This chapter was the hardest to write, I swear. As usual, I want to thank Anonymess because she helps me out when I need the help and she's always getting me to write. "Go write, go write!"
Encouraging people like that is what I need throughout life hahahaha.
As I wrote this chapter I noticed I messed up in a earlier chapter about currency in the game (scene between Sunshine and Yang Ming, and I will go to edit that later don't worry. I should have searched better about the coins siiiighh.)
Enjoy!
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"She what!?" Yu Lian's face turned pale as she finished hearing how Feng Wu Qing, Lolidragon and Lan had spent the weekend outside the game.
Apparently, Feng Lan had gone on a frenzy and sung her heart out to the Mulan music for the entire weekend, and every chance she got, told Feng Yang Min and Shui Han just how connected spiritually she had felt with the character of Fa Mulan.
They were all glad they weren't there to witness it but in a way they kind of still did.
"I would sooooo have paid to see that!" Artic Fox said after a minute of silence and everyone had stopped laughing.
"Me too." Chorused the rest.
"Doll as well." Doll nodded in reply.
"Trust me, you wouldn't have liked to see it." Lolidragon said raising her fists. "Lan will pay!"
Gui stared in disbelief. "I would have liked to see his highness sing outside of Second Life." He said and everyone wanted to roll their eyes.
"Didn't you hear that Lan was loony!?" Lolidragon threw him one of the less used books they had, hitting him straight in the head.
It was probably something they didn't need anyways and it wouldn't do much damage.
"Ouch!"
Of course, the bard always exaggerates anyways.
Feng Wu Qing tapped his hand on the table. "What's this meeting for anyways? If it's about my sister, why not just hold a meeting outside the castle? I'm getting tired of being reminded that I'm a loser. Do you see that light golden glow of those walls to those ruby colored curtains? She's clearly mocking me!"
"Uh... Prince had nothing to do with the decoration..." Yu Lian piped in. "Mostly anything in this castle is done by us, in fact."
"His highness decorated his room! And the kitchen!" Gui defended quickly. "And let us not forget what he signed for the reconstruction and stuff."
Lolidragon slammed her hand to the table. "Guys, focus!" She said. "Have you all become as insane as her?"
"We sure wouldn't want that." Feng Wu Qing snickered. "Can I just ask again why we can't have the meeting someplace else? We'll be fine."
"Say that after you have a run-in with rabid fangirls." Lolidragon said. "One can only take so much craziness."
"Please," Feng Wu Qing scoffed at that. "How troublesome can they be?"
Everyone wanted to roll their eyes.
They all knew that Feng Wu Qing thought like this because he wasn't really part of their group. Sure, Feng Wu was part of Dark Phantom and could be considered a part of their team now since they're all affiliated, but they felt that only the veteran members of the Odd Squad felt the real pressure of being recognized as something just for who they were and their achievements within the game.
In short, it was all a pain and they wondered if Feng Wu Qing was this carefree and thoughtless.
Oh god! He's worse than Prince! We're doomed...
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Feng Wu Qing stared in disbelief, and glanced back and forth at Fairsky and Sunshine, wondering what they could be doing in the gardens when the meeting wasn't even over yet, he had just run out of such said meeting not too long ago himself.
Then he he remembered that Sunshine was Prince's pet of sorts, and if Prince wasn't here, then he was pretty much free to do as he pleased.
"Eh?" He said, when they had noticed him and had begun to thank him for something or other. Quite not getting it, his eyes darted to the ring that now graced the human thief's finger.
What are they possibly thanking me for? I didn't do any-...
"OH!" He finally caught on and laughed. "That's what those crystal coins were spent on. Damn, man, you have good taste in picking rings." He went to brofist the humanoid pet as a sign of congratulations.
"Crystal coins?" Fair Sky blinked and then went to hug her Fiancé. "Awwwww! You shouldn't have."
Everyone knew that at one point, the human thief flaunted her wealth and treated everything as it was worth in monetary value, but it was easy to tell she had mellowed out.
Finally! Feng Wu Qing thought to himself as he gave the two lovebirds some privacy and had decided to find another place to escape to, because apparently, the gardens was not a good spot.
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Meanwhile, off-game...
Feng Lan sighed.
She couldn't believe she had made such a massive fool of herself in front of her brother and Shui Han. There went her good earned brownie points with the older woman.
Then again, as Prince she gave more than enough hassle and trouble to make those brownie points into I-Owe-You's points.
She had wrecked her brain in between classes, studying, doing chores, doing homework and goofing off, thinking about how she would approach the woman after such embarrassment but had not come up with anything.
Her phone signaled she had a text and she went to take it off the charging dock, quickly swiping to type her unlock passcode.
LOL! Are you seriously brooding over what happened last weekend? Well, it'll be good to know everyone at the castle had a good laugh! Miss you tons you little direction-lacking Prince. Have fun with hw *snicker snicker snicker*
Her hands reached for the keyboard and she started to type a reply at fast speed. She knew it was rare for them to talk off-game.
