Thank...you...Jesus...
There was a knock at the door.
"Oh shit! It's the Po Po's! Everyone hide!" Makaza shouted, jumping behind the couch to cower in fear. Along with everyone else in Xanna's group.
"Don't worry, Xanna. I'll see who it is." Fëanáro said to Xanna. Well, more of Xanna's backside because she was hiding the upper half of her body under the couch and letting the lower half stick out.
'Damn…' The Night Elf boy thought, smirking and blushing a little bit at the girl's backside before turning away to go and answer the door.
When Fëanáro opened the door, he was smiling and prepared to greet whoever was there with it.
"Hel-" He was saying, then noticed there was no one. "-lo?" He finished, looking left and right to see if the person who was knocking had walked off. He shrugged when he still didn't see anyone, then began to pull his head back in and shut the door.
"Down here, you damned pointy eared freak!" Came an angry voice; making Fëanáro look down to see what was on his doorstep.
It was a certain little someone that everyone knew and loved. Except for Makaza. He only found Ezekiel annoying.
"Oh, h-" Fëanáro was saying when the annoyed, angry, frustrated; and brutally beaten up, bruised and scratched looking; Imp Minion pushed him aside, stalking past him and into the house, mumbling and grumbling as he made his way over to the couch.
"You are the worst boss ever!" Ezekiel yellowed, pointing at Makaza; who had peeked out from behind the couch when he head his Minion' voice.
"Eek!" Makaza exclaimed with a smile. "Where ya been, buddy?" He asked, resting his left arm on the back of the couch, then resting himself on it.
"Trying not to get stomped on!" Ezekiel shouted, stomping his foot on the floor when he said "stomp".
"Well, maybe you shouldn't have let yourself get into a position where you could be stomped to death by an angry mob." Makaza said, still resting himself on his left arm as he shrugged his right and waved his right hand around in the air a little bit.
"Let myself? LET MYSELF?" Ezekiel continued to shout, using both of his hands to address himself by pressing them against his torso.
"Yes, let yourse-" Makaza; not looking at his Minion; was saying nonchalantly when Ezekiel yelled, hopped over the couch and tackled him. "Ah!"
"You bastard!" Ezekiel shouted, clawing and scratching at Makaza's face.
"Get off me, you damn Fel Hunter bastard child!" Makaza shouted, trying to fight off his Imp Minion. And; delightfully; being watched instead of being helped by the others in the room.
"I am an IMP bastard child, you bastard!" The angry Minion continued to shout and scratch and what not. Until he was finally tossed off.
Ezekiel got up, straightened himself up and dusted himself off; as was Makaza.
"You left me for dead!" He shouted, pointing a finger at the damned Orc bastard.
"Really?" Some random buzzed cut biker guy; in leather and tattoos; who came out of nowhere said; and while holding a gun. "We've also been-" He was saying as some random dramatic music played and a random camera zoomed in on his face. "-left for dead." He finished, addressing himself and his three friends.
One was an old guy who looked like he'd been apart of some war; another was a tall and lanky bald black man; and the last one was a spunky looking female in a pink jacket.
For some reason, they were all holding guns. And they had things floating above their heads. Francis was above the biker; Bill above the old guy; Louis above the black man; and Zoey above the girl.
"Hey! We've been-" Some other random guy; who appeared out of nowhere; was saying as dramatic music played and a camera zoomed up on his face. "-left for dead, too." He said, using the gun he was holding to address himself and his three friends.
He himself looked like a gambler because he was wearing a white suit and had slicked back hair; the two friends to his left were a redneck looking man and an old black man; and the friend to his right was a black woman.
They also had things above their heads. Nick was above the gambler; Ellis above the redneck; Coach above the old black man; and Rochelle above the black woman.
"Wow, really! 'Cause we've been-" Some other random guy from nowhere was saying as dramatic music played yet again for the dramatic close-up. "-Left 4 Dead 3: Rise Of The Infected." He finished, using his gun to address himself and his three friends.
