The internet is a storm of URLs, wi-fi and strings of dangerous code, whirling and thundering. Out in the wilderness you can only survive so long unaided, but in here, behind the mellow yellow windows, a safe and comforting place awaits. This place is a respite from the internet; the fire crackles invitingly and alluring rainbow-coloured drinks are poured into glasses. Exciting chatter fills the rooms from tables bustling with friends, eating from trays of warm, rustic carum bread and hearty stews. Gentle music comes from the band in the background.
[image description: a busy tavern lit by orange light]
Come in, chat away, have a great time! The old location may have been overrun by the Codekind, but this new building has three-meter thick walls, three floors and turret bedrooms to rest in at the top! We’ve returned, free from the battles of the secret pages! A safe micro-community of equality and no judgement. Hang up your HTML-reflective suit at the door and settle in with a drink and a meal.
Notice Board: Free candy in the bowl on the counter! What types of candy are there? Yes.
Snowdapple slid a few coins over to Emberdawn and looked towards Bluefire answering her. “Oh, hello! I’m Snowdapple. What’s your favorite thing here? I love the cocoa.” Snowdapple sipped her cocoa before taking a bite of brownie.
“Um, I like the caramel-stuffed fluff pastries,” Bluefire answered, gesturing to the pile of pastries on her plate. “And the double fudge minty chocolate milkshake.” She swirled her milkshake straw, then took another sip. “Hey, I was going to check out the CodeForest, see if there’s anything to win, you want to come?”
[Inserting description: The CodeForest is a forest that has carnival-style games embedded in rocks, trees, or rivers and you can win prizes by playing them.]
Snow looked at her and nodded, “Sure! I’ll come with you in a sec.” she spotted her friend Robin and continued, “I want to say hi to my friend first, be right with you.” She got up and walked over to her friend and said. “Hi Robin!”
Robin sipped her chocolate milk, studying the scene around her. Icy and Ember were having some sort of contest, and Snow and a mysterious someone named Bluefire (at least she had heard) were talking about some kind of forest. No need to interrupt, she thought. She stood up, finished with her chocolate milk, and walked over to the trash. She dropped it in the trash and looked around for someone to talk to. She walked to the bar and sat, bored.
Lion sipped her pink milk slowly, casually waiting for a plot development, but too lazy to start one herself.
Suddenly the door to the tavern burst open. Bluefire leaped out of her seat when she saw some of her friends stagger into the room, dripping dark code. They slammed the door behind them. Bluefire rushed forwards, shouting “Hawkfrost, Darktail, Hollyleaf, Bluestar, Jayfeather, what happened?”
“Codekind,” Jayfeather spat, his blind eyes wide.
“Elite Codekind,” Bluestar clarified. “We have to keep moving.” Bluefire nodded, summoning her bag with a flick of her wrist and following them out the door.
*note: they all look like they would as humans. Darktail is a dark skinned tall seventeen-ish boy with white hair that is tipped black and blue eyes. Hawkfrost is a light-skinned muscular twenty-ish boy with brown hair and ice-blue eyes. Hollyleaf is a willowly black-haired eighteen-ish girl with pale skin and leaf-green eyes. Bluestar is a fifty-ish woman with dyed-blue long hair, light skin, and blue eyes. Jayfeather is a tall light-skinned eighteen-ish boy with grey-white hair and blind blue eyes*
Robin sat down with SNowdapple and was sipping her coca when a ragtag group walked in. She noticed that Bluefire called them… Bluestar, Hollyleaf, Jayfeather, Darktail, and Hawkfrost?! ‘But…’ Robin thought, ‘they’re cats!’ But if they are really cats turned into humans… why were Hawkfrost and Darktail there? They were the bad guys!
As they walked out of HazelPage, Robin looked around, then said to Snowdapple, “I’ll be right back. I need to… do something.” She walked out the door without waiting for her friend’s answer and followed the seemingly cats-turned-humans as they walked toward the Storm of URLs. Robin had been in the Storm of URLs once, before finding the HazelPage, and it was pretty dangerous, but she had to know what they were up to!
