Jenna: *appears* What... who, when, where, why, how?!

Kyarorain: Felix!

Felix: *also appears* You're not going to glomp me, are you?

Kyarorain: Garet!

Garet: Huh?

Kyarorain: Ivan!

Ivan: Why me... why me?!

Kyarorain: Sheba!

Sheba: I almost feel scared. Is that normal?

Kyarorain: Listen up, Adepts!

Felix: Why?

Jenna: Do we get paid?

Kyarorain: No... I want the five of you to bash this badfic to whence it came, okay? Don't worry, you'll get the hang of it. Now, I'm off! ^_^ See you when its all over! And no, you can't have any toilet breaks or anything! *disappears in a flash of bright light*

Garet: How did she do that?

Sheba: Scary Author Powers. Enough said.

Jenna: Get back here, Caz, you still haven't answered... oh, what's the use?!

*BUZZER*

Felix: Um...

Mysterious Voice: Take your seats!

Ivan: Uh... okay...

[Everybody sits down, looking utterly clueless as they turn their gazes to the projector]

5...

Sheba: Does anybody have a spare Teleport Lapis?

4...

Felix: I wonder if Retreat would work...

3...

Jenna: I'm actually kind of anticipating badfic bashing...

2...

Ivan: Will our sanity still be intact?

1...

Garet: What happens when the countdown reaches zero?

0
 
 

THE RISING

Jenna: That's what happens, Garet.

Ivan: The rising of what?

Felix: Bread! ^o^

        Thirteen-year-old Marie awoke to the sunlight streaming into her window.

Felix: Beware, a cliché beginning to the day.

Jenna: It's always like that! Why can't they wake up to a parade of marching blue mice for once?

Garet: Um... is it because there aren't any blue mice?

“Ooog...” she mumbled, and pulled the sheets over her head.

Sheba: She was going to a halloween party that day. As a ghost.

Jenna: And she scared everybody by saying "Ooog..."

“Marie! Time to get up!” called her mother’s voice through the door.

Ivan: Wow! Marie's mother's voice can go through the door when its called!

Jenna: But why was it her voice who called for Marie, not her mother?

“The Adepts are holding a meeting, remember?”

Sheba: We are?

Felix: Yes, the "Halloween Party Committee" and we need to find someone to make the bread for us...

“Oh! That’s right!” Marie shot up in bed,

Jenna: She was in bed?

Garet: That's funny, I could have sworn she was on a lilo in the swimming pool.

and was dressed in her clothes in about ten seconds flat.

Ivan: Well, what else could she get dressed in? Aluminium?

She flung open her door,

Garet: And it went sailing off the hinges and scattered an army of blue mice who came for her with French bread?

and her mother led her outside

Sheba: The poor baby... she can't even find her way outside?

Ivan: I don't know about her, but I could find my way outside when I was just a toddler.

to where the meeting was about to begin.

Felix: (as chairman of meeting) The meeting is about to begin... next millennium.

Ivan: (carrying on) If you have forgotten the ingredients for bread, prepare to be assimilated.

The Adepts, of course, in case the reader does not know, are human—very much so, in fact.

Sheba: Oh wow! Get this! We're human!

Jenna: You're kidding? I never realised!

Garet: That's funny. I always thought I was a hedgehog or something. Just look at the hair!

Ivan: Well, since we do walk on two legs and have the properties of humans, we are either human or apes in disguise.

Felix: But since we can't swing from tree to tree, it's safe to say we're human.

Sheba: I feel like all life's questions have been answered, just knowing we're human!

Jenna: That has got to be one of the most incredible revelations of the year...

Ivan: Okay, guys, joke's wearing thin, keep going...

But anyhow, their names were Felix,

Felix: It is?!

Jenna,

Jenna: Jenna? Who's Jenna? Garet, who's Jenna?

Garet: o.o;;; [scoots away]

Sheba,

Sheba: Yatta! The author knows my name! I feel so loved!

Piers,

Ivan: If only the author was calling him Picard.

Jenna: Wanted to make a Star Trek joke?

Ivan: Yeah...

Isaac,

Garet: I'm impressed. They spelt Isaac right. Many people can't even do that!

Mia,

Sheba: Mia...? Um... isn't that the girl with the purple hair?

Felix: No. That's Feizhi.

Sheba: The woman with the purple hair?

Ivan: No, that's Hama, my sister.

Sheba: The woman with the purple hair?