"Dude, quit acting like this is a game! G-g-game! Acting like this is a game!" One of his friends was shouting, looking like he was glitching up like a video game character.
"Shit, the game needs to be reset…" His other male friend said.
"Damnit, that's the forth time today!" His female friend said.
"Who are these people and how the hell did they get into my house?…" Fëanáro asked quietly, staring at the twelve random people holding guns.
After cleaning up the dead bodies of all the weird and random people that had somehow gotten into Fëanáro's house, everyone decided to just relax and chill out for a few minutes.
"I never thought I'd ever say this in the time I've known you, Deth, but…" Makaza was saying to the Undead girl as she paddled her toy. "That was so awesome how you killed those guys!" He said, praising her.
"Yeah, that was just so freakin' wicked, man! She was just slicin' and dicin' 'em left and right, up and down, and in other directions I never knew existed!" Mokoki said, also praising the Undead girl.
"Teach those bastards to call me a zombie…" Dethiam mumbled, paddling her toy a little harder and faster. "Freaking Undead, not a zombie. Damn morons."
"Well, it's wonderful that you got rid of them and all, but did you really have to make it so messy?" Fëanáro asked, coming back into the room after finishing washing blood off of his hands in the closest bathroom. "I mean, there was blood everywhere!"
Dethiam just shrugged and played with her toy. "Meh."
"And this is why I keep telling you not to trust the damn Horde." Kadgaa said, walking over to his friend. "She just murdered twelve humans. Humans, Fëan!"
"Weren't you the one complaining about them the most?" Fëanáro asked, quirking an eyebrow at his friend.
"No! I was complaining about how you shouldn't let strangers into your house! They could kill you!"
"Exactly. Which is why Dethiam killed them." Fëanáro said, turning to Dethiam. "Thank you, by the way."
"Meh." Dethiam said again, shrugging and playing with her toy.
"Exactly exactly! They were strangers and they could've killed you! And one of these strangers killed them! Which means that they could kill you, too!"
"But these aren't strangers. I know them. That's Xanna, that's Akazil, that's-"
"Not what I mean!"
"Well, you said strangers. And these guys aren't strangers. I know them."
"You know their names! That's not knowing them! And they're freaking-"
"Aaaaah!" Xanna yelled after she accidentally set herself on fire by drinking some juice Cosmo; who was no longer tied up to the chair; had given her. "Fire hurts! Fire hurts!" She yelled, running around and flailing her burning arm around.
"Xan Xan, stay still!" Cosmo yelled, chasing his friend with a bucket of water.
"Don't worry! I got her!" Makaza shouted, tackling Xanna to the ground, holding her down by the legs and keeping her as still as he could for Cosmo to come over and put the fire out with water.
When Cosmo reached the two, he tossed the bucket of water on Xanna's upper half; putting out the fire.
"Phew." They sighed in relief together. Until both of Xanna's arms caught fire.
"Aaaah!" She screamed, getting up; with Makaza still attached to her legs; and running around, flailing her flaming arms around. "Fire hurts! Fire hurts!"
"That wasn't gasoline by any chance, was it?…" Akazil asked Cosmo, staring at the empty bucket.
The Hunter shook his head frantically. "No, it was water!"
"Oh, thank-"
"But this is gasoline." Cosmo said, pulling out another bucket from nowhere; and making Akail's eyes widen in horror.
"Hang on, Xan Xan! Momma's comin'!" Cosmo shouted, chasing after the flaming Elf again. Along with Akazil chasing after him.
"Maybe we should also follow…" Gishezpak said, following the others; and the rest following him.
Kadgaa; still standing next to Fëanáro; stared blankly at the sight. Then he turned to his friend, sighing. "I hate you…"
"Hey, Fëan?" Xanna asked while Cosmo cleaned gasoline out of her hair.
"Yeah?"
