Chapter 4 /•/ Spellbound
(Evan narration)
I helpd Arus into the cabin, limping as he flopped onto the bed, clutching his rib as an expression of pain wound through his face, grimacing as pain shot through him, as Rya dug for the medical kid, opening it, Bandages and Syringes (Used?) all spread around, watching as Rya pulled out an unused bandage.
"Evan, can you throw out the used items?" Rya pointed to me as she began to wrap it around Arus' waist.
I started to look into the case, picking out anything used and chucking it into the trash, clunking as they hit the bottom.
"Arus," Rya gasped, as she turned him around.
"Is that.." Wedge looked away.
"Thats a Pentagram," Talon reached to touch it, as Arus motioned her arm away.
"Wait, what?" He sputtered, feeling the scratches on his back s his eyes widened.
"Hariko," Arus growled, Rya finished putting the bandages as a Pentagram was scratched onto the bandages, Arus closed his eyes through the pain of it.
"Anyway, I need to pick up some stuff, anyone need to join?" Rya looked at us from near the doorway.
"Can I just stay here? Grab me a Wolverale," Arus muttered, as he climbed onto his bed.
"Sure, whatever," I rolled my eyes as I swung out the door.
"Wedge, go with them, I'll stay here," Talon pointed at Wedge, as he treaded to the doorway, Rya closing it as we turned to face the central boulevard.

(Arus narrative)
My dreams took over every sense as I drank the sleep vial, throwing it into the trash as my eyes closed and darkness took over. Resting on my bed as awaited dreams of killing Hariko, a picture of my sword through his gut flashed into my head as I dozed from conciousness.
I saw, nothing.
Completely nothing, it was all black.
Nothing at all.
A small red and yellow light was glittering in the distance, as I walked to it, I saw it was a being engulfed in flames.
Not Hariko, this being was clad in armor closely resembling a wolf.
"Who are you?" As I took a step closer, his face hidden by a visor.
"That is none of the importance," He looked at me, pointing a gloved hand at my back.
"The Pentagram," He growled, in a voice that would scare Evan to the point of fainting.
"What with it?" I turned around, looking at the Pentagram scratched in my bandage.
"The maker of it," Asking half-questions by luck I figured out.
"Hariko," I could tell under that visor his expression changed.
"Him, he must be destroyed, the mark gives you 2 weeks to live,"
"What? 2 Weeks?" I stepped up, he looked at me that if only eyes, could melt the core.
"The Pentagram shall take place in two weeks, kill Haroki, if you want to live," As he started to fade.
"WAIT! Who are you!?" I yelled back, he looked at me through his visor.
"Someone you'll know later," He seemed to smiled, as he disappeared and the dream ended, reality crashing like a anvil.

I woke up with a start as I could feel Talon staring at me like I had a rune on my back.
Yep, Pentagrams are runes.
"What happened?" She asked, walking over. I hate it when a girl mothers you.
"Nightmare," As i covered the sheets over myself.
"Well, I read the paper from the box, seems the last item is to be done two weeks from now," As my nerve snapped.
"Whats next?" As I looked at her.
"The Muntions Factory," That mark made a second nerve snap, "Dont worry, Wedge, Evan, and Rya are coming back."
"Thats a relief, when are we going?" I sat upright.
"Tommorow, we're waiting for your wound to heal," She took another look at it.
"You better put the importance on the Munition, we leave tonight," As I jumped from my bed, Talon half expecting me to collapse.
"Fine, I'll alert them," As she turned on her headset.
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I made it to help anyone interested in writing fanfic, you can read it. :)

Chapter Five \•\ Resolve
14 Days until Pentagram.
(Evan Narration)
"Hey guys, we're leaving to the Munitions factory tonight, hurry up," Talon blared over the headset.
"Okay, we're just picking up some rations," Rya responded, paying for some ingredients. (What ingredients? Not sure.)
Rya turned off the headset as she caught Wedge in the corner of her eye, talking to some girls. (Busted!)
"Wedge you-"
Rya stomped over, an expression resembling >:L covered her smile as what happened next was almost unbearable to see.
RYA CHOP! o.o
Rya, a look of utter destructive terror clung to her face, as I dragged Wedge over, passed out.
"Um.." I was going to say when Rya gave me a death-glare.
Conclusion: Rya was angry.

(Talon Narrative)
I tossed some Blaze Pepper and stirred whatever was in the pot, a spicy aroma clung to the stew like how the Pentagram clung to Arus' back. Adding Katnip and some Rock Salt, finally pouring the contents into 5 bowls, steaing as Rya came to help.
"Here, after dinner we leave," Taking a seat as we dug in, Wedge almost choked as he slurped all of it, in my mind I could picture him running around flames in his mouth.
"Wow, how did you learn how to cook?" Arus complimented, the stew vanished from his bowl.
"Somewhere," I shrugged, as he went to go back his belongings.
After a half hour or so, everyone finished and were packing up to leave, the Katnip taking effect.
"Ready?" Arus looked at us from the doorway.
"Yeah," Evan shrugged, putting on his bag as we headed out, walking a couple blocks until we reached the Muntion Elevator, everyone stepping on as I punched the button, the elevator shrieked and began to ascend.

(Arus narrative)
The elevator stopped at the muntion doors, a symbol of the Gremlin Crest with the Shock Insignia fused into it. Doors opened with a loud shriek as a "Welcoming" party appeared to greet us.
"Who are you?" One gaurd snapped, holding his wrench like a pike.
"In the name of king Celonius, we are stationed here at the factory," Evan stepped up, boasting himself.
"Oh-oh many apoligies, may I lead you to the Visitor Penthouse?" He bowed, stepping back and turning the other way.
"Yes," Talon hissed, following him through twists and turns all working on SOME peice of Project Roarmulus.
"Ah, here we go," He stopped at a bronze door, walking away as he gave me the keys.
Sliding the key into the hole, (DIRTY MINDED KNIGHTS!) I opened it to find a well made room with supporting structures, a closet, a small kitchen, as Talon examined the cookingware. I plopped onto one of the beds, the cushioning was very nice, as I felt the covers. Smoother than Silverweave.
"Wow, nice," As Wedge walked around, finding a fifth bed as he happily embraced it, almost bouncing and hitting the empty bed above him.
"The Katnip is starting to wear off.." Evan groggily commented, his eyes half open and lurching forward.
"Okay then, we need to get to sleep anyways, it's 3 in the morning," Rya climbed onto her Bunkbed, as Talon climbed into hers.
"I brought the Lockbox," Rya dug into her bag, pulling the unlocked box and reading the paper.
"Ok.. his attack here is scheduled tommorow, 5 0'clock, Pm," As Rya buried it into her bag, as I locked the door and fell asleep instantly.
For tommorow, we know nothing of what lies ahead.
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:)

