A/N: Hello people, I bring you my newest story-The Things I Do For Sanity! Hopefully you guys will like it!
Disclaimer: I do not own Courage the Cowardly Dog
Claim: I own this plot
Enjoy!
Prologue-When a Show Ends….
Luna Birch could be described in loads of words-Hyper, smart, tries to be helpful but not, pleasant but most people actually don't take the time to fully get to know her.
She was a witch after all.
Now Luna is generally a happy person but when things she likes suddenly end, well it's best not to leave her alone to her thoughts.
Like say for example today, a day where her parents were out of town.
She was at home, sat on her couch with a bowl of cereals. Eagerly awaiting for her favourite cartoon to start, she munched happily.
As soon as the adverts ended, she sat up more and paid rapt attention to the screen.
"We interrupt this program to bring you Courage the Cowardly dog! Staring Courage the Cowardly Dog!"
"ROAR!"
"AGH!"
She giggled at the opening, always finding it funny when the monster shadow scared Courage. She loved this show, started watching it a year back. Right now she was on episode 52, Remembrance of Courage Past/Perfect.
For the first part of the episode, Luna felt sorry for what happened to Courage and his parents. On the second part of the episode, she found the CGI monster creepy.
"What's it supposed to be?" She asked herself.
After that, the episode finished and Luna felt herself smile. Another day watching another awesome Courage episode.
"Hmm, I wonder what the next episode will be about. Better go look it up online."
Grabbing her laptop from a nearby table, the young witch girl looked up the episode list online. However as she reached the info on the episode she had just watched, she felt herself freeze.
There were no more episodes after it and even more shocking was that it had finished ten years ago.
"What?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S ENDED?! The only thing that entertained me so far has finished? Been finished for ten years?!"
Now see if her parents were here they would try and calm her down, but they weren't.
Getting up from her seat, Luna left the room and headed towards her room. Once inside her room, she picked up one of her spell books and flipped through it.
She stopped when something caught her eye.
Redoing It Again-Had something you liked end? Well this spell allows you to redo it your own way! All you need are eight test subjects and you can redo it again (This version works on books, films, games and cartoons.)
Luna grinned, "This will do. Now I just need to find eight people and fast! Don't worry Courage, I won't allow anyone to forget you!"
So busy looking up the other items she would need, she did not hear the answering machine downstairs.
"Hey sweetie, mum here. I hope you're having a good time! I wanted to remind you not to use magic this weekend, the council will get angry and may take action. Love you."
Location-Preston Hills College
It was a quiet, sunny day at Preston Hills College as students walked around chatting with their friends or in classes learning more knowledge.
It was a quiet day, until now.
"REN SOMA! GIVE ARTHUR BACK RIGHT NOW!"
"YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO CATCH ME FIRST LITTLE GIRL!"
"I'M ONLY A YEAR YOUNGER THEN YOU!"
"Guys, I'm feeling sick."
In a comedic fashion, people turned their heads to where the noise was coming from only to quickly dive to the side as two blurs shot past them. As soon as they deemed it safe to stand up, all of them sighed in relief.
It seemed another person had decided to upset Emmy again.
It was a daily occurrence, so most people were used to it. It was fun annoying the girl, her face would turn as red as tomato and she would start stuttering before yelling. The best bit about it was that it was easy to outrun her.
There are a number of ways to annoy her. Her brother, any involvement from him would annoy her. His friends, because they all found ways to annoy her and messing every single organized thing up for her, because the girl was an OCD maniac.
However, there was one thing that annoyed her the most and that was when people got Arthur Caldwell involved.
He was a good friend of hers and she couldn't stand the thought of someone getting between him and her, so if you really want her angry, get Arthur involved.
Which brings us to the current situation.
Ren Soma, a boy with long brown hair tied in a pony tail, grinned before turning a corner, watching in satisfaction as Emmy ran past them.
He turned back to his 'hostage' and smirked. "How are you holding up Artie?"
Arthur looked at him with a blank expression. He pushed his short red hair out of his eyes before speaking. "Never…again. Why do you always have to involve me?"
Ren grasped his cheek, "because you're the one that Emmy dotes over, so it's best to get her upset by using you. Besides, you're cute."
