The Trickster's Tales

[Rebecca]

X333 That was so cute. Thank you so much for this!! I loved it!

[Dr. Facilier]

You're very very welcome. It was just too cute to resist, jay is a cutie.

And since I'm such a inspratinalcholic I got chapter 5 of the two twins ready. OK, this is when they are 6 and they are starting 1st grade. This is how the two handle the pressure of schooling.

The shadowtwins
Chapter 5

This was their first day of school. Jasper was totally excited but felicia however wasn't so excited, she was very nervous and so she needed advice. Luckly, lotti was the one to be able to get to her completely get to her inside and out. Felicia was sitting on her bed holding on to her precious teddy bear when lotti came in the door smiling gently.

Felicia spoke quietly "I don't wanna go mom. There's bullies and mud and work and all these mean things and I'm scared!" Lotti rubbed her girls shoulders and replied "Darlin' there's nothing to worry about. Y'all are a smart and sweet girl and the teachers will help you if there's a bully or you have problems. Listen when you go out there y'all will be so happy you'll wish to stay trust me" Felicia listened and grinned and put on her backpack and replied "OK I'll try my best" Lotti hugged her and said "That's all I'm askin' sweetie"


When the two finally arrived jasper immediatly went into the school amazed and happy "WOW! This is totally awesome! This is school? I love it already" Felicia just looked around and finally went to her class with her brother behind her. The teacher was a young woman and she smiled at the two "Good morning kids. I'm mrs. baker and you too must be felicia and jasper right?" Jasper went to the woman and held his hand out with a joyful excited face "Yep! I'm jasper and my sister felicia is right here too!" Mrs. Baker laughed and shook his hand and said "My how enthusiastic you are! Take your seat the both of you!" Jasper quickly obliged while felicia sat down quietly and shyly. Jasper was so happy, he was in school and he couldn't wait for it to start. As for felicia she felt happy to do this but at the same time she knew she wasn't at home anymore
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After some time facilier along with lotti picked them up and facilier asked "So tell me. How was it?" Jasper instantly spoke with a estatic tone "It was awesome! We learned adding and we learned how to play baseball and we learned how to play the flute and this boy ricky played tag with me at recess it was so great!" Facilier smirked and replied "That's cool son. What about you felicia"

Felicia looked at her dad with pride "Well, other then what jasper said. I just drawed some pictures and ate with some nice girls but they're not as cool and fun as Lexi is" Felicia smiled, remembering her best friend Lexi. Lexi and jasper and felicia were three peas in a pod and the best part was lexi's father the trickster was her godfather and that added her joy. Facilier nodded "That's great too and yes lexi is pretty fun and she's supposed to come next week for a little visit" Both twins reacted in there own way. Jasper whooped and replied "Really? Lexi's coming? AWESOME!" Felicia just smiled bigger "That's totally awesome! I can't wait!" Facilier and lotti looked at each other and drived on as the twins reflected on there first day of school and how they would tell there best bud Lexi.
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Unfortunately I'm only used here as a plot device and don't worry I find it cool too because I'm homeschooled in my OC life by the trickster(who as you know is my OC daddy ) it's not that I hate it it's just I never saw public school before

[Dr. Facilier]

Damnit all! Not allowing people to review is heartwrenching
But this is chapter 6 on the bright side and the timing is where the whole family find out the twins powers and the twins are around 8 and Lexi's here.... with the trickster YAY!

The shadowtwins
Chapter 6

Jasper ran as fast as he could with felicia beside him running. They were playing tag and Lexi was it and she was extremely fast. Lexi ran yelling "You guys can run but you can't hide!" Felicia ran for a tree and jasper was left alone and he got caught by lexi who laughed goodheartly "You're it jasper! Good try running away though" Jasper was angry, he was so sick and tired of always being it. He hated being it and he wouldn't do it again so he looked at lexi and yelled "Forget it! I'm not playing this stupid game anymore" Jasper's eyes suddenly grew red and felicia angerly stood to lexi's defense "What the heck jasper?! She's playing the game"

Jasper pushed felicia away and felicia knew that jasper was blinded by rage and ran to get facilier. Daddy would know what to do, he always knew that was so great about him and she knew he could stop jasper. Lexi however wasn't so brave she buckled her knees as a blast of light came from jasper and hit her. Hard. Lexi crashed down and fell on the ground. When jasper's eyes came there normal color he gasped and stood where he was. Facilier along with the trickster and felicia suddenly saw what happened and felicia looked at lexi who was crying and yelled "Lexi!" Felicia stared at her wishing she could stop crying.

