28: Karin's Surprise, Competition Time!
Karin and Kisuke pulled away from the party for a bit to sneak into the basement which Karin set up as a barrier dojo with spells lining the walls. The dojo was filled with different challenges and obstacle courses causing Kisuke to whistle, "Nice work you did here. Plan on making a competition for the party goers?"
Karin smirked, "Yep, this is a competition every gets to participate in and without any superpowers. Everyone's power is restricted to that of a human while in here for the obstacle course. To make it fair for everyone who wants to play." Kisuke double checked the spells and limiters throughout the room nodding his agreement, "These are very well done, I know you asked Ryuken and I for diagrams on how to accomplish it but you did an awesome job all on your own."
Karin looked to Kisuke easily, "So what do you think of the prizes?" She moved over to the chart where 1st place received $5000, 2nd place received $2500, 3rd place received $1250 while the remaining contestants all went home with $300 a piece for trying. Kisuke read them over with a smile, "It's nice everyone goes home with something but the winners get the bulk it was a good set up."
Together they both moved back upstairs and saw Ulquiorra and Grimmjow standing there with Yuzu who grinned, "So, did everything turn out like you wanted downstairs Karin?" Karin smiled, "Yeah everything looks great so it's just a manner of announcing the surprise to everyone." Kisuke took over and headed out to announce the surprise, "Everyone start drying off and heading to the basement, your lovely hostess Karin has set up a fun activity for everyone downstairs!"
Coming back in Kisuke asked, "So who are the judges?" Karin smiled, "You, Me, Dad, and Ryuken if he wants to." The adults easily agreed and soon enough the basement became crowded by enthralled party goers.
Ichigo asked what everyone was thinking, "Karin, how in the world did you come up with all of this?" Isshin smirked, "With a little help from me, Kisuke, and Ryuken who set up things like this all the time when we were young and hunting hollows." Karin moved to the judges table and set the rules, "Alright everyone the Judges of today's competition are: Me, Dad, Ryuken, Yuzu, and Kisuke. This is a team competition and your teams have already been set for you."
Karin gestured to the color bands that appeared on everyone's hands when they walked in the room, "You all have different band colors I want you all to gather and take 10 minutes to choose a team leader and a team name." She hit the timer and the people started moving there were 6 teams Green, Purple, Red, Blue, Yellow, and Orange.
Team Orange: Orohime, Byakuya, and Yachiru. Together the group got together and decided that Orohime would be the leader of the team. Orohime's band received a symbol of a star in blue. Yachiru was happy to have a team with Byakushi much to the man's annoyance. Team Green: Ichigo, Ulquiorra, and Keigo. Ichigo and Ulquiorra decided to place Keigo in charge just to see what sorts of laughs they could get out of it. Keigo shouted in triumph as a Star appeared on his band in the color yellow.
Team Blue: Jushiro, Tatsuki, and Uriyu. Tatsuki was nominated since she recognized some of the obstacle set ups in the game and her band gained an orange star symbol. Tatsuki looked towards Orohime who showed her the band with a blue star both laughing. Team Red: Shinji, Hiyori, and Mizuho. Mizuho was chosen as leader of their group her charm and a fun joke easily sliding in with Hiyori's gruff personality and Shinji's trying jokes. His band gained a purple star.
Team Purple: Zaraki, Renji, and Chizuru. Renji was nominated to be leader since he was able to act as a lieutenant and not perving on the girls in the room too much. Zaraki was a bit trigger happy and was more liable to fall for traps or misdirection. Team Yellow: Chad, Rukia and Kaori. Since neither had worked with Kaori personally she was nominated as team leader and a green star appeared on her band.
Now that all the group leaders were decided Karin waited another 5 minutes for them to decide on a team name. Ryuken spoke into his mic on the table after the timer went off, "Team Leaders please step forward we will call you by team color and ask for your team name which Karin will write on the board."
Kisuke spoke up, "Okay Team Orange, what's your team name gonna be?" Orohime smiled, "We're team Solstice." Karin quickly wrote Solstice in Orange dry erase Marker on the board. "Okay, let's get Team Green next." Keigo stepped forward, "We're Team Cero" Karin added Cero in Green on the next section of the board with a smirk.
