Timeline wise, this fic takes place after the Valentine's Day Fic, but after another that isn't finished yet (sorry about that, backlog of ideas and all). However, there's nothing mentioned in here that will warp your minds, so you wouldn't have noticed that a fic was missing if I hadn't told you.
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Words between ~ ~ and {} Are telepathic thoughts. That is all. Now Read,
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"Are you sure we should be doing this?"
"Why not? It's a holiday. It's supposed to be fun! Besides, I doubt the Guys have ever done this before."
"But-"
"No 'buts'. We're doing this and that's final."
"Yes, dear."
"Good. Now hand me that megaphone."
"Just let me stick my fingers in my ears before you-"
"RISE AND SHINE PEOPLE!!! TIME TO GET UP AND GREET THE DAY!!!"
"Ow...."
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Blackwargreymon groaned as the yell reverbeated through his skull and valiantly tried to escape another yell by burrowing his head under a pillow. Granted that would have worked better had Lashana released one of the pillows she had pulled over her head.... Oh Gods....what was that? And why is it up at 7am?
"C'MON PEOPLE!!! WAKE UP!!!"
Why does that voice sound so familiar? He rose his head slightly as another voice joined the first one, and groaned when he realized who it was. Well, whoever it is...we must know them. Kang wouldn't help a total stranger.
"You have to do it like this, ma'am. STAAAAAAAAAAAAND TOOOOOOOOO!!!! GET UP YOU LAZY MAGGOTS!!!!!!"
"SHUT UP!! FOR THE LOVE OF THE GODS!!! SHUT UP!!!"
There was a scuffle for the megaphone. "GOOD MORNING TELCA!!"
Lashana blinked, the murderous rage that had been building within her fading. "Mom?"
"Mom?!" Blackwargreymon repeated, staring at her in shock. "Your mother's here!?"
She sighed and nodded, groggily fighting her way free of the blankets before managing to get semi-upright. "I'm gonna go see why she's here. Go back to sleep."
"Can do," he mumbled as he grabbed the pillows and pulled them over his head.
"There are days where I hate you," she grumbled as loud snores filled the room.
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"I mean honestly, how hard is it for people to wake up around here?" Diane sighed as she rose the megaphone to her lips again. "LASHANA!! GET UP!!!"
"I am up!!"
She paused at the snarl from the Main Stairs and smiled cheerfully at her daughter. "Oh. Good morning!"
Lashana paused at the bottom step and looked from her mother, to a smirking Kang, and finally at her grinning father. "What the hell is going on?!"
"It's Easter!"
"And that means I can't get my usual nine hours of sleep?"
"I thought it was eleven."
"Shut up, Kang. I'm not talking to you right now."
"Now, now, Lashana.You'll like this," her mother protested with a smile. "See, we thought that you and your Guys deserved a fun Easter. So your father an I have decided to plan out an Easter Egg hunt for you."
"Easter egg hunt?" Kang echoed, glancing at Lashana curiously.
"It's where people hide chocolate and candies around a house and let others go wild trying to find them. It's like a treasure hunt...except with more sugar," the Elf explained as she leaned against the banister, looking at her mother questioningly. "So what gave birth to this insanity?"
"I was bored."
And people wonder where I get it from. "Yeah, okay. But do we have to do it now? It'll take a while to wake the others, and some of us need caffeine to function properly."
"It can wait until everyone's had breakfast. You and Kang can start cooking, your father will go wake up the others and I will finish getting everything ready."
Kang grumbled. "Nice of you to volunteer us."
"Oh hush," Diane grinned. "It'll be fun. And yes Lashana, I've already hidden all the chocolate, so there's no point in spying on me."
"Damn."
"C'mon," Kang chuckled, grabbing the Elf's left wrist and pulling her after him as he headed for the Kitchen. "I'll let you have the first cup of coffee."
"A draconian after my own heart," Lashana grinned, earning a wary look from him.
"Just don't tell, Blacky. I'd like to keep my heart where it is. In my chest and not nailed to my forehead."
"Oh, he only did that once. Duncan's all better now."
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It took half an hour for her father to wake and round up everyone else in the Palace. His methods of walking up and down the hallways while banging a metal spoon against a large pot and singing horrendously off-key were very effective. It helped that he was able to dodge fireballs, pillows, a chair, and what might have once been a slice of pizza.
Lashana and Kang had managed to cook up a full breakfast for everyone. Scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, sausages, french toast, pancakes....the works. Granted the package of espresso they had found helped a little.
So when the small army of males entered the Kitchen and saw the spread of food, the event of a 'feeding frenzy' occured.
"Wolverine, could you be so kind as to hand me that toast?"
"No way, bub. It's the last one! It's mine!"
"Hey! Malcho! You can't go around eating whole plates of sausages!"
"I was hungry!"
"So are the rest of us!"
"Ack! Fuzzy! Get down off that light fixture!"
"But, dude! How else can I reach the pancakes?"
~Zel, touch that coffee and die!~
"Oh, like I'm afraid of a big purple rat."
"Who want's more sausages? ACK!"
"Hey! No trampling of my Bonded!"
"Oh, Elfy will recover. Lighten up you big turtle."
"Chere, could you pass me de bacon?"
Kang sighed as he helped Lashana to her feet where Zelgadis and Wolverine had left her after having practicly ripped the plate from her hands and guided her over to the to the counter. "Good thing we ate while cooking, hmm?"
"No shit. I'm afraid to reach for a toast, I might never see my fingers again!"
"Hey! We need more orange juice over here!"
"Get it yourself you slacker!"
"Oy..." Lashana ducked a flying pancake and grimaced when it smacked and stuck to the wall. "I ain't cleanin' that."
