Part II
by Devon Masterson
"Want some gum, Uncle Andy?" Devon asked as he held out a
pack of chewing gum.
Andy took the gum and looked at it
carefully. "Nice try."
"Oh come on, Uncle Andy, I can
never get you. You always figure it out."
Andy looked at
his grand nephew and tousled his dark brown hair. "It's because I am good," he
commented. "But I see a lot of potential in you, just like your father."
"Dad used to play practical jokes?"
"You should have seen some of the stuff we cooked up, but
you would have to keep it between you and me. I wouldn't want you to give away
all my trade secrets," Andy said as he picked up a towel to wipe his face. "Walk
with me."
******
"Come on, Kyoto, I need your help," Devon pleaded as
he and his cousin did knuckle push ups in the grass in his backyard.
"I don't know, I pull enough jokes with Patrick and get
in trouble."
"No one would believe.."
"No one would believe that you did it, you mean?"
"My mom would."
"What about Jax,
how come he's not helping you?" Kyoto asked.
"Too many
cooks spoil the broth, besides he's helping as creative consultant. He doesn't
want to get his hands dirty directly."
"Whatever, let's
do it."
"Great!"
"Devon, Kyoto,
come inside for dinner," Tia called from the patio.
"Coming, Mom," Devon called as he and Kyoto stood. "This is going to be great,"
he whispered to Kyoto as they walked to th house.
*******
The Wolf pack arrived in their vacation home a
couple of weeks later. Every summer they spent two weeks of relaxation in Osaka
and two weeks in the mountains of Thailand. It was a great way to unwind.
"I always love coming here," Shara commented as she
walked out onto the terrace of her room. Terry walked up beside her and
put his arms around her tenderly.
"Yeah, I found you
again here," he said softly. "And the kids spent many summers here goofing off."
Shara turned and faced her husband "Except now Teri and
John-Miachael have kids," she added.
Terry chuckled as he
ran his hands through her peppered hair. It was almost completely black now.
There were only a few strands of white left. It was quite a funny phenomenon
actually. He never thought he would get used to the fact when she discovered the
black strands amongst her white locks several years ago. Now she and Roxy looked
exactly a like, especially since Roxy now died her hair. "Well at least we have
the house all to ourselves when we're at home," he remarked as he winked at her
playfully.
"You do have a good point," she smiled as she
heard the noise of her grandchildren, nephews, and nieces running around outside
down below.
A small group of cousins gathered in a
treehouse planning their conquests.
"Ok, I say we go
after the big wheels," Patrick suggested as he looked at their arsenal. "They'll
never expect that we'd take them out then we take them out like bugs and smash
them."
"And who are you talking about?" Jax asked as he
looked at his cousin.
"I say we go after Dawn and blame
it on the Simone and the girls," Kyoto suggested as he rubbed his hands. "She'd
never suspect us and I know she'd get them back."
"Yeah
she'd go along with it and set it off," Patrick agreed.
"Are you crazy?" Devon and Liu asked as they looked at their two cousins.
"Aunt Dawn would kill us if she ever found out!" Jax
added then he smiled mischievously. "But what a challenge it would be...to get
Aunt Dawn and not get caught."
"Yeah, " the others said
as they started to warm up to the idea.
"Why my mom?" Liu
asked as he looked at all his cousins.
"Because," Jax
commented as he put his arm around Liu. "Look at it this way. Grandma, Aunt
Roxy, Aunt Mai would never prank back, they'd just ground us so would the
others...well Aunt Mina might. My mom well she...she's sheltered and a prank of
this amplitude would scar her, so that only leaves Aunt Dawn."
"You're full of it," Liu replied as he moved away from
him. "But you're right...You do know that Simone will kill us."
"We can take anything she can dish out," Devon replied.
"So are you in?"
Liu looked at the other guys. There was
no way he was going to be left out of this...then he would be alone and a
sitting duck. "I'm in."
******
Dawn sat on a lawn chair reading a book that she had been
trying to finish for the last four months when she felt the harsh slap of
a water balloon hit her in the chest followed by a massive assalt of water
grenades that did not end until she was saoking wet from head to toe. Steam
started to mist off of her as she stood and looked for her attackers.
Simone and her cousins came walking up to the patio and
stop in there tracks.
"Whoa!" Avery sighed. "Mom, who..."
Dawn shot all the girls an evil look. "This reeks of
the boys... but these six can't be that innocent either. I'll just have to pick
them of all one by one."
