**Woohoo! Fifty chapters! This one is decidedly longer than the last one... Well, to celebrate fifty chapters, I have an awesome chapter. It will be glorious!
AND THERE WILL BE LAUGHTER!
If that didn't foreshadow this enough... Well...
Enjoy Chapter 50! :D**
Chapter 50: One Piñata, Two Piñata, Three Piñata, Leviathan!
Fred was running around gleefully.
He had broken out of his stone shell three times now. Talin had broken out of his five times.
"Again! AGAIN!" He screamed.
"Let the joyus activities rain upon US ALL!"
A woman's voice filled the room.
"What!? You shouldn't be ENJOYING THIS!? You should be frozen in ETERNAL TORMENT!"
Fred laughed. "Look, it's ME! IT'S ME!"
Fred waved around a hollow statue of himself.
"I WANT ONE!" Yelled Talin.
"OOOH OOOH! ME FOUR!" Max screamed, holding up Winston's hand.
"You're ALIVE!?" Talin Screamed.
"HE'S ALIVE!" They screamed.
"SO AM I!" Winston exclaimed.
"HOORAY!" They cheered.
They were frozen again, and released themselves through small holes.
"LOOK AT ME!" They screamed.
They burst out into laughter.
"What is wrong with YOU!?" She screamed.
"SHADDUP!" Max yelled. "Where's the FOOD!? THIS PARTY SUCKS!"
They growled at the priestess.
"It's not a party!" She yelled.
"You're in Hell. HELL I SAY! BE MORE IN PAIN!"
"Then why the Piñata's?" Asked Talin tearfully.
"You lied to us...!?" Fred cried.
"We should eat her..." Max sniffed.
They burst into tears.
She sighed. "Get out. You've all annoyed me. You can leave."
She opened a portal into purgatory.
"NO!" Talin yelled. "Make me more PIÑATA'S! Fred has more than I do! It's not FAIR!"
You could hear her face palm.
"You know what!? Forget it. Take the statues, and go. You all piss me off, and I can't kill you."
They ran out with the statues, and the portal closed.
"Should we open them?" Asked max.
"I don't see why not..." Said Winston.
Fred ran around in a frenzy, breaking open statues.
A portal opened above them, and more fell on their heads.
"That's because I HATE YOU!" She screamed.
The portal closed.
Fred laughed with joy.
"BEST DAY EVER!"
"HUZZA!" They screamed.
Max rubbed his head.
"Can I make her into a pie...? Please."
Talin laughed. "We'll ask the Master and Mistress later."
They all cheered as Fred and Winston broke open statues.
"Fred! Winston! Winston Fred! FRED WINSTON! WINSTON FRED!"
The statues had all been broken, and they cheered.
"They LIVE! LIVING SURPRISE!"
"SURPRISE!" Max screamed.
They stared at him.
He looked down. "No...?"
"Alive." Said Talin flatly.
"Oh!" Max exclaimed.
"IT'S ALIVE!" He screamed.
"ALIVE!" They preached.
"What the hell!?" A man exclaimed.
"Who are you guys!? What the...? Wow... No words. Just none."
They were all standing on their heads.
"This feels weird!" Fred exclaimed.
They laughed.
"I've NEVER laughed on my head!" Winston yelled.
"NEVER!?" They gaped.
"NEVER!" He screamed.
"Then we shouldn't..." Said Talin tearfully.
"Poor Winston! HE'S SO DEPRIVED!"
They burst into tears.
"What the hell..." Said a boy.
"I am so confused..."
The man sighed. "Don't worry Tojin, you're not the only one..."
He stopped.
The man was paralyzed in a look of fear.
"Katsu... What's wrong?" Tojin asked.
"Why do you look so scared suddenly. We're free!"
"Where's Loki?" He asked.
"You know Loki!?" Asked another.
The six past Havens discussed their experiences with each other. After they had put the pieces together, they all felt a heavy sorrow.
"So all this time she had lost so much..." Said a woman tearfully.
Katsu bit back tears. "Damn... And here I was. I had no idea..."
Katsu remembered when he had frozen, shielding Loki in her sleep...
He hadn't known that she had suffered so much because of it.
The Leviathan's were staring at them. They were taking notes...
"Well, continue..." Said Fred.
"Yeah..." Max sniffed. "This is so romantic... So TRAGIC! TRAGEDY! ROMAGEDY!"
They looked at Max in awe, then cheered.
"ROMAGEDY!"
"Tromance...?" Winston suggested.
"That too..." Said Talin.
Katsu face palmed.
"Oh my GOD! Just... GOD! are you sure we're free!?" He exclaimed.
Tojin nodded. "Pretty sure anyway."
Katsu sighed. "Well then... Sorin right? You said that Loki was with some new powerful friends, right?"
Sorin nodded. "Yeah, that's right. They probably made it out, not sure if it's here though..."