Garet: No, that's Lady McCoy.

Garet

Garet: Why are they telling me my name? I'm not that stupid!

Jenna: Garet, what's 4383627282.3221 timed by 356272822199.345?

Garet: Argh! Evil Maths! @_@ I'm doomed!

and Ivan.

Ivan: Why does my name come last? The author hates me! ToT

Felix: Well, someone had to come last.

Sheba: At least Kraden's not there.

Garet: Neither is the bread!

Jenna: Oh, the horror... they could have at least added 'And of course, The Great Bread, Lord of Weyard, Ruler of the world' or something.
 

Felix’s group (Jenna,

Jenna: I'm his groupie? I thought I was his sister... [looks confused]

Sheba: Group, Jenna.

Jenna: Oh!

Sheba,

Sheba: We're only a group? I feel sad...

Piers,

Ivan: I think we already know who Felix's group is... what is the point of this?

and himself)

Felix: I was not aware there was anybody named Himself in the group.

Jenna: Right, it was the two of us, Piers, Sheba, Kraden...

Garet: Maybe Himself is Kraden's new name.

Sheba: Or Himself is the bread loving teddybear living in one of Felix's many pockets.

Ivan: (as Himself) See?! I'm all important! I got mentioned! Now GIVE ME BREAD!

started the meeting.

Sheba: Dun-dun-dun!

Garet: And the first thing they said is...

Jenna: Dude............................ WHERE'S MY $%#@£#% BREAD?!

Felix: Jenna... did you hit the coffee? o.o;

Jenna: It's a secret! ^_^

“Hello everyone,” he began.

Ivan: Who's "He?"

Sheba: The extra member of Felix's group who just didn't get mentioned.

Jenna: The mutilated toy kitty who lives in another one of Felix's pockets and hates Himself intensely.

Garet: (as He) The bread is mine, FOOL!
 

“Thank you for coming to this very important meeting.

Jenna: Ooooh, it's very important!

Ivan: Of course it is, everybody needs that bread!

My friends and fellow adepts have just recently discovered that there are Elemental Fountains

Sheba: Oh yay...

Felix: I was expecting a Luna Sanctum or Neptune Lighthouse or something...

Jenna: So Elemental Fountains are basically rip-offs of the Elemental Lighthouses? Fine.

out there that we, as Adepts, have failed to ligt.”

Garet: Oh no, we failed to 'ligt' something?!

Ivan: Well, the manual never told us how to ligt!

Felix: Neither did the dictionary...

Jenna: So lets blame the bread!

This is where Jenna took over.

Jenna: ... the WORLD! MWAHAHAHAHAH! FEAR ME, FOOLISH MORTALS!

Ivan: Nooooo! Not the world!

Jenna: I am Supreme Ruler and Empress Jenna, High and Mighty and Most Revered Ruler of Weyard!

Garet: (as He) Fool! You are powerless against bread's might!

Felix: (as Himself) The bread is mine!

“And also, we were wondering if any of you teenagers or kids out there can see something like...this,”

Jenna: (dramatically pointing up) ... This being... THE SKY!

Felix: They can't... they all got blinded when the bread exploded in their faces.

Ivan: The Great Bread didn't appreciate being poked and prodded and ogled.

Sheba: Rumour has it that He and Himself somehow escaped Felix's pockets and planted some mysterious device inside the yeast.

said Jenna, as she cast Lash.

Sheba: And whipped the kids!

Jenna: They deserved it for being so cruel to the bread!
 
 

“If you can, please stand up.”

Felix: Obviously they were all able to stand up, if they were able to get to the meeting in the first place.

Ivan: What about wheelchair bound people?

Jenna: Uh, we haven't invented wheelchairs yet... paralysed people just lie in bed all day...

Sheba: So, they must all be able to stand up, unless the paralysed were carried there...

Marie stood, along with her best friend Kimi.

Felix: Doesn't Kimi mean "You" in Japanese?

Garet: It's actually He and Himself's mortal enemy, You, in disguise!

Jenna: You is a stuffed dog who used to live in one of Felix's pockets but hated He and Himself so much he ran away...

Marie’s boyfriend, Artemis, stood also.

Ivan: Artemis used to be a woman until the sex-change operation. Unfortunately, she was unable to change her name.
 

The Adepts looked somewhat disappointed.

Jenna: I'd be pretty disappointed if only three people had the ability to stand.

