If everything were like your typical fairy tale, Knight would've found the girl of his dreams by now. But as we all know fairy tales aren't real. There's always something holding people back from sprouting wings and living their dreams. Frankly, Knight would rather not have fluttery, butterfly things attached to his back at all. It would be a pain. But why was he thinking of things like this? Who knows. Maybe it had to do with all those books he was reading on chivalry and righteousness. Sighing, he shook his head, brushing his crimson hair out of his face.
"Knight, are you alright?"
Looking up, the redhead smiled at his silver-haired companion. He had recently been getting along fairly well with Eve, and although she was still rather frosty, he suspected that those twitches in the corners of her mouth weren't twitches of anger.
Currently, they were sitting in the infirmary. Knight had healed faster than expected and was allowed to leave, but had to come back for a checkup to see if he was still holding up alright.
"Most definitely. I'm just a bit tired, that's all." Eve nodded curtly, before pulling out a small notebook full of blueprint paper, removing a white drawing pencil from her neat pencil-case, quickly scribbling down some ideas. "Is that the plans for the new modification on your drones?"
Eve nodded, silently absorbed in her work. "Yes. Nyx and Styx are not meeting my expectations and are unable to handle ancient equipment well."
Nodding sagely, Knight rested his head on the back of his chair. Wincing, he touched his head. Eve barely glanced at him. "Headache?"
Knight grinned a response. From outside the hallway, he heard loud shouting.
"Why the El should I go back there?!" A female voice screamed. Another voice answered, but this one sounded more scratchy, almost like static was buzzing in the background.
"Please, just do me this one favor -"
"No!" The girl shrieked again, causing Knight to wince again. The pain in his head wouldn't subside, the throbbing getting harder and harder. "I hate your guts! Why should I help you if all you're going to do is ruin my life again?!
"Listen -"
"No, you listen!" The girl sounded hysteric. "First you ruin my life by taking away the person I like the most, then you send me off to some dumb school and then you run off spewing all sorts of nonsense!" The other voice tried to protest, but the girl didn't let him speak. "I don't know you anymore... Aren."
Elsa, who was feeling just a little under the weather, went to sleep earlier than the others. Resting her head on her comfy pillow, she pushed her thick, cotton blankets down, feeling stuffy wrapped up in all that cotton.
...
"Nope, a demon's going to eat me in my sleep!" The blankets were now firmly wrapped around her body up to her chin.
...Was that a monster in the corner?
Burying her face in her pillow, Elsa muttered a little chant. "Stop scaring yourself before you go to sleep. Stop scaring yourself before you go to sleep. Stop scaring yourself before you go to sleep."
Yes, Elsa was scared of monsters and demons. Problem? See, Elsa had absolutely NO problem whatsoever when it came to... er... brutally slaughtering these things. None at all. What she was scared of was that their souls would somehow come back from the dead and haunt her, or they would eat her alive. Speaking of which, zombie Glitters terrified her. Which was why she was even more of a beast when it came to dealing with them.
See her logic? You can beat the living daylights out of a solid flesh body, but when it came to ghosts... The nasty little buggers went straight through you! Needless to say, Elsa barely fell asleep. And when she did, she had some pretty strange dreams.
She was standing in the middle of a field, all dewy and bright and sparkling and lovely. It made her want to destroy something. Golden light radiated from the blue sky above, and a lone figure stood in the center of the beam of light. "My El, how clichéd can this dream get?" She muttered, walking towards the person. "Now I bet you I won't ever be able to reach them, or the sky will go dark and evil Cutty Sarks will come out of nowhere."
The person laughed, his - because it was obviously male - back still turned to her. "Such a sharp tongue, as usual. How are you this fine evening, Miss Elesis?" Elsa froze. That soft, lilting accent and familiar politeness...
"Aren?!" Aren turned around, orange-gold eyes sparkling with mirth. The first thing she noticed was that he got a haircut. His ebony hair was now just slightly above his chin, black strands framing his face. The second thing was how much younger and alive he looked, his face absent of dark circles, slightly more toned and lean with a certain grace about him. He almost seemed to glow, like a butterfly that just emerged from a cocoon. The third thing that Elsa noticed was that combined with the haircut and the liveliness, Aren was pretty damn hot. Her face flushed. "W-What are you doing here?!"
Aren laughed again - damn him and his attractive laugh. "Well, in case you didn't know, this happens to be a dream. Plus, the Aren you normally talk to is more like Aran." Elsa raised a cerise eyebrow.
"And this involves me how? If you're having an identity crisis, I can solve that with a couple of whacks to the head." Aren rolled his eyes, stepping forwards to ruffle her hair. What the El?! He smirked, leaning forwards to whisper in her ear.
"Aran is a mix of myself and Ran. We're in the same body, you see. And this involves you more than you think." Stepping back, Aren chuckled at her beet red face, before casually waving his hand. "Hurry up and save Ran." And then he was gone, leaving Elsa to float in an endless black abyss.
She woke up feeling just a little bit strange and a whole lot annoyed at the stupidly good-looking dream Aren. Damn him.
Rune was busy playing mediator. "Okay, so you and Eva aren't REALLY dating. What was up with that random kiss, then?"
Chung sighed. "Rune, I really don't see why you need to pry into our private affairs."
