I am starting to hate posting with a passion...
Xanna woke up rather early the next morning, still her underwear, her hair still a mess. Nevertheless, she ignored it for the time being, stretched out her arms and yawned. As she did so, she smiled widely, remembering a few things from the previous night. Just about everything was stupendous. However, she felt that Akazil might try to avoid her for a little while.
Shrugging it off, she hopped out of her bed and began to gather her clothes scattered around on the floor. Her socks were on different sides of the room, her pants on the dresser, her hair accessories under her bed, her shirt tangled up with Cosmo's underwear. Xanna raised an eyebrow at the tangled clothing, figuring out that Cosmo; who was still asleep in his bed; was naked. "He must've wanted to go all the way with his pillow…" She murmured to herself, staring at the sleeping elf as he snuggled with the pillow he had violated, sucking on his thumb like a baby.
"You…have…no…idea…" The traumatized Ixxy said, holding herself as she rocked back and forth in the cracked open closet. Xanna raised an eyebrow at her, holding back a smirk as she walked over to the closet. "Are you alright?" She couldn't help the laugh that slipped itself into her question.
Ixxy quickly snapped her head to look up at Xanna, glaring at her. "Am I alright? !" She barked. "Alright? ! ALRIGHT? ! Do you call watching two idiots get hopped up on lust potions and having to watch them RAPE their pillows all night ALRIGHT? !"
"So…yes?"
"AGH!" Ixxy groaned out loud, quickly moving her head down and ripping out some of her hair. "Yep. You're fine." Xanna replied to the groan with a smile. "Now I am going to take a shower. I feel…not clean…" She said, turning away to grab clean clothes, not seeing Ixxy fall to the ground and twitch uncontrollably.
Just before leaving the room, Xanna put her dirty clothes back on, not wanting to show off her half naked self to the rest of the house members. At least, not again. Once done with that, she picked up her clean clothes off her bed and headed for the door, stopping when someone grabbed her shoulder, making her turn around quickly.
"You aren't gonna shower without me, are you?" The suddenly awake; and still naked; Cosmo smiled at her, his right hand on her left shoulder and his other arm holding his clothes. Xanna smiled at him, gently taking the hand she had on the doorknob to his hand. "Of course not, Cosmo. You know it's not a real bath when you're not there." She said, about to leave the room with him.
"HELL NO!" Ixxy shouted, grabbing Cosmo and tossing him onto the floor behind her. "There is no way I am leaving you two alone with each other!" She snapped. "You! Go take your shower!" She ordered Xanna, pointing and glaring at her, then turning the gaze to Cosmo. "And you just wait you're turn for it!" She barked, then inhaled deeply from being so frustrated and traumatized. "And I shall try to clean this room of the stains you have made…" She finished off her yelling with a grim statement, shuddering as she looked at the messed up room.
"…Have fun with that." Xanna said simply, turning around and quickly leaving, trying not to feel too bad for leaving Cosmo alone with Ixxy.
Xanna walked down the hallway, trying to look for an unoccupied bathroom. When she finally found one, she heard footsteps from down the hall behind her. She turned to make sure that it wasn't a changed of mind Ixxy coming after her to lock her away in the room again.
"And that's when we get a duck." Makaza told Mokoki, ignoring his imp shaking his head at him. "A duck?" The tauren repeated in question. "Yes. A duck."
"Hi, guys!" Xanna greeted them cheerfully, waving a hand at them. "Hi, Xanna." They both replied back, taking a split second to let the information of who they had just greeted sink into their skulls. Once that was done, their eyes widened, they screamed manly screams in horror and they hopped into Ezekiel's arms. Yes, two nearly grown boys hopped into a tiny imp's arms. Possibly killing him. But they were still manly about it!
"Xanna!" The two boys shrilled, holding each other as they stared up at the girl in fear, ignoring the possibly dead little imp beneath them. "Hi?…" Xanna said again, a bit in an unsure way this time. She raised an eyebrow at them and slowly lowered her hand a bit as the two boys quickly stood up, taking a few careful steps away from her.
"What are you doing out?" Makaza questioned, hiding behind Mokoki to use him as a shield. "Yeah! You're not suppose to be out after…uh…" Mokoki went on, switching positions with the orc. Once he was made the shield, Makaza simply grabbed his unconscious imp and used him as a new one.
"The potion wore off…" Xanna said, staring at the boys; and unconscious imp; blankly. "I'm out 'cause I need a shower…"
"Oh…" Was the only thing the boys said, slowly staring at each other, then quickly getting down on their knees. "We're sorry, Xanna!" They cried out, grabbing her hands and suddenly sobbing.
"We're sorry we tried to take advantage of you!" Makaza cried, yanking roughly on Xanna's arm. "Yeah!" Mokoki added. "We're just two hormonal teenagers! We have no control over what we do!"
"Forgive us!" They sobbed. Xanna only stared at the awkwardly before falling to the ground. "Agh!" She said, landing hard on her backside. "Guys!"
"We're sorryyy!"
"Ergh…" Xanna growled and snatched her arms away, then grabbed her clothes and quickly got back up onto her feet. "It's fine!" She told the two boys. "Forget it! I'm fine! I'm okay!" She went on, a tad of her irritation in her voice. "Just please calm down…and let me shower…"
"You know, you look sexier than usual with your hair down…" Makaza; completely changing the subject and going back to his hormonal self; said, staring at Xanna's messed up hair. "Ya know, I was thinkin' the same thing." Mokoki agreed, placing a hand on his furry chin as he stared along with his friend.
