Chapter XVIII: Shams and Shrooms
General Malk was not a smart man, but he knew three things. He knew how badly the sting of losing a lover and a best friend felt, the price of a gigolo in the Northern docks, and where to get good shrooms. It was the third bit of trivia that Steve was enjoying right now, before later enjoying the second bit and finishing the night reminding Malk of the first bit whenever Steve got bored and "stabby".
Steve was pretty sure the fly on the wall was trying to warn him of something. He wasn't sure what. But it was definitely trying to warn him of... fuck, man, isn't Wonderwall, like, the best choone? Do you think, that's like, because it's the best choone, or do, like, you add vibes to a choone, and everyone adds their vibes to Wonderwall because they like it, and it becomes this cultural, like... you know, like this cultural "thing"... wait, what?
"Fuck..." Steve said. "Dude, shut the fuck up about Wonderwall, man."
Steve turned to yell at Malk for beaming him too many thoughts, before finding himself face to face with a Capybara.
"Oh, fuck..." Steve said, staring back at the Capybara, who stared back with its dopey eyes that are too far apart for reasonable depth perception and too close together to give it a wide view range, while the perfect distance apart for making them look like shitty trash animals.
The Capybara didn't respond, for it's vocal chords aren't capable of making any speech, or really any interesting sounds at all.
"Whoa! Man, are you... are you a dog?" Steve asked.
The Capybara, to those it may concern, is not a dog in any way, shape or form.
"Yeah, man, it's me, Malk, I'm a capybara," Steve heard the Capybara say. "You should, like, totally just kill everyone but you and me, dude, it'd be sick."
"What? Why, man? Do you want to eat them?"
"No, sham, don't worry, I'm a capybara, we only eat, like, dreams, man."
While Capybaras do not eat dreams, neither you nor I actually know what they do eat, so let us continue the story without wasting the time required to check.
Once again, the capybara does not have vocal chords capable of sound. It's brain is also not capable of telepathy, but instead designed for stumbling around wetlands, looking like a dopey prick that even David Attenborough couldn't fucking talk about without going mental.
"Yo, man, I totally would, but like, that's WAAAYYY too many people."
"No, Steve, there's only nine, it's the Council of Nine. You can kill nine people, you have a snake arm" the capybara didn't say.
"Fuck..." Steve said to his snake. "Are you, like, my penis? Fuck, I'm sorry about all that shit I've done to you, dude, I was just trying to... wait, what? Nine?"
Steve looked away from his snake arm, which, was like, fucking weird, man.
"Isn't it like, nine, like the letter? There's not nine of us, dude," Steve said.
"Sham, I'm a capybara, we can't lie," the capybara didn't say again.
Capybaras are, and I really can't stress this enough, not capable of the vocal communication required to lie, but if they were, they would do so constantly.
"Fair point, feen. I'm going to go duff those cunts and see what the craic is,"
Steve stood, grabbing his sword from its place embedded in last night's gigolo, before stumbling out to the hallways, where he bumped into the young prodigy weeb Wibbons.
"How are you, Steve?" Wibbons asked politely, courtesying as always, his or her or whatever's dress swaying in the breeze.
"Oh, fuck, man, where's your boobs gone? Weren't you a chick, or something? Do you have a penis?"
Steve aggressively groped Wibbons in an aggressive manner. The first minute was investigating the boy-girl's genitals, the next few were spent both enjoying it and trying to figure out whether the weird lump was a button or a teste tumor.
"Well, not much of one," Steve shrugged. "Wibbons, where are the others? Where's the rest of the Council? I need them assembled!"
"Steve, I don't think that's..."
"Run, Wibbons! Run as fast as your retarded Southern retard legs can carry you! I've seen Forest Gump, they'll carry you far!"
Steve hurtled Wibbons down the stairs. Rather than calling for a council meeting, he just seemed to scream in pain, which annoyed Steve, but did quickly draw the castle. Steve hopped on the bannister, sliding down it as he quickly took flight into the air, his wings carrying him to the bottom of the staircase.
Shit, those were good shrooms.
