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Monster

Chapter 2

"U-um, Lucas?"

Brendan wasn't sure why he bothered calling out. Not only was he unable to ever get his voice much louder then a whisper, but the library was massive, and Lucas was probably deep into his reading at this point, meaning it'd be impossible for the meek calls of some kid to break him out of it. Feeling stupid, Brendan hunched over nervously, what little confidence he had draining away. A pink blush apparent on his face, he gently picked his way through the messy library, careful not to step on any stray pages. Oh why couldn't Leaf have asked someone else…?

Ever since his childhood, Brendan had been a shy kid. Zero confidence, no self-esteem and suffering from both horrible social anxiety and frequent panic attacks. The incident two years before certainly hadn't helped his nervousness, and he now could barely get a sentence out without stuttering. It was humiliating to him, even though nobody else made a big deal out of it.

He turned the corner of a large bookshelf. Each step had to be carefully calculated or he risked dirtying one of the many books littered across the library floor. Gold had given up ever trying to clean it months ago, considering he couldn't even lift a good number of the massive tomes. Obviously White couldn't do it, as sight was kind of necessary for organizing books.

Brendan tapped his chin thoughtfully as he walked. Perhaps they could start using some sort of brail system in the library…. Could White even read brail? Probably not. Most blind people couldn't, and White's mother had passed away before she could even have the chance to teach her. Her father on the other hand….

Brendan shuddered. Best if he kept his thoughts out of that territory. Besides, he had a job to do.

Suddenly, he heard a small, excitable whisper from behind the immense bookshelf he was closest to. The voice of which was cheerful, holding a childlike innocence yet still was evidently resounding from a teenager. Brendan found himself pausing, confused about who was speaking.

"Oh! Oh! Hugh, who do you think she's going to go with?!" The person asked. A slight shuffling noise could be heard followed by a quick flipping of the page. "I hope it's the creepy guy! He's funny!"

"Shut up Kyouhei, we're in a library!" A second person snapped. This boy sounded a lot more less juvenile then the previous one, yet seemed to have some sort of immature 'rage' present in how he spoke. Brendan peered around the corner of the furniture slowly, purposely hiding his face.

Two boys and one girl sat together, cross-legged, on the library floor. All of them seemed to be intent on reading the books they had open in front of them, and all of them were wearing some pretty ridiculous clothing.

The only one not to have spoken, the girl, had her long brown hair tied back in an odd kind of double ponytails. She wore a simple white T-shirt with some sort of logo on it, odd yellow skirt short things and black leggings. Her auburn eyes were focused entirely on her reading, unlike her two companions.

The next person was a boy, also brunet, and had his hair styled in what could be called the messiest style ever. He, on the other hand, looked a lot less interested in what he should be studying, and had his attention entirely set on some kind of crappy looking romantic novel, smiling brightly. This seemed to irritate the blue haired male next to him, because he kept snapping at him in a hushed tone.

"The other guys a real meanie." The brunet, now known as Kyouhei, pouted childishly. Hugh rolled his eyes beside him. "I hope she leaves him."

"I don't give a sh-"

"Hugh." The girl cut in harshly, giving him a glare. The red-eyed survivor froze, before biting his lip, evidently cursing eternally. "I told you not to swear around him! How many times am I going to have to tell you this?!" She sighed. "Besides, we're supposed to be researching, remember?"

Hugh crossed his arms with a scowl. "I don't even remember agreeing to this, Mei. Why do you even want us to study this?!"

Kyouhei looked thoughtful as Mei went silent, eyes averting to the ceiling. After a moment, he snapped his head down, throwing his hand in the air.

"Oh! Oh! Ohohohohohohohohohohoh!" He cried, bouncing up and down in his spot. His cerulean eyes were aglow with enthusiasm. "OH OH OH OH OH!"

"What, Kyouhei?! We're not in school!"

"Mei wants us to do this so we can become ALL POWERFUL GODS AND RULE OVER THOSE WHO OPPOSOSOS US!"

