Disclaimer: All anime characters portrayed in this series are owned by
their respective creators, as are any original characters that appear.
This is a work of fanfiction and is not to be taken literally.
Character Note: Shiva is a character created and as far as I know, owned by Shiva. That's easy enough to understand right? When he added himself into one of my other fanfictions, he described himself as being 5'7" and weighing 150lbs so no one would get the wrong idea. He lives off of other peoples food and eats A LOT. He is also very good at sneaking up on people and moving so fast that he appears to be a gust of wind. He appeared for the first time when he inserted himself into my fanfiction titled 'Home Away From Home'.
Character Note: Larry is the [evil] announcer from the 'Digimon Adventure of the Future' Yahoo Group.
------Introduction------
The summer holidays seemed to be going by much faster after Crystal and I learned that we only had a month to be in the same world at the same time. We were doing a rather good job of keeping up our cousin act. The only strange thing that was happening in Nerima at this time was the fact that it was July and it was snowing. I felt another familiar storyboard coming to life.
------Summertime Christmas Party!------
I was laying on the couch in the apartment that Crystal and I had been sharing since Washu's little experiment. Crystal was sitting cross-legged on the opposite side of the table looking at me like I had gone insane.
"What is wrong with having a Christmas party?" I asked.
Crystal shouted her answer, "After everything you've told me about those stories you wrote about anime parties?! Duo showing up and everyone getting drunk?! You can't possibly be serious!"
I sweatdropped, "Duo isn't going to show up because we aren't in a storyline that includes Gundam Wing. We aren't going to be attacked by evil digimon because this storyline doesn't include Digimon: Digital Monsters either. This will just be a nice, fun Christmas party with some friends from the area. Does that sound like a bad thing to you?"
Crystal sighed, "No, I guess it sounds kinda fun actually. Besides, with the way you are determined to go through with this, it doesn't seem like I'm going to have much choice in the matter. The only problem is that this apartment isn't the best location for a holiday party."
I grinned, "We'll worry about location later, after we've rounded up the guests."
"Why do I get the feeling I'm going to regret this?" groaned Crystal, not really speaking to anyone even though I was there.
With that I jumped off of the couch, grabbed Crystal by the wrist and took- off out the door. I slammed the door rather loudly and then proceded down the hallway at an alarmingly high speed.
*~*~*~*~*
We arrived at the Tendo Household and Crystal allowed me to go over what she seemed to consider the most insane plan I had ever come up with. At least no one yelled at me after I explained my idea this time. In fact I was actually being listened to.
"You've got to be kidding," commented Nabiki, "A Christmas party in July?"
I nodded, "Well it is snowing and I for one feel the holiday spirit. I figure, why not go with it and have a little fun."
"It sounds like a great idea," said Ranma.
Akane noted, "You only think so because parties equal lots of free food."
"Especially dessert," added Ranma.
If I didn't know better, I would have thought Crystal was ready to drop a phonebook on me. In all honesty I couldn't figure out what was getting to her. At least some people thought that my idea was a good one.
"Well I've more or less got the food thing handled," I said. I turned to Crystal, "Isn't that right?"
Crystal sighed, "Yes. I'd be more than happy to materialize stuff out of thin air for this party of yours, but you still haven't told me where the location is."
"I'm still working on that," I said.
Ranma grinned, "That isn't a problem, we can throw the party in the Dojo."
"And just who made you in charge of that?" asked Akane, giving Ranma a glare that he happened to ignore.
"What's the matter with a little holiday party?" asked Ranma.
Nabiki stepped in, "I think this is a great idea. Why don't you three go round up guests while Crystal goes over the decorations?"
"I'm up for that," I answered. "You think you can handle decorations on your own Crystal?"
Crystal smirked, "I have a pretty good idea what you had in mind. Don't worry about a thing."
"Oh, one more thing," I said. "If you think of it, try materializing a cell phone or something to invite the gang from the Masaki Shrine. I'm sure they'd love to get in on the action."
"Not a problem," answered Crystal. She still looked incredibly nervous and I couldn't understand why.
With that settled, I left with Ranma and Akane to locate more possible guests.