He looked down. "Damn... I really messed up before the end. I think I owe those girls and everyone an apology."
One of his friends sighed.
"We all fuck up dude... Just own it."
Katsu looked around. "Yeah... I don't recognize this place at all. I hope she's alright..."
A lot of time had passed since they had been together.
To Katsu it had only been ten years... But to Loki? A century.
He was scared that she had moved on, but also, he almost prayed that she did.
All of this hurt... He felt responsible.
His torment was nothing in comparison to hers...
He just hoped that she had found some form of happiness.
...
It was the dead of night, and Haku was still awake.
He lied awake, and sighed.
He was happy...
He heard the front door open.
He sat.
"Now who could that be...?" He said softly.
He stood quietly, so he wouldn't wake Chihiro.
He went to the front door, and saw that it had been left open. Footsteps trailed outside...
He followed them swiftly and quietly.
He saw Loki...
She had climbed a giant tree, and was standing on top of it.
She leaned forward.
Haku jumped up the branches, and caught her before she could slam into any on the way down.
She looked at him.
"Let go." She said softly.
Haku shook his head.
"No. Tell me, why did you just try to end your life."
She laughed bitterly. "What life? I have no family. No purpose... Who am I then?"
Haku looked at her for a moment.
"I know you..." He said. "I know you from somewhere..."
He thought for a moment.
His eyes widened.
"You're THAT Loki! A little girl that used to sit by my river! Your mother..."
Loki stared at him in awe.
"A river spirit. You were that river I lived by... It was so calming, and peaceful."
"Yes, the Kohaku River." He said. "But most just call me Haku."
He looked at her.
"Loki, there's something you need to know." He said, his tone serious.
"I saw what your mother had done to you. I whispered it to your father in a dream... He went looking for you, and it is believed that he scoured every inch of the lower plains looking for you..."
She froze.
"F...Father... Did that?" She asked.
"What of mother." She said bitterly.
"I drowned her." He said darkly.
"Anyone willing to sacrifice their own child for riches deserves to die. The woman was greedy... And earned her fate."
She looked at him. Her eyes were filled with tears.
"What happened to him?" She asked.
Haku looked down. "I don't know." He lied.
He knew the truth would kill her.
Her father had died looking for her, freezing solid into a hopeless statue... One that can never be saved. Only the heavens had such power, and they had proven false.
She sighed sadly.
"Maybe one day then..." She mused.
She stood.
"I should be getting back. I don't want Tira to worry..."
She looked down. What was she thinking!? Such an action would have devastated her!
She hugged Haku. "Thank you." She said.
"You saved more then one life tonight."
"IT'S ALIVE!" Max yelled.
Loki turned.
"Oh my GOD! Not you FOOLS-!"
She stopped.
"K-Katsu...?" She asked.
He nodded. "Yeah... How are you?" He asked.
She ran up to him, and hugged him.
"Like SHIT!" She sobbed.
"You...?"
He kissed her.
"Been better. Been a lot worse..."
She cried into him.
"HORRAY!" Cheered the Leviathan's.
"Shut UP! YOU DAMN FOOLS!" Katsu yelled.
"Sshhhh!" Max hissed.
"It's a ROMAGEDY. It requires dramatic pauses..."
They were all silent.
Haku held the bridge of his nose.
"Newcomers? These are Leviathan's. They are insane. Leviathan's? Newcomers... There, now that there have been introductions..."
He waved the Leviathan's off.
"Go back to the gardens... You can play tomorrow."
Max finished writing. "THE END!" He screamed.
"I will call it... Thorns of fate! A ROMAGEDY!"
They burst into tears and ran away.
Loki's eye was twitching.
"I could kill them..."
Haku shook his head. "Trust me... I know the feeling."
He looked back at the Warrior's.
"I don't think there will be enough rooms." Said Haku nervously.
The Leviathan's ran back.
"What!? NO ROOMS!?" Fred screamed.
"WHAT DO WE DO!? IT CAN'T END LIKE THIS!" Max screamed in utter horror... His Romagedy at stake.
"We should build a castle." Said Winston.
"Yes! YES!" Max exclaimed.
"But WHAT will we NAME IT!?"
"The Palace of Thorns." Said Talin.
"That was beautiful..." Max sniffed.
They cheered, and began summoning stone.
Everyone gaped in awe as a glorious castle was built in a matter of five minutes.
"Where did you get ALL of THAT!?" Haku exclaimed.
They looked to the side.
"The Bermuda Triangle... Duh." Said Fred.
Haku gaped. "Are you serious!?"
"Yeah!" Max laughed.
"Wanna see my plane? It has a GINGER SKELETON IN IT!"
Haku's eye twitched.
"I'm not even going to ask..."
Well, rooms were taken care of.
Haku gave a sigh of defeat.
"I'm going to have to explain a LOT in the morning..."