Mei gave Hugh a dirty look, which he returned.

"First of all, Kyouhei, it's oppose. And secondly, where did you learn to talk about something like that?" Her glare deepened. Kyouhei blinked innocently.

"It wasn't me!" Hugh exclaimed defensively. "He probably picked it up in his stupid books or something!"

"That would be impossible because I'm the one who has to read to him!"

"He's reading right now!"

"Actually," Kyouhei interjected, grinning. "I'm just starring at the words! They kind of look like pictures after awh-BRENDAN!"

Brendan, who had slowly been tip-toing past them to avoid getting noticed, froze in his spot, eyes wide. Mei and Hugh turned their heads in surprise, Kyouhei already pointing excitedly with his eyes closed. The timid boy shrunk backwards.

"Um…" he mumbled, twirling a messy strand of black hair with one finger.

Kyouhei jumped up from where he was sitting, landing skillfully on his feet. Running up to Brendan, he pulled the shorter boy into the tightest hug the in the history of ever. Hugh muttered something under his breath.

"OOOOOOOH I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE HERE!" The brunet cried, squeezing him harder. Brendan made a weak chocking noise. "DID YOU COME TO READ WITH US?! Oh wait, no you cant because Mei says it's classesesesesfed!"

"Classified…." Hugh sighed.

"But you can read with me!" Kyouhei went on. "I can't remember what its called but there's this really good book about people who eat other people but they don't because that would be mean so instead they fall in love with like ten different people (okay only two) and its really confusing and DO YOU WANNA READ WITH ME?!"

Brendan felt like his ribcage would collapse. He set his hands on Kyouhei's shoulders, trying to gently pull himself out of the hug, or at least get some breathing room. The shorter boy offered a half-hearted smile.

"I…. I don't…" he tried to say, voice straining. His face was going red from lack of oxygen.

Kyouhei dropped him, pouting sadly. Brendan stumbled back, thankfully landing on both feet, and rubbed his ribs. Arceus that had been painful…. He took a deep breath before looking back at the brunet. His face fell.

Kyouhei had tears in his eyes, lower lip trembling as he sniffled childishly. Brendan slowly stepped backwards, looking terrified.

"Y… You don't wanna…?" Kyouhei asked in a heartbroken voice.

Brendan's stomach plummeted. "N-no!" He tried to explain. "I-I'd love to, but, um… I-I can't. Blue, n-no, wait Leaf she…. She uh…." The boy trailed off, kicking at the ground. "I have to see Lucas…." Kyouhei seemed to calm down a little, though didn't grow cheerful.

"Lucas?' Mei inquired, getting up slowly and purposely shoving the book she'd been reading behind her leg. She blinked, intrigued. "What do you want with that nerd?" As she spoke, Brendan leaned over a little bit to try and see the cover of the object. She sidestepped skillfully, expression not changing.

"Leaf saw… A-a thingy…."

Hugh narrowed his eyes. "A thingy?"

"Yes…." Brendan adverted his gaze. He really wished he had asked for more information…

"Just… A thingy?"

"T-that's what she said…."

Hugh sighed, rubbing his face with exasperation. Kyouhei looked a little lost.

"I can't supposed I'd expect much better from her." He muttered. He turned around, facing Mei, who been busy closing whatever it was Hugh had been reading and placing it in her bag, and went on. "Lucas should be over in the far right corner. He hasn't moved for the past six hours so I'm going to assume he's either dead or found a possible solution to our current predicament."

"Lucas is DEAD?!" Kyouhei gapped.

Hugh didn't even bother answering that.

Once again feeling nervous around these three, despite the fact that they were all the same age, Brendan backed up as casually as he could. A shaky laugh escaped him.

"O-okay, thanks for the help…" He whispered. He felt the trio's eyes boring into him, which only made his anxiety worse. "I-I'll go find h-him…. Uh, now…" Mei raised an eyebrow. Brendan let out another laugh, obviously very forced, as he looked away awkwardly. "O-okay… Um…. Bye."

