A/N: This chapter is going to be interesting, don't you think? I got the idea from an episode of a show called "The Thundermans" It's really funny when Max cloned his sister and the Phobee clone ends up being totally stupid, all cause she got a bunk on the head.
Day 5
Hope and Lightning are now getting ready for Palumpolum. The two of them got up at about four AM, get dressed, had breakfast, and are out the door. Lightning has an assignment to do in Palumpolum, and she wants to bring Hope so he could pack up his stuff from his old house. The kid isn't sure how to take it since he's going to the very heart of his parents.
Serah wakes up in the morning. To her surprise, there's not a single trace of her sister. She even went to check her room, it's empty. And what's worse, Hope is gone too. Serah really starts to worry, her sister and new brother are gone.
Snow arrives at the house. He walks into the living room to find Serah laying on the couch, all worried. "Hey, Serah. You okay?"
Serah sits up to see Snow. "No, Snow. Lightning and Hope are gone."
Snow is shocked to hear this news. "What?"
"Yeah. I've searched all over the house. They're no where to be found." Serah says.
Snow looks around the house as well, he goes into a kitchen and finds a note. He picks up the note and reads it:
Dear Serah
Me and Hope are going to be in Palumpolum for the day. I have an assignment down there and I'm taking Hope with me. We'll be back tomorrow morning, take care. And don't let that big oaf of yours break anything.
Lightning
"Hey, Serah." Serah comes into the kitchen when Snow calls her. "I think they're out of town."
Snow shows Serah the note, Serah reads it then relaxes. "Thank goodness...wait, why would she bring Hope to Palumpolum?"
"Didn't the kid say it was his home?" Snow says.
"Oh yeah, he did." Serah says. "Well...I guess we have the house to ourselves until tomorrow."
"Yeah, guess we do." Snow says with a smile.
Vanille and Fang are just waking up. The two of them goes into the kitchen and gets started on breakfast. Vanille reaches for the frying pens on the high shelf. When she was grabbing it down, it slipped from her fingers and hits her in the head, knocking the girl out.
"Vanille!" Fang rushes to her and catches Vanille as she falls. Fang checks on Vanille, the girl is unconscious and there's a bump on her head. This doesn't seem too good.
Fang takes Vanille to the living room, laying her on the couch. Fang sits by, waiting for Vanille to wake up. After what seemed like hours, which is really fifteen minutes, Vanille wakes up.
"Vanille. Are you okay?" Fang asks.
Vanille sits up with a goofy smile on her face. "I'm the mayor of string cheese!"
Fang seems confused hearing that. "Vanille...?"
Vanille jumps off the couch and runs to a large fur rug on the ground. Vanille lays on it, rolling and rubbing her body all over it like a dog. "This grass is really soft! ...I wonder how it tastes."
Vanille licks the rug. Fang stands up and shakes her head. "Oh no, not again." Fang walks up to Vanille, pulling the girl to stand up. "Hey, come here." Fang takes Vanille down the living room to the stairs.
"Where are we going?" Vanille asks.
"We're gonna play a game." Fang says, playing along with that silly smile and playful tone.
"Oh! I like games!" Vanille says in a cheerful tone.
Fang takes Vanille to her room, and sits the girl in the middle of the room. "The game is simple. It's called 'Sit in the middle of the room and do nothing'."
Vanille claps her hands together. "Sounds like fun!"
"Great. So just sit here, and do nothing." Fang slowly backs away to the door. "And I'm gonna go into another room...and do nothing as well."
Fang closes the door. She lays her back against the door, slides down and signs in disappointment. "Well, that should buy me some time."
Fang leaves her house, then makes her way to Serah's house. She know's that she's gonna need a hand to help deal with Vanille until the dumbnesia wears off. Fang walks up to the door and knocks on it. Snow answers it.
"Hey there, big guy. Is Serah and Lightning home?" Fang asks.
"Lightning's out of town. But Serah and I are here." Snow answers.
Serah walks up to the door. "Snow, who's at the door?" Serah stands next to Snow to see it's Fang. "Oh, hey Fang. How can we help you?"
"I have a little situation. And I need your help." Fang turns and leaves. "Come with me."
Serah and Snow follows Fang to her house. Fang explains what happened to Vanille, that she got hit in the head and it gave her dumbnesia. Serah and Snow aren't too happy to hear about it.
They arrive at the house, Fang takes them to Vanille's room. "So, what do you want us to do?" Snow asks.
