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"Meow!" Mittens said, chasing after Jerry because he bit her tail, running around Cosmo and Xanna as they came out of the bathroom.
Cosmo was sticking very close to his small friend. Close meaning that he was latched onto her by having his right arm wrapped around her waist.
Xanna ignored it; because she didn't mind it; and quirked an eyebrow at the lioness chasing the mouse. And the spider king after that. 'The hell is goin' on there?…' She thought.
'Idiotic things…' Ixxy answered, chopping off a teddy bear's head.
"Xanna?" Came Makaza's voice, making Xanna turn her head to see him. He was in the middle of breaking things and causing a lot of collateral damage to Fëanáro's home with his brother and Mokoki.
"Xanna!" Makaza exclaimed, dropping the thing he was about to break; making it break; and running over to Xanna, taking her away from Cosmo; not seeing the demon glare he received; and hugging her tightly. "I've missed you so-!" He was saying when Cosmo snatched her back.
The blood elf hunter held his friend away from the orc warlock, glaring at him with fiery eyes, snarling and showing him his viciously sharp teeth.
Makaza blinked and gave the boy a confused and scared look.
Cosmo turned away and stuck his nose up in the air, walking away with his Xan Xan back to the living room.
"Uh…did I do something wrong?" Makaza pondered out loud, tilting his head to his left as he watched the two elves walk; well, one being carried; to the living room.
"Besides breaking Fëanáro's house apart to look for her?" Akazil said, walking over to stand next to his brother, ignoring that he himself had also been breaking things for the very same reason. "No."
"Then why the hell is Cosmo actin' bitchy?" Mokoki asked, walking over to Makaza's other side, scratching his head.
All three of the boys just stared down the hallway, puzzled and confused.
Cosmo carried Xanna back into the living room, sitting on the couch with her and holding her tight, nuzzling her sweetly and shooting death glares at everyone else that looked at the two.
"Hey, Xanna!" Fëanáro greeted the female elf, walking up and sitting on the arm of the couch to start a chat with Xanna. And; if he was lucky enough; get her away from Cosmo to have her all to himself.
"Hi, Fë-" Xanna was greeting back when Cosmo roared like a lion at the night elf boy, showing him his red eyes and sharp teeth like he had done to Makaza only a moment ago, then putting Xanna on his other side to keep her away from Fëanáro.
"Oookaaay…" Fëanáro said, taken aback at the once kind and sweet but now scary and mean elf, backing away slowly from him and Xanna on the couch and back over next to his good racist friend, Kadgaa.
"Dude, what's with him?" He asked his friend quietly as he watched Cosmo go back to being sweet and cute by nuzzling Xanna again.
Kadgaa answered his friend's question with a shrug. "I dunno." He said. "Maybe he got soap in his eye while bathing or something."
"Wow, you actually didn't answer with "because he's a damn Horde"… Are you feeling okay?" Fëanáro asked, placing a hand on his friend's head; who quickly shooed it off.
"I was actually close to saying "maybe the sex was bad". You know, because they were in the bathroom together." Kadgaa said, not noticing how that worried his friend.
'Oh, shit! They're a couple! A sex active couple! I should've known!' Fëanáro thought, inwardly crying.
"And then something along the lines of them being "damn Horde",-" Kadgaa continued, slightly bringing his friend out of his inward sobbing. "-but I didn't because I believe that he just might be gay." He said, thinking about how much Cosmo screamed when he first found Jerry a few hours ago. "So…since he's a girly man… Maybe he just got soap in his eyes and it made him mad."
"Wouldn't that make anyone mad?…" Fëanáro said to his friend, quirking in eyebrow at him, no longer worried about Cosmo and Xanna being a couple because Kadgaa had a point about how girly Cosmo was.
Kadgaa shrugged at his friend. "Probably. But he's still a girly man."
"True…" Fëanáro said, looking back over to the two elves on the couch, seeing that Cosmo and Xanna had gotten into some sort of tickle fight. 'Don't think I know any guys who'd actually do that and not be embarrassed by it… No less, in front of people…'
'Why do I get the feeling that Cosmo's trying to keep me away from everyone else?' Xanna thought, being carried by Cosmo as he ran down the hallway from the others.
'No clue…' Ixxy said sarcastically. 'Couldn't have anything to do with the bathtub scene making him a little more possessive and overprotective or him being crazy. Nope. Can't be that.'
'Then why do I get the feeling that he's trying to keep me away from the others?'