"Since we're gonna be here another day…and we're bored as hell because we have nothing to do… Can we have a tour of your house?"
"Of course." The Night Elf boy answered, smiling to the girl.
"Not!" Kadgaa "finished" for his friend. "Of course not!" He yelled, grabbing the back of Fëanáro's shirt. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to speak with my client." He said, dragging the Elf off to another room.
"Are you crazy?" The Draenei yelled at him. "Are you trying to get you and your family killed? And me?"
"No, I'm not. And no one's gonna-"
"If you show them around your house, they'll probably take notes or something! And then tell their Horde leaders about it and give them info about us! And the next thing we know, everyone's dead, and I'm a sex slave!"
"Why would you be a sex slave?…"
"Shut up! I like to imagine me being a sex slave!"
"You…imagine yourself…as a sex slave…?"
"Shut up!" Kadgaa yelled, slightly blushing. "And another thing-!"
"They're not gonna kill us."
"No! What if they break your stuff?"
"That's not gonna-" Fëanáro was saying when he and Kadgaa heard something outside of the door.
"Not my fault!" Xanna shouted from the other room.
Kadgaa stared blankly at the door, blinking at it a couple of times, then slowly turned his head to his friend; who was grinning sheepishly.
"I'm sure it's nothing." Fëanáro said, sheepishly.
"And I'm sure that by the end of the day, we're all going to be dead…"
"And this is my twenty-third brother's room." Fëanáro said, opening the door and showing everyone a pink room. "He's one of the manliest men I've ever met." He said, ignoring his brother skipping down the hallway behind him, singing show tunes.
"Uh…huh…" Everyone; except for Xanna and Cosmo; said, staring at the prancing Night Elf boy as he went into his pink room.
"Alright, moving onto the next room." Fëanáro said, turning around to show the "tour group" the rest of his giant house. "And this room is my twenty-third sister's. And this room is my twenty-forth brother's. And this room-"
"Damnit, man! How many siblings do you have?" Mokoki shouted, getting annoyed at looking at all of the damn bedrooms.
"Including Sophie? Forty-three."
Everyone's eyes widened in shock.
"What?"
"And this room-" Fëanáro was saying, reaching for the doorknob.
"Is another room of your siblings'…" Makaza said, extremely irritated; kind of like everyone else; from seeing so many damned bedrooms because Fëanáro had so many damned siblings. Yes, he was happy to sneak into almost all of the girls' bedrooms to look at their stuff; and was hit extremely hard by Akazil for it; but a man could only take so much!
"No. This is the arcade room." Fëanáro said, opening the door.
Once he opened the door, everyone saw a huge ass room absolutely filled with tons of electronics. And several butlers and maids waiting for them with smiles, and soda.
"I've died and gone to heaven…" Makaza said, walking into the room with a tear in his eye. He leaned onto the closest person to him; Mokoki; and began to cry. "I'm so happy!"
"D-dude, get off me!" Mokoki said, trying to hold back his own tears. "What are you? G-..g-…Gaaay!" He said, bursting into tears and holding Makaza tightly. Then the two of them just cried.
'Uh-huh…' Ixxy said, staring at the two crying teenage boys.
"Hey, what's in this room?" Xanna asked, about to open the door just to her left. As she did that, the others just wandered around the arcade room and began to play video games.
Kadgaa quickly blocked Xanna's way, standing in front of the door. "You may not go into any room that you are not shown." He told her.
"It's the carnival room." Fëanáro said, walking over and pushing his friend aside, opening the door to show Xanna the room.
Xanna's eyes widened in shock and amazement. "You have a carnival in you house?"
"Yeah. Don't you?"
'Yes. We also have a giant spa and two pet dinosaurs.' Ixxy said sarcastically, not caring that Fëanáro couldn't hear her.
"No…" Xanna; ignoring Ixxy; answered, staring in awe at the huge carnival. "I don't even have a house…" She said, walking into the room, still staring at all of the rides and such; that actually had people on them.
