Disclaimer: Unfortunately, Bakugan is not owned by me. *sigh* Well, if it was, I can promise you one thing.....Alice would be more of a main character in New Vestroia and not be left behind all the time with Julie and Runo. I just hope that the girls get a chance to go to New Vestroia because the way I see it, Ace-Darkus (Alice), Baron-Haos (Runo), and Mira-Subterra (Julie) are taking over the original 3 girls spots in the show!! :-(
A/N: Reminder: All of these chapters are not in order, they are only one-shots posted together in a collection. In this little onesie, all the original Battle Brawlers plus Joe, Chan, Billy, Klaus, Mira, Ace and Baron are at the carnival/fair. Since this is called "fanfiction," let's just pretend that the Battle Brawlers Resistance won their cause in New Vestroia and are all visiting on Earth. Also, Mira and Baron haven't been to a carnival, like they did in an episode, okay?
Also, thanks a lot for all the reviews, favorite story adds, story alerts, etc. I am so happy to know people like these chapters! The last chapter was especially hard to write because of the delicate matter. Having to deal with something kind of like that, it was very personal to me and I am glad of the positive input. Thanks so much and happy reading!
Theme 74 Are You Challenging Me?
"Ahhhhhhhh, isn't this, like, the most coolest, most awesomest place……EVER?" Julie squealed with excitement, earning herself a few stares from passing people.
"Julie, will you calm down? Geez, it's just a carnival!" Runo yelled back at her silver-haired friend who was embarrassing them.
"Just a carnival???? Ugh, how can you even say that, Runo? It's like a dream! Look at all the flashing lights, prizes, rides......ahhhhhh, Billy, look, a Tunnel of Loooooove ride.......Let's go! Catch you guys later!!!" Julie screamed excitedly as she proceeded to drag Billy as a hostage behind her. Billy made a small farewell salute with his free hand before disappearing behind the corner.
A few snickers were heard within the group after Billy and Julie were out of sight.
"So, Master Dan, what do we do now?" Baron asked. All of these new Earth festivals were new to him. Who knew that there could be people screaming for joy when a lot of flashing lights and ear-splitting sirens went off? And how could people call stumbling off of a ride, wobbly-legged, running to a trash can and letting go of their dinner, fun? These Earth people were so strange.
"We ride the rides! I say we get on the most, spine-splitting, fastest ride here! It's supposed to be that way, I think." Dan said as he pointed in the direction of a crazy, twisted, metal track that made several in the group gulp audibly. "Who's up for it?" Dan turned to look at his friends and see who would join him on his crazy adventure.
Baron ran to join Dan. "You can count me in!" The boys anxiously awaited for more friends to join their side.
Chan leaned closer to Joe and whispered in his ear, while a blush was growing on her cheeks. A slight blush was sprinkled on Joe's face but he nodded nonetheless and slipped his hand over Chan's.
Joe spoke up, "That sounds fun and everything Dan," Dan's smile grew as he thought he found another "victim," but his dream was quickly shattered. "but Chan and I are going to check out a few rides on our own, okay? Let's all meet up at closing time by the food vendors, okay? We'll let Billy and Julie know when we see them."
"Fine, fine." Dan grumbled and pouted, crossing his arms over his chest like a small child not getting his way.
Joe and Chan mysteriously disappeared in the same direction Billy had been kidnapped, hand in hand.
Dan stared down the rest of the group, testing their will power. "Anyone else want to ride the Spine Buster, or all of you chicken?"
"Are you challenging me?" Ace asked with a smirk on his face.
Dan responded with an equally evil smirk, "Yes, I am, or are you too scared?"
Ace and Mira glanced at each other and stepped over to Dan's side. "Then if that's it, you can count me in." Ace said.
Mira smiled. "Me too. I'm not one to back down from a challenge."
Alice and Runo glanced nervously at each other and a silent girl communication passed between them. Runo spoke for both of them, "Alice and I will sit this one out."
Dan opened his mouth to spit out a scaredy-cat retort but Marucho seized the oppourtunity. "Don't worry, Dan. I'll stay with them. I refuse to leave two young ladies such as them alone waiting on everyone else to finish the ride."
Shun and Klaus looked at one another as they caught Marucho's clever wording. Everyone else? When had they been volunteered to ride it?
Dan jumped in his spot with joy, quickly forgetting to tease the three who opted not to join him on the ride. "Great! It's settled then! Let's go!" He took off in a jog to the ride while his friends quickly followed.
