Hello, dudes & dudettes! I am back! I have un-discontinued this story. You can owe the comeback to 'This sucks' and Darksoulfromheaven.

So… Where exactly was I? Oh. Right. The everglades.

"Yusei, we've been walking for hours! When are we gonna get there?" complained Vennys as the group trudged along.

"Oh, shut up, Vennys. You can't be tired already. We've only been walking for, like," Crow, who had been listening to the two black-haired travelers, checked his watch. "Four hours!"

"Yeah. And how far have we gotten, may I ask?" Vennys asked stubbornly.

"You whiner- only nine miles!" Crow was, unsurprisingly, the only one who seemed like he was full of energy. Even the twins' energy was drained, reduced to them trudging along at the back, with Rua clinging to Jack and begging for a piggy-back ride, which Jack continuously denied him. Rua had given up after around ten tries and resorted to whining about his tired legs.

"#$%&!" Vennys started to yell.

Everyone there except the two children and Crow perked up, though only enough to shout, "DON'T SHOUT THOSE WORDS IN FRONT OF RUA AND RUKA," at Vennys. They all promptly resumed trudging along behind Crow, their weary feet dragging behind them.

"Is it too late for Cory and me to back out?" Vennys complained.

"Yep. Why do you ask?"

"Oh… no reason…"

"Hey, look! There's the perfect campsite! Let's go build a treehouse like they did in 'The Swiss Family Robinson!'" shouted Rua, all the tiredness vanishing from what he had just ten seconds before referred to as "my poor little deprived of life and all blood inside them legs with a cherry on top please Jack will you carry me I HATE MY LIFE!".

Vennys perked up immediately. "Oh, yeah! I loved that movie! I used to watch it all the time with Mom and… Mom and Dad… who are… are… dead. I watched it with them the night before… the night before they… were… gone when I woke up the next morning. Mommy… Daddy…!" Her spout of energy trailed off, and tears trickled down her cheeks. "And then they… took me away. But Momo was… my little sister. When they took me away… but I was all she had left." Then she knelt and started sobbing.

Aki gasped. "Oh, Vennys… I'm so sorry. I had no idea that…"

Vennys stood up. "No… it's fine. I want to remember. They were… good people. They deserve to be remembered."

Crow had stopped, and was looking at the sky. He wolf whistled, long and low. "Hmph. Looks like rain."

Vennys stopped crying, and looked slowly at Crow. "It looks like WHAT?"

Crow looked over. "Rain. It looks like rain."

Vennys' eye twitched. "Are. You. Freaking. KIDDING ME!"

Crow shrugged. "Nope."

Yusei had been plaintively listening to the situation. "Guys, listen up. If we want to avoid the rain, we should probably hurry up and make something got keep ourselves and our food dry. If we ALL pitch in, we can probably get something to shelter. But the food comes first."

Crow looked over at Yusei with a puzzled, somewhat sheepish look on his face. "Food? What food?"

Suddenly Jack, who had been pretty quiet until now, got a look on his face that said he was very, very close to strangling Crow. "You. Didn't. Bring. The FOOD?"

Crow smiled nervously, backing away from the tall man who was advancing toward him with a menacing look on his face. "Uh, we never bring food on our trips! Don't you remember, old buddy?"

Jack growled. "NO, "Old Buddy", I DON'T. Why don't you take a minute and remind me… or MY FIST!"

"I, uh… I think I'd rather not, but thanks for the offer, Jack…" Crow was backing away faster now.

"NO is NOT a good answer, Carrot-top! Maybe I'll eat YOU instead, would you like that?"

"SOMEBODY HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Crow wailed as he turned around and started running. Unfortunately for him, he ran straight into a tree.

Jack picked him up by the collar. "READY FOR A BEATING, YOU LITTLE PUNK?"

Crow, looking around and seeing that there was no other option than to do what he had in mind, resorted to what he had always seen work in the movies. Using his hands, he grabbed Jack around the neck and pulled their faces together. Then he planted a big one right on Jack's shocked lips.

There was total silence in the clearing for exactly ten seconds.

Then there was chaos.

It started with Rua, who yelled, "EEEEEWWWWW!"

…And then Ruka chided him, playfully saying not to interrupt two lovers in the midst of a showing of self-expression.

To which Rua responded with "EEEEEWWWWW!"

To which Jack responded by ruthlessly shoving Crow off him and yelling at Ruka, "HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY THINK I'M IN LOVE WITH THAT IDIOT?"

To which Crow responded by getting up, dusting himself off, and saying, "Yeah! He's an idiot. I don't love him; he was two-timing CARLY! BWAHAHA!" And then he tried to run away again, but hit another tree.

And Kiryu, who had tried to stay out of it, went to tackle Jack, who was going after Crow again, shouting insults that caused even Yusei to start yelling.

And then Aki tried to break it up, which was a big mistake, because soon everybody was yelling at everybody else and the only ones out of it were Rua and Ruka, who were laughing their heads off on the sidelines, and Cory, who was comforting Vennys because she had started crying again.

And then Crow hit Jack with a frying pan.

And the clearing was silenced.

"Where did you get a frying pan?" somebody asked.

"From the food bag, stupid!" Crow responded, hitting Jack again. Jack then grabbed the frying pan from Crow and hit him back, saying, "See how that feels, you worthless pile of-" and continued to spew uncensorable insults at Crow while repeatedly beating him over the head until the frying pan obtained a head-shaped dent in the bottom.

Yusei looked at Crow strangely. "The… food… bag?

"Yeah- you didn't really think I would be stupid enough to not bring food, did you?"