Song Of Hope: It's snowing! It's snowing! I'm just so happy! Anyways, for those of you who have sent in OC's, on my profile, there are some links to a site called Doll Divine on my profile, where I have created dresses for your characters. If you wish for me not to use them, and have a different dress in mind, then please, PM me or tell me in a review. Then, either find a game on Doll Divine and make the dress there, then PM me the address, or send me a link of an already existing dress on the Internet. The necklaces won't be the same, though, as they are on the picture, and they will actually all have a certain other thing added to them. To all readers, since my Internet hates me and I only have time to work on my stories in the morning, then I upload them on the school computers, I will not be able to research how a Japanese school festival is supposed to go. I'll pretty much get my knowledge from an episode of InuYasha I watched, mixed with an American style carnival, and slightly mixed with arcades.
The next day, they didn't have any actual classes. The school spent the day outside at the festival. The entire festival, they don't go to their normal classes. So all of the girls were running around, doing different activities.
Hope came across something similar to a carnival games. It was one of the shooting games. And there was a giant stuffed Pegasus toy. She had to get it.
"How much to play?"
"¥100 (100 yen, Japanese currency, equivalent to about 1 US dollar, but the conversions aren't exact)." She handed the man the money. She grabbed the gun. You had to shoot down aliens, and a certain amount got you certain gifts. She shot all of them down, except for on. It was extremely small, and hard to hit. The game lasted as long as you could make the fifteen bullets last, but she ran out of ammo trying to shoot down the last one.
"Dammit!"
"Well, you get this." It was a medium sized teddy bear.
"At least I can get Jamie one thing." She took the teddy bear.
"Allow me." She looked and saw Kyoya. He paid the man, smirked, and shot all of them down, including the extremely tiny one.
"Congrats. You get one of the giant stuffed animals. Which one would you like?"
"Which one were you going for Hope?"
"Um, the Pegasus, for my baby brother. He made me promise to get him one if there were carnival games like we had in America." He nodded. Everybody knew how Jamie idolized Ginga, so of course he would want the Pegasus toy.
"The Pegasus then." The man got down the Pegasus and handed it to Kyoya, who then handed it to Hope.
"Thanks Kyoya." He smiled. No joke, he actually smiled.
"You're welcome." They started walking together.
"So, you looking to do anything specific?"
"Not really. I'm just kinda bored. This festival isn't all it's cracked up to be. I just can't wait for the tournament though. I'll crush Ginga!" She smiled.
"Well, you have my vote of confidence." He smiled at her.
"Thanks." She stopped.
"Oh, a glass house! These are always fun. You have to walk through, but there's a very special type of glass that's practically invisible. My brother kept bouncing around the inside of this, but it was so much fun. Especially when Victoria almost made it to the end without hitting anything, and then walked into a wall, thinking that where I was standing was how to get out. Let's go inside!" She grabbed his arm and ran up to it. "How much does it cost?"
"It's free." She smiled.
"Come on Kyoya, let's go!" She dragged him in. He could see why people would bump around on the inside. It was a bit dark, but also it looked like there were random pieces of wood, which actually held up walls. She grabbed his hand. "Here, just follow me, I'll show you the secret behind it." She looked down at the floor and went through, sometimes turning around while Kyoya felt his hand hitting the wall that was now behind them. After a few minutes, they came out, without having run into a single wall.
"I'm still trying to figure out how you did that." He looked and saw two of the other students repeatedly run into walls.
"It's easy. Just look at the floor, Where there's glass, it's not worn, but where there isn't glass, it is worn." He nodded, in understanding. "Sometimes, we did have to turn around, because I walked right into a space surrounded on every side with glass, except for the side we came in on. So we'd have to turn around to get back. But we managed to get through without hitting anything." She turned to the two students who kept hitting things. "Wait a minute, is that Ginga and Madoka?" He looked at them.
"Yes, I think it is." They both started laughing, until Ginga got out his Bey. Then they kinda panicked.
"GINGA!"
Earlier
"Hey Madoka!" Ginga shouted to Madoka, who was looking at tools used to fix Beys, and other Beys part that were on sale.
"Oh, hey Ginga." He walked up to her.
"I saw this pretty cool glass house. The point is to get through without hitting anything. The walls are practically invisible."
"Isn't that kinda painful?"
"I saw Ryuuga go through without any problems. I know I can do it! If Ryuuga can do it, then so can I!" She sighed.
"Another Beyblade related pride thing."
"Plus, it's a great chance to spend more time with you." She straightened up.
"To spend time with me?" He nodded.
"Yeah!" She smiled really big.
"Alright, I'll go with you."
Present
"Ow, ow, ow!" They kept on hitting the walls.
"How did Ryuuga do it?"
