Episode 27



Air date: Thursday March 21st



Ack... Sorry this was so late! I had a really busy weekend and then tons of home work, even home work from youth group at church ^_^; so I've been writing a little bit at a time whenever I can. Next week shouldn't be so busy, at least not on the week days.



"We better get to camp," Duo said as the sun began to sink into the ocean.

Scarlet nodded as she sighed, "but it's such a beautiful sunset."

The two of them were sitting on a big rock that was starting to be swallowed up by the rising tide.

Heero was swimming back to shore while his little sister Micah was filling his shoes with little crabs. Nozomi was picking up her towel already and following Menz back to camp where the two of them planned to start the fire.

Kokurami, Nona, and Suu were dumping out the sand from their shoes and towels. It was starting to get chilly so they were going to find Micah and head back.

"Hey," Nona said as she tapped Micah on the shoulder. "What are you doing?"

"Putting crabs in my brother's shoes. Just because we on vacation doesn't mean I get to take time off from driving my brother insane." Micah replied solemnly.

Kokurami, Suu and Nona laughed. "Alrighty."

Celeste, Kitoshi and Himiko were just watching the waves lapping at their toes as they sat in the sand.

"It's soooooo peaceful," Celeste said in a dreamy voice.

"Ah just wait until the stars come out. Oh my god there must be a million out here without all the street lights!" Himiko said excitedly.

"Mmmm I wanna go on a walk on the beach under the moonlight, that has to be the most romantic thing in the world." Kitoshi said looking far off in a dreamy world.



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Pearl and her sister Umi had already gone back to camp to change out of their bathing suits and into shorts and tee shirts. Trunks and Gohan were collecting sticks while Carrot and James took out the food.

Pearl innocently walked up to Nozomi, "excuse me, which tent belongs to Scarlet?" She asked.

Nozomi shrugged, "how the heck should I know? I didn't memorized where everyone is. There are like a million tents. I'm happy I know where my tent is an where Heero-chan's is."

Pearl pouted, "please?"

"It might be the red tent next to the green one." Nozomi replied finally as she waved Pearl off.

Pearl grinned and returned to her own tent alone with her sister.

Kokurami and Micah came running into camp and dove into a tent.

"What's going on?" Nozomi asked with her hands on her hips.

Kokurami poked her head out of the tent. "There are crabs in Heero's shoes."

Micah was under a sleeping bag muffling her giggles.

"Oh however did they get there?" Nozomi said sarcastically as she rolled her eyes.

Duo and Scarlet came into camp carrying there stuff.

"I wonder how all those crabs found their way into Heero's shoes. Mine were even closer to shore." Duo said as he scratched his head.

"We remembered a can opener right?" Scarlet asked Menz.

Menz shrugged, "I can't say for sure that we did... Let's hope, or someone's gonna have to bite the darn thing open," Menz said as she laughed.

Scarlet began digging through their dishes and other kitchen stuff. She bit down on her lip, "it's not here."

"It's in oat meal box, it wouldn't fit any other way," Micah called from inside the tent.

Scarlet blinked. "Um.... Alright..."

Sure enough, when Menz opened the oat meal there was the can opener. "Well, at least we have it."

Himiko, Celeste and Kitoshi finally returned as the sky was turning from pink to blue.

"We're here to work our magic," Kitoshi said.

"Good, because we could use all the magic we could get," Scarlet said as she handed each of them a stick.

Nozomi opened the hot dogs and handed them out to the girls. "Put the hog dogs on the sticks and we'll be ready to go as soon as the guys get back with our fire wood."

Just then Gohan and Trunks appeared with a ton of fire wood which they dropped in front of the girls.

"Is that enough?" Trunks asked.

"Yup," Menz replied as she struck a match giving her a devious look.



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Heero grumbled as he shook the crabs out of his shoes onto the sand. At least he had remembered to look before he put on his shoes, with his sisters it was a must.

