Mr. Brand walked towards Graham and slapped him on the cheek. Loretta smiled in appreciation. “Well done, Mr. Brand.”

  Mr. Brand glanced at Loretta and pulled out a controller out of his coat. He aimed it at Loretta. Loretta suddenly felt fearful. She tried to duck out of the way. But she failed. The system that prevented Graham from destroying them just retracted its protection from Loretta. Now, she and that teddy bear were two at-risk targets.

  “Why?”, she said and looked at Graham. Thankfully he didn't seem to pay attention to them, continuing to cry in an annoying way.

  “This is for science, Loretta”, Mr. Brand grabbed Graham in his hands roughly, as if Graham was a bag, and pointed the toddler's eyes at Loretta. He shouted at Graham loudly and in an angry tone: “Do it!”

  “No!”, said Loretta and tried to run away. However, Mr. Brand turned in sync with Loretta, making Graham's eye face her running body. Loretta ran in a circle.

  “Graham!”, said Mr. Brand.

  Loretta narrowed her eyes and begun running right at Mr. Brand. She launched a fist at Mr. Brand face. However, the man, and the toddler, have disappeared and reappeared in the corner of the lab room. Loretta used this moment to run out of the room.

  Meanwhile, Sataneve was soaring through the skies. Suddenly, she remembered that she was doing a minute ago, so she decided to come back and try to save her baby again. She turned around and flew towards the lab. This time, she got the idea of moving extremely quickly to make sure that scientist lady didn't get a chance to use hypnosis on her. She rammed into the lab and saw Mr. Brand holding Graham. She moved, as quick as am obese person grabbing a chocolate donut, and in one movement she grabbed Graham and also punctured Mr. Brands heart. She freed her right hand from his chest cavity and there wasn't even a single speck of blood on it. This was because Sataneve was Clarice, and Clarice had learned many impressive skills in the past. At any rate, Sataneve flew away from the lab. She would call her buddies Jesus, Eve and Satan so they could destroy this whole Department of Human Experimentation lab together, but her main priority now was to simply get away, since these crazy scientists had various tricks up their sleeves, as that Loretta woman demonstrated. Sataneve soared through the sky. Graham slept soundly in her arms.

  On the deserted island, Liam woke up from a nap. The sun was preparing to set on the horizon. Liam felt refreshed and tranquil. The air was chill and pleasant. It was such a contrast, in the morning of this day he was bleeding out his life. And then, suddenly, after being force-fed some food, magically all damage to his body disappeared. Frankly, this made no sense, mainly because his life wasn't a movie or a fantasy book.

  “I will never give up, Date The Bane Yo!”, Liam exclaimed as he launched himself to his feet. “I will get back to my family! More importantly, Graham's angry eyes can still provide me with some use.”

  So, Liam decided to figure out what this place was exactly.

  “Okay, I assume I am in real life Satiety Games. I bet I am Dogniss and I am the main character. Also, I assume there are cameras everywhere, watching my every move.”

  Something hit Liam in the back of his head. He turned it to see what was up. He saw an empty tin can on the sand at his feet.

  “Very funny, spectators! I promise, I will destroy you once I get out of here!”

  Drones approached Liam and threw tomatoes at him. Liam laughed. “Yes, fear me!” He ran inside the forest to scout the territory. There was nothing immediately interesting around the place. It looked like a typical jungle-y forest depicted in random movies. After five minutes of running, Liam found the camp of the group that shot at him before. The trio sat before a campfire and fried some human meat. “Dibs for his thigh!”, said Joe and held a human thigh on the fire. Cela and the third guy punched Joe in the face simultaneously.

  Cela shouted, “The thigh is mine!”.

  “Don't you dare,” Joe said, “I am your leader! Stephen, Cela, get away from me!”, he shouted fearfully. But his friends didn't listen. Cela and Stephen tore into Joe's flesh and then made barbecue out of him. Liam was very fascinating, but also bored. “Erm, Cela and Stephen, was it?”, he said as he walked out of the shadows. “Mind if I share your food?”

  Cela looked at him incredulously. “Aren't you the guy that we just killed this morning?” She looked at Stephen in askance.

  Stephen said, “Yeah. Sure, eat away, dude. After you're full, we will eat you too, deal?”

  Liam nodded. “Okay. I assure you, my name is Liam and I will be very tasty.” He took Joe's spot by the fire and together, the three of them ate Joe and the other unknown humans that Joe, Cela and Stephen acquired from wherever.

