It was 6a.m. Tentavly
JOss knocked on their bedroom door.
Crys groaned and tossed a pillow at the door. She opened an eye and looked at the clock. "Good lord. Who is it??? It's 6am for cryin out loud!"
Morgan got up with a grumble. She went to the door and opened it, not remembering she was in her black baggy shirt that only went to her upper thighs.
Crys groaned as she climbed out of bed, walking over and picking up her pillow. As Morgan opened the door, she was just bending over, ass facing the door, her nighty was rather short.
JOss smiled as Morgan opened the door then realized that the girls, especially Crys weren't dressed for company. He quickly put his hand over his eyes. "I can come back later." He said quickly
Morgan rubbed her eye and asked, "Why?" She turned around and saw part of Crys ass. "Ah! Cover yourself, girl!" She looked back at Joss, "I'm sorry." She noticed that her, herself was barely dressed. Since Joss already had his eyes covered, she walked behind him and pushed him inside. Morgan walked back in and closed the door. Turning him around to face the wall she added, "Hold on a second.." Morgan went ot get dressed.
JOss obediently allowed himself to be maneuvered around "Yes ma'am."
"Sorry..I wasn't expecting you this early."
Morgan explained, undressing behind one of her speakers. She grabbed her clothes and put them on before running into the bathroom. A few seconds passed before she ran back out with brushed teeth and wet hair. "I'm good." She said, flipping her hair all around.
Crys groaned when Morgan ordered her. She picked up her pillow and climbed back into bed, snuggling under the covers again. Thna she snapped awake when she realized who was at the door. "OMG! Joss!!!" She pulled the covers up over herself
"I figured I was letting you two sleep in."
Joss said "I've been up since 4."
Morgan turned him around from the wall, "Four?! Wow...you must really chug the coffee."
Crys blushed deeply, remembering just now what she done just a few seconds ago. "Oh god...oh god...oh god..."
"No, I just always get up at 4."
JOss admitted. He looked strangly at Crys.
Morgan grabbed her guitar and put it on with the guitar on her back, "I might as well bring this."
Crys blushed deeply and ducked under the covers. She continued to whisper, "Oh god...oh god...oh god..."
"It's ok Crystal."
JOss told her "I didn;t see anything."
Crys peaked out from under the covers. "Honestly?" She asked him, though knowing full well that this man could never tell a lie. It would go against everything about him. She sighed and smiled. "Sorry for throwing my pillow at the door when you knocked."
"Good."
Morgan said in response to him not being able to see anything.
"Not a thing."
Joss lied. It was a small fib, just to mke her feel better. "And it's ok about the pillow
Morgan yawned once more. "Sooo...." she said, wanting to change the subject off of Crys.
Crys smiled. "Well, I guess I'll see you guys later, I'm gonna try to get another hour of sleep."
"MOrgan if you'd like to go back to sleep I can go."
JOss said
"Oh no no no…I’m set."
Morgan told him, waving her hands in front of her. She adjusted her guitar strap, "So, what first? Showing my guitar to Mr. Smith, flying or whittling?"
"Breakfast?"
JOss asked "He'd been up for two hours and was virtualy starving.
"Ah...that would make sense."
Morgan replied, opening the door. "Lead the way kind sir."
JOss held the door open and took Morgan to
The Main Dining Hall where he figured breakfast could be served.
Arthur appeared just in time to see the two dissapearing down the stairs. Guessing that Crys was awake aswell he knocked gently at the door.
Crys groaned and rolle dover. "Who is it?"
"It's me,
Arthur" Arthur called out "If it's too early I can leave."
"Arthur? It's like 6am..."
Crys groaned, but lazily swung out of bed. She walked over to the door and opened it. "If Joss hadn't already come and woken me up to get Morgan, I'd have sent you away." She smiled sweetly and rested a hand on her hip
Arthur#s heart sank a little at that, but he kept smiling "Sorry... I have a habit of getting up at odd times"
"Well you might as well come in."
Crys said and grbabed his hand, yanking him inside. "What's wrong? I saw you sulk a bit after what I said. You just missed Joss and Morgan. He knocked on the door and I chucked my pillow at it." She laughed and smiled. "That's not the worst though. When Morgan opened the door, I was picking it back up. And as you can see, my nighty's a little short...talk about embarassing!!!
"
Arthur spluttered for a bit "Uh, yeah right" he said after he managed to get his voice back.
