Kit smirked and muttered "One down, one to go." "What do you mean by that?" Cleo and Rehteah asked together. "Well, since Xan took care of McLoser for us, we'll only have to get his happy little ass good while we're on the bus. But how?"
"How about we annoy him beyond belief. Then, when he comes at us, we deck his ass." Jin deadpanned. "Good idea, brother.
I want to go first."
Kit then cleared her throat and yelled across the bus, "Hey assmonkey!" Xanatos turned around. "Ha ha ha!" Kit exclaimed.
"You looked!" "Cut it out, you little green-eyed devil!" "How about no, Xan, okay?" James laughed and Blondie stuck her head out of the window.
Fifteen mintues into the trip, a wolf was on the bus. The wolf saw Xanatos open a box of expensive truffles and stole the box before he could even take a chocolate. "Hey! Those are mine, you rabid mutt!" The wolf went to Kit's seat and gave her the chocolates.
It stepped back and turned into a pale, dark-haired boy about Rehteah's age. "Those are for you." "You're sweet. You guys want any?" Kit asked her friends. The others nodded abd picked out a chocolate, thanking the teenage boy. "No prob." Kit then introduced him. "Rehteah, this is Lupus Wolfbane." Lupus smiled, showing dazzling white teeth as he ran his fingers through his short, choppy, black hair. His gray eyes smiled with his pale, elegant face.
"Hello, Rehteah. It's a pleasure to meet you. Just think of me as your freindly neighborhood Robin Hood." "Who's that?" Cleo asked. "I rob from the rich and give to the needy, like Robin Hood." "Isn't it poor?" Jin asked. "No. Needy." Ping replied.
"'Cause brother, wee need this chocolate. Thanks again." Kit poured out some of her chai into a cup, the light brown creamy mixture cold in her hands.
"Will you take some chai?" "I'm Robin Hood, but okay." Lupus took the cup and drank the contents. "Not bad. Cold. A
little sweet, a little spicy, but not bad." "OH BLOODY HELL NO!" Xanatos yelled. "GET BACK HERE, YOU FUCKING BASTARD! I'LL KICK YOUR HAPPY LITTLE CANDYASS!" Lupus just brought his hand to his mouth and kissed it. He then patted his butt five times.
Xani gave Lupus an evil look and rushed at him. Lupus moved out of the way and saw Xanatos rush at him again. Lupus manuvered and landed on a girl's lap. The girl giggled and wrapped her finger in his soft, silky hair. He looked up, grinned and into a wolf. He crawled under the seats. Just as Arachne was coming up, Lupus crawled out from under a seat and tried to hide
behind her, with great difficulty because he was about a head taller that Arachne. Xani, meantime,
was
trying to reach over to hit Lupus, but kept missing, in part
because he was laughing at the whole scene.
There was tall, thin, handsome Lupus Wolfbane, who was a foot taller than Arachne, trying to hide behind her.
Lupus did a pathetic attempt at camoflague by putting Arachne's hair on his head, which made the bus howl with laughter. Even Arachne was laughing. Lupus grinned at his audience, before ducking down again, avoiding a right
hook that was aimed for him. The punch just hit Arachne instead. Lupus apologized to Arachne, but the damage was done. "Lupus Aramis Wolfbane. Sit in your seat before
I punt you down the aisle." Lupus nodded and did so. "And as for you, Mr. DeCruet. Didn't anybody ever tell you not to strike a lady ?"
"That was an accident." "Well, here's why." Arachne turned him
around roughly and punted him in the butt all the way down the aisle, not even letting him take his seat. She punted him all the way to the back of the bus and walked back to the front of the bus.
Xanatos returned to his seat, ignoring the taunts and laughs that ensued. Arachne spoke into the microphone.
"Settle down." The students didn't do so.
Arachne asked again, before impatience got the better of her. Arachne brought the wand over her head and a loud orange blast came out. The blast startled them into silence, but there was no damage.
"That's better. Now, on our trip to Lipatkpti Beach, you will notice all kinds of animals, plants and the local beings called
Pescons and Gillians. They speak Othertongue like most of us,
but most of them can't speak any other language, so *be nice*."