i created the five characters based on people from my story!
Celonius
•Ruler of gremlins (Tinkenzar)
•Curious (Mote)
•Hostile to enemies, even friends (Necro)
Rya
•Cheers everyone up (Lana, Amber)
•Unaware someone likes her (Amber)
•Horrible cook (Kozma, Amber)
Wedge
•Stubborn (You know who you are)
•FAST (Tony, Dove)
•Clumsy (You know who you are)
Talon
•Great Cook (Lana)
•Medic (Bloodless)
•Crush On Arus (Wait.. say WHAT?! O_o)
Evan
•Brash (Dusk, Alex, Genome, Mystic)
•Soloist (Practically all of us >_>)
•Food lover (Burp)
•Melee and Ranged (Chuck)

......lol..

Chapter Six |•| Munition Patrol
(Evan Narration)
Talon shook me awake as the sound and smell of breakfast stalled my senses.
"Wakey wakey, lest you want your breakfest served cold!" Rya called cheerfully, practically beaming wth cheerfulness.
She was really cheerful.
Like.. really.
Really.. really. cheerful. :D
Um.. forget that part happened, so let us now kill the narrator!
What?
Nothing.
>_>
Okay, where was I again? Oh, Rya.
I grumbled out a soup of letters that may have included, "FINEOKBEQUIETALREADY."
Plopped down from the bed, narrowly missing Arus as he sat upright uncapping a bottle of Wolverale.
"Sheesh, not a morning person?" Talon sighed, taking a seat at the table as she set something on our plates.
(SOMETHING STRIKES AGAIN!!!)
Seconds of getting ready turned into minutes, as everyone nodded and headed out the door, closing with a thud as we planned to scout the area.
"Evan, I think you can go solo, go check out the testing area," As Arus pointed to a corridor leading to that large room knights run through attempting to destroy project roarmulus.
"Wedge, Talon, you scout the programming area, and Rya, you come with me and we'll scan the building area, clear?" Arus finished, as he pointed to the directions they would be going to.
I started to sprint in the direction of the area, locating the empty platform as two large to-be-tested Roarmuli stood on either side. Taking a seat near he entranceway, I noticed a maroon marking on one of them. Taking a closer look, it was a Pentagram.
"Uh guys.." I turned on the headset, to only find that the antenna was broken. I was about to run out when both gates immeadiately closed with a loud thud, and peircing the air that was there seconds before.
"Heheheh.." A low cackle snapped my senses as I turned my head to one of the Roarmuli, finding Hariko holding a remote and sitting on the edge.
"Never give up, do you?" Cackling as he began to jam buttons as the Roarmuli sprang to life, instead of blue-green eyes became a dreaded maroon, where there were Red Trimming there was Dark Magenta.
"Acursed Roarmlus.." Hariko glared deeply, as the one behind me started to fire.
"Crap.." Starting to run, mostly because they MOVED.
I tried to fire streams of bullets into it, but only to find that it had no effect.
"Surrender," Hariko reached his hand out.
"Hmm.. NO," Yelling as I fired a bullet at his head.
The bullet made impact, but he was still alive.
He was standing there, with a hole in his head and whatever part he had left was smiling.
He gigglied maniacally, (yes, you can giggle and be creepy at the same time)
and positioned both roarmuli on either side of the platform, near the gates.
"Hmph, stupid robots cant do it right," As he pressed another button, the roarmuli fired lasers blocking the doorways, jumping out of the way in tjme for Hariko to step into the middle, taking out his sword as his glare worsened, bringing his weapon out, setting it to a charge.

No one like my fanfic?
This makes me sad. :(

Chapter Seven /•/ Holy Crap! It's TUNA!

13 Days until Pentagram.

(Hariko Narrative)
Evan lurched backwards, the edge of my blade nearly missing him as he pointed both guns, gold and purple parallel side by side as bullets streamed like water, narrowly missing the river of intertwined colors as macabre shades of red and purple charged projectiles leapt from my sword in a mad frenzy.
"Evan!" I turned my head to see Arus, along with some of his friends clutching the bars of the gate.
"It's locked," Evan panted, dodging a projectile as a lucky his landed on his back, sending him into the floor.
"Nobody ever said we were going to open it properly," Wedge waved his Graviton and started to charge, while Arus began to fire at the laser transmits on th Roarmulus blocing the gate.
"Ha! You think you can win with that kind of weapon?" I laughed maniacally as I pressed my foot against Evan's chest, he heaved in and out in short gasps as the point of my weapon met his gaze.
"We're coming!" An awfully cheerful voice invaded every nerve I had as the gate was being ripped from it's welding, absorbed by the graviton.
I was about to bring my sword into Evan's face, before what registered as a hammer crashed through my left rib cage, pushing me off from him as the wielder gave me a death-glare.
"Arus.." Hissing as the hole in my head soon healed.
"Thats my name, holebag," One of the gremlins stood up, a strange gun-sword in his hands.
"You can't win this fight," Making sure my voice included a backbone, some baritone, and enough venom to kill an army.
"Watch me," He growled, leaping forward pointing his sword's gunbarrel at my stomach, nearly shooting before I sent a wave of energy into his underside, blowing him upwards and crashing into the platform, shaking to get up as he trembled from tension.
"I need nothing of this," As the Pentagram on the Roarmuli began to glow, until a black light swallowed the chasis, leaving behind a grey and dull statue of the in their place, their energies being absorbed from the Pentagram, until the one on my sword gleamed with new profound energy.
"Get back here!" What sounded like a female shook my senses as I turned around, one rushing to me with a Staff in both hands.
"You cannot win this," Growling as my sword crackled with the power of the Roarmulus, sending a shockwave into her as she was thrown back.

