"…" - Talking (NO Duh!)
^…^ - Thinking
(…) - My daft self
… - Singing/Battle Chants (I just found their battle chants and am going to use them in future chapters)
CAPS - Shouting or emphasis on that word
Disclaimer:
tbwwings: Where is that stuffed animal? I told him to meet me here if he wanted his pudding and batteries. Oh well. May as well do the disclaimer. I don't own CCS, CC and everything else I don't own. Oh! Here he comes.
Kero: Where's my pudding!
tbwwings: Here, here. *stuffs pudding and batteries in Kero's arms*Runs off*
1 Camp times two
*Chapter 10: Camp two, Day one*
~*~ Flashback ~*~
They walked over and sat down, Sakura next to the aisle. After a few minutes, Syaoran felt a light pressure on his shoulder. He looked down, saw Sakura sleeping peacefully, and started blushing. He then leaned against the window and dozed off.
~*~ End Flashback ~*~
Sakura woke up and stretched. She looked around and realised that she woke up just on time, they were just pulling into Camp Prick. She turned, realised that she had been sleeping on the still asleep Syaoran's shoulder and blushed lightly. She started shaking him lightly, "Syaoran, wake up."
"Wha…Huh…Oh, we're there? Okay. I'm up." He yawned and stretched as Sakura stood up, picked up their two bags and passed his to him.
They got out of the bus carrying their bags and joined their friends. The whole group, Eriol, Tomoyo, Chiharu, Takashi, Nakuru, Touya, Rika, Naoko, Sakura and Syaoran, walked towards the dining hall, the first building.
They entered, and just stood around, just like everyone. Suddenly, "SYAORAN!!"
Their heads swivelled to see Meiling, with her usual pigtails, running towards them at full speed.
"Hey! Great to see you guys again. Nice outfit Sakura…" Meiling said when she reached them.
"Oh, so the other Chinese gaki decided to join us." Touya smirked.
"Why you imbecilic ass! I'll show you gaki!" Meiling flared up almost immediately, and high kicked him THERE. (I'm not gonna mention where THERE is, but you should know where THERE is) (They're all still shorter than Touya. Only by a few centimetres, though) Touya collapsed to the floor, grabbing THERE in utter agony.
"Shut up you bastard!" Was heard in a distance.
"You shut up bimbo!" Was heard in response as Sakura & Co. turned to see two sets of triplets who looked rather similar glaring at each other.
"Why you…"
"Hey, hey, break it up over there." A woman's voice came over the crowd. "Good. I'm Laura Cooper, most of you have met my sister, Layla Campbell. I own this camp, and my sister owns Camp Pop. In this camp, every morning, you'll get a schedule from your counsellors, except for the weekends, when you can do whatever you want, so its a bit like school, except no lessons, no homework. Each cabin will have eighteen campers, nine girls, nine guys, and three counsellors. One in charge of the girls, one in charge of the guys, one in charge over all. Now, will all of you come to the front, counsellors to the table on my left, campers to the table on my right, and Layla and I will tell you which cabins you're in, give you your camp T- shirts and introduction booklets. On the outside of each door of the cabin and bedrooms, will be a list of names of the people staying there. Got that? Okay, line up please."
The group split up and lined up. After collecting everything, they all went to their cabin, the last one. There, they saw the two sets of triplets who were fighting, another group of boys and Yukito waiting.
The girls stepped up to introduce themselves. They were wearing matching outfits, a dark coloured tank top, really short black shorts (think tomb raider in black), black combat boots and white socks with a symbol embroidered onto the side of the left sock. One girl had a dark green tank top, her symbol was a leaf and her green highlighted black hair was pulled into a high ponytail. The second had a dark red tank top, her symbol was a flame and her hair was the same except highlighted red. The last had a dark blue tank top, her symbol was a drop of water, and her hair was also done the same way, highlighted blue.
The guys wore the same, but they wore T-shirts, black cargo pants, and their hair was short, messy, black and highlighted.
The girl in green stepped up to introduce all of them, "I'm Tara Ling Si Di, the oldest. These are my sisters. The one in blue is Lara Ling Si Hai, second oldest, the one in red is Kara Ling Si Huo. We're from Singapore."
But she didn't stop there, "Those idiotic bastards over there are our parents' second cousins' sibling in laws' kids. The oldest in green, Chen Xi Ling, second oldest in blue, Chen Xi Lang, then the one in red, Chen Xi Long. They're from Shanghai."