"She's MY Xan Xan!" Cosmo yelled, firing jellybeans out of the machine gun that came out of nowhere, making his army helmet; which also came out of nowhere; bounce around on his head a little bit.
'Again…no clue.' Ixxy said sarcastically once again.
'Think he'd notice if I wandered off? I'm gettin' kinda bored…' Xanna thought, then quietly yawned. 'And a little tired.' She added, starting to doze off right there when Cosmo threw a jellybean bomb at the boys. The sound of the explosion woke her up slightly. Yes, slightly.
'Hmm… Do I think he'd notice you if you wandered off?' Ixxy sarcastically repeated the question, her left arm across her chest, holding her right elbow as she used her right hand to tap her chin. 'Hmm… Well, considering that he's going ballistic on everyone that just so even looks at you, I'd have to saaay… No! Absolutely not!' She said, throwing her arms into the air.
'Glad ya think so. I was worried that you were gonna say-'
'Of course he'd notice, you idiot!'
'Yeah, that. Are you reading my mind or something?…'
'What mind is there to read? There's nothing here but a black void!'
'Hey, that's not very nice to say since this "black void" is your home.'
'Please don't remind me… I want to save wallowing in my own self pity for when I go to bed…'
'Speaking of carrots, I think I'll go to bed now.' Xanna said, getting up and wandering off as Cosmo continued to fire jellybeans at the rest of the group.
'Car-?… Where the-?… Ow, my brain!' Ixxy said, clutching her head and falling to the ground.
'Man, where the hell was our room?' Xanna thought to herself, still looking for the room she and Cosmo had been using. She had been looking for it for a few minutes now, getting lost in other hallways as she did so.
'I'd say that you're an idiot for not knowing, but this is a pretty big house… Even I don't remember where the hell it is.' Ixxy said, looking at all of the same looking doors in the hallway they were in. 'Was it that one?' She said, pointing at a door coming up on Xanna's right.
'No, I think that's the naked yoga room…' Xanna replied. 'Maybe it's this one over here.' She said, opening a door to her left, seeing a train in a western looking place coming straight for her. She quickly slammed it shut and put her back against the door, making sure it stayed shut. 'Maybe not…' She thought.
'What the hell is a train in a western background doing in a mansion?…' Ixxy said, raising an eyebrow at the door. 'Then again… What the hell is most of the stuff hiding behind these doors doing here?' She added, thinking of the carnival and dinosaur rooms.
'I don't see any problem with a train being in Fëan's house.' Xanna said, getting off of the door and starting to walk again. 'Sure, I'd like to avoid it, but I don't see any problem with-' She was saying when she opened another door, seeing one of Fëanáro's brothers tied to some sexual torture device and his succubus hovering over him.
Xanna and Ixxy; though Ixxy obviously wasn't being seen; stared and blinked at the two for a moment, being returned the favor. Then she slowly backed out of the room and shut the door.
'…Let us never speak of this again.' She told Ixxy.
'Nooo arguments here.' Ixxy said, waving here arms in front of herself, her eyes shut as she shook her head.
Xanna was now in a new hallway, still trying to look for her temporary room. And still utterly hopeless in finding it.
'I'm starting to think it's hopeless in finding our room…' She told Ixxy. 'And I think I'm actually lost…' She added to the bad news.
'Great! We're hopeless and lost!' Ixxy shouted, throwing her arms up in the air. 'Just absolutely wonderful! Way to go, genius! We'll never be found again!'
'I'm sure we'll eventually be found.' Xanna reassured. 'I just gotta stay in this one spot.' She said, leaning against a wall, then sliding down it and sitting down on the hallway floor.
'Yep, we'll never be seen again…'
'What? I can stay still!'
'That's what you said before the teddy bear accident!' Ixxy yelled, pointing a finger at Xanna.
'Oh, that was just a coincidence!'
'Of course it was…'
'I can stay still as long as I want to!' Xanna yelled at Ixxy; who only stared blankly at her, with her arms over her chest. 'I can!' She yelled, then looked away, folding her arms over her chest and pouting.
'Three, two, one…'
Xanna got back up and onto her feet, not standing sitting still for those long and horrible three seconds. She looked over to Ixxy; who was giving her a little "told ya so" look.
'I can, damnit!' She said. 'I just don't want to…'
'Of course you don't…'
'Shut up.'
'Don't hate me. Hate the truth.'
'Oh, look at what's over here.' Xanna said, completely leaving the conversation and wandering down to the end of the hallway because something had caught her attention. Ixxy; once again; stared blankly at her.
