19. Oh, The Things You’ll Hear.

“Okay, so we dropped the guy off at the happy place, can you guys take me exploring nowww?” I begged as we all soared through the air above the thick forest that ran for hundreds of miles.

“Sure.” Cassie grinned and dove straight down into the thicket of trees, followed by Orion.

“Hey! You can’t leave me here!” I shouted after them. “Okay, maybe you can.” I laughed and flew down after them.





“So. This is the forest.” Orion scratched the back of his head as we all stood there.

“Hm.” I stared at all the different colored flowers and the bushes. “Are those strawberries?!” I gasped and ran over to a pile of strawberries lying on the ground. I shrieked as something came up from the ground and swallowed me.

“Well…” Orion started, trying his best to keep from laughing, “yes, and you just fell in a trap.” He burst out laughing after staring at me in the net for a couple more seconds.

“Shut up!” I stuck my tongue out.

Cassie was already on the ground, laughing.

“Fine. If crazy quicksand monsters chase us later, I’m tripping you both.” I cut the rope with my now-apparently sharp nails and hopped out. “You’re both buttheads.” I said as dignified as possible and started walking off.





“Come on, Lunaaa.” Cassie whined as she tugged at the rope net that now held her and Orion.

“I don’t know…” I grinned as I stared up at them, they’d triggered a trap when they were running after me. It’s funny how the whole situation is a lot more humorous when it doesn’t happen to you.

“We’re sorryyy.” She whimpered, pawing at the rope with puppy eyes. “Orion, say you’re sorry.” She jabbed him in the side with her elbow.

“Ow! No.” He sulked and tried his best to turn his back to me.

“Dude, you’re in so much trouble. She’s the queen AND can kick your butt.” Cassie grinned.

“She can not!” he yelled at Cassie, it was entertaining, so I sat down and started eating the strawberries I’d picked up earlier.

“You’re just in denial.” She declared.

“I think I’m beginning to hate you both.” He glared.

“Well, gosh. You can hate me. Just don’t hate your girlfriend.”

“Who?” He raised an eyebrow at her.

“Luna.” She pointed at me. Orion’s jaw dropped and I started choking on the apple. “Well, isn’t she?”

“NO!” we both managed to shout at the same time. “Cassie,” I shook my head, “where did you get an idea like that?”

“From Orion.” She stated.

“What?” Orion stared at her disbelievingly.

“You talk in your sleep and when I was passing by your room, you said ‘I love you, Luna’ and then you smiled.” Orion’s face reddened like a tomato and his eyes widened when she said that.

“Huh.” I said then flew up and cut them both loose. “Well, this kinda makes things awkward so I’m going to fly around for a while.”

“Okie dokie!” Cassie yelled after me as I took off.

18. No Rope? Use Candy.

“What’s wrong?!” I burst into the kitchen, gripping a crowbar in both hands.

Cassie and Orion turned around then stared with their mouths practically falling off their faces when they saw the crowbar. “Where did you get that?” Cassie managed to blurt out.

“Oh…um…” I stared at the crowbar in my hands. “Y’know, I really don’t know.” I laughed.

“We don’t even have those here!” she flailed her arms dramatically.

“Yeah, well, why’d you guys scream?” I asked, the moment suddenly felt a tad bit awkward.

“You know the rumors of a mass murderer?” Orion said.

“Uh… yeah?”

“They were true, apparently.” He stared down at the floor in front of me; a guy that looked like he jumped out of a horror movie was lying there. You couldn’t really see his face or anything since he was all bundled up in dirt covered clothes, and he’d been lugging around a bloody axe that now lay next to him.

“Well,” I crouched down and rolled him over with the crowbar, “why’s he on the ground?”

“Cassie hit him.” Orion grinned.

“With what?” I cocked my head to the side while staring down at the guy, it looked like he was just knocked unconscious, but I didn’t know for sure and I wasn’t about to touch him.

“Uh.” She held up her now-bent spoon that she had been eating cereal with earlier.

“You hit him…with a spoon?” I stared disbelievingly at her.

“Yes?” she fidgeted nervously.

“A serial killer shows up and you hit him with a sugar covered spoon?”

“Uh-huh.”

“Well, gosh. You could’ve at least cleaned it first. Now bees will go after him or something. So is he just unconscious?”

“I think so.” Orion now stood next to me, staring down at the guy.

“Alright. Do we have any rope to tie him up with?” I asked, gingerly plucking the axe off the ground and putting it in the sink.

“I have super long twizzlers.” Cassie said.

“No. I’m eating those later, we need rope. Or at least a candy thing none of us like.”

“You two are unbelievable.” Orion shook his head and pulled out some plain rope from the closet next to the front door. He held the rope out to me.

“What?” I squinted at it as if I’d never seen anything like it before.

“Tie him up?” he said questionably.

“You do it, he’s covered in dirt. Besides, you’re the guy.”

“Whatever.” He grunted as he flipped the body over and started tying it up.

“Hey, Orion?”

“Yeah?”

“Can we go for ice cream after this?”

17. Right. No Big Deal At All.

“Time to fly, time to flyyy.” I started singing softly as I dug through my dresser, looking for some shorts.

“Lunaaa.” I heard a muffled voice from somewhere very close by.

