I'm sitting in the cave right now and it's pretty boring. I just saw a jellyfish swim by doing noodle tentacles but that's pretty much it.
Me: ZANAAAAAAAAAAA......... Is there anything to do here?!
Zana threw a book at my face.
Zana: Read that.
I flipped through the book.
Me: ZANAAAAAAAAAAA........
Zana: What?
Me: There's no pictures in here!
She threw a book with pictures at me.
Zana: Read that.
Me: ZANAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Zana: What?!
Me: I can't.
Zana: Why not?
Me: Because this picture book doesn't have words.
She looked like she was about to rip her hair out. I looked under a log in front of me.
Me: Check it out! There's a game of banana grams under here!
Zana groaned and sat up. Somehow I think she knew that I wanted to play the game with her. We poured out the bananagrams.
Me: So why is dream me so different from the real me?
Zana: I'm actually an exact copy of you.
Me: Well... You're a bit off. I expected playing banana grams with myself would be fun.
Zana: I suppose I'm the you without your memories.
She spelled "This is boring" in banana grams. I spelled "your boring" back.
Me: Well I'm pretty grumpy without memories. And if you were really me then you would've given me a picture book with words the first time I asked.
She rolled her eyes and spelled "rightttttt".... I took my banana grams and spelled "oh it's on sister" she spelled back "bring it" so we had a banana gram argument that probably passed away most of the time. But as we argued, I noticed that something in her behavior changed. She started to act more like the real me and soon I could she was the real me. Eventually, we had worn ourselves out with all the lame jokes and comebacks we had used against each other. Soon we put the banana Grams away and looked under the log again. I stuck my paws under the log and blindly searched around. I picked up a really old dusty book. I cleaned it off and looked at it.
Me: What's this?
Zana: I don't think you should open that.
She tried to grab it and I turned away, surprised.
Me: Why?
Zana: Because it's the memories you don't remember
Me: Why wouldn't I want to know that? Wouldn't I want to remember good memories I had with my fake parents when I was really little?
Zana: It's a little more than that.
She looked concerned.
Zana: I'm surprised that's in here. Though I do suppose I told Jake to hide it somewhere. I guess he threw in the lake.
Me: What's in here that you don't want me to know about?
Zana: ... The chip in your brain. The memories you never saw but your body recorded. The things you did but didn't know about.
Me: ... And what did I do exactly?
She paused.
Zana: Don't look in the book.
She tried to steal it again and the ground suddenly shook. The book fell out of my hands and slid across the floor. We made a dive for it at the same time and then suddenly the room tilted to the left. The book stayed in place while we slid away from it. I tried to get to my feet but the ground shook again.
Me: What's going on?!
Little did I know that someone (*cough* Cassie) had disturbed a sea monster underneath us and was throwing us all around. Zana didn't even respond, her focus was to get the book. The suspense was horrible. I wanted more than anything to get in that book. What had I done that was so secret even to me? The ground shook and twisted. Zana slid to the right of the room but I held onto a rock. The book was jammed underneath a log in the middle of the floor. I carefully angled myself to slide down right in front of it. I grabbed it and sat up.
Zana: Don't do it Xura. You don't know. You don't want to know what will be in that book. Something far beyond disturbing. You'll never get it out of your head. Once it's opened, you'll never go back to who you were.
I looked at the cover of the book and paused.
Me: Okay.
I threw the book behind me.
Suddenly, I saw Cassie knocking on the glass of the cave with a key in hand. She unlocked the door and water burst in. We swam to the surface, leaving the book behind in the depths of the scarlet lake. We reached the surface with a gasp.
Me: What was going on?
I looked at Cassie, expecting a good answer. Cassie opened her mouth like she was going to say something, then closed it. Then she opened her mouth again and closed it again.
Cassie: I have no idea.
I rolled my eyes. We swam out of the lake and reached the shore. I wiped the sand off me and we went to the center of the land, in front of the castle.
Cassie: What now?
Zana: Now...
There was a really awkward dramatic pause
Zana: We save Xura's brain.
Cassie: Excuse me, but haven't we been doing that the whole time you were locked up at the bottom of that dumb lake??? What's the point of this anyway? When do we get home?! I want to get back to writing MY parody! I have a potato that really wants to get back to my crazy life.
