Neko-chan sits down and offers everyone some lobster, and a bowl of cream of mushroom soup for Rivka-san:: Trust me, it's good. Take a comfy seat and we'll get started. ^^;

Five thousand years ago, an accidental terrifying creature of sickly pink pallor set about on a KaioShin killing spree, but one little deity got away...

KaioShin:: -_-; Now...this sounds a lot like Anastasia.... O.O No! We are not doing a musical! Help!!

Neko-chan:: Calm down. First things first. I would never just abandon my fans, and you, in Shin Wars. We'll finish this first...I hope....

KaioShin:: What do you mean, "I hope?" 

Neko-chan:: Well, before I started posting and getting reviewers, I had a few stories that didn't fare against me very well due to depression and other things. Let me just introduce you to my old muses, and they'll explain it to you. ::pulls out Zelgadiss and Lina:: Yeah, they were my first muses.

Zelgadiss:: sigh:: You're going to scare him off.

Lina:: Well, not really. Although it would have been nice if she had finished that one story....

Zelgadiss:: True, that one at least made sense....

KaioShin:: O.O;

Zelgadiss and Lina talk with Shin for a little while.

Neko-chan:: Anyway, that up there was a farce guys. Hey, we all get silly once in a while, right? What are my old muses telling Shin?

KaioShin, gives everyone large black eyes and blinks them:: Save me! Make her finish this story, please!! Please! Datura-san, Rivka-san! JH-san, Lyonette-san, Lady Euphrosyne Pan of the Golden Trees...that is a long name...::deep breathe:: Okay, just please...save me!

Neko-chan:: Next time maybe I'll introduce everyone to the muse that's been helping me along with this. By the way, Datura-san, I do have a chibi ****** muse that didn't work very well with me, but I have one requirement if you want him. ^.~ Come back next time and I'll tell you what that is. Now....

A/N This one is dedicated to LadyRivka, as she deserves something special right now, and to Datura who just needs it as well. 

This time I used about two of Kimi the Kenlei's ideas. Whoosh! I think I'll give her the new Shin plushie, which is a Special Edition A Midsummer Night's Dream Fay Shin plushie. -_-; Try saying that five times fast. It has fairy wings, glitter, and different fairy-type clothes. He's part of nifty little collection, since I seem partial to Shakespeare of late. -_-; Plus, for the ideas you get a Link plushie with a sword and a working ocarina. And I'll also throw in a complimentary Zelda doll so you can have a set! The ideas I used are the fighting between Kibito and Kym, and the weapons joke. I have one more gag from her, but that one is saved for the next chapter. 

LadyRivka gets a Special Edition Amelia as Emilia (and yes, they are pronounced the same. Which is why when I did my parody I cast her as Emilia, just for the fun of the names,) plushie. Emilia is from "Othello, The Moor of Venice," and this special plushie comes with old fashioned clothes. It's a royal blue dress to set off her eyes. This one also talks and says such phrases as, "No! Zelgadiss-s...I mean, Iago, you can't kill Lina-san...I mean Desdemona!" and "No, this time I'm really dead, I promise!"  

Datura, you get a Vegeta as Iago plushie, complete with evil smirk. And thanks for looking this over for me and helping me out. I appreciate that.

Tenshi, ah! You returned! That's perfectly fine, as I understand these things happen. I love your hair and eyes. That's my favorite combo. If I were to draw Piccolo-san as a human that's how he'd look. Green eyes and jet-black hair. But that's another story altogether. (I was gonna go do a school cross-over like that...but....Wrong story.) Anyway, you get a Night-time Dabura plushie in a black gi, with fuzzy pink bunny slippers! He can say such phrases as, "Dabura-sama might have fun after all," and "Purple god? Which way did he go?" 

Lady Euphrosyne Pan of the Golden Trees, you get a Santa Shin plushie for joining the madness and understanding, as well as a Special Edition A Midsummer Night's Dream Fay Shin plushie. ^^;

Kioku, this time, since you're having trouble you get a Santa Shin plushie and a Special Edition AMND Fay Shin plushie. (Sorry, I got tired of typing that thing out!) 

