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Race For the Candy
By Princess Serenity
Part One.
"Hey! Give that back, Rowen!"
"Waaaah!! Rowen take Pixy Stix!!"
Wha..?! Rowen!!
Come back here with those!!!"
These were the shouts heard from
a house in Our Little Corner of Insanity, Japan one morning in mid-July. Rowen Hashiba, a young man with blue hair
and blue eyes, was pilfering things from everybody, and they didn't like it one
bit. He sprinted down the hall carrying
several economy-sized boxes of Pixy Stix, followed by three angry friends. He darted into a room, and came back out
with another box of candy, followed by a girl with brown hair and green eyes, who
didn't look all too happy with Rowen.
"Rowen!! Come back here!" she screamed, chasing him
down the stairs.
"Mia! Wait for Chibi-Ryo!" shouted a tiny little boy with black hair,
who was addressing himself in third person, as he ran down the stairs. He was behind a guy with a really long
bronze braid and a guy who had short brown hair. The guy with the braid turned and picked up Chibi-Ryo and rushed
down the stairs after the others. "Duo! Did Rowen take your Pixy Stix too?" the
child asked from his arms.
"Yep! Heero's too! Now come on,
we're gonna go get 'em all back from him!" Duo replied as he jumped off the
bottom step. They ran through the
living room and into the kitchen, where they found Rowen with all four boxes of
Pixy Stix in the floor with him. The
boxes were all open and empty, and ripped up Pixy Stix wrappers were scattered
everywhere. Rowen just sat there
waiting for the sugar to kick in.
"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!"
Chibi-Ryo wailed, looking at the Pixi Stix that had previously been his.
"Rowen…" Heero said warningly,
"to the store. Now." A girl with long blonde hair and blue eyes
with gray forked eyebrows walked into the kitchen.
"You're paying for them too, cuz
Chibi-Ryo said he'd split his with me," she told Rowen, who just sat there,
crossing and uncrossing his eyes.
"I did not, Dorothy!" Chibi-Ryo
argued. Duo set him down on the
floor.
"You're paying for all of
them, Rowen," Mia said slowly. She
didn't want to explode on him. Pixy
Stix were her favorite food after all.
"Take your wallet and go to the store.
Heero will give you a ride in his stolen ambulance."
"I will?" Heero asked, his
eyebrows raised.
"Yes," Mia replied. "Now go, before something even more chaotic
happens!" Rowen stood up and threw away
his garbage in one noisy motion.
****
At
the grocery store, Heero followed calmly as Rowen rode around the place on the
shopping cart, occasionally pushing himself forward with his foot. In the candy aisle, he grabbed at
everything.
"Oooooh!! They've still got Marshmallow Peeps! Bunnies, too!" Rowen exclaimed, running
hyperly around the sweets.
"Hershey's!!! Kisses! Hugs!
M&M's! Skittles!" After a moment, he found them. "Pixy Stix!!!!!!!" He grabbed all of the economy-sized boxes (there were 16 of them)
and filled up the shopping cart all the way with them.
"Easy, Rowen," Heero said,
raising one eyebrow. They wheeled the
cart to the cash register and Rowen picked up all the boxes at once and dumped
them on the counter. Heero paid for the
candy with Rowen's money (Rowen was too hyper to keep the bills in one
piece). They then lugged everything
outside and put it in the back of the ambulance that Heero had stolen from the
paramedics. They climbed into the front
seat, Heero at the wheel, and began to drive home.
"Now Rowen," Heero said, his
eyes on the road, "you're going to have to learn how to control yourself around
sugar. Understand?" He got no answer. "Rowen?" He looked over
at Rowen, but found that he was not there.
Heero heard something behind him.
"Oh no! The Pixy Stix!" He looked behind him at the back of the
ambulance. Rowen was relaxing on the
stretcher, polishing off the Pixy Stix.
He looked at Heero and laughed hyperly.
"No! Rowen! How could you?!"
"Easy! I just open it up," he opened the very last
Pixy Stick, "and eat it!" He ate
it.
"Rowen," Heero sighed, turning
back to the road, "we bought all of their Pixy Stix. And that's the only store that sells them in a 200 mile
radius!" He pulled the ambulance over
to the side of the road and whipped out his cell phone. "I'm gonna call Dorothy and Mia and tell
them what you've done. Maybe they can
order some on the Internet." He dialed
the number on his phone. There was a
lot of static, so he went outside to hear better. "Yes, Cye, that's right, Rowen ate them all. Is Krim there, please?" Heero explained to
the British guy on the other line who had answered the phone. He heard a noise from his ambulance and
turned to see Rowen in the driver's seat.
"Rowen, no!" The siren blared as
Rowen drove off in Heero's ambulance.
"Bye Heero! Thanks for the
ride!" he called as he waved.
"No!!" Heero shouted.
"Heero? What's wrong?" came a new voice from the
cell phone. "Heero, you there?"
"Quatre?"
"Yeah, Heero, what's
wrong?"
"Rowen just stole my stolen
ambulance and he's on a sugar high!" Heero told Quatre on the phone. There was a short pause.
"Excuse me?" Quatre's voice said. Heero repeated himself. He could then hear talking in the background
and the phone being handed to someone else.
"Whaddaya mean he ate all the
Pixy Stix and stole your stolen ambulance?!
What's wrong with him?!" a girl screamed into the phone. Heero held it away from his face and wiggled
a finger in his ear.
"Relena? Why are you there? Never mind. But I dunno
what's the matter with Rowen. I'm still
trying to figure out how the guy was born with blue hair. I'm gonna need help catching him
though. D'ya think you could…?" Heero didn't like asking for favors, and was
unable to finish his sentence. But
Relena knew what he meant.
"Don't worry, Heero, we're on
our way!" Heero closed the phone and put it in the pocket of his shorts. Seconds later, a big pack of people
materialized before his eyes. There were
Mia, Dorothy, Chibi-Ryo, and Duo, all of whom he had seen earlier that
morning. There was also Cye, who had
light brown hair that almost touched his shoulders and sea blue eyes; Quatre,
who had short blonde hair and dark blue eyes; and Relena, who had blonde hair
with two little braids in it and blue eyes.
Behind them was a black Hummer Limousine.
"Well, here we are! Er…where's Rowen?" asked Cye looking for
looking for Heero's stolen stolen ambulance.
Then he hit himself on the head.
"Oh yeah! That's right! He left!
Well, come on, we've gotta catch 'im!"
The others shrugged at each other as they got into the Hummer Limo. Krim got behind the wheel.
"Uhm… Are you guys sure that Dorothy should be driving? Couldn't we at least get pillows or
something to protect us from the crash?" Duo asked as he buckled his
seatbelt.
"I heard that Duo!! I'll have you know that I'm a better driver
than you think!!" Dorothy yelled from the front seat, where she was starting
the car.
"There you go, Chibi-Ryo! All buckled in!" Mia finished buckling the
last buckle on Chibi-Ryo's booster seat and sat back to admire her work. He was buckled in about 15 different ways,
and was completely surrounded by pillows.
"Mia, do you really think that's
necessary? Dorothy can't possibly drive
that bad," Quatre said.
"You have no idea," Mia told
him, as she tightened her seatbelt. The
tires screeched loudly as the car sped away.
****