*~*~*~*~*
We hadn't gotten particularly far when something grabbed Ranma and took off in the direction of the Nekohanten [Cat Cafe]. It looked like an ordinary gust of wind, but gusts of wind couldn't selectively grab people. An ordinary gust of wind also wouldn't have been heading for a restraunt dragging Ranma Saotome along for the ride, unless it wanted to use Ranma as payment, and even then it couldn't simply be a gust of wind.
"Shiva what the hell are you doing here?!" I shouted after the retreating gust of wind.
Akane merely blinked, "Shiva?"
"Long story," I muttered before taking chase after the gust of wind.
*~*~*~*~*
I arrived to see Shiva eating what must have been his 8th bowl of ramen, judging by the number of empty bowls on the table. Ranma was bound and gagged, and on the floor being glomped by Shampoo. He was totally unable to escape the bindings that Shiva had somehow put on him.
"Nice weather we're having today, huh Rachel?" asked Shiva happily finishing off his bowl of ramen. He waved Mousse over, "Can I get another bowl of ramen?"
Mousse was working double-time because Shampoo was too busy glomping the unable-to-escape Ranma. Mousse regarded Shiva, "You've already had eight servings and you aren't even paying for them."
Shiva pointed at Ranma, "There's my payment."
Mousse sighed and went back to the kitchen.
I approached the table that Shiva was sitting at, "What brings you to Nerima, eh Shiva?"
"I could ask you the same thing," noted Shiva. "I'm just here because I caught word of a holiday party. I told you before at the Masaki House, when there is more food, I'll be back. I still owe you for punting me into orbit by the way."
I glared at him, "You can't honestly say you didn't have that coming!"
Shiva grinned, "I could actually, but I'll let that slide if you let me come to the party."
"Fine," I sighed. "What harm could it do, aside from the need of extra food? Crystal can handle that."
Ranma was making muffled, incoherent noises because of the gag that was in his mouth. Shiva looked at him, "I'll let you go after we make one more stop at Ucchan's."
Ranma went rather somewhat pale. I could only guess that he was thinking about what would happen when Akane found out about this.
Shiva returned his attention to me, "You and Crystal are both here and you're not staying at the Masaki House anymore, I've certainly missed a lot. I didn't know it was possible for both you and Crystal to be around at the same time."
"Crystal happens to be my cousin and I'm staying at her apartment visiting Nerima," I responded.
Shiva smirked, "Now you and I both know that Washu planned that little act. How long do you think it will actually work?"
"So you did know?" I asked getting a bit nervous suddenly.
"Don't worry about it," said Shiva as Mousse set another bowl of ramen down on the table in front of him. "I won't say anything else about it, and no one was listening so it isn't a problem here."
I sighed. Shiva speedily ate his 9th bowl of ramen. I removed a set of invitations from my pocket and handed them over to Mousse, "You might consider dropping by later with Shampoo."
Shiva finished his bowl of ramen. He suddenly went back into gust of wind mode and grabbed the bound and gagged Ranma away from Shampoo. He then took off in the direction of Ucchan's.
"How can he still be hungry?" asked Mousse.
I sighed, "I haven't a got a clue."
Shampoo finally registered the fact that Ranma was gone, "Where Ranma go?"
"Uh...see ya later!" I shouted and took off after the gust of wind that was Shiva. "Shiva get back here! Ranma is supposed to be helping Akane and I pass out invitations!"
*~*~*~*~*
When the rather extended group and I got back to the Dojo, and I finally managed to get myself back to Crystal, I felt like driving my head through the pavement. So far the group that had shown up consisted of myself, Crystal, Ranma, Akane, Shampoo, Mousse, Ukyo and Shiva. The Tenchi gang hadn't shown up yet, but that wasn't too surprising considering how far away they lived by logical means and how they would most likely be arriving.
Thanks to Crystal's hard work, the Dojo now looked very Christmas-ish and there were large tables of food and drink all around the edges. Shiva was already stuffing his face, all the while recieving odd stares from the rest of the assembled guests besides myself and Crystal. It occured to me then, the reason Crystal hadn't liked the idea of a holiday party to begin with was the fact that Shiva would undoubtably show up for the food.