"That's better." Xanna said simply, turning back to the bathroom door. "Oh…" She said, right before entering. "And if you see Akazil…uh…tell him…"
"That he's a lucky bastard?" Mokoki asked, trying to guess the rest of Xanna's sentence.
"That he's a dead man?…" Makaza asked irritably, his eyes to his left, staring blankly at whatever was there.
"I was thinking more along the lines of "I'm sorry", but those work too. I think…" Xanna said unsurely, then quickly shrugged it off and entered the bathroom. Once in it, she leaned against the door for a moment, closing her eyes and sighing. "Boys…" She chuckled softly.
Makaza and Mokoki tackled the innocent Akazil to the ground, keeping him pinned down with the dog pile. "Ah! What the hell? !" The older orc grunted, squirming beneath the other two boys. "Came to warn you that Xanna's out of her room." Makaza replied to the grunt, not seeing his brother's face turn a light pink.
"Well, I'm doing it because I'm bored while waiting for that damned Orb to cool down…" Mokoki said, hating that it had to take twenty-four hours for the Orb of Deception to cool down before it could be used again. Akazil rolled his eyes at the two, then; without warning; got up and knocked the two teens off of his back. Once back on his feet, he straightened himself up. "So…Xanna's…loose?" He asked, trying not to let his blush show.
"Not as much as last night…" Mokoki mumbled, earning a high-five from Makaza, and a glare from the other orc. "I meant as in "she's out of her room"…" Akazil grumbled, glaring at the two snickering perverts.
Before answering, Mokoki covered Makaza's mouth, answering for him. "Yeah…" He said, trying not to smirk or let his mischievous show as a twinkle in his eyes. "She's out of her room…still hopped up on that potion."
That's when Makaza saw what his friend was doing, somehow getting an exclamation point above his head. It quickly went away as he removed Mokoki's hand. "Yeeeah…" He said, smirking a bit. "She isn't as hopped up on it as last night, but she's still hopped up on it."
"Yeah, and we saw her in the hallway…" Mokoki went on with the prank. "She was looking for you."
"I think she plans to finish what she started." Makaza ended it, folding his arms across his chest with his tauren friend.
Akazil's eyes were slightly widened, a sweat drop sliding down the side of his head. He gulped before speaking, trying to stop his slight shake. "R-really?" He asked, his voice slightly high-pitched.
"Yep. And I read somewhere that blood elves; especially the females; never stop until they get what they want." Mokoki said, successfully making it sound like he actually did read the thing he made up.
"Really?" Akazil squeaked again, his voice a little higher than before, and a little more sweat sliding down the sides of his head.
"Mhm. And you do not want to see what they do when they aren't satisfied." The bastard tauren finished, nodding to the now terrified orc lad. "And ya know…I think I hear her coming this way." He said, lifting his hand to his right ear, acting like he heard footsteps in the nearby hallway.
"U-uh! I-I gotta go!" Akazil stammered, quickly running off in the opposite direction.
Once he was gone, the two teens burst out into laughter, patting each other on the shoulder and high-fiving. "So, is that stuff true?" Makaza asked after the laughing fit. Mokoki smiled and shrugged. "I have no clue. I don't read picture less books."
"Dude, nice!" Makaza chuckled to his friend.
"Yeah, and you know what the funniest thing is?"
"What?"
"He just ran off in the real direction Xanna's in…" The tauren said, smirking with his friend.
"Follow?"
"Follow."
"Popcorn?"
"Popcorn."
"Camera?"
"Camera."
After that lovely little discussion, the two quickly chased after Akazil to watch how well their prank played out, laughing widely as they did.
Cosmo sighed as he walked the hallways, a little sad and irritated. First; Ixxy kicked him out of the bedroom so she could sterilize it, then he had to shower by himself because he wasn't able to find Xanna. The poor elf boy sighed pitifully again, feeling lonely. 'I wonder where Mittens and Jerry are?…' He thought, not hearing the lioness chasing the mouse with a sledgehammer in the background. He shrugged and continued to walk down the hallway, stopping by an opened door when he saw the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen since he met Xanna.
She was gorgeous with her radiant looking blue skin, wild looking raven black hair, oddly attractive curvy horns, something Cosmo believed were small tentacles coming out of her neck, and a hot tail the boy couldn't take his eyes off of. He didn't even notice her actual tail.
She was beautiful, she was gorgeous. Cosmo had to have her.
He noticed her ear twitch and he quickly hid from sight before she looked to the doorway. After waiting a moment, he slowly peeked his head back into the room again, seeing her sitting on the couch by herself, crying.
When Cosmo finally saw her face, he was smitten. But his heart began to hurt when he saw that such a beautiful face was covered in tears. "Why're you crying?" He blurted out, suddenly coming out from his hiding spot.
The girl jumped, startled. She hadn't expected anyone to come across her alone in one of the back rooms because Fëanáro's house was so big. She looked up at Cosmo as he came closer, sparkling light blue eyes meeting glowing green ones. Even though she had seen him pull out a shotgun the night before, she felt safe at his sudden presence.
"Are you alright?" Cosmo asked politely as he sat down next to the girl.
The girl's ears wiggled slightly in delight, Cosmo's voice like a melody to them.
