Woot! Chapter twenty-four!
Xanna couldn't help but stare at Mokoki; who was glaring at Makaza. 'What's up with him?' She thought, quirking an eyebrow at the Tauren; now he was asking Dethiam if he could barrow one of her biggest and sharpest daggers.
'I believe the real question is; I hate you.'
'That's not a question.'
'I don't care. I hate you. That's all I have to say.'
'You're just so poetic, Ixxy…' Xanna thought sarcastically, staring blankly at the mean voice in her head.
'Thank you, I do my best.' Ixxy responded, her eyes closed; so she didn't see that Xanna had actually dropped to the ground from shock of stupidity.
"Xanna?" Akazil asked, poking his friend; who was sitting in a chair in front of him; because she had gone quiet.
"Hmm?…" She responded, still watching Mokoki. He was trying to sneak up behind Makaza with a bat; which she had no idea where he got from.
"I asked you why you hid from us." Akazil repeated, leaning his head to his right a little bit to try and make his friend look at him; and trying to not think too much about why she was avoiding the question.
"Mokoki, why are you trying to beat, Makaza?…" Xanna asked; completely avoiding Akazil's question like it was some sort of disease; as the teenaged Tauren was preparing to attack Makaza with the bat while he was eating a sandwich.
"Hmm?" Makaza said with a mouthful of sandwich, turning around to see Mokoki just standing there; he was whistling and pretending to look innocent.
"Amph!" Makaza yelled; his mouth still filled with sandwich; then jumped out of his chair and began to run around the room; still holding onto his sandwich.
"Get back here, you bastard! I'm not done with you!" Mokoki yelled and chased the Orc boy with his bat.
'I'm shocked that I still have brain cells…'
"Ah! Not the sandwich!"
'Very shocked…'
"Uh…why is he…?" Xanna was asking; ignoring Ixxy; slowly turning her head back to Akazil.
Akazil shook his head. "Don't ask."
"But I already-"
"Don't-ask." The Orc repeated, his eyes shut as he held his head in his left hand; trying to ignore his irritating idiot little brother and friend.
"Okay?…" Xannan said, quirking an eyebrow an curiosity, slowly turning her head back to the two wrestlers; she saw that Mokoki was trying his damnedest to beat Makaza, and Makaza was trying his damnedest to protect his sandwich.
'I feel like I've missed something…'
'And I feel like that you're an idiot.'
'So not helpful.' Xanna said again, staring blankly at her voice; who actually ignored her.
"Xa-" Akazil was saying, but was interrupted; which he found annoying because he really wanted to know why Xanna hid from the group.
"So, how're we getting home, Xan Xan?" Cosmo asked, petting Jerry; who was in his lap, enjoying it; and Mittens; who was on his right side glaring at the mouse.
'Please don't say "we'll just walk back"…' Ixxy said, holding her face in her hands; she was very afraid that Xanna would be an idiot and say that because she forgot about the easier way to get home.
"We'll use our Hearthstones, silly!" Xanna answered with a huge smile.
Ixxy stared at her in absolute shocking shock of the shocked kind. 'She…said something…smart…' She said, her jaw dropping to the floor as she continued to stare at Xanna; then she dropped to the floor herself.
"Oh, right." Cosmo giggled. "I forgot about those."
If Ixxy was conscious; which she wasn't; she would've said something along the lines of "of course he did" and "damn fairy".
"We can use 'em now, if you guys wanna go home." Xanna said; not noticing the huge frown that appeared on Fëanáro's face.
"W-wait…" He said as the group was getting up to go get their stuff. "You're gonna leave? Now? Can't you stay just a little longer?" He continued, getting up and standing at his chair; and with a bit of a pleading tone to his voice. He really didn't want Xanna to leave.
"Well, I'd love to-" Xanna was saying when Akazil interrupted. "Buuut we can't. You know, we have quests back home and what not." The Orc said; he had quickly caught onto Fëanáro and his little scheme of trying to steal Xanna away from him.
"And they're stupid Horde in our beautiful Alliance City." Kadgaa said, glaring at Xanna and her group.
"Yes. So there is a strong chance that we might be found out. And you and your family just might be sentenced to death." Gishezpak stated, pointing out the "wonderful" fact that people could die if Xanna and the rest stayed any longer.
