Authoress' note: OK, before the story, I would like to emphasize something. This story is COMPLETELY fictional. Nothing in this story (all chapters) should be carried out in the real world, as it may be a little violent and whatnot. Please be a wise reader and do not imitate the plot, especially the pranks. Thank you for your patience for reading this. Now, on with the story! ^_^
DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING EXCEPT A PART OF THE PLOT!
Chapter 11 – A VACATION TO THE BEACH IN SPRING?!
Soon, March arrived. Now it's a fresh spring day…
The cherry blossom trees in the school had bloomed, the faraway spring wind blew the petals of the cherry blossom flowers, composing the symphony of spring, bouncing in the air. The petals landed on the surface of the water, forming gentle ripples, like fiddling the clear pond water, waking up the vitality of the fish in the pond. [Authoress: Yeah yeah whatever… Quit showing off! To the point!]
I really couldn't concentrate in class, every now and then I peeked at the spring scenery outside, watching the cherry blossom trees in their full bloom, gracefully welcoming the gentle wind. Suddenly, Xion, who sat beside me, poked my left arm, bringing me back to reality. Geez… :P
Miss Aqua was making an announcement in front of the class. "OK, class, our class had been falsely accused, thus getting the unwanted 'economic sanction', so the school wanted to make it up to us, they had decided…" She stopped at mid-sentence, drinking some water. We leaned forward a little to listen well, very eager at what she would say. Oh come on! Quit beating around the bush!
"… The school decided to arrange our class to go on a trip to the Atsumi Peninsula surf beach in the Aichi Prefecture for a vacation, lasting for 15 days!" She said with a happy expression on her face.
The whole class exploded.
"Whoohoo! Check it out man!" John was the first to jump onto his chair. Antonio and Brant high-fived each other. Laura's eyes seemed to glimmer and she almost drooled (Maybe she dreamed of someone at a beach… What the… -_-'), Anne stretched and said: "Self rewarding isn't a bad idea!" Soo Jyoo muttered to herself: "No way… Are we going under the sun?" Yuanfang nodded (Silent approval, I presume), Katra rubbed her hands with glee and said: "Yes! That's good! I had always wanted to go to the beach!" Ian also commented: "… *Sigh* Oh well, I haven't went out for a long time anyway." William was very excited, he couldn't help but did an Egyptian dance. o_oIII
Harayuki said: "I haven't been to Aichi Prefecture before, and haven't been to the beach for a long time too… A good chance… ^_^" Ryuutaro said nothing, but I could see that he was grateful as well that he could go on a vacation. Xion headdesked, her face on a random page of a book, and came a muffled voice: "OMG! I had been living in a tropical country and almost tanned myself, and now they want to turn me into an African?!" I patted her shoulder and said: "Forget it, it's good to synthesize more Vitamin D thanks to Mr. Sun. And a little tanned skin looks healthier, too!" Honestly, except that year when I was nine and our family went for a picnic at the beach, I never got the chance to set foot on the sandy beach anymore, because that year a tsunami attacked South East Asia and some other Asian countries, and it caused me to acknowledge its presence. (Luckily I was sleeping in my house at that moment! I only felt a little shaking, that's all. Phew!) And I got busier and busier later, and I had long abandoned the idea of going to the beach to play. Therefore, I was really looking forward to this trip to the beach! ^_^
Axel looked like he was about to do the hula dance, and it's kinda funny. Zexion also said: "It is time to relax." Demyx and Roxas had two contrasting expressions on their faces at the same time: happy and worry. (Maybe it was about the sun too)
Miss Aqua asked: "Is there anyone who cannot participate?" The whole class (Well most of them, but their voice volumes made up for the whole class' voice volume) shouted: "NO!" Whoa… Chill dude… 0.0 Just then the bell rang, recess time!
"Recess… Oh yeah…" Xion lifted her head, but the book got stuck on her face. We're all looking at her like this: O.o. Then the book couldn't defy gravity and dropped. It's better if it stayed on her face. Her forehead had a laterally inverted "printed" lens equation: 1/u plus 1/v = 1/f… (Mind you, we're having algebra lesson, and were currently learning how to express a particular term in terms of other terms… We're not going to have Physics lesson yet…) Maybe the ink hadn't dried up when she copied this question… Our expression turned into like this: O.O Axel was the first to burst out laughing, destroying the awkward silence. We couldn't take it anymore… It's funny when this happened!
I accompanied Xion to the washroom to get rid of the marking, and headed to the canteen. But, taking this route had to pass by Class 3-10, and it reminded me of Big Sister. Sigh, now she was suspended for a while, I hope she had a good reflection, and stop making troubles. "Oi… 207, there's a pillar in front of you!" Xion said, I spaced out for 0.1 second, and then I stopped in my track… Waaaaait a minute… What pillar? This corridor had no pillars from the start! "How nice of you 383…" I turned aside to her, she said: "Why are you spacing out while walking?" "Nothing, I just thought of Big Sister," I shrugged and said.
"Oh right, she's suspended, isn't it?"
"Yup… *Sigh*"
"What?"
"Hmm? Nothing."
"Don't. Play. The. Fool! *pinching, pulling my cheeks, stretching*"
"*Shrug off* … Geez, alright, I'll tell you the truth… This reminded me of that Fayra again."
"Oh. Why?"
"Well, don't you think Big Sister's situation had some similarities with hers?"
"… Erm… Is it that they've been fooled and didn't realize?"
"*Nods* But it should be 'not wanting to admit it', right?"
"Oh well, just ignore her, she didn't appreciate our help, so why waste your breath on her?"
"… Yeah, you're right… That dud-"
"BONK! KABAM! OW…" I was about to continue, suddenly there was a mixture of noises coming in, erm I mean, diffracted noises. In front of us was a wall. "What happened?" Xion asked. "Let's go and see." Then we ran towards to source of the noises.
[To the crime scene]
"Oi! Doushita?" (Hey! What's wrong? [おい! どうした?])
"Hayaku tatte soshite tatakai!" (Hurry get up and fight! [はやく たって そして たたかい!]) [Authoress: For those who know Japanese or other foreign languages, from now on the translation will be like crap, due to inaccurate translators, sorry for the inconvenience and inaccuracy!]
In front of the lockers, there were three tall boys, surrounding a boy whose body size was comparatively smaller. The smaller boy curled up on the floor, with a pained expression on his face, it's obvious he was hit by the trio. The students passing by were shocked, but one of the boys glared threateningly at them, so no one was brave enough to stay there, let alone stop them.
A boy who had a hairstyle like a seahorse grabbed the collar of the smaller male's shirt and lifted him up, and said: "Oi! Okubyoumono! Waruikedo boku, kyou mono suggoku kigen waruinoyone! Anata wa boku wo okora seta…" (Hey! Coward! I 'm telling you, that I'm in a bad mood! You pissed me off… [おい! おくびょうもの! わるいけど ぼく、 きょう もの すっごくきげん わるいのよね! あなた は ぼく を おこら せた...]) He raised his fist and focused all his strength on it, ready to land a punch anytime. The smaller male had a hairstyle almost like Zexion's, but shorter and the slate color was lighter, now after getting beaten up, his hair was in a total mess, his visible left eye was staring at the fist, revealing fear and trauma, he was shivering involuntarily, ready to receive the incoming attack.
The other two boys were cheering, prompting their leader to make a move. Just then…
"Hit him if you dare! [你敢就打!]" (P.S. In Chinese this time) I had just passed by a corner, when I found them, I shouted. They had to wait till I arrive and hit him before my eyes, so I could accuse them. [Authoress: What?! Hey, you're supposed to stop them ASAP!] Xion said: "Er… 207, you're shouting in Chinese, they wouldn't understand it, what if they mistook it as 'go ahead and hit him', what do we do?" "… *Switches to English* Oops, too hasty. HEY! YOU! KNOCK IT OFF!" I changed the language.
This time all of the four boys looked over to us, eight eyes versus four eyes, oh, I mean 8 vs. 8 (I wore glasses and Xion wore contact lenses! He he… D). Sir Seahorse turned around fully and glared at me, not loosening his firm grip. The smaller male also looked over, signaling me via eye contact, telling me to run while I can. I ignored his alert, and walked towards them, I really wanted to see if they dared to do anything to me in broad daylight!
"Huh? You, pip-squeak, are gonna ask me to knock it off?! How lame! Ha ha!" He commented sarcastically. You had only three people, were I scared of you? I had taken on classes of people before! "I should tell you that if you hit him, you are SO gonna regret!" I pointed at the smaller boy, warning them in a serious manner.
"Oh yeah?! Knock it off, eh?! So here ya go!" He made fun of my words, and then he landed a punch on the left side of the smaller boy's face, he flew towards the locker and crashed into it, and then slid to the ground, whining in pain quietly. How dare you, dare to hit someone right in front of me, and it's after the warning! "Ha ha! There, he's been knocked off, happy? Ha ha ha ha!" The three of them laughed. This time Xion was even more impulsive than me; she shot out a fist to hit Sir Seahorse. He easily caught her fist and threw it off. He then delivered another punch, and it's going to hit Xion! Time to act!
I only aimed one place, one weakness, but, stop being a pervert! Would it always be where the sun doesn't shine? Think again… I saw an opened locker door, I grabbed it and flung it open forcefully, hitting directly on Sir Seahorse's face! PIANG! I could only say that the quality of the lockers in Matsuaki Academy was too good! He wanted to punch Xion so he went forward, I swung the locker door opposing his moving direction, the collision turned to 0 in not even one second, but the door was not damaged; not even a dent. How hard it was… A lot better than others, that is…
Everyone at the scene was dumbfounded, and then I pulled the door away. Holy Bananas! He… his… his… nose was crooked, and he had double nosebleed (Coming out from both nostrils). The blood seeped out and formed two lines they went around the mouth and met again at his chin, like a mustache! Ha ha ha! Seriously, it's hilarious! Sir Seahorse's right eye twitched for a second and he fell down backwards, fainted. What? He's showy but useless, he could hit people with such great force, but I didn't expect him to faint after being hit by a locker door on the face… He really was useless… What a shame! I stifled a laugh, or else the shocking effect on them might wear off.