"What do they look like?" Shane asked. "Are there any cute girls?" Arachne rolled her eyes and muttered "Suprise, suprise,"
Before she said out loud
"The Gillians generally stay on the beaches and the males look like the females, except in their dress.
They are jet-black, sandy or dark brown, have webbed hands and feet, scales, no hair and
they have frog-like faces. They spend their time in the water, but will come up once in a while.
"The Pescons look like humans above the water unless they have just recently gotten out of the water. But,
their gill-like ears give them away.
They have blue-green, dark blue, light blue or seafoam green skin. Their hair and eye color will tell you what color they
are if they look human. They generally are
very nice-looking,
but again the language gap. I doubt that you will ever get a
Pescon girl into your cabana for a few
-uh- water sports, Shane."
The students laughed at Arachne's sarcastic remark, before Lupus and Blondie went back to sticking their heads out the window.
"Just stay with the people that can speak Othertongue.
You know who they are."
Twenty minutes into the trip, Xanotos said something about catching up on his beauty rest and went to sleep. Kit heard a slight snore and turned to Cleo, an evil grin on her face.
"Cleo, do you have the make-up pack with you?" "Yes."
Cleo noticed the evil grin on Kit's face and said "Are you thinking what I think you're thinking?" "Yeah, if it involves giving Xani a makeover while he's asleep."
"Oh, Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. I want to help youuuuuuuu." Cleo said an an annoying singsong voice. "Okay. Bring the pack. Do you have concealer?" "Yep." "Foundation?" "All kinds of shades."
"Body jewels?" "Ohhhhhhhhhh, yeah." "Tweezers?" "Two pairs of the
good kind." "Nail polish?" "In all kinds of shades."
"Eye shadow?" "The whole frickin' rainbow and some darker shades." "Lipstick?" "Crimsons, lilacs, mauves, pinks, wine, purples, the whole shabang." "Excellent."
The girls approached the sleeping Xani and Cleo put down her makeup pack. Kit found the palest shade of foundation and concealer.
She dabbed the foundation on his hand, blended it and said "This is about Xani-butt's skin tone." Kit dabbed concealer under his eyes, on the nose and on the broken circle scar.
Kit then applied powder to his face. "Smile for me." Kit said as she pushed his face into a smile. She applied a very pink blush on the apples of his cheeks and to the back.
"Pluck time." Kit said.
Cleo nodded and held up a pair of tweezers. She let Kit pluck the right side of his face, before she put on the most crimson shade of lipstick she could find. Cleo plucked his other eyebrow.
"Cleo, can you give me a bright blue?" "Okay." Cleo handed Kit a compact of blue eyeshadow. Cleo braided neon pink hair ribbons in his hair using two long ribbons while Kit worked. Every once in a while, she cut the ribbons.
Cleo had done eight braids before she had Kit step back.
Kit nodded and Cleo got out a shade of lilac nail polish. As she applied a coat, Kit found rhinestones in Cleo's make-up pack. When Cleo was done with her first coat, Kit said to her friend "Now for some jewels." Kit and Cleo put the rhinestones on his face.
Kit put a filled-in heart on his scar, while Cleo made half of a
pair of glasses with the bridge. Kit made the other half as
Cleo put the second coat. Cleo stuck on a rhinestone on each wet fingernail. Kit walked away and admired their work, before she saw Cleo wasn't done yet.
Cleo stepped back and took a picture.
Kit's eyes went wide and she gasped. "What is it?" Rehteah asked. "What's wrong?" James asked.
"Why," Kit replied. "Somebody's *fabulous*!"
Xani woke up an hour later and saw that they had
stopped in front of a grocery store. When he stood up,
everyone was laughing at him. "What's so goddamn funny?" He asked. Nobody replied.
Xani asked Clarise "Why are we stopping here?"
Clarise was trying not to laugh as she said "We're stopping for groceries and snacks in the deli."
He walked into the store without a second though.
Cleo was shaking up bottles of nail polish
as she took out
rhinestones and
other nail decals. She asked Kit to hold out her hand because her
nail polish was getting a little worn. Kit nodded and Cleo
blotted nail polish remover on a cotton ball. She ran the cotton ball on Kit's hand.
