#when someone gang beasts a lil too hard

[katyspersonal]

ALRIGHT LET’S TALK ABOUT BLUBBORNE!!

Here are a list of things to choose from <3

Chat about Logarius or Alfred!!

Ideas for Bloodborne 2 👀

What do you think about Hemwick being connected to Cainhurst?

Talk about Gilbert!! I never get to see you chat about him! Lil guy!

Ideas on Arianna’s backstory!

Ideas on Adella’s backstory!

What would a Discord with the original Byrgenwerth scholar gang look like?? xD

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Choose one or all! It’s up to you!! <3

Oh my GOSH fjdhfds Good to know you all headed my warning to never give me a choice because I answer EVERYTHING, huh -_- xD But in all seriousness though, these topics just happen to be those I do not have 20 pages essay ready for, so my answers will be short(ish) and I think I can discuss all this stuff in compact manner!

Chat about Logarius or Alfred!!

Well, they're complicated characters for me. You know I am physically unable to 'hate' a fictional character because no matter what they did, they aren't real and can't hurt me and if all else fails they exist to make the story better. But because of some events and reflection on life and society, these two in particular put a pit in my stomach on the notion of being trademark catholic-coded purists. There are so many things that can be speculated about complexity of Laurence's or Adrich's situations, but these guys feel pretty plain for me? The black-white thinking bastards that got so tempted with the idea of abolishing all evil that it made them ruthless, blind to nuances and purist that can't see how they become the REAL evil in the end.

I think Logarius/Rogeriusz is fairly underrated though and it cannot be blamed on him being unlikeable from moral standpoint, because we've all seen how popular Alfred is despite graphically killing a defenceless woman! But Logarius has a lot to like as a villain - he is noticeably tall and menacing, he was a powerful leader figure in Healing Church like Ludwig, he has a lot of mystery to his character as to why he uses Pthumerian magic and shares theme with Queen Yharnam (and as follows, why would he turn against a kindred clan/bloodline?), and what he discovered that made him gatekeep it? Besides, there is a translation mistake calling an item 'Skull of a Saint' something else - 'Sage's Hair', and when I discovered the proper description ( x ), I realised there is a big implication that following Healing Church's saints were wearing crowns after his raid on Cainhurst - both to honor him and to boast about having thrown the local monarchy!

This is just very odd that Logarius was a pioneer of the delusion about exterminating 'impurity', and managed to hit da briks before he became hated and showed true nature of his pursuit - unlike poor Ludwig that presumably had better intentions and less freedom to see through WHAT was guiding him, yet fought long enough to become accursed by everyone. It is UNFAIR. But Logarius is such an important element in the system, as a trend-setter rather than people brainwashed into following Church's agenda! Willem is never addressed for messing with unknown too, Logarius is never addressed for being ideal inspirer of hate and murder... Guess the REAL martyr here is Laurence every time! xD

Alfred is also a hard one for me, as for someone from the country that actively fabricates history facts, encourages distrust to outer information and ignorance, and just straight up lies with agenda. Like, sure, I am familiar with how easy average person can fall for a narrative - and how easy it is to discourage any skepticism and critical thinking before it formed. If anything, I pity him.

But I've grown to feel even more tense about this character when I reflected on the fact that he is SO eager to exterminate the 'enemy' that he goes after ones who can't even CAUSE any harm (he wants to kill Annalise who is absolutely defeated and defenceless, and he is the only summon in Old Yharnam where beasts that won't go outside live). There is a difference between trying to protect people from the possible threats (since whether vilebloods DO have cursed magic effect is up to interpretation) and "cleansing" the world from anyone affiliated Just Because. I've been doing Adella dirty for a long time calling her 'female Alfred' and I had since took it back because she at least gives Arianna a 'chance' as long as she doesn't share her blood that Adella's religion forbids. Not even one - she did the "three strikes and you're out"! Alfred is ruthless tho, in a very uncomfortable way, but it took me some unpleasant experiences to SEE truth about him. I think that no matter how far up you are in a religion, but whether you have a braincell to extend minimal reasoning about WHY you are fighting the 'bad guys' is on the individual and not on the source of this brainwashing, and Alfred fails this test.

That being said, he is still an interesting character, and I really love his unique appearance! His nose is a whole BEAK xD /pos I also headcanon that Alfred never met Logarius in person and his bond with him is parasocial, based on admiring the great person of the past upon feeling like he 'knows' him! The same applies for my versions of Amelia/Emilia and Laurence!

The rest of the topics are going under cut!

Ideas for Bloodborne 2 ����

Honestly, I think the best one I've seen executing the concept was HollarityArt in their contribution for Vaati's Bloodborne 2 concepts contest! Here is the link on Twit with their concepts: ( x ).

I have very little ideas on this but I agree that part 2 would be the best placed in sea/ocean setting! But the MOST tricky thing about the sequel would be that one of the potential Bloodborne endings is our Hunter becoming the new Great One that governs the cycle, instead of Flora. And another one is them replacing Gehrman. So the sequel must deal with addressing how no matter WHICH ending player had in Bloodborne, it didn't matter! Basically, something should happen with Hunter's Dream or the current Moon Presence that would leave any ending still palatable. So, addressing the current 'queen' Great One would result in the cycle still ongoing (aka our Hunter as Great One inflicting the same cycle, so it is not possible to pin whether Flora is still active or Hunter is). And, sure, for some reason, the Hunter's Dream is broken, just so we could not see our Hunter from previous game. This is extremely depressing, but feels in the spirit of From's games.

What From would need to do with Bloodborne 2 is to add information that doesn't quite confirm or deny exist fan theories, but instead adds more to WORK with! And creates MORE questions. So, reveal extra details about what we see in Bloodborne, but in a way that didn't answer the question. As in 'yeah there was a Great One counterpart for Flora', 'yeah there was someone in Isz that did birth Ebrietas as little celestial larvae many centuries ago, here is her statue and nothing else', 'yeah look at the ruins of the waking world version of Fishing Hamlet' etc. Some characters I think should reappear but in a way that feels expected while also not REALLY telling us anything new. So, Queen Yharnam not in the wedding dress, Gehrman functioning like his hunter self (like I said, Hunter's Dream should get broken), Maria having her recollected memory from when she was a caretaker of Research Hall, Adeline in a Kin form somewhere in a secret nook of Sea location (presume she ascended with or without Paleblood Hunter).

I like the idea that Yharnam in the sequel is a ghost town that has no messenger lamps or huntsmen, only rare NPCs and enemies who are largely people and/or Kin of the type we haven't seen before. Yharnam would have a bigger layout that makes much more sense geographically, some buildings and areas would look notably different if not more civilised. So that'd return the question whether Yharnam we play in even WAS real or this sequel Yharnam simply the same but changed from the last time, so people can argue whether this Yharnam is "real" and not "dreamed" one or developers simply improved their mapping and designing skills xD Maria would be able to travel there with us by waking up in the body of the Doll that still stayed in Old Workshop, and many people in Yharnam would act hostile towards both her and the player; later in the plot turns out that Hunter's Dream breaking was the result of external powers, and roaming people and unfamiliar Kin work together and target to remove the traces of influence from Stars and Moon! They'd be more alien Kin that urged to help with grasp of Flora and Fauna had on the Earth and its mortals, but in reality more or less want to establish their order. But protesting them would restart the cycle of vices of humanity, so... yeah, again, the game would be depressing and point out how there is no choice, only diverse ways to suck.

I also think the next game should extend beyond Yharnam, and using a ship to travel between locations would be a cool idea! Maybe getting to visit Valtr's home, or whatever Loran is now. @val-of-the-north had an idea that there is a legit country known as New Loran, but it would reveal more about history and heritage than just a bunch of electric beasts and sand. If I try to describe more concepts I might get really sucked into this swamp, so I'll leave it be here, but meeting relatives of some characters we've known would be great too! I always have this image in my head about Valtr's niece that heard he chased some monster and never came back, so we meet her when she is an adult that wanted to investigate on the mystery of her uncle. Also learning more about the fuckery Micolash and Laurence did do in the past through item descriptions; again, in a way that actually doesn't disrupt anything, more like 'well we already knew they had to commit a lot of crimes, we just now know the details'. The war criminals are still here in spirit! xD

What do you think about Hemwick being connected to Cainhurst?

Well, I said that sometime before, but I do think that both Cainhurst nobles and Hemwick are mixed human+pthumerian (and sometimes just human) descendants that preserved a lot of practices from ancient Pthumerian civilisations... and matriarchal traditions, too. They have different practices, as Vilebloods use blood magic and consume blood for power, whereas Witches use magical binding rituals, necromancy and disturbing tools as well. Ironic that they had 'Blood vs Eyes' conflict of Blood vs Arcane Healing Church factions before it was cool, don't you think?

Yharnam used to be monarchy but so many foreigners and neighbouring cities rubbed in on the area, that they became practically equal with higher class Yharnam citizens, and had to count people like Willem as equal. Maybe if Healing Church didn't form so swiftly, Yharnam would never have a mayor. But yeah, basically, Witches were something of peasants in relation to Cainhurst nobles. But they cooperated enough, and Witches would often offer medical help to the nobles who entered trouble with the curse living within their blood, or struggled to control pyromancy upon first periods. Witches maybe lived in poverty and dirt without much convenience, down to having to pay taxes TO Cainhurst, but they have unspoken knowledge within themselves that they are, in fact, superior to the nobles, as they have better grasp on the arcane secrets and are waaaaay less helpless before supernatural. I believe Iosefka and Fauxsefka are from Cainhurst, and Witches were how Iosefka studied ways to purify the blood from Frenzy + Beasthood inducing effects. Why that practice never picked up? Because we live in a society, indeed.

Talk about Gilbert!! I never get to see you chat about him! Lil guy!

Ahhhh right! I just didn't have much reason I guess? I do have a face design for him, that features some facial skewing like many Yharnamites have!

Like his beasthood form suggests, he was afflicted with Ashen Blood, which I believe was not a planned action but an honest mistake by using the blood of a poisoned beast (Blood-Starved Beast crucified in Old Yharnam). However, back in the day where Yharnam was not quarantined away from the rest of the world (to the point you are not supposed to SURVIVE being there if you never had holy blood transfusion), there were plenty of people picking stuff up and illegally selling it abroad. @val-of-the-north has an idea that Valtr and his friends caught one of such groups, just when one of them transformed into a beast upon getting too much of his own "medicine" and I stealeded it xD

But Gilbert I think was a victim of one of such things, contracting Ashen Blood by consuming a poisoned "medicine". He never was able to connect the dots between getting worse after it as someone who already had his own illnesses. The more I learn about Victorian era, the more I realise how shockingly ignorant they were about medicine. I mean, they were having mercury pills for god knows how long! So, yeah, he saught Yharnam, and naturally had his strange sympthomes sustained by consuming the blood as someone who got beasthood 'activated'.

I like to think that he used to be a hatter, and it WAS what made him sick initially; they were number 1 victims for mercury poisoning, because of the materials used in their craft. However, it were not just hats that he could do well, and after arriving in Yharnam, he gladly worked to produce more clothes, sewing mostly Yharnam Hunter garbs obsessively! And is one of the rarest people who met Ludwig in person and is still around AND sane! Hence how he had his Flamethrower - the Healing Church shared one with him to help him to self-defend. But, he was out of use and got too sick before he got to kill even one. Being bedridden, he used to read books a lot, until his eyesight got afflicted too (apparently beasthood attacks the eyes the most), so he mostly entertains himself with fantasies and reciting memories.

Ideas on Arianna’s backstory!

Heh, like I said already, I love the idea that her mother ran with her from Cainhurst when Arianna was still a baby, so she never GOT to know the noble life. But, she did inherit her mother's noble dress, and vague idea about their blood being special enough to offer to the hunters. I entertain the idea that Alfred was Arianna's brother but had to be abandoned since he was older and their mother could only care for one child in the hard situation, but it is up in the air.

In either case, Arianna's mother died soon(ish), most likely from violent death. But instead of some Church fanatic killing her in "righteous" wrath, it was that her mother went insane unable to consume queen's blood or find any management for it, so she, like... had Vileblood version of becoming blood-drunk and was shot before she transformed into a bloodlicker completely. When she was about to turn on her own daughter to drink her blood dry, no less! The hunter that saved Arianna was Henryk, who picked every other orphaned child under his protection because he was aware Choir takes orphans and they are never seen again. I swear, at least once Choir had to confront him about whether his children are all 'really' his, and Valtr had to wear a dress and pretend to be their biological bother dsjfhdsfdsh

But for the most part he was not able to properly care for his adopted babies; Viola was exceptional case that stayed close enough. Most of the orphans under his protection were wandering around looking for their purpose, and Arianna was like this. She clinged to Crow of Cainhurst, trusting him as the only remaining hook with her Cainhurst past, but he did not feel qualified or interested enough to play a dad for her - something he regretted upon meeting Arianna again years later and seeing WHAT she has to do to survive.

I also think that Arianna reacting on female Hunter differently is not a homophobia (?) internalised in Yharnam, but remains of her mom teaching her that women are "superior"; she speaks from the standpoint that she doesn't pity men all that much, but would dread to 'dirty' a woman with something as questionable as a loveless sex. It is not something beyond her that men will be like animals, but she feels inferior compared to other women, and it really gets to her.

Ideas on Adella’s backstory!

Likewise an orphaned person. When she reached puberty, she was this 👌 close to attempting to sell her body, like Arianna, before she managed to get herself a place in the Healing Church. It happened on the rift when Choir fell from uhhh... "grace"?, as well as the daughter of the current Vicar, Norbert/Herbert, turned into a celestial kin together with the children she was overseeing there. As result, he was compensating by picking up every other child/teenager and raising them within the Healing Church's walls like an actually good dad figure. He saw how Adella was doing and basically dragged her in (punching the old bastard that did want to use her on the way).

The decision to become a Blood Saint and not just part of the staff was her own, though; she bought the narrative about hunters being brave and protecting people while it was choking out its dying breaths but still existing. So, she wanted to help people.

Localisation slightly messed this up, by making it sound as though Adella has severe insecurities regarding the quality of her blood, but that's not quite the case:

Whereas the religious 'we all must admit we are sinful by nature and should bash ourselves all of our lives' vibe might apply, within the original context it seems to be that she is insecure about having to do it in 'battlefield' conditions rather than in the setting of great religious reverence it SHOULD be. Like, all she does is extracts her own blood in a vial. She only talks with us in Yahar'gul if we convince her we are Healing Church staff too; so, she still thinks we ARE one of their hunters. It seems like internal Healing Church rules about 'proper' blood sharing are what makes her feel "vulgar", not her blood overall.