There was a rather bright flash of light and suddenly the forms of Tenchi, Ryoko, Ayeka, Sasami adn Ryo-oh-ki [Cabbit form] made themselves known within the confines of the Dojo. To the surprise of both myself and Crystal, none of the mentioned people were unconscious from having been hit in the head with something heavy. Obviously, Washu had gone about upgrading the transport machine of her's.
I thought to myself ~It's about time she upgraded that damn machine. I was starting to worry about getting brain damage.~
Crystal at this time was trying to explain the whole Shiva story to the rest of the group that didn't already know of his eating habits among other things. I was almost certain that the drinks that weren't of the soda variety or cealed in a bottle would become tainted with alcohol quite quickly. With that in mind I grabbed a bottle of spiced apple cider and decided it was time to join the party.
*~*~*~*~*
Within about an hour the party was very in session. There was quiet Christmas music seemingly playing from all directions, mostly because it was being produced by magic so that the source couldn't be tracked and destroyed.
Crystal went about materializing a large assortment of TV sets attached to video game systems, specifically Nintendo 64's with Mortal Kombat Trilogy cartrigages in them. Each system also had two controllers hooked up to them.
"I don't think I want to know what you've got in mind," I commented looking at the very new looking gaming systems. I became tempted to just start playing.
Crystal announced, "It's simple really, we'll have a video game playing competition."
At this same time one of the walls to the Dojo was leveled. Ryoga stepped through the newly created door in the back wall of the Dojo.
"Ryoga there is a door you know," said Ranma.
"A video game competition sounds like fun," said Sasami.
I shrugged, "I guess it is a good idea for those of us who think we're any good at video games." I added to myself mentally ~And my brother isn't in this dimension to beat me.~
Ryoga looked extremely confused for two reasons. The first was that he had been wandering around Japan lost and had somehow managed to get to the Tendo Dojo in time for what looked to be a Christmas Party, but the last he'd heard it was still summer even if for some odd reason it was snowing. The second reason was that he had no clue what the rest of us were talking about when it came to us discussing a video game playing competition.
"It's still summer, right?" asked Ryoga carefully, not wanting to sound as out of it as he currently felt.
Crystal sighed, "It's July. This insanity was her idea!" Crystal took this time to point at me.
I backed away very slowly into the nearest corner. I was currently drinking my third bottle of spiced apple cider. I decided that the best way to get the attention away from me was by saying, "So, how about that competition?"
*~*~*~*~*
The next ten minutes were spent sorting everyone who would be involved in the video game competition.
At system number one Ranma and Ryoga were both confident they could beat each other and were radiating massive amounts of determined battle aura. At system number two Crystal and Shiva were ready to begin the game, but Shiva was trying to provoke Crystal into a real sparring match. At system number three Ukyo and Shampoo were glaring daggers at each other, declaring that who ever won this round between them would get to go on a date with Ranma. I was at system numder four playing against Sasami; we seemed to be the most sane members of the bunch.
Akane, Mousse, Ryoko, Ayeka, Tenchi and Ryo-oh-ki decided to sit out of the competition for their own reasons as well as the fact that it would only work properly with eight contestants.
Ryoko and Ayeka were both working on schemes to get Tenchi, which thus far weren't exactly going well. Tenchi was watching the competition from a conveniently located couch, trying to be as far away from Ayeka and Ryoko as possible without having to leave the party. Ryo-oh-ki was munching happily away at a never-ending pile of carrots on the table. Mousse had decided that with his vision he wouldn't be very good at video games and had settled to watching from the same conveniently located couch as Tenchi. Akane was currently building a bomb shelter in the back of the Dojo.
*~*~*~*~*
[Larry POV begins now]
After having twelve consecutive draw games, Ranma and Ryoga had simply given up on the video game and were really trying to kill each other. They were both disqualified from the competition. Mousse was cheering for Ryoga for obvious reasons involving a certain purple-haired Amazon.
A similar string of events occured involving Ukyo and Shampoo, who also started fighting each other instead of playing the video game. As Rachel would later be informed, yes the gaming systems were rigged.
Crystal and Shiva were having what looked like World War III outside. It consisted of lots of bright flashing lights and massive explosions that could probably level the Dojo if they weren't constantly being countered back and forth.