Once catching onto how she was now suddenly feeling, she closed her eyes and shook her head, looking away from Cosmo. "I'm fine." She said plainly, hiding the hurt she had been wanting to express in private.
"I'm, Cosmo!" Cosmo said gleefully, hoping to make the girl smile at the silly joke. He held out his right arm for a friendly handshake, tilting his head and smiling when the girl looked back to him. She smiled as well, but it was quickly thrown off her face before she shook his hand. "Ivette." She said.
"That's a pretty name." Cosmo complimented, smiling more and more at the girl, hoping she would return the favor, and maybe the feelings.
"Yeah, I guess… Um, did you want something?"
"I wanted to know why you were crying…" Cosmo said innocently, giving Ivette a slight frown.
The draenei girl looked away quickly again, keeping a straight face but still afraid to make eye contact again. She didn't want her dumb heart to fall for another charming face only to be tossed aside and broken again.
"I wasn't crying. Something was in my eyes and it began to make them water." Ivette said as coolly as she could. "Then what about the sniffling and the sad look in your eyes?" Cosmo retorted cleverly.
Ivette stared blankly through the left side of her eye, now becoming annoyed with the attractive boy that had entered the room. She then sighed and rolled her eyes, turning back to Cosmo. "It's nothing. And for that matter, it's none of your business." She said, a bit more harshly than she had meant to.
"Sorry…" Cosmo frowned. "I just hate to see such a pretty face like yours-" He was explaining, reaching up his right hand to touch the side of her face, gently rubbing it with his thumb once doing so. "-covered in tears…" He finished, a small smile appearing on his face when he saw Ivette was enjoying his touch.
Quickly catching onto what she was doing, Ivette stopped enjoying the blood elf boy's touch, shooing it away with her left hand and turning her head again. She was determined to keep him shut out. And yet, she still hadn't left the room.
Ivette sighed again, then scoot herself away from Cosmo. "It's none of your business. Now please leave me to handle it myself."
"If you really wanted me gone…" Cosmo was saying, quickly moving close, hovering his body over hers, trapping her on the couch. "You would have kicked me out as soon as I entered the room…" He finished coolly, looking deeply into her eyes again. He was determined to make this girl his. And so far; by what he could tell; he was succeeding.
He smiled at her blushing face, tempted to purr at her seductively. The need to receive the answer of why she was crying drowned out the temptation quickly. "Tell me what's wrong." He persisted more, but calmly, smiling down at her, chuckling a bit when some of his hair fell over his shoulder and into her face.
Pushing him and his hair away, Ivette sat up, sighing. "Are all blood elves this persistent? Or is it just you?"
Cosmo shrugged. "Me and a few friends." He said, happy to make her giggle. The giggle and smile went away quickly, being replaced by another slight frown and sigh. "Well, where do I start?" She said.
"The beginning is usually a nice place to start."
Ivette smiled at him again, finally giving in and letting it stay there. "Well…" She started. "I was born into a political family."
"Fun." Cosmo smiled at his own sarcasm.
"Well, yeah." Ivette chuckle nervously. "So, I guess you can imagine how that was. Kad and I growing up with basically no parents."
Cosmo's eyes widened. "Wait, what? ! Kad? ! As in that racist? !" He questioned, pointing his right arm toward the door as if he were pointing at said racist draenei.
Ivette nodded. "Yes. He's my brother. Born exactly one year after me."
"That must've been a fun first birthday…"
"You're tellin' me…" Ivette murmured back, shaking her head to continue on. "But, yes. Our parents were never around. We grew up with several nannies. And I told him how I would never leave him, even when our father tried to get me interested in politics."
"So, your parents were the type that felt they could be around whenever they pleased." Cosmo stated. Ivette nodded to him. "Yes. Not bad, but still not very good parents. But over the years, my father kept insisting for me to get interested, hate the Horde and what not." She went on, shrugging. "I was clever and was always able to find a way to slip away from him to hang out with Kad."
"You two were close." Cosmo smiled, thinking about how close he and Xanna were.
Ivette nodded again. "Yes." She said, then smiled. "I remember how Kad used to say that he couldn't wait to quest together." She smiled more at the memory, then sighed. "As I grew up, I always dreamt about running away with him. Eventually both of our parents began to pressure me into a life I didn't want. Tell me how to do everything. Eat, sleep, even breathe. I couldn't stand it."
Cosmo frowned and placed a hand on one of hers, holding it comfortingly. She only frowned more. "One day while I was out questing, I met a blood elf boy." Ivette went on, feeling her stomach twist a bit at the thought of him. "He was charming and because I was so angry with my parents, he was able to sweep me off my feet easily." She went on, sighing again. "I didn't even think about what he was doing wandering around an Alliance city. But I didn't care. I just met him several times in secret. He would always tell me about how he would be there for me and take care of me. You know, all that sweet talk and charm." She blushed, turning her head away. "I was easily wooed and then…I just ran away with him."
"Kad probably didn't like that, did he?" Cosmo frowned to Ivette. She nodded, fighting back the urge to cry again. "He hates me. And I don't blame him. I left him alone."
Cosmo took the side of Ivette's face in his hand again, turning her head and making her look at him. He smiled comfortingly at her. "He doesn't hate you."
"How would you know?"
