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It was said that Water Island was haunted. Local fishermen always came to this island for the plentiful fish the island supplied, and not one fisherman had come back without a wild story about the ghost of Water Island. 'I swear, I heard her!' they would always say, and while some would roll their eyes, others would buy them drinks and listen to their stories for hours.

Many say that the ghost was a poltergeist that just wanted people off of the island. But some were convinced it was the ghost of Vivica J'ales. The story had been told what must have been millions of times.

'There was once a girl named Vivica J'ales,' was how the story would always begin. The story would, from there, set out to explain how on the night of the Cabalas Dance, this Vivica J'ales would kayak out to Water Island after her sister, Vivian J'ales. Vivian J'ales had earlier went to Water Island and didn't return to the point where Vivica J'ales was worried.

While Vivian J'ales returned hours later, Vivica J'ales never returned.

Some say that a vicious wave pulled Vivica out to sea. Others say that Vivica got lost and died from starvation. But there's one thing everyone agrees on: Once a year, on the night of the Cabalas Dance, Vivica J'ales would return in search of her sister.

~*~

"How do you like that?" Chelsea muttered from the bush.

Tomoyo continued filming while Naoko, Sakura, and Rika tried their hardest not to burst out laughing. From behind the bush, Chelsea could see all too clearly, and as much as she wanted to get up and walk away, she was stuck watching. It wasn't like she was being forced to stay or anything… In fact, if anyone was about to force her to leave, she would probably kill them. How could she ever miss an opportunity like this?

From the beach, Zach was lying down on the sand, staring up at the sky. Eriol was up in a tree, reaching for a coconut, and Syaoran was busy trying to get away from Mo and Cohn who had jumped him and were trying to dunk him under the water because, as they had said, 'He's too quiet.'

But that wasn't the reason the girls were so busy watching them and laughing. They could also see their shirts and their pants in a pile underneath the palm tree Eriol was trying to get a coconut, and Chelsea couldn't wait to threaten Zach with the tape.

Eriol finally grabbed onto hold of a coconut and dropped down onto the ground. He walked over to Zach and sat down next to him; he tossed the coconut up and down a few times before asking, "Do you think we should help Syaoran?"

Syaoran made a wild dash for shore, but Cohn jumped on his back in such away it would be to ordinary belief that he had broken Syaoran's back. But a few seconds later, Syaoran submerged and he yelped when Mo put him up into a healthy headlock and dunked him over and over and over again. Cohn grabbed Syaoran's legs to make him stop kicking and Mo and Cohn laughed sadistically.

Zach and Eriol looked at each other, then back out at Syaoran, Mo, and Cohn. "Nah," they both said with a laugh.

"How much do you think we should sell this for?" Naoko murmured.

"About 10," Chelsea replied.

"10 dollars?" Tomoyo asked in shock, looking at Chelsea.

"No way! 10 thousand!" Chelsea laughed evilly, making the girls back away from her slightly. "Lets reveal ourselves!"

The girls all nodded and they jumped out of the bush, all of them giggling madly and triumphantly.

Mo and Cohn stopped trying to shove Syaoran under the water and Mo lessened the headlock he had on Syaoran out of shock. Syaoran even stopped struggling as he just stared at the girls laughing. He couldn't even blush because he was in such shock.

Zach could, though. He turned scarlet, and Eriol didn't even know what to do.

"Hah! I have you in my hands, Zach!" Chelsea cheered. "I can sell this tape! I can put it up on our school website!"

Zach glared at Chelsea and he jumped up. "Hey, now wait one darn second! You can't do that!"

"I can and I will!" Chelsea yelled back. "That is… If you do something for me."

Zach sighed. "Like what?"

"Be my slave," Chelsea said simply. "ALL of you."

The boys were about to protest when a far off voice came to them. It was like someone was calling a name. The person was getting closer and closer, because the voice was getting louder and louder. But then it started to fade.

"Am I going crazy…? Or did all of you just hear that?" Naoko asked.

"I heard that," Eriol said, standing up. But then he looked down and he blushed. "Eh… Can't you girls leave already?"

"Jeez… It's not like we've never seen boxers before," Sakura said, and all of the girls turned around to leave.

"Yeah, I've seen plenty of Zach's," Chelsea said with an evil grin and they left.

" 'Plenty of Zach's,'?" Cohn asked, raising an eyebrow at the boy, who just grinned nervously.

~*~

"Boy… How was that for a first day?" Cohn muttered angrily. He sat down on his bed and glared at Zach. "And it's all your fault. If your stupid girlfriend didn't have a grudge against you, we wouldn't have to be their dumb slaves!"

"It's not that bad," Mo muttered.

