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Great Angel of Fire

Chapter 3

It was a lovely Saturday morning. Emma and Meggie got through the first two weeks of 10th grade alive. Barely. But they made it. And this Saturday was a very special day. Kasadi was flying in that afternoon at the airport and the two girls were really excited about it. They had spent the past week "Kasifying" the guest bedroom so it would be suitable for Kasadi's wacky tastes, and they couldn't wait to unveil it.

Plus, they had loads of catching up to do. They realized that one of three things were going to happen. Scenario 1: Kasadi slept on the plane and would be wired for the next sixteen hours even if the others had gone to bed. Scenario 2: In her excitement, Kasadi didn't sleep at all and would be completely jet lagged by the time they got her to her room, and she would just fall right asleep. Or. Scenario 3: Kasadi would sleep on the plane, but would be jet lagged anyway.

They were leaning towards either 2 or three. Kasadi loved her sleep. Even when she wasn't tired. She was part of Emma's family after all. Those Mitrow relatives sure loved their sleep.

Little did they know, it was Scenario 2: Kasadi was bouncing up and down in her seat on the plane, scaring everyone around her. She was also chattering nonstop to the person next to her, who seemed about ready to pull his hair out.

Normally, she wasn't that hyper. But she was seeing Emma and Meggie for the first time in ages! She was hyper.

" TAXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" Emma screamed as she and Meggie waited on main street outside of the general store. One finally stopped and the two got in. " Tokyo International Airport." She told the driver and they took off.

" I'm so excited..." Meggie said in her " I'm so excited" voice. " The whole gang is going to be back together!"

" At this rate, the entire Film Club is going to move into my house for odd reasons, and then, my life will be complete..." Emma smiled.

" Do you think your parents would be able to handle a house full of about 15 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 who are all so hopped up on Mountain Dew and what ever the aliens put in the air in Mr. Koloski's room?"

" No...no they wouldn't." Emma laughed. " Kyle would probably give them both strokes."

" Emma...Kyle graduated. He was a senior last year..."

" NOOOOoooooOOO" Emma said. " I completely forgot...where's he going to school?"

" I don't know...I think he's staying relatively close to Montrose." Meggie said. " But I left before I could find out exactly which school he was going to." Meggie was suddenly quiet.

" I see." Emma said. She reached over and squeezed Meggie's shoulder. "He said you'd always be like his little sister. That hasn't changed. Doesn't matter where he's going to school." she assured her. " Oh, here we are." Emma said. They pulled up in front of the airport. They still had about 45 minutes before Kasadi was supposed to land so they thought they'd visit Darien, who was still working part time at the airport.

" Hello ladies." Darien said when he saw them approach his station at the Customer Service desk.

" Yes young man. We would like to know where the ladies personal items are." Meggie started talking like she didn't know him. Darien went bright red. Emma elbowed her and they burst out laughing.

"Meggie, where's your six-foot-one phantom-shadow?" Darien retorted.

Meggie paused. "I don't know." She looked over her shoulder, as if expecting him to peer out around the magazine rack or something. "Haven't seen or heard from him all day." She turned back to Darien and folded her arms on the desk. "I think he died."

"No, I grounded him." Darien said, moving a stack of papers.

"Grounded him?" asked Emma, confused. "You can't ground him; you're not his dad."

"True," he said, smiling. "But I know his dad, and his dad knows the whole can of worms, so he grounded him for me."

"What did he do?"

"He teleported without permission. I told him, you guys- with the exception of Rini- are all still really new to this. If you guys try to transport, you could get hurt."

"Like seriously killed?" asked Meggie, slightly uninterested.

"Wait- we can teleport?! By ourselves!?" exclaimed Emma as quietly as she could.

"No." said Darien quickly. "You're not allowed. Not yet."

"When will we be allowed?" Meggie was suddenly more interested.

"Not for a long while." He then decided to change the subject. "You here to pick up Kasadi?"

" Yeah. She's landing in less than an hour." Emma said. " So we thought we'd come visit my favorite future brother-in-law."

" What?" Darien asked.

" Um...I thought we were through this...Emma marries Sam someday, you're currently engaged to Sam's sister...you know?" Meggie said. " Even I have the whole story and I've only been told the entire story less than four months ago and you've known for about two years."

" Oh...right." Darien said. " I'm running on like 4 hours of sleep right now." Darien said.

" Why do you work so many hours?" Emma asked.

" Weddings don't pay for themselves." Darien said.

" But you guys haven't set a date for the wedding yet..." Meggie said.