"Bosu!" (Boss! [ボス!]) The other two screamed, then staring at me. "You…!" They stuttered. I said: "I… I WHAT?! HUH?!" "You… you better run! Or else…" One of the boys who had a durian hairstyle threatened me. "OR ELSE WHAT?! HAH!?" I cracked some of the bones in my arm and cracked my neck a little, producing cracking noises here and there. Glaring at them, I pulled up my sleeves, forcing out my hard-trained biceps to strengthen my position. (Yeah, it's a bit OOC… -_-')
"OR ELSE -! …" Three seconds ticked by, their voices stopped at mid-sentence. "…. Or else I'm gonna kneel before you… ToT" Now they're kneeling down before me, begging forgiveness… O.o I was surprised, but I quickly composed myself and said: "If I ever see you twerps around, I'm gonna kick your sorry behind! NOW SCRAM!"
In just one second, they're gone. Sir Seahorse was dragged behind.
It was like my blood rushed to my brain, now when I cooled down, I felt the blood drained down from the head, like all my energy drained out. Urgh… Bullies… hate 'em… "Nemix! Nemix! Hello? We still have code blue here!" Xion shook my arm and said. "Oh, yeah, right," I said to myself, squatting down to see. He had fainted due to pain. "We carry him to the infirmary, and then we go eat," I said, pulling up one of the arms, Xion pulled the other one too. We hurriedly brought him to the infirmary.
When we reached the canteen we still have ten minutes left, Xion and I gobbled everything up in our bento (The serving size was kinda big, and we couldn't waste it…), narrating the reason as to why we're super late to the rest of Organization XIII. "No wonder when I was putting the books in my locker I heard a very loud metal door noise, like when Roxas was locked in the metal cupboard! So you guys were teaching the bullies a lesson?" Demyx said, drinking his unfinished miso soup. "I regretted for not taking a picture of his eye-twitching face for you guys to see!" I swallowed a rice ball and said. Zexion said with a chuckle: "Forget it, both of your descriptions were funny enough… Oh yes, do you want to check up on him after this?" "… I don't know? I had never seen him before…" Roxas said. Xion suggested: "Why don't I, Nemix and Zexion go?" "… Good idea…" Lawrence said, obviously, the papers on his hands were to be handed in to the teacher; he's out of the list.
When we reached the infirmary, he's gone. I asked the nurse on duty, she said he took a short rest and left for his class. She also stated that he hadn't applied any medicine! WTH! How could someone who was beaten up badly apply no medicine? Did he know how to heal? Curaga?"
Since another new bully appeared, we had to find out who this smaller boy was, he's the witness and the victim as well. We checked the records of users of the infirmary, only then we knew his name. He was named as "Ienzo Ishida" (OK, just pretend Ienzo and Zexion are two different persons, OK? They were not related in this story). I asked the nurse, she recalled and told us something.
Nurse: "Ienzo Ishida?"
006: "Yes, him, do you have any information regarding him?"
Nurse: "He… um, I don't know, he's, like, all quiet… I do know that he's a Japanese-American hybrid…"
207: "*Facepalm* Another one… Is this a joke or what?!"
383: "Chill, dude… -_-'"
006: "O.o… Erm… Any more info…?"
Nurse: "Well, for all I know, he's in the 9th Grade, a nerd… and uh… He looks kinda withdrawn and always pays visits to here every week…"
383: "Oh god, he was sent to here at least once a week?!"
006: "*Scribbles down info* OK, do you know why he came here?"
Nurse: "*Thinks* *Shakes head* He doesn't say much, when I asked, he only claimed that he fell from a flight of stairs or something like it."
207: "*Mumbles* Oh please! He looked like he fell from the third floor! What 'a flight of stairs'…"
383: "But he -"
006: "- OK, we had better get going now, Arigatou gozaimasu! (Thank you! [ありがとう ございます!]) *Bows a little*"
Zexion interrupted Xion and dragged us out.
Xion asked: "Zexion what are you doing? Why didn't you let the nurse know this?" I said on behalf of him: "Don't create chaos yet, we investigate it secretly then plan the next move, right?" Zexion nodded and said: "Now the most important thing is we have to find Ienzo, and tell him to confess everything to capture the bully." Good point… But, we didn't even know which class he was in!
Oh well, we had plenty of time, and we could investigate via Internet! We just had to log into the confidential school website Miss Aerith approved and trusted us to use… He he, regardless of the identity, as long as he's not a ghost, we could search him! Oho ho ho~ *Being narcissistic* [Authoress: Hurry up, get me a bucket of cold water! I want to pour it down her head for being such a narcissist…]
Later that night…
What a miracle! Zexion who was always the most responsible one fell asleep due to fatigue! Now, I was the only one wide awake in the dorm room… -_-' Naturally, I was the one to investigate the victim. I sighed at the sight of a sleeping Zexion and proceeded to sit in front of the writing desk, using the computer to surf the net.
The information was as follows:
Name: Ienzo Ishida [イエンゾ いしだ]
Age: 15 (Thinks: Er… his smaller body size didn't agree with this…)
Class: 3-1 (*My glasses dropped off* How did he study?!)
Conduct: Excellent (Thinks: Too excellent, much?)
DOB: 21st of February, year 19XX (Thinks: Seriously?! Same date here!)
Academic performance: Straight A's. Obtained first placing in 9th Grade for English Literature (O.O)
Extracurricular activities: Average, not very active (Thinks: Ha! That's why they say no one's perfect in this world!)
POB: Tokyo
Date of admission: 3rd of January, year 2008
Family: Only Child. Parents deceased in a car accident in year 2002. Currently living with the aid of stipend (Thinks: … Didn't know what to comment…)
OK… I really took pity on him… seriously. But, he's too awesome! He got straight A's and obtained the first placing of 9th Grade for English Literature (Which I find kinda boring)! Oh my god… OK! Now let's investigate those three for revenge - Wait… I didn't even know their names! Epic fail… Forget it! I would have to find the witness/victim and capture them.
Anyway… Let's get some sleep… Zzzz…
I saved the tabs I opened in the Internet and then I went out for classes, this was to let the others to refer after school. Our trip to the beach was fully sponsored by the school, we just need to kick back and relax. He he… "We are to depart four days later, be sure to get everything ready and gather at the foyer, do you understand?" "Yes sir!" John jumped and saluted to Miss Aqua, some of the classmates laughed. Sigh… He's too hyperactive… Wind down would ya?
It was 3 p.m. when school's over, I still had things to do, so I parted ways with the members of Organization XIII who were about to return to the headquarters a.k.a. dorm room for discuss. Today I had to attend something called "juku". This juku is equivalent to our tuition classes. There are two types, academic and nonacademic. Actually, I think this was one of the reasons why academic pressure in Japan is too high. Juku is also known as "cram school", cramming means mentally squeezing and stuffing, without any thinking, squeezing a lot of rigid, undigested information into the brain, not caring what they were, just had to memorize and remember them. Almost all students (especially middle and high school students) take juku, the duration is about 4 hours. Not shocking enough? Well, there are sources pointed out that some students used 6 hours for juku! Think about this, schooling takes up 6 hours (Not counting the extracurricular activities and this is the shortest schooling time), after attending juku, don't ever forget that there are still homework to do, and I mean a lot of them… Let me ask you, do you even have time to eat, sleep and bathe? Luckily I was an exchange student, I just had to attend 2 hours… Thank god… Oh, a message to all students, especially the ones in my country, don't just always whine how your life sucked, if you have time, quit getting too obsessed with online games and look up in the net, many countries in the world have cram schools, only some of them don't, and subsequently, the pressure is comparatively lesser. I do agree that time isn't enough to use for us, but if you make a comparison, who is more miserable?
I was going to, sadly, cram Japanese, I could pronounce the characters (if longer time was given), but I lacked vocabulary (it's like only 1% from the whole thing… -_-), I couldn't help but stare blankly at the teacher in classes, so I had to learn it. After the chalk and talk session, now it's time for exercises. I was thinking while writing: How should I find this Ienzo who was beaten up badly? He's a nerd, surely he didn't need to attend juku to cram nonsense; I could not go to his dorm (security was too hard to infiltrate)… Sigh… Where would nerds go to? I'm not a nerd, of course I wouldn't know a nerd's habits.
Later, there was a short break for the students, and it's time for me to leave. I packed up my stuff, planning to put my books in my locker. Speaking of lockers, I couldn't help but laugh! Sir Seahorse's nose must have been shaped via operation, or else although it looked stiff, once being hit it became so seriously flat and crooked. Serves him right! I already said that he was SO gonna regret! I put my books, about to turn around, suddenly a big hand banged the locker right in front of me, blocking my way. I turned to see the hand's owner; it's a girl, her body size was almost like Big Sister's, but thinner. I stared at her, planning to leave from behind. But someone smacked me from my back. I jolted back to the same spot. OK… I was surrounded again…
"Hey! You! Are going to apologize or what?!" The fat girl asked. I steadied myself, crossed my arms in front of me and said, not looking at her: "Beats me, care to explain?" "… You…! You hurt our idol! And you're playing the fool!" She said angrily, someone at the back shouted: "Yeah! She hurt our Brother Satou (さとう, 佐藤)…" "This is too much!" "Teach her a lesson! Leader!" Etc. etc. etc. I replied disdainfully: "So it's Broken-Nose Seahorse's fan club? *Snickers* I could only say he was in a bad luck, hitting someone before my -" "What do you mean 'bad luck'! You're the scum that hit him! And what's with the 'Broken-Nose Seahorse'?! Do you want to die!" Another very skinny Bonehead couldn't take it anymore and "shot" me back.
