Sceldrant's Comet

by Michael Rogers

  Luna: "How can a ruler believe somethin' so out of it."

  Grey: "Yohoho."

  Luna: "Yohohoh?" *She leant back slightly surprised by Grey's laugh.*

  Grey: "I've seen things, know of things. I wouldn't put it past me about there being other worlds."

  *Twortz, Lezard and Rachael suddenly warped into the grassy field, causing Grey to wave them towards the table.*

  Rachael: "Where are we?" *She looked slightly ill.*

  Lezard: "You think the ruler of The Agoura Marbles wouldn't have Reality Marbles of his own?"

  Twortz: *She looked up, shaking her head in wonder.* "It's amazing, really."

  Grey: "Ah, is this everyone?"

  Trevour: "Yes, your majesty."

  Grey: "How is the situation, Ordin?"

  Ordin: "Despite the usual amount of life threatening casualties from The Agoura Marbles, fifteen unclassified deaths have been reported."

  Grey: "From that Black Brigade member?"

  Ordin: "Yes. He infiltrated The Hall of Oats after the sign ups-"

  Rachael: "Wait, how can you talk about the deaths so easily?"

  Grey: *The glyph rotated, causing him to face Rachael.* "Upon accepting a number, the contestants are told of the consequences involved when participating."

  Rachael: "Well, I wasn't told any of this."

  Grey: "Yet, you always had the option of removing yourself from the very start."

  Rachael: "True."

  Ordin: "We currently don't know his location, but we are certain he's no longer in the city."

  Grey: "How did he get in the city in the first place?"

  Ordin: "We believe it's through a teleportation glyph from one of the small imperial hideouts."

  Grey: (I see.)

  Ordin: "I will inform you if we learn anything else."

  Grey: "Excellent."

  Ordin: *He nodded his head.* "Other than that, your majesty, nothing else to report."

  Nathan: *He looked at Luna, as if he wanted to say something.* "..."

  Grey: "Who's hungry?"

  Nathan: "Hungry?" *He looked up with boosted morale.*

  Lezard: "Ooo, pick me, pick me!" *He giggled, waving his hand above his head.*

  Trevour: *He tilted his head down, listening to his stomach rumble.* "Me too, heh heh."

  Grey: *He clapped his hands, causing plates full of food to suddenly warp across the circular table.* "Now-"

  Rachael: "Wow!" *She stared at the plates in amazement, noticing they all sat on different coloured glyphs.*

  Nathan: "You never know of wealth until you experience it.." *He mumbled to himself in amazement.*

  Grey: "Yohoho! One of you theoretically would have completed the games, so the feast is a celebration!"

  Twortz: (Of course I would have.)

  Karol: *He looked down at the tray of food, causing him to pout like a child.* "I-I dhon't like this-"

  Ordin: (Seafood? Not interested-) *He reached over and tapped on a nearby dish, causing it to float off the table and into the circle.*

  Trevour: *He watched the dish slide to the other side.* (Impressive. Having the ability to slide the dishes across the table breaks the con in having a circular based table-)

  Ordin: "Man in the warrior's armour, pass me the dish on your left."

  Trevour: "Of course, sir?" *He spoke in confusion and awkwardly nudged the dish, causing it to slide towards Ordin.*

  Twortz: (The dishes slide like an air hockey-)

  Lezard: "They're on glyphs, ah, I see!" *He clapped his hands and took several chicken legs off from a nearby sliding plate.* "Ooo, this is a mini-game in itself!"

  Destiny: *She eyed a sliding dish of fish, causing Luna to awkwardly smile with a pout.* "Yeu?"

  Luna: "Wateva." *She quickly grabbed several of the fish and placed it on an empty plate in front of her.*

  Destiny: "Yeup." *She purred in appreciation and hopped off Luna's shoulder, suddenly stuffing her face in.*

  Luna: (You must've been pretty hungry... Back on Earth.. I was pretty shit with looking after pets.. Not that you're a pet, aye.)

  Twortz: "So, allow me to put it bluntly." *She spoke with a lack of concentration, as she filled her plate up with all sorts of foods.*

  Trevour: *He nodded his head with anticipation, as if he was excited about the topic.* "I'm curious to know about your findings after using the research facility."

  Twortz: "There were absolutely no results on anything from our world."

