Halloo, my be-ay-yoo-tih-ful Rulers. I MISSEDS YOU! Sort of. I gave some of you an Evil Clone chapter a few days ago, but I'm behind on this story... And on Slowly Changing... Actually, let me just go check on that story...

*sees multiple posts from wonderful/annoying-but-i-love-her-so-much-anyways cousin that threaten me and then ask for money*

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Uh... Okay... Maybe I'll update that one next? You'll have to excuse Emily, she's got a major case of RobStar obsession. And, apparently she lost a bet and needs fifty bucks. Good luck, Em. (#bestcousinever)

(Also, should I make this a Skylox? Vote in the comments or on the poll on my page. BUT, this story is almost at its end, anyways, so...)

NOW, ON WITH THE STORY!

Remind Me

Chapter 11

Sky's POV

"Ow."

"Just let me-"

"OW!"

"Now, Sky, it's only-"

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"SKY! I HAVEN'T EVEN TOUCHED YOU YET! Gosh!" Seto rolls his eyes and, reluctantly, I allow him to touch my arm.

With a big needle.

WHY AM I ALLOWING THIS TO HAPPEN? "AHHHH! NO, IT HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS!"

"...I still haven't touched you, Sky."

I huff. "Fine. Just get it over with."

"I've been trying to do just that for the last five minutes."

"What, so now that you can, you suddenly want to talk about how a minute ago you couldn't?"

"..." He sighs and edges the needle closer to my arm. Once it's withing an inch of my skin, I screech. "ACK! NO! THERE MUST BE ANOTHER WAY!"

"Please, Sky, just calm down!" Seto begs. I start wailing.

Ty throws his head back and sighs. Then he marches over to Seto and I. "Give it here, Seto."

"Why?"

"I can do this."

"Good, 'cause I can't." He hands Ty the large needle.

Ty takes it, glances at me, then inches toward my skin. I screech, but he doesn't react at all. Oh, stink, he's not as easy as Seto. I try to take the needle away from him, but he has other ideas.

One of them is to quickly stab the needle into my skin.

I scream. "AHH, THE AGONY! SO MUCH PAIN! IT'S UNBEARABLE! IT'S- IT'S... It's non-existent... Oh. That didn't actually hurt at all."

Seto nods. "I told you it would be painless."

"I guess I should have listened."

"Yeah. OK, time for step two."

"What's step two?"

"We have to take the needle out of your arm."

My eyes widen and I look down at my arm. The needle went all the way through it. I start screaming again. "ACK! MY ARM! IT'S GONNA FALL OFF! NOOOOO! TELL DAWN I LOVE HER! DEADLOX, YOU WERE A WONDERFUL FRIEND, EXCEPT WHEN YOU STABBED ME WITH A DEADLY NEEDLE. SETO, EVEN THOUGH YOU GAVE DEADLOX A TOXIC SYRUM TO GIVE TO ME, I FORGIVE YOU. Goodbye, friends!"

Silence.

Ty raises and eyebrow at me.

"How come I'm not dead?" I ask, glancing down at my arm.

"You're an idiot," Deadlox says.

"It's not deadly. It's supposed to do that. The needle goes into your arm, inserts a healing fluid into the bloodstream, sucks out all the poison left by the squids, and then goes through the other side of your arm, propelling the poison into the air and rendering them harmless," Seto explains. "Now we just have to take it out, and you'll be good to go."

"Unless, of course, you want to keep it there," Ty says. My eyes widen and I shake my head quickly.

"You were very lucky," Seto continues, ignoring Ty and starting to gently tug at the needle. "The poison would have spread to other parts of your body, but it was temporarily contained by the edible budder that Seth created and spread onto his gigantic toast. The budder actually held a rare kind of substance that can be mixed with milk and soulsand to create an easy antidote to the specific type of poison that the squids used on you. Seth added milk to the budder to make it easier to spread, and since the only missing ingredient was the soulsand, the antidote worked quite well on you, though only temporarily. Then when you were attacked by the squids earlier today, more poison was directed into the bloodstream, and Deadlox got you here just in time to get you the antidote." Seto sets the needle on a table.

Wow. I was so absorbed in trying to understand what Seto was saying that I didn't even realize he pulled out the needle.

YAY! PAINLESS!

"High-five!" I yell. I throw my hand up. Then my eyes widen and I put it back down, placing it under my bottom and then sitting on it to remind myself not to move it. "Why's it still hurt?"

"Because the cuts from the squids' teeth still haven't healed."

"That stinks."

"Yeah." Seto's phone rings, so he turns away from Deadlox and me to answer it. "Hello?" Silence. "Again? Darn it! … More ink? It has to be the squids! They've obviously gotten smarter to have made those cameras in the first place... Yes... How would I know? Go ask Seth... No, you're right, that would be too easy. Okay. Find someone to guard it then. We can't have them breaking in and disabling it whenever they feel like it! … Ok... Yeah, sure. … No, don't do that, it's too dangerous, Brice. Oh, wait, it's really too dangerous. No one can guard it, because if the guards fail and the squids disable it, then they could just finish off whoever was guarding it and they wouldn't respawn. … OK, no guards, we need a new plan. How about we meet later with the rest of Team Crafted to think of a proper one? Meanwhile, Seth can help you with the machine. Tell everyone to avoid any kind of fighting game. … Yes. Okay, bye." He is silent for a long time. Then he blushes. "Shut up! OK, bye. I'm hanging up."

Deadlox and I look at him curiously. "What was that about?"

He sighs. "The respawn machine is broken again. There was ink by the redstone. It's definitely the squids. We need a way to stop them."

I nod. "I propose we gather up a bajillion men and storm the squid base. We'll flood the place, and they'll drown!" I smile triumphantly. Deadlox gives me a you've-reached-a-new-level-of-idiocy face, and I frown. "What? What's wrong with my plan?"

He rubs his temple with his fingers. "Sky... Oh, Sky..."

"What?"

"They're squids, Sky. Squids. They're water-mobs. They can't drown in water."

"Oh snap, I didn't think about that!"

Deadlox glances over at Seto. "Are you sure the poison didn't reach his brain?"

"... Not entirely sure. We should probably check," the sorcerer replies.

"Pfft, no, I'm fine!" I argue. Seto ignores me and reaches for a sharp-looking tool. "I SWEAR, SETO SORCERER, IF YOU SLICE OPEN MY HEAD I WILL TEAR YOU APART."

He widens his eyes and backs away from me slowly. I let out a breath and relax a little. "Whatever. Let's call the others and think of a good plan. You know, one that involves logic and common sense," Ty suggests.

I shrug. "If you say so."

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Boring chapter, I'm aware. Sorry about that. I couldn't think of anything to write, so I just started writing, and this is what popped out. It's not really all that important to the story, but it's sort of funny, and, well, at least it's something. Sorry 'bout the wait! I'll get a longer, more important one next time.

(PS: this book is almost over. It has... oh, probably 3-5 chapters left. Not much.)

Baiii, Rulers!