I turned to her and retorted: "If you would let me finish… He was the first to hit people, I only taught this useless bully a lesson, what's my fault?" Another girl yelled: "Leader! See?! She was humiliating Brother Satou here and there! This hooligan, Leader! Don't waste your breath on her anymore!" What, now I transformed from a scum into a hooligan?! Please figure out who were the scum and hooligan! Idiot! "Hmph! Today I will let you know how miserable the fate is for the ones who hurt our most handsome, coolest and most stylish Brother Satou! Take this!" As soon as she finished her words, a palm swiped towards me! Whoa! I used my hands to catch the incoming wrist! Her force was too big, too difficult to handle… There were too many people here, I was all alone, one against many… Let's get away first!
I swept my leg against Fatty's legs, she lost her balance and fell, crushing some girls in the process. Now's the chance! I escaped. I heard that the angry mob were chasing, so I quickened my pace, but I didn't know why but my speed decreased over time, my legs were getting tired, and my hands were paralyzed! Crap, my breathing was too quick and rapid; the relapse recurred!
I had no choice but to stop at a corner and gasped for air. "Hey! You! Halt it right there!" Their cries were getting louder; they're coming! Great… I started to formulate a plan, but I was not familiar with the place here, (I always got lost even though it was March… -_-) the plan could not be executed! Suddenly, a hand shot out, and pulled me to the right! I didn't know what's going on but to run with the unknown person in front of me.
After about five minutes, we stopped at a secluded corner. Once I stopped, I immediately peeked outside; I didn't turn to see who pulled me. "Phew, the coast is clear, er, thank-?" I said while turning around, only to see the person disappeared! What the heck! Why does everyone like to disappear for no reason now?! Geez! Then again, the person's hands were so icy cold, even more anxious than me, hey; he's not the one being chased around. Geez…
I calmed down my breath, and my hands were back to normal. OK… At least today Broken-Nose Seahorse's name was Satou XXX, some useful information, that is. I was so bored, I didn't want to return to the dorm yet, so I decided to go to the library to check out the books, only then I would return. I was very careful along the way, once I saw some people in a bad mood, I changed routes. Great, now I have to change routes once I saw some crazy fan-girls too! I finally arrived at two large wooden doors. I opened the doors and the warm air greeted me. Although it's spring, it's still a bit cold. I shut the doors quietly, and strolled while surveying the enormous library. There were a zillion of books in here, each and every category was arranged neatly on the wooden shelves. The floor was coated with dark purple carpet, no sound was produced when walking on it. Tilting the head skyward, one could see the ceiling was high as if chasing the stars, not bad for a three-storey library. At the center of the ceiling was a gorgeous crystal chandelier, emitting a pale yellow light that illuminated everywhere in the library. Beside the chandelier was a design of the sky, there were some lights in some corners, below them were the curtains like waterfalls, the purple fabric with golden drapery cord tassels; they portrayed classic and elegance. Also, with the pale yellow painted walls and a few royal blue sofa and some oak chairs and marble desks, that classical elegance feeling grew stronger and obvious. But, to put it seriously, it's not too ancient. At the corners were computers with free Wi-Fi, there were LCD computers at the librarian's service counter. And there were touch-screen computers beside each shelf, helping the users to locate the exact location of their desired books! Advanced, isn't it?
Even so it's not noisy in the library. You could only hear flipping pages under the fingers and smell the leather covers and paper pages. On the marble pillars were spiraling stairs penetrating the second floor of the library all the way to the third floor. The students and teachers were either walking around finding books or sitting quietly reading them. A piece of silence and peace, indeed. The ticking of a clock on a wall could be heard vaguely. On every desk was a small glass pot of evergreen plant, adding some green in this library. [Authoress: Enough talk! You're here to read, not to brag about the library, right?]
I arrived at a bookshelf three times taller than me (I was about 163cm at that time, and the shelf's too high, I had to use the ladder to get the book… -_-') and grabbed a book on Japanese grammar and vocabulary. Hey, there's Chinese as explanation and translation in this book! That's good! The gods still loved me! I took the book and was walking to an unoccupied table, just then a panic shadow flashed between the shelves at my right! I saw it from the corner of my eye, the person was peeping on me for a while, so I decided to track it down. But it's very quiet here, any noise would be a dead giveaway for my presence! Had to be careful… I followed the person to a somewhat dimly lit corner, I hid behind a massive bookshelf and popped my head out to see. A boy with messy hair had his back against me. He was facing a shelf, mumbling something I didn't know. Eh? Wasn't that the key to all the problems, Ienzo?! The gods are helping me… =o
I tiptoed towards him, he was totally oblivious of my presence. Now, I could make out what he was saying: "Oh god! Dono youni kanojo wa koko wo kitaka?! Dousureba kanojo wa boku ni tazuneruka? Hontouni taihen…" (How did she get here?! What if she asks me? This is really bad… [どの ように かのじょ は ここ を きたか?! どうすれば かのじょ は ぼく に たずねるか? ほんとうに たいへん...]) I was already behind him, I cleared my throat and asked: "Ahem… Sumimasen, nani wo itteiruno desuka?" (Excuse me, what are you saying? [すみません、 なに を いっているの ですか?]) "Sore WAAAAAAA~~~!" (That's WAAAAAAA~~~! [それ はああああああ~~~!]) He did replied, and spun around, but he never expected to see me behind him, and he lost control and screamed his head off! Out of panic, I grabbed a very thick dictionary and stuck his mouth (well, it's not completely in his mouth)! "Shush! 这里 (Here) - I mean, you are in the library, keep it down! I'm sure you don't want any attention, do you?" I was saying in a hushed tone, he let out an "Mmn!", nodding his head. I said again: "No shouting or running away?" He hesitated a while, and answered with a nod: "Mmhmm!" OK… I removed the dictionary, he gasped for breath, but then he ran away! What the crap! I shot out a hand to catch him! But I never caught him; he stumbled on his clumsy feet and fell down… -_-III I held onto his sleeve and said: "Sorry, I had to hold onto you now, since you seemed to be very sneaky…" He struggled, but without much strength, maybe it's the old wounds.
"Let me go… Why don't we find a place and sit down to talk?" He said in a small voice. I said: "Yeah, and letting you escape once again, the same trick won't work twice on me." Although we were conversing in a low tone, some people were staring at us… Oops… I apologized and dragged him to the vacant third floor of the library. I said: "I don't want to be a bad guy too, not letting you go. I just wanted to ask you a few questions, after this I'm not going to stop you even if you wanted to crash into a wall, OK?" He opened his mouth, about to say something, but he shut his mouth, later he said: "OK…"
I let him to sit down first, and then I sat. Firstly, I apologized on the "dictionary attack", luckily he accepted. After that was three seconds of silence… "Er… OK, um… How did you offend Sir Broken-Nose Seahorse?" I posed the first question, if not, this was getting awkward… He was confused: "Sir Broken-Nose Seahorse?" "Satou, I mean. I didn't know his full name." He shuddered, and said: "I don't know, he always picks on me ever since 7th Grade, involving physical violence…" "Er… well… eh… Anyway, did you, like, for example, see something you're not supposed to see? Or did you get higher grades than him? Or something like it…?" I watched my words, for he seemed very scared of me, maybe it was the OOC act days ago. (Did he faint because of that? It could be a possibility…)
He recalled carefully, and said slowly as he went through the memories: "I… don't think it's the academic results, he never mentioned anything about it when he hit me… He never mentioned other things as well… Saw… Saw what's not supposed to see…" He stopped there, starting to frown, concentrating. Was that what all nerds do? I didn't know. I stared at him, observing his reactions. He maintained that state for about 30 seconds, and then he supported his forehead with his hand, pressing his temple with his fingers. Headache? "… I'm really sorry, I can't recall, I really don't know why he did this to me… Hontouni sumimasen… Gomennasai," (P.S. All that means "sorry" [ほんとうに すみません... ごめんなさい]) He lowered his head and thought for a while, and then he looked up at me and said. I guess I'd buy that for the mean time, for I had no clue at the moment.
I shook my head and replied: "It's OK, I'm the one to say that. It's just… I don't understand, why did you… cover your right eye with your hair?" OK, I admit! This is a very stupid question! I'm just curious, was that OK? Zexion never answered me this when I bugged him why. [Zexion: Ahem, I heard that you know… Nemix: Oops…] His left eye widened only a little bit, and lowered his gaze. He's hesitating again, so I said: "Er… it's nothing… I'm only asking out of the blue, it's OK if you don't want to answer that." Maybe I stumbled upon some sensitive issues, Oops… 0x0 He looked up slowly and said: "You… you won't tell anyone?" "… Ah?"
"I will tell you the reason, and you will… keep it a secret?"
"… Of course, why not? ^.^"
"… OK."
As soon as his words left his mouth, he used his right hand to brush his long bangs aside. Oh my god… Holy Bananas! There's a deep scar, starting from above his right eye to near his nose, which was over his eye! I pretended to be perfectly calm, but I kept staring at the scar. "Aren't you freaked out?" He asked quietly, totally not expecting this reaction from me. "… I had seen some other worse ones." This was obviously a lie (Well, maybe from the videos and the books' photos and images), I continued to say: "Satou again?" "… He pushed me to crash into the glass window, and…" He trailed off, not wanting to recall that. "… At least I could still see…" He added.
I asked a question: "He almost got you blind, and he had bullied you for the past three years or so, didn't you tell on him?" Now he was looking at me in panic, shaking his head vigorously. His bangs flopped back in their original place, obstructing his right eye from view. "No!" "Why not?" I asked him back, feeling even stranger. How could someone suffer in silence even if he was being bullied? He said: "Satou's father… he's…" But then he swallowed his words back, and said something else instead: "I cannot tell."
I didn't know whether to be mad or laugh, and I almost shouted at him, but I stifled it and said: "Are you saying that his father the Jade Emperor or the Buddha?!" He remained silent. I sighed, and said: "… Which VIP was he? Say it honestly." "… Once I tell you, don't go against him, or else you would be in trouble." I snickered mentally, thinking: Oh puh-lease! You didn't know who I am, and now you're underestimating me?! I replied nonchalantly: "OK, fire away." "… He's the director of this school and the CEO of Matsuaki Business Group."