"Not that bad?!" Eriol yelled.

"Hey, calm down," Zach said. "We'll get our way out of this…"

"How?" Eriol asked.

"Er… Ideas?" Zach asked, looking around at the four boys.

"If we had ideas we would've already told you!" Cohn shouted.

"Why don't you just sweet talk your way out of it?" Syaoran murmured, and four boys turned around and stared at him.

"You know… That's actually a pretty good idea," Zach said, his face lighting up. "Of course, we still have that other plan-"

All of a sudden, the girls burst in the room, deep in conversation, but a few more people had joined the group: Boston, Meilin, Ashanti, and another older girl the boys had never seen before.

Boston instantly glomped Syaoran, making Chelsea, Rika, and Tomoyo glare at her. Meilin, however, was furious.

"Get your hands off of him!" Meilin yelled.

"Hey, don't you think you should introduce Carrie to the boys," Boston said smugly, rubbing her cheek against Syaoran who was eyeing her, as if he was afraid that if he made a sudden move she would bite him.

"That's Zach, that's Syaoran, that's Cohn, that's Eriol, and that's Mo," Ashanti said quietly, pointing at who was who.

"This is Carrie Hamilton," Sakura grinned. "She's the tour-guide; she's from the main island."

"Hello," Carrie said with a slight French accent. Carrie smiled down at them and then her gaze rested on Syaoran. "Oh, and so you're Syaoran," she continued with a smile. "Oh, how the girls were fighting over you."

Syaoran blushed a deep scarlet.

"Who you be going to the Cabalas Dance with?" Carrie continued, not seeming to see Syaoran's reaction.

"The what?" Cohn asked from his bed.

"The Cabalas Dance! Oi! Don't be telling me that your teacher not tell you about the Cabalas Dance! Famous dance, it is. Once a year. Everyone be going to the Cabalas Dance! Even the fishermen be stopping their fishing to go to the Cabalas Dance! It on the main island, and it is tomorrow! I'll be convincing your teacher to let you be going, don't you worry! Oh, yes, but I must warn you… Don't be going out onto the beach on Cabalas Dance night…"

"Why not?" Rika asked curiously.

The girls sat down on the beds to get comfortable while Carrie ran a hand through her long black hair.

"The ghost of Vivica J'ales do be coming out on that night, yes…"

Sakura flinched at the word, 'Ghost,' and Carrie noticed it.

"But no worrying. I say the ghost of Vivica J'ales is hogwash. A trick of the light, I say. Every Cabalas Dance night there be fog and there be full moon. And what with all of the stories running through these silly fishermen head… And then those stories about Vivica searching for her sister, Vivica? It just be the wind the trees, yes… It fake, it be. No worrying. Ah, look at the time!" Carrie cried when she had glanced at the clock on the wall. "I be going, yes. Good evening to you all; and I will be surely talking to your teacher about letting you go to the Cabalas Dance. A sight it will be, yes!" And Carrie left.

"Do you think it's just a trick of the light?" Naoko asked. "I hope it isn't… I love ghosts!"

"I would be ale to film it," Tomoyo said.

Chelsea threw a pillow at Zach. "Don't even start! The first ghost did not come from out in space!"

Zach smirked and rubbed his nose as if he had been hurt from the pillow. He threw the pillow back at Chelsea, but she ducked and the pillow hit Rika in the head. Rika threw back a pillow at Chelsea, but she ducked and it hit Syaoran, who had seen it coming but couldn't move because Boston was still latched onto him.

Mo, Eriol, Cohn, and Zach laughed, but pillows flew in at them and hit them in their heads, and soon everyone, even Syaoran, was in the middle of a pillow fight.

Sakura was playing also, but her mind kept wandering. What if the ghost is real…?

~*~

"IT'S GONE!!!"

Every girl in the cabin instantly sat up. They looked around quickly, then their eyes rested on Chelsea, who was pulling at her hair.

"What's gone?" Ashanti asked, climbing out of bed, and was soon followed by every girl so that a circle was formed around Chelsea.

"The tape! Those little…! Ugh! We have to get the tape back!" Tomoyo growled. "Let's split up. Rika, Chelsea, you guys come with me," Tomoyo glanced at Sakura, and Sakura merely smiled understandingly. "Ashanti, Naoko," Tomoyo continued, happy to see that her best friend wasn't upset about not being in the same group, "you two can be together. That leaves Boston, Meilin, and Sakura. Lets go find that tape!"

"Yeah!" all of the girls cheered.

~*~

"I can't believe I agreed to this," Boston muttered, stepping carefully over a fallen palm tree. Sakura and Meilin climbed quickly over it.