Adella mentions a friend she could possibly turn to during the night of the hunt if we refuse to tell her of the safe place, and I made it be a person you pick black church garb from in the alley where Arianna is. It is a shrodinger character, of course, because it is a gendered set, but I default all sets to 'male' because default Paleblood Hunter is some guy with grey hair and I love using this as "official" option! The window NPCs in this area mention "thanking" the Church in a rather passive-aggressive and fake manner, that makes me feel like the guy was killed here out of spite. I think he is Adella's EX that she still keeps clinging to, and... well, he was in this area because he wanted to help Arianna by telling her of a safe place, as he had a bad feeling about this night. Again, irony.

What would a Discord with the original Byrgenwerth scholar gang look like?? xD

Pfffft you mean if they made a small group Discord server for familiar people only? Laurence would be a moderator, that nobody asked for, because it is a small (mostly) closed Discord group and not an official server... But he'd insist on bringing some discipline and civility anyway.

Server would have expected standard channels for drawings, research notes, general chat, jokes/memes, debates, Rom's (daily) pictures of the bugs and spiders, vent and announcements... Except, they would have to create more and more debate channels all the time, because every time it'd be either Caryll and Laurence, or Micolash and Julie cluttering the debate channel so much and refusing to stop. xD Like, they'd have to spawn new debate channels just so other people could have a talk too sdfhhdfds

Damian would share health / self-care advices regularly, like "don't forget to hydrate!" or "10 advices to avoid studying burn out!" and tell others to stay safe and not overwork. Unfortunately, nobody follows his advices. He also always answers everyone in vent channel.

Rom tends to overwhelm any channel when she is online by spamming whatever she is thinking about, but nobody tries to stop her because she tends to accidentally drop something useful, like a solution to the homework, or a significant breakthrough. They have a locked channel accessible for everyone except for Rom and Yurie/Julie, where they discuss Rom's ramblings as they happen and decide what to take from her without credit :(

Micolash sometimes has mad ramblings, similar to Rom but HIS are unhinged and genuinely creepy and disturbing. They have a locked channel accessible for everyone except for Micolash, Damian and Rom, where they laugh at his wording or mock how weird he is :(

Patches is only active in the server to promote the shit he's selling or questionable links, but if anyone gets scammed and calls him out on the server, he gaslights them that he did them all a favour and showed with a concrete example how important it is to know basics of the internet safety xD And might accept their apology for getting mad at him, if he's feeling nice fhshfdhsfds

Thank you for asking! It was a trip dshfhds

#bloodborne #ask replies #bloodborne headcanons #multi character post #i don't even know what else to say ahahahah #you probably know the root of what really made me feel uneasy about alfred so #yet again the point proven that the more bad experiences you had the better you can understand bloodborne lore #but yeah logarius is always ignored like willem #let laurence share guilt with willem and logarius you cowards!!!!! #damn i got some insight about adella during answering it though.... good for her #points of interest about adella when??? #fun fact: tho i described the sequel as barebones i actually base it off the impression i had in a dream once #also in that dream maria had somewhat of a grudge towards gehrman #like he was stalking her from around the corner anime yandere style and i was like hey who is following you #and she was like 'probably nobody important' #the same dream where rom was pregnant from SIMON for SOME fucking reason #but i would never recommend the sequel to face reveal previously mysterious characters so yeah.... #ironic that my brain paired protector of the secrets and seeker of the secrets ahahaha

[kuroiza]

RELATIONSHIP HEADCANONS WITH...

sano manjirou | mikey !

SUMMARY; Your relationship with the invincible Mikey 😌

FORMAT; Headcanons

READER; Gender-neutral

RELATIONSHIP; Romantic

REQUEST; hii I saw your mitsuya relationship headcanons and I loved them so may I please request some mikey relationship headcanons with a gn! reader thanks so much!!

REQUESTED BY; anon 🥳

NOTES; Thank you for liking the Mitsuya one!! Hope this is good enough 🥲

佐野 万次郎 Sano Manjirou | Mikey

You either need to be someone close that he knew since a long time ago or very interesting for him to take a romantic liking towards you! Applause for you if you managed to catch Mikey’s eyes 👀

I’m just gonna say it, all strings of sanity will snap if he ever lose you. Serious. You mean so much to him that it’s scary. Only you could tame such a beast.

Honestly? I feel like Mikey would keep your relationship a secret and only let a few trusted ones know because he’s fully aware of how dangerous things will be for you if the world knows the invincible Mikey has a weakness. He’d die before he let anyone else harm you.

Of course he wants to tell the whole world how much he loves you, to kiss and hold and talk in public like a normal couple, but for your sake he’ll keep things on the down low.

So, if going by secret relationship, expect him to be ten times clingier than he usually is once you two are alone. Do you know how hard it is to act as if you’re just a friend when you guys are outside? How hard it is to restrict himself from giving you a peck on the lips, to restrict himself from nuzzling his cheek against yours and holding you in his arms? He deserves cuddles after putting up such a front.

Will teach you basic self defense because unfortunately, as much as he wished to, he can’t stay by your side 24/7. He’ll invite you over his house and have some trainings, maybe even ask for his grandpa to supervise you as well.

That counts as a date. You two will be fooling around and he’ll be a lil tease by intentionally sticking extra close to you while he corrects your posture. Smirks when he sees you blush and pecks you on the cheek cause you’re too cute.

When you guys are out together with the group (who knew you guys are dating) they’d see how much Mikey cares and cherishes you. Heck he loves you so much that it’s visible in his eyes while he listens to you talk, or watch you talking to others. A small smile would grace his lips and that’s when they know, ah, their leader is so in love.

Even if they don’t know you’re together with Mikey, Toman still treats you well with politeness because it’s obvious how much Mikey cares about you, about his friends. Some were even talking amongst themselves if you two were together due to your closeness with each other, but was always interrupted by Draken telling them to knock it off and that Mikey’s personal life does not concern them.

Speaking of Draken, he’s literally a middle person between you guys whenever you have a fight 😭

He’s mostly on your side though, because most of the time it’s Mikey’s fault. He’s the one who gives Mikey a wake up call while Emma would be there to console you, since she knows Mikey well and how he is.

Couldn’t stay mad at you, it wasn’t long before you notice Emma leaving and Mikey appearing in your vision, sitting beside and caressing the back of your hand with his thumb. Things usually work out from there.

Please...this guy is so good at planning for your birthday or any important day.

Always got it under wraps. Loves giving you surprises so he’ll plan with the gang and if anyone snitches or lets it slip it’ll be their last day living.

Despite his childish personality, Mikey enjoys quiet time alone with you a lot more than you think. There’s a lot in his mind and sometimes he just wish to log off and be in your embrace/holding you, doing nothing and just lounging on the couch in his room. It’s so relaxing to him.

Isn’t really good with words, it’s mostly actions of love from him but occasionally he’d show his love through words. This usually happens when he’s overthinking again and stress piling up, but remembers you’re here for him.

“I...really love you a lot, Y/N.” Mikey brought your hand up to his lips and gave your knuckles a soft kiss. “I’m really glad you’re here.”

#sano manjirou x reader #sano manjiro x reader #mikey x reader #tokyo revengers mikey x reader #manjirou sano x reader #manjiro sano x reader #sano manjirou #sano manjiro #manjirou sano #manjiro sano #tokyo revengers #tokyo revengers x reader #tokyo revengers mikey #durakenchin | works

[necronatural]

Hashirama?

this one longer because it's still fresh and hashirama is an actual effective character.

favourite thing about them

I think he's kind of the more toxic view of shounen protagonist syndrome he is actually very level-headed about the cost of his extreme views...and because he is very emotional he doesn't see the kinds of costs others not sharing his views can create. like the fact the tailed beasts caused a massive war; it seemed so natural to him as someone in possession of massive power who distributed greater power equally that this wouldn't happen because the others would gang up on the outlier, yet the political trappings just led to a large-scale conflict all with different motivations because that's just war for you. (and madara made it worse LOL) i think his massive failures and what konoha became due to its existence as a military state was the closest naruto came to a theme. the fact he is earnest and good yet his beliefs would create a military state that operates the way any military state does. the village he envisioned did not have chuunin licenses at 6 years old and a T&I division but its indisputable his actions created this environment

least favourite thing about them

um. sorry i think all his worst traits make the narrative better LOL the more heroic and symbol of goodness he is the less useful i find him

BrOTP

him and madara are...dare i say it...cute and tragic. i do think its funny that madara was acting out a tragic romeo and juliet level friendship of two seperate paths and houses in opposition and hashirama was just like. you like peace too :) i think we have so much in common. BRO YOU ARE REINCARNATIONSSSS

OTP

He's married. sorry.i think he's happy about his marriage

nOTP

I don't think he interacts with a lot of people because he's a lil flashback guy. sadly.

Unpopular Opinion

I think naruto """lore fans""" are so obsessed with forcing kishimoto's decisions of convenience into a cohesive whole and i think uchiha fans are fucking INSANE there's a lot to push up against. i don't think he was a bad person. i don't think he was that ruthless. i think his passion was clear and evident from a young age and tobirama and madara were both aware that he would be capable of choosing his peace over ANYTHING and had different reactions to it. madara found it detestable and pointless when peace isn't achievable anyway and tobirama found it something to account for as a potential threat even though he doesn't disagree with hashirama's vision and believes hashirama will let anything slide tbh.

and the thing is madara attacked the village MULTIPLE times...it's clear that hashirama didn't LIKE choosing his peace over his loved ones and avoided ever having to make that choice it's that exact reason he never forced the uchiha and they uchiha came to HIM, because he was unwilling to impose such a hard boundary, because he is innately a kind person. leave him alone. the fact he created hell on earth isn't his fault

Favourite Picture

his smile.

#asks #ask meme

[jamespotterthefirst]

Flirt (Ethan x f!MC)

Book: Open Heart, Book 2 Pairing: Dr. Ethan Ramsey x F!MC (Dr. Lilac Allende) Word count: 1.1K Premise: Who would have thought that Ethan Ramsey would one day follow Bryce Lahela's romantic advice?

Author’s Note: This takes place in book 2, sometime after the attack and before the gala when Ethan and MC are in a secret relationship. Thank you anon for the request (sorry it's so late!). Thank you @aestheticartsx for the ideas!

The beginning notes of Lahela's playlist resound around the otherwise empty gym. With a groan, Ethan releases the heavy weights, the clashing metal serving as a glorious reprieve from the electronic, fast beat of the music. From beside him, the newest member of their workout entourage groans as well, with as much disdain as Ethan. He feels a surge of vindication at the fact that, though they may disagree on music preferences most of the time, they can at least agree on this.

“Bryce,” Lilac calls out over the song. Her voice fails to carry over the music and over the sound of Lahela’s sneakers hitting the belt of the treadmill. “You’re welcome to torture yourself on that treadmill but don’t torture us too with your awful music.”

Ethan fights back a grin at the quip. Lahela, meanwhile, clutches his heart with exaggerated flare.

“Ouch, Lil. You wound me.” He punches a few buttons on the dashboard, bringing the machine to a much slower pace. In spite of the exertion, his smile remains as charming as ever, not a hair on his head out of place. “I’ll have you know this is beast mode music. It’s a running remix created at 150 BPM to optimize performance—”

“It’s overproduced garbage.” Ethan interrupts the impassioned speech.

“It’s Ice, Ice Baby,” Lilac adds.

Despite himself, Ethan snorts, which in turn elicits a lovely bout of laughter from her. He sobers up at once, too preoccupied with watching how her attractive features light up the entire room. A second too late, Ethan realizes he is gaping at her, like some kind of moron.

To his dismay, the surgeon catches this. Then again, how could he not when Ethan must have looked like an entranced imbecile gawking at her. Luckily, Lahela doesn’t comment, instead choosing to hop off the treadmill with impressive agility.

“If I would have known you two would gang up on me, I would have never invited you, Lil.”

“That’s the reason you invited me and you know it,” she returns with easy charm. “To keep you two on your toes.”

Her eyes swivel to Ethan’s and his stomach swoops pleasantly.

“As fun as this has been, I have to go stretch. I have a kink in my back I really want to get out.” She announces this quite suddenly and with a rather enthralling sway of her ponytail. She turns to go, giving Ethan a deliberate view of her curves in the colorful leggings she wears. Before she makes it further than a few steps, however, she glances at Ethan over her shoulder. “I might need some help getting it out.”

Those green eyes he dreams about on most nights are heavy on his, shining bright with promise under a fringe of dark lashes. Ethan’s throat feels suddenly very dry.

“A colleague of mine is a chiropractor,” he blurts out. “I can give you his contact information if it's a persisting problem.”

Lilac's smile falters imperceptibly, nodding once before moving to the mats and out of earshot. Ethan can't help but notice there is less enthusiasm in her gait as she goes.

From beside him, Bryce lets out a low whistle.

“What?” Ethan asks, unable to keep the edge off his tone.

Bryce takes it in good stride, laughing. “You're so lucky she's already crazy about you.”

“She's—” Ethan pauses to collect the jumble of thoughts in his consciousness. His heart, meanwhile, beats with such ferocity, he can feel the echoes of his pulse in his throat. “What makes you— I can't imagine what you mean.”

The young surgeon mops the sweat off his brow with a towel, laughing. “Lilac was totally flirting with you just now.”

“She was?”

“She wasn't exactly subtle.”

Ethan cringes internally as his mind replays that encounter and his less than stellar reply.

“And all you did in return was offer to set her up with your chiro friend?”

It sounds worse when someone repeats it out loud, Ethan realizes.

“You do know chiropractors are the most attractive doctors? Aside from surgeons, of course.”

It is the most ridiculous claim Ethan has ever heard. Yet, he pauses.

“Lilac complained about her back. She could be misaligned…”

The incredulous look Bryce stabs him with makes him stop talking.

“What was I supposed to do?”

“Offer to help her stretch?” Bryce offers as though it is the most obvious alternative imaginable. “Or better yet, offer to make it worse.”

Ethan opens his mouth to voice his confusion, but his mind catches the innuendo belatedly.

“Whatever you do, do it with confidence.”

As Ethan stands there, glancing at Lilac gracefully stretching a distance away, he is hit with the ridiculousness of the situation.

For starters, Ethan and Lilac are already in somewhat of an unofficial relationship. They haven't exactly defined it yet, but given that she spends most of her free time over at his place and steals kisses from him when no one is watching, Ethan is confident they are an item. It shouldn't be surprising that she is attracted to him, but somehow, Ethan finds himself unable to believe he'd ever be so lucky.

Also disconcerting is the fact that Ethan is receiving flirting advice from Bryce Lahela himself. The worst part is that said advice is sounding pretty reasonable to Ethan at that very moment.

“However you decide to play it, you better go do it now.” Bryce glances at the digital clock mounted in the wall. “Those guys from ICU always start their workout at six and that's in like ten minutes.”

With renewed confidence, Ethan starts towards Lilac. As a worrying thought occurs to him, however, he halts, frowning at Bryce.

“About Lilac and I,” he begins, but the surgeon is already shaking his head, grinning wide.

