousand years!"
Amy trills happily, snuggling closer to her biological brother.
"Shut up, Amy!" Setsuna yells.
She sticks her tongue out at him and hides behind Neil as a vein starts to pop in Setsuna's forehead.
"Uh..umm...S-Setsuna...you shouldn't do that to Amy-chan." Alle stuttered.
"YAY!" Amy squealed, running to glomp Allelujah. "You called me 'Amy-chan!'" She chirps happily.
Neil smiles, glad they are all getting along...to an extent.
"Idiot, it's only natural that you would lose to Lockon. You're 4 years too early to even begin to think about defeating him! He has 4 years seniority over you." Tieria states, mentioning the age difference.
"AGH! Shut up, Tieria-niisan!" Setsuna growls. "Again!" He snaps at Neil, he will not admit defeat.
"What? But this is the 30th time!" Allelujah calls in disbelief.
It is 10 am for crying out loud! They've been playing all morning!
"Forget it, Allelujah, I've seen these guys play way more than that." Tieria states.
"There's worse?" Allelujah asks.
"What do you think happened when you went to sleep last night?" Tieria asks, adjusting his glasses.
Allelujah thinks for a moment. He was watching the two play after Setsuna had demanded another rematch last night. That is all he remembers before he blacked-out, that was when he had fallen asleep...and...he vaguely remembered hearing shouts of 'I win again!' and 'Damn you, Lockon!' in his dreams. So they really had played all night. The 30 games he had counted from this morning were only from the time he had woken up, he didn't count the ones that they had played while he was in dreamland.
"Did these two get any sleep last night?" Allelujah asks Tieria, not believing any human could play like that and be awake to tell about it.
"No. I've seen them go for three days straight without rest. If Lindsay-san hadn't come down to remind them to go to the bathroom and eat they would have destroyed themselves."
"Hey, she's your mother, call her that!" Neil mutters.
"But...what about sleep?" Alle asks, ignoring Neil's comment.
"Oh? Once the third day came they both dropped their controllers and fell asleep, even dowsing them in ice couldn't wake them." Tieria states.
Allelujah wonders how he figured that out, but then he sees the light smirk on Tieria's face.
"No...you didn't!" Alleujah gasps.
"Yes, I tested my theory. We threw ice water on them both, they didn't even budge. Lindsay-san told me to do it." Tieria smirks and turns, heading to his room, and Veda.
Allelujah shudders and goes back to watching the screen. He makes a mental note never to sleep in around these freaks.
"T-Tieria-san, where are you going?" Alle calls.
Tieria pauses at the door.
"This is going to go nowhere. Setsuna's going to keep demanding rematches he can't win. You're welcome to join me if you wish." Tieria states as he walks into his room.
Alle looks at the two boys on the couch, well, they aren't exactly on the couch. 5...4...3...2...1...BAM! Yep, just like clockwork. The two are on the floor, wrestling it out after Setsuna swore the batteries in his controls died before he could combo Neil. Amy is standing there, trying to get Setsuna off of Neil, or is she trying to help Neil strangle the swearing boy? Alle sighs and decides to join Tieria.
He walks up to Tieria's room door and knocks politely, remembering what Neil warned him about.
"Tieria-san, may I come in?" He calls.
"It's open." Tieria's voice sounds from the inside.
Alle lets himself in.
The room is nice, the walls are painted a light purple, and the ceiling is pure white. It isn't like Neil's room where the walls are powder green. The oldest has a messy room, messy is an understatement. Alle remembers the first, and what he swore would be his last, time he had been in Neil's room.
Clothes were all over the place, the dirty mixed in with the clean, the 2-days-old, and the reeking-who-knows-how-old shirts. There were manuals, game codes, gaming guides, and magazines scattered all over, buried in dirty laundry or in toppling piles on shelves. The closet was open, its contents spilling everywhere, and Alle swore he saw something move and heard a squeak. After that traumatic experience Alle swore he'd never go in Neil's room again unless it was absolutely necessary.
"So you decided to join me."
Tieria's voice snaps him out of his thoughts and he looks at the purple-haired boy.
Tieria is sitting on the bed, his eyes not closed in frustration like they were when he was sitting outside. The two brawling 'idiots' as he called them seemed to give him a headache. Here, his eyes are open and he seems nice enough.