Xanna was at the end of the hallway, now seeing what the thing that caught her attention was.
It was an old picture of a night elf man with his arms wrapped around a blood elf woman; who was holding a yawning baby in her arms.
She stared intently at it for a minute or two. Normally, she'd stare intently at a shinny thing or something along those line. But she couldn't help but stare at this picture.
'Why are you staring at a dumb picture like a mindless idiot?' Ixxy asked, giving an irritated look to Xanna, having no interest in the picture at all. She closed her eyes, shook her head and sighed. 'Nevermind. Shouldn't ask a question I already know the answer to.'
'Look at them, Ixxy.' Xanna told her voice, having not paid any attention to what she had been saying. 'Don't they look…familiar?'
Ixxy looked at the picture, examining it carefully. The nigh elf man looked like your average night elf man; clean cut, dark purple skin, long dark purple hair, dark yellow eyes. He actually remind Ixxy of another certain night elf that they had been hanging around with lately.
The blood elf woman also looked like your average blood elf woman, but with big poofy hair. Pretty, light pink skin, light brown hair, and light green eyes. She also reminded Ixxy of another certain someone.
Ixxy looked at it a moment longer; not even looking at the baby in the picture; then shook her head at it. 'Can't be.' She said quietly to herself.
'They do look familiar, don't they?' Xanna said, still looking at the picture.
'Nope. Not in the slightest.' Ixxy lied, filing her nails, knowing that Xanna wasn't even paying attention.
'Ixxy…I…I think I know them…' She said, knowing that Ixxy didn't care. She quickly looked around, then took the picture off of the wall, taking the photo out of its frame.
'What the hell are you doing?' Ixxy asked, pausing her nail filing.
'I-… I wanna…hold onto it… J-just for tonight. To help me sleep.' Xanna stammered, scanning over the picture repeatedly, finding it almost impossible to look away.
'Did it not occur to you that that's not yours?…'
'I know, but…' Xanna was saying, still staring at the picture. She sighed. 'I have to keep it with me…' She said, putting the picture away and starting to walk off somewhere else, not really caring if she found her temporary bedroom or not anymore.
Ixxy looked at Xanna, thinking about the way she looked at the picture. It was actually rather heart touching. That meant a lot when it came to Ixxy. And she knew why Xanna felt the need to keep the picture close to her, even if Xanna didn't know herself.
It was a picture of Xanna's parents.
'You're an idiot. A complete and total idiot.' Ixxy told Xanna, giving her one of those "wow" looks. 'Seriously, how the hell did this even happen?' She continued, not knowing how Xanna ended being tied up to a soft pink bed by a few of Fëanáro's wicked little sisters.
Xanna only yawned at her. 'Meh. At least it's comfy.' She replied, starting to doze off on the nice and soft bed.
"Let's dissect her brain!" One of the girls shouted, dressed up as a surgeon; as were her sisters; and pulling out a scalpel from nowhere. A real scalpel. The other three cheered, jumping up and down as they clapped.
Xanna's eyes widened a little bit at the scalpel; and the other tools the other girls were pulling out from nowhere; and she gulped. 'Shit, I gotta get myself outa here…'
'Ya THINK?'
"U-uh…" Xanna stammered, ignoring Ixxy as she tried to think of a plan, also wondering why Ixxy stopped thinking of plans for her. But she'd have to save that for later.
"H-how about, uh…sc-scary stories! Yeah! Scary stories are fun, right?" She suggested nervously.
The four little girls stared blankly at her, the little leader of the group folding her arms over her chest as the other three put their hands on their hips.
"R-right?…" Xanna said in a slightly squeaky tone. All of the girls began to walk toward her with their evil surgeon tools of torture. Xanna scooted away as much as she could; being tied up and all; and tried her best to think of another plan.
"T-tell ya what! If you don't like my story, then you can dissect me all you want!" She shouted out her
"Hmm…" The girls said together, turning away from the tied up Xanna and huddling together, whispering to each other, occasionally looking back at Xanna, then going back to whispering.
After a moment, they broke up their little huddle, all folding their arms and looked at Xanna.
"Alright." The leader said. "If your story really does scare us, we'll let you go."
"And if not-" The one to her left continued.
"Then we get to look at your brain!" The other two to her right giggled, pulling out scalpels from behind their backs.
"D-deal…" Xanna said, gulping as she thought about how deep in shit she was in. 'When I said I wanted brain surgery, I didn't actually mean it…' She thought.