“Don't worry, Dr. Ramsey. My lips are sealed.” He follows this proclamation by pantomiming closing a zipper over his lips. “Plus, I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who's noticed you two pining for each other.”

“Sienna knows.”

This actually elicits genuine shock from him, which is as comical as it is uncharacteristic.

 “She never told me. I can’t believe she never said a word,” he says, already throwing on a shirt and heading for the exit, as though determined to find the tiny doctor and demand more information.

After he vanishes, Ethan moves over to Lilac, stopping at the foot of her mat. She is attempting to do a complicated maneuver with an arched back and tangled limbs. Despite her evident struggle, Ethan watches her fondly, thinking her the most beautiful thing he's ever seen.

“How's your back?”

“Stiff,” she returns, giving up on the stretch and getting to her feet. “Are you referring me to your friend?”

They are alone. Ethan celebrates that fact by wrapping his arms around her, her back pressing pleasantly against his chest.

“Not a chance in hell.”

She laughs. “So you've decided to help me after all?”

“I could,” he murmurs darkly into the shell of her ear, his hands gripping her spandex clad hips. His voice dropping lower still, he says, “Though what I have in mind might blow it out instead.”

“Ethan!”

Lilac quivers in his arms, twirling around to face him when she recovers. She gives him a surprised yet impressed look before her eyes darken.

“That was…” She trails off and Ethan is pleased to see her blushing. The way she kisses him in response, hungry and hard, forces Ethan to admit that the scalpel jockey's advice had been correct after all.

*Sorry again, anon! This is over five months late.

Anon is referring to this post.

Thank you so much for reading this!

*Tagging separately!

#open heart #ethan ramsey #ethan x mc #playchoices #My writing

[jadeee]

Since i love your writing skills so much, meanwhile i don't even have skills in this area :'),

Here,

an idea where MC And Nicky arguing playfully at first, but then it escalated slowly into something more serious. Then it turn out as a heated debate/argument. Nicky almost, ALMOST lost his temper/snap to MC. But at the least moment, he realize how stupid it is to had an argument with his toots.

-💙-

Hi 💙 anon and thank youuu!! after some thought i figured it out, i hope you like it :) this takes place in vendetta btw {it was too hard for me to try to think outside of vendetta}

The two of you decided to bake a cake to celebrate Floyd’s arrest. Chris had went out to see “a certain someone” you and Nicky exchanged a sly grin at his comment.

“Cut it out you two!” Chris shouted behind him as he closed the door.

Now, the two of you were in the kitchen sifting and mixing your way towards victory. A jazz record he put on softly played in the background as you playfully bumped your hips against his.

“This whole time we’ve been scared of Floyd,” you dumped flour into the bowl “I should be scared of you.”

“Lil ‘ol me?” Nicky batted his eyes before flashing a smile “Why’s that?”

He added sugar to the bowl.

“I didn’t even know you talked to his goons and managed to get them on our side.” You wiped your hands on your apron “I’m just glad Chris was with you.”

His smile faded slightly and he turned to face you “Chris didn’t go with me,”

Your hands dropped to your sides “What?” You looked up at him.

“I went by myself.”

“Wait … wait a second,” you rested your fingers onto your temple and replayed his words in your head “Are you saying that you-”

“Went alone to face Floyd’s gang?” He leaned against the counter and gauged your reaction.

You felt your heart beat in your ears and shut your eyes “Nicky,” you exhaled before glancing up at him once more. 

“Why would you do that?”

You’ve gotta be shittin’ me, he scoffed. “Why would I do that?”

“Yes!” You nodded your head “Why would you go alone?! We know what he’s cap-”

He leaned off of the counter, “It wasn’t your choice to make!”

“Clearly, because you went without me!” You yelled over him and threw your hands up.

“For fuck’s sake,” he furrowed his brows.

“What was I supposed to do (y/n)?” He brought his hands to his chest as he waited for you to respond.

“Oh, I don’t know maybe fucking talk to me about it!”

“Like you tried talkin’ to Floyd with your Louisville slugger?!” 

You shrunk back at his remark.

If there’s anyone to be scared of around here it’s you, he held back the thought when he saw the tears welling your eyes.

He shrunk back as if to tame the raging beast inside of him. 

“Hey,” suddenly his voice was quiet and small. He reached out to you.

“What was I supposed to do?” You sniffled as he pulled you into a tender embrace. “Watch my husband get beaten to death and become a widow?” 

Your face twisted at the thought and you clinged onto him as you released quiet sobs.

My husband, he smiled and held onto you tighter while your tears soaked through his shirt. 

“I’m sorry, amore mio. I should’ve trusted you,” he kissed the top of your head while he stroked your hair. 

Each time he brushed your hair back or kissed the top of your head, he wanted to punch himself for saying such terrible things. I want the world for two, the promises he made to you, and even himself, flooded his mind.

“Hit me.”

You remained in his embrace but pulled back slightly to gaze up at him “What?” 

“Hit me for being so stupid.”

You stared at him with wide, puffy eyes “Are you serious?”

He wiped tears from your cheek and smiled, “Serious as a heart attack.”

He stood back and squared his shoulders, preparing for your punch. 

“Go on, toots!” He shut his eyes.

You pouted as you looked at your husband. Your protective, loving, and always handsome husband. You stared at your hands, you could never do such a thing, and you wouldn’t. You held back a smile as you reached into the mixing bowl and grabbed a handful of flour. You bit your lip before you threw it at him.

He gasped and opened his eyes. He chuckled while he observed the flour that was now all over him “Oh, that was a dirty trick!” 

He reached into the bowl and you ran from him. Stella barked and chased the two of you.

“C’mere, I just wanna talk!” He waved his fist full of flour around.

“Oh no you don’t!” You giggled.

You and Nicky now faced each other on opposite ends of the kitchen island. Stella stood in the middle, glancing from you to him and eventually laid down. You ran around the table and squealed when he got a hold of you. You felt the flour spatter against your face.

“If I recall correctly, what’s mine is yours.” He chuckled at your ghost like face still holding onto you.

You smiled as you wiped some of it off, “Nicholas Valentino?”

“Yes, my love?” 

You gently brushed remnants of flour from his eyelashes and saw him blush.

“I love you.”

He took your hand in his, “I love you more.” 