As she walked off into a crowd of people, Fëanáro looked at her, a little shocked. 'She doesn't even have a house?…'
'Where'd these people come from?…' Kadgaa thought as he stared at the carnival room that was filled with people.
"Oh my god, this is so awesome!" Xanna said, running around and looking at everything. "I never knew a carnival was so fun!" She said, spinning around in circles.
When she stopped, she ran back over to Fëanáro, looking up to him, her eyes glistening with excitement as she smiled widely at him. "Fëan, can I ride some of the rides?" She asked.
"Um…of course." The boy answered. "Uh… I gotta go…do something real quick." He said, pointing behind himself with his right thumb. "In the meantime, all you enjoy yourselves. Ride as money rides you want, play all the games you want. And if you wanna see any of the other entertainment rooms, just ask Kad to take ya there." He said, patting his friend's shoulder.
"What?"
"Be nice, Kad." The Elf said quickly, then ran off to go to whatever.
"Hey, get back here! You're not gonna stick me with these damned Horde, Fëan!" Kadgaa yelled at his friend; who was already running out of the door and into the hallway. "Fëan! Agh, damnit." He sighed with frustration, then noticed that Xanna was staring at him. "What?" He snarled.
She shrugged. "Nothing."
"Man, you Horde are so weird." He grumbled, turning around and standing up straight, sighing with frustration one more time. "Ugh. So…what ride do you wanna go on first?" He asked through gritted teeth, his eyes shut tight.
"Kad, if you don't wanna watch over us, then you can go do your own thing." Xanna told the racist Draenei boy. "We can all manage to goof off on our own."
"Iiiiiiice creeeeeeeam!" Makaza was shouting, chasing around a random ice cream man in the arcade room.
"Choooooooclaaaaaaate!" Mokoki was shouting, doing the same thing but with chocolate.
As they did that, Akazil played some Halo 3 with Gishezpak, Cosmo played three-way Tetris with Mittens and Jerry, and Dethiam played Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2. At the same time.
"These games remind me of a few people…" She said, looking at all of the characters you could play as on the games.
"See?" Xanna said, addressing her friends in the other room; not seeing Kadgaa just stare blankly at all of them because he was turned around again. "Just fine. So you can go if you want."
Kadgaa quickly shook his head and turned to the little Elf. "Listen here you… You-!" He was saying as he pointed a finger at her, but he didn't know what to call her.
"Halfling?" Xanna asked, tilting her head. "Thing? Creature? It? Waste of life? Sin? Let me know when you find one you like, 'cause I can go on all day."
'Kinda sad because that's true…' Ixxy said, but shrugged it off and went back to work on whatever she was building.
"Let's see…" Xanna said, pulling out a long ass list from nowhere. "Uh… Freak of nature. Monster. Hybrid. Nelf of a Belf whore." She read, then looked to Kadgaa. "I honestly don't like that one too much myself. I mean, yes, it is pretty mean, but it also just sounds plain stupid." She said, then went back to the list; not noticing Kadgaa's shocked look.
'You know, I'm pretty sure that you don't have to name off all of the nasty things he can call you…' Ixxy said, passing by with another two-by-four.
"Hmm…" Xanna said, ignoring Ixxy as she continued to look over the list. "Oh!" She said, pointing at a good one she found. "I think you'll like this one. Good for nothing, worthless, filthy Halfling c-"
"Stop. Just…stop." Kadgaa said, his right hand over Xanna's mouth. "That's…that's enough, okay? I don't need to hear anymore." He said, his eyes shut.
He took a deep breath, then took his hand off of Xanna's mouth, then opened his eyes and looked at her. He was actually feeling sorry for her.
"…Filthy Halfling cow licker." Xanna finished quickly, making Kadgaa shut his eyes and his right eyebrow twitch in irritation.
Kadgaa; extremely irritated beyond belief; stalked into the closest living room; which was the one he and everyone else were in earlier.