Xanna was now untied from the bed and sitting in a chair, the lights turned off and the little girls sitting around her.
"Here. Use this." The leader said, handing Xanna a flashlight. Xanna only stared at it. 'Shiny…' She thought, slowly reaching a hand up to play with the shiny light coming from the small object. All of the girls raised an eyebrow at her.
Ixxy rolled her eyes, quickly tossed Xanna aside and took control of Xanna. "Uh, sorry. I space out from time to time." She said for her, taking the flashlight and holding it at a decent angle to shine it onto Xanna's face, then quickly giving Xanna control. At least, control of everything but her neck and arms.
Being annoyed at Ixxy; but trying not to outwardly show it; Xanna cleared her throat and looked at the little girls.
"Uh, well…" She said, looking at all of them staring blankly at her as she tried to think of a scary story. After a moment, a very good one came to her. "Okay, girls." She said, starting to get into the storytelling mood. "The story I am about to tell is scary, sad, happy, romantic, and all around awesome." She said, smiling as she did.
"It all started on a dark and stormy night-" Xanna started.
"Yawn." One of the girls said, patting her mouth to add to the sarcastic yawn.
"What?"
"All scary stories start out with "it was a dark and stormy night"." Another one of them said.
"Yeah, it's a little boring." The third lacky added.
"Uh…sorry." Xanna shrugged. "But that's just how my story starts." She said, slightly frowning when all four of the girls rolled their eyes.
"Just keep going." The leader said.
"Well, it was a dark and stormy night. There was a woman out, running through the darkness in the horrible storm, carrying a crying baby." Xanna said, smirking a little bit when the girls' attention was catching onto it.
"The baby cried and cried, and the woman ran and ran-"
"Why was she running?"
"Because she was being chasing."
"By what?"
Xanna looked away for a second, then looked back to the girls. "By a hero." She said. "A hero that was in love with the baby."
All four of the girls exclaimed in awe, scooting closer to Xanna as she went on with the story.
"After what seemed like forever of running, the woman finally reached a building. It looked nice on the outside" She said, smiling but then quickly scowling. "But the inside was horrible."
"Did it have bad carpet?"
"No. Worse."
"Bad curtains?"
"No. Inside, the building was filled with bad people. Horrible people."
"How were they horrible?"
'Damnit, haven't these girls ever heard of "shut up and listen"?'
"Be quiet and listen and maybe you'll find out why." Xanna said, smirking outwardly and inwardly.
'Bitch…'
"The woman left the baby there, abandoning it." Xanna; ignoring Ixxy; continued.
"No way." The leader said. "Mothers don't abandon their kids."
"Yeah, no less, babies." Her twin added.
Xanna chuckled. "Oh, you'd be surprised." She said, a little darkly. The girls looked at her with worry and confusion. Xanna only ignored it and went on with the story. "The woman was happy to be rid of the baby, smiling as she walked off, leaving it in a basket on the doorstep." She continued.
"But why?" One of the girls asked, frowning.
"It was a Halfling." Xanna said, making three of the girls gasp.
"What's a Halfling?" The forth girl asked.
"Something…very bad…" Xanna said, shrugging of the feeling of wanting to frown.
"Why?"
"Do you wanna hear the story or not?" Xanna asked, getting slightly annoyed now. She knew that little kids were always like this, and normally she had the patience to put up with it. But she was just too tired to do it now.
All four of the girls silenced themselves and behaved, listening as Xanna continued.
Xanna shook her head and inwardly sighed. 'Oi, this is gonna be a long story…' She thought, not knowing that Ixxy had wandered off some time ago. Probably messing with whatever she was building and coughing up more "cow feathers".
All four of the girls were sitting up now, clinging and hugging their teddy bears and pillows tightly.
"And then what happened?" Melanie; the first nine year old and the leader of the girls; asked, leaning forward with her sisters.
"He left. And Nanax never saw him again." Xanna said, telling a story that sounded very similar to the memory she had of Cosmo being adopted.
"No!" Heather; Melanie's twin and right hand lacky; yelled.
"Yes!" Xanna said.
"Say it isn't so!" Daphne and Kathy; the eight year old twins and other two lackies; said simultaneously.
"But it is so!" Xanna said, smiling at the girls' scared and sad looks. "And then…" She went on.
"He came back?" Heather asked hopefully.