"Believe it or not, but I've done something similar." Cosmo said simply, leaning back onto the couch. Ivette quirked an eyebrow at him. "You have?"
Cosmo nodded. "My friend Xanna and I grew up in an orphanage together. Before I came along, all the other kids would pick on her because she was a halfling. I was the only one that didn't." He said, smiling. "I would protect her."
"What happened?"
Cosmo was now the one to turn away. "I was adopted. I tried to get my foster parents to adopt her, but they didn't want to. They were afraid of her." He explained, now taking his turn to sigh. "I didn't want to go with them. I didn't want to leave Xanna. But I did."
"Well, you didn't really have a choice…"
Cosmo turned back to her, smiling, a little sadness showing through. "I could have run away with her. But I didn't." He said. Ivette smiled the same way. "And she doesn't hate you for it?"
"Nope." Cosmo said, shaking his head. "Not one bit."
"But why?"
"Because we love each other. We're too close to ever hate each other." Cosmo smiled more, then chuckled. "But I can't say the same about hating ourselves…" He said, truly hating himself for leaving Xanna. He shook his head again. "My point is that I really don't think Kad hates you. Just give him some time to lick his wounds."
Ivette nodded. "You're right." She said, then sighed. "I just wish he'd believe me when I said that I missed him while I was gone…" She lowered her head a bit. "I was so stupid for leaving him…"
And just then, Cosmo pulled her into a hug, holding her tightly. "You know what you need?" He asked, smiling widely. "What?" She replied, her cheeks a light red. "You-need-cupcakes."
"Cupcakes?"
"Please don't hurt me!" Akazil flinched at the angry Xanna he had just walked in on in the bathroom. Again.
Xanna; wrapped in a towel; sighed. "It's fine." She chuckled to her friend. "It was an accident. Don't worry about it." She said, smiling. "But I would like to change alone…" She chuckled, shooing him off.
"Uh, right." Akazil said, still a little worried that Xanna might pounce him. He quickly tried to reach for the bathroom doorknob, keeping a close eye on her. She only smiled and turned around when he finally got the door open. Though, instead of leaving, Akazil stayed, staring at Xanna's back, seeing something on her left shoulder peek out from her towel.
Xanna held her shirt to her damp chest, turned around and smiled to Akazil again. "Well? Are you leaving or not?"
"Uh…yeah. Sorry for walking in on you." Akazil said, finally leaving the bathroom, shutting the door behind him. 'Where did she get that scar?' He thought as he walked down the hallway. 'And how come I didn't notice it before?' He thought more, remembering the first time he walked in on Xanna, becoming irritated when he concluded that he was a little too "distracted". 'I'm becoming my brother…' He thought, his eye twitching.
He simply closed his eyes and sighed, continuing to walk down the hallway and think about Xanna, thinking about how she didn't seem under the spell of a potion at all. "Wait a minute…" He murmured to himself, coming to another conclusion. "Mokoki doesn't read!"
"Bwahahahaha!" Akazil heard from around the corner. Immediately, he knew it was the two twerps. He quickly made his way for them, angry enough that steam nearly came out of his ears.
"I'LL KILL YOU, YOU TWERPS!" He yelled, chasing after them with his sword he had pulled from nowhere. Even he didn't know where he got it from.
"Akazil! What has Mom told you about that!" Makaza yelled over his shoulder as he ran for his life with his tauren friend.
"BASTARDS!" The angry warrior corrected, chasing them and running past the now conscious Ezekiel.
"I miss somethin'?…" The imp quietly asked no one in particular.
"Xanna!" Heather, Daphne and Kathy shouted simultaneously, all three tackling the girl to the ground as she enter the room. "HI!" They all said, smiling at her widely. "Hi, girls…" Xanna groaned, then laughed softly. "Any particular reason I'm being tackled this time?"
"Not really…" The three girls said. Xanna laughed, sitting up to look at their three smiling face, then raising an eyebrow in question. "Where's, Mel?"
"Grounded." Sophie answered, her and Sonya coming over and pulling the three younger girls off of Xanna, then helping her up. "Ah…" Xanna replied, straitening her pants and shirt. She then pursed her lips and tilted her head slightly. "Will she see us off?"
"What do you mean "see us off"?" Heather asked, frowning with her sisters. "Are you leaving us?" Daphne asked. "You can't leave us! This is your home!" Kathy added before Xanna had the chance to even think of an answer. "Uh, well…" Xanna started, not knowing how to finish. She looked to Sophie with a pleading her, shouting out "help me!" with her eyes.
Sophie nodded back to Xanna, turning her direction to the three girls. "Girls, Xanna can't stay here. You know that."
"She can with the Orb!" They protested.
"You know, they actually have a point there." Xanna said, placing a hand on her chin. "But it sucks that ya gotta wait twenty-four hours to use it for only six!" She complained. "Total bullshit! I'm sending in a complaint!" She said, pulling a quill and paper out of nowhere, beginning to write Mister Gnomemire a letter.
That's when Ixxy; somehow; flew into the room all the way from the bedroom she had set on fire. Covered in soot and coughing up cow feathers, she stood up. "Yeah, you're gonna have to replace that room. I just couldn't get it clean… I mean, I scrubbed, I bleached, I sterilized, I burned! It can't be cleaned!"
The six other girls stared blankly at Ixxy, occasionally blinking, but standing there and saying nothing.
