Chapter one:
Midsummer's Night Fist Fight.
It was a hot summer night. Even though the sun had set hours ago the heat dry heat still lingered. It had been a recorded braking day which made a recorded braking night, on the tempter scale.
A hot dry freeze sweep though the dried and withered plants, that were near the door steps of houses for decorations. Crickets hummed lowly beneath the brown wilted plants, near the nice cool topsoil. The night was quite, save for the soft hum from the before mentioned crickets.
Suddenly a loud roar of cheers came from a small apartment building. Where the front windows of apartment 22 was a blaze with light. The living room window was open a crack for ventilation and a large swamp cooler in the back was on high, yet still the room was very, very warm. The two girls sat in the living room among the mess of blankets, pillows, and even a few discarded fast food wrappers.
The house was empty except for the two. Holi's (one of the two girls) parents were away on vacation and her dear friend Meagan had agreed to stay with Holi until her parents returned. That had been four days ago, and since then the girls had done nothing but play Final Fantasy , only stopping to eat, used the rest room, and occasionally sleep. They had been playing the game for nearly 70 hours now. Trying desperately to find every GF's and complete every mini-quest. OF course they would spend brief moments rolling on the floor in hysterical laughter as one of the two cracked a joke or imitated one the characters from the game.
Holi sat on a light clue couch, with the play station controller in hand. She brushed one of her hands through her short dark brown hair. Because of the heat she was merely warring a bathing suite top of a two piece bathing suite and a pair of blue flannel boxers. She pressed the X button twice then turned to her friend, Meagan. A questioning expression on her face. Meagan sat near by flipping through the worn and torn strategy guild in front of her. She let out a low growl sound as another page tore free of the binding. Meagan had long black hair and was slightly shorter then Holi, but that didn't matter. She was a year older than Holi, and could drive while Holi, being 16, could not. Meagan was warring close to the same thing as Holi except she was warring a sports bra that was black and a pair of old P.E. shorts. Meagan growled again as two more pages tore free of the binding.
"This thing is worthless!!" she roared and throw the strategy guild across the room.
"C'mon Meagan I need to know where the last chocobo forest is. I really don't feel like running around like a crazy chicken looking for it." Holi groaned and pulled one of her needs to her chest.
"Well you try looking for it in a big book of loose pages!" Meagan jumped to her feet and stomped across the room to the strategy guild.
She picked it up and a few more pages fell out on the carpet floor.
Meagan stooped down to pick them up, and even more pages fell out. She growled loudly, She picked up the pages with the location of the chocobo forests on them.
"Hey, I found it, which one are you looking for?" Meagan said over her shoulder to Holi, sitting on the couch.
"Oh its ok. I found it. Hey tell me where the hidden item is." Holi said casually.
The muscles under Meagan's right eye twitched as she grew more frustrated. She shoved the remainder of the loose pages in the book. Meagan turned toward the kitchen quickly. She stomped down the hall way and into the small kitchen. She began rummaging though the drawers in search of a lighter or matches. She had, had enough of that god forsaken strategy guild. The binding was tarring, pages were falling out and half of the mini-quest section had been lost. But lucky for them that was after they completed them. Meagan continued to dig through the drawers but couldn't find anything that would light the cursed book on fire.
"Meagan!" Holi whined from the front room. "I'm in a fight with this thing… its really ugly, come and tell me what it is so I can kill it."
Meagan grounded and gathered up the strategy guild. Then turned to walk back into the kitchen giving up all hope of destroying the book. She shuffled into the room glanced at the TV and sighted.
"That's a Anacondaur, goodness Holi that things easy to kill. Gimmy the controller." Meagan dropped the book and reached for the controller in Holi's hands.
"No! I'm playing" Holi snapped.
Meagan drew closer to Holi and snarled "Give me the controller!"
"No." Holi stuck her nose in the air defiantly.
Meagan glared at Holi for a brief moment then lunged at her. Meagan tackled Holi, knocking them both off the couch. The two rolled around on the floor wrestling, and screaming. Holi pounced on Meagan, pinning her to the ground.
"Ha! I wing!" Holi yelled in triumph.
Meagan and Holi exchanged glares and low growled for a brief minutes before their attention was pulled away as the TV screen faded to black and the words 'GAME OVER' came to the screen. Their mouths dropped open as they both read the words on the screen. They had spent nearly four days working on the game and they had not died, not even once.
