John was in the 'library' as he had called it. It was a suitable name considering the amount of bookshelves that were there. John had discovered this room after exploring for a while. He found it over a year ago but had only been there a little over five times. Dave had come along with him and so had Karkat. Karkat was skimming the shelves to see if there was any alternian literature, but he couldn't find any. There was English literature though.

John searched the shelves to see if he could find any interesting books. Dave and Karkat were looking at another shelf. Dave was making fun of most of the books he picked up, either by reading them aloud in a mocking tone, or changing the words and making it completely different.

Karkat did laugh though, inwardly, in his mind. He didn't want to give Dave the satisfaction of knowing that he could make him laugh. Karkat, like all the trolls, had learned English before the time the kids played their session. Karkat was well informed on the language and could definitely out talk anyone else who dared challenge him with the language. So while John was preoccupied with his quest of finding some books that he would like, Dave had scribbled in one of the books. The scribbles were somewhat immature, and then Karkat decided to join in on the action.

John brushed his hand against the spines of the books, leaving streaks of parted dust on the covers. John pulled out a book and blew on the cover making all the dust flutter off. He carefully opened it and started reading. It seemed like a history book of carpacian society. John knew some of them, he was even close friends with one, his name was the mayor, or at least that was what he was called.

He had never really delved too far into the base of the game and learned about the citizens. He hadn't even known much about Derse or Prospit. He knew a lot of the carpacians lived there, but he hadn't talked to them seeing as how the planet had been destroyed the moment his dream-self woke up.

John put the book back on the shelf picked up a new one. This one was an action novel with a white knight faced against a black knight but they both end up falling in love with a white pawn. John skimmed through the pages but he was definitely not a big romance fan. Sure he thought that the fighting against both sides was pretty interesting and the part where the black knight becomes an exile but not after killing a lot of his own men to save the girl was cool, he didn't feel like reading a book lined so heavily with affairs of the heart. But he still thought the knights were really cool.

He continued his search and still his searching was bearing no fruit. He sighed and then walked to the other side of the shelf. He picked up a few more books and flick through the pages. He had found one book that seemed pretty cool. But he still felt like it was not the right book. He wished that whoever had put this library together had organized it instead of random placement. There were mystery novels placed next to geography textbooks.

Then John had an idea. He had never tried anything like it before but surely he could if he tried hard enough. John pulled some books off the shelves and put them on the ground. He sat down in front of them and breathed in. He closed his eyes and outstretched his hands. He imagined some of his windy powers going through his hands into the pages. He could feel the ink against the pages and he could feel the paper against his element. It felt like he himself was touching the pages, reading the books himself.

And he was faster, he was reading through the books in front of him faster than he could have imagined while still retaining the knowledge that was inside. It felt weird, it felt like he was inside the book feeling every page, the words were jumbled until they went inside his head and organized themselves.

Then he pulled himself out. He sat there dumbfounded and dazed for a second. Maybe he should try a slower approach. He had just read through ten books in a matter of seconds and he felt a rush of energy he couldn't comprehend. He rubbed his head and picked up the books, placing them back in their rightful spot on the shelf. He stared at the books, he could remember every single thing in all ten books he had just read through. He now knew how to cook fifty different side dishes with anchovies and he also knew about a few wars that had occurred on some of the planets.

Once his head cleared he felt this urge to do it again, like an itch in his brain that he needed to do this. This strange compulsion urged him to just try a little more. It felt amazing, pulling all that knowledge from the pages at a breakneck pace. He looked at the bookshelf before him and closed his eyes. He pushed out the air a little more and felt it going through the pages. The wind traveled into each book and went down the shelf. The books remained on the shelf and didn't even move from their spots.

It had only been a few seconds but John had already read through the contents of the entire shelf. His head felt cloudy for a second, but it wasn't as bad as before and cleared up much faster too. His hands were shaking a little but he felt refreshed and his head felt clearer than ever. He knew so much in an instant. He could recollect each and every word, each paragraph, each page. It was more than just reading it was memorizing. He could feel the words inside him, he felt like he had breathed in the knowledge and it was inside him now. He wanted to do it again, just a little more he thought.

"John! Where you at?" Dave said, interrupting his train of thought. John quickly snapped out of it and no longer felt the compulsion or desire he had mere seconds ago. He looked in the direction he heard Dave's voice.

"Over here Dave." John called back. Dave and Karkat walked over to where John was. Dave was carrying a book under his arm.

"Did you find anything?" Karkat asked.

"We were thinking of heading back."

"Yeah, I'll try again some other time." John said.

"What do you want to do when we get back?" Karkat asked.

"hmm… How about I put on a magic show? I can't believe I haven't done that yet." John said happily, thinking of all the possible tricks he could do.

"It's kind of drafty in here, let's go." Dave said nonchalantly and they turned to leave. They all left and walked back to the main room. Let's just call it the living room; it seems it's where they do most of their living anyways. Once they got back John went to go look for Jade. It didn't take long to find them. Jade was hanging out with Davesprite and they were in one of the spare rooms talking about stuff. John knocked on the door and waited a short second. Jade was the one at the door and opened it with a smiling face.