Krysaia, I love it when people come back! How about a Special Edition AMND Fay Shin plushie, as he seems to be my favorite this time! ^.~ 

SSMuzura! Hey there! A new face to add to the reviews and the madness as well. For reviewing you get a Chibi Shin plushie and a Singing Shin plushie for joining! You do show up in this chapter, and hopefully you'll get more time in the next chapter, or one of the later ones. I had to cut this one short. -_-; I spend too much time talking to my reviewers. ^^; 

JH! Hey there! This time ya get a Special Edition AMND Fay Shin plushie. I'm glad you laughed at the other one because this one doesn't seem as funny as when I first wrote it. You guys will see why at the end. ;_; My stupid computer hiccupped, or something and I lost the last KB's and had to write it over. Talk about not fun! 

*Special notes to bring to your attention.

And D-chan, if you're reading this! Everyone give D-chan a big round of applause as she wants to archive my story on her web site! Can you guys believe that? Someone wants to post this junk!! Wow!! She's a doll! In fact she gets a Chibi Shin plushie and an Angel Winged Shin plushie! D-chan's URL is http://members.tripod.com/melfina890/ so if you want to go take a look! Just copy and paste it in your address bar. ;_; Sorry, ff.net strips html codes of this nature now.

Plus, my brother, known as Silver or Toyota the turtle, now has an account here too. He's under the name SilverDarkNova, which is also his AIM name. He's about 13, and no guys, he is no where near me. Don't expect much from a kid who's just writing for kicks. ^.~ He does certain things wrong simply for the fun of it.

Also, Lady Euphrosyne Pan of the Golden Trees has a Shin web site up! Go check it out through her bio!

*Warning! Lots of name gags in this one. -_-; Forgive the cat for her low-class pun gags. ^^; 

Today's quote(s) is a piece from Shakespeare's "Othello, The Moor of Venice." What can I say, I *loved* this play.

"Desdemona:: I have heard it said so. O, these men, these men! Dost thou in conscience think, -tell me Emilia,- that there be women do abuse their husbands in such gross kind?

Emilia:: There be some such, no question.

Desdemona:: Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?

Emilia:: Why, would not you?

Desdemona:: No, by this heavenly light!

Emilia:: Nor I neither by this heavenly light; I might do't as well i' the dark."

^.~ You gotta' love good old Emilia! Funny, when I read for this play I was Desdemona (and undisputed as well) and my best friend took over Emilia and as a team we were awesome as these two, especially since we fit the part so well. ^.~ For those of you who can't place what this quote has to do with the chapter, and why there is so much Shakespeare alluding, ^^; look at the title and think about it for a second. Plus, like Emilia said, "Nor I by this heavenly light," ::snicker:: come on! Think about it! ^.~ 

Shin Wars

Chapter #6 Love IS a Battlefield! 

(And we have proof!)

The two groups stared at each other, unsure if this was real or a mirage. After all, Romance and Drama have a part in each other. But no, the Drama section was on the other side, united with the Angst. Kym just stared at Shin, floored by the truth, "He's really here!" while KaioShin's eyes almost bugged out at her happiness over seeing him.

Datura blinked her eyes, "And we couldn't get Vegeta in this one?"

Lyonette frowned at Dabura, "Oh, we get you, Gohan, and Kibito, but no Piccolo-san or Dende! Hmph!"

A simple declaration broke through everything as the little cat-girl looked at Dabura and said, "I want a Dabura cookie," and grinned.

"That's not funny!" Dabura sputtered at Neko-chan.

"I didn't say it was funny! I just want one!"

"I'd like to see you get one and eat it! As tiny as you are, I can eat you now!" 

Quickly, Shin stepped between the two and glared at Dabura, "I'm going to ask that you refrain from causing problems, only once."

Next to him was Kibito, and LadyRivka stepped beside Kibito, eager to get Dabura, and his now smirking face, far away from KaioShin.

KaioShin noticed LadyRivka and raised one eyebrow, "I have another person following me now."