Sakura decided to introduce themselves as well, "Nice to meet you. I'm Sakura Kinomoto, the girl with the brown pigtails is Chiharu Mihara, the girl with the glasses is Naoko Yanagisawa, the one with the short brown hair is Rika Sasaki, the one with the buns and pigtails is Li Meiling, the one with the V8 is Tomoyo Daidouji. The boy with the scowl is Li Syaoran, the one with the blue eyes is Eriol Hiiragisawa, the one with the squinty eyes is Takashi Yamazaki. And our two other counsellors, Nakuru Akizuki, she's in charge of the girls, Touya, my bro, is in charge of the guys. We're all from Tomoeda, except Meiling and Syaoran were originally from Hong Kong, and Eriol and Nakuru were originally from England."
One of the other three guys, the tallest one, stepped up, "I'm Fuji Masuda, the second shortest is Ryu Tajiri, the shortest of the lot…"
"Hey! Stop teasing me about my height!"
"The SHORTEST of the lot is Satoshi Harada. The three of us are best friends from Tokyo."
Introductions were complete, and it was then that Sakura realised that the two sets of triplets had auras. ^Could it…could it mean that they have magic?^ Sakura thought.
^Yep! You're right. And you have magic too, don't you?^ Sakura heard Lara's voice in her head.
^I…guess. I'm the cards mistress, Eriol's half the reincarnation of Clow Reed, my dad's the other half, Syaoran is a descendant of Clow on his mom's side, Yukito's the false form of my moon guardian, Yue, and Nakuru's the false form of Eriol's moon guardian, Ruby Moon.^ Sakura 'thought' back.
^Cool! You're the cards mistress? That's so cool! Wait till I tell the others. Well, Xi Ling and Tara's attacks & powers are based on ground, a bit like Earthy, and they can move objects telepathically. Xi Lang and my attacks & powers are based on water, like Watery, and can read minds and talk mentally with anyone we wish. Xi Long and Kara's powers are based off attacks & powers are based on fire, like Firey, and they can see the future or past. PLUS, we're descendants of Clow Reed!^
"Hellooooooo~! Anyone home? HEY! I'm talking to you here!!" Xi Long yelled in Lara's ear.
"Do you know that it's RUDE to yell in people's ears like that?" Lara snapped in his face, covering her ears in pain, "Oh, I'm so sorry, filthy ASSHOLES like YOU and your BROTHERS ARE rude."
"Oh, so this is going to involve my bros huh? Why don't we go three on three. Right here, right NOW!" Xi Long spat back.
"Oh, fine! Us girls can beat you anytime, anyday!" Lara screamed in his face as her sisters stepped up beside her and Xi Long's brothers stepped up beside him. The six triplets got into their trademark stances.
"Um… excuse me? You do know that there are quite a few others in this room, don't you?" Satoshi said.
"Aww, you guys are no fun. Alright, alright." They all said in unison, but when they realised that, they started glaring at each other again.
*After the glaring has stopped and the sulking had been quelled*
Touya and Nakuru handed out the schedules for the day. They had free time until 12.30 pm (it was around 11 am), then they had a briefing on what to expect, lunch, camp tour, ice breakers, dinner, supper and lastly, lights out.
They then proceeded to the assigned rooms with their assigned roommates. Sakura, Tomoyo and Meiling were in one room. Naoko, Chiharu and Rika were in the next, and the Singaporean triplets were in the third one. Syaoran, Eriol and Yamazaki were in one room, Ryu, Fuji and Satoshi in the next, and the three Chinese triplets in the last room.