Trickster ran to lexi's side and calmed her down by shushing her and felicia went to her hugging her when suddenly a light came on both girls and instantly lexi was clean and uninjured. Facilier realized that the two twins were born with there own source of powers, it seemed that on of jasper's powers was to aim balls of light and his eyes grew red when he was in a powerful rage, felicia had the power to heal things and no color came from her eyes though.

Lexi was terrified unfortunately, despite the healing she was still crying by the fear, she knew jasper didn't mean to it was just that his face scared her quite alot. Facilier took the two twins and ordered them to go to there room while facilier talked to trickster who was still comforting his daughter. Facilier excused himself and trickster carried lexi and left without a trace. Facilier knew they would return but lexi clearly needed to go home

Jasper put his hands in his face when facilier came back. Facilier hugged the two children and said "Jasper you ain't punished you clearly weren't in your right mind" jasper nodded and replied "I never meant to hurt her I'm sorry" Facilier nodded "Don't worry now that we know y'all got powers I'll teach you to control and use them properly same thing with you felicia we don't want you to be uncontrolable either" Felicia only nodded and quietly remarked "Poor lexi, she looked so scared" Facilier sighed "Yeah but I'm sure that trickster can handle calming her, she'll be OK I think" Facilier then said "C'mon you guys gotta go to bed anyways"

When they were in bed facilier left and went to sleep. Felicia slept in a second but jasper felt so guilty it took many minutes for him to fall asleep, he felt so upset about lexi. She didn't do anything, she was only playing. WHY did he do that? Why was he such a bully to lexi? Why did he have these powers? Jasper eventually fell asleep but nightmares of lexi came through it, her crying and screams were heard and jasper felt so horrible he wished he never agreed to playing that stupid game of tag.
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Poor lexi and jasper. This is so dramatic for the two of them
Anyway about the powers: In jasper's app I made that any time jasper was enraged his eyes would turn red the blasting of light is an example of what chaos jasper's rage can do
As for felicia's healing, that was just an idea that sprang into mind. SOMEBODY had to heal me and trickster was trying to calm me down first.

[Raven]

Have i mentioned that I love your writing? No? WELL I AM!

[Dr. Facilier]

DAWW Thank you raven and your request is here!

Things of agreement

Opal was sighing completely bored, it was lunch and she was always bored with that period. "You seemed bored need somebody to talk to?" A voice asked. Opal looked to see what that was and it turned out to be that annoying jasper's sister but she accepted and the girl sat. "The names Felicia facilier, how y'all doin?" Opal shrugged "Bored out of my freakin' mind! Would I give for some real fun!" Felicia sighed "Same here. Nobody is fun in high school it's as if high school's a period of boredom in our lifes"

Opal nodded "Amen to that. Someone should destroy these hellholes someday" Felicia smirked "My brother thinks this place is a blast but I digress. A lot" Opal laughed "Then your brother is a moron" Felicia shook her head "Nah, he ain't a moron he just acts like one" Both girls laughed and opal patted felicia "You know what? You're OK, I like ya. Got any tips you got on how to prank your brother?" Felicia nodded "Plenty. I'll tell you how to make him so miserable he'd wish he never met y'all"

After constant chattering the bell rang and the two girls had to leave opal asked "Wait. What class do you have now?" Felicia smiled "Shadowdadd-er I mean Dr. Facilier's class" Opal gasped "Oh my God me too! Sit with me when we get there?" Felicia nodded "Of course!" The two girls walked and both of them looked as if they were best friends

[Raven]

YAY!