"So what? I thought he was the Japanese Emperor…" I said quietly, and then I continued: "Then we SO have to tell on him! You would have to help us as a witness." I caught a glimpse of my watch, Oh god! It's 7 p.m.! If I didn't return now, Organization XIII would slaughter me, chop me into pieces to add into the soup… *Gulp* I said: "It's getting late, I should be leaving now. Thank you for telling me so much, I'll have to get going now." I stood and bowed slightly, and then walked towards the stairs.
"Wait!" I hadn't walked a few steps and he grabbed my left arm, I turned my head to see, he got up from his chair, but his foot got caught onto the table leg, he's falling down. Luckily he grabbed my hand, and I was able to pull him, if not he would have to plant his face onto the floor again. Why did he fall all the time? -_- "… Ow… Thanks… Ah! I mean, mind your actions! Or else the school's done for!" "… Explain?"
"Matsuaki Business Group holds a huge force, providing the school with financial aid, if one offended the CEO Mr. Satou, the school would lose all its support and it's finished."
"So? His son committed such serious offense, doesn't he have to pick up some responsibility and discipline his son?! If he cut off all supports of the school, this is avenging a personal wrong in the name of public interests!"
"… You'd better think thoroughly about this… Things would be chaotic if this was exposed to the public… *Sigh* just… think twice before you act, OK?"
"*Thinks: Ugh, troublesome… -_-* … OK fine! I would bide my time, I'm just lacking of evidences… Or else he's already finished!"
"…Phew… Good to hear that…"
His hands were getting colder by the minute, did he have to get so nervous? Geez. "Erm, dear friend, I really missed my blood circulation, can you… eh…?" I nodded at my poor hand, only then he realized. "Oh! Sumimasen! Sumimasen…" (Sorry! Sorry… [すみません! すみません...]) After he let go, my hand immediately reverted to its original 37 degree Celsius temperature. Wait a minute! His hands' coldness was the same as the hands that yanked me to escape from the angry mob! He rescued me? [Authoress: How sad! Aren't your reactions a bit too slow?! Why did I created such an oblivious main OC like you? 207: That's it! You're finished! I'm gonna get you! Authoress: CRAP! Run for your life!]
I added: "Oh, yeah. Thank you for helping me ago and saved my life. Gotta go, bye." I left as soon as I'm done talking, and I could hear him mumbling to himself at the back: "EPIC FAIL… She still found out! Why am I such an epic fail…" I could even hear him facepalming. Sigh! This dude sure was strange… -_-'
I rushed back to the dorm, also checking the GPS device's mailbox in the process. I had 13 unread messages and 6 voice mails… Great… I didn't dare to read or listen! If the voice mails were from Axel, I would be deaf in matter of seconds! Let's talk about this when I got back! Holy Bananas…
Once I opened the door, I was tackled down by Demyx. And man, that hurt… "207 Where Did You Go Why You No Read Our Mail And You Didn't Reply Do You Know We Are So Worried What The Heck Are You Doing We Thought You Were Kidnapped Or Lost Like Last Time We Can't Sleep Or Eat And Even I Constipated When I Went To The Toilet You -" I cut him off! "STOP! DEMYX! Get up first, will you?! Anyone would think you're going to do something to me…" My face turned red and said. Luckily no one came out of their rooms. That was embarrassing! Since when did Demyx learned this nonstop chanting? It didn't have any punctuations and he was able to say it in one breathe… What did he do?
I told them everything from the end of juku until Demyx tackled me. Then they're satisfied. Zexion said: "So, it seemed the one we were up against had an unusual background, we have to be careful." "Yup, that's what that Ienzo told me, ugh! I'm not really humiliating him, but he's too afraid of speaking up, too scared of this and that, and he lived in trauma and fear, but he never tells on Sir Broken-Nose Seahorse, what was he thinking?!" I sat on the bed, munching away an apple and said.
"I guess besides the school, he would be finished as well," Roxas tore away from his laptop and turned around to say. "Why?" I and Demyx asked at the same time. "Do not forget that Ienzo had stipend in order to live, this stipend was sponsored by Matsuaki Business Group, once we informed the school about this case, and his living expenses were the first to go," Zexion explained. "… Aww, Zexion, let me be the professor for once in my life…" Roxas pouted. He looked funny. Suddenly…
"OI! Zexion! I can't find Nemix everywhere! What to do?!" A noise of the door opening reached my ears and next came Axel's voice. Oh crap… If we let Axel know that his searching actions before were effortless, I would be surprised if I was not dead by his hands! I was about to hide in the washroom without being seen, but Demyx just had to shout now: "Hey! Nemix! Where's the whole plate? I want some apple too!" O.O
Dong… I'm. Finished. Big time… "One-Winged Angel" seemed to ring in my head! Someone scarier than Mr. Sephiroth walked over to me… I watched Axel came over, I slowly backed up to the table beside the bed and let out a hand to grab a pillow as a shield. And then…
"NEMIX ARE YOU KIDDING ME WHERE WERE YOU FOR THE PAST FEW HOURS I HAD A HARD TIME LOOKING FOR YOU YOU KNOW YOU BETTER EXPLAIN THIS OR ELSE YOU'RE DONE FOR I HAVEN'T TAKEN MY DINNER AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT YOU -" I couldn't take it anymore, I grabbed an uneaten apple and stuck it into Axel's mouth! "Geez, have an apple and I guarantee you a better appetite; should you have any inquiries you can always ask Zexion," I said while walking to the kettle to get some green tea. (Actually I was freaking out internally, I was not that calm as you see… Spare me… O.o)
After dinner (I was forced to treat, if not I wouldn't be able to see tomorrow's sun…) and homework, time to get some sleep. Phew! What a day…
Today we had Science lesson, we were going to conduct an experiment, which was to burn a marble powder and then add water to change it to calcium hydroxide. We were, in fact, playing while doing the work, Demyx even almost broke a test tube… -_-' The first one to finish the task was Yuanfang. He was the quietest in the class (quieter than Zexion), he seldom talks in class, but he was much disciplined to say the least. I hope he could open up a little, or else his life as an exchange student would be quite boring… "BOOM!" We jumped out of fright! I guess it must have been John and Brant, the two mad scientists. When they teamed up, no one was going to be safe in the room, especially in the Science lab… It was normal to see one or two broken test tubes or beakers in the trash can. Sigh…
Laura was grouped with Soo Jyoo, but none of them dared to light up the Bunsen burner! Finally Soo Jyoo mustered all her courage to do the job, when the flame appeared, Laura was so scared that she clung onto Soo Jyoo, she almost squashed her alive. O.o Antonio was staring at the flames, but he was spacing out, did it reminded him of pizza or spaghetti? Lawrence and Ian were talking about calcium, both the boys had heavy accents, anyone would have mistaken that they were quarreling…
Katra and Harayuki managed to prepare calcium hydroxide in the end; William and Ryuutaro were too hasty, they added water into the test tube of hot calcium oxide (one of the products of decomposition of calcium carbonate upon heating) as soon as they removed it from the fire, as a result, the calcium oxide powder burst out everywhere, the boys were so surprised and they threw the practically erupting test tube into a basin of water, and then… pieces of broken glass settled at the bottom… *Amine sweat drop* [Authoress: Hey, that's what I exactly did when I was in 9th Grade!]
Later we had P.E., Xion and I waited for the boys at the corridor and after they had done changing, we headed towards the field, but we came across someone! Guess who?
"Nemix! Look…" Xion tugged on my sleeve and said. I looked - Yo! Well howdy do! It's Broken-Nose Seahorse! His nose was wrapped with bandages, like Mickey Mouse's nose. Once he saw me, he was furious his anger-filled eyes were glaring at Xion and me. If looks could kill, I'm afraid I would have been injured pretty badly now.
I planned to ignore him, but he wanted to pick on me nonetheless, he extended his arm and blocked my way. I tried not to be impulsive and said: "I say, Sir Broken-Nose Seahorse, why didn't you stay under the sea peacefully and now you're blocking my way? Get out of the way!" He said: "You imbecilic fool, I'm not done with you last time we met! Thanks to you, thousands of dollars for the shaping of my nose was all wasted! Even if you don't want to apologize, you still had to pay for my loss!" Xion retorted: "If that was valid, you would also have to pay the medical fees of your victim, no? Counting from year 2008… You would still lose a lot of money… Is paying the loss still required?"
"You…!" He was on fire, but at a loss of words, so he could only use the angry eyes dripping with venom to "shoot" us. Axel could not stand him anymore: "What are you looking at! Are your eyes too big?! GET LOST!" After that, he tried to get away from Broken-Nose Seahorse, but he sure was stupid enough to stop an irritated Axel… Axel walked to him and stomped on Broken-Nose Seahorse's foot, right on his toes! A flurry of emotions appeared in a flash on Broken-Nose Seahorse's face, and it looked very awful. He held onto his painful (And almost exploded) toes, hopping on one leg. Let's make a run for it! We got away!
Today we're playing volleyball… Crap… The last time I touched this ball was 5th Grade! I looked at the white ball, feeling really anxious… Ugh, I don't care! Let's do this! I was practicing with Organization XIII, the ball was hit and flew to and fro, and the blood capillaries of my hands were going to burst… T_T Suddenly… "BAM!"
I turned to look at my right just in time - HOLY BANANAS! A volleyball was coming at me! Get away! I ducked, the ball flew over me, and it landed at no one but THE Axel's head! O.o A "BONK" was heard and Axel fell down to his left! Uh-oh… Whoever it is, he or she was finished… Big time…
"Ouch… What the hell… WHOEVER THE HELL THREW THIS COME OUT OF THERE! NOW!" Axel had gone berserk (No, not only Saix can go berserk), take cover! I covered my ears just in time and blocked that fatal attack from my weak eardrums! Cue One-Winged Angel! I pulled Axel up, also looking to the right, see if I could find the culprit. And guess what I found?