"Quit your complaining and let's go find those stupid guys," Meilin demanded as she looked around.

"Who are you to give me orders?" Boston retorted dangerously.

"Hey, do you think the guys might be hiding out by the beach?" Sakura asked, trying to avert the two girls from the thoughts of a fight.

"Why don't you shut your mouth?" Boston yelled at Sakura.

"Why don't you leave her alone?" Meilin yelled at Boston.

Sakura sighed and continued walking.

"Any person who is trying to get Syaoran is an enemy of mine," Boston growled. "Which makes you my enemy," Boston said, glaring at Meilin, "and which makes her my enemy," she continued, changing her glare to Sakura's back, who instantly screeched to a stop at that statement.

"Say what?" Sakura asked, turning around.

"You heard me," Boston snarled. "You're trying to steal Syaoran away from me. Don't even pretend you don't give him those flirt-smiles and that you don't notice him staring at you while you always show off."

"Boston, get a clue! You will never have Syaoran! I will never have Syaoran! He just doesn't think of me that way! And if he is starting to like Sakura, then you're just going to have to deal with it! Get over it and leave Syaoran alone!"

Sakura stared at the two, then blinked, and then turned around to walk off again.

"And where do you think you're going?" Boston yelled after Sakura.

"I'm going to look for the guys," Sakura replied calmly.

"Vivian!"

Sakura stopped dead in her tracks and turned pale. She turned around slowly to see Boston's black skin become blotched with light brown and dark brown, and she saw Meilin's skin become snow white.

"D… Did… D-did you guys… Just…. Did you guys just here that?" Meilin whispered.

"Vivian!" the voice called again.

"Vivian… From the ghost story…" Sakura whispered.

"You guys… Tonight is the Cabalas Dance," Boston whispered.

"Vivian!" the voice screeched, becoming louder and louder.

Sakura, Meilin, and Boston were running before they even realized it. They were running, and they continued running, and they ran even when thunder boomed ahead and it started to pour rain.

They ran right into a dark cave and stood there, panting, trying to catch their breath. Boston was clutching the side of her stomach. Meilin was looking around, catching everything in the corner of her eye. Sakura was about to faint.

"Vivian!" the voice was fading, but even then the girls jumped and started running again, until they ran right onto the beach where the waves crashed onto the beach.

"Girls! There they are! There are the girls!" Carrie cried. She waved hurriedly for the girls to come into their cabin, and they did so happily.

"What took you?" Chelsea giggled. "We got the tape back from Zach about two hours ago! You missed lunch, too!"

"Whoa, you look like you've just seen a ghost," Naoko laughed.

Sakura, Boston, and Meilin exchanged glances as they stood; they were tense, and stood like statues. Thunder boomed again and the three jumped.

"What's wrong?" Rika asked worriedly.

"Yes, what it be?" Carrie asked. She guided the three to sit down and she asked Ashanti to bring some towels before the three caught cold.

"The ghost of Vivica," Sakura whispered.

"We… We…" Boston started, but was unable to finish.

"We heard her," Meilin finished for her.

"Hogwash," Carrie said, shaking her head. "Probably just hearing things, I say."

"But we all heard it!" Boston cried.

"Hogwash," Carrie said again. "The wind and the trees do be liking to play tricks on youngsters like yourselves. I be telling you so."

Still, Sakura, Meilin, and Boston weren't anywhere near convinced. Tomoyo, Chelsea, Naoko, Ashanti, and Rika were looking a little worried themselves.

"Ah, no worries," Carrie said. "And anyways, we have much to worry about, and it isn't about no ghost. What will we be doing about this Dance tonight? You will be allowed to go, yes… But I'm not feeling so great about letting children out in rain."

"We can go!" Boston said, nearly instantly forgetting about the ghost.

"You only want to go so you can hang all over Syaoran and call it dancing!" Meilin yelled.

"I'm sure," Rika muttered.

"No fighting, my girls. Syaoran will dance with you all, I'm sure."

"I don't want Syaoran," Chelsea said.

"We know, we know," Naoko sighed. "You want Zach."

"Hahaha, very funny," Chelsea muttered.

"I know," Naoko smiled innocently, making all of the girls giggle.

~*~



The rain had calmed itself, and before anyone knew it, the five classes were getting ready to kayak over to the main island for the Cabalas Dance. They were all excited and all that could be heard was the chatter between the students.

"Order, order!" a teacher called over the talking. It suddenly became silent. "Thank you. Please, do not lag behind and do not race ahead. Stay with the group at all times and do not, and I repeat, do not cause any mischief. Ms. Carrie Hamilton will be coming along to help."

Everyone climbed into their kayak and, after a quick lesson from Carrie, they pushed off from shore and started for the main island. s

All except a few boys.

