#in case somebody asks like hey could i join that other server too

[melvinthedepressedrobot]

man i just LOVE how that old dnd server fully traumatised me into being absolutely fucking terrified of having friends from one server join another I'm in

[yourlmanburg]

yet another smp sibling // eret + gn!sibling!reader

(hello i genuinely do not know what got blown up in doomsday please let that slide lmao, also i am honestly really sorry about how late this is - i was super tired yesterday and i’ve been busy all day today lulw but even so, i hope you enjoy this even if i didn’t have the energy to edit it whoops)

word count: 1,343

summary: eret reveals they have a younger sibling and shows them around the dream smp

request?: yep! thank you @brianawithonen!!

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Your brother had been streaming for about half an hour or so now while you were busy doing homework, but if you’d been watching, your heart would’ve melted. Alastair had somehow let it slip that he had a little sibling and his chat was going crazy as they spoke nothing but good about you, singing your praises and making it clear how much you meant to them.

“I can actually go and get Y/n if you guys would like?” She asked her chat, and needless to say, they were delighted with the idea of meeting another SMP sibling. You were sitting at your desk when you heard a knock at your bedroom door, spinning around to look at your brother.

“Aren’t you streaming?” You asked before he could get a word in. He wasn’t supposed to end yet as far as you were aware.

“Yep! Do you want to play on the SMP for a little bit?” They asked kindly, their tone preventing you from feeling too pressured. You couldn’t lie, the thought of showing yourself to tens of thousands of people both scared you and excited you - what if somebody you knew was watching the stream and they didn’t know you were The Eret’s sibling? What if nobody liked you? What if you said something wrong and got cancelled, or even worse, what if you got Alastair cancelled? Despite the negative thoughts crowding your mind, you realised how much joy the Dream SMP had brought to Alastair. You knew how much it’d boosted their career and you know how many lives he’d changed, and you knew about the friends he’d made. Maybe this was a chance for you to have the same as that for a segment of a stream.

“Sure!” You exclaimed with a grin, leaving your work where it was and following your brother into their recording room.

“Here we go, chat!” Alastair said with a smile, passing you a spare headset and pulling out another chair for you. “This is Y/n, my mini me, who is surprisingly good at Minecraft.” They chuckled as you looked at her with fake betrayal.

"Surprisingly, huh?" You chuckled, slipping on the headset and sitting beside your sibling. 

“Oh, by the way, I’m on the VC in case anybody wants to join - is that okay with you?” She asked and you nodded, already taking over his game and walking around on the Dream SMP. This was so surreal.

“So what do I do?”

“Well, I can show you around if you’d like?” Alastair looked at you with a small grin, to which you nodded eagerly. You began in (the remains of) L’Manburg and you were shown around the Greater Dream SMP, the Badlands, Manifoldland and even El Rapids, and you couldn’t lie; you were impressed by some of the structures your brother had built. Everything was going better than you’d expected and you really did enjoy spending time with Alastair like this, until you heard the familiar Discord chime and a very distinct voice that you just could not ignore.

“HELLO ERET!” The legendary TommyInnit screamed down your ears, unaware of your presence. Alastair chuckled, letting him know that he was with his younger sibling.

“Why do you have a child with you? Do they know that I am a big man, bigger than them?” oh, somebody sounded confident as ever.

“Wanna bet?” you spoke up, Tommy for once finding himself at a loss for words.

“You suck.” he stated bluntly, causing you to burst into fits of laughter. Alastair was a little more on the unimpressed side, however, asking Tommy to calm down with the somewhat aggressive remarks. Of course, he was only answered with incoherent angry mumbles, followed by another Discord chime.

“TUBBO!” both Alastair and Tommy shouted at the same time, Tubbo greeting them with an equal level of enthusiasm. A little yellow banner across the screen told you that he’d just logged into the game, his avatar appearing not too far away from your brother’s.

“Hey Tubbo, did you know Eret is with a child?” Tommy asked him like it was the biggest deal on Earth. Tubbo let out a confused laugh, asking Alastair if this was true or if Tommy was just spouting bullshit as usual.

“Hi,” you giggled before Alastair had a chance to reply. “I believe I am said child.”

“Oh, hello!” he greeted you happily, running over towards you in Minecraft and crouching in front of your character. 

“Tubbo, right? I’ve heard a lot about you.”

“Who’s Tubbo? I am Big Law and Big Law only.” you laughed at how serious his tone was, feeling as if you were really, finally seeing why the SMP meant so much to your brother. You barely knew them yet these people were some of the nicest you’d ever met (despite the fact that you’d already known of their existence and tuned into more than enough streams prior to this) and you truly felt as if you belonged - if only you could become a permanent member in the intricate storyline.

You, Tubbo and Tommy played around for a while longer with your brother by your side, every so often speaking up but he was mostly just watching you. Watching the smile on your face and the shine in your eyes; this was clearly where you wanted to be, if he could just…

Alastair pulled out his phone, opening up discord and clicking on his conversation with Dream. Meanwhile, you were very invested in the business you were starting up with the two boys, trying to persuade people like Nihachu and Ranboo to buy from you.

Dream joined the game.

You paused for a second, looking up at Alastair with a grin. You’d always wanted to meet Dream and she’d always said that he was a busy man and you just had to wait for a chance, could this be it? Could you finally be able to speak to the Dreamwastaken?

Even so, you carried on as you were. You tried not to show your excitement in fear of being seen as an overly obsessed fan, when you saw a familiar green skin hopping over to where you, Ranboo and your two new friends stood. Turning to face him, Tommy and a very confused Ranboo began shouting at you to make a deal with him for your business when somebody joined the call.

“Hello?” the new voice greeted, and it was undeniably Dream. 

“Hello!” you replied enthusiastically, as did the others. 

“Y/n?” Oh my god, he knew your name.

“Yeah?”

“What’s your Minecraft username?”

“Y/u/n, why?” Dream left the game and there was a pause. Nobody else in the call was speaking, what was happening? Had you just fucked things up? You looked up to Alastair for reassurance, and he nodded at you with a warm smile, but you still didn’t understand.

“Okay!” Dream spoke up again, dragging out the “o” and rejoining the server. “Eret should be sending you the IP address now, go and try logging in on your account, you should be whitelisted.

And you were. You’d finally been whitelisted on the Dream SMP.

All because of your brother.

That night, you sat on the sofa beside Alastair, tired from many hours you’d spent on the server, but happy. The happiest you’d been in a while. As much as you were afraid to admit it, ever since they joined you’d longed to have what they had with everyone, you longed to be part of the plot. You finally had that chance.

“So?” She asked you with a smile. “How was today?”

“Fucking incredible!” you replied, making them laugh. You leaned into Alastair’s side, looking up at him with a tired expression. “Thank you, Alastair, seriously. You’ve just made one of my dreams come true - pun intended.”

“I’m glad! I’m so happy to have you there now, I really think you have the potential to become a really crucial character.”

“Really?”

“Really. Now go and do that maths homework you left.”

“I hate you.”

[artificialqueens]

Notebook or Post-It -(Kamjie) -[Chapter 1] - Black_Magic

Here’s the first chapter. Hope you like it.

One of the hardest things in life is moving on. No matter what, it stings. I’ve learned that and experienced it time and time again. I’ve been in a few relationships that hurt me. None have hurt me like how Brooke did. I thought things were going well. Obviously they weren’t. I know I’ll eventually be able to talk about her or look in her direction without my heart skipping a beat or feeling my body tense in the worst way possible. Everyone says it’s not my fault, but I feel like it is. Every time I look forward to a relationship, when I think it’s safe to lower my walls…..I get hurt.

I know I gotta stop feeling sorry for myself. In turn, I found a way that helps me. I keep myself busy. I take anything thrown my way. Small gigs, brunch shows, even tours. Which is what brought me to the stage tonight. I am having a blast these past few weeks! I am on the best tour ever! Werq the World. So far, we’re still in America. Soon enough, we will be moving down to Latin America.

I don’t know how long I was staring out, but I’ve been thinking for a hot minute. I realized Kameron was trying to get my attention. “Jesus, girl. You were lost in another universe. I was afraid you were too far gone.”

I smiled and shook my head. “Sorry, Kam. I was just thinking about some stuff.” Kameron has been amazing. She’s been helping me when I space out or lose focus. We’ve been getting closer on tour and that makes me feel great. Kameron is a hard working bitch. She takes time to perfect her looks, numbers, and will always help a friend in need. In this case, it’s me.

“I could tell.” The show finished and the meet and greet was done and over with. All of us were de-dragging and going to separate locations. “Finish getting changed, I’m taking you out.” Wait, what!

“Where are we going?” I didn’t feel like going out, but I knew I should at least try. Even if it’s to make Kameron happy. Which lately, I’ve found is a pastime I love.

“We’re going to a bar down the street. I asked around and the only person who can come with us is Michelle. I thought we could have a few drinks and have fun. You know how Michelle is when she drinks.” We both laugh. That’s another thing she’s good at. Kameron can make me laugh and feel happy, even if it’s just for a moment. A moment is all I need. I’ll take it.

“Bitch, if that woman tells me she was in a girl group one more time, I will personally destroy what’s left of her tits.” Kameron laughs loudly and I join in.

Kameron finally catches her breath and leaves so I can focus on changing. I finish wiping off my makeup and throw away the wipes. I looked at the boy clothes I brought with me. Black jeans with a white t-shirt. I grabbed them and peeled off my padded filled tights. I love performing and being a lady, but damn am I happy to get into something more comfortable. Once I’m dressed, I look in the full body mirror. My outfit is good enough. I text one of the girls to get my stuff and hold it until later. Once I found someone to help me out, I walked out of the dressing room and saw Kameron was waiting for me. “Ready to go?” I nodded and followed him to the club. I noticed he had an outfit similar to mine, but he had a leather jacket on.

Michelle was already there. She saved Kameron and I seats at a booth. “Hey, you two. I haven’t eaten anything since this morning. I was thinking after we order drinks, I can order some wings for us. Sound good?”

My stomach rumbled as I realized how hungry I was. “That sounds amazing! Thanks, Michelle.” Kameron replied, causing Michelle and I to smile. So that’s what we did. We ordered a couple dozen wings with multiple dressings to dip in. While Kam and Michelle talked about today, I stayed silent. We were sitting beside each other. Not squished, but not right on top of each other. I soon had to break myself out of staring at the table. The server had come with our drinks. We thanked them and they returned to their conversation. After a few gulps, I joined so I’d be included.

“Bitch, the audience was living tonight. I heard them screaming from backstage. I had one earbud in and everything. The crowd was amazing.” I sipped from my glass. Michelle and Kameron agreed. The fans went crazy for us. Everyone was sickening tonight. I glanced at him and felt the both of us tense up. Was he looking at me? I looked again, and he was turned away, looking at something in the distance. Or just acting like it. Is it just me, or did he not want me to know he was staring? I was trying not to stare myself. I couldn’t help it. Kameron is attractive both in and out of drag.

I looked again, but this time we locked eyes. We were smiling and I lost sense of everything else around me. Then we both jumped because Michelle had slammed her hand on the table. “I said, I’m going to the restroom. If the server comes back, order me another one.” She pointed to her drink and I nodded my head.

I took a deep breath to calm my nerves. Kameron was now turned to me. “Did you have fun tonight?”

“I always have fun. I love whipping my hair and dancing for the audience.” Kameron nodded because he understood.

Then we sat in silence. It was a comfortable silence. I welcomed it with open arms. That is, until our food came. Two baskets filled with regular chicken wings were sat in front of us. There was a third filled with different dressings we also ordered. Just some ranch, hot sauce, and a house barbeque sauce. I took an appetizer plate and poured some of the ranch on. I grabbed a few wings to start with and dipped one in my dressing before tearing some off. It tasted amazing, but it was still hot. I heard Kameron chuckle. I turned to him with an eyebrow raised. “You got some ranch on the side of your lip.”

“I do? Where is it?” I asked and tried to lick around my mouth to get it. Kameron shook his head. He had a goofy smile on his face. He swiped it off with his thumb and paused for a moment before wiping it on his napkin. “Thanks, can’t take me anywhere, girl.” He chuckled at what I said. I noticed we both stared again. I don’t know what it was, but it felt like an invisible force was pulling me to him. I guess he felt it to because our thighs were now touching. One of Kam’s arms was resting on the back of the seat. His other hand made its way to my leg. I looked down for a moment, but then returned my gaze to his enchanting eyes. Have they always looked so good? For now, I don’t care. I have a handsome man looking at me. At my lips? Did he just glance at my lips? Is he leaning toward me like I wanted him to? I just wanna ki-

“Hey, look! The food is here. Good, because I am starving.” We both jumped so hard and I thought my heart was about to beat its way through my ribcage. “What were you two doing?”

Luckily I acted fast since Dumbo over here couldn’t even speak. “I thought I had something in my eye. It felt itchy. I had Kam look at it. Guess there was nothing like he said.” Michelle decided to change the subject and I was grateful for that. I had to absorb what just happened. I think Kameron was gonna kiss me. I finished first so I was just sitting there.

Soon enough, Michelle got up and left. She was tired and wanted to get some extra sleep. That left us two alone at the bar. “Do you wanna get some shots?”

This got my attention. Wow, that’s a tough decision. Do I wanna drink enough so I can get intoxicated? Do I wish to have fun? Should I let loose and not let negative thoughts dominate my night? “Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.” What can I say? I’m a grown up and can make my own decisions. That’s why I won’t over do it. I’ll just get a good enough buzz and stop so I can wake up without hating myself tomorrow.

He took me to the bar stools and flagged down the bartender. Luckily, we know each other from touring a few times. “Can I get a few shots of some of that?” He pointed to a bottle of white rum. I don’t know if I’ve tried that before. I hope it isn’t coconut flavored. That tastes nasty to me. The bartender got two shot glasses and gave us the bottle. I guess there wasn’t much left in it. She poured our first drinks and took the money he gave her. “Keep the change.” She smiled and walked off to attend to someone else. We picked them up and drank in one gulp.

Luckily it wasn’t coconut rum. It did taste good, though. “Thanks for taking me here. I was thinking too much earlier and I was accidentally bringing myself down.” He smiled and gave me a short side hug.

“No problem, Vanj. I know how that is. Sometimes we can be our own worst enemy. So now that Michelle is gone, how are you? Like truthfully, how are you doing?”

I sighed as I felt like my heart stopped. I was afraid someone would ask this. “I think I’m doing good. I still feel hurt from Brooke Lynn, no surprise there. I don’t know why I think every relationship would be different or better. I have been in a toxic relationship before. Maybe I just crave a connection with a guy who at least gives me attention and loves me even a little. I’m trying to stay calm. Michelle said I’ll get a guy if I stop looking and be patient. I don’t believe that, but I just need to focus on my schedule and the tour, for now.” I gulped down another shot to try and calm my nerves.

Kameron took my hand in his own. He had a sympathetic smile. “It’s alright, girl. I think things will start to look up for you soon enough.” I feel happier knowing somebody has true faith in me.

[insanely-creative-things]

Big Hero 7: The Series

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Big Hero 7 S2

Lie Detectors

*The streets are occupied when a monster looking like the Kentucky Kaiju is being chased by Big Hero 7*

Wasabi: Guys! I see the monster! I’m right behind him!

*But before Wasabi could go any further he is trapped in traffic.*

Wasabi: Scratch that I lost him!

Cora: Don’t Worry! We’re on our way!

*Soon Baymax with Hiro and Cora fly after the monster.*

Baymax: We’re enrooted for Nigh Market Square. Rapidly.

Gogo: I’m gonna cut him off!

*But when she gets there, she doesn’t see anything.*

Gogo; Wait? Where’d he go?

Hiro; Honey Lemon, do you see anything?

Honey Lemon: Nothing… wait!

*Honey Lemon’s visor soon catches the Kaiju clinging onto a bus.*

Honey Lemon: He’s on a bus!

Wasabi: Wait, like riding the bus?

Honey Lemon: Kind of.

Hiro: We see him!

*The three fly off to catch the monster who hops off the bus when they get close.*

Hiro: Gogo, you gotta intercept.

Gogo: Good, this ends now!

*Soon enough Gogo is face to face with the monster in a dark alley. She throws her disc to the monster which knocks him out which allows her to pin it down to the ground.*

Gogo: Gotcha!

*Baymax lands to the sight.*

Hiro: Nice Gogo!

*But that’s when the eye socket pops open to reveal someone is inside.*

Fred: Yeah, but did you have to throw the disc so hard?

Gogo: You were the one who wanted to do the monster training exercise.

Cora: Exactly, so we can be better prepared when another one shows up.

Honey Lemon: Good Monster hustle Freddy.

Hiro: Whew, what a work out. Who’s hungry?

Fred: Lets hit up Noodle Burger! I want to try the new Fruggle Noodle menu!