Flour tasted pretty weird but you and Nicky didn’t care, you kissed each other deeply.

~~~A/N: Are we crying yet? Thank you for sending this in 💙 anon, I almost cried 😫💞💞

#jade has mail #nicky valentino vendetta #fictif nicky #nicky valentino #nicky valentino x mc #nicky valentino x reader

[caelin-ismycity]

Please tell us more about Tellius ships

god theres a lot of ships with how many bitches there are in this game- like id have to play through the game some more which i plan on doing anyway to write an essay-ass anthology of all the good shit here but for now i can shoot off my faves

ike/boyd:

yall already know i like myself some elihec and one reason is cause of their lil rivalry/best friend relationship yknow- you can look at those losers romantically or not and it’d still be some Good Shit. 

same logic with ike/boyd honestly- especially with there bantering asses in the beginning and generally how boyd tends to think of ike immediately when it comes to finding a sparring partner or just helping him out during their quest with the tri-arrow attack discussed with rolf and oscar.

another scene i found cute was after ike and others disobeyed titania and sought out the bandits alone and when greil is about to rip into ike about disrespecting orders, boyd’s the first one (i think its been awhile since i played that chapter) to step up and take the blame (admitted by him to be pretty out of character which i like to interpret as boyd just being flustered that hes caught caring for ike beyond their competitiveness)

unfortunately, not only is fe9 hard to play legally because of its stupid price, but even if you did sell your soul to buy the game intelligence systems has cursed my household by not allowing ike and boyd to have any support conversations, nor any interactions all together beyond a certain chapter, so ike/boyd is one of the rarest pairs you can like in this series especially considering the most popular ship is ike/soren with the tellius series

ike/ranulf

ike and ranulf meet uhhh god i dont rememebr honestly- but they meet about halfway into the game when ike and co properly become associated with the beast laguz where ranulf, considerably, becomes a reoccurring ally to the greil mercenaries.

couple reasons why i love these two- one being the whole laguz/beorc thing ight (lemme get on that in a sec). i.e., ike is big on joining laguz and beorc together, and ranulf doesnt really seem to mind them (i say ‘doesnt seem to mind them’ because, if i remember right, ranulf has real issues trusting beorc and even tells ike that if he naively trusts people he’ll end up hurt). ergo, id imagine that ike would love to get to know more about the laguz alltogether and ranulf himself (he’s clearly curious considering h is supports with lethe as well). additionally, their C support is fuckin cute as hell with ranulf taking pride in making ike laugh/smile at one of his jokes (which tbh i thought would set the grounds for a lovely af A support but instead i get ranulf calling ike a nitwit for trusting him so easily so thanks intell).

another big moment for me is how ike hardly hesitated to defend ranulf from the other beorcs after he was discovered in that one really racist town (its the one where you get zihark and board nasir’s ship y’all know the one) even if it jeopardized the possibility of them escaping the town quietly (double points for ranulf insisting on ike leaving him alone and ike essentially telling ranulf to fuck off with that shit)

its utter trash that ranulf joins the mercenaries at the very end of the game (maybe chapter 25-26? you get JUST enough chapters to achieve their A support), not to mention he pops in-and-out of the gang’s path to actually talk to ike. but im grateful there’s some content for these two, even if there isn’t as much as i would like

kieren/oscar

again yall know i love that rivalry shit but this time it’s extremely one sided on kieran’s part (oscar more-or-less just dealing with it and not making a fuss about it). but damn if there isn’t potential, especially when you can take kieran’s insistent rivalry as some form of admiration for oscar (not to mention the possibilities of their past with oscar originally working alongside kieran)

double points for kieran’s insistence that oscar come back with him to work as a crimean knight again (obviously more because kieran’s genuinely astonished oscar would willingly work with lowly-payed, unknown, not-pristine mercenaries). you can really just take it as kieran really lowkey missing oscar but being too prideful to admit it

ill also be damned if oscar cooking with kieran/teaching him how to cook wouldnt be the tightest shit to watch; i cant tell if kieran would be too stubborn to let oscar fully mandate what he does, begrudgingly listens to oscar, or is utterly impressed with oscar’s culinary skills and insists that ‘only someone as amazing as his rival would obviously be fit with abilities like that’

kieren/rhys

not exactly phat on my radar but it is cute as hell considering how easily concerned rhys becomes of kieran (and for good reason to the fucker regularly bludgeons himself with an axe and he wrestles bears jesus christ man), so its easy to imagine rhys making the excuse to kind of baby kieran to make sure he isn’t seriously hurt on or off the battlefield to just look/watch him

its also pretty fun to imagine rhys going with kieran when the dumb bitch proudly tells the army he’s about to go bear wrestling and rhys getting to see kieran ;lightly’ clothed to fight a fucking bear

im pretty sure in their A support, rhys tells kieran that if he isn’t more careful then the army’ll lose their most valuable soldier to something as stupid as a self-inflicted axe wound. its obvious that rhys said something along the lines of that (as well as a couple of other things in that support) because he acknowledges kieran’s self importance, but its also cute to imagine that rhys was able to use that fact to his advantage to tell kieran how much he means to himself (bonus points if, alternatively, rhy’s dialogue would follow some shit like ‘I- uh... We can’t lose a soldier as important as you, Kieran.’)

gatrie/shinon

another lowkey one (considering shinon and gatrie are absent for a decent portion of the game post initial chapters), but the one support i did manage to get of them was enough to sell me- cause frankly i find the idea of shinon teasing gatrie about buying them dinner and gatrie just being like “hhrhrum” as he begrudgingly agrees to be endearing; i.e. the sinon mentallity being ‘If you’re going to throw your money at everything, you might as well spend it on something worthwhile’ aka ‘lets just have a nice dinner together instead of you buying some random girl three bouquets of roses’

they also have a pre-planned attack together (albeit quickly mentioned to titania) like cmon they bondin yall they conversin

finally i love how shinon’s taller than gatrie- like this isnt necessarily ship-related i just finally have the opportunity to say it. like shinon could absolutely tease gatrie about it like ‘what did you say you wanted a kiss? ? ? i cant hear you from down there’ and gatrie just playfully punches his arm like ‘bro- dude- cmon please i missed you all day just bend down for two seconds’

i’ve been typing for a while and ive got the attention span of a brick but these are the ships i think of the most. during my second playthrough ill be damned if i dont develop more but feel free to send in more ship shit

#FE9 #snap chats #i finally have the chance to vomit my tellius ships thanks #ive actually been meaning to draw an ike/ranulf pic #mostly cause i got inspired with how ufcking cold its been lately #and you know damn well ike's gonna exploit ranulf's cat form to not only cuddle but be warm as hell

[tumblunni]

BUNNI WATCHES RANDOM OUT OF ORDER SINNOH EPISODES THAT WERE LEFT ON THIS HARD DRIVE I GUESS

Today is diamond and pearl season one episode 28 "Drifloon On The Wind!"

Huh this one had a cold open showing the climactic moment from the end of the episode before it actually happened. Thats the first time i recall the anime doing that? I thougjt initially it was a flashback and i missed the first of a two parter.

Such a cool neat weird premise! A traditional pokemon centre out in the countryside! That adds so much worldbuilding to the setting! They never state it in the english dub but it seems to be a joke on a japanese onsen? (An inn built around hot springs) the archetecture just seems to be very similar, and from what i've seen in anime the "my mum and my mum's mum and my mum's mum's mum worked here" thing is a common trope. The nurse joy family is probably a joke to exaggerate it? Also i loved the scene where Brock is like "wait what the fuck this identical nurse joy is actually old enough to have a daughter ash's age and also OH NO A WEDDING RIIIIIING" And then he thankfully,blissfully GAVE UP and we had one nurse joy centric episode without him being a fuckboi. Seriously, the older you get the less funny you find brock, it sucks that the stuff that's meant to be over the top jokes is now barely more exaggerated than how some dudes act in real life. All you real life brocks, nobody finds you as charming as a fictional goofball! You're just rude! AND REAL BROCKS DONT HAVE A CROAGUNK TO STOP THEM

Anyway i LOVE the cute cottagey aesthetic pokemon center/hotel place! It seems the family mostly treats wild pokemon in the forest and they were actually so surprised to see customers that they thought they were burglars at first! And then daww ash and co help out doing chores to pay them back for the meal and bed even though the family is like 'no dude thats the duty of a pokemon centre'. I think that was a really mature moment for ash? He realized that this pokemon center gets less business than usual ones and figured he should give them a hand. And its so nice to see him being so super excited and wowed by the chores?? Like i mean its CHORES but for him its all so new cos its learning how to work in a pokemon center. Ash's best characrer trait is how his enthusiasm really has no limits, he'll go 100% be the best choremon master ever! Or maybe he was intentionalky being all THIS IS SO FUN because the joy daughters were fighting and he wanted to help cheer them up? In a lot of ways i prefer season 1's bratty egotistical sarcasm ash just cos he had more of a visible personality and you didnt have to sorta sleuth it out like this and always be left wondering whether they really meant to write nice-Ash this way or you're just imagining it. But when nice-Ash has monents like this he's way better and i just wish it hapoened more often and was 100% confirmed, yknow? Most of the time in sinnoh he feels less like nice-ash and more like nothing-ash or changes-every-day-into-whatever-the-plot-requires-him-to-be-ash. But in sun and moon season they have all those more slice of lifey and emltional plots and he's the more nicer ash that i always wanted, and i love it!

Anyway lol im going wildly off topic. Also fun fact i spell "the" wrong so much that "tge" is the first result in my autocorrect now...

Another thing i like is that these Joys seem to be a ghost type specialist family? The kids have a big pile of drifloon cuties and when the gang first arrived they saw a bunch of happy gastlys enjoying their stay at the inn. I like to think maybe all the ghosts they have are "drifty" types like that? I feel that the writers ppicked gastly cos the pokedex entry saying they blow away on the wind like drifloon. Cos this is actually the valley windworks adaptation episode! That was such a nice surprise when it turned out momma joy's husband was the windmill electrician guy!! He looks SO cute in the anime too! He's really chubby and has such a nice round face with a button nose and big anime eyes and a cute turquoise jacket electrician uniforn thing. And he's funny and goofy with his kids and very caribg and cautious about letting them ride home alone in the bad weather, and also he's a GIANT BADASS with an ampharos that thunderpunches the shit out of team rocket and defeats them before ash can even get there lol! Actually they never show what momma joy's main pokemon is? I like to think maybe its a gengar cos thats the most chansey-ish ghost type. And also itd mean the chubby guy has a tall and thin pokemon and his tall and thin wife has a chubby pokemon. Theyre such a cute couple so itd be even cuter!

Oh and i forgot to mention that everyone travels around via drifloon??? Thats so surreal when you consider their pokedex entries saying them carrying children is a bad thing that means theyre kidnapoing them. Like, they domesticated a very dangerous pokemon and now it uses its dangerousness for the powers of good instead! Maybe its just the anime censoring a scary thing or maybe it was intentional to show how badass this momma joy is that she could tame so many spoopy ghosts that everyone thinks are pure evil? Seriously i LOVE how they show this family working to protect and heal the local wild pokemon and them all being super friendly to humans because of it. And it makes sense theyd be ghost tyoe trainers cos if youre befriending all the pokemon in a forest youre bound to find a few lost souls. Mountains and forests are like the deadliest areas for travellers so mountain forests especially so! Everyone's lucky they have this badass family team watching over the area like guardian spirits~

OH SPEAKING OF WHICH

I forgot to mention that the main conflict of the episode is that the joy sisters have a fight because the older sister is a bit overprotective and dismissive of her little sister, causing her to be reckless and get lost trying to "be grown up and help mommy". And in the end the big sister rescues her with the help of the guardian spirit of the hot springs and they reconcile their differences and have big cute hugs! Its all very well written and dramatic actually.i really felt for the older sister's determination to save her, and i felt it was a good case of a conflict where both of them were wrong and both made mistakes and it was just like they coulda avoided those mistakes if they talked it out better. And both of them had a point at the same time, yknow? So it didnt end with either of them losing the argument or anything, it was more like the lesson is just to appreciate your siblings while theyre there and also talk about your problems in clear language with younger kids instead of using excuses like "you just cant, cos im older and i said so".

Oh also SUICUNE!

The super onsen spirit is suicune?? The little sister just casually mentions her biggest best friend in the forest is suicune and is surprised when ash says its a legendary! Wow thats actually a really cool idea? You wouldnt necessarily think of it cos you kinda think of hot springs for the hot part but theyre also a sort of super clean water like how suicune is meant to be able to purify polluted lakes. Maybe it came here to make its nest cos places that are already purified are comforting to someone who wanders the earth blasting stinky water with its powers every day. I like to think maybe this is the same suicune from Generations where they said the legendary beasts are roaming legendaries because humans treated them as demons when they first walked out of the ashes, and now theyre still scared of us even centuries later. Itd be sad if they literally kept running forever, so i like to think they all have a comforting spot to sleep in, somewhere. And for suicune its this little isolated lake in the sinnoh region which used to be super far away from human civilization. But then this family's ancestors built this hospital here and suicune was initially like "oh no my house is ruined" but then it saw that these humans were helping protect tge forest pokemon too. So its like "ah fellow coworkers" and theyre the only humans it trusts. And whenever theyre in trouble it sneakily helps them and dashes away before it can be seen, but one day it got unlucky and the kids saw it and now OH NO it is stuck havibg CUTE TINY FRIENDS! I bet the littlest joy just treats suicune like a big puppy, and this great noble beast of legend plays along because it loves her so much. But if anyone else sees it demeaning itself with a game of fetch, it would be Total Social Death In The Legendaries Club

Anyway there's some cute moments of Emotionally Wise Kind Ash The Best Of All Ashes where he finds the lost little-joy and he tries to cheer her up when she's scared by the storm and keep her dry from the rain. And he has absolute faith that his friends will come to save them both! The only thing i think coukd have maybe made it better is if the big sister joy didnt beleive in suicune? Cos it just ends with her going to ask suicune for help and then suicune helps. There's a lack of tension cos you know suicune could easily resolve all this and you already know suicune is real cos the lil sis says that big sis told her to keep it a secret cos its a Big Deal and Bad People Could Take Suicune Away and stuff. Like it might have worked better if the big sis thought that little sis was just making up rumours to be all boastful, or playing with an imaginary friend. Then her going to ask suicune for help would have symbolized something, yknow? And the audience might have been tense about whether it was real or not.

But even without that added suggestion it was still a great episode! Lots of cuteness, emotionalness, familyness and a few great jokes along the way! Also i just loved them giving unique character designs and a full backstory to these minor npcs from the game. Whenever i play it now i'm totally gonna headcanon this all as true! I mean all we know about the daughter character in the game is that she says "papa youre stinky but i still love you" and that feels very in character for the slightly mischievious little sis joy that we meet in this episode. Though you only see the one daughter and she acts like she hasnt caught a drifloon yet and dreams of seeing it if you can fix the windmill problems so it'll come back. So maybe the game version takes place a little before the anime? Like, that daughter is the engineer dad's daughter from a previous relationship and the older daughter is joy's daughter from a previous relationship. And i dunno maybe lil daughter's hair colour actually is the generic npc brown from the games but she begged her momma to dye it so she could match. Like she just loves her new momma and sister so much!! And now the struggling mountain poke-center is doing better because both parents work difderent jobs now and have enough money combined to be able to keep the family in a better quality of life. And maybe the team galactic incident at the valley windworks got it a bit of publicity as a tourist destination? and after the daughter caught that drifloon everyone who visited was like GOSH ITS SO CUTIE and the dad was like "yes our special windmill attracts these pokemon that are normally only found high up on the mountains, speaking of which my wife runs an inn up there and you can go on pokemon wildlife tours to see them in their natural habitat!" And just I LOVE THESE GUYS AND I WANT THEM TO HAVE ALL THE SUCCESS IN THEIR LIFE!! There is NOTHING better than "hey we're adapting this gane what should we do?" "Add MORE FAMBLY" Like oh my god whoever had that wonderful idea should be promoted!