Ivan: Makes you wonder what happened to the other kids... did they just get paralysed while sitting down?

“Really? That’s ALL?” asked Sheba.

Everyone: Yes!

A boy named Li stood. He looked a little embarrassed, although Marie could not imagine why.

Ivan: Oh, make that four people who can stand.

Felix: He's probably embarassed because the bread he was carrying in his pocket sort of exploded and now it looks like he wet himself.

Garet: He only came to the meeting in hope of finding out why the yeast exploded.

“Oh, good! Good! This is perfect!” Mia enthused.

Sheba: I'm worried now...

Jenna: It sounds like Mia paralysed them... and now that only four are able to stand up, she's happy.

Ivan: And of course, four is a lot more than three, so of course she thinks it's perfect!

“Could you four please come up here?”

Felix: And be gunked in everlasting bread sauce!
 

The four of them carefully picked their way through the crowds to reach the front where the eight Adepts were standing.

Garet: Wow, there's eight of us?

Ivan: And I thought there were... OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAND!

“I have a question,” said Kimi.

Sheba: Me too. Why do we have to suffer like this?

Jenna: (as Kimi) Why does my name mean You?

Sheba: So that people can laugh at your misfortune!

“Ask away,” said Ivan.

Ivan: Actually... don't bother...

“Well—see, I was just wondering—how many Elemental Fountains are there?”

Felix: OVER NINE- ... oh, never mind.

Jenna: Too many! You will never 'ligt' them all!

“Five! Five of them!” said Garet overenthusiastically.

Garet: Um... I'm being overenthusiastic... how exactly?

Jenna: I don't know... it's not like you tend to yell "Five! Five of them!" every time you get excited...

“Garet! Calm down!” scolded Mia.

Garet: But I am calm! This is not being calm! I've had enough of this!!! [tries to fry projector with a pyroclasm but it swerves and hits a potted plant instead] Oops.

Felix: Garet!

Jenna: -_-;;; Garet... we're all trying to stay calm here... think of toast or something.

Suddenly Marie’s face brightened.

Ivan: And she immediately regretted the time that she drank that glowing drink...
 

“You mean...the five of us...have the power of...the Outer Lighthouses?”

Sheba: Five?! I thought there were four?!

Felix: The fifth must be the invisible friend who didn't get named, the evil stuffed horse, Me.

Ivan: Who is actually best friends with You... used to live in one of Felix's pockets but ran away with You...

Felix: Maybe I should check my pockets more often... [reaches into one and pulls out a pigeon] Uh... [pigeon flies away] Okay...
 

“YES! EXACTLY!” said Isaac, pumping his fist in the air.

Ivan: NOW who's overenthusiastic?

Garet: So how come Mia scolded me, but didn't scold Isaac?!

Jenna: Because she has it in for you, and so does the author!

“Erm...” said Artemis, looking at Jenna as if to say, “Is your husband nutty in the head, or is it just me?”

Jenna: Husband? I don't have a husband... is he hiding in one of Felix's pockets or something?

Garet: He wouldn't be in Felix's pocket, he would be in Felix's torture chamber...

Jenna: Oh... o.o;;;

Felix: Hey! I don't have a torture chamber... yet.

Jenna just smiled.

Sheba: Forcefully...

Ivan: She was actually trying very hard not to snap and burn the kids to cinders...

“Now, we all need to see exactly which power you all have.”

Ivan: That sounds kind of perverted to me...

Sheba: Ivan! [throws a cushion at him]

“But—” Marie broke in. “What are the powers?”

Jenna: The power to... MAKE BREAD!

Felix: Tapdance on a table!

Ivan: Send people to sleep, and I don't mean Sleep Psynergy!

Sheba: Teaching people to stand!

“A good question, and definitely one worth answering,” said Ivan.

Garet: Definitely, since we've never heard of these Elemental Fountains despite having travelled over EVERY corner of Weyard!

Jenna: They must be down Gaia Falls or something.

“The powers of the Elemental Fountains have been written down on a handy little chart so you all can see them easier, just in case you don’t know.” He pulled out a chart, which looked something like this.

Ivan: Cue useless diagram...

        ELEMENT POWER
        VENUS..............EARTH
        MARS...................FIRE
        JUPITER..............WIND
        MERCURY.........WATER

Everyone: Gaaaaasp!

Jenna: I never realised all that!

Ivan: Yeah, I always thought Mars Adepts harnessed the power of water...

