Moans could be heard all over. There was a mass of bodies, 'get
of me', 'no you get of me', 'your on my arm' and 'that's my leg', ect...
When they finally untangled themselves, they took a look at their
surrounding. Chichiri noted that they were lying on some sort of small
rocks there were a bunch of them all around. There were fixtures coming out
of the small rocks. Some were yellow, blue, red, silver and even black.
There was a brown bridge connecting some of the fixtures. There was a metal
tent with wood tables underneath much like the same that they ate
breakfast, lunch and dinner at. Around the bed of rock there was wood and
outside of that green grass. Off to the left there were more strange
fixtures. They confused the blue haired monk, what would anyone use one of
these for? They're too small and open to be houses. Chichiri turned around
and saw a Huge building, not as big as the palace, he thought. But pretty
big all the same. He saw some yellow markings on a gray surface and a
yellow pole with a ball attached to it by a rope and some chain. "Where are
we, na no da?" He asked. And where's Mitsukake and Chiriko, na no da?"
Sarah turned to look where Chichiri was. "No idea, looks like our world though."
"Your world?" Hotohori asked.
"It is," Heather sounded excited.
"Yay! Tether ball." Katie jumped up and down knowing the vicinity they were in.
"We're in Mission Vejio." Shana commented.
"Mission Vejio?" Amanda asked. All the girls were ignoring the guys blank stares.
"Yep, we live near here. We actually used to live in this neighborhood." Heather said smiling.
"Tether ball." Katie jumped up and down.
"Yeah!" Sarah said and the two ran down to the pole and started hitting the ball attached to the pole sending flying around one way and the back the other. Katie swung and missed the ball and immediately after started laughing Sarah joined in.
Heather sighed. "Kids." She smiled and ran down to where Sarah and Katie were with the other girls dragging the guys closely behind.
"I hope they're all right." Tasuki said to himself.
"You two finished?" Jamie asked, coming up behind the two girls. "Cause I'm hungry."
"Me too," Katie said.
"You two are always hungry." Amanda commented.
"We should get going," Sarah said.
"Where?" Heather asked. "I don't know about you but if we take a bunch of guys back to our house, after we've been gone for so long, there's going to be a lot of questions."
"Like what?" Tasuki asked.
"Like who are these people, where have you been, What the heck is a Suzaku?" Shana said. "It would take some time to explain."
"I'd offer to take you to my house, but it's rather far." Amanda jumped in.
"What about the dorm?" Sarah asked.
"Yeah we're really going to fit 12 people in there Sarah." Katie shook her head. "That room isn't big enough for 4 people."
"Hotel?" Jamie questioned.
"Where would we get the money?" Shana asked.
The guys just sat and watched the girls argue. Chichiri was examining the colored fixtures, when a flash of red light appeared above one of the tables under the metal tent. It quickly dissipated leaving a bundle behind on the top of one of the tables. They all turned around looked at each other then headed toward the table in question. On the table was a neat bundle wrapped with cloth and tied with string.
"Hotohori opened it to reveal lots of strange pieces of paper.
Tasuki grabbed one, "What the heck does 1000 mean?"
Sarah grabbed the paper from Tasuki. "Money?! That's a 1000 dollar bill!!!!!!"
"Money?" Nuriko asked. "Doesn't look like money to me."
"It's money used here." Heather explained. Taking the bill from Sarah and getting the rest from Hotohori before Tamahome could grab it.
"There's the money for the Hotel."
"Whoo-hooo!" Sarah and Katie said in time. Tasuki shook his head, knowing by now not to say anything.
"Where did it come from though?" Amanda asked.
"Who cares it's money!" Tasuki said.
"That's great how do we get to this hoe-tell? Well its simple we pick a direction and start walking. Great how far is the hoe-tell?" Kouji rambled.
Nuriko elbowed him lightly.
Shana grabbed Jamie's arm and pulled her back talking to her in whispers, Jamie shook her head and Shana addressed the group. "I have an idea."
Everyone turned toward her. "We can walk to our house," she pointed at herself and Heather. "I can take Jamie in Sally to Jamie's house. Jamie can drive the van back to our house and then we can take the van to a hotel."