"Aw! I thought I could hit that idiot who hit my nose! But it's still good to hit the one who squashed my toes! Ha ha!" Sir Broken-Nose Seahorse, who apparently didn't know what death was like, was laughing maniacally, Durian Head and Grassy Head (another underling) was cheering and prompting beside him: "Yoshi!" (That's good! [よし!]) "Sugoii desu! Bosu!" (You're so amazing! Boss! [すごいい です! ボス!]) Now, Axel only left one step to spontaneously combust and assassinate them, he went over and shouted: "You despicable being! You have the guts for a one-on-one battle?! Coward!" "Oh yeah?! Bring it on!"
Broken-Nose Seahorse clapped his hands twice, and ten or more boys came over to him! I also called all members of Class 3-13 together, and they all had a sense of obligation to help us! Let's go kick some butt! But, we're not fighting… Don't put on the boxing gloves yet, we're about to have a game of volleyball…
The ball flew back and forth between two groups of people, and only the hitting of the ball like "Bam! Bong! Pak! Dong!" could be heard. We were sweating profusely, and they were breathing heavily as well. At that moment… "Ouch!" Zexion turned to the back towards the voice, Soo Jyoo sprained her leg. After we helped her to the side of the battlefield, now we were short of one teammate! As we were feeling troubled, here comes an unknown help… "Psst! Hey…" A rather small voice reached my ears, from my side I guess, while the opposition party was having their own group discussion, I turned to see - Ienzo?! That was unexpected… "What are you doing here?" I slipped to a bush, where he was hiding in apparently and asked him. He answered: "Nothing, I see that you're short of people, so… er…" He was stuck on his words again, so I completed his sentence for him: "So get over here and join us! Come on!" After I finished, I pulled him out and dragged him towards my group. Actually he was also having his P.E. lesson now too, but he didn't want to play with his classmates. OK, I admit I was almost like this, but he was a bit more antisocial than me, much?
Once I got into position, I told him: "I don't care whatever tactic you use, just hit the ball to the other side." "Ah? N-no! You misunderstood me! I -" Just then, the whistle blew! "Hurry up!" I half-whispered-half-yelled, gritting my teeth. He became desperate and shouted: "OK! Here goes nothing~~!" And he made quite a good shot! I wonder how much force he had applied to it. It seemed to fly in an alarming speed. The ball flew, but he stumbled over his feet again and fell facing skywards! What the heck… -_-'
Sir Broken-Nose Seahorse saw one of our teammates fell down after hitting the ball to them (but he didn't know who did it) and he laughed hysterically, his annoying laughter never ceased, but… "BAM!" The ball "parked" onto his face! Direct hit! Everyone was shocked to no end… O.O The ball fell off his face, his nose was crooked again, but to the other side! (Last time his nose was crooked to the right) And it seemed that some of his teeth were nowhere to be seen… "Five to four! Class 3-13 won the game!" Soo Jyoo acted as the referee and announced. Our class jumped out of joy! Woohoo! We did it!
Ienzo immediately freaked out and tugged on my sleeve and panicked: "Crap! I'm doomed! I'm finished! Why did the ball hit Satou's face?! I'm finished… I'm done for!" I called him to calm down! "STOP! You helped us, we should be thanking you. Everyone! He made that decisive hit! He did a good job!" I grabbed his hand and raised it up high, like what a referee from a boxing tournament did and announced.
"Wow! You're superb!"
"Thanks you!"
"Can I get an autograph?"
"Eh? Aren't you Ienzo Ishida, the one who got the first for English Literature among 9th Graders?"
"Both your academic and sports performances are good! Not bad!"
"You fell down just now, are you OK?"
"You sure showed him! That's great!"
My classmates surrounded him, thanking and praising him endlessly, his face turned into a tomato. "Actually… Actually… I was here to provide a plan, by using tactics and strategies… You guys were short of people… I'm not… not here to play…" He said to me, only then I understood what he meant by "misunderstood him". I said: "Sorry about that… we still won anyways! Ignore that… he he…"
Once I thought of Broken-Nose Seahorse's face, I just wanted to laugh my head off: his face was stiff and twisted with a silly smirk on it, and his nose was crooked again… PUCHAHAHAHA! Oh my god! That almost made me laughed to death! "Ding Dong Dang Dong~" We had to return to the classroom again, I was about to leave, Ienzo called me to stop: "Wait! I don't even know your name until now… Ah! I'm Ienzo, Ienzo Ishida, pleased to meet you!" He bowed. I did the same: "I'm Nemixiljix, Nemix for short, I'm an exchange student from Malaysia. You can address me as 207. Pleased to meet you too."
I also introduced him to Organization XIII, but we didn't tell him why we used codenames and the real motive of Organization XIII. Never hurt to be careful… ^_^ He started not to be afraid of me, well, at least he didn't shirk away from my questions anymore.
NOW, THAT TWERP KNOWS NOT TO MESS WITH US!
Today was the day we were departing for the beach! I'm SO excited! We packed everything up and double checked all of them, and then we waited at the foyer. "I'm really looking forward to this, I wonder how does the Japanese beach look like?" I said to Xion. "Well there's sand and seawater… and it's spring! Who would go to the beach in spring?" She said. "Us, apparently… *anime sweat drop*" I answered.
Miss Aqua clapped her hands to get our attention. "Alright! Everyone! Let's have a roll call before we get on the bus." After the roll call, she muttered to herself: "Kisaragi sensei wa doko desuka? Hayaku…" (Where's Miss Kisaragi? Hurry up… [きさらぎ せんせい は どこ ですか? はやく...]) I knew this one, thinking: Miss Yuffie is coming with us? Alone? Soon, the answer came to me eventually.
"Toyoguchi sensei!" [とよぐち せんせい!] A voice came from a faraway place. All of us turned to the source of the voice, only to see Miss Yuffie carrying a big backpack, running to us in a hurry, a person was behind her, how familiar… WHAT?! Ienzo Ishida?! Again, that was unexpected… "Sumimasen desu, Toyoguchi sensei, kono gakusei wa mo isshoni iku, kore wa daijioubu desuka?" (I'm sorry, Miss Toyoguchi, this student would like to follow us, is this OK? [すみません です、 とよぐち せんせい、 この がくせい は も いっしょに いく、 これ は だいじょうぶ ですか?]) Miss Yuffie was breathing heavily, bringing Ienzo along her to Miss Aqua. "A, soudesuka? Doushitano?" (Ah, is that so? What happened? [あ、 そうですか? どうしたの?]) Miss Aqua asked. "Hai, boku no chiri kyoushi wa boku no ikitai desu. Aichi ken no umibe no jouhou wo shuushuu shimasu," (Yes, my geography teacher asked me to come. I'm here to collect information on the beach of Aichi Prefecture, [はい、 ぼく の ちり きょうし は ぼく の いきたい です。 あいち けん の うみべ の じょうほう を しゅうしゅう します]) he said.
"Is that so… OK, welcome on board!" Miss Aqua said, smiling. And then she continued: "Sore wa subete dearuka?" (Is that all? [それ は すべて であるか?]) "Hai," (Yes [はい]) said Miss Yuffie. "Alright! Let's go!" Miss Yuffie pumped her fist into the air. "YEAH!" John and Brant imitated her.
We took a bus to the Shinkansen station to board on the bullet train, after a few hours, we reached Aichi Prefecture at half past nine. We then took another bus to Atsumi Peninsula surf beach. (P.S. If you happen to listening to "Bustin' Up on the Beach" of Kingdom Hearts I, it suited the mood.) "Beach! Here I come!" I jumped off the bus and ran towards the sea. Axel caught my shirt from the back and said: "Hey Nemix, you haven't taken your backpack and you're going to relax? As if! Settle down first and no one gives a damn if you want to jump into the water after that, got it memorized?" … Fine… I'd wait.
We checked in a chalet nearby called "Destiny Island Chalet" (Wow! Sora's gonna get hyper if he was there with us in this chalet, I guess) We settled our stuff, got ready and gathered outside. "OK! Class! Today we are having free activities, we will do something else tomorrow, our range for activities is from here *points* to there *points*. We will gather at the chalet at 12 o'clock noon, is that clear?" "YES!" "OK, off you go!" We were all gone by the next second.
Organization XIII and I were the first to jump into the sea, swimming near the shore. John and Brant went surfing, but the waves surf them instead, and they fell into the water. Sometimes they crashed into Antonio who was scuba diving, what a mess… Anne, Harayuki and Laura were playing beach volleyball on the sand (Won't they ever got bored? We had just played that three days ago!), Soo Jyoo was collecting seashells for the sandcastle.
Katra and Yuanfang were having an exchange of martial arts (or should I say, having a friendly fight?), and they were really good at it. Sometimes when I was tired of swimming too much, I could just float on the water and watch them. Katra was using Thai boxing and Yuanfang was using Chinese kung fu, they were well-matched, but they didn't go beyond that to prevent hurting anyone of them, well, they were still classmates, right? Ryuutaro took Ian and William to explore, wherever they went, I just hope that they wouldn't get lost.
I was swimming back and forth along the coast near the shore, I swam with freestyle and I switched to breaststroke when I got tired. Axel and Demyx tried to open their eyes underwater, but after 1 second they resurfaced from the water, saying the water was too salty for them to open their eyes. Roxas was standing at where the water reached his waist, feeling the sea breeze blowing slowly and the waves pushing his soaked part of the body. Zexion was tired, so he sat at the shore, watching the faraway seagulls flying freely. Lawrence was swimming too, but he occasionally dived into the water, because he had goggles… Xion wasn't into swimming very much, so she decided to let the waves at the shore to beat on her feet.
After an hour of swimming, I was really tired. I proceeded to get up and wiped myself dry and strolled on the sandy beach. I changed into a white T-shirt, red shorts and yellow slippers. I walked on the sand. The waves rolled onto the shore, producing white foams; some of them crashed onto the giant reefs that silently guarded the shore, clashing majestic spindrift, rustling throughout the bay.