"Cupcakes!" Cosmo exclaimed, coming randomly into the quiet room from the kitchen. He was dressed in a white apron, chef's hat, and was holding a fairly big tray that held several delicious looking cupcakes on it.
"Cupcakes?" All the girls; excluding Xanna and Ixxy; questioned, raising their eyebrows at the smiling boy.
"Cupcakes…" Ixxy answered, staring blankly.
"Cupcakes!" Xanna exclaimed, quickly snatching up a cupcake from the tray. "Oh, delicious cupcake! You rule!" She said. Then the cupcake was suddenly on an alter and she and Cosmo were bowing down before it. "Oh, almighty cupcake. You rule all. Command us and we shall do as you say!" She went on, she and Cosmo suddenly next to the cupcake. She then carefully placed an ear next to it, listening to what the almighty cupcake of awesomeness had to say. "…More sprinkles!" She exclaimed after a silent moment. "All hail the spinkley cupcake of AWESOME!" She yelled more as she ran off with Cosmo into the kitchen to add more sprinkles.
"I hate my life…" Ixxy grumbled, walking after the two idiots with her head in her hand. She only followed to make sure Xanna didn't set anything on fire since she had a tendency to do so. Even when she wasn't a fire mage.
As Ixxy walked off, the other girls just watched, staring blankly, confused and unsure if they should follow or not. Eventually, the three little girls made the decision.
"CUPCAKES!" They shouted, giggling as they ran off into the kitchen. Sophie and Sonya smiled then followed as well.
"So, should we start packin' our stuff and get headin' off?" Akazil asked as he ate one of the cupcakes Cosmo had made, ignoring the fact that the young boy could cook better than his own mother. "Hmm…" Xanna pondered, taping her chin then eating half of her cupcake in one bite. "I-"
"No!" The three young night elf girls in the room shouted. "You guys can leave!" Heather told Xanna's group. "But she's staying with us!" Daphne added. "Yeah! This is her home!" Kathy got her word in on the subject.
"Bu-but I can't leave my Xan Xan!" Cosmo said, tossing aside his cupcake, apron and hat as he got up and pulled Xanna to him. "Yeah! She was ours first!" Makaza said, also getting up and keeping Xanna close.
"She's our family! So she stays here!" The girls said, grabbing one of Xanna's arms and tugging on it together. Thus, starting a Tug-O-War fight yet again.
"Quit being idiots, you idiots!" Ixxy yelled, getting behind Cosmo and Makaza, then trying to pull them off.
"Yes! And you girls need to behave!" Sophie told her sisters, her and Sonya getting behind them, trying to pull them off of Xanna.
Akazil, Mokoki, and; apparently; Dethiam all looked at each other, shrugged then joined Cosmo, Makaza and Ixxy in the Tug-O-War.
"Oh, here you guys-" Fëanáro said as he came into the room, pausing when he spotted the Tug-O-War sight. "-are…" He finished, blinking at everyone. He then simply shrugged and joined his sisters and Sonya in the fight, giving them a little more of a chance in pulling Xanna onto their side.
"I never get a say in this, do I?…" Xanna asked, staring blankly in the direction ahead of her. "NO!" Everyone shouted, grunting as they began to pull her apart. At the sudden strong pull coming from each side of her, she began to change colors and her eyes and tongue began to pop out. With all of the strength she could muster, she pulled both of her arms away from everyone, panting once she was free.
"Uhn!" Everyone said as they landed with a few loud thuds on the floor.
"Alright!" Xanna said, strands of hair coming out of her ponytail as she huffed with irritation, glaring at all of her friends. "The first five times is cute, but then it starts to get a little annoying around the eighth time!" She yelled, pointing at everyone. She then closed her eyes, inhaled, straightened herself and her hair, then looked at everyone. "…I'm going to my room to think." She told everyone, then walked off, quickly searching Fëanáro's person and taking the Orb of Deception as she walked by. The elf just blinked after the quick "molesting".
"Gonna probably have to put out the fire first!" Ixxy called after her. "Yeah, yeah." Xanna replied, waving her hand passively as she walked off.
"…Way to go! Ya made her mad!" Makaza blamed Mokoki, slugging him in the shoulder. "Ow! You son of a bitch!" The tauren yelled, then tackled the orc to the ground, beginning a dust ball fight. Dethiam jumped into it for the fun, then Ixxy joined as well from boredom.
"Riiight…" Fëanáro said, staring as the dust ball wandered to the next room. "Our cousin has strange friends, doesn't she, brother?" Sophie asked, her gaze leaving the direction the dust ball had left in and landing on her twin. He shrugged in turn. "I'm thinkin'…yes?"
"Do you think she'll stay?" Sonya asked, gently holding onto the back of Sophie's shoulders as she usually did. "I hope so!" Heather cried. "I miss her already!" The two other girls cried, holding each other as they cried a waterfall of tears.
Akazil shrugged at the little girls. "I don't think we can. I mean-"
"You're her boyfriend! Talk to her!" They all shouted at him, tackling him and shaking him like a doll.
"Where'd Cosmo and Ivette go?…" Fëanáro pondered out loud, turning around to see there was only air behind him.
"I'll-go-talk-to-her!" Akazil choked out as the little girls strangled him. They smiled widely and quickly stopped trying to murder him, releasing their holds and hopping back down to the ground. He rubbed his throat as soon as they did, coughing a bit.
