Me: And we're back!

Finn: From North Carolina.

Me: Where I went to my great-grandmother's house.

Finn: Who is not technologically advanced. AT ALL.

Me: And we're talking 35 channels!

Finn: No computer!

Me: Barely any reception!

Finn: We're lucky to be alive!

Me: Just… barely…

Finn: Randomness from last chapter explained in here.

Me: It was entertaining to write.

Chapter 7

Kat POV

I couldn't find Artemis anywhere. Mr. Ravioli that I rescued from a platypus was no help. He kept rambling on about his life, how he had a girl back at home, an elbow macaroni, and his life. It was very boring. I was ready to dump him in marinara sauce and eat him.

"Where are you from anyway?" I interrupted some story about his great-great-great-great ravioli.

"Oh! I'm from Kat's Brain," he squeaked.

"What?" I asked. My brain?

"Yeah! Since you're a Fanfiction writer, your writing is so powerful, your imagination's characters are brought to life! Like Candice, the shape-shifting zucchini!"

"Candice the… oh! I vaguely remember her."

"Well, since you kind of forgot about her, she's angry and is trying to take over the school by infecting the school with the love disease! Oh! And she shifted into Katniss and has captured Finn in her lair. I could swear that Grandma Ravioli took her pills before I left…"

"What? She has Finn? Where's her lair?" I asked frantically, almost dropping Mr. Ravioli.

"Ah! Her lair is underneath her trailer!" he squealed. I set Mr. Ravioli on a bench and took off.

"Wait for me!" he called after me. I didn't go back to get him.

I had gone through two-hundred and thirty-one trailers, and to no avail. Maybe I should have brought Mr. Ravioli, even though he was irritating. I recalled exactly what he had said.

"Ah! Her lair is underneath her trailer!" he had said. Her trailer? Candice didn't have a trailer. She wasn't a student here. Then I remembered he had mentioned that Candice had shifted into Katniss from the Hunger Games. Katniss' trailer, 405! I stepped out and zig-zagged around trailers until I found Trailer No. 405. I walked in and by bracelet started glowing again. I wasn't taking it off, because it might fly off and I probably couldn't find it again. Of course, I couldn't prevent it from becoming magnetic to whatever. It went in the direction it wanted to go, regardless where I was attached or not. I was skidding and stumbling around the room into nightstands, dressers, and chairs. It attached itself onto the headboard of a bed.

"Ugh," I mumbled, struggling to my feet. I yanked it off the headboard and poked at it until I hit a wooden star and it sank into the wood. The floor began to sink and rumble and I stumbled into things until I grasped the handle to the closet. It went down for a few moments before it shuddered to a stop. A couple of doors slid open, it reminded me of an elevator. It revealed this really old place with a few dinosaur computers and a rubber duck with short little legs 'guarding' the exit. I remembered dreaming about it when I was little, playing with my rubber ducky in the bathtub. I went behind a pipe and peeked out. It was sleeping. I waved my hand in front if it's face and it didn't move a muscle. I continued on. I heard someone screaming. I didn't run, it was just Candice. Being the weird cucumber she was.

Finn POV

When I woke up, the horse-donkey thing was guarding me and the zucchini was screaming at the dragon who breathed smoke in her face. Something about a health issue.

"I'll shrivel!" it shrieked. It was hard to tell if it was male or female. It turned to me and smiled. "You're awake!" she said.

"Yes," I sighed. "Unfortunately."

"Do you wish to die, boy?" it threatened. I don't know about you, but I wasn't really threatened by a zucchini. I chuckled a bit.

"He's laughing!" it said, offended. "Am I not threatening you?"

"Not really…" I said between laughs. I heard a noise and looked the way it came. Kat stood there, not surprised at all that there was a zucchini standing in front of me.

"Hi Candice," Kat said nonchalantly. So the cucumber was a girl. I mean, zucchini.

"Kat," Candice spit out. If zucchini's could spit.