"Don't!" she interrupted as
they tried to help her.
The girls backed away slowly as
they decided whether it would be prudent to run like the guilty or just edge
away like the innocent bystander. The girl edged away from Dawn and headed
towards the back of the house.
Dawn marched into the
house and started to strip of the steamy clothes. As she changed, she began to
plot and scheme to get the kids back. After she got dressed, she walked over to
the window and saw them playing outside. She looked at the garden and smiled.
"This is going to be fun."
A couple of hours
later, Tia, Robin, and Dawn sat on the couch talking about kids and plans
for the week, when they heard a crash and a scream in annoyance. Dawn
snickered to herself as she waited for one of her victims to come in. That would
teach them to mess with the master. But her smug look quickly disappeared as she
saw who walked into the room covered in compost. "Oops."
John-Michael walked in disgusted as the stinch
rolled off of him.
"Oh, JM, " Tia said in surprise as she
tried not breathe. "What happened, sweetheart?"
"Someone
thought it would be funny to drop a bucket of compost on me when I opened the
door," he replied glaring at Robin.
"They really got you
good," Robin commented not realizing that JM was already planning unmerciful
acts of revenge on him.
"Yeah, they did," JM remarked as
his eyes narrowed. He was totally disgusted. He had never been that mean to
Robin, sure he had the whole family chase him through the woods and attack him.
So Robin and uncle Joe had to sleep in the woods for two days, but he had
never dumped compost on him. Robin had definetly gone to far this time. This was
war!
"JM, you need a bath," Tia remarked. "And I'm
going to burn your clothes. The smell will never come out."
JM grumbled as he headed upstairs to the bathroom.
"Don't touch anything," Tia added as she followed him up
with a trash bag.
"I wonder who did that?" Robin asked as
he stood up.
"I'm going to check on the kids," Dawn
replied as she quickly exited. "Who knows what else might happen."
"That's strange. She didn't even say anything. She's
up to something," Robin thought as he stared after her.
Later that evening, Robin stood in front of JM drenched
in honey and covered with feathers. He was fighting to keep his anger under
control, but he was losing the battle. "Why the hell did you do that?"
"Pay back," JM answered.
"I didn't
pull that prank on you today we had a truce," Robin retorted. "Besides, I'm not
that...sick..."
"Dawn," they both said in unison.
"Who was she trying to get?" Robin asked.
"Who cares? She's going down for that one," JM replied.
"Oh and sorry for..."
"Yeah, yeah," Robin replied as he
started for the garden hose. "Just let me know when you plan something. I want
in on it now."
"My pleasure," JM replied.
******
"I'm going to check up on
the kids," Tia remarked as she got off the couch.
"I'll
come with you," Charly said as she joined her cousin.
The
two women walked outside and looked around the large yard. As they walked
towards the treehouse, they saw a flower stuck to the tree bark. Tia pulled the
flower off the bark in her curiousity and a bucket full of rotten fruit,
vinegar, and honey fell on her and splashed on Charly.
"SICK!" Tia screamed as looked down at herself.
JM and
Robin laughed as they heard the femine scream. Now for the final humliation.
As the slop covered female ran over to the garden hose to
wash off the stinch and chunks, the two pranksters jumped out and yelled
"Gotcha," as Robin snapped a picture with Liu's camera. Both of their mouths
dropped as they looked at Tia.
"Damn," JM sighed
inwardly.
"Sweetheart, let me help you," he said as he
started over to her.
"Don't! come near me," Tia remarked
as she began to get angry. The air started to cool and her clothes stiffened.
"Gotta go," JM said as he backed up. As he passed by
Robin, "Don't be a hero, you won't survive," he whispered.
"
See ya', Tia" Robin said as he left with JM
"Those two
are going to get it," Tia thought angrily as she turned on the hose.
******
Charly ran behind the
wood shed giggling as she waited for the show to begin. She rigged her own brand
of punishment for Robin and JM. Last night time they had a prank war they got
her good, because she was too little. So she had lots to pay them back with. She
could hear male voices coming around the bend and she release the bend in the
water hose that she stopped up. As she released it, she looked at around the
corner to see her victims horrid faces of disgust as they were splattered with
paint and saw that her prank was misaimed. Intsead of Robin and JM, she got Jo,
Steven, Matt, Mina, Teri, Teiji, Kenya, and Rick. "Oh, this bad. I better get
out of here."
"This says Tia all over it,"
Kenya muttered in disgust as she looked down at herself and the others.
