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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
_Enforced words_
(F.Y.I.)
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Near or Far
Chapter three
"We're going to go ahead and go in separately, or it would be
WAY suspicious." Madison said.
"What? A teacher, a slut, a secret service drop out, and a
transvestite would look weird together?" Sakura asked
sarcastically(duh). Madison gave her the look(not the glare, you
know which one I'm talking about.)
"Just for that, you go in first." Madison said.
"Oh, no, no, no! I'm not going in there first! The transvestite
should go it first! He's the weirdest, it'll avert more attention
from me!"
Zachary fixed her with a death glare. She just shrugged.
"It's true."
"No, you go first. you insulted me." Zachary said in his high voice.
Li snorted.
"And you go after her!" Zachary pointed to Li, still talking in his
high voice.
"And then you, and then me." Madison said to Zachary.
"Hey, why me before you?" Zachary said, talking normal, which
was even funnier.
"Well, after such a weird display of peoples, I could add some
relief." She pointed out. "Now, you go!" Madison push Sakura
toward the opening gate.
"Okay, Okay!"
Sakura stepped onto the plane, and quickly headed to the vicinity
near her seat. The flight attendant looked at her weird, a fact
she tried her best to ignore as she swept past into the cabin of
the airplane. As she walked down the isle, trying to find her seat
as fast as possible, all of the passengers when silent. She walked
past an old man, who was talking to a flight attendant. She heard
a little of what he was saying which included "Trash like that has
no business flying first class." He said, glaring at her. Sakura
rolled her eyes.
'Rich asshole snob. If I want to ride here, he can't do anything.'
She found her seat and quickly sat down, pulling the cape she
had made Madison let her wear around her as best she could.
There was a little girl sitting across the isle, staring at her, wide
eyed. The girls mother leaned over and whispered something
Sakura couldn't quite make out, but was pretty sure it was
"That's what you'll end up as if you do drugs.". Sakura smiled at
the little girl, but with all the layers of makeup Madison had
applied, it looked more like a satanic smirk. The poor girl
whimpered, and burst into tears. Sakura sighed and turned to
look out the window, but realized she wasn't alone. There was
some kid around 14-15, staring at the exposed length of her leg,
that had somehow found it's way out from underneath the cape.
"Damn. You are _fine_." He said. Sakura grimaced
'Oooh, someone wants to sound like a big boy, so he cursed! How
naughty! Oh, but here's something naughtier!'
"Really? Why thank you." Sakura batted her eyes.
"No, I mean it. You are _Fi-hine_!"
"Well, that's very kind of you, but before you get any idea's, I
have to tell you something...." Sakura leaned over and whispered
something into his ear.
~*~*~*~*~*~(Li's P.O.V.)~*~*~*~*~
Li walked onto the airplane looking very mysterious indeed. He
gave a meaningful glance at Sakura, and it wasn't till he passed
her that she realized he was sitting in the seat directly behind
her. There was a little shit to her right that was checking her
out.
"Damn you're fine," he said to her face. Li narrowed his eyes,
and sat down. But not before he saw Sakura grimace.
"Really? Why thank you." He heard her say.
'What is she doing? Please tell me she isn't going to live up to her
character..."
"No, I mean it. You are Fi-hine!" He heard the little asshole say.
'Bastered.'
"Well, that's very kind of you, but before you get any idea's, I
have to tell you something...."He heard her say, but just couldn't
make out the rest.
'What did you tell him?'He ached to ask, but restrained, knowing
it would blow their cover. Much to his surprise, there came an
answering voice in his head.
'I told him I used to be a guy. Hey, wait, how did you get in my
head?' he heard.
Li looked a little confused. He decided to try to answer
'I-I don't know! It just happened! How do you get in my head?'
'I don't know! This is seriously weird!'
'Tell me about it! What's it feel like to you?'
'It feels kind of like I'm flying. And when I close my eyes I see
just fog.'
'Fog? Really? When I close my eyes, I see a lot of different
colors.'
'I guess I'm just a colorful person.'
'Ha, ha. So very funny. Hey, while your in there, don't touch
anything.'
'Why? Do you have some secrets hidden away in there?'
Li tried to avoid the answer. 'I just want you losing my mind. So
you told that kid you used to be a man?' He asked, trying to
change the subject, he still had memories fresh and flowing of
the incident that morning.
'Yep, and he actually fell for it.'
Just then the captain's voice came over the intercom.
"Welcome to flight 666. We will be lifting off in a minute. Please
put your seats in an upright position and turn your attention to
the flight attendants, who are giving instructions on emergency
procedures. Thank you for flying Starbright Airlines."
He finished, and they began their mental conversation again.
' Well, I'm not talking to you the whole trip. I'm planning on
sleeping a lot.'
'I wonder what Zachary and Madison are doing right now?'
'Who knows? They know where we're supposed to go after we
get off the planes, right?' he replied.
'Relax! Everything's going to go fine.'
'How can you say that?! My thoughts aren't even mine anymore!'
'Well, I'm not incredibly glad myself! Do I really need to know
where you used hide your crush's pictures from Meilin?! Hey,
she looks kind of familiar, do I know her?'
'I told you to stay out of there! Can we turn this function off
somehow?'
'How should I know?!' she replied, getting frustrated as the
plane left the runway.
'Maybe we can figure it out. It could work on authorization.'
'Translation please?'
'Means we can't invade each others minds without asking first.'
'How will we know if it works?'
'Ask me if you can talk to me, and I'll say no, and If I don't hear
you, I'll know that it worked.'
'Can I talk to you?'
'No.'
'Aw come on, Li!'
'Guess it doesn't work that way.'
'Maybe it only works if we're thinking about each other at the
same time, and we can only hear the thoughts we direct to each
other. Call me a really nasty name, and I'll tell you if I hear it.'
She struggled not to think about Li, and thought about the book
she had been reading instead. She waited for about 2 minutes
for a response, but she didn't hear anything, until…
A loud whirring noise sounded in her head, causing her to cry out
in pain, and apparently Li heard it too, because she heard him
groan. Everyone on the plane turned towards them.
"Ears popped." She said in the husky voice she had been
practicing all night long, then returned to her thoughts.
'Li? What was that?!'
'I don't know. What was that voice all about?'
'SILENCE!' someone hissed.
