The winning chapter By EVERY ANON VOTE I HAD AND MOST OF THE NON ANON (sorry other two voters)
Dave: Try to get back in your body

Dave looks up at the hospital, a boring white square of a building with millions of windows, various curtains drawn open or closed. He floated up to the level of the giant white cat who refused to stay behind and pat her on the head, her eyes turning to look at him. "Which one do you think is mine pounce?"

The cat tilted her head her glowing green eyes rolling up in thought. Her eyes light up in a look of excitement and her paw shoots out pinning the orange boy down with twin grins. She leans down, her mouths opening in a huge cheshire smile as her nose buries into the feathers against Dave's neck. She gives a big sniff, then sneezes causing a girly squeal of disgust to come out of the still-pinned boy. With a guilty grin the cat lifts it's paw and trots over to the building leaving Dave to his girly whimpers on the ground.

Pounce bounds up to the building and begins sniffing at each window, starting from the furthest on the left near the bottom and going over, carefully stepping over people as she comes across them. Dave finally calms down after rolling around in the grass for a few moments and floats back up to watch the cat, grass clinging to his feathers and hair as he floats closer. "Any luck?" The cat shakes her head and pushes her paws onto the building to lift herself onto her hind legs so she can reach the third floor, sidling awkwardly to the side as she sniffs.

"Hey... It's okay, I'll just fly room-to-room until I find myself. It can't be that hard!" The cat turns and glares at Dave, snorting an impatient huff before scooching to the next window, freezing. She sniffs the window again her eyes going wide with excitement. She turns her head to grin at Dave, then back to the window, falling back with a loud thump in shock when she comes giant pink nose to face with a startled boy. "Pounce are you o... JOHN!"

Dave zips up to the window in an orange flash leaving a few loose feathers and strands of grass in his wake. Jerking to a stop he presses his hands against the outside of the window staring with a giant excited grin at the shocked boy on the other side. John's eyes looked sunken in, dark circles underneath of them, and his hair was mussed like he just woke up pieces sticking up everywhere even worse than his normal style. His clothes are a wrinkled mess and his lips cracked and swollen from him constantly chewing on them. "Dave?" He stares with wide blue eyes at the form before him. "Dave, you have no legs."

Dave laughs pulling the weird ghost-like formation that took up his lower half to show the boy. "Yeah... I don't really know why, the other lusus have them I guess I'm just special? Come on let me in!" John moves along the window, twisting the little handle in the center to open up the left side of the double window. Dave slips in awkwardly, getting stuck for a moment on his wings before getting it right and pushing himself through into the room. He grabs the exhausted looking boy and yanks him into a tight hug. "I'm so glad you're safe I've been so worried while I was stuck in that crappy underworld. Too much fog! It was like a damn fog factory I don't think it ever cleared up there... dude you look like shit have you even showered?"

John laughs half-heartedly sniffing his shirt before recoiling a bit and scratching the back of his head. "Well you've been gone for a month now... I didn't want to leave your side. You almost died man." Tears escaped from his blue eyes and he quickly scrubbed them away with the back of his hand. "I guess you did die..."

"What? No! I'm not dead. You can't kill a Strider! We're too cool to die." Dave scruffed John's hair with a soft smile. "I'm just kinda... Stuck outside my body right now! But that's why I'm here! Gonna get right back in that sexy bitch right now!" He floats over to the bed, a scowl of disgust spreading across his face at all the wires and tubes attached to his pale form lying across the mattress in front of him. He poked a clawed finger at his face, scowling when it hit solid and didn't absorb into it.

John watches from the window as Dave floats up into the air flipping over and flopping down on his body with an oomph. "Dave... I don't think this is working..."

"Fuck man be patient it will!" Dave floats back up and glares down at himself, pulling open his mouth carefully and trying to stuff his hand inside. "He can't resist me forever! No one can I got the strider charm!"

The door opens silently. "Hey kid I brought you some more cleaning supplies and deodorant you really need it... Dave?" Dave looks up from glaring down at his body, fingers still stuffed in his own mouth as he blinks over at Bro in the doorway.

"Bro!" Dave yanks his hand away and darts over to his brother clinging around his chest in a big hug. "Aw man Bro you wouldn't believe the shit I've seen down there!"

Bro stares down at Dave. "Dave... you're orange."

Dave huffs pushing away, his feathers fluffing up in annoyance. "What is wrong with you people! Is it so wrong to ask for a warm welcome home! Yes I'm a bird, yes I have no legs, yes I'm orange! I know this!"

"Dave why is there a giant cat outside the window?" John stares at the large pink nose pushing against the opened window.

Bro chuckles and ruffles Dave's hair. "I was wondering why there was a giant cat outside... She trying to eat you Lil man?"

Dave fixes his hair with a glare at the older Strider. "Pounce? Nah man she's all fluff and no bite... Which is ironic cuz she's got two mouths. She came back from the underworld with me. Wants to be a part of the Strider family I bet."

Bro raises a brow walking over to the window and looking into the bright green eyes of the cat outside. "Is she cool enough to be a Strider?"

Dave snorts. "She's a two story high cat with two mouths who can't hear a damn thing you say about her. What could possibly be cooler than that? Except us of course."

John walks over to the bed finally pushing the sleeping form's mouth shut again. "Am I cool enough to be a Strider?"

Bro snorts exactly as Dave had just a moment before and turns to the young boy. "Sorry Kid, a dork like you has to marry into the strider name." A bright red blush spreads across John's face as he glares down at Dave's sleeping form.

WEEEEEEEE Okay! Next chapter?
Roxy: Argue with your boyfriend

Karkat: Be really frustrated by the amount of annoying visitors you've been getting lately