My head throbbed to the beat of my heart, each hit vibrating my entire skull. I'm not asleep am I? Ruffling through my blankets I pulled at the ends to make sure I was awake. Even though I know I'm awake, I could feel as if the world was still in a hazy nightmare. A sudden bash at my skull from the headache sent me flying to my feet. Quickly I caught myself and landed directly on the balls of my feet. Opening my eyes I soon realized that I wasn't in my bed, I was downstairs and fell asleep next to Ghetsis. My sudden acrobatics must have awoken him as well as I watched him glare at me with surprised eyes.
"What are you doing woman?" He grumbled from being so viciously waked.
Holding onto my head I whimpered, "Headache, I can't think."
"You'll be alright..." Ghetsis yawned while nodding off.
Almost as soon as he had mentioned so my entire body shook in pain collapsing me to the floor. I thought that the strange migraines were gone for good, but now they came back to haunt me once more. Suddenly my vision went black, everything in front of me shut off like a light switch. In front of my eyes displayed a hazy image of what appeared to be some sort of large building akin to what you'd see in Pokemon. Inside I seen what appeared to be many grunts of some kind, bustling with attention. As soon as the vision came my sight came back, and the pounding of my head began to dissipate.
Collecting myself I stood back up and glanced back at Ghetsis, his eyes once again wide with confusion. Taking a deep breath inwards I attempted to understand what I had just saw. It wasn't even something that had happened currently either, it reminised so much of what I could only pinpoint to be a memory; but why was I having memories about something I've never seen. Collapsing backward back into the couch I sent a scared glare to Ghetsis, but he showed no signs of understanding.
"I'm not certain if I should be concerned or not" The man spoke like silk.
Waving him off I smiled weakly, "I'm okay, I'm just so confused. I had this pounding headache and then some sort of memory as if it were mine, but it wasn't."
He glared at me like I was trying to teach him rocket science, "You aren't making a lick of sense..."
"I think I should go see Cyrus, I remember he told me that apparently there was something odd about it" I sighed knowing that regardless of how intelligent Ghetsis was, he wasn't going to get it.
"Wait until the morning, he's probably extremely exhausted" Ghetsis grumbled throwing his head back into the couch.
I raised an eyebrow at him, "Since when did you care about anyone else? Wait... Oh I get it, you don't want me to leave!"
He immediately covered his face while mumbling, "No, I just don't want to break the only man that's in charge of getting me home! There's nothing wrong with desiring some company, besides you can't say no!"
"Excuse me? I can't say no?" I chuckled as quietly as I could.
I saw a menacing smirk behind his arms, "You're as good as mine now."
Rolling my eyes I leaped back onto the couch while snuggling my face into my blankets. It would do no good for me to argue with him, and to add to that I am extremely exhausted. Attempting to pull my thoughts away I closed my eyes tightly, trying to dream of better things.
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The next morning I knocked promptly onto Cyrus' door the first chance I had, he's the only one I can talk to. After what seemed like an eternity he swiftly opened to door with a plain expression. His eyes drooped down in exhaustion, and the cool look he always carried accompanied him. Waiting for something to happen I threw him an awkward smile, this in which he returned with the same dark eyes.
Getting straight to the point I sighed, "I have a problem, and you're the only one that can help me."
"That seems fair, but I only give advice to those who want solutions and answers. I'm not going to sit around and listen to you rant" Cyrus explained as if he expected something petty from me.
Squinting my eyes I began to tell him what happened, "Last night I had another headache, like the ones before. This time though I had a weird vision, it seemed like a memory of something I never seen. After that it went away, do you know what's going on?"
His eyes widened in all the emotion he ever showed, "I'm wondering if you were caught in the radius of the portal that threw us here..."
Tilting my head I sent him my full attention, "I don't know, all I remember is coming back... It's possible that when I left that day I was still in the house. Now that you mention it I think I heard a loud noise, but I thought it was my dog and didn't really think about it much."
"It all makes sense now!" The man boomed in what I assumed to be excitement, "It's a very complicated theory of mine, so I won't go into the details. No one else was around but us when the blast radius happened, but you were! Since we are from our world, we didn't get affected, but you aren't. Basically I believe you're having memories, flashbacks, and possibly even visions of what has happened or is happening in our world!"
I clenched my hands together in a frightful way, "Is there a cure? To the headaches, what can I do to get rid of them?"
"Not from what I know, but maybe there will be a fix. If I'm correct maybe if you came to our world you would stop having them. That's ludicrous though, it was just a thought... I'll update you if I stumble across anything" He began to ramble but stopped himself before dragging on too much, "Okay I have things to do, go away!"
Closing the door before I could even speak I stood silently in the long hallway of our second floor. My eyes wandered as I tread downstairs with a heavy heart. There had to be some way to help it, besides how long could it even last? Stepping into the kitchen I flinched to see a large gathering at the black dining table. The entire household asides from Cyrus and I crowded around conversing about some sort of plan. Even Vicki and the other girls were smiling and getting along with each other.
Treading across the room to where to group sat I glanced at Vicki in a confused way. She simply just waved her hand for me to come to her side, and like a puppy I followed to her side. Across the table I viewed an enthusiastic Archie, and a disturbingly grumpy Maxie. Asides from them always tormenting each other I wondered what had caused him so much anger.
Curious of what was happening I spoke out, "What's going on, why is everyone gathered here?"
Giovanni greeted me with a half smile, "Your friends insist on having a day out, since everyone is off work."
"We decided on going to the mall and then swimming, but I will not be participating in the swimming endeavors!" Maxie hissed in utter annoyance.
Archie stretched out his arms with a bright grin, "Yer' coming everyone is coming, even Cyrus! The grump could use a little fun, and who doesn't like fun?"