And with that, he sped off down the aisle.

There was an awkward sort of silence.

Kyouhei smiled blankly. "I wonder who that was."

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Brendan found Lucas exactly where he thought he'd be.

The blue-ish haired male was curled up in a sizable pile of books, eyes scanning the aged pages of a lengthy encyclopedia. As expected, he was entirely focused in his read, not even casting a glance up at Brendan as he cautiously approached him. He was barely even blinking.

"Um, hello?" Brendan tried. Lucas didn't budge. The timid boy crept forwards, feeling a little threated by the large bookshelves on either side of him. He swallowed, trying to expel his nervousness.

"Lucas?" This attempt wasn't much better. His hand did twitch though, so that was good! "Uh, Leaf s-said something about a…. thing." Wow that sounded dumb. Lucas still didn't look up though. "S-so… Could you, y'know, help her…? W-with, uh, identifying it?"

There was a pause. The other boy lifted himself up a bit, blinked twice, and….

Turned the page.

Brendan was screaming curses eternally.

Alright, time to be tough. "Lucas listen to me!" The boy forced as much harshness into his voice as possible, which wasn't very much, especially considering how quiet it was. "I-I need your help with something, and since I'm technically older then you, by a month, I think, you must listen to me!" He crossed his arms, closing his eyes and facing upwards. Suddenly, he froze. "I-if you want to, I mean…'

Was that too rude? Probably. Lucas didn't say anything though, so he most likely hadn't heard. Whispering apologizes would be useless at this point.

Brendan stood there for a moment, starring at him blankly. He had no idea what to do anymore. Nothing was working! Sure, he'd only tried a few times, but talking to people was emotionally exhausting for the timid boy, especially if they weren't listening.

He adverted his gaze. "Oh, ok… I seem to be bothering you, so I-I'll just leave." He turned around slowly, picking his way through the mess on the floor. "Uh, good luck, with, well, reading…" Brendan looked down at the ground. "Someone needs to clean up in here, if May were to get inside she'd probably destroy at least half these books…"

Though that last comment was more so directed at himself, that seemed to do it. Behind him, Lucas slammed down his book, navy eyes wide and one of them twitching involuntarily.

"May did WHAT?!" He all but roared, getting up from his spot. Brendan froze, heart speeding up with fear. Lucas stormed up to him, grabbing him by the shoulder and roughly turning the shorter boy around. "SHE DESTORYED SOME OF OUR BOOKS?!"

Brendan shrunk in his grasp. "N-n-n-no! I-I…" He swallowed. Talking became nearly impossible as he stammered uselessly, anxiety sparked by Lucas' glare. "I-I was j-just-" He couldn't find a way to finish.

Lucas seemed to calm down a little bit at these words. "You were merely imagining a circumstance created by an issue in reality that could occur should we not cautiously speculate our advances?"

"Yeah! Uh, s-sure!"

Lucas crossed his arms, frowning a little. "As should be expected, as if someone of her type would even undertake in receiving a fair education." He spun around, walking back towards where he'd been reading. "That's besides the point, however, as I imagine you have an inquiry unrelated to the subject."

"I-I do." Brendan confirmed with a nod. Lucas cast a glance over his shoulder, insisting he goes on. "Um…. Leaf. She uh," he bit his lip. "She told me about a thingy…."

"A thingy?"

"Uh-huh."

"Just… A 'thingy'?"

"Yes." Brendan's voice was slightly exasperated sounding. He felt like he'd had this conversation before.

Lucas raised an eyebrow, one hand absentmindedly fiddling with his dusty scarf. "Did you not obtain anymore information?"

The boy starred directly down at his feet, shuffling them. "No…"

Lucas sighed deeply, rolling his eyes a little. Ashamed, Brendan's face started to burn. "It seems I shall have to seek her out myself. If the organization of the patrols I had created remained without disruption, then she would've returned around 45 minutes early, including the time it cost for you to arrive, thusly she must be presently be visiting Blue. Assuming the location she had been patrolling was the far north wheat field, then the creature could by chance be identical of the one that eradicated Shauna and Bianca.' As he spoke, he had picked up the book he was reading and slid it into a small break in the bookshelf, attaching a sort of lime green marker onto it. "I shall make my way immediately."