  Trevour: *He lowered the food in his hands, placing them on his plate with a fading smile.* "Oh no-"

  Luna: "Oh no is the half of it.." *She spoke with her head down.*

  Nathan: (So they couldn't find anything?) *He silently thought to himself and shoved three thin steaks into his mouth.*

  Rachael: "So the question is.."

  Twortz: "What's happening now?"

  Rachael: "Well-" *She looked at Karol and smiled.* "I want to help Karol find his family."

  Karol: *He stopped eating and stared at Rachael with blushing cheeks.* "Waichael?"

  Rachael: *She nodded her head.* "That's what I want to do."

  Trevour: "I'd like to accompany Rachael and Karol on their adventures."

  Rachael: "Trevour?"

  Trevour: "Yes. As strange as it sounds, I feel safe with you around."

  Lezard: "Ooo, pick me! I'm cool and I stick with the cool people." *He implied he wanted to join Rachael too.*

  Rachael: "Hehe, you too, Lezard?"

  Lezard: "Yuppers!"

  Karol: (Wow..) *He thought to himself in disbelief, as if he wasn't expecting the friendly attitudes.*

  Luna: "Pssht, I dunno wat I'm gonna do, aye.."

  Rachael: "Why not get to know Destiny a little more?"

  Luna: "Rachael?"

  Rachael: "Yeah?"

  Luna: "Shut up."

  Rachael: "..."

  Grey: *He looked at Twortz with a smile.* "And what are you going to do?"

  Twortz: "I'm not entirely sure."

  Rachael: "Stick with us?"

  Twortz: "What about a source of income? What about food? A place to stay? What about The Black Brigade chasing after us?"

  Rachael: "Don't worry about all that-"

  Twortz: "Don't worry about all that? Do you hear yourself?" *She wiped her mouth and pushed away an empty plate.*

  Grey: "There's no need to worry about that. I can offer accommodation-, ah! That reminds me, Ordin."

  Ordin: "Yes." *He reached to his side and suddenly pulled forward, causing a pulse of sparks to scatter around a shiny green bangle.*

  Rachael: "What is that?"

  Grey: "That is the Purifying Oxident."

  Rachael: "Purifying Oxident?"

  Ordin: "It's the prize for winning the games."

  Grey: "The same for Battling Oxident."

  Twortz: *She slammed her hand on the table and shook her head.* "Am I honestly the only person that sees through adult tinted glasses?"

  Lezard: "Eww, that sounds dirty-"

  Twortz: "Shut up, you retarded twat!"

  Lezard: "Ouchies-"

  Rachael: "He's our friend, you shouldn't talk to him like that-"

  Twortz: "Get off your high horse. He's your friend for starters, and-" *She formed a fist.* "You aren't the real Rachael."

  Rachael: "Uhm?"

  Luna: "Can I have wateva you're on?"

  Twortz: "Shut up, you emo bitch."

  Luna: "Fuck you-"

  Destiny: "Yeuuuu." *She hissed and frizzed her fur in anger.*

  Nathan: "..."

  Lezard: "Well, this escalated quickly."

  Trevour: "Twortz, please reconsider where your actions are obviously going-"

  Twortz: *She looked at Trevour with a fading frown.* "You are the sanest person out of these people, come with me?"

  Trevour: "I-I'm sorry, Twortz. I had already made up my mind a while ago-"

  Twortz: "Fine." *She turned around and took a step forward.*

  Or
din: "How disrespectful!" *His words caused Twortz to pause.* "Despite winning the games, he is the ruler-"

  Twortz: "My apologies." *She stepped away from the table and suddenly warped out.*

  Rachael: *She wiped her mouth with a white napkin and stood up.* "Sorry about her, she's probably stressed about not finding a way home."

  Trevour: "That's probably it, your majesty. She's usually very clear minded and level headed."

  Grey: "..." *He waved his hand off, as if he was giving Rachael permission to leave.*

  Rachael: "I'll be back shortly." *She awkwardly bowed as if she didn't know what to do and turned around, jogging out of the Reality Marble.*

  Nathan: *He awkwardly looked at Luna.* "You seem to be holding up fine?"

  Luna: "I'm fine aye."

  Destiny: "Yeup?" *She looked at Luna in confusion, as if she knew that was a lie.*

  Luna: (I suffer behind the curtains..) *She sighed in thought and continued to eat.*

  Lezard: "Well, what a delicious day we're having?" *He tried to change the subject and looked up to the sky.*

  Trevour: "It's probably night time now."