(Talon Narrative)
Thrown against the floor by a sudden rush of electricity installed shocking and seizuring into my body, you could tell how much that hurt. Arus rushed over, trying to help me back up as we looked at Hariko.
"Who are you, and what do you want?" Arus snarled.
"I am Hariko Umino, the fifth heir to Vanaduke's throne, I wish to use the power of the Pentaseal to unleash the power of the swarm," Hariko flashed a drippy smile, befoe starting to walk away. Nobody said anything else, as Hariko soon disappeared from view.

/Back At The Cabin/

I slumped onto my bed with a couple broken bones, watching as everyone fell onto theirs with sleepiness installed in their eyes.
"Anyone hungry?" I began to the kitchen, as everyone's hands shot up.
"Uh oh," Frowning as I opened the cabinets.
"What?" Arus ran over, eyes widening as we looked inside.
"(Censooored!)!!!!!!!!!" He screamed.
"WHO TOOK ALL OF THE CANNED FOOD?!" I yelled, glaring at Wedge, Arus, and Evan in particular.
"Wait, Talon, they didnt," Rya put her hand on my shoulder, looking at their dumbfounded faces.
"If they did, there would bound to be trash SOMEWHERE," She brought up the garbage bin, almost nothing inside.
"Jelly stains?" Evan kneeled down next to a pink tread of slime near the window.
"Whatever it is, it's gone," He finished.
"What? No food?" An expression resembling >:L covered over Wedge as he slumped on his bed.. again.
"Afraid so," I walked back to my bag, ad started to unpack my belongings.
"Next stop tommorow, The Academy," Rya reported, fainting on her pillow immeadiately.
"Got it," As we all simply fell onto our beds.

Chapter Eight /•/ A Dozen Ways to Die

Pentagram takes affect in 12 days.

Wedge nearly broke his head trying to get out the door, not so much for me or Talon. Evan and Rya though, lets just say we're glad we didn't make the doorframe METAL. Grabbing Buckshot as we scurried out the streets, using memory to find out where the Academy was, the training and education center for all Crimson Army troops. Finding it in the district of the crowd, I could see memories of us walking through the gates. Well, except for Evan, who was dragged here by Talon and me. I could still see his claw-marks on the asphalt.
"Ah, the good'll Academy," Wedge proclaimed, beaming with pride as we walked into the building. Recruits and Veterans of the 'school' were shocked to see people like us come in.
"Name, and your business here," A gaurd with a hefty-looking hammer shot in front of us, giving us a glare Hariko's would overpower by a watt.
"We are graduates, and stationed here as order from King Celonius," Evan waved his guns for the crowd to see, oohs and ahs waved in and out from whatever sounds anything else made.
"My apologies," He bowed and went back against the door.
"We'll need to make an announcement to everyone here, we have to warn them," Wedge looked at the gremlins looking at us with esteemed curiousity.
"Hey, because we're graduates, why dont we just go to the front office and use the loudspeaker?" Rya commented, scanning the halls for the office door.
"Good, and we'll get everyone to leave," Thinking of a strategy to evacuate everyone from the building.
We agreed, finding the doors of the office, knocking as a "come in" spoken by a stern voice answered.
Looking at eachother, we nodded and opened the doors, a gremlin with glasses and a clipboard greeted us, directing to the Ruling General of the Academy.
"Ah, nice to see you again," The general looked up from his paperwork, smiling as he got up and shook me by the hand, trademarking himself by squeezing my fist.
"Good to see you, but we will need for all the student to leave immeadiately," Wedge warned, the general giving him a confused look.
"What? Why?" He threw his hands up to the ceiling.
"There is a great danger coming, and if you dont let the students out, everyone shall perish," Evan sternly ordered.
"A great danger? Usually if this is a student, I would call it off a prank and suspend them, but since this is you guys, i wont take the risk," the General gave a warm smile, which from the general, is rarer than Evan taking a bath.
"Ok, it's on," He handed the mike over.
"Attention any and all persons in the building, I ask that you evacuate through the back doors into the fields immeaditely, bring any items you dont risk leaving behind, that means weapons and bombs, please do so immeadiately!" My orders boomed through the halls, as students streamed out ttheit lockers, as swords were brought out and bombs were set on a safety switch.

/2 Minutes later/

Everyone was out, the halls were eerily quiet as the General walked out his office, his sword dragged on the ground.
"I think that's everyone," He looked across the barren building.
Just so a defeaning explosion sending purple mist bursting through one hall snapped whatever few nerves I had left.
"Protect the school, we cant let much damage be done," The General pleaded, and flung his finger to the figure stepping from the mist. Hariko.
"Ah, the General, what ledership you have," seeming to compliment him.
"Yes, i do but what do you want and what do your wishes?" He stepped up, holding his iron-clad sword in the ligt, reflecting it in an odd way.
"To kill all gremlins with great character, so I shall absorb their character and us them as my own," As he pointed to me, the Pentagram on my back shone brigter, as pain wnced thrugh my body. Then, it all went black. Absolutely black.

Chapter Ten /o/ General Makeup

YOU HAVE 12 DAYS LEFT

(Arus Narrative)
The yelling of a certain person woke me from the darkness, Rya, Talon, and Wedge materialized in my blurry vision, as Hariko, the General, and Evan in the distance were trading steel, Evan furiously firing his guns agrily in attempt to draw away the Hariko, who was busy dodging every bullet that exploded from his gunbarrels. At last, by luck, Hariko sent a devastating beam of energy careening by Evan's feet, blowing him in our direction as he blacked out.
"Eh, lets make this quick," As Hariko sent a purple wall of flames to block us from him and the General, who was laying next to a locker, his sword broke in half.
"No.." Wedge sighed, attempting to run through the wall only to be pushed back and be set aflame.
The General inclined his head, and looked at us in the distance, giving a look when a man knows his time is over.
"Bye," He almost smiled, before Hariko brought his sword down, as we looked away, as his last bloodcurdling scream filled the air.
.
. .
. . .
"I told you Arus.. you can't win this war," I opened my eyes, Hariko upon me with everyone else pushed back.
I remained silent, as he began to walk away, leaving us in dispair and sorrow, as he finally vanished from a corner in the buiding, as we looked at eachother.
"Arus.." Talon sighed, looking at the dead General's body on the floor.
"You and Rya get everyone back inside, Wedge, Evan, you help me with his body," As they stared at me in confusion.
"It's for the best," Wedge sighed, and in a minute or two, it was almost like there wasn't a death at all.
The students going to whatever class they needed, the Veterans walking around pushing the recruits aside. Rya looked at me worriedly, putting her hand on my shoulder.
"Lets go home," As we nodded, and let the pain of his death roll down our shoulders.
What was done, was done.