The new commanding voice entered both their heads at the same
time. Despite being commanding, it was also unmistakably
feminine.
'Who are you?' Sakura asked.
'I am the teacher.'
'Huh?' Li was obviously confused.
'The teacher. If you are successful in this capture, I will be your
teacher.'
'Ummmmm, ooookay. What exactly will you be teaching?' Li
asked.
'The secrets of Clow. It is promised that the one who captures
the card Seek will be taught the secrets of Clow's magic.'
'SAKURA!!' Li was catching on.
"Oops. I must have…uh…forgot!'
'You would not forget something like that!'
'SILENCE!! I will not listen to this infernal bickering a moment
longer!'
'Why does she get the teachings? I'm the direc…' no matter how
much he liked her,or how many years they had known each other,
he was still slightly resentful that she got chosen for everything.
'Oh, stop it, Li.'
'Why?'
'STOP!!! I will not teach anyone anything unless you two stop
fighting.'
"Hey, are you a professional?" Sakura heard someone say. She
turned to look at the person standing in the aisle. Sakura sighed.
"Yes, but I don't like plane bathrooms. Get back to me when we
land." She smiled at him, he smiled in what HE thought was a
seducing manner, and walked off.
'What did you just tell him? Tell me your not living up to your
character.'Li said, now very mad.
'Hey, why don't you live up to yours? You know, stare into space
and NOT SAY ANYTHING?!?!?!'
'I'm not saying anything. I'm thinking things.'
'Argh! That's it!'
Sakura ignored him the rest of the flight, thinking about stuff
other than him most of the time, but seeing what he was saying a
few times. Which was mostly consisted on 'Why do YOU get
everything?', or, 'Listen to me!', or stuff like that. After a while
Sakura was feeling pity on him, since all that she had heard in
about half an hour was 'Please listen to me!', but then he started
whining again. She groaned. At least ten guys had stopped by her
seat and asked her if she was busy. She either told them that
she was, or that she was a guy, or that she hated airplane
bathrooms. And though she couldn't hear any of the times, Li
would always say 'Bastered', or 'Asshole', or 'If he wants a slut
he should go home to his wife.'. The numerous passes that were
made to Sakura really annoyed him. And after what seemed to Li
like a million corny pick-up lines, a flight attendant FINALLY
came over the intercom.
'Please restore your seats to an up-right position, and secure
your seatbelts. We are about to land."
The plane touched ground, and after she was given permission
Sakura quickly got out of the seat and walked to the waiting
room. Li caught up to her, trying to look like he just had
somewhere to be, not that he was associating with a slut.
"Why weren't you listening to me?"
"Oh, you were talking? I thought you had decided to go to sleep
like you said."
"You knew that I was talking to you, you blocked me out."
"What? Jealous that I thought of how to block you before you
thought of it?"
"I'm not jealous of anything. You don't have anything that
anyone would be jealous of."
"I'm the mistress of the Clow cards, and your not. Your just
some wannabe warrior that decided to tag along and act like he
was protecting me, thinking that it's as close to doing what you
were planning to do in the first place, so you'd do that instead."
"I did help you, numerous times. If it weren't for me you would
probably be dead by now."
They had sat down in the chairs, waiting for a teacher and a
cross-dresser.
"And if it weren't for me you would have a high chance of dying
a virgin. Considering your social status when I first met you."
"Well, rest assured YOU wont die a virgin. At least I'm fully
covered."
"Your funny. Ok, no your not. Let me tell you something, Li. You
may think your hot stuff, you may think that, hey, since you can
fight and I can't you could be my bodyguard and get credit for
more than you did, but you are so very wrong. Actually I think
you deserve a round of applause. Anyone with as little pride with
enough gall to walk the earth without shame as you deserves a
cheer. Hip, hip, hurrah."
"And just because you can think of a quick comeback doesn't
mean your queen of the world, either. Just keep hoping that you
accomplish something in life, and keep telling guys that you don't
like restrooms, happiness WILL come, really!"
"And keep telling girls that you already have a girlfriend, you'll
get one eventually, really!"
"Hey, are you busy at the moment?" The guy that asked her out
first lived up to Sakura's challenge, and was asking again after
they got off.
"If I throw a stick, will you leave me alone?" Sakura asked,
losing all patience.
"Only if it feels good." Sakura growled."Oooh. That cute."
"Ok, fine come on." Sakura stood up and dragged the guy to a
group of restrooms. They wend in the one that was for family. Li
stared after her, not believing what he just saw.
"Ok, how do you want to start, sweetheart?" The sleaze bag
asked.
"Well, first, you have to close your eyes." She said.
"Okay."
Sakura grabbed his head and slammed it against the thing that
was used to changed babies' diapers.
"I don't like going to the bathroom with company." She said. The
man lay unconscious. Sakura stepped over him and out the door.
She straightened her skirt and looked over at Li. Madison and
Zachary had caught up, and were staring at her. Sakura looked
at Li. And glared. Yes, glared. She had gotten it down. She glared
at him. Then she turned and walked off.
'I'll get it without anyone.' she thought, forgetting the advice
Kero had given them.
'Oh, god, what have I done?'Li thought. He got up and followed
her, making sure she didn't know, glad that it fitted his
character to do this.
"God these places are a maze!" Sakura said. She closed her
eyes, and decided just to follow what she sensed at the moment.
She walked down, and into the parking lot, and she walked out of
that. She ran to the street, and figured how long it would take to
get anywhere. She couldn't use any cards, that would blow her
cover and give fair warning to the Seek that she was there. She
ran back to the parking lot, and onto a bus that was heading for
downtown Houston. She had the same problem here as the plane.
Li looked around. He had lost her. He could have sworn she ran
out to the street. He tried to sense her.
'She's back in the parking garage. What's she doing in there?'
Li ran back to the garage, and got to the bus just as it was
leaving the airport.
"Damn it."
He looked at the next bus. It was headed to down town Houston.
He got inside at stopped the driver.
"Excuse me, sir. Were is this bus headed?" He asked, sounding
very official. The driver looked frightened.
"Uh, to down town Houston"He stuttered.
"No need to be frightened, sir. Is this headed to the same place
as the bus that just left?"
"Y-Yes."
"Thank you." Li took a seat near the back of the bus. The driver
was about to close the door, when someone stopped him.
"Just need to catch this one." Li heard a high pitched voice. A
cross dresser stepped on the bus. Li sighed. The guy immediately
headed to Li.