"…Yeah, what he said." Kadgaa said, pointing to the Troll; he didn't care too much that he kind of sounded like that he was agreeing with a Horde, he just cared that one of them was also full on to the idea of them leaving.
"But what would it hurt to stay just one more night? Just one!" Fëanáro said, holding up his right index finger; and sounding like he was prepared to get on his knees and beg Xanna to stay with him. And he probably was.
"Well…" Xanna was pondering out loud; not noticing that Ixxy was too busy being unconscious on the floor of her mind to stop her, smack her and call her an idiot. "May-" She continued to say; also not noticing Fëanáro slowly grow a smile.
"But, Xanna, you heard Gizzy. People could possibly get killed! So we have to go." Akazil said, using the whole people getting killed thing as an excuse; all he wanted was Xanna all to his self. He kind of thought that he deserved a little Xanna time after spending a whole week with people that also wanted Xanna all to themselves. 'Damn Xanna greedy bastards…'
Xanna sighed. "I guess you're right." She said, lowering her head a little bit in sadness; she quickly picked it back up and shrugged. "Well, let's get goin'." She said simply, then walked out of the room to get her bags and armor.
"Wha-? Bu-!" Fëanáro stammered as he watched the Elf leave the room; her group following her.
"Thank god." Kadgaa said, sounding truly grateful; but of course he would be since he's such a racist.
Kadgaa sighed, smiling contently. "Ah, today's a great day. Dontcha think so, Fëan?" He said, turning his head to his friend; only to find out that there was only air there. "Fëan?…"
"Xanna, wait!" The Night Elf boy called out, running after her and her group down the hallway.
"Damnit, Fëan!" Kadgaa shouted, chasing after his damned Horde obsessed friend. 'Damn him!'
"Xanna! Xan-!" Fëanáro was saying, sliding to a halt in the hallway; and sliding right past the room Xanna and Cosmo were in.
"Damnit, I know it's here somewhere…" Xanna said quietly, slowly going deeper and deeper into her bag; not hearing Fëanáro crashing outside in the hallway. "Damnit, where is it?!…"
"Did you find it yet?" Cosmo asked, sitting on the bed petting his pets as he watched his friend go diving into her incredibly deep bag.
"Xanna!" Fëanáro shouted again, sliding to a halt at the doorway; Kadgaa right behind him; and then quirking an eyebrow when he only saw Cosmo. "Xanna? Where'd she go? I saw her just a second ago!" He said, walking into the room.
"She's still here." Cosmo said, staring at the bag on the ground as he petted his animals.
"Damnit…" Kadgaa said quietly.
"Whe-?" The Night Elf was asking, still quirking an eyebrow.
"Here I am." Xanna said, peeking her head out of her bag.
"Ah!" Fëanáro squealed, hopping into Kadgaa's arms; making the Draenei get the feeling of déjà vu.
'Ahahahahaha!' Ixxy was laughing on the floor of Xanna's mind; obviously laughing at how Fëanáro squealed just then.
Xanna, Cosmo, Mittens, and Jerry all quirked an eyebrow at the Night Elf boy; all a bit surprised that someone beside Cosmo could squeal like that.
"Never in my life have I been more embarrassed to have you as a friend than right now…" Kadgaa said, a blank expression on his face as he held his friend in his arms.
"Oh, shut up!" Fëanáro retorted. "Now put me down!"
"Gladly." The Draenei said, dropping Fëanáro on his ass.
"I said put not drop!" He yelled after quickly getting up to snarl at his friend.
Kadgaa shrugged. "Sorry. Your girly scream must've messed up my hearing." He mocked, sticking a finger in his ear to check his eardrum; ignoring Fëanáro growling at him. "Grr…"
"Shut up and talk to your damn girlfriend." Kadgaa said, sticking his finger in his other ear to check that eardrum; now ignoring Fëanáro's face turning a light shade of red.
"She's not my girlfriend!" He said, trying to force his blush to go away.
"Yeah. She's mine." Makaza said as he walked through the doorway and into the room with the rest of the group; he walked right to Xanna and stood next to her.
'Wait, when did you come out of the bag?…'
"For the last time; she can't be your girlfriend if she doesn't even like you!" Akazil yelled at his brother.
"You're just jealous because I have a hot girlfriend when don't even have an ugly one." Makaza replied, his eyes shut and his arms over his chest; and he was turned away from Akazil, so he wasn't prepared when the Orc decided to tackle him and beat him. "Ah!"
