Brago: (Growls)
Me: Now what's wrong?
Brago: You, that's what's wrong!
Me: What did I do?
Brago: I can't take it anymore of you doing awful rhyming and torturing me by putting me in this sequel! I'm quitting the role!
Me: You can't quit! This is my story and in here I'm divine! You have no choice, and what I say in this story goes! Now get your rear back to your post, I'm gonna start the fifth chapter.
Brago: You can't make me!
Me: (Gets behind Brago's back and snickers like Zofis in his ear)
Brago: GRAH! STOP THAT!
Me: THEN GET MOVING!
Brago: (Points at me) Your time will come, human. You hear me, your time will come!
Me: Do your worse!
Brago: Oh I will!
Me: And when you do, I'll be there! I WILL BE THERE! (Laughs maniacally)
Zatch: Kiyomaro, the author's scaring me!
Kiyomaro: Ditto! The apocalypse is getting closer and closer to us each time this story is updated! Everyone run for your lives to the bunker!
Me: No you don't! Get back in the story... NOW!
Zatch and Kiyomaro: AH! (Runs back into the story)
Me: (Laughs maniacally again for a long time until I begin coughing, and so I went to get a glass of water.) Enjoy the new chapter.
Words that are both Bold and Italic is me narrating.
Chapter 5: Zeno's Pain.
"KIIIIIIIIIIIYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYOOOOOOOO!"
"SHUT UP, ZATCH!"
"BUT KIIIIIIYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOYYYYOOOOOOOOYYYYYYOOOOOOOO!"
Both stepbrothers have going at it like this for a very long time. Of course, it temporarily stopped over night when everyone was sleeping. But as soon as the sun came back up, Zatch went straight back to complaining.
"Kami, I can't take this anymore!" Brago said, his hands covering his ears. "When are we gonna be there?"
"We'll be there soon. Please be patient." replied Sherry.
"Soon isn't enough for me! It's either we're there now or I'm shutting that kid up for good!" the dark mamodo replied, his hands grabbing hold of his hair as if he was gonna rip it out of his head. He couldn't take it anymore with Zatch Bell coming along to a annoying broken record player.
"But Kiyo!"
"GRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH! ARE WE THERE YET?" Brago screamed in extreme frustration.
"No we're not, Brago."
"THAT'S IT! I'M SHUTTING THAT KID UP FOR GOOD!"
Meanwhile.
"Come on, come on, die already!" Zeno hissed at the boss he was fighting on his new KH2 game on his PS2. The reason it was tough for him is because he was playing it on Proud Mode. He was in one of the cup tournaments in the Olympus world. It can be a bit difficult in proud mode. "Yeah, now you ain't no match for me! Yeah, look out you stupid shadow! Ya missed me, sucker!"
Dufort was making the finishing touches on the extra engine he attached and installed to the super sled. He suddenly noticed something... something that might become important in the future. However, he decided to take a break. He grabbed the hotdog he asked Zeno to get for him. After going through a rocky tunnel, he found himself in an area in their lair that he and Zeno consider their living room. He sat on the sofa next to his mamodo companion.
"Oh yeah, I'm kicking these guys assess easily!" Zeno said with his usual sinister grin on his face.
"Use the reaction command," Dufort suggested.
"I'll use the reaction command when it's reaction command time!" Zeno snapped, his eyes still fixed on his game. Dufort just sighed and watched his companion play his game. This event when on for a while until the dark lightning mamodo got tired and saved his game.
"The vehicle is almost done. We just need one more piece before it's complete." said the human.
"Good. We'll take care of that later,"
"Zeno,"
"What is it, Dufort?"
"Why is it that you hate this holiday so much?"
A silence took place between the two. Zeno looked up at the ceiling hanging over their heads. In his thoughts, Dufort decided to forget about it. "Never mind."
"Oh, how long has it been since I first came here? Alright Dufort, I'll tell you. But it's not the holidays that I hate; it was the life I born with it that I hate." the mamodo said calmly, which kinda caught his attention.
Flashback.
"It began when I first came here as an infant..."
It was a cold winter night. Baskets attached to umbrellas descended across the sky towards Mamodoville. Each basket carried within it a mamodo infant. Out of all of these baskets, there were two connected to each by a strand of rope. These two baskets each carried a twin. One of them had caucasian skin, orange eyes, and blond hair, but the other had snow-white skin, silverish-white hair, and dark violet eyes.
A strong wing cam out from no where and thrust the baskets forward. The rope that connected the twins' baskets together was straining and slowly falling.
"A strong wind came out of nowhere, blowing all the baskets around everywhere. Since I was an infant, I was scared. I thought for sure we'll make it through... until,"
The rope gave away and snapped apart. One of the twins' baskets was blown way off course from the rest of the baskets, carrying the infant along with it. The other infant began crying for the lost of its sibling.
"The rope connecting our baskets snapped, and all I could do was watch as the freezing wind took my twin away to who knows where. After the strong winds died down, I landed safely at my so-called home. My parents took me in, but they despised me more than anything. I should've known that my parents always loved my twin more than me. They always talking about his name... Zatch Bell. They always worried about him 24/7. All I ever wanted from them was love... but they only gave me hate; it got worse. As I became 4, my parents began suspecting me and accusing me, believing that I was responsible for what happened to my twin. They end up framing me for charges and crimes I didn't do. And by that, all of Mamodoville began hating me and treating me like an outcast. My family hates me, and never had a friend in life... not one... I was so alone."