"Full fathom five thy father lies; of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding Dong. Hark! Now I hear them - Ding Dong, bell." I haven't made any progress of the stroll, and then I heard someone reciting these quietly. (Well, to me, it's like alien language… I was more into Science) I gazed to the front; no one. I'm pretty sure I started to walk away from where all the people were, which means no one would be in front. I strained my eyes and finally I spotted the "suspect" - Ienzo, who was sitting on the sand.
I quietly walked towards him, planning for a surprise attack. 1… 2… 3! "Yo!" I put my hand on his shoulder, he was pulled back into reality abruptly, and he jumped out of his skin! Chill dude… -_-III "Wah!" "Hey… It's me… -_-'" "Huh?! Oh… ah! You scared me… ." He patted his chest, calming down the wildly beating heartbeat. Geez, no need to overreact… "…*Sigh*… No need to be so shocked… Anyway, the poem you recite just now was not so bad, which was it?" I asked, diverting his attention, so that he would not be so nervous.
"… You had heard it all?" He lowered his gaze, his bangs covering half of his face again. I nodded and said: "Every word, it's just that I can't recite poems that are heard once." I heard him mumbling: "Great, you heard all of them…" "Hey, it's no big deal, which poem was it?" I asked. Now he only looked up and said: "It's from one of Shakespeare's famous work, 'The Tempest'. It was from Act I, Scene II, called 'Full Fathom Five'."
Oookaay… I know Shakespeare, but I totally didn't know about the others! I sat down beside him and asked: "What was it about?" He gave me a "Seriously, you don't know?!" look, and then he said: "The main character, Prospero wanted to guide Ferdinand, who had just survived from a shipwreck to him, so he appointed an 'airy spirit', Ariel to do the job. Ariel made herself invisible and then recited this poem to get Ferdinand's attention, and then led him to Prospero." (I hope this piece of information is correct! Forgive me if there were mistakes in it! T_T) I heard 100% of it, but 90 % of them was infected by virus - Unable to read! My brain crashed like a malfunctioned computer for three seconds… "Er… OK… And why did you recite this poem?" I asked again."… Um, there's this phrase 'sea change', it means a transformation or a change, idiomatically…" "It has something to do with the sea?" This could be the best reason why he recited it. "… Yes… Actually… It's like my life…" His voice diminished as he said, like there were some sensitive issues in it. (I owned nothing of this poem!)
Well, I was not really good at consoling people, and I was very likely to misspeak, it's the best if I remained silent. I could guess what his life was like anyways: Parents were deceased at a young life, living all his own, being bullied at school, achieved very good grades and everyone perceived this as superiority and didn't wish to be friends with him. Hey, I was also somewhat being boycotted, there were some people who were willing to do the cleaning duty in the first place, ever since I got the first placing in class (to my dismay), no one would do the job. Even some people stopped talking to me. Oh well, I could live with that, anyways…
"… Argh! Don't talk about this anymore! Why don't we go and see if there were anything delicious to eat, to relieve boredom…?" I said while looking around the shore. I scolded myself: Are you daft? You didn't even notice one stall when you came here! Terrible liar… "… Ah! I know, when I came here to look at the sea, I saw an ice-cream stall somewhere over there," Ienzo thought about it and said. I don't think the gods hate me… "… Let's go," He said, standing up. We walked to the stall. (Fast forward a little…)
Now it's half past eleven in the morning, we were sitting on the sand, watching the faraway mountains. "It's been so long since I came to the beach, it sure is fun!" I stretched and said. "I remember that Malaysia has many beaches, didn't you go?" He asked. I shrugged and said: "Ever since the tsunami that attacked South-East Asia in 2004, everyone was scared, so my parents didn't think of taking me and my bro to the beach." "… Oh…" Awkward silence…
"Er… Um, Ienzo, honestly, is your real motive of coming here is to avoid Satou?" I decided to break the silence, but he almost choked! Whoa! I slapped his back a few times and he stopped. "… Sorry, I was choked on my own saliva… [Authoress: Actually, I did that most of the time… -_-'] Oh no! No! It's not like that! Where did you get the idea?" He muttered during the first part of the sentence, after that he went into spaz mode, he panicked? I analyzed: "As a student from the first class, one would complete his or her work if granted the time, so one would not relax first; also, the technology is well-developed now… for this collecting-information type of homework, there's no need to come here, right?" He blushed, and then he said: "You got me again…" "… *Sigh* If you just go tell on him, you would have nothing to worry about, right?" I supported my chin with my hands and looked at him.
"… You also knew what would happen after that, huh?"
"Of course, but we cannot let it be, no?"
"…"
"I tell you what, you - What the?!"
I was about to say something, but from the corner of my eye I saw an USO! (Unidentified Shooting Object) I pushed him to the left, and I got to the right myself. The USO flew over us through the middle and fell into the water. I stood up abruptly and turned to look behind me!
"Sir Broken-Nose Seahorse?! Not you again!" I exclaimed, I never thought he would be here as well! What an annoying lingering spirit! "You…! YAAAAHH~~~~~~!" It was like he was possessed; he was so mad that he could not say a thing, and then he charged towards me! O.o Of course I was not that stupid to let him crash into me! I pretended that I was going to fight him, and readied myself in a fighting pose! Bring it!
His displacement decreased, the distance between us was getting shorter. We were about to crash in any minute, I stepped aside when he was about ten steps from me! "OUT OF MY WAY!" He screamed, rushing past me, my gaze locked on him from he passed by me and to… the sea?! O.O H-hey, don't tell me he had had enough of the provocation I gave and now he was going to be a seahorse?!
But, the truth proved that… I was thinking too much… -_-'
"My Salvatore Ferragamo Italian branded shoe!" His voice died down and the sound of water came. What the heck?! Don't tell me the USO a while ago was an Italian branded shoe?! *Speechless* … Why haven't I heard of this brand? [Authoress: 207… Do you think the Internet was created out of boredom? *Shakes head and sighs* Look it up!] (I own nothing of this shoe!)
When I regained my senses, I said: "It was the first time I heard that the thing used to throw at people would be a branded shoe… What Figaro?" Ienzo got up and said: "It's Salvatore Ferragamo, this type of shoes were really expensive…" I scratched my head and said: "I only heard of 'Marriage of Figaro' and… Bata only…-_-'"
"… I'm speechless," I said. Ienzo replied: "Why was Satou here?" "Ask the ones above…" I answered.
"Yo! Nemix! Eh? Ienzo's here too? Gathering time, let's go." Axel, Zexion and Xion came. Xion asked: "What are you guys standing here for?" I pointed to the sea, she looked to said direction and shouted: "HOLY CRAP!" I turned to look at them, closing my eyes and crossing my arms before my chest. I nodded and said: "Yup, it's him."
383: "NO WAY!"
207: "… Yes way…"
383: "IMPOSSIBLE!"
207: "I'm possible." (Read this carefully to see the difference)
383: "What now?!"
207: "How should I know?"
006: "Think of something! Now!"
207: "Thinking… Troublesome seahorse…"
222: "HE'S DROWNING!"
207: "Uh-huh, he's - WHAT?!"
I looked at the sea - Sir Broken-Nose Seahorse almost drowned! O.o Holy Bananas! Just at that moment, a black shadow appeared in a flash and I only saw the shadow went into the water, swimming towards the Seahorse who didn't know how to swim (How ironic), the person caught Broken-Nose Seahorse's arm fast, only then his head came out from the water. It's Yuanfang. Broken-Nose Seahorse clutched onto him very tightly like he himself was going to die in any minute, now even Yuanfang couldn't move an inch. I didn't know if the situation would be worsened if I jumped into the water to save them… Just then… "John Davis To THE RESCUE!" "Geronimo!" John and Brant these two inseparable good "brothers" jumped into the water.
Result: The four boys were tangled together, luckily the gods wasn't asleep at that time, and used the waves to wash them ashore. Now I could only say they were like a sandwich; stacked up. "Mom-mom-mom-mom-mom-mom…" Broken-Nose Seahorse couldn't stop stuttering, the blood circulation of poor Yuanfang's arm was almost cut off by his firm grip. "I told you not to struggle, and you ignored me, what the crap… -_-" Yuanfang said helplessly. "Dude, get your butt outta my face!" John struggled while saying, Brant retorted: "Get your face outta my butt!" "My shoe! Phew… it's still here… ha ha~"
"SHUT UP!" I roared, only then they stopped altogether. "You! Let go of his hand! You get up! You shut up! And you! Stop whining!" the four of them stared at me with big eyes. "NOW!" I added. They all jumped into position and stood at attention! "Er-hem… Sorry, can we go now?" I calmed down first and said.
"Sir Yes SIR!" John and Brant saluted, Yuanfang nodded, still couldn't stop staring at me (Maybe it's my OOCness), Broken-Nose Seahorse only cared for his stupid shoe, he rubbed and wiped here and there. "… My Salvatore Ferragamo… You idiot! Why did you evade my shoe?!" He looked at his shoe with much pity and then accused me. "Are you out of your mind? If I stood there and let your Figaro-whatever-the-hell hit me, then am I normal?!" "… Urgh! Forget it! I don't want to argue with you no more!" said Broken-Nose Seahorse, he whistled loudly and soon a limo appeared on the paved road! "SO LONG, LOSERS!" He threw this at us and left with the limo.
"You are the loser! Stupid!" I was so mad, Ienzo observed the state I was in and dared not speak a word. "… Guys… We're late for ten minutes…" Zexion said quietly. "What? Let's go then!" said Axel, and we followed behind.
