A loud, sharp and above all thunderous sound set off, causing the whole Inn to shake.

Rock had fallen over, but now he had crawled to his window and looked out, "Hey, I didn't know they shot off fireworks in the spring!!"

Outside the room, Miyabi and Kaoru just made it towards the stairs, Miyabi going down first. The blast interrupted the descent, however.

Miyabi tripped on herself and realized almost immediately that she was going to fall. Before she could fall, she grabbed Kaoru's trouser sleeve and brought her friend down with her.

Needless to say, they both slid down the wooden stair case and landed at the bottom, surprisingly without a single broken bone.

"Oh wow, those one-a-day vitamin's really do work," Kaoru stated.

Miyabi had more important matters to speak of. "Oh! Who's laughing now, bitch!?" she laughed at Kaoru.

Cliff walked out of the room, "I think I went deaf..."

Rock came out behind him and spotted Kaoru and Miyabi at the bottom of the stairs and laughed, "You guys are so clumsy!"

He walked down there to help them up. "You know, the fireworks actually felt kind of fun. It gave me the impression of riding a surf board and trying to stay on as a huge wave crashed down on me." He then pulled Miyabi up.

"I stayed on, by the way. In my mind, of course." he pulled Kaoru up next.

"I haven't actually surfed in real life, but I know I'd be great at it, if I ever did try!"

"I'm sure." Miyabi lied and then brushed herself off. "We've got to go and investigate the explosion. It could be dangerous."

"What if radioactive waste is spilling out all over the valley? What do we do then?" Kaoru asked.

"Oh, don't be such a baby, ladies," Rock smiled. "Geez, you guys act like you've never seen fireworks before."

"Who about we send Rock out first? If the environment is polluted, he dies and then we all end up happy and safe," Kaoru suggested.

"What's this about me dying?" Rock asked in a worried voice.

"Well, Kate's body might still be out there, so, if he look out the window and see her body disintegrating, we'll know the air is toxic," Miyabi replied to Kaoru.

"No, I'll go out..." Cliff volunteered.

"Of course you'll risk your life," Miyabi started, "but that's not good at all! I can't touch you then."

"Rock, if you're so cool why don't you walk outside to see the pretty fireworks?" Kaoru pushed, dying to see Rock get radiation poisoning.

Rock admitted to himself that he was slightly nervous, "Uh, yeah. Sure, I'm there." He walked over to the door and stood by it.

"Well, go on," Kaoru urged.

Rock pushed the door slowly. If the sky wasn't so thick with smoke, sunlight would have poured in.

Rock then fully walked out and looked up at the black sky, "Hey," he called back into the Inn, "it looks like it's going to rain!"

"You really are some kind of moron, aren't you?" Kaoru commented, coming out the door with Miyabi and Cliff following.

Rock merely frowned. He wanted Miyabi to compliment him again.

"Which way do you think the blast came from?" Miyabi looked around but it was hard to see in such smoke.

"I...I can't breathe..." Cliff whispered.

"Suck it up, pansy," Kaoru shot at him.

"Kaoru!" Miyabi hissed, glaring at her, "What's up with the attitude?"

"I don't suppose it has anything to do with my irritability levels rising due to my sensitivity to loud noises."

What were the odds?

"Yeah, anyway," Rock interjected, "I saw the fireworks coming from that direction," he pointed towards the part of town where all the losers live, which was somewhere around the beach.

"Rock, you're brilliant," Miyabi lied. Thus, with Rock's intuition being spoken, they walked towards the spot.

They wouldn't run because they'd probably take in too many toxic fumes.

Kate, who had finally become conscious, lifted her head up to see the dark black sky and clouds of smoke around her. She smiled evilly, "He's arrived."

&&&

As the four young adults, although I really wouldn't call Rock an adult, walked towards the place where the losers lived, they met up with Gray, who just happened to be walking there too.

"Nice hat," Miyabi said, looking him up and down. "Wanna make out?"

"Now is not the time, Miyabi." Kaoru reprimanded.

Gray blushed and pulled his hat over his eyes.

Now, the smoke had thickened and Cliff was wheezing like crazy. Actually, they were all pretty much breathing heavy, but Miyabi was only doing that because she was thinking about Gray.

Near a pile of burning debris, composed mostly of wood and metal scraps, were two old looking men who were frantically running around the smoking, burned area of what they formally called their home.

If Gray didn't know better, he would have assumed that Mary vomited all over the place.

The five stood several meters away from the epicenter of the explosion—which appeared to be the two old men's house.

"Wow, someone really doesn't know how to handle fireworks. I bet I could do a better job than them!" Rock frowned.

"I dont think that was a firework..." Gray said uneasy.