        “I don’t know which one I want to be...” murmured Marie after looking at the sheet for a good deal of time.

Felix: You can't CHOOSE...

Garet: At least she isn't going to say something stupid like "I want to be a Luna Adept!"

“Well, you’re about to find out! We Adepts are going to test the reactions between these pendants—” Felix held up 4 pendants—“against you.”

Felix: Yay! I get to use magical pendants against them! Now shall I zap them, freeze them with icy blasts, scorch them with raging fire or drown them in torrential water?

Sheba: Magical pendants... so cliché.

Jenna: Yeah! Why can't it be a magical vase for once?

“So you mean, whichever one of the pendants reacts to us decides our power?” said Artemis.

Garet: No shit, Sherlock...

“Exactly!” said Piers.

Jenna: O RLY?

Sheba: YA RLY!

Jenna: NO WAI!

“And we’ll start...with miss Marie Korari.”

Felix: Grammatical error. Miss should begin with a capital.

Jenna: Or they miss her already.

Ivan: Already? But she's not even gone yet!

“M-me?” asked Marie.

Garet: Nooooo, the evil mouse that's sitting in your hair.
 

“If your name is Marie, then yes, you are starting,” answered the Lemurian gently.

Ivan: Her real name is actually Mary. Her middle name is Sue.

Sheba: And her last name is Bluebelldaisyamberlocks.

“Here, move your hand over the five pendants on the table, and whichever one starts to glow in reaction to your presence will be the confirmation of your power.”

Jenna: They won't zap the kids to another dimension down Gaia Falls?

Felix: No, as that spoils the precious story...

“Oh, and by the way,” Jenna added, “Whichever of you gets the power of the Earth, or Venus, will be the leader of the group.”

Ivan: So Jenna's into the Venus Adepts should lead thing?

Jenna: The author probably just has the idea fixated in her heads that Venus Adepts are automatically leaders...

“Here goes nothing...” said Marie,

Sheba: That's technically an impossibility-

Ivan: Sheba, please don't start on a lengthy explanation...

Sheba: Fine.

and stepped up to the table, where the four pendants were laid flat.

Jenna: It was just too much for the pendants when Garet accidentally sat on them...

Garet: Hey!

She started at the right, and drew her hand across to the left. The gold Earth pendant started to glow. I’m the leader of our group! She thought.

Sheba: Why yes, of course! It's law that the character the story begins with has to be the most important!

Ivan: They wouldn't have started with He or Himself or anything since He and Himself have little relevance to the story...

She picked it up and slipped it around her neck.

Jenna: And it was enchanted and choked her to death? =D No? Aw...

The pendant ceased its glowing suddenly.

Felix: Dun... dun... DUN!

She looked, confused, at the elder Adepts. “Was that supposed to happen?” she asked.

“Yes,” said Sheba.

Sheba: It's a sign that the pendant dislikes you!
 

“The pendant’s power senses that it has been paired with its rightful owner, so it discontinued its glowing.”
 

Ivan: Who saw that coming?

“Oh, I understand,” Said Marie as she retreated back to her group of five. By the time they had all tested their powers, the chart looked something like this:

Jenna: said, not Said -_-;
 

        NAME ELEMENT
        MARIE KORARI EARTH
        KIMI MALINA FIRE
        ARTEMIS WINGBEAT WIND
        LI AQUAMARI WATER
 

Garet: Oh look! A hitlist!

        Artemis looked at Marie, who still looked a little shocked—she was still absorbing the fact that she was the leader of the group, he realized. Sheba slipped up behind Marie and used Mind Read. Huh? thought Marie, startled. She sensed something... a human presence in her mind...

Jenna: Sheba's sneakiness strikes again...

You can sense me! That’s good,

Sheba: (as Sheba in story) Yet... I sense nothing... this mind is empty...

Sheba? She guessed.

Felix: Actually, no, it's a psychotic ghost on the loose and looking for bread...

Only Wind adepts could read minds or mind-speak, and it was definitely a girl.

Ivan: I know! It's Hama!

Yes. There is no reason for you to be nervous about being the leader of your group, she said gently.

Sheba: The only thing you need to be nervous about is your empty mind!

But, I’m afraid I’ll lead our group to destruction! Kill us all off by sheer stupidity!

Ivan: Wow, her power of premonition's pretty accurate.

You won’t, Marie.