"Release Finn and I'll let you live," she said.

"You'll have to go through my army!" Candice cackled. Kat raised an eyebrow. The rubber duck, horse-donkey thing, and the dragon who was missing a wing came in, growling and trying to look ominous.

"I remember you," she said, nodding to the dragon. "You were my imaginary friend! And then I grew up." The dragon hissed smoke. "Oh that's right, I didn't want you hurting anyone. Or flying away." Then, Kat looked at the horse-donkey thing. "I don't remember you."

"Of course not!" Candice howled. "Kill her!" They all advanced slowly. The dragon lunged and Kat easily sidestepped. Then she aimed her bracelet, probably The Bracelet, and said, "Begone!" and the dragon squealed, then vaporized into a pile of dust.

"Tomatoes! She has The Bracelet!" Candice mumbled. She untied me and pulled out a small knife and held it to my throat. Kat vaporized the rubber duck.

"Oh Kat!" Candice said in a sing-songy voice. "Slide the bracelet to me and let your boyfriend live!"

"He's not my boyfriend," she said at the same time I said, "I'm not her boyfriend."

"Whatever! Slide it to me or he dies. Don't even think about shooting at me, he'll become a meat shield and he'll get hit and die!" Kat frowned, considering the possibilities. I hope that me dying was not on the list. She took off the bracelet and slid it across the room. The horse-donkey thing picked it up and handed it to Candice.

"Now let go of Finn!" she demanded. She shoved me towards her and I quickly ran to that side of the room.

"You need to get out of here," she whispered.

"What? You'll get yourself killed!" I hissed back.

"I'm not fictional, it doesn't count. But for you it does! Run!" I turned and took off.

"I didn't dismiss you!" Candice said. She aimed at me and said, "Begone!" I expected a sharp pain and for me to die, but nothing happened. I stopped and turned. Candice was standing there, quite surprised. I didn't know why until I followed her gaze. It was where there was not a pile of dust in front of me, but a little, glowing orb.

"Lucky," Candice said. "No friend of mine would die for me." What friend? Uh oh…

"Kat?" I called grabbing at the orb, but it vanished. "Kat!" Was she dead? I hope not.

"Well no one's going to protect you!" she cackled again. Then a thud from behind and Candice fell, unconscious. A small ravioli stood there with a tranquilizer gun ten times bigger than him.

"Um," was all I could utter.

"Is Kat here? She abandoned me on a park bench and…" he squeaked.

"Ummm," I said again.

"Is that all you can say?" he demanded. It was hilarious that this small thing was all up in my face. I would be dying of laughter if it weren't for the horrid situation. Kat was dead.

"Kat's gone," I said.

"Did she get hit by the bracelet?" he asked.

"Yeah," I said.

"Well of course she's not dead! It doesn't affect real people! She's probably in the Inner Sanctum!"

"The what?" I asked.

"It's where people and animals go if they get zapped by The Bracelet, and they slowly make their way to the Underworld and can never return. Are we going on an adventure?" he squeaked. Someone was an optimist.

"Sure," I said. If Kat wasn't dead, I was going to save her. "What's your name?" I asked the ravioli.

"Kat called me Mr. Ravioli! How creative!" Yes, Mr. Ravioli. So creative.

Me: Yay! Finny is going to save me!

Finn: -grumbles-

Me: And now for the surprise!

Randy the Skeleton: -appears- -drumroll- -disappears-

Finn: WE'RE POSTING RAMBLINGS AND KKPJ TODAY!

Me: Yay! That's right! I'm posting Ramblings and KKPJ because I didn't last week!

Finn: But don't worry! Ramblings and KKPJ will resume as usual!

Me: A present for you all!

Crowd: -uproarious applause-

Finn: I also hoped we explained the randomness of the last one.

Me: Except for the platypus.

Finn: Yeah, we don't know where he came from.

Platypus: -weird noises-

Me: -shudder- He's creepy.