Oh sureeeeeee. Laugh at the misfortunate ones. You don't know how troublesome Gui's classes are. And seriously, you told them that! Evil!
We have to gossip about something haha. And well I'm heading to bed now. Good night. Tootles.
You little! Just wait until I can demote you levels in-game!
Hahahahahahahaahahahah! Nice try at scaring me, elf. Say it when you can actually beat me. Seriously bye now. I'm going to full dive again tonight.
And with that, Feng Lan's life went back to boring in under ten minutes.
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"Hello class," Gui said as he walked into the classroom.
"Good morning professor Gui." They all chorused.
"I hope you all can explain the reading again today. That ballad for this week was extremely lovely don't you think?" He said as he sat down, and they all groaned.
A girl raised her hand. "Professor, give us a break. It was written in the old Chinese language. How are supposed to understand something that difficult?"
Gui simply smiled. "You don't need to have a 200 IQ to understand something like that." He stated as he opened his book. "I personally liked this ballad myself when I read it."
"Why, professor?" Another of the girls asked quite curious as to why their professor would like something about a girl who goes to war for their father.
Gui smirked as he rummaged through his bag and took out his laptop. "It takes strength and courage for someone to do something so bold and take such a hard challenge. I admire that." He then plugged the laptop into the room's entertainment things and got it set up so it was viewable from a screen. "Which is why today, I have a reward for you. We're watching a movie!"
Feng Lan, who was now paying attention, glanced towards Gui like the others. Their reading that week had been about none other than The Ballad Of Mulan, in which the protagonist had been none other than Hua Mulan, the girl who goes to war in her father's place.
Feng Lan had felt that he had done this on purpose, as if to tease her even more for what had happened that weekend with Shui Han and unlike her classmates, who were cheering happily, she groaned when she heard they were watching a movie.
"Not Mulan, not Mulan, not Mulan, not Mulan, not Mulan." she whispered to herself. Surprisingly enough, she swore she heard Yang Ming whispering the same thing in the desk across from hers.
Gu Yun Fei and Lu Jing just stared at them, wondering what could possibly be wrong.
They were watching a movie, this doesn't happen in this class!
Be happy, you two. Sheesh! They were thinking.
And when the screen faded into the start of the movie, Feng Lan and Yang Ming placed their heads down in their tables and wondered what it was they did, that they had pissed off God that week to recieve so much bad luck.
When the movie was finished, Gui let everyone talk amongst themselves excitedly.
"I didn't even know there was a movie!"
"I liked the singing."
"Yeah, the music was catchy."
Feng Lan and Yang Ming by this point seemed like ghosts. "I don't want to hear another one of these songs again for the rest of my life..." They both said together.
"You know... I felt I could identify with the protagonist male character, Li Shang." Gui let the class know and he stared at the clock. "Hmmm. It's time to let you all go. Well, I suppose that's all for today's class. You can pack up now."
"Hurray! The torture is finally over!" Feng Lan and Yang Ming couldn't help but sigh in relief.
"Next class we'll be watching the sequel!" Gui said excitedly.
The twins stared at themselves in disbelief.
"There's another one!?"
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OMAKE!
{The "What happened that weekend at the Feng household. Starring; Feng Xiao Lan, Feng Yang Ming and Long Shui Han. ACTION!}
An hour and a half later, Feng Lan was staring from the screen to Shui Han in disbelief.
"What did I just watch?"
Shui Han pointed to the screen. "I told you," she said in a exasperated sigh. "The most awesome, eye-opener, inspirational movie you have ever seen."
"I feel like I just watched a weird musical of my own story. Kind of." Feng Lan said as if in a far away place.
"Yeah, you can say that again." Shui Han said. "That's why I made you watch it. What did you think of it, besides it being, well... You know."
"Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me..."
"Uh... Lan?"
"Why is my reflection, someone I don't know..."
Shui Han stared, worried for her friend's sanity as she reached to the mirror in the vanity.
"When will my reflection show... Who I am inside?" Feng Lan kept humming to herself and Shui Han stood up and opened the door.
"Feng Yang Ming!" She screamed out the door. "Come quick, I think I broke your sister!"
A door was heard opening and Yang Ming hurried on over.
"You what?" He said. Shui Han pointed and Yang Ming nearly rolled on the floor. "Okay, okay, are you two playing a joke on me right now?"
Shui Han shook her head. "Help me!" She pleaded.
Yang Ming raised his hands up. "You're on your own."
"Where do you think you're going mister?" Shui Han said as she watched him run out the door.
"I'm going to grab my phone."
"Yang Ming!"
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"I can't believe I have to do this." Yang Ming said as he plugged in the music player to the speakers and handed one over to Shui Han.
"I'm not happy about this either."
"Let's just get it over with."
"Let's get down to business..." Yang Ming started. "To get you back."
"Why'd you become so loony," Shui Han added, "after watching, a movie?"
"You're the weakest girl I ever met." Yang Ming said.
"But you can bet before we're through..."
"Lan, we'll bring the Prince out of you!" Shui Han and Yang Ming said together.
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SEE YOU NEXT TIME!