"Sorry. They take after our mother…" Sophie said a bit sheepishly, ignoring Fëanáro looking for the blood elf and draenei.
"It's fine." Akazil replied. "I'll just…go talk to Xanna."
"Actually…" Gishezpak said, coming from another room just in time; spooking everyone a bit; putting a hand on one of Akazil's shoulder. "I have been meaning to talk to Miss Xanna about something. Do you mind if I talk to her?"
"Uh…I guess not." Akazil said a bit unsurely, raising an eyebrow as he watched Gishezpak leave. 'Why, though?' He thought. 'I thought he was the quiet type…'
"So…" Heather and her sisters said, interrupting Akazil's thinking. "Uh…yeah?" He replied to them. "When are you gonna tell Xanna you love her?" They asked, making the poor boy blush profusely.
"Honestly, I was thinking the same thing…" Sophie admitted, making Sonya giggle, and still ignoring her twin in the background.
"Will everyone just stay outa my love life! I can handle it on my own!" Akazil shouted, his face a bright shade of red. This only made the girls laugh at him.
Xanna paced the room, thinking about her situation, tossing the Orb up and down in her hand a bit. "What should I do?" She asked herself as she paced. "I love my new friends, but if I go with them, the girls would be upset and probably never forgive me." She went on with her thoughts, turning around to continue her pacing, then looking to the Orb. "And even if I took the Orb, I still wouldn't see them that much. Those damned monsters in Stranglethorn Vale would slow me down everytime I came to visit…"
She turned around again, her pacing speeding up a little. "But I could stay here. I have a chance to have a real family… And the Orb would be much easier to use, wouldn't it?" She asked as she stared at the Orb some more, ending the thought with a sigh. "But what about that stupid psycho, Elros? No matter what I choose, he'd be chasing me down the whole time. He'd probably even kill everyone." She sighed again, stopping her pacing. "Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends or family…"
Xanna then sat on the bed, resting her chin in her free hand, the Orb down by her lap. "Maybe I should just pack everyone's stuff, head back to Durotar with them, then just ditch with Ixxy the first chance I get…" She went on, sighing loudly and tossing herself back onto the bed. "This isn't fair…" She said quietly, staring up at the ceiling. "Everyone deserves at least one friend or family, don't they?" She asked it, frowning. "Why can't I have one?"
With another sigh, Xanna sat up, then stood up and began to pace again. "Sure, I guess Ixxy counts. Barely. But still…just one friend or family like the ones I have here would be great… Why can't I have one?" She asked again, kicking over a random bag and knocking something out of it. "Hmm?" She said to the shiny Orb thing that had rolled out, kneeling down and picking it up. "Hey… It's another Orb of Deception…" She said, looking back and forth between the two Orbs. "Wait… This is the Orb that was stolen from Mister Gnomenmire…" She said, remembering what Fëanáro had told everyone when they had to stay another night. She then looked to the mysterious bag, checking its insides a little more, then its outsides. "This is…Gizzy's bag… What's it doing in here? And why does he have the first Orb?"
"To be prepared for when we leave." Gishezpak answered, leaning against the doorway.
Xanna jumped a bit, dropping both Orbs to quickly stand up. "Gizzy, what're you doing in here? I wanted to be alone to think for a little bit."
"I know, Miss Xanna." He said, standing up straight and taking a step into the room, walking with his hands behind his back. "But you do not need to ask questions when you already know the answer to them."
"What's that suppose to mean?…"
"Miss Xanna, it is obvious where you belong." Gishezpak said, gently grabbing Xanna by her shoulders. "Wh-what are you-?" Xanna was stammering out when the troll leaned down and pressed his mouth to hers. 'Holy shit!' She thought as her eyes widened. She then tried to fight him off, but gave into how nice it felt, closing her eyes.
Gishezpak then took advantage of the situation and slowly slid his tongue into her mouth, gently flicking at hers for a moment as a distraction, then took the pill he was hiding in his mouth and carefully slid it into hers.
'Wow, Gizzy sure knows how to use his tongue…' Xanna thought, deeply enjoying the kiss until she felt him slip something else into her mouth. 'What the-?' She thought, her eyes widening when she realized it was a pill. She tried to jerk away and spit it out, but Gishezpak was faster. He held both of her hands together with just his left hand, brought them to her mouth to make sure she wouldn't spit up the pill, then rubbed her throat with his right hand to make sure she swallowed. A split second after swallowing it, Xanna became dizzy and fell to the ground, weak and unable to move, her vision hazy.
"Don't worry, Miss Xanna." Gishezpak told her as he looked down at her. She blinked up at him as her vision became more blurry, seeing some doomguard standing next to him after doing so. "This is for the best." The troll finished finished.
Xanna blinked one more time, wanting to ask what was going on, but was too weak. She then closed her eyes and slipped into a deep unconsciousness.
Ixxy was taking a sip of orange juice, she and the other three that were involved taking a break from the dust ball fight. 'Good orange juice…' She thought, taking another sip. 'Holy shit!' She heard Xanna say in her mind. She was tempted to take a look at what had made her say, but simply shrugged it off, thinking that she had simply found a shiny butterfly or something of the sort. She then went for another sip of her juice.
'Wow, sure knows how to use his tongue…' She heard Xanna speak again. Her eyes widened and she began to choke on her orange juice. "WHAT? !" She yelled, standing up, slamming her hands on the table as she looked off in the direction of the hallway Xanna's room was in.