Rachel wandered away from her gaming system in a daze, yet another bottle of spiced apple cider in her hand. If she had taken the liberty of reading the label more closely she would have noted the alcohol content of the bottle. This all left Sasami as the winner of the competition.
For what seemed like no reason what-so-ever, Ryoko and Ayeka were also putting on a rather large light show outside. This one probably would result in massive amounts of damage to the Tendo Dojo.
Mousse, Tenchi, Sasami and Ryo-oh-ki decided to join Akane in her new bomb shelter. These fights were bound to become quite explosive.
After much extensive fighting and property damage, the parties involved all for one reason or another lost consciousness and landed on the floor/ground in nice quiet heaps that would cause no more damage during the night. The Tenchi gang was teleported home by Washu's new machine and the party was declared over.
Shiva was still where he had fallen unconscious after having what he considered a fun little sparring match with Crystal. He was snoring and let out a contented sigh. "That was a fun party," he said in his sleep.
Everyone else was either still unconscious or cleaning up after the party. In the case of Rachel, she had gone missing altogether.
[Larry POV ends now]
I looked around at all the odd swirling colors around me that were forming a most interesting tunnel and thought ~This must be one of those virtual reality games. I wonder where Sasami disappeared to.~
I walked down the tunnel for a short distance before falling into what appeared to be a pond full of chocolate syrup and whipped cream. I watched as little green men wearing expensive looking suits began tap-dancing along the edge of the pond. I then climbed out of the pond and walked over to a rather tall looking ladder. I climbed up the ladder and onto a diving platform. When I looked down I saw a swimming pool bellow that had certainly not been there previously. I was about to dive when I promptly lost consciousness and collapsed onto the platform.
*~*~*~*~*
I awoke the following morning with a terrible headache and no knowledge of how I had managed to get on the roof of the Dojo. I noticed that I was still holding one of those dreadful bottles of spiced apple cider in my hand and decided to read the label out of boredom, and also because I couldn't figure out how I would get off of the roof. I noted the alcohol content mentioned in fine print and simply fell off the roof.
*Thud!*
I hit the ground and stayed there, "Ow..."
*~*~*~*~*
To Be Continued...
Character Note: Shiva is a character created and as far as I know, owned by Shiva. That's easy enough to understand right? When he added himself into one of my other fanfictions, he described himself as being 5'7" and weighing 150lbs so no one would get the wrong idea. He lives off of other peoples food and eats A LOT. He is also very good at sneaking up on people and moving so fast that he appears to be a gust of wind. He appeared for the first time when he inserted himself into my fanfiction titled 'Home Away From Home'.
Character Note: Larry is the [evil] announcer from the 'Digimon Adventure of the Future' Yahoo Group.
------Introduction------
The summer holidays seemed to be going by much faster after Crystal and I learned that we only had a month to be in the same world at the same time. We were doing a rather good job of keeping up our cousin act. The only strange thing that was happening in Nerima at this time was the fact that it was July and it was snowing. I felt another familiar storyboard coming to life.
------Summertime Christmas Party!------
I was laying on the couch in the apartment that Crystal and I had been sharing since Washu's little experiment. Crystal was sitting cross-legged on the opposite side of the table looking at me like I had gone insane.
"What is wrong with having a Christmas party?" I asked.
Crystal shouted her answer, "After everything you've told me about those stories you wrote about anime parties?! Duo showing up and everyone getting drunk?! You can't possibly be serious!"
I sweatdropped, "Duo isn't going to show up because we aren't in a storyline that includes Gundam Wing. We aren't going to be attacked by evil digimon because this storyline doesn't include Digimon: Digital Monsters either. This will just be a nice, fun Christmas party with some friends from the area. Does that sound like a bad thing to you?"
Crystal sighed, "No, I guess it sounds kinda fun actually. Besides, with the way you are determined to go through with this, it doesn't seem like I'm going to have much choice in the matter. The only problem is that this apartment isn't the best location for a holiday party."
I grinned, "We'll worry about location later, after we've rounded up the guests."
"Why do I get the feeling I'm going to regret this?" groaned Crystal, not really speaking to anyone even though I was there.