"Hey, man." Zachary said quietly.
"You are totally blowing our cover."
The driver, still very frightened, took off to down town Houston.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Come on! Hurry up and get there!' Sakura thought to herself.
The bus just kept going. Sakura looked out the window. It was
all streets. Every were there were streets. It was like a knot,
there were so many. She looked ahead, trying to see were they
were headed. It as like an island. A whole lot of buildings all
crushed together. And all of them looked like they were made of
glass.
'Jackpot.'
The bus finally came to a stop. Sakura got off and looked
around. She focused her powers, and felt the card. She ran
after it, into the island of buildings. Street after street. She
kept going, the street lights on her side, letting her pass just as
she got there. But finally she had to stop. She stood on the
corner, waiting for what seemed like forever for the light to
change. Three guys stopped for her. She just sneered and
ignored them She had had too bad a day so far to mess with it.
She had gotten in a fight, and ran away angry, and now she had
no idea what was going to happen. She could only figure it out as
it came. Kero wasn't there anymore to help put it down in black
and white for her. The light finally turned green, and she ran to
what she was certain was her death.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Thank you, very much sir. I'll be sure to put a good word in for
you with the president. Once we know who it is." Li stepped off
the bus. Zachary walked behind him.
"What's going on?" He asked Li.
"Sakura and I got into a fight, because I'm jealous of her. She
ran off to get the card herself, and is probably going to get
killed if We don't get to her in time."
Zachary gasped.
"Your-Your joking, right?"He asked, not able to think about if he
wasn't.
"No. I'm not."
"Well, how are we going to find her? I mean, she could be
anywhere!"
Li stopped and closed his eyes.
"Li? Buddy?"
His heart started to pound, the first sign that it was working. He
became flushed, blood pounding through his veins, tingles going
through-out his body, a garentee that she was close. He took a
deep breath, trying to calm his ecstatic heart.
'I know she's ok.' He told it.
He tried to focus hiss happiness on his powers, trying to find
that cloud of pink aura, knowing it was his love. He tried, and
tried, and finally caught a glimpse. He immediately set off
toward it, knowing that he wasn't going to get a better reading,
as Kero had said, being so close to this strong of a card is
warping his powers.
"Hey, were are we going?" Zachary asked, still following him.
"To help Sakura."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Sakura stopped in front of the building. She knew it was in there.
She stepped inside. No one was at the desk. She walked over,
and glanced at the papers on the desk. A name caught her eyes.
Henry J. Vargus
'Hmmmm.'
"May I help you?" She turned around, to she a very square
looking woman, almost as bad as Madison.
"Uh, yes. I'm here to see someone."
The woman raised an eyebrow.
"I doubt anyone here would want to see someone like you." She
said, sounding very stuck up.
"Well ,that's funny. I was sure Henry told me to come here. He
said he would tell his stuck up secretary that he was expecting
someone named Tanya, by the way, that's me, and that she
would let me right up. Oh, well." She looked past the woman,
slowly making her way to the door.
"Wait, um, what is this man last name?"
"Vargus."
The woman frowned.
"That sounds like him. I don't know why Wells Fargo hired him in
the first place...." The woman muttered under her breath.
She walked over the desk.
"Henry? there's someone here to see you. She says her name is
Tanya."
There was a pause. Sakura started to think her cover would be
blown.
"Tanya? So she came crawling back, eh? Send her up."
Sakura grinned triumphantly. The woman got up to show her the
way. She led her to a hall, and pointed.
"It's the third door to your right." She said snottily, and walked
off.
"Ok, whatever."
Sakura made her way to the door.
"This guy has to be a real sleaze bag to know someone who's
name I picked off the top of my head."
She walked inside the office, bracing herself for lame pick-up
lines.
"Hey. You don't look like my Tanya. Oh, well, either way, your
hot."
Sakura looked at the man behind the desk. His hair was black, in
that flat top type style(Eeeeww*shudder*), his complexion was a
Mexican color, and, ok, to put it plainly, he was UH-HUGLY. And
I don't just mean ugly, I mean UH-HUH-GLY. Sakura squeezed
her eyes shut for a moment, trying to give herself better barings
for the level of ugliness. Sakura opened her eyes and smiled.
"You know, no wonder you have to pay for sex. If all of you is as
ugly as your face, I wouldn't want to touch you." She said in her
husky voice. Henry looked surprised.
"You aren't supposed to insult me, are you?"
"Who said I wasn't allowed? You? As if I would ever do what
you say?"
"If you won't, then you can leave."
He reached for the intercom, about to call his stuck up, square
assed secretary. Sakura, in record time, ran over and karate
chopped his hand, and then took one of his paperweights and
smashed the intercom. Henry looked yet even more surprised.
"I'm here on business, and I won't let some sleaze bag like you
ruin what I came here to do." She said, or more or less growled.
She smiled and left his office. He just sat there, bewildered.
Sakura walked to the elevator, and pushed every button. She
wanted to be sure to check every floor so as to know which the
Seek was in. The first floors held nothing. Around the 20th floor
someone walked in, and started to hit on Sakura. She 'let him
off' at the next floor. She kept going, waiting for the pinpoint
location of the card. She reached the top floor and realized it
was closest. She stepped off, looking for the card. she followed
what she sensed, and came to the middle of the floor. It wasn't
there. She narrowed her eyes, and looked up. It was on the roof.
"Damn it."
"What was that?" Someone walking by asked. Sakura looked
back down.
"Oh, nothing. I think I might have lost a contact, but I'm not
sure. There to change the color of my eyes, are both of them
green?"
The woman leaned in a little.
"Yep."
Sakura was a little confused.
"Do you see what I'm wearing?"She asked.
The woman smiled.
"Don't worry, I don't mind. I have a sister that's just like that. I
don't like her much, but I don't mind anyone's business. Their
the ones who choose it, not me, so I won't waste my breath."
Sakura smiled.
"Thank you. And if I ever see your sister, or any other slut, I
promise I will slap her for you. Do you know how to get to the
roof?"
The woman was a little stunned by the change in topics. Or
maybe it was the promise of slapping what she thought were
people undergoing the same business as Sakura.
"Oh, yeah. Go down the hall, turn right, keep going till the end,
turn right again, and at the end of the hall there will be a door
that leads to the stairwell, and you just go up the stairs." The
woman pointed.