"Just a question, why swimming when we have a pool?" I pondered with a confused gaze.
"Apparently water slides, hot tubs, and meeting new people is much more important" Giovanni explained gagging at the thought of it.
Gazing over to Aidee and Michayla I noticed two mischievous smirks on their faces, it was obvious that they were the culprits of such a suggestion. The two were a bit more engrossed in the social scene than Vicki and I, being the kinds of people that are easy to talk to. Vicki however is especially not into the idea of throngs of people, but having close friends seemed to make her lighten up quite a bit. Pulling at my sleeves I began to get nervous, I wasn't much of a good swimmer and very deep pools would have me flailing like a fish out of water.
I grinned nervously while scratching my head, "I'm not actually into going swimming..."
"WHAT?" Archie screamed, "You out of all people, don't want to go?"
Tapping my foot I sighed, "To be honest I'm not the best swimmer."
"I am so glad I'm not the only one..." Maxie let out a relieved sigh.
Vicki tilted her head with narrowed eyes, "Britney just come anyway you'll have fun! Besides I'm going and it will be awesome!"
Maxie lightened up a tad, "I guess I'll go too..."
"Come on, I'll teach you it's not hard!" Archie claimed attempting to convince me.
"Fine, I'll go but I just don't want to drown. You guys are so tall, and I'm just so short!" I squealed in discomfort.
Ghetsis laughed at my misfortune, "I for one think it's hilariously adoring."
"Shut up!" I squeaked covering a red face.
Vicki decided to prod me as well, "Yeah, even I'm taller than you by an inch!"
"Alright I've had enough of this gross shit, get your crap ready and then we're leaving!" Giovanni snapped putting his foot down on the matter.
Like cockroaches from a light everyone scattered off in different directions to go get their things ready. Vicki and the other girls were rather quick, and not surprisingly the villains took what seemed like ages. We sat around waiting for them, passing the time with stupid book references and terrible puns. Michayla and I proceeded to yell out puns and Vicki watched us with annoyed eyes as if she was going to tear our throats out. Instead of doing what was best for the matter we continued with the jokes until I was on the floor both laughing and being hit with a pillow by Vicki.
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I leaped out of the car into the vast parking lot, our surroundings appeared to be covered with trucks, cars, and vans. It seemed we weren't the only ones going to hang around in the mall, but it was huge inside so it wouldn't be an issue. I lead the way forward with a comfortable smile planted onto my face. The outside of the building was painted in all sorts of colors from all the stores attached into one huge cluster. Approaching the doors I held the door open letting the others inside, Vicki simply shook her head and held the next door in, in some sort of politeness battle.
It's been a long time since we've last been here, and we weren't all that certain what we should be doing. However Michayla and Aidee were very accustom to roaming around as they haven't stopped like we did. First we stopped into a few clothing stores in which Vicki, the villains, and I (asides from Lysandre) were absolutely bored to death. After all the boring things I had no interest in we stopped into the apple store for a moment for Vicki, she browsed for a new music playing device.
Our odd crowd however attracted a lot of appalled gazes and glares from the others in the store. Out of all of us Lysandre probably attracted the most attention, his wild hair and always so 'fashionable' clothing seemed to always get looks. I scanned through the computers hoping to find something nice, but I was in fact a PC person and by the looks of it so was Colress. As we both observed the computers he didn't seem so impressed by the simplicity of their design. Glancing over at N though he seemed pretty sufficed with the intuitiveness of the general layout and scheme.
"Just feel the sensitivity on this mouse!" Colress hissed in annoyance, "FUCKING CASUALS!"
N lowered his gaze, "I think they're pretty nice..."
The whole store shot glares at us from Colress' outburst, but I couldn't help but burst into laughter. In only seconds the rest of the busy store continued about their business, bustling around in the all white store. Vicki dashed over to us with a new red music playing device, and I saw Maxie from the corner of my eye nodding his approval in color choice. I was the first to flop out of the store, it was overcrowded in there and I am happy to finally be out. Once the rest of my friends caught up with me we continued to wander around aimlessly huge mall.
Roaming around I saw a blanket store with lots of soft things displayed in wired black bins. Not being able to resist myself I raced over with arms flailing, and Michayla noticing as well followed in the same manor of excitement. Vicki nonchalantly looked at some of the soft two toned blankets, while Michayla and I flipped over how soft everything was. Glancing behind myself I watched a pile of villians and Aidee observe us with disappointed stares. Not wanting to force them to wait I lowered my head following them once again.
Once we were through most of the mall we decided to wrap our 'adventure' up by grabbing something to eat at the food court. The massive collective of chairs and tables are packed with people almost all of the time, and at this very moment it made a good majority of us anxious. However it was Giovanni's pushy nature to get everyone to just deal with it and get our shit. We sat around quietly eating for once, probably because we haven't ate since the morning. I always thought it was strange how the universal cure for all things was food, it's nice though.
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END CHAPTER
Authors Note: Next chapter is going to be swimming and of course perhaps some instrumental practice. I hope you liked this one it actually took me awhile because I was a little busy. Also we are getting very close to the average number of words in a novel, should I wrap this one up soon or continue with it? I could always make it longer than average of course, but it's just suggested. Tatopatato your comments always make me laugh so hard! Ghetsis is a tad bit too cocky, he's even a bit rude at most times. We'll see what happens next might start a bit of drama.
Cyrus can be a bit of a butt sometimes too, lol. I like the zoo idea too, so many good ideas here XD. I'm actually writing another chapter and hopefully uploading it shortly after right now, this is because where it cuts in doesn't make sense to be in the same chapter so I decided to make it a completely different chapter. Fairy tails, yeah seems pretty great. Alright, have fun shipping and shenanigans!