With that I jumped off of the couch, grabbed Crystal by the wrist and took- off out the door. I slammed the door rather loudly and then proceded down the hallway at an alarmingly high speed.
*~*~*~*~*
We arrived at the Tendo Household and Crystal allowed me to go over what she seemed to consider the most insane plan I had ever come up with. At least no one yelled at me after I explained my idea this time. In fact I was actually being listened to.
"You've got to be kidding," commented Nabiki, "A Christmas party in July?"
I nodded, "Well it is snowing and I for one feel the holiday spirit. I figure, why not go with it and have a little fun."
"It sounds like a great idea," said Ranma.
Akane noted, "You only think so because parties equal lots of free food."
"Especially dessert," added Ranma.
If I didn't know better, I would have thought Crystal was ready to drop a phonebook on me. In all honesty I couldn't figure out what was getting to her. At least some people thought that my idea was a good one.
"Well I've more or less got the food thing handled," I said. I turned to Crystal, "Isn't that right?"
Crystal sighed, "Yes. I'd be more than happy to materialize stuff out of thin air for this party of yours, but you still haven't told me where the location is."
"I'm still working on that," I said.
Ranma grinned, "That isn't a problem, we can throw the party in the Dojo."
"And just who made you in charge of that?" asked Akane, giving Ranma a glare that he happened to ignore.
"What's the matter with a little holiday party?" asked Ranma.
Nabiki stepped in, "I think this is a great idea. Why don't you three go round up guests while Crystal goes over the decorations?"
"I'm up for that," I answered. "You think you can handle decorations on your own Crystal?"
Crystal smirked, "I have a pretty good idea what you had in mind. Don't worry about a thing."
"Oh, one more thing," I said. "If you think of it, try materializing a cell phone or something to invite the gang from the Masaki Shrine. I'm sure they'd love to get in on the action."
"Not a problem," answered Crystal. She still looked incredibly nervous and I couldn't understand why.
With that settled, I left with Ranma and Akane to locate more possible guests.
*~*~*~*~*
We hadn't gotten particularly far when something grabbed Ranma and took off in the direction of the Nekohanten [Cat Cafe]. It looked like an ordinary gust of wind, but gusts of wind couldn't selectively grab people. An ordinary gust of wind also wouldn't have been heading for a restraunt dragging Ranma Saotome along for the ride, unless it wanted to use Ranma as payment, and even then it couldn't simply be a gust of wind.
"Shiva what the hell are you doing here?!" I shouted after the retreating gust of wind.
Akane merely blinked, "Shiva?"
"Long story," I muttered before taking chase after the gust of wind.
*~*~*~*~*
I arrived to see Shiva eating what must have been his 8th bowl of ramen, judging by the number of empty bowls on the table. Ranma was bound and gagged, and on the floor being glomped by Shampoo. He was totally unable to escape the bindings that Shiva had somehow put on him.
"Nice weather we're having today, huh Rachel?" asked Shiva happily finishing off his bowl of ramen. He waved Mousse over, "Can I get another bowl of ramen?"
Mousse was working double-time because Shampoo was too busy glomping the unable-to-escape Ranma. Mousse regarded Shiva, "You've already had eight servings and you aren't even paying for them."
Shiva pointed at Ranma, "There's my payment."
Mousse sighed and went back to the kitchen.
I approached the table that Shiva was sitting at, "What brings you to Nerima, eh Shiva?"
"I could ask you the same thing," noted Shiva. "I'm just here because I caught word of a holiday party. I told you before at the Masaki House, when there is more food, I'll be back. I still owe you for punting me into orbit by the way."
I glared at him, "You can't honestly say you didn't have that coming!"
Shiva grinned, "I could actually, but I'll let that slide if you let me come to the party."
"Fine," I sighed. "What harm could it do, aside from the need of extra food? Crystal can handle that."
Ranma was making muffled, incoherent noises because of the gag that was in his mouth. Shiva looked at him, "I'll let you go after we make one more stop at Ucchan's."
Ranma went rather somewhat pale. I could only guess that he was thinking about what would happen when Akane found out about this.
Shiva returned his attention to me, "You and Crystal are both here and you're not staying at the Masaki House anymore, I've certainly missed a lot. I didn't know it was possible for both you and Crystal to be around at the same time."