"We're willing to do whatever we can to help, na no da."
"Sounds like a plan, yes it does." They all looked at Kouji.
"What?"
"Well lets get started." Tamahome said.
They walked out of the park and through the neighborhood of Mission Vejio, guided by Heather and Shana. When they arrived at Heather and Shana's there was no one home. Shana got into the house through the back grabbed the keys to Sally and came back out through the front door. Shana and Jamie got in Sally sent everyone to go wait at a near by 7-eleven, which Heather guided them too, while they went to get Jamie's van.
In Sally................
"So what do we do if your mom's there?" Shana asked.
"Run like (*^%%! But she shouldn't be what time is it?"
"4:35"
"I wonder what day it is, I lost track when we were back there."
"I don't know guess we'll have to ask someone."
On the way to 7-eleven..........
"You know what I want?" Katie asked.
"Let me guess," Heather started. "You want a Slurpee."
"Yep."
"You always want a Slurpee." Amanda said.
"I want one, too." Sarah whined.
"I wonder what kind of Slurpee's they have?"
"Umm, what's a Slurppe?" Tamahome asked.
"Sounds kinda funny to me." Tasuki added.
"It's a kind of drink." Heather explained, or tried to. "You'll see when we get there."
"What are those metal things on the side of the road, na no da?" Chichiri asked. "They look like the one Shana-san and Jamie-san got in, na no da."
"That's a car Chichiri." Amanda said.
"Well all we have to do is cross this street." Heather said looking out across the street.
"Whoa...." Tamahome and Tasuki said at the same time. Looking at all the cars driving back and forth across the street.
"We'll get hit if we try to cross that?" Nuriko asked.
"Not if you run at the right time." Sarah yelled running across the street and stopping at the median. She waved the others forward. The girls looked left saw no cars coming and dragged the guys across the street. They walked over and into the 7-eleven
In the Van...............
"So which hotel are we going to stay at?"
"Lets stay at the Holiday Inn."
"The one by DIA? The one Starcon and NDK are at?"
"Why not? It's not far from here."
"Sounds good."
They pulled up to the 7-eleven put gas in the van and got some snack food. Paying with one of the smaller bills they were given, they left, piled themselves into the van and drove off to the Holiday Inn.
"Yay! I'm so glad I don't have to drive." Katie said.
"Whoa look at that." Tamahome Pushed up against one of the windows looking at a Huge building. "That's bigger than the Palace!"
"Tamahome you're squishing US!!!!" Katie shouted.
"I don't mind." Sarah said.
"You wouldn't." Katie retorted, Tamahome blushed.
"What's that suppose to mean."
"Hey don't make me pull this car over!"
Heather laughed. "I have to go to the bathroom."
Amanda was next, "Are we there yet?"
"Hey!" Jamie yelled back at them. "I'll kick ya out of the car if you're not careful."
"Ohh, ohh," Katie raised her hand. "Could you drop me off at Media play cause that's where I'd rather be."
"That's enough out of you guys. I don't wanna here another peep."
"But we didn't say anything did we?" Kouji asked himself. "No I don't think so."
"I was talking to the smart alics, not you."
"But you said 'you guys'." Nuriko questioned.
"It's an expression in our world."
"Oh I see, you'll have to tell us more about your language and customs." Hotohori said. "So we will know what is expected of us."
"Meep!"
"Hey that's not funny Shana."
"Sorry couldn't help it."
"All right we're here." Jamie said pulling up to the Holiday Inn.
"Everybody out of the pool!" Katie shouted.
"Huh??" Was the response from the guys.
"Get out of the car!" Sarah started pushing them out.
"Hey watch it."
"That's my foot."
Finally they all got out of the van, stretched and walked toward the entrance.
"I think the doors cursed, na no da."
"No it's suppose to do that." Shana said. "It's a revolving door."
They guys nodded their heads and walked through after watching how the girls did it. They got two rooms and started heading up.
"Oh the memories." Katie said.
"What kind of memories?" Tasuki asked.
"Oh having the elevator drop a foot from too much weight. Getting in an elevator full of Klingons jumping up and down." She laughed.