Sheba: Yes, you won't, you'll lead them into a pit of everlasting bread sauce and drown, when possessed by You, Me, He or Himself! Mwahahaha!

In fact...if you ever wavered, that boy, Artemis—your boyfriend, right?—he would help you. He believes in you. He knows you are a strong leader. Don’t doubt yourself, Marie! Sheba encouraged.

Jenna: Well, he must have been dropped on the head as a child...

But Sheba, you see, I’m afraid that he won’t like me anymore!

Ivan: Correction, nobody likes you anymore and they never did. Now, please, go drown in bread sauce.

Oh, don’t worry. Felix was—and still is—very unpredictable before I married him, but I’m still here!

Felix: Hey! That's an insult, being compared to...

Jenna: Unpredictable? I don't think so...

Ivan: Well, who knew he would leap off a lighthouse?

        “Sheba, we’re leaving now,” said Felix, touching Sheba gently on the shoulder.

Sheba: Good!

“All right,” said Sheba.

“Good luck, Marie. If you ever need any help, you can always talk to Jenna, or Mia, or me.”

Sheba: Just dial 0800-I-AM-STUPID

“Okay. Thank you for all your help, Sheba,” said Marie with a small smile.

Ivan: She must need a lot of help if she can't find her way outside all by herself.

Marie turned to her group. “So, where do we start?” she said with fake brightness.

Felix: Jump off a cliff.

“Well, we could try to find out exactly where the first fountain is,” said Artemis.

Sheba: It's down Gaia Falls, already! DOWN GAIA FALLS!

“Oh! You’re right, that’s a good idea! But...where will we get a good map?” she questioned.

Garet: Down Gaia Falls of course... -_-;

“And furthermore,” Kimi added, “If we’re going to be going all over Weyard, we’re going to need some form of protection,
 

Ivan: What kind? >=D

Sheba: Ivan!

like armor and weapons, but I don’t know where to get those kinds of things.”

Ivan: Oh, THAT kind!

Garet: o_o;

“Oh, of course!” said Marie, smacking herself on the forehead with the palm of her hand.

“What?” asked Artemis. “And don’t smack yourself like that, you’ll lose brain cells,” he added disapprovingly.

Jenna: Oh, the horror of it! The writer's precious Mary Sue can't lose brain cells!

Sheba: And it's not like we want her to lose her last single brain cell either...

Felix: In fact, we want her to get brain damage, because we're sick of the story already. Can we just escape?

Ivan: Nope, we can't...

“The shop right at the entrance to town! They have maps, items, and weapons and armor!”

Garet: That was before He and Himself ransacked it and burned it to the ground because they couldn't get their toast.

“Good idea!” said Artemis and Kimi simultaneously. They all broke out into a run for the shop, and burst into the door.

Felix: They actually managed to get into the door, like you'd get into a room?

“Hi!” said Marie excitedly. “We’d like to buy some maps and weapons and stuff,”

Sheba: (as shopkeeper) Sorry, we don't serve Mary Sues. Please try Tundaria instead.

“All right,” said the man behind the counter. “Here are our current wares.” He displayed several swords, maces, and staffs. He also showed our Adepts several types of armor, including gloves, boots, and body coverings. “And over there with that young lady is this town’s item shop,” said the man. “That’s where you can buy Herbs, Potions, Psy Crystals, and maps too.”

Ivan: Yawn...

“Great!” said Marie excitedly. The Adepts each bought the weapon of their choice. Marie and Artemis bought swords, Kimi bought a staff, and Li bought a mace. The boys bought leather gloves and cheap helms, and Kimi and Marie bought armlets and circlets. When they had equipped their purchases, they walked over to the young woman behind the other counter and bought maps and healing items.

Jenna: Too... many... details...

Finally, they left Vale.

Garet: And finally they dropped dead?

“Wow! I always wanted to travel, but I never thought I actually would so soon!” said Kimi happily. But their happiness was destroyed when suddenly—

Jenna: Bread crashed down on top of them and turned them into pancakes!

“AAAAUUUGH!!!! WHAT THE *beep* IS THAT?!” yelped Artemis as a Punch Ant leaped out at them.

Garet: Look! It's Road Runner!

Felix: Wusses. They could just up the rating.

“You guys! You guys! Calm down!” yelled Marie. “We just have to attack it to kill it!”

Sheba: Goodness, no! That is not what you do at all!

Jenna: You need to dance the can-can with a teapot on your head!

