Chapter 24: Boredom Equals Danger

It had only been one week since the group started their vacation, and Rose was already bored out of her mind. She wanted to play tennis but surprisingly, Atobe didn't have any tennis courts around the mansion. She got so bored that one time…let's just say that the regulars had to lie in bed for a day after what happened.

"Rose-chan can sure be scary when she's bored nya…" Kikumaru said with obvious fear in his voice.

"Remind Ore-sama to build some courts around here if she ever comes by again," Atobe said agreeing with Kikumaru.

"Yudan sezu ni ikou," Tezuka bluntly said.

"Says another person who got beat," Yukimura pointed out.

The regulars kept discussing Rose's behavior. The only one that wasn't hurt was Ryoma of course. After all, he was her dragon master, so it would be weird if she hurt him. And the fact that he was smart enough to get the heck out of her way when it happened.

Ryoma decided to go see what Rose was doing in the meantime while the regulars rested up from today's…accident. Ryoma shivered at the thought of remembering. He went to the beach where they all last saw Rose and couldn't find her anywhere. He walked all over the beach and looked into the forest. He finally found her lying down in a patch of flowers.

Rose was relaxing comfortably in the patch of her favorite flowers which happened to be her name. She thought it great that she could be named after the pretty flower. She was relaxing after today's accident and felt guilty that she took out her boredom on the regulars. 'I really have to work on this whole "I'm bored" thing of mine. It's going to be really troublesome if I don't.'

"You got that right Rose," Ryoma replied walking up to her careful not to crush any flowers.

"Hey Ryo. What's up?"

"Nothing much. Regulars discussing what happened today."

"Oh…that…I…went way out of control there."

"You think Ro?"

Flashback Starts

"Mou! I'm bored!" Rose complained to Ryoma.

"Sorry but monkey king doesn't have any courts to play on here," Ryoma replied.

"Baka Atobe. He's a tennis player. He should at least think to have built a court here. Now what are we going to do?" Rose complained again.

"Shut up you brats," Atobe yelled after hearing Rose.

"Oh he did not just tell me to shut up and call me a brat," Rose said glaring at the Hyotei tennis captain.

"Uh oh. Atobe, I think you should take that back, like right now!" Ryoma yelled at the captain.

"Why?" Atobe questioned, "She's just a little girl. What can she do to me?"

"Did he just call me…Did he just call me a little girl..." Rose said menacingly.

Ryoma gulped and then walked a few steps away from her.

"No one calls me names when I'm around and freakishly bored at the same time," Rose said glaring daggers at Atobe.

Atobe looked at Ryoma confused and saw him mouth the words 'Run away now!' Atobe didn't understand and realized it too late when Rose transformed into her phoenix form. Atobe just started running right then and there.

Rose said to Ryoma, "Just let me at him this once. I really want to kill him right now. He was annoying me before but now it's gone a bit far."

Ryoma just nodded him head in reply. He actually valued his life. He knew Rose wouldn't kill him but could hurt him enough to make him feel like he was.

Rose just smiled a smug smile at her partner and then counted down the seconds before she went after Atobe. Ten…nine…eight…seven…six…five…four…three…two…one… and Rose just took off and flew straight towards where Atobe was running. It wasn't long until she caught sight of Atobe and saw him dragging the other regulars along with him yelling that Rose was out to get him.

Atobe was running for his life and his teammates decided to join him after he practically ran into them and explained the situation. The regulars decided to run along with him just in case Rose came after them too. They soon came across the Rikkaidai and Seigaku regulars and told them the situation.

"Saa…we should start running then," Fuji said.

Atobe questioned, "Why?"

All he got in reply was Fuji pointing at the sky. He looked up to see a large bird flying towards them and then thought nothing of it…until he saw the wings. He saw the rainbow colored wings and then yelled, "Run!" at the top of his lungs.

The regulars decided to run for their lives.

Rose looked at the running regulars and decided to chase them around for a bit. She knew that they would be mad at her for this later but knew they couldn't do anything unless they wanted to be burnt to a crisp. She started laughing a little bit, albeit a bit evilly as well. Who knew that the sweet Rose could have a sadistic side when it came to insulting her when she was bored? She thought 'I really have to stop hanging around with Fuji. I'm turning more into a sadist with every passing day. Oh well, this will be the last that this happens…I hope.'

The regulars stopped…but not to catch their breath. They were trapped against a steep mountain wall and were stuck waiting for Rose to come flying in.

Rose looked at them all and said, "Well, isn't this funny. Instead of a dragon being caught by people, it's the other way around," she finished with a smile all too alike the two sadists in the group. She then shot them a look that said 'Better not make me so bored next time vacation comes around and don't ever insult me again.' With that she blew a flame so large that it cornered them. She only made it to burn their legs a little so that they would heal in a day.

Let's just say that the group was too traumatized to move and Rose had to carry them all the way back to the mansion to have them all patched up. She was scary when she was insulted and even scarier if she was bored when she was insulted. The regulars learned never to insult her unless they wanted to be burnt to a crisp.

Flashback Ended

"Oh shut up. You know how I get when I'm freaking bored."

"Get used to it. We won't leave for another week and we have pretty much done everything here."

"Want to explore the sea with everyone?" Rose turned her head to look at Ryoma.

"Hah?" was the reply that she got along with Ryoma's confused face.

Rose giggled a bit and said, "I could make it so that we can explore the ocean with everyone. If they would like."

"Let's ask then," Ryoma held out his hand for Rose to take and pulled her up. They started walking back to the mansion and found the regulars finally being able to get out of bed.

The regulars tensed up as soon as they saw Rose enter the room and quickly said hello.

Rose and Ryoma had to laugh at them because of their reactions.

Rose decided to break the awkward silence by saying, "Anyone want to explore the ocean tomorrow?"

The regulars looked at her surprised.

Rose continued, "I realized the only thing we haven't done at all in this trip is go explore the ocean, the forest, or the mountain. We still have a week left so I thought maybe we could go explore. If anyone has any objections about us slacking off, we could say its training."

The regulars looked at each other and then at Rose saying, "How?"

"Easy. I am a dragon so I can breathe underwater for an eternity like with the poison incident. I can create air bubbles for you to use to breathe underwater for nine hours each time."

The regulars looked at her and then looked at the three captains to receive a nod in reply. That was when they all yelled, "Yahoo!"

Rose, Ryoma, Tezuka, Yukimura, Sanada, Fuji, and a few others had to cover up their ears to avoid breaking them from the outburst.

They all decided to explore the sea the next day, the forest the next, and the mountain the next day and then just plain old relax on the last three days of the trip.