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It was three in the morning and almost all of Night Raven College was asleep. Tomorrow was the weekend so it wasn’t like there were going to be classes or anything important to care about but the students adhered to the curfew and followed it as such. Except for a couple. A pair. A dynamic duo you could say. A dynamic duo of sheer stupidity. No, it wasn’t ADeuce! For once, it was a different dynamic duo of sheer stupidity.
Within the quiet halls of Diasomnia darkened as the candles were put out, cold as the fire was low and gothic as…it was gothic. From one of the dorm rooms, the sound of rapid fingers abusing the hell out of a keyboard could be heard. Even behind a closed door, the smashing of keys could be made clear. The sounds of a student who needed to finish an essay that was due most likely yesterday but couldn’t be bothered to start it due to their own dumb laziness and need to procrastinate. However, the keyboard abuse that would make Idia Shroud weep wasn’t the result of an essay but rather a story. A personal story.
Fanfiction.
Silver furiously typed away on his father’s laptop, his fingers hitting every key as if to maintain a chaotic beat and if he had even slipped, it would be death. He sat on his bed, laptop in, well his lap and he was dressed in a black t-shirt and black pajama pants with blue bird designs on them. He gave his fingers a break and looked at the white doc on screen.
“I don’t know about this…” he muttered, “Wouldn’t it make more sense if the Crocodile Knight fell in love with the Bird Knight and not his Dragon Master?”
Ruggie Bucchi who was dressed in a yellow t-shirt with some sort of awful pun on it and black basketball shorts and socks paced around the room. He carried a black and green energy drink can in his hand as he paced back and forth.
“The whole dynamic is Master and Servant or Guard, right?” the hyena looked at his writing partner, “I think we need to give the Dragon and Crocodile more chemistry.”
“Let me get a hit.” Silver opened his hand and reached out for the energy drink Ruggie held, Bucchi handed it over with ease. While the knight took a drink, the hyena picked up the laptop and looked at the draft.
“Yeah, yeah, more chemistry between them. The crocodile looks like a total simp.”
“Isn’t that his character though?” Silver asked before taking another sip.
“Hey, don’t drink it all!”
“We can just get more.”
“Whatever! Anyway, more banter between the Crocodile and Dragon.”
“What about the Bird Knight?”
“We can just put him with the snake.”
“Didn’t…” Silver tried to think. “Uh…wait, the Snake tried to kill the Octopus in the last chapter, right?”
“No.” Ruggie scrolled through the draft. “No? No. Wait, no?”
“I thought that was in Chapter 3?” Silver raised an eyebrow.
“No, he did but that was in Chapter 4. Chapter 3 is when we meet the Octopus and the Eels and their whole mafia thing.”
“And Chapter 2 was with the Lion and stuff, right?”
“Right.” Ruggie checked the doc again, “Right?”
“How many chapters was this story supposed to be again?” The knight blinked and rubbed his eyes.
“Seven.”
“What chapter are we on?”
“Six.”
“Oh god.”
Ruggie held the laptop over his head and stood in the middle of the room. “No complaining! We already missed two deadlines, we gotta get this uploaded tonight!”
Silver groaned, “Can’t we just put an Author’s Note saying we’re busy?”
“No Author’s Note! We do this together and we do it like men!” The hyena threw the laptop onto the bed, grabbed onto Silver’s shirt and pulled him down. “Our Wonderland Archives needs us!”
They sort of stared at each other in silence for a few minutes.
“I can’t tell if this is the energy drinks but holy crap your eyes are pretty.” Ruggie commented.
“I get that a lot.” Silver replied.
Ruggie let the knight go and breathed for a minute.
“Okay, so maybe if we had the Raccoon do something?” Silver suggested, “Get the plot moving again.”
“We need to cut out the fluff.” Ruggie stated, using a lot of hand gestures.
“But then it’s just Hurt and No Comfort.”
“Crap, right.”
Silver picked up the laptop and thought for a minute.
“Screw it?” he asked the hyena.
“Screw it.” he agreed. “No more comfort! No more net! Someone’s gonna die!”
“Can we kill off the Tiger? He’s really annoying.”
“Kill off the Chipmunk too, he doesn’t do much.”
“But he’s paired with the Fox.”
“Screw it! Kill em both!”
“But the comments will go crazy! They love the Fox and the Chipmunk!”
“Everyone is dying tonight! Call me Leona on a Friday night with Malleus because we are going all the way!” Ruggie somehow got his hands on another energy drink and cracked it open. He tipped his head and slugged down the entire can.
Silver needed a minute to register what the hell Ruggie just said.
“Wait, what was that about Malleus?”
“Shut up and write, Pretty Boy, I’ll keep giving you fuel.” We swear to the God of the Underworld, Ruggie is just manifesting cans of kidney killers out of thin air, he now held two in his hands.
The night progressed and nothing made sense. Everything started blurring together if anything, some stuff was written. A lot of research was done that would also make Idia Shroud cry but not as much as he did with that keyboard abuse. Silver wasn’t sure how he ended up making a wolf-sona OC named Sora who can fly and shoot lasers but uh yeah. They looked up some questionable things that would make Sebek wonder if he’s really dedicated to Malleus or just downright a simp. Ruggie discovered why one should never click the Mature tag on Our Wonderland Archive and it’s all madness.
Have you ever drank a six pack of energy drinks and spent all night reading fanfiction?
Silver and Ruggie did and it was a mistake but hey they finally got that chapter uploaded to Our Wonderland Archive so, that’s good.
In the morning, Sebek charged into Silver’s bedroom fully dressed in Diasomnia dorm wear.
“Silver!” declared the annoying croc, “You are five minutes late to breakfast, what is the hold up?!”
Silver rose from his covers covered in empty energy drink cans, “Wha?” the words fell out his mouth in a slur. His hair still looked good.
“The hell?” Ruggie sat up next to him, also knocking cans off the blanket and letting his words fall out of his mouth. He smacked his lips and rubbed his eyes. “What’s happening?” he looked at Silver then looked at Sebek who furrowed his eyebrows in confusion.
“I’m…I will not question this.” Sebek had drawn his own conclusions and didn’t enjoy them. He turned heel and closed the door.
“We got the chapter uploaded, right?” Ruggie asked.
“Yeah, we did.” Silver confirmed.
“Yus!” he did a small fist bump, “My kidneys hurt.”
“Mine too, totally worth it though.”