“Oh. Right. I knew that...all along!” said Artemis with a fake smile.

Ivan: Yeah right. Learning to stand up took him years.

Marie promptly sprang forward and struck the Punch Ant with her sword, slashing at it. Artemis followed up with a swift blow to the head. Chloe attacked,

Felix: ...the heck?!

Jenna: She was probably hiding...

Ivan: In their underpants!

Sheba: o_o;

and Li lunged and hit, but it still wasn’t enough. They all looked at Kimi, who was staring up into the sky.

Garet: She forgot that Satan was underground, not above... and she was trying to call him.

“Look! I can see a puppy!” she said happily, pointing at the clouds.

Jenna: Yes! An evil demon puppy coming to bite her head off!

“KIMI!!!!!!!!!!!!” yelled Marie.

“AAAAUUUGH! What?” she yelped.

“Attack it!!!!” said the rather exasperated Earth adept.

Garet: Dance the can-can, darnit!

        “Oh! Right!” said Kimi, who immediately sprang forward and struck the beast with her staff. It disintegrated immediately.

Jenna: Drat.

“Hey! I killed it! I killed it! Yaaaayyy!” A Wild Wolf suddenly appeared behind her and growled. Kimi stopped her little “happy dance” and stood terrified.

Felix: The wolf was hungry... very hungry...

She whipped around and whacked it with her staff, but then, upon seeing how big it was compared to her, whimpered and ran back to her friends.

Sheba: Not that way! The other way!
 

Marie sprang forward agilely and plunged her sword deep into the beast’s side. It made no notice and swatted her with a huge paw. She went flying and collided with a rock.

Felix: Yay!

Jenna: The wild wolf is our hero! ^o^

“MARIE!” screamed Artemis. “No!”

Ivan: Yes!
 

“She’ll be fine! Just attack it!!” said Li, whereupon Artemis leaped forward and made a cut with the top of his blade that reached from the forehead down to the nose.

Jenna: He hurt the wild wolf!

Sheba: How mean!

But the monster still kept fighting, even with its own blood in its eyes.

Garet: Yay! Go, wolf!

Suddenly, it let out a loud Sonic Roar, which sent Artemis flying backwards to land, unconscious, next to Marie.

Felix: This is the only cool part in the story...
 

Li attacked ferociously, in an attempt to end the battle, but the horrible animal still was not killed.

Ivan: Hah hah, take that!
 

Kimi stood, horrified of the gigantic wolf- like animal. Then, silently, carefully, she slipped forward and slammed her staff into the monster’s head, finally killing it and making it disintegrate.

Everyone: Noooooo!!!

Li picked up the fallen Artemis and Kimi managed Marie.

“Look! It’s—a town!” said Kimi suddenly, gesturing with her head since her hands were full.
        “It must be Vault!” said Li, who was balancing the map on Artemis.

Sheba: You're kidding? Shouldn't it be Prox?

Once they’d gotten to Vault, they walked into the inn, bought a room and reserved it, then left to get Artemis and Marie revived. They walked into a large building that looked somewhat like a church. People in the pews stared as the young warriors walked in.
 

Garet: They weren't used to Mary Sues being brought into their SANCTUMS...

Jenna: They aren't churches, they are sanctums, and there are never any pews!

Ivan: You think the writer ever used sanctums?

“Welcome, weary wanderers. What do you seek?” said the man who looked like a priest.

Felix: We seek a means of escape...

“Isn’t it a bit obvious?!” said Kimi angrily. “I mean, we’ve got two people here who are like downed, and you’re asking us WHAT WE SEEK?!?!”
        “Y-yes...what is it you would like?” said the priest, stuttering. He didn’t quite seem to realize that they wanted Revival.

Sheba: *gasp* She was rude to the great healer!

Jenna: Off with her head!

“We would like you to revive our friends, starting with Artemis,” said Li coldly, lifting up his friend slightly.

Felix: He sure is impolite.

Jenna: Off with his head!

Sheba: Off with all their heads!

        “Reviving Artemis will cost a donation of 100 coins. Is that all right?” said the priest.

Ivan: No. 1 million coins!

        “Whatever,” said Li. “Just do your job quickly, OK? We’ve still got Marie to heal, remember?”

        “All right,” said the priest as he healed Artemis and accepted the first coin donation from Li.