Bluefire lead the group through the storm, their cloaks wrapped tight against the sleet-like pieces of code. She had the sense of being followed, but knew it wasn’t something evil. Obviously, Jayfeather noticed too, he kept glancing behind them, even though he couldn’t see anything anyway.
“What is it?” Darktail finally asked.
“We’re being followed,” Jayfeather and Hawkfrost said at the same time.
“I noticed too,” Bluefire added. “It’s probably one of the BlogClan people.”
“How do you know?” Bluestar asked.
“I just know.” Bluefire wasn’t sure how to explain it: the strange connected-ness the BlogClan members had. “I think… I think it’s Robin?”
“Come out,” Bluestar said commandingly. “We know you’re there. Why are you following us?”
Robin stepped out of the shadows and quickly thought about what she was going to say. “I… I was following you because I felt that something was wrong. I mean, in the Warrior series Darktail and Hawkfrost are the bad guys, and Bluestar, Jayfeather, and Hollyleaf are the good guys. I figured, if you were working together, for a common cause, there had to be something wrong, something that I might be able to help with.” She looked at her tennis shoes, sheepish. “And… I was also wondering: why are you guys, people? I thought you were cats… I was curious…” Robin looked at Hollyleaf, hoping that she would convince the others that she should stay and help. After all, Hollyleaf was the one who helped RiverClan in the series once… The Storm whipped around Robin, and she shivered.
“I think she should come with us,” Hollyleaf blurted.
“What? Are you crazy?” Hawkfrost snarled. “We don’t need some random slowing us down.”
“You’re starting to sound like your father,” Darktail warned.
“Both of you, stop,” Bluestar commanded. “She can stay.”
Bluefire watched the exchange with intrest, knowing that whatever Bluestar decided was probably the best idea.
“Thank you! You won’t regret it, I promise!” Robin suddenly had an idea. “I have telekinesis!” she blurted out. She closed her eyes and reached out with her mind, and used her invisible hands-at least, that was what she called them- to pick up something. She opened her eyes and saw that she had lifted up a piece of paper that had some words on it. It had been whipping around in the Storm, but now it was floating still. She brought it closer to her and saw that it had the address of another Tavern. “What… is this?” she said out loud.
“The address to Cliffside Tavern!” Bluefire plucked the paper out of the air. “It’s a sister tavern to Hazelpage, but its location is always changing. This is where it is today.” Bluefire handed the paper to Darktail. “You know what to do.”
Darktail nodded, quickly memorizing the address. Then he closed his eyes and threw his hands out. A pale blue bubble encompassed the travelers. “TELEPORT!” The bubble blinked, then vanished, reappearing next to what had to be Cliffside Tavern.
“I’m never getting used to that,” Bluefire said, wavering slightly. “Okay, let’s go in.”
The group waltzed into the tavern like they owned the place. Of course, that’s how Hawkfrost always walked, so not weird for him. Inside… they found a large concentration of canon characters from many different series’, including (but not limited to) people from Naruto, The Mortal Instruments (Shadowhunters), Percy Jackson and the Olympians (and related series), and the Lunar Chronicles.
“Hey, it’s Bluefire,” Kakashi noticed.
“Hi everyone! I brought friends,” Bluefire said with a grin.
“What is going on here?” A tall man with large bat-like wings sprouting from his back stalked into the room.
“Sup Tamrin?” Bluefire greeted. “We’ll only be here a couple of minutes, I just wanted to show my friends Cliffside.”
“Fiiiiine.” Tamrin took his place behind the bar. “But don’t cause any trouble.”
“We won’t, we promise.” Bluefire strode into the center of the room, where she was greeted by many characters and some OCs that happened to be there.