"I have no idea!" He got out his Bey. "I'm tired of this! It really hurts!" Madoka freaked out.
"AH! GINGA!"
"GINGA!" They turned and saw Hope and Kyoya, shouting.
"Hey look, Kyoya and Hope are over there." Kyoya and Hope walked over to a certain spot. Hope mimed walking around looking at the floor. Madoka nodded.
"Oh, I get it. They went through, and did it by looking at the floor, and that's the exit that they're standing at. Well, let's go." Ginga nodded. They both looked down at the floor.
"What's special about the floor?"
"Look, behind the glass isn't worn, but where there isn't glass, it is worn. We'll walk through that way. If you can't figure it out, then just follow me." She grabbed his hand and they started walking through while they both blushed, but since they were both looking down, neither of them noticed the other's blush. Thanks to Hope's hint, they made it out without hitting anything else. They met up at the end.
"Glad you didn't demolish the glass house."
"I really don't care, but then you might be disqualified from being in the tournament, and I wouldn't be able to face you." Ginga just nervously laughed while scratching the back of his head.
"Well, good thing I didn't."
Far Away
Lex was playing an intellectual game. You had to correctly calculate the pattern of the light colors mixed with certain sounds, then you have to correctly state the instrument and note on said instrument, and then you had to say the song, because it was the solo part of a specific well known song. After watching the notes and listening to the pattern, she knew exactly what it was.
"Yellow E Natural, Green G Natural, Blue A Natural, Orange D Natural, Purple C Natural, Red B Natural, Blue Green High F Natural, Purple Red High E Natural, on Clarinet, playing Silent Night."
"Congrats, you got the final level. You win a giant stuffed animal." She got her prize off of the shelf. There was a choice between a giant Tweety Bird, a giant Teddy Bear, a giant Simba, and a giant Wolf. She picked the wolf. It looked like her monster dog Scout. She loved her monster.
"You're pretty good at this game." She turned to see Tsubasa.
"Oh, hi Tsubasa. Hope plays clarinet, and I used to play percussion and help her with rhythm by beating it out with what she played. Honestly, she's really bad at keeping a beat, so I still do that, even though I'm no longer in music club." They both laughed.
"Hey, did you see the choir? They're quite good."
"I remember. I used to be in it. So did Hope, but then she dropped out for different reasons than I. I dropped out because I simply do not have the time."
"Why did she drop out then?"
"Simply because they were, and I quote 'up tight super goodie goodies who have no sense of fun and adventure and they all hate Beyblade except for one'. Basically, they're boring."
"Well, they sing very nicely. Why don't we go visit them?" She nodded. They visited the choir, whom were singing 'Carol of the Bells'. They were dressed in white robes with green trimming, gold in between the green and the white, and red dresses/ shirts and pants underneath the robes. They sat down next to each other in the seats in front of the choir.
"Hark how the bells sweet silver bells all seem to say 'throw cares away'. Christmas is here (ding) bringing good cheer (dong) to young and old (ding), meek and the bold (dong). Ding dong ding dong (ding), that is their song (dong), with joyous ring (ding) all caroling (dong). One seems to hear words of good cheer from everywhere filling the air. Oh how they pound, raising the sound, o'er hill and dale, telling their tale (oh how happy their tone is). Gaily they ring while people sing songs of good cheer. Christmas is here. Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas (ding, ding dong). Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas (ding, ding dong). On, on they send (ding) on without end (dong) their joyful tone (ding) to every home (dong). Hark how the bells sweet silver bells all seem to say 'throw cares away'. Christmas is here (ding) bringing good cheer (dong) to young and old (ding), meek and the bold (dong). Ding dong ding dong (ding), that is their song (dong), with joyous ring (ding) all caroling (dong). One seems to hear words of good cheer from everywhere filling the air. Oh how they pound, raising the sound, o'er hill and dale, telling their tale (oh how happy their tone is). Gaily they ring while people sing songs of good cheer. Christmas is here. Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas (ding, ding dong). Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas (ding, ding dong). On, on they send (ding) on without end (dong) their joyful tone (ding) to every home (dong). Ding dong ding dong (bohm)."
It was a very beautiful song, with the altos in perfect timing with their boring part of ding dong, the tenors doing lovely with their switch up part when they sing completely different from what the rest of the choir sang, and it was absolutely lovely. Aurora was in the choir as a soprano. She had recently joined and gotten in with ease. Toby was also in the choir, and was a pretty good tenor. They listened to other songs like 'Sleigh Ride Together,' 'Silver Bells,' and other winter/Christmas songs. It was very lovely. Aurora even got a solo. It was 'O Come Emmanuel'.
"The choir is really good."
"Yeah, they're pretty amazing." Neither of them noticed their hands right next to each other, and their pinkies crossed over, with Tsubasa's on top. They finished the performance up with 'Jingle Bells'.