One of the men, the one in blue, spotted them and froze, his eyes wide. His twin realized this and so he looked at Miyabi, Kaoru, Cliff, Rock and Gray. Slowly, he moved over to the left to stand on front of a box, containing unknown substances, concealing it from anyone's view,

"Ah, I see no bomb hia," He said with a heavy foreign accent.

"Oh, no! No bomb! These fiarwork!" the one in green piped up.

Rock laughed, "What did I tell you?"

"We set fiarwork off early!"

"Oh, yes! Big boom!" Blue persisted.

"You think this is a joke?" Miyabi glared at them, "This is serious business. You could have killed someone!" and she looked to Cliff, who was now gasping for breath on the floor.

"We did not plan thes!" Green said.

"Oh! Sorry sorry!" Blue said frantically. "What are you here?"

"To find out what exploded and why!" Miyabi folded her arms.

"Ah! Fiarwork! Fiarwork!" The twins nodded together.

"Please," Kaoru stepped in, "if it's just fireworks, then why are you hiding that box behind you?"

"I hide box??" Green asked, pretending to be completely oblivious.

"Um, yeah." Miyabi gave Kaoru a warning glance, as if she saying that she, Miyabi, was the only one allowed to talk here.
"Prove your innocence by showing us what's in that box."

"Uh, box?? Box not hia. Box gone!"

Rock sighed, "He lost it that quickly?"

"It's right behind you!" Miyabi walked over to them and pushed the one in green out of the way while he and his brother stared cursing in a foreign language.

She opened up the box and saw it was filled with tons of little boxes. Boxes of...?

She showed the open box to her friends.

"Those look like the explosives used in firework making." Gray told them.

"Fiarwork!" The twins chanted, "We make fiarworkz!"

"I don't really see anything harmless about those, unless..." Gray started, "they might be really strong. If that's the case then they probably did cause all this trouble."

"Touble?" they twin's eye widened as they looked at Gray, then they slowly moved their eyes to Miyabi, who was staring at them.

They charged at her.

Miyabi's eyes widened and she held the box over her head, trying to prevent the short men from getting a hold of it.

It worked. Instead of stealing their box back, they were jumping up and down, arms raised high, trying to get the box.

"Box is owrs!" They cried simultaneously.

"W-what do I do?" Miyabi looked to Gray for help.

"Don't drop it??" He offered, "If you do, this whole town will blow up."

"What!" Rock cried, "We can't blow up! I haven't heard Lumina confess her love for me yet!"

Kaoru broke out laughing.

"What's so funny?" Rock frowned at her.

"Give box or be hurt!" Green threatened.

"You should be the ones worrying about getting hurt, old men," Miyabi snapped back.

The two stopped jumping and now they glared at Miyabi. Blue pulled out a pad with a button on it from his trouser pocket, "Box goes bye now!" and he pressed the button.

"Holy shit!" Miyabi cried, about to drop the box, "SOMEONE STOP IT."

"Set it down and run!" Kaoru hollered, already seeing Rock take off.

As gently as any frantic person could, Miyabi set the box down and they took off following Rock, who was already at the door of some metal looking house.

Miyabi had to drag the fainted Cliff all the way there.

Rock knocked, "Knock, knock!"

"Just kick it down!" Miyabi cried.

"But I'm waiting for him to ask 'Who's there?'" Rock frowned at her.

Gray and Kaoru took the liberty of kicking the door open.

They all ran inside the house and Miyabi slammed the door behind her.

"Get down everyone! I learned the bomb threat procedure in school!" Kaoru dropped down on the ground.

"School? What's school?" Everyone asked.

Boom.

Everyone screamed, well, except for Gray and Cliff. Gray because he was expecting something much bigger, and Cliff because he was still fainted.

"Geez, Miyabi, you scream girly even for a girl." Kaoru shook the shock off and stood.

"Oh, that was Rock."

Rock also stood, however, he was a bit wobbly, "Those fireworks are creepin' me out."

"They weren't fireworks, Rock." Miyabi hugged herself and looked at the small window to the left. No huge explosion this time. However, the twins had blown up the box and created a fire around their burned/burning/destroyed home.

"They got rid of the evidence." Miyabi said softly. "Oh yeah, this reminds me," she turned to Kaoru, "we need to talk to our little friend. Oh, and for god's sake, could you seriously tell him to stop his friends from being so damn weird!?"

Kaoru blinked at her, "It's not time, yet."

Miyabi scoffed, "Fine. Okay, it looks like we're safe." She looked over to the right, where her friends were standing and, in Cliff's case, lying lifelessly on the floor (once again), and saw something she hadn't seen when she first came in.

"Ah!" Miyabi jumped, a bit startled by the horrid painting hung up on the wall.