"Dead." Holi gasped.
"You killed them." Meagan said in shock. "YOU KILLED MY ZELLY!!!" he looked to Holi. The expression on her face was as if someone had ripped out her heart.
"Me!??!?!? I didn't kill them, and what about Squall!?!?!? He's dead too!!!" Holi yelled and let Meagan up.
"Yes its is your fault your wouldn't give me the controller an now Zells dead!!" Meagans eyes began to swell up with teats.
"Its not my fault!!" Holi yelled.
"YES IT IS!!" Meagan tackled Holi again her hand instinctively going for Holi's throat to strangle her.
The two went back to wrestling. They rolled into furniture and Meagan even through Holi into the wall. But Holi jumped up shaking off the pain of hitting the wall and jumped back into the fight. The two rolled into the hard wood coffee table. Rattling the table and knocking things off the small shelf beneath, on to the floor. One of those items that feel out was a chrome plated toaster. It fell off the shelf on its side.
The girls continued to wrestle. By now they had begun to pull hair and scratch one another. Their fighting had now just turned into fun instead of trying to kill one another. The girls laughed and giggled as they ripped each others hair out and slapped each other silly.
Meagan fell backwards on to the strategy guide. Holi jumped at her but Meagan used her feet to push Holi back and throw her to the ground. A devilish smirk came to Meagans face as she snatched up the book to use as a weapon and jumped up. Holi feel back and threw up her arms in defense. Meagan lifted the book high over her head ready to bring it down on Holi giving her much pain.
"WAIT!!!!" Holi yelled, her hands up.
"What!?!" Meagan stopped one moments before wacking Holi over the head.
"But…uh… what about Zell?" Holi panted and pointed to the strategy guild in Meagans hands.
"oh yeah." Meagan smiled sweetly then began to flip though her book. She ripped out a picture of Zell that she liked, then folded it up and put it in her pocket. Meagan lifted the strategy guild high over her had again.
"WAIT!!!!" Holi yelled again.
Megan stopped.
"What Now!!???!" She said growing rather annoyed.
"What about my Squall?" Holi said pouting our her bottom lip and swelling her eyes up to the size of dinner plates.
"oh yeah of course." Meagan smiled and began flipping though the book again. She tore out a picture of Squall and handed it to Holi.
"Thank you!" Holi sang brightly and rubbed the picture against her face a few times, then folded it up and put it in her bathing suite tope where it would be safe.
"Ready?" Meagan asked.
"ready!" Holi yipped.
Meagan began to beat oli over the head with the book, sending character stats flying all over the room. Finally after a couple of minutes of being beaten and getting paper cuts, Holi was able to knock the book out of meagans hand. The book flew out of meagans hands and landed on the chrome plated toaster that lay on its side.
The girls continued to fight. Holi backed up and prepared to pounce. But this time Meagan was ready. She wasn't going to get pinned twice. Holi pounced. Meagan fell back perpouly, and used her legs to throw holi off of her before, holi could pin her.
Holi ylped in surprise as she was thrown backwards onto the floor. She landed half way on the bulky old play station one that she owned. The play station jumped and did a flip from the fource of holi hitting the floor next to it. The play station landed on its side making a loud devastating crack sound which must have broken something. The little door to the disk compartment popped open and the game rolled out, perfectly balance on its side.
Mean while Meagan had gained the upper hand. But Holi was quickly about to change that. Holi grabbed a hand full of Megan's hair ready to rip it form her head. When sometime caught her attention out of the corner of her eye.
"LOOK!!!"
The tow girls stopped both sitting on the floor. Holi with a hand full of Meagan's hair and Megan's with her hands around Holi's neck. They both turned just in time to see the disk for Final Fantasy 8 go rolling by like a wheel. It was rolling toward a shiny chromed plated box that was covered by the strategy guide. They both watched stupidly.
"Whets that under the strategy guide?" Meagan asked.
"A toaster." Holi answered flatly.
"The same one you got from gypsies?"
"ye"
The one your think is magic?"
"yep"
The disk rolled into the bread slot of the toaster
"we're screwed aren't we?"
"yep!"
Suddenly the toaster began to glow with a blinding light. There was a loud explosion lie sound. The room filled with a giant cloud of smoke, and when it cleared the girls, and everything in and on the toaster was gone.