  “So, Liam, how old are you?”, asked Stephen. However, this conversation was interrupted by a dinosaur who ate Liam, Cela and Stephen in one gulp. Liam's life ended abruptly when the dinosaur chomped on him, but Cela and Stephen survived because the dinosaur was full of anxiety, so he didn't chew all of his food properly. The two ate the dinosaur's stomach contents for a week while they passed through its digestive tract, before finally being expunged out of the bottom end.

  * * *

  All the villagers watched with interest as the man dressed in peculiar red clothes merged souls with a chicken drumstick. The man-drumstick stood up after a moment and then walked towards the little girl, Siena. Siena had red hair, she also had freckles. She wore gray pants and a yellow shirt with a mushroom-shaped engraving. Siena said to the man, “Are you now my friend or the invader?”

  “I am neither. I am now to be known as Senator ChickenHub.”

  “Fine. So, Senator—”

  “Senator is a title! ChickenHub is the name”, the fused ChickenHub interrupted.

  “Oh, okay. So, what is a Senator?”

  “It means a villager who works at a windmill.”

  Siena nodded in understanding. “Okay, so now shall we go put my tree back where it belongs, Chicken?”

  ChickenHub nodded. “Also, I should probably use my powers to return Jiner's hand to him.” He turned and shouted, “Hey, Jiner, come here, buddy!”

  Jiner appeared out of some shop and walked towards them. His shoulder stump was now bandaged. “Yes, my buddy Drumstick?”, he said with a smile.

  Chicken scowled. “I am not Drumstick anymore. I am now… ChickenHub.”

  Jiner nodded in understanding. “So, you took over this gentleman's body?”

  “No, we fused together. My soul, being a drumstick, could not take over a larger human soul. However, this dude's will was far inferior to mine, so I was easily able to become the dominant part, despite being smaller.”

  Jiner pondered this in his head. “Great, I am happy for you”, he said sincerely.

  “Thanks!”, Chicken said appreciatively. “Now, I would like to return to you your hand.”

  “Oh, I appreciate it.” Jiner unwrapped his bandages and re-attached his hand.

  “Now,” said Chicken, “should the three of us go for a walk?”

  Siena, Senator ChickenHub and Jiner walked out of the village to the forest where BurgerHub first met Siena to return the tree.

  “This guy was quite strong,” Chicken commented on being able to carry the tree on his back with not too much difficulty, “I am glad I now possess such a useful body!”

  \* \* \*

  Sataneve entered the family home. Inside, she found Eve and Satan playing cards. Jesus was playing Licks Of Lemurs on his alien computer (it was made by aliens from planet known as Kepler-186f).

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  “Guys, I found Graham! But now I really want to know where Liam is.”

  “Oh,” said Satan, “Well, I suppose I can help you with that. I mean, he is either in hell or on Earth, yes?”

  Sataneve nodded. Then, she said, “If you help me, I will give you an apple.”

  Satan looked at Eve. “Better ask Jesus”, Eve said.

  Jesus was called into the room. “How dare you interrupt my LOL game? I almost fixed my house there!”

  “Apologies,” Sataneve said, “However, we would like to ask if Satan could check if Liam is alive or in hell.”

  Jesus shrugged. “I dunno, I guess you can check. Why are you even asking me?” He scratched his head and walked inside his room. This time he locked the door to avoid any interruptions.

  “Well,” said Satan, “I suppose I will tell you this: Liam is held up in Limbo. Something, or, rather, someone, is holding him there.”

  Sataneve's eyes narrowed. “I think I know who it might be.” She glanced back at Satan, “But how did he die, anyways?”

  “Hmm…”, said Satan, “It seems he got eaten by a dinosaur. He was playing Satiety Games in World 777.”

  “Grandpa brought him there to die again,” fumed the God of Death. She then asked Eve, “Is there a way we can access Limbo? I don't like this, I fear something bad might happen if we don't hurry.”, she mused.

  Eve pondered something in her head for a moment. “I don't know, but I can ask Serpent.”

  The three of them walked in the backyard. There, Serpent and Adam were playing basketball.

  “Hey, Serpent,” Eve called, “have a minute?”

  Serpent paused and said, “One minute, just one minute, I will win and I will take some time out of my precious day and talk to you.” With that said, he and Adam continued their game.

  A minute later, the five sat under an umbrella and sipped some cool drinks.

  “Yes, I can access Limbo, but I will need Buddha's help for that”.

  The friends went to the nearby airport (it was named “191 Twins’ Safest”, by the way) and stole a plane. They travelled to Japan and landed in Tokyo. They were met by a group of cosplayers who brought them to Buddha.

