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Once Dead Season 2 Round 2 Vs Jacob Thorne, Brian Brunosk, and Teach Edwardson

ROMANCE?! AS IF! (Or something the writer is banging her head against the desk for.)

XXX~XXX

“Ugh,” Eclipse said as he put his shirt back on after taking a shower. “I’m so glad to those bandages off…”

It had been some time after the tower fiasco and a lot had happened. To start things off, he had to move to a new house that was closer to the main building but this one wasn’t as heavily web-covered to his relief. Next he swore he was going to question his sanity a lot in this new hotel, especially since his next door neighbour was a golem with a mirror for a head and one of his back neighbours makes him crave hot dogs or corn dogs every time he sees the group.

The other one, Chase, seemed NORMAL and easier to get along with compared to that group, despite his regeneration abilities.

Another thing was that he found himself training more often since his powers were still weak. He was still mad at Veronica and her spiders for that, despite getting his memory of Luci and Arc back. Speaking of the doodle, it turned out that Nacht was right and he saw his friend walking outside the other day and called out to him. His new scarf, which turned out to be a phoenix warrior spirit, had to guide him over since he lacked a face, courtesy of the spiders. Eclipse did manage to find a marker in the drawer where his book was and fixed that.

Sadly though the spiders did something similar to Arc’s memory as they did Eclipse so they reintroduced themselves and the hedgeboy decided to be patient since that small problem would be easily fixed with a page restored. The spirit, Alphirra, was a little wary at first but once Moonlight and New Moon explained the past history to her quietly, she found she could trust Eclipse.

From what happened back at the towers, he thought he would be relieved from the craziness, but a perfume smell that suddenly tickled his nose when he left the bathroom made him think otherwise. “Guys did a woman sneak in here while I was in the shower?”

“No,” all three said as Nacht floated in front of him with what was the source of the smell; a love letter…or something like it and said. “But this was slipped through the bottom door crack.”

Eclipse blinked in disbelief as he took the letter and carefully opened it up…

Only for the neighbours to hear his screams. “WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS THIS MADNESS?! AAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!”

“You know…” Mir said as he looked over at Metal Mouth and using his voice, “if his pitch was any higher and he was a girl, my head would probably break.”

Metal Mouth nods at this.

Back inside, Eclipse was staring with a shocked look at not only the letter asking him to give a gift to his new “partner”, but at the pictures of WHO he was supposed to give a gift to. And they were CLEARLY all men that was 10 years to 100 times his age since one was a vampire. His eye twitched as he thought of this fact.

If he had a sanity metre, it would be dropping fast.

A sudden pounding came to the door and Veronica soon snapped. “Alright what’s going on in there?! You sound like you’re being f****** murdered in there!”

He soon tore the door open and held the letter up to her face as he shouted. “IF YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY THEN IT’S NOT YOU BLOODY WANKER!”

Veronica was so confused at his instantly dishevelled look as she read the letter and realization dawned on her face. “Oh this is the s*** that those twins have been giggling about and why the whole place looked like it became an instant honeymooner’s paradise.”

Eclipse was confused as he soon looked around. The usual gloomy atmosphere was switched over to make it seem…happy…almost romantic…and he didn’t like it.

“Oh…GOD no…” he soon said. “Oh whatever is doing this must think this is hilarious…Oh BOY I can’t wait to get my elements back in order…Fine…I’ll try to play along…but at the first sighting of Jon I’m getting my page back.”

He seemed to almost growl at the last point until New Moon perked up. “Hey aren’t those the twins who tried to kill us the other day? Looks like this place wasn’t the only thing that got flipped around 180°.”

He wasn’t joking because there, giggling like the high school girls they were dressed like as, were Illi and Eli.

It was then he just bolted, leaving Moonlight to lock up and Veronica to say, “Well f***. Looks like things are going to get interesting.”

XXX~XXX

A few minutes later, Eclipse had bought a box of chocolates to attempt to “give” away, knowing he wouldn’t succeed and he needed to refuse their gift. He soon looked at the pictures of his so called “dates” Jacob Thorne, Brian Brunosk, and Teach Edwardson…and sighed.

“Why me…? Why must I be paired with men? As much as I am accepting same-sex couples and everything I am straight! Ugh…I hope the next round will be more merciful.”

“Us too Eclipse,” New Moon said with a sigh as the programs just settled for a flower each to “give”.

((Outside the box: Light Trainer sneezes twice then remembered she forgot to put down his sexual preference. “Ah fudge on a stick…he’s going to hate me once he gets back…”))

“Of course you realize we have to pretend to be interested as well…” Moonlight said as he swallowed and Eclipse felt like banging his head on a wall…until he saw one sign that he will get out of this with his head on right; Barlow.

“Barlow…thank goodness!” Eclipse said as he walked, no ran over and was instantly on his knees begging. “I need your help BAD.”