Cora: Maybe I can hit up some of the new Noodle Fishy Burger.

*With that the six fly off to have food… leaving Wasabi stuck in traffic.*

Wasabi: Wait I’m hungry too!… Aw…

*Around that night at Sycorax Chris delivers a plate of muffins to Liv Amara who is frustrated about a project she’s conducting.*

Liv: Ugh! Its not working! Nothings working!

Chris: Sounds like somebody needs a Chris-cake!

Liv: Chris not now- Wait… whats on it?

Chris: Gold flakes, adds a fun flare. You’re worth it.

Liv: Gold…

*She soon starts typing up the chemical makeup of gold to the equation she’s working on.*

Chris: Completely digestible.

Liv: Gold! Bio-compatible nano-particles yes! Chris you are a life saver!

*The next day, the gang meet up at Fred’s house to hang out eating their noodle burgers.*

Wasabi: I started a competitive ironing team in highschool, I collected vintage typewriters, and I knitted my first sweater when I was seven.

*Fred sips his soda loudly as he stares at Wasabi with judging eyes.*

Fred: Hmmm, this is a tough one. I mean they all sound true-ish.

Hiro: But one’s a lie, right Wasabi?

Wasabi: Yes! I know how to play the game guys! I said two truths and one lie.

Cora: So which’s one the lie?

Gogo: Well the Ironing’s real, I’ve seen the trophies.

Wasabi: Still undefeated!

Gogo: Because you were the only team-

Wasabi: Irrelevant.

Honey Lemon: What’s your guess Freddy?

Fred:*Blows bubbles on his soda* I guess that the lie is…

Baymax: Wasabi did not knit his first sweater when he was seven.

Wasabi: Yup, Baymax is right. I was six… wait! How did you know that?

Baymax: Your heart rate increased and your pupils dilated when you made the third statement.

Wasabi:… How closely were you looking at my pupils?

Cora: Wow Baymax! That was awesome! A little invasive but cool!

Fred: Yeah! He’s like a walking lie detector!

Hiro: Yeah Baymax I didn’t know you could… *Suddenly gets an idea* Hey-Hey! Liv Amara!

Fred: Where?

Hiro: She’s the one behind all the monster attacks.

Gogo: Too bad for us we can’t prove it.

Hiro: But now we can *Points his thumb to Baymax* Lie detector.

Cora: Question is how would we be able to get close to Liv Amara to test Baymax out? You’re Krei’s intern and I flat out gave her the bird when I left.

Wasabi: So what are you two gonna do? Follow her around until she catch her in a lie?

Hiro: For basics, yeah!

Wasabi: So far that’s not a bad plan!

Fred: Ooh! Ooh! OK, but first, can I go? Please? I haven’t had my turn yet and I stayed up all night crafting the perfect lie!

Honey Lemon: OK Freddie you’re up!

Fred: Ooh! Here it goes: I like too many pickles on my noodle burger, I own 59,407 comics, and I speak fluid Lithuanian! Good luck with that!

Baymax: You do not speak Lithuanian.

Fred:… This game is a lot less fun when Baymax is cheating by knowing all the answers!

Gogo: Fred we all knew that one.

Baymax: True.

Hiro: OK, I’m heading to the school to set up something that would increase Baymax’s Lie detecting abilities. *To Cora* Wanna come?

Cora: Sure!

*Soon Hiro leaves through the door first, but before Baymax would waddle out Cora steps in front of him.*

Cora: I hadn’t had my turn yet so I’ll make this very quick: I was 4 when I learned how to talk, I went botfighting when I was thirteen, and I’m secretly related to mermaids.

Gogo: Seriously Cora?

Cora: I never play games like this before Gogo! Sides, it obvious the last one is a lie right Baymax?

*But when she turns her head to regard Baymax, she finds that the robot is uncharacteristically quiet. The gang noticed this and look at Baymax with concerned eyes.*

Honey Lemon: Baymax? Is something wrong?

Baymax: I am alright. I had just experienced a minor bug that had blocked my thought processer. Lets go meet Hiro.

Cora: OK Baymax, *to Herself* gotta check your system before we install the upgraded lie detector…

*Once the other two leave to join Hiro, the gang look at each other with questioning eyes.*

Wasabi: What just happened?

Honey Lemon: I don’t know, but Hiro and Cora had just looked up Baymax’s system yesterday and said that its been functioning normally.

Gogo: Either way, that was super weird.

Fred: * To himself in private* Odd…very, Very odd. Or could it be that…*dramatic gasp* The Lie detector lied?!…Na that’s kinda dumb even for me.

* From across the town Kaguya is at her room, carefully sorting through the floor boards where she had hidden her most valuable possessions out of reach. Once she peeks through she grabs the one she is looking for. It’s a large oval shaped piece of metal, covered in dust from many years but not covered in rust. Wiping it off she places the object in her bag where she sees Kage and his Baymax waiting for her.*

Kaguya: Hello Kage. Are you ready to go?

Kage: Indeed I am.

Kaguya: I informed Mizuchi about this and he says that he will keep an eye out on Cora while we’re away… I must admit, you joining me to discover more about what the Sirens’ had heard about Sycorax is truly interesting.

Kage: Yes. I will admit when I first heard of Liv Amara, something about her seemed a little off, even for me. Not to mention she brushed off Hiro when she learned Tadashi made Baymax.

Kaguya: Yes. That is true, you would think she had a history with Tadashi if one didn’t know any better.

Kage: Yes.

*And so the three head out to meet at the place where the Sirens are kept under lock and key by Orso Knox. While on the path Kage pulls out the baby blue scrunchie, his eyes staring at the small thing. He puts it back in his pocket and focuses on joining Kaguya to find answers for Sycorax.. and hopefully about why is Chara’s scrunchie there? At the school Hiro is setting up a new chip for Baymax while Cora had just finished checking Baymax’s system for bugs.*

Cora: OK, looks like you’re all clear! You probably just had a brain fart earlier.

Baymax: I do not have a brain, nor can I fart.

Cora: Another expression Baymax.

*Soon enough Hiro finishes coding his new chip and brings it out.*

Hiro: There, I enhanced your lie detector interface.

*Hiro scoots his seat towards Baymax where he inserts the chip inside him.*

Hiro: Alright now, lets test it! My name is Fred.

Baymax: Lie.

Hiro: Ha! Perfect!

Cora: Ooh~! my turn! Tomatoes are purple!

Baymax: Lie.

Hiro: The sky is green!

Baymax: Lie.

Cora: Nice, the Earth is round!

Baymax: True.

Hiro: I think we’re ready!

Cora: OK! Now lets go incognito style!

Hiro: And get Liv!

*And that’s when the three start their mission, sneakily following her around the city in their moped. Cora had brought her herbal medicine book in her bag as an added just in case bait.*

Hiro: I see her.

Cora: Remember… stealthily.

*The three drive up to Liv Amara closely… but the sea food truck driver is behind them soon.*

Truck Driver: Hey! *Honks his car*

Baymax: Hello.

Truck Driver: Move it!

Hiro: Sorry we uh… gotta go!

Cora: Have a nice day!

*Hiro immediately drives away from the path, allowing the truck driver to continue on his way. When they spot Liv Amara again they see her enter into a restaurant.*

Hiro: Well, *To Cora* Looks like we’re getting lunch.

*They three park the moped and head inside to get seated, hopefully as close to Liv Amara as they could.*

Sydney: Here you are, a nice table in the back.

*The two teens spot a table closer to Liv Amara where its by the window.*

Hiro; Actually, could we actually be seated closer to… the window?

Sydney: Impossible, that table’s reserved.

*That’s when Baymax’s lie detector comes up.*

Baymax: That is not true.

*Hiro crosses his arms with a sly smirk while Cora gives a polite smile at the waiter.*

Cora: We’d still like the table by the window sir.

*The server sighs before he directs the three to the table, with said three covering their faces as they pass Liv Amara. Once seated the waiter gives Hiro and Cora their menus before he turns to Baymax.*

Sydney: Will he be eating?

Baymax: *Letting out some air to sit properly* I am a robot.

Sydney: So I take it as a no?

*Hiro is about to ask the waiter to keep the menu when Cora pulls out her book and hands it to Baymax.*

Cora: Yeah. Thank you for your services sir. *To Baymax* Read it if you like.

Sydney: And what would that book be about?

Cora: Oh, just a book about herbs and flowers.

Sydney: *sighs to himself slightly frustrated* Keep it together Sydney..

*And so the waiter leaves the three to themselves to decide on their choice of food. With that Hiro and Cora notices that person Liv Amara is meeting is Bluff Dunder from the news. Getting a quick idea, Cora sets Baymax’s volume to vibrate, so that his dings of truth or lie wouldn’t disturb anyone and let Liv Amara know they are following her.*

Hiro: *Whispers to Baymax* OK Baymax, listen in to what they’re saying.

Cora: *Whispers* I set your volume to vibrate and text. Just in case.

*And so Baymax listens close to the two.*

Dunder: Big fan right here.

*Baymax vibrates with the face of a liar.*

Liv: And I’m a big fan of yours Bluff.

*Another lie. Hiro and Cora look at each other than at Baymax as he looks at the medicine book.*

Dunder: So Liv, about your latest research-

Liv: Well, my team and I are working on a cure for a rare disorder.

*Baymax gives out a ding, which is the truth.*

Dunder: Ooh, tell me more. I’m not an expert but I’m quiet knowledgeable on the subject.

*Another lie. Cora looks around to see that thankfully, aside from the occasional vibrate, nobody is too bothered. She sighs in relief as she puts down her menu.*

Liv: We’re still in the development phase, a key component to the cure is actually gold.

*Baymax’s belly lights up with the truth.*

Hiro: Gold?

Cora: How would she incorporate gold to a cure?

Dunder: Well that sounds like an expensive ailment. *Chuckles*

Liv: Oh Bluff you’re too much! But you’re right, it would be expensive. But luckily I only need the tiniest amount.

*Baymax shows that is a lie.*

Hiro: Huh, so she needs a lot of gold.

Cora: Where could she get that much gold without going bankrupt?

*That’s when Hiro’s phone vibrates with texts from Gogo saying that Mr. Sparkles is at the docks now.*

Cora: Darn it!

Sydney: so are you ready to order?

Hiro: Sorry! We have to go! *Gets up to suit up*

Cora: Here’s a tip for your troubles! Thank you!

*She slips a ten dollar bill to the man as Baymax waddles after the two teens. Meanwhile, the two adults, Kaguya and Kage, arrive at the hidden grotto close by the docks of San Fransokyo. Kage had to use his Baymax as a life raft while Kaguya pulls on the string to direct Baymax to their path. Once they reach their destination they see Orso Knox with the three sirens tied up with very strong sea weed.*

Muya: Hello Baby sister.

Uma: You brought the human with you?

Lula: And a robot?

Kaguya: Enough chit chat. The only reason you have not been brought over to Oceanus is because you three apparently heard something about Sycorax.

Muya: As if we ever tell you!

Kaguya: On the contrary…You three would not have a choice.

*She pulls out the metal oval which opens up a little segment where it requires a thumb print.*

Lula: It couldn’t be!

Uma: You brought the oval of truth!

Kage: The.. oval of truth?

Kaguya: It is a very powerful machine that takes the blood of those in question and tell whether or not the person is being truthful… or a liar.

Uma: Well… if we’re gonna do this… then at least you two should participate as well…

Kaguya: What do you expect us to give in return?

Muya: We heard about an interesting story about a man who had built a lab by the sea..

Lula: Who planned to eradicated that pitiful city of San Fransokyo…

Uma: Who had crafted a robotic crab to do his bidding…

Muya: Come on Baby sister… aren’t you curious about what we have to ask the man who created a star?

*Kaguya looks at Kage who is looking a faint uncomfortable about their words. But ultimately he sighs and looks at the sirens.*

Kage: Fine, in exchange for your answers… I’ll give you mine.

*And so they each pressed their thumb onto the small opening.*

Kaguya: I swear to tell the truth. *Passes to Kage*

Kage: I swear to tell the truth.

Muya: I swear to tell the truth.

Lula: I swear to tell the truth.

Uma: I swear to tell the truth.

Knox: I swear to tell the truth.

*But to Kage all he heard from Knox was a growl, but Kaguya nodded to tell him that he is participating to tell the truth as well. Once its all passed around Kaguya presses the top of the oval shaped metal where it soon starts to levitate and cracks form to light it up which leads to a deep, booming voice.*

Oval: The Blood Oath has been settled. You each are to tell the truth to whatever question you have to each other. You can only ask one question per person. Should any of you lie… there will be consequences to pay.

*At the docks of San Fransokyo, the captain of the ship is confronted by the mutated Mr. Sparkles.*

Captain: I don’t know who you are?! But get off my ship!

Sparkles: What do you mean you don’t know who I am? I’m Mr. Sparkles!

*He does random poses to show off, but the captain still has no clue about the mutated man child in front of him. Finally he gets frustrated.*

Sparkles: Mr. Sparkles! *Points to himself*

Captain: Whatever just get off my ship!

*Looking up to the sky Mr. Sparkles sees Hiro, Cora, Baymax, and Gogo arriving to the scene.*

Sparkles: Aye aye captain!

*He tries pushing the large cargo but found himself unable to push it, until the chip inside him gives him a temporary strength boost that pushes it off the ship.*

Sparkles: Woah! Gotta watch my own strength!

*And so, pushing the button on his bow tie he is quickly dressed in an underwater suit to swim.*

Sparkles: Bon Voyage!

*And so he dives off before the four could land on the ship.*

Cora: Did Liv inject Mr. Sparkles with steroids? Cause that was a huge crate!

Gogo: *Looks over the ship to the water.* Great.

Hiro: Skymax can bring underwater gear.

Gogo: *Sighs* I guess I could wait here.

Cora: What do you mean?

Gogo: I don’t have underwater gear.

Hiro: Actually, Cora and I have been working on that.

*Soon enough the four skymaxes arrive with their underwater gear, which for Gogo left her pretty impressed. After they don on their underwater suits Gogo swims around and tests it.*

Gogo: Oh yeah, I like it!

Cora: Knew you would love it Gogo.

Hiro: I see him!

*The four spot Mr. Sparkles trying to push the crate away, trying to summon the insane power boost he had earlier, but nothing happened.*

Gogo: Sorry Sparkles but you should’ve had a better plan.

Sparkles: Hey don’t be so harsh I’m on my own here!

*But Baymax’s lie detector says otherwise. And soon enough the mutated High Voltage come out the shadows to face the four heroes.*

Cora: Is that High Voltage?!

*Baymax’s stomach dings with the truth.*

Sparkles: Go fish!

*Soon the two dancing eels join hands to throw a bolt of electricity to the four heroes. The four swim out of the way as they try to form a plan. But each zap gets faster at the four keep dodging.*

Gogo: Now what?

Cora: Hiro, Baymax and I will try to get Mr. Sprakles while you keep High Voltage busy. They can’t blast electricity forever, they’ll tire out!

Hiro: For now, point forward.

Gogo: OK… *Point her arms forward* But why would-Augh!

*Pointing her arms forward acts as a propeller to swim faster.*

Gogo: That was pretty awesome!

*Gogo swims forward to High Voltage as she dodges the out of the blasts until she pushes one out of the way. The eel swims back to their partner but Gogo keeps punching them out of the way.*

Hiro: Omega Danger! Sonic blaster!

*Baymax activates his sonic blaster which blasts away the eels far and far away from them.*

Gogo: Got any more freaks helping you Sparkles?

Sparkles: Uh huh, that big guy. right behind you!

*The four turn around only for Baymax’s belly to light up with a lie. Now it features Mr. Sparkles swimming away pathetically.*

Gogo: Do you guys wanna get him or should I?

Cora: I got!

*Cora swiftly swims in front of Mr. Sparkles, ready to punch him in the face which causes Mr. Sparkles to flinch… only for Cora to use her finger to boop…*

Cora: Boop.

*Which soon releases a large electric shock that stuns him for a moment before he looks up to see Baymax and Hiro behind him. But before Baymax could hold him, High Voltage wraps themselves around Baymax’s legs which soon fritz out his suit.*

Baymax: Oh no.

Gogo: That’s it!

*She activates her arm propellers where she swims around them so fast that she created an underwater tornado that trapped High Voltage and soon enough Mr. Sparkles. Soon they are slammed to a rock.*

Gogo: So, had enough yet?

Sparkles: *To High Voltage* Aren’t you two supposed to be the muscle?! This is embarrassing!

*When High Voltage shrieked, Cora’s eyes widened as she heard instead… their voices.*

Barb: Oh shut up you pint sized twerp!

Juniper: Like any help you were!

Sparkles: Fine, I’ll take care of this myself.

*He pulls out a controller from his pocket which soon activates the crane on the ship to dump massive metal crates onto the young heroes.*

Gogo: Hiro! Cora! Heads up!

