Chat room adventures

"Sounds like a good idea," Scipio remarked.

"Yeah. I'm going to start reading now," Alice agreed. Scipio nodded and decided to leave her to it. He wandered out into the hallway and was immediately knocked down.

"Oh. Sorry," Heather laughed, pulling herself to her feet. Scipio mirrored her action and then stared at his sister.

"Didn't you go to get a weapon?" Scipio asked.

"Yeah. This one," Heather replied, holding out a rather ornate crystal sword.

"You had time to do that. Put your books in your room and catch up with me?" Scipio asked.

"Yeah. It came free with a teleporting power. Pretty cool, huh?"

"Adam!" Bella called, running to catch up to him. He was leaving hte ship again, arms empty.

"What is it Bella?" He asked, looking Chris up and down curiously.

"Um...this is one of my old friends, Chris. We were wondering...if...um...since you've got enough room on the ship...and stuff....if he could....um..." she was stammering uncontrollably and had no idea why.

"Yes, he can come with us, but i'm trusting that you'll show him around and make sure he stays in line," Adam answered.

"Yeah, totally. Thanks Adam!" she answered, hugging him tightly.

"you're welcome, now get off me!" He cried, pulling at her arms. She laughed and pulled away, grabbing Chris' hand and leading him into the ship.

"This is Alice's room," she said, pounding on the door.

"Go away, I'm reading!" Alice called from inside.

"Ok, I'll show you later!" Bella called back, continueing down the hall. "This is Scipio and Heathers room; this is Rick's room; this is Nutty's room; this is Adam's room; Matt, um...I'm sure i'm forgetting someone but, you get the idea. Here's my room," she opened the door and let him see. "And this can be your room," she went to the next door and opened it. "Do you have any posessions or anything to get?"

"Nope, everything is right...here!" he began pulling things out of his pocket. As the items came out, they grew to their normal size.

"Woah..." Bella muttered, helping him organize his stuff.

Alice slammed the book, frustrated. There was NOTHING in that book about how to use occulemency, it didn't even say if it was REAL!!! She threw the book to the foot of her bed and got up.

She slamed the door behind her and walked into Ricks room.


"Will you kill me?" she asked in her usual i'm miserable tone.

"No!" he replied.

"Urgh," she said and flopped down on his bed, "please?"

"Alice whats the matter with you?"

"Jay won't leave me alone."

Rick sprung to his feet, "he's here? Ima kill him."

Alice pointed to her head, "he's in here, apparently pulling a Mr. Knight."

Rick looked confused, "what?"

"What's this?" Bella asked, picking up a box that had her picture taped to it.

"That's a box of stuff that I bought for you on my travels," Chris answered, smiling. "Open it." She did so and he immediatly began to pull out different items. "This hat is from Earth; I know that doenst sound too great, but I haven't been there in years, and this hat came from the Mall of America."

"Sweet," Bella said, sitting the hat aside.

"This necklace is from the Moons of Smiley."

"We've been to Smiley!"

"Really? THe moons are rather horrid; very dark; they defy all purpous of the moon. Anyway, these are actual moon stones," he pointed to the black, metallic looking beads as he latched it on her neck. "And it came with htis bracelet," he put it around her wrist. "Let me see your left hand," he said. She held it out and he placed a ring on her third finger. "That ring ins't from my travels, but I've always wanted to give it to you. It's been in my family for as long as I can remember. It's not exactly gorgeous, but..."

"It's wonderful," Bella interupted, looking down at the ring, which wasn't shiney, but beautiful in it's own way.

"And this, this is very special," he held up a ping-pong ball sized prism, that looked clear from the side. He turned it so she was lookign at the top, and suddenly it burst with color, filling the entire room. "Sadly, I can't tell you where I got it. It just, kind of, showed up one day."

"It's...beautiful," she whispered, still staring at the prism in awe.

"Just like you," he replied, kissing her forehead.

Adam walked into a parts shop. He had a few ideas for some new inventions but needed a few more parts before he could start.

"Sweet!" Adam found a light stabilzer along with a harmonic solidifier.

