Me: W00T! I've FINALLY had my Confirmation... *Rubs oil off of head* and now I feel like posting it. I actually started typing the day after I finished the previous chapter… but… well, I got distracted! DON'T JUDGE ME! I have ADD… ish… slightly…

Wait, what?

…Ooh, look. A pony!

Anyway, onwards! Behold my crappily-written OC and her friend.

…Seriously. I suck writing about OCs… but, hey, I tried!

The next chapter should be in within the next few days… if all goes well. *Shoots sidelong glance at parental controls*

"Here, take the camera." Callie thrust the video camera into Krystal's unsuspecting hands, scrabbling over the top of the fence.

"Has it ever occurred to you to go through the gate?" Krystal grumbled, opening the latch.

"But that's no fun!" Callie took back the camera. "Besides, we'll have to do some climbing, anyway."

Callie's insane blonde hair was pulled into its customary ponytail. She was relieved to finally get it into one- since she had gotten her hair cut, it had been too short to stick it into a hair-tie. That made playing basketball harder than ever. Not that she was good at it, but she had to do something to keep herself away from various manga comics… and animes online… and the insane and scarring e-mails her friends sent her on a daily basis…

The snow formed a thick mat over the ground, giving the surrounding landscape the appearance of something from a holiday gift-card. Callie shivered and pulled her coat tighter.

The two friends followed the path that led through the woods. Some cliffs ran overhead, and a valley to the other side, creating a narrow passageway. Frosted trees blocked their view of the sky.

"So, what are we doing, again?" Callie asked.

Krystal's eye twitched. Callie suppressed a grin.

"Spanish weather report, dimbo."

"Oh, yeah."

They walked on in silence for a while.

"Which way now?" Krystal asked, looking in the direction of the valley.

"Pride Rock is this way." Callie said, steering Krystal in the opposite direction. "Past Clay Mountain."

Krystal and Callie scrabbled over the sand-covered cliff, using several mountain laurels as handholds.

"Crap! How far away is this thing?" Krystal groaned, clutching her side and panting.

"Not too far." Callie replied, grimacing.

"Let's hurry. My dad'll kill me if he figured out we were in the woods."

Callie tapped her foot impatiently. "I know, I know. Your parents are such worrywarts… no offense or anything." She paused, examining the landscape. "Here. It should be at the top of this cliff."

She pointed her finger to one last, tiny little hill.

"YES!" Krystal shot upright, her tiredness forgotten, and bolted to the top of the cliff. Callie followed suit.

Callie suppressed a grin as Krystal stared at the sky beyond, eyes widened in an expression of over-exaggerated horror. "NOOOOOO!"

"We're supposed to climb up all of that TODAY? In the SNOW?" Krystal banged her head on a tree.

"Yup." The two gazed upward- Krystal in horror, Callie in thrilled anticipation- at a huge, rock-covered cliff, coated in ice, at least 20 feet high- at the top of which rested a huge, rather pointy, rock.2

"On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE… FIVE GOLDEN-"

"NO!" Krystal shouted, blocking out the rest of the sentence.

"You're no fun!" Callie shouted back down, almost losing her grip on the snow-crested cliff.

"Meh."

Callie pulled herself onto the top- finally- and reached down to help Krystie up, too.

"C'mon. Let's get to the VEEEEEERY top." Callie scrabbled to the moss- or, in this case, snow- covered rock and looked around, savoring the view.

…That is, until her foot kicked something squishy. And alive.

"OMYKAMI!" She screamed, eyes wide as she looked down on the limp figure lying in the snow, another beside him.

"I think I'm gonna faint…"

Teehee… I have a thing about cliffhangers. XD

1 These places really DO exist… I should know, I've lived with them my whole life. Though, you should know that Clay Mountain isn't really a mountain. It's just a really big cliff that is kinda vertical, and completely made of sand, so you can climb up it. There's lots of clay at the top… my brothers and I like to climb up there when it's wet to make something… though our sculptures look like CRAP. Pride Rock is a huge, GINORMOUS rock on my neighbor's property… it actually has that little pointy thingy sticking out the front. And a flat, moss-covered top. It's the coolest thing ever, though it's hard to get to, as you'll figure out later on.

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2 See? I told you it was hard to get to… me and mah buddies actually climbed up it… in the snow… with a camera… to do a weather report, all in Spanish. I think I captured Krystal's reaction rather accurately. ^.^ It was FUN. Though, it was also completely pointless. Krystal's dad was on his way by the time we were able to navigate a safe route to the top, and we had forgotten the script.

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To mah non-anime obsessed school friends:

I've become aware that you guys will actually be reading this, so I'll add you in, too, later. Sorry, guys. XD But I SWEAR, you'll be in it soon. :3 By the way, recognize the song that Callie starts to sing? I didn't want to put it on FanFiction because it would be a lot more M-rated. XD

MANGOS

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Teehee…

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