Brendan looked up in mild amazement. He probably would've been more impressed if he hadn't seen Lucas do this before. The blue haired male adjusted his hat slightly, lightly pushing past him, another book tucked under his arm.

"Apologizes." He said simply, turning the corner without another word.

Brendan stood there for a long moment, unsure of what to do. His emerald eyes grew nervous as he stood there, everything completely silent around him. Too silent…

Suppressing a shudder, the small boy broke into kind of a careful half-run, following Lucas' tracks so he wouldn't get lost again. All the while, blissfully unaware of the small creature shuffling through the discarded pages to his right.

"So to be perfectly clear, what you saw was a thirty-foot armored snake thing, with long black tendrils, that came from a dark hole in the ground and stole your catch?" A tall male with spikey hair, who looked to be about seventeen, inquired with a thoughtful look.

Leaf nodded, surprised that the serious male actually seemed to believe her story. Perhaps it was because Silver had been the one to initially tell him. Beside her, Dawn merely shrugged, not seeming to bother to try and remember what had happened. Silver was silent.

The leader placed his hands on his hips, thinking deeply. "That does sound exactly like it…" he muttered to himself. He turned to another boy who had been sitting in the chair right next to him, this one having thick black hair and dark crimson eyes. 'Red? What do you think?"

Red blinked blankly, not opening his mouth to reply. Doing so would be pointless, as his throat, lungs and voice box had been damaged beyond repair during what had happened two years ago, rendering him mute. Communicating with him could be difficult because of this, and he was much too "busy" to ever learn sign language. Still, Blue seemed to be able to read him pretty well, and had insisted he was second in command.

The black haired male offered a careless shrug. Popping the last of what seemed to be a celery stick into his mouth, he balled up a piece of paper and tossed it lazily at Blue's head. In return, Blue gave him a disapproving scowl, but decided not to make a scene.

"Yeah, fuck you too." He muttered simply. He fixated his glare on Leaf once more. "Looks like I'll have to go find Lucas for confirmation, Wait right here and don't break anyt-"

"We already called him." Leaf cut in.

Blue's eyes shot to the moldy ceiling, an aura of exasperation sparking through the air. "Let me guess, you opened the door to the library and screamed his name about ten times then left assuming that'd just make him magically show up to my office." His words caused the brunette a pang of embarrassment. Had she gone about summoning the biggest nerd left on earth in such a way, it certainly wouldn't be the first time.

"Of course not!" Her voice was edged sharply with protest to mask her momentary unease. "I got someone else to do it for me!" Yeah, suck it Blue. Leaf was growing up.

Blue's eyebrow twitched upwards skeptically. "Who then?"

"Brendan!"

There was a pause. Blue's hand rose up, overtaking his face as he shook his head. Out of her peripheral vision, Leaf could see Silver rolling his eyes.

"Why?" The red haired male muttered under his breath. Leaf tilted her head curiously.

"Why not?" She asked. "He was right there."

"Because it's Brendan." Blue pointed out, annoyance edging his tone. "I don't mean any offence to the guy but he's pretty much terrible at talking to people. Let alone asking them for things. You probably just caused him a lot of unnecessary stress." Leaf's shoulders slumped. Well fuck. "Could you have not asked anyone else?"

"No." Dawn deadpanned. "The people we saw were him, White and Gold."

"And you couldn't ask Gold, why?"

"Sleeping." Red blinked at the word. That did sound like a good idea….

"Red, no." The leader scolded, seeing how the dark haired boy's expression shifted. Red glowered. "Also if you see Gold, kick him or something. He's not supposed to be asleep."