"Hey John, do you need something?" She said smiling, but she was just a little annoyed at having being interrupted when she was hanging out with her boyfriend.

"Could you do me a favor?"

"Depends?"

"Can you shrink me down so I can get some stuff out of my house?"

"Oh, ok sure, just tell me when you want to come back." John went in with her and then she started to shrink him down. John didn't really like the sensation. It didn't feel like he was getting smaller, it just felt like everything else was getting bigger. It felt unnatural.

Once john was on his planet he went into his house. The stairs were blocked with the bathtub so he just floated over everything, it was much more convenient. He looked around at his house. It had been so long since he had been here that he felt somewhat out of place. It didn't really feel like his house anymore. It felt like it had been another John's house, but not his house.

He looked around at the pictures on the walls, not as haunted as he used to be of them. He looked at the fireplace and the picture of his Nanna. But even though the game was over the evidence of it taking place was still there. The ink from the imps was still everywhere and there were a few hats left over from when he had defeated them all. The house was also a mess. He had completely messed up the entire house on his way through the beginning of the game.

John went up to his room and started to rummage through his stuff and look for his old magic kit. He looked all over his room even though it had been messed up when he had just started the game. He walked over to his computer and decided that he would fuck around on it. He turned it on and opened up pesterchum. He didn't talk to anyone on it though. Instead, he scrolled through some of his old messages with his friends. He scrolled past the stuff he had said during the game and instead went to before the entire thing had even started.

He read through the simple messages, when they didn't have to worry about staying alive or creating a completely new universe. He had used to worry about when the next episode of his favorite TV show was going to air, or what his dad was going to make for diner. He had used to worry about crushes on the girls in his class, and on one occasion the teacher. He smiled at his naivety and his utter dorkiness when he would talk about his favorite things. Dave was still cool though, Dave had been cool from the start. He was still cool, cooler than John or Karkat or even Rose.

He felt his eyes burning a little and decided that was enough of remembering the past. He sighed and turned off his computer and decided to go back to searching for his magic kit. His room was a mess and somewhat crowded with debris and what not. He sighed and continued looking. It had been so long since he had been in here that he had forgotten where anything was. He had come back here a few times to grab some of his stuff to bring back to the meteor and show his friends.

It seemed that his room, and the rest of the house, had collected quite a bit of dust while he was gone. He had come back a lot at the beginning of the two years, but after a month or two he only came back to get the odd thing. So other than that, the house had remained untouched and was slowly being abandoned.

He went through his magic chest and found his kit. He smiled at it. It was somewhat nostalgic looking at it. He remembered the hours he had spent practising the tricks in the book that came along with it. He remembered watching the dvd that came with it and he had tried so hard on every trick. He did get pretty good though and he could still remember how to do all the tricks. But he might be a little rusty so he decided to practise a little to refresh his memory.

He opened up the kit on his bed and pulled out the deck of cards in it. He usually carried cards around, but those are just normal playing cards, these ones, were magic. He read through the manual a little bit and then performed a few tricks. He decided to just stick with the card tricks for now and continued to practise the ones he knew. Then, after some good brushing up, he decided to learn a new one, or start to anyways. He read through it a little and started to get the gist of it.

He did what the instructions said but ended up dropping them instead of doing what the trick actually said. John bent over and picked up the cards, then counted them to make sure he had all of them. He had only 51. He looked around where he was standing. Nothing. He got down on his knees and looked under his bed and immediately saw the card. But the card was not the only thing down there.

He reached forward and couldn't reach it. he used to be able to squeeze under the bed no problem, he knew this because it used to be his main hiding spot when his dad came to find him. Of course, it only worked the first time, but he still kept it up even after his dad knew about the hiding spot. The thing was though, every time john hid under the bed, his dad would still pretend to not know where he was and look everywhere else in the room, then after his search he would look under the bed.

John stretched his arm and then used a little of his wind powers to pull it out from under the bed. It was a large book. He looked at the cover and then remembered where he had got it. He remembered when Rose gave it to him when he was younger when he had talked to her about some sort of paranormal lore. She ordered him a copy of this book, saying it was really good, and gave it to him for his twelfth birthday. He had been really excited about reading it, but somehow, had entirely forgotten about it up until this moment.

He put it in his fetch modus. Dave had given John one of his old ones when the wallet he had been given was lost. He also put the magician kit inside it. He walked outside and then called to Jade. He was then shortly returned to normal size.

"Thanks Jade."

"No problem."

"Hey, do you want Davesprite want to watch my Magic show?" John said happily.

"I think we'll pass on it this time, but I'm sure the others would love to." Jade said pushing John out of the room.

"Okay, you kids be safe." John laughed to himself and then returned to the living room. Dave and Karkat were sitting and talking and Rose and Kanaya had showed up as well.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, and Karkat, prepare to be amazed."

"At how long it takes you to get a magic kit." Dave said. Then John ignored his comment and started the show.

TBC…

A/N: Wow, this chapter is poop. Whoa bad words. Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I will start working on the next one soon. Please review if you enjoyed, thanks for reading.