"What's wrong, honey bunny?" Makaza; covered in scratches, bruises and bandages; asked, putting down his beverage.
Ixxy's right eye twitched, she snapped her head in Makaza's direction, scaring many things out of him with the look. "Never-call me that-ever." She told him, close to being angry enough to set her eyes and hair on fire again. She quickly shook the feeling off, then ran for Xanna's room, not having to look back to know the rest of the group followed. She slid to a halt at the open door, scanning it quickly. Xanna's bag was gone, the Orb was gone, and even Xanna herself was gone. In addition, the window was open.
Ixxy growled, then took a quick look into her mind, seeing if she could find Xanna, find out what happened and where she was. She only found the girl on the floor of their fused minds, unconscious. 'Dammit!' She thought. 'If I hadn't been yelling at that damned orc, I would've seen what happened!'
"Hey, where's Xanna?" Makaza asked, peeking into the room over Ixxy's shoulder. Ixxy shut her eyes tightly, trying her best to replace the urge to hit him with a very menacingly low growl. Seeing she was angry, Makaza backed away slowly.
"Ixxy, you alright?" Akazil got the courage to ask, almost placing a comforting hand on her shoulder. She quickly turned around to snap and glare at him. "No! My idiot is missing!" She snarled, then quickly snapped her direction to Mokoki. "What?" He asked.
Within a split second, Ixxy was holding him by the throat against the wall. "Where'd he take her? !" She demanded, slamming him again. "Ow! What? ! Who? ! I don't know!" Mokoki yelled back, trying to break himself free of her grasp. He was using both of his hands and he still failed.
When Ixxy slammed him against the wall again, Cosmo, Ivette, Mittens, Jerry, Kadgaa, Margret, Simon, and Naraxis all tumbled out of the rooms they had been in and into the hallway. Ivette had landed on top of Cosmo, her hair a mess. In addition, Cosmo's face was covered in kiss marks.
Mittens had been busy trying to feed Jerry to a tank full of sharks. And poor Kadgaa and Naraxis had spent the last long while locked away, captured by the two gnomes to be experimented on.
"Dude, you like girls?" Makaza asked, staring at Cosmo and Ivette as they both stood up.
"Of course I like girls!"
"Weird…I always thought you were…you know…gay."
Cosmo huffed, looking insulted and placing his hands on his hips. "Why does everyone always think that?" He asked in the most prissiest manner. After asking, his eyes widened and he quickly pulled up his right hand. "Oh no!" He shrieked. "I broke a nail!" He exclaimed, then burst into tears on Ivette's shoulder.
"Meow…" Mittens said, ashamed of her master once again. "Squeak…" Jerry agreed, still hovering over the tank full of sharks.
Kadgaa; somehow untying himself and his pet; stood up, folded his arms over his chest and rolled his eyes. "Picked out yourself a real winner there, Ivy. Think he's gayer than the last one." He said harshly, looking away from his sister. Ivette frowned at him. "Kad, I-"
"Don't wanna hear it." Kadgaa cut her off quickly. Cosmo stopped his sobbing about his broken nail, then turned to glare at him. "Listen here, you little brat!" He yelled, storming over to poke Kadgaa in his chest. "Your sister is a wonderful, beautiful, smart, and all around great person! And you need to stop being so spiteful to her!"
"I don't give a damn about what you think of her!" Kadgaa snapped back at him. "And I don't care what you do with her! She's nothing but Horde trash! Like you! You two are made for each other!"
Cosmo growled and put his right hand in a fist, tempted to give Kadgaa a wakeup call.
"Shut the hell up, you idiots!" Ixxy yelled at them, no longer holding Mokoki by his throat. "We got a bigger problem here!"
"What, you stupid…halfling!" Kadgaa finally snapped. Ixxy slapped him hard across the face for the comment. "Hey! No one can slap him but me!" Ivette yelled at her, turning her around and slapping her across the face.
"Sweet." Makaza said. "Cat fight." Mokoki smiled. Each earned a slap from Akazil.
"I'll slap whoever the hell I want! Especially when I have been insulted or have something important to say!" Ixxy yelled at the draenei girl, slapping her across the face. The two then quickly got into a cat fight.
"Get off of my sister, you stupid halfling!" Kadgaa yelled, then tried to pull Ixxy off of Ivette as Cosmo did the same with the other girl.
"What on Azeroth is going on here?" Azlirac asked, walking down the hallway, then stopping when he saw all of the upset looking teenagers. He quickly saw a panting Ivette and nodded to her. "Hello again, Ivette. Do your parents know you have come back?"
Ivette looked away. "No…" She mumbled.
"Mhm…" Azlirac murmured, then scanned all of the teenagers again. "What is going on here to make all of you so loud and upset? I can hear you all the way from my study. And it's several hallways that way." He said, pointing in the direction of his study.
All at once, the teenagers began to shout and accuse each other. Azlirac's eyes widened slightly and his eyebrows rose. He held up a hand to quiet them. "One at a time, please." He said calmly. He then looked around to see who would speak, spotting Dethiam playing with her paddleball of death. "You." He said, pointing to her. "Can you tell me what is going on here?"
"Eh?" Dethiam said, her paddle missing the ball. She put the toy down for a moment and shrugged. "Guess." She said simply, then looked to everyone. "First; she got upset about something and came to look at this room." She explained, pointing to Ixxy then at Xanna's room.