Silver nodded. That was certainly something he could do. Nobody got a chance to speak up again however, as at that very moment the door right next to the red haired male suddenly flew open, smacking him quite painfully on the arm. Silver pivoted on his heels, fuming, but forced himself to calm down once he realized it was Lucas. Giving the most intelligent person alive a concussion probably wouldn't go over too well with Blue. Still, he gave the younger boy a murderous glare as he passed by, which Lucas maturely ignored.

Blue straightened up a little in his chair upon his entrance, and nudged Red to do the same. Red slumped down even further in an attempt to piss him off. It worked.

"I believe you requested my attendance?" Lucas inquired, fixing Leaf with a curious glance. Leaf nodded.

Dawn looked slightly suspicious. "You got here fast."

"Indeed I did." He confirmed, looking her hard in the eyes. "Upon receiving the knowledge of a so called 'thingy'," Leaf went a little pink, "it would've been in my best interest to decipher the identity of such a creature immediately."

The young brunette shuffled slight at the tension crackling between the two, and even Silver looked slightly intrigued. Lately Dawn and Lucas weren't on very good terms. Nobody really knew why, as neither of them would offer a straight answer when asked. Some assumed it was the feeling of impeding doom getting to them as they watched their companions be picked off one by one. Other considered that maybe their friendship had simply run it's course and they no longer could agree on anything. However, most guessed it Dawn just stepped on a book or something and that was enough to push Lucas overboard.

The two glared at each other for a long time, before Lucas finally broke away, striding up to Blue's desk. Dawn's scowl grew darker, and Leaf found herself taking a few steps away from the other girl. Always best to be safe.

"So, given the assumption that Leaf has informed you of its aesthetics, could you possibly describe the creature for me?" Lucas asked, pulling the book he was carrying out from beneath his arm. He leafed through the pages.

"I can." Blue confirmed. "Leaf said it was large, certainly more then thirty feet, and snake-like." Lucas made a humming noise, skipping over a large portion of the encyclopedia. "It was apparently 'draped in shadows', and rose from a hole in the ground it seemed to make itself."

"I see…." Lucas murmured blandly. Out of the corner of her eye, Leaf swore she could see Dawn imitating him sarcastically.

As Blue continued a babble on about what details the brunette had given him, Leaf felt a growing irritation burning up inside her. Why didn't Lucas ask her for the description? She was the one who saw it! Well, Silver and Dawn did as well but… She was the best storyteller! She made a huffing noise, hoping Blue would hear and realize his mistake. He didn't, but Red did. The mute cast her a glance that told her he was 500% done with everything. Leaf gave him a look that said 'same'.

"…Giratina." Lucas' voice cut into her glare conversation with Red. The girl twisted her neck a little to face him.

"What?"

Lucas sighed, closing his eyes. "It would be appreciated if you would keep your undivided attention on such important conversations." Holding the book up closer to his face, he continued, "The beast that you encountered appears to match the description of the legendary creature known simply as Giratina, the ruler of the underworld." He fixated his eyes on the leader. "It appears both our theories were correct."

"What do you mean both your theories?" Dawn hissed from the corner, capturing everyone's attention. Her voice, while not outright enraged, held a tone of iciness that was borderline terrifying. "If I recall correctly, and I do, Leaf only told Brendan that it was a 'thingy', nothing more. There's no way you could've constructed an idea accurate enough to deem it as correct." The air almost grew chilly with her words. Lucas grit his teeth, not moving an inch. His hands were trembling a little with suppressed anger.

"I deducted the identity of the beast with my knowledge of location and reaction based off time. " He hissed. Red and Blue exchanged a glance, Blue clearly getting uncomfortable. "I only needed the description for confirmation. So you may kindly fuck off." His voice had the most falsely polite tone possible.

"Alright, alright!" Blue cried, standing up from his seat. Dawn's eyes had narrowed dangerously, and he couldn't risk any sort of outburst, especially if it injured himself or Lucas. "We get it. Dawn, no more questioning him. Lucas, don't curse anyone off please." Red rolled his eyes at the hypocrisy. Blue cleared his throat a little. "Now, if this really is Giratina, what do you propose we do about it?" He crossed his arms across his chest. "We simply can't afford to lose anymore people, especially after Cheren and Trevor."