Thus ends bunni's disjointed review of FAMBLY EPISODE

[wingsxofxaxfighter]

Return of the Elementals- My rendition- Final product

The TV was too loud that night, I could hear it from my room. What I heard in full though, scared me to no end.

My brother, Eli Shane, let out a blood curtling scream, causing me to shoot straight up in my bed and roll out of it onto the floor.

“Ouch.” I said as I grabbed my head to stop the room from spinning.

My Tazerling, Squeeks, looked over her shoulder at me and hopped up on my knee, looking at me with terror filled eyes.

“I’m ok” I told her with a smile but I quickly stood up as Squeeks moved to my shoulder.

I had to make sure Eli was ok.

I found him watching Junjie, the Eastern Champion bonding with his slugs through something called Slug fou.

The soft click of the heels of my sneakers on the floor made Eli look at me but Junjie never broke focus even thought I was sure he heard me coming.

“Hey, Lily.” Eli said and I nodded in approval.

“You couldn’t sleep either, huh?” Junjie asked me.

“I could hear the TV from my room but Eli’s cry was what drew me out.” I explained as I looked at him. “What was that about anyway?” I asked him.

“Just a bad dream. Nothing to worry about.” Eli told me.

“From what you told me, it was.” Junjie said.

“Plus I don’t appreciate you lying to me.” I said as I shot Eli a look.

Eli winced and sighed.

“I don’t even know if you could take it if I told you, Lil.” Eli told me in all honesty.

“I can take it, I promise.” I said.

If this had something to do with the Goon then it definitely be hard on me.

Eli had been bent to the Dark Banes will and, although my White Boondock, Lacey, saved him, I knew he wasn’t going to be the same after that for a while.

Eli continued to explain that he was shown a whole slew of things but what set him off the most was seeing dad in a hologram.

“Wait a second!” I demanded. “You saw dad?!” I asked.

“Only briefly, but yes. Junjie had the same dream it seems.” Eli explained to me.

My eyes widened but I soon looked away in sadness.

“W-what did dad say?” I asked.

“He didn’t really say anything before I woke up, but I’m not going back to sleep after that.” Eli said as he shook his head.

“I know the only thing that’ll clear your head after something like that.” I said with a smug look on my face.

Eli smiled back at me and I followed him out of the Shane gang clubhouse.

“An early morning duel.” Eli and I said after we had found a safe place to battle.

Junjie was ready to fight as soon as we got out, I was more or less ready and Eli’s slugs were sleeping on the job.

Junjie’s slugs showed off before he looked at Eli and myself.

I gulped and smiled impishly before I looked at my own slugs.

“You guys ready.” I asked and the all chattered and whooped at me as they all jumped into some slug tubes.

I had to admit, being tied for first in a tournament to prove that Eli and I were really the next Shane's in line and going up against the Eastern Champion was kind of bone rattling nervous.

Still, I pressed onwards, determined to show these guys that I wasn’t just second to my brother.

There was a squeak as Joules shocked someone and everyone on  his team laughed. I even let out a snicker.

Junjie cleared his throat and raised his eyebrow at Eli.

Eli quickly gathered himself and looked at his slugs.

“Let’s do this.” he told them.

I smiled and my Infurnus, Rover, chattered from my shoulder.

“You ready?” I asked Squeeks.

She only waved happily at me from the barrel and I smiled.

For the first little bit, Squeeks and Burpy tag teamed, but when Squeeks was blown out of proportion, Burpy had to work on his own.

Too bad for Eli that Junjie pulled out a Frostcrawler and it made a sort of slide behind Eli.

What was the point of that? I thought but I soon  found out after Joojoo, Junjie’s Infurnus, had knocked Eli over and was taking him up to the top of the ice slide, where he dropped him and Eli slid back down again to Junjie’s feet.

Junjie looked at Eli from overhead and I snickered.

“Ok, so you win.” Eli said as Joojoo turned back to normal and landed on Junjie’s shoulder.

“Thank you both, for a most invigorating battle.” Junjie said as he helped Eli back up.

“You’re welcome.” Eli told him with a bright smile “I just can’t get over how you can control your slugs with that Slug foo stuff.” Eli said.

“It takes years to master but if you have the right heart then it won’t take as long.” Junjie told us.

I nodded with a smile before there was slug fire that set Junjie off.

“Slug fire. Rammstone.” he said.

Eli and I knew very well what it was.

“Relax.” I said “Come on. I’ll show you what it was.”

The boys followed me along the thick tree branch to where Pronto, Kord and Trixie were, racing their slugs with their blasters.

“What’s this?” Junjie asked.

“We control the slugs from our blasters with the little helmets they wear on their heads.” Kord explained.

“Forgive me, I understand what, but what I mean is why?” Junjie asks.

“We need some other form of entertainment around here when we’re not on the job.” Kord explained.

“You  do realize that I don’t need to do such things in order to control my slugs.” Junjie said as he put a slug into his wrist slinger and shot it without a second thought.

I watched as it caught up with Kord and Pronto’s slugs and out of my peripherals I saw Pronto and Kord exchange nods.

This can’t end well I thought as I shook my head at the boy's stupidity.

Junjie’s slug ended up right between Kords and Pornto’s and, while they tried to ram Junjie’s off course, Junjie moved his hand upwards and the whole cart moved, making the two crash into each other, causing Junjie to win.

“No fair!” Pronto protested.

“Forgive me, Pronto. Allow me to take over the maintenance of your Mecha beast for the next week.” Junjie said.

“No, I insist… make it two weeks.” Pronto said and I snickered.

All at once, Hiro, my Hoverbug, started to snarl at me as if he had been Ghouled.

I looked down and sure enough he was darker in colour than he should have been.

“Hiro!” I cried before I noticed that Bluster, Trixie’s Tormato, and Stinky, Pronto’s Flatulorhinkus, had done the same thing.

“Cure ‘em, Doc!” Eli told his Boondoc as he shot him.

Doc cured them but it didn’t work for long.

“What’s ghouling these slugs?” I asked as I pulled Lacey out and shot her next.

“I thought we got rid of Blakk.” Trixie said.

“Unless something else is Ghouling these slugs.” Eli said.

I thought for a second about who could be Ghouling these slugs but then my mind raced to the ones in the club house and I took off in a full out run.

“Lil?!” Eli started but I didn’t answer him.

“Think about it. All these ones out here are being ghouled, that means that all the others at the clubhouse are being Ghouled too!” I explained.

“Aw, man.” Kord drawled and I picked up the pace, bursting through the doors of the clubhouse before anyone else.

“Lacey!” I said and she hopped into a tube before I put her in my blaster.

The shot rang out and the slugs were cured, but only for a moment.

“This still isn’t working!” I said.

“Most of the caverns practically run on Tormato’s and Hoverbugs!” Trixie said in  horror.

“So then what’s turning them all to Ghouls?” Kord asked.

“I don’t know, but we need to find out and we need to find out now.” Eli said.

“Let’s ride!” I said and we all rushed to the garage and hopped on our Mecha’s.

The door to the garage opened and we all rode out, only to be stopped a few feet later by the Shadowclan.

“What are they doing here?!” Trixie asked.

Eli pulled out his Shadow Talker that allowed him to talk with the beasts but I didn’t need one.

Seeing as I had spent months with them beforehand because of a bet that I lost with them. I rathered not to talk about it with the others.

“I trust you have heard about the slugs here.” One of them said, one that I knew to be their chief.

“We were just on our way to one of the caverns now.” I said in their own language.

I can tell you that no one was more surprised than Junjie to hear me talk like that.

When I caught the look in his eye I mouthed to him that I would tell him about it later.

“We need to go and we need to go now if we are going to save all of Slugterra in one shot.” Chief told us.

“How do you know that?” Eli questioned and I shot him a horrified look.

“The message from your father.” Chief told us and I stiffened.

Eli didn’t hesitate.

“Let’s go, Shane Gang. Junjie, you in?” Eli asked.

“Anything to help a friend.” Junjie said and I smiled.

“Alright, but one problem. How are we gunna get there?” Kord asked.

Chief hissed again and Eli, Junjie and myself all groaned.

“What? What did he say?” Trixie asked.

“He said-” Eli started.

“This is going to hurt.” Junjie finished.

“Oh Floppers.” Pronto and I said together as the Shadowclan tossed up a ball and a shining light came from it, capturing us all and sucking us all into it.

I remember hitting the floor with a thud and groaning as I did so.

“Everyone alright?” Eli asked.

“No.” Kord told us and I rolled over onto my back as I tried to get up, later getting help from Junjie.

I nodded gratefully before I looked at my surroundings.

“What is this place?” I asked in awe as I watched Shadowclan coming back into this place from all sides of us.

“That doesn’t matter.” Chief told us as I looked at him “what matters is that you and your brother get that message from your father.” he said as he held out an Enigmo slug to us.

“I thought we had the only one of those.” Trixie said as it hopped up and down in the Shadowclan’s hand.

“I guess not.” I said in awe.

Mo, Eli’s Enigmo, popped up over his shoulder and looked at the other one.

He chattered in happiness at seeing another one of his own kind and Eli helped him down so he could say hi.

The two danced around each other, all smiles.

“How cute.” Trixie and I said together.

“Pft.” Pronto said from beside us and I looked at him “I’m cuter.” he finished.

“I need you to stand over there.” the Shadowclan told Eli.

“Sure, why not?” Eli said with a shrug as he stood where the Shadowclan had instructed him.

“Now what?” Eli asked but it was already too late. The Shadowclan had already reared up to fire the slug at him.

“Oh, Floppers!” Eli said before he was slugged and a whole map shone around us with our dad standing in the middle of it all.

“Dad!” Eli and I said together but Pronto stopped us.

“I hate to break it to you two, but that’s a hologram. It’s not actually your father.” Pronto told us.

Eli nudged me and threw me a wink before he looked at Pronto.

“Thanks, Pronto.” he said.

“Eli, Lil.” the hologram started “I am recording this in the hopes that you never have to hear this.” it said. “By now, you two are the Shane’s, and I am no longer here for you.”

I grumbled. This hologram was telling things we already knew.

“If you are hearing this then something truly horrible has happened.” the hologram continued explaining.

“I’ve told the both of you about millions of slugs but I haven’t told you where it all started. There used to be only five slugs in the world of Slugterra. Those where the Elemental slugs consisting of Fire, Water, Earth, Air, and Energy. If something were to happen to one of the Elemental slugs then the ones connected to it would have the same effect.” the hologram explained.

“That must’ve been what happened to Bluster and the others.” I said in awe.

“You have to find the Elementals and turn this all back to normal.” the hologram explained “the map and everything else you’ll need is stored in this Enigmo slug.” the hologram said as it held up the very slug that Eli had just been slugged with.

“The map is tuned to either you or Lil, whoever is able, although, some one will have to slug you when you want to access it. When you want to look for the next slug just say ‘Locate Water Elemental’ and I will ask you a password question. The map with then show you where the next slug can be found.”

At that moment a snarling sound came from one of Eli’s travel tubes and he looked down.

“Beeker!” he said before he looked up again.

“Locate Water Elemental.” Eli said and the hologram of our father soon showed up again.

“During winters at the cabin, You, Lil and I loved to race down the hill. What was the name of the sleigh that we used?”

“Oh boy.” I said as I remembered the name and shot the others a look from over my shoulder.

“Poopy pants.” Eli said and I nodded.

“The name of the sleigh was Poopy pants.” I said with a snickered.

The hologram showed us a location.

“That looks like Undertow Cavern.” Trixie pointed out.

“Alright, mount up and ride out.” I said as we all turned to our Mecha’s.

I only hoped we could get all of the Elementals before they fell into the wrong hands, like the hands of the Goon and whoever his minion was now.

I came to a skidding halt when I saw the state that Undertow Cavern was in.

“Having the slugs must take a toll on the cavern their found in.” I said.

“This means that we’re too late.” Eli said and I stiffened in horror.

Voices off in the distance distracted me and I looked to find none other than the Dark Bane standing there.

“I think we’ve got bigger problems.” I said as I pointed to where I meant.

“The Goon?!” Trixie asked me and I nodded as we all hopped off our Mecha’s.

“Doesn’t matter. We need to get past him somehow.” Eli said “and there’s no way I’m swimming through all that Dark Bane.”

I shook my head in disgust as I remembered what happened the last time he did that.

Eli wouldn’t even listen to me. the Goon had him under his control and no one could do anything to stop him. Eli even attacked me in that state of mind.

At least, that’s what the Goon thought.

The last time this happened I had pulled out Lacey and used her against the Goon.

“Is that everything, boss?” I heard one of the minions ask and I turned to watch.

“Not quite, I can sense that the the Shane gang is not far off.” the Goon said and I stiffened.

“You’re not wrong.” Eli said and I turned around, looking at Eli from the side.

“And we’ll take you down, just like we did the last time.” I said as I held up my blaster, Lacey already in the barrel.

“Oh look. Isn’t that sweet? The younger Shane thinks that she’ll overpass her brother. That truly is adorable.” The Goon taunted and everyone behind him started laughing.

“I can tell you, Lil came second to me in the tournament as it ended in a tie.” Eli said. “Both of us are equally the best Slug Slingers in the 99.”

“You think I care about that when I have this?” the Goon asked and I stiffened in horror.

“What the-” I started but I was cut off as the the Goon held up a snarling little slug.

From the markings on it, I could tell it was the Air Elemental.

“No!” we all cried out in horror.

“You want to know who else is behind this then you have to cross that to get to him.” the Goon told us.

I looked at Eli in horror.

“You’re not going to swim there.” I said.

“Of course not, Lily.” Eli told me before he exchanged glances with Rover and Burpy.

“Can you two go updraft?”

The two slugs nodded and I let out a quiet shy of relief as Rover hopped into a barrel and waved at me.

I smiled back before I fired and watched him come up and around, hopping on his back when he came back around.

Not long after Eli was at my side, soaring through the sky to the cave on the other side.

I skidded as I landed in the cave and Eli soon landed with me with our slugs landing on our shoulders.

“I wonder if the guy is even in here.” I said. “You know we can’t trust the Goon.” I said in disgust.

“I know, we just have to see if there’s anyone behind him that could also be looking for the slugs.” Eli told me as we came up on a small pool of Dark Water.

“This place looks familiar anyway.” Eli told me and I looked at him, confused as to why he said that if we’ve never been here before.

All at once, the puddle started to bubble and move as someone came out of it sending me onto my rear with terror.

“Blakk?!” Eli asked in horror and I looked up to find the man towering over me.

“How did you escape the Deep Caverns?!” I asked.

“Who else did you think?” Blakk asked. “And my trip down to the Deep Caverns was most invigorating.”

“You might want to re-think that.” I said as I stood up and aimed my Hoprock, Machico at him.

“Why do you keep trying? I’ll just keep coming back.” Blakk said “and you can’t stop it. Your father couldn’t even stop me.” Blakk sneered as he came up to me and threw me out of his way.

I hit a pillar a few feet away and recoiled bad as I looked back up and watched Blakk walk up to Eli.

“I would lose the deadbeat if I were you, Eli. All she’s doing is slowing you down.” Blakk sneered.

“That’s a lie and you know it!” Eli snapped as he watched Blakk leave and came  to my aid not long after.

“Are you alright?” Eli asked me and I nodded as he pulled me up.

“We need to get out of here before this place falls on us.” I said as I felt the place start to shake.

“Blakk must have shot a slug at an weak spot on his way out.” Eli sneered and I growled under my breath before I took off.

“I think we have to go underground. Rover can’t take another shot like that.” I said as I looked at the little slug in one of the travel tubes.

“That would be the better way of getting out of here away way.” Eli told me as he put a Crystalyd in his blaster and shot it.

It quickly made a hole in the ground and we followed it down, chasing after it to the other side.

I didn’t think that the others would take to Blakk working with the Dark Bane very well but they would have to get over it until we figure out a way to stop them both and turn Slugterra back to normal.

The Crystalyd moved upwards and drilled a hole through the ground to the surface.

“There!” I heard someone call and Eli hopped up first, helping me out of the hole.

“Blakk’s back.” I said as I grabbed his hand.

“We saw him.” Trixie said. “I can’t believe that he teamed up with the Goon.” she finished as Junjie came back up beside her.

“Where were you?” I asked.

“I had followed the Goon and the others to see if I could slow them down” Junjie explained.

“You left us alone here while you took on three others by yourself?!” Kord asked.

“I knew that Eli and Lil could handle themselves, which they did.” Junjie said and I smiled slightly in triumph.

“That doesn’t matter, what matters is getting to the next slug before they do.” Eli said.

“Wait a minute. What if this is how he’s getting there before we are. You said so yourself that he could get in your head.” Trixie said.

“That’s not what he meant.” I said.

“Take this into consideration. He knew about the Air Elemental before we did.” Junjie said.

“Lily and Jun are right, Trix. Besides, it’s more like a reminder of what he did to Junjie and I.” Eli clarified.

“Alright, let’s find this slug.” I said as I took the Enigmo slug and he smiled at me.

Before I could do anything, Pronto held up his hand and I looked at him in confusion.

“Let Pronto have the honour of slugging him. Just this once.” Pronto told me.

The Enigmo gladly hopped from my hand to Pronto’s and Eli shot me a pained look.

I only shrugged as I stood next to Kord.

“I’m ready.” Eli said.

“Better you than me.” Pronto and I said together before Pronto fired the slug at Eli.

The map and my dad were displayed before us again.