***
Midsummer's Night Fist Fight.
It was a hot summer night. Even though the sun had set hours ago the heat dry heat still lingered. It had been a recorded braking day which made a recorded braking night, on the tempter scale.
A hot dry freeze sweep though the dried and withered plants, that were near the door steps of houses for decorations. Crickets hummed lowly beneath the brown wilted plants, near the nice cool topsoil. The night was quite, save for the soft hum from the before mentioned crickets.
Suddenly a loud roar of cheers came from a small apartment building. Where the front windows of apartment 22 was a blaze with light. The living room window was open a crack for ventilation and a large swamp cooler in the back was on high, yet still the room was very, very warm. The two girls sat in the living room among the mess of blankets, pillows, and even a few discarded fast food wrappers.
The house was empty except for the two. Holi's (one of the two girls) parents were away on vacation and her dear friend Meagan had agreed to stay with Holi until her parents returned. That had been four days ago, and since then the girls had done nothing but play Final Fantasy , only stopping to eat, used the rest room, and occasionally sleep. They had been playing the game for nearly 70 hours now. Trying desperately to find every GF's and complete every mini-quest. OF course they would spend brief moments rolling on the floor in hysterical laughter as one of the two cracked a joke or imitated one the characters from the game.
Holi sat on a light clue couch, with the play station controller in hand. She brushed one of her hands through her short dark brown hair. Because of the heat she was merely warring a bathing suite top of a two piece bathing suite and a pair of blue flannel boxers. She pressed the X button twice then turned to her friend, Meagan. A questioning expression on her face. Meagan sat near by flipping through the worn and torn strategy guild in front of her. She let out a low growl sound as another page tore free of the binding. Meagan had long black hair and was slightly shorter then Holi, but that didn't matter. She was a year older than Holi, and could drive while Holi, being 16, could not. Meagan was warring close to the same thing as Holi except she was warring a sports bra that was black and a pair of old P.E. shorts. Meagan growled again as two more pages tore free of the binding.
"This thing is worthless!!" she roared and throw the strategy guild across the room.
"C'mon Meagan I need to know where the last chocobo forest is. I really don't feel like running around like a crazy chicken looking for it." Holi groaned and pulled one of her needs to her chest.
"Well you try looking for it in a big book of loose pages!" Meagan jumped to her feet and stomped across the room to the strategy guild.
She picked it up and a few more pages fell out on the carpet floor.
Meagan stooped down to pick them up, and even more pages fell out. She growled loudly, She picked up the pages with the location of the chocobo forests on them.
"Hey, I found it, which one are you looking for?" Meagan said over her shoulder to Holi, sitting on the couch.
"Oh its ok. I found it. Hey tell me where the hidden item is." Holi said casually.
The muscles under Meagan's right eye twitched as she grew more frustrated. She shoved the remainder of the loose pages in the book. Meagan turned toward the kitchen quickly. She stomped down the hall way and into the small kitchen. She began rummaging though the drawers in search of a lighter or matches. She had, had enough of that god forsaken strategy guild. The binding was tarring, pages were falling out and half of the mini-quest section had been lost. But lucky for them that was after they completed them. Meagan continued to dig through the drawers but couldn't find anything that would light the cursed book on fire.
"Meagan!" Holi whined from the front room. "I'm in a fight with this thing… its really ugly, come and tell me what it is so I can kill it."
Meagan grounded and gathered up the strategy guild. Then turned to walk back into the kitchen giving up all hope of destroying the book. She shuffled into the room glanced at the TV and sighted.
"That's a Anacondaur, goodness Holi that things easy to kill. Gimmy the controller." Meagan dropped the book and reached for the controller in Holi's hands.
"No! I'm playing" Holi snapped.
Meagan drew closer to Holi and snarled "Give me the controller!"
"No." Holi stuck her nose in the air defiantly.
Meagan glared at Holi for a brief moment then lunged at her. Meagan tackled Holi, knocking them both off the couch. The two rolled around on the floor wrestling, and screaming. Holi pounced on Meagan, pinning her to the ground.
"Ha! I wing!" Holi yelled in triumph.
Meagan and Holi exchanged glares and low growled for a brief minutes before their attention was pulled away as the TV screen faded to black and the words 'GAME OVER' came to the screen. Their mouths dropped open as they both read the words on the screen. They had spent nearly four days working on the game and they had not died, not even once.
