A/N Hello! This is my first story that I've ever posted!! Please REVIEW!!! Actually, I I erased the first version of this and changed the title. This is the second time I've posted chapter one! Enjoy!
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And the Pools Were as Blood...
Chapter 1: Stick-Shifts and Safety Belts
By Fyerbelle
Kami Yuy gazed out her window of the spacious van she was currently riding in. Even though the scenery wasn't actually nature's work, since she lived on a colony, it was beautiful all the same. Her husband Leon was driving and they were listening to soft violin music on the radio. The car was, for once, quiet and serene. She warned Leon before they left that they would regret going on a road trip to the water park in Tridentsville, since most road trips can be tedious and tiring, but so far it looked like she had been wrong. But then again
"MAMAAAA! MONA HITTED ME!!!!"
"I DID NOT!!! I BARELY TOUCHED YOU! HE'S LYING!"
"MY KNEE IS REEEEEEDDDDD!! IT HURTS!!!!!!'
"IT DOES NNNOOOOOT!"
The peace broken, Kami brought her fingers to her temples and started rubbing. THIS is why she figured they would regret about taking an 8-hour road trip: her three incredibly loud children.
"Kids, that's enough! You know what happens when you fight! Do you want to get to Super Soapy World and STARE at the slides instead of riding them?" Leon's stern voice spoke up.
"Yah! You can stay with Haiden and I in the Kiddy Pool the whole time!" Kami said with fake cheerfulness and the little boy strapped in the car seat in the back gurgled happily at the mention of his name. The other two children closed their mouths instantly and looked away from each other.
"I wonder how many more times we'll have to threaten them before we get to Tridentsville." Leon wondered out loud and Kami sighed. She loved her children more than anything else in the world, but sometimes she wished she could just place them in an orphanage and forget she'd ever given birth in the first place.
Ramona was eight years old and very ahead of her age. She had already skipped into fourth grade, and was STILL the top student in her class. Of course, her advanced placement didn't stop her from acting like a five-year-old sometimes. She had her mothers Prussian blue eyes and wavy black hair, which had been braided into two pigtails earlier that day.
Reece was five years old, and was a carbon copy of his father. He had mahogany brown hair and bright green eyes. He seemed to be a very sensitive little boy, because whenever someone, anyone, touched him, he wailed and screamed that one of his bones was broken or something equally ridiculous. He just liked attention.
Haiden was the youngest and was almost two years old. He had the average baby personality and was pretty loud and demanding, but sometimes he was amazingly easy-going. He had a rather annoying habit of acting like a parrot and copying his siblings. He had brown, baby-soft hair that stood up in every direction, like he had a serious cow lick, and dark blue eyes like his mother's.
The Yuy children were spoiled too. Kami often blamed it on Leon's ancient parents. Most grandparents loved to spoil their grandchildren, but the fact that Leon's parents were filthy rich didn't help either. Before Kami's brother-in-law had died, he had had the same problem. But when he was assassinated in 175, his wife and daughter had gone down with him. Kami was surprised that Heero Yuy's assassins hadn't come after the rest of the Yuy clan, but then again, none of them were into politics.
Kami glanced behind her again to see Ramona coloring in her Barbie coloring book, Reece staring at the window silently, and Haiden blowing bubbles with his drool. Kami shook her head. Why did little kids have so much saliva?
"Are we there yet?" Reece spoke up.
"Dere yed!" Haiden repeated happily.
"Nope. We still got 7 hours and 15 minutes to go." Leon answered.
Kami almost started crying. They had only been driving 45 minutes??!!
"We should have flown . . ."
"Are we there yet?"
"Dere yed!"
"No." Leon looked back at his children in the rear view mirror.
Kami groaned. "And so it begins . . ."
"Are we there yet?" This time, Ramona spoke up.
"We dere yed!"
"No. And won't be for 7 hours and 13 minutes. Now count to 9,000,000 and then ask me." Leon replied.
"Ah we dere yed?" Haiden asked innocently.
"Oh great, they got Haiden started," Kami said to Leon.
"How come Haddy gets to ask but we don't??" Reece whined.
"You're not counting!"
"Hay-hay, are you thirsty?' Kami cooed as she turned around to look at her baby boy.
"Dirsdy!" Haiden reached for his sippy cup which Kami couldn't see anywhere.
"Reece, where's Haiden's sippy cup?" Kami said as she scanned the floor.
"Dunno."
"Well do you see it anywhere?"
"I see it!" Ramona piped.