"It's sad that we're too far down south for it to snow. Back where I used to live in America, it snowed every winter, sometimes as early as November. I was it was like that here."
"Well, even if it doesn't snow, it's still nice here, with or without a white Christmas."
Aurora got off the stage.
"Oh, I just love singing."
"I hope you had a nice time singing with the rest of us." She turned to see Toby.
"Oh, hi Toby."
"So, did you have fun with our choir? I'm surprised Mr. Bacon (AN: it's play on words of my actual choir/band teacher's name) let you perform with us this late in the semester."
"Well, I'm glad he did. It was a lot of fun. And I can't believe he let me sing that solo."
"I'm surprised at that too, but you sang it perfectly. He couldn't find anyone else who could do it, but you did."
"Thanks Toby."
Far Away
Chao Xin was being followed by all of his fangirls.
"You're so cool Chao Xin!"
"You're the greatest!" Two of them were hanging on his arm.
"Ladies, ladies, I know this, but keep talking about it." Then, he saw Mei-Mei, but luckily, she hadn't seen him. "Ladies, I know you love me and all, but I've got other business to attend to." He scrapped them off his arms and went over to Mei-Mei.
"You don't think he likes her, do you?"
"Well, they're tag team partners in battle, so they're probably gonna be in the tag team battles instead of the regular battles."
"I don't like it one bit."
"Me neither."
Chao Xin tapped Mei-Mei on the shoulder. She turned around.
"Chao Xin? I'm surprised you aren't completely covered in your crazy fangirls."
"I managed to scrap them off."
"You always love having all your fangirls."
"Well, they were starting to get pretty annoying today."
"What made you pink that?"
"You mean think, not pink." He just smiled at her error. It was one of the quirks about her that he was coming to find pretty cute.
"Well, still, why are you thinking that now?"
"Well, I wanted to spend some time with you, and they wouldn't have let me." She blushed a little.
"Really?" He nodded.
"Really." She smiled.
"Alright then, let's do something bun!"
"I think you meant to say fun, not bun." He smiled, and they went to do something together.
Far Away
Kairi was playing a dancing game, and she was playing it really well. There were three altogether, and Nile stepped up to the one next to her. He started dancing to, and pretty well. Kairi looked over to Nile as they both played.
"I didn't know you could dance."
"My mother made me take dancing lessons when I was young, and I found I had a natural talent for it." She spun around.
"That's pretty cool." Nile smiled and did one of those dance moves where it looked like you fell, but then kicked back up and landed on his feet. Kairi's game ended, and after a few more moves, so did Nile's.
"Want to get something to eat?"
"Sure, I'm hungry after playing that long and hard." They went to one of the school run food booths. Aoi was working it, since she was on student council. She smiled at them.
"Hey guys, what can I get you?"
"Um, do you have some miso soup and steamed rice?" She nodded.
"Yep, that'll be ¥157." She gave Aoi the money, and Aoi gave her the food.
"Do you want anything Nile?"
"Do you have any crocodile meat?"
"Um, no, this is Japanese cuisine, not Egyptian."
"Well, I'll have some teriyaki chicken."
"That'll be ¥100." They exchanged money and food. "Thank you." They went and sat at one of the picnic benches and ate their food.
"Man, is the food here always this good?"
"This is my first year here."
"Oh."
Far Away
Dahlia was in the school gardens, not at the festival. She was sitting on a bench, at the center of the garden, where there were many roses of many colors.
"You know, if the teachers find out you were not at the festival, they will get pretty mad." She turned and saw Da Xiang.
"Oh, hi Da Xiang." He sat down next to her.
"Why are you all the way out here by yourself?"
"Oh, well, since we didn't have classes today, I thought it'd be a great chance to see the gardens. I just love flowers. They're the most beautiful things in the world." Da Xiang picked up a purple rose that had come off its stem.
"But true beauty lies not within appearance, but within the heart, and your outward self reflects that in your eyes." He put the rose in her hair. She smiled and blushed. "Your eyes reflect your beautiful heart." Her blush became even deeper.
"Thank you Da Xiang. You're really sweet."
"I'm only speaking the truth of what I see. Now, why don't we get back to the festival before the teachers find out we're gone." He stood up and held his hand out to her. She had managed to stop blushing, but began blushing again as she took his hand.
Far Away
Aoi sat at her booth and sighed. So far, she had seen all of her friends with their guys, but she was without her guy.
"Ryuuga." She sighed. "Why is everyone else with their crushes, but Ryuuga nowhere near me? It's just not fair. They all get time with their guys, but not me with my guy. Why?" That was a question that would remain unanswered for some time.
Song Of Hope: I hate my Internet connection. It is retarded.
