A/N: Hi there everyone! Sorry to keep you waiting, and I have to apologize for keeping you waiting a bit more. However, in the meantime, I hope you enjoy this next chapter, which has very little to do with anything but is still oh, so significant. Read on if you dare. XD

Now, does anyone know why I keep wanting to type greased lighting?

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When Rune staggered back through the auditorium doors and slumped into one of the newly conjured chairs that he had decided were figments of his imagination, he found that a giant screen had been conjured as well and this weird person SilverCat was hooking up a projector. Well, she was until he sat down, as covered with cookie crumbs as he was...she had then turned on him, yelling about making a mess everywhere. He retorted rather snappishly about how Thatz plus Kitchel plus him unwittingly taking the last cookie had created somewhat of an uproar, throwing in the fact that if this was the way she acted about a little mess she shouldn't venture outside until Alfeegi was finished alternately yelling at random people and cleaning up 'this insufferable mess'.

Scarcely had Rune's quiet time begun however when the doors back into the auditorium place that Rune had almost convinced himself were figments of his imagination burst open and the rest of the dragon, demon, and other clans flooded back in. "Whoa, what's this?" Kitchel, still holding what's left of the last cookie, pointed at the screen. "Sit down and I'll show you," SilverCat answered, and Kitchel hopped into a chair. The lights dimmed, and a film began to be projected onto the screen.

5...4...3...2...1...beep!

A shot of Nadil on screen caught everyone's attention. The demon lord appeared to be standing a beat up, junky old 50's style car. This was not what drew their attention. The demon lord also appeared to be singing.

"Why this car is automatic..."

Shydeman: "systematic,"

Fedelta: "Hyyyyyyydromatic,"

An idea hit the Demon Lord. "Why this car is Greased Lightning!"

Behind him, Fedelta and Shydy slapped hands and agreed, "Greased Lightning!"

What happened next, no one really knows. Some may tell you that it was hysterically funny. Some will tell you that it was embarrassing. Some may not be able to tell you anything, due to their wiping the entire incident from their memories in hopes of regaining some semblance of sanity. However, the words: "Go greased lightning you're burning up the quarter mile (greased lightning, go greased lightning)" will never again be the same.

Let's just say that this is a permanent black mark against the Demon Lord.

"Hey, where's the remote to my projector?!" Cat jumped up and started searching for the remote as if she'd dropped it. Nadil, however, cackled and pointed the small rectangle of plastic (which fascinated Kharl) at the machine. "Watch and weep, Lykouleon…"

The picture on the screen bent and fast-forwarded, landing on a scene of the Dragon Lord and his Queen. The little date in the bottom right hand corner showed that this was a little over a week old. The tune, which was happy and carefree, most certainly did not affect the White Dragon Officer, who realized at once that this is what must have been happening that day when he came up short in the Palace treasury AGAIN and couldn't find the Lord to complain. As a stress mark began to tick on his forehead, the people on the screen behind him continued to sing.

Lykouleon: "I think they meant it, when they said you can't buy love,"

Raseleane: "Now I know you can rent it, a new lease you are my love…"

Both: "On life, be my life…I've longed to discover, something as true as this is…"

A dark shape loomed against the screen; perhaps one of the most terrifying shapes in the world…Alfeegi's shadow. All at once, the dreaded event occurred. "I've longed to discover something too, milord!" he began shrieking. "ALL I WANT IS FOR PEOPLE TO TELL ME WHEN THEY TAKE MONEY FROM THE TREASURY!!! IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR A LITTLE STRUCTURE AROUND HERE?! NOW I FIND THAT THE MONEY YOU ASSURED ME WENT TO KEEPING THATZ FED WAS USED FOR A MUSIC VIDEO! DO YOU KNOW HOW MAD THE AMBASSADOR FROM MEMPHIS WAS WHEN I HAD TO RESCHEDULE HIS MEETING WITH YOU BECAUSE YOU WERE NO WHERE TO BE FOUND?"

Rath rather felt relieved, 'Glad it's not me this time…' but Thatz felt stiffed. "What, you spent money you could have spent on food (or Treasure!) On this?"

Somehow Alfeegi was gently subdued and convinced to sit back down (by Mr. DuctTape…) and another clip began to roll. For most, if not all concerned, it was pure agony.

Shydeman: It's hard to believe, that I couldn't see… you were always right beside me!

Shyrendora: Thought I was alone, with NO ONE to hold, but you were always right beside me!

If ever there was a sensation like one's eardrums bursting from the sheer horror of any one sound, Tetheus personally felt, this would be it.

"I can't tell if the fact that neither of them should ever sing again or the fact that its SHYDEMAN and SHYRENDORA dancing around up there that scares me more…" Kaistern mused aloud, while Ruwalk nearby was struggling with nausea.

Shydeman: strikes a pose This feeling's like no other!

Shyrendora: I WANT you to KNOW!!!

Both: jazz squares I've never had someone who knows me like YOU DO…the way YOU DO!! I've never had SOMEONE as good for me as YOU, no one like YOU! SO LONELY BEFORE I FINALLY FOUND WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR…Skipping away doo doo doot doot doo doo doot doot doo doo, whoa whoa whoa whoa… ending pose

Audience: ……………..o.O……………….