Cleo removed the nail polish from Kit's claw-like
fingernails and applied a red color to them. She then
instructed Kit to wait for the nail polish to dry and to stay there.
Kit nodded. James came back out and gave Kit a package of
California rolls, a packet of soy sauce and chopsticks. Kit then
got out a cup and a pitcher with pink liquid that had black things on the bottom of it. Kit also took one of the straws that she gave to Rehteah for 'target practice' only an hour and ten minutes earlier.
Kit put the straw in the cup and sipped it as she ate the California rolls. "Thank you, James. There's a pitcher of
bubble tea and some straws in the cooler. I made some to share with the others." "Thank you." James walked to the cooler.
Kit sat by Cleo, who applied a second coat and put a rhinestone in the wet polish. She repeated the step for the other ten fingernails.
Cleo shook a bottle of dark purple nail polish and asked Rehteah if she wanted to get her nails done as well. Rehteah shrugged and said "Eh, sure. Why not?" She sat down on the sidewalk next to Kit, who was just
finishing with her lunch. She stood up and adjusted her bandanna and the whiet rose pin. Cleo was just applying a coat on Rehteah's right hand, when Kit started laughing.
"What's so funny?" Cleo asked. Kit started to laugh until she tripped and fell on her butt on the sidewalk. The sudden pain brought her to her senses and she said, her nose and cheeks pinkish-red from laughing, still laughing very uproariously, "Ahhh ha ha ha ha! Hee hee hee hee hee!! Snort! Snort!
Xani...he...he....hahahahahahaha
hahaaha...no wait...hahahahhahahaha...
oh yeah...hahahahahahahahahaha...he...
oh this is killing me...hahahaha
hahahaha...he noticed our makeover. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahaaha...no wait...hahahahhahahaa.... He said...hahahahahahahhahahh...he said...hahahahahahahahahahh...
'Holy shit!' Hee hee...
'Who the bloody fucking hell did this to me?' Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Hee hee! Oh, this is too much! Ahhh ha ha ha! This is killing meeeeee!" The girls laughed, Cleo and Rehteah
leaning on each other to keep from falling over like Kit had.
Xanatos stormed out of the store, the pink hair ribbons shining in the sun like metallic sheets of humiliation. He saw Cleo applying a second coat of nail polish to Rehteah and Kit putting Cleo's dark brown-red hair up into pigtails. This provoked him as he began to suspect who had done it to him.
"Why, Xani." Kit greeted him. "How very pretty you look today. Am I right, girls?" "Oh yeah." Cleo chimed in. "Definetley." Rehteah chirped. Xani gave the girls the look he gave Lupus as he yelled, his blue eyes blazing,
"CLEO! KIT! WHAT THE BLOODY HELL DID YOU PSYCHOS DO TO ME?!!!!!!!!!!!!" "Cleo," Kit asked. "Did you hear something?" "No. It must be the wind. Or a fly." Xani yelled at them louder than he had been. "You know," Rehteah said to him. "You're very cute when you're angry." The girls didn't think it was possible for him to get any angrier than he had been, but they were proven wrong. Xanatos started to yell at them until his voice got hoarse. "Did you say something?" Kit asked as she moved the bandanna out of the way of her ears. "I wasn't listening."
Xanatos moved towards the girls with the motive to kill, an evil look on his face. At that time, the twins came out and saw that their little sister(and in Jin's case, his girlfriend) were in danger.
That made their blood boil as they launched a double punch on Xani's back.
Xanatos turned around. Ping went behind them. Xanotos tried to get a hold on the young man right in front of him, but Jin was a track, field and gymnastics star on his team and thus too fast.
He backflipped over Xani and kicked him in the butt. Then Jin was on him, punching, kicking, pulling Xani's hair and aiming a kick in the groin that caused him to scream shrilly in agony.
"That ain't right." Ping said, while Rehteah and Kit yelled "Again!" In unison. Jin grinned at the girls and kicked him again.
"That *really* ain't right." Ping said. "Again! Again! Again! Again!" The girls yelled. Jin kicked him four more times. "That *REALLY* ain't right."