All others turned to look at the thing Miyabi was staring at in horror. All except Rock, who just frowned and said,

"Did something bite you?"

On the right wall hung a painting of a Chihuahua, but not just any Chihuahua. It was a demonic looking one, to say the least. Its head was, along with eyes, mouth and teeth, huge. The body, however, was only a few centimeters long. It wasn't the proportions that scared everyone, exactly. It was the expression on the Chihuahua's face.

It's huge, white eyes had red lines zigzagging out of the black iris, which actually made the whole creature look like it had very large pupils. Its disproportional mouth was open and the long, sharp, white teeth were barred. Miyabi could have sworn it looked as if blood dripped from the creature's mouth.

After a little while of silence, Kaoru decided to make a joke,

"Hey, it's Rock's real mother."

"H-hey!" Rock pouted.

"What kind of sick, deranged freak would do something like this?" Gray, for the second time in a span of forty-eight hours, was completely disgusted.

"Whoever lives here?" Miyabi shivered. She looked down at Cliff, "Someone wake him up."

Rock bent down next to Cliff, "Hey, Cliff, Miyabi found my weed! We can get high now!"

As if Rock had said some magically spell, Cliff's eye shot up and he lifted his head up, eyes sparkling, "R-really? Where is it?"

"Oh, I was just kidding! Miyabi told me to wake you up so I-" Rock stared but Cliff punched him in the face before he could finish.

Rock dropped unconscious.

"Do you take vitamins too, Cliff?" Kaoru asked.

Miyabi looked down at Rock's body, "Crap, now someone's got to wake him up." she sighed, "Okay you guys, I'll stay behind and try to wake Rock up while you walk out and shut the door behind you. It really won't take too long."

"I'm not letting you hurt anymore guys, Miyabi. I should have stopped you from messing with Cliff while he was unconscious after he jumped off the bridge," Kaoru said to Miyabi.

"S-she did what to me...?" Cliff blushed. Because Miyabi reminded him of his sister, he wished he could have been conscious for whatever she did to him.

Gray was just freaked out, however, slightly turned on.

"Oh please!" Miyabi scoffed, "The guys would love it, if they were conscious."

Kaoru shook her head, "There's something wrong with you."

"Look who's talking!"

While Miyabi and Kaoru faced off verbally, Gray and Cliff walked over to the door to escape. When Gray opened it, he was greeted by a horde of Chihuahuas.

He looked at them nervously, although they looked perfectly harmless, there were quite a few of them--five, to be exact.

"Oh?? So you think I'm weird? Well sorry to break it to you Miyabi, but people who want to bang Rock deserve to be labeled a freak."

"THE HELL THEY DO! I think people who like Harvest Sprites are destined to live a sad life, alone. Better yet, a sad life being married to a complete loser!!"

"Hey, sorry to interrupt you guys, but there's a bunch of dogs at the door. And I think I see someone coming."

"That was probably me," Miyabi replied.

"Miyabi!" Kaoru hissed in disbelief.

Cliff blushed, "My sister used to say stuff like that..."

Gray looked back at the dogs and saw a horrible sight. Now they looked exactly like the dog in the painting, only they were rightly proportioned.

And that big guy Gray saw was getting closer, "...I think we should run."

"Let's walk real slowly. I heard that if you run from an aggressive dog, he'll only attack you. Thank god Rock isn't conscious," Kaoru explained.

"Right." Gray walked out slowly, the still evil looking Chihuahuas backing up to make room for him to step.

Next came Cliff, then Kaoru, then Miyabi, who was carrying Rock.

When Miyabi walked out, all the dog saw Rock and they started barking furiously. It sounded like a chant.

"Wow. They really are related," Kaoru was in awe.

Miyabi was just a little scared, "Crap, this can't be good." She tried to move but the Chihuahuas now surrounded her and she stepped on one's tail.

It gave out a yelp.

"Miyabi...." Kaoru glared at her.

"RUN!" Miyabi cried and they all started running, the gang of Chihuahuas trailing them.

Cody stopped when he saw the strangers running out of his house and being chased by his pet dogs, and so he thought, What the hell is wrong with them?

&&&

They all ran back to the Rock's bedroom. Rock was still out cold.

"Dang, Cliff," Miyabi said after dropping Rock on the bed, "you really can pack a punch."

"Actually, I just kind of tapped him," Cliff said in all honesty.

"Oh..."

&&&

Van felt secure and completely confident. In the comfort of his home, which was probably a Chinese buffet near a children's day care, or something, he thought about how perfect his plan was.

