Hey, Rulers! I'm back! I'm gonna try to finish this story before school starts. It really is almost over. *sobs*
Anyways. I added Troyler to the poll options on my profile for the new fic, because... Erm, I just... Troyler... Whoops, there goes whatever social life I had left.
ALSO. I might not be able to update all my stories this week (I'm LITERALLY SO SORRY) because I'll be gone all day tomorrow. But, I will most-likely have enough to time to post SOMETIME this week. Maybe, I mean... Hopefully...
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Kay, I'm done with the long author's note now. Sorry for that. EN-JUH-HOY, MAH RULERS!
Remind Me
Ch 20
Ty's POV
"Split up, some of you go downstairs and the rest of us will go to the basement. Search every room, we have to find Sky as soon as possible. And if you see or smell any smoke, run towards it. Quentin says we might have to deal with pyromaniacs," I say. Everyone nods and runs off in different directions. Mitch, Jerome and Seto run downstairs, and Jason, Ian, and I sprint upstairs.
"I wonder what happened to him..," Jason thinks out loud.
"According to Quentin, 'something about sacrifices and pyromaniacs.' I'm guessing the mental Recruits are trying to sacrifice Sky to the fire or something," I say.
"That's crazy," Ian mutters.
"You're crazy," Jason says offhandedly. Ian rolls his eyes.
"Not my fault," he replies.
"Do you remember anything from while you were Derp?" I ask.
"Not really," he says, shrugging as he opens a door and peeks into the room. Not seeing Sky inside, he closes the door again and turns back to Jason and me. "I sort of remember cake, and screaming, and Quentin's voice..."
I nudge Jason's shoulder. He looks at me, and I wink and glance in Ian's direction. Jason snorts, remembering my stupid Ssunkipz joke from earlier. Ian gives us funny looks, but I just smile and shake my head. "Nothing, we're just being idiots," I say. He rolls his eyes again.
Sky's POV
Someone else reaches into my cage and I swat them away. Their flint and steel slides across the room on the tile floor, and they glare at me again. We've been doing this for the last five minutes.
An angry-looking (actually, they all look angry at this point), Recruit growls at me and reaches through the bars to ignite me. "Can you not?" I ask, punching him back. I've been trying not to actually hurt any of them, since the respawn machine is off, but...
"AHH!" the Recruit screams, his entire body in flames.
Snap.
"He has magical powers!" one of them notes.
Aha! "Yes!" I say in a deep voice. "I am the Budder God! I have fiery fists to beat you all with!"
Their eyes widen and they huddle up. I hear things like, "He can protect us!" and "Hey, John's still on fire!" I glance over at the Recruit I accidentally set on fire, 'John.' I kind of feel bad for him.
Oh, wait, no I don't.
The Recruits come out of their huddle and bow down before me. "All-powerful Budder God, we apologize for our behavior! Please forgive us!"
I gape at them. "Seriously? Seriously!? You were trying to burn me as a sacrifice to the squid god!"
They exchange glances. "He knows too much! Kill him!" one of them shouts. My eyes widen.
"What!? WHERE IS YOUR LOGIC, RECRUITS!? I was here when you tried to sacrifice me, of course I know about it!" I yell.
They ignore me. "BRING OUT THE FIREBALL LAUNCHER!"
"How in Minecraftia did you get that?" I ask as one of them drags a dispenser out into the middle of the room.
"We just did," one hisses. Geez.
Suddenly, my head clears. It's like the constant pain that has been assaulting my mind just... just disappears for a moment. The rest of my body still hurts, but my head is fine. Suddenly, I feel like I can breathe again, and I take the first full breath since the moment the eternal pain first began. It's like a weight has been lifted off my chest. Then my throat stops burning, and my entire body stops feeling like it's constantly being stabbed.
And I feel like I used to.
Perfectly fine.
Then, out of no where, the pain returns, and I'm left collapsed on the floor as I clutch at my head with my hands, because I'm not used to the pain anymore and I'll have to wait to get used to it again. I can hear the Recruits whispering "What's his problem?" and "Is he OK?" and "Not so powerful now, are you?" as the pain leaves for a few seconds and then returns again.
Leaves, returns.
Leaves, returns.
"MAKE IT STOP!"
Mitch's POV
We rush into the basement and start frantically opening the doors. Where is he? I open a door that leads to a hallway and lots of other doors. Groaning, I barge in and harshly fling open every single door. Strangely, several of them are closets. One of the closets, though, has three shelves filled with light pink potions.
They're labeled, "Jumbo Potions."
Hmm...
"SETO! I FOUND POTIONS!" I scream.
Seto and Jerome come running towards me. "Where?" Seto asks quickly. I point to the potions, and I'm so close to them that my finger touches the glass of the bottle when I point, very nearly knocking it over. Seto's eyes bulge. "Mitch, be careful! Not all potions have to be consumed. Some can be activated simply by contact, and if that potion falls, there's a chance we'll all end up jumbo-sized."
I smile apologetically as he carefully places all the potions in his potion bag. "Why are we taking them with us?" Jerome asks.
"Can't we just smash them?" I ask.
Seto throws his head back and groans. "No, Mitch, we can't. If we smash them on the floor, there's a very good chance that the floor will expand until it's jumbo-sized. It doesn't only apply to living things. At least, not always."
I shut up and watch Seto.
"Hey, guys!" Jerome calls from another room. I didn't even notice he'd left. "Guys, I found buttons!" He starts singing quietly, "Buttons, buttons, buttony buttons, so many buttons, push them, push them, push them all..."
I laugh a little as I follow Jerome's voice to a door on the right. Inside this room is a greyish desk thingy with lots of black, rectangular blocks on it. The blocks have little dark grey buttons over them. The buttons are all labeled, too. Little white paper strips are taped above each button. One of them says "loss of breath." Another says "head pain." There are rocks on half the buttons, and a few rocks on the floor. I guess Jerome must have pushed those rocks off so he could push the buttons. He probably shouldn't have done that.
I wanna do it, too.
I run up and stand next to Jerome. As he repeatedly presses the "head pain" and "throat pain" buttons, I press "loss of breath" and "full-body needles." I wonder if these are even doing anything...
Sky's POV
"PLEASE, SOMEONE, MAKE IT STOP!"
Jerome's POV
Doop doop doo, doo doo doot! Pushing the buttons, pushing them all, oh oh oh, push them hard, push them harder, doo doo doot, sit on the buttons...
Seto's POV
"JEROME, MITCH, CUT IT OUT! DON'T PUSH RANDOM BUTTONS, YOU MIGHT BLOW SOMETHING UP- Hey..," I say, running into the room they're in. Those buttons... Their labels... How...
Dawn said it was permanent. She said Sky's pain would last forever. She said that, after we'd injected him, she wouldn't even have the power to stop his pain.
I think she lied...
I was talking to my mom about character deaths in fanfictions, and how much they upset me, and she goes, "But it would make for a good story, right?" And I said, "Well, yes, I suppose so, but I want Remind Me to have a happy ending..." She just says, "Oh."
Now I'm second-guessing whether or not I want Sky to die in this... Erm...
Uh...