I spun around to find no one behind me. “Hellooo?” I walked to the door and shouted down the hallway. Orion grunted a reply from the corner in the kitchen and Cassie was humming as she ate breakfast. She’d been there for an hour and ate slower than rocks did.

“Luna?” I heard it again, this time I could tell that it came from behind me.

I walked back into my room. “Yeah?” I waited a while and listened before I heard it again; it seemed to be coming from the dresser.

“Since when are elves into stalking people?” I asked as I dug through the dresser, looking for the tiny little thing hiding somewhere in there.

The voice was clear as I heard it this time, but it didn’t say Luna. Instead it yelled “YOUR MOTHER IS NOT AN ELF, NOW PICK UP THE NECKLACE RIGHT THIS INSTANT!!!”

“Huh. I picked up the little trinket from the bottom of the drawer and stared at it. So it was my mother who’s been sounding all stalker-like.”

“Luna.” The little black oval said.

“Yes?”

“Do you ever think before you say something?”

“Yes, I do. And then I wonder what I was thinking.”

“My goodness.” She mumbled. “Well, did you settle the dispute between King Fenrisúlfur and Lady Sirena?”

“Uh huh. Party later. Fun.”

“Alright. Oh, and one other little thing.”

“Yeah, mom?”

“Hmm… maybe not. I’m not sure it’s such a big deal.”

“What is it?”

“Well…”

“What?!”

“Did you take care of the mass murderer?”

“What mass murderer?” I stared blankly at the necklace. Then I heard it.

Cassie and Orion shrieked from the kitchen.

“Oh, it’s probably nothing. There’s just been rumors of a mass murderer going around and--” I dropped the necklace and took off towards the kitchen.

16. Maybe You Know Them Too Well?

“Get upppp.” I sighed as I tried to drag Cassie out of her bed.

“Five more minutes,” she whined, pulling the covers up over her head as she curled up into a little ball.

“…Orion’s in your bed.”

“WHAT?!” she shrieked, bolting upright. She got tangled in the covers as she tried to stand up and instead fell with a hard ‘THUD’.

“Just kidding.” I smirked as I dug through her dresser. I pulled out some light jeans and a plain white t-shirt and tossed them over to her. “You have to show me around before the thing tonight.”

“Ugh, you’re evil,” she groaned, picking herself up off the floor, “what thing?” picking the clothes up, she wandered into the bathroom and shut the door.

“The party.” I sat down, my back against the door. “With Fenrisúlfur and Sirena, remember?”

“Oh. Right. You’re still evil though.” She grinned as she opened the door and I fell.





“Get. Up.” I sighed once again as I beat Orion mercilessly with the ultimate weapon. A fluffy pillow.

“Ten more minutes,” he blindly tried to grab the pillow from me as he pulled the covers tighter, his mess of black hair the only thing sticking out.

“…You know Cassie’s in your bed, right?”

“Ha. Ha. I’m not falling for that.” He turned to the other side and his smirk disappeared as he screamed, “CASSIE?!”

“Hiya.” She waved as she stared face to face with him.

He backed up quickly and fell off the bed at my feet; he landed with a harder ‘THUD’ than Cassie had. “What is she doing in my bed?!”

“I figured it would be easier to wake you up if you started freaking out.” I grinned.

“You’re evil.” He groaned, still lying on the floor.

“So I’ve been told.” I laughed and grabbed Cassie as I headed out of Orion’s room. “Hurry and get up or you’ll miss breakfast.”

“You ruined my appetite when you dislodged my stomach,” he stuck he tongue out at me as I slammed the door.





“Sho whash ar ee ooing ooday?” Orion asked as he crammed his mouth full of chocolate chip pancakes.

Cassie was staring at Orion with a disgusted look on her face, not being able to tear her gaze from him.

“Well, first we’ve going to have to rush you to the ER when you choke on those,” I gestured to what filled his chipmunk looking cheeks, “after that, I want you guys to show me around, like what’s here and stuff.”

He finished chewing and swallowed before he spoke this time “Sounds alright. Just don’t go to the swamp, there’s quicksand.”

“But I can flyyy?” I grinned and flew around the kitchen, just a foot or two above the floor.

“Nuh uh. Our quicksand isn’t like on earth. Ours can chase after you, grab you, and THEN it sucks you under.”

“Well…that’s rude.” I sat down at the table next to them and folded my arms.

“Rude?” he looked at me as though to question my choice of a certain word.

“Yes. Like you sometimes.” I beamed, still sitting in the chair and lying partially on the table.

“I’m not rude.” He glared.

“Yes you are.” I propped my head up with my hands and glared back.

“Nuh uh!”

“You’re rude AND impatient.” I sat up and waved my arms dramatically.

“You’re testing my patience!”

“And you’re getting a C!” I half-screamed.

“Luna! Shut up!” he yelled.

“Oh.” I said quietly. “Now it’s a F. Go to your corner and sit there until I tell you otherwise.”

We all stared intently at each other with poker faces. Cassie was the first to start laughing, we followed right after. “I thought you were serious at first.” She giggled.

Orion and I exchanged looks before I said, “We were, now go sit in the corner, Orion.”

“Oh, come on!” he frowned.

“Go or I’m telling what you did in third grade.”

“FINE!” He picked his chair up and carried to a corner then sat down and faced the wall. “I hate you.”

“Love ya too.” I smirked.