Horrible memories went through the young mamodo's mind. Memories of when his mother would beat him, when he was being chased by the town's people for crimes he did not commit, when people threw sharp objects at him that left cuts and scars on him. But worse of all was when he tried apologized to his father. The young mamodo poured his heart, soul, and tears into his words. But all that his father did in response... was electrocuted him with a powerful lightning bolt.
End of flashback.
"And it just wasn't in Christmas, they treated me like this every year from January to December, all I ever felt was pain, anger, hate, and envy. In the end from this treatment, I end up the way I am now... angry almost all the time, hating the rat hole that lies at the foot of this mountain. I was so sick of it, I decided to run away."
A small tear went down the mamodo's eye, but he wiped it away.
"So I end up living here, leaving me all alone to raise myself... until I met you, Dufort. Out of the way they treated me, I end up feeling hate as well, but not just towards them... but also towards my twin. It was because of him that I was treated like shit, why did he have to abandon me like this? I hate him... I HATE HIM!" Zeno's anger rose a bit. His hands clenched into fists and his sharp teeth gritted. When it look like he was gonna have a break down, he felt Dufort's hand touch his shoulder, calming the demon down.
"You sure it wasn't just an accident?"
"No, Dufort... everything happens for a reason," Zeno sighed as he got off the couch, grabbing a strange book and walking away.
"Where are you going?"
"To remind myself how much I my life." the mamodo finished as he opened their lair's front door and walked out into the cold weather.
Dufort took a bit out of his hotdog and turned the television screen on to see what's on.
Meanwhile.
"KIIIIIIYYYYOOOOOOO! HHEEEEEEELLLLLLPPPPPP!"
"SHUT UP! YOU'RE JUST AS ANNOYING AS THE AUTHOR!"
"KIIIIIIIIIIIIYYYYYYOOOOOOOOMMMMMMAAAAAAARRRRRRROOOOOOOOO!"
"You're on your own, kid!" Kiyomaro replied to his friend/stepbrother who was being pinned down by Brago. Kiyo just happened to be reading some manga.
Frightening, isn't it?
"Oh it's you. Where have you been?" Kiyo said out at me.
I was busy writing up this chapter. How are you, Kiyo?
"I'm just peachy, aside from the part that you wrote here with Zatch annoying me with his high-pitch, glass shattering screams. Right now he's being shut up by Brago."
Oh... whatever, I gotta get back to the other side of the story.
"What other side of the story?" Kiyomaro asked me.
You're gonna have to wait for the future chapters to find out. See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya!
"Oooookkkkaaaaayyyyyy?"
"Alright, you win! I'll shut up!" Zatch pleaded and pleaded for mercy. Brago got off of him and went sit next to Sherry again. Zatch sat next to Kiyo and began brushing a bit of snowflakes off him. "KIYO!"
"GRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH! ARE WE THERE YET!" Brago screamed in frustration.
"Yes, we're here,"
"Really,"
"Positive,"
"You're not tricking me,"
"No,"
"I'm not dreaming,"
"Yes, we're finally here, Brago." Sherry sighed from her husband's frustration because of the blond demon who loves yellowtail.
"There's the town, Zatch. Right up ahead." Kiyo and Zatch poke their heads out of the windows of their carriages, the human pointing at the town of Mamodoville up ahead.
"Wow, Kiyo, it looks so pretty, almost like our hometown!" Zatch replied all excited, dream bubbles of him eating yellowtail appearing over his head. The dream bubbles were kinda getting in Takamine's face, so he tried wiping them away as if there was a fly buzzing around in front of him.
There were many mamodo greeting the humans into their town. The caravan finally reached the center of the city and the resident mamodo helped them out of the carriages. "Greetings special humans, to our town of Mamodoville." the mayor of the town greeted the welcomed humans.
"Always a pleasure to spend the holidays with our neighboring town," replied the new mayor of Humanville. As both mayors were shaking hands and chatting, the mamodos and humans were greeting each other and talking a bit.
"Isn't it great to be amongst your own kind, Brago?" Sherry asked her husband, her arm around his shoulder.
"I'm still thinking about it," Brago replied and remained quiet for a bit. Sherry understood what Brago was going. Aside from Zatch, it was really the first time Brago had ever made contact with anyone of his species, and he just needs to get use to it.
"Sherry, over here!" the woman heard a familiar voice called out to her from the crowd. She spotted a brunette trying to get pass the crowd of mamodo and she eventually made it through.
"Koko!" both females embraced each other tightly, giggling for being reunited again. "How are you doing here?"
"It has it's ups and downs, I can talk to you about soon. Come on, I want to bring you to my place,"
"Okay. Coming, Brago?" Sherry said to her husband as she followed her best friend.
The dark mamodo sighed but followed the humans anyway.
"Kiyo, I can't see them!" Zatch said out loud. He was sitting on Kiyo's shoulders looking out at the crowd of mamodo.
"I'm sure they're here somewhere, Zatch. Just keep looking." Kiyomaro was on the look out too. Since the two of them are stepbrothers, he really wants to help Zatch find his parents as well.
"Excuse me, young men." a woman's voice spoke to the two guys.
"Yes, ma'am, can we help you-uh?" Kiyo was left speechless as soon as he made eye contact with the woman speaking to them.
However, Zatch was more shocked and speechless than Kiyo was. His mouth was gaping open a little bit. He felt a strange warm sensation in his gut. His eyes widen, giving a look that expresses the feeling of someone you haven't seen for a very, very, very long time... and you get that strange warm sensation in your gut.
Can this... be...
To Be Continued...