Me: Sorry, Cass.
Amy: This is, admittedly, getting pretty boring. Can we get on with it?
Zana: You don't even want a dramatic ending?
Me: Not really.
Zana rolled her eyes and huffed.
Zana: Fineeeeeee....
We all went into the castle and went to the back of it. There were 6 floor positions. They all curved around a huge door. Clone, Keira, Zana, Matthew, and Jake stood on the spaces. Zana signaled that I should do the same. I walked over to the last space and the door began to open. A huge purple wave released from the door, blowing our hair back and returning everything back to normal... or at least how it used to be.
Cassie: Okay... So how do we get back?
Matthew: You don't.
Cassie: WHAT?!
Matthew: You have to stay here forever!
Cassie: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Zana rolled her eyes.
Zana: He's joking.
Cassie: I knew that.
Zana: Close your eyes and think of the place you were before you came here.
We all closed our eyes.
Me: It's not working...
I opened my eyes and I was back in the plane. I pulled the tranquilizer dart out of my neck.
Me: Ughhh...
I stretched my arms.
Me: Dreamworld? That was a nightmare!
I saw Cassie and Amy waking up too.
Amy: I can't argue with that.
I took all the weird plugs and stuff off me.
Me: Thanks, guys.
They nodded wearily and I heard Cassie's bodyguards rounding the corner. Spiro, Zara, and Kanji entered the room.
Cassie: How long were we gone?
I know what she meant, it had felt like days in my head.
Kanji: Gone, where did you go? You were asleep for exactly 37 minutes, 17. 65 seconds, and 3.801 milliseconds. We still have about an hour until we reach Egypt.
Me: That's reallyyy stalkerish that you know that.
Cassie: You get used to it.
Me: Really?
Cassie: Nope. So do we just go back to our lives now?
Me: I guess...
It was weird.
Cassie: I missed my life. Those 37 minutes, 17.65 seconds, and 3.801 milliseconds really tired me out! I'm so glad things are back to normal.
Zara: While you guys have been taking a nap, we were fighting off enemy planes. We have to get Cassie a new disguise. Again.
Cassie: UGHHHH guysss! Didn't you JUST do this makeover?!
Zara: This one is just for when we're in Egypt. Come on, let's goooo!
It hit me hard then. ...life was just going to go back... Cassie seemed fine...
Cassie: Noooooooooooo NEVAHHHH
I watched her, being dragged out of the room. I felt something... Something too deep for a character to feel in a parody, yet I felt it anyway. Depression? No... Sorrow? I should but I don't.. Anger. That's it, frustration. My boyfriend might be in love with another girl, my best friend is too important now for me to hang out with, and I would have to spend the rest of my life fearing about what will be around the corner. I curled my paw into a fist. It wasn't fair. It wasn't fair because I couldn't do anything about it.
I saw someone running down the halls of the plane, she looked like Cassie with long hair.
I smiled a little. Cassie would always be Cassie, no matter what. I followed her into a room of the jet.
Zara: Oh... Cassie! You look, nice...
Cassie: Please explain to me why I look like a brunette Rapunzel?!
Zara: You know that thing, that hit you on the head?
Cassie: Yeah... What about it?
Zara: It might have been the hair growth formula bottle...Dumped completely on your head.
Cassie: OMIPOTATOCHIPS what?! My hair is INSANELY long! It reaches the floor and trails behind me!
Me: I think it looks good.
Zara: Yeah It's a good look for you
Cassie: UGHHHHH When are we getting off this bloody plane?!
Kanji: We're here!
Cassie: Great.
I sighed. What's next? I walked off of the plane, with my paws in my pockets. I should probably change later. I am, after all, I am a spy.
Me: Hey Cass! Wait up!
Cassie: Hey. It feels so good in Egypt! Except for trying to clean sand out of my eyes every five seconds.
Me: That's why you wear sunglasses. *hands sunglasses*
Cassie: Hey, did you magically poof this up?
Me: -_-
My brain was already terrible enough, and here Cassie was reminding me.
Cassie: Too soon?
Spiro: Hey, come on, we have to get going.
We walked to this giant pyramid thingy where a bunch of tourists were around.