" I know, but we need to have the deposit ready for when we do..." Darien said. " We made a deal with Serena's parents. They are going to pay for the reception, but me and Serena take care of the ceremony, monk, flowers and so on."

" I see...how do you work a job, graduate school and sleep into one day?" Meggie asked.

" Coffee...lots and lots of coffee." Darien said."

" Ah." The two said.

" Hey, I think Kasadi's plane just landed." Darien said looking at his computer with all the flight plans on it.

" What terminal?" Meggie asked.

" Um...875B" Darien said. " Go straight into the International terminals, second hallway on your right."

" Thanks Darien. We'll bring Kas around when we get her picked up."

Emma and Meggie followed the directions of Dariena and soon found the baggage claim that was located in the terminal they were looking for.

There stood Kasadi. She was looking for her luggage in the little baggage-go-round thing.

Her hair was longer, layered, and had highlights in it!

" EEEK!"Kasadi jumped and turned. She smiled widely.

"EMMA! MEGGIE!" She hugged them.

" Your hair!" Emma fingered the locks.

"Do you like it?"

" Yes!" Meggie said.

Kasadi beamed. "I knew you guys would! Mom took me to the beauty salon last week, and-" She had turned around to look for her luggage. She yelped. "THERE'S MY DUFFLE!" She snatched at it, but missed.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" she wailed, chasing it as it was carted around on the conveyer belt.

She lunged, and pounced. The duffle safely escaped inside the conveyer belt thingy. Kasadi pouted. "Now we gotta wait for it to come back out again!"

But of course, that would have been too easy. Oh no, it's gotta be harder than that. Right as she said that, the conveyer belt STOPPED.

It stopped moving. Completely. There was a mad scramble as the lucky people who's luggage was exposed pushed to the front to grab their luggage. In a matter of seconds, it was empty, and Kasadi stood there, staring at the evil device with wide eyes and an open mouth.

Slowly, she turned to face Emma and Meggie. She pointed at the conveyer belt. "THAT HELL BELT ATE MY DUFFLE!!" Kasadi yelled. "Dudes! Did you SEE that?!"

Yes. Kasadi had the habit of calling everyone a dude. No matter what gender they were.

After about a half hour of Kasadi crying over her lost duffle bag, they finally got management to start the conveyer belt again, and Kasadi was very happy again. They took Kasadi to see Darien for a few minutes, but he was soon called away to help an old lady get her wheel chair on one of the planes. So they caught another taxi and went home. Where they showed Kasadi her super sweet Kasified bedroom.

Kasadi thought her room was totally rad. It was painted light colors on the walls, and the bedspread and sheets were blue and purple. There were tons of different kinds of pillows on the bed. There was also a desk, and a regular chair to sit at it in. There were two beanbag chairs and one of those half-sphere chair things.

The carpet was white and fluffy, and there was a lava lamp instead of a regular lamp, as well as just a plain old fan with the lights attached

"I LOVE IT!" Kasadi screamed, running over and jumping up and down on her bed.

" We're glad...I used every muscle in my body to get the purple trip just right...not to mention the little blue squigglies on the trim..." Emma said stretching her back. But she only got some snoring in reply. Kasadi had somehow bellyflopped on her bed and she was out.

" Wow...So... Scenario two?" Meggie asked.

" Or Scenario three. We'll have to find out from her when she wakes up." Emma said.

" Oh right." Meggie said.

" What do we do while she sleeps?"

" Well...Chi-Chi did just buy us the FMA movie with the new OVA on the special features..." Meggie said. " It will at least kill a few hours before she wakes up...and dinner will probably be done by then anyway."

" Sounds good." Emma said. They went into her room and started the movie on Emma's laptop.

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The movie was awesome...sad at the end. Emma cried. Meggie just made a face that said " I.WILL. NOT. CRY" during the ending. Then they watched the OVA.

"Somewhere in our world in 2005, Edward Elric will turn one hundred years old." the screen read just before the OVA ended. Emma and Meggie stared at the screen.

" He NEVER gets back to Amestris!?" Meggie asked. " THAT'S NOT FAIR!!!"

" He'll be 102 now..." Emma said. " Almost 103..."

" Somewhere in our world..." Meggie said. She looked at Emma.

" No No No..." Emma said.

" It's possible..." Meggie said.

" NO! First, Inuyasha, and then Alice 19th! THERE IS NO WAY THIS CAN HAPPEN TO ME THREE TIMES!" Emma glared at the ceiling. " And we ARE NOT going to find out."