"Um," Kibito started, "I do believe she is following me, KaioShin-sama." He nodded his head to LadyRivka as she winked, both of them thinking about their ploy to rid fanfiction.net of the KaioShin lovers.

Shin sighed at Kibito, annoyed, "I guess."

LadyRivka grinned and gently nudged Shin, "Jealous, are we?" implicating envy of Rivka and Kibito's interesting bond. 

"Where did you get that from?!" KaioShin stepped back from her, looking at both Kibito and LadyRivka in shock. "Never mind, let's just move on."

Dabura nodded, glad to forget about the bratty cat-girl and her disturbing statement. Kym readily agreed, "This is why I tried to warn you guys about the Romance section! All of the fighting that goes on in there. But this isn't the way it should be; it should be filled with love and joy!"

Satan, Dabura, and Vampire winced at this while Kym threw an arm around Shin and pointed him towards the Romance section they were about to enter, "As an authoress of romance, I must say we need more love and happiness here!"

Peering at Kym with uncertainty, KaioShin moved back slowly as Kibito looked Kym over, "Why, pray tell, does someone who writes romance stories need so much weaponry?"

At the word "writes" Kym almost broke out sobbing again, the scar of her fiction not uploading still fresh in her mind, but then calmed herself enough to glare at Kibito, "Didn't I just say there is tons of violence over there!"

"I guess you did, but with your insistent chattering and constant racing around I didn't quite understand you!" Kibito retorted back.

Once again, Shin stepped in between the two bickering people and pointed to the Romance section, just a few feet away and begged, "Please, let's just go in."

"Fine!" Kym, said with a huff, "You can tell Kibito is quite jealous...."

"W-What?" The "guardian" stammered, looking to LadyRivka for help, but all he got was a sly smile while LadyRivka kept an eye on KaioShin to see his reaction. Kibito's face turned slightly red as Kym continued to tease, "See, look! He has the hots for Shin!"

Now Shin's face turned a bright red as everyone else just stared.

Uncertain, Gohan mumbled, "I think it would be best if we just forget this moment ever happened and we go in already."

"Good idea, Gohan-san," KaioShin muttered.

Kibito put a hand on Shin's shoulder and glared at Kym, who just stuck her tongue out at him, while he told KaioShin, "KaioShin-sama, I am ever so sorry this is turning out to be such a nightmare, but we will get past this."

Finding the whole ordeal sweet and endearing, but somehow over dramatic, Shin sighed, "Kibito...."

But to LadyRivka's ears the sigh sounded like something else, "You called him 'Koibito!' I knew it!!"

Flushing yet again, Shin looked at LadyRivka, "What?! I said no such thing!"

Kibito blushed as LadyRivka continued on, "Oh come on Kaiooshin, it's just one letter."

"Yes," KaioShin replied to her, "but it makes a big difference."

Kioku pointed at Dabura and Datura, said, "Yeah, look at them, 'Dabura' and 'Datura.' It's just one letter difference, KaioShin," and grinned, knowing Shin thought she was on his side.

Dabura and Datura both glared at Kioku, both saying, "Yes, and the one letter makes a big difference!"

KaioShin sighed, "Okay, I can see your point, but you, LadyRivka-san, were still hearing things. Now let's just go!" KaioShin almost yelled as he stepped over into the Romance section, Lyonette right next to him telling him about her sushi bar.

Kibito followed after him, with LadyRivka behind him thinking, 'Poor Kibito-san.'

Datura was thinking, 'Poor Shin.'

While self-absorbed people, Dabura, were thinking, 'Poor Dabura-sama.' (Dabura:: I am not self-absorbed!)

And another selfish person, Neko-chan, was thinking, 'I wonder if any of these guys have any fish.'

KaioShin was thinking, 'Boy, I thought my fan-girls were delusional, but this one of Kibito's seems to be up to something,' while he kept an eye on LadyRivka, and listened to Lyonette. 

Since his attention was focused in so many different directions, Kym snuck up on him with ease and glomped the unsuspecting god. "Oh! I can't believe my good fortune!"