"Whew, that was close," Zach said loudly. "Okay… Let's get that tape back-"

"Nice try," Chelsea said, and stepping out from behind a cabin was, she, Rika, Tomoyo, Meilin, Boston, and Sakura

"Argh! Will you ever leave us alone so we can accomplish something?!" Cohn yelled.

"Quiet, before you wake up the ghost," Eriol said, with a small sneer.

"IT WAS YOU!" Meilin, Boston, and Sakura yelled.

"Of course," Mo said. "Who did you think it was?"

But none of the girls could answer. They were too busy staring behind the boys at the beach where the fog was creeping in. And before any of the boys knew it, the girls were screaming their heads off. The boys soon joined when they turned around, however.

In a panicked rush, the students made there way towards the palm tree forest and away from the beach… FAR away from the beach… because Vivica stood there, as plain as ever.

The students separated. The girls had rushed to the right while the boys rushed to the left. They had no idea where they were going, but they continued running, dodging the fallen trees and the rocks.

"Vivian?!"

The girls screeched to a stop and ran in the opposite direction. Soon, they had ended up by the beach again, but once again, they screeched to a stop when they saw the boys rolling on the sand, laughing their heads off, with Carrie chuckling slightly beside them.

"Carrie?!" the girls yelled.

"I be telling you the fog and the moon play tricks of light… But the guys needed a shadow, so I stood in the fog for them."

"But… But…" Chelsea stuttered.

Zach held up the tape. "Hah! So I win after all!"

"But Carrie… What about the dance?"

"Ah… I was trying to get you girls to stay here one way or another, I was… I was hoping the rain would hold you up, I was… Turns out Zach was right, though… You stayed anyways to guard the tape."

"But then why did you guys tell us about yelling out, 'Vivian,' just now?"

"To make it seem more real, of course," Eriol said with a shrug.

"Carrie! How could you?" Meilin demanded.

"I beg pardon, girls, but the guys really be needing my help. We still friends, we still are… Right?"

The girls nodded quickly. "Of course," they all said.

"That be good," Carrie said.

"So then is the ghost real?" Sakura asked.

"No one knows," Carrie said with a shrug.

"What! You told us you thought the ghost was hogwash!" Boston yelled.

"Be calming yourself, child. I only say that so you wouldn't be suspecting me to be part of the 'Ghost of Vivica' if you started to be figuring it out."

"They had no clue, though," Cohn laughed.

Chelsea glared.

"Ah, come on… You know it was funny," Zach said, putting his arm around her shoulder, but she merely looked the other way, crossed her arms, and stuck her nose up into the air.

"Eh…" Carrie sighed. "But anyways… We will be going to the Dance right about now, no?"

"Yeah!" Boston, Sakura, Tomoyo, and Meilin cheered.

"Yes, we should," Carrie said, and the group made it down to the beach where there were extra kayaks. "Plenty girls will be disappointed if the, 'Silent Chinese Boy,' as they call him, doesn't show up," Carrie said, throwing a glance at Syaoran, who went scarlet again.

"He's so quiet, and yet all of the girls are hanging all over him," Cohn said, shaking his head as he climbed into the kayak. "Girls. I will never understand girls."

"As if," Boston retorted.

"You know, that last prank was really good, though," Sakura said. "I really thought it was real."

"Yes, well, the fog do be doing that sometimes."

"No, no, she means the, 'Vivian?!' part," Tomoyo said.

Chelsea smirked when she saw an opening. Zach wasn't gripping the tape as tightly because he looked confused, and she grabbed the tape and handed it to Tomoyo. But Zach didn't even seem to care. He was just blinking, then he looked at Carrie to see if he missed something, but she seemed just as confused as all of the boys did.

"What do you be talking about?" Carrie asked, raising her eyebrows slightly.

"You know," Chelsea said. " 'Vivian?!' When we were in the palm tree forest and we split up?"

"We didn't call her name out," Mo said.

"Yeah. We were busy getting back to the cabins," Eriol explained.

The girls blinked, then looked at each other, and they all turned pale.

"Quit messing around," Zach said.

"Seriously… You're freaking me out," Syaoran added.

"The guy doesn't speak much, but when he does speak, he's speaking for all of us," Mo said.

"But…" Sakura said.

"If… That wasn't you…" Meilin muttered.

"Then…?" Boston trailed off.

"Who…?" Chelsea asked, but she was already starting to get the picture and she couldn't continue.

"Who was it?" Tomoyo asked, feeling slightly fearful.



"Lets be getting out of here, no?"

"YES!" everyone yelled, and they pushed off with their kayaks towards the main island for the Cabalas dance.