"Um…" Fëanáro was saying, staring at the two fighting on the ground; then he looked to Xanna.
"I've learned to just let 'em work it out on their own." She told him.
"Ah…" He said, looking back at the two wrestling Orcs.
"Ow! Akazil, that hur-OW! That hurts even more!!!"
'Weird…I just got the sudden feeling of déjà vu… But we're missing sand.'
Ixxy had facepalmed herself so hard, she left a red hand mark on her face. 'I cannot believe this… And I cannot believe that I can't believe this! Freaking damnit, I hate you so damn much right now! Just freaking damnit of damn damnit with a horse damnit and damn-' She was yelling, throwing her arms around furiously.
'Whoa, someone's got a mouth on her today.' Xanna said, shocked that Ixxy was swearing so much; she hadn't heard her swear this much since she set the orphanage in Orgrimmar on fire. That accident actually left someone bald.
'HOW COULD YOU FORGET YOUR HEARTHSTONE AT THE CROSSROADS' INN?!?!?!' Ixxy yelled furiously, her head huge and towering over Xanna; and her eyes and hair were on fire again.
'…Should I wait till you cool down before we continue this conversation?'
'NOOOOO!!!!! I SHOULD FREAKING KILL YOU!' Ixxy continued to yell and began to pull random things from nowhere and throw them at Xanna; who was forced to put on a helmet and duck and cover.
'I'll just get back to you on that…' She said quietly, sneaking off to a safe spot in her mind before going back to reality; where she was pretty much having the same discussion with her group.
"Xanna, how could you forget your Hearthstone? You're suppose to have that at all times!" Akazil said.
"Well, I forgot mine…" Xanna said quietly, and sheepishly; but forgetting your Hearthstone for the third time will do that to a person. Especially if it's the third time in one week. And it happens weekly. "Stupid thing should come attached with a string that you tie to your wrist or something…" She mumbled.
'YOU'D STILL FORGET IT IF IT DID!!!'
Xanna shrugged; ignoring Ixxys crazy rant as she set things on fire in Xanna's mind. "It doesn't matter. You guys can use your Hearthstones." She said with a smile at her friends.
"But how will you get back home, Xan Xan??" Cosmo asked worriedly; he didn't want to leave his little Xan Xan in a strange place all alone. Not after what happened last time.
Xanna shrugged. "I could-"
'DON'T YOU SAY IT! DON'T YOU EFFING DAMNITY SHATTING WITH A WHORE MONKEY SAY IT!!!' Ixxy yelled, being so angry that she forgot how to swear properly.
"-just walk back." Xanna finished, ignoring the delightfully and amusingly angry voice in her head.
Everyone's eyes widened at the little Elf girl.
"What?" She asked.
'You're so freakin' dead…' Ixxy said, leaving the room of Xanna's mind she was in to go and get a chainsaw.
'What?!'
"Xanna, you can't just walk back home! We barely survived going through all that a first time just to get here!" Akazil told his friend.
"Well, maybe I can stealth-" Xanna was saying innocently.
"No! No you can-not! Absolutely not! What are you thinking?! Just walking back through Duskwood and Stranglethorn! And what about even getting out of this city! You're only a level twenty-three! Not everyone is going to be fooled by you using stealth, Xanna!" Akazil shouted, just pretty much blowing up on Xanna.
"But…"
"No "but"s, Xanna! You can't walk back home! You'll be killed! And none of us want you to die!"
"Yeah! We'd miss you too much, Xan Xan." Cosmo said, hugging his friend; he didn't like Akazil yelling at her, but he had a point.
"But I don't want you guys to be stranded here because of me!" Xanna said, gently brushing off her friend.
'Maybe it's a good idea if they are… That way they'll die and I'll no longer have to deal with them.' Ixxy sighed contently. 'Ah, such a wonderful thought.'
"It's better if only one of us was left behind than all of us! And I'm glad that that person is me! I forgot my freakin' Hearthstone! So I deserved to be left behind!" Xanna stood up to yell at her Orc friend.
"We're not gonna leave you here!" He yelled back.
"What's all this "we" stuff they keep talkin' about?…" Dethiam asked in the background.
"Agh! Sometimes you are just so… Agh!" Xanna yelled, leaving the room she and Cosmo were using and into the hallway.
"Same to you!" Akazil yelled, following her. "And don't walk out on me! I'm talking to you! And-huh?" He turned his yelling into a questionable "huh" when Xanna had come back into the room with his main bag.