/THAT KNIGHT/ *

Talon quietly placed the food on the table, Wedge falling from his bed to get to the table. Evan scrambled from tweaking his gun, tripping on a cog as he landed on the floor, I smirked quietly as I brightened up a bit.
"Whats on the list next?" Talon curiously asked Rya, as she looked up from her book. (of TORTURE!!!)
"The gremlin castle," As we practically fainted from shock.
"Eat up, we're going to wake up early, VERY early," As Evan started to scarf down every morsel he could lay his hands on.
In that case, not very much, 'cause Rya still had her hammer.
"What were you doing to your gun?" Wedge looked up from his food.
"Making the energy accumulators more efficient, mostly speaking, it takes the msit energy from the air and condenses it into a liquid, but since it's mostly 15% liquid ammo, im oging to tweak it so it's 5% liquid, but there it also the chance of the energy stabilizer malfunctioning due to-" Evan was interuppted, apparantly the only thing he applies studying to was his weapons.
"CAN WE GET TO A PERIOD!?" Rya screamed, steaming as we looked at her for a second, before we all burst out laughing.
"." Wait.. WHAT THE HE-
...
Curses, we broke fourth wall.
Anyways, after an hour or so, everyone was situated for sleep.
"Hey Rya," I heard Wedge warmly speak in the dark as I turned the light off.
"Yep?" Her cheerful voice filled the room.
"Um.. nothing.." Wedge interuptted himself.
"Ok.." Rya seemed to stammer, before dozing off to sleep.
"Darnit.. she's so nice.. " Wedge practally whispers with a microphone, he was lucky that Rya was asleep.
"You.. LIKE HER!?" Evan mockingly whispered in the dark.
"Of course I do!" Wedge snapped back, before we both heard Rya shuffle in her covers.
"Shut up,"
"Agreed,"
And with that, we end the day.
With Wedge trying to protect whatever shred of dignity left. :P

Chapter Twelve /o/ Castle Corruption

YOU HAVE 11 DAYS

(Wedge Narrative)

"Why should I betray my friends for you?" The Graviton was fully charged, begging to be used.
"Are they really your friends?" Hariko shrugged.
"They.." My voice trailed off, deep in thought.
"Plus, you can get Rya to love you," Those words struck a vulnerable nerve, expression: >:L
"Rya is none of your business," Pointing my Graviton to him, Hariko wasn't intimidated at all.
"Is she? You might as well lose her to Arus and Evan," Anger started to boil in my nerves, hotter than Blaze Pepper.
I remained silent, and placed my bomb back into it's pocket in my Bandolier.
"All you need to do, is to side with me," Hariko reached his hand out, the dark aura surrounding it screamed, "DONT DO IT!"
Every nerve I had said, "DO IT!" as I could feel my hand reaching out to him.
"You wont regret this," Hariko sneered, as he grasped my palm in his.
"This better be worth it," An expression resembling T_T stared at Hariko.
"It will," As he let go of my hand.
"I hope so-" I was about to continue, when my hand turned a dark black, fading from color.
"What?!" Staring at my hand, void of color, and fading into a depressing obsidion.
"You shall side with me," Hariko smiled maliciously.
The black spread to my arm, feeling numb as I swung it around.
You have done the right choice.. the Swarm of redemption shall be in your favor.. Wedge.. A voice deep enough to drive madness into one's mind raced through my head.
"GAAAAAAAH!" Screaming as I covered both ears with my hands, falling to my knees as the blackness spread to my arms and legs, finally coming to my neck.
"Wedge, you shall never forget, nor regret this turn in fate," As Hariko smiled with glee and madness, soon he faded from view as the Swarm soon took over my whole body, my vision failing as my conciousness soon eroded from use.

(Arus Narrative)

"Rya, seen anything?" Shouting over to Rya through the hall, turning back she yelled.
"Nope," Shrugging as we ran to the next hallway, nothing Necromatical.
"Geez, the paper said Hariko would be here 5 minutes ago, " Rya complained, looking at everything in the hallway.
"AAH!" A loud scream filled the halls, if anything other than Evan's screams, I wouldn't care at the least.
I nodded to Rya, who nodded back, as we started to run in direction of the throne room.

/5 minutes later/

"Wedge?" Opening the doors to find a being, all black and grey, who wore and looked like Wedge, his bandolier filled with bombs and a Graviton in his hand.
"..Arus.." He turned around, gasping as his eyes were burning with hatred and madness, Evan took a step forward, but I motioned him to move back.
"What are you doing?" Evan spoke up, pointing both guns at him.
"Guess what, Arus?" He started to charge his Graviton, energy flowing into it like a flood.
"What?" I grasped my sword in a backhand.
"Hariko was here, and now I know which side I needed to choose, farewell," As the charge completed, as he threw the bomb towards us, luckily we jumped out of the way for a black hole to crater the floor.
"Wedge! Snap out of it!" Rya ran up to him, attempting a sidestrike with her hammer, missing as Wedge backstepped, throwing his Ash of Agni and his Shivermist Buster in two directions, freezing Evan waist down as I jumped out of the way of a fiery cloud of flames.
"Where's the king?!" Evan snarled, firing into the ice block that held him to the floor.
"See for yourself," As he directed his finger to a body in the corner, a pentagram floating above it.
"No..." Talon gasped, grabbing her staff with both hands, and started to charge an Ember Bolt.
"YES!" Wedge screamed, firing the Venom Veiler and the Stagger Storm at her, missing as she jumped out of the way in time for the poison to erode the floor, burning it.
"Heck no!" I yelled, rebounding off a wall and striking him clean in the back, he staggered backwards and smiled maliciously.
"Wedge.." I sighed, as he picked himself up.
"Where's the prince!?" Rya yelled, dragging her hammer into a battle stance.
"Dont worry about me, we need to take care of him first!" A cheerful voice behind us registered as the prince, swords in both hands.
"We won't, and Tinkenzar, hide somewhere safe," Evan motioned him to move back.
Tinkenzar disappeared from view, as we turned to face Wedge.
"What!?" Talon looked around, nothing but an empty room full of dead bodies.
"He's.. gone," Rya sobbed.