"Again! Again! Again! Again! Again! Again!" The girls yelled. Jin kicked him six more times. "That is all kinds of wrong, bro." Ping said.
Xanatos finally managed to push the tall, lean, handsome young man off of him as he walked into the bus to find make-up remover and to lick his wounds.
"You know," Kit said thoughtfully. "I really do think he's more of a summer than a winter." In a very innocent tone. "I heard that!" Xanatos exclaimed. "You were meant to."
Kit replied. "Cleo, what do you think?" "I think any of them will do fine because of his pale complexion." Cleo replied. "He could even pull off the autumn look just fine." "Cool." Cleo said. "I can still hear you." Xani yelled as he searched for something to remove the makeup. "You're supposed to." Cleo replied.
When everyone was in the bus, Arachne said "Okay, people. The last pit stop will be to a shopping center that is an hour away from the beach, so those of you who don't have a bathing suit can get one." Ping then spoke to Arachne, who nodded and handed the microphone to him.
"And remember. Keep yourselves amused. Annoy me and I'll kick your ass. Annoy Jin and he'll kick your ass. Annoy the both of us and you are in for a serious asswhomping. Everyone got that?"
The people nodded. Satisfied, Ping sat back in his seat. "What is Xani-butt doing in the bathroom?" Kit looked over and saw Clarise was still there, so she said "I think he's trying to remove the makeup." "With what? Moist towellettes?" "Maybe." Xani came back ten minutes later and said "Cleo, do you have anything that can remove this crap?" "Of course I do. And I'll let you use some if you go up there, grab the mike and start singing 'Do, a deer.'" "WHAT? No way." "Okay," Kit replied. "But you're not going to remove that much with moist towellettes becuase Otherside makeup is unsmudgeable and unremoveable without the right stuff." Xani rolled his eyes and walked back to the bathroom to try his luck again. "Cleo, you're making progress on being a vindictive bitch."
Cleo gave Kit a ceramic bowl and a glass dome with a stopper she bought in the grocery store. "Can you predict if Xani will actually do it?" "Maybe. I'll need the stuff." Cleo nodded and said "The usual deal?" "Yeah." Cleo nodded and walked around the bus.
When she got back, she had bottles with all kinds of liquids and powders in them and a stirring stick. Kit took up the bottles and put them on the floor.
She pulled off the stopper and poured a little bit of each bottle in the glass dome Kit stirred and added a pinch of each glitter.
She stirred again, before she put the stopper back on and put the dome on the bowl. In minutes, the liquid in the dome was a smoky, sparkly white.
Kit shook her arms, her head, closed her eyes and took a breath. Kit looked into the ball and said in a moaning, but mystic tone, "I see a man. He's dark-haired, but pale as death. I see him in the front of the bus." "What is he doing? What does he look like?" Cleo asked. "His face appears to have been rubbed raw somehow. he has a microphone in his hand. I see..." "What?" "People laughing at him, but he continues." Kit then looked up pleasantly and said "Cleo, get out your deck. I've had my eye on that Oriental dragon card in your deck for a long time." Cleo nodded and pulled the deck out from the pocket in her dress. "I haven't summoned it yet." Cleo said as she gave Kit a card with a red oriental dragon. Jin told the awestruck Rehteah,
"Kit does really good in foresight class even though she makes fun of the teacher and plays too much.
"Once, she caught Kit and James passing notes and told her to 'save the love notes for the end of class'. Kit got mad and conjured up a frog from an old sneaker that she got from one of the kids she has to watch over.
"The next day, she listened for any predictions. When that didn't happen, she let the conjured up frog loose in the class. The teacher didn't predict how long it would take to catch it, who would catch it or what it was made from. Now, nobody respects her because she was seen as a fraud. Kit could just be messing around when she did that, though."
Xani came out of the bathroom. His face was rubbed raw and he asked "Cleo, is your offer still valid?" Cleo nodded. "Fine." He grumlbed. He walked up to the front of the bus, grumbling curse words and death threats.
Microphone in hand, he started singing very softly "Do, a deer, a female deer." "Cleo," Kit whispered to her friend "I can barely hear him and I know you can't. Your dare is starting to suck eggs." "Sorry." Cleo whispered back. "I can fix that." Rehteah piped up. "Well, then do it."