Crys looked at him curiously and shrugged. "So what brings you here at 6 in the morning, Artie?" She hadn't called him that yet, but Arthur was wayyyyy to formal for her tastes.
Arthur smiled "I guess I got up a little too early... I didn't see the time and just came over for the game of Mortal Kombat..."
Crys smiled. "You're in for a treat! Thanks again for letting us use your TV." She went over to the 360 and turned it on, putting the MKF4A disc in and tossing him two controllers. "There's one for you and one for Locks. I know he's gonna wanna play."
Arthur nodded, taking a controller and handing one to Locks. He was still blushing slightly because he had almost immediatley watched Crys walk away, averting his eyes when she turned around again. "Ready when you are" he said calmly, trying to stop is blushing.
Crys smiled and started the game. "Remember how I said you'd be in for a treat? Mortal Kombat stopped making games like ten years ago. Well that wasn't good enough for me, so with some help, I made another. Locks can play because this is Mortal Kombat Free 4 All. It's an every man for himself."
Arthur nodded, smiling nervosuly and going a slightly deeper redder. "Cool, so how did you make this?" he asked, looking at the controller.
"Mom works for Nintendo and she managed to get most of the stuff I needed, like fromt he original games. All the character stats and stuff like that. Then we just wrote up the coding so together and yeah. Bunch of mumbo jumbo stuff." Crys said and quickly selected Scorpion and SubZero. "The best thing about this is there's Tag Teams. You pick two characters and at any time during the Free4All you can switch back and forth. It's killer. What combos you can pull off!!!"
Arthur smirked "I know who mine are going to be" he said confidently, waiting for the game to start up.
"And what about Locks? Pick your characters boys, it's almost showtime. There's still the same rule as the original games. If you don't pick your character within a certain amount of time,t he computer picks for you." Crys reminded them both. It had been ten years since the last game came out, but that didn't mean it was ten years since anyone had played Mortal Kombat.
Arthur smiled, choosing Scorpion and Goro. Locks wandered around for a second before Choosing Sonya and Stryker. "All set" Arthur said happily.
"Scorpion and Goro??? What a weird combo...that's what this game is all about though." Crys flashed him a smile and chose Scorpion's Arena as their battleground. It wasn't much. Just a simple ring with lava surrounding it and giant statues of warriors outside the lava ring.
Arthur grinned "Im good at strange." He tried to remember some of his characters special moves quickly.
"Fight!" The Kommand was like Fire. Crys immediately launched an ice ball at Arthur's charcacter, hopuing to take him by surprise
Arthur smiled and dodged it quickly, using Scorpion's "Get over here" move to pull Sub-Zero in quickly. Before Sub-Zero landed he switced to Goro and began using the juggle move, throwing Crys' character up in the air.
"Hey! No fair!" Crys pouted. She grinned and answered Goro's juggle with a combo breaking ice attacks. "Ice Spear!" The computer's voice replied, "Combo Breaker!"
Arthur let out of a laugh as Sub-Zero fell away "See, im good at strange. WOAH!" The last exclamation was at Locks who made Stryker throw a mine at him. He dodged it but it rolled towards Sub-Zero.
Crys switched to Scorpion, who teleported tot he other side just before the mine exploded. He backflip-kicked into Stryker
Arthur was there in a second, again preforming the juggling move on Crys but shorter this time so he could throw her onto a waiting mine of Locks'.
Crys grinned and pulled off a daring teleport at the last second. The switched back to SubZero and threw an ice ball at Goro
Arthur switched to Scorpion and teleported aswell, appearing behind Sub-Zero and starting to rain hits onto him. Locks came from the other side, starting to deliver some hard kicks on Crys' other side.
Crys groaned and gave them both SubZero's Ice Shake, delivering and icy mist around him, freezing both opponents
Arthur laughed, starting to hammer buttons to get out of the ice.
Crys switched back to Scorpion and brought ont he Hell fire. Scorpion ripped away his mask and engulfed both Icemen in a pillar of flame
Arthur winced, time for him to get serious. When both of the players got free they dashed far away Crys, Arthur standing infront of Locks. Arthur grabbed Crys' character and pulled him over to them, dodging out the way so Locks could start preforming a round of kicks on Crys. After a few Arthur changed to Goro and dashed forward, juggling Crys for a second before tossing her away. She landed a another of Locks' mines, sending her upwards as Arthur teleported Scorion next to her and used the same Hell fire move she had just used.
