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Hikaru looked up to see several incredulous faces staring back at her, "Nani? Do I have something on my face?"
Caldina seeing her confusion as well as everyone else's decided to take control of the situation. "Hikaru-chan I believe that our friends from Cephiro High are a little surprised at the recent turn of events." Seeing that Hikaru still didn't understand she continued, "I don't think that they understood exactly who you were related to, and your abilities Hikaru-chan. It probably came as a big surprise for them to know that someone who is in the international rankings would be competing with them."
Eagle was the first to recover, "Hikaru-chan is that what the officials wanted to talk to you about at the sign-in table earlier?"
"Hai! The officials thought that there was a mistake in the record keeping before I told them that I had just started school here this past semester. At first they thought that perhaps I was supposed to be a guest referee." She paused and looked to the sky while twirling a piece of hair around her finger, "although I don't know why they thought that I would be judging and not competing, I am the same age as everyone else after all." (everyone sweatdrops at her obliviousness;)
"HIKARU! Why do you think that they would have doubts, and find it hard to believe that an international ranked competitor would come to compete here when she will be competing at the nationals in less than two months!?"
"I don't know Umi-chan, why?" (picture cute kitty Hikaru that doesn't have a clue)
"HIIIKARUUUUUU!!!!"
"Now Umi-san, perhaps you should calm down just a little." Fuu was standing up holding Umi's arm trying to keep her from bashing Hikaru over the head with her paper plate.
Ascot from his place beside the enraged Umi tried to explain, "Shidou- sempai I believe what Umi-san was trying to say is that since your skills are so high, the officials here are not used to the idea of judging someone who is at such an advanced skill level."
"Ascot-chan you can call me Hikaru-chan. calling me Shidou makes me think of my older brothers or my father, but thank you for the complement!"
Fuu had calmed Umi down somewhat by now, but she turned on Ascot, "What's up with this sempai crap! She is the same age as you! Also what's up with calling me Umi-SAN? What am I a little old lady?! Call me Umi-CHAN!" She then turned and gave the rest of the group a glare, "and that goes for the rest of you. I'm too young and beautiful to be putting stodgy old suffixes on my name! So if you want me to answer you I suggest you call me Umi-chan. That goes for you as well Fuu-chan!"
"Umi-sa-chan perhaps you shouldn't yell at our new friends from Cephiro High. After all Ascot-san was just trying to help."
"It's ok Fuu-san, I know that Umi-chan wasn't trying to be mean."
"That's right Fuu-chan, Ascot-chan here knows what's good for him and will do as I wish. Won't you Ascot-chan?" Umi reached over and patted (cough-hit- cough) Ascot on the back, which caused the boy to blush red and turn back to his food hiding his face, from everyone.
The group continued with their meals after this last outburst however several of the Cephiro High students were still casting glances at Hikaru and whispering about her and her family ties.
This continued with everyone having different conversations until Lafarga stood up, "I believe that the break for lunch is almost over. If everyone is ready then we should go and proceed to warm up before competition starts up again." He looked at the Rayearth group to see that they had all finished their lunches and turned to the group from Cephiro, "Good luck to all of you. We shall see you later."
Both groups proceeded to clean up and say their good-bye's before heading in opposite directions to prepare for the rest of the day ahead.
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The next the two groups saw each other was the end of the day when the first 2 rounds of competition had been completed.
Lantis was standing outside the entrance to the stadium waiting for the rest of his classmates when he saw Hikaru come skipping out of the building. "Hello Hikaru-chan. I trust that you did well today?"
"Oh hello Lantis-chan! Yes I had a lot of fun, plus I qualified for the final rounds in all three competitions! How did you do today?"
"I qualified for all three finals as well."
"Oi! Lantis-san there you are we were wondering where you had gotten to. I thought I told you to please let someone know where you were heading off too. Oh hello Hikaru-chan how are you this evening?"
"I am fine. And you Zagato-sempai? Did you do well in competitions today?"
"I reached the finals in the Zen competition so I am pleased with my performance. How about you, did you do well today?"