"Ditto," Kang murmured as he went to the fridge and pulled out a carton of juice, tossing it towards the group and wincing when six hands shot out and snatched it from the air. "You want some bacon? I'm going in."
"Sure. Try to come back in one piece," Lashana snickered, leaning back against the counter and watching as he shoved his way into the gang, grabbed a plate of food and lept back before the three forks, two knives and a muffin could hit him. "Nicely done."
"I think I lost a scale," he grimaced, twisting to look at his right shoulder.
"Okay people! Time's'a wasting!" Diane called as she walked into the Kitchen, stopping in mid-stride when she saw the group gathered around a table. "Oh my goodness....."
"Don't go near them. They can scent fear," Lashana chuckled as she accepted the few pieces of bacon that Kang gave her.
"Is that Telca who's kicking Blackwargreymon in the shin for a piece of bacon?"
"Yep," Kang grinned.
"There's no chance of me getting some french toast, is there?"
"Hang on a sec, mum. Miracles can happen," Lashana winked as she opened a portal and dragged her father through it. "Heyla, Dad. I need you to do an encore."
He groaned and reluctantly accepted the pot and spoon she handed him. "The things I do for you people."
"He's disturbingly good at that," Kang noted as he watched Pete start to circle the feeding frenzy while energeticly banging on the pot.
"I am so great! I am so great! Everybody loves me, cuz I am so great!"
As all the feasters cried out in horror and tried to shut her father up, Lashana darted forward and grabbed a plate, put two pieces of french toast on it and a few pieces of bacon, covered it all with syrup and then retreated to her mother's side. "Breakfast is served!"
"You're awfully good at that," her mother smiled.
"That's cuz it's the only way to get food around here. Survival of the fastest."
"Or at least survival of the one that goes around beating people with a frying pan."
"Shut. Up. Kang."
"Lashana! Call him off! Call him off!!"
"What was that Guys? You want him to sing louder?"
"NOOOO!!!"
"You heard him, daddy!"
"This is the song that never ends! Yes it goes on and on my friends!"
"AAAAHHHH!!!"
"Gods I love being evil."
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"Okay people! Gather 'round!" Diane called ten minutes later, grinning when everyone joined her in the Main Hall, all of them eager to avoid having to be subjecting to the newest form of punishment. "Blackwargreymon, stop pestering Telca. Telca, don't stick your tonge out at him. Mewtwo don't you even think about throwing that toast. Zel...Zel let go of Lashana's coffee...Zel..."
WHAM!
"Oh well, I warned him," she sighed, gazing over at the Zel-shaped hole in the wall.
"What's this all about, anyway?" Telca frowned, looking at Diane suspiciously.
"As you all know, it's Easter..."
"Religion through chocolate, gotta love it."
"Telca don't interupt else I'll have Pete sing again."
Crickets chirped.
"That's better. Now, as I was saying. It's Easter, and I'm well aware that most, if not all, of you haven't ever had the fun of going on an Easter Egg Hunt," Diane paused for effect, smiling at the excited murmurs that came from the group. "So Pete and I have hidden three hundred plastic eggs around the Palace and the surrounding grounds. Each egg has something inside. But there's an added bonus."
Pete grinned and gestured to a large blanket covered form. "Whoever finds the most eggs, wins this!" He yanked the material aside and looked at the group, wincing at the unholy light in his daughter's eyes as she stared at the large ten pound chocolate bunny.
"Lashana an I can win this! No sweat!" Telca boasted with a grin.
"I'm not finished," Diane said. "To keep things fair, you'll all be broken up into teams of three." She ignores the groans of dissapointment and holds out her hand, accepting the small box that her husband hands her. "All your names are in this box. Dear, would you do the honors?"
Telca exchanged worried glances with Lashana as Pete reached into the box. "You do know that if we're not on the same team... that I'll kick your ass, right?"
"Ha! Yeah right!" Lashana smirked. "That chocolate's mine!"
Blackwargreymon frowned and looked at the Elf. "What if we're not together?"
"Then you'd better stay out of my way!"
"Gee, I can feel the love," he grumbled sourly.
"Do you want me to start singing again?" Pete growled, glaring at the group when they all shook their heads 'no'. "Then shut up. Okay, first group. Wolverine, Duncan and Beast. Second group... Malcho, Kenshin and Nightcrawler. Third group...."
Lashana and Telca glanced at each other. "Please let us be a team, please let us be a team..."
"...Telca, Remy..."
"Yes!!"
"...and Blackwargreymon."
"Aw nuts."
"Gee, thanks a lot Telca," the Digimon growled.
"That leaves Lashana, Kang and Mewtwo," Diane smiled. "Well, you've got your teams, you've got motivation. Go to it. You've got two hours...starting now!"
"Hey wait! What about Zelgadis?" Lashana frowned as the chimera rejoined them after having pulled himself away from his imtimate position on the far wall.
Pete glanced at his wife, who shrugged. "Uh.... well...I guess someone gets a fourth member on their team."
"Or he could team with Xellos," Telca suggested evilly.
The chimera looked at her in horror. "No! Anything but that!"
"Fine fine. C'mon, Rocky, yer with us," Wolverine sighed as he grabbed the chimera's arm and started dragging him towards the front door.
"Um...a suggestion?" Telca called out, waiting until everyone had turned to look at her before continuing. "Can we get ten minutes free time to go get changed? I mean, it's not as if I don't like seeing Remy run around in only his boxers, I just don't want him catching cold."
"But then he'd be confined to bed," Lashana pointed out with a smirk.
Telca paused, then grinned. "True. But the being sick and all is gross."
"Point."
"Alright. Get going, you've got ten minutes," Diane nodded,
discreetly eyeing the boxer-wearing Duncan as he bolted up the stairs.
To be continued! An hey, Lashana will type faster if you review!