Here's Bluefire's new part. Next part is done by me.
"How about we annoy him beyond belief. Then, when he comes at us, we deck his ass." Jin deadpanned. "Good idea, brother.
I want to go first."
Kit then cleared her throat and yelled across the bus, "Hey assmonkey!" Xanatos turned around. "Ha ha ha!" Kit exclaimed.
"You looked!" "Cut it out, you little green-eyed devil!" "How about no, Xan, okay?" James laughed and Blondie stuck her head out of the window.
Fifteen mintues into the trip, a wolf was on the bus. The wolf saw Xanatos open a box of expensive truffles and stole the box before he could even take a chocolate. "Hey! Those are mine, you rabid mutt!" The wolf went to Kit's seat and gave her the chocolates.
It stepped back and turned into a pale, dark-haired boy about Rehteah's age. "Those are for you." "You're sweet. You guys want any?" Kit asked her friends. The others nodded abd picked out a chocolate, thanking the teenage boy. "No prob." Kit then introduced him. "Rehteah, this is Lupus Wolfbane." Lupus smiled, showing dazzling white teeth as he ran his fingers through his short, choppy, black hair. His gray eyes smiled with his pale, elegant face.
"Hello, Rehteah. It's a pleasure to meet you. Just think of me as your freindly neighborhood Robin Hood." "Who's that?" Cleo asked. "I rob from the rich and give to the needy, like Robin Hood." "Isn't it poor?" Jin asked. "No. Needy." Ping replied.
"'Cause brother, wee need this chocolate. Thanks again." Kit poured out some of her chai into a cup, the light brown creamy mixture cold in her hands.
"Will you take some chai?" "I'm Robin Hood, but okay." Lupus took the cup and drank the contents. "Not bad. Cold. A
little sweet, a little spicy, but not bad." "OH BLOODY HELL NO!" Xanatos yelled. "GET BACK HERE, YOU FUCKING BASTARD! I'LL KICK YOUR HAPPY LITTLE CANDYASS!" Lupus just brought his hand to his mouth and kissed it. He then patted his butt five times.
Xani gave Lupus an evil look and rushed at him. Lupus moved out of the way and saw Xanatos rush at him again. Lupus manuvered and landed on a girl's lap. The girl giggled and wrapped her finger in his soft, silky hair. He looked up, grinned and into a wolf. He crawled under the seats. Just as Arachne was coming up, Lupus crawled out from under a seat and tried to hide
behind her, with great difficulty because he was about a head taller that Arachne. Xani, meantime,
was
trying to reach over to hit Lupus, but kept missing, in part
because he was laughing at the whole scene.
There was tall, thin, handsome Lupus Wolfbane, who was a foot taller than Arachne, trying to hide behind her.
Lupus did a pathetic attempt at camoflague by putting Arachne's hair on his head, which made the bus howl with laughter. Even Arachne was laughing. Lupus grinned at his audience, before ducking down again, avoiding a right
hook that was aimed for him. The punch just hit Arachne instead. Lupus apologized to Arachne, but the damage was done. "Lupus Aramis Wolfbane. Sit in your seat before
I punt you down the aisle." Lupus nodded and did so. "And as for you, Mr. DeCruet. Didn't anybody ever tell you not to strike a lady ?"
"That was an accident." "Well, here's why." Arachne turned him
around roughly and punted him in the butt all the way down the aisle, not even letting him take his seat. She punted him all the way to the back of the bus and walked back to the front of the bus.
Xanatos returned to his seat, ignoring the taunts and laughs that ensued. Arachne spoke into the microphone.
"Settle down." The students didn't do so.
Arachne asked again, before impatience got the better of her. Arachne brought the wand over her head and a loud orange blast came out. The blast startled them into silence, but there was no damage.
"That's better. Now, on our trip to Lipatkpti Beach, you will notice all kinds of animals, plants and the local beings called
Pescons and Gillians. They speak Othertongue like most of us,
but most of them can't speak any other language, so *be nice*."
"What do they look like?" Shane asked. "Are there any cute girls?" Arachne rolled her eyes and muttered "Suprise, suprise,"
Before she said out loud
"The Gillians generally stay on the beaches and the males look like the females, except in their dress.
