The combines magics of Indigo and AJ's spell faded away, leaving them standing in the middle of an field.

    Soft navy grass reached up to their waists, and the sky was a starry purple. It was serene, and quiet.

    The land between worlds.

     "What is this place?" Sausage said, sounding slightly dazed. He wasn't surprised. The energy of the place did that to everyone the first time they arrived.  

    "The land between worlds. We're going to be walking a looooong time." Indigo replied. AJ pulled out a compass, checked their position on it, and began walking. Indigo followed him, beckoning to the others to come as well.

    The group of five walked in silence through the waving grass, the sky an everlasting constant. Indigo remembered the last time he'd been in the area, when he and AJ had felt the disturbance that was the emperors. 

    Indigo and AJ hadn't said anything, but if the emperors had stayed in the void world, the wrongness of them being in a different realm from theirs would have caused a rip in reality, and destroyed both the world they were in and their home world. 

    Luckily, time didn't pass in the Fields of Serenity, so they had plenty of time to get the three emperors back to their home.

    The silence was beginning to get boring, so Indigo decided to cause a bit of chaos.

    "Tomato is a fruit." He announced. The three emperors looked at her in confusion, while AJ caught on to his idea of chaos and said, "Fruit? Tomato is a fucking vegetable, idiot."

    Indigo replied sagely, "Food with seeds are fruit. Tomato have seeds, therefore they are fruit."

    "Tomatoes are a vegetable! They are eaten with vegetables, they  are cooked like vegetables, they are a vegetable! Have you ever seen someone put tomato in a fruit salad?" AJ said indignantly.

    "Basic classification of food says that anything with seeds is a fruit, while anything without is a vegetable." Indigo argued back. "Quit speaking like a fucking dictionary," AJ grumbled.

    Getting an idea, AJ said, "Bananas don't have seeds. That doesn't make them a vegetable!  Which means that tomatoes having seeds doesn't make them fruit!"

    "Actually, bananas do have seeds, it's just that the ones grown in farms are the seedless variety," Sausage interjected. Both Indigo and AJ looked at him in surprise. They had forgotten that they had an audience.

    Scowling, AJ said, "Don't ruin my fun with your fucking logic." Sausage wisely stopped talking, apparently remembering how AJ had put a knife to his throat last time they disagreed.

    Looking around, Gem asked, "So, what is this place?" 

   "The land between worlds. This is how we get around from realm to realm." Indigo said. "Yeah, it may look pretty, but this place is a fucking nightmare if you don't know your way around." AJ added.

    Nodding, Indigo said, "Lots of creatures live in this place, and barely any of them are friendly."

    "Hey, sis, how about we summon a death creature and whoop it's ass? It'll prove our point, and I'm fucking bored out of my mind right now," AJ told Indigo telepathically.

   "I should be responsible and say no, but what the fuck, it'll be fun. Let's do it!" Indigo replied to him. He watched as AJ carefully started the spell in a way that the other wouldn't notice, a small spiraling strand of black magic shooting into the air, acting as a beacon to call the creature.

    "So, this is where you guys live? How come you stay here if it's so dangerous?" Scott asked. 

     AJ snickered, and said, "Only dangerous for you weak fuckers. We grew up here; this shit is nothing." 

    Scott frowned. "I'm really getting tired of you insulting us every time you open your mouth." He said. AJ was going to reply, but then a screech came from the distance, rapidly getting closer.

    "What is THAT?" Sausage asked, sounding panicked. Indigo tilted his head, pretending to listen to something, and said, "It sounds like a death creature, and it's headed our way, fast."

    This did not reassure the avian in the least, and the other two emperors looked significantly more worried than they had been a second ago.

    "Don't worry, we'll handle this," Indigo told them. "Yeah, it's just a death creature, not like a, Cthulhu or something." AJ added. 

    Indigo shot him a look. "Cthulhu? Really?" 

    "It sounds scary, ok?" AJ defended. His magic was already swirling around him, and he stepped forward as the creature came into view.

    "We're going to die..." Indigo heard one of the emperors whisper, and he could see why they would think that.

     The creature was massive, easily several heads taller than them, with scaly black skin, a lashing tail with a blade at the end, and a mouth that looked like a saw had a baby with a centipede. It was hideous, and terrifying.