"Thank you so much. You are truly a blessing to this fucked up
world."
Sakura ran down the hall, leaving a yet even more stunned lady
behind. Sakura dashed down the hallway, following the directions
perfectly. She opened the door and felt the cold wind blowing
through her, uh, everything. She didn't see anything, but realized
that the flat of the roof lasted about four or five feet, and then
dropped to a slight drop, which then dropped off to a freefall,
landing on a steeply slanted(can you think of a better word?)
part, and a dead drop to the ground. Sakura shivered. She tried
to look for the card, but was too scared to look anywhere other
than at her feet. She mentally hit herself.
'Wuss! And you expect to beat the strongest of the cards? Your
pathetic!' She prodded herself, but a sudden sadness swept over
her at the 'your pathetic' part, which had always been Li's pet
insult for her.
She crept along the rooftop silently, like a tiger hunting it's prey.
She heard a noise behind her, and suddenly realized that she was
no longer the hunter, but now the hunted. She whipped her head
around in the direction from which the sound had come from.
Floating about a foot off the ground was the Seek. It's hair was
cut short, and very dark. It's dress was black, a slit up the side,
and two strips of fabric crossed over, wrapping around her neck.
Sewn to that were two strips leading to the sleeves, that would
otherwise be detached. It had a blue, cape like thing, that stuck
up behind it, showing spikes behind it's short hair. It was holding
sort of a purplish, metallic orb low in front of it, that glistened in
the afternoon sunlight. It's eyes were narrowed, and it regarded
Sakura as if she were a insect, that could be effortlessly
swatted away. Sakura drew herself up to her full height, high
heels included.
*card fakes a yawn*
"Could we get on with killing you now? I was kinda looking
forward to a challenge, but now all I want is a nap."
Sakura sneered.
"You are so funny....." Sakura quipped.
"And the sound you make falling down to the ground below will
be equally funny."
"Or maybe I was mistaken..." Sakura continued like she hadn't
heard it."Maybe it's just the way you look."
The card sneered at her.
"Can we get ON with it?" It asked in a VERY annoyed voice.
"Oh, what? Don't you like talking to me?"
"No, I do, really. It helps me to look forward to killing you." The
card said with a smirk. It brought up her hands, letting the orb
float between them. A light developed inside of it, rather fast,
and shot out toward Sakura. She dodged out of the way.
'This is by far the WORST place to do this.' She thought,
dodging another shot.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Li kept running, trying to get there before something, anything,
happened.
'Stupid, stupid, stupid.' He thought to himself. He finally stopped
in front of a VERY tall building. In fact, it was the tallest one
out of them all.
"She's in there." He pointed. Zachary barely still with him, he
was running so fast, dropped to the ground next to him.
"How can you run so fast?" He gasped.
"I've been trained to all my life." He answered simply. "You stay
out here. I'm surprised Sakura's in this type of place with her
costume."
Li walked in, leaving a defiant Zachary behind, or at least he
thought. He walked up to the secretary.
"Hello, ma'am. Have you seen a woman, looked about 18, 19,-"
He was cut off.
"You came to get her out of here! Thank god. I just don't feel
comfortable with a slut in this building. It's just disgusting! She
went to the office on the third floor, to Henry Vargus. Do you
want me to show you?" She said all too eagerly.
"No, thank you, ma'am. I'll make do." Li said, and walked down
the hall.
"Rich bitch, square assed, I bet she's still a virgin."He muttered
under his breath. He walked to the elevator, and pushed to go up
to level three. He asked a woman there where henry's office
was, and, looking very frightened, pointed to a door.
"Thank you." He opened the door, to a VERY ugly man tinkering
with the remains of what looked like a phone.
"Hello, sir. I've been informed that someone, a woman, came to you a little while ago?" He said in a official
voice. The man didn't even look up.
"Yeah, the bitch broke my intercom. I hope she makes enough money here to fix it. Bitch." Li narrowed his
eyes. He quickly walked to the man and grabbed him by the neck.
"Listen here, you ugly assed, man slut, annoying son of a bitch. You will NOT bad mouth this girl. You
WILL tell me where she went." He said in a deep voice, almost a growl, that would make anyone pee their
pants. And this literally included Henry.
"I-I don't know! She just said that She came here to do something and she wouldn't let me stand in her way,
and walked out!" He said. Li growled, let him go and walked out the door. He went to the elevator and
waved his hand over the buttons, trying to make them tell him were she went. Only the higher numbers
responded. So he pressed all of the buttons above 60. The door were about to close when someone walked
in. the doors closed, leaving him and the cross dresser in private.
"I thought I told you to stay put?" He growled. Henry had made him lose all patience.
"Oh. Sorry. I didn't hear you."
Li snorted.
"How'd you get passed the square assed virgin secretary?" He asked, just picturing him threatening to tell
her about big foot in new Mexico.
"I knocked the bitch out."
Li's head snapped to the right.
"You did?"
"Mmm Hmm."
"Hey alright!" Li gave him five.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Jump card!" Sakura called, jumping out of the way of another attack.
"Aaah!!" The Seek threw another blast, which finally connected with Sakura. She fell backwards, knocked
out. Her head and torso hung off of the side of the roof, and she was slipping. The seek smiled to itself. She
walked over to her.
"I had hoped it wouldn't be so easy. It has been so long since I've had a challenge. Wait, I've never had a
challenge." The card grinned evilly. She raised her leg to kick Sakura off the rest of the roof.
"And your the card mistress?"
It's foot connected with Sakura's, giving it the momentum it needed to let the young woman the rest of the
way off the roof. She slid off, going into the freefall...........
To Be Continued
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Annie: I TOLD you it was a cliffhanger, but did you believe me? Noooooooo!!!!
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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
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Near or Far
Chapter three
"We're going to go ahead and go in separately, or it would be
WAY suspicious." Madison said.
"What? A teacher, a slut, a secret service drop out, and a
transvestite would look weird together?" Sakura asked
sarcastically(duh). Madison gave her the look(not the glare, you
know which one I'm talking about.)
"Just for that, you go in first." Madison said.
"Oh, no, no, no! I'm not going in there first! The transvestite
should go it first! He's the weirdest, it'll avert more attention
from me!"
Zachary fixed her with a death glare. She just shrugged.