He was wet, sticky, cold, dumbfounded, and he was pretty sure that he just lost the rest of his brain cells.
"Fëan…is gonna kill me." Kadgaa said to himself, his eyes shut and his right eyebrow twitching in irritation.
Xanna's group started to walk in behind him; all of them also cold, wet, and sticky.
"How was I suppose to know that that would happen if I poured caramel on cotton candy? I've never been to a carnival before, so I didn't know!" Xanna said defensively, her arms thrown up into the air.
"I just hope we don't get in trouble for all the people that were killed in the accident…" Akazil said, wiping off some of the caramel off of his right arm as he walked past Xanna and into the living room.
"How did that even happen?" Mokoki asked, trying to get some caramel out of his fur.
Gishezpak was behind him, helping by getting the hard to reach spots. "Mokoki, my friend, in the few days I have known Miss Xanna, I have learned that it best to not ask how she is able to defy the laws of physics." The Troll said, pulling out a clump of fur off of his friend.
"Ow!"
"Sorry." He said, starting to work on another part of Mokoki's back.
"Man, if my fur keeps getting pulled out like this, I'm gonna grow up to be bald before I even turn twenty." Mokoki grumbled, cleaning caramel off of his nose ring.
"And what's so bad about being bald before you're twenty?…" Akazil asked, cleaning caramel off of his left arm now.
"Oh, um…" Mokoki stammered, now remembering that Akazil; a fifteen year old Orc; was bald. "N-nothing." He said, quickly going back to picking caramel out of his fur, hoping that Akazil wasn't going to beat the shit out of him.
"Right now, I believe that you should envy, Mister Akazil, Mokoki." Gishezpak said, still working on getting caramel off of the Tauren's back. "I believe that we all should." He said, now dreading about how he was going to have to pull caramel out of his mohawk.
"This would be a whole lot easier-uhn-if we just bathed." Cosmo said, helping Xanna get caramel out of her hair. "Come out, darn you!"
Xanna just whimpered and did her best to not pull away from her friend; which was a bit hard for her to do because she had a sensitive scalp.
"Hnm…" She whimpered like a little injured puppy, pulling away a bit because of the pain.
"Just hold still, Xan X-" Cosmo was saying, trying to get out a big wad of caramel when his friend yelped out in pain.
"Ah!" Xanna yelped, then scooted about ten feet away from Cosmo, hiding behind Kadgaa's legs, cowering and whimpering in fear.
"Xan Xan, it has to come out!" Cosmo said, getting up to retrieve his friend. "You can't just let it stay there or else we'll have to cut it off!"
"It huuurts!" Xanna whined, giving her friend big sad puppy dog eyes; she even let her ears hang down to perfectly top off the look.
"Aww…" Cosmo said, feeling so terribly guilty now. He looked to Kadgaa, dramatic tears in his eyes and he started to beg and cry and shake the Draenei around. "Oh please, let me use one of the bathrooms to clean my poor Xan Xan's hair! She has a sensitive scalp and can't take this kind of pain! Oh please, have mercy, good sir!" He sobbed, shaking Kadgaa around a bit.
Everyone just watched as Cosmo dramatically cried to Kadgaa; a few of them snickered. Actually, everyone did.
But Mittens just stared at her owner, lowering her head and feeling ashamed again. Of all the animals in the Barrens, she had to end up as his pet.
"Squeak?…" Jerry said, watching his new owner, slightly confused. Remembering Jerry just made Mittens feel a little more depressed.
"Meow…"
Kadgaa opened the door to the bathroom. "Here!" He said. "Now please shut the hell up!" He pleaded to the annoying Elf. "My head can only take so much damage!"
'Ha! Someone who feels my pain!' Ixxy said, happy that her misery was getting company.
"Oh, thank you so much, Kad!" Cosmo squealed, hugging Kadgaa tightly; much to his dislike. "You're not a doo doo head after all!" He said.
"My head's a what now?"