Cassie: By the way, Xura, why are you here at Egypt?
Me: Well... Uhh... I guess I just came along for the ride. I mean, after all of that Dreamland drama, it's nice to go on a summer vacation to Egypt!
I would tell Cassie later.
Cassie: Summer? It's like Fall.
Me: *ignores* It's so cool here! So, where we going?
Kanji: We should be going into that pyramid over there.
So we all just kind of squeezed inside and looked around. There were a bunch of tourists there, and lots of intricate designs on the walls.
Cassie: Ooh, this place is pretty.
Me: What are we doing here though?
Spiro: That is confidential information, and I do not feel comfortable spreading that info with a possible enemy.
Cassie: She's not an enemy, she's a friend! Ow, ow, ow owowowowowoowoow!!!!
Somebody was stepping on Cassie's hair, and the others didn't seem to notice. Cassie yanked it from under their paw, and they stumbled a bit before giving her an evil eye.
Cassie: As I was saying, she's my friend, and I trust her. She also saved me.
Spiro: >.> Okay...
Kanji: We're going to the Queen's Chamber. It has some important info, and we have to get there as soon as possible. Unluckily, none of our forces have managed to find it yet. So, we are going to have to find it ourselves.
Spiro: This should be simple enough! I mean, we're just looking for a room.
Oh how he could be more wrong...
Cassandra pulled a hidden panel... but it was full of snakes.
Cassie: OMIPOTATOCHIPS SNAKESS
Xura heard an eerie sound echoing through the corridor - Is this pyramid haunted?!
Me: O.O This is getting creepy...
Spiro found a curious hieroglyphic... but it pointed to him to a blank piece of wall.
Spiro: Wow. What a useless hieroglyphic...
Zara stuck some lit dynamite in a hole... but the fuse went dead. Probably just as well.
Zara: Great...
Kanji found a note between two stones... it said, 'Try again later!
". Why would someone leave a note like that?!
Kanji: :T
* * * 3 Hours Later * * *
Cassandra stuck a screwdriver in a notch in the stones... and it revealed a hidden button!Cassie: Now we're getting somewhere! *pushes button* *snakes drop down from the ceiling*
An ankh hung on the wall and seemed to point Xura in the right direction.
Me: I really hope this isn't a booby-trap like in Indiana Jones...
Spiro stood on a box to reach the ceiling... and there seemed to be a hidden switch there!
Spiro: I am very confused as to where I got this box...
Zara opened a door and stepped inside. The floor became a ramp and she slid to a new tunnel!
Zara: Yay! A completely new tunnel so I have absolutely no idea where I am again! /sarcasm/
Kanji found some faint hieroglyphics that had nearly worn away - Is that the symbol for 'door' at the bottom?
Kanji: How the Potato Chip should I know if that says door?
Cassie: We, we made it! The Queen's Chamber!
Me: That was exhausting! I got freaked out so many times.
Spiro: I know right! This Queen better be worth it.
???: Oh I hope I am.
Cassie: OMIPOTATOCHIPS, IT'S THE QUEEN!!!! ISN'T SHE SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD OR SOMETHING?!?!?
What kind of mission is this?
Spiro: Yeah.
Kanji: Well, she's supposed to be.
Queen: Foolish fools.
Me: Wat? 'Foolish fools?'
Grammar! Grammar!
Queen: You will pay the price for awakening me. I shall let upon a curse across the land.
Beetles started flying out of the pyramid and all over Egypt! Didn't I read an article about some guy named Archie and Queen Cleocatra?
Spiro: Seriously? Bugs? You're the Queen, I'm sure you could do better than a couple of bugs.
Everyone stared at Spiro with the "what's wrong with you" face.
Zara: Don't push it. It's bad enough as it is.
Spiro: What?
Everyone rolled their eyes.
Kanji: Yeah, we'll just be... going then. Byeee!
We all ran out of that pyramid as fast as our paws could carry us. We only stopped outside to see all of the mayhem that the beetles were having. Attacking tourists, eating up cloth, and just generally annoying everyone. It was like the 10 plagues all over again
Cassie: Please don't tell me we have to fix this problem too. I mean, we just finished up in Xura's mind. We need a vacation.