Steve's eyes blinked open again, as he realized he had missed the bannister and hurtled down three flights of stairs, landing on a broken Wibbons. Standing up and confirming nothing was damaged except his pride and every part of Wibbons, he quickly jumped onto the table with the skill of a gymnast tumbling down stairs. He started screaming orders, before once realizing his mouth hadn't formed actually formed any words. He looked around at the scum, the rogues, the dicks, the cocks, the pussies and the twats assembled around him, and realized he had their attention.
"Why are you screaming? Fuck off, Steve!" Mizal cried angrily, like a bitch.
"OK, so let's get this straight! How many of us are there?" Steve shouted.
"There's nine, dipshit!"
"Is there?!" Steve cried out. "Have you tried counting? There's me, Wibbons, Ebon, Mister IAPs, General Malk, the Necromancer, Mizal, Axiom, the blind one, the dickless boy Ford laid his eggs in, Chris, I'm pretty sure one of us had a pet Aussie, and either we had a pet monkey or, like, Friends is taking up way too much of my brain! Shit, was that seven? Fuck, what number was I counting to?! Shit, OK, and there was Digit the Weeb, and that Asian boy with phimosis, and Bucky, and the..."
"Not Bucky," Axiom said tersely.
"Not Bucky?" Steve asked.
A quick punch to the windpipe quickly cleared the name from Steve's lips, as he just realized this was exactly what the fly was trying to warn him about.
Steve slammed into the ground, flying off the table. He desperately grasped for a hand, grabbing the limp, sweaty wrist of Tim and yanking himself back to his feet.
"Tim," Tim said, confused.
"Oh, shit, man, you're here, too. Are you a council member? I thought we fought you! Oh dear god, man, are you confused too?"
Tim nodded, as Steve hugged him close.
"Thank fuck, man. Dude, did you figure out whether Wonderwall was like, great or had great vibes like put, you know, into it or wh... fuck it, never mind, we'll talk later. Let's figure out..."
"What's going on?" a large, Ogre-like creature asked, sticking his head in the window, before letting out a loud belch from its extended gullet.
"Oh, shit, man, what the fuck is that? Is that Mizal? Did she lose weight and like... oh fuck man, this is too much, this is too much."
"OK, fuck this shit!" Mizal said, like a bitch. "Steve, go OD outside and die in a ditch, we don't want to deal with this!"
Steve fumbled for his pocket, pulling out a leather pouch of fairy dust and giving it a hefty snort. He let out a yell, energy surging through him, before he stabbed Tim in the chest.
"Shut the fuck up about Wonderwall, dude!" Steve roared at Tim. "OK, everyone, listen up! We are sorting out who is in the council right fucking here!"
Steve quickly forced everyone to one side of the room at sword point. The gang, although quite capable of overpowering Steve, were too uneager to touch whatever vile liquids his clothes were drenched in, and for now let him do whatever pre-OD freak out he was planning on doing.
"OK, so let's start! First of all, I'm definitely in the castle!"
"Why are you in the council?" Mizal asked, like a bitch.
"Because I have the sword, you bitch!" Steve shouted. "OK, you're in the council, get over here. Who else? The Soul Banisher? Fuck, is he still around? Didn't he choke on a few galaxies? Fuck, me, is anyone going to get that reference? It's Stephen King, I'm referencing Stephen King! Fuck me, who else! Ax? Ax, what the fuck do you even do?"
"I have the keys to the tower!" Axiom said, as Steve nodded and hastily led her over.
"OK, next, we have the capybara! He's one of us!"
"Why?" Mizal asked.
"Because I'm pretty sure he ate my dreams, and I want them back!" Steve screamed. "There was the undead king, he's one of us because we need a corrupt ally, and like, that Ebon dude killed a bunch of pussies for us, and like, was a shadow and a spy or some shit. Fuck, I don't know, how many is that?"
"Six," Axiom answered.
"OK!" Steve nodded. "That's six of us! The last three are going to be decided by this fucking melee that Sir Bucky is throwing! Whoever duffs the most shams and fucking whatever is in, got it!?"
The potential recruits, apathetic to Steve's issues, nodded.
"Steve, this doesn't make sense. What about people not in the contest? What about those who are great proof readers but not great writers? We need to clarify the rules if we're holding a contest to decide membership!"
But Steve was not able to clarify the rules, as Steve chose that exact moment to overdose, and after some merry laughing, the Council members and their allies retired to bed