"It's true."
"No, you go first. you insulted me." Zachary said in his high voice.
Li snorted.
"And you go after her!" Zachary pointed to Li, still talking in his
high voice.
"And then you, and then me." Madison said to Zachary.
"Hey, why me before you?" Zachary said, talking normal, which
was even funnier.
"Well, after such a weird display of peoples, I could add some
relief." She pointed out. "Now, you go!" Madison push Sakura
toward the opening gate.
"Okay, Okay!"
Sakura stepped onto the plane, and quickly headed to the vicinity
near her seat. The flight attendant looked at her weird, a fact
she tried her best to ignore as she swept past into the cabin of
the airplane. As she walked down the isle, trying to find her seat
as fast as possible, all of the passengers when silent. She walked
past an old man, who was talking to a flight attendant. She heard
a little of what he was saying which included "Trash like that has
no business flying first class." He said, glaring at her. Sakura
rolled her eyes.
'Rich asshole snob. If I want to ride here, he can't do anything.'
She found her seat and quickly sat down, pulling the cape she
had made Madison let her wear around her as best she could.
There was a little girl sitting across the isle, staring at her, wide
eyed. The girls mother leaned over and whispered something
Sakura couldn't quite make out, but was pretty sure it was
"That's what you'll end up as if you do drugs.". Sakura smiled at
the little girl, but with all the layers of makeup Madison had
applied, it looked more like a satanic smirk. The poor girl
whimpered, and burst into tears. Sakura sighed and turned to
look out the window, but realized she wasn't alone. There was
some kid around 14-15, staring at the exposed length of her leg,
that had somehow found it's way out from underneath the cape.
"Damn. You are _fine_." He said. Sakura grimaced
'Oooh, someone wants to sound like a big boy, so he cursed! How
naughty! Oh, but here's something naughtier!'
"Really? Why thank you." Sakura batted her eyes.
"No, I mean it. You are _Fi-hine_!"
"Well, that's very kind of you, but before you get any idea's, I
have to tell you something...." Sakura leaned over and whispered
something into his ear.
~*~*~*~*~*~(Li's P.O.V.)~*~*~*~*~
Li walked onto the airplane looking very mysterious indeed. He
gave a meaningful glance at Sakura, and it wasn't till he passed
her that she realized he was sitting in the seat directly behind
her. There was a little shit to her right that was checking her
out.
"Damn you're fine," he said to her face. Li narrowed his eyes,
and sat down. But not before he saw Sakura grimace.
"Really? Why thank you." He heard her say.
'What is she doing? Please tell me she isn't going to live up to her
character..."
"No, I mean it. You are Fi-hine!" He heard the little asshole say.
'Bastered.'
"Well, that's very kind of you, but before you get any idea's, I
have to tell you something...."He heard her say, but just couldn't
make out the rest.
'What did you tell him?'He ached to ask, but restrained, knowing
it would blow their cover. Much to his surprise, there came an
answering voice in his head.
'I told him I used to be a guy. Hey, wait, how did you get in my
head?' he heard.
Li looked a little confused. He decided to try to answer
'I-I don't know! It just happened! How do you get in my head?'
'I don't know! This is seriously weird!'
'Tell me about it! What's it feel like to you?'
'It feels kind of like I'm flying. And when I close my eyes I see
just fog.'
'Fog? Really? When I close my eyes, I see a lot of different
colors.'
'I guess I'm just a colorful person.'
'Ha, ha. So very funny. Hey, while your in there, don't touch
anything.'
'Why? Do you have some secrets hidden away in there?'
Li tried to avoid the answer. 'I just want you losing my mind. So
you told that kid you used to be a man?' He asked, trying to
change the subject, he still had memories fresh and flowing of
the incident that morning.
'Yep, and he actually fell for it.'
Just then the captain's voice came over the intercom.
"Welcome to flight 666. We will be lifting off in a minute. Please
put your seats in an upright position and turn your attention to
the flight attendants, who are giving instructions on emergency
procedures. Thank you for flying Starbright Airlines."
He finished, and they began their mental conversation again.
' Well, I'm not talking to you the whole trip. I'm planning on
sleeping a lot.'
'I wonder what Zachary and Madison are doing right now?'
'Who knows? They know where we're supposed to go after we
get off the planes, right?' he replied.
'Relax! Everything's going to go fine.'
'How can you say that?! My thoughts aren't even mine anymore!'
'Well, I'm not incredibly glad myself! Do I really need to know
where you used hide your crush's pictures from Meilin?! Hey,
she looks kind of familiar, do I know her?'
'I told you to stay out of there! Can we turn this function off
somehow?'
'How should I know?!' she replied, getting frustrated as the
plane left the runway.
'Maybe we can figure it out. It could work on authorization.'
'Translation please?'
'Means we can't invade each others minds without asking first.'
'How will we know if it works?'
'Ask me if you can talk to me, and I'll say no, and If I don't hear
you, I'll know that it worked.'
'Can I talk to you?'
'No.'
'Aw come on, Li!'
'Guess it doesn't work that way.'
'Maybe it only works if we're thinking about each other at the
same time, and we can only hear the thoughts we direct to each
other. Call me a really nasty name, and I'll tell you if I hear it.'
She struggled not to think about Li, and thought about the book
she had been reading instead. She waited for about 2 minutes
for a response, but she didn't hear anything, until…
A loud whirring noise sounded in her head, causing her to cry out
in pain, and apparently Li heard it too, because she heard him
groan. Everyone on the plane turned towards them.
"Ears popped." She said in the husky voice she had been
practicing all night long, then returned to her thoughts.
'Li? What was that?!'
'I don't know. What was that voice all about?'
'SILENCE!' someone hissed.
The new commanding voice entered both their heads at the same
time. Despite being commanding, it was also unmistakably
feminine.
'Who are you?' Sakura asked.
'I am the teacher.'
'Huh?' Li was obviously confused.
'The teacher. If you are successful in this capture, I will be your
teacher.'
'Ummmmm, ooookay. What exactly will you be teaching?' Li
asked.
'The secrets of Clow. It is promised that the one who captures
the card Seek will be taught the secrets of Clow's magic.'
'SAKURA!!' Li was catching on.
"Oops. I must have…uh…forgot!'
'You would not forget something like that!'
'SILENCE!! I will not listen to this infernal bickering a moment
longer!'