"Where?" Kami was starting to loose patience.
"Wait, that's just a water bottle. Oopsy!" Ramona giggled and Kami growled quietly to herself.
"Dirsdy!' Haiden was starting to get impatient too.
"EEEWWW! WHAT'S THAT SMELL???" Reece suddenly screeched. "HADDY POOKIED!!!" Haiden giggled and Kami groaned as the toxic aroma reached her own nostrils.
"Want me to pull over, Kami?" Leon asked helpfully from the front seat.
"Yes, please. I need to look for Haiden's sippy cup, too."
"I gotta go really bad Mama!" Ramona squealed suddenly.
"~sigh~ Do you see a rest stop Leon?"
"There's one coming up in five miles. Can you wait about 7 minutes, Mona?"
"~gasp~ I think soo."
"I gotta go TOOOOO!" Reece called.
"Dirsdy!!"
Kami leaned back into her own seat and sighed.
"Man, nature's call is contagious!" she said as she crossed her legs uncomfortably. Leon burst out laughing.
***
"Two and a half more hours to go, Kami, we can do it!!!" Leon yelled encouragingly to his wife who was currently driving the van. He and Kami had tried everything they could think of to stop their children's screaming, from sing-a-longs to "I spy" games, but nothing worked. Even their threats were useless against the agitation of three young children who were hot, bored, and cramped. Haiden had fallen asleep about three hours into the trip, but had woken up five minutes later to the sound of Reece loudly announcing that Ramona had "broken" his arm. They stopped at pit stops at least once every thirty minutes, Haiden managed to escape his car seat five times, Reece accidentally on purpose left his shoes at a gas station (children are sneaky creatures), and Ramona had thrown up her lunch, dinner, and all additional snacks due to car sickness. Poor Kami was at the end of her nerves.
"My tummy hurts!"
"Are we there yet?"
"Pookie!!!"
"I'm bored!"
"I wanna go home!"
"Mama, will you play house with me?"
"I wanna play Peacocks!"
"Dirsdy!"
"I know kids, let's sing a song!" Leon yelled above all the whining.
"One hundred bottles of beer on the wall, one hundred bottles of beer.."
"MONA SAID BEER' DADDY!!"
"Let's not sing that song, Ramona . . ."
Kami sighed sadly to herself. Whatever happened to the violin music?'
***
TWO AND A HALF HOURS LATER . . .
Kami rested her head on the steering wheel wearily. The van was deathly quiet, as if the young passengers in the back had suddenly gone mute. They had FINALLY arrived in Tridentsville, and now Kami was waiting patiently for her husband to find a room for them to stay in at the first hotel they came to. It was 8:00 at night, so thankfully she would have the whole night to rest up for the disasters that were sure to occur at the water park the next day.
"Good news! They have room for us!" Leon chirped in an overly cheerful voice as he re-entered the van. "We're room in 108, on the second floor."
"The second floor??" Kami gasped. "We're going to lug all of the kids' stuff up —two stories-?!!"
"Hey!! This place has a swimming pool!" Ramona cried. "Can we go swimming? Please???"
"Honey, we're going to a -water park- tomorrow! Can't you wait awhile?" Kami asked pitifully.
"Thwimming!!" Haiden giggled.
"Come on, let's just go to our room, okay? We could all use some rest." Leon reasoned.
"I don't wanna go to bed!!"
"Can't I stay up a little longer, mama?"
"Noh thleepy!" Haiden declared.
"I just love having kids, Kami! Let's have another!!" Leon spouted out of the blue. Kami glared ferociously at her husband through the messy bangs that covered her forehead.
"I'm kidding!! I'm kidding!" Leon cried defensively, waving his arms in the air. Kami turned away and restarted the van, heading in the general direction of their room, tremendously looking forward to sleeping that night.
A/N: Okay, for those of you who haven't figured it out yet, this is my version of what happened to Heero before he met Odin. Can you figure out which kid he is? Also, this story isn't just some goofy, pointless humor fic, it DOES have a connection to Gundam Wing (towards the end), so please don't give up on it just yet! =)
"Peacocks" is a game I usually play when I baby-sit for my neighbor's four kids. It's completely pointless and doesn't really make any sense, but the kids seem to love it.
This is my VERY very first story I've posted (unless you count that story I helped Tygerlilee write), so PLEASE don't flame me. Constructive criticism and NICE comments are welcome. PUH-LEEEEEEZZZEE
review!!!!!!! Should I finish this thing or what? Thanks!!! =) Fyerbelle