A/N: Hey guys! Sorry I waited so long to update. Well, here's chapter four!

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Chapter Four

Chaos, Chaos, and MORE Chaos

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Wil entered the castle. There didn't seem to be any activity going on, though he'd heard a great deal of noise coming from upstairs. He rounded a corner and saw Serra pulling books off the bookshelves in rapid fury. Wil neared her with caution and dared to ask a question.

"Serra, what are you doing?"

The cleric turned to him, her eyes aflame, with smoke pouring out of her ears and veins popping out of her forehead. "Must find red-haired boy," she said in an odd mechanical way, "Search and destroy."

The archer made a face that can not be described with words, but only like this – 0.o – and backed away from Serra.

"Um... okay, then..."

He turned down another corridor, not caring which way he went, as long as it was away from the rabid Serra. Behind him he could hear quick footsteps, and he said a silent prayer that it wasn't the cleric...

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Meanwhile, back at the bookcase... actually, more like thirty seconds ago, but who really gives a freakin' care!

Kent returned with Cocoa Puffs. He saw a familiar brown-haired archer run down the hall, away from the bookcase, from which the pink-haired cleric was flinging books. He came closer. He was beginning to question his own sanity now. Never a good sign.

Serra turned and saw the intruder. Now, the SANE Serra would've been able to distiguish one red-head from another, but rabid-Serra could not. Red hair-affirmative. Search and destroy! DESTROY!

"Serra, what in Elimine's name..."

He had no time to finish, seeing as Serra tackled him approximately 2.6 milliseconds after she'd finished computing. Okay, so it's exact. Sue me! Anyway, Kent had no time to react, and since Serra had some new-found strength, he was flung backwards into the ground, barraged with multiple rather mighty punches.

Kent threw the girl off him as soon as his brain started functioning properly and ran...

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A red blur flew past Wil. Kent! What the... Someone nearly bowled him over soon after. Wil looked up to see Serra in hot pursuit of the cavalier. I don't know what the heck's going on here, but I guess I'm going to find out.

He managed to catch up with Serra, and proceeded to follow her upstairs. He got a door slammed in his face at the top of the steps. Wil could hear all sorts of things going on on the other side. First off, you guessed it, the sound of things breaking and falling, as well as a screeching cat. He could also hear someone saying, "Oh, beautiful Florina, you are like a single flower in a barren field of grass.." and someone else saying, or rather yelling, "EEEEEEEEK! Leave me ALOOOOOOONE!" He took a deep breath and reached for the doorknob, noticing for the first time the sign on the door, which read, "Welcome to the Dark Side... We have cookies! ." Wil shook his head and slowly opened the door.

"Search and destroy!" Serra screeched repetitvely as she chased Kent around the room.

"Kent, Kent, Kent," Sain said, shaking his head, "Don't run from the ones who love you. An opportunity like this doesn't come along every day, you know, especially for one like you."

Florina took this chance to escape, and scurried over to who might've been the last sane person in that room, Wil. "You have to help! I don't know what to do!"

He was surprised at how much less shy she'd come. "I don't know what to do either," he admitted, "but if we stopped Serra we could ask Kent what to do."

Florina nodded, but then looked back up at Wil. "And, um, how exactly do we do that?"

The pondered this as Erk and Rath arrived, watching the scene laid out before them with unchanged expressions. The tactician, Mark, trailed in after them. This was great, in Wil and Florina's minds. The tactician was a mastermind. The genius of all geniuses. He'd know what to do.

Mark saw the questioning looks. "What?"

"Aren't you going to help?" Wil asked, "What should we do?"

Mark thought for a moment, as though working out some UBER-GENIUS TACTICIAN plan in his head. After about five minutes straight, he proceeded to say, "To be honest with you guys, I have no freakin' clue." He reached behind him and pulled out a platter of M & M cookies. "I just came for the cookies." He stuffed a whole one in his mouth.

After a few non-descript glares, the tactician finally caved in. "Alright, alright!" He then went into his UBER-GENIUS TACTICIAN mode. "Rath, grab the pink-haired creature."

"...Serra?" He asked.

"Yes, that thing. Then bring her up to the north wall. Wil, get Kent or Roy or ANYONE with red hair, for that matter, to the south wall. Then, Rath will release the vicious beast. Wil will... heh heh... Wil will... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..." Wil hit him upside the head. "Thank you. Wil, you'll have to make sure the red-head, whoever they may be, stays in position. We will then throw Erk in the middle, and Serra will stop. It's genius, GENIUS I TELL YOU!"

Erk only seemed to notice the fault in this plan until it was about to be executed. "Hey, no one asked my opinion on this plan!"

"We didn't want it," Mark said.

"I'm not doing this," he insisted, "What makes you think I have any wish to be trampled by Serra?"

"She'll stop."

"How do you know?" The mage crossed his arms in a defiant manner.

"Who was it that got you up to support level A six years ago?" The tactician asked in a know-it-all tone.

"Fine..." he grumbled.

In a matter of a few seconds, Serra was released, Kent struggled to get out of the path of Godzilla, and Erk was thrown in the middle. Thrown. Literally. By Mark, who caught him trying to "steal his cookies," when in fact he was about to run away.

Serra stopped rampaging and squeezed Erk in a tight hug. More like a vice-grip, actually. Erk cursed a couple times as Serra ranted on and on about how much she'd missed him.

Kent promptly passed out.

"So much for getting Kent's help..." Florina thought aloud.

Wil could be seen reuniting with Rath, and Serra would not release her death grip on Erk, whose expression said, "I wish I were dead. Shoot me now." Mark muched on his cookies. Florina flinched at the sight of Sain, expecting another flirt-attack, but it never came. She looked back over and saw that Sain, Roy, and Lilina were standing hand in hand. They began singing the "My Little Pony" song.

Suddenly, the door flung open, and Lyn rushed in. Everyone's "Angry Mom" senses were tingling, and so they turned instinctively towards the door. Even Kent woke up. No one was quite certain what to make of Lyn's expression, but they were scared. Oh so scared...

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A/N: Thanks to all my reviewers! I'm not going to name everyone this time, you know who you are!

As cool as it is to discuss the whole "who is Roy's mom?" thing, this isn't the place for it, so please don't send me any more reviews pertaining to that. I repeat, DO NOT SEND ME REVIEWS ABOUT THAT!

And about the whole fire power thing... I hadn't read all the way through the Sword of Seals script yet, so I didn't know that Roy's fire power actually came from the sword itself yet. My mistake. Just forget it happened, guys. Don't send me reviews about this either.

narugurlee 13- Here's Wil!

sessh- Sorry Rath didn't get much time yet. He probably will later, though.

The Silver Kitty- Hello! Fiora will probably show up in the next chapter.

Well, thanks for your guys' reviews! Glad you're liking the story so far! Please R&R! I hope I don't take as long updating as I did this time!