HOLY CRAP I DIDNT WRITE A CHAPTER IN A LONG TIME O-O
Chapter Fourteen /o/ Streeting

YOU HAVE 9 DAYS

(Arus narrative)
Hanging my head down as I glanced at the spot where Wedge used to sleep, now empty. It hurt to look.
"What's on the list next, Rya?" She looked up from something.
"The-" She was about to say, when a signature flash of crimson light flooded the room.
"The Valestone Archives," A mysterious being spoke, once again.
"Can we call you something?" Evan looked up from his gun, twiddling it in his hands.
"Vee, got it memorized?" (LOL! KINGDOM HEARTS!)
"Okay, Vee, how do you know all of this?" Talon walked form nowhere.
"Hariko and I had a rough history, now then, dont you have somewhere to go?"
"Why?" Evan shrugged grabbing a screwdriver from the table.
"The Valestone archives is home of the Tome of Destruction, where Hariko will absorb it and learn the spell of Chaos," Evan almost dropping his screwdriver when the last words were spoken.
"WHAT?!" Yelling, as Vee gave me an astonished look.
"Hariko has absorbed the soul of the Great Mender, which grants him the ability to use it," We stared at him in disbelief.
"So.. if he gets the book, learns it, we're all screwed?" Evan popped open the barrel of his gun.
"Yep," As Talon took a seat next to me.
"So.. what're we supposed to do?" Evan took out his magnifying lens headpeice, wearing it around his head as he focused on the gears.
"You can't kill Hariko, only slumber him, so you need to gaurd whatever he is trying to get, before he can get it," Vee explained.
"What about Wedge? What do we do about him?" Rya asked, standing in front of Vee.
"Nothing, he's evil and a mortal, so you can easily kill him," News I didn't want to hear.
"Um, what?" Talon tilted her head, "did you just say we'll have to kill Wedge?"
"You have ears that can listen, and brains that can understand, dont you?"
"No, we can't," Pleading as Evan removed a dangerous looking piece from the gunbarrel.
"Well, we tried and failed," Evan "cheered" us up a bit.
"Well, my time is almost over," Vee shrugged, starting to fade as Evan grabbed a Gremlin Gizmo from his toolkit.
"WAIT!" Rya took a step forward to grab Vee by the shoulder, but he disappeeared without another word.
Silence fell among the room for a moment, until the sound of a tiny explosion rocked the room, as we shot a glance at Evan, his face black with soot.
"Wrong wire," He shrugged slightly, and got up to grab a washcloth.
I stared at Rya and Talon for a second, as she both hang their heads downward, Evan came back and decided to do the thing right and finish reformulating the gun.
"Rya.." I walked forward, placing a hand on her shoulder, she nudged my hand away.
"When is the Valeston Archives going to be stormed?" Facing her, eyes red as she sobbed.
"Tommorow, 12 o'clock," As she wiped tears from her eyes.
"We'll be there, 11 o'clock," Walking away, as she grabbed mine.
"No, you and Talon go, I have thinking I need to do here," She sobbed yet again, her once cheerful eyes full of sorrow and confusion, her expression asked, "Wedge? Why?" Mine couldn't answer.
"Are you okay?" Talon walked from behind.
"Yes, leave me be, I'll go get some supplies for tommorow, and I'll get dinner," Rya grabbed her bag as she walked out the door, a sad silence quieting the room as her being left the building. Talon gave me a worried look.
"Um.. Talon," As Evan's voice broke the still quiet.
"Yeah-" She was about to say, when her eyes widened aat the sight of Evan, apparantly a loose gear went haywire, and leapt from the gunbarrel, embedding itself in Evan's arm.
"Evan.. I dont think you can come with us tommorow," As Talon took a look at the wound, blood seeping out at a steady rate, she took some forceps and grasped the tiny gear, the thin plating sharp and shiny. Placing the reddened machine part on the table, she bandaged Evan's arm as she walked to the kitchen.
"Go to bed Evan," Talon ordered, smart not to annoy her too much, Evan crawled into his covers.

(Rya Narration)
The bag of groceries felt like nothing as mixed feelings of which side I should choose filled my head with unforgiving thoughts and reccomendations, all of that broken as I looked at the newspaper.
WERE-TROJAN FOUND ROAMING IN THE THIRD DEPTH, PRECAUTIONS HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO KEEP HIM FROM COMING
I shrugged, never to trust Bird Newspapers.

Chapter Fifteen /o/ Library Trip

YOU HAVE 8 DAYS

(Wedge narrative)
Overlooking the Great Colony, Hariko nodded slowly to me as he held up his sword in the flourescent light.
"The Valestone Archives," He growled, pointing to the East End of the Great Colony.
"What? A library trip?" Looking at him with confusion.
"Its not just a library, the Tome of Destruction, the book that has the Spell of Chaos, if we can get the book, my plans shall be finished," He laughed maniacally, still looking at him with confusion.
"Its a book, if I get it, I win," Finally everything became clear as Chroma Tears.
"We go in Thirty Minutes, ready yourself," As he got up from the ledge, so did I.
"Wedge, your Bandolier," As he stuck his dark hand forward, ethereal black aura clung around it. Strapping off the Bandolier, and handing the slack over, he grabbed it with both hands, letting the tip touch the floor as his body began to turn black and purple, obsidion and violet flames leapt from his hand onto my Bombs, yet they didn't explode.
"What're you doing to that?!" I yelled, rushing forward, then the flames gave way to a Bandolier Black and Dark, the nothing much changed except that the Graviton looked like it could rip the fabric of space and time.
"Abbadon Graviton," Hariko firmly stated, handing the Bandolier back to me as I juggled the bomb around my paws.
"Wow.." Looking at the bomb from many directions.
"It also gives you protection," Hariko walked a few meters back, and picked up a small stone.
"What?" Shrugging as he pegged the rock at my face. I tried to cover myself with my arms but I found a dark shield formed around me, shattering the rock upon impact.
"It works most of the time, but not all of the time, and plus, only projectiles," Hariko pointed out, nice to know.
"So i wont meet my death by Evan, buy I'll meet my death by Arus?"
Hariok shrugged, and walked in another direction. I took another look at the Great Colony, grinning grimly as I went to go ready myself for the hour ahead.