[Dr. Facilier]

Glad you loved it raven and guess what? MORE UPDATES ON THE TWINS!
OK this is when they are around 10 and they just learn about there parents past here and about my facilier/trickster story

The shadowtwins
Chapter 7

Jasper went into facilier's office and asked in fear "Is what people say true dad?" Facilier looked puzzled and said "Hm? What do y'all mean boy?" Felicia ran into the room and replied "That you used to be the shadowman and that you took people's souls?" Jasper added "And you were planning to kill Biggrampa?" Facilier felt small but sighed and took the two children into the living room to chat and lotti came as well hearing the twins yelling and knew it was time for them to know

Facilier sighed again and said "Kids. What they say is true dad was a bad person and he killed people to pay his debt to these spirits of darkness and he tried to kill biggrampa but I'm a changed man and wouldn't hurt nobody now. I love your mother and I love the both of you you three changed me" Lotti rubbed facilier's shoulders and said "Your father made mistakes we all do and we can change so your father did. Your father was called the shadowman and feared by alot of people but he gave it up for all of us"

The twins listened and reacted in their own way while jasper hugged both of his parents felicia just growled in anger "They're wrong! You're not a bad person daddy! You're not to me! You're one of my heroes!" Facilier let go of jasper who just hugged his mother and felicia hugged him and kept denying it all facilier put a finger to her lips and hugged her back "It's fine hun. They can say I haven't changed but they know I have but just don't believe it. It don't bother me and it shouldn't bother you" Felicia nodded and replied "I still think they're wrong" Facilier chuckled "Believe whatever you want now both you and jasper are going to trickster's place for a while me and mom gotta do stuff OK?"
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Both twins nodded and pressed their bracelets. Felicia's bracelet was purple and pink striped while jasper was black and red. The powers of the bracelets was a birthday present for the chilidren it would transport them to kooza whenever facilier and lotti were busy or it was a emergiency. When they arrived lexi was there waiting for them and she hugged them both.

While lexi entertained jasper felicia felt the urge to talk to trickster and so she did. She knocked on the door and a voice which was the trickster's replied "Come in" Felicia went in and sat down "Um Trickster. I gotta talk to you, how did my dad meet you?" Trickster smiled and patted felicia's shoulder and began the story. He told her about the meeting, the people, facilier's curiousity, facilier's pride, the skullking, the departure and the reunion with felicia listening carefully

When he finished he said "Your father then told me about your mother having you and your brother and he told me I would be the godfather and I could choose which twin. I picked the daughter which is you" Felicia blushed and asked "Why?" The trickster smiled and replied quietly "Because you are just like your father"
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Whoa. So that's why trickster wanted to have felicia as his godchild 'cause it's being the godfather of facilier since she's like him alot. Anyway, yes people know facilier's past but alot have forgiven and actually like him alittle bit after lotti and facilier got married so when the kids came many people just treated him like a normal guy(unless you count the magic but you get the idea).

HOWEVER, they are people who know the past but are just plain unaccepting and treat him still like a guy from hellspawn and now that he has kids, well they think they ARE hellspawn basically. How did the kids hear the rumor? Let's just say that an old creepy hobo told them for the hell of it and didn't know that facilier married and had the twins XDDD

[Dr. Facilier]

OK, this chapter is when the twins are 12 and are in the process of danger and guess what lexi's with them *GASP* but no worries the dads are here

The shadowtwins
Chapter 8

As felicia, jasper and lexi walked around kooza they then heard a strange noise coming from the distance. Jasper got nervous and said "What was that?" Lexi growled and said "Get behind me guys now!" Felicia and jasper obliged and a skull like man came and said "Hey Lexi-loo long time no see! I see you grown alot and you got some new friends how nice! Well, tell me where's your dad?" Lexi sneered at the skull man "Buzz off! I'm not tellin' you anything! Just go away and leave us alone"

The skull man grabbed lexi by the chest part of her shirt and growled "I thought I told your dad to make his little brat respect the skullking which is ME! Now tell me where your dad is or I'll kill you now!" Suddenly he felt a blast of light hit him and this time it wasn't the trickster-- it was jasper who hit him and his eyes were beginning to glow red "Leave her alone!" Felicia smirked and said "Nice job bro! What you gonna do now bonehead?" Skullking held a knife into Lexi's neck and yelled "Stand down or your friend loses her head litterally"

Jasper instantly stood down and felicia yelled "You bully! Threating MY brother and harming MY buddy! You're sick man!" Skullking just replied "I try" Suddenly not one but TWO blasts attacked the skullking and lexi ran standing right between jasper and felicia and it turned out the two blasts came from facilier and trickster. The skullking only laughed though despite his shock "If it ain't tricky with his little primetimer? The two men I wanted to see but you forgot one thing" He forced jasper to come into his possession "I can hurt even though I can't kill so drop everything"