"Because-!" Ixxy tried to explain, only to be stopped when Azlirac held up his hand again. "One at a time." He said again.
"Think she got upset because that elf girl is gone. Probably because the troll guy kidnapped her or something." She went on, shrugging.
"Xan Xan's what? !" Cosmo shrilled.
"Can I finish my explanation without any interruptions?" Dethiam asked irritably. Azlirac nodded and she continued. "Anyways…" She said. "Troll and elf girl are gone, she's upset, he sees her making-out with him and strays from the real point, calls her a halfling, gets slapped, she gets mad, they fight." She finished, putting her arm down after pointing at everyone. "That's it."
"Mhm…" Azlirac said, slightly raising an eyebrow. Dethiam shrugged. "Maybe that troll guy is takin' that elf girl to see that elf guy. Good ol' whatshisname… Elros! Yeah, that's him. Not a bad guy. Had a fairly fun year living with him."
Ivette's eyes widened at the mention of the name, her heart began to race and she had slight trouble breathing.
"Elros? !" Azlirac exclaimed. Dethiam nodded. "Yeah. I mean, he has been after her since she was born, right?"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait, wait, wait." Ixxy said, staring blankly at Dethiam. "You used to live with Elros?" She questioned, she and everyone else giving her a questionable look. The undead girl simply shrugged. "Yeah."
"Why didn't you tell us? !"
"You never asked." Dethiam answered. Ixxy quickly face planted the ground from shock of stupidity. "The love of my life has been hanging out with my idiot sister for far too long…"
"Coming from the one who used to live in her mind." Dethiam retorted, going back to playing with her paddleball.
"Why would Gishezpak kidnap Xanna? Why would he even be working for Elros, for that matter?" Akazil pondered out loud, pacing the room with Azlirac. "Elros is a trickster. He can deceive anyone easily. Promise them all kinds of things, sell it off with his looks, and then stab them in the back." The older night elf man explained.
As they spoke, Ivette tried to not look uneasy, tried to distract herself by comforting a crying Cosmo. "Xan Xan!" He sobbed into his hands. She tried to relax and held him tightly to calm him down. 'Calm down, Ivy.' She told herself in her mind. 'Calm down…'
"Where would he take her?" Makaza pitched in the questioning.
"I am not sure." Azlirac answered, turning to Mokoki. "Did your friend ever mention anything? Anything at all?" He asked the young boy. Mokoki only shrugged. "Giz and I are best friends and all, but he was still always quiet and kept secrets."
"How are you best friends if he had secrets?" Dethiam asked, playing with one of her daggers. Mokoki stared blankly in another direction. "There aren't a lot of kids in Thunderbluff, alright…"
"So you have no idea where they could be?" Azlirac asked, pursing his lips and going back to pacing when Mokoki shook his head. "But how do you know he's working for that loon?" The tauren said defensively. "What if he just wanted Xanna to himself?"
Ixxy stared blankly at the idiot. "To help your friend's case, you're saying that he's not working for a lunatic rapist…but is possibly one himself…"
"…I withdraw my statement…" Mokoki replied quickly. "But still!" He said, denying the fact that his friend was possibly crazy. "I may not know everything about him and he may keep secrets from me, but I still know Gizzy! He wouldn't do anything bad unless he had a strong reason for it!"
"Define what you mean." Azlirac said, standing in one spot, his left arm over his chest to hold his right elbow, his right hand on the bottom of his hairy chin. The tauren boy went blank at first from being put on the spot, but quickly thought of an example. "O-okay." He stammered out, trying to not trip over his tongue to explain. "He's against mindless killing! He'll only kill unless he has a very good reason to!"
"Most quests involve killing, tauren…" Azlirac said plainly.
"Well, yeah. But one time I said I wanted to kill wolves. Just for fun. He didn't want to because he saw no reason to kill them. He doesn't fight at all unless he feels he has a strong enough reason to!" Mokoki tried to explain, looking up to Azlirac with pleading eyes. "I swear Giz isn't bad. There has to be some reason why he'd do this!"
The night elf man shrugged. "Perhaps Elros is controlling his mind? I know for a fact he studied such things like that constantly."
As everyone talked and tried to comfort each other, Ixxy walked over to an open window for some air, her eyes widening at a horrible sight happening in the city. "Uh…I think we're gonna have to talk about the reason why Gishezpak kidnapped Xanna later…" She said, watching all of the monsters run amuck.
"Why? What's wrong?" Azlirac questioned, walking over. "Oh, nothin'. Just the city's bein' destroyed by several freakin' monsters!" Ixxy exclaimed, pointing at the sight outside the window.
Several animals, minions, and even a few skeletons and ghouls were running around, attacking innocent people and reeking havoc, burning buildings down and eating corpses.
"Wow! That looks fun!" Dethiam exclaimed happily, suddenly next to the window, watching everyone else have all the fun.
Ixxy and Azlirac ignored her, looking at each other through the side of their eyes, both knowing what the cause was. More of who, really.
Said person being thought about was sitting at his "thrown", smirking wickedly. "She's finally mine…" He said, then slowly burst out into a loud and mad cackle.
Yeah, Ivette's background kinda sucks... And yes, Dethiam has a background wtih Elros. :P
As a side note...the blood elf male laugh is sexy...