"I need you two to help me keep Vanille at home until the dumnesia wears off." Fang opens the door to Vanille's room. "Shouldn't take too long."
Fang looks inside, and is worried at what's inside: Vanille's gone with an open window.
Fang puts her hands on her head, worried. "Oh no, no, no, no! She's gone!"
"That's not good." Snow says.
"We've got to find her. Who knows what kind of trouble she's stirring up." Fang says.
Vanille is riding down the streets, on a jackhammer. The girl is gonna get herself killed doing dancing with the cars. All the passing drivers are sharply avoiding Vanille, which is hard since she's moving all over the place, blowing their horns at her and sometimes screaming: "Get off the road!" or "Move it airhead!"
Vanille's expression is completely clueless. She has no idea what kind of trouble she's putting herself into. Not surprising, she's very dumb due to being under dumbnesia. "I'm a pretty woodpecker princess who's late for the pirate ball!"
Soon enough, the hover cars starts crashing against each other or the buildings. After that, Vanille looks at the crush sites. "Ooooh..." Vanille looks around, gasps at the sight of something interesting then storms off.
Fang, Serah and Snow arrives in the city. "Vanille's gotta be around here somewhere." Serah says.
They stopped when they noticed the crush scenes all over the road. "I'm guessing she was here." Snow says.
"Really? What gave it away?" Fang asks, in a sarcastic obvious tone.
Serah looks at a vender cart that's selling books, comics, magazines and such. "Over there!"
Serah spots Vanille at the cart, just speed 'reading' through the books. "Wordy-wordy, words, words." Vanille closes the book and tosses it over her shoulder. She grabs another book from the stand and flips through the pages, starts reading the words in gibberish. "mghfj vfu9 fhfu9r s45nga-" Vanille stops at a page where a Moogle pops out of the book. Vanille screams in horror. "AH! The monster! It's come to alive! It's going to attack us!"
Vanille drops the book in front of her, stomping on it. "Die, monster! Die! Die!"
Fang rushes up to Vanille, putting her hands on her shoulders. "Vanille, calm down. It's just a pop-up book."
Serah and Snow joins up with Fang and Vanille. Vanille calms down and looks at another store. "Oh! Shiny!" Vanille runs down the store.
"Vanille! Wait!" Fang, Serah and Snow chases after her, but shortly stopped when the cart vender clears his throat, loud enough to get their attention.
"Someone has got to pay for all these books she's ruined." The vender says.
The three of them sees the large pill of books Vanille was 'reading' and groans in disappointment. Serah decided to stay behind and handle the mess while Snow and Fang chases after Vanille.
Vanille is at the jewelry store, which sends Fang to anxiety attack. If Vanille breaks or ruins anything in there, she won't be able to afford it.
Vanille is inside the store, stacking her face and hands on the glass tables, looking at the jewelry. "So shiny!"
Snow and Fang enters the store, they see Vanille has her eyes set on the table. "Let's get her out of here before she ruins everything." Fang says.
Snow rushes up to Vanille and grabs her. Vanille looks at Snow all panicked. "Ah! Help! Someone's trying to mug me!" Vanille takes out a pepper spray and sprays Snow in the eyes.
Snow screams in pain and falls on the ground, then Vanille runs for her life. Snow rolls around the ground screaming about the pain. Fang just looks down at him, then back at Vanille. "Where did she get that pepper spray?"
Fang chases after Vanille, who's arriving at the bake sale on the street. "Oh! Cupcakes! I love cupcakes!" The table is unsupervised. Whoever's running it is probably really stupid.
Fang sees Vanille going crazy over the cupcakes. "All right, this ends here." Fang grabs Vanille. Vanille starts to panic. She breaks free from Fang's grip and runs away. Fang slams her fists on the table. "Damn it!"
Serah catches up to Fang. "Okay, I took care of the book cart...Where's Snow?"
"Don't ask." Fang says. "Vanille's pretty slippery. We're gonna have to do this the hard way."
Fang and Serah goes get Snow, who's still recovering from the pepper spray assault. They've decided to go hard core on capturing Vanille. Vanille is now at the park, on all fours and panting (She probably thinks she's a dog)
Serah is now at the park, and she finds Vanille. Serah approaches Vanille, though she is pretty confused at her canine behavior. Serah just focuses on the task, then approaches at Vanille. "Hey, there...Vanille." Vanille looks at Serah, tilting her head and giving a confused sound. Serah looks around, she finds a stick, picks it up and waves it Vanille. "See the stick?"