The room went silent for a moment. Leaf chewed on her lip while Silver adverted his gaze over to wall next to him, as if chipped paint was some sort of weird interest of his. The only sound that could he heard was that of Red's slightly heavy breathing (his lungs never did fully heal, as previously mentioned.)

Lucas coughed twice, attempting to regain mental composure. "W-well, yes. My suggestion would to be to omit the location entirely from our patrols."

"…." Blue didn't say. He let out a long breath, leaning back in his chair and starring up at the ceiling, His fingers entangled with themselves as he thought deeply about this proposal. Red reached over and gently poked him, to which Blue pushed his arm away roughly.

"There's going to be a lot of complaints if we do that…" He muttered. It was true, the wheat field was one of their most bountiful hunting grounds. Although it wouldn't affect them immediately, once winter hit losing it could be utterly devastating. Still, if Giratina was as utterly ruthless as he had heard….

Blue sat up once more, avoiding another prod from his companion. "We'll have told hold a meeting then to discuss this further. Leaf, go get Lyra and tell her to inform the others, she should know where they are. Lucas, find as much information as possible, alright?" The two nodded. Blue turned to Dawn and Silver. "You two, erm, just hang around or something." The black haired trainer beside him made a sad sighing noise, resting his cheek on Blue's shoulder. "Oh, shut up Red. You get to help me." The crimson-eyed male cast him a glance. "Of course I know what we're doing! I'm just… Not going to tell you right now."

Red punched him.

"NO NO NO NO NO!" A tall brunet screamed, pressing himself up against the cramped space between the wall and the ceiling. Currently he was huddled up at the top of a cabinet, eyes squeezed shut to avoid looking at the "monstrosity" below. "DON'T LET IT TOUCH ME!"

"This is hilarious." Another person with brown hair, only female, smirked. Her scarlet eyes were alive with amusement as she watched the older brunet flip his shit.

Beside her, a blonde male with a green scarf scowled. "This is stupid."

"Actually, they're Wurmples." Gold corrected, gesturing to the small pile of bugs with the broom in his arms. Black made a high pitched squeaking noise as he watched the pink creatures squirm. There had to be about five. The tiny boy bent down, expression curious as he inspected the bugs. "There's nothing to really freak out about Black, I think they're cute!"

"C-CUTE?!" Black stammered, wide eyed with distress. "HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND?! THEY'RE HORRIFYING!"

"They're like a foot tall." The blonde shot back snarkily. Black fixated him with a half-glare.

"SHUT UP BARRY! YOU KNOW I HATE BUGS!"

One of the Wurmples in the pile let out a chocked screech. Convulsing, it vomited up a large pile of green… Something. Black screamed again. Gold held his cheeks in his hands mumbling some thing about being 'so cute…'

"S-SEE! DID YOU SEE THAT?! HORRIYING!" UTTERLY HORRIFYING!"

"What if I told you they evolved into cute butterfly things?" The girl offered. She was entirely way too amused with the whole ordeal.

"HORRIFYING."

There was no convincing the brunet otherwise, and it was evident he wouldn't get off the goddamn furniture until the bugs had been removed from the base. That could be good, because that meant that Gold wouldn't have to dust up there anymore (which was difficult as all hell considering he wasn't even close to being able to reach up there. Curse his tiny stature…), plus nobody would have to talk to Black anymore, which could be great or horrible depending on who you asked. Still, he probably wouldn't stop screaming until the task was done, so Gold got to work.

Gently, he reached down and wrapped his arms around the largest one, heaving it up. Wow it was heavier then he expected. The bug type squirmed a little in his arms.

"With your HANDS?!" Black cried as he watched the action. Gold set the bug on his bony shoulder, hopping its weight wouldn't somehow unbalance him. "HOLY SHIT GOLD, YOU ARE INSANE!"

