**DISCLAIMER**: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS HERE EXCEPT FOR THE OCs (None yet)

Oz charged straight at Alyss with his wooden sword above his head. Alyss didn't notice him. She was in the room with Alice. Oz, of course, noticed Alice, slumped against a wall, and could hardly keep his emotions from jumping out, and if they did, then he would have lost the element of surprise. Right behind Alyss now, he brought down the sword.

The sword dissolved to dust.

"You thought that could harm me?" Alyss taunted. "You've got to do much better than that! Hahahaha!"

Oz punched Alyss in the jaw and charged to the wall where Alice was chained to.

"Oz!" Alice frowned.

"Are you okay?" Oz asked as he started to unchain Alice.

"What took you so long?" Alice asked. She was really mad.

Alyss stood up from behind Oz and extended both arms towards him, palms forward. Ribbons flowed out.

Oz did not want to come back to the Abyss and have the same episode, but illegal contracting was the only thing he could do to save himself right now. So what was he going to do?

The answer came in a split second. The ribbons subsided as Alyss fell to the ground, Gilbert standing behind her.

"Are you okay, Oz?" Gilbert asked as he ran towards Oz.

"Yeah," Oz replied. "So how do you do that contracting thing again?"

"Okay, here's how…" Gilbert instructed him on how to create a contract without it being illegal.

Alyss stood up when they had formed a contract. "See you fools soon," she said bitterly, and a cloud of ribbons formed around her. When the cloud disappeared, she was gone.

"So how do we return?" Oz asked. The room's walls collapsed around them. A portal had opened up next to Gilbert.

"Through here," he replied, gesturing at the portal next to him. He jumped through, leaving Oz and Alice with no choice. They jumped in too.

When they got out of the portal, the group waited for their eyes to adjust.

The sky was orange. All the trees were burning. Gilbert was gone.

Gilbert: YOU KILLED ME!

Me: Yeah, I know. What about it?

Gilbert: I WANNA BE WITH MY MASTER!

Me: Shut up.

Gilbert: …

Me: Thank you.

Oz: Y U NO KILL ME?

Me: If I did, then I would've had to kill Alice too. And if you all die, the entire thing's over.

Everyone other than me: …Oh.

Me: I wonder which chapter was the longest…

Alice: THEN GO CHECK, STUPID!

Me: I hate the world.

Xedrian: I know. Me too.

-wong2008a