"What's a Klingon?" Tamahome asked.
"Tell you later, or show you, there's bound to be a Star Trek show on tonight. It's on every night. Well one of the 5." Heather said.
They got to there rooms, one for the guys and one for the girls. Heather opened the door for the guys and handed them the card key. Then went to the girls room as the guys filed inside.
The girls spread themselves out all over the room. Sitting or laying down.
Amanda raised her head from the table she was sitting at. "We're going to need some more blankets or something."
"We're going to need some new clothes, some for the guys too." Shana said looking down at the clothes that had been given to them back in Konan.
"You're right." Jamie said.
"Well we'd better go get the guys." Sarah said.
They went across the hall to the room the guys were in. They were all wide eyed looking a black box inside of a cabinet.
"Up next on the WB..." The voice said.
"Looks like they found the TV." Sarah said.
"Someone trapped that lady and man in there." Tasuki shouted.
"No ones trapped." Heather said, walking in the room. She turned off the TV, closed the cabinet and turned to them. "We need to get some new clothes."
"Girls." Tasuki muttered.
"You guys need new clothes, too. So get up we're going shopping." She motioned for them to get up and move out of the room.
"Make me." Tasuki retorted.
"Enough," Hotohori scolded Tasuki. Who gave him the look of a kicked puppy dog. "We had better get new clothes. The ones were wearing probably are not normal here. Just as their clothes were not normal for our world. We could attract more attention than needed."
"Isn't this a little strange to anyone else, na no da?"
"What are you talking about Chichiri?" Nuriko asked the older Seishi.
"I mean what are we doing here, na no da? One minute we were fighting demons and the next were in their world with someone sending us money, na no da. Chiriko and Mitsukake are nowhere in site."
"I do not know what we are doing here. But I consider it a blessing from Suzaku." Hotohori addressed the monk. "We might have been killed back there if we weren't brought here. As for Mitsukake and Chiriko, maybe they were sent back to the palace, if they're not with us." Hotohori stopped noticing a person he didn't recognize standing outside the hotel room.
The rest of them turned around to look. "Hey move it, ya ease dropper!" Sarah shouted at him. The man quickly continued on his way, as Amanda shut the door.
"Well maybe it was Suzaku who brought us here and gave us the money." Shana chimed in. "Maybe we were brought here because we weren't ready to fight. So that we could learn to use and combined our powers before we have to face Gibralitern."
"Well whatever we're here for it doesn't matter at the moment. What matters is that we need new clothes and food." Jamie said.
With that they were off they got in the van and drove to the closest mall. Buckingham Square.
Sarah turned to look where Chichiri was. "No idea, looks like our world though."
"Your world?" Hotohori asked.
"It is," Heather sounded excited.
"Yay! Tether ball." Katie jumped up and down knowing the vicinity they were in.
"We're in Mission Vejio." Shana commented.
"Mission Vejio?" Amanda asked. All the girls were ignoring the guys blank stares.
"Yep, we live near here. We actually used to live in this neighborhood." Heather said smiling.
"Tether ball." Katie jumped up and down.
"Yeah!" Sarah said and the two ran down to the pole and started hitting the ball attached to the pole sending flying around one way and the back the other. Katie swung and missed the ball and immediately after started laughing Sarah joined in.
Heather sighed. "Kids." She smiled and ran down to where Sarah and Katie were with the other girls dragging the guys closely behind.
"I hope they're all right." Tasuki said to himself.
"You two finished?" Jamie asked, coming up behind the two girls. "Cause I'm hungry."
"Me too," Katie said.
"You two are always hungry." Amanda commented.
"We should get going," Sarah said.
"Where?" Heather asked. "I don't know about you but if we take a bunch of guys back to our house, after we've been gone for so long, there's going to be a lot of questions."
"Like what?" Tasuki asked.
"Like who are these people, where have you been, What the heck is a Suzaku?" Shana said. "It would take some time to explain."
"I'd offer to take you to my house, but it's rather far." Amanda jumped in.
"What about the dorm?" Sarah asked.
"Yeah we're really going to fit 12 people in there Sarah." Katie shook her head. "That room isn't big enough for 4 people."