"Are you sure?" Matt asked as he stood next to his wife.
"She's always doing stuff," Kenya commented, "And I told
her we coming back here. She had to have done it."
"Then
Tia's going down," Mina answered as she headed for the house. The others
followed after in agreement. They were going to prank her like she attacked
them, hard.
Later that day, Tia was sitting under a tree
relaxing in the shade when came up with a bouquet of roses. "Tia, I am so sorry,
sweetheart. Please forgive me," he begged as handed her the flowers.
Tia took the flowers and smiled as she smelled them.
"They're lovely," she commented as she stood.
"I'm glad
you like them," he replied softly as she hugged him.
"Thank, you," she said as she kissed him deeply, "but you're still sleeping in
the treehouse."
"Tia," he groaned as she started to walk
away with the flowers. He had been sleeping in the treehouse for last
couple of days ever since Tuesday, Robin joined him when Dawn found out his role
in the whole thing. JM was getting restless being in the treehouse with Robin,
sure it was cool when he was 10 years old, but not now. "I miss Tia," he
thought as he heard a scream.
JM ran in the direction of
the scream as he saw Tia running from about half of the family and them shooting
things at her. She ran towards the woods and started taking to the trees. He
followed after her along with the others. Andi and Matt kept ahead of everybody
as they took to the trees after Tia. Once Tia reached a leafy canopy of trees,
they lost her.
"I think we got her good enough," Kenya
commented as she tried to catch her breath.
The others
agreed as they started to head back, but JM kept looking around. He jumped into
the canopy of trees and noticed a lake at the end of it. A darkbrown object with
tendrils was under the water. JM jumped into the water and carried out Tia. "JM,
there's no need to carry me, I know how to swim not, remember?" Tia replied as
she pushed her hair out of her eyes.
"I just wanted to
make sure you were ok?" he asked worriedly as he held her close to him.
Tia leaned her head against his chest as he started
carrying her to the house. "You don't have to sleep in the treehouse anymore and
I won't unleash those ants on you either."
"You would do
that?" he asked as he walked.
"I would've left you
calamine lotion," she commented.
"Ruthless aren't you?"
he chuckled as they continued on.
"Tell me tonight," Tia
replied simply as she snuggled up closer to him.
JM
smiled as he picked up the pace a little more to the house.
******
"All right now, I want this whole prank war to stop and
whoever started it to own up to it," Terry said as he looked at his family.
Most of the adults looked innocently the other way as he
waited for someone to 'fess up.
Kyoto stood looking
guilty. "I'm sorry, Dawn" he said lowly.
"Kyoto, you
started this?" Charly asked in disbelief as she looked at her son.
"Yes," he answered.
"And you
worked totally alone?" she asked looking at Patrick.
Patrick stood. "I'm sorry too, Dawn," he replied as he looked at his mother. He
and Kyoto were surely grounded.
Simone poked Devon the
back.
"What?" he asked annoyed.
"Don't you have something to say?" she asked whispering loudly.
He stood to his feet hesistently as his brother joined
him. "We're sorry," Jax and Devon replied.
"I'm so
dissappointed in you two," JM replied asternly he looked at his young
sons.
"Oh, JM lighten up, you did the same thing 20 years
ago," Shara said playfully as JM blushed.
Liu stood also
beside his fellow pranksters. "I was railroaded, mom," he explained as he looked
at Dawn.
Dawn stood silently and sucked her cheeks in to
keep from yelling. "I have some new sparring partners," she commented as
all the boys groaned.
"Man, I should've just stuck to
whoopie cushions instead of the moving up like Uncle Andy said," Devon remarked
a she sat down. "Oops."
"Uncle Andy?" JM replied as he
looked at his silver haired uncle. "Just like when I was a kid."
"You mean Andy started all this?" Terry asked as he
looked at his younger brother.
Andy looked around
nervously but stood his ground. "I might have commented on something."
JM looked at his uncle and shook his head as Terry stood
up. "Get him," Terry said as he started toward Andy.
"I think it's time to make a hasty exit," Andy thought as he took off and
the family after him. "They are no fun..."
It's not over quite yet....look for the epilogue. Secrets come out and pay
back is a...nice thing.
© 1999 Devon Masterson
I think we all know who belongs to who in here,
but in case of doubt, anybody in or mentioned in any of the movies
Fatal
Fury 1, Fatal Fury 2, and Fatal Fury the motion picture belongs to Viz,
everybody else I created.