Crys cursd and glared at Arthur as Scorpion became a lvigin bbq on the screen
Arthur was too busy kicking Locks to Timbucktu and back to notice the glare, whenever Locks rolled a mine next to him he'd teleport and knock Locks on his own mine. After a while Locks' character died and Arthur sat there happily. "Told you I was good" he said, smiling.
"So you can take out Stryker. Big deal. It's just apparent that Locks didn't know how to switch to Sonya." Crys replied and switched to SubZero. She made him create multiple Ice Clones all around Arthur
Arthur grinned "He didn't know how to shoot the gun" he said. He started to fire his spear thing at the ice clones, not sure if it would freeze him.
Crys back off, dodging the Scorpion Spear. She cursed quietly. Her ice Clones would wear out soon, why won't he touch one?!
Arthur laughed and teleported behind Crys, starting to take them out from the back now. "Im not touching those icemen for anything" he said.
Crys growled and tossed her pillow at him with a smirk. "Terd." She said and switched to Scorpion, making it a mirror battle. She teleported whenever he did
Arthur and Crys chased each other round the screen for a while, Arthur then turned to Goro and flew up into the up screen and stomping back down ontop of Crys.
Crys cursed when Goro landed on her, squishing her to the ground. "Come on!!! That is so not fair!" The longer Goro remained on her, the longer her health went down. "You so cannot beat me at my own game...."
"I said Im great at Mortal Kombat didn't I?" Arthur said, smiling happily "I once won a competition.."
Crys growled and conceded the defeat. She turned and scowled at him. "You only won cuz I just woke up."
Arthur laughed "So have I." He poked Crys on the arm gently "Comeon... just say it."
"You beat me." Crys said and batted his hand away. She flopped down on her bed and laid back, forgettinga bout her short nighty
Arthur smiled triumphantly and turned to say sorry for making her say it. His face dropped and turned bright red when he saw her, shutting his eyes and turning round so he faced the wall. "Uhhhh... wanna get dressed?" he said nervously.
That's when it clicked. Crys covered herself and blushed. "Oh god...I'm sorry Arthur..." She studdered and blushed deeply
"It's ok" Arthur mumbled, still with his eyes closed "I didn't look or anything."
"Well ummm...I'm gonna put something on..." Crys said, walking voer tot he dresser and taking out a little plaid skirt and a black sweater. "I'll be right back."
"I'll leave if you want" Arthur blushed, Locks curling round his face aswell so he couldn't see anything if he wanted too.
"You don't have to leave, Arthur. Maybe we've got a big room or something, cuz there's a private bathroom in here." Crys said walking over to the door and looking at him. "You gonna stick around? I'm gonna take a quick shower. Feel free to play my games if you want."
There was an audible thump as Arthur sat infront of the console, picking up the controller and starting to play the Mortal Kombat game. His mind kept flicking back to Crys though, making him loose his first match quickly.
Crys poked her head out of the bathroom door before she got int he shower, watching him play for a few seconds. She grinned when he lost. She closed the door and climbed into the shower, wondering how in the world she lost at her own game.
Arthur shook his head and started playing again, winning the rounds now that his mind wasn't filled with... pictures.
About 30 minutes later, Crys stepped out of the bathroom wearing a tight high-rising black sweater with a plunging neckline, a short plaid skirt and knee high white stockings. "Having fun, Arthur?"
Arthur froze halfway threw a fatality. He didn't turn, he didn't move at all. "Y-yeah thanks" he mumbled nervously.
Crys struck a pose, setting her hand on her hip. "What?"
Arthur blushed slightly "Nothing..."
Crys walked over and sat down on the edge of her bed. "You checkin me out, Arthur?" She said with an amused giggle. He was such a cutie. She reached over and grabbed her shoes, slipping them onto her feet.
Arthur let out a loud "GAH!" and dropped the controller "I... ummm... I couldn't... I mean I didn't... I didn't see anything." he said nervously.
"Earlier? It's ok, Arthur. It was my bad. Besides, I basically mooned Joss when he came in earlier." Crys confessed and giggled. "I guess I should get a better thing to wear to sleep in here. My little nighty is a bit much."
It was lucky Arthur wasn't holding the controller, of he had been he would have broken it. "Yeah... yeah I guess you should" he said, blushing.
Crys got up and ruffled his hair. "Think of it this way. You got the better view." She winked and patted him on the shoulder, sitting down next to him. "Ready for round 2?"
Arthur blushed slightly but smiled "Alright..." he picked up the controller "I'll still win."