"Want to do something fun?" He asks with a slight hint of evil in his voice.
"L-Like what?" Allelujah gulps, he can practically feel the evil reeking from Tieria.
Tieria grins and holds up his keyboard.
"I fixed Veda. Want to shut up those two idiots?" Tieria grins evilly.
Allelujah smiles and joins Tieria. His brother's evil streak really has rubbed off on him, hasn't it?
"WHAT THE HELL? DAMN IT! I WAS GOING TO WIN!"
"NOOO! MY GAMES! MY GAMES!"
Tieria and Alle laugh as they hear the cries from the other room.
To be continued...
Haha! Tieria really is evil, isn't he? And yes, I brought Halle into this, he should be reunited with his twin soon, but only if I manage to post the chapter, for that I need reviews! Also, the below is for FinalEnd, an extra-long mini-drama just for you! So review once in a while!
Halle/Alle: Review if you want us to be together!
Halle: I'LL KILL ALL OF YA IF YA DON'T REVIEW!
Alle: Review or he'll kill everyone!
Saph: ...*sweatdrops*
Alle: *remembers what he should have said* Ah! I mean, Halle! Don't kill people! Review or we won't get reunited!
Saph: How can you say 'no' to Alle's face? *indicates Alle super-chibi-fied*
Tieria: Only idiots do not review.
Lockon: Review, be really nice and leave a few reviews and maybe, just maybe, this cruel author will convince Tieria to give me back my games.
Saph: That's up to Tieria.
Lockon: P-please?
Tieria: ...
Lockon: Please, T-chan?
Tieria: Just for that, no games for a month.
Lockon: NO! How am I supposed to live?! NO!
Setsuna: Unfair! I was just going to beat Lockon! $#%$^&#$ #$#$^$%^ !##$^$^%YT $%#%$ ##$^%%$&^ #$%%^& #$54^ q#$$%^$%^ #$$%^^&Q#$# #$%^%^& #$$%^$%#$ 34^$^&#$ $%$^& #%%^$523#$^ #$#$%^3 35#$% QW3 ##$%#^ #$#$# ^$&$E^% ^%*67* &*&^* #$# $#%#$% ^&%^& #$#$ 5$%^$%^ %$^$%^ #$# $#%436 $^456456$#%#$$% #$%#$#$#$% $%#$%^%$#^$#%% $%$% #$%$#% $#%$ $#%#$% $#%#$%#$%#$% #$%#$% $#%#$% #$%$# you, Tieria!
Everyone except Setsuna: ...
Saph: Yes, Setsuna really needs to work on his language...maybe I'll write in that he has to go to anger management classes.
Setsuna: You wouldn't dare!
Saph: Watch me.
Setsuna: $#%#$!$ #$%#$$#$B#$%#$# #$%#$4q3 #$#%^# you! Stupid #$#ing author...
Lockon: S-Setsu-chan, h-he may be serious...
Setsuna: *glances at Saph's evil glare* You wouldn't!
Saph: I would.
Setsuna: No! I'm not going back there again!
Saph: This happened before?
Lockon: Yeah...he hated them because of the swear jar, it made him bankrupt, which made him swear even more. They started taking other things as payment until finally, they just sent him to the orphanage. That's when we adopted him. Mother has given up. Setsu-chan is a hopeless case.
Setsuna: Who are you calling hopeless?
Saph: Wow, that may be the first time I've heard Setsu-chan utter a full sentence without swearing.
Lockon: Wow.
Setsuna: Why does everyone insist on calling me Setsu #$#ing chan?!
Saph: and the record is broken.
Lockon: I think we witnessed history.
Setsuna: I. Am. Not. Setsu. #$#$%ing. Chan.
Saph: Please, everyone, review and let us know if you like the name Setsu-chan.
Setsuna: Don't you dare!
Saph: Oh? You're telling them not to review?
Setsuna: N-No...S-So what if I am?
Saph: I see. I guess we'll need more than anger management classes. We'll need to shove little Setsu here into confinement. A year without games! No...I shall place you in a glass case and make you watch me play games with Lockon! MWUWAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Lockon: The author really is evil. Please, save us... T_T
Saph: What was that? Do you want to join him? Just so you know, the first case will only be enough to hold Setsu-chan and so help me, I will shove you there too, without resizing it!
Setsuna and Lockon: T_T Please review.