*The four try to swim as fast as they could but the more metal crates that fall, the more they are trapped by it. Realizing they would soon be crushed, Hiro gives out an order.*

Hiro: Baymax! Aqua-Fist!

*Baymax fires his aqua fist which creates a large hole for all four of them to swim through before the final crates could crush them.*

Gogo: Great! They got away!

*While they were busy with swimming for their lives, Mr. Sparkles and High Voltage got away.*

Cora: At least they didn’t get the crate they wanted. What’s in it anyway?

Hiro: Can you open it Baymax?

*Baymax rips the crate open to reveal a crate full of gold bars.*

Gogo: That’s a lot of gold.

Hiro: And that’s a lot of proof they’re working for Liv.

*Meanwhile, the three villains swim away towards their destination.*

Sparkles: Darn it! Liv is gonna be so pissed when she learns about this!

*But while they were swimming, High Voltage heard something from the distance…*

Sparkles: Lucky for me, I’m not one who’s body could make sushi right?

*He turns around to see that High Voltage had skedaddled.*

Sparkles: High Voltage? Ladies?…. Oh no.

*As of while the group of Mermaids, a human, a monster, and a robot prepare to ask their questions.*

Kaguya: This goes to you my… sisters. What did you hear about sycorax?

Uma: For one, this Liv Amara has been poking around the bay searching for coral and certain sea snakes.

Lula: Two, they have been, in human terms, been illegally harvesting oysters and glowfish.

Muya: And this recent bit where she is searching for a large crate of gold for a certain disease.

*The Kaguya, Baymax, Kage, and Knox turn to the oval of truth which soon responded.*

Oval of Truth: Truth.

Kaguya: Now what are your questions?

Muya: Is it true that your…son in law, is a giant who’s blood is tainted with wires and circuits that form inside his body?

Kaguya: Yes… thanks to his accursed mother.

Oval of Truth: Truth.

Uma: Good.. has there been any… accidents that involved with your granddaughter and her mermaid blood?

Kaguya: *Turns to Orso Knox, recalling how he escaped because Cora was able to understand him* Yes… just recently she had communicated this man. His genetics that contained the whale DNA allowed for her to talk to him.

Oval of Truth: Truth.

Lula: Finally… did you tell the half breed about her mermaid blood at all?

Kaguya: She does not know and I want to keep it that way till she is ready.

Oval of Truth: Truth.

Muya: *Chuckles* You know baby sister, from what I heard about your half breed granddaughter is that she has a knack for discovering things… don’t be too surprised when the moment she learns about her blood she would never want to talk to you again.

*Kaguya tightens her fists as small cackles of sparks light up. Kage looks at the sisters with an frown.*

Muya: Now we come to the Land Boy*To Kage* Was it true that you had a labotory that had all the information of the citizens of the city?

Kage: Yes.

Oval of Truth: Truth.

Uma: Did you ever look up information about Liv Amara prior to your supposed ‘demise’ that you never told anyone?

*Kaguya looks at Kage as her eyes start to narrow in question.*

Kage:…Yes… One way I learned is because… Nozako Mizichio had been the one to give Liv Amara the money to build Sycorax in the first place. But that’s was all I knew before now!

Oval of Truth: Truth.

*Kaguya looks at Kage with shocked eyes.*

Kage: I’m sorry… I didn’t want to frighten you nor my brother… nor my niece…

Lula: Now to the juicy bit. Did you really plan on whisking away the half breed because you thought she was your lover reborn? That she is Chara? So you could plan your 'Happy Sugar Life"?

*Kage’s eyes widen when he heard Chara’s name, which soon raises his suspicion higher. So did Kaguya… but a part of her did want to hear about Kage’s past intentions to her granddaughter. Orso Knox eye’s had widened when he heard more about Kage, realizing that this man is not as innocent as he appears. Kage sighs as he looks up to see the sirens.*

Kage: Yes. I did plan to make Cora be my Chara.

Oval of Truth: Truth.

*Orso Knox looks at the man with shocked eyes as he couldn’t believe the fact that he had planned something so revolting.*

Knox: How could you do that your own niece?! Your flesh and blood?!

Kage: She’s not biologically my niece! I was so desperate to have any semblance of joy, gain back what I had lost with Chara that I clung her memory to her!… I lost my mind… I thought I could never be happy again… Cora was the closest I ever had to Chara…

Oval of Truth: Truth!

*Kage turns his head away as he sees Kaguya looking at him with concerned eyes, ashamed of his past actions. Kaguya then goes forward and places a gentle hand on his shoulder.*

Kaguya:…Kage… what do you feel about Cora now?

Kage: *sighs* All I know is that I hurt her immensely… when I was getting to know her as my… former self, I found myself enjoying her company, that I saw her as family… But the other part of me.. the one where I was Obake.. pushed away familial love for…*Sighs sadly* I don’t know if I could ever truly mend the wounds I inflicted on her, and no doubt that she would never forgive me.. but I’m ready to show that I am no longer the monster she feared so long ago… I want to enjoy her company again as an uncle… and be part of a family again…

Oval of Truth: Truth!

*Kaguya’s eyes softened, as memories of the adventures Kage indavertantly had with Big Hero 7 and such start playing in her mind. He really did change and make an attempt to heal. Even memories of Cora being comfortable of being in the same room as room blossomed.*

Kaguya: I believe you Kage.

Oval of Truth: Truth.

Kage: But there is one thing I’m curios about… *Turns to Sirens.* This goes for all three of you.

Muya: What ever you say Land Boy…

*Kage pulls out the baby blue scrunchie with the initials C.B sewn inside.*

Kage: She always wore this as a good luck charm around her wrist and at her cheerleading performances…why did I find Chara’s lucky scrunchie in the cave you brought me?

*The Oval of truth turns to the three sirens.*

Muya: I have no idea what you are speaking of land boy.

Uma: Who even is this Chara you speak of?

Lula: And what makes you think we would know about some land girl?

*That is when the glow of the Oval turns blood red, its light flashing through*

Oval of Truth: YOU ALL LIED!

*Before they knew it all of them, sans Baymax is down to the ground, feeling a large pressure on their hearts.*

Knox: What is going on?!

Kaguya: If someone dares to lie their hearts will be crushed! They must tell the truth soon!

*the sirens’ try to breath heavily to preserve their breathing, while Muya keeps slapping her tail to the water, which is emitting an echo that is leading to two eels on their way.*

Muya: shut if off!

Kaguya: We took an oath!

Knox: Just confess!

*Kage, despite having his heart be close to crushing, looks at the sirens’ with a glare that spoke certain death. Baymax tries to join to help them but he is zapped away by the oval.*

Oval of Truth: NONE SHALL INTERFER TILL THEY TELL THE TRUTH!

*Just when it seemed like the end for them-*

Lula: THE REASON WHY THE SCRUNCHIE WAS THERE IS BECAUSE WE KIDNAPPED THE STUPID LAND GIRL 16 YEARS AGO!

Oval of Truth: Truth.

*Finally the pressure on their hearts elevates, allowing them all to breath.*

Kage:…*Not believing what he’s hearing* What?

Muya: *Smacks Lula upside the head* Why did you say that?!

Lula: Would you prefer for us to be flattened tuna?

Muya: Fine! *Turns to Kage* The truth is that we had started collecting humans to be our bodyguards and handmaidens. And Chara was on our list. But you were always be her side so luring her away would be risky… till we heard of two certain things from the seagulls…

Uma: They do have the habit of spreading gossip around the docks.

Muya: One is your little accident at the school… and two of your elopement! *Chuckles* Young love… for a prodigy you sure made such ridiculous decisions based on hormones and foolish fantasies!

Lula: You should thank us really. When we got to the arrival, nice choice on choosing a spot nearby the sea by the way, we saw your Chara wearing white. With her blue scrunchie and sapphire necklace around her neck.

Kage: My engagement necklace…

Lula: That’s when we saw a woman clad in black ready to strike her down with an axe.

Muya: She was a tough one, she tried to resist our song but we managed to freeze her in place. But during the commotion the girl fell off the ledge with the lady ripping off the necklace trying to stop her from falling…*sighs* But fall she did.

Uma: I managed to swim her to safety while the other two coated the woman’s robes with fish blood to make her believe she committed the gruesome deed. Though along the way she hit her head, cause when we brought her to our island, she couldn’t remember her own name!

*The three sirens’ laugh at the memory of their successful kidnapped heist which only caused Kage to run towards them and grab one of them by the throat.*

Kage: WHERE IS SHE?! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HER?!

Uma: Uh uh uh! Remember… only one question at the time.

Kaguya:…You’ve been kidnapping those humans far longer than I thought.. *scoffs* I guess the other time when you took my granddaughter and her boyfriend were just you three being sloppy huh?

Muya: Screw you Baby sister.

*That is when Orso Knox comes forward, picking up all three of them up from the water pool and growls after he pushes off Kage to Baymax.*

Knox: I have not asked my question for you three however…Where are the humans you are keeping?!

*Baymax looks down to see two eels swim towards the monster.*

Baymax: There are two eels swimming rapidly towards Orso Knox.

Kaguya: what?

Knox: AUGH!

*High Voltage wrapped their bodies around the monster and shocked him, making him drop the mermaids as he howled in pain. Once dropped the eels then used their teeth to cut through the strong sea weed which allows them all to swim and escape before they could even move.*

Kaguya: *Picking up Orso Knox* Are you alright?

Knox: Sort of… *Pants* Those two were certainly strong for common eels.

*Kaguya turns to see Kage staring at the scrunchie… his eyes soft with memory as he gently strokes it.*

Kaguya: We will find her… I promise.

Oval of Truth: Truth.

*And so, the oval closes and shuts down, having completed its job as it floats to Knox’s claws.*

Knox: Lets get you all home. There will be no doubt about your disappearances today.

*Later on at Sycorax, Liv Amara had received news from Sparkles that not only had Big Hero 7 interfered with her gold heist, but somehow High Voltage managed to overcome their chip controlled hypnosis and scampered off to sea.*

Liv: I am sick and tired of Big Hero 7 getting in our business!

Chris: I know right?

*Chris presses the button to take them down to Liv’s private lab.*

Liv: We need gold! We’re running out of time.

Chris: I know right?

Liv: Would you stop saying 'I know right?’ and be helpful?

Chris: I’m sorry… right?

Liv: Not. Helpful.

Chris: Right…*Pulls out the cupcake with gold flakes* Chris-cake?

*Liv doesn’t say anything as she steps out of the elevator and into her lab, annoyed at her genetically engineered assistant.*

Chris:…It worked before…

Liv: To counter Big Hero 7 I need something… special.

*She looks at the torn apart meteorite as she thinks over what to do with Big Hero 7.*

Chris: Oh your good.

Liv: I know right?

*At SFIT the entire gang is chilling at the robotics lab. Gogo is setting up her electro-magnetic suspension bike while Hiro and Cora play ping pong with Honey Lemon and Wasabi with Baymax acting as the scoreboard. That is when Fred comes in with a green and tacky beret in place of his regular beanie.*

Fred: Bonjour Friends! What do you think of my new hat? Like, Love, or Double love?

Honey Lemon: Its.. uh… nice!

*Baymax’s belly rings up with a lie from Honey Lemon.*

Fred: What do you think of it Wasabi? Like it? Love it? Double love it?

Wasabi: Look at the time! Gotta go to class!

*Baymax’s brings up with another lie.*

Fred: Ummm why is Baymax buzzing?

Baymax: I buzz to indicate Lie-

Hiro: Love of hats!

*Baymax’s buzzes with Hiro’s lie.*

Fred: Aw, thanks Baymax!

Hiro: Ah We-we have to go!

Cora: Yeah Fred! Hiro and I are gonna with Baymax right now. Seems like we have a little problem with a chip.

*Baymax’s belly rings up with truth as Hiro and Cora push the nurse bot out the door.*

Hiro: See ya! And nice hat!

*Baymax’s belly buzzes with Hiro’s lie.*

Fred: *looking at the reflection with his beret* Yeah, this is good. This is working.

Gogo: *Pops bubble* Fred. No.

Fred: Not good?

Gogo: Nope. Not good.

Fred: *Gestures to everyone else* But-!

*Honey Lemon grunts as she shakes her head, meaning that if she doesn’t like it, it really was poor taste. Fred rips off his beret and leaves it at the ping pong table. Once Fred leaves Honey Lemon turns to Gogo.*

Gogo: Destroy it.

Honey Lemon: Right behind you sweetie!

*She pulls out her chem ball to turn the beret to dust, never to stare at the tacky green beret on Fred’s head ever again. Meanwhile Cora stands up on her tip toes and takes out the lie detector chip and places it in her skirt pocket.*

Cora: There we go! We’ll insert the lie detecting chip much later!

Hiro: Cora, its almost time for class.

Cora: Right behind you! *To Baymax* Grandmama just texted me. She and Kage are coming over to meet at the quad, I want you go there to meet up with them. Till then, see ya later!

*And so the two teens go through their classes like everything was fine, though Cora’s eybrow raised at the added rule of No Baymaxes allowed in class.*

Chris: Your next meeting is downtown at three and you have a conference call-

Liv: About my special project I have a mission for you.

*She uses the phone to show Chris his orders on what to do.*

Chris: Ooh~ This should be fun! I’ll have it tonight.

Liv: Good! In the meantime, go to SFIT and see if you can get close to the Mizichio kid.

Chris: Understood.

*Soon they were off their separate way, one doing her usual business and the other making his way to SFIT. Once Chris is there he spots the two teens seated down with their robot joined by the girl’s grandmother, a man with a red streak in his hair… and another Baymax…huh. Putting on his brightest smile he walks over and greets them.*

Chris: Heya! How ya doing?

Cora: Doing fine… Chris? What are you doing here?

Chris: Can’t an old buddy say hi once in a while?

Cora: I only worked one day.

Kaguya: Excuse me, who are you young man and why are you invading my granddaughter’s privacy?

Chris: Oh! Sorry, I’m Chris. I’m Liv Amara’s assistant. And from what I heard you must be her Grandmother! Nice to meet you.

*He holds out his hand to which the old woman holds it hesitantly. *

Chris: And who could that man be?

Cora: He’s my Uncle, Kage Mizichio.

Kage: Hello Chris… its nice to meet you.

Chris: Nice to meet you too!

*That is when he looks down to see at Cora’s lap the very book that their intern was looking at… and so far from his genetically perfect eyes he is reading what leads to a rather interesting chapter in the book-*

Cora: *Slams book shut* Sir, I appreciate if you don’t look inside my book.

Chris: Oh! My apologies Cora. It’s just that it looks very interesting. It said something about Lilac and rosemary being used as a tonic?

Kaguya: Yes. I should know cause my daughter wrote that.

Chris: Ooh! You have a daughter? Must be Cora’s mom right?Where is she I’d love to hear from her.

Kaguya: My daughter is dead.

*Chris blinks as he realized what he had done wrong.*

Chris: Oh I am so sorry I did not mean to sound unsensitive. Anyway, I came to see how Cora’s doing since the incident. Now I know she’s alright. Thank you, may all of you enjoy your day!

*But as Chris starts leaving Cora remembers something and quickly stands up.*

Cora: Wait a minute!…There’s something I want to ask…

Chris: *Grins as he turns around with a smile* And what would that be Cora?

Cora:…Could I talk to Liv Amara? If she could still see me that is…

Chris: I think we can arrange that perfectly.

Cora: OK…

*And so Chris leaves, with a feeling of uneasiness ringing through the teens.*

Kaguya: He’s certainly pushy.

Kage: Definitely.

Cora: He got a look in my book! I’m sorry Grandmama.

Kaguya: It is not your fault. Besides, its not like he has photographic memory right?

Cora: Yeah… oh! There’s something funny that happened to our Baymax earlier.

Kage: And what would that be Cora?

Cora: We were playing two truths and one lie, and when I got to my turn I said the following. One is that I learned to talk when I was four, went botfighting when I was thirteen. And the final one was that I’m a mermaid.

Hiro: Really Cora? You couldn’t come up with a better lie?

Cora: It was last minute! So before, Baymax called out Wasabi’s and Fred’s lie, but he didn’t say anything about my lie!

Hiro: Huh. But that’s when we found out he can figure out he can spot liars.

Cora: I know right! It was probably just a minor glitch. I checked it over and now it seems fine. Seriously Baymax, what are the chances that I’m related to mermaids? Or even the chance that they exist?

*Hiro and Cora laugh at this as Kaguya and Kage look at their Baymaxes, both of them giving eyes that said not to say anything. Both Baymaxes nod as for a brief moment, a picture of a face appears with his finger out signaling a shush movement.*

Kaguya: Yes… just what are the chances…

*Soon enough, Cora is with Baymax, his lie detector chip inserted back as she held tightly her book in her bag. She could almost laugh at herself… she swore to never go back but here she is… Soon enough she is in Liv Amara’s office.*

Liv: Hello Cora.