Meanwhile, Dabura, Satan and Vampire were all still on the other side, not sure about crossing the line into the Romance section.

"Is it poisonous?" Dabura asked.

Satan pet one of his lilac colored plot bunnies and answered, "I don't know, but a bunch of people have died here...."

"Are you talking about the people involved in the bishounen battles, the characters that die in all of the death fics, or the readers who are killed by reading this mush?" Came a sardonic rhetorical question from Vampire as she grinned at them both and stepped across the line.

Vampire gave them a fanged grin and then said, "I dare you two to cross that line!"

Dabura and Satan looked at each other, still unsure and then they crossed over, only to have all three of them hit the ground overwhelmed by the happy tittering of birds, the sunshine, and the nauseating smell of perfumes and flowers.

Finally, the group was in the sushi bar for a little break before heading off to LindaN's cottage in the Vegeta/Bulma couplings area, or at least, that's what Neko-chan thought as she sat down at the bar, ready to order her favorite sushi roll. Just as she opened her mouth Kibito lifted the cat-girl up by the neck of her shirt and glared at her, "You are here to help find the exit for KaioShin, neko-jin, so go find this LindaN person."

Neko-chan growled at Kibito, holding back the temptation to throw her middle finger in his face. She opted for just turning when he placed on her the ground. She huffed with her nose in the air and walked out saying, "Fine then!"

Peering up at Kibito in a questioning manner, KaioShin asked, "Did you have to ask just now? It could have waited a little longer," he gently told Kibito, not wanting to hurt him.

Neither said a word out loud, but Shin followed Neko-chan, knowing there was no reason to relax now. Kibito followed him and behind him and Shin were LadyRivka and Kym.

Dabura was gagging at the thought of raw fish, so he, Datura, Satan and Vampire headed for the tea house next door. Gohan and Kioku stayed at the sushi bar while Lyonette got ready to serve them.

Gohan ordered a bowl rice and then waited while Lyonette got it started.

'Rice is ordering rice,' Kioku mused to herself as she looked around for a juke box. "You know, Lyonette, you should put in a karaoke bar."

"I know, I've been thinking of doing that," Lyonette shouted from the kitchen portion.

Settled in and ready for food and a break, Gohan was lost to his thoughts when two arms wrapped around his waist and glomped him, "Huh?"

He turned to find a neko-jin/Saiya-jin with emerald green hair and blonde hair on her cat ears and tail, "Hi! I'm Muzura, and now that I've got you, I'm never letting go!" she announced with enthusiasm. 

Gohan groaned and tried to pry her arms off, to no avail.

Done with his rice, Lyonette put it in a bowl and handed it out to Gohan, but his back was turned and she was straining to reach his back with no luck, "Gohan!"

"Yeah, that's what I ordered," the Saiyan said with his concentrations on Muzura and getting her off of him.

"Gohan!" Lyonette tried again, getting impatient.

"What, did you forget? I said yes! I ordered rice."

'All right, I would put up with Shin, I take this from Dende, or Piccolo, but I am not taking this from the stupid Saiya-jin!' Lyonette thought to herself, angered, "No! GO-HAN!"

At long last, Gohan turned around and saw the bowl. Flushing, he took the bowl and mumbled, "Sorry...."

Lyonette grinned as Gohan took the bowl, and then she turned to Kioku, "You want anything?"

"No, that's okay, I'll pass," Kioku answered with a sweat drop weighing down her head.

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Over at the tea house, immersed in a world of potent, soothing odors, Satan, Dabura, Vampire and Datura were sipping, or drinking tea, in Datura's case a raspberry iced tea. Dabura had jasmine tea, Satan was giving his tea to his plot bunnies, and Vampire had mint tea. 

The girl behind the bar was too preoccupied with her boyfriend on the phone to notice the customers, leaving them to their own devices. She had never even noticed Datura pushing her out of the way a few times as she leaped over the bar to take everyone's tea orders, secretly wishing for her coffee.