“Locate Earth Elemental.” Eli said and the hologram of our father soon appeared.

“What were the first members of my team that I ever brought up to The Surface to meet you two?” it asked.

“What about Tom Por?” Trixie asked.

“Not likely.” I said.

“Besides, Tom and dad really didn’t start getting along so much later on in this whole thing.” Eli said before he exchanged glances with Burpy.

At that moment a look of “ah-ha” crossed Eli’s face as if he knew the answer.

“It was your slugs right? You said that they were as much a part of the team as anyone!” Eli tried.

“Access granted.” the hologram told us before it showed us the location.

Quartermain Cavern.

“Alright, what are we still standing around here for?” Kord asked.

“Hang on.” Eli asked and I looked at him in confusion before he looked back up at the hologram.

“Trixie mentioned Tom Por.” he started “Lil and I know that you guys had your differences but how did you two keep it together in a battle?” Eli asked.

“I’m not your father. I am only a recollection of information to be used in an emergency such as this.” the hologram told us.

The hopeful look on Eli’s face crumpled and he turned away.

I looked back at the hologram again before I ran to catch up with the others, putting my hand on Eli’s shoulder before I broke off to my LK-E unit, Akira and hopped on.

“Let’s ride!” I said as we all took off.

The surroundings of Quartermain Cavern where no different than those of Undertow.

The very sight of any of the caverns like this caused me to wince in disgust.

“That’s why we’re getting the Elementals, Lily.” I heard Eli say and I looked at him, a strong look of determination filled his eyes.

I’ve never seen him so determined like that.

I shook my head to clear it as we came up on a cave and hopped off our Mechas before we went in side.

When we got in I swear we were met with the largest mud slide I’ve ever seen!

“How are going to get across this?” Kord asked.

“Only one way.” Eli said.

“Oh no.” I said, knowing very well where he was going with that statement.

“Hold your breath, take a run and- jump!” we both said together and Eli jumped in.

I shielded my eyes from the flying mud as Trixie and Kord followed him and I shook my head as I followed, coming up for air not long after, letting the current take me whichever way it pleased.

“Do we even know where this thing is?” I called over the rush of the mud slide.

“I’m sure we’ll know it when we see it.” Trixie pointed out.

“Speaking of seeing- I haven’t seen Pronto or Junjie yet.” Eli said as he frantically began looking for them.

“My ears are burning.” I heard Pronto sing out and I looked over my shoulder to find him riding on a crystal from a Geoshard with Junjie not far behind him.

“This is a much better way of travel.” Pronto assured us and I had a moment of thought.

Maybe Pronto was right for a change.

“Alright, you heard him, guys. Fire Geoshards!” Eli told us as he wasted no time in doing so for himself.

“You’re nuts.” I said with a laugh before I shot one for myself and hopped on.

As much as I hated to admit it, Pronto was right. This was a far better way to travel through the thick mud.

“So, where’s the Earth Elemental?” Trixie called.

I was just thinking that for myself when I saw it.

“There it is!” I said as I pointed to the little slug, almost above our heads, confused as to if it should jump in or not.

“I’ve got this.” Junjie said as he lifted his arm with his wrist blaster on it and shot a Rammstone, guiding it with Slug fou.

The Rammstone went up and over the Earth Elemental and back around again.

“It missed!” Trixie exclaimed.

“No it didn’t!” I said but it was already too late.

Trixie had already fired a Hoprock and it knocked Junjie’s off course and into a pillar from behind.

Rubble rained down on me and I brought my arm up to stop the little pieces from going into my eyes.

“Look!” Kord instructed and I followed his finger, seeing that the Earth Elemental had lost it’s balance and was falling.

Thinking fast, I gave one great push and caught the slug before it could get lost in the current of the mud slide.

“I got it!” I said as I held him up and let him hop on my shoulder.

Our victory was short lived as we fell through another hole made to break our fall but also bringing the rest of the mud slide with it.

“Is it smart to leave it like that?” I asked.

“Nope.” Eli said as he held up his blaster with Spinner already in the barrel.

Thinking fast I held up my blaster along with everyone else and we all shot our Archinets to patch up the hole.

“I don’t think that’s gunna hold for very long.” Pronto informed us.

I took one look at the Earth Elemental and he exchanged glances with me.

“Maybe-.” I started but Junjie cut me off.

“No.” he said “I can see that you and your brother have strong connections with your slugs but even with proper training it would take years to learn how to use an Elemental slug.” Junjie informed.

Just as he finished the nets we made with our Arachnets broke and the mud came pouring in again.

“I don’t think we have much of a choice.” Eli said as he nodded to me in approval.

I put the slug in my blaster, aimed and shot, causing the slug to morph and turn the mud coming from the holes in the nets to stone.

“Nice!” Eli exclaimed and I shot him a look over my shoulder.

“Uh-oh!” Kord said and I looked at him but his gaze was focused on the ground.

Sure enough, the whole cave was turning to stone from that one blast.

“I hope you’ve got a plan” I called to the slug.

Everything was black but only for a moment as the stone that encased me broke away.

I looked at the Elemental and he chattered at me.

“Thanks!” I said with a smile as he threw me one back.

Outside the cave, I brushed myself off from the debris left behind from the Elemental slugs powers before I turned to my Mecha, Akira.

Not far off, Kord was fiddling with some new tech that he put on his blaster.

My curiosity got the better of me.

“What’s that, Kord?” I asked and he looked at me.

“It’s so we can track the Goon and the other Elemetals.” Kord explained.

“For example, if I point it at Eli’s pack it’ll show me that...” he said before he broke off.

“What’s wrong?” I asked.

“We’ve only caught one of the Elementals and my tracker is saying we have two!” Kord told me.

“Just some bugs.” I said “Nothing you can’t work out.” I said as I saw Eli coming back to us out of the corner of my eyes.

“Where to?” I asked.

“Quiet Lawn Caverns.” Eli told us. “Let’s roll out!” He said as he hopped on Lucky and took off with us not far behind.

As we rode up on the cavern I couldn’t see anything.

“Looks like Blakk and the Goon where already here!” Trixie called out.

“We should see if anyone else could know where they went.” I said as Eli took off behind me.

“What are y-?!” I started but I then noticed what his eyes were drawn to.

Redhook was trapped under a boulder!

“We have to get him out of there!” I said as I looked at Eli.

“It’s no use. I’m not worth it.” Redhook told us.

“Don’t say that!” I demanded as I knelt in front of him.

At first, Eli tried to push the boulder off by himself but when that didn’t work he called Kord over.

Kord quickly got the boulder off and Redhook smiled at us.

“Seems to me that I now own the Shanes twice, although, I don’t think I’ll be around much longer to fulfill that promise.” Redhook told us as he faded.

“Lacey!” I tried and she nodded quickly at me as I set her down next to the poor old man along with Doc.

The two set to work right away, restoring Redhook to his original state before he had passed out.

“Doc is quite the slug.” Junjie commented.

“He really is, but only because he’s special.” Eli told him as Kord pulled out his scanner again with a confused look on his face.

“Still on the fritz?” I asked.

“No! It was right all along. We do in fact have two elementals and it’s standing right next to Lacey!” Kord exclaimed.

“What?” I asked in confusion.

“Remember when I thought we had two of the Elementals? Doc is the Energy Elemental!” Kord explained.

“That would make sense, this is where we found him.” Trixie said.

“That would also explain why Blakk and the Goon left this place in a rampage.” I said.

“Ok but the we’re still missing the Fire Elemental.” Pronto points out.

“Those two were headed for Upright Cavern.” Redhook told us.

I nodded in understanding.

“Alright, mount up and ride out!” I said as I took off towards Akira again.

Riding along side Junjie, I took off for another ledge to be a look out.

“See anything, Lily?” Trixie called up to me.

“Not much but I think that I see the cavern off in the distance.” I said.

“That means we’re close.” Eli said as I hopped back down and accelerated faster coming to a skid when we entered a cave.

“This is it.” Eli announced.

“We’ve got no jetpacks to get up there.” Kord informed us.

“Maybe we don’t need them.” Junjie said as he looked at Joo joo.

“You and Rover gunna come with us, Lil?” Eli asked me.

I only shook my head as I watched Junjie fire Joo joo and hopped on.

“Come on, Eli.” Junjie called. “We have to get to the Fire Elemental before the others do.”

“I’m coming.” Eli started before he looked at Burpy. “You in?” he asked and Burpy nodded at him.

“Eli, wait.” I said quickly as he put the slug in his blaster.

“Think about this for a second. Aren’t we trusting Junjie a little too closely?” Trixie asked.

“He’s not the Dark Slinger anymore and he seems like a nice guy.” Eli protested.

“So did Twist.” Pronto countered.

Eli shot us all a look but the one he shot me was heart breaking.

“I’m still going up there.” Eli said before he shot Burpy.

The slug transformed, flipped backward and Eli hopped on when he came back around.

“He’d listen to you.” Trixie said “You’d think that he was controlled by the Goon again by the way he just acted.”

“Whatever, he’ll soon realize we were right.” I said as I watched him.

I growled to myself as I kept eyes on the hole that Eli and Junjie went up into.

“They’ve been up there for too long.” I said as I shook my head and looked at Kord who was fiddling with some parts from our Mecha beasts.

“Why do you think I’m makin’ jet packs, Blondie?” Kord asked me and I snickered at myself as I looked back up through the hole again.

All at once, Rover started to snarl at me.

“Guess that’s our cue.” Trixie told me and I looked at her before I looked at Kord again.

“Just in time too, I just finished our jet packs.” Kord told us as he handed me one.

We all strapped up and took off, quickly meeting up with Eli and Junjie as they fell.

“What are you guys doing here?” Eli asked.

“Lil could sense that something was wrong.” Kord explained.

“Besides, once Rover and our other fire slugs started going nuts we knew we had to come and help.” I said.

“Anyone know how we’re gunna get out of here?” Trixie asked and I searched for a possible exit.

Seeing a light I headed towards it without a word while the others followed me out and through a jungle looking cavern.

“They’re all Ghouled now!” I said as I looked at the blackened cavern in horror.

“We have to get the other three Elementals back.” Eli said.

“And how are we supposed to do that?” Pronto asked.

Eli and I exchanged glances before I shrugged sadly.

The Dark Bane and Blakk crashing in after us.

“Now you’re right where we want you.” Blakk said with an evil sneer.

I lolled my head back and glared at him before Squeeks hopped on my shoulder and chattered at me.

“I know.” I told her with a sigh.

“You can’t be givin’ up that easy, Lil.” Kord told me.

“What other choice do we have Kord? He’s got three out of five. We can’t possibly beat him now” I said.

“You’re wrong” Eli told me. “There has to be some way we can stop him. We have to stop him.” Eli said, fear tinging his voice.

“You should listen to the dead weight.” Blakk said from behind me and I quickly turned only to be knocked over again.

Blakk chuckled at me and took strong hold of my neck.

“Lil-!” Eli started but Blakk cut him off.

“Why they kept you after I told him to leave you in the first location, I’ll never know.” Blakk sneered.

“Let her go, Blakk!” I heard Eli say as everyone's blasters revved behind me.

I smirked and kicked up, planting a foot in Blakk’s face and flipping backward out of his grasp.

“I tell you one thing.” I said as I held my blaster up with one hand and massased my neck with the other. “You’re grip hasn’t faltered.”

“Give me the other two Elementals!” Blakk demanded. “You have no use for them!”

“We’re not giving you anything!” Junjie said “all you have cause the caverns is grief by doing this!”

“And I can tell you it was great fun.” Blakk sneered at us.

The next thing I knew, Eli had dragged me behind a rock and was looking me straight in the eyes.

“I need you two to fire Phosphoros!” Eli told me as he held Banger in his hand.

I nodded in understanding and fired Ritz. Not long after, Junjie fired his Phosphoro while Eli fired Banger.

Blakk and the Goon went off to search for the supposed Earth Elemental and I turned to the others again as we found Pronto, Trixie and Kord.

“Please tell me you still have the Earth Elemental.” Kord pleaded and, as if on cue, the little slug hopped up onto Eli’s shoulder.

Out of nowhere the Goon took Blakk down from the side.

“What are you doing?” Blakk demanded.

“We’ve done things your way for too long. It’s my turn now!” the Goon said.

“Lil, let’s go while we still have a chance!” Eli urged me and I was broken from my trance as I followed him.

“So what’s the plan?” I asked as I looked at everyone.

“We have to head him off. If we get a full on shot of him and all the ghouls then we should be able to cure them all!” Eli explained. “Pronto, you lead Blakk towards me. Trixie and Kord will hold the rest off here, Junjie, when Pronto gets halfway, you lead Blakk the other half to me and I’ll get him with Doc.” Eli said.

“And what do I do? Just sit there on the side lines?” I asked.

“I need you to stay somewhere safe with the Earth Elemental.” Eli told me as he looked me dead in the eye.

“If he gets this one, Lil, it’s all over.” Junjie explained to me.

My eyes searched his and I nodded quickly before I took off to find a hiding place somewhere.

I heard Pronto scream from out of nowhere and I couldn’t take being trapped in the dense bush I had found as a hiding place anymore.

I had to help.

I slowly and cautiously rose out of the bush but a quick swipe to my shoulder from behind me sent me flying back.

I hit the stem of a tree and looked up to find none other than Dr. Blakk.

“You made that so much easier than I had first planned out.” he told me and I gasped in horror as I saw the Earth Elemental in his hand, already ghouled.

Eli and the others are gunna kill me. I thought.

“Lily!” I heard Junjie call and my gaze when immediately to him.

“Junjie!” I said before my mind turned to the situation at hand. “He’s got the Earth Elemental, there was nothing I could do!” I said in a fury of words.

“Then that means Blakk doesn’t have all the Elementals.” Junjie said in a moment of realisation.

“We have to warn Eli!” Junjie said quickly.

I nodded and kicked from the Goon’s grasp, trying to slow him down again by shooting Ritz at him and blinding him so that Junjie and I could get a clean get-away.

“So, where was Eli situated at?” I asked as I followed Junjie.

“At the end of the Cavern, not far from here.” Junjie told me. “Should be there before long.”

I continued to follow Junjie until we found Eli and the Goon in a sprawl on the ground.

“How was it that you hacked the hologram of my father and found where the Air Elemental was?” Eli asked.

“You truly are foolish.” the Goon taunted. “I got it straight from the source” the Goon told us before he removed the helmet that covered his head, revealing to us none other than our father, Will Shane.

“No!” I hissed as I glared at him. “You told us that you would always protect this place and now you’ve gone to work for the Goon?! What kind of a sick, twisted mind do you have?!” I screeched as I took a foot forward but Junjie held me back.

“You’ve caused the caverns to suffer because of this. We’re not going to let you do it any longer!” I said as I held up my blaster with Lacey in the barrel.

“Bring it, Lacey!” I said as I shot her and she hit the Goon and the other slugs head on, healing them quickly.

“Dad?!” Eli asked and Junjie let go of my arm.

I stumbled forward a little as he did so but I soon regained myself as I ran to my father.

“Dad?!” I choked out but he only smiled at me.

“You two have grown so much.” he said and I smiled in relief.

“We still have one more slug to free.” Junjie said as I helped my father up.

“Can you walk?” Junjie then asked.

“With Lil and Eli on either side of me, I think I can make it until my legs get back to normal.” my father said as Eli took his place on one side.

“Aren’t you coming back with us?” Eli asked.

“I have to make sure that Blakk isn’t still here.” I said with so much authority that it scared even me.

“You can’t do it on your own.” my father protested. “Besides,” he started again. “I just got you back, if I was to lose even one of you-.” he said but his voice died off as he looked away.

I knew where he was going with the statement and I couldn’t blame him.

I quickly hugged him and Eli tight.

“I won’t be gone long. I promise.” I whispered.

I broke away and threw my father, Eli and Junjie a smile before I put a jump in my step and turned away.

I cautiously looked around the cavern for any signs that Blakk could be around still, looking for me.

“They’ve sent their weakest link all by herself to come after me?” I heard the Goon ask.

Must have taken over Blakk’s mind after we freed dad. I thought.

“I haven’t come here to fight you, or to join you.” I claimed as I searched the treeline for the poor guy.

There was a crack of a branch behind me up in the tree line but I paid no mind to it.

“If you haven’t come to join me then what are you doing here?” the Goon asked me.

“I want to make peace with you.” I said.

The Goon only laughed at me as he fired a slug from somewhere.

“That just proves that you’re a Shane. They always wanted to make peace with everyone. Unfortunately it never always worked.” the Goon informed me.

“And now, because of your foolish mistake, I get to watch another Shane’s down fall!” the Goon sneered at me before a Grimmstone knocked me over.

I rolled but quickly regained my stance.

“Maybe it’s because the Shane’s know what’s good for the caverns and what’s not.” I said as I tried to search for him again up in the tree line.

“It’s not going to work. Not with one Shane.” the Goon told me.

“It’s not like I was never good enough.” I started “My skills soon surpassed my brothers with a huge result.”

“So then why did you stay with him?” the Goon snarled at me.

“Because I knew how valuable my skills where in a team like that. That and I knew how heart broken both my brother and my father would be if they found out I had gone to work for the enemy when the Shane’s have protected this place with their lives.” I explained as I dodged another slug but the one after that knocked me onto my back again and sent me skidding into a tree.

A rock that flew up from my skidding back landed on my face and cut my cheek but I paid no mind to it.

“You know I’m right, Blakk. You just don’t want to admit it for yourself.” I said.

“Shane’s are never right!” the Goon hissed at me.