Cora: Hi Miss Amara…How are you doing?

Liv: We’ve been doing fine. The real question is how are you? It has been some time since that incident… but I can’t imagine how frightened you must’ve felt when you were captured.

Cora:*Remembering Orso Knox’s words* Yeah… it definitely felt real…

Liv: I also see you brought the robot here.

Cora: Yeah… Baymax is here with me because of certain issues…

Liv: Like family issues? Chris told me about your Uncle…he sounded interesting.

Cora: Yeah… I have certain questions to ask if you don’t mind that is.

Liv: Its fine! Its only fair after what happened.

Cora: Though to be honest Baymax is currently dealing with a bug or too.

*Baymax’s belly shows the buzz of a liar.*

Cora: Like that…*Sighs* So first off… what sort of diseases have you been dealing with?

Liv: Well… there’s a rare disorder that I’m really working hard to find a cure for.

Cora: Really? Well I hope you do find it…though that does raise the question on what type of items will be used for the cure?

Liv: I can tell you that a main component is gold.

Cora: Gold… that makes sense. It is bio-compatible and safe for eating… to be honest why would anyone even eat gold?

Liv: It could just be what they find fun.

Cora: I could think of plenty of other uses for gold other than food, like using it to rebuild impoverished towns… did you ever consider using gold to help Mr. Knox while he was still here?

Liv:…I have not considered using any gold on him.

*Baymax’s belly lights up with the face of truth. Cora sighs before she finally chooses to spill it out.*

Cora: Miss Amara… would you say that you were the ones creating the monsters all over town?

*And once Cora spills out those words her heart stopped. She scolded herself for being so brash and knows that this is the point where she has officially lost any semblance of contact with Liv. She turns to Liv who calmly says her answer.*

Liv: Liv Amara did not create the monsters.

*Cora turns to Baymax to see…that she was telling the truth… No…but then…Orso Knox said…but all the things…*

Liv: Cora? Are you alright?

Baymax: You’re heart beat is accelerating and your breathing has shortened.

Cora: I’m sorry Miss Amara… I need some water…and a bathroom.

Liv: Its down the hall to your right Cora.

*Cora leaves the office, her heart and mind speeding against each other with this news. And Baymax, being the faithful robotic companion he is, quickly follows her… and during all her panic she had left her book. Hardly believing her luck Liv quickly grabs the book and opens it. Her eyes glitter with excitement as she finds herself intrigued and fascinated by all sorts of tonics and elixirs that managed to combine herbs and roots and even some of marine life to help those. She especially found the cure for Yellow Diamond back Venom interesting…that is when she finds it… a page…*

I had debated with myself whether or not I should share this with my daughter Akemi, but this potion is the main reason why we both are what we are today.

I never imagined that this could hold such potential. What was once a legend became a reality… a reality I brought forth with my own hands.

This elixir…this miracle. I’ve been experimenting it recently and found that it has other unique effects… my daughter brought it once to an injured wolf (Bless her gentle heart) with a severely torn leg. When the wolf consumed it.. it had healed him up!

When I first attempted to create it I thought I was a fool. A dreamer.

But this dream is now reality..

This is the-

*And the page cuts off.*

Liv: What?! *Flips through page* There has to be more!

*She searched through the pages of the books, searching for the missing page of the book to find what this elixir is and what sorts of ingredients does it have to be so powerful to heal a wolf with such a serious injury like this? As of while Cora finally calms down after splashing water on her face, with Baymax patting her back. She smiles for a bit till she remembers something important.*

Cora: My book!

*Liv Amara hears the footsteps of Cora to which she quickly and carefully places the herbal book to its bag and be seated just in time for Cora to arrive.*

Cora: *Looks at book* Oh thank god, Its here!*Looks at Liv*… you didn’t look at the book did you?

Liv: No I did not.

*Cora sighs as she walks out the door…both unaware that Baymax had heard both of them…and he buzzed with Liv’s response. After saying their goodbyes Cora contacts Hiro and tells him what happened.*

Hiro: Wait a minute… She said she DIDN’T create the monsters and Baymax said she told the truth?

Cora: Yes! That’s insane! Orso Knox told me that she was the one who turned him into what he is today!… None of this makes any sort of sense.

Hiro: We’ll figure this out together Cora. You got my promise on that.

Cora: Thank you Hiro.

*Liv Amara sits on her chair as she ponders about her new discovery… this elixir… there’s a high chance that something like this is bound to be so powerful that they don’t want anyone else to discover…perhaps it could be a cure to-*

Liv: You’re getting a head of your self. First, get the gold. Then, you’ll learn more about this elixir… just in case…

*That night Chris is at the woods where he is carrying a box of honey to lure in a bear. Once he opens up the box he jumps up the tree to hide. The bear came for the honey trap as predicted and as soon as it starts eating the honey Chris jumps down and lands on the bear’s back. This causes the bear to roar as it tries to shake off the human until it finally did. The bear growls at the man as a warning before he walks away. And Chris is able to get what he came for: A clump of the bear’s fur.*

Chris: Gotcha!

*He goes back to Sycorax where Liv Amara starts scanning the bear fur onto her machine.*

Chris: You know… I actually took a peek at the herbal book you talked about… it certainly does hold a lot of promise. From what I read Cora’s mother had created a tonic that contains Rosemaries and Lilacs.

Liv: Hmmm very interesting…Almost done…there.

*Once she completes her work the genetic make up of the bear merges with the innards of Bessie where it shuts it doors to merge the two together. The merging process was so strong that it used all the power of Sycorax to make a black out… until it surges back up again. And so the doors opens to reveal the biggest chimera that Liv Amara ahd ever created.*

Chris: Its perfect.

Liv: Goodbye Big Hero 7.

* Around that time Hiro and Baymax are at home where Aunt Cass is presenting her new dish for Hiro to test out.*

Cass: I hope you’re hungry! I came up with a new recipe today and I think you’re really gonna like it!

*The bowl she presented is a concoction of acai, strawberries, blueberries, and… steamed salami…*

Cass: Acai and Salami bowl!

Hiro: *Apprehensive* Oh…

Cass: I know what you’re thinking. Do those things go together? And my answer is yes! The sweetness of the berries mixes with the funk of the salami to bring full body flavor!

*Cass scoops up a spoon and brings it to Hiro who is currently leaning away from the chimera made bowl.*

Hiro:*Forced grin and quiet voice* Oh I bet it does…

Cass: Go ahead, taste it!

*And so Hiro has to eat the food…his expression spoke volumes that Aunt Cass sadly did not catch on. Hiro finally swallows it down.*

Cass: Well, what do you think?

Hiro: Oh.. its.. umm.. tasty..

Baymax: Your dilated pupils and forced grin indicates you are-

Hiro: Loving it!

*Hiro stands up and tries to push Baymax up the way.*

Hiro: there’s been a glitch or two happening on Baymax so excuse me please!

Cass: What about your Salami berrie bowl?

Hiro; *Calling out to Aunt Cass* I’ll..finish it later!

*Cass looks ta Hiro weirdly before she takes a bite of her creation… she did not like it.*

Cass: Blegh! Can’t believe Hiro likes this!

*Hiro places Baymax to his charging station as he sits down on his chair to get to work.*

Baymax: Hiro, why did you lie to Aunt Cass?

Hiro: I didn’t want to hurt her feelings by telling her I didn’t like what she made.

Baymax: But that is the truth.

Hiro; But saying that would be mean.

*Baymax blinks at Hiro in confusion*

Baymax: And lying is good?

Hiro: No ugh… Lying is wrong… in general… But sometimes in certain situations people lie so other people don’t get hurt. *Sighs* Its complicated.

*As of while at the Mizichio residence, Cora had just finished up washing the dishes after having supper. But while she washed the dishes she had gotten a large stain on her yellow tank top and some on her skirt.*

Cora: *Sighs in frustration* Dang it!

*And so Cora heads up to her room and changes out of her clothes to her night gown, figuring she might as well go brush her teeth and start preparing her bed. But while she is away at the bathroom their Baymax is around, collecting dirt laundry when he found the dirty clothes. He picks it up and places it with the rest of the clothes…not noticed the lump on her skirt pocket. Baymax places the first pile of dirty laundry(Bright colors) and starts its time. But a few minutes in it starts hearing a crunch… A very loud crunch.*

Baymax: *Peers inside* Oh no…

*Cora gets back only to see her dirty clothes gone… and hear the crunching at the washing machine. She zoomed her way towards the crunch to see Baymax leaning in to pull back the laundry… with the pieces of the lie detector chip littered around it.*

Cora: Oh dear god no!

*The next day, Hiro brought over his packed lunch of Acai and Salami, to which Cora took notice.*

Cora: Wow…that is.. uh…something…

Baymax: Hiro lied to Aunt Cass about liking the Salami Acai berry bowl.

Cora: Hmm…*To Hiro* Too bad we couldn’t get close to Liv after the lunch mission.

Hiro: Its OK Cora… besides there’s other times that we can catch up with that chip.

Cora: *Looking rather uncomfortable* About that Hiro… Ya see…

*She then tells then that last night their Baymax was doing laundry and that she had accidentally left the chip in her skirt. When she realized what happened she pulled it out and saw that its permanently damaged.*

Cora: I’m sorry Hiro…

Hiro: No no! That was an honest mistake.

Cora: You think?

Hiro: I know, you never lied to me.

Cora: Thanks Hiro.

*Soon enough Gogo joins the three with her lunch.*

Gogo: What are you eating Hiro?.. and why?

Hiro: Don’t ask.

Gogo: How’s it going with Liv?

Hiro: Due to an unfortunate accident the lie detecting ship was destroyed. But even if its gone I know in my gut that Liv is behind this.

Cora: Mine too… its been that way since the day I met her.

Gogo: Well I’m sure your guts will figure something out.

*That is when her phone buzzes up with a text.*

Cora: What’s up?

Gogo: My phone. *Looks at her phone* There’s a monster robbing the San Fransokyo Trust.

Hiro: As in the city’s gold reserve?

Gogo: Yeah.

Cora: Monster, gold, this is definitely Liv Amara behind it!

Gogo: Ultra-Armor! Lets go!

*And so, after pushing Baymax out of the table, Big Hero 7 flies off to San Fransokyo Trust to stop the monster.*

Fred: Big Hero 7 in Ultra Armor! Gonna Fight a big scary monster~! Which monster do you think its gonna be this time huh guys? High Voltage again? Mr. Sparkles? Ooh! Or Momakase! Hadn’t seen her in a while!

*The monster in front of them is neither of those people. It is a monster hybrid of a rock and a bear.*

Fred: Or a totally new rock monster! So…

Wasabi: Big!

Fred: Awesome!

*The Rock Chimera slams its claws to the vault.*

Hiro: Guys! Protect the vault! We can’t let it get that gold!

*And so four of Big Hero 7 charges after the monster, with Gogo taking the lead as she throws a disc to get its attention. The Monster now regards to the heroes as it roars at them. Baymax soon grabs the monster from behind to which it tosses them away before grabbing Fred and slamming it back and forth. It throws Fred to Honey Lemon which soon leads Wasabi charging in to fight off the creature to which it releases a powerful that soon wipes out Wasabi’s laser blades. *

Wasabi: Guys help! I’m outta power!

Gogo: Gotcha!

*Gogo zooms to Wasabi’s rescue before the monster would slam its rock stone claws to end him. Once Wasabi is safe Gogo goes back to the fight while Honey Lemon joins in using her chem trail. Fred lands a fire blast before Baymax flies in after them, to which the two teens recognize the familiar green glow emitting from the monster.*

Hiro: A rock monster knocking out our tech-

Cora: You don’t mean its-!

Hiro: Bessie! *To Comm link* Guys! Its a Bessie monster!

Wasabi: *Hiding somewhere* Yeah! My gear’s totally dead!

*Meanwhile Fred is currently being juggled by the chimera rock*

Gogo: I think its part bear.

Fred: That sounds about right! Also help!

Honey Lemon: *Running in while throwing a chem ball lasso* Leave him alone!

*The chem lasso soon wraps around the rock bear chimera’s paws to which finally frees Fred, but it also allows for it to pull Honey Lemon forward to face it up front. Honey Lemon quickly dodges before she is blasted by the beam. But while she was running the bear hits her successfully, destroying her chem purse.*

Honey Lemon:Oh no!

*The bear roars and charges after her.*

Honey Lemon: Definitely part bear!

*Honey Lemon runs away from the chimera as Gogo zooms into the rescue.*

Gogo: Hang on Honey Lemon!

*Gogo throws her disc to hit the chimera so it can diverts its attention from her girlfriend. Soon enough the chimera is after her, where her speed and hits allow her to give a few good hits before it zaps Gogo’s wheels, making her immovable as she falls down to the floor and knocks out the rest.*

Hiro: You want the gold? You’re gonna have to go through us!

*Baymax lands in front of the vault as they prepare to face off the chimera. Soon the chimera and Baymax are in a face off as Cora pulls out her hand and squirts ink into its eyes. The chimera roars as it steps back to wipe off the ink from its eyes. Once it gets a good view it soon blasts Hiro and Cora off Baymax and into the floor, now rendering their own powers useless. They look up in time to see Baymax be sent flying off the air and slammed to the vault.*

Baymax: I have been hit…

*and so Baymax shuts down.*

Cora: Oh no!

Hiro: Baymax!

*The two could only stare helplessly as the bear walks forward to Baymax and the vault. It starts ripping the door when Baymax’s rocket fist soon comes up and knocks him in the jaw and slamming it to the ceiling.*

Cora: Baymax you’re alright!

Hiro; How did you do that we thought you were hit!

Baymax: I lied.

Hiro and Cora: What?

Baymax: So that you two would not get hurt.

Hiro: Thanks buddy.

Cora: *Hugs Baymax* You’re the best.

*But their moment of friendship is cut short as the chimera gets up and blasts out loud, filling the entire building with green light. When the dust settles Baymax is lying down, Hiro and Cora are on the floor with the boy shielding her. When they get up they see the vault completely empty of gold and the Chimera.*

Honey Lemon: Are you two OK?

Hiro: Yeah but Bessie got away.

Cora: And taken the gold with it.

Gogo: Looks like Liv got what she wanted.

*And so they all head back home, trying to rest up from their failed mission and think over their thoughts. Hiro soon pulls out his phone to call Cora, who is currently making preparing for bed.*

Cora: Hello?

Hiro: Hey sweetie, how are you?

Cora: As decent as one would be after being slammed by a rock bear chimera.

Hiro: Yeah, I suppose so.

Cora: Hiro… I really mean it that I’m sorry I got the chip destroyed. But what good did that happen… she flat out said that she didn’t create the monsters.. but I know she did!

Hiro: I told you its fine! Sides, even if the chip was here it would probably won’t do much help. Liv is smart so she could find a way to lie about it and not get caught. All we have now is out gut feelings.

Cora: Yeah! Sooner or later Liv is gonna make a mistake and we’re gonna catch her in the act!

Hiro: Exactly… We all know that Liv Amara is behind the monsters no matter what… but the question is why?

*At the Sycorax lab, Liv Amara is heading to the pod that contained the person inside. Wiping off the frost reveals a woman… who looks like her but slightly older.*

Liv: Good news! I got the gold. I promised you I do whatever it takes… Liv.

*That very same night, far into the southwest pacific lies an island where inside is a sinkhole. One would think it is unhabituated but no… there were people there living in the sink hole. And one of them is ready to scale up the wall, dressed in an oversized wool coat, red scarf, a blue oversized Russian cap with a black bill and a gold button, and a worn white dress covering her bare feet. The person looks back to see one of them, a sweet, latin woman in her 50s, looking at her with worried eyes as she held in her hands a cloth bag filled with clams, coconuts, and berries for the person. The person goes forward to the woman and accepts the bag, hugging her tightly with small tears trickling down her eyes.*

Sweet Woman: Are you sure about this? I know its been days since the sirens’ have left, but you could hurt yourself! What if they catch you?

Person: And what if they don’t? Abue, this could be our chance to leave… to go back home. Its now or never.

Abue: *Sighs* You really are stubborn… Take care mi Nina.

Person: Thank you Abue.

*And so the woman climbs up the sink hole, loosing her footing only twice before she gets up to the land. The woman carefully takes her steps through the sand, for the first time stepping in something dry, before she runs towards the trees where she found a hidden boat that the sirens had kept from them. Once there she quickly sets up with gathering more food and coconuts for her trip. She looks at her necklace and sighs softly. The necklace was composed of a worn out shoe lace… and a beautiful heart shaped sapphire in the middle. She pushes the boat out to sea where soon she paddles her way out. The older woman sighs as an older man who is of Irish origin goes to comfort the lady.*

Lincoln: Judith…she will be alright. San Fransokyo is the closest to land safely… and it is where she is from.