It was no secret that Arthur was bisexual, not with how long it takes to spill secrets around the college. Ren, on the other hand, was a mystery to students. He sometimes flirted with guys but he never did say he was a homosexual.
Arthur blushed before shaking his head, "Please don't do that Ren! Can I leave now?"
Ren smiled, "Only if you give me a kiss on the cheek."
"Well…what do we have here?"
Both Ren and Arthur froze before slowly turning around.
In front of them was a boy with long black hair, with tinges of blue, and mischievous blue eyes. A smirk was on his face.
It was none other then Draeke Oakwood, Emmy's older brother. A lot of people tended to stay away from him because he just gave off a creepy aura. Although the people who did hang around him were usually hyper.
Ren, upon seeing his friend, leaned against the wall with a carefree smirk. "I was just hanging around Artie, right?"
Arthur, not looking at Draeke, nodded. "Yeah…just hanging out."
Draeke tsked, "my Arthur, lying are we? Why don't you come with me and I'll-OW!"
Ren and Arthur watched as the book that whacked Draeke fell on the floor. Draeke turned around to see who had hit him and sighed. Behind him was Emmy, her short brown hair was frizzy while her green eyes were practically burning holes into him.
"Leave Arthur alone, Draeke! Or I swear I will get my revenge."
Although Draeke could have easily handled Emmy, he remembered what happened last time he did. Their mother can be quite scary sometimes…
Emmy strolled over and grabbed Arthur's wrist before walking away. As soon as they were a safe distance away, both of them sighed.
"Your brother scares me and probably everyone else too. Doesn't he freak you out?" Arthur asked.
"Please, the day that guy scares me is the day Ren grows feathers. Arthur, why did you let him get you?"
Arthur shrugged in reply before swiftly turning to a nearby vendor and buying a bottle of water. After taking a drink he glanced at Emmy's expression before smiling.
"You're jealous."
"W-what?! No I'm not! Why would I be jealous?!" Emmy screeched, her cheeks turning red.
"I understand Emmy, I know."
Emmy froze, her face draining of colour. "You know?"
He nodded, "yes, Terra told me-"
"WHAT?"
"-That you secretly liked Ren."
"….."
He smiled gently before shaking his head, "I admit he's cute, as well as few other boys."
"I thought you said you were bisexual, not homosexual."
"Oh I am, I know pretty girls too! Like Kristy, Terra….Hey, where did Emmy go?"
"And now he thinks I like Ren! WHY WOULD I LIKE HIM?!"
Inside the college's library, most people had left because of the ruckus Emmy was causing. The librarian had given up trying to get her to leave.
The person Emmy was ranting to was a girl with long brown wavy hair and silver/blue eyes behind glasses. She was reading a book but kept one ear in tuned to her friend's conversation.
"Why don't you tell Arthur the truth?" her friend, Terra Tractatori, said.
Emmy gave her an incredulous look. "You're joking right, funny Hahahaha. See, I'm laughing."
Terra sighed, "Emmy, this problem won't solve itself. Aren't you normally bossy-"
"I'm not bossy!"
"-and assertive? Take it like a challenge."
"Or you could give up and move on with your life." Another voice piped up, causing Emmy to scowl.
Sat across from them, chewing a chocolate bar, was a boy with messy brown hair and green eyes. He smiled when he saw Emmy scowl.
"And what is that supposed to mean Calvin?"
"Cal. And it's exactly as I said. Move on, be normal and go fly with ponies."
"I'd slap you, but I might catch your derpiness."
Terra, having enough of their squabble, slapped them both on the head. "Please don't fight in the library. And Emmy, 'derpiness' is not a word."
"If I was a computer, it would be all over the internet dictionaries," Calvin said, getting a 'really?' look from Terra.
"I'm sorry Terra and Cal, it's just I've had a bad day chasing Ren around. At this rate, maybe one day those guys will take Arthur away and I'll never see him again. Oh Arthur if only you knew-"
"Oh great, here she goes with the dramatics again," Cal muttered into Terra's ear, getting a nod in return.
"-the love I have for you. If I was a guy I could sweep you off your feet! That or you'd fall for my charm."
