I haven't updated this in such a long time. Why? Nothing's going on in real life, I'm just...lazy. Well, it's here now. There's enough material stored up from chat sessions so that I can continue for a good amount of time, really. This chapter's also shorter than the first one, but this was really the best place to stop the chapter. Better immediately get to typing the next one. Even given this apparently-severe author attention deficit disorder, I should have it finished soon. Although...I DID tell someone I might be doing the next chapter in a week or something like that. How wrong I was.

Be glad it's here now. It may be decayed somewhat, but hey.

I WOULD use the old weird dividers, but for some reason, anything but centered letters and a few other things is BROKEN. Or...something. The less-than and more-than symbols just aren't popping up for me.

Part Two: Welcome!

(or: You Know What He Said What She Said)

(or: The Birdy Duo)

(or: The Real All-New Animated Ghostbusters)

(or: And Their Sidekicks)

(or: The Eventually-Hatching Dragons)

(or: Speshul)

(or: Pinball Eggs)

(or: Friends x2)

(or: Local Rich Kids)

(or even: This Sudden Influx Of New Students Is Really Becoming A Rather Secluded Clique Of Its Own)

The duo was at the bus stop, homeward bound...again. Lydia was tripped by Aqu's tail and fell face-first into the snow. Leeron tried to hold in his laughter, but couldn't help it and started laughing a bit. "I'm sorry, it's just your face...snow...ha!"

"I don't really care if you laugh at that or not." She shook and brushed the snow off. "I've been frozen before, actually."

Leeron looked a bit confused at that last statement. "Then you're one of the few people I've met that doesn't get embarrassed! Congrats!"

"Yeah, I guess that comes as a bonus," Lyd said.

The bus pulled up again. Lyd expected Leeron to sit next to her as had become usual, but he only came to say, "I'm gonna go meet someone new, okay?"

Lyd shrugged. "Fine with me."

He scanned the aisles for a person he didn't recall. He discovered a girl sitting by herself, who had raven-colored hair and bright green eyes. "So, what's your name?" Leeron inquired.

"..." was her reply.

"Shy, are you? What would it take for you to open up to somebody?"

"..."

"I'm Leeron. You can-" The shy girl noticed her bag shaking, and quickly grabbed it. "What are you hiding in there? Pokemon Pinball?"

"N-no..." Her voice was small and shy right now.

"Some dancing eggs?"

"Uh...yyyeah?"

"Hm. Sounds like you've got...a dragon egg with you."

"Uhh, it's not a dragon."

"Dragons are the least of our worries! No need to hide that!"

"No. It's, uh, a thunderbird. It's loud and dangerous." She paused for a second. "It can kill better than a magi."

"Well, I'm gonna have a dragon that's loud and dangerous, too," Leeron replied, leaning hard against her.

"ORLY?" she replied, which was an odd thing to say.

"Yeah," he said creepily.

"YARLY?"

"I'm never wrong."

"Don't make me bring out the owls!"

"You crazy girl," Leeron chuckled, dismissing the thought with a flick of the wrist. "What owls?"

"The ORLY and YARLY owls."

"Ch-ch-CHATSPEAK~!" Leeron began guffawing, unable to contain his inevitable laughter.

The girl started laughing as well. "C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER."

"You've got a sense of humor, that you do!"

"Dur! I play the computer!"

"Well, I play...hmm..." He was expecting to make a snappier response, but nothing came to him.

The girl began to do a little jig. "It's peanut buttah jelleh time!"

"What's peanut butter jelly time?" He looked confused.

"Don't ask if ya don't know." She paused. "Look it up on YouTube."

Leeron laughed for no good reason! "Then...then...THEN YA DON'T KNOW IF YA DON'T ASK!" he guffawed.

"Yep. Or...start watching Family Guy. Family Guy is like the funniest adult animation EVER."

Leeron PFFFFUUUUUUUU'd all over the aisle. It was so funny! And he didn't know why! That's just how funny it was!

She snickered.

"Hey, you wanna hear a joke I just came up with?"

"Uh, sure."

"You know what the giant robot said to his enemies when they met in the hot springs? He said...'Put your clothes on.' GUFFAAAAAAWWWWWWWWW! IT'S SO FUNNY BUT I DON'T KNOW WHYYYYY!"

The girl didn't know what to say to that. "That isn't funny," she replied bluntly. "It's just plain...weird."

He wiped his wet mouth. "What, you don't think it's funny? Well," he said, tapping his chin, "it IS a tad vulgar..."

"No, I've heard way funnier jokes."

"Oh yeah? Prove it," he dared, crossing his arms with a smile.

"...Why did the chicken cross the road?"

"It was...running away from the Moon?" Leeron gasped with realization. "Oh, I get it! Since the Moon already...wait, how does that..."

"No, it got hit by a bus."

"Oh, a bus!" he exclaimed, pointing and laughing. "GUFFAAAAAAAAAWWW! That was a good one!" He wiped away a tear after several long moments of laughter. "I'm Leeron! Who are you?"

"Oh, I'm Raven," she said with a snicker.