(For those of you who are curious of what the whole cabin looks like, there are three levels. From a bird's eye view, on the ground floor, there was a porch and the main door right at the bottom, then the dining room took up the top right hand quarter of the place, kitchen the top left hand quarter. On the bottom corner was a small narrow bathroom, the length of a quarter of the place minus two meters, the width of the stairs that was sandwiched between it and the kitchen. The rest of the place was the living room, with a 48-inch flat-screen TV, a 3x1-meter coffee table, three seven seater couches and a lot of empty space. On the second level, there was an empty space with a width of two meters separating two equal rectangles. On the left was the staircase leading up from the ground floor, and on the right was the staircase leading up to the third level, which was out of bounds to campers. Each of the two 'rectangles' was separated into three. On the top half, from left to right, was Sakura, Tomoyo and Meiling's room, then Naoko, Chiharu and Rika's room, then Lara, Kara and Tara's room. On the bottom 'rectangle', from left to right, was Syaoran, Eriol and Yamazaki's room, Ryu, Fuji and Satoshi's room, and then Xi Lang, Xi Ling and Xi Long's room. The girls' rooms were divided into four. The top right hand quarter was the bathroom, the top left hand corner was a huge walk-in closet, in the bottom left hand quarter were three bunk beds on top of each other [one mattress on the floor with a short barrier to prevent it from moving, one bunk one meter up, and another bunk another meter higher. There was a ladder on the far left side of the bed, next to the wall], the bottom right corner was a mini recreation area. It had a long TV table against the wall separating it from the bathroom and a low three seater couch on the opposite wall. To the left of the couch was a tall lamp bridging the gap between the couch and the door. On the TV table was a small flat screen TV, a VCD player, a DVD player, an MCD player, a video cassette player and two large stereos on either side. The guys' rooms were basically the same, except a mirror reflection. On the third story, it was the same, except that instead of three, it was split into two, and there was no staircase on the left. Touya slept in the top right room, Yukito in top left, Nakuru in bottom right, and the bottom left was the reason campers were out of bounds. It was where the counsellors planned everything. On the right edge was a small counter with a stereo on the bottom, a mini fridge and a microwave on the top, and in between was a few bottles of wine and three glasses hung upside down on racks above. On the bottom edge was, from left to right, a desk with a computer on it [mainly to IM Laura and the other counsellors with queries and to plan group activities], a tall cabinet divided into fourteen slots for the schedules and notes on what was planned for each day, and a large notice board with a table under it which had paper and pens to write on on it. On the top left hand corner, was a fireplace, placed diagonally with a small clock on top of it. A poker hung from its handle to its right. In front of it was a small round coffee table with peach blossoms, cherry blossoms, plum blossoms and apple blossoms [weird choice, huh? I dunno why I chose them. They're really pretty though] in a small round brown clay vase in the middle. Three large comfy armchairs surrounded the table. The counsellors' rooms were basically the same as the campers' rooms. However, instead of the bunk beds, there was one normal bed, instead of the huge walk in closet, the closet was half the size and there was a desk on the left and a mini fridge on top of a food cabinet on the right. On the front door, framed in a plainly craved gold wooden frame, was a varnished rectangular plague, with the names of the counsellors and the campers carved in gold)
"Wow! This room is sooooooo GREAT! Top bunk's MINE!!" Sakura screamed as she threw her duffel across the room with perfect aim onto the couch and jumped 2.5 meters onto the top bunk.
"Ya know, she should have gone for track and field instead of gymnastics or whatever other ECA she enrolled for. They sure could use her for high jump." Meiling said, sweatdropping, to Tomoyo. But suddenly, she realised that while she was talking, Tomoyo had started making herself comfortable in the bottom bunk. "Were you listening Tomoyo? Guess I have the middle bunk then."
(ECA stands for Extra Curricular Activity. I dunno what they call it in Japan, but that's what they used to call it here. Now it's Co Curricular Activity, and it makes up part of your O level grades. Since they don't seem to HAVE to have one, I just left it as ECA)
"Yeah, I was listening. I saw her ECA enrolment list. There was cheerleading, basketball, soccer, gymnastics, swimming, air rifle (I'm in that one and it's GREAT), track and field, aerobics, water aerobics, all three kinds of martial arts and volleyball. They only allow max eight ECAs for the really great students, four for average, one for those just scraping through and none for those failing. Eriol, Syaoran, Sakura and I were the top scorers in the exam to test how many we're allowed to have, so she was allowed cheerleading, basketball, soccer, gymnastics, swimming and all three kinds of martial arts. In our senior year, she was captain of the cheerleading team, girls' soccer team, girls' basketball team, star gymnast, swimmer and martial artist. For girls, of course."
"Wow. Talk about accomplished. AND good grades? She signed up for ALL the sports?!" Meiling was amazed.
"Yeah. The only thing that blocked her from the honour roll senior year was a B+ from the English teacher who hates the four of us. And no. She didn't sign up for golf, cricket and air pistol." Tomoyo replied.