Leaping up from his seat, the redhead pointed an accusing finger at his roommate and his scheming silver-haired companion. "THIS is exactly why I need to pry! You two are always so secretive and hate each others guts, and then when no one's looking, BAM! You two are kissing!"
Eva sighed, sipping delicately from her teacup - wait, when did she get that? "I believe that you are simply overreacting. It was simply and exchange of knowledge through bodily contact and, as contact through the mouths is much more sanitary than something such as contact through arms, I deemed it the best route. Satisfied?"
Rune snorted. "Uh-huh. Like a believe that load of Phoru crap." Eva scoffed dourly.
"Believe it or not, it is the truth."
Chung sighed, folding his arms. "Would you rather us have said that we were in a secret relationship and that our families don't want us to be together and so we hide it from everyone by pretending we hate each other?"
A broad grin split Rune's face. "Yes. As a matter of fact, I would." He was promptly smacked in the face.
Eva: 14
Rune: 1
Ouch.
Infi was having the time of his life. Why? He was rigging the prank of the ages. It involved lots of glue, raw eggs, tar, and a whole lot of laughing gas. And who was this particular rig set up for? Who knew? It was probably whoever walked through the door. Hearing footsteps, he quickly tied the final knot and hid, cloaking himself with a simple invisibility spell he learned from Rune, recording the chaos that would surely ensue with a recording El shard. The doorknob twisted, and a petite blonde figure stepped in, adjusting her red bow.
As she walked, she pulled a tripwire. "What's this?" Principle Ariel bent down, studying the piece of string. The string let one end of a weight fall, tipping a forty-gallon bucket filled with a sticky mixture of eggs and glue all over the petite principal. "What the-"
She was cut off by the bucket, which fell down behind her, startling into motion. Leaping forwards, she landed in the tar patch, which was cleverly placed right in front of a massive window that overlooked the school. And it was currently lunch time. Startled, thousands of students peered curiously at their principal, who was struggling to get out of the tar. "Who on Elrios-" Again she was cut off, but this time by Infi pressing a button and releasing a massive cloud of laughing gas into the room. Ariel went hysterical. Exiting the room, Infi went to go admire his handiwork. The teachers who had come in to go help Ariel were now being infected with the laughing gas and were also caught in the tar pool, so the entire student body was free to look at their teachers laughing hysterical alongside their principal who was covered in eggs. Infi smirked.
This was going to be the best video ElTube ever saw.
Oh. My. El.
Me: So I have been gone for forever. Happy now, Tsu-chan?
Rena: I think she'll be pleased. So will the ElsaxAren lovers.
Me: But Aren's seriously really good-looking in the Eltype OAO
Raven: ...Can I ask what is with you and 2D characters?
Me: They'll always be better looking than real men. True story. /slapped
Eve: I believe she has gone insane.
Elsword: I second that theory.
Me: Reviewer responses~!
Yami - A potato descended from dirt. Wouldn't that mean that you just buried deeper into the ground...? But let's face the facts. You. Are. A. Goddess. Tier. Authoress. Making it into the top 10 most reviewed stories with 2 different stories? That's crazy good! Maaaaaaaybe... It's okay, my brain function shut down like five million years ago XD COME JOIN THE BRAINLESS CLUB!
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DevilWolf641 - Gory imaginations FTW. Um... What made you think I don't have a life? It's not like I'm on here 24/7, it's more like 23/6. The other days/hours I'm sleeping/eating. Eh, VC's awesome when you can use 'em well XD
Tsu-Chan: Happy now? I updated just for you XD *in slo-mo* Nuuu! I shall save you from falling out of the window! *totally goes past you* /slapped
What will happen next? Hmm... Some plot thickening devices, maybe some sneakily inserted references, random fluff and more insanity. Plus IS body pillows XD /slapped As for RS and EM... Things will happen right about... Next chapter or so :P (EVIL CLIFFHANGERS! MWA HA HA HA HA H- *coughs*)
Awakened Hades - Okie dokie then ^^ I like school when it isn't boring XD
xXxBlazingHeartxXx - Yes, Aren was a Haan. So is Ran, in this story. My train of thought goes like if Ran and Aren are sharing a body, their features should be combined, so long hair + short hair = medium hair. YAY MY LOGIC! Evil Halloween children? She must be a witch XD /slapped
Ephema-chan - Well, if you think about it, Ran isn't so much scary as he is creepy, and if you stick him in a happy, sunny military camp, he'd just look stupid XD Make that 13 times... Lol, Aren's just going to go prancing around shouting. 'Oh yeah, my older brother is an evil demon who's trying to take over the world!' ...Must not spoil story... Must not spoil story... NEW RECORD! 8 FULL CHAPTERS! I'd gladly swap brains, you're 10x as good as I am!
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Chung: *tosses confetti around* Honestly, I didn't think we'd make it here on a plot bunny.
Me: Neither did I.
Aisha: Lesson be learned, whenever you have a crack idea, it'll become huge. How do you think Twilight got famous? XD
Me: ...Some angry Twilight fans will burn you as a witch.
Aisha: I pretty much am a witch.
Rena: So, any last comments before we end this?
Ara: Yeah, I'm hungry. Can we eat soon?
Elsa: You're so focused on food.
Me: It's a natural process of the body!
Ara: Mmm-hmm.
Raven: *sighs* Please don't forget to R&R.
Eve: Follow and/or favorite as you see fit.
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Me: Love y'all! Chu~