Me: Character Academy updating time!

Finn: About time!

Me: I have school for…. Awhile, but I will still be posting and updating and stuff!

Finn: We also got a community after figuring out what it was!

Me: It's about Kingdom Keepers, so if you're a fan, go there to Kingdom Keepers SUPPORT! Yeah, specific, I know, I created it.

Finn: Also lovely information about our lives at the bottom, or on Ramblings, if we feel like it.

Me: Therefore, Chapter… ten I think.

Chapter 10

Kat POV

I hated Fury Alecto right now. Why would she drop me off further in line, close to the pit of fire. It would at least be a few more days until I got there but I heard their screams... it was just, ugh. Worst of all, the people in front of me had horrible voices and talked their heads off! I would have to get them to shut up before my ears started bleeding. The one called Butch had this raspy voice that broke occasionally and made fun of people within earshot. I would describe more, but that is horrifying enough. Not for you, but for me, because I have to listen to them. I wondered how Finn was coming along. Maybe he was running the school now. I couldn't help but think that he was still suspended from his vice-principal duties. Maybe he was coming for me. Yes, of course he was, he wouldn't exactly ditch me. Well, I guess me kidnapping him made things worse.

Hello Kat, someone said.

"Who said that?" I asked out loud, looking behind me.

I'm in your head. It's me, the voice.

"But you're James Patterson's character, not mine," I said.

No no, this is Finn's voice, not Max's.

"What are you doing here? Is Finn on his way?"

Perhaps.

"Is that a yes?" I asked. It didn't say anything. "I'll erase you if you don't answer me," I threatened.

Yes he's on his way. I jumped for joy and Muriel, the old lady behind me glared at me. I ignored her, because she was half-dead, I didn't really care. I looked around, smiling, thinking Finn would jump out and save me at that moment. Yeah, right. My stomach growled at me and I realized I was hungry. I waved to Fury Alecto, still angry at her, and asked her if she had food.

"Of course."

"Can I have some?" I asked hopefully.

"Of course! Not!" she cackled. "You'll be dead soon, so it doesn't matter!" I had an idea.

"I don't even believe you have food."

"Of course I do!"

"I don't see it, so it must not exist," I said. She zapped a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and held it up.

"It exists! Do you believe me now?"

"Children's play. It might be fake," I said. She flew closer. I leaned forward and smelled it. My hands grabbed for it but she flew directly above me.

"Ha! You thought you would get this sandwich? You must've…" she gasped and disappeared in a puff of blue smoke, dropping the sandwich and I caught it.

"Where'd she go?" Muriel asked.

"I killed her," I lied, eating the sandwich. I was a cold-hearted, fictional character killer. Go me.

Finn POV
I had a hard time falling asleep in the hotel. I was on my way to the sewer when night was falling and taxi drivers were going to hit me. I needed a plan of some sort and needed to rest for then night. I was welcoming any sleep. But apparently, raviolis don't sleep. I was ready to chloroform him.

"When I was just a wee ravioli, I got a yo-yo and I thought it was the best thing ever! But after it broke… hey did I tell you that story? No, I didn't, did I? Hey Finn?" he was saying. I threw a pillow on top of him. Muffled noises came from the pillow, but I ignored him. Finally, silence. He probably couldn't escape from there anyway, so I had the night to myself.

I awoke to some annoying kid running down the hallway talking loudly. I got out of bed and checked the time. Nine forty-three. I changed, brushed my teeth, grabbed my backpack and the hotel card and checked out., not noticing that Mr. Ravioli had been left behind. I walked out into the New York morning, wondering how I was going to open up a sewer with a bunch of cars coming my way. I saw a Road Work Ahead sign and uprooted it from its spot. I carried the sign and stuck it by the first road entering Broadway. No car stopped, or turned, so I was back to square one. I turned and saw construction workers, replacing the sign I stole and throwing orange cones all over the place, then heading back to the bulldozer a few yards away. I crept forward and slid behind a tree, glancing to make sure they didn't see me. Then, I raced forward, grabbing four to five cones and running as fast as I could back to the beginning of Broadway. I set the cones down evenly and only covered half of the road. I had lots of work to do.

It was now a routine. Hide behind the tree, get the cones and run back. I snacked occasionally on a granola bar in my backpack, which I hung on a somewhat low tree branch. I had nicely covered both roads and no car came by. I grabbed my backpack and lifted the heavy sewer lid. It was incredibly dirty, and I was afraid I was going to drop it on my foot and kill myself. I slid myself in and shut the sewer lid behind me. I stepped on a rat and it squeaked and ran away. Lovely sewer swimming.

Me: Ew, you're going to smell after that Finn.

Finn: OF course I am.

Me: Ummm, oh yes, the community. I take every Kingdom Keepers story and read all of it! Please TRY and use punctuation and spell everything you can correctly! Finn's OCD.

Finn: -twitch twitch-

Me: I just started it and we have a grand total of….

Finn: ONE SUBSCRIBER! Yay.

Me: Yeah, we're trying to gain notice for the books because it needs to be a movie, hence Kingdom Keepers SUPPORT! part.

Finn: Follow me on Twitter! We're quite social… KingdomFinn. There's actually fakes of me all over Facebook and Twitter. LIES! That's not me. My profile picture is this drawing that Kat found of me. It looks nothing like me.

Me: He has brown hair.

Finn: Well, that, but I don't even own such a hideous shirt.

Me: Opinions.

Finn: Quite.

Join Communities! It doesn't require any work. Just submit stories and I could post it on Rhyming Timing! If it's good enough…. Nah, I'll post as many as I can!