TODAY. WAS. THE BEST. DAY OF MY LIFE! :D Y'see, my dad took me to the mall saying that he was going to get me a 'surprise'. Natually, I had turned into a little giggling child by the time we got there. He took me to Big W (that's like a massive shop, full of all sorts of stuff), and told me to close my eyes. So, I did, and he led me through. When he told me to open 'em, here's what I saw; A FREAKING XBOX KINECT BABY! WOOO! It's all MINE! He also got me sushi for lunch, and a mango magic boost, along with two new games (Skyrim and... well, I'll keep the last one a secret for my own personal pride XD).

Yep. Best day of my life. (so far!)

So guys, enjoy this next chapter, now filled with my hyperactivity! Now, don't kill me or anything... ^^;

Leave them.

Huh?

Leave them. Get out of here.

I don't remember giving you authority over my actions!

You never did. I am you, idiot.

Don't call me that!

Get out of this place. It's dangerous for you. It's playing with your mind... changing you.

Well, what if I'm okay with that?

It doesn't matter whether or not you're 'okay' with it; you have to get OUT.

Why is it so important, anyway?

This place has an aura, and it clashes with yours like day and night. It is weakness. Leave NOW, or it will consume you!

CRACK-KOOM!

Elinor leaped out of her pillow. She looked around wildly before realising she was inside a bedroom.

Oh! Right, she had stayed in one of the mansions' MANY unused spare rooms for her sleep... Where, exactly, in the giant house was she again?

'Ugh,' she thought, 'I suppose I can worry about it—'

KRACK-KOOOOOM!

"Eek!"

Elinor snatched her bed covers up to her chin in fear. Loud noises! Lightning! Dark room! GAH!

The terrified girl ducked underneath her covers and shivered.

'It's just noise,' she kept on repeating to herself in her mind, 'Just noise, can't hurt you...'

"Elinor?"

"ACK!"

Elinor, yet again, yelped and threw her covers off in a force of old attack habits. Once she remembered that there was really no need for that, she focused on who she almost snarled at.

It was... wait, not Ruby?

It was that skeleton boy from last night; the one that thought he was related to librarians, or something like that. What was his name again? Skull Boy, right?

Elinor up and downed the kid; he looked fairly harmless. Strange, but harmless. Interesting choice of clothes though; a black sloppy-Joe, with gloves, a belt with a skull symbol (Ha! The irony...), black jeans and black converses.

Wow, he really like black, didn't he?

"Ruby just wanted to make sure you were up, so we could have breakfast with you," said Skull Boy.

Elinor felt slightly overwhelmed; they all wanted to have breakfast... with her? Just because she was new?

...

Maybe they hadn't caught the drift that she enjoyed being alone?

'Eh,' Elinor thought, 'I guess if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.'

NO.

'UGH,' Elinor thought, 'You again? What the hell do you want?!'

For you to GET. OUT.

"Uh, hello?"

Elinor's train of thought grinded to a halt as she snapped back to reality. Skull Boy was standing there with his arms crossed and a sightly impatient look on his face.

"Ah," she said, "Right, breakfast..."

Elinor followed the animate skeleton through the hallways.

Wonder why Ruby had sent someone to get Elinor, instead of coming up herself? She must be planning something... or she just wanted Elinor to continue to get better with her people skills... probably the latter.

"So, this mansion," started Elinor, "It's pretty... big."

'STUPID line!' Elinor shouted to herself inwardly, 'ANYONE who can see would've noticed that, you imbecile!'

"Yeah, it is pretty large isn't it?" Skull Boy replied conversationally.

'Elinor, you genius!'

"Oh, yes!" Elinor beamed a little too brightly, "I mean, it's massive! You could fit a whole frigging elephant herd in here, right?"

Skull Boy gave Elinor a weird look for a second.

"Um... I suppose so?"

'STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!'

Luckily, they managed to reach the kitchen just that very moment. Elinor quickly opened the door and dashed inside to see a crowd of, well... monsters.

They all immediately stopped mid conversation the second Elinor entered the room, and shipped their heads towards Elinor. Said girl recognised all the faces; Ruby, Iris, Poe, Doom Kitty, Scaredy Bat and Misery.*

"You know, you don't have to run away from someone if you find the conversation uncomfortable," came Skull Boy's voice from behind Elinor.

"Uh, yeah, sorry 'bout—"

"HI, ELINOR!"

Elinor had a mini heart attack as the Cyclops girl bounced (Literally, she bounced. She had springs on.) over to her.

"D'you remember me? D'you remember me? Huh? Huh? Huh?" she kept on asking right in Elinor's face as her own went up and down, up and down...

"I'm sure she'd remember you, Iris," came to hoarse voice of Misery, "Unless she really does have rabies and Scaredy was right..."

"Oh, I told you!" said the hysterical bat, "I told you she was crazy!"

"Guys!" Ruby shouted over the rest, causing silence, "I'm sure she remembers all of us, and I'm certain she isn't crazy."

"Yes," added in Poe, "I say that she seems quite the Lady."

"Thank you, Poe," Ruby said, smiling warmly.

Ruby turned to Elinor, who had gone a little numb from all the attention she was receiving.

"So," said Ruby, "do you like pancakes, El—"

The red head stopped mid sentence. Her eyes became slightly wider, as she seemed to have remembered, or realised something.

"Hey," she said, "Has anyone seen Frank and Len?"

"We're right here!"

Everyone in the room turned their attention the left door; standing there, was probably the most interesting monster Elinor had seen in the mansion yet!

He (or they?) had two heads; right (their right) was blue, left was green. The blue head has a hair style like an old rock star, with black and a white checked shoe on his side of the body.

The green head had messy, black hair, and a piercing on his left eyebrow. He had a red flame design on his shoe, giving him the air of a punk rock star too.

"Sorry we're late," the green one said, "Frank couldn't find his shoe."

"I told you, Len," said the blue one, "I didn't lose it; you did!"

"Why would I lose it?" Len rebutted, "It's your shoe!"

"Never mind, Len," Frank sighed, "You just don't get it..."

"Um, guys?" Ruby intervened, "This is Elinor!"

The duo focused their attention to the bat-lizard-girl-thing standing in the middle of the room.

She looked kind of uncomfortable.

"Hey there!" said Frank, stepping forward with Len, "Me and my brother heard about you last night; are you really crazy?"

"I AM NOT CRAZY!" Elinor yelled in frustration, but immediately regretted it seeing how they backed away several steps.

"Uh, heh..." said Elinor, feeling sweat forming on the back of her neck, "...Sorry?"

The two brothers looked at each other for a moment, then shrugged off the outburst.

"And by the way, Frank," said Len, "It's my brother and I."

"Whatever, Len!"

* Think we're missing someone? ;3

HAH! Looks like Elinor has a DARK SIDE (clue to the new game I got). Aaaaaand we met Skull Boy again, 'cause I thought we didn't have enough of him last chapter. X3 We also meet my two personal favourite charactesrs, FRANK AND LEN! They're just so funny!

Will this voice in Elinor's head be a problem?

Will Elinor loose it and burn down the mansion (haven't we already had that question?)?

Will DRAMA go down next chapter?

Probably, possibly, and... I ain't tellin!

Tune in next time!

RUBY GLOOM DOESN'T BELONG TO ME, DANGIT!

But Elinor does, woo!

Thanks for reading!