(Arus Narrative)
Rya was extermely quiet, her usually-sunny disposition now covered in sorrow. I couldn't say I could blame her.
"Talon," Evan motioned, laying on the bed with the bandage over his arm.
"Its ok Evan, Rya will stay with you," Talon patted him on the arm, grabbing her staff and healing him one more time.
"Sure you guys are ready?" Rya piped up, grabbing a pot of a steaming something and setting it onto the table.
"Yeah," Answering as I grabbed Burning Buckshot by the handle, a ready warmth radiating like sunlight. We headed out the door to hear Rya say something,
"Okay Evan! Open up wide!" Was what we heard, than what sounded like a lid being opened fell among the room.
"Noooooo!" Evan snarled, hearing the bedpost bed and flex as he was squirming, shrugging as we ran in the direction of the Valestone Archives, or in other words, a really big library. Gremlins young and old pointed and stared, at the duo traveling to the Library of all places, reaching the doorsteps as the sign decorated with Valestone Shards gave a steady green glow.
"Hello, and welcome to the Valestone Archives, how may I help you?" A deep voice shot through my nerves as I faced a tall and robust gaurd, his staff glowing with energy.
"We are stationed here from the Prince himself, the King was slaughtered, and that same threat is coming to steal the tome of Destruction," Answering back as I pointed Burning Buckshot at him, he backed away slowly before nodding.
"Elmas! Restriction pass!" He shouted over, and a female gremlin carrying a clip-board came running to us, a slip with a bar-code on the side, she handed it over before running off in another direction.
"The Restricted area is all the way in the back," The gaurd sternly pointed out, directing his finger past aisles of books and tomes.
"Okay, thank you," Talon took a look at the pass, saluting as we began our way past the table with studying gremlins, many whom are scholars.
Past a dozen intersections with books and staricases, finally reaching a metal door with a scanner instead of a doorknob.
"The pass," As Talon scanned the bar code under the red light, an "access confirmed" sound beeped from the speaker, and the door slid open, a musky and dusty draft or air sitting there for decades left the chamber with a swirling arc. We took a flight of steps down, a handrail decorated in gold and soulwood lined the staircase as rows of aincient and mysterious tomes decorated the shelves, walls, some even had their individual stands on the floor. We reached a clearing where in the middle, a Violet stand sitting there with a crystaline dome over it, a dozen locks secured the glass to the stand, to hold what was inside.
"The Tome of Destruction," Talon looked at it from different angles, the book with a gold and leather trimmage, a metal skull with Crimsonite eyes shiny like it was used yesterday, gave it an unsettling tone in the atmosphere.
"We can't break the lock," She pointed to the number of locks securing it.
"Yeah we can," Grabbing Burning Buckshot by the handle, and carefully guiding it's blade an inch or two above the locks, they melted into pools of metal, Talon shrugged and carefully took the lid off, setting it on the floor as an air older than Celonius was released from it's hold. Talon took her paw over the book, grabbing it by it's spine as a Dark and Steady Aura caused Talon's eyes to widen.
"We can't let Harkio get this," As she flipped the cover page.
"What's in it?" Looking over to see pages and pages of evil sorcery, written by being bent on destroying the universe, or at least Cradle.
"Woah.." Talon looked at it again, pointing to a page labeled, "The Spell of Destruction,"
The page was mostly Pentagrams, each one showing a body inside. Runes and text almost faded from view danced around the page, each one a piece for the ultimate weapon.
"Should we burn it?" As Talon set it on the table.
"No, no you shouldn't," A heart-stopping voice filled the chamber.
"HARIKO!" Talon yelled, grabbing her staff quickly as Wedge appeared behind him.
"Hands off the book, and we won't do harm.. much," Wedge smirked walking forward with an ominous bomb in between his paws.
"Seems you got a new toy to play with," Backing as he pointed his bomb at me in a failed-intimidating way.
"Yep, and it has a high-setting, it's the only one it got," Wedge laughed, walked forward as Harkio followed in suite.
"Talon, take the book and run," I whispered to her, she nodded and slowly reached for the book.
"Give it," Harkio snarled, pointing his blade at my throat, scary? No.
"Fat chance, Talon! RUN!" Yelling as she burst off into the back. I turned to see a blade coming my way, holding my sword up as it slammed into mine, a loud clang burst the air's silence as Harkio yelled back.
"Wedge! Get her!" Wedge nodded, and ran off in another direction.
"Hmph, I'll deal with you first," Harkio snarled, pushing me into a bookcase as a spellbook bounced on the floor.
"Back off Hariko, I have a spellbook," Pointing it too him as I flipped to a random page.
"So do I, but I memorized it," Harkio gave the following expression. T_T
"HAMIARA" Yelling a random incantation as a bright light faded my senses, taking advantage I threw the book back at him as the light wore off, me in another aisle.
"Spellplay eh?" He roared.
"LUNAMORA!" He snarled, a loud explosion blew me into another bookcase as the others fell like dominoes, me stuck in between one.
Hariko smirked slightly, my sword a couple meters away from my hands, apparantly another spellbook wasnt. Grabbing the book as a Sword Emblem was decorated on the cover.
"VARIQUEZ!" As I pointed the book to him, a sword leapt from the pages nearly impaling him before he backstepped.
"Really? A weaponist spell?" Hariko smiled jokingly.
"No, take a look," As I pointed to the sword right behind him.
"CRAP-" He was interupted as I commanded the sword to swing and overhead, Hariko clanging it dumbly as I crawled from under the bookcase.
"Geez, Spellplay FTW!" Laughing as I grabbing Burning Buckshot from the ground.

Chapter Sixteen /o/ Undone

YOU HAVE 8 DAYS

(Wedge narrative)
I could've sworn I felt some thoughts turn and eyes stare as I walked the streets home, alone with only Arus and his silent aura to comfort me.
"Arus, it's ok, we can get her back," Trying to level his mood with something nice.
Arus answered back with only a grey silence, oddly he was never this quiet. Reaching the doors of our cabin, the familiar driftwood ironwood reinforced safety door greeted me with someone opening it. Evan was still alerted when he saw me at his doorstep, a ! went off in his head and the person who came following after.
"Rya, im so sorry," I placed my hand on her shoulder, smiling as her expression apologized for me.
"Wedge, what made you change your mind?" Evan walked in, insecurity written all over his face.
"I thought about it,"