Rock was the perfect victim, him being so pathetic and completely stupid. Roller was the perfect thief, being a magical creature and everything. And Van was the perfect master mind. Soon, very soon, tomorrow, even, Van would gather the crack and sell it off, making him one step ahead of Won.

Since tomorrow was the big day, he decided to prepare. In his briefcase he packed a high powered fan, a bottle of booze, sweat bands, a box of cream puffs, cow fat, Victoria's Secret magazine, Brokeback Mountain DVD, box of pizza, water sprinkler, Pull Ups, two bags of candy, tube of anal lubricant, Jacksons 5 CD, hospital band, can of gasoline, seven milkshakes, five more bottles of booze, Naruto manga collection, hub cap, tape deck, Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series season 1, stuffed turkey, dead horse head, Death Note and to top everything off, a lone piece of sausage.

Unfortunately, Van forgot to bring a gun that'd he soon find out he'd want to shoot Roller with.

&&&

When Miyabi and Kaoru arrived back at home it was nearing late afternoon.

They had spent all morning and the majority of the afternoon with their "friends".

(Oh, and Rock woke up after hearing "big", "beautiful" and "personality" in the same sentence.)

They were shocked to see the fields on their farm. It was...amazing looking.

Takakura had single-handedly cleared away an entire portion of the field, hoed the ground and planted some kind of vegetable. Miyabi stared in awe.

"Wow. Thanks Takakura," Kaoru smiled at the man now standing next to her.

"I heard the blast and figured you two probably died or something, so I decided to start getting to work because I'd have to take over the farm."

"Um...thanks," was all Miyabi could say.

Then, both girls walked inside to rest.

"That Takakura sure is a hard worker," Miyabi said as she dropped down on the bed.

"Mhmm," Kaoru, having missed Kevin so much, was already on the floor petting the dog.

"I wonder how my dad knew that guy. I never even heard of him." Miyabi looked up at the ceiling.

"Your dad was in a Japanese rock band with him."

"...what the hell? How do you know this?" Miyabi was starting to think other people knew more about her life than she knew about it herself.

"My father was in that band, as well."

"...I...that's...really creepy, actually..."

"Well, the band split up when your father stopped pretending to be gay with mine. It's in the official rule book that all Japanese rockers have to pretend to be gay in order to please fan girls."

With that, Kevin ran out the front door.

Miyabi thought she should curl up into a ball and die before she was further scarred for life.

The room got really quiet. Kaoru finally spoke,

"So, plan on seeing your gay boyfriend tonight?"

"Yeah, plan on seeing yours?" Miyabi retorted.

Kaoru looked down, "I-I don't know. Maybe tomorrow morning."

"Promise me you will. I want to do this for Rock, and Cliff."

"Why should you want to do anything for them? Rock is an airhead and Cliff could kill himself at any second."

Miyabi thought about this, "Hey, a body is a body, what's inside isn't important in times like these."

"You are such a ho."

"Hey," Miyabi smirked, "Don't be jealous that guys like me."

"Guys don't like you, you like them."

"Tell that to my gay boyfriend, bitch!" Miyabi jumped up.

"Don't mind if I do!!" Kaoru jumped up as well.

"Wait-what? No! Don't even go near him!"

"I wouldn't want to. Cross dressers aren't my type."

"Oh come on! His clothes aren't even that girly!" Miyabi folded her arms, "and I'm still wondering how you knew about us."

"I dont spy on people don't ever think I'm a voyeur because I'm not and I never have been one and spying on people is definitely not something I do for fun," Kaoru said rather quickly.

"Oh my god, how did I get stuck with you??" Miyabi cried.

&&&

Gray had left to go check out the town some more and see if anyone was even still alive, Cliff decided to listen to Hawthorn Heights, whatever that was, and Rock decided to go downstairs and drink milk, or something.

While downstairs, Rock spotted Lukina.

"Oh, Lumina! You're alive!" He greeted her with a smile.

Lukina froze and pretend to be busy studying the front desk, "Hello, Rock," he said flatly.

"I thought you died in the firework show today, but now I see you're alive. I'm really happy about that." He took a stand by him.

Lukina blushed, "What fireworks?"

"You mean to tell me that you didn't hear the fireworks going off!" Rock was shocked.

"No, not really. It was probably just thunder, smart one." He wanted to sound cold, since that was his way of showing affection. (Or denying it.)

Lukina looked over to the side and noticed some of the plant vases were empty, "What happened to those plants?"

"UH I UM PLANTS WHAT PLANTS I EH DIDNT DO ANYTHING UM RIGHT UM YES??" Rock sputtered.

Rock's complete stupidity turned Lukina on and he blushed harder, "You're an idiot, you know that?"

"Oh Lumina, you say the darnedest things!" Rock laughed, "So yeah, about those fireworks..."