  Lezard: "Ooo? Doesn't anyone here like night time?"

  Grey: "Yohoho."

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  *Twortz ran out of the castle, causing the white doors to ripple around her.*

  Twortz: *She looked up, noticing it was night.* (So it was night time? I thought it was always day-?)

  Rachael: "Twortz!-" *She jogged out of the castle and towards Twortz.*

  Twortz: *She sighed in frustration.* "Why did you follow me?!" *She shouted without looking back.*

  Rachael: "What's up? Why did you leave?"

  Twortz: "I'm done with this place-"

  Rachael: "It's understandable you're upset, but you don't have to be a cow about it."

  Twortz: "A cow?" *She stopped and glared ahead with growing anger.* "Is it because I'm fat?"

  Rachael: "Fat? No. I'm not really a fan of swearing-"

  Twortz: "Why don't you speak your mind to this cow?"

  Rachael: "Really? Grow up-"

  Twortz: *She angrily placed her hand over her shoulder.* "Now this cow needs to grow up?"

  Rachael: *She noticed Twortz's hand.* "What, now you're threatening me?"

  Twortz: "You're so feeble."

  Rachael: "Feeble?" *She sounded confused, as if she didn't know what the word meant.* "I.. Thought we were friends?"

  Twortz: "..."

  Rachael: *She stared at Twortz's back.* "You said it yourself.. Don't you remember? You said.. I was one of the few people you would risk losing your job over, just by being my friend."

  Twortz: *She frowned and held onto something, as if she was ready to release her violin.* "What happened in the past, is the past. People change."

  Rachael: "People change? What a load of rubbish!"

  Twortz: "A load of rubbish?" *She spoke in a condescending tone.* "Once again, listen to yourself! This isn't a pathetic fantasy game, Rachael Taylor!"

  Rachael: *She formed emotional fists.* "You can't leave! You can't leave me here by myself!"

  Twortz: "You have new stupid friends to associate yourself with now."

  Rachael: "The truth is, we're friends, Twortz. I don't turn my back on my friends-"

  Twortz: "Don't throw your moral book in my face.. Nobody likes that."

  Rachael: ".. Aren't we friends?"

  Twortz: "So naive, Rachael."

  Rachael: (If that's the case..) *Her eyes started to water.* (How stupid am I-.. Twortz?)

  Twortz: *She stared down the road-like path with an emotionless face.* "Nothing more to say?"

  Rachael: (I don't know why.. I don't know why... But-...) "I can't bear the thought of you leaving by yourself-"

  Twortz: "You can forget that stupid mind frame you have. This is reality, it's not some cartoon where we all hold hands and act like one big pathetic family."

  Rachael: "Twortz-"

  Twortz: "Sonic Rush." *She quickly turned around and swayed the violin, blowing a scattered shock wave at Rachael.*

  Rachael: *She looked surprised and quickly kicked the ground, causing a rock pillar to erupt up in front of her, blocking the shock wave.* "Twortz?!"

  *Rachael shouted in anger and swayed her hand to the side, causing the rock pillar to crumble away.*

  Rachael: "What are you-?" *She stopped in mid-sentence and stared at Twortz who stood in the fading dirt cloud directly in front of her with a dagger already on the violin's strings.* (How did she move so-?)

  Twortz: *She stared at Rachael with an emotionless face.* "Sacred scores, Lymph's Wave."

  Rachael: "What Azure Burst is-?"

  *Visible strings of sound echoed off the violin and slammed into Rachael's chest, cracking her ribs.*

  Rachael: *She violently threw up what she ate beforehand and collapsed to her knees.* "When-?"

  Twortz: *She held the violin in between her legs and formed a triangle with her fingers, blowing into them.* "Sonic Pulsar."

  *Twortz screamed out a vortex of sound directly into Rachael's face, causing a yellow mucus to run out of her ears.*

  Rachael: "My ears!" *She screamed at the top of her lungs even though it was masked by the fading violin sounds and Twortz's vortex.*

  Twortz: "..." *She grabbed onto the violin and casually spun around, walking out of Rachael's sight.*

  Rachael: "That's it.. There's no doubt about it.. She's serious about this.. She really means to.. Twortz.."

  *Rachael moaned the last words and closed her eyes, slowly falling unconscious.*

  Lezard: "Razzypoo? Grumble bum?" *He stepped out of the castle and noticed Rachael, lying on the ground, causing him to gasp.* "Everyone!"