Isshin asked for the next two teams, "Alright kids, Team Blue-what's your name?" Tatsuki moved up and said, "Team Pisces," then Team Red leader Mizuho said, "Team Fantasy for us!" Karin easily added the names onto the board in their team colors.
Last but not least Yuzu asked for Team Purple, "Hey Yuzu, we picked Team Chaser" While Kaori smiled and announced, "Team Serenity" Karin finished adding all the names to the board and grinned and signaled to Yuzu. Yuzu gave a smile and said, "Okay teams you may have noticed that your team leaders band was labeled with a star of a different color right?"
Everyone nodded in understanding, "Well you will be competing in round one on obstacle courses 1 and 2 against the team color your star shows. Good Luck!" The teams were led to the courses for the first task, a single person had to use only upper body strength and climb to the top to ring the bell. The second person would then race down the way of tires hopping through each hole. The third person would have to crawl through the paint and into the kid pool at the end and locate the apple at the bottom by only touch. The first team to win for each set would choose which team went first in the 2nd and 3rd challenges.
For the ropes climbing was, Yachiru, Ulquiorra, Tatsuki, Shinji, Zaraki, and Rukia. The racers were Byakuya, Keigo, Jushiro, Hiyori, Chizuru, and Kaori. The crawlers were Orohime, Ichigo, Uriyu, Mizuho, Renji, and Chad. Together the climbers got ready at the ropes Karin began to count down, "On your mark, get set, Go!" The climbers hastily moved up the rope and the order of completion was Ulquiorra, Zaraki, Yachiru, Tatsuki, Shinji, and Rukia. The tire trail was won by Byakuya and closely followed by Jushiro, Kaori, Hiyori, Chizuru, and Keigo. The last challenge was won by Ichigo, followed by Chad, Mizuho, Renji, Uriyu and Orohime.
Isshin smirked, "Alright for the next round two teams will have been eliminated the teams going to the next round are: Cero, Solstice, Pisces, and Serenity! Sorry Chasers and Fantasy maybe next time we do this."
Ryuken created the second round, "Round two is Laser Tag, and your teams will be fitted with sensor gear and small play laser guns. Each person has three lives and may the best team win." Karin stepped forward, "Team Pisces is up against Team Cero, while Team Solstice is up against Team Serenity! Please separate to both obstacle mazes you will enter in from opposite sides. Kisuke has the hit counter and will call out the names of the "dead" team member when all three team members are "dead" your team loses and beware friendly fire!"
Soon the teams dove in everyone laughing and enjoying themselves throughout the game, "Chad and Yachiru are both down only two members left for Teams Solstice and Serenity." Kisuke pause and called out, "Ouch team Pisces just lost two members, and Jushiro and Uriyu are down. Tatsuki seems to have evened the playing field Ichigo and Keigo are down." It took a few minutes for Kisuke to add, "Team Serenity wins in a tag team effort Rukia used herself as bait and drew out the enemy allowing Kaori to remove Orohime and Byakuya from the competition."
Three minutes of hunting later and Tatsuki gained victory as Kisuke called out, "Team Cero lost to Team Pisces Leader, great job everyone!" Karin marked the chart for the third round to be ready to begin, "Okay Third round is a Trivia Game!" Together they judges mixed up trivia that could be answered by people on both teams fairly and so the game went for 6 questions each team. At the end the judges tallied up the final score and happily announced, "It was a great game the final Team Victory goes to Team Pisces!"
Isshin who came up with the final three questions would get to deliver the prizes to the victors. "Team Pisces all these challenges you worked together now the last 3 questions are to be answered individually. Then the prizes will be divided to the victors. Are you ready?"
The team nodded accepting the terms each had their own papers and pens to answer the questions, "Question 1: In America, what state can you find the Liberty Bell? Question 2: In Japan, what location were the operations for the Shinsengumi based out of at its inception? Question 3: What is the birthstone for December?"
All three members wrote their answers down quickly and handed them in with their names. After reading over the answers and grading them accordingly. Karin walked up to announce, "In first place Tatsuki your prize is $5000 to use as you please! 2nd place is Uriyu with a prize of $2500, and 3rd place is Jushiro with a prize of $1250 congratulations! Now if all our contestants can line up behind them we have a participation prize of $300 for everyone else!"