        “Now revive Marie,” commanded Kimi.
        “Reviving Marie will cost you a donation of 150 coins. Is that all right?” said the priest.

Sheba: No!
 

        “Are you like, a broken record or something?” said an exasperated Kimi. “Of course it’s all right! We just want our friends healed!!” She handed over the coins and the priest revived Marie.

“Marie...good,” said Artemis, who had been standing with a worried expression on his face ever since he had been revived.

Felix: Bad. Very bad.

The five of them left the church and walked back to their inn room. They spread out the map on the floor and looked over it.

Sheba: Their inn room?

Ivan: You mean they got a room? I thought they would get a basement!

“Well, it looks like we’ve got a long way to go before reaching the Venus Fountain,” said Artemis.

Garet: Well, duh, it doesn't even exist, so of course it's going to take a long way.

“But that’s not a bad thing, you know—it’ll give us more time to train before entering, just in case we meet any big bad guys we have to defeat.”

“Don’t we have Psynergy?” said Marie suddenly, changing the subject.

Sheba: But of course, Mary Sues must have Psynergy!
 

“Of course we have Psynergy,” said Li. “We’re Adepts, and the ones in Vale had Psynergy, so we must, too.”

Sheba: The ones in Vale had Psynergy? Really? Shocking.

“Your logic is making since,”

Garet: Since when?

said Marie, “but how do we use it?”

Ivan: You have to summon a big blue dog named Mango and shoot him in the eye with an arrow from Atalanta.

“I remember reading something somewhere, that Psynergy is a power of the mind. You need to focus your inner power to use it.” Said Artemis, remembering his vast hours in the Vale library reading his eyes out.

Ivan: Gross.

Felix: So that's why he's Marie's boyfriend. He can't even see how butt ugly she really is.

“Oh, I understand, I think...” said Marie. She lifted a hand, and concentrated—hard.

Ivan: Yep, she was thinking 'hard' >=D

Sheba: Concentrating on what?

Ivan: Her boyfriend >=D

Sheba: =O Ivan, that's enough!

Jenna: We've got a very sick Jupiter Adept...

She visualized a small rock building upon her fingertips. Suddenly, there was heat growing above her palm. She opened her eyes and sure enough---“I did it! I actually made a Psynergy!”
 

Garet: How do you make A psynergy?

Ivan: Pop an Adept in the oven.

she said excitedly. “Now let’s see if YOU can do it, Artemis!” said Marie happily.

Felix: Lets see if YOU can jump off Gaia Falls! =D

“But my head is too busy with other things! I can’t concentrate as hard as I should!”

Ivan: Urge to make perverted statement rising...

“Hmmm...good point. Maybe I could give you power, to help?” said Marie. Artemis looked at her strangely. “Hey, it was just an idea!” said Marie unhappily.

Felix: Yeah, yeah, whatever...

“While you guys are thinking about that, I’ll be trying out my power,” said Kimi.

Sheba: Please, please, let us be nearly at the end...

She crossed her legs in a pose that resembled a Yoga pose.

Jenna: And how exactly does it resemble a Yoga pose?

She concentrated hard, imagining a spark of flame on her fingertip, sparking and fizzling and hissing.

Ivan: Well, I'm imagining a spark of flame burning Marie to a cinder.

She imagined that the firepower grew larger and larger and larger, until it covered her entire palm. She opened her eyes, which had been squeezed shut in concentration, to find that her imagining had done the trick, and she was now staring into a hissing, sparking ball of orangey-red fire.

Jenna: Good girl. Now set the room on fire.

“I got it to work!” she said happily. “I can use Psynergy! Happy happy joy joy!!”

Garet: I'm not feeling the joy...

Ivan: Is it over?

[END]

Jenna: What?!

Felix: Happy happy joy joy, it's over! ^_^

Garet: Yay!

Jenna: That was the suckiest conclusion ever.

Sheba: Oh come on, Jenna, it could be worse! They might actually continue the thing!

Jenna: Yeah, but...

Ivan: Don't bother complaining, Caz might just sick extra work on us.

Garet: We're free!

Kyarorain: [appears] Did you enjoy that?


Felix: No!

Kyarorain: Really?

Felix: Well...

Jenna: It was fun bashing it about...

Ivan: But at times it was just inane!

Garet: And dumb! Making a Psynergy?

Jenna: Elemental fountains?!

Kyarorain: I guess you had fun. Now, time to leave! ^o^ [waves hand and the Adepts vanish]