"What're you doing?" He asked, watching as she got on her knees and opened the bag.
Xanna then began to dig through his bag, pulling and tossing out everything that wasn't a Hearthstone; and those such things were pictures of Xanna, Xanna dolls, poems for Xanna, some locks of Xanna's hair, a piece of her shirt that had been torn off a little while back, an old shoe of Xanna's, and a life sized talking Xanna doll.
As everyone slowly turned their heads to stare at him, Akazil lowered his head in embarrassment; ignoring his twitching eyebrow.
'That…is disturbing…' Ixxy said, staring at everything with wide eyes.
"Aha! Here it is!" Xanna said, finally pulling out Akazil's Hearthstone; then she quickly got up and tried to put it in his hands. "Here, just use this and go home." She told him, but he wouldn't grip it. "No, you gotta-" She said, trying to make him grip it. "You gotta-gotta-.. No, grip it. Grip it! Grip it, damnit!" She said, still failing on making her friend grip his Hearthstone.
She smiled victoriously when he finally did grip it. "There. Was that so hard?" She smiled. "Now you just…" She trailed off as she looked at her friend; he was looking down at his feet grimly. "Akazil?…"
"We're not going to leave you here, Xanna…" He said, gripping the Hearthstone tightly, looking up from the floor to lock eyes with his friend. "I won't leave you here."
'Geez, no need to be so dramatic…'
"Um…"
"Xanna, you're our friend." He continued, tossing his Hearthstone aside. "We don't want you to get hurt, we always want to help you."
"Why does he keep saying "we"?!" Detham said in the background; but she was ignored because everyone was too busy watching Akazil and Xanna.
"That's nice, Akky. And I want to do the same; which is why I'm telling you guys to-" Xanna was saying when the Orc interrupted her by pulling her into a loving hug. "We're not leaving you. And that's final." He told her, keeping her trapped in his hug. "We love you, Xanna…"
'Ew, gross! Love!' Ixxy spat in disgust. 'Now I need a show-' She was saying, turning to her left and seeing the group. '-wer?…'
"Wahaaa!" Cosmo was crying on Makaza's shoulder. "So lov-hin-ing-g!" He choked out in between sobs. "Ahaaa!"
'…I hate you.' Ixxy said, turning to Xanna; and seeing that she was fighting back tears herself. 'Oh…' She said, now feeling like a jackass. 'I'll just…go shower now…' She said, quickly leaving.
Xanna wasn't paying attention; she was too busy trying to force back her tears. 'Thank you for caring…' She thought, wishing she could say it out loud.
"So, you're gonna stay another night?" Fëanáro asked; annoyed that Xanna and Akazil had been hugging each other in silence for a good long moment. Which was a whole minute.
"Well, since I don't have a Hearthstone and the guys don't wanna ditch me or risk me getting myself killed…yeah. I guess so." Xanna answered, pulling away from Akazil's hug; much to his dislike.
"Awesome!" Fëanáro cheered, running to Xanna and pulling her into a hug; much to Akazil's great dislike. He gave the Night Elf boy his trade mark dagger eyes; and they were ignored.
'I totally hate this guy…' He thought.
"But how will we get home, Xan Xan?" Cosmo asked; also disliking Fëanáro hugging Xanna. 'Darn flirtatious boy…'
"Um…" Xanna said, still trapped in Fëanáro's hug. 'Geez, how will we get home if we're not gonna use our Hearthstones?…'
"I could ask Simon's dad for the Orb again tomorrow." Fëanáro said, looking down at Xanna.
"That's a great idea, Fëan!" Xanna exclaimed, smiling up at the boy. "You're, like, some sort of genius!"
"Heh. Thanks" He said, blushing slightly; ignoring the other boys growling at him.
'And you're, like, an idiot.' Ixxy said, mocking Xanna; then she shook her head and sighed. 'Damn teenagers…'
"So, are thing going according to plan?" He asked his minion over the phone.
"Yes, master. They are."
"Good." He smirked. "Make sure it stays that way."
"Yes, master." He replied before his master hung up the phone; he quietly sighed. 'I will make sure things go according to plan.'
Short, rushed; I'm horrible with deadlines; I'll fix all typos and problems and such eventutally...
Note: No one seems to care that I went to my first anime convention last week and how I got my very first cell phone. =(