Lykouleon remarked quietly around stifled laughter, "That's it. I'm never going to be able to take them seriously ever again. I'm just going to break out into laughter next time they invade or something…"

The next section of film showed snowfall before zooming in on a window, where Bierrez stood, moping glumly. "It's Christmas ... baby, please come home…" he told a picture, which, when zoomed in upon, showed Cesia. "The snow's comin' down, I'm watchin' it fall, Lots of people around, Baby, please come home…They're singin' 'Deck the Halls', But it's not like Christmas at all, I remember when you were here…And all the fun we had last year…"
A flying tackle in the first row redirected most people's attention as Bierrez tried to spare himself humiliation by gaining control of the remote. Only a breathy voice from above (aka the speakers) halted what might have been disaster. "Every night in my dreams, I see you, I feel you…that is how I know you go oooooooonn……"

Eyes half closed in an unexplainable emotion, Kharl crooned the overplayed ballad before a star lit background. "Near, far, wherever you are I believe that the heart must go on….." Rath jumped to his feet and pointed at the alchemist, who even now was singing with himself. "There! NOW will someone believe me? He's a STALKER I TELL YOU!" He launched himself at the hapless enchanter, screaming something that became undistinguishable after the word 'daddy-o'.

Cesia, who had been sitting next to the enraged Fire Knight, simply shook her head as she watched the rolling ball of fury, dust, and random other things kicked up by the dueling duo. "I'm never going to understan-whoa….." What she was never going to understand was lost as she recognized someone on the big screen.

Herself.

Wow that was really never supposed to be videotaped…a hand in the corner of the viewfinder grabbed a tree branch in a desperate attempt to not fall out of the tree as laughter momentarily blanked out the words being-sung-by the people on screen.

Rath: "Take me for what I am…who I was meant to be, and if you give a damn- Take me baby, or leave me!"

On screen, Cesia began to reply back angrily to the Fire Dragon Knight, who was currently dancing on a table top in the Great Hall (Cernozura: 'Now I know how those footprints got there…I was afraid to ask before…') as the Real Life Cesia buried her red face in her hands in embarrassment. "Hey wait a minute…that hand looked like Kaistern's!"

Kaistern: waves awkwardly, then bolts for door

"Now its time for the Clip Show!" a happy voice called out, and in quick succession the following scenes were flashed on screen:

Alfeegi and Reema: "Who can say if I've been changed for the better…but because I knew you, I have been changed for good…" Tears sparkled on each of their faces as they sang together, mirrored by the tears on the White Dragon Officer's face as he plotted revenge on whoever shot this video clip.

Thatz: (La Vie Boheme tune) To days of inspiration, eating cookies, finding treasure (almost nothing), the need for expresso and jello pudding! To going for ice cream, eating French cuisine, getting faaaat…

Kitchel: incredibly out of tune When I meet the black dragon officer, my whole life will change, cause once you're with the black dragon officer, no one thinks you're strange…

Audience: 'on the contrary…'

"And all of Dusis HAS to love you when by Tetheus you're acclaimed…and this gift or this curse I have inside this bag , maybe at last I'll know why when I give it to the Dragon Lord and meet the Black Dragon Officer……

Rune and Tintlett: in forest Can you sing with all the colors of the mountain, can you paint with all the colors of the wind? Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest…

Offscreen:

Thatz: I dunno about the colors of the wind, but –hoo boy- if you could see the colors of Rune's FACE…

Onscreen:

Cesia: What is this feeling, so sudden and new?

Rath: I felt the moment I laid eyes on you

Tintlett: My pulse is rushing

Lim Kaana: My head is reeling

Tintlett: My face is flushing

Nadil and Lykouleon at each other: What is this feeling?

Alfeegi to Kaistern (after finding more missing funds): Fervid as a flame…does it have a name

All: yes…LOATHING! Un-a-dulterated LOATHING!

Fedelta: For your face

Saabel: Your voice

Fedelta: Your clothing

All: Let's just say, I loathe it all! Every little trait however small makes my very flesh begin to crawl, with simple utter loathing! There's a strange exhilaration, in such total detestation, it's so pure, so strong! Though I do admit it came on fast, still I do believe that it can last and I will be loathing, LOATHING you my WHOLE LIFE LONG!

A sputtering is heard, and the film of horror and despair comes to a grinding halt. "FINALLY!" Garfakcy cries, holding the pair of scissors with which he just cut the ribbon of film, "It's over!"

Cat launches herself at the puny human to revenge the death of her masterpiece as Thatz, still not over the whole "Colors of the Wind" incident starts torturing Rune mercilessly. Rune, spying his old friend the 'Insubordination Rope', gives the rope a good tug, which brings the 500lb weight down on himself, not Thatz.

Ouch.

Alfeegi stalks around, looking for the Dragon Lord in order to complain about having this all videotaped, and grabs a random person he thinks is the Dragon Lord and commences screaming in their face about the indignity of it all.

Wrong person, Alfeegi. That's a demon.

Oops.

And the whole party ends up a giant mess of popcorn.

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Well, thanks for sticking around for the INTERMISSION! Hopefully, the next Act will be up soon, so stay tuned!

Sorry about the time between updates, but as you can see, writing can be hazardous to your health. shifty eyes Now, I must time my retreat so that Alfeeg-

Alfeegi: Hands on hips so that I what?

Cats: o.O Uhhhhh…….gottagobye! scrams

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