Zara: You were in her mind?!
I sighed.
Me: This was supposed to be a vacation!
Me: ZANAAAAAAAAAAA......... Is there anything to do here?!
Zana threw a book at my face.
Zana: Read that.
I flipped through the book.
Me: ZANAAAAAAAAAAA........
Zana: What?
Me: There's no pictures in here!
She threw a book with pictures at me.
Zana: Read that.
Me: ZANAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Zana: What?!
Me: I can't.
Zana: Why not?
Me: Because this picture book doesn't have words.
She looked like she was about to rip her hair out. I looked under a log in front of me.
Me: Check it out! There's a game of banana grams under here!
Zana groaned and sat up. Somehow I think she knew that I wanted to play the game with her. We poured out the bananagrams.
Me: So why is dream me so different from the real me?
Zana: I'm actually an exact copy of you.
Me: Well... You're a bit off. I expected playing banana grams with myself would be fun.
Zana: I suppose I'm the you without your memories.
She spelled "This is boring" in banana grams. I spelled "your boring" back.
Me: Well I'm pretty grumpy without memories. And if you were really me then you would've given me a picture book with words the first time I asked.
She rolled her eyes and spelled "rightttttt".... I took my banana grams and spelled "oh it's on sister" she spelled back "bring it" so we had a banana gram argument that probably passed away most of the time. But as we argued, I noticed that something in her behavior changed. She started to act more like the real me and soon I could she was the real me. Eventually, we had worn ourselves out with all the lame jokes and comebacks we had used against each other. Soon we put the banana Grams away and looked under the log again. I stuck my paws under the log and blindly searched around. I picked up a really old dusty book. I cleaned it off and looked at it.
Me: What's this?
Zana: I don't think you should open that.
She tried to grab it and I turned away, surprised.
Me: Why?
Zana: Because it's the memories you don't remember
Me: Why wouldn't I want to know that? Wouldn't I want to remember good memories I had with my fake parents when I was really little?
Zana: It's a little more than that.
She looked concerned.
Zana: I'm surprised that's in here. Though I do suppose I told Jake to hide it somewhere. I guess he threw in the lake.
Me: What's in here that you don't want me to know about?
Zana: ... The chip in your brain. The memories you never saw but your body recorded. The things you did but didn't know about.
Me: ... And what did I do exactly?
She paused.
Zana: Don't look in the book.
She tried to steal it again and the ground suddenly shook. The book fell out of my hands and slid across the floor. We made a dive for it at the same time and then suddenly the room tilted to the left. The book stayed in place while we slid away from it. I tried to get to my feet but the ground shook again.
Me: What's going on?!
Little did I know that someone (*cough* Cassie) had disturbed a sea monster underneath us and was throwing us all around. Zana didn't even respond, her focus was to get the book. The suspense was horrible. I wanted more than anything to get in that book. What had I done that was so secret even to me? The ground shook and twisted. Zana slid to the right of the room but I held onto a rock. The book was jammed underneath a log in the middle of the floor. I carefully angled myself to slide down right in front of it. I grabbed it and sat up.
Zana: Don't do it Xura. You don't know. You don't want to know what will be in that book. Something far beyond disturbing. You'll never get it out of your head. Once it's opened, you'll never go back to who you were.
I looked at the cover of the book and paused.
Me: Okay.
I threw the book behind me.
Suddenly, I saw Cassie knocking on the glass of the cave with a key in hand. She unlocked the door and water burst in. We swam to the surface, leaving the book behind in the depths of the scarlet lake. We reached the surface with a gasp.
Me: What was going on?
I looked at Cassie, expecting a good answer. Cassie opened her mouth like she was going to say something, then closed it. Then she opened her mouth again and closed it again.
Cassie: I have no idea.
I rolled my eyes. We swam out of the lake and reached the shore. I wiped the sand off me and we went to the center of the land, in front of the castle.
Cassie: What now?
Zana: Now...
There was a really awkward dramatic pause
Zana: We save Xura's brain.
Cassie: Excuse me, but haven't we been doing that the whole time you were locked up at the bottom of that dumb lake??? What's the point of this anyway? When do we get home?! I want to get back to writing MY parody! I have a potato that really wants to get back to my crazy life.