Judith: I know… but I worry. Now her memories are returning… her face brightened when she mentioned about her city, her school… and her love.

Lincoln: Do you worry that those she loved had moved on?

Judith: Yes… but you are right… After all.. she is stronger than she looks.

*They look up to the star lit sky and moon, showing the face of a young woman with Strawberry blonde hair and green eyes, holding her necklace close to her.*

Judith: May your journey to your past bring you home at last…Chara.

A.N: And that is Lie Detector! So whatcha think? Didn’t expect that to happen huh? I am aware that new episodes are coming much later to which yay for me since finals is coming! Sorry it came so late after it ended, but I had to tweak it a little! Love you all and thank you for reading Big Hero 7!

[fearofaherobrine]

Roleplay Server Log #341

“Offender Arrives, The Wicker Man, TLOT's Memories”

-Ringleader has joined the server-

-SexualOffenderman has joined the server-

-Splenderman has joined the server-

[Doc] Frantically throwing on clothes-

[TLOT] Is loafing next to the water on the beach below the castle garden and sits up abruptly-

[Steve] Pops up out of the shallows

[Yaunfen] Sniffing the air while Waffles gives a warning growl-

[Splender] Has entered the server near the castle and waves at those he can see- Hello everybody!

[Yaunfen] perks up with whiskers twitching- Hi Splender!

[TLOT] Waves back as well and Steve is climbing uncertainly up onto the shore- you brought us a guest?

[Splender] - Weeeell

[Offender] Yawns- Due to certain circumstances, brother wants to make sure at least one of us is with Splender

[TLOT] Are you I'll? Or in some supernatural danger?

[Offender] - I suppose you could say that

[Steve] Who would want to hurt Splender? He's one of the nicest people I know

[Ringleader] - Splendy why don't we go find Pinwheel?

[Splender] - Okay!

[Offender] Waits until the other two are out of hearing distance- Our father...

[Yaunfen] Flicking their tail- someone else with a mean dad? Thats not okay.  

[Waffles] Sniffs Offender and gives a tiny kitty style sneeze.

[Offender] - Yeah, it wasn't a problem until they managed to fix the portal between our dimensions

[TLOT] Well he's got a decent place to hide at least.

[Steve] dawning realization- You're Offenderman, right?

[Offender] Grins- Yes

[Yaunfen] I know an offensive word! Fuck!

[TLOT] ho boy

[Offender] Laughs- Good one kid!

[Doc] Comes racing up fixing their coat hurriedly- is there an emergency?!? What's going on?!

[Offender] - Not much, just making sure the baby bro stays safe

[TLOT] His father...

[Doc] Pales - Zalgo?

[Offender] Laughs- Oh fuck no!  That douche is not our father!

[Doc] I thought he was king of demons or something?

[Yaunfen] What's a douche?

[Offender] - He's basically a very old minor god in terms of power, but he's probably only barely stronger than our father, the Wicker Man

[Doc] Wicker? Doesnt that have something to do with furniture? [Steve] Watches two touchies that have crawled out of his skull helm fly lazily around him- a furniture man doesn't sound too scary.   [TLOT] and Yaunfen, douches are for cleaning girl parts. [Yaunfen] Oh yeah! Like mom has. - nod nod-

[Offender] - Think more the shape, the tangle of branches deep in a forest that you can barely see through.  He's so old his tendrils can resemble the deepest and deadliest parts of a forest

[Doc] So a mess.

[Offender] - And deceptive

[TLOT] Somehow I think any untidy branches are going to stick out here. -gestures at the trees nearby- even jungle trees are rather chunky and uniform.

[Offender] - Good point, but his goal wouldn't be to hide here, but to get my brothers and I back home and destroy Splendy

[TLOT] You're all in danger of being kidnapped?

[Offender] - In a sense?  In our world you obey whoever is strongest...  Which is one reason why it was odd for brother to not accept Zalgo's offer for us to live under him...

[TLOT] We prefer a more... democratic approach.

[Doc] Sort of. I mean, I get final say because I pay the bills, but certain people have their own areas or expertise and subjects to rule.

[Yaunfen] Mada is head admin!

[Offender] - Don't know what that means but good for you!  I'm gonna go help Splendy find his little biting fluffball

[Doc] Well before you go... I don't mean to be rude but...  did you... feed before you came in? We're used to accomdating Splender. And Trender and Solace would be equally easy... I'm just concerend. We have a lot of children here and plenty of inhabitants who already have trauma they're trying to work through...

[Offender] - Yeah, I got plenty of fuel last night

[Yaunfen] You eat coal like Crim?

[Doc] Uncomfortable- no... - Hir words have a certain emphasis- Offender, this is my child Yaunfen.

[Offender] - So one of the many Splendy already berated me for on being off limits, gotcha

[Doc] That would be appreciated-

[TLOT] Mentally to Offender - They're young, and as far as we can tell, completely non-binary with no organs of either type.

[Offender] Responds mentally in kind- Hasn't stopped me before, but I'll leave them be since I don't think any of us want a raging Splendy on our hands

[TLOT] Mentally- Or me. I've made a few bad mistakes of my own in the past, and now consent is very important to me.

[Offender] - Welp, I'll be off then!

[Doc] Wait! One more thing. - Xe clicks near him and brings up the display- You're a guest player for now. Just type my name in the chat like this- does some finger motions like on a keyboard- if you need anything or have any questions.

[Offender] - Noted, oh and we brought Ringleader to help keep SPlendy's mind off of what's going on

[Doc] Oh! I'll have to drop by. We had a nice little adventure last time. It'll be good to see her again.

[Offender] - Yup, well, you'll probably find her and my brother around the kids quite a bit

[TLOT] That's normal. The kids really enjoy his company. My Testificates are used to seeing him around the village.

[Offender] Starts walking off- Yeah well I'll probably be stuck baby sitting the biter

[Doc] She's a bit more advanced then you remember. Be nice to her. She's basically Sally's age now and about her level too.

[Offender] - Oh joy

[Yaunfen] Should I find Big Fire mada?

[Doc] Go ahead, I need to check in with your mom. Everything looks like it's holding steady, but I want to add a few things just in case.

[Yaunfen] I'm on it! - Goes trotting off with waffles following at a loping pace.

[Doc] Turns to TLOT- ...

[TLOT] You don't have to ask, I'll keep an eye on him.

[Yaunfen] Runs down the spawn road sniffing around for Cp's brimstone smell-

[Lie] Is walking towards Doc's place with CP following her.  He's still in cat form-

[Yaunfen] Leaps over her in an effortless bunch and bound- HI LIE!

[Waffles] Saunters up more leisurely - mrrrr

[Lie] - Hello Yaunfen, is your Mada home?  I'm trying to find somebody

[Yaunfen] Yep! They're at Castle Thunder! Talking to mom.

[Waffles] Sniffs at Cp-

[CP] Hisses at Waffles-

[Waffles] Show of teeth and pokes Cp with one toe of one huge paw-

[CP] Fury swats-

[Lie] - CP!

[Waffles] Thumps a paw down flat on Cp's head to knock him down-

[Yaunfen] Is circling several blocks away- Lie? Where's Big Fire?

[Lie] - Hm?  Oh, well he's catified and being a bit squished by your cat by the looks of it

[Waflles] Is roughly patting Cp with a playful expression-

[Yaunfen] Waffles!

[CP] Manages to escape and runs over to Lie, doing a butt wiggle to jump up on her shoulder-

[Lie] - Don't you dare

[Yaunfen] Leans down and tangles Cp up in hir whiskers- Hey Big Fire!

[CP] - Growls-

[Yaunfen] Mada said to tell you Offenderperson is here!

[CP] Freezes as does Lie-

[Lie] - I'm sorry Yaunfen...  Could you repeat that?

[Yaunfen] Offender is here? Splender came back too, with someone called Ringleader.

[Lie] - Okay then...  I'm going to go barricade myself in my room for the time being then

[Yaunfen] Be safe Lie! - Looks at Cp who's still slightly tangled-

[CP] Wants to follow Lie and pulls a little-

[Yaunfen] Lie? Does Big Fire need to go with you?

[Lie] - Yes!

[Yaunfen] Puts the cat down-

[CP] Darts off to follow Lie, a fire charge already building in his mouth just in case-

[Pinwheel] Is rather happily laying in a patch of sun in the workroom-

[Karla] Is tinkering curiously with the workroom crafting table.

[Pinwheel] Rolls onto her back with a bit of lip smacking, her tail swishing a little-

[Karla] Glances over with a small smile. - Deadly little dreamer...

[Splender] Teleports into the room, having heard from Alexsezia that Pinwheel was there- PINWHEEL!- He quickly scoops her up and is hugging her

[Pinwheel] Is very much awake now- Splendy no!  No!  No!  No!- Each no is punctuated with a bite

[Karla] Is understandably startled- You probably should not- Oh GODS!

[Splender] Just happily snuggles Pinwheel as she hisses-

[Ringleader] Runs in- Splendy not so fast!

[Karla] Do you need medical attention?! You should put her down!

[Splendy] - Hm?  Oh!  Hello!

[Karla] Composes herself - She's a rather sensitive creature, you shouldn't grab her like that.

[Splender] Laughs a little- Oh don't worry, I do this all the time!

[Pinwheel] - Splendy down!

[Splender] - Oh alright...  What happened to your scales?

[Karla] The little one ran away and got caught in the rain...

[Splender] - Oh Pinwheel...  Why didn't you go home?

[Pinwheel] Huffs-

[Karla] She had a disagreement with her friend Crim. Children get overwhelmed sometimes. It's hard being young.

[Splender] - Yes, I was there when it started, I unfortunately got called away for some business, but I trust she and Crim have made up and that's good

[Ringleader] - Awwww, she's gotten so much bigger the last time I saw you

[Karla] Yes, well enough. I don't believe we've met? I'm Dr. Karla Emmerich. Currently Lie's houseguest.

[Splender] - I'm Splenderman!  And this is my proxie Ringleader!  And this- He turns towards empty space and freezes

[Ringleader] - Yeah this is why I was yelling at you not to go so fast, I have no idea where your brother is

[Karla] Nice to meet you both... Brother?

[Ringleader] - Sexualoffenderman...  Should I go out and look for him sir?

[Splender] A bit ashamed- Yes please

[Karla] With a name like that he sounds like Hell on wheels.

[Ringleader] - Just don't take any roses and you'll be fine

[Karla] Laughs lightly - My playmate is more likely to come with a whip in his teeth and a pleading expression then flowers. Thank you for the warning though.

[Ringleader] Heads out to find Offender-

[Splender] Turns towards Pinwheel- Have you been a good girl while I've been gone?

[Pinwheel] - Don't care

[Karla] She's been calm and happy for the few hours we've spent together.

[Splender] - Wonderful!  Little biting?

[Karla] Just once, but I'm over it.

[Splender] - Oh dear, you didn't hit respawn did you?

[Karla] No, she'd spent her venom on the mobs. It's fine.

[Splender] - Oh dear, still, I'm sorry...

[Offender] Teleports in behind Splendy- There you are, ah, and the biting fuzzball

[Karla] Is this the aformentioned brother? I can see the resemblance in height.

[Splender] - Ah!  Yes!  Offender, this is Karla!  This is my brother Offender!

[Offender] - You can just call me Smexy

[Karla] Chuckles lightly- I like it! And the flasher coat. - She crosses one leg over the other, the light catching the shiny black leather on her feet and hands.

[Offender] His trademark grin spreads across his face- Oh I like her

[Karla] Most men do. Unless they fancy being able to tame me. - She lifts her chin to see him better and her massive chest scar and cleavage are easily visible from above.

[Pinwheel] - Hungry!

[Karla] Endrea left you some bottles. Give me a moment. - She gets up and brushes past Offender to open a trunk and retrieve the bottle of void energy-

[Offender] Lets a couple of his tendrils curl out only to have Pinwheel bite them- Ow!  Stop that fang face!

[Karla] How interesting... - She brings Pinwheel the bottle and tips it so she can drink from it.

[Pinwheel] Lets go of Offender to eat-

[Offender] - Yeah, slender beings like my little bro here and I all have tendrils

[Karla] I believe I've met your... oldest brother? Cp and I had a bit of fun, and he was kind enough to clean up after our mayhem. - across the room the Wunderwaffe seems to wake up and makes a few small happy electrical noises from the bed it's resting on.

[Offender] Chuckles again- Oh yah, that.  He griped a little bit, but that was more for show than anything else, he was almost playful when he got back

[Karla] That's an amusing thought in and of itself... - she tips the bottle a bit more, it's nearly empty. -Good Pinwheel. Get big and strong.

[Splender] - Doc said I could possibly ride her when she's full grown!

[Pinwheel] - No

[Karla] Diplomatically- I think that will take a lot more good parenting and patience. A young lady of such caliber doesn't let just... anyone ride her.

-Up in the main room the doors can be heard opening and closing-

[Lie] - Anyone home?

[Karla] Lie! You have company.

[Lie] Comes down into the workroom with CP following- Splender!  Glad to see you again!- She then notices Offender and stiffens

[CP] Begins growling at Offender-

[Karla] Now then Cp, we were just having a nice chat. Why so angry?

[Splender] - CP, you know Offender won't touch you or your mate, he knows how strong that bond is

[Offender] - Besides, your ass is too tiny right now to do anything too

[Karla] Off-handedly- Such things are easily adjusted, but it's innapropriate either way.

[Offender] - Oh I can adjust to fit just about anything, however...- He sniffs the air and turns towards Lie- Oh that smells delicious...  You're pregnant little lady...

[Karla] Indeed. She's the talk of the village. As far as we know, two Herobrines having a child is unprecidented.

[Lie] Is bright red-

[CP] Knowing Offender can hear him- Fuck off!

[Pinwheel] Finishes eating and licks her lips- I go find Cri now

[Karla] Are you sure Pinwheel? I could just try calling over the... chat? And see if anyone has seen him.

[Pinwheel] - Mmmmmmmm

[Karla] I think that might almost be a yes- She types a little and then waits for the words to come back-

[Buff] Over chat- I saw him out in the desert by the shrine miss. Only a little while ago.

[Karla] See? That was easy enough.

[Pinwheel] Takes off running-

[Splender] - Ah!  Pinwheel that was rude!

[Karla] She's just eagar to play with her friend some more. Her first friend. I wonder if I might be her second with time?

[Splender] Excitedly- Oh I hope so!

[Offender] - Calm down bro, your getting ahead of yourself again

[Lie] - I...  I think I'm going to go start on dinner...

[CP] Concerned mew-

[Splender] - Oh!  We should leave you to that then, don't want to be rude...

[Offender] - I like food

[Splender] - Come on, let's go brother, we'll get some food from Doc!- He starts pushing his brother out the door

[Karla] Watches them go with a little wave- Nice meeting you both.

[Lie] Lets out a very shaky breath and her body starts trembling a little-

[Karla] I take it 'smexy's' given name is not merely for show? You seem very upset Lie.

[Lie] - There...  There's some history...- She turns and removes her collar, her now very naked husband pulling her in close and smoothing her hair

[CP] - Shhh, it's alright...  I won't let him do anything

[Karla] Shamelessly takes a look at Cp's equiptment and makes the faintest snort before smiling.

[CP] Snarls at Karla a little-

[Lie] - I just...  He was in our home

[Karla] No shame Cp, it's a generous peg for what I imagine is a small square hole that's usually happy to invite it in. And he seemed well-contained by his more amiable sibling.

[CP] - He's lazy, that's what, but he terrifies Lie, and for good reason...

[Karla] I'm guessing he prefers his sexual partners to be random and unwilling?

[CP] - He doesn't care what they are, willing or unwilling, old or young, human or not

[Karla] Hence the name. Anyone would have every right to be terrified.

[CP] Glances down at Lie, as if asking her permission and she nods a little- He never actually attacked her, but she witnessed him taking a victim, we think that may be what led Insanity to choosing her as a suitable mate...

[Karla] That explains a lot, you're decently well matched but it still seemed a random choice for something fated.

[CP] Shrugs a little as Lies shaking starts to die down- Either way, she's mine

[Karla] And you are her's. I think that's just as important. From everything I've heard she's been quite a good influence on you.

[CP] - Whatever, I need to get dressed, Lie, are you okay now?

[Lie] - Yeah, I should be fine now...

[CP] Nods and teleports to their room to get dressed-

[Steve] Is whistling cheerfully as he makes steaks in a furnace by the water-

[TLOT] Is making a fish stew on top of the same furnace - I could use maybe... Two more?

-There's a commotion in the water as the golden dragon breaches and goes chasing after a fish-

[Yaunfen] is doing a little dance for Deerheart. Xe has a sprig of smoke berries in one hand and is trailing the particle effects everywhere.