  “I have long waited for you, young ones,” Buddha said wisely. “I know how to access Limbo and rescue Clarice's husband before it's too late.”

  “I will pay you one dollar, 32 cents”, the God of Death offered.

  “No, Clarice, I will not accept a monetary reward from you this time. I only ask that you bake me a cookie made using corn flour.”

  The God Of Death nodded and said, “I will bake some cookies for all of us once we rescue Liam.”

  “Very well,” Buddha said, “To access Limbo we need to ask Ramen Bye Yo for help.

  “Isn't he in jail?”, Eve asked, looking at Buddha strangely. Buddha sighed deeply. “Yes. He stole all my ramen supplies again and because of this I had to move to Tokyo permanently.”

  “Did you sell your Hyderabad estate then?”, the serpent asked shrewdly.

  Buddha looked him over with a subtle glare. “No, I didn't sell it. I transformed it into a hazelnut farm.”

  Serpent whistled and asked, “Any plans on starting a chocolate-hazelnut spread firm?”

  Buddha merely said, “Let us focus on the task at hand, my friends”.

  The group of six went to the police department. They organized a meeting with Ramen Bye Yo.

  “Well, what do you want? I don't have all day”, Ramen Bye Yo said gruffly.

  “Well, we require your assistance in accessing Limbo.”

  “Fine. Just make sure you bring me some ramen in exchange.”

  Sataneve, Satan, Eve, Serpent, Buddha and Adam exchanged glances. Then, Buddha looked at Ramen Bye Yo and nodded.

  “And make sure you add some bamboo chopsticks,” Ramen Bye Yo added.

  \* * *

  Liam awoke and looked around. He was in a white space full of clouds. He walked up some random white stairs. Before him, he saw a woman. Her ears, the first thing he noticed, were pointy, like those people from that Peasant of the Necklaces movie series.

  “Don't tell me you are an elf?” Liam asked. “Oh, you are cosplaying or something?”

  The woman looked at him patiently and then said, “Liam, I offer you a proposition: enter a new life in another world. If you succeed in defeating the bad guy there, I shall bring your wife Clarice and your son Graham to you and you could live securely, protected fully from the whims of your wife's grandfather.”

  Liam considered this. “Okay, I will accept this amazing offer. What is your name, m'am?”

  “I am known as Ruefura. I am the Queen of the Limbo.”

  “Okay. What then is the Limbo?”

  “Don't ask too many questions, our time here is limited. If we delay, your soul shall disintegrate fully,” Ruefura said.

  “Well, very well. I accept this idea, Ruefura. Just one more thing,” Liam said, “Could you show me the book you're holding in your right hand?”

  Indeed, Ruefura was holding something that appeared to be a book in her right hand. She glanced down at it. She replied then, “Unfortunately, I cannot do that. This book contains the history of the worlds and no mortal men can read it.” She smiled at Liam. “This book is sexist. Only women can read it.”

  Liam said only, “Oh. Can't we sue this book?”

  Ruefura shook her head gently, “I am sorry, young one. Only those who can defeat the bad guy can sue the Sexist Book”. She then winked at him. “Perhaps this will act as an additional motivation for you to defeat the bad guy, since you seem to like suing as well as your family?”

  Liam replied, “I suppose”, though he was sceptical.

  “Well, it is nigh I sent you over. Get ready.”

  Liam's soul left this world.

  \* * *

  Graham crawled up Jesus’ leg. Jesus was playing his six hundred and sixth Licks of Lemurs match and he looked at Graham with frustration. “Come on, dude, can't you see I am busy?” He said to the outside, “Hey, could someone take Graham to another spot?” But no one was home. Why did he have to babysit Graham and not, say, Serpent? This was unfair. Suddenly, Jesus got an idea.

  “Hey, how about I put you inside the game, Graham?”

  Graham had no idea what Jesus said. The baby merely laughed.

  “I will take that as a yes,” said Jesus and smirked. “Wel, here you go!”

  Graham climbed into Jesus’ computer's screen. He became one of Jesus' characters.

  “Well, feel free to explore my base, dear Graham,” said Jesus over the microphone.

  “Dude, who you talking to?”, one of his teammates asked.

  “To my nephew. He is now inside the game.”

  “Huh”, the teammate said in confusion. “You mean you are letting him play?”

  Jesus disabled the comms, cackled and enabling them, said, “Yes, yes, that's exactly right. Totally right.”

  “Well, I hope your nephew will carry us or I am gonna ragequit this boring game”, the same teammate replied.

  Jesus replied, saying, “Oh, you will see.”