'Why does she get the teachings? I'm the direc…' no matter how
much he liked her,or how many years they had known each other,
he was still slightly resentful that she got chosen for everything.
'Oh, stop it, Li.'
'Why?'
'STOP!!! I will not teach anyone anything unless you two stop
fighting.'
"Hey, are you a professional?" Sakura heard someone say. She
turned to look at the person standing in the aisle. Sakura sighed.
"Yes, but I don't like plane bathrooms. Get back to me when we
land." She smiled at him, he smiled in what HE thought was a
seducing manner, and walked off.
'What did you just tell him? Tell me your not living up to your
character.'Li said, now very mad.
'Hey, why don't you live up to yours? You know, stare into space
and NOT SAY ANYTHING?!?!?!'
'I'm not saying anything. I'm thinking things.'
'Argh! That's it!'
Sakura ignored him the rest of the flight, thinking about stuff
other than him most of the time, but seeing what he was saying a
few times. Which was mostly consisted on 'Why do YOU get
everything?', or, 'Listen to me!', or stuff like that. After a while
Sakura was feeling pity on him, since all that she had heard in
about half an hour was 'Please listen to me!', but then he started
whining again. She groaned. At least ten guys had stopped by her
seat and asked her if she was busy. She either told them that
she was, or that she was a guy, or that she hated airplane
bathrooms. And though she couldn't hear any of the times, Li
would always say 'Bastered', or 'Asshole', or 'If he wants a slut
he should go home to his wife.'. The numerous passes that were
made to Sakura really annoyed him. And after what seemed to Li
like a million corny pick-up lines, a flight attendant FINALLY
came over the intercom.
'Please restore your seats to an up-right position, and secure
your seatbelts. We are about to land."
The plane touched ground, and after she was given permission
Sakura quickly got out of the seat and walked to the waiting
room. Li caught up to her, trying to look like he just had
somewhere to be, not that he was associating with a slut.
"Why weren't you listening to me?"
"Oh, you were talking? I thought you had decided to go to sleep
like you said."
"You knew that I was talking to you, you blocked me out."
"What? Jealous that I thought of how to block you before you
thought of it?"
"I'm not jealous of anything. You don't have anything that
anyone would be jealous of."
"I'm the mistress of the Clow cards, and your not. Your just
some wannabe warrior that decided to tag along and act like he
was protecting me, thinking that it's as close to doing what you
were planning to do in the first place, so you'd do that instead."
"I did help you, numerous times. If it weren't for me you would
probably be dead by now."
They had sat down in the chairs, waiting for a teacher and a
cross-dresser.
"And if it weren't for me you would have a high chance of dying
a virgin. Considering your social status when I first met you."
"Well, rest assured YOU wont die a virgin. At least I'm fully
covered."
"Your funny. Ok, no your not. Let me tell you something, Li. You
may think your hot stuff, you may think that, hey, since you can
fight and I can't you could be my bodyguard and get credit for
more than you did, but you are so very wrong. Actually I think
you deserve a round of applause. Anyone with as little pride with
enough gall to walk the earth without shame as you deserves a
cheer. Hip, hip, hurrah."
"And just because you can think of a quick comeback doesn't
mean your queen of the world, either. Just keep hoping that you
accomplish something in life, and keep telling guys that you don't
like restrooms, happiness WILL come, really!"
"And keep telling girls that you already have a girlfriend, you'll
get one eventually, really!"
"Hey, are you busy at the moment?" The guy that asked her out
first lived up to Sakura's challenge, and was asking again after
they got off.
"If I throw a stick, will you leave me alone?" Sakura asked,
losing all patience.
"Only if it feels good." Sakura growled."Oooh. That cute."
"Ok, fine come on." Sakura stood up and dragged the guy to a
group of restrooms. They wend in the one that was for family. Li
stared after her, not believing what he just saw.
"Ok, how do you want to start, sweetheart?" The sleaze bag
asked.
"Well, first, you have to close your eyes." She said.
"Okay."
Sakura grabbed his head and slammed it against the thing that
was used to changed babies' diapers.
"I don't like going to the bathroom with company." She said. The
man lay unconscious. Sakura stepped over him and out the door.
She straightened her skirt and looked over at Li. Madison and
Zachary had caught up, and were staring at her. Sakura looked
at Li. And glared. Yes, glared. She had gotten it down. She glared
at him. Then she turned and walked off.
'I'll get it without anyone.' she thought, forgetting the advice
Kero had given them.
'Oh, god, what have I done?'Li thought. He got up and followed
her, making sure she didn't know, glad that it fitted his
character to do this.
"God these places are a maze!" Sakura said. She closed her
eyes, and decided just to follow what she sensed at the moment.
She walked down, and into the parking lot, and she walked out of
that. She ran to the street, and figured how long it would take to
get anywhere. She couldn't use any cards, that would blow her
cover and give fair warning to the Seek that she was there. She
ran back to the parking lot, and onto a bus that was heading for
downtown Houston. She had the same problem here as the plane.
Li looked around. He had lost her. He could have sworn she ran
out to the street. He tried to sense her.
'She's back in the parking garage. What's she doing in there?'
Li ran back to the garage, and got to the bus just as it was
leaving the airport.
"Damn it."
He looked at the next bus. It was headed to down town Houston.
He got inside at stopped the driver.
"Excuse me, sir. Were is this bus headed?" He asked, sounding
very official. The driver looked frightened.
"Uh, to down town Houston"He stuttered.
"No need to be frightened, sir. Is this headed to the same place
as the bus that just left?"
"Y-Yes."
"Thank you." Li took a seat near the back of the bus. The driver
was about to close the door, when someone stopped him.
"Just need to catch this one." Li heard a high pitched voice. A
cross dresser stepped on the bus. Li sighed. The guy immediately
headed to Li.
"Hey, man." Zachary said quietly.
"You are totally blowing our cover."
The driver, still very frightened, took off to down town Houston.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Come on! Hurry up and get there!' Sakura thought to herself.
The bus just kept going. Sakura looked out the window. It was
all streets. Every were there were streets. It was like a knot,
there were so many. She looked ahead, trying to see were they
were headed. It as like an island. A whole lot of buildings all
crushed together. And all of them looked like they were made of
glass.
'Jackpot.'