[Deer] Smiles happily and is encouraging Yaunfen-

[Splender] Is approaching with Offender and Ringleader-

[TLOT] Signals to Doc-

[Doc] Surfaces with a fish in hir mouth and makes for the shore with just the top of hir head and mane showing.

[Yaunfen] Does a couple of graceful leaps and then stumbles a bit, breaking a rough stone block to nothing with their feet- whoops!

[Splender] - Are you okay Yaunfen?

[Deer] Goes to help Yaunfen up

[Yaunfen] Yeah- the smoke berries fell on the ground and some of them squished, making a bit of ground fog- two feet are just harder then four. Pfft!

[Splender] Laughs- This is true!

[Doc] Rises up like a sea monster from the water and tosses TLOT the fish- did you find Pinwheel?

[Splender] - Oh yes! She was at Lies place!

[Ringleader] Looking at Yaunfen- Awww, you've grown so much too!

[Yaunfen] Blinks at her for a moment- I know you... I think? - tiny tail swish-

[Doc] You were pretty little when you met her. This is Ringleader, Splender's proxy.

[Ringleader] - You had just learned how to say Mada when I last saw you

[Yaunfen] Really?

[Doc] Leans down and gives them a little bump with hir snoot- You were super cute then and you still are.

[Yaunfen] Yee! Mada. - smiles-

[Steve] Foods done. Anybody hungry?

[Offender] - Oh hell yes!

[Steve] Looks slightly unnerved by Offender but gamely starts passing out steak and warm bread and bowls of fish chowder.

[Doc] Shifts down to join them. It's a lovely day and a few touchies are buzzing lazily in the garden.

[Offender] Takes the food offered and swallows it in one go-

[Splender] - Of thank you Steve

[Yaunfen] Pulls out a full block of end sponge cake and starts nomming happily-

[Steve] shaky- There's more....

[TLOT] Passes a roast chicken and a baked potato from his inventory to Offender. His expression changes slightly as he brushes the Slenders hand-

[Offender] - Cool

[Splender] - Brother, don't eat all of their food!

[Doc] It's okay Splender, I can access creative easily. So we've always got plenty of basic meat and vegetable stuff.

[TLOT] Tilts his head slightly before addressing Offender- Your mind is quiet.

[Splender] - Yes, but you've seen my innards, his are the same

[Offender] - My mind is what?

[TLOT] It's quiet, clear almost. When Cp punched Lj and he retreated into his box, who found it?

[Doc] Is listening intently because of TLOT's tone-

[Offender] - I did, why?

[TLOT] You touched it, didn't you?

[Steve] You mean he's...?

[Offender] - Well yeah, how else was I supposed to get his box home

[Ringleader] - I'm confused...

[TLOT] Yes. He's clean.

[Doc] Okay, I feel about 1000% better hearing that.

[Yaunfen] You don't have the crazy lady!

[Steve] Wow!

[TLOT] Your Insanity was purged the moment you touched it. I understand that Slender beings aren't as controlled by her as normal creepypastas, but it still makes a difference.

[Offender] - Eh, never heard from her much anyways

[Doc] Well if someone has godlike powers it's always good to know they won't suddenly go bananas because someone looked at them funny. I adopted a dragon form partly because I wanted one and partly because I needed to be big in order to subdue Cp whenever he got out of hand. I spent a lot of time with him actively on fire in my coils while I tried to talk him down.

[Offender] Laughs at the mental image-

[Doc] Had to sit on him a few times too. And thankfully TLOT can use his powers to pin people in place.

[Offender] - Eh, everyone has their tricks

[Steve] Glances at his feet and smiles very slightly-

[Yaunfen] I can be heavy! Mama and I have been practicing. - so proud-

[Doc] Heavy?

[Deer] Sputters- Yaunfen! That was going to be a surprise!

[Yaunfen] But I can kinda do it! ... Sorry mama.

[Doc] What's this all about?

[Deer] Sighs- We've been practicing Yaunfen's powers on the candy seed and were going to surprise you with them once they got good

[Yaunfen] I can be stubborn as fuck! Just like Big Fire!

[Doc] Why does that worry me?

[Splender] - Yaunfen, that's not a nice word

[Doc] But it was one of the first they learned. So it's okay.

[Splender] - If you say so...

[Yaunfen] Moves a little bit away and shapeshifts back to a dragon. They're decently large and pad over to Splender- Try and move me! I'm like bedrock!

[Splender] - Okay!- He stands and proceeds to try and lift Yaunfen

[Yaunfen] Streches a little in the middle like a sleepy cat but the feet stay firmly on the ground. - That tickles!

[Offender] Grins a little, a tendril slinking along the ground-

[Splender] Keeps trying-

[Yaunfen] Is being shoved around a little but not moved. The dirt under them is looking a bit crumbly. - hehehe!

[Offender] Suddenly tickled both Yaunfen and Splender-

[Splender] Shrieks in laughter and let's go of Yaunfen- Brother!

[Yaunfen] Goes suddenly down so they're standing with one foot each in a one block hole- whoops! That's cheating! HEHEHHEHE!

[Offender] - Nah, it's called having fun kid

[Yaunfen] Uses their tail tip to tickle Offenders ribs- Sneaky!

[Offender] Retaliated with more tendrils-

[Yaunfen] Rolls over laughing-

[TLOT] Well at least they're playing nice.

[Ringleader] - Yeah, all of them get subdued around Splender

[Steve] He is a really nice guy.

[TLOT] Good neighbor too. - glances in the direction of Mb's house.

[Ringleader] - Is everything alright?

[TLOT] Eh, just a brine with an attitude. He was given to us to save him from being deleted. MasterHerobrine. He's been quieter since we gave him a dragon to raise but he still likes to fight. Reminds me of Cp now and again.

[Ringleader] - I see...

[Splender] Finally gets enough tendrils out to tickle Offender back-

[Yaunfen] Is pouncing and playing and acidently drops a tablet from their inventory.

[Ringleader] - Hm? What's this?- She picks up the tablet

[Doc] Is too fixated on Yaunfen playing to notice.

[TLOT] Looks at her- that? It looks like a painting maybe? Try putting it on a flat surface.

[Ringleader] Looks around before approaching the wall of the castle and pressing the tablet there-

-The image springs up. It's a healed zombie pig woman. She's lovely and dressed like a tribal princess. Behind her are images of dinosaurs. She seems to be almost pleading, reaching out with one hand from the picture. -

[TLOT] Goes absolutely white and still - I... remember... Zaya... oh gods...

[Steve] Runs to him- what is it???

[Yaunfen] Stops playing - oh no! TLOT?

[Doc] Comes to look as well- What's wrong???

[TLOT] Starts to cry and wipes his tears on his cloak edge-

[Steve] I don't understand.. OH GODS. - He's seeing the memory in TLOT's mind-

[TLOT] How could I forget...?

[Splender] He and Offender stop playing- No, don't cry, sadness doesn't taste good...

[Yaunfen] Don't cry TLOT.

[Doc] What happened? Who is she?

[TLOT] I... need to sit down... - He takes a few steps away and flops on a stair block, shaking his head-

[Steve] Is still reeling-

[Doc] Dammit, of all the times not to have some of Lie's flowers.

[Splender] - I could go get some

[Yaunfen] Scrabbles at the picture, taking it down and putting it away. -I'm sorry!

[Doc] If you want, it might help-

[Splender] Teleports away-

[Ringleader] - No, I'm sorry, I put it up...

[Deer] - TLOT, what's wrong?

[TLOT] It's so vivid... At least parts of it. She was.. someone important? My NOTCH... Revenge, he destroyed her in front of me...

[Steve] Yaunfen! Where did you get that?

[Yaunfen] I found it! I sifted it out of gravel! And fixed it with the anal-lyser.

[Doc] Where did the gravel come from?

[Yaunfen] Notch gave it to me.

[Doc] You mean Markus, right?

[Yaunfen] Uh-huh!

[Doc] How in the world...?

[Deer] - The leak... The mods from TLOT's seed are leaking into the others...

[Doc] So... we have artifacts now?

[Deer] - Maybe?

[TLOT] Mutters- There was a man there too... with a face like a.. wolf?

[CP] Teleports in with Lie-

[Lie] - TLOT?

[Yaunfen] I've found all kinds of stuff....

[TLOT] Is still shaken and teary-

[Steve] He suddenly remembered part of something terrible our NOTCH did....

[Lie] Nods in understanding before spawning calming blossoms-

[TLOT] Makes eye contact with Cp, and in that moment he also sees the memory. The woman standing firm and defiant despite being weaponless and being suddenly cut down by the misty form of TLOT's NOTCH. Her screams are terrible and his overwhelming fear and anger in that moment is sour and consuming.

[CP] Growls, the memory reminding him off what happened to his mobs-

[TLOT] Swallows hard. Reaching down to tangle his fingers in Lie's calming flowers-

[Steve] Wraps his arms around his husband as if to protect him-

[Doc] His NOTCH has such a long shadow... even dead...

[Lie] - Then we simply need to be brighter

[Doc] Adds hir arms to the hug- It's okay... it's over.

[TLOT] I need to know. Somehow... what happened... This hole in my mind is maddening sometimes.

[Yaunfen] Slinks over, laying their snout against his shoe-

[Splender] Teleported back and gives a burst of happy energy-

[TLOT] Lets it roll over him like cool water, and sighs, calming down.

[TLOT] Thank you... Sorry to bring everyone down. And Yaunfen, I'm not mad, but you need to let me know if you find anything else.

[Doc] Burst of guilt and a guarded expression-

[Lie] - It's okay, that's what we're here for- She's a bit nervous being so close to Offender

[Doc] Moves back a little-

[Deer] - Doc?

[Doc] Yes?

[Yaunfen] Also looks guilty

[CP] - The fuck is wrong with you?

[TLOT] Looks at them as well with narrowed eyes- What do you have?

[Doc] It's nothing!

[CP] - Doc you are surrounded by psychics

[Doc] quiet- fuck...

[Yaunfen] Mada cussed.

[CP] - Is there something you want to share?

[Doc] Not really?

[CP] Teleports behind Doc and grabs them- What is it?

[Lie] - CP...

[Doc] YIKES! Not so hard!

[TLOT] Doc what. do. you. have?

[Doc] Eh... I kinda.. found a tablet too....

[CP] - Show us

[TLOT] resigned- Let me see it.

[Doc] Fine... you won't like it though. - Xe pulls out the tablet and holds it out as much as xe can for TLOT to take.

[TLOT] He puts it against the castle wall and gasps-

-The painting is much bigger and shows a silhouette with glowing eyes and the shape of his own helm standing small at the apex of a giant pile of human bones and corpses. Behind him is the shadowy form of his NOTCH looming menacingly with his titanic head in the clouds. -

[CP] - Shit...

[TLOT] I....

[Doc] I hid it because I didn't want you to be upset...

[Steve] All my brothers...

[Lie] - Oh TLOT...

[TLOT] So quietly- I just.. didn't want to be alone...

[Yaunfen] But you didn't hurt them! It's not your fault!

[Doc] We understand TLOT... Loneliness can drive one mad... Mine almost killed me.

[CP]  - We've all been there

[TLOT] Its the not knowing that makes it even worse...

[Lie] - But at least you can remember.  It may take time, but I'm certain you will

[Doc] if the evidence exists maybe we should be looking for it? Cp... Where is all the dirt you removed to make the cage? If it's boxed it would likely have been sitting at ground zero of the leak for quite some time.

[CP] - I don't remember

[Lie] - Wouldn't the block under the seed be ground zero?  It's been in direct contact with the seed for a longer amount of time

[Doc] Yes... But sifting destroys the blocks. I was trying not to use anything that would be missed. I didn't want to tear up the floor in Cps build either. And speaking of Cp, can you put me down please?

[CP] Drops Doc- I can look for the blocks...

[Lie] - But I may have used them to fill in places...

[Doc] ow... That would be helpful.  I Don't want to make a giant hole someplace taking too many blocks away.

[Lie] - If there are still any they would be in my store room

[Yaunfen] We're gonna sift stuff? That's a good way to find treasures!

[Lie] - We could head over now?

[Doc] TLOT? Are you going to be okay?

[TLOT] I'll live. I'm going to stay here though.

[Steve] Me too.

[CP] Goes to pick Lie up again-

[Doc] Deerheart my love? It looks like we're going to go play in the dirt for a bit. Wish us luck.

[Deer] - Good luck

[Doc] checks on Offender and Ringleader and Splender- Splender? Are you okay? Maybe show Offender around the seed a bit?

[Splender] - Sure!

[Doc] Take him to the library for sure. I think he'd get a kick out of the second floor in particular...

[Splender] - Second floor?

[Ringleader] - Come on Splendy, let's go

[Yaunfen] That's where all the books for tall people are!

[Steve] They mean adults...

[Yaunfen] That's what I said! Tall people. And Splender is a super adult because he's so tall.

[Splender] - Awwww, You are so adorable Yaunfen

[Doc] What about Gk? Hes old but short.

[Yaunfen] grimaces-I've seen him eat a booger. He's not an adult.

[Offender] - What about me?  I'm shorter then Splendy

[Yaunfen] Gives him a calculating look- mmmm tall enough.

[Splender] Laughs-

[CP] Just starts walking off with Lie-

[the-voice-of-hell]

Rent is Theft, part 18

Read from the beginning here, read the previous chapter here.  Note:  My MC is a Filipina trans woman and I am not.  If you have notes on that or anything else, hit me up.

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      I heard the soft sound of another glass door opening behind me.  The tall doors were of frosted glass indistinguishable from the walls but for etched stainless steel handles and hinges.  Perhaps they were held shut with magnets because there was no noise from a latch opening, just a hollow pop and slight vibration of air as the door swung.  I only heard it because I wasn’t walking at the moment, and I turned to see it.

      A lady with a corporate version of rockabilly style flashed whitened teeth at me, her face framed in big phony burgundy hair, and waved me in.  “Ms. Marquez,” she said, “I should have had the door open for you when you walked by, I’m silly.  Easy to forget what this must look like for visitors.”  She flapped a hand at the sterile hall, then turned it into another beckoning gesture.

      Time for me to mirror her pleasant falsity with a smile of my own.  Her teeth were ringed with candy apple red lipstick, mine with an eccentric but unobtrusive matte rose.  We shook hands and went into her office.  There was mustard yellow plaster on the wall up to about six feet, above which the exposed brick resumed.  Her framed diploma from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago hung there between meaningless matted black and white photos of parts of classic cars.  A curvy wheel hub, a tail fin.

      I sat on a low stool that felt like a sawed-off version of something from Johnny Rockets.  I sat my purse on the floor, folded my hands on a knee, and tried to engage her face.  “You have me at a disadvantage.”

      “Ah, sorry.  No name on the door because we just moved in.  I’m Diana Whitford, human resources coordinator.  Pleased to meet you.”

      “Likewise.  Does the Selman Design Group have a lot of human resources?”

      “You got me.  Small building gave it away?  I’m the whole department.  Also assistant CFO.”

      “Nice.”  I gestured at her fancy little office.  “It looks nice.”

      “It is!  Not so much for decor, right?  Just a lil’ fishbowl under the bricks where we work, but it helps keep us focused.  The meeting rooms are much nicer, and there are so many amazing restaurants around here for lunches.  And the art museum...  It’s a good neighborhood to work in.”

      “I know.  I’d love the job.  What can I say to make you love me for it?”

      “Haha, can’t give it away so easy, can I?”

      “Shoot.  Thought I had you on the ropes.  So,” I nodded coquettishly, “I’m ready.”

      She leaned back and cocked her head, considered me.  I didn’t love it.  She asked, “Alright.  Tell me about yourself.  What makes Courtney Marquez who she is?  I bet that’s interesting.”

      “Mm, I don’t like to settle for ordinary.  I’ve been working in tech for a long time now, and felt it’s time for a change of scenery.”  Sound rich, baby.  “The boys are so drab and provincial.  A graphic design firm, now that’s interesting.”

      “And what interests you about Selman Design Group?”

      “The code we worked on was for purely functional purposes - moving cloud data around, secure networks, server switching in massive arrays.  Here you are dealing with all kinds of businesses, right?  And at a level where the clients are going to be interesting people, cosmopolitan.  I feel it would just make for a nicer atmosphere.”

      “I can hardly imagine.  I’ve had some friends marry tech guys but they are in a whole other world.”

      “It’s not really that interesting.  The other world.  Smells like energy drinks and sweat.”  Play to stereotypes, Courtney.

      “Hohoho,” she said, “But we sweat too sometimes.  How do you handle a challenging day?”

      “When I read this job posting, I imagined it would be coding UI, animation, things to assist with graphic design.  Those were the prerequisite skills listed, right?  But here I am with the human resources assistant CFO and I can tell this is a company where you have to wear a lot of hats.  That’s the kind of challenging day I’m confident I can handle - a little tech support here, a project pushing deadline there.”