"Oh. And Sakura? Will you please stop bouncing up and down? I'm talking to Tomoyo and I can hardly hear her over the creaking." Meiling looked upwards.
"Sorry. These mattresses are sooooooo soft and bouncy! So, what were you talking about?" Sakura stopped bouncing up and down and decided to join the conversation.
"You and your ECAs." Tomoyo said, replying for Meiling.
"Oh." Was the only response.
"Hey did you know what ECAs my dear cousin joined?" Meiling asked.
"Yeah, Syaoran joined soccer, b ball, football and martial arts. Not as many as Sakura, but just as accomplished. Captain of the boys' soccer and b ball teams, star quarterback and star martial artist." Tomoyo said. "I think we should get to unpacking, don't you?"
Sakura leapt to the couch, grabbed her duffel, and ran all the way into the closet in record time, picked the rack right under the light and started unpacking. Meiling hopped down, picked her bag off the floor and took the middle rack. Tomoyo had never let go off her bag, so she just rolled off the bunk and walked over to the closet.
Syaoran ran into the room in front of the other two boys, jumped up onto the top bunk, picked out a smelly green sock from the time they were in Camp Pop, placed it nicely on the pillow, and leapt down with his duffel and started unpacking in the closet.
"Ya dow, ya coulda had the tob bug if ya had just assed." Takashi said, holding his nose. (translation: You know, you could have had the top bunk if you had just asked) "Dere's doe way I'b sleebing on da biddle bug dow." (translation: There's no way I'm sleeping on the middle bunk now) He continued, crawling onto the bottom bunk.
Syaoran just shrugged it off as he finished unpacking and picked out another smelly sock to place on the best seat in front of the TV.
Eriol stuck his Portable All-Purpose Light (Put it on the wall! Put it on the floor! Put it on the ceiling and much, much more! Carry it around and read in bed! Or set it to the max and shine it through your head!) onto the wall with the Magic Adhesive (The strongest adhesive you can find, any two objects it will bind. When it needs to be taken out, a strong solvent you can do without) both of which he got over the Wizard Wide Web. "You know, Syaoran, neither of us think it very polite of you to stink up the things you want for yourself so that others can't use it."
"Yeah… Hey, how did you know I was just thinking that?" Takashi asked.
"I have my ways." Eriol smiled that mysterious grin of his.
"That's the whole idea." Syaoran shrugged, leapt on his bunk, pulled his sock off the pillow, tucked it neatly between the mattress and the wall and said, "Wake me up at ten to eleven." Before falling asleep, leaving the other two boys to sweatdrop on their own.
The other kids, on the other hand, were having a perfectly good and peaceful time, if you consider squabbling over who got the top bunk, etc. peaceful, unpacking.
*Time Gap*
It was 11:30 am by the time everyone was gathered downstairs. "Oh great! Now we only have half an hour to explain every single thing about this bleedin' CAMP!! This is just GREAT!!" Touya exclaimed, quite obviously frustrated.
Everyone had been late because they either had to or wanted to change out of their clothes into something new.
Sakura was wearing a pink tank top with metallic emerald green lining and jeans that was sewn with sparkly pink thread on one side and sparkly green thread on the other. She had platform sandals that had one emerald green strap that went round the ankle and was linked to the shoe, and another green strap just above the toes that had three pink cherry blossoms on it.
Tomoyo was wearing a lavender tank top with metallic navy blue lining and jeans that was sewn with sparkly purple thread on one side and sparkly blue thread on the other. She topped it off with dark grey ankle boots with really low heels.
Meiling was wearing a red tank top with gold lining and jeans that was sewn with sparkly red thread on one side and sparkly gold thread on the other. She wore red low ankled sneakers with a gold zip in front instead of laces.
Syaoran was wearing a baggy dark green T-shirt and long brown cargo pants. Eriol and Takashi wore the same thing, except Eriol had a navy blue T-shirt and black cargos and Takashi had dark red and dark grey. They all wore white socks and the same Reebok sneakers, Syaoran in dark green, Eriol in navy blue and Takashi in dark red.
Chiharu wore a scarlet tube top with 'Bad Girl' written in silver cursive lettering across the middle, a white windbreaker and black three quarter pants with a gold hem and half inch slits at the sides of each leg. She also wore low ankled white and red sneakers to show off her perfectly tanned legs.
