Hey there! Chapter 5 is now ready!

...Finally...

Remember, russian translations will be in bold and ( )'s.

-Motoko

The next night, Hokis cracked open his right eye slowly at the sound of Umlaut saying, "Hello!?!?!?! Privet?!?!?! Anyone alive in there?!" (Hello?!?!?!)

Hokis sat up form his place on the couch, seeing the jester floating above the girl they brought in the other night. He glanced over as Serenity, who stood there, watching Umlaut with her yellow eyes looking bored. he adjusted his black mask with the silver lightning bolt on it, getting up off the couch to stand next to Serenity.

"Umlaut," Hokis began to scold, blinking away the sleepiness. "Leave the girl alone. Let her sleep!"

The jester looked at his demon friend, the bells on his hat jingling, as well as the red choker with a bell on it. "Aww...but Hokis... TokkenTakker told me I had to wake her up so that I could take Serenity and her to him so he could-"

Just then, Hokis saw the girl began to stir under the floating jester in the corner of his eye. "Umlaut!"

Before the jester could retort, he came face to face with a pair of brown eyes. His green eyes stared at hers as he smiled widly, showing his long sharp teeth that came down to his chin. "Hi there! I'm-"

Just as he was about to introcuce himself, the girl screamed at the sight of his teeth. Umluat, in shocked, hollered loudly as well. Hokis and Serenity stared with a "..." face, watching as Umlaut screamed...

Then the girl.

Then Umlaut.

Then the girl.

Then Umlaut.

It was a scream fest! Finally, both of them stopped screaming, panting. Serenity rolled her eyes as Hokis shook his head in shame, a little uneasy at the fact 2 girls were in the livingroom with him.

"W-who are you?! WHAT are you?!," the girl demanded, scooting away from Umlaut and cowering against the wall, as far away as possible from the floating, scary-looking jester. "Where am I?!"

Umlaut blinked, popping his neck loudly. "My name is Umlaut, pronounced Um-Lot... I am an Undead jester and spokesperson of this place!"

The girl blinked."What is this place?"

"Welcome to CarnEvil! Where there is no such thing as normality! And reality is out the window!" The jester replied, throwing his arms in the air.

"Do you always speak in rhymes," the girl pondered, blinking.

Umlaut chuckled. "Sorry. Force of habit." He looked over at Serenity and Hokis with a goofy grin. he flew over to hokis, wrapping an arm around his neck. "This is my best friend in the whole world, Hokis Pokis!"

The demon boy just scoffed, slightly saluting the girl. Umlaut then pointed a clawed hand at Serenity. "And this is my new frined, Serenity!"

"For now," she muttered, crossing her arms across her big chest.

Umlaut pretended he didn't hear that, looking at the girl. "So...what's your name?!"

The girl looked at her feet, not sure if she should tell the strange looking people. She looked at Serenity's diamond-like tail, gulping a bit as the tips shined in the light. She was hoping that she would never had to meet the full extent of that tail. "My name is...Talia..."

The gold and purple jester grinned. "Goody! Now, we are off to see TokkenTakker!"

"Why am I slowly being reminded of Wizard of Oz...," Hokis muttered, allowing Umlaut to drag him out of his house.

Serenity looked at the girl as she slowly limped to the door. "You comming. If you stay here, you'll just get pestered by the jester again..."

Talia nodded a bit, walking over and grabbing Serenity's arm, putting it over her shoulder. "Here, let me help."

The Demon girl glanced at Talia, secretly smiling from the dark depths of her robe. "Thanks...Talia...?"

"Don't mention it," Talia chirped, looking at the hand cuffs on each of her wrists, cursing them inwardly. She already liked Serenity and was kind of glad to be helping her out. After all, running from the cops aint easy. But yet, why did she feel that she was missing something important. A bit of information that seemed to be very important to her. What ever it was, she hoped it wouldn't effect her entire life.

Boy, if only she knew how wrong she was...

Short chapter, I know, but it makes up for not putting one up at all! XD

Read and review please!

:3

-Motoko