"Um…" Cosmo said, then quickly grabbed Xanna and ran into the bathroom. "Thanks!" He said quickly, slamming the door shut and locking it.
Kadgaa blinked at it for a moment, feeling mixed emotions. First; he felt bad for Xanna because she had been called so many bad things for being a Halfling, which then made him feel confused. Then he felt angry and annoyed because Cosmo was a girly man.
And then confused again because he was wondering why Cosmo went into the bathroom with Xanna.
"…Oh god, I've just let them lock themselves up for breeding!" He said, facepalming himself.
Kadgaa walked back into the living room, holding his head in his left hand.
"Hey, where's Cosmo?" Akazil asked, peeling some caramel off of his bald head.
"They both went in the bathroom."
"What?" Akazil, Makaza and Mokoki said.
"I don't know, I don't care and I don't wanna know or care. I just wanted him to shut the hell up."
"That's my girlfriend!" Makaza shouted, running down the hallway to go get Xanna, checking every single bathroom except for the one Xanna and Cosmo were in.
"She's not your girlfriend!" Akazil shouted at his brother, also checking all of the bathrooms; except for the one Xanna and Cosmo were in.
Xanna and Cosmo were both naked in the tub, letting it fill up the rest of the way and playing with the bubbles and washing each other's hair.
'This…is so gross… I was so hoping that I'd never have to go through this ever again.' Ixxy said, looking and sounding disgusted. 'Don't barf, don't barf, don't barf…' She repeated to herself, not wanting to throw up what was left of her organs.
'Oh, shut up. Bath time with Cosmo is one of the best things ever.' Xanna told Ixxy as Cosmo put shampoo into her hair, scrubbing after doing so.
"Just like back at the orphanage, eh, Xan Xan?" Cosmo said, smiling as he gently scrubbed caramel out of his friend's very long; and at the moment, slightly irritating; hair. "Good times." He said, smiling and chuckling.
'No! No they were not!' Ixxy shouted, stapling her eyes shut.
"Mhm." Xanna said; ignoring Ixxy; enjoying the scalp message Cosmo had started to give her. "Just like old times."
"Remember how we would always get dirty as often as we could back in the orphanage?" Cosmo asked, still thoroughly scrubbing Xanna's hair. "Just so we could be alone in the tub together." He smiled.
"Yep." Xanna smiled at her friend, but inwardly sighed. 'Those were some of the only happy moments I ever had at the orphanage…'
'Don't get emo on me…' Ixxy said, stapling her ears shut. Xanna just rolled her eyes at her.
"Alright, now turn around so I can rinse your hair." Cosmo said.
Xanna's eyes widened a little bit, and she was now feeling uneasy. 'Turn around?' She thought very quietly, not wanting Ixxy to listen to her thoughts. 'I can't turn around…' She continued to think. 'He'll see it… I can't let him see it…'
"Xan Xan?" Cosmo said, tilting his head at his friend.
"Um… How 'bout I finish washing myself and you can just wash yourself?" Xanna suggested nervously, trying to carefully scoot herself away from Cosmo without him noticing.
"But I always wash all of you before I wash myself."
'If he was a legal adult, that would've sounded sooo pedophilic…'
'How are you hearing with stapled ears?…' Xanna asked Ixxy with a quirked eyebrow, only getting a shrug as an answer.
"Xan Xan, why do you not want me to bathe you?" Cosmo asked, scooting closer to his silent and spaced out friend.
"Um…" Xanna; now coming back to reality; said nervously, slowly scooting away just a little bit again.
"I thought you liked it when I cleaned you." Cosmo continued, leaning forward. "I thought you liked it when I rubbed behind your ears." He said, reaching his left hand up and gently rubbing Xanna's right ear; making her shut her eyes from how good it felt.
"No, I'm fine…" She said, trying to shake Cosmo's hand off and scoot away from her friend again.