Runo, Alice and Marucho stood off to the side while the rest of their group joined the suicidal line for the ride. "Crazy aren't they?" Runo joked.
Alice blushed and chose not to comment. She cautiously looked on as their friends boarded the ride of doom. Had they not seen the previous occupants stumbling off of the ride?
Runo turned to Marucho. "So, why didn't you get on the ride with them?"
Marucho blushed a bit. "Well, to be frank, I'm scared of rides like those."
"Ahhh." Runo commented and turned back to the ride to watch it starting as screams were heard.
"Why didn't you both get on the ride?" he countered.
Alice paled as she watched the ride do several upside-down twists after a long downward plunge and then disappearing from sight around the park. "I'm too afraid of rides like those."
"I'm not exactly afraid, but I know my limits. I don't want to join the puking club that will be stumbling off of that ride. No, thank-you." Runo smirked as she heard more screams.
Marucho sighed. "So, you won't mind if I stay with you both when they ride rides such as these?"
"Sure, be our guest." Runo answered as Alice nodded.
"What do you want to ride, Runo?" Alice questioned. Or was her friend going to sit out all the rides like her and Marucho?
Runo sighed before answering. "Yeah, I will, but not anything crazy. I just hope Dan will be up to riding a smoother ride with me."
A screech was heard as the ride came to a sudden stop. "And, speaking of the lunatic, here he comes." The three moved closer to the exit as four very distinct figures came tumbling in their direction. Mira nearly tripped over the flat surface but even in his dizzy state, Ace managed to catch her, looking sick himself. Dan and Baron emerged behind them. Dan was barely managing to walk upright, having to be supported by a very unfazed Baron. Klaus walked in more of a zig-zag fashion but managed not to trip in the fifteen foot journey to the three friends. Shun held up the rear of the group and seemed to be perfectly fine, considering his recent adventure.
"So, how was the ride Dan?" Runo challenged her boyfriend who was having trouble standing on his own and was in the process of dragging Baron down with him to the dirt.
"Uh--rniasng-ntugb-jsbuabu-uhhhhhhh." Dan stumbled out before managing to finally find the ground, pulling Baron on top of him.
Runo burst out laughing, holding her stomach. "What was that? Sorry, I didn't hear you."
Baron pulled himself out of his entangle with Dan and answered Runo, with a gleam in his eye. "It was absolutely amazing!!! Who's up for another ride or three?"
Mira and Ace groaned before Ace spoke up, desperately trying to get out of the situation. "Uh, I, Mira---, yeah, Mira and I saw this cool ride on the way here. We're going to ride that one. See you later!" Ace sputtered out as he grabbed Mira's hand and they managed to walk/fumble away.
Dan who seemed to have recovered from his dizzy spell pushed himself off of the ground, dusting his clothes. "Cowards." he muttered under his breath. His face brightened and all memories of his experience stepping off the ride disappeared from his mind. "You can count me in Baron! We're going to ride this all night!" He yelled as they both ran to get in the line again.
Runo groaned as she watched her idiot boyfriend and his equally intelligent best friend run off for another turn on the ride. "Well, it looks like I'm going to be here all night. Why don't you guys go find a better ride?"
Alice felt pity for her best friend. "But, I won't feel good leaving you here. Why don't you come with us?"
Runo smiled a sad smile but shook her head. "Thanks but I'll wait until they finally get tired of the ride." She leaned closer to Alice and whispered in her ear, "Or at the first moment I get to ditch Baron, I am sooooooo doing it."
Alice stifled a giggle as the remaining boys were looking from one to another, clueless. "Okay, good luck Runo. We'll meet you later." Alice, Klaus, Shun and Marucho started off in a walk around the grounds.
Shun quickly came up to Alice's right side and asked her, "So, what do you want to do, Alice?"
Alice opened her mouth to answer but was startled by a flash to her left and looked to see Klaus walking beside her. She blushed at the attention of both boys. "Uhm, well, that ride looks fun." She pointed at a ride where you sat in a car that spun you around the center of the machine.
The group of four walked to the ride and stood in line until their turn. Alice sat in one of the little cars and was accompanied by Shun who promptly sat on her right. She turned to smile at him but was jolted by a body shoving itself into the left side of the car, Klaus.
"Excuse me." The three friends looked up to see a worker pointing at a sign by the entrance with a bored expression on his face. Didn't these kids know how to ride? Only two people were allowed per car.