They are jet-black, sandy or dark brown, have webbed hands and feet, scales, no hair and
they have frog-like faces. They spend their time in the water, but will come up once in a while.
"The Pescons look like humans above the water unless they have just recently gotten out of the water. But,
their gill-like ears give them away.
They have blue-green, dark blue, light blue or seafoam green skin. Their hair and eye color will tell you what color they
are if they look human. They generally are
very nice-looking,
but again the language gap. I doubt that you will ever get a
Pescon girl into your cabana for a few
-uh- water sports, Shane."
The students laughed at Arachne's sarcastic remark, before Lupus and Blondie went back to sticking their heads out the window.
"Just stay with the people that can speak Othertongue.
You know who they are."
Twenty minutes into the trip, Xanotos said something about catching up on his beauty rest and went to sleep. Kit heard a slight snore and turned to Cleo, an evil grin on her face.
"Cleo, do you have the make-up pack with you?" "Yes."
Cleo noticed the evil grin on Kit's face and said "Are you thinking what I think you're thinking?" "Yeah, if it involves giving Xani a makeover while he's asleep."
"Oh, Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. I want to help youuuuuuuu." Cleo said an an annoying singsong voice. "Okay. Bring the pack. Do you have concealer?" "Yep." "Foundation?" "All kinds of shades."
"Body jewels?" "Ohhhhhhhhhh, yeah." "Tweezers?" "Two pairs of the
good kind." "Nail polish?" "In all kinds of shades."
"Eye shadow?" "The whole frickin' rainbow and some darker shades." "Lipstick?" "Crimsons, lilacs, mauves, pinks, wine, purples, the whole shabang." "Excellent."
The girls approached the sleeping Xani and Cleo put down her makeup pack. Kit found the palest shade of foundation and concealer.
She dabbed the foundation on his hand, blended it and said "This is about Xani-butt's skin tone." Kit dabbed concealer under his eyes, on the nose and on the broken circle scar.
Kit then applied powder to his face. "Smile for me." Kit said as she pushed his face into a smile. She applied a very pink blush on the apples of his cheeks and to the back.
"Pluck time." Kit said.
Cleo nodded and held up a pair of tweezers. She let Kit pluck the right side of his face, before she put on the most crimson shade of lipstick she could find. Cleo plucked his other eyebrow.
"Cleo, can you give me a bright blue?" "Okay." Cleo handed Kit a compact of blue eyeshadow. Cleo braided neon pink hair ribbons in his hair using two long ribbons while Kit worked. Every once in a while, she cut the ribbons.
Cleo had done eight braids before she had Kit step back.
Kit nodded and Cleo got out a shade of lilac nail polish. As she applied a coat, Kit found rhinestones in Cleo's make-up pack. When Cleo was done with her first coat, Kit said to her friend "Now for some jewels." Kit and Cleo put the rhinestones on his face.
Kit put a filled-in heart on his scar, while Cleo made half of a
pair of glasses with the bridge. Kit made the other half as
Cleo put the second coat. Cleo stuck on a rhinestone on each wet fingernail. Kit walked away and admired their work, before she saw Cleo wasn't done yet.
Cleo stepped back and took a picture.
Kit's eyes went wide and she gasped. "What is it?" Rehteah asked. "What's wrong?" James asked.
"Why," Kit replied. "Somebody's *fabulous*!"
Xani woke up an hour later and saw that they had
stopped in front of a grocery store. When he stood up,
everyone was laughing at him. "What's so goddamn funny?" He asked. Nobody replied.
Xani asked Clarise "Why are we stopping here?"
Clarise was trying not to laugh as she said "We're stopping for groceries and snacks in the deli."
He walked into the store without a second though.
Cleo was shaking up bottles of nail polish
as she took out
rhinestones and
other nail decals. She asked Kit to hold out her hand because her
nail polish was getting a little worn. Kit nodded and Cleo
blotted nail polish remover on a cotton ball. She ran the cotton ball on Kit's hand.
Cleo removed the nail polish from Kit's claw-like
fingernails and applied a red color to them. She then
instructed Kit to wait for the nail polish to dry and to stay there.