"Hotel?" Jamie questioned.
"Where would we get the money?" Shana asked.
The guys just sat and watched the girls argue. Chichiri was examining the colored fixtures, when a flash of red light appeared above one of the tables under the metal tent. It quickly dissipated leaving a bundle behind on the top of one of the tables. They all turned around looked at each other then headed toward the table in question. On the table was a neat bundle wrapped with cloth and tied with string.
"Hotohori opened it to reveal lots of strange pieces of paper.
Tasuki grabbed one, "What the heck does 1000 mean?"
Sarah grabbed the paper from Tasuki. "Money?! That's a 1000 dollar bill!!!!!!"
"Money?" Nuriko asked. "Doesn't look like money to me."
"It's money used here." Heather explained. Taking the bill from Sarah and getting the rest from Hotohori before Tamahome could grab it.
"There's the money for the Hotel."
"Whoo-hooo!" Sarah and Katie said in time. Tasuki shook his head, knowing by now not to say anything.
"Where did it come from though?" Amanda asked.
"Who cares it's money!" Tasuki said.
"That's great how do we get to this hoe-tell? Well its simple we pick a direction and start walking. Great how far is the hoe-tell?" Kouji rambled.
Nuriko elbowed him lightly.
Shana grabbed Jamie's arm and pulled her back talking to her in whispers, Jamie shook her head and Shana addressed the group. "I have an idea."
Everyone turned toward her. "We can walk to our house," she pointed at herself and Heather. "I can take Jamie in Sally to Jamie's house. Jamie can drive the van back to our house and then we can take the van to a hotel."
"We're willing to do whatever we can to help, na no da."
"Sounds like a plan, yes it does." They all looked at Kouji.
"What?"
"Well lets get started." Tamahome said.
They walked out of the park and through the neighborhood of Mission Vejio, guided by Heather and Shana. When they arrived at Heather and Shana's there was no one home. Shana got into the house through the back grabbed the keys to Sally and came back out through the front door. Shana and Jamie got in Sally sent everyone to go wait at a near by 7-eleven, which Heather guided them too, while they went to get Jamie's van.
In Sally................
"So what do we do if your mom's there?" Shana asked.
"Run like (*^%%! But she shouldn't be what time is it?"
"4:35"
"I wonder what day it is, I lost track when we were back there."
"I don't know guess we'll have to ask someone."
On the way to 7-eleven..........
"You know what I want?" Katie asked.
"Let me guess," Heather started. "You want a Slurpee."
"Yep."
"You always want a Slurpee." Amanda said.
"I want one, too." Sarah whined.
"I wonder what kind of Slurpee's they have?"
"Umm, what's a Slurppe?" Tamahome asked.
"Sounds kinda funny to me." Tasuki added.
"It's a kind of drink." Heather explained, or tried to. "You'll see when we get there."
"What are those metal things on the side of the road, na no da?" Chichiri asked. "They look like the one Shana-san and Jamie-san got in, na no da."
"That's a car Chichiri." Amanda said.
"Well all we have to do is cross this street." Heather said looking out across the street.
"Whoa...." Tamahome and Tasuki said at the same time. Looking at all the cars driving back and forth across the street.
"We'll get hit if we try to cross that?" Nuriko asked.
"Not if you run at the right time." Sarah yelled running across the street and stopping at the median. She waved the others forward. The girls looked left saw no cars coming and dragged the guys across the street. They walked over and into the 7-eleven
In the Van...............
"So which hotel are we going to stay at?"
"Lets stay at the Holiday Inn."
"The one by DIA? The one Starcon and NDK are at?"
"Why not? It's not far from here."
"Sounds good."
They pulled up to the 7-eleven put gas in the van and got some snack food. Paying with one of the smaller bills they were given, they left, piled themselves into the van and drove off to the Holiday Inn.
"Yay! I'm so glad I don't have to drive." Katie said.
"Whoa look at that." Tamahome Pushed up against one of the windows looking at a Huge building. "That's bigger than the Palace!"
"Tamahome you're squishing US!!!!" Katie shouted.
"I don't mind." Sarah said.