Facilier stood down much quicker then jasper did with lexi. He couldn't risk jasper's life, he was one of his prized possessions, he was too precious. Trickster somehow snook off and attacked the skullking and grabbed and put jasper behind him. Skullking knowing he had been beaten left. Jasper smirked "What a wuss" Felicia laughed and said "That.... was..... cool!" Lexi just sighed in relief and everyone went back to the tower feeling relieved

[Raven]

u r amasing

[Dr. Facilier]

Well thanks! It's all the best I can do really.
And I'm a dork because I updated YET again chapter 9 people OK, this is just a year before they go to high school. It's like the days over they turned 13 and everybody like made a big deal outta it

The shadowtwins
Chapter 9

Jasper smiled at his sister as they went to their rooms. Both couldn't believe they were now 13 years old. As felcia went to her room she felt very proud of herself since everyone kept hugging her and telling her 'good job'. Jasper just went to his room feeling just the same as he was 12, he felt no different but he didn't care he was 13 and he liked it---- sort of

Felicia obviously was much more excited of being a teen then jasper was and so they had different dreams as they slept. Felicia was at a stage and was being held an award for being a teen and felicia heard herself constantly say thanks to eveyone. It was as if she won an oscar being a teen meant THAT much to her it was like jasper when they started school he felt the same way felicia was dreaming

Jasper however wasn't so lucky all he got in his dream was the simple reminder of when he was 8 and hurt lexi for the first time. He regretted every single day of that faithful day of discovering his powers, lexi totally forgave and still treated him the same but jasper abused himself with that reminder. So this dream totally harmed him, lexi screaming his father along with many people begging for him to stop and worst of all lexi asking "Why jasper?"

As felicia was asleep jasper woke with a gasp which didn't wake up lotti ot felicia(due to being heavy sleepers) but it woke up facilier and he came into the room and asked "What's the matter jasper?" Jasper rubbed his eyes and replied "Lexi's accident" Facilier instantly knew what it was now, jasper had a nightmare---about the past. Facilier looked at his son and said "Son, that wasn't your fault yes it was bad for lexi but y'all need to let this go" Jasper nodded "I try dad but all I hear is 'why jasper'" Facilier ruffled his sons hair and said "Lexi forgave you along time ago, she's a forgivin' girl and she cares for you she'd probably tell you the same things I'm telling you"

Jasper nodded sadly and facilier pondered and said "Son come closer I got something that will really help" Jasper came forward and facilier put his hand on jasper's forehead and chanted. Jasper had no idea what those words meant but suddenly he felt more and more tired and he felt a huge pain in himself be carried away which made it the more relaxing. Jasper eventually got into the covers and fell deep into sleep.

Facilier put the covers under his son and rubbed his sons hair and mumbled to himself "Can't believe it actually worked" Facilier got up from the bed and went to his room to do the same thing everyone else was doing----sleep.
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Blame seeing Splinter(from 1987 version of TMNT series) doing this to mikey that inspired the whole mind control thing. What? You thought I'd just let facilier NOT use his magic, he still uses it just not as much as he likes to. Anyway, facilier loves his kids(no duh) and would do anything for them even make them forget pain and since this is a thing of the past it should be in the past so yeah he simply voodoos jasper into sleeping and forgetting that Godawful day. What a sweet daddy facilier is ;D

As for the whole thing in general: I really wanted to just make jasper and felicia have different ideas and describe them, so I made it in the beginning yay. As for the nightmares, as it says jasper blames himself for what happened to me even though I forgave him already and it only takes facilier to make jasper finally forget it all(with a lot of mind control but that's already explained)

[Dr. Facilier]

And this is the last chapter of this story but not the end of me writing the twins. They will be guests or still the main parts in my stories BUT they won't be in ALL my stories so yes I won't be with them constantly but in my latest future series they will be into
OK this is when they go home after the events of going to Anihigh as a tour and then it shows how they react as freshmen. Just as the twins apps say they are 14. Oh and there is a third act in this where the family is seen altogether in loyalty