Kit nodded. James came back out and gave Kit a package of
California rolls, a packet of soy sauce and chopsticks. Kit then
got out a cup and a pitcher with pink liquid that had black things on the bottom of it. Kit also took one of the straws that she gave to Rehteah for 'target practice' only an hour and ten minutes earlier.
Kit put the straw in the cup and sipped it as she ate the California rolls. "Thank you, James. There's a pitcher of
bubble tea and some straws in the cooler. I made some to share with the others." "Thank you." James walked to the cooler.
Kit sat by Cleo, who applied a second coat and put a rhinestone in the wet polish. She repeated the step for the other ten fingernails.
Cleo shook a bottle of dark purple nail polish and asked Rehteah if she wanted to get her nails done as well. Rehteah shrugged and said "Eh, sure. Why not?" She sat down on the sidewalk next to Kit, who was just
finishing with her lunch. She stood up and adjusted her bandanna and the whiet rose pin. Cleo was just applying a coat on Rehteah's right hand, when Kit started laughing.
"What's so funny?" Cleo asked. Kit started to laugh until she tripped and fell on her butt on the sidewalk. The sudden pain brought her to her senses and she said, her nose and cheeks pinkish-red from laughing, still laughing very uproariously, "Ahhh ha ha ha ha! Hee hee hee hee hee!! Snort! Snort!
Xani...he...he....hahahahahahaha
hahaaha...no wait...hahahahhahahaha...
oh yeah...hahahahahahahahahaha...he...
oh this is killing me...hahahaha
hahahaha...he noticed our makeover. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahaaha...no wait...hahahahhahahaa.... He said...hahahahahahahhahahh...he said...hahahahahahahahahahh...
'Holy shit!' Hee hee...
'Who the bloody fucking hell did this to me?' Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Hee hee! Oh, this is too much! Ahhh ha ha ha! This is killing meeeeee!" The girls laughed, Cleo and Rehteah
leaning on each other to keep from falling over like Kit had.
Xanatos stormed out of the store, the pink hair ribbons shining in the sun like metallic sheets of humiliation. He saw Cleo applying a second coat of nail polish to Rehteah and Kit putting Cleo's dark brown-red hair up into pigtails. This provoked him as he began to suspect who had done it to him.
"Why, Xani." Kit greeted him. "How very pretty you look today. Am I right, girls?" "Oh yeah." Cleo chimed in. "Definetley." Rehteah chirped. Xani gave the girls the look he gave Lupus as he yelled, his blue eyes blazing,
"CLEO! KIT! WHAT THE BLOODY HELL DID YOU PSYCHOS DO TO ME?!!!!!!!!!!!!" "Cleo," Kit asked. "Did you hear something?" "No. It must be the wind. Or a fly." Xani yelled at them louder than he had been. "You know," Rehteah said to him. "You're very cute when you're angry." The girls didn't think it was possible for him to get any angrier than he had been, but they were proven wrong. Xanatos started to yell at them until his voice got hoarse. "Did you say something?" Kit asked as she moved the bandanna out of the way of her ears. "I wasn't listening."
Xanatos moved towards the girls with the motive to kill, an evil look on his face. At that time, the twins came out and saw that their little sister(and in Jin's case, his girlfriend) were in danger.
That made their blood boil as they launched a double punch on Xani's back.
Xanatos turned around. Ping went behind them. Xanotos tried to get a hold on the young man right in front of him, but Jin was a track, field and gymnastics star on his team and thus too fast.
He backflipped over Xani and kicked him in the butt. Then Jin was on him, punching, kicking, pulling Xani's hair and aiming a kick in the groin that caused him to scream shrilly in agony.
"That ain't right." Ping said, while Rehteah and Kit yelled "Again!" In unison. Jin grinned at the girls and kicked him again.
"That *really* ain't right." Ping said. "Again! Again! Again! Again!" The girls yelled. Jin kicked him four more times. "That *REALLY* ain't right."
"Again! Again! Again! Again! Again! Again!" The girls yelled. Jin kicked him six more times. "That is all kinds of wrong, bro." Ping said.