"Crystal happens to be my cousin and I'm staying at her apartment visiting Nerima," I responded.
Shiva smirked, "Now you and I both know that Washu planned that little act. How long do you think it will actually work?"
"So you did know?" I asked getting a bit nervous suddenly.
"Don't worry about it," said Shiva as Mousse set another bowl of ramen down on the table in front of him. "I won't say anything else about it, and no one was listening so it isn't a problem here."
I sighed. Shiva speedily ate his 9th bowl of ramen. I removed a set of invitations from my pocket and handed them over to Mousse, "You might consider dropping by later with Shampoo."
Shiva finished his bowl of ramen. He suddenly went back into gust of wind mode and grabbed the bound and gagged Ranma away from Shampoo. He then took off in the direction of Ucchan's.
"How can he still be hungry?" asked Mousse.
I sighed, "I haven't a got a clue."
Shampoo finally registered the fact that Ranma was gone, "Where Ranma go?"
"Uh...see ya later!" I shouted and took off after the gust of wind that was Shiva. "Shiva get back here! Ranma is supposed to be helping Akane and I pass out invitations!"
*~*~*~*~*
When the rather extended group and I got back to the Dojo, and I finally managed to get myself back to Crystal, I felt like driving my head through the pavement. So far the group that had shown up consisted of myself, Crystal, Ranma, Akane, Shampoo, Mousse, Ukyo and Shiva. The Tenchi gang hadn't shown up yet, but that wasn't too surprising considering how far away they lived by logical means and how they would most likely be arriving.
Thanks to Crystal's hard work, the Dojo now looked very Christmas-ish and there were large tables of food and drink all around the edges. Shiva was already stuffing his face, all the while recieving odd stares from the rest of the assembled guests besides myself and Crystal. It occured to me then, the reason Crystal hadn't liked the idea of a holiday party to begin with was the fact that Shiva would undoubtably show up for the food.
There was a rather bright flash of light and suddenly the forms of Tenchi, Ryoko, Ayeka, Sasami adn Ryo-oh-ki [Cabbit form] made themselves known within the confines of the Dojo. To the surprise of both myself and Crystal, none of the mentioned people were unconscious from having been hit in the head with something heavy. Obviously, Washu had gone about upgrading the transport machine of her's.
I thought to myself ~It's about time she upgraded that damn machine. I was starting to worry about getting brain damage.~
Crystal at this time was trying to explain the whole Shiva story to the rest of the group that didn't already know of his eating habits among other things. I was almost certain that the drinks that weren't of the soda variety or cealed in a bottle would become tainted with alcohol quite quickly. With that in mind I grabbed a bottle of spiced apple cider and decided it was time to join the party.
*~*~*~*~*
Within about an hour the party was very in session. There was quiet Christmas music seemingly playing from all directions, mostly because it was being produced by magic so that the source couldn't be tracked and destroyed.
Crystal went about materializing a large assortment of TV sets attached to video game systems, specifically Nintendo 64's with Mortal Kombat Trilogy cartrigages in them. Each system also had two controllers hooked up to them.
"I don't think I want to know what you've got in mind," I commented looking at the very new looking gaming systems. I became tempted to just start playing.
Crystal announced, "It's simple really, we'll have a video game playing competition."
At this same time one of the walls to the Dojo was leveled. Ryoga stepped through the newly created door in the back wall of the Dojo.
"Ryoga there is a door you know," said Ranma.
"A video game competition sounds like fun," said Sasami.
I shrugged, "I guess it is a good idea for those of us who think we're any good at video games." I added to myself mentally ~And my brother isn't in this dimension to beat me.~
Ryoga looked extremely confused for two reasons. The first was that he had been wandering around Japan lost and had somehow managed to get to the Tendo Dojo in time for what looked to be a Christmas Party, but the last he'd heard it was still summer even if for some odd reason it was snowing. The second reason was that he had no clue what the rest of us were talking about when it came to us discussing a video game playing competition.
"It's still summer, right?" asked Ryoga carefully, not wanting to sound as out of it as he currently felt.