"Phew! I'm so tired!" I collapsed onto my bed and exclaimed, facing the ceiling. Zexion saw my sprawled lying posture, he shook his head and said: "You ate so much at the BBQ dinner just now, I am surprised to see you not stuffed to death. Go and brush your teeth and wash your face, OK?" "… *Sigh* OK, dad," I giggled and got up, also missing a toothbrush by a hair. Sometimes, Zexion acted like a father to us when he looked out for us. There was one time Axel couldn't stand it and invented this name. It somehow fitted him. I wiped my face and came out of the bathroom, suddenly I was tackled to the floor by Demyx, again, and both of us fell to the floor. "207, 006, things are getting worse!" Zexion said calmly: "What happened?" "Roxy's in trouble! And the whole class…" "Demyx, if I was squashed flat, I couldn't help you anymore…" I squeaked under his weight, he was taller than me although we were of the same age, and what the hell did he eat, why was he so goddamn heavy?! "Oh! Sorry… Sorry… Hurry!"
We reached the scene and I was dumbfounded: Yuanfang someway, somehow climbed onto the top of the refrigerator and couldn't stop saying random things, he said that the "grapes" on Anne's head gobbles up people (Anne tied her hair up in plaits and tied them up in a bun on the head); Brant tackled down Antonio and kept on calling him mother, he even asked him to buy him a teddy bear and a bunny; John was hugging a floor lamp, his face was rubbing gently with the lamp shade! What the flipping heck?! O.o God save us all…
Anne was totally confused; she didn't know whether to cry or to laugh. Harayuki and Ryuutaro were working together to pull Brant off Antonio, but they did not succeed. Laura saw John's state and she fainted, Soo Jyoo was about to help her up and go back to her room. Lawrence and Ian were tied up together, for no apparent reason. Roxas was looking for a chance to slip away, but Brant was pulling the end of his trousers. Brant said: "Mommy, don't leave…" Roxas almost exploded: "Is the people of the whole street your mom?! Everyone's your mom, huh?! Get off me now!" Katra tried to calm Yuanfang down and ask him to come down, but he couldn't comprehend anything now. William was in trouble with John; John mistaken him as his crush in his own country and confessed to the wrong person! Eww… The confession was kind of nauseating! O.O
"*Yawn* Nan desuka sozoshii… OH MY GOD…" (What's the fuss about… [なん ですか そぞしい...]) Ienzo was awakened by the chaos (He went to sleep quite early) and came to the chaotic lobby to see what's going on. He was shocked.
"… Ignore this, we have to divert their attention. 207, stop John; I will coax Brant; Ienzo, you take Yuanfang. Oh, 135, help 207." Under 006's order, we set off for each other's duties! John was about to kiss William on the lips, I quickly took off the lamp shade he disregarded minutes ago and shoved it right in front of William. I managed to block the "attack" and protected William's first kiss! "MMUUU~~UAH! ^w^" John let out this sound once his lips connected with the lamp shade, I just wanted to laugh out loud, but due to the mission, I must hold it down!
Ienzo tried to talk some sense to Yuanfang, but the effect wasn't any good. Anne couldn't take this anymore, she undid her plaits and let her hair to droop naturally from her head. She said: "OI! Yuanfang! We're out of grapes! OK?" He finally calmed down, but he didn't want to come down just yet. After some long coaxing by Ienzo, they finally tricked him to get down. At that moment, John was knocked out by 222. Why? Apparently, Axel was hungry and he came out from his room to look for something to eat, but he met John, who had mistaken him as his crush, again. Axel grabbed a nearby water bottle and swatted his head… yeah. -_-'
Brant kept on saying Antonio was his mother, he wouldn't let go of Antonio. Harayuki and Ryuutaro got tired and went off to rescue Lawrence and Ian. Zexion crouched down before Brant and Antonio and started brainwashing (Or should I say, coaxing as well?). It was effective in the first place, but suddenly, Brant cried out loud! Zexion was taken aback; he had never encountered such a situation before… "Doesn't Mommy love Brany?" We didn't know whether to cry or to laugh… Zexion decided to use a quick and low hushed tone to convey his words to Antonio; he wanted Antonio to say them himself, for it seemed a better way. Brant sobbed a little, Antonio said: "No, Brant, your mom always loved you. It's just that Mommy's tired, OK?" "*Sob* Really?" Brant's puppy eyes and pout came out together, his eyes brimming with tears. I covered my mouth tightly; No, don't laugh! Not at a time like this! I had a hard time...
A drop of sweat dripped from Antonio's forehead, he continued: "Yes, dear. Now, will you be a good little boy and go to bed?" "… OK… *sob* Can Mommy tell me a bedtime story?" Zexion hesitated for a while, he didn't know how to continue from here. "Pwease? PWEEEASE? Mommy?" Zexion nodded curtly and Antonio took this as a cue and said: "Yes, dear." Only then Brant loosened his hands. Roxas' trousers' end was almost ripped off, but he kept really quiet throughout the brainwashing process, so Brant didn't notice his presence. The three suspected to be possessed person were settled! Mission accomplished! Phew… They all fell asleep very soon, for Brant, he was knocked out by the whatever-sleeping-fairy-I-don't-know after Antonio had told him "Snow White", "Sleeping Beauty", "Cinderella", "Rapunzel" and the prologue of "The Little Mermaid". You did your best, Antonio… -_- Luckily the teachers slept like dead pigs, if not, such a havoc we created would have freaked them out!
Now I was really tired, it's somewhere in the middle of midnight… Gotta get some sleep for tomorrow. Zzzzz…
"Flip! Flop! Fly~! I don't care if I die!" I jumped out of the bed! It's the alarm clock… To prevent my alarm from waking Zexion up who was in the same room with me (On a different bed… Ahem), I immediately turned off the alarm clock. This song was from "Chicken Run" (I own nothing from this movie and the song), the beat was quick and somewhat crazy. The clock showed it was 7 o'clock, while I still have some time before 8 o'clock (the gathering time), I wanted to enjoy the sea breeze and watch the sunrise. I changed and washed and I sneaked out of the chalet.
I stood about 30 cm away from the water on the beach. I was kind of bored, so I picked up a pebble, decided to throw it to the sea. I pulled my fist with the pebble inside backwards quickly to increase the momentum of the pebble, but my fist collided with… two furry and hard things! "OW!" "Itai!" (That hurt! [いたい!]) I was surprised, so I spun around to see - Roxas and Ienzo! "Ow… Darn it Nemix, how did you know we were behind you…? That hurt," Roxas gently rubbed his aching forehead while saying. "You two wanted to sneak up on me? Not so easy, you know… He he! But, I will apologize. Sorry to the both of you, gomennasai, (Sorry [ごめんなさい])" I guessed their motive and apologized. "Roxas, looks like Nemix's not the 'nasty plotter' for nothing… Ouch…" Ienzo put a hand on his head and said. Of course! [Authoress: Terrible liar, you were scared and yet you're pretending… -_- 207: That's what I call poker face, dude! Authoress: Whatever… :/]
I asked: "You guys woke up so early, so I'm pretty sure you guys weren't going to sneak up on me in the first place, right?" Roxas said: "Yup, I was about to get some fresh air, and I crossed paths with Ienzo, who had the same motive, and then we saw you, so we decided to sneak up on you, but who knows… *pout*" I patted his shoulder and said: "Go and train some more then." Suddenly Ienzo tensed up! He also started trembling! "Whoa, Ienzo, what's wrong?" asked Roxas. "… It's… It's Satou!" He struggled with his stuttering and pointed somewhere behind me. I spun around to see, well howdy do, that Broken-Nose Seahorse was at somewhere veeeeeeeeery far away from us, I wonder what he was up to. "Wow, Ienzo, you sure have a good eyesight!" said Roxas. A tint of red appeared on Ienzo's cheek. "What was he up to in such an early morning?" I asked, very curious. "… Ah! He must be going to have his breakfast, he had his favorite fast food for breakfast, called 'Chinese Snacks'." Roxas and me stared at him and said in unison: "'Chinese Snacks'? What kind of a name is that?!" Could snacks fill up a person's stomach? He merely shrugged and commented: "Beats me, it was newly opened… It operates in booths for now." "How did you know?" "I happened to pass by on a particular day… So… yeah…"
Wait a sec… I thought for a while, contemplating and scheming… Then, I said: "Is there a booth here?" Ienzo nodded and said: "Yup, there's one somewhere in front of us." I strained my eyes and then I saw a yellow booth about ten meters from Broken-Nose Seahorse, almost like a drive-through. Hah! Perfect plan! I snickered, spun around and said to the boys: "I've got a nasty plot again, and I need you guys…" Roxas gulped and asked: "What are you trying to do?" I only smiled cheekily and ran to my destination. They followed behind.
The three of us managed to get out of Broken-Nose Seahorse's sight and arrived at the booth first. We got into the booth, for the door was strangely unlocked all along. Luckily a "Closed" sign was hung on the door, so no one's going to enter the booth except us. I turn over the sign to reveal the "Open" sign and asked Roxas to operate the electronic devices in the booth. He also taught me how to operate the interphones which most drive-through workers used etc. This booth only had a door as its entrance; no windows, we didn't need to worry being caught in the act. There's a CCTV outside the booth, so we could know whether a customer (Or in this case, the victim) was approaching… he he… Prepare for some troll, Sir Broken-Nose Seahorse!
As expected, Broken-Nose Seahorse came, along with his two sidekicks! The more the merrier, here I go! According to what Ienzo had informed me, I imitated: "Good morning, Mister. May I help you?" "Yeah, I would like to order something." "Thank you, Captain Obvious…" I thought, continuing the plan anyway. [DISCLAIMER: THE BELOW TROLLING PART OF THE STORY WAS INSPIRED BY A MOVIE, I MERELY INCLUDED IT IN HERE PURELY FOR ENTERTAINMENT ONLY, I OWN NOTHING, I REPEAT, NOTHING! By the way, the movie was "Dude, Where's My Car?"]
207: "OK, anything you want, mister?" (P.S. BNS stands for Broken-Nose Seahorse)
BNS: "Yeah, I want, uh, three garlic chickens."
207: "*Thinks: Is there something like this on the menu? Ugh, who cares, whatever!* And then?"