     AJ stalked forward, energy flaring and swirling around him, and created an avatar.

     Indigo was surprised none of the emperors had fainted at the display yet. AJ's avatar was huge, standing ten feet tall and looking like a much larger version of him drawn with black energy. He floated in the center of it's chest, and, controlling the avatar, he created a sword and sliced at the death creature. 

    It screeched again, and tried to stab AJ with the knife tail. He dodged easily, and grabbed the tail. Pulling it off it's feet, he slammed it onto the ground, snapping it's neck with ease.

    When the dust settled, AJ's avatar had disappeared, the creature was dead, and Indigo frowned at the body of the creature. 

     "They should have learned by now not to mess with celestials," AJ said as he came into earshot, dusting his hands. "We beat them every time, and yet they still keep coming back. Fucking stupid animals."

     Scott gaped at the body of the creature, and then at AJ, who was inspecting a rip in his shirt as if nothing had happened. The other emperor were equally as flabbergasted, and Indigo was barely keeping a neutral look on his face. It was just so funny, the way they kept looking between the dead monster, AJ being more concerned about his clothes than the creature he just killed, and Indigo standing calmly as if nothing had happened.

     "This is the best idea you've ever had," Indigo though at AJ. "Yeah, I'm fucking awesome, aren't I?" AJ replied, mindvoice full of amusement. Indigo sent a burst of affection at him, and he sent the same back.

     "Let's keep going," Indigo told the others. "Faster we move, faster you guys get back home."

     They continued walking, and as they walked, Scott and AJ got into an argument.

     "Why do you always act so insufferable?" Scott asked, after half an hour of hearing AJ brag about his various achievements in other worlds, half of which were wildly exaggerated. 

    "You're just jealous I'm cooler than you." AJ said, smirking. Indigo watched as Scott's face twisted with indignation, and he said, " You're not cooler than me! I've looted hundreds of temples and abandoned cities!" 

    The argument got more and more senseless, as they went from comparing achievements to arguing about technicalities to just insulting each others clothes. Indigo exchanged an amused glance with Gem and Sausage, who were watching the exchange with grins. 

    They were interrupted, though, when something swooshed and a portal opened next to them. Everyone stopped as they looked into the scene happening beyond.

    It was a open cave area in a mountain. A cage was suspended from the roof, but it was empty. People were fighting below it, and Indigo recognized them as the emperors.

    Scott was fighting Xornoth, Gem was fighting another young woman with red energy swirling around her, clashing against Gem's purple magic. Joey was fighting Shrub, with Katherine helping. Other small battles went on as the allies of the demon fought against the emperor.

    "What..." Gem whispered, staring at the version of her as she shouted a spell and a wave of magic hit the other person.

     "That's just an alternate reality," Indigo said. "Ignore it and the portal will close." 

     AJ was already walking away, and the emperors followed, although Indigo saw Scott glance back a few times before he continued his argument with AJ.

    Eventually they reached the right place, the area that matched the location of the emperor's home world. Waving his hand, Indigo opened a portal, showing three different places. The areas the emperors had been in when the demon pulled them into the other world.

    "Just walk through, and you'll be exactly where you were. Only an hour has passed in there, so don't be surprised about that."

  "Thanks for all the help," Sausage told the twins. Nodding to the other two emperors, he stepped through and disappeared, the portal shrinking to show only two spaces. Gem stepped through next, and Scott went last.

    Silence settled over the twins as the portal closed, before AJ said contemplatively, "How do you think Scott feels about one-night stands?"

    Indigo burst into laughter, and AJ started laughing too, giggling like a pair of maniacs. 

    Which they were, but they don't talk about that. 

    "What should we do next?" Indigo asked, pulling up a magical map in front of him. AJ looked over and pointed to a world, and he felt a crazy grin spread across her face as she realized what AJ was implying.

    "Oh, hell yes!" He said, and together the two set off on yet another crazy adventure, not the first, and most definitely not the last.

A/N: Ok, so that's that. 

This was a sort of introduction for another book I'm going to do at some point after CoT is done, with AJ, a.k.a Rainyjoi2009. 

I didn't really like the way some of this chapter flowed, but I'm already super late with posting this, so I'm just going to leave it.

Hope you guys enjoyed! Vote and leave a comment if you liked it! :D