[Anniversary] Morpheus strikes at noon

@"Poptart"

Chloe didn't know how she got here, but she also didn't realize that she didn't know. All she knew was that, when she took off the One Ring to Rule Them All, she was in the middle of a dimly-lit, fog-filled forest. The ring went into her pocket, and she walked into a clearing.

She heard a twig snap behind her. She was followed, but this didn't surprise her. She remembered, in that way one 'remembers' things in a dream, that her sparkly vampire boyfriend had been chasing her through this forest. Or maybe it was a sparkly vampire girlfriend?

Sparkly vampire significant other.

"I know what you are," Chloe called out back over her shoulder without looking.

@"ReD"

Alcohol? Drugs? What? She wasn’t into that kind of stuff! Maybe somebody played a nasty trick on her? She wouldn’t think so, the last thing that she remembered before this…place, was to be watching the TV and drinking some nice hot chocolate, it was late at night and she helped Mikistli out of the mirror world earlier so unless she put something on her home-made chocolate while she wasn’t looking it would be impossible for her to had been knocked out by drugs or alcohol. She knew perfectly that Mikistli wasn’t like that, she could be a heartless violent bitch from time to time, but she wouldn’t drug her.

“Are you sure that the only way to come here is by drugs or alcohol? I mean, out of hot chocolate I had nothing to drink or eat for at least two hours, and the chocolate was made by me” Ok, now she was a bit confused.

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Thorn's skin was pale white (covered in tattoos) and ice cold. Sometimes she spoke like--like she was from a different place. She didn't go out into the sunlight. ...How old was she?

Thorn had been eighteen for a while. (She was turning nineteen soon.)

"I know what you are."

She crept behind Chloe, looking at her with her chagrin and perfectly chiseled features. "Say it. Out loud. Say it!"

Right. Girlfriend. That was a female voice. She could feel her girlfriend's breath on the back of her neck. She was uncomfortably close to her now and it was kind of starting to weird her out.

"...You're a vampire," Chloe said, breathless.

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(Thorn couldn't remember what... movie this was. Was this a movie? She had a feeling that it was.)

The girl smelled good, like a Pillsbury steak.

"Are you afraid?"

==> Allan > Seneca
@"Emy"

Allan nodded in agreement. "That's pretty true. My great aunt is a local faith healer--we call'em albularyo where I'm from--she gets to deal with a lot of that. It wasn't always pretty. She had to deal with both spirits and elementals; I'm pretty sure it was tiring for her." And for Allan, spending vacation with her always, always made his anxiety worse. Being pychic and too close to elementals was too much.

Allan tipped his cup a little, looking at his own reflection made from what was left of his tea at the bottom of the cup, "It must be hard for, you then; seeing the departed." Allan looked up, "I respect your decision though; the idea of morticians used to scare me as a child actually but you're right; the dead do need respect too. I guess that's how some spirits tend to cause trouble for the living..."

==> June
@"Anzellous"

June had no idea how he was here, dressed like some Hindi peasant or whatever but he knew enough that he was poor, orphaned and a street rat. The moment he caught sight of money scattering around, June took it as an opportunity and swooped down to get an armful of cash. "Hey, thanks, old man!" he said with a grin, stuffing the cash to a bag he had pulled out of empty space.

"Catch!" he called tossing the sack of money to his monkey friend.

The fifteen-year-old Chloe turned around to face Thorn. She was expecting to see someone else, another girl her age from school. And for a moment, she was surprised.

Then, she began to remember. She remembered that Thorn was also a vampire, that her name was Thorn, and that they were lesbians for each other. And that their apparent age difference totally wasn't weird because Thorn was probably actually hundreds of years old.

"Of course not," she said. "Look at me, I am literal hell-spawn. And a Jedi."

Chloe also remembered that she was a Jedi Knight. Why should she be afraid of a vampire?

Just then, they were suddenly transported to a narrow, metallic platform with a deep hole underneath it. Thorn was nowhere to be found. The place was dark, eerie...

Darth Vader jumped at Chloe with his red light saber.

Chloe was holding a blue lightsaber, now. She brought it up just in time to block Darth Vader's swing.

Punk rock vampire girlfriend was already gone from her mind, and she didn't even question what was happening or how she had gotten here. All Chloe knew was that she was fighting Darth Vader, and that Darth Vader needed killing.

"Darth Vader!" she called out. "I'm going to kick your ass! With... this sword, I guess?" She backed away too far for Vader to reach her, and lowered her weapon. "Okay, I'm really sorry, my trash talk game is garbage right now. Can you give me a second? I need a one-liner."

One-liners were very important to Chloe Bella Skywalker at that moment.

Wei looked around, not recognizing where he was. He was dressed pretty sparingly, in loose pants and a fez. Weird.

All of a sudden money was tossed into his arms.

Oh, yeah, obviously. That was his friend Aladdin. Or... June? June-laddin?

He ran off, laughing a screechy monkey laugh.