      “You don’t have any weaknesses, as a worker?”

      I hate these things a lot.  “None, hahaha.  Of course, I’ve just come from the world of maladjusted boy genius types.  Getting used to a different workplace vibe, it might not be a perfectly smooth transition.  But I promise not to crush cans on my head and play noisy videogames on break.”

      “OK.  But what’s a challenging situation you’ve had in the past, and how did you handle it?”

      I cleaned my ass and walked through the door to have this horrible dance while a dozen people are depending on me to keep our asses off the streets.  “There was a new handshake system we’d been developing functions for, a few months at least, when hackers discovered an exploit in it, rendering the whole system a massive liability overnight.  The biggest stress was for the sysadmins at companies using it, but there was talk around the office our company might have to declare bankruptcy, dump us all to cover debt from damage control.  It had us working under a lot of uncertainty, right when housing prices were shooting up all around the city.”

      “Like, two years ago?”

      “Another time they were going up, about seven years before that?  So it’s work quick and come up with genius solutions while you could end up homeless at a moment’s notice.  We really used all of our team skills on that one.  And that was me.  The genius stuff was for enfants terribles and people like me would try to make their solutions workable in practical space, documenting the code, translating it for other people in the pipeline.  I probably cried in the bathroom at least once?  But we got through it.”  Pathos, girl.  But not too much.

      “Wow.  That sounds like a hard time.”

      “Hard times come and go.  That one is gone.  But lessons learned?”

      “I can’t imagine.  Well, just one more thing.  What kind of compensation would you be expecting here?”

      “Better than a grad but worse than I was making, I’m sure.  I understand I’m starting over, but I am bringing a competency of experience you won’t see in a new kid.  I could go as low as forty-five, if it’s strictly necessary.”

      The fake rockabilly’s eyebrows moved.  What did it mean?  Don’t let them know you care.

      “Thank you, Courtney.  Now do you have anything you’d like to know from me?”

      “Do you have anybody here doing tech support at all, or would that become part of the job description?”

      “You got me.  We did not include IT in the listing, but you know we’ll be asking for it.”

      “I’m OK with that, Diana.”

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      I got out as fast as I could without making it too obvious.  I did not like how that went.  Usually I’ve done better.  Maybe the head wrap was making me lightheaded.  I found a metal pole to lean on, tried to slow my breathing.

      It didn’t help that this was not far from Walter’s stomping grounds, but I had to make myself stop worrying about that.  The late morning sun was bright white, the shadows electric blue.  Every scrap of garbage, eggshell, feathers, plastic, paper was clearly visible in the cement, joining its constituent stones like the skin of an endless lizard.  People walked around me.

      I finally shook it off, put on my sunglasses, and strolled.  Knobby had eluded me long enough.  The full moon was going to happen that night.  If he and Olivia were out walking the streets every day, when did he have time to be taking shits in front of old ladies?  I was going to catch his ass.  If I could cure his werewolfism, maybe anything was possible.  Cures for twisty hair and headmouth, why not?

      I switched from pumps to sneakers and walked back to the Myrmidon Apartments with purpose.  I was getting used to walking, even with the uphill-downhill of it, and if one picked the right streets, this route was mostly downhill.  I was on the block, eyes open for the off chance of seeing those kids on the street, and peered into the window of the Subway behind the building.  I didn’t see the kids, but I did see a lone sub-muncher in the uniform of the pest control company that was investigating the bed bug situation.

      I stepped in.  The people at the counter really didn’t care about short stay loiterers - lots of things to do in keeping an urban fast food joint from exploding.  I went confidently to his table and looked down with arms folded over my chest.

      “Hey, young fella.  Don’t worry, I’m not a cougar or a hooker.  Just a resident of the Myrmidon.”

      “I really shouldn’t talk to residents, ma’am.”

      “Don’t worry about it, kid.  I’m cool.  It’s not my apartment that’s getting sussed out, and not my problem.  I’m just curious about how this works, in case it becomes a problem for me.  Down the road.”

      “Hmm.”

      We had a moment, me smiling, trying to convey a sense of fun-loving criminality, speak to the young man inside the professional.  He pondered it for a moment, then assented.  “OK.”

      I sat down across the table from him.  “Alright.  So this is the new reality, they’re saying.  All the DDT that squished those bald eagle eggs wore off, bed bugs are moving back into the cities.  What all have you heard about that?”

      “Not a lot, honestly.  There’s the experts and then there’s guys like me who just move shit around, work the tools.  What was that about eagles?”

      “I don’t know much either, but somebody told me there’s this pesticide we used to spray on crops, but also indoors.  It made eagle eggshells thin so that when momma tried to incubate them, squish.  Bald eagles became an endangered species and the stuff was banned.  According to the guy I talked to...”

      “That’s why nobody had bed bugs until last year.  What a trip.”

      “Well what do you know about them?  Has to be something.”

      “Heh.  Now this is hella gross.  I heard the females don’t have a...  well, they don’t have a vag.  So to get inseminated, basically, the males got a gnarly spike for a dick, and just stab ’em with it.  Is that too much?”

      “Hahaha, no, that is horrible.  Thanks!”

      “A way to keep ’em out of your bed is to keep your bedding from reaching the floor and put the feet of your bed inside, like, a ring of laundry detergent.”

      “Nice, nice.  So what’s in store for my unfortunate upstair biddies?”

      “Our company is high end, so... uh...”

      “Promise, I’m cool.  You can tell me anything.”

      “Basically, everybody we deal with is insured out the ass, so we come up with services just to charge more money.  It isn’t a total scam, right?  The services do something.  But is every last one of ’em necessary?”

      “So you’re gonna milk this thing?  Hell, everything in this town is so fucking expensive, that doesn’t bother me at all.  Do it to it.  But that isn’t the reason you told me, is it?”

      “OK, we basically already know there are bed bugs.  Boss man stabbed her bed with a bowie knife and found black dots - like digested blood.”

      “Euggh.”

      “I know.  But we’ll be like, this is suggestive but it isn’t a clincher, and run another test.”

      “A more expensive one.”

      “You got it.  And man, it is the real trip.  We bring in a trained animal to sniff ’em out.”

      “Is it an expensive dog breed?”

      He was smirking and enjoying this too much.  “Not a dog.”

      “Aardvark?”  I remembered what Grime had told me about the animal, but didn't want to ruin the boy's fun.

      “A pig.”  His expression dimmed a bit.  “But now that you say that, I wish it was an aardvark.  That sounds fun.”

      “No, no, that’s pretty fucking funny.  You’re literally gonna get these apartments to pay them to have a potbelly piggy running through the halls.”

      “Oh it ain’t no potbelly, ma’am.  It’s one of the big boys.”

      “What do they call that, a boar?”

      “Yup.  A male pig, big as fuck.  Maybe you’ll get to see it.  It’s like three feet at the top and I swear at least five hundred pounds.”

      “No shit?”

      “No shit.”

      “Well, here’s hopin’ those sons of bitches stay upstairs.”

      “Uh, yeah.  Yeah, for sure.”

      He must have known that wasn’t likely to happen.  Shit.  “So the boar confirms what you already know.  Then what?”

      “That’s our part.  We help the lady treat and isolate everything in her apartment.  Anything that can’t take the heat is moved out.  The sprinkler heads are packed in coolant, and then we heat the place to a hundred twenty-five degrees for three hours.”

      “Holy shit.  Big space heaters?”

      “Custom, industrial motherfuckers.  It’s pretty cool stuff.  No poison involved.”

      “Except the laundry detergent.”

      “The laundry detergent?  Oh yeah, the laundry detergent.  We don’t tell most of our customers about that one.”

      “Because they’ll be more likely to get reinfested.  Sharp.”

      “You never know when they’ll bring that pesticide back and put us out of a job, right?”

      “Well thanks, man.  That was a real thrill ride.”  I shot him a finger gun and stood up.

      “Hey, ah...  You don’t have to go so fast..?”

      “Heh.  Charmed, but I do have to get going.  Enjoy your sandwich, son.”

      “Yes ma’am.”

                                                        ***

      I made a mental note to line the baseboards with borax at the earliest opportunity.  I was getting a mental picture of the shit.  They boil the granny floor and fleeing bed bugs come down through the walls, end up on our floor.

      I decided to take the stairs up, and at each floor get out and walk the hall.  If Knobby was doing his doggy deeds, I’d catch him.  I tried to listen for sounds in the stairwell, in the halls, but the exertion made my pulse pound in my ears.  Not terribly, but enough to mute the quiet noises of the world.

      The first ten floors had a different layout from ours - a little bit larger, with more variable apartment sizes.  The smallest ones were even smaller than ours, judging by the distance between doors, and the largest might have been larger.  On the tenth floor, another variation - a gym I had never used.

      I used my prox key and got in.  A redundant nuisance - anybody on this floor had already badged in downstairs, or been badged in by somebody else.  Did they want to keep visitors out of the precious fitness center?

      The outer walls were surely floor-to-ceiling glass, like on ours, but they were masked completely by drawn vertical blinds.  Interior lights were weak in competition with the daylight that gave the blinds an unappealing amber glow, the room washing out to a dim grey-green.

      Still easy enough to see by, and I found myself looking at myself.  One of the inner walls was pure mirror.  Watch your beach bod take shape while you ride the stationary bikes.  Or stand alone and watch yourself fade in real time.  All the dolling up I did for the interview was coming apart, and the shadows added ten years to my face.

      Even with the wrap clamped down on my head, I had forgotten it was visible.  It changed me, made my reflection alien.  And remembering this, I remembered Reverse Courtney was waiting under that grip for any chance to rat us out.  I touched the back of my head and felt her shift underneath the cloth.

      Get out.  No way Knobby was in there anyway.  As I stepped away, I noticed the floor beneath my feet was raised and discolored.  No allergy medicine here.  Get out.

      The eleventh floor was, to my knowledge, one of several completely unoccupied ones.  On seeing no Knobby, it occurred to me that if the monster in him had the same motivation as Reverse Courtney, he would only visit floors with people on them.

      Our floor.  The ritual wasn’t really complete yet.  I had prepared my potions and talismans and such, but I still needed to set up the magic circle.  It was far from midnight, so time remained, but who knew how long it would take to catch the boy?

      I realized we needed to talk to everyone at once.  Patrick and Graeme would be at work, probably, and Deandre and the kids probably out and about.  Still, better to get as many people as possible on the same page as early as possible.  I started knocking on doors.

      Patrick was indeed at work, and I decided to leave Perry alone.  With that and less anybody out on the town, I was only able to convene Mike, Momi, and Marcie, in her apartment.  Mike looked lively, but greener than ever.

      The three sat on the couch and I sat across from it.

      “What’s this about, Courtney?”  Mike was the only one with no prior knowledge, that I knew of.

      “Marcie and Leimomi already know some of this, but not all of it.  Like the allergy situation, it’s important for all of us to know.  Mike, have you noticed that you’re not looking... well?”

      “The green?  Yeah, and I’ve seen that Knobby kid hunchbacked, and his girl’s neck go weird.”

      “So you have an idea what this is about.  I think the building is trying to make us lose control of ourselves, make us get ourselves caught.  I have a mouth on the back of my head that has basically said as much to me.”

      “Does Leimomi have a head mouth too?”

      “No,” she said.

      “Let me get to the point.  The neighbors talked about seeing a dog, or a dog-like man, in the halls on their floors - causing trouble.  It has to be one of us.  We know what our problems are, and Knobby is already hunched over, so safe bet it’s him.  And I have a plan.”

      Mike smiled, green hands on his knees.  “Great!  And here I was worried.  You’re so good, Courtney.”

      Marcie said, “What are you going to do, Courtney?”

      “Ehh, I don’t...”  Maybe they’d feel better if I didn’t express my doubts.  “Sorry.  Remember how wearing the allergy pill necklace was helpful?  It’s kinda like that.  I’m setting up a thing...  OK, a magic spell.  In my room.  We get Knobby inside the magic circle and do an exorcism.”

      “The power of Christ compels you!  Haha,” Mike said, “I can do that.”

      Marcie nodded in admiration.  Momi knew what I was thinking, gave me a sensitive smile.

      “Yeah, so here’s the deal.  We all do our best to find that kid, get him and everybody else in my apartment by midnight.  I’ll write up everybody’s instructions for the spell.  You’ll have to read some words, do some things.”

      “Any of that cool shit from Exorcist in there?,” Mike asked.

      “No but there may be some room for improv.  Just make sure you do the spell right first.

        And in the meantime...”

      “We’ll try to find Knobby.”

      “Richie’s been trying,” Marcie said.

      “Unless he has a hot lead, call him home,” I said.  “It’s a full moon, and if I’m right - that the werewolf is trying to get us in trouble here - he’ll be in the building somewhere.”

      Momi said, “Oh good, I didn’t wanna run around town anyways.  Should we start looking now?”

      “Eat lunch first, get plenty of water.  For my part, I’m gonna turn my apartment into a magic circle.”

                                                        ***

      In my initial pass at the exorcism material in Werwolves, I didn’t notice the shin-kicking ritual involved some worse tortures besides.  We weren’t going to whip him until he was drenched in blood.  I did my best to come up with ways to symbolically accomplish anything I was unable or unwilling to do in the prescribed method.  For example, where it called for whipping the “werwolf” I thought we could just give him a few whacks and then cover him in some kind of blood.  Unsanitary, but not torture.  I’d paid for blood from a butcher, because there’s no good way to shoplift it, and sanitized it by boiling.  That made a blood pudding which I intended to reliquefy when we got closer to midnight.  Grody.

      Another thing I couldn’t do was follow hyper-specific astrological instructions.  OK, I might be able to sync the ritual to a night of the full moon, but learning enough about astronomy or astrology to even know when Mercury was seventeen degrees on the cusp of the Seventh House?  Not happening.  The text said Mercury was the “most bitter opponent of evil spirits,” so I thought, hang some liquid mercury from the ceiling above our boy.  I poured my mercury into an emptied bottle of some micro-brew with a white stag on it, to honor St. Hubert.

                                                        ***

   Read next chapter here.

[metalzombiemiss]

Wrapped Up In You--Part 2

Characters: Negan x OFC (Faye) Aerialist, Faye, performs in her first competition and meets the father of one of the teenage competitors, Negan. Warnings: Language **This is my first attempt at an AU.  I didn’t have a beta so sorry for any errors** Word count: 1626 (Kind of a short one!)  ****Let me know if you want to be tagged****

We pulled up next to Negan’s slick black Mustang. The license plate read ‘Lucy’. Before stepping out, I threw on a pair of sweatpants.

“You named your car Lucy? That’s cute!” Stephanie exclaimed, admiring its curves.

As he opened the passenger door for Kady, he gave a small smile, “I named her after my late wife.”

“Oh god, I am so sorry. I didn’t mean…” Stephanie stumbled over her words, feeling incredibly embarrassed.

“It’s fine. Don’t worry about it. It’s not like I go around introducing myself like ‘Hi, I’m Negan and my wife is fucking dead’.  How would you have fucking known?” He waved his hand in the air and shrugged.  

“Well, still. I’m sorry I said anything…” she sighed.

“She’s been gone a while. When Kady was just a fucking baby,” he explained, “So seriously, don’t worry about it. There’s no way you would have known.” He let Kady go in front of him as he opened the door for us.

“So, then, are you, um…single? Or?” Stephanie asked. I shoved her as I followed behind her.

“I am so sorry!” My face flushed once again. The frustration kept building the more she spoke.

He chuckled again and came in behind me, “It’s fine. Yes, I am. Very, painfully single.”

“Painfully single? You know who else is painfully single?” Stephanie excitedly asked.

I grabbed her arm and smiled at Negan, “Will you excuse us? Go ahead and grab a table. We’ll find you.”

I pulled her into the bathroom and scowled, “What the hell are you doing?! Stop that!”

“What?!” She acted offended, “I’m trying to help!”

“No! You’re trying to embarrass me! Stop that! He isn’t interested. AND not to mention the fact that, Oh, I don’t know, I JUST FUCKING MET HIM 20 minutes ago!” I scolded her, waving a finger in her face like a mother would.

Her brown eyes looked down, “Fine. But when he asks for your number, I’m gonna have a really good time singing my favorite song: I fucking told you so!”

I rolled my eyes for what felt like the 50th time in an hour. “You are going to be the death of me, woman.”

We strolled out of the bathroom and found the table that they had claimed. Negan and Kady sat across from each other and before I could take a place next to Kady, Stephanie swooped in which forced me next to Negan. My stomach turned as I scooted into the booth. I glared at Stephanie with rage. She simply smiled.

“So, you were saying?” Negan asked.