The bus finally came to a stop. Sakura got off and looked
around. She focused her powers, and felt the card. She ran
after it, into the island of buildings. Street after street. She
kept going, the street lights on her side, letting her pass just as
she got there. But finally she had to stop. She stood on the
corner, waiting for what seemed like forever for the light to
change. Three guys stopped for her. She just sneered and
ignored them She had had too bad a day so far to mess with it.
She had gotten in a fight, and ran away angry, and now she had
no idea what was going to happen. She could only figure it out as
it came. Kero wasn't there anymore to help put it down in black
and white for her. The light finally turned green, and she ran to
what she was certain was her death.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Thank you, very much sir. I'll be sure to put a good word in for
you with the president. Once we know who it is." Li stepped off
the bus. Zachary walked behind him.
"What's going on?" He asked Li.
"Sakura and I got into a fight, because I'm jealous of her. She
ran off to get the card herself, and is probably going to get
killed if We don't get to her in time."
Zachary gasped.
"Your-Your joking, right?"He asked, not able to think about if he
wasn't.
"No. I'm not."
"Well, how are we going to find her? I mean, she could be
anywhere!"
Li stopped and closed his eyes.
"Li? Buddy?"
His heart started to pound, the first sign that it was working. He
became flushed, blood pounding through his veins, tingles going
through-out his body, a garentee that she was close. He took a
deep breath, trying to calm his ecstatic heart.
'I know she's ok.' He told it.
He tried to focus hiss happiness on his powers, trying to find
that cloud of pink aura, knowing it was his love. He tried, and
tried, and finally caught a glimpse. He immediately set off
toward it, knowing that he wasn't going to get a better reading,
as Kero had said, being so close to this strong of a card is
warping his powers.
"Hey, were are we going?" Zachary asked, still following him.
"To help Sakura."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Sakura stopped in front of the building. She knew it was in there.
She stepped inside. No one was at the desk. She walked over,
and glanced at the papers on the desk. A name caught her eyes.
Henry J. Vargus
'Hmmmm.'
"May I help you?" She turned around, to she a very square
looking woman, almost as bad as Madison.
"Uh, yes. I'm here to see someone."
The woman raised an eyebrow.
"I doubt anyone here would want to see someone like you." She
said, sounding very stuck up.
"Well ,that's funny. I was sure Henry told me to come here. He
said he would tell his stuck up secretary that he was expecting
someone named Tanya, by the way, that's me, and that she
would let me right up. Oh, well." She looked past the woman,
slowly making her way to the door.
"Wait, um, what is this man last name?"
"Vargus."
The woman frowned.
"That sounds like him. I don't know why Wells Fargo hired him in
the first place...." The woman muttered under her breath.
She walked over the desk.
"Henry? there's someone here to see you. She says her name is
Tanya."
There was a pause. Sakura started to think her cover would be
blown.
"Tanya? So she came crawling back, eh? Send her up."
Sakura grinned triumphantly. The woman got up to show her the
way. She led her to a hall, and pointed.
"It's the third door to your right." She said snottily, and walked
off.
"Ok, whatever."
Sakura made her way to the door.
"This guy has to be a real sleaze bag to know someone who's
name I picked off the top of my head."
She walked inside the office, bracing herself for lame pick-up
lines.
"Hey. You don't look like my Tanya. Oh, well, either way, your
hot."
Sakura looked at the man behind the desk. His hair was black, in
that flat top type style(Eeeeww*shudder*), his complexion was a
Mexican color, and, ok, to put it plainly, he was UH-HUGLY. And
I don't just mean ugly, I mean UH-HUH-GLY. Sakura squeezed
her eyes shut for a moment, trying to give herself better barings
for the level of ugliness. Sakura opened her eyes and smiled.
"You know, no wonder you have to pay for sex. If all of you is as
ugly as your face, I wouldn't want to touch you." She said in her
husky voice. Henry looked surprised.
"You aren't supposed to insult me, are you?"
"Who said I wasn't allowed? You? As if I would ever do what
you say?"
"If you won't, then you can leave."
He reached for the intercom, about to call his stuck up, square
assed secretary. Sakura, in record time, ran over and karate
chopped his hand, and then took one of his paperweights and
smashed the intercom. Henry looked yet even more surprised.
"I'm here on business, and I won't let some sleaze bag like you
ruin what I came here to do." She said, or more or less growled.
She smiled and left his office. He just sat there, bewildered.
Sakura walked to the elevator, and pushed every button. She
wanted to be sure to check every floor so as to know which the
Seek was in. The first floors held nothing. Around the 20th floor
someone walked in, and started to hit on Sakura. She 'let him
off' at the next floor. She kept going, waiting for the pinpoint
location of the card. She reached the top floor and realized it
was closest. She stepped off, looking for the card. she followed
what she sensed, and came to the middle of the floor. It wasn't
there. She narrowed her eyes, and looked up. It was on the roof.
"Damn it."
"What was that?" Someone walking by asked. Sakura looked
back down.
"Oh, nothing. I think I might have lost a contact, but I'm not
sure. There to change the color of my eyes, are both of them
green?"
The woman leaned in a little.
"Yep."
Sakura was a little confused.
"Do you see what I'm wearing?"She asked.
The woman smiled.
"Don't worry, I don't mind. I have a sister that's just like that. I
don't like her much, but I don't mind anyone's business. Their
the ones who choose it, not me, so I won't waste my breath."
Sakura smiled.
"Thank you. And if I ever see your sister, or any other slut, I
promise I will slap her for you. Do you know how to get to the
roof?"
The woman was a little stunned by the change in topics. Or
maybe it was the promise of slapping what she thought were
people undergoing the same business as Sakura.
"Oh, yeah. Go down the hall, turn right, keep going till the end,
turn right again, and at the end of the hall there will be a door
that leads to the stairwell, and you just go up the stairs." The
woman pointed.
"Thank you so much. You are truly a blessing to this fucked up
world."
Sakura ran down the hall, leaving a yet even more stunned lady
behind. Sakura dashed down the hallway, following the directions
perfectly. She opened the door and felt the cold wind blowing
through her, uh, everything. She didn't see anything, but realized
that the flat of the roof lasted about four or five feet, and then
dropped to a slight drop, which then dropped off to a freefall,
landing on a steeply slanted(can you think of a better word?)
part, and a dead drop to the ground. Sakura shivered. She tried
to look for the card, but was too scared to look anywhere other
than at her feet. She mentally hit herself.