"My game remember?" Crys pointed out with a smirk. "I went easy on you the first time. I haven't unvieled my best moves yet." She moved through the character selection quickly, making alternate selections on Raiden. The two character who appeared were just shadows on the selection screen. She grinned. "Think you can beat these two?" She asked him with a sideways glance
Arthur smiled "Glad to see you have something left" he said "Cause I got a lot left!" He smiled and chose Chameleon and left the other one to the computer.
"Chameleon?! You're picking him? More power to you man." Crys said and chose the Temple of the Gods as their attleground
Arthur smiled "I like mixing my moves up if you havent noticed" he said happily.
"I've still got a few surprises." Crys told him sternly, pointing to the screen. "You don't know who you're even fighting against."
"Uhhhhh... No" Arthur admitted "You probably will win this one then..."
Crys grinned. "Don't sell yourself out yet. The computer gave you Raiden. A good choice for who you're fighting."
Arthur smiled nervously "Alright..." he started to get more confident "Lets do this."
Crys smiled at him and started the game. A large pillar of fire appeared where her character should be standing. When the voice said Fight! The pillar dissolved into a single flaming body. "Behold the Elder God of Fire, Arthur."
"Ohhhhhhhhh" Arthur said, his shoulders drooping "Bugger."
Crys smiled. "You think he's bad? Wait to see you his tag team partner. There's only 5 Elder Gods, one of which is Raiden. Raiden is one because his father was, but his father was disgraced and sent to the Netherrealm. Raiden was given a promotion. His father was the God of Darkness." She paused the game so she could explain. "Besides from him, there is the God of Fire, the God of Air, the Goddess of Water, and the God of Earth. I've chosen Fire and Water as my fighters. Fire is the most fierce of the Elder Gods, and for good reason. He's fire." She chuckled at that. "But Water is his enemy, which is why I picked her. Just like I picked SubZero and Scorpion, even though they are enemies. They work well together." She smiled at him. "If you want I could change to Water? Raiden, the God of Thunder and Lightning, against the Goddess of Water. Sounds like a good match."
Arthur grinned slightly "nah, Im good." His character darted backwards, shooting ice blasts at the fire god.
"Fire melts ice." Crys said quietly as her Fire God emitted a flamethrower, cancelling the ice blast
"But too much ice melted and you'll just get a flood" Arthur said, firing more and more ice blasts and hoping that they would hit.
Steam rose from the Fire God as some ice blasts got through the inferno. Crys pouted and looked at Arthur with a smile on her face. "You ready for this Artie?" She slid her legs up under herself, sitting back on them and the arena light up in flames. "Gates of Hell."
"Damndamndamndamn" Arthur said over and over again, jumping into the air and using Suv-zero's ice slide move to keep himself in the air for as long as he could.
"How long do you think you can hold out? The Fire has set the entire arena ablaze. That's the beauty of the Elder God's Temple. When there's an Elder God in it, their power is shown through the entire Temple." Crys explained with a grin. "Think about it, Arthur. A god on their own turf. SubZero against Scorpion, why are they such great enemies? Scorpion's fire, and SubZero's ice. Come on." The Gates of Hell special attack slowly ate away at the God of Fire's health. The longer she used this attack, the worse his health would get
Arthur started turning, teleporting with Scorpions move cause he was Chameleon and blasting at her with ice as he fell. He started teleporting, blasting and riding around on the beam of ice randomly, trying to stay as much time off the ground as he could. As her enegry drained and he chipped away at her health he smiled "You concede yet?"
Crys growled and stopped the Gate of Hell attack. She switched to the Goddess of Water and smiled as a tidal wave flooded the field and she appeared. "Beautiful isn't she?"
Arthur smiled and nodded, flicking to Raiden. "Very nice" he admitted before he started firing bolts at her.
Crys smiled. Now this was a challenge! Water against Electricity! "I'm glad I switched! This is more like it!"
Arthur smiled, he liked how Crys was a challenge. He was rather surprised Locks was just laying there, he was wondering why he wasn't trying to strangle Arthur for winning.
Crys didn't bother to use Water's shielding abilities, they would only make the lightning attacks of Raiden worse on her, so instead she focused on dodging him and striking with water surges
Arthur shocked the surges as they came at him, dodging some of the ones he couldn't. He kept on firing at her, sometimes changing to Chameleon and teleporting so he could shock her from behind.
Crys constantly cancelled out his teleports by shrinking down to liquid form and moving to his other side(basically a teleport)
Arthur began shooting ice after teleporting, the slow balls moving while he teleported to the other side. As the ice moved he started trying to shock her.