“Oh yeah? What about when there were too many slugs in one area at one time. I had said the Shadowclan would get mad. You brushed it off and what happened?” I said as I stood up.

“Shut up!” the Goon screeched at me as he shot another slug at me.

The close range between me and the tree caused me to recoil badly when I hit it.

“I’m not givin’ up, Blakk. It’s not what a Shane does... To anybody!” I said.

Blakk only turned away from me, not listening anymore.

Alright, time to move before he gets too far away from me. I thought as I stood up and limped back to the others.

“She’s been gone too long. I don’t like it.” I heard Eli say as I was behind a tree.

“You don’t think that Blakk-” Kord started but Eli cut him off.

“Don’t say that. My sister’s not weak!” Eli protested.

“Maybe it’s time to face facts, Eli. With how powerful Blakk is and the Goon looking for a new host, it could be possible.” I heard dad explain.

“I don’t care, I’m not giving up on Lily.” I heard Eli say.

“Ok, but we need another plan.” Trixie said.

“We have one. We’re going to try the same thing again.” Eli said.

“This time with three Shane’s” I said, waiting for a second before I limped out from behind the tree I was waiting behind.

“Lily?!” Eli asked.

“Who else would it be, ya knucklehead?” I said as I crossed my arms in front of me and smirked at him.

A look of relief crossed over Eli’s face as he ran the short distance to me and hugged me tightly.

“Right.” Kord said. “We’ve gotta go.”

“But what do I do now? I had the Earth Elemental before he got it and Ghouled it” I protested.

“You’ll come with dad and I. You’ve got Lacey, remember?” Eli told me.

Lacey chirped at me from my shoulder and I nodded at her.

“Alright, let’s go.” I said as I followed along side everyone, Eli sticking close to my side in case I fell.

I poked my head out from behind a tree but quickly pulled it back again.

“Three Shane’s? I thought I finished the deadweight” the Goon drawled.

“Stop calling her that!” my father demanded.

“Let him call me whatever he wants. It won’t matter anyway.” I said as I held up my blaster with Kaz, my Flaringo already in the barrel.

“You ready?” I asked him and he nodded at me in determination.

I looked passed the tree and over my shoulder again at the Goon.

This would be the one shot I had before I used Lacey. I had to make it count.

I flattened myself against the tree again before I looked at Eli for the nod forward.

He nodded and I nodded back in acknowledgement before I nodded to dad.

“Are you sure you’re alright?” Kord asked me through my earpiece.

“I’m ok” I told him.

“Switch off with someone if you’re not.” Trixie told me.

“I promise I’m fine” I said as I shifted my weight, obviously not fine as pain still shot through my leg.

“Wasting time, Lily!” dad told me as he passed me and I followed after him, not waiting to shoot Kaz and confuse the Goon before I quickly loaded Lacey and Eli and I both shot our Boondocs.

Having another quick plan, I loaded Hiro and shot him, creating a whirl wind in the ground underneath Blakk.

“We got ‘em now!” I called as I looked at Eli from the side and the Un-ghouled Elementals all went to Eli’s side.

“The only way to save the caverns is if we shoot all the Elementals at the same time.” dad explained.

I looked at Kord and he nodded as all but me were handed a slug.

Watching the slugs transform and save the caverns was jaw dropping!

Blakk only glared at me and aimed to shoot, leaving me in his line of shot.

I hardly even noticed though until I saw none other than my father knock him over and back into the hole from my side view.

“No!” Eli and I cried as he tried to help but Junjie stopped Eli and Trixie stopped me.

“There’s nothing you two can do now” Jujie told us.

I stopped struggling and Eli took me in a strong hug as I hid my face in my hands and hugged him just as tightly back.

We had the five Elementals, Now we just had to get dad back.

How were we going to do that? No clue.

#Slugterra

[meenasmoon]

Singing in the Moonlight Ch 2: Talking to the Moon

The next day Johnny rolled out of bed around eight and shuffled into his bathroom to get ready for the day. He sleepily stared himself down in the mirror as he lazily brushed his teeth. His eyes were kinda red and he was starting to get bags under his eyes but it wasn’t anything too noticeable. Once he had freshened up and was dressed in his signature jeans, t-shirt, and leather jacket he wandered down the stairs to the makeshift kitchen in the back of the shop. He opened the fridge and let out a loud groan. The bare shelves were scattered with old takeout and ROAR! energy drinks, neither of which sounded too appealing to him. At that moment his body chose to remind him that he was surviving on a grand total of 4 hours of sleep by forcing out a huge yawn. 

Johnny shrugged, grabbed an energy drink out of the fridge and opened it. He chugged half of the can as he walked over to where his old black truck was parked. He pulled up the garage door and then got in. With a turn of the key the great engine roared to life and the truck shook slightly with the force of the engine before Johnny shifted it into gear and drove it just outside the garage. The radio was already on at half volume as soon as he turned on the car and the DJ was babbling about some events going on in the music world. Johnny put his truck in park and let it idle as he jumped up and grabbed the handle on the garage door and pulled it down. When the heavy door hit the ground he pulled a padlock out from his jacket and quickly secured it so that no one could get into the garage while he was gone. Johnny pocketed the key and jogged back to the truck, checking his watch to make sure that he had enough time to get to the theatre. 

He got in just as a soft piano melody accompanied by guitar came through the speakers of his truck and a man began to sing:

“At night when the stars light up my room

I sit by myself…”

 Johnny blinked in surprise at how accurate the lyrics were to his experience last night, and he quickly turned up the volume until it consumed every inch of space in the cab of the truck. Dazedly he put the truck in drive and began driving to the theatre, his attention only half on the road and the other half on the lyrics that struck him like an arrow.

“Talking to the moon

Trying to get to you

In hopes you’re on the other side talking to me too

Or am I a fool, who sits alone, talking to the moon?”

 With that last word, the song moved to a piano break. Just before the singer came back Johnny’s arm shot out and pressed the button that shut off the radio. The colorful display went dark immediately but the ghost of the melody still danced around in his brain, taunting him. He rolled down all of the windows in order to banish it with the onslaught of the noises of the city. The honking and the hum of the other cars around him did nothing to banish that annoying little melody that made his heart hurt.

He pulled up to the theatre frustrated and drained. All he could think about was another night alone. As soon as he went home there would be no one there. And nightfall was inevitable. The garage was always waiting when he got back…empty and unchanged. Johnny chugged down the rest of the energy drink and jumped out of the truck. He locked the doors and trudged into the theatre, his head down and his hands shoved in his pockets. When Moon greeted him cheerily just like usual, Johnny mustered up a smile and made his way up the stairs to Moon’s office.

He shook his head in rueful amusement when he saw the mess of papers that were waiting for him on the desk. He pulled a stool over to the desk and began sorting through the absolute mess that lay before him.

It was around 10:30 when he finally stood up and walked out of the office. He couldn’t stare at those numbers for another second or he might lose it. He walked down the stairs to the practice rooms where the others were immersed in their rehearsals.

Ash was sitting on the floor of her practice room, writing furiously on a sheet of lyrics, trying to perfect her latest song. She looked so deep in her work that Johnny didn’t dare disturb her for fear of her wrath. She knew exactly how to use her quills to inflict pain when she wanted to. He had learned that from experience. He flinched away in reflex as he remembered the fury on her face and high tailed it towards where Rosita and Gunther were practicing their new dance. 

They looked flawless as always but knowing Rosita she would accept nothing except for protection, and Gunther was always game to dance around. Johnny gave them both a small wave when they saw him. Rosita’s gaze narrowed in on him and she took a step towards the door.

Sensing a motherly concern moment coming on Johnny jogged away towards the concessions stand where he found solace in the drink vending machine. He struggled with smoothing out his extremely crumpled dollar for a few minutes before he deemed it flat enough to be accepted by the overly finicky machine. He slid the dollar in through the slot and the machine accepted it for a second before spitting it back out again. Johnny groaned in disappointment and once again went about straightening his slightly crumpled dollar.

After about five more tries the machine finally took his money and he was faced with a harrowing choice. He could go with the water bottle that made his parched mouth water or he could choose from the assortment of ROAR! flavors that the machine carried. He began yawning uncontrollably and decided that being conscious for his lesson with Meena was more important than his thirst. Besides he could get a drink of water later. Satisfied that his reasoning was sound, he punched in the code for Screamin’ Strawberry ROAR!. He was just taking his first sip when someone cleared their throat behind him.

He spun around to find Rosita watching him with a disapproving frown on her face. She crossed her arms and tapped her foot as she stared him down. He stood frozen with the drink pressed to his lips, eyes wide and petrified. He had never seen a mom look quite this powerful before and to be honest he was terrified of the pig who was about a third of his size. 

“What do you think you’re doing young man?” she asked in a serious tone and Johnny, who was feeling a little bold in that moment, took a sip of the energy drink. He swore that he saw Rosita’s eyes light on fire her fury was so tangible. 

“Johnathan!” She yelled and held out her hand for the drink. Reluctantly, he handed it to her and mournfully watched as she stomped over to a trashcan and threw it away angrily.

“Aw Rosita tha’ cost me a dollar.” he mumbled but didn’t dare look her in the eye when she approached him.

“Well then you wasted your money Johnny. Those things are terrible for you!” she scolded him and he looked down at the ground in shame. She led him over to a nearby bench and sat him down next to her.

“What’s going on Johnny? You seem down today. And you look a little thin.” She started fussing with his shirt and he let her in an attempt to avoid answering the questions. She wasn’t fooled and instead pinned him with a piercing mom look. He sighed and caved a little bit while desperately searching his exhausted brain for a solution.

“It’s nuffin’ Rosita we just ain’t been uh, shoppin’ in a lil’ while.” he mumbled and checked his watch. It was only 11:00 but maybe he could go to the bakery a little early.

“Well why don’t I take you and your father shopping later? I can give you some great meal ideas.” she began gushing about her recipe ideas and Johnny immediately tensed up. He hadn’t had the courage to tell anyone that his father was the infamous gang leader Big Daddy. Johnny didn’t want or need their pity and he definitely didn’t want them to look at him differently because he was the son of a criminal. He wanted to be judged for his voice, not his father’s actions. He was his own gorilla.

“Oh tha’ sounds super fun Rosita but uh, I’m gonna tutor Meena tonight and I’m late. Gotta go!” Johnny said quickly as he leapt up from his seat and sped out the doors of his theatre to his truck. He got into his car just as Rosita burst out the doors of the theatre in hot pursuit. Before she could even take a step towards him he was speeding off down the street. He tried hard not to look back but he couldn’t help but glance back in his mirror. He only caught a glance of Rosita’s worried face as she stood in front of the theatre.

Johnny forced himself to turn his attention back to the road as he sped through the streets with no particular destination in mind. His mind ambled along just like his route and he found himself driving on autopilot. The radio began to play the song that had been stalking him once again and Johnny found himself too tired to change the song or turn of the radio.

He easily got sucked into the easy melody and the striking lyrics. Near the end of the song he even found himself singing along to the chorus. He let the song guide his hand and his mind automatically began directing him to an unknown destination. As the last notes of the song faded out and DJ came back on the radio, he came to a stop in front of a small shop.

The shop was obviously family-owned and an old wooden sign above the door was painted with swirling red and orange letters that spelled out ‘Sunrise Bakery’. Johnny got out of the truck and slowly walked up to the front of the shop. The windows were stuffed with a variety of tasty treats that made his poor empty stomach growl.

Johnny winced as his body chose that moment to realize that he hadn’t eaten in a day or so. His passive stomach had transformed into a growling, aching beast that was nearly impossible to ignore. It was even worse when he opened the door to the shop and was immediately assaulted by the sweet smell of fresh baked goods. The smell only made his stomach growl louder. He covered up his stomach as if that would conceal the noises that it was making but the elderly capybara at the counter let out a chuckle.

Johnny blushed and ducked his head in embarrassment when she called out to him in her shaky voice. “Come here young man. Let’s get you some goodies.” Johnny hurried over to the counter as the older woman disappeared into the back for a few minutes. He sat down on one of the cushy stools nearby the counter and took the time to look around the old-fashioned bakery. There were exquisite looking goodies everywhere he looked and he began to wonder where the old capybara had disappeared to. He heard hushed voices coming from the back where the kitchen was but since he couldn’t make them out he resumed his examination. In the display case in front if him was an assortment of muffins and cupcakes, all lined up perfectly and obviously decorated by hand. He was eying up a yellow cupcake with very light blue frosting when he caught movement out of the corner of his eye. He spun around to greet the old capybara woman but instead came face to face with Meena.

 As soon as she looked up from the tray that she was carrying her cheeks turned bright red and she pulled her ears in close to her face. “Johnny!” she squeaked out in surprise and subsequently lost her grip on the tray. She closed her eyes, not wanting to see her hard work hit the ground, and definitely not wanting to see Johnny’s reaction to her clumsiness. When she didn’t hear the clatter of the metal pan on the tile floor she peeked open one eye. Johnny had dove across the counter and caught the falling tray just in time. He smiled up at her and handed her back the tray with a sweet, lopsided grin on his face.

“Careful Meena, you’re carryin’ precious cargo.” He joked and she felt her tense muscles relax a little at his words.

“Th-thanks Johnny. I uh… you’re early.” she stumbled a little over her own tongue but Johnny didn’t seem to notice or care. He sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck and looked away at the cupcake case.

“Oh! Uh yeah… I just needed ter get away from the bloomin’ theatre. Rosita was bein’ a lil’… suffocatin’.” Meena immediately empathized with the gorilla. There had been many a time when Rosita’s mom instincts had come out a little too strongly when she was trying to encourage Meena to step out into the spotlight. Even after a year Meena was still painfully shy in any and all social interactions. She sang well enough on stage when she was able to lose herself in the performance and ignore the crowd but beforehand she still had to be coaxed a little. While everyone else handled their newfound fame quite gracefully, Meena avoided reporters like the plague and only gave interviews when they weren’t live.

“Believe me I understand.” she grumbled as she set the tray down on the counter and began putting away the red velvet cupcakes that adorned it. Johnny’s laugh broke her from her reverie and she blinked as the wonderful sound filled the shop.

“I betcha do.” He chuckled and Meena’s chest was suddenly filled with a weird fluttering feeling. She realized that she was staring at Johnny and quickly resumed her task of restocking the cupcake case.

“So uh wot is good ‘ere? I’m kinda starved.” his stomach growled loudly and Meena let out a little giggle when he turned red and covered his stomach with his hands.

“Sounds like it.” she grabbed a small plate from the rack behind her and placed one of the yellow and blue cupcakes that he had been eying earlier on it. “I uh, made these an hour ago. They’re my favorite.” She put the plate down in front of him and bit her lip nervously as he excitedly inspected the cupcake before picking it up and taking a huge bite out of it.

Johnny immediately groaned in appreciation and Meena’s nervous look turned into an overjoyed smile. Johnny looked up at her in amazement and Meena flushed once more but this time her ears stayed open and away from her face. She was flattered.

“This is amazin’! Ya made this?” he asked incredulously and Meena nodded her confirmation.

“I didn’t kna that ya could bake.” he gushed and took another bite of cupcake. This time a small bit of blue frosting smeared across the top of his lip and Meena couldn’t help but laugh at how cute he looked. She handed the sheepish gorilla a napkin and leaned against the counter so that she was closer to him.

“My mom taught me when I was a little girl and I’ve been baking away ever since.” she absentmindedly wiped at an imaginary spot of the counter with a washcloth. She didn’t want to look like she wasn’t working but she didn’t want to stop talking with Johnny. It was easy to talk to Johnny. She liked talking to him because he made her feel safe. She could do just about anything and he would be there with a smile just for her.

“Tha’s awesome. I’ve never made anythin’ loike this before. Well, besides microwaved meals and cereal.” They both laughed and Johnny leaned in too so that the two of them were face to face. “Wots the flavor this cupcake anyway?”

“Oh! That’s our lemon blueberry cupcake with lemon cream cheese frosting.” she watched as he gobbled the rest of the cupcake down eagerly.

“Fantastic!” he praised it once again and then they launched into a conversation about her cooking history, favorite recipes, etc. Before they knew it time had passed and the clock on the wall struck eleven with a loud ringing noise that startled both of them. Meena jerked back and collided with the counter with Johnny jumped clear out of his seat and slipped off of the stool. When Meena recovered from the shock of the noise she disappeared into the back to find her boss to make sure that she was all set to leave.