*Notes: Cliffside Tavern was originally my sister’s idea. Kakashi is from Naruto. Tamrin is an OC from Shadowhunters who is a warlock (hence the wings). Also, all of Bluefire’s companions have ONE special abilities. Darktail’s is teleportation. I’ve yet to think of the others*
Iris popped up from where she had been observing the blogclanners and thinking, super hard, about codekind. Her mind reeled with what Blue had told her, and she knew one thing, the codekind was the kind (pun intended) to just leave everyone alone and walk away. There had been signs of an attack over Chrsitmas, but everyone had seemed to forgotten. She walked over to stand next to Blue, and idea forming in her head. She had seem Robin secretly used telekinesis, but this hadn’y surprised her, because that had only proved an idea that had been forming in the back of Iris’s head. All blogclanners were granted powers when the joined the blogclan community, they were secretly granted powers. It was hard to bring the powers out, and use them, but everyone had them. And she also knew, that they were the only way to defeat the codekind.
Jasmine walked in, shivering from her last encounter with ‘Nyan Cat’ videos.
“I’m new here!” She yelled. “Do you have butterbeer?”
(A completely non-alchoholic harry potter drink made with cream soda and buttersctoch
I’m not crazy)
“Yep!” Emberdawn called, before pouring a cup. “It’ll be a dollar-fifty for it!”
Lion dabbed because she was confused and idk 😛
Snow looked over at Lion, realising that she has never dabbed before, hmm
Moss spun in a circle cause she just found the hazlepage
“I will always dab on dem haters, and of course, for no reason.” Lion said somewhat proudly.
Embix edit: I made the spoiler warning more obvious 😛
POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR INFINITY WAR AND PRETTY MUCH ANY OTHER BOOKS/MOVIES
Bluefire and her companions went around greeting everyone in Cliffside (see above comments if confused). Suddenly, a wormhole opened and Spider-Man, Star-Lord, Groot, Black Panther, Scarlet Witch, Doctor Strange, and all the other main MCU characters Thanos had dissolved tumbled through.
“What the heck?” Spider-Man exclaimed.
“OMSC IT’S SPIDERBOY” Bluefire gasped. Everyone laughed.
“Spider-Man,” he protested.
“What is going on here?” Doctor Strange wondered.
“I guess Thanos’s infinity gauntlet snap thing sent you all here,” Hawkfrost guessed.
“Cool, now we can all be friends!” Twilight Sparkle said enthusiastically.
“When did you get here?” Darktail asked.
“Uhhhh just now.”
“We have to get back,” Scarlet Witch demanded.
“Um we’re not supposed to interfere with important plotlines,” Bluefire pointed out.
“They have to figure out how to get us back on their own,” Doctor Strange agreed. “It’s the only outcome that works. Though…. I never anticipated this.”
“We also have a Cauldron of the Cosmos,” Jayfeather said.
“…what does that have to do with anything?” Bluefire asked.
“Dunno.”
“Welllll then,” Bluestar said. “I haven’t seen Infinity War yet so I’m just gonna leave now.” She poofs into smoke and disappears.
“That was a shadow doppelganger?” Bluefire wondered.
“Apparently,” Kakashi answered.
…wow. This got crazy fast.
Thanks Embix =)
Robin looked around, confused. ‘What the…’ she thought, and then more characters fell out from the ceiling. ‘Ok, this is weird.’
“I’ve never seen Infinity Wars or any of that Advenger stuff,” she said out loud. “And… why are we here?”
Lion looked around, “Anyone up for a vacation?” She added a wink and grin like usual.
“maybe….” Snowy was curious as to where this was going
“where are we going?” Snow asked eagerly 🙂
“Where ever the wind takes us.” Lion answered unusefully.
“well that sounds interesting” Snowy was slightly confused (we seriously need to revive this page)
Lion nodded, “All we need is plane….” (agreed)
(How did I not know this existed)
Rose appeared out of nowhere, saying “HELLO! I EXIST!”