"Or he's just not a baby." The girl pointed out.

Barry turned to her. 'May, he's eleven." Gold gave him a childish glare.

"Hey, that does not make me a baby!" he protested, reaching for another bug. Gold wasn't fond of being reminded of his age, even though it was kind of a difficult topic to avoid considering that's the only reason he was stuck inside all day every day. Barry rolled his eyes.

"Whatever. You're pretty much the size of one anyways." Now Gold was fuming. It seemed that Barry was on some sort of epic quest just to piss him off, which wouldn't even be too far off considering his character. Had the boy still been holding his broom, he would've smacked him with it. It wouldn't hurt, but he'd still do it anyways. Why? Because it would've deposited a ton of dust into the blonde's hair, and considering the fact they don't have any source of running water, could take literal years for him to get out.

Swallowing his anger, Gold set the Last Wurmple on his head, having two on his shoulders and one in his arms. Black looked utterly disgusted at this display, but seemed to have calmed down a fair amount.

"I'll go put these outside." Gold said casually, slipping past the others. He was half tempted to stop on Barry's foot as he passed by.

May didn't watch him go simply because she really didn't care that much. Instead her gaze was fixated on the older brunet, who now sat with his shoulders slumped, starred down at the floor below.

"You can come down now." She told him.

Black bit his lip. "…I can't." he admitted slowly. Barry turned to him, looked incredulous and pissed at the same time.

"…."

"…."

"….Are you fucking serious." The girl muttered. Black nodded stiffly, a blush creeping across his face.

"How did you even get up there?" Barry inquired.

"I don't…. Know…" He responded awkwardly as he inspected his surroundings. "Look can you just help me down? My leg's falling asleep."

The two other survivors rolled their eyes simultaneously. Just leaving him up there was really tempting, and it was also hilarious. Still, they weren't that big of douchebags (yet) and obliged to his demands.

"Hmm…" May placed her hands on her hips, narrowing her eyes as she thought (for once). "Do you know where the latter is?" She asked Barry without actually looking at him.

Barry shrugged. "Ask Gold, he's the only one who even uses it."

The girl nodded, flipping her head around to face the doorway. "HEY GOLD, WHERE THE GODDAMN SHIT IS TH-oh. Hey Lyra."

A girl, who also had brown hair, stood in the doorway, Gold (-4 Wurmples) at her side. Her expression was evidently disapproving, though had hints of softness in it. She was dressed in some pretty ridiculous clothes, like a pair of blue overalls, a red shirt with sleeves that stopped halfway down her arms, and a giant white hat that looked kind of like a marshmallow and used to smell like one too. She wasn't really the epitome of intimidating.

"Which one of you told Gold he could go outside?" Gold pouted a little at these words.

May cocked an eyebrow. Barry and Black looked confused. "None of us…?"

"I don't know why you're so upset Ly'." The tiny boy spoke up. "I wasn't even close to the door."

Lyra sighed, adjusting her hat slightly with one arm. "Gold, how many times am I going to have to tell you that you're not allowed outside? Not even for five seconds." She cut in, seeing his mouth open. "Five seconds is all it takes for something to attack you, got it? You can go out when you're older." The black haired boy looked upset, but nodded in agreement. That settled, Lyra turned to the other three. "Anyways, that's not the reason I came here." She paused for a moment. "Blue has called a meeting on. He says it's of the upmost importance."

There was a pause.

"…So who died this time?"

~To be continued~

PBBBBBBT, got really tired at the end of this chapter, can you tell?

Blah. So anyways, this is the end of the introduction chapters! Kinda. I still need to like, go into the characters more and whatnot, but it will have a bit more developments in plot from this point on? These chapters were kinda hard to write because I had to introduce like 18 characters, and, well, that's not easy.

ALSO! Some characters will be more important then others for the first little while. So don't worry too much if one you like isn't appearing all that much, they'll get their time in the spotlight.

Eventually.

Thank you for reading, reviewing, favoriting and/or following! You're all awesome!

~*Galefire*~