(FLASHBACK)
A critical hit with the book to the face unlevened my concentration, my hand dropped and so did my conciousness.
"Heh, not the right choice..." A faded voice thrilled my head until I blacked out, the rythmic throbbing of my head the one to greet me.
"Hello.. Wedge, " A deep voice echoed my thoughts.
"Who are you?" Random thoughts whizzed around my head.
"My name is Vee," A twinkling red light transformed into a Burning-Wolver clad somebody, his arms outstretched in a way to look like he's a cross.
"Vee?" Tilting my head.
"Are you really going to join Hariko over your friends?" Vee answered, a grim tone was settled in his voice.
"But Hariko would have given me what I deserved, respect, and power," I stepped forward, a steady heat emenating from his armor.
"Hariko is just going to steal your soul, like he did to the general and your friend in the future, " An alarm set in my head rang like a scream, a scream that screamed screams of screaming terror that screamed with utterly screaming terror. And did I mention? It screamed with terror.
"You might want to give this to Arus, he will need it," As he gave me what looked like a simple looking box, wooden.
"How would you know this?" I took another step forward.
"I would know," He started to fade away.
"What do i do now?" I asked before he faded into blackness.
"Your choice," And with that, he faded away again, my conciousness coming back to me like an anvil. A huge anvil. An anvil heavier than Ironwood. Waking up with a start, Talon and the Tome nowhere in sight.
"Vee, I understand now," As I ran to the doorway, the sound of a battle already riling my senses.

(NORMAL TIME)
"You met Vee?" Arus took a seat on his bed, Evan sitting above him.
"Yep, and plus, he gave me something for you," As I reached into my bag, pulling out the wooden box with a rune on the "top".
"Huh? Whats this?" As I handed it over, Arus turning it in different ways.
"Dunno," As I rested my head on my pillow on the floor, a familiar scent of notbeingwashed filled my nostrils.
"Take a good sleep guys, we dont know what might happen tommorow, at the Energy Plant.
"Crap," Evan growled, as he jumped down the bed and headed for the kitchen, dinner on the table.
Yep, i was home.

(Talon Narration)
I woke up with a jolt of spazzams in my spinal chord, aching as what registered as a hold on my foot held me to the floor. Wedge wasn't here at the moment, good god.
"You see, I have the power to drain anything I want from a living being," An alarming voice rattled my nerves.
"That includes, memory, power, strength, even thoughts if needed," Turning to face Hariko, his sword bloodstained and more devious than ever.
"But, problem is, if I do even one of them, the soul follows after," He shrugged, walking towards me.
"Guess what? Your the only one with the spell in their memory," Hariko grunted, taking a step so close he was standing over me.
"One more problem, im going to need some energy in order to do that, so the next place we're going tommorow, the Energy Plant," Hariko stared at the Great Colony.
"Sleep tight," As he waved his hand over me, my vision failing as I felt myself drift asleep.

THE WAY I SHALL WRITE SOMETIMES NOW ON WILL BE COPYRIGHTED.
I am going to try something new, music while reading.
You know, like putting music in a scene to better put depth and reality in it.
FOR EXAMPLE, i shall make music links in the beginning before the title.
For example... yes, they will be youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3gyP6UKrO0 (1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGoOtSPMQlc&feature=related (2)
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NOTE THE NUMBERS, when you see a number like the labels after the links, that will be when to play the music. When you see the Number again, that means to stop playing it. You open them in another tab. :) enjoy!
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Example Chapter /0/ Tune Time

(1) (Arus Narrative)
Ducking backward as a Maniken Soldier attempted a swipe with it's claws, narrowly missing as I slumped against the ground, the Maniken upon me as it jumped into the air, sticking it's claws under itself as I rolled out of the way, it's claws still embedded in the ground.
"Heck, ive dealth with nasties ten times worse than you," Hoping it had ears of some sort. In this case, it COULD have heard me, I pulled out Burning Buckshot in time for another set of Claws to be coming straight forward, I blocked the thrust and grabbed his arm, pulling forward to me as I extended my blade, the tip sinking neatly into it's sides, one way in, one way out. I pulled my blade away and proceeded onto the next area.

I was greeted by a forward charge of a pair of trojans, one slamming his sword into the ground while I crept behind it, not noticing until it's partner attempted a strike, instead of hitting me embedded it's blade into the trojan's head, falling down as I leapt behind him to escape a charge. I fired a bullet into his crystal, anger visable in his expression pooled as he charged yet again, instead of hitting me slammed into the wall. The wall didn't give way, instead, the trojan broke into pieces like glass on a metal floor. The next door opened up, and a couple lasers from a Isotrode squadron alerted some senses. Dodge-rolling out of the way to smack into the trojan's sword, still sticking out of the ground.
"Lets try this instead," Grunting as I heaved all the strength I could use grabbing the handle of the blade, it appeared again as it came out of the ground. I slung it in a backhand position, aiming carefully as the Isotrodes began to charge yet again.
"EAT THIS!" Yelling as I used all the power my arms could muster, flinging the sword into the squad, heads broke and wires snapped. It was almost too easy, as I ran through and through more rooms of random monsters. (1)

(2)(Rya narrative)
I stared in awe at the beings in the room.
Hariko, otherwise laying in one corner, as I stared into the other.
Evan and Wedge's bodies lifeless as a memory of them fighting together to protect me rattled my nerves, mostly my heart.
"Wedge.." I muttered, placing my hand on my chest as my heart sounded like battle drums, rythmic thumps of sorrow and anger fueled my disposition. I grabbed my hammer, and walked to Hariko, his eyes widening as he stared deeply at me.
"You.." He stammered, his sword broken in half.
"You know who they were to me?!" I yelled, swinging my hammer forward as he leapt backwards, landing cleanly.
"Nobody," As more and more anger filled my heart with flooding bloodlust.
"THEY WERE FAMILY TO ME!" Yelling at the top of my lungs, bringing my hammer down and creating chasms in the ground, it shook unevenly.
"So what? Not MY loss," Hariko sneered.
"IT'LL BE YOUR LOSS WHEN I TAKE YOUR LIFE!" Pictures of them during my childhood flashed in my head like a fast forward button.
"Like when? 3 years from now?" Hariko laughed again, fueling me with twisted thoughts. I swung forward and forward again and again, missing and missing as a goal to avenge my friends seemed almost helpless. Hopeless almost, as the thoughts in my corner of my mind started to creep on me.
You cant do it.. Brushing it off, as more and more insults and demoralization hurt my heart. I couldn't do it.
"You give up?" He mocked happily. Dropping my hammer as it felt like a ton. I remained silent, as he walked forward to me. Images of whatever happiness I had left fell into dust, my sorrow for them soon overtook my strength. (2)
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So? Good or what? :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObOlaqhYGkw&feature=relmfu (1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3jjrTZH9A8&feature=relmfu (2)