“Hello, I exist too!” Brighty shouted, then started laughing a very strange laugh for no apparent reason. Brighty then disappeared in a poof of black, gray, white, and purple smoke.
Feeling very confused, Rose looked around. “Guys! Guys! Guys!” She shouted, popping out of random places each time. “I’m UNHINGED!!”
She poofed.
She reappeared.
“NOTICE ME, YOU PEOPLES!!” She said, climbing up on the counter while waving her hands around.
(I’m being random for no reason and I have no regrets 😛 )
“Get your dirty shoes off my counter!” Iceflower crowed, grabbing a broom from the closet and shaking it threateningly at Rosepaw. “Or else I’ll send Hazelburrow after you!”
Bluefire drank a quart of sugar water and became high on sugar. She leaped onto the counter next to Rose. “COUNTER SHOES COUNTER SHOES” she yelled.
Iceflower attempted to swing the broom at Bluefire, but only succeeded in whacking herself on the head. Toppling over, she mumbled and grumbled and cursed and was generally unpleasant for several minutes until she resurfaced, rubbing an angry red lump on her head and muttering about “needing a raise” and “vacation” and “need to stop whacking myself with the broom”.
Bluefire laughed, hopping down from the counter. Her sugar rush depleted quickly, but she reached across the counter and ate three poppy seed lemon glazed muffin tops. Then, before Icy could yell at her, she slid money across the counter. Then she leapt over, landing next to Icy. “Hey, want some help?”
Iceflower stood up, still grumbling, and dusted herself off. “I’m fine.” She sniffed, inspecting a rip in her black skirt. “Cheese and quackers.” She cursed.
“Whoa, Cool!” Rose snatched the broom. “MINE NOW” she raced around. “I’m a bit hyper sorry I just had my 900 piles of candy for breakfast,” she said. Then she leaped in the air and landed in a perfect split. “Ta-da!” She turned to Iceflower. “Also, I’m not wearing shoes.”
Iceflower pointed at a large sign hanging by the door. “No shoes, no service!” She barked.
Rose smirked. “I SHALL SEE ABOUT THAT!!” She then took a sharpie and scribbled on the sign. “As a lawyer, I officially unofficially make this true.” She had written “No shoez? No problem! Now, if we were talking about shirts…”
“Lion said we were going on a vacation” Snow said quietly
I EXIST TOO, says a voice. It was Libbypaw!
Jasmine slapped a dollar-fifty on the table.
“One. Butterbeer.” She said exitedly.
Someone burst through the door, smoke surrounding them.
“TIS I, POTATO. THY QUEEN HATH DOTH ARRIVED!” *Cue dramatic posing*
(I will be speaking in a weird Shakespearean dialect that’s not at all correct, and I have no idea why 😛)
“BOO!” Screamed Rose. She somersaulted right in front of Potato. “TIS I, THE QUEEN OF WIREDNESS!!” She struck a dramatic pose and face planted. Then she got up and pretended nothing happened. “I am also a lawyer,” she said winking at the reader. Then she face planted again.
Edit: FAST SPEEDY MOD
“HARK NOBLE STEED!” Potato exclaimed. “I DOTH NOT KNOW WHAT A LAWYER TIS! HOWEVER!” Potato strutted over to the bar. “MY THIRST MUST BE QUENCHED. NOBLE TENDER! I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST THY FINEST BEVERAGE! OR THIRST-QUENCHER!”
Iceflower filled a glass with lemonade and slid it over to Potato. “That’ll be 90 cents. I mean, it will be costing thou some coinage?”
Potato dropped 90 cents on the counter.
“THANK YOU, FAIR TENDER! THIS WILL DO NICELY!” Potato drank the lemonade with quite a bit of dramatic posing.
I didn’t know that this existed!
(but I’m kinda confused)
(Well I’m just using this page to be weird)
(Sooooo 😛 )