Me: Sorry, Cass.
Amy: This is, admittedly, getting pretty boring. Can we get on with it?
Zana: You don't even want a dramatic ending?
Me: Not really.
Zana rolled her eyes and huffed.
Zana: Fineeeeeee....
We all went into the castle and went to the back of it. There were 6 floor positions. They all curved around a huge door. Clone, Keira, Zana, Matthew, and Jake stood on the spaces. Zana signaled that I should do the same. I walked over to the last space and the door began to open. A huge purple wave released from the door, blowing our hair back and returning everything back to normal... or at least how it used to be.
Cassie: Okay... So how do we get back?
Matthew: You don't.
Cassie: WHAT?!
Matthew: You have to stay here forever!
Cassie: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Zana rolled her eyes.
Zana: He's joking.
Cassie: I knew that.
Zana: Close your eyes and think of the place you were before you came here.
We all closed our eyes.
Me: It's not working...
I opened my eyes and I was back in the plane. I pulled the tranquilizer dart out of my neck.
Me: Ughhh...
I stretched my arms.
Me: Dreamworld? That was a nightmare!
I saw Cassie and Amy waking up too.
Amy: I can't argue with that.
I took all the weird plugs and stuff off me.
Me: Thanks, guys.
They nodded wearily and I heard Cassie's bodyguards rounding the corner. Spiro, Zara, and Kanji entered the room.
Cassie: How long were we gone?
I know what she meant, it had felt like days in my head.
Kanji: Gone, where did you go? You were asleep for exactly 37 minutes, 17. 65 seconds, and 3.801 milliseconds. We still have about an hour until we reach Egypt.
Me: That's reallyyy stalkerish that you know that.
Cassie: You get used to it.
Me: Really?
Cassie: Nope. So do we just go back to our lives now?
Me: I guess...
It was weird.
Cassie: I missed my life. Those 37 minutes, 17.65 seconds, and 3.801 milliseconds really tired me out! I'm so glad things are back to normal.
Zara: While you guys have been taking a nap, we were fighting off enemy planes. We have to get Cassie a new disguise. Again.
Cassie: UGHHHH guysss! Didn't you JUST do this makeover?!
Zara: This one is just for when we're in Egypt. Come on, let's goooo!
It hit me hard then. ...life was just going to go back... Cassie seemed fine...
Cassie: Noooooooooooo NEVAHHHH
I watched her, being dragged out of the room. I felt something... Something too deep for a character to feel in a parody, yet I felt it anyway. Depression? No... Sorrow? I should but I don't.. Anger. That's it, frustration. My boyfriend might be in love with another girl, my best friend is too important now for me to hang out with, and I would have to spend the rest of my life fearing about what will be around the corner. I curled my paw into a fist. It wasn't fair. It wasn't fair because I couldn't do anything about it.
I saw someone running down the halls of the plane, she looked like Cassie with long hair.
I smiled a little. Cassie would always be Cassie, no matter what. I followed her into a room of the jet.
Zara: Oh... Cassie! You look, nice...
Cassie: Please explain to me why I look like a brunette Rapunzel?!
Zara: You know that thing, that hit you on the head?
Cassie: Yeah... What about it?
Zara: It might have been the hair growth formula bottle...Dumped completely on your head.
Cassie: OMIPOTATOCHIPS what?! My hair is INSANELY long! It reaches the floor and trails behind me!
Me: I think it looks good.
Zara: Yeah It's a good look for you
Cassie: UGHHHHH When are we getting off this bloody plane?!
Kanji: We're here!
Cassie: Great.
I sighed. What's next? I walked off of the plane, with my paws in my pockets. I should probably change later. I am, after all, I am a spy.
Me: Hey Cass! Wait up!
Cassie: Hey. It feels so good in Egypt! Except for trying to clean sand out of my eyes every five seconds.
Me: That's why you wear sunglasses. *hands sunglasses*
Cassie: Hey, did you magically poof this up?
Me: -_-
My brain was already terrible enough, and here Cassie was reminding me.
Cassie: Too soon?
Spiro: Hey, come on, we have to get going.
We walked to this giant pyramid thingy where a bunch of tourists were around.
Cassie: By the way, Xura, why are you here at Egypt?