Lilly watched from the shadow of a rock. It was just the two of them on the beach, of course he though he was alone. She decided not to speak up as her ocean blue eyes focused on him.

Heero looked up suddenly, he could feel someone staring at him, and it was a ice cold stare.

"Is anyone there?" Heero called out.

Lilly stepped out of the shadows and titled her head. "I am. I watched the sun set and then realized it was dark... And I'm afraid I'll get lost on the way to camp."

"You want me to walk you back?" Heero asked slowly.

She smiled, "yes, that would be nice of you."

Lilly picked up her beach towel and took Heero's hand, Heero had to control the urge to shake her off. The two of them returned to camp together. All the while Lilly never took her eyes off him.





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By the time Heero and Lilly had returned to the camp site, the fire was blazing and a couple hot dogs had been cooked. Nozomi froze as soon as she saw Heero holding Lilly's hand. Then she turned her head away and continued watching the cooking hot dog.

Lilly quickly let go of Heero's hand. "Nozomi-san I am very sorry..."

"It's ok Lilly, I'm not mad at you." Nozomi replied.

"Uh-oh... If you're not mad at *her* that can only mean you're mad at *me*." Heero said with a sigh.

He walked up and stood next to her, "look, she's kinda freaky and spacey... A classic blonde. I was just walking her back to camp because she's such a baby."

Nozomi sighed. "I'm just a little bugged by you hanging with other girls." She said thinking back to earlier that day when Usagi has waltz out into the sand in her little pink string bikini, and the looks Heero was giving her.

"So you forgive me?" Heero said with pleading puppy dog eyes.

"No. You haven't said sorry yet." Nozomi replied.

"Oh... Oh! Yeah... I'm sorry. I really am." Heero said.

"Alright, you're forgiven." Nozomi replied. Then she handed him the now burnt hot dog. "This one's yours."

Heero hung his head, "jeeze..."



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After dinner everyone sat down around the blazing fire for ghost stories. Scarlet leaned against Duo while Pearl started her story.

"The traditional story of the island." Pearl said in a soft clean voice. "For years and years a mermaid under the light of a full moon leaves the ocean in search of island visitors. She enjoys seducing young men stealing them from their girlfriends. When she knows the girlfriend is catching on she will often capture and sometimes even kill her. Not to mention once she's seduced the guy, she often kills him."

Suu gulped, "ok, I'm scared already." Then she was silent, but her eyes were wide and filled with wonder and fear.

"That's only the background story." Pearl replied.

A shiver went down Nozomi's spine and she suddenly grabbed onto Heero's arm and just clung to him.

Pear continued her story. "One day a newly wed couple came here on their honey moon... Only seventeen years ago today." She paused to look at everyone's face's glowing in the light of the fire. "They ran into another couple and a girl with blonde hair and blue blue eyes."

Everyone turned to look at Lilly who blinked looked very uncomfortable. "You, you don't think..." She trailed off as she looked worried.

Nozomi laughed, "maybe it's Usagi."

Usagi stuck out her tongue, "nya."

"Most of the details remain a mystery... Unfortunately. But one thing is for sure, He was seduced, But his wife survived. But they talk rarely about the event." Pearl said.

"Wow," Kokurami said as she looked down at the shadows in the sand. "How creepy..."

"She was our mother," Umi said finally.

Everyone's jaw's dropped.

"Ok I'm ready to get to bed." Kokurami said. "Anyone got a night light?"

"Yeah we should get going so we can get up early tomorrow and make the best of the day." Menz replied as she stretched.

The group broke up and began heading off to bed. Before going to sleep Heero gave Nozomi a kiss. And Duo and Scarlet promised to get up at sunrise to watch the sun come up together. Which made Pearl sick.

That night after everyone was in the tents and asleep, Scarlet and Micah were startled awake by a scratching noise.

"Ah! What's that?!" Scarlet shrieked.