"Dead." Holi gasped.
"You killed them." Meagan said in shock. "YOU KILLED MY ZELLY!!!" he looked to Holi. The expression on her face was as if someone had ripped out her heart.
"Me!??!?!? I didn't kill them, and what about Squall!?!?!? He's dead too!!!" Holi yelled and let Meagan up.
"Yes its is your fault your wouldn't give me the controller an now Zells dead!!" Meagans eyes began to swell up with teats.
"Its not my fault!!" Holi yelled.
"YES IT IS!!" Meagan tackled Holi again her hand instinctively going for Holi's throat to strangle her.
The two went back to wrestling. They rolled into furniture and Meagan even through Holi into the wall. But Holi jumped up shaking off the pain of hitting the wall and jumped back into the fight. The two rolled into the hard wood coffee table. Rattling the table and knocking things off the small shelf beneath, on to the floor. One of those items that feel out was a chrome plated toaster. It fell off the shelf on its side.
The girls continued to wrestle. By now they had begun to pull hair and scratch one another. Their fighting had now just turned into fun instead of trying to kill one another. The girls laughed and giggled as they ripped each others hair out and slapped each other silly.
Meagan fell backwards on to the strategy guide. Holi jumped at her but Meagan used her feet to push Holi back and throw her to the ground. A devilish smirk came to Meagans face as she snatched up the book to use as a weapon and jumped up. Holi feel back and threw up her arms in defense. Meagan lifted the book high over her head ready to bring it down on Holi giving her much pain.
"WAIT!!!!" Holi yelled, her hands up.
"What!?!" Meagan stopped one moments before wacking Holi over the head.
"But…uh… what about Zell?" Holi panted and pointed to the strategy guild in Meagans hands.
"oh yeah." Meagan smiled sweetly then began to flip though her book. She ripped out a picture of Zell that she liked, then folded it up and put it in her pocket. Meagan lifted the strategy guild high over her had again.
"WAIT!!!!" Holi yelled again.
Megan stopped.
"What Now!!???!" She said growing rather annoyed.
"What about my Squall?" Holi said pouting our her bottom lip and swelling her eyes up to the size of dinner plates.
"oh yeah of course." Meagan smiled and began flipping though the book again. She tore out a picture of Squall and handed it to Holi.
"Thank you!" Holi sang brightly and rubbed the picture against her face a few times, then folded it up and put it in her bathing suite tope where it would be safe.
"Ready?" Meagan asked.
"ready!" Holi yipped.
Meagan began to beat oli over the head with the book, sending character stats flying all over the room. Finally after a couple of minutes of being beaten and getting paper cuts, Holi was able to knock the book out of meagans hand. The book flew out of meagans hands and landed on the chrome plated toaster that lay on its side.
The girls continued to fight. Holi backed up and prepared to pounce. But this time Meagan was ready. She wasn't going to get pinned twice. Holi pounced. Meagan fell back perpouly, and used her legs to throw holi off of her before, holi could pin her.
Holi ylped in surprise as she was thrown backwards onto the floor. She landed half way on the bulky old play station one that she owned. The play station jumped and did a flip from the fource of holi hitting the floor next to it. The play station landed on its side making a loud devastating crack sound which must have broken something. The little door to the disk compartment popped open and the game rolled out, perfectly balance on its side.
Mean while Meagan had gained the upper hand. But Holi was quickly about to change that. Holi grabbed a hand full of Megan's hair ready to rip it form her head. When sometime caught her attention out of the corner of her eye.
"LOOK!!!"
The tow girls stopped both sitting on the floor. Holi with a hand full of Meagan's hair and Megan's with her hands around Holi's neck. They both turned just in time to see the disk for Final Fantasy 8 go rolling by like a wheel. It was rolling toward a shiny chromed plated box that was covered by the strategy guide. They both watched stupidly.
"Whets that under the strategy guide?" Meagan asked.
"A toaster." Holi answered flatly.
"The same one you got from gypsies?"
"ye"
The one your think is magic?"
"yep"
The disk rolled into the bread slot of the toaster
"we're screwed aren't we?"
"yep!"
Suddenly the toaster began to glow with a blinding light. There was a loud explosion lie sound. The room filled with a giant cloud of smoke, and when it cleared the girls, and everything in and on the toaster was gone.
***