"You wouldn't." Katie retorted, Tamahome blushed.
"What's that suppose to mean."
"Hey don't make me pull this car over!"
Heather laughed. "I have to go to the bathroom."
Amanda was next, "Are we there yet?"
"Hey!" Jamie yelled back at them. "I'll kick ya out of the car if you're not careful."
"Ohh, ohh," Katie raised her hand. "Could you drop me off at Media play cause that's where I'd rather be."
"That's enough out of you guys. I don't wanna here another peep."
"But we didn't say anything did we?" Kouji asked himself. "No I don't think so."
"I was talking to the smart alics, not you."
"But you said 'you guys'." Nuriko questioned.
"It's an expression in our world."
"Oh I see, you'll have to tell us more about your language and customs." Hotohori said. "So we will know what is expected of us."
"Meep!"
"Hey that's not funny Shana."
"Sorry couldn't help it."
"All right we're here." Jamie said pulling up to the Holiday Inn.
"Everybody out of the pool!" Katie shouted.
"Huh??" Was the response from the guys.
"Get out of the car!" Sarah started pushing them out.
"Hey watch it."
"That's my foot."
Finally they all got out of the van, stretched and walked toward the entrance.
"I think the doors cursed, na no da."
"No it's suppose to do that." Shana said. "It's a revolving door."
They guys nodded their heads and walked through after watching how the girls did it. They got two rooms and started heading up.
"Oh the memories." Katie said.
"What kind of memories?" Tasuki asked.
"Oh having the elevator drop a foot from too much weight. Getting in an elevator full of Klingons jumping up and down." She laughed.
"What's a Klingon?" Tamahome asked.
"Tell you later, or show you, there's bound to be a Star Trek show on tonight. It's on every night. Well one of the 5." Heather said.
They got to there rooms, one for the guys and one for the girls. Heather opened the door for the guys and handed them the card key. Then went to the girls room as the guys filed inside.
The girls spread themselves out all over the room. Sitting or laying down.
Amanda raised her head from the table she was sitting at. "We're going to need some more blankets or something."
"We're going to need some new clothes, some for the guys too." Shana said looking down at the clothes that had been given to them back in Konan.
"You're right." Jamie said.
"Well we'd better go get the guys." Sarah said.
They went across the hall to the room the guys were in. They were all wide eyed looking a black box inside of a cabinet.
"Up next on the WB..." The voice said.
"Looks like they found the TV." Sarah said.
"Someone trapped that lady and man in there." Tasuki shouted.
"No ones trapped." Heather said, walking in the room. She turned off the TV, closed the cabinet and turned to them. "We need to get some new clothes."
"Girls." Tasuki muttered.
"You guys need new clothes, too. So get up we're going shopping." She motioned for them to get up and move out of the room.
"Make me." Tasuki retorted.
"Enough," Hotohori scolded Tasuki. Who gave him the look of a kicked puppy dog. "We had better get new clothes. The ones were wearing probably are not normal here. Just as their clothes were not normal for our world. We could attract more attention than needed."
"Isn't this a little strange to anyone else, na no da?"
"What are you talking about Chichiri?" Nuriko asked the older Seishi.
"I mean what are we doing here, na no da? One minute we were fighting demons and the next were in their world with someone sending us money, na no da. Chiriko and Mitsukake are nowhere in site."
"I do not know what we are doing here. But I consider it a blessing from Suzaku." Hotohori addressed the monk. "We might have been killed back there if we weren't brought here. As for Mitsukake and Chiriko, maybe they were sent back to the palace, if they're not with us." Hotohori stopped noticing a person he didn't recognize standing outside the hotel room.
The rest of them turned around to look. "Hey move it, ya ease dropper!" Sarah shouted at him. The man quickly continued on his way, as Amanda shut the door.
"Well maybe it was Suzaku who brought us here and gave us the money." Shana chimed in. "Maybe we were brought here because we weren't ready to fight. So that we could learn to use and combined our powers before we have to face Gibralitern."
"Well whatever we're here for it doesn't matter at the moment. What matters is that we need new clothes and food." Jamie said.
With that they were off they got in the van and drove to the closest mall. Buckingham Square.