“I see even yeh got caught up in all o’ this eh?” Barlow said sympathetically, seeing the distress in the younger one’s dual-coloured eyes. “What can I help yeh with? Setting up a lunch with your,” he paused to clear his throat, “partner or partners?”

“You know…I think that’s the only thing we can do because I was stumped,” Eclipse said, happy to see Barlow didn’t like this round as much as he did as he also took out the pictures. “Could you also pass a message of invitation to them?”

“Well actually…that there brown-haired human had a hand held phone of sorts I think if that may help. I’ll just get the lunch started up.”

These days phones involved computers sometimes and of course Eclipse is a hacker! Perfect! “Thank goodness! It’s been so long since I did this!”

He soon activated his hacking abilities on a camera and searched for Jacob, his fingers furiously typing on a holographic keyboard. He soon found the said vamp, leaving his condo with his partners, and opened up his Word programs to make the invitation, starting with a pink paged format decorated with hearts and lace patterns that were in a darker shade of pink.

He typed the following in red text:

“Eclipse Scaret has formally invited you to lunch at the cafeteria.

Come as soon as you can and no need to dress formally.”

“I’m going to regret this later…” he grumbled before pressing “Send.”

XXX~XXX

Jacob did feel weird for a second before an envelope appeared on Brian’s phone.

“Well look at that…” Brian said with a smirk before passing the phone to Jacob. “Seems the kid is playing along. It won’t be hard to find him and his little friends!”

Jacob’s constant smile already went wider at the idea.

Teach…well he didn’t care really. He just wanted this done and over with so he could get back to his plans.

XXX~XXX

Eclipse decided to help by setting up one of the tables for the informal lunch. As he set the dishes down on a checked tablecloth, he kept thinking how this is a bad idea…and groaned.

“Can’t believe I’m doing this…whoever or whatever is causing this are dead…no regrets or excuses.”

“Oh why are we paired up with these ones,” Nacht whined for what seemed to be the 100th time. “I would rather be with that sweet doll of death.”

“Deadberry doesn’t understand love and rather see the area in a bloodbath anyway,” New Moon said before going to the kitchen. “Now quit your whinin’ or else I’m going to ask Barlow for some extra cheese to go with it!”

“Alright enough!” Eclipse snapped. “They’ll be here any minute so knock it off! Now has anyone seen Moonlight?”

“Seen him at the door,” Nacht said simply and sure enough the mint-green program was there before zipping back to the group saying, “They’re coming!”

“And just in time too,” New Moon said as he flew back out. “Grub’s done!”

Barlow just kept the lunch simple with sandwiches, soft drinks, fruit and salads that he served out and gave a reassuring smile before returning to the kitchen.

He soon saw them walk in and decided to study them a bit. Jacob had a smile on his face that seemed to be always there. Eclipse had mixed feelings about it because on one hand he felt relaxed to see it, making the eldest one seem quite friendly but on the other hand he didn’t want to know what would happen if that smile was gone. Too many bad memories of similar smiles. Brian seemed like he would be quite the charming fellow for any woman, that’s for sure. He also gave the sense of being a bit of a daredevil and looked like he would be a tough opponent in a fight.

Teach seemed just as done with this as Eclipse was. He looked like he didn’t want to be there but had no choice. Boy can he sympathise for that…but he also saw hidden in the man’s golden eyes that he thirsted power. And Eclipse hated those types with a passion ever since the days with Para.

All three had their gifts ready just as he and the programs did so it was now or never…and he still was praying for never.

“It’s a bit impolite to stare there kid,” Brian said with a strong hint of German in his voice. “You wouldn’t be Eclipse, now would you?”

“Indeed I am,” he said, keeping his composure though he felt like freaking out again.

So far the lunch was uneventful, just them talking about themselves mostly and not exactly rushing to give the gifts. That is until a pair of twins were seen with their faces pressed against the window in anticipation behind the men.

“Oh bloody Hell no!” Eclipse almost choked and the others saw what he reacted to and flinched.

“I got this,” New Moon said as he closed the shutters and the twins exclaimed “HEY!”

“I am starting to hate this game…” Eclipse said as he took out the chocolates…only to see the three took out their gifts already and the program‘s flowers denied.

“Oh no kid,” Brian said charmingly as he held over his gift. “You get ours first.”

“I actually put effort in keeping my sanity from dropping any lower than it already has so you take mine first,” Eclipse said, feeling very, VERY disturbed.

Brian was about to have another argument when he noticed Jacob was already behind him and decided to tease a bit. “Maybe Jacob can have somethin’ else then.”

He looked up at the vampire unimpressed. “I did research and I KNOW you are weak to fire so please back off.”

Jacob flinched at that and did what was asked, causing Teach to smirk. “Well I have no interest in your gift really. I’m just doing this to amuse the staff here. Mostly the twins who are probably still trying to peek.”

It was true. Moonlight could still hear their whispers as they seemed to move away from the window.

Keeping himself from sighing in relief, Eclipse looked at the other two and held out the chocolates. “Listen I already spent half of whatever was still in my wallet for this and I even bloody BEGGED Barlow to help me figure out this date after I had one freak out moment this morning so you take my gift.”