Me: Well... Uhh... I guess I just came along for the ride. I mean, after all of that Dreamland drama, it's nice to go on a summer vacation to Egypt!
I would tell Cassie later.
Cassie: Summer? It's like Fall.
Me: *ignores* It's so cool here! So, where we going?
Kanji: We should be going into that pyramid over there.
So we all just kind of squeezed inside and looked around. There were a bunch of tourists there, and lots of intricate designs on the walls.
Cassie: Ooh, this place is pretty.
Me: What are we doing here though?
Spiro: That is confidential information, and I do not feel comfortable spreading that info with a possible enemy.
Cassie: She's not an enemy, she's a friend! Ow, ow, ow owowowowowoowoow!!!!
Somebody was stepping on Cassie's hair, and the others didn't seem to notice. Cassie yanked it from under their paw, and they stumbled a bit before giving her an evil eye.
Cassie: As I was saying, she's my friend, and I trust her. She also saved me.
Spiro: >.> Okay...
Kanji: We're going to the Queen's Chamber. It has some important info, and we have to get there as soon as possible. Unluckily, none of our forces have managed to find it yet. So, we are going to have to find it ourselves.
Spiro: This should be simple enough! I mean, we're just looking for a room.
Oh how he could be more wrong...
Cassandra pulled a hidden panel... but it was full of snakes.
Cassie: OMIPOTATOCHIPS SNAKESS
Xura heard an eerie sound echoing through the corridor - Is this pyramid haunted?!
Me: O.O This is getting creepy...
Spiro found a curious hieroglyphic... but it pointed to him to a blank piece of wall.
Spiro: Wow. What a useless hieroglyphic...
Zara stuck some lit dynamite in a hole... but the fuse went dead. Probably just as well.
Zara: Great...
Kanji found a note between two stones... it said, 'Try again later!

Kanji: :T
* * * 3 Hours Later * * *
Cassandra stuck a screwdriver in a notch in the stones... and it revealed a hidden button!Cassie: Now we're getting somewhere! *pushes button* *snakes drop down from the ceiling*
An ankh hung on the wall and seemed to point Xura in the right direction.
Me: I really hope this isn't a booby-trap like in Indiana Jones...
Spiro stood on a box to reach the ceiling... and there seemed to be a hidden switch there!
Spiro: I am very confused as to where I got this box...
Zara opened a door and stepped inside. The floor became a ramp and she slid to a new tunnel!
Zara: Yay! A completely new tunnel so I have absolutely no idea where I am again! /sarcasm/
Kanji found some faint hieroglyphics that had nearly worn away - Is that the symbol for 'door' at the bottom?
Kanji: How the Potato Chip should I know if that says door?
Cassie: We, we made it! The Queen's Chamber!
Me: That was exhausting! I got freaked out so many times.
Spiro: I know right! This Queen better be worth it.
???: Oh I hope I am.
Cassie: OMIPOTATOCHIPS, IT'S THE QUEEN!!!! ISN'T SHE SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD OR SOMETHING?!?!?
What kind of mission is this?
Spiro: Yeah.
Kanji: Well, she's supposed to be.
Queen: Foolish fools.
Me: Wat? 'Foolish fools?'
Grammar! Grammar!
Queen: You will pay the price for awakening me. I shall let upon a curse across the land.
Beetles started flying out of the pyramid and all over Egypt! Didn't I read an article about some guy named Archie and Queen Cleocatra?
Spiro: Seriously? Bugs? You're the Queen, I'm sure you could do better than a couple of bugs.
Everyone stared at Spiro with the "what's wrong with you" face.
Zara: Don't push it. It's bad enough as it is.
Spiro: What?
Everyone rolled their eyes.
Kanji: Yeah, we'll just be... going then. Byeee!
We all ran out of that pyramid as fast as our paws could carry us. We only stopped outside to see all of the mayhem that the beetles were having. Attacking tourists, eating up cloth, and just generally annoying everyone. It was like the 10 plagues all over again
Cassie: Please don't tell me we have to fix this problem too. I mean, we just finished up in Xura's mind. We need a vacation.
Zara: You were in her mind?!
I sighed.
Me: This was supposed to be a vacation!