I'll make the Psionic Disruptor so much better with this.

"Well," Alice said propping herself up on her shoulders, "Jay's in my head, I suppose somehow Ned was in MAtts."

"So he's helping you?"

"Helping me kill myself."

"What should I do?" Rick asked, stitting back on the bed.

"Either kill me-"

"No way."

"Or help me stay awake."

"Alright, we should probably tell everyone else. BELLA! ADAM! EVERYBODY!" Rick bellowed before Alice could stop him.

Bella looked up at the sound over her name. "Come on," she said, grabbing Chris's arm and dragging him out towards Rick's voice.

"What's up?" she asked, looking at the rest of the group, all of whom were gathered around Alice's bed.

"Alice needs us to...woah," Rick stopped.

"Huh?"

"Who's that?" Nutty asked.

"Oh!" Bella exclaimed, turning and gesturing to Chris. "This is Christofer, he's my...."

"Boyfriend," Chris finished for her.

"That works," Bella replied, smiling at her friends. "So what's Alice need?"

"Alice needs-"

"Alice needs you to drop it for now Rick."

Rick ignored her, "Alice has somebody in her head."

"Who?"

"Jay."

All jaws dropped.

"Not again!" Bella exclaimed immediately. "But..." she tried to use her telepathy. "The sonic whatever thingermajig is still up and running."

"I know that!" Alice snapped, shooting Rick a reproachful look. "But jay got around it."

"Well, that sucks," Bella said, pacing angrily.

Adam stepped into the door way dramatically, casting a tall shadow across the room.

"Come on everyone, I have a plan." He fumbled a little, trying to keep all the new parts inhis hands. Everyone followed quietly. Alice sighed as hse dropped her head and walked.

"WHere are we going?" Chris whispered to Bella.

"I'm not sure..." She whispered back before saying loudly: "Adam, where are we going?"

Meanwhile, Mattster was emptying ice into the ice bucket that apparently contained an invisible Ice Queen.

"Cold enough for ya?" he asked humorously.

"Quite, peasant. We extend our gratitude."

"'We'? How many of you are in there?"

"Its a figure of speech that we royals use, fool. Now please, go and fetch your captain, the one you call Adam. I want to talk to him about where he needs to take me."

"You're the boss," Mattster replied as he left to find Adam.

"We're going to my lab. I've been doing psychic and mind research for ages now. If Jay wants to hide in Alice's Mind, we'll just have to go in after him."

Everyone grinned. It seemed simple. And at face value it was but in Alices mind it was Alice's rules. She was going to be the one to take Jay down. She just needed a push.

Jay seemed to know what they were saying.

Alice gasped as pain flooded through her. She doubled over, allowing Scipio to help her to the floor.

"Go. To. Hell," she managed to say.

not without you, love. Although what Alice said had been out loud Jay's voice echoed through her head.

"Been there, done that," she said in an attempt of mock humor. His reply was to send another shooting pain through her, which caused her to scream. When the major pain ended she said, "you know what?"

What, love

"I pity you."

Another pain seared through her. do you?

"Yes, I do. You never had friends, and never will have friends. And you never really were in love with me were you?"

Another pain, but she ignored it.

"I thought not. If you ever fall in love let me know and I'll learn to ice skate.

Memories forced their way through the pain, she didn't know where they came from but they worked in. Flashes of her and everyone played out in front of her and Jay's mind.

When the pain doubled she could feel Jay's fury, you know what I'm going to do when I kill you? I'm going to kill your friends.

When Jay laughed Alice's fury grew to immense proportions and she used all the power she had to force him out. Red hot fire spread through her and she felt his soul exploding.

Then he was gone, Alice was holding barely onto conciousness. She could feel things go black and before everything was enveloped by it she felt Scipios hand grasp hers.

And then there was nothing.

Jay is gone for good, yay!

Adam looked deep into Alice's mind. It was easy when she slept. There was no sign of Jay, only a few fragments of memory.

"That could be useful," he said outloud.

"What is it?" asked Heather.

"Jay is gone but he's left bits of his memories in Alice. We could use them to gather information, but she needs to heal before we start examing memories."