She then smirked and the two other friends felt themselves sweatdrop as a lone stage light flickered on over Emmy and she posed a dramatic look. "I mean, who wouldn't fall for me?"
"Normal people," Cal replied and was instantly met with a glare from Emmy.
"Haha, you're just jealous Cal! Now if you excuse me, I am going to find people that appreciate my views!"
As soon as she stormed out the room, Terra and Cal sighed. "She's going to the bathroom mirror, we all know she thinks the only people that understands her is herself."
"Arrogant bossy woman."
Looking for the nearest girls bathroom, Emmy found herself disappointed when she ran into someone who she didn't want to.
It was one of her brother's friends, Gray Jackson, who always ended up doing the most strangest things. He assured everyone on the first day that he was sane.
"Hello Emmy, looking for a bathroom so you can talk to yourself again?"
Emmy's eye twitched. How does everyone know what she does?!
"No," she lied before noticing the sly look on his face. Her eyes narrowed, "what are you up to?"
"Nothing," was his short answer.
"I'm watching you," she even used her fingers to point from her eyes to his. She then turned around and walked away, not noticing the face he made behind her back.
Meanwhile with our witch, Luna had went out to go and find eight subjects to use. She had to be careful when picking them because she wanted the spell to work great.
So she decided to try the college nearby. There were plenty of students around and she wouldn't risk getting a child hurt.
"Now I just need to find candidates," she muttered but blanked when she noticed all the stares she got.
It was probably because she was dressed in a dark green witch costume, pointy hat and broom to boot.
"Oh, she must be from the drama department," a student speculated and everyone else went with it.
Seeing no potential people, or intelligent for that matter, Luna went inside the college building and began looking at people.
"I need unique people!" She pouted.
It was then her eyes landed on a tall long haired boy and his pony-tailed friend.
She noticed how people strayed away from them, as if not wanting to be near them.
A smirk played on her lips.
"Oh boys~!"
Luna's next destination was the library. She wanted smart people and every knows smart people go to the libraries! Going inside, she found the place barren until she overheard two people.
"Do you think I've done enough studying? My brother kept me up all night with his games." A female voice sighed out.
"Adrian sure likes annoying you," another voice commented.
Luna peeked out from a corner and grinned.
"They'll do!"
Emmy had the unfortunate pleasure of running into Terra's younger brother, Adrian.
"Oh great, what are you doing here?" She asked. It was no secret that those two didn't get along, well Terra didn't need to know…
He smirked, "I came to give something to my sister however I can't seem to find her around. I guess you'll do."
Emmy blinked before taking a step back, "what are you up to little man?"
He held out his hand, to which Emmy carefully glanced at. On his hand was a small little tiny silver gadget that had clippers on it.
"What the heck is that?"
"Of course you wouldn't know old lady-"
"Excuse me?!"
"-but I got it for my new game. I needed to test it though. Put it on your ear."
Sighing, Emmy clipped it onto her right ear and then gave Adrian a confused look. "Okay, so what now?"
The brown haired boy then opened his bag and brought out a pair of headphones with a microphone attached to them. He placed it onto his head and spoke into it.
"This," he said and watched in amusement as Emmy clutched her ear.
"Ow! Don't speak loud!"
"Ah, so it's the volume…Oh, I guess we would need to be some distance away."
He then packed up his stuff and walked away, not hearing Emmy shout for him. "Hey! Take your thingy with you! Oh great, I'll give it to Terra when I see her."
Luna next saw a boy with greyish-blue hair trying to spray paint something on the wall. She then overheard him saying that he is 'not a naughty boy.'
"Oh, this one was easy to find!"
"So that's five out of eight people…Hmm, oh I wonder who that guy is!"
The guy she was talking about happened to be a certain red-head who was talking to some other students.
"Have any of you guys seen Emmy?" He asked but nobody knew where she went. He sighed before suddenly running into Luna.
"I'm sorry!" He apologised but was creeped out by the smile she gave him.
"You are perfect!"
Later, after College finished for the day-
"I think you should go to home Emmy," a tall blonde haired boy said, his eyes showing concern.
"No, I have to find them!" Emmy hissed out, making the other boy jump.
"Mom's going to kill me," he whined.
"Aunt Tasha will understand. Now come on Kyle, I have to find Terra!"