"Yes. I reached the finals in all three competitions today and I had so much fun with everyone I competed against!"
"THAT'S because you are so far ahead of everyone else Hikaru-chan!"
The group turned to find most of the Rayearth students behind them and the Cephiro students were walking their way as well. "Oh hello minna-chan I didn't know that you were behind me."
"Lordy Hikaru how can you be so obvious to everything else, yet if someone were to sneak up and try to attack you from behind they would find themselves in a world of hurt. You didn't even realize it today when your opponent in the hand-to-hand competition about peed his pants when he realized who you were!"
"Nani?" Hikaru just had a confused look on her face while most of the others just laughed at her.
"H-Hello Umi-chan. How did you do today?"
"Oh hello Ascot-chan! I did well; I made it to the weaponry finals like I wanted so I am happy even though I was defeated in the second round of hand- to-hand prelims. How did you do in your Zen prelims?"
Ascot blushed when he remembered their conversation over lunch where Umi told him about wanting to make it to the finals especially in weaponry and he in turn had told her how he only entered the Zen competition because he hated conflicts of any kind. "I did well I suppose. I made it to the finals so I am relieved."
"Stop being so modest! It sounds like you did very good because they only accepted 12 people to the finals in the Zen competition."
As the rest of the group continued to talk the y learned that everyone (but Emeraude who was only there for support - plus she has first aid training) had made it to the finals in at least one of the competitions. The group was also very excited to hear that both Hikaru and Lantis had made it to the finals in all three areas of the competition.
"That's just wonderful! That means that everyone is invited to me and Presea's room tonight for a celebration party!"
"Um Caldina-chan are you sure that that's wise? After-all everyone does have to compete in the morning."
"Now Presea-chan you sure didn't worry about that last night did you? You were the one who drank so much that." the rest of Caldina's sentence was cut off by a very red Presea's hand over her mouth.
"Ok Ok. Everyone is invited over to our room for a party, as long as we turn in at a fairly decent hour." She then turned and whispered to Caldina, "and as long as you don't finish the rest of that sentence!"
Caldina nodded before Presea let her go, "Jeez sista' you need to loosen up a little! Anyway I was thinking about having everyone dress up tonight but since we are having that formal banquet this year for the awards ceremony I think that that might be overkill, so everyone can just come in casual duds tonight."
Eagle who had been talking to Hikaru and Lantis smiled at the pink haired girl; "It sounds like fun! What time do you want us to come over?"
"Well let's see its 5:30 now so I'd say about 7. That gives everyone a chance to clean up and get food before they come over. Oh by the way our room number is 438 at the end of the hall."
"Really that means that you are just down the hall from us! We are at the other end of the hall in rooms 402 through 405 I believe."
"Wow what a coink-e-dink. I wondered who I heard this morning making noise at the other end of the hall."
Geo stepped forward, "Thanks for the invite we'll see you guys later but I believe that our coach is waiting for us over at the van." He then turned to wink at Tarta, "See ya later feisty," and grabbed his gear before he started towards the van followed by his teammates after saying their farewells. While Tarta was yelling at his back, "Hey! Who are you calling feisty you overgrown jock!"
Well there it is a short chapter but at least it was updated -Yea! Sorry about the delay again but this has already been half written then erased once so that didn't help either. Ok for those of you curious I will put who made it to the finals in what in a list here so you have been warned Rayearth* Hikaru-Zen, weaponry and HTH (hand-to-hand) Umi-weaponry Fuu-Zen Caldina-weaponry and HTH Presea-Zen Tatra-weaponry and Zen Tarta-weaponry and HTH Lafarga-weaponry and HTH Clef- Zen Cephiro* Lantis-Zen, weaponry and HTH Eagle-weaponry and HTH Ascot-Zen Ferio-weaponry Geo-HTH Zagato-Zen Alcyone-HTH Emeraude-first aid/support
Once again please review and thanks for the support! - Next chapter the PARTY! Maybe a little romance thrown in just to make it interesting! Ja ne
Hikaru looked up to see several incredulous faces staring back at her, "Nani? Do I have something on my face?"