Vanille suddenly gets excited. "Moo! Moo, moo!"
Serah seems disturbed that Vanille acts like a dog but she's mooing like a cow. "You want the stick? Want the stick?"
Vanille stands on her knees, doing the dog beg. "Moo, moo!"
Serah throws the stick towards the tree. "Go get it!" Vanille gets on her feet and runs for the stick.
The stick lands near the tree. Vanille runs up to it. When she bends down to grab it... "Get her!" Vanille looks up to see Fang and Snow are dog piling on her.
The three of the wrestle, as Fang and Snow tries to tie Vanille up. Serah runs up, by the time she is, the struggle if over, and Fang and Snow lost. They are both tied up together, front to front, which makes things awkward for the three of them.
"What happened?" Serah asks.
"Apparently, having dumbnesia has made Vanille a dangerous fighter." Snow says.
"Get us out of this!" Fang says.
Serah unties Snow and Fang. "Where is Vanille?"
"She's making a run for it! Don't lose her!" Fang says.
Serah, Snow and Fang chases after Vanille. They soon find the dummy at the Farron house. Vanille is running amuck around the house. Serah, Snow and Fang chases Vanille all over the house. At some point, Vanille runs into the hallway and enters the room.
Serah, Snow and Fang chases after her, but as soon as they're in front of the doors, Serah stops, and holds her arms out blocking Snow and Fang. "Guys! We can't go in there!"
The room that Vanille's in...is the bedroom of Lightning and Serah's parents.
"Why not?" Fang asks.
"Don't you know? This is my parents bedroom." Serah says. "Lightning forbids anyone from ever setting foot in there. Even she hasn't gone in there since they died."
"So? Lightning's not here. Let's just go in and get Vanille out of there." Fang says.
"What if Lightning finds out? She'll kill us." Serah says.
"She's not kidding. I still have the scar from what she did to me when I was attempting to go in." Snow says.
"She'll never find out. We're just gonna get Vanille and get out before she comes home." Fang says.
Fang goes in. After a moment, Snow does as well. Serah didn't, not just because of Lightning's rule, but being in her parents room would probably just break her down into despair.
Fang and Snow tip toes around the room, being completely aware of their surroundings. It's all calm, and quiet...too quiet. It's as if Vanille somehow vanished. They've searched all over the room and the personal bathroom the room has. Still nothing.
Fang and Snow gathers in the middle of the room, wondering where she could be. Their little question shortly got answered. Vanille is jumping on the bed, screaming cheerfully. "I like sock monkeys from Squirrelanoid 8!"
Fang and Snow turns to see it's Vanille. "Get her!" Fang and Snow attacks Vanille. Vanlile nearly fought back.
Finally, they got Vanille tied up and take her out of the room. Luckily, the parents room is completely undamaged and touched. The trio takes Vanille in the living room. The girl lays on the floor, tied up and barely struggling!
"Whoever you are, I will never tell you that the Squirrelanoids are planning to invade Atlantis in Sector purple cheese!" Vanille shouts in protest.
Everyone looks down at Vanille. "What are we gonna do?" Serah asks.
"We just have to wait for the dumbnesia to wear off." Fang says. "Should take another six hours."
Snow walks into the kitchen, then he returns with a frying pen. "Or we can just do this."
Snow bumps Vanille in the head with the frying pen, knocking her out. "Snow! Why would you do that?" Serah asks, taking the frying pen from him.
Fang bends down to Vanille. "Vanille? ...Vanille!"
Vanille slowly opens her eyes. Fang helps Vanille sit up. "Hey Fang...what happened?" Vanille tries to get up, but realizes she can't move her arms and legs. "Why am I tied up?"
"Cause you've been acting all crazy." Snow says.
"Crazy?" Vanille asks innocently.
"Yes. You were suffering dumbnesia." Fang unties Vanille, and helps her stand up.
"Oh...yes, I remember." Vanille looks down shamefully. "Sorry, Fang."
Fang pats Vanille on the back. "Ah, don't sweat it. It's over now."
Serah looks around the house, which is a mess now. "Yeah, but now the house is a mess."
Vanille, Fang and Snow looks around. "Well, at least your parents room is unharmed." Snow says.
"Sorry, Serah. We'll clean it up." Vanille says.
Vanille and Fang cleans up the mess. Serah and Snow decided to help them out. If only they hope to get it fixed up before Lightning returns from her mission.