Naoko wore a V-neck three quarter sleeved white T-shirt, three quarter light grey cargos and Reebok sandals.
Rika donned a white tank top, a purple and pink semitransparent three quarter sleeved jacket that had frilled hems, a matching knee length skirt over a tight stretchy knee length white skirt and silvery purple heeled sandals.
Ryu, Fuji and Satoshi were all wearing the same black and silver Nike sneakers and jeans. Ryu wore a white T-shirt that accented his bronzed skin, Fuji a loose sleeveless black T-shirt that had blue strips down the side showing off his tan and biceps and Satoshi a loose red T-shirt that had the words 'Tokyo High IT Club' across the front, Tokyo High on top, IT Club below, in white-outlined blue letters.
Tara, Lara and Kara wore T-shirts that were two-toned in black and a very dark version of their respective colours and was obviously cropped, with the fringe at the sleeves that ended at the shoulders and at the hem that ended a good two inches above their belly buttons. They kept the socks, combat boots and the shorts.
Xi Lang, Xi Ling and Xi Long wore black short sleeved T-shirts over long sleeved T-shirts in a very dark shade of their respective colours. They replaced their full-length cargos for ones that reached just below their knees. They too kept the socks and combat boots.
"Calm down, Touya. I'll do the explaining." Yukito flashed him a smile.
"Well, basically, this is different from the other camp. Much different, the only thing that's the same is that there's also a singing competition at the end of everything, and we're supposed to start planning now. From the start, everyday, we'll have breakfast at seven thirty, lunch at noon, dinner at seven and supper at ten. By seven each morning, you have to send a rep from your room to come to us at the gate that blocks from coming upstairs to collect your schedules. In most of the activities, it'll be guys vs. girls, why we have two different counsellors for the guys and girls. You guys will have the weekends off to do whatever you want. Today's Monday, and the first day of your camp. Nakuru, can you pass out the booklets?"
"Sure!" Nakuru leapt off the back of the couch she was perched on and passed out some rather thick booklets.
"Now, turn to the page that is titled Main Events. See that? You'll see that the first main event you have is the Block Party. That's where each room has a theme, and you'll have to dress the theme. Each girls' room's theme should have a male counterpart more suited to guys. It's the girls' duty to pick the themes and it's the guys' duty to ask the girls out."
"Uh-WHAT??!!!!!" was heard from the Chen triplets.
"Yeah, you heard me right. ASK. THEM. OUT. Now, we'll be moving on…"
"You can't do THAT! It's INHUMAN!!" Xi Long yelled out as his brothers fell to the floor pretending to clutch their sides in agony.
"Oh, yes I can, and there will be no more interruptions from you. Moving on, that is on the fourth day of camp. On the sixth day, a Saturday, you'll have a costume party. You have to have a costume, no matter how simple and it's compulsory. And then, on day ten, Wednesday, is the inter-cabin sports meet. We'll have to train really hard for that one. On the last night, we will have the Grand Prick Singing Marathon, which I'll elaborate more on later. In the first week of June, on either Saturday or Sunday, is the Camp P Post-Graduation Prom. Which leaves you six months after this one to get ready. The price of the tickets is not yet known. Now, any questions?" Not waiting for even a second, he said, "On the singing marathon, everyone has to participate in someway, and the counsellors have to be the MCs. On the last page of the booklets, are the rubrics. There are a few main ones you have to look out for. The usual singing stuff, pitch, blah, blah, blah, audience reaction, quantity and quality. It's the last two I'd rather you place emphasis on. You can do as many as you want, and there is no maximum points you can get. Each item will be given a mark, and in the end, all the marks are added up and taken as the total score. We also have to choose two campers to be our lead singers. They have to be in every item except a maximum of two. One guy, one girl, any nominations?" Yukito asked.
"Sakura!" Tomoyo said, full of confidence.
"Hoe~" Sakura said.
"Yeah, I vote for Sakura too!" Meiling agreed.
"Me too." Chiharu responded.
"Me three." Naoko said.
"Me FOUR!" Rika giggled.
Yukito looked around. "Hmm, seems it's unanimous. Sakura the first one, now for the guy."
Eriol and Yamazaki looked at each other and nodded, as Eriol gave his hand a slight flick. "Syaoran!" They quipped together.
"Hey!"
