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Aimee ? Tasusa
Charlex ? Kingdom-Hearts-Otaku
Rolan+4 organization XIII characters: THE TRUE RAGRIZ
taunting twins Blue Rose ?
Erika ? ? (My neighborhood gave this.)
if he missed you please let him know!"

Jake had decided it wasn't real. It might have been cool & all but I couldn't be. It wasn't possible. Shaded cats appearing & disappearing into nothingness on a single platform & being obliterated by a giant key, which was like those fiction novels Nujum read. Cool, but utterly fiction.

So of course the second he thought that he noticed a cat in the backyard. Recently moving into a new neighborhood this was a common sight. Jake still couldn't resist the urge to look closer. He shouldn't have. The dark creature saw him & jumped at his window.

I hate being wrong Jake thought as he ran outside. Then he noticed that big key hadn't come to him. Muttering a curse, he stared as two more appeared. How had it come before? Before he could think, one jumped him. Holding his hands up instinctively, he waited for the blow. It never came. Staring up he noticed the key was back. Oh yaaaaa that's how.

Now that his blade…key thingy was back he could show these things what's reality & what's fiction. This time it only took three strikes per cat to take them down. Each vanishing with a few blows. Jake smiled to himself, forgetting what happened last time he beat all of them.

Gwwwaaaaaahhhh

"Whoa." This time that thing was at his front door. He raced through the house & yelled "REMATCH!" He wasn't so confident. Last time he had been giddy with the excitement of actually beating those things. Now, he was in control of his own mind, & that beast seemed much larger then last time. Before he could start anything, a more human looking thing appeared. It was also shaded, but it had a sort of white head & stood of its legs. The other pair were actually hands & Jake noticed some strange symbol on their chests.

It was clear that these things were much stronger than their cat version. Quickly Jake was losing stamina, & he knew he couldn't last this long. Maybe if I beat the big one, the rest will back off.

Easier thought then done. The human shades were in the way & he managed to take a few of them before striking the large ones leg. It was apparently no brighter than before as it smashed his fist into the ground in a clear miss & left Jake an opening. However this time when he took the beasts legs the humans shades started ganging up on him. One found an open spot on his back. To Jake it jumped in slow motion & his eyes could only follow as it closed in on his back.

"Get off you damned freaks!" Nujum's voice was loud & clear as the bat he threw collided with the shade. Now the Syed's had 2 bats: plastic &wooden. Their mother had forbidden any playing with the wooden bat in case they got hurt. If you were in Nujum's place you probably would've thrown the plastic & took the wooden to help. But you see, Nujum had been near something else they're mother had forbidden playing with. He threw the wooden bat & immediately picked up a golf club, which found itself in the nearest shade's head.

The Syed's had thought one & the same; take out the big one & the rest will leave you alone. But as Nujum cleared the way & Jakes blade hit; the human shades jumped them both rendering them helpless.

"We need a new plan." Jake yelled after a few tries, "this thing just keeps getting back up!"

At that moment Nujum noticed a flash of red…a color only one kid in his neighborhood bothered wearing. He knew what he had to do.

"Jake take another shot!"If he hadn't been trying he wouldn't have thought his brother crazy.

"We'll just tire ourselves out."

"Trust me!"

"& die? Nujum be reasonable." This line had been commonly used by Jake on his reckless brother & this had apparently only made him more reckless. In Jake's eyes.

Nujum charged at the giant. "Don't" Jake cried after his brother, but he had cleared a way to the right leg. Jake had no choice. A blow took it out, & the monster fell. But the shade's piled on the Syed's & they couldn't do much.

But Cain could. "TAKE THIS NOOBS!" Armed with a Nerf shotgun, Cain shot the giant in the head, taking it out. After a few minutes with Cain's help, the shades were defeated.

"Thanks Cain I owe you one." was the first thing out of Jakes mouth.

"Not really I owe you $3." Cain replied.

"Really? when." (Actually I wrote this to remind him he owes )

"The carnival, remember."

"oh Ya, I forgot about that."

"Hey were is Cole & Summer?" This was Nujum.

"Oh they're safe."

"How can you tell?"

"Cole took a light saber & knocked a couple of them back while Summer took another gun & fired at them."

"hey how come a toy did so well?"

"It's only a toy when you fire toys out of it."

"& Zaid?"

Zaid was Cain's 5 year old brother.

"He's with my parents on the other side of town. Ruby & Sarah?"

Sarah was Nujum's 2 year old sister, but her birthday was also November.

"They're also on the other side of town."

"Okay so our families are probably safe, being in a car, so that just leaves…"

"AAAHHHH!"

That voice was unmistakable. Three head's stared next to the Syed's house & at,

"Erika's!" Nujum & Cain both exclaimed. The three of them quickly charged towards the Malik's house.