Alice blushed after she read the sign and looked from her right to her left to see if either of the boys were going to leave. Shun and Klaus were glaring at each other and Alice began to feel uncomfortable as she rose from the car. "Uhm, I guess I'll go sit with Marucho." Alice said as she left the two boys to their staring contest and joined the walking encyclopedia in his car.
The group walked around the fair grounds, checking out the stands of games and prizes to win. Alice walked next to Marucho while Shun and Klaus followed closely behind, deep in eye contact with each other. Did this mean that they were getting along better, if they were giving each other so much attention? Unspoken words deep in her mind told her that wasn't it. Well, then what was it?
Alice's attention was quickly diverted as a man was yelling for her attention at the upcoming booth to her left. "Step right up and try your luck! Step right up! How about you?"
Alice stopped in front of his booth and looked through the prizes of stuffed animals hanging above the game machines. Browsing through all of them, her gaze stopped upon the cutest stuffed panda bear she had ever seen. Hanging right next to it was an equally precious stuffed bunny.
Shun followed her gaze to the animals. "Do you see an animal you would like?" He would win any animal for her.
Klaus became jealous and stepped closer to Alice, trying to push Shun out of the way. "Well, if you do, it would be my honor to win it for you."
Alice blushed again at the attention of the boys. "Oh, n-n-n-no, it's alright." Alice stuttered, lying. She couldn't understand why both of the boys were giving her so much attention.
"Alice, I can tell you're lying. Come on, tell me, I'll win it for you." Shun said with a smile upon his face, which resulted in making Klaus angrier.
"No, I will win it for you!" Klaus demanded as the game vendor watched on, amused.
Marucho watched from behind Alice, peeking around her side. Even with all of the books he had read, he could not understand what was going on. As he watched the two boys begin to give each other death glares, Marucho shrunk back. He wasn't quite sure he wanted to understand.
Alice glanced back and forth from the two boys and sighed, catching their attention once more. "Well, that panda and rabbit are quite adorable."
The ninja-in-training took a seat on one of the circular stools, determined to win.
Smiling, the vendor was happy to have such eager boys as new "bait"/customers. "Good choice, young man. Now, we just have to wait on an opponent to challenge." he said, chancing a small but noticeable glance in Klaus's direction.
Shun stiffened and turned to look at Klaus who was smiling a wide smile. This would be his chance to prove he was better than that stuck-up, rich kid.
"So, are you challenging me to a game?" Klaus asked. This was perfect! It'd be his chance to prove he was better than that hot-shot, ninja boy.
"Yes, I am." Shun answered as Klaus took a seat next to him.
The boys paid the guy the price for the game and the vendor explained the rules of. It seemed fairly simple, they had a gun in front of them with a button. All they had to do was, at the start of the bell, aim the gun at the clown's mouth and continue to squirt water at the target until their meter filled up, declaring the winner.
The bell sounded and Shun was the first to get his aim right on the target. After several moments, the bell sounded once more, declaring that Shun had won the match and he chose the panda as his prize. He handed it to Alice with a smug look toward Klaus.
Alice blushed once more and thanked Shun for the gift. Jealousy got the better of Klaus and he demanded a rematch.
"What's the matter, you can't handle a loss?" Shun hinted towards more than just the panda. "Are you really going to challenge me again?"
"Yes, I am challenging you, unless you are too scared to lose your pride." Klaus countered.
Shun took his seat once more next to Klaus and Klaus smiled. He wasn't going to let that ninja pretty boy beat him again, Klaus thought as both paid the money for another round. As the bell sounded, Klaus unexpectedly elbowed Shun, knocking his balance off and gaining height in his meter. The bell rang again, signaling that Klaus had won and he accepted the rabbit.
Klaus handed it to Alice and she was about to thank him when Shun began to yell angrily. "Hey, what was that, you cheater! I demand another rematch, and it had better be a fair one!"
As both boys played another round, Alice came to stand beside Marucho who was also watching the game. Shun won once more and chose a prize. He turned to walk off the platform but Klaus demanded to be played again. Marucho sighed as both boys seemed unwilling to walk away defeated. Klaus won this round, after a distinct kick to Shun's leg and chose another prize. Again, Shun claimed Klaus had cheated and they sat back down for another game, glaring at each other.
Alice sighed as she took a seat on an empty stool, several seats away from the feuding boys. She was brought out of her thoughts about the fighting boys as a flash of blue came from her left.
"Oh, Alice, Marucho, I found you!" Runo said happily, as she came up beside Alice.