“Hm? Oh! Nothing. Don’t worry about it!” Stephanie replied, looking back down at the menu in front of her.

“Uh uh. Don’t fucking do that. You were saying something. What was it?”

“Well….OW WHAT THE HELL MAN!!” Stephanie shouted, grabbing the shin I had just kicked. She cleared her throat, “Nothing. She’ll kill me if I say anything.”

Negan glanced over at me quizzically, “Why?”

I looked back at him and stammered, “I just…um…”

“She’s single! Painfully single!” Stephanie blurted out.

I covered my face quickly, “Oh my god. I’m so sorry. Jesus Christ.”

He laughed loudly with Kady giggling herself. “Oh! Well then, that’s good information to know!”

My face turned a bright red underneath my hands. I shook my head in pure embarrassment. “I am so fucking sorry. Holy shit….”

I suddenly felt long fingers wrap around my wrist. My eyes wandered over to find his face close to mine. His gruff voice, low and tantalizing, “Don’t be embarrassed. It’s totally fucking fine. We can wallow in self-pity together.”

He chuckled as he let go of my wrist and I looked down at the menu, trying to distract myself. I was fuming.

As we ate, our conversation finally got on an appropriate track. I kept flashing death stares at Stephanie the entire time and she was going to pay for doing what she did. I finished up and excused myself to the bathroom. My heart raced thinking about what Stephanie was going to say to him while I was gone. I heard the door open right as I was stepping out of the stall.

“I didn’t say anything, in case you’re wondering,” she said when she saw my face.

I let out a sigh of relief, “Oh thank god. I was worried for a second…”

“But…” She cringed slightly, “His daughter might have mentioned something…”

“Sorry, what now?” My eyes grew wide, turning away from the sink after washing my hands.

“She commented on the fact that you were pretty and he agreed…” she began.

“What did you do?” I asked again.

“NOTHING!! Just maybe…that…ya know…he should ask you out sometime???” She shrugged and scrunched her nose with false innocence.

“I’m going to murder you. I am going to string you up in my silks and murder you,” I stomped towards her.

“Please don’t hurt me! You’ll thank me later,” she held her hands up in defense.

I huffed and stormed past her to walk back to the table. The server was taking the check from Negan and I hurried my step.

“What are you doing?” I asked.

“Paying the fucking check. What does it look like?” He snipped back.

“Dude, come on. You didn’t have to do that,” I sat down.

“I wanted to. Now just fucking say thank you,” he put his arm around me after I sat back down beside him.

I blushed and glanced at Kady who was smiling wide. I turned away and covered my face as his arm removed itself from my shoulder.

“Thank you…” I whimpered. Stephanie strolled back to the table and sat across from me. “Say thank you. He just paid for our lunch.”

“Thanks!” Stephanie exclaimed, “You didn’t have to do that!”

“Not a problem at all. Thanks for joining us,” he replied.

“We should probably head back,” I said as the server brought back Negan’s change, “I think placement is starting in an hour.”

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My heart pounded as I heard the voice come over the loud speaker. I stood on stage with the people in my category and tried my best to look calm. I glanced at Stephanie who was seated next to Negan. Kady had won second in her category and was busy staring at her medal. He nudged her, making her look up. I smiled gently as we made eye contact. She held up a thumbs up as encouragement and grinned. I was glad she believed in me. Somebody had to.

“And first place,” the voice said as I realized I had blanked out for a moment, “Alexandra Fury!”

I stood in disbelief for a moment before walking over to get my medal. I looked down to see the three of them on their feet, clapping ecstatically. Especially Stephanie. I fought back tears. I smiled as they handed me my prize.

“AAAAHHHH!!!!” Stephanie shrieked as I met her at the backstage door. She grabbed me and squeezed me as tightly as she could.

“I can’t believe I placed first. How?” I said through tears.

“Because you’re fucking amazing!” She pulled away from me and smiled.

I wiped my wet cheeks and followed her to the auditorium seats. I turned the corner to see Negan and Kady smiling.

“Congrats! You deserve that!” Negan complimented with a smile.

“Thank you,” looking away from his dark eyes. The man was beautiful.

“Maybe we can celebrate some time soon?” He asked.

I looked up at him in confusion, “Hm? Say what now?”

He chuckled and reiterated, “Celebrate. Ya know. Drinks? Dinner? You. Me.”

I stared blankly not knowing what to say to him.

“SHE WOULD LOVE TO!” Stephanie jumped in and I immediately elbowed her again.

“Great,” he smiled gently, “Here. Put your number in here.” He handed me his phone.

I took it in my hand and began typing in my name and number. I felt like I was blacking out from shock. What is even happening? I thought, He’s way out of my league…

I handed the phone back to him, my face red hot.

“I’ll shoot you a text later,” he winked.

I nodded quickly and gave him a slight grin, “Sounds good. Great job, Kady. Um…okay…well, see ya later.”  I grabbed my bag from the floor and signaled to Stephanie to walk with me.

“Oh my god! I fucking told you!!” She said, grabbing tightly onto my arm.

“Shut up!” I exclaimed, “So he asked for my number. That doesn’t mean anything! Do you know how many times I’ve been asked for my number and never heard a thing?”

“This is different. I can feel it. He’s about to be your daddy!!!” She smiled wide.

I shook my head and laughed. We walked outside and to my car. As we climbed in, I felt my phone vibrate in my bag. “The fuck?” I pulled it out of the pocket and sat in the front seat.

Hey. Kady told me not to wait too long to text you and I didn’t want to wait either so…now you have my number. Dinner tomorrow? The text read.

“Oh fuck,” I gasped.

“HE TEXTED YOU, DIDN’T HE?!” She screamed.

I nodded and stared at my device wide-eyed. “What do I do?!” I stammered, “We literally just walked out of the building!!”

“You text him back, dumbass!” She smacked my shoulder playfully.

I touched the text box and began typing…

I’ll have to check my schedule, but I think I’m free. I’ll let you know tonight. 😊

Great! Get home safely. Don’t text and drive 😉

I giggled and put my phone in its holder on the dash. I started up the car and buckled in. A smile stayed on my face as we took off.

Tag list: @shannmiw

[filosofablogger]

Jolly and I hang our heads with shame as we admit that today’s Jolly Monday is one of the first … dating back to June 2017, almost three years.  It is before the time when Jolly joined us, and before the somewhat more extensive smorgasboard we offer these days, but … it’s filled with fun & humour, and even those of you who saw it way back when have likely forgotten most of it!

Wha … huh … OH!  If you’re here already, I must’ve overslept!  Hold on just a minute … somebody hand me my glasses, please?  So sorry about that, but I’ve been keeping some pretty late hours lately.  So … this must mean it’s Monday, right?  Okay … Monday, Monday … can’t trust that day … rainy days and Mondays … YAWWWWNNN.  I’m afraid I didn’t bake any cinnamon rolls this morning, but I’ll have the coffee up in two shakes of a lamb’s tail …

There we go … that’s better, isn’t it?  What, Hugh?  Oh yes … just a sec …

Now, are we all set and ready to get this week off to a start with a bit of humour?  Who said that my bedhead was humorous enough???  Might have known it would be you, Jack … alright … here we go … prepare to chuckle or at least give me a smile …

When you go to a restaurant what is your favourite thing to order?  For me, it depends on the restaurant, but generally it is some sort of fish … either batter-fried cod, or salmon, or sometimes shrimp-fried-rice.  So, say you order salmon with a side salad and perhaps some rice pilaf, but when the server returns with you food in 20 minutes or so, she brings you fried chicken tenders and fries.  What do you do?  Send it back, or keep it and be satisfied?  Well, at The Restaurant of Order Mistakes (yes, that is its real name), you should be prepared to get something other than what you ordered!  The restaurant is in Tokyo’s Toyosu district, and its mission is to hire servers with dementia.

The restaurant is what is called a ‘pop-up’ restaurant – one that is temporary for anywhere from a few days to a few months.  This particular one was located inside Maggie’s Tokyo, the Japanese version of the UK’s Maggie’s Centers, which are support centers for cancer patients and their families. The pop-up lasted for three days, and another is planned in September for World Alzheimer’s Day. I think it is a great and fun idea, and I would love to try it once … assuming, that is, that there are no utterly disgusting things on the menu that I might inadvertently get stuck with, like eel, snake eggs, or snails!  Yes, I have a non-adventurous palate.

I am not sure if this gal just really, really wanted a drink, or if she had already had a tad too much and was just another obnoxious customer, but she sure as heck busted up the liquor store!  She strutted into a Southern California liquor store Monday and refused to go quietly, leaving behind aisles of shattered bottles that were knocked from shelves in a spirited encounter with an enforcement officer.  The damage is estimated at about $500, mostly champagne … the dame has expensive tastes.

Oh, and did I happen to mention that the customer in question was a … peahen?  (In case you don’t know, that is the female version of a peacock.)  Store manager Rani Ghanem was unaware of the peahen until a customer said, “Hey, uh, you have a bird inside your store.”  Rani deals with birds on a daily basis, but usually his encounters are limited to Wild Turkey , Famous Grouse, and Grey Goose, so he was a bit unsure what to do, especially when the bird swooped right over his head!  So, he called the Pasadena Humane Society and SPCA, and an animal control officer arrived shortly.  What ensued was a 6 minute struggle between man and beast … er … bird … but eventually the man won.  The peahen was last heard singing, “♫ I fought the law ♪ and the law won ♫” as she was carried out the door.  Yep, I believe she had a bit too much of the bubbly! You can watch the struggle between man and bird here.

Ever hear of a police officer being fired for being too friendly?  Well, such was the fate of Gavel, a German Shephard who was attending the police academy in Queensland, Australia.  See, Gavel much preferred getting belly rubs and tickles to tackling hardened criminals.  Police in Australia felt he “did not display the necessary aptitude for a life on the front line”.

Now, in government jobs, as we are all well aware, it isn’t so much what you know as who you know.  Turns out that Gavel knew people in high places, for he had been fostered at the official residence of the Queensland governor since he was six weeks old. So when the governor heard that poor Gavel was facing a lifetime of unemployment, he gave him a job … a much cushier job than chasing criminals, as it happens.  Gavel is now the official greeter and public relations canine at the Queensland’s Government House.  He welcomes guests, helps guide tours, and participates in ceremonial occasions.  Plus … he gets a really cool uniform to wear with the state emblems of Queensland.  And fringe benefits?  All the snuggles, belly rubs and tickles he can handle!  Way to go, Gavel!!!

Gavel with the Governor … Gov & Gav

In April, one of my ‘Jolly Monday’ posts included two stories about strange museums, an Ice Cream Museum and the Museum of Failures. Today I bring you another oddish museum, the Museum of Moist Towelettes.

Housed in the planetarium of the University of Michigan, the display features moist towelettes from all over the globe, all but one unopened.  The one that has been opened has historic value … it was used by Tom and Ray … you know, the car guys? Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the hosts of the radio program Car Talk. I used to read their column faithfully.  Other ‘interesting’ specimens include one called “Finger Pinkies,” which is advertised as “the secretary’s hand cleaner,” a few from the Hard Rock Cafés in Beijing and Kuala Lumpur, and a series with Star Trek-themed packaging from the show’s original run.

The display is said to be the least visited on campus … um gee, I wonder why?

Joke of the week:

A husband and wife were driving through Louisiana. As they approached Natchitoches, they started arguing about the pronunciation of the town. They argued back and forth, then they stopped for lunch. At the counter, the husband asked the blonde waitress, “Before we order, could you please settle an argument for us? Would you please pronounce where we are very slowly?” She leaned over the counter and said, “Burrr-gerrr Kiiing.”

Sigh.  Is it over already?  Do you have to go?  Couldn’t you just stay for an hour or so?  Sigh … okay, go if you must.  I’ve so enjoyed having you, and next Monday I promise to be awake, perky and have hot cinnamon rolls fresh out of the oven!  I hope your week is good, that you don’t face any major crises, and that nobody switches the buttons on your telephone!  Keep safe, my dear friends, and remember to share that beautiful smile!!!

Somebody actually carved this avocado.  Pretty, but …. why???

And speaking of Simon & Garfunkel …

  zzzzzzzzzZZZZZzzz … MONDAY???? Already??? Jolly and I hang our heads with shame as we admit that today's Jolly Monday is one of the first ...

[bbyboyluke]

Busking// Luke Hemmings

A/N lmao hi!! If you have a request please send it in!

Warnings// none

Busking

I got out my guitar, opening its case, and setting it in front of me. My hair was a tangled mess, coming out in waves out of the gray beanie I was wearing. My tan hand, gripping the neck of the guitar.

I stood up, hoping to grasp more attention from the busy street. I did a small vocal warm up, people started to gather around to see what I was doing, not a big crowd, but big enough that I could snatch a few dollars.

I started to sing, my guitar helping me play the opening verse.

“You walked in Caught my attention I’ve never seen A man with so much dimension”

As I sang, a guy in the front of the crowd looked at me, his blue eyes wide. He’s really tall, blonde curly locks adorned the sides of his face.

He looked really into the song, maybe he knew it from his sister or something, Ariana Grande is more feminine than masculine. I doubt someone like him would even like a song like this.

I was almost to the chorus, my eyes never leaving the blue eyed stranger. He was nervous, his eyebrows scrunch together, and his posture slightly leaning forward.

He walked right up to me as I was about to sing the chorus. I thought he was going to put some money in the guitar case like what some people had already done.

He stood right next to me, singing the chorus along with me.

“So I’m daydreamin’ With my chin in the palm of my hands About you”

Shock covered my face, my words becoming mumbles. I got right back into the song, I had to get money, and I wasn’t going to let this stranger ruin it. I had to admit that it was a good harmony, like he’s sang before.

I saw another guy walk past, he let a small scream while getting out his phone, most likely recording us. I scrunched my eyebrows in confusion, no one had ever record me.

More people looked at us and started to come over, more phones were out, and recording us. I’ve preformed on this street many times but the crowd was getting out of hand.

The stranger just kept singing with me, trying not too look into the crowd. I could hear chants and people freaking out. Money was pouring into my guitar case.

I looked at the blue eyed guy, raising my eyebrow at him as the song came to an end. He looked at me with a worried expression on his face. I couldn’t help but wonder, was he a somebody?

We finished the song and loud cheers were heard. People were started to walk up to the stranger. I ran back to my guitar case, looking at all the money I’ve earned.

I let out a big sigh of relief, thanking the lord that I could eat tonight. I laid the guitar in the case and closed it. I grabbed the handles and looked back at the stranger.

People surround him, taking pictures, and some even crying. He had to be somebody. Why would people surround him if he wasn’t?

I kept walking forward, looking for a restaurant to grab something cheap to eat. Screams were still heard, even though I was at least 3 blocks away.

I looked to the side of the rode to see my favorite little dinner, The 45. I was very close with many of the workers, some even let me sleep on their couch if I needed too.

I smiled at the hostess, walking into the restaurant. I sat in the corner booth, my favorite spot. I’ve always sat here ever since I was a little. I laid my guitar case under the table.

A waiter came up to me and smiled.

“Hello, I’ll be your server today! How may I help you?” He smiled. I already knew what I was going to get.

“Can I have a cheese burger with just mustard on it? Thank you” I said, politely.

The server smiled and took my order.

I sat in silence, observing some of the people who came in, families eating together, couples enjoying each other’s company.

I couldn’t help but envy that. Being a street rat with a guitar doesn’t really scream out significant other material. The only men that paid attention to me are angry white men, saying a I should go back to Mexico even if I was born here. Some people really are dumb.

The restaurant was busy, I knew that it was going to be a while before I got my food. I twiddled my thumbs, not really knowing what to do.

I heard the little bell at the door ring, signaling that someone has just came in. I paid no mind to it and kept twiddling them, thinking about where I’m going to busk at next.

I heard the seat on the other side of the booth creak a bit. I looked up to see the guy who sang with me earlier.

“Hello?” I asked, confused of why he was here.

“Hey,” He responded. A awkward silence washed over us, making look anywhere but him.

“You’re a fantastic singer. I’m Luke.” He said, putting his hand across the table so I could shake it. I hesitantly shook his

“Thank you.” I responded, pulling my hand out of his.

“So, why were there a bunch of people surrounding you? Why did you join me? Do you like Ariana Grande? I love her to bits and pieces but I don’t know much about her new album since I don’t have anything to stream it on too” I started ramble. I couldn’t help it, when I get nervous its like the words spill out without me noticing.

He gave a little chuckle while my cheeks started to heat up.

“You just have an amazing voice that captivated me. I couldn’t help it. Yes, I do listen to Ariana Grande, she’s such a babe. I’m in a band, that’s why people started to gather around, sorry if you freaked out a bit, they’re just really passionate.” It was now his turn to blush. I gave a little chuckle.

“Maybe we should do that again sometime, Luke.”

“Only if you give me half the profits.”

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