“While we applaud your effort I’m afraid we’ll have to decline,” Jacob said casually, getting over the fire threat.

“And I decline yours!” he soon said, getting more frustrated. “I mean who knows what you have wrapped up!”

Moonlight didn’t like the tone. “Calm down Eclipse!”

But before anyone could say anymore…the back door opened and the twins fell through after picking the lock. “Ooops…”

The rest of them stared and Eclipse just shouted. “SCREW IT!”

Barlow sighed as he heard the door slam while he finished the dishes. “Looks like he really had enough…”

XXX~XXX

“SCREW THIS ROUND, SCREW THIS GAME, SCREW THOSE TWINS!” Eclipse screamed as the programs kept up and noticed Brian and Jacob were chasing him. “GOD NO CAN’T YOU TWO GIVE UP?! WHERE’S THE OTHER ONE?!”

“Said he had better things to do and left!” Jacob said with a laugh. “Tell you what, we’ll give up after you find Jon and get a page back!”

“DEAL!” Eclipse said, happy to finally get out of this sick romance comedy, as his pendant flashed violet with New Moon’s power and he flung a couple of fireballs to distract his pursuers.

Jacob stopped in time to dodge and Brian took the hit with no problem. They soon recovered and continued the chase, only to be stopped by a shift in the winds as Eclipse used his wind abilities to get him farther ahead.

“Oh that kid is good!” Brian said with a laugh and they went back to the chase.

Eclipse was jumping over picnics and running past couples in order to find Jon and end this stupid game for him.

But then Moonlight said. “Eclipse behind us!”

“AW COME ON!” Eclipse said as he saw them behind him again so he used Nacht’s support ability when he managed to get through some brush to make a copy and the copy continued on its way, the hedgeboy hiding behind the Yggdrasil seeing the two run past in pursuit of the clone now.

“That won’t keep them busy for long but it should buy us time to find Jon,” Nacht said and a chuckle came from above them.

“Looking for me?” Jon said as he looked down so casually. “I’m surprised you managed to hold out this long despite the screaming you did this morning.”

“Yes it’s nice to see you too,” New Moon said sarcastically before going “YOINK!” and snatching the book.

“For the record they did decline my gift and I don’t care about heartbreaking or whatever!” Eclipse said as he got the book from his partner and skimmed through it to find his next page.

Jon shrugged. “Hey I’m not the one for you to complain to. It’s the twins to blame. They’ve been bragging on how cute you guys seemed to the big guys. Must’ve been the ears or something.”

Eclipse shuddered. “That’s reassuringly disturbing…HA! GOT YOU!”

He tore out the page just in time for his clone to be dissipate nearby. Brian and Jacob soon saw his streaks were beginning to glow, the very elements becoming stronger before it settled down. The twins were skipping along when they saw that Eclipse got his elemental power back in order and was disappointed.

Then he started to chuckle. “Thank God…that’s over…”

“Aww it didn’t work out?” Illi said with a pout and Eli whined. “But you guys were perfect!”

It was then Eclipse finally snapped. “Perfect…PERFECT?! You two think it was cute seeing me trying to keep my composure in a fake romance? Especially since, technically speaking and despite the fact I respect same-sex couples and such, I’M STRAIGHT?!”

He turned to them slowly, a look of almost murder in his gaze that even unnerved Jon, Brian, and Jacob.

The New Moon and Moonlight sighed while Nacht looked excited. Eclipse’s sanity has now gone out the window and there was no stopping it.

“Well then…” he said with a dark chuckle as he tossed Jon the book back and drew out his Spellblade. “Let me give you my two cents about this game…”

The twins were terrified now as they ran away screaming with a ranting hedgeboy on their heels. “YOU STUPID TWINS, I DON’T KNOW WHO OR WHAT IS RESPONSIBLE BUT YOU ARE AS DEAD AS THEY ARE GOING TO BE!”

“Err should we stop him?” Jacob asked and New Moon shook his head.

“As long as they don’t make it to their tower,” he said but they soon did and Eclipse ran right into the suddenly closed door and he ranted a bit longer before giving up and going back into the cafeteria.

“Make that as long as we don’t get in his way again it’s best to leave him be. I’m going to go and ask Barlow to brew up a tank-load of tea because Eclipse is going to need it…”

The programs floated off, relieved it was over as Brian and Jacob shrugged and went back to their house.

Jon just stared, wondering what the heck just happened now.

SECOND PAGE RETRIEVED! ELEMENTS ARE NOW BACK TO FULL STRENGTH FOR ECLIPSE AND THE PROGRAMS!

OMAKE:

“Soo…what about those chocolates…?” Jacob asked randomly.

Moonlight sighed. “No doubt he’s eating them himself since he hates to waste food…”

In the cafeteria, Eclipse was indeed eating those chocolates and questioning his sanity. “I hope next round is more merciful in all the SANE terms…”