Crystal sighed, "It's July. This insanity was her idea!" Crystal took this time to point at me.
I backed away very slowly into the nearest corner. I was currently drinking my third bottle of spiced apple cider. I decided that the best way to get the attention away from me was by saying, "So, how about that competition?"
*~*~*~*~*
The next ten minutes were spent sorting everyone who would be involved in the video game competition.
At system number one Ranma and Ryoga were both confident they could beat each other and were radiating massive amounts of determined battle aura. At system number two Crystal and Shiva were ready to begin the game, but Shiva was trying to provoke Crystal into a real sparring match. At system number three Ukyo and Shampoo were glaring daggers at each other, declaring that who ever won this round between them would get to go on a date with Ranma. I was at system numder four playing against Sasami; we seemed to be the most sane members of the bunch.
Akane, Mousse, Ryoko, Ayeka, Tenchi and Ryo-oh-ki decided to sit out of the competition for their own reasons as well as the fact that it would only work properly with eight contestants.
Ryoko and Ayeka were both working on schemes to get Tenchi, which thus far weren't exactly going well. Tenchi was watching the competition from a conveniently located couch, trying to be as far away from Ayeka and Ryoko as possible without having to leave the party. Ryo-oh-ki was munching happily away at a never-ending pile of carrots on the table. Mousse had decided that with his vision he wouldn't be very good at video games and had settled to watching from the same conveniently located couch as Tenchi. Akane was currently building a bomb shelter in the back of the Dojo.
*~*~*~*~*
[Larry POV begins now]
After having twelve consecutive draw games, Ranma and Ryoga had simply given up on the video game and were really trying to kill each other. They were both disqualified from the competition. Mousse was cheering for Ryoga for obvious reasons involving a certain purple-haired Amazon.
A similar string of events occured involving Ukyo and Shampoo, who also started fighting each other instead of playing the video game. As Rachel would later be informed, yes the gaming systems were rigged.
Crystal and Shiva were having what looked like World War III outside. It consisted of lots of bright flashing lights and massive explosions that could probably level the Dojo if they weren't constantly being countered back and forth.
Rachel wandered away from her gaming system in a daze, yet another bottle of spiced apple cider in her hand. If she had taken the liberty of reading the label more closely she would have noted the alcohol content of the bottle. This all left Sasami as the winner of the competition.
For what seemed like no reason what-so-ever, Ryoko and Ayeka were also putting on a rather large light show outside. This one probably would result in massive amounts of damage to the Tendo Dojo.
Mousse, Tenchi, Sasami and Ryo-oh-ki decided to join Akane in her new bomb shelter. These fights were bound to become quite explosive.
After much extensive fighting and property damage, the parties involved all for one reason or another lost consciousness and landed on the floor/ground in nice quiet heaps that would cause no more damage during the night. The Tenchi gang was teleported home by Washu's new machine and the party was declared over.
Shiva was still where he had fallen unconscious after having what he considered a fun little sparring match with Crystal. He was snoring and let out a contented sigh. "That was a fun party," he said in his sleep.
Everyone else was either still unconscious or cleaning up after the party. In the case of Rachel, she had gone missing altogether.
[Larry POV ends now]
I looked around at all the odd swirling colors around me that were forming a most interesting tunnel and thought ~This must be one of those virtual reality games. I wonder where Sasami disappeared to.~
I walked down the tunnel for a short distance before falling into what appeared to be a pond full of chocolate syrup and whipped cream. I watched as little green men wearing expensive looking suits began tap-dancing along the edge of the pond. I then climbed out of the pond and walked over to a rather tall looking ladder. I climbed up the ladder and onto a diving platform. When I looked down I saw a swimming pool bellow that had certainly not been there previously. I was about to dive when I promptly lost consciousness and collapsed onto the platform.
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I awoke the following morning with a terrible headache and no knowledge of how I had managed to get on the roof of the Dojo. I noticed that I was still holding one of those dreadful bottles of spiced apple cider in my hand and decided to read the label out of boredom, and also because I couldn't figure out how I would get off of the roof. I noted the alcohol content mentioned in fine print and simply fell off the roof.
*Thud!*
I hit the ground and stayed there, "Ow..."
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To Be Continued...