The shadowtwins
Chapter 10

After a long day of touring and explaining felicia finally got the chance to sit down and watch TV. Felicia couldn't believe she finally got to tell the future to some 12 year old. She was following her dad's footsteps and she would make sure that she would continue to do so. Felicia couldn't wait to meet people and make fortunes along with make friends and also get to be in her dad's class. She grinned as she watched the TV and daydreamed about tomorrow---- her first day of high school

Meanwhile, jasper was reading a book which was very rare, he only did that when he was reflecting and he was on how his high school tour was. He was much more excited than felicia due to being the most enthusiastic and happygolucky. He made new friends and experienced some memories of trying to prank someone not to mention meeting that cute janelle but he was nervous even though he considered himself a ladies man. He didn't focus on that though all he focused on was just how excited he was to start school
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Today was the day the twins went to there homeroom classes felicia had her mother's dance class which she loved but she loved magic much more. Jasper had his father's class and he loved it but dance was slightly more his thing. These homerooms would be perminent and that was perfect for the twins due to not liking to constantly change.

When they finished three of the morning periods of class lunch came. Jasper due to being much more social hanged out with many kids while felicia just hanged out with blue star's oldest daughter Opal. The two were completely enjoying there day and had already made there parts in the school.

After some more classes the twins caught each other in free period and they enjoyed themselves until a fog came around them. Felicia and jasper looked at the being infront of them and saw that it was some woman. Her hair was black, her teeth were sharp and her whole body looked very normal but there was something that made the twins fear her and the woman spoke "Hello young ones. Where is your father? He has business with me"

Jasper spoke "We don't talk to strangers lady. We don't know where our dad is so we can't help you" Felicia snapped "Yeah so leave us alone" The woman glared at felicia who shrunk back and the woman growled "I will not ask you two again tell me where your father is!" Jasper and felicia then hear a voice say "I'm here tempestra! Leave my kids alone now"

It turned out to be facilier and he put the children behind him and tempestra growled "You may not be our slave but that means nothing! You are my enemy of my race and I will get you one way or another!" Facilier blasted the woman and yelled "Get outta here or I'll lose my morals" The woman fell and turned into a shadow and sliced facilier's chest and said "That is a reminder that you will meet me again and your children and wife WILL suffer one day!" Then tempestra vanished into thin air leaving no trace of any footprints or anything related to her presence.
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Jasper and felicia ran to their father who layed injured and in a coma. Felicia yelled "Go get mom! Go get help! Now!" Jasper ran as his legs could carry him and after some time the twins got their father to a hospital and many people went to wait for him due to being a famous teacher

Many people reacted to there own ways, Trickster deeply sighed in sadness knowing his old friend was in harm and he was not with his wife due to her being sick but had lexi who nervously kept asking if facilier would life. Warden shook his head in worry, bob neighed in fear, taylor bit her lip five times and ate her nails, clopin and puck rubbed there heads in grief and janelle send lotti her personal wishes. Lotti was crying softly and praying that facilier would live, jasper was crying and yelling "Why did my dad get hurt? Why? He didn't do nothin! Why?" Felicia just stood and tryed her best not to cry but she failed miserably

When news of facilier going to live stroke their ears all rejoiced and the doctor asked for lotti and the children to go to the room for they were requested. Lotti took felicia while jasper walked by himself as they entered there father's hospital room jasper just hugged his dad gently, felicia kissed him on the cheek and lotti kissed him on the lips. Facilier after awhile smiled at the three of them "Well, that lady ain't gonna take me down that easily" Felicia nodded and said "I knew you'd come back dad" Jasper smirked and said "Thank God you're alive dad. I was so scared for ya" Lotti nodded in agreement and said "Yes but you're here and that's all that matters" Facilier nodded as well and said "We're a family no matter what" The four of them hugged together and felicia and jasper grinned at each other as they knew no matter what happened the two of them would still be siblings more importantly they would still be twins that were a part of a great family
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And that's the end and DAMN facilier got hurt D:
OK some explainatons. First off on the opal/felicia thing well raven wanted me to do a opal story and it's already here so check it out and you'll get it but felicia talked to opal in the story and they been good friends after that chat this is just a prestory thing

Tempestra is another OC of mine and she is anything but friends with facilier. She is one of the friends in human form but her real form is the womanlike shadow you see in the film and she is the nastiest bitch you'd ever see in your life so don't screw her. For one thing she will kill you the minute you're not her friend and if you're her friend she'll make you do stuff you don't wanna do so it's a lose/lose scenario which is why you can FEEL something about her that's bad. So in other words: Tempestra's a huge baddie