CHAPTER 18 /0/ Energy Burst

YOU HAVE 7 DAYS

(Evan Narration) (1)
"Well, we looked every single corner of this power plant at least twice," Flipping my gun.
"You don't know where He just as well pop up next,"
"Mmm hmm?" Wedge chimed in, juggling his bombs threatening to go off. Some ramble of a heated discussion between two workers turned my head towards them.
"I told you! I didn't do graffitti!" One yelled.
"Than who else would draw a Pentagram on the Main Reactor?! Don't you know that it can kill us all!?" The other one yelled back.
"Dont even say it," I smirked, running off ahead of everyone else through a maze of wires and fuel gauges. Twists and turns led to new intersections with paths leading every way possible. If it wasn't for gravity, we would be walking up and down.
"Which way is the reactor?" Panting for air as I leaned against a wall of wires. Arus came over, and pointed to a map right above me. He rolled his eyes, and then studied the map.
"Okay, turn left, right, left, right, elevator, right, and then turn left," Arus remembered the directoins.
He rushed off before I hade enough time to wonder how he learned all of that in a matter of seconds. Twists and turns met by a countless number of times, each one making me feel like we're not going any further than we started. At last, after another left turn, we noticed a steady heat being generated from one direction, Rya whiped her forhead as Wedge did the same by her side.
"The Reactor," Wedge muttered, as a huge cylinder stood in front of us with a dial on one side, and a hydraulic pump on the other.
"Welp, welp, welp," Laughing followed by an applaud came from above, looking there I found Hariko leisurely sitting on the top, an orb next to him held Talon captive.
"Talon!" I yelled, she looked at me with a worried look.(1)

(2) "From what I can tell, Hariko knows the spell," Wedge muttered, grabbing a his Ash of Agni.
"Wedge, dont burn the reactor, or else the whole factory and colony will go," Rya put a hand on his shoulder.
"Crap.." Evan muttered grimly, as Hariko floated down and started to charge both hands with dark energy. Talon's orb came floating beside him.
"Let me go!" Talon yelled, banging the sides with her fists.
"Hahaha, no," Hariko sneered, landing as he brought his sword out.
"Let the battle begin," Rya snarled, as we burst into a sprint. Hariko planted his sword into the ground, and let loose a a wide charge attack. I ducked and parried it off with my Burning Buckshot, I swung it forhand, and Hariko skid backwards with a cut on his arm. Rya swung her hammer overhead only to miss and get hit my Talon's orb, being controlled by Hariko himself. Rya grunted as she hit the floor sstomach-first, gasping for air as the orb leviated above her, poised to striker when Evan ran over, kicking the orb of of the way, breaking the seal and setting Talon free.
"Thanks.." Talon stammered, dizzy and dazed she reached for a vial in her sash.
I looked at her for a second when what felt like a giant burst of dark energy in the back sent me spiraling into Evan, faceplanting into the floor. Evan growled and got up, pointing his gun at Hariko. I grabbed his hand, and gave him the idea where if she misses and shoots the reactor by mistake, we could all die from it. Evan scowled, and grabbed a nearby length of iron. Oh god.

(Hariko narrative)
Talon broke free from the orb, not needing her anymore I charged up with dark energy crackling from my sword, begging to be used at some unlucky soul.
"Your souls will be MINE!" Yelling as I broke loose a flurry of charges brimming with Energy. I heard what sounded like a clang against the floor, and found a Length of an Iron Rod being hurled at my face. One charge hit the rod, the rod escaped from the impact inscathed as another charge caught it's bottom, blasting it skyward. I smirked evenly, facing Evan as he grabbed another length of iron, swinging it forward. Apparantly, Evan didn't know how to use a sword. An opening came up like a neon sign, punching his side with the force of a bullet. Evan yelped, landing face first against the floor.
"Hahaha.." Laughing grimly as I set my foot against his back, keeping him to the floor as I applied pressure.
"EVAN!" I heard Arus scream, rushing forward with his sword in a backhand poised to strike. I brought my sword up in time to be blown away off from Evan.
"Heh.. this is ALL I NEED!" I growled, extending my hand to the reactor.
"Oh crap.. NO!!" I heard Wedge yell, rushing forward to stop me.
It was too late for him, I started absorbing the energy from the reactor itself, raw thermal energy dwelled in my veins, as I could feel myself glow.
"Oof," Wedge stammered, blown back by the sudden outburst of Thermal Energy blasted at him.
"Heheh, you can't stop me now can you?" Laughing as I finally drained the Reactor of it's energy. But since there wasn't any energy left, sadly, the lights went out. That was when I made my getaway, laughing prominently as I flashed my way out.
Stupid isn't it?

Me: I have the vague feeling nobody likes my stories.
Arus: What?
Me: Like a third of this whole post is chapters.
Evan: Well maybe-
Rya: EVAN U GET BACK HERE *chases him with hammer* >:L
Talon: =,="
Celonius: Im dead! Yay!
Tinkenzar: Papa!?
Hariko: YOU SHALL ALL DIE!

/IN THE NEAR FUTURE/
Dusk: Wait.. Arus disappeared?
Evan: Yup.
Mystic: Yup.
Rya: Yup.
Hariko: Yup.
Swarm: Yup.
Talon: Yup.
Wedge: Yup.
Kozma: Yup.
Amber: Yup.
Burp: Yup.
Lana: Yup.
Genome: Yup.
Sir-Shade: Yup.
Necro: Yup.
Alex: So.. we're all screwed?
Mote: Yup.
Ether: Yup.
Bloodless: Yup.
Swarm: Yup.
Hariko: Yup.
Arus: HERE I AM!
Swarm: Who saw that coming?
Everyone: Yup.

/IN THE FAR FUTURE/
Quex: So.. what story is this again?
Me: Dunno, oh watch out, Malware.
Malware: &^#^@*$&#@CODEDERROR!@*(ERROR*(@&!DESTROY*@#!$
Valgus: And to think I wasted half of my time auditioning for this part...
Lunia: Yay! Im Dead!
Kala: =,="