"And don't you like it when kiss your soapy nose?" Cosmo asked, kissing Xanna's slightly damp nose. "And gently massage your arms…" He continued to speak in a calm and soothing voice, slowly and gently massaging Xanna's forearm, then working his way up, going to her shoulders.
Xanna; now being broken out of the sweet relaxing spell; gasped, her eyes widening. She was about to remove Cosmo's hands, but he kept them there.
'Shit…' She thought.
"Xan Xan, what's this on the back of your shoulder?" Cosmo asked, feeling the back of Xanna's left shoulder.
'You know, you still have soap in your hair…' Ixxy said, just randomly pointing out the fact. 'And I just realized…where are the bruises and scratches that were on your shoulders?' She asked, now just realizing; after about a whole day and a half; that Xanna's wounds were gone. She never could get how Xanna was able to heal so fast. Or how Cosmo never saw Xanna's birthmark on the back of her neck during any of those baths they shared at the orphanage.
"It's noth-" Xanna was saying when Cosmo made her lean forward to take a better look at it.
It was a huge burn scar. Starting from the top of the back of her left should, going down to her mid-back, and spreading to her right a little bit.
"Xanna… How-…how did you get this?" Cosmo asked, staring at the giant burn scar in horror.
Xanna sat up straight and leaned herself back onto the end of the tub, sinking into the still bubbly water, and not looking at her friend. "I'm fine…" She said, sinking herself a little deeper.
"Xanna…"
"I said I'm fine!"
'Leaving-'
"XAAAAANNAAAAA! DON'T LET HIM TAKE YOUR CLOTHES OFF!" Came Makaza's voice from the hallway; followed by a lot of breaking noises, a few sirens, and a gunshot or two.
'-now… Okay, one; too late for that. And two…what the hell? Just…just what the-… Oh, forget it. I'm leaving now.' Ixxy said, wandering off to another part of Xanna's mind to not see the dramatic moment Xanna and Cosmo were about to have.
"Cosmo, I said drop it." Xanna; now fully clothed and sitting on the toilet because Cosmo wouldn't let her leave the bathroom; said, her arms folded over her chest, and giving an angry glare to the wall in front of her.
"No, Xanna. Tell me what happened." Cosmo said, leaning against the bathroom the door to make sure that Xanna didn't go anywhere. "How did you get it? Where did you get it? When did you get it? Who gave it to you? Why did they give it to you?" He interrogated.
"It's noth-" Xanna was saying, turning her head to her left to glare at that wall instead. She was starting to burn a hole in the one in front of her.
"Xanna!" Cosmo interrupted, but still didn't receive the full attention of his friend; saddening him even more so.
He closed his eyes and sighed. "Please…just tell me…"
The way he said is what started to break Xanna's wall down. She'd inwardly said things like that in the same exact way. This way could only come from people who knew that there were important things they needed to know, but didn't. And they were crying; some dying; on the inside to know what they were.
Xanna didn't want to make Cosmo feel that way. She already felt that way herself, so she'd never want someone else to feel that way. No less, be the cause of it.
She sighed, turning herself to face her friend, seeing that he was starting to cry; which made her feel even worse.
"Lythrien." She told Cosmo. "After you left the orphanage, he started to pick on me again. And one day…he…burned me…" She said, lowering her head, not wanting to see Cosmo cry anymore.
"That stupid Fire Mage?" Cosmo yelled; much to Xanna's surprise. She figured that he'd start crying more. "He's the one who did that to you?"
Xanna; now slightly frightened; slowly nodded to her friend, inwardly hoping that he didn't start yelling louder than he already was and get everyone in Fëanáro's house to come and listen in on the conversation.
Cosmo was forcing himself to keep calm, taking a deep breath before asking his next question about the scar.
"What…happened?…" He asked, his eyes shut tight from anger.
Xanna was tossed down onto the ground, being kicked some more and piling more bruises and scratches onto her body.