Crys cursed as a ball of lightning struck the Water Goddess, coursing over her and zapping out a quarter of her energy. "Ugh!"
"Wow" Arthur said, blinking in surprise at how well it worked. He started pummeling her with more electricity, sometimes using other people's moves like Scorpion's spear to pull her into the oncoming shocks.
"Damn damn damn damn damn!" Crys spouted as she got stuck in the special moves combo. Since it was technically not a combo, she couldn't break free with a combo breaker. "ARGH!!!!!!"
Arthur laughed evily as her health dropped lower and lower "Im so kicking your ass at this" he said happily.
Crys looked voer at him and snarled, then liquified and moved tot he other side of him. "Gate of Poseidon!!!" She yelled and the Goddess of Water turned into a tidal wave, surging into the Arena, completely overwhelming Arthur
"Damn" Arthur said, trying anything to get it to stop "How do I do that?"
"The Gate of Poseidon is the opposite of the Gates of Hell. I have to lose life in order to use it, and as long as it's flooding the field, my life goes up. Cuz where Fire consumes, Water grants life." Crys explained with a smirk. It had taken her weeks to write in these advantages to the Elder Gods.
arthur started firing more bolts of lightening at Crys "Must... beat..."
Crys smiled. "I'm not goin easy on you this time. Check this out." She switched back to Fire and engulfed the arena in blaze again, with the Gate of Hell.
Arthur switched to Chameleon, starting to use his old tactic to try and beat down the fire god. He was doing well since he had managed to get the god's health low earlier.
Crys switched back now that he wasn't Raiden and unleashed the Poseidon Gate again. "Not fast enough!" She smiled
Arthur cursed, switching back to Raiden and starting blasting at her again. He needed to find away to stop her doing that.
A weapon fell from the statue of the Water Goddess and Crys ran over, equipping it quickly. "There it is! The Trident of Poseidon! Your lightning attacks won't work now. They'll just channel down my trident and defuse."
Arthur cursed, then got an idea. He switched to Chameleon and started making ice clones everywhere.
Crys giggled. "Copy cat." She smirked and winked at him, then threw the trident through an ice clone, directly at Chameleon
Arthur teleported out the way, going the other side and shocking her as Raiden when she lost the trident.
Crys cursed as the lightning struck her int he back. The Trident was lieing on the floor but after a few seconds it disappeared. "No fair...." The Goddess of Water stood very still and the announcer said, "Finish Her!"
Arthur smiled and started doing a fatality, laughing gently as her character fell to the floor. "I won again!" he said happily, then remembered and mumbled a "Sorry..."
Crys pouted and set the controller down, crossing her arms. "It's just not fair."
Arthur rubbed his head, looking embarresed "Videogames and drumming are the only thing I'm good at." He went to take his hand away and found that Locks had bound it to his head. He sighed gently, letting it stay there. He knew he couldn't take it away. "Sorry" he mumbled again, his hand stuck to his head.
Crys said and looked at him. "Nobody has ever beat me at my own game."
Arthur looked very embarresed "Sorry..." he tugged at his hand again.
Crys looked at him curiously. "Why won't Locks let go?"
Arthur suddenly got all embarresed, tugging at his hand furiously "I dont know... maybe he didn't like that I beat you..."
"My...isn't he chivalrous?" Crys said almost sarcastically, although she was highly confused by the whole matter. She shrugged and offered him some help, she gentlly stroked Locks with a smile on her face. "Come on Locks, Arthur was just better than me. It happens. The creator isn't always the champion of the game."
Arthur smiled nervously as Locks uncurled from his hand. He took it away fast as Locks stroked Crys' hand gently. "I might be better at the game, but you're better at controlling him" Arthur said, pointing to Locks.
Crys blushed and looked at Arthur. "I'm not really controlling him though."
Arthur smiled "Well you're doing something..."
Crys shrugged. "Come on. Let's go get some breakfast."
ARthur smiled, gave Locks a dirty look and stood up. He streached a bit and yawned. "Alright."
Crys smiled and yawned, scowling at him. "Yawning's contagious."
Arthur smiled nervously "Sorry.... lets go then."
Crys smiled and held the door open for him
Arthur smiled and walked out the door, he muttered a nervous "Thank you" because he was still aware he had beaten her at her own game.
Crys followed him out and stiffled a grin. He was really nervous, this could be fun to play with
Arthur grinned nervously, heading off towards the entrance hall to get to the Dining hall.
Stumble!