"Raven hair, raven person... !" He spat at just about every other seat in the bus!

"Durrr." Raven leaned against the window, singing softly to herself as she watched the clouds go by. "Bye, bye, miss American pie, ah drove mah Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry, them good ol' boys with whiskey and rye, singing 'this'll be the day that i die, this'll be the day that I die'."

"Well - heh heh - RAVEN, nice meeting you!" He leaned on her more, shaking all over with suppressed laughter.

"Nice meeting you too," she said back.

The bus came to a screeching halt as usual. "Well, there's the school! I don't wanna be late for anything! Get away from me before I explode from laughter!" Leeron leaped off the bus. Raven smiled back, slowly exiting.

Outside, Lydia was walking across the sidewalk with her backpack slung over her shoulder. She looked back at the few other students leaving, and spotted Raven. "Hey! Raven!" She waved and ran over to her.

Leeron put his arm around Lydia's shoulders. "Lyd! I just met a FUNNY girl named - wait, you already know each other?"

Raven grinned. "Hey there, Lydia! Long time no see!"

"Dur! She's my sister, of course we know each other!"

"Oh?" His eyeshadowed eyes widened. He would never have guessed! Or...maybe he would have...

Lydia smiled. "Dangit, Raven, where've you been?"

Raven shook her head. "Ghosthuntin'."

"Ah, I see. What have ya caught?" As the conversation went on, Leeron stood to the side, rubbing his chin and standing with one leg slightly extended.

"A LOT of ghosts. Seriously, New York is simply swarming with ghosts."

Lydia shrugged. "Life is life. Well, Raven, I gotta go to class. See ya around!" She hurried off to class.

Leeron and Raven also went to class. Now, Leeron might have found it strange that Raven had been hunting ghosts when Lydia was probably somewhere else, but hey, who cared about that, anyway?

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Raven and Lydia sat in the same bus seat that afternoon. Leeron squeezed himself between the girls. "So you two are sisters!" he chirped. "Yeah!"

"Yeah, we are," Raven said, smiling. "Any fool could guess. No offense."

"Oh, really, now!" He got closer.

"Yarlynao," the siblings said at the same time.

"Guess I'm a special fool, then, for not figuring it out sooner, huh!"

"Speshulllll!" Raven said, going cross-eyed.

"Yeah, heh, special."

Her eyes went back to normal. "Can you go cross-eyed?"

"Do you REALLY want me to?" Leeron sounded like a child predator.

Raven rolled her eyes as they crossed. "Bet you can't roll your eyes back in your head." And she did so, her eyes becoming only white.

"Wow, I was almost freaked out by that! But I've seen weirder, trust me."

"Oh, really?" Lydia asked, following Raven's lead. "Not many people can do this, you know."

"Maybe I can..." Then he rolled his own eyes back in his head, even though he'd never done it before! "W-woah! This feels really uncomfortable! I understand why onyl SPESHUL people like you would wanna do it!" He laughed.

"It does feel weird, but you can see your brain!"

"I don't think I'll be doing THAT, missy!" He waggled his finger at Lyd.

"Well, we can."

"I don't know what to say that! Maybe being in front of RAVEN messes with my ability to make snappy comebacks!"

The bus stopped, and they rolled their eyes back at him. "Well, we gotta go." Lydia and her sister stood up, slinging backpacks over their respective shoulders.

"Okay. Ciao~!" Leeron literally blew a heart at them (and they rolled their eyes again) as they all left the scene.

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Leeron was REALLY excited about seeing the eggs' progress! They might hatch soon!

When he arrived in that town, he had rented a shabby little apartment in a small, cheap complex. It was adequate enough for him, and he'd begun to personalize it. By personalizing we mean posting seemingly-random pictures everywhere of weird things from where he used to live. They included some giant robot heads, some guys with weirdly-colored hair, some giant towers, some battleships, and a guy with no shirt and pink shades.

As he stepped into the kitchen, the place where he'd set the eggs, Leeron wasn't surprised to find a cream-colored dragon on the linoleum, nomming on some food. Eggy shards were spread all over the kitchen table, not seeming to bother the cracking blue egg sitting in a bucket of warm water.

"Ah! Little Lee!" He picked the hatchling up. It made a little meowing sound. He examined it a little, but surprisingly couldn't tell its gender yet. "Oh well," he sighed. "Lee is a unisex name!"

Lydia and Raven lived in a huge, exquisite mansion. One would wonder how ghost hunters made that kind of money nowadays. Anywho, the two let their dragons and thunderbird roam free in their own shiny little area of it. Lydia held the thunderbird, which had blue-and-yellow feathers along its now-small build. The bird chirped at the playing dragons a bit. "I'll name you Lightning Strike," Raven proclaimed.

They now knew that Aqu had gendered female, and the holly dragon had hatched. The sisters were pretty happy.

The holly dragon was festive-looking, with a long and sleek red body. The frilly holly ran along its back, behind its yellowish horns. Its eyes were shining with holiday spirit and joy. It seemed to enjoy Aqu's company, along with the nine pouncing cats dancing around with them.

So began the next part of their dragonic adventure...

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