Caldina seeing her confusion as well as everyone else's decided to take control of the situation. "Hikaru-chan I believe that our friends from Cephiro High are a little surprised at the recent turn of events." Seeing that Hikaru still didn't understand she continued, "I don't think that they understood exactly who you were related to, and your abilities Hikaru-chan. It probably came as a big surprise for them to know that someone who is in the international rankings would be competing with them."
Eagle was the first to recover, "Hikaru-chan is that what the officials wanted to talk to you about at the sign-in table earlier?"
"Hai! The officials thought that there was a mistake in the record keeping before I told them that I had just started school here this past semester. At first they thought that perhaps I was supposed to be a guest referee." She paused and looked to the sky while twirling a piece of hair around her finger, "although I don't know why they thought that I would be judging and not competing, I am the same age as everyone else after all." (everyone sweatdrops at her obliviousness;)
"HIKARU! Why do you think that they would have doubts, and find it hard to believe that an international ranked competitor would come to compete here when she will be competing at the nationals in less than two months!?"
"I don't know Umi-chan, why?" (picture cute kitty Hikaru that doesn't have a clue)
"HIIIKARUUUUUU!!!!"
"Now Umi-san, perhaps you should calm down just a little." Fuu was standing up holding Umi's arm trying to keep her from bashing Hikaru over the head with her paper plate.
Ascot from his place beside the enraged Umi tried to explain, "Shidou- sempai I believe what Umi-san was trying to say is that since your skills are so high, the officials here are not used to the idea of judging someone who is at such an advanced skill level."
"Ascot-chan you can call me Hikaru-chan. calling me Shidou makes me think of my older brothers or my father, but thank you for the complement!"
Fuu had calmed Umi down somewhat by now, but she turned on Ascot, "What's up with this sempai crap! She is the same age as you! Also what's up with calling me Umi-SAN? What am I a little old lady?! Call me Umi-CHAN!" She then turned and gave the rest of the group a glare, "and that goes for the rest of you. I'm too young and beautiful to be putting stodgy old suffixes on my name! So if you want me to answer you I suggest you call me Umi-chan. That goes for you as well Fuu-chan!"
"Umi-sa-chan perhaps you shouldn't yell at our new friends from Cephiro High. After all Ascot-san was just trying to help."
"It's ok Fuu-san, I know that Umi-chan wasn't trying to be mean."
"That's right Fuu-chan, Ascot-chan here knows what's good for him and will do as I wish. Won't you Ascot-chan?" Umi reached over and patted (cough-hit- cough) Ascot on the back, which caused the boy to blush red and turn back to his food hiding his face, from everyone.
The group continued with their meals after this last outburst however several of the Cephiro High students were still casting glances at Hikaru and whispering about her and her family ties.
This continued with everyone having different conversations until Lafarga stood up, "I believe that the break for lunch is almost over. If everyone is ready then we should go and proceed to warm up before competition starts up again." He looked at the Rayearth group to see that they had all finished their lunches and turned to the group from Cephiro, "Good luck to all of you. We shall see you later."
Both groups proceeded to clean up and say their good-bye's before heading in opposite directions to prepare for the rest of the day ahead.
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The next the two groups saw each other was the end of the day when the first 2 rounds of competition had been completed.
Lantis was standing outside the entrance to the stadium waiting for the rest of his classmates when he saw Hikaru come skipping out of the building. "Hello Hikaru-chan. I trust that you did well today?"
"Oh hello Lantis-chan! Yes I had a lot of fun, plus I qualified for the final rounds in all three competitions! How did you do today?"
"I qualified for all three finals as well."
"Oi! Lantis-san there you are we were wondering where you had gotten to. I thought I told you to please let someone know where you were heading off too. Oh hello Hikaru-chan how are you this evening?"
"I am fine. And you Zagato-sempai? Did you do well in competitions today?"
"I reached the finals in the Zen competition so I am pleased with my performance. How about you, did you do well today?"