BNS: "And then… uh, three big cups of white rice."
207: "*Thinks: that's more like it…* And then?"
BNS: "And then… Oh! * Turns to sidekicks* Hey, suupu wo shitai desuka?" (Do you guys want some soup? [スウプ を したい ですか?])
Side: "Mochiron! (Of course! [もちろん!])"
BNS: "OK, yeah, three bowls of, um, wantan soup."
207: "*Thinks: Wow, there's even wantan soup [a type of local delicacy in Penang, Malaysia] here in Japan?! Oh well.* And then?"
BNS: "Oh! Yes, and some of the… fortune cookies."
207: "*Thinks: You will get too fat for this… -_-'* And then?"
BNS: "Erm, no… um, It's OK, that's about it."
207: "*Thinks: Finally!* And then?"
BNS: "*Confused* …Nope, that's it!"
207: "And then?"
BNS: "No and then! I, uh, that's, uh, that's all I want."
207: "And then?"
BNS: "*Thinks: What?* … he he… *sweat drop* Hey, and then, um and then… nothing else about that order, OK? *awkward laugh*"
207: "AND THEN? *Pretending to be eager…*"
BNS: "*?* … Uh… no no, see. All I want is three garlic chickens and three big cups of white rice."
207: "Yeah, and then? *Covers Roxas' mouth to stop him from laughing*"
Side 1: "Souda! Suupu! (That's it! The soup! [そうだ! スウプ!])"
BNS: "Oh, and the wantan soup."
207: "*Suppresses laughter* And then?"
Side 2: "Bosu! (Boss! [ボス!]) Cookie's fortune!" (Ienzo was trying really hard to suppress the spontaneous laughter, I also almost burst out laughing… His English was even worse than mine!)
BNS: "*Speechless…* Yeah, and the fortune cookies. Yes, so it's just, it's the… chicken, rice, soup and fortune cookies, and THAT'S it. *Smirks*"
207: "AND THE~~~~~~~N? *Drags the syllable* ;)"
BNS: "*Huh?* … *Sweat drop* He he *Awkward laugh* And then, uh, you can put them all in a brown paper bag, and come, uh, put them into my hands, because I'm hungry to eat!"
207: "*Thinks: Such nice temper you have today, huh?* AAAAAN~~D THE~~~~~~~~N?!"
BNS: "*Interrupts* Hey! I refuse to play YOUR stupid mind games!"
207: "*Thinks: That's what I'm doing! )* Aaaaaand the~~~~~~n?!" (Roxas' face turned into a tomato! :x)
BNS: "NO! NO AND THEN!"
207: "*Starts epic battle* AND THE~N?!"
BNS: "NO AND THEN!"
207: "AND THEN!"
BNS: "NO AND THEN!"
207: "AND THEN!"
BNS: "NO AND THEN! *anime vein bulging*"
207: "AND THEN!"
BNS: "No and then… *Still bulging*"
207: "AND THEN!"
BNS: "*On the verge of killing* NO! NO AND THEN! *Bulging*"
207: "*Dragging syllables!* AAANND THE~~~~~~N?!"
BNS: "*Grits teeth* You know, you're starting to piss me off, lady… *Even more vein bulging*"
207: "*Thinks: Oh, really? I was having fun!* AND THEN? *Lowers the tone, like testing someone*"
BNS: "And THEN, he heh, I'm gonna come in here, and I'm gonna put MY FOOT in YOUR A** IF YOU SAY AND THEN AGAIN! *Vein bulges even more serious, shows fists*"
OMG! I couldn't take this anymore! I had to pause for a few seconds to stabilize myself. That was part of the plan, anyway. Roxas clutched onto Ienzo's arm very tightly like he was going to die soon, the arm almost broke off. Ienzo was trying to hold the maniacal laughter down, but I could assure you he would soon fail to do so! CCTV showed the three idiots outside, Broken-Nose Seahorse said to his sidekicks: "Saigo ni kanojo wa obieteiru… (Finally she's scared… [さいご に かのじょ は おびえている...])" In your dreams, loser! I saw the time had arrived, so I continued: "And then and then and then and then and then and then and then and then… *Ongoing*"
I was in the middle of bombarding them with my "and then"s when he decided that was the last straw, he pulled out his already-fired-up fists and feet and as for the speaker… it was hit, punched, kicked, mauled, squashed, knocked, stomped, clawed… anything you can think of. He went crazy bananas! O.O… That was out of my expectations, he even pulled the whole speaker off, tearing and pulling out bits of what I recalled as mica components and strands of wires! Whoa! Vandalism! [Authoress along with the crew: You don't say?!] Now the interphones couldn't work anymore, I was worried of one thing; would he come in via the door?! Dammit, I was too careless!
But, thanks to whatever god I worship or don't worship, his sidekicks seemed to notice something's wrong (maybe someone else heard or saw the commotion), they quickly dragged Broken-Nose Seahorse who was in berserk mode away! Whew! We remained silent and stared at one another for two seconds, and then we exploded! We couldn't even talk, once we opened our mouths, only "Ha ha ha" came out from our throats, we were sitting on the floor at first, but now we're lying or half lying on the floor, some of us slapped the wall repeatedly, some of us slammed our fists on the floor, some of us rolled on the floor, laughing mad etc. We just laughed, like possessed! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha~~~~! I can't take it anymore! That was hilarious!
After a good five minutes, we eventually regained self-control. I pushed myself up, massaging my numb cheeks and said: "Gosh! That was funny! Can't help it… hee hee… er-hem!" Roxas clutched his stomach, gasping for air. He commented: "Don't… ever… do that… anymore!" Ienzo was still laughing, but it was not as crazy as before, just a sober one: "Ha ha… 207, you're so good… how did you come up with this plan?" Hah! I'm not the nasty plotter for nothing!
"Yeah, and I would have thought that I'm gonna get an 'and then' phobia!" Someone else's voice came in! Dead silence… We all shut up, scared to death. Ienzo was shaking again, I found a fishing rod without the string, gripping it tight. It was my weapon now. We're dead meat… Big time… One-Winged Angel rang again! [Sephiroth: OI! Copyright! Authoress: When did you get here?! Cloud! Sora! Sora: Fear my Keyblade! Cloud: You again! Sephiroth: I will be back! *stomps off* Authoress: *gets out from behind the book shelf* Whew! Thanks guys! Owe you big time.]
I kicked the door open, and screamed: "YAH~~~~! A fight to the death!" I jumped out, the door flung outwards 180 degrees and slammed onto the wall! BAM! "OW! 207!" "What the Kingdom Hearts!" Wait… I had heard only one particular person who said "What the Kingdom Hearts" before… I then realized something's wrong. I put the fishing rod in my right hand and pulled the door open by the other - Lawrence and Axel! "What the…? You guys OK?" I pulled them off the wall and asked. "Do I look like?" Lawrence rubbed his nose and asked. Axel rubbed his face and said: "Good news, Lawrence, your iPad's in good shape; bad news, 207, you're finished!" Oops…
Roxas came out to save the day: "Everyone calm down! We're surprised by you guys, that's why this happened! Chill…" Ienzo was the last one to come out. He asked: "Lawrence, why are you here?" Then 443 realized, he said: "OH! Yeah, I was just passing by when you guys suddenly ran to a… booth. Then me and 222 followed you all and we saw the whole, eh, show." "We even recorded it! In the iPad!" Axel added. I snapped my fingers and said: "Good job! Can we upload it?" "… Hey that's a nice plan," 443 smiled and nodded.
We cleaned up the mess and got rid of the evidence, and then we returned to the chalet for breakfast. We also showed the video to the rest of the members of Organization XIII. Demyx and Xion said in unison: "Why you no tell us there is this good show?!" Zexion said: "No wonder I heard some machine noise, so it was Nemix's nasty plot…" "You so should be the schemer!" Demyx exclaimed. "I like 'nasty plotter' better, thank you very much. Zexion's the schemer, I'm not, OK? Say, I granted you guys a chance to refresh your minds in the morning with this troll, good, huh?" I said, smirking. "… Not bad, thank you so much, 207, I was almost squashed by you," Axel said. "Sorry, Axel. This is what happens when adrenaline rush occurs. Why don't we switch roles?" I asked. "Oh well, forget it," He gave up.
After breakfast, we were waiting for the others to fill up their stomach. Zexion said in a small voice: "Oh, yes, do you guys still remember the 'possessed' incident yesterday?" All of the members of Organization XIII nodded, but some shuddered a little. "OK, just now when I passed by the counter of the chalet lobby, I saw some brochures about drugs…" "Dru-" Demyx was about to exclaim, but Axel covered his mouth before he could let out a sound. "Keep it down… After I had read the brochure, I surfed the Internet to look for related information to verify the brochure's info, and now I had found out. It's powder cocaine."
We were like thunderstruck. "At first I thought I was oversensitive, so I simply took the brochure to read, but all their behavior matched with the results of my research! So…" Ienzo heard all of these and he was trembling, we were shocked as well. Seriously, cocaine?!
"That's it! One more thing!" Amidst the panic I realized a truth, a dreadful truth. "Wh-what?" Roxas stared at me with wide eyes and asked. "The three boys being 'possessed', namely Yuanfang, John and Brant had a similarity!" "It's -" Demyx caught the drift. I said: "Yes, they had once rescued Sir Broken-Nose Seahorse - Satou!"
~ CHAPTER 11 FIN ~
TO BE CONTINUED
A/N: OMG! Now they had trouble! This time, the case involved drugs! (And no, this is not a suggestive theme, also I have to reiterate that drugs do no good to us if they were misused) The "possessed" trio, Li Yuanfang, John Davis and Brant Sidveille had rescued Satou who nearly drowned before! What connection lies beneath?! Hah! That's Mr. Cliffhanger for you, and don't you forget it! (Yes, I stole this line from Sora, sorry!) Anyway, thanks for reading this, and you're always welcome to message me about the story, what you think of it and so on. Bye and stay tuned!