"Ok...here!" Shui presented his finished idea to the author. After reading it over, the author grinned.
"Shui...I had no idea you could be so evil. Then again, look at your sister."
"Yeah, it sort of caught on. Oh yeah, I need something too..."
Today was not an ordinary day for the Bladebreakers. Nope. Today, their lives were ruled by an eight year old because their author took her two-year work anniversary off.
"Seriously. If there's a way to get back at the author, I will find it." Kai growled.
"Good luck with that." Max stated.
"Don't worry, guys." Shui held up a board game. "I just wanna play this game I got. Can we play it? Please?"
"Oh thank god! I thought something more horrible would happen." Tyson gave a sigh of relief. Shui's face lit up.
"So, we'll play it?"
"Well, it's not like we'll have anything better to do." Ray answered. Tysa took the game from Shui.
"It's Parcheesi?" Shui nodded.
"Oh, but...can we all play?" he looked at Kai, and everyone else turned.
"Team meeting." Tysa declared. They all started to talk in another room.
"I don't play board games." Kai stated in his usual indifferent attitude.
"Dude, he's an eight year old. And Tysa's brother. I think he could be capable of worse." Max put in.
"...Thanks, Max." Tysa muttered. Max retained his bright attitude.
"No problem."
After a while of talking it over, they finally convinced a grudging Kai.
"Alright!" Shui cheered, and opened the box. There was only a board with the standard parcheesi path—the majority of it filled with the spaces of green, red, or beige, and the final leg having only green and red. There was only one game piece. Shui picked it up. "Ok, this is the game master's piece. The one who has this makes all the rules."
"What does that mean?" Tyson asked. Shui smiled.
"Don't worry. It's easy to get." Shui clapped his hands and the next thing the Bladebreakers knew, the parcheesi board was huge, and they were actually standing on the start piece. It seemed like the whole board became it's own land.
"Ok, I don't think we're in your house anymore."
"What gave it away, Max? The fact we seem like game pieces?" Tysa asked.
"Don't worry." They turned to Shui, standing off the board and on the background. "It'll go back to normal when someone wins." Tyson tried to walk over to his brother. "Oh, don't try that—"
"Waah!" Tyson's hand received a shock.
"Yeah, you can't get off either until someone wins."
"Shui...where did you get this game?" Tysa asked.
"The author made it for me!"
Of course...the group thought.
"Ok, let me explain real quick." Shui pointed towards the sky and a randomly spinning die appeared in the air. "That's your die. You say 'stop' and it will roll a number, and that's the number of spaces you move. Although, it is possible to get a zero."
"How?" Ray asked.
"Because I'm the game master and I make the rules." Shui causally answered, then pointed down the path. "Now, the beige spaces are normal spaces. The green ones are reward spaces and the red ones are punishment spaces. Since I'm the game master, I decide the rewards and the punishments." That made sense. What punishments could a eight-year-old possibly come up with? "Oh, there are some other rules but...I'll make them up as I go along, ok?"
No. Not ok.
"Tyson, you go first." Shui stated. Tyson looked at the spinning die.
"Ok...stop." the die stopped at six. "Alright!" Tyson happily moved six spaces...onto a red one. "Crap."
"Ok, Tyson, your punishment..." Shui thought about it. "I know! Is to clean my room!"
"What?!"
"And you can't leave or move in spaces until you finish."
"Shui, what the—" Tyson vanished before he could finish and appeared in Shui's currently messy room. "...Aw, man..."
"Right, who's next?"
"I'll go next." Ray volunteered. He rolled a four and landed on a beige.
"Kai?" Shui offered. Kai shrugged. The sooner this game was over with, the better. Kai looked up at where the die was, but there were now two.
"Oh, you get to roll two dice. Saying 'stop' will stop them both." Kai quickly said 'stop' and rolled a twelve. He ended up stopping on a red space.
"Oh great..." Kai muttered. He could only hope that Shui wouldn't pick more chores.
"Kai...Kai..." Shui muttered. "Oh, I know! You have to fight a giant clam! 'Cause your name's 'kai'!"
"You have got to be kidding me." Kai stated. But, true to Shui's word a Kai-sized clam appeared, and how clams go, it looked pretty pissed off.
"Wow, good thing my name's not an animal." Max stated.
"It's a dog's name!" Kai yelled back, but quickly turned his attention back to the clam.
"Oh yeah, you can't move off the space, Kai!" Shui added. Kai's eye twitched. At least this would qualify as a good excuse to hate board games. Not that anyone would believe it.
"I'll go." Tysa stated.
"Then I'm last." Max confirmed. Tysa looked up at the die that then spilt to two. After saying 'stop' she moved eight spaces on a red.
"Wow, there seems to be a lot of red spaces on this thing..." Shui realized, looking up and down the board. "Let's make your space a green!"
"What the hell?!" Kai yelled from up front, still trying to deal with the giant clam.
"Uh oh. Kai cursed. The clam gets bigger." Shui stated. The clam indeed got bigger, and if Kai wasn't having trouble before...
Oh, I'm gonna pummel that kid when we get out of here...
"So, Tysa, you landed on a green. So you get a reward!" Shui started to think of a good reward. "Oh, I know! How about you pick!" At this moment, Shui's obvious favoritism towards his sister became very annoying. It would probably be annoying to Tyson as well if he wasn't trying to stuff all Shui's stuff in a closet.
"Hmm...I know!" Tysa whispered something in Shui's ear. Shui looked up, confused.
"Are you sure?" Tysa nodded. "Ok..." With that, the giant clam disappeared. Kai looked back at Tysa. Why would she choose to rescue him as a reward?
"Alright, my turn!" Max stated and looked up at the sole die. He rolled a five and landed on a beige in front of Ray. "Well, at least I'm not—" All of a sudden Max disappeared and reappeared on the start space. "Huh?"
"Oh, yeah. There are some 'move backward' spaces. They're disguised." Shui told him.
"Gee, thanks for sharing..."
Shui: Isn't this game fun?
Kai and Tyson: This is not fun!!
Max: This game doesn't seem fair...
Ray: Hey, come on guys, we only just started.
Tysa: That may already be enough for them.