"Yes. I reached the finals in all three competitions today and I had so much fun with everyone I competed against!"
"THAT'S because you are so far ahead of everyone else Hikaru-chan!"
The group turned to find most of the Rayearth students behind them and the Cephiro students were walking their way as well. "Oh hello minna-chan I didn't know that you were behind me."
"Lordy Hikaru how can you be so obvious to everything else, yet if someone were to sneak up and try to attack you from behind they would find themselves in a world of hurt. You didn't even realize it today when your opponent in the hand-to-hand competition about peed his pants when he realized who you were!"
"Nani?" Hikaru just had a confused look on her face while most of the others just laughed at her.
"H-Hello Umi-chan. How did you do today?"
"Oh hello Ascot-chan! I did well; I made it to the weaponry finals like I wanted so I am happy even though I was defeated in the second round of hand- to-hand prelims. How did you do in your Zen prelims?"
Ascot blushed when he remembered their conversation over lunch where Umi told him about wanting to make it to the finals especially in weaponry and he in turn had told her how he only entered the Zen competition because he hated conflicts of any kind. "I did well I suppose. I made it to the finals so I am relieved."
"Stop being so modest! It sounds like you did very good because they only accepted 12 people to the finals in the Zen competition."
As the rest of the group continued to talk the y learned that everyone (but Emeraude who was only there for support - plus she has first aid training) had made it to the finals in at least one of the competitions. The group was also very excited to hear that both Hikaru and Lantis had made it to the finals in all three areas of the competition.
"That's just wonderful! That means that everyone is invited to me and Presea's room tonight for a celebration party!"
"Um Caldina-chan are you sure that that's wise? After-all everyone does have to compete in the morning."
"Now Presea-chan you sure didn't worry about that last night did you? You were the one who drank so much that." the rest of Caldina's sentence was cut off by a very red Presea's hand over her mouth.
"Ok Ok. Everyone is invited over to our room for a party, as long as we turn in at a fairly decent hour." She then turned and whispered to Caldina, "and as long as you don't finish the rest of that sentence!"
Caldina nodded before Presea let her go, "Jeez sista' you need to loosen up a little! Anyway I was thinking about having everyone dress up tonight but since we are having that formal banquet this year for the awards ceremony I think that that might be overkill, so everyone can just come in casual duds tonight."
Eagle who had been talking to Hikaru and Lantis smiled at the pink haired girl; "It sounds like fun! What time do you want us to come over?"
"Well let's see its 5:30 now so I'd say about 7. That gives everyone a chance to clean up and get food before they come over. Oh by the way our room number is 438 at the end of the hall."
"Really that means that you are just down the hall from us! We are at the other end of the hall in rooms 402 through 405 I believe."
"Wow what a coink-e-dink. I wondered who I heard this morning making noise at the other end of the hall."
Geo stepped forward, "Thanks for the invite we'll see you guys later but I believe that our coach is waiting for us over at the van." He then turned to wink at Tarta, "See ya later feisty," and grabbed his gear before he started towards the van followed by his teammates after saying their farewells. While Tarta was yelling at his back, "Hey! Who are you calling feisty you overgrown jock!"
Well there it is a short chapter but at least it was updated -Yea! Sorry about the delay again but this has already been half written then erased once so that didn't help either. Ok for those of you curious I will put who made it to the finals in what in a list here so you have been warned Rayearth* Hikaru-Zen, weaponry and HTH (hand-to-hand) Umi-weaponry Fuu-Zen Caldina-weaponry and HTH Presea-Zen Tatra-weaponry and Zen Tarta-weaponry and HTH Lafarga-weaponry and HTH Clef- Zen Cephiro* Lantis-Zen, weaponry and HTH Eagle-weaponry and HTH Ascot-Zen Ferio-weaponry Geo-HTH Zagato-Zen Alcyone-HTH Emeraude-first aid/support
Once again please review and thanks for the support! - Next chapter the PARTY! Maybe a little romance thrown in just to make it interesting! Ja ne