'Wuss! And you expect to beat the strongest of the cards? Your
pathetic!' She prodded herself, but a sudden sadness swept over
her at the 'your pathetic' part, which had always been Li's pet
insult for her.
She crept along the rooftop silently, like a tiger hunting it's prey.
She heard a noise behind her, and suddenly realized that she was
no longer the hunter, but now the hunted. She whipped her head
around in the direction from which the sound had come from.
Floating about a foot off the ground was the Seek. It's hair was
cut short, and very dark. It's dress was black, a slit up the side,
and two strips of fabric crossed over, wrapping around her neck.
Sewn to that were two strips leading to the sleeves, that would
otherwise be detached. It had a blue, cape like thing, that stuck
up behind it, showing spikes behind it's short hair. It was holding
sort of a purplish, metallic orb low in front of it, that glistened in
the afternoon sunlight. It's eyes were narrowed, and it regarded
Sakura as if she were a insect, that could be effortlessly
swatted away. Sakura drew herself up to her full height, high
heels included.
*card fakes a yawn*
"Could we get on with killing you now? I was kinda looking
forward to a challenge, but now all I want is a nap."
Sakura sneered.
"You are so funny....." Sakura quipped.
"And the sound you make falling down to the ground below will
be equally funny."
"Or maybe I was mistaken..." Sakura continued like she hadn't
heard it."Maybe it's just the way you look."
The card sneered at her.
"Can we get ON with it?" It asked in a VERY annoyed voice.
"Oh, what? Don't you like talking to me?"
"No, I do, really. It helps me to look forward to killing you." The
card said with a smirk. It brought up her hands, letting the orb
float between them. A light developed inside of it, rather fast,
and shot out toward Sakura. She dodged out of the way.
'This is by far the WORST place to do this.' She thought,
dodging another shot.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Li kept running, trying to get there before something, anything,
happened.
'Stupid, stupid, stupid.' He thought to himself. He finally stopped
in front of a VERY tall building. In fact, it was the tallest one
out of them all.
"She's in there." He pointed. Zachary barely still with him, he
was running so fast, dropped to the ground next to him.
"How can you run so fast?" He gasped.
"I've been trained to all my life." He answered simply. "You stay
out here. I'm surprised Sakura's in this type of place with her
costume."
Li walked in, leaving a defiant Zachary behind, or at least he
thought. He walked up to the secretary.
"Hello, ma'am. Have you seen a woman, looked about 18, 19,-"
He was cut off.
"You came to get her out of here! Thank god. I just don't feel
comfortable with a slut in this building. It's just disgusting! She
went to the office on the third floor, to Henry Vargus. Do you
want me to show you?" She said all too eagerly.
"No, thank you, ma'am. I'll make do." Li said, and walked down
the hall.
"Rich bitch, square assed, I bet she's still a virgin."He muttered
under his breath. He walked to the elevator, and pushed to go up
to level three. He asked a woman there where henry's office
was, and, looking very frightened, pointed to a door.
"Thank you." He opened the door, to a VERY ugly man tinkering
with the remains of what looked like a phone.
"Hello, sir. I've been informed that someone, a woman, came to you a little while ago?" He said in a official
voice. The man didn't even look up.
"Yeah, the bitch broke my intercom. I hope she makes enough money here to fix it. Bitch." Li narrowed his
eyes. He quickly walked to the man and grabbed him by the neck.
"Listen here, you ugly assed, man slut, annoying son of a bitch. You will NOT bad mouth this girl. You
WILL tell me where she went." He said in a deep voice, almost a growl, that would make anyone pee their
pants. And this literally included Henry.
"I-I don't know! She just said that She came here to do something and she wouldn't let me stand in her way,
and walked out!" He said. Li growled, let him go and walked out the door. He went to the elevator and
waved his hand over the buttons, trying to make them tell him were she went. Only the higher numbers
responded. So he pressed all of the buttons above 60. The door were about to close when someone walked
in. the doors closed, leaving him and the cross dresser in private.
"I thought I told you to stay put?" He growled. Henry had made him lose all patience.
"Oh. Sorry. I didn't hear you."
Li snorted.
"How'd you get passed the square assed virgin secretary?" He asked, just picturing him threatening to tell
her about big foot in new Mexico.
"I knocked the bitch out."
Li's head snapped to the right.
"You did?"
"Mmm Hmm."
"Hey alright!" Li gave him five.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Jump card!" Sakura called, jumping out of the way of another attack.
"Aaah!!" The Seek threw another blast, which finally connected with Sakura. She fell backwards, knocked
out. Her head and torso hung off of the side of the roof, and she was slipping. The seek smiled to itself. She
walked over to her.
"I had hoped it wouldn't be so easy. It has been so long since I've had a challenge. Wait, I've never had a
challenge." The card grinned evilly. She raised her leg to kick Sakura off the rest of the roof.
"And your the card mistress?"
It's foot connected with Sakura's, giving it the momentum it needed to let the young woman the rest of the
way off the roof. She slid off, going into the freefall...........
To Be Continued
~*~*~*~*~
Annie: I TOLD you it was a cliffhanger, but did you believe me? Noooooooo!!!!
Kyralea: Hey, We've decided to answer the oh so frequently asked questions.
Annie: One: Yes, this is two people. We are both working on this fic, so it's both of ours
Kyralea: I'm the one who writes these little dialogs at the end, so I might go a little off on Annie personality.
Annie: Maybe you should ask me?
Kyralea: I think I will, the questions first, though.
Annie: This fic IS still being worked on, but we're totally impatient, so we're posting what was supposed to
be a one shot in chapters.
Kyralea: And I've been asked numerously if I was a cowgirl, referring to my traditional 'Howdy, yall!'. For
your interest, I'm from Texas.
Annie: We base the fic on places we know.
Kyralea: I'm not sure if Annie wants people to know were she lives, so we'll wait for that bit of info.
Annie: Yeah, you'd better!
Kyralea: If we seem a bit immature, that's cause we are, so don't lose your head thinking we're just being
funny. We aren't. We are TOTALLY serious. And if you don't believe us, we'll send 50 highly trained master
ninjas to rip your heart out and....
Annie: Excuse Kyralea, she has a temper.
Kyralea &Annie: REVIEW!!!!!!