She looked up at the cruel boy, tears in her eyes. She knew that he didn't care if she cried or not; actually, he rather enjoyed it; but she couldn't help let tears fall down her sweet face when she was being tormented like this.
Lythrien let out a sick a little cackle, looking down at the Halfling as he towered over her. At the end of his laugh, he wickedly smirked at the little girl; a little twinkle in his eye.
"You're so pathetic, you stupid Halfling." He told her, grabbing her by the hair to make her stand back up again.
He roughly shook her around a little bit, causing her to whimper and cry a little more; and making her feel like that he was about to snap her neck.
He just smirked more and chuckled, roughly tossing the poor girl onto a nearby rock, then conjuring a fireball in his right hand.
Xanna screamed bloody murder as the horrible little boy began to burn her back; not that it did any good because no one ever showed up to her rescue anymore.
But; just when she thought that this might be the end; Lythrien stopped when there was a howl going through the air. It sounded like a wolf. One that was close by, and ready to attack.
"What's a wolf doing in Eversong?…" Lythrien pondered out loud. Xanna would've answered; not knowing it was a rhetorical question; but kept her mouth shut in fear of being burned again.
Lythrien looked away from the direction he heard the howl come from and back to Xanna, glaring at her. He wanted to keep hurting her, but; wanting to be cautious; he fled the scene as fast as he could, not looking back to see if the wolf was actually there or not because he didn't want to trip.
After he left, Xanna slowly slid down the rock, curling up into a ball and quietly sobbing. She didn't even care if a wolf actually did show up to eat her. No one cared about her anyway.
Xanna; staring downward; fidgeted with her hands, too afraid and worried to look at her friend after telling him about how she obtained the scar on her back.
When she finally did the courage to look up, she did it slowly; wanting to be cautious.
She saw that Cosmo was literally shaking with rage, and his right hand was balled up into a very, very tight fist.
"Cosmo?" She said carefully, trying to look at her friend's expression; she couldn't see it too well because they were both sitting away from each other, and Cosmo had his head in his left hand.
"Cosmo?…" She said again, a little more carefully than the first time she said. She was beginning to worry now.
"He burned you…" Cosmo said grimly. "He…burned…you… Because I wasn't there…" He continued, getting a little more grim with each word.
"No, Cosmo, it's not your-"
"Yes, it is." Cosmo interrupted, worrying and frightening Xanna a little more. He was speaking so grimly, and the position he was in just made it look more scary.
Xanna shook her head. "No! Ya see, this is why I didn't wanna tell you! I knew you would blame yourself! And it wasn't your fault!"
"Yes, it was, Xanna!" Cosmo yelled, shooting his head up to finally look at his friend; glare, actually. Xanna was now very worried and scared. "It was my fault! I should've been there! I should've never have gone with my foster parents! I should have stayed to protect you! Take care of you!" Cosmo yelled, standing up. He was so angry and frustrated that he had tears in his eyes. "Damnit!" He yelled, punching a hole in the wall, inhaling and exhaling angrily.
"Cosmo?…" Xanna asked, not realizing that a few tears started to make their ways up from fear.
Cosmo just let out a long exhale, then slowly slid back down to the floor, sitting on his knees and quietly sobbing in his hands.
Xanna was a little too frightened to move at first, but she found the courage to get off of the toilet seat and slowly walk over to her friend, gently and calmly wrapping her arms around him, holding him tightly. "It's okay, Cosmo…" She whispered to him, then nuzzled the back of his neck a little bit.
"No, it's not, Xanna…" He managed to say through his sobs. "And I'm so sorry…" He said, hugging his friend back; as much as he could since Xanna was hugging him from behind, anyway.
And randomly; in Xanna's mind; Ixxy flew out of the room she had wandered into, covered in soot.
She lifted up her goggles and coughed. 'Too much cow feathers…' She said, then coughed up a "cow feather".
Again; thank...you...Jesus...
Too tired to put notes here right now. My eyes are actually trying to shut as I type this. So, I'll just come back with notes later.