It was rather quiet, as rabbits are noiseless creatures, Satan was content to have nothing said in the Romance section, least someone start spouting poetic words of love, and Vampire was in the same boat. Dabura was more concerned of thinking about what he should do, as he knew there was no reason to go back with Gohan, Kibito, and Shin to a world where he was dead. In this new place he was alive, his halo was gone, and he might even have a few real fans around that knew of his greatness.

Datura on the other hand was pondering on how they could have lost the Jigglypuff, 'Poor little cat. I hope she's okay. This is a bad place to get lost in.'

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Cramped inside the Pokéball, Poetic Dark Jigglypuff was starting to hyperventilate, "I can't take this anymore! It's hot, I'm scrunched up with a rabbit, and I'm bored! Oh give me an ice pick! To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer..."

The little rabbit's heart beat sped up as she was now suffering, 'You mean, there's more to this thing then just the first line?! NO!!'

"...the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles..."

'Give me the ice pick and end the madness! I choose not to be!'

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Meanwhile, Fushigina Joshi was waking up. She grabbed her walkie-talkie needing to get a hold of the Leader of the Flamer's Mob to warn her. "Leader of the Flamer's Mob, this is Fushigina Joshi, and I need to report a few problems. I was attacked by The Critic and Tenshi. They seem to be causing trouble as well Datura, and we need to stop them all."

"Okay. Where are they now?"

"I don't know. They must have followed the first group."

"All right. Tell me if anything happens and try to catch up to them. We must not let Shin get away or any of these other writers become better than us! We can not have that, at all costs! We must rule ff.net and be the only Shin authors that anyone pays attention to!"

"Yes ma'am. Over and out!" and with that Fushigina Joshi was back on the road, after the group of travelers. 

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Somewhere in the middle of the humor section, with her jet-black hair shining in the light, and her bright mint-green eyes gleaming with the thought of meeting Dabura, Tenshi continued on, undaunted by fatigue, while behind her lagged The Critic. She shouted out words of encouragement, "Come on! We need to go faster! Yea! I get to meet Dabura!" and then sped up, leaving The Critic behind.

Tired, The Critic glared at her retreating figure, "Tenshi, you're under arrest for running too fast! Get back here!"

That's when one of the previous Flamers from the Mob jumped in front of The Critic and yelled, "Stop! Right now! For your rude critic on our stories...." 

"Whoa!" Tenshi stopped, her shoes burning as she did. "What did you say? It's 'CRITIQUE!' Critic is a noun!!"

The flamer fumed, "Whatever, he's now going to be flamed off this site because he doesn't know what he's talking about!"

"I don't know what I'm talking about?" The Critic sighed as he looked at Tenshi.

Tenshi shrugged her shoulders, unsure of what to tell him, "I can't make you feel better now. But...doesn't she look just like Fushigina Joshi back there?"

"Good point. It looks like she's wearing the same mask." The Critic mused while studying the odd piece of plastic.

"It doesn't matter! Either way I'm going to end your rain of...." 

In unison, both Tenshi and The Critic yelled back at her, "It's REIGN!!"

Sighing the flamer pulled out a gun, "It doesn't matter, it ends now, whatever it is!"

THWACK!

Once again an acme safe came to The Critic's aid and Tenshi turned to him, bewildered, "I have to ask; how do you do that?"

"It's my attack."

Tenshi broke out in laughter while The Critic asked, "What's so funny? Oh come on! Tell me!"

Instead of answering, Tenshi ran off, and The Critic followed not far behind her, still asking her to explain the laughter. And they continued on this manner, headed for the main group of travelers.

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End notes: I'm sorry if this ended up too short, but I lost the end part of this chapter shortly after I finished it. I was looking through it and something went wrong with the program at the moment, and whatever it was cut off the last seven kilobytes of the story, which really ticked me off. It's not easy to come up with this stuff, do it just right, and then have it disappear on me like that. Forgive the cat if it sucked. I tried to do it from memory as best as I could. I'm going to try to post the next chapter some time this week, anytime from Wednesday-Friday. Thank-you, everyone, for your time.