Kyle, an eighteen year old boy, sighed before reluctantly following his younger cousin. His blonde hair was pulled back in a short ponytail while his blue eyes were behind a pair of glasses.
It was now near the end of the day and Emmy noticed that most of her friends, and her annoying brother with his, were missing. So dragging her cousin Kyle with her, Emmy set off to find them. From what she heard, a girl had been seen last talking with them before dragging them off somewhere.
Sadly Emmy knew that if she didn't get home soon, her dad would over react and get the police involved…again.
Such is the fate of having a police chief for a dad.
"I'll tell you what Emmy, you wait in the nearby park while I ask around the school again. I have to have a word with my economics teacher anyway," suggested Kyle.
Emmy shrugged before setting off for the park. Kyle watched until she was gone before turning back to the college.
But came face to face with a black haired girl.
"You can cook?" she asked pleasantly.
"Err, yeah?"
"Yay! Number seven!"
"Huh…wait, what are you doing…gah!"
"What's taking him so long? Stupid cousin, stupid brother, stupid brother's friends, stupid smart friends! Stupid Arthur not realizing that I like him! Grr!"
As you can probably tell, Emmy was whining…again. Her cousin had been gone for a long time, well to her he had. She was contemplating just heading home when she heard a familiar tune playing.
She glanced up from where she was sitting, on a rusted pair of swings, and saw a girl dressed up as a witch playing a tune on her phone.
The Courage the Cowardly dog tune.
"Oh, people still watch Courage?" she asked out loud, but noticed that the girl heard her.
"You recognize Courage!" The girl exclaimed, skipping over to Emmy.
"I use to watch it when I was a kid," Emmy explained.
"I love the show," the girl said, "but it was just today that I found it that it had ended ten years ago."
Emmy place a hand on the girl's shoulder. She didn't know why she was being nice to the girl, probably because she knew what disappointment was like.
"Aw cheer up, there are other things besides Courage."
The girl then smirked, "I know but I thought to myself, what if I could redo the series! It's a great idea and already seven other people have agreed to participate."
Emmy felt something off about that smirk but dismissed it. "Well be sure to tell me when it's finished."
Emmy was about to walk away when she heard the girl talk again. "Alright. It's great that your interested, like the others. The first two I approached were scary to other people. A tall long haired boy that spelt mischief and his friend that I thinks gay or bisexual…one of those."
To Emmy, they sounded familiar.
"The next two were in a library! A really pretty girl that seemed to like horror a lot and a guy that was munching on sweets."
Really, really familiar.
"Then there was this boy that said he was not naughty! And just this minute I managed to snag a guy who could cook really well!"
Emmy slowly turned to face the girl with a disbelieving look.
"But my favourite was this freckled, red haired boy that was running around looking for someone called 'Emmy.' He's cute."
Arthur…Arthur…Arthur?! The girl had Arthur!
"Who are you?" Emmy demanded, "and where are the others?"
"My name is Luna Birch," the girl declared, "and I am going to save the Courage the Cowardly Dog series by giving it an ending it deserved!"
Emmy paused before laughing, "Oh God, that's funny. Now seriously, where are the others?"
Luna did not like it that this girl was not being serious. However she had found number eight and was not going to pass this opportunity up.
"Please Miss, take care of the Bagge's family for me!"
"What-!"
Before Emmy knew what was happening, a black hole opened up below her and then she dropped.
"CURSE YOU WITCH LADY THAT'S SECRETLY ADORABLE!"
A/N: These will be the Ocs I use, everything else will be Courage style! Stay tuned for the next update! I hope you'll like it!
Cast in Appearance:
Luna Birch belongs to Mr. Grell Sutcliff
Emmy Oakwood belongs to Tailsdoll123 (me)
Ren Soma belongs to Sparkly Butlerz
Arthur Caldwell belongs to Moonlightpheonix-xX
Draeke Oakwood belongs to Angel of Randomosity
Terra Tractatori belongs to Yanelle
Calvin Jenkins belongs to Shinigami's-Neko-Gaki
Grey Jackson belongs to hetalforever123
Adrian Tractatori belongs to Yanelle
Kyle Oakwood belongs to Tailsdoll123 (me)
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-Tailsdoll123