"Pfft. I wish…" Xanna said, then shook her head. "I mean, no. He didn't. Things went back to the way the were after that. Poor little Nanax was picked on every single day by all of the other orphans. But twice as much! Nay! Thrice as much!" She said, holding up three fingers on her right hand. "Especially by…"
"Rythlien?"
"Right you are, my dear Daphne."
"Kathy."
"Kathy." Xanna quickly corrected, then held the flashlight with both of her hands again. "Rythlien…" She said grimly. "He absolutely tortured poor little Nanax. More than anyone else at the orphanage." She said, looking at the girls.
"Did he like her?" Heather asked sheepishly, shrugging a little bit.
"Quite the opposite, Heather." Xanna answered. "Rythlien hated Nanax. And all because-"
"She was a Halfling." Melanie said simply.
"Exactly. Xanna said to her. "Because she was a Halfling. Something different."
"What did he do to her?" Heather asked.
Xanna's face looked terribly grim before she answered with the dark reply. "He burned her…" She said darkly, making the girls gasp. Xanna nodded. "He burned her. He threw her on a rock-" She said, holding the flashlight in her left hand as she stood up and threw some air onto an invisible rock. "-and he burned her." She said, acting out the scene.
"Nanax cried her little heart out as Rythlien dug a fireball into her back. She cried as loud as she could! She cried for all to hear! Heaven and Azeroth!" She said, motioning her right arm around. "But no one…came to save her…"
"Wh-what happened?" Heather stammered, leaning in closer some more with her sisters.
Xanna lowered her right arm, her face becoming expressionless, as did her eyes.
"…She died." She said plainly, her little dark moment being cut short when she looked at the girls' expressions. All of them were about to cry.
"U-uh! No, wait! Don't do that!" She said, waving her arms in front of herself. "I was kidding! I-it was a joke! She doesn't die!" She said sheepishly, a nervous sweat drop going down the side of her head.
"Then what happened after that!" Melanie yelled.
"Uh…uh…" Xanna stammered, then slowly began to grow a content smile as an idea came into her head. "She was saved. By a knight."
"A knight?" Heather asked.
"Yes."
"Was it Mosco?" Kathy asked.
"No. It wasn't Mosco. It was…some sort of…angel." She said. "He didn't shun Nanax as soon as he saw what she was."
"Was it the person that was chasing the woman that abandoned Nanax?" Daphne asked, remembering how Xanna had called that person a hero.
Xanna shook her head. "No. Even better. This person…is someone that's too great to even describe." She said, smiling. "He didn't shun her. He talked to her. He smiled at her, making her smile in return." She went on, sighing contently. "This person…became Nanax's best friend."
All of the girls smiled happily at the ending, looking tired and yawning as they did so.
Xanna smiled down at them. "I think it's time for some little girls that I know to go to bed." She said, putting down the flashlight and helping them get up, tucking them into their beds.
"That was a good story." Heather said as Xanna tucked in her blankets around her.
"Yeah!" Kathy said. "Can you tell us another one tomorrow?" Daphne asked, now being tucked in by Xanna with her sister.
Xanna looked a little unsure at the question. "I dunno if I'm still gonna be here tomorrow."
"Why nooot?" The three girls asked as Xanna went to tuck in Melanie; who looked the most upset at what Xanna had said.
"Well, me and my friends have to go home." Xanna explained to the young ones. "We're Horde, and this place is an Alliance place. So, we can't stay here forever."
"Yeah, you could! We can just hide you guys here!" Daphne said.
Xanna sighed. "We can't hide forever." She told them. 'Especially me…' She thought, knowing that a Halfling would probably be sentenced to death in Stormwind.
"But-!" The girls tried to spit out more ideas.
"Shut up and go to sleep." Melanie told them, angrily rolling over onto her left side, tightly shutting her eyes to go to sleep.
"Melanie, are you al-?" Xanna was asking her, reaching a hand to touch her shoulder, but she angrily moved it before she could. "Just go away." She told Xanna, a tear sliding down the side of her nose.
Xanna; not seeing the tear because Melanie was turned away; was a little taken aback. But she still got up and walked to the door, nodding goodnight to the girls and leaving the room, shutting the door behind her.
'You suck at making up names.' Ixxy said, happy that she was finally able to get that off of her chest.
'I hate you…'
And we all cheer! Even though it's short... *sigh*
At least it's something. And I'll start on the next one tomorrow. After a little Warcraft...
Note: All mistakes and what not (like the freaking messed up scene line breaker things) will be fixed in editing.