"THE ART SHOP IS CLOSED ;D""..."
Everyone stared at the sign.
Underneath the happy letters was a little note -
"visit the Mysterious Ninja Man for all your roleplay needs!"Everyone's gazes subsequently switched over to the next door house. The frilly black curtains on the window fluttered mysteriously.
"Are we...?" Haku prompted.
"I guess so..." Sora sighed.
"Do I have to come along?" asked Aizaku's hair. That is, asked Aizaku.
"Nah, you can go to the bank."
"Okay." Aizaku's hair walked off.
"Do I have to?" Keii asked, clutching his forehead.
"No, you have to come."
"Whyyyy?"
Sora thought about this. "Because - um - Caelum said so!"
"He did?" Keii was shocked. "Really? No way! Show me proof!"
Sora pulled out the fake Caelum autograph Xyla had bought her years ago in Himmel to compensate for her stolen lollypop. "
"
"I am so bamboozled!" gasped Keii. "Okay, I'll come! Evidently it is Caelum's divine decree that we must stay together."
"Er...yes. Divine."
Kata looked down at the scroll in her hand. "So I guess this is for the mysterious ninja guy?"
"..." Haku and Sora looked at each other and decided not to divulge the truth just yet. "Yes," Haku answered. "Let's go."
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"..."
Everyone, except Aizaku's hair, stood before the mysterious door.
"You knock."
Sora nudged Kata. "No, you."
Kata shook her head. "I nominate Keii."
"Seconded it," Haku said immediately.
[ Did you guys notice that this is just like PE? ]
Keii scowled - too hungover to care - and stumbled forward to knock. Before he could, though, the door swung open...mysteriously.
From the mysterious darkness inside emerged a most mysterious figure. It was wearing a black bathrobe, and the hood obscured its features.
Upon the breast of the bathrobe was a purple, embroidered carrot. It was simply fabulous.
"Are you...the mysterious ninja man?" Haku ventured cautiously.
The figure threw its hood back, and...
Everyone gasped!
[ >_> ]
Sorry, make that everyone gasped in awe of the mysterious figure.
Except Sora, who just asked bluntly, "What are you doing in a bathrobe, Xyla?"
"No! I am no longer Xyla," said Xyla mysteriously, closing her eyes dramatically. "Now I am known as..."
"As...?" Sora prompted.
Xyla opened her eyes. "Sorry, I was trying to come up with a dramatic name then, but I got nothing. Come in, come in."
The five proceeded cautiously into the house, when Kyousei jumped down from the ceiling. "Greetings, mortals," he said sinisterly.
Everyone gasped!
Well, not really.
"Is that you, Kyousei?" Kata said in shock. Kyousei smirked mysteriously. "My dear, you've come!"
Sora was staring at a poster on the wall. "'When I'm alone, I reflect on all the yesterdays, and then I think of you?'" she read puzzledly. "Why is it a picture of a guy swimming?"
[ XD OMG I FORGOT ALL ABOUT SHIKI. TIME TO ADD HIM IN ]
"HUSH!" Kyousei said mysteriously. "The mysteries of that poster must not be known to you who are lower than us more mysterious people!"
"Uh...right." Sora quirked an eyebrow and glanced at Shinji. "Do you get it?..."
Shinji shrugged, having only just been put in the RP by the careless RPer.
"Sit down, sit down, all of you," said Kyousei majestically, waving his mysterious black sleeve and taking the scroll from Kata. Everyone reluctantly seated themselves at the long table, glancing around at their mysterious surroundings. He snapped his fingers mysteriously and a bottle wrapped in a brown paper towel that was stapled around it appeared on the table, one each for everyone. "Drink, my honored guests," he spoke dramatically. "Is it not so mysterious?"
Sora peered at her drink. "It's Snapple."
Kyousei's hand flew to his mouth.
[ Originally I wrote "Kyousei's mouth flew to his hand" ]
"However did you figure that out?!"
Sora pointed. "It says so on the cap."
"..." Kyousei decided to continue on like she hadn't said anything. "So, you are all gathered here to hunt down the hydra, no?"
"More or less," Haku replied, sniffing the Snapple skeptically. "Are you the one who posted the bounty?"
"Ahhhh yes." Kyousei threw his head dramatically. "But! Before you can hunt it....
you must take a vision test."
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"Read the ninth line," Kyousei said cheerfully, "and cover your left eye with that mysterious eyepatch!"
Kata twitched and did so. "I. L. O. V. E. U. K. A. T - HEY!"
"20/20!" Kyousei checked her paper and handed it to her. "Next!"
Keii walked up to the line. Kyousei nodded. "Read the fourth."
Keii squinted. "Er...4...F...Z?"
"0/0." Kyousei checked the paper and handed it to him. "Next!"
[ this actually happened at PE. Zak got a 0/0 ]
Sora stepped up to the line. "Read the sixteenth line," Kyousei told her.
"Square root x cubed over absolute value ten to the negative five."
"20/20/20." Kyousei handed her her paper. "Next!"
Sora walked over to where the rest of the people who had already been tested were sitting. "I have a third eye, or something?"
Haku blinked at her paper. "Allusion to YGO?"
"Most likely."
Shinji was reading the eighteenth line. "
"
"20/20/20." Kyousei checked off the paper, and added a little note that Shinji glanced at, then covered up. "That's all! Yes, you all qualify! Even Keii boy over there!"
[ Matt had an interesting theory
if Shiki x Selena
and Kata x Kyousei
in a way, Kyousei is Shiki's nephew
>_> ]
"Now go forth! And strike down the hydra in the name of justice!" Kyousei posed mysteriously. Everyone stared at him.
"Uh..." Haku spoke up. "Where is it, first of all?"