Chpt. 5
Karkat growled and took out his strange computer after a loud ping could be heard from the air around him. He began to type furiously on the computer, and everyone except Terezi went over to look at the chat.
ectoBiologist [EB] began pestering carcinoGeneticist [CG] at 20:01
EB: karkat!
EB: come on karkat, i need to talk to you!
CG: WHAT DO YOU WANT F***BERT?
CG: I SWEAR IF THIS IS YOUR IDEA OF SOME SORT OF F***ED UP JOKE I MIGHT JUST FLY OF THE F***ING HANDLE.
EB: i swear this wasn't because of me karkat!
EB: i'm just as confused as you are.
EB: i've been trying to keep your guy's identities hidden.
EB: i think it's for he best.
CG: I COULDN'T TELL.
EB: really?
CG: YEAH, THOSE BIG WINDS WERE'NT ENOUGH TO TIP ME OFF THAT YOU'RE HERE.
EB: ehehe
EB: sorry.
CG: WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED TO TELL ME?
CG: I'M PRETTY F***ING BUSY.
EB: hahahahahahahaha
EB: because entertaining a bunch of humans is busy.
CG: F*** YOU.
EB: i'm supposed to tell you what's going on.
EB: rose told me the basics really quickly.
EB: that black-haired kid with the lightning scar is some sort of chosen one.
EB: apparently, he survived a curse that no one has before.
EB: there's this big bad wizard trying to kill him, but no one knows he's alive except a few people because the government is trying to cover it up.
EB: the wizard is supposed to be invincible
EB: but nowhere near as strong as jack.
EB: so rose struck a deal with the headmaster of the school he goes to.
EB: he'll offer you protection from jade and the condesce and english.
EB: all you have to do is keep harry safe.
CG: FINE.
CG: IS ANYONE ELSE GOING TO COME?
EB: me and davesprite will be joining you really soon.
EB: i just need to figure out how to not be unstuck.
EB: i'm actually outside right now.
EB: but i can't stay long.
EB: i need to keep my scent and rose's and dave's scent spread apart.
EB: jade is looking for me.
EB: this is the longest i've been solid so far.
EB: :/
CG: WELL THAT SOUNDS FUN
CG: NOTICE MY APPLICATION OF HUMAN SARCASM.
EB: bye karkat.
EB: don't talk about the game.
EB: and open the window.
ectoBiologist [EB] quit pestering carcinoGeneticist [CG] at 20:05
"Who was that?" Harry asked, wondering if Karkat would actually answer.
"Just a friend of mine," Karkat answered. Terezi gave Karkat a strange look with a meaning Harry couldn't place. There were a lot of those lately. Karkat returned Terezi's look with a glare, and recaptalogued his computer before standing up and walking to the nearest window. He pulled it up, and a gust of wind blew into the room, event though there was no sign of wind outside. It subsided quickly, and a strong gust shut the window again.
"What was that?" Hermione asked simply.
"Nothing you need to be concerned about," Karkat growled. Terezi hit him in the back of his head once again.
"Ow! What the f***, Terezi?" Terezi responded with an evil grin directed in his direction.
Hermione took a look out the window, still curious about the strange wind phenomenon that had occurred previously.
"Harry," she began, "It's getting really dark out. We should probably go to our rooms before Ms. Weasley finds us."
Karkat gave her a strange look. "Why the ever loving f*** would you go to sleep at night?"
Ron gave him an amused look, and was most likely going to ask him why he would say something like that, but Hermione beat him to it.
"You don't sleep at night?"
"Why would anyone not sleep during the day? I mean, it's f***ing retarded to sleep during the night."
"So, you're nocturnal?"
Terezi shrugged, "Yeah, pretty much. Except for a few of us, because the sun is really bright where we come from."
"How bad is it?" Harry asked.
Terezi took a moment to think, "Well, it depends. For some people, you'd burn up as soon as you stepped outside." Ron let out a low whistle. "But as you go up the hemospectrum, resistance builds. Though there are a handful of people who have complete resistance to it."
"What's the hemospectrum?" Hermione asked.
"The hemospectrum is," Terezi paused, and Karkat took up the lead.
"The hemospectrum is a f***ed up system. If you're really high up there, you're royalty."
"And if you're on the bottom, you're a peasant?" Hermione asked obviously intrigued. Karkat nodded, a look of utter disgust etched on his features.
"How do you decide where you are on the hemospectrum?"
Terezi glanced at Karkat, and he returned it with a glare. Harry found this rather pointless, seeing that Terezi was blind.
Eventually, Terezi ended up saying, "They just know."
"So where are you two on the hemeospectacles?" Ron asked, and Harry nearly laughed at his word for the spectrum.
Karkat let out a guttural snarl, and stormed out of the room. Harry saw anger on his face, but something else too. Was it...fear? That wouldn't make sense, he thought, and turned his attention to Terezi, who seemed a lot less stressed about it.
"I'm pretty high up there, but not high enough to be considered royalty." She gave a disdainful sniff, "Like I would want too. Most of them are stuck up pricks." Ron gave a short burst of laughter, but Hermione looked thoughtful.
"Why did Karkat storm out?"
Terezi sighed, "If he wants to tell you, he will. I'd just leave him be though." Hermione nodded, accepting her answer.
"We really should get to bed," she pushed, and Terezi nodded.
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Harry lay in his bed, pondering the days earlier events. Judging by the lack of loud snores, Ron was too.
"Harry," he said suddenly, "What do you think those two are?" Harry did not have to ask to know who 'those two' were.
"I dunno," he said, turning over in his bed. "They don't seem bad."
"Yeah, but they're pretty weird aren't they? And that story Terezi told, bloody Hell!"
"Yeah, they seem different. Did you notice how they kept pausing, like they were editing their words? Like, there was something they didn't want us to know?"
"Definitely." There was a long pause. "But I suppose it's up to us to find out, right Harry?"
Harry laughed, "Yep, definitely. We'll find out their secrets. Starting with how they got here." Ron agreed silently, and both boys fell silent as they heard the creaking of Mrs. Weasley's footsteps outside the room. Harry turned over once again. As he lay silent in his bed, he listened to Ron's snores. He took a moment to open his eyes. The old room was dark, the only source of light was the moonlight that shone through the dusty window. The small amount of light allowed the shadows to be shown. Harry couldn't help feeling uneasy as he looked into the shadows that seemed longer than normal. He felt as though he would never fall asleep, when he was plunged into unconsciousness.
Instead of the long hallway he had become accustomed too, he was standing on a checkerboard. It expanded, and he was standing on a world covered with black and white squares. Small black and white people's bodies lay strewn across the ground, blood pooled around their mauled bodies. Next to him, one survivor stood, looking at his hand which was glowing with a strange golden light. He blinked tears out of his eyes, and began to march across the desolate battlefield.
Harry awoke sweating, the night's dream already fading to the back of his subconscious.
Across the hall, another was awaking, trying his hardest to push his dream to the back of his head.
Well, my dad's in the hospital so the next chapter won't come as quickly, but I'll try. Hurg
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