As soon as Mrs. Peterson saw her she swatted her away from the dishes and gently pushed her back towards the doorway. “You’re all set to go Meena dear. Now you go and have fun with that handsome young man of yours.” she said with a wink and Meena’s entire face turned bright red. She sputtered out an indiscernible reply and made a hasty retreat out of the kitchen. The old capybara just shook her head with a chuckle and resumed the dishes.

When Meena came back to where she had left Johnny he was dusting himself off from his fall. Mean felt her face burn even hotter as she remembered her boss’s words as the echoed through her mind, taunting her and making her blush uncontrollably. 

Johnny looked up from his clothes when he heard Meena come back in. She took off the white apron that she was wearing, hung it up on a hook, and then grabbed her bag before coming around from behind the counter and joining him in the store. For the first time, Johnny realized that for the first time, besides performances, he was seeing Meena in something other than her jeans and old blue sweatshirt. She was wearing khaki pants and an orange, yellow and red tie-dyed t-shirt. She looked cute.

Johnny held the door open for her as they left the bakery and then made sure to open the truck door for her like the gentleman that he was. She blushed when he did so and timidly sat down in the spacious cab of the truck. Johnny then rushed around to his side and hopped into his truck. He started up the vehicle and pulled away from the curb. Meena occasionally gave him directions until they had left the city center behind and were driving through the surrounding suburbs. 

When they finally arrived, Johnny parked in front of the small yellow house and hurried out of the truck so that he could hold Meena’s door for her again. As the two walked up to the house he stared at it in awe. It wasn’t much but it was like nothing he had ever had before. Ever since he could remember he had been living in a cramped apartment above the garage. Meena pulled out a small key chain and unlocked the front door. When he walked in after her, Johnny decided that he like the inside of the house even more. There were family photos everywhere he looked and everything was gently worn and well loved. The house even smelled like a home should. There was a wonderful smell coming from the kitchen that made Johnny’s mouth water. Meena went into the kitchen to say hello to her family and Johnny stayed behind to look at the photos of his friend and her family. There were so many but Johnny savored each one. There were tons of Meena at every stage of her life. Infancy, adolescence, her graduation from high school, and finally the opening day picture of them all in front of the Moon Theatre.

Johnny closely examined each photo and when he looked at all of them he turned around to find Meena. He jumped and let out a loud yell when he found himself face to face with an older male elephant. He was glaring coldly at Johnny and seemed to be looking him over from behind his glasses.

“Who are you boy?” the old man asked gruffly and Johnny stood at attention, ramrod straight with wide eyes.

“Mah name is Johnny sir.” he said nervously and gulped desperately, his throat suddenly dry in the face of that intimidating glare.

“Hmmm.” The elephant suddenly leaned in close enough that Johnny could feel his steely gaze drilling holes straight through him.

“So you want to date my Meena huh?” he asked and Johnny choked on his words for a second before he began to protest.

“No! Uh I mean it ain’t loike that. I’m just uh, teachin’ her piano.” he felt a bead of sweat roll down his forehead and for a second he glanced back at the front door and he considered making a speedy escape before he was mauled by his friend’s grandfather.

“Grandpa!” Meena’s admonishing shout saved him from having to make that decision as she reentered the room with her mother close behind.

“Oh leave the poor boy alone.” Meena’s grandmother glared at her husband. Meena’s grandfather just huffed and hobbled out of the room towards the living room where the TV was waiting for him. Johnny let out a sigh of relief and his body relaxed for a second before he was swept into a tight hug.

Meena’s grandmother gave him a squeeze that nearly cut off his air supply but just when he felt like he was going to suffocate she released him and clapped excitedly.

“Oh honey I’m so happy to meet you! Meena’s always talking about you and her other little friends down at the theatre.” she winked at him and Johnny smiled nervously.

“Grandma.” Meena gritted out, obviously embarrassed, but her grandmother waved her off with a laugh and started backing up towards the kitchen.

“I’ll let you two crazy kids get to it.” with that she disappeared and Meena took Johnny’s arm and all but dragged the startled gorilla to her room. She shut the door and rested her forehead against it for a few seconds in shame. Meena sucked in a breath and bravely turned around to face whatever Johnny had to say about her crazy family, but to her surprise he was admiring her record collection as if nothing weird had happened at all.

“Um… the piano is right here.” she got his attention and gestured to the old piano that was up against the wall in her room. Johnny sat down on one end of the bench and patted the space next to him for her. Meena nervously sat next to him as he launched straight into the lesson.

“Let’s get started shall we? The first fin’ that I’m gonna go over ‘re basic scales and notes.” Meena watched avidly as his long fingers danced over the keys and the piano immediately responded with the corresponding notes. He did it quickly a couple times so that she could get the hang of how it was supposed to sound before he broke it down individually and taught her each part. After about 45 minutes Meena seemed confident enough to go about the scales on her own so Johnny got up from the bench and sat on her bed so that she could do the scales all by herself. He relaxed against her pillows as he listened to her timid scales. With each round she got more and more confident and Johnny found himself doing slightly against her pillows. He adjusted to get more comfortable and desperately tried to keep his eyes open but he was fighting a losing battle. He was so warm and comfortable and his surroundings were a salve to his lonely soul. Everything in Meena’s house was so full of warmth and life and for the first time in a long time he felt safe enough to let his guard down.

His last sight before his eyes closed and he was sucked into the darkness was Meena’s form as she sat at the piano, determinedly playing the piano. He could just make out her face from the side, her concentrated look, and the sparkle in her blue eyes.

And then suddenly he was falling, falling, falling.

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[honorthymunn]

Enough is Enough...when I have  no sensitivity and rarely around me...

Enough is fucking enough when I have to try to remove my own sutures, when I have to stop and breathe almost passing out just to get up the hill to the hospital which has no bus route.

When Doctors upon Doctors need an emergency contact and a support person and I just leave it blank...looking down as I whisper there is no one.

When I cannot even know the littlest yet to me most precious bits and pieces of Chloe as my oldest always states “Not Right Now Mom”...the right now never comes & my soul survives for the thought of her.

Elle, I am at her mercy for she has the info that could save me...My No Matter What promise to Chloe has loosened that noose on the tree when even hanging failed me.

I feel forsaken expected to laugh through the losses, walk hills faster with cancer, not worry, be scared, complain, reach out...anything cuz it interrupts her happiness. 

So as Ive mastered suffocating in silence, in there again...at the mercy of the key-holder to what little left can ease the lack of breath shall it be a time she uses that key when nothing is going on in life if she has a minute.

The silent rage, sufferings, sacrifices and even simple needs will be here suffocating within me as a slowly fade. 

My mother tortured me for almost a lifetime and still I honored her.  My name was on her doctors list, I made time for her appointments, took care of her, bathing her, even the sacred act of tending her feet. 

Although broken...her fears were eased as I digested her regrets and anger with little acknowledge until days before the end.Then I rendered my greatest gift ensuring she was not to die alone.

I took my own soul breathing it into her for what seemed like hours.  Not even a thought crossed me as i am on ground zero with EMT courageous n selflessly giving her all the beautiful heartfelt words of worthiness so she got to feel that love, that honor...instilling her worth.

I divinely carried her soul through the realms of her passing.  All this...to give her everything she refused me...her soul set a free.

Me accepting silent suffocation with little to no chance of ever relief...

All the while being assaulted on a soul level by an ungrateful younger brother who’s memory obviously vacated; attacking the one soul who threw herself in front of gunfire, violence, trauma

...even putting myself between him & one of Daddy’s Druggies who was like a beast sliding a knife up my 3yr old brothers neck just glaring as if I would scare and run.

Instead I boldly came face to face with Wild Bill his knife blade set to shred my baby brother’s head as he so innocently lied asleep.

That mutherfucker said “Someone’s head is being cut off here & now...Who’s It Gonna Be?” i swear the devil leaped out of his eyes testing my honor, my will and my love for my dear brother. 

Swift as a wolf I raised my head up to him as I pushed my neck up high silently declaring...Then take me. Raising his Rambo style knife to my throat I never shifted my gaze...letting that bitch know you’ll have to behead me taking my life while you look into my fearless eyes.

Suddenly as if a ghost appeared his eyes where scared and he startled pulling back that blade before he jumped out Lil Frankie’s bedroom window onto the back storage & off into the night.

Hearing my mother screaming down the stairs rocking back n forth with ambulatory aid. I confronted her in disgust stating “What are you so freaked out & scared?  Mom...”He pulled a gun on me”...again her needs

... so trying to inform her; he not only put a gun to my head in the hallway that night ...he almost killed my brother Frankie yielding a knife against his throat which was about the size of his 3yr old head...was as futile as expecting her to be a mom.  

Springwood would force me to be fearless, protecting my Lil brother’s sheltering their pain by always throwing myself into danger to be the shield. 

My dad was always huddled in some corner all scary like with a spoon that I guess held his drugs, lighting it over a glass of water.  I was so scared & frantic that by chance if I didn’t watch over my brothers. my dad’s drug uses, and missed a cup of that water it could kill one of my brothers. 

Well over a year I got up at 5am going through everything rinsing out all glasses of water also hiding residue. Fearing my Lil bros, unaware of the danger could expose themselves to it or worse drink one of Dad’s drug glasses of water. 

No one knew of this besides my therapist, until confronting my mom prior her passing and now...in this random therapeutic rant.

One morning i awoke just a few minutes later than usual...knowing my bros were up early too I ran down the stairs into the kitchen.

Hence my worst fear...my cute Lil bro Marvin wearing my purple polo shit, with his cute cheeks, freckles and red poofy hair...was already in the kitchen taking an almost full drink from one of dad’s cups...

I panicked and instantly reacted by slapping him in the face with my right hand so hard the blow forced the water to spurt out his mouth.  I barely saved him, ashamed I didn’t get to that glass...this moment created a trauma so deep it haunts me even now. 

It was Not ..doing whatever I could to care & protect my bros not caring of my expense, as I’m the big sister if I didn’t take this job on they’d be scared, unable to protect themselves from the violence and trauma I so vigilantly & desperately tried to shield them from.

It was the look on Lil Marvin’s face...in sheer shock...traumatized by his big sister...and why she slapped him so suddenly when he did nothing wrong...that look  of despair  left me broken silently screaming what the fuck is wrong with my parents?”

...I couldn’t explain to Marvin or Frankie why I did that, They were too young to understand plus keeping them from seeing/knowing all the bad things going on was my job. 

Trauma allows little memory of my plight, never telling them I often wondered if they thought I was a bad big sister...My Mom’s death last Dec. 2016 swiftly assaults me with that answer.

My whole childhood seemed in vain; as Frank verbally shattered the few patched up pieces of my existence. Especially him, I was devoted...

my parents left my brothers with this weird couple to watch them a few hours - lack of care - me not there - lead to a huge physical trauma to my Frankie.

One full leg was shattered, his pelvis broken and the upper other leg broken as well.  He was in a near full body-cast for almost a year, only 4, mom & dad couldn’t keep him safe...so big sissy was determined to keep him cared for. 

We lived in the projects and since mom barely made meals and we had little food most times. I would take Lil bros over to the rec center for free lunch every day. 

There was this tight left/right/then left fenced entrance...no other way could we get in.  So bis Sissy proudly smiled as she patiently and strongly carried her Frankie, in full body-cast which also had a bar connecting the legs to keep the core in place

...all the way from their apartment which was very far (in kid glasses) to that rec center for his daily lunch.  Sometimes they’d run out and I gave up mine so my Lil bros would feel good & strong. 

Relentlessly, for months, every day 1x or more severely struggled successfully getting Lil frank through that damn gate. He’d be hot(it was summer) in that cast and frustrated so I’d tell him don't worry little brother were gonna get through this gate and every time the struggle was worth it.

The trauma not only physically stunted him as he would have to re-learn everything, yet psychologically as well...he couldn’t talk saying words trying to get his point across.  Sissy put on her teacher hat and sure a shit Frankie was talking again. 

I also saw him as my savior...due to many violent scary experiences all occurring at night where I put on my Momma Bear hat giving myself in hopes I could spare them of the suffering and pain.

I was terrified of darkness w/out light. Laying in my bed paralyzed, too afraid to move as I could not see my surroundings...

I would cry “Frankie...Frankie...Frankie”; and that adorable red headed stunner at 2/3/4 yrs of age...would run into my room turn on my light...so I felt safe.  We would fall asleep laughing and telling stories.

I prayed every night silently making my plea to God, that if he could put any pain or struggles my Lil bros may face on me to weather.  I also prayed that if I have kids please please please help me save them from ever experiencing my type of sufferings.

I, being a child naively tried to make a pact with God.  I would take all this pain, all this suffering, all the severe scary abuse and be brave always in exchange for giving my Lil bros a fighting chance at life.

I insisted he gave me any experience that would scare or hurt my Lil bros,  as my scars to bear. Always reminding God my future family will be everything our family was not and my kids would never be abused in ways that I did.

Thinking back my thought process could only be unconditional love & hope for my Lil bros to not see what I saw, felt what I felt, experience what I experienced as I was already damaged goods but the boys...we can save the boys...right God?

Later in life i struggled with God...as Marvin was into gangs and angry at the world...then Frankie was just used as another player in this world’s sick selfish games

...everyone & everything to this day is shadowed by Frankie’s acts, being still a child 11/12, was acting out his abuse.  I didn’t blink and protected Frankie from the backlash, injustices and judgements these acts would bring. 

Even risking my own children defending his honor... This was important to me as I saw things bad scary things mom n dad even with friends used to make him do.

These struggles my brothers endured in my eyes were supposed to be on my shoulders, and as Big Sissy I personally blamed myself for their sufferings...believing i failed somewhere along the line

...and God had failed on 1 of only 2 prayers I prayed for nightly since I could remember...I hated him...Crossing his name out of every spiritual book I would buy...eventually learning many paths all led me back to Him.

For years I have suffered immensely feeling my failings to take better care of him earlier in life was why...now...in my greatest tragedy...i’m nothing but a piece of trash left on some dark lonely road in Ocosta.

..My son Sage, losing everything for an imminent noble plight, my breakdown suffocating silently as no hand reached my way.  I was in this alone and with every missing of the mark; Frank would judge me, looking down at me, denying such; yet he either was blind to his own behaviors or this infliction of shame upon me is intentional.

The moral to the story, better stated stories’... on most levels is still up in the air.

My mom’s death... compounded with Frank’s, almost demonic in nature, verbal and non verbal abuse is long-suffering.  Perhaps the Devil has been sneaking upon him years now...

Instantaneously when mom died, so did any goodness in Frank.  Possessed, creating chaos on sacred ground, refusing Moms children, grandchildren, family and friends any sort of closure...In respect for impending legal actions I won’t prevail any further details...

In a short time span; I lost my only real longtime girlfriend and coworker to a tragic death, soon after my Kelly who glitters died in her sleep...then my mom died - devastatingly so did my brother frank...

Another child taken (via brotherly love)  ~ My Sissy...my heart just cries out for her daily...constantly looking, searching, praying God will at least... bring My Sissy back.

My soul decided any hope of some family besides personally was dead. My safe place gone...

I always felt content knowing that If; Life May Again Rip Me 2 Shreds...I had Momma’s Compound, with the Satanic Scary Ritual Grounds & old creepy mossy forests

In Frank’s eyes; its a garbage dump hoarders compound...and by golly...against all consciousness, Mom’s rights, her will, the beneficiaries, that property, and all her items would be pillaged, dishonored, and by legal standards;  straight up fuckin irrevocably damaged

#TheraputicRant #ArtbyNishkama #Disgust #Dishonor #heartache #MyLilBroz #traumatic childhood #NeverBetraySheKnows