  Meanwhile, Graham was crawling on the ground. He climbed up a tree. However, the tree was cut down by one of Jesus’ minions. Riding on the log, Graham entered Jesus’ base. Inside, Graham saw peasants walking around, working.

  “Googoo gaga,” Graham said. One of the workers picked Graham up.

  “Oh?”, Jesus said. “I just got a new worker class.”

  “Eh, which one?”, the same teammate asked. She was the same only one who used comms in this team aside from Jesus.

  “It's called ‘Toddler Chopper’. It says it has +1000 damage increase”, Jesus said.

  “Huh? Is that a new patch? Show me”, the teammate said.

  “Sure, let's launch an attack on the midlane using my new worker.”

  Ever member of his team visited the middle lane, which at least showed that the silent players were at least still listening to the voice comms, which was better than nothing.

  Everyone saw Graham riding on the worker's shoulders. The worker destroyed all opponent buildings and ended the game in five minutes.

  In the post match chat everyone reported Jesus and he got banned for 7777 years by Order Staff.

  Jesus cackled at this outcome. He picked Graham out of his computer's screen and danced with him. “I take back what I said before, I am totally into you, my man!” Graham laughed at being spun around, feeling happy.

  A vibration indicated that Jesus received a notification on his phone. He saw a Fog message from someone with a username “HelloWorldIEatTheMold666”. It said:

  “Yo bro, how dare you have such good cheats! Gimme. I will pay you hundred bucks for this child-carrying worker script.”

  “Oh, so they report me but then ask me privately for Graham?”, Jesus said shrewdly. “How silly.”

  He wrote back, “Hi, Mold, were you one of the people I played with, or the enemies? Whatever the case is, I will never share my cheats, and certainly not for a mere hundred bucks.”

  Almost immediately, Mold wrote back, saying, “Listen, I didn't report you is this is what you are grumpy about.”

  Jesus quirked his eyebrow sceptically and wrote back, “Oh, really? I don't believe you.”

  Mold wrote a reply which intrigued Jesus, “Yes, I am Order stuff and can see a list of reporters. So, I can prove.”

  Jesus just wrote an “Oh?” in response to that.

  “Let's meet at Central Mall at 13 pm at Banking Boats”, Mold wrote.

  Jesus replied with a simple, “Fine. What day?”

  “After tomorrow?”, Mold offered.

  Jesus gave a thumbs up and closed the Fog app. He went to mow his lawn. To make sure Graham's hearing deteriorated, he strapped the toddler to his front. If anyone asked him why Graham was here, Jesus had an excuse of not wanting to leave the toddler by himself in the house.

  \* * *

  Liam awakened in a white bed. He looked around and saw nothing but a ceiling, a window and a carpet made of wheat.

  “Hello?”

  “Oh. You are my brother?”, asked a strange looking animal. Liam could tell it was a mix of an ostrich and something akin to a common depiction of a dragon. “No, I am not.”

  The ostrich-dragon cocked her head. “Why not?”

  “Because I am a human, and thus not your sibling. Also, we cannot be siblings in spirit because I didn't agree to this idea. I am fine being a single child.”

  “Oh, but you have no choice. You are my blood sibling and also my spirit sibling,” the annoying critter said. “And what's a human?”

  “A human is a person who likes eating chocolate bars,” answered Liam wisely.

  “Ew, I don't eat chocolate”, the critter said. She lean towards Liam and apparently picked him up.

  “Let me go!”

  “Mom asked me to bring you out once you awake, so I will let you go, in a while, okay?”

  She carried him through a big corridor and they were now in a garden of some kind.

  “Mom, look, little bro is awake!”

  A gigantic ostrich-dragon looked at them and said, “What shall we name him?”

  The first little ostrich-dragon replied excitedly, “How about Bobenus?”

  The mother dragon nodded sagely, “My son, you are now Bobenus.”

  “What a silly name!”, Liam objected. “Pick a different one!”

  The mother shook her head and said, “The moment I agreed to the name, it became so. Lesson number one: The Queen's word is law and cannot be retracted.”

  Liam was shocked at this ridiculous and stubborn inflexibility. “I bet you are very careful to avoid long-term promises, then?”

  The mother-queen said, “What a smart dragon you are, Bonenus!” She invited them to her wings and her daughter, still carrying Liam's body with her teeth, jumped on the mother's right wing.

  “I will bring you to the playground valley, make sure Bobenus meets all of the kids, okay, Bunera?”

  The little dragon, apparently called Bunera, nodded with enthusiasm, “Of course, Mom!”