Behold! Day three! Guess what? This story might actually have a plot. I had a review, with the idea of having Dist kidnap little Jade(which is kinda creepy because I had the same thought)! But anyway, now that I know that there is somebody else on the planet with the same thought, I think I go with it! Yays!

I don't own ToA.

Read on!!

She had let them play hide and seek. In the palace. Oh this was going to be FUN. Why? Tear didn't know. Luke didn't know either. Now, the only help they had was Peony, who hopefully knew every nook and cranny of the palace.

What was worse was the fact that they had agreed to the version where you had the catch the little monsters. Oh joy!

From their starting point in the entrance hall, Natalia had ran down the hall, down some stairs, past an angry guard, and ended up in a room filled with crates. She checked one. Empty. She checked another one. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. After checking a variety of crates, she decided to climb into one in the very back corner of the room. With all the boxes in here, no one would find her!

...What was a room full of crates doing in the palace...?

$_$

Guy looked around the room. Messy. Really, really messy. There were books every where. Fort made of books? Too obvious. He looked at one of the desks. Hm...He thought about it for a second. That drawer looked big enough...What the heck, he shrugged. What else are you gonna do with a drawer that big?

Using a pile of 3 books, (which would look right at home in this mess) he climbed into the drawer, and curled up into a ball. Forgetting to push the drawer back in all the way.

$_$

Did these two EVER separate from each other? Anise was leading Jade around the palace, looking for a good place to hide. As long as they didn't call ready or not, they still had time!

"Oh, I'm tired!" Anise whined as she sat on the edge of the fountain in the court yard.

"...I wan ice cream..." Jade said, sitting next to her.

"Me too...I didn't hear them call ready or not yet...do y'think we still have time?"

"I dunno..."

Suddenly Anise had an idea. Something to chase away the boredom...

"Wah-hey!" Jade cried as he was pushed backwards into the fountain. "Wh-what was the for?" he sputtered.

Anise started laughing.

"S-stop laughing!"

"You're all wet now!" she laughed.

Well now, if that's how you're gonna play it...

"Ahaha-Whoa!!" Anise stopped laughing as she was pulled from behind.

"Now you're all wet." Jade smirk.

"Yeah? Well," Anise splashed Jade. "Ha! Ah! No! Stop!" She shielded her face as Jade started splashing water at her.

This splashing war continued for another 13 seconds before the call echoed through the palace.

"READY OR NOT, HERE WE COME!!!!!"

"Uh oh..."

"We're outta time!" Anise climbed out of the fountain, Jade behind her.

"Do y'think we'll get in trouble for that?" Jade asked as they ran down the first door in sight.

"We were just havin' fun!" Anise said.

Jade looked at the puddles that they were leaving. "Yeah."

$_$

Natalia was the first to be found. Just because Peony thought that a room full of crates would be perfect for this game. And he was right, when they arrived in to room, some of the crate lids were open.

"Why do you have a room full of empty crates?" Luke asked.

"For...stuff..." Peony said.

"O...kay."

"Come on, let's look for them." Tear said, lifting up more lids."They could be anywhere in here."

"Room full of crates...pfft." Luke mumbled as he searched.

Five minutes of searching crate after crate, and they had yet to search the crate in the corner.

Natalia lifted up the lid, ever so slowly, and peeked out. They were almost here, maybe if she was quiet...She snuck out of the crate, and tip toed toward the door. Slowly, slowly...

"Hey!"

Darn. Spotted by the red head weirdo. Natalia ran as fast as her legs would carry her.

"After her!"

"You'll never catch me!!!!" She yelled behind her.

****

"I traveled *huff* around the world, but *huff* I couldn't catch *huff huff* this kid?" Luke said as they ended up in the entrance hall again.

"Hee hee! I win!" Natalia giggled.

"We'll catch the others." Peony said as he gasped for air.

"Come on, Natalia, let's go look for the others." Tear didn't seem as out of breath as Luke and Peony.

"Can't we rest for a bit?" Luke said.

"You can if you want." Tear took Natalia's hand.

"There was a reeaally messy room! There was books EVERYWHERE!" Natalia said. "Maybe they hid there!"

"Oh, then let's go check!" Tear said.

"Oh man...." Luke sighed.

****

"Okay, here's the plan." Tear bent down next to Natalia. "You stand in front of the door, and if there's anybody in here, you catch them."

"Okay!" Natalia gave her a salute.

Tear walked around the room, checking behind the desks, under the desks, and moving books.

"That one looks sush-shish-"

"Suspicious?"

"Yeah!" Natalia was pointing to the desk on the right side of the room.

Tear looked at the desk. The bottom drawer was slightly open, with a pile of books in front of it. She opened the drawer and suddenly Guy jumped out and pointed at Natalia. "No fair! You told her!"

"Nu uh!"

"Uh huh!"

"Nu uh!"

"Uh huh!"

"Stop it, both of you, Natalia didn't do anything wrong. Now let's get back to the start, and get Luke and Peony." Tear said.

****

"Still haven't found Anise or Jade." Luke said.

"No, but I think it's nap time for these two." Peony said, looking at Guy and Natalia.

"Yes, so do I." Tear said.

"We wanna look too!" Natalia said. Guy yawned.

"We'll look on the way then." Luke said. "Let's go, I'm beat."

****

"Okay, we'll go look for Anise and Jade, and you-what are you two laughing at?" Luke noticed Guy and Natalia, on the floor, giggling at something under the bed.

"What is it?" Tear lifted up the blanket and smiled.

"What?"

"Shh."

Hidden under the bed, were Anise and Jade, sleeping, wearing damp clothes, holding hands.

"Aw. That's cute," Peony said. "A little weird, but still cute."

"They're going to get sick like that," Tear said. "We should change their clothes."

"Yeah. Let's get them outta there." Luke reached under to pull them out.

While this was going on, some where far, far away, a man with silver hair was sitting at a desk, listening to a report. As soon as the oracle knight giving the report left, he smiled. A rather evil smile(not that his smile was ever good) and he laughed.

"Turned into toddlers, hm? Oh this is perfect!" He laughed, and left the room, muttering something about scary robots, and long haired, conniving, four-eyed colonels.