"Runo, where are Dan and Baron?" Marucho asked the bluenette. Had she become lost?
Runo laughed. "Captain Dumb-Head and his partner Nit-Wit? I had to leave those two, I couldn't stand it another moment. They were so intent on riding that game for the rest of the evening, I don't think Dan even noticed I was waiting to get on a ride with him."
"Yes, those two can become quite absorbed in the adrenaline rush from the ride." Marucho explained.
Runo sighed and let her gaze wander to the ninja and German boys fighting once more about an uneven fight, with several stuffed animals at each of their sides. "So, what do you say we leave the jealous boys here and go have some fun ourselves?" Runo asked Alice and Marucho.
"I say that is a great idea!" Marucho exclaimed, happy to get away from the feuding boys.
Jealous? What are they jealous about? They both have an impressive amount of animals won. Alice thought but agreed, nonetheless. This night wasn't proving to be very fun with the way those two were acting. Maybe if she left with Runo and Marucho, they'd finally be able to have a good time. With the way the two boys were at each other's throats, she doubted they would notice that she had left. With that last thought, Alice hugged her panda and rabbit close to her chest and nodded her acceptance to Runo's offer.
"Alright, Shun!" Dan yelled as his friend won once more.
Baron and Dan had stumbled upon the two boys who were still playing the water game, after they had declared they'd had enough of the roller coaster ride.
Baron came back from the food area with four drinks in his hand and passed them among his friends. "So, what did I miss?"
Shun smiled and said, "Well, I beat Klaus and won, yet again."
Klaus glared angrily at Shun. How did this ninja keep beating him? He could not accept a loss! "I want a rematch, ninja-boy." he said in a low, threatening voice.
Dan and Baron watched as both of them continued to play each other as the vendor became tired and more tired of them and his inventory kept going down.
As the last stuffed kangaroo was given to Klaus, he commented, "Seeing as I am all out of prizes, you both can not play anymore."
Klaus and Shun immediately looked to Dan who was keeping score on a sheet of paper. "Okay, 3 and 9, carry the 7, plus the 2..............hmmmmm."
Baron stood by anxiously awaiting the results. "So, who won, who won?"
Dan looked up from behind the paper, folded it and placed it in his pocket. He reached for his paper cup and took a long sip before turning towards the fuming boys. "It's a tie."
"WHAT?" Both boys yelled, even scaring the vendor.
Shun and Klaus began to fight verbally, claiming that Dan had miscounted somehow. As they both realized they had agreed upon something, they became quiet and gathered their prizes in their arms.
The vendor glanced at his best customers as he was closing up his stand and said, "Well, with all those animals you both have won, I hope you have pretty girlfriends to give them to."
Stuffed flamingos, kangaroos, turtles, birds and many other animals tumbled to the ground as Shun and Klaus turned to face one another.
Alice! How had they forgotten about her? They quickly turned in circles searching for the red-head. Where had she gone? Also, hadn't Marucho been with them? Where was he?
Dan finished his sip of his drink and looked up, laughing. "Lost Alice, have you? You two and your fighting, look where it got you. Tsk-tsk-tsk." Dan raised his cup to his mouth once more and dropped it in shock, spilling the contents all over his pants and shoes and a bit on Baron's before yelling.
"WHAT HAPPENED TO RUNO?!?!?!?!"
........The End......
A/N: Did anyone notice the hint of Shun winning a panda for Alice? Since I have been told that Shun is from China, I had him win her a panda. Also, I looked for an animal from Germany online and the site I used said that rabbits are very plentiful there, hence Klaus winning Alice a stuffed rabbit. (After reading some reviews, I guess Shun is from Japan! Sorry, I was watching a video on youtube and someone commented that Shun was a cool Chinese ninja, so that's where I thought he was from. Also, as for everyone else disappearing, Julie is very "controlling" over what she wants to do, so she and Billy rode the Tunnel of Love multiple times. Ace and Mira were smart enough to keep their distance from Dan and avoided him the rest of the night. Joe and Chan were happy to spend time together with each other after they rode the Tunnel of Love game. I was going to have everyone riding the ferris wheel at the end but it'd have been to predictable.)
Well, I know it hasn't been a week since the last chapter but I am a little behind in posting chapters. When I started this series, I promised to post a new chapter every week and I have fallen a little behind. I owe you a few more, but hopefully this will tie you over until I can get fully caught up! Review please and let me know what you think! :-)
Until next week,
Caligirl