[The Trickster]

Well since the shadowtwins finished it's off to my next project. Characters provs based on Ipodsongs based paragraph fics! How is this idea explained? Well look at this: www.fanfiction.net/s/5620781/1/Cirque_Du_Soleil_iPod_Shuffle

The chapter has many cirque shows including kooza which where trickster came from so I thought if that could be cirque why not do the same for the characters and the characters families(if they have any)? And this idea was born, so the songs will be based on the character and I'll write about what the songs inspires for that particular character. As for the settings it could be any time from before they came to the school, from their current job to their futures/alternate reality lifes. If the character is alternate reality or an OC this replies to them to sooooo ENJOY
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Witch doctor(movie version) by the chipmunks
Dr. Facilier

Facilier smirked as a customer went in his shop, he had another soul to feed his friends but the customer came only because facilier did magic. Facilier smiled nicely at the man and said "Well, are you ready?" The man asked "For what?" Facilier laughed as everything grew dark "For your funeral!" Then with that masks came and a knife was shown and facilier stabbed the man and he was dead in a milasecond. As his body turned to dust and his soul was in a bag facilier threw it into the big mask and the mask left. Facilier smiled evily and laughed for he knew noone could resist the witch doctor.
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Be prepared by The lion king soundtrack
The trickster

Trickster tossed and turned as he heard in his dreams of lexi calling to him. As he saw himself running he then saw the skullking with his daughter in his clutches and he stabbed her right in front of him. Trickster heard himself shout "NO!" and he fell to the ground defeated and skullking then laughed as trickster just stared at lexi's body. All of a sudden trickster woke up and he saw himself in his room with his wife asleep and trickster got out of the bed and went to lexi's room. When he saw her fast asleep trickster sighed in relief and sat rubbing lexi's head as he looked at her sleeping face. She was too young to die, she was just a 6 year old as of right now and even if she wasn't trickster would NEVER allow her to die by the skullkings hand. As he left the room he fell asleep but was haunted by the skullking's warning
"Be prepared trickster. Be prepared for your daughter will die"
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When I grow up by pussycat dolls
Lexi

She was so excited by all the hype that her father was making during rehearsal of the trapeze and she was amazed as she saw her mother keep practicing with her father helping. Lexi was so happy that her father was such a hero and powerful master she wanted to be just like him. To be the trickster herself and that wouldn't happen until she was 25 the year of complete adulthood and when the trickster would resign IF the trickster had no children if he didn't have lexi he would live forever and control forever but trickster didn't want to stay alone forever so he married and had lexi. Lexi remembered all that heir rule stuff that her parents told her and she loved the fact and she couldn't wait to grow up. She wanted to grow up as kind and smart and powerful like her father and she just had to wait _____________________________________________________________________

Crush by david archuleta
Jasper and janelle

Jasper looked at janelle and smiled at her. She was the most cutest girl in the school but jasper didn't know what was making him so nervous maybe it was jay's personality maybe it was her fathers maybe it was he didn't want disapproval maybe it was just he was afraid. Jasper still looked at her and jay looked and figured out that jasper was looking at her and smirked which made jasper blush and look away. Janelle knew what was up with jasper---- he had a high school crush on her and it seemed to blossom deep into jay as well. She liked him and obviously jasper liked her too so who knows? Maybe the crush would work out.
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Can you feel the love tonight by Lion king
Lotti and facilier

She stared at facilier and he came down on he knees and asked proudly "Will you marry me Lotti?" Lotti was silent at first due to remembering naveen but she realized the whole thing with facilier was real. The dates, the talks, the kisses, the confessions, the support and most importantly the love. Lotti yelped with joy as she hugged facilier "Yes! I'll most definitely marry you!" Facilier and lotti then kissed and they walked together feeling so in love as the night sky was shining.
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And that's the first chapter of my series and I REALLY hope you enjoyed it. There's gonna be much more chapters where this came from

[Raven]

omg i love your little song montra! So cute!

[The Trickster]

Aww thanks. The lexi ones my favorite
Chapter two will come up soon!

[Raven]

XD Awsome can't wait to read!