Xanatos finally managed to push the tall, lean, handsome young man off of him as he walked into the bus to find make-up remover and to lick his wounds.
"You know," Kit said thoughtfully. "I really do think he's more of a summer than a winter." In a very innocent tone. "I heard that!" Xanatos exclaimed. "You were meant to."
Kit replied. "Cleo, what do you think?" "I think any of them will do fine because of his pale complexion." Cleo replied. "He could even pull off the autumn look just fine." "Cool." Cleo said. "I can still hear you." Xani yelled as he searched for something to remove the makeup. "You're supposed to." Cleo replied.
When everyone was in the bus, Arachne said "Okay, people. The last pit stop will be to a shopping center that is an hour away from the beach, so those of you who don't have a bathing suit can get one." Ping then spoke to Arachne, who nodded and handed the microphone to him.
"And remember. Keep yourselves amused. Annoy me and I'll kick your ass. Annoy Jin and he'll kick your ass. Annoy the both of us and you are in for a serious asswhomping. Everyone got that?"
The people nodded. Satisfied, Ping sat back in his seat. "What is Xani-butt doing in the bathroom?" Kit looked over and saw Clarise was still there, so she said "I think he's trying to remove the makeup." "With what? Moist towellettes?" "Maybe." Xani came back ten minutes later and said "Cleo, do you have anything that can remove this crap?" "Of course I do. And I'll let you use some if you go up there, grab the mike and start singing 'Do, a deer.'" "WHAT? No way." "Okay," Kit replied. "But you're not going to remove that much with moist towellettes becuase Otherside makeup is unsmudgeable and unremoveable without the right stuff." Xani rolled his eyes and walked back to the bathroom to try his luck again. "Cleo, you're making progress on being a vindictive bitch."
Cleo gave Kit a ceramic bowl and a glass dome with a stopper she bought in the grocery store. "Can you predict if Xani will actually do it?" "Maybe. I'll need the stuff." Cleo nodded and said "The usual deal?" "Yeah." Cleo nodded and walked around the bus.
When she got back, she had bottles with all kinds of liquids and powders in them and a stirring stick. Kit took up the bottles and put them on the floor.
She pulled off the stopper and poured a little bit of each bottle in the glass dome Kit stirred and added a pinch of each glitter.
She stirred again, before she put the stopper back on and put the dome on the bowl. In minutes, the liquid in the dome was a smoky, sparkly white.
Kit shook her arms, her head, closed her eyes and took a breath. Kit looked into the ball and said in a moaning, but mystic tone, "I see a man. He's dark-haired, but pale as death. I see him in the front of the bus." "What is he doing? What does he look like?" Cleo asked. "His face appears to have been rubbed raw somehow. he has a microphone in his hand. I see..." "What?" "People laughing at him, but he continues." Kit then looked up pleasantly and said "Cleo, get out your deck. I've had my eye on that Oriental dragon card in your deck for a long time." Cleo nodded and pulled the deck out from the pocket in her dress. "I haven't summoned it yet." Cleo said as she gave Kit a card with a red oriental dragon. Jin told the awestruck Rehteah,
"Kit does really good in foresight class even though she makes fun of the teacher and plays too much.
"Once, she caught Kit and James passing notes and told her to 'save the love notes for the end of class'. Kit got mad and conjured up a frog from an old sneaker that she got from one of the kids she has to watch over.
"The next day, she listened for any predictions. When that didn't happen, she let the conjured up frog loose in the class. The teacher didn't predict how long it would take to catch it, who would catch it or what it was made from. Now, nobody respects her because she was seen as a fraud. Kit could just be messing around when she did that, though."
Xani came out of the bathroom. His face was rubbed raw and he asked "Cleo, is your offer still valid?" Cleo nodded. "Fine." He grumlbed. He walked up to the front of the bus, grumbling curse words and death threats.
Microphone in hand, he started singing very softly "Do, a deer, a female deer." "Cleo," Kit whispered to her friend "I can barely hear him and I know you can't. Your dare is starting to suck eggs." "Sorry." Cleo whispered back. "I can fix that." Rehteah piped up. "Well, then do it."
Here's Bluefire's new part. Next part is done by me.