Satoshi and Fuji actually wanted to vote for Ryu, as they had for most other singing and music competitions, but suddenly, they found their arms very heavy and couldn't speak. (Oh, I wonder why)
"This is unanimous too. Syaoran and Sakura." Yukito smiled. Tomoyo and Eriol weren't the only ones who thought they looked cute together.
"Now, we have to come up with a name for us. Any suggestions?"
"How about something to do with both their names?" Tara asked, after discussing something with her sisters.
"Like HOW? A little wolf, and a cherry blossom. Not quite what one associates with each other." Xi Lang said.
"Well, in Camp Pop, for the category Team Name in the rubrics, our team scored pretty high." Tomoyo commented.
"What was it?" Eriol asked.
"Cherry Blossom All Stars."
"Well, we can definitely leave out the Blossom, how about…" Chiharu trailed off, unable to think of anything.
"Cherry WOLF All Stars!" Takashi said.
"That's good, any objections?" Yukito said.
"We think it should be called Hai Shang Zui Bang." Xi Long spoke for his brothers.
"In case you're wondering, not all of us know what that means, probably only you, Syaoran, your brothers and I know what it means." Meiling commented, a little irritated by their attitude.
"And US!" Tara, Lara and Kara shouted in unison.
"Aren't you from Singapore? That isn't part of China." Meiling continued.
"How CAN you be SO narrow-MINDED?! In Singapore, we are FORCED to take a mother tongue. Tamil, Malay or Chinese, so DUH, we took Chinese. Then, in secondary school, we were allowed to take a third language. That was easy, Japanese. Of course, it's compulsory that we take English for a firs…" Kara explained.
"Okay, okay. But that's TOTALLY beside the point. The point is that most of us here don't understand Chinese." Meiling cut in.
"Alright! It means the best in the seas! Happy now?!" Xi Long exclaimed, frustrated.
"And you're being totally prejudiced! If most of us Chinese speakers haven't noticed, hai shang, is reverse for SHANGHAI! Which means that indirectly, according to the way THEY think, Shanghai zui bang. Which MEANS, Shanghai is the best! Ha, so there!" Tara shot back.
"Fine, fine, we don't think it should be called that anymore. HAPPY?" Xi Lang glared at her.
"Perfectly." Tara smiled her sweetest, most sickening smile at him.
"Which means this too is unanimous. Cherry Wolf All Stars it is, then." Yukito smiled. "Oops, five to twelve. You guys better go get ready."
Everyone marched up to the rooms to touch up whatever.
*At the dining hall*
Sakura bounced into the dining hall ahead of the others. All the girls had redone their hair and make-up. Sakura had three ponytails at the top of her head that bounced as she bounced. She had on a tiny little bit of pink eye shadow, a bit of blusher and a shimmery pink lip-gloss.
Tomoyo had somehow twisted her hair up quickly with one singular chopstick like hairpin, the way Zhang Ziyi did in Rush Hour 2. She, like Sakura, used a tiny little bit of light purple eye shadow, a bit of blusher and a clearish purple lip-gloss.
Meiling had her buns, as usual, but she braided the pigtails into, roughly, more than thirty tiny braids, which she beaded with little sparkly gold beads. She pulled them from the side of her head, over the buns like bun nets and bobby pinned them in a bunch behind the bun. Then, they were pulled horizontally towards each other and tied with a red scrunchy. She gathered every single thing (including the rest of her hair) at the nape of her neck and then tied it all together with a two-toned red and gold scrunchy. She used a translucent gold eye shadow and red lipstick.
Chiharu wore a scarlet lipstick to match her top and silver eye shadow. To replace blusher, she wore red and silver shimmer powder. She also had fine sparkles in her hair, which was pulled into tight ponytails where her pigtails once were.
Naoko went a bit more casual than the others, wearing only a bit of blusher and clear lip gloss. She had somehow twisted her hair with little multi coloured fur ball like clips such that the clips framed her face, making it seem as if she had on a multi coloured furry hair band.
Rika just pulled her hair back with a purple hair band and wore pink lipstick, eye shadow and blusher.
The Ling triplets had twisted their hair into tight braids, tomb raider style (Lara Croft is their idol). They each wore only clearish lip gloss in an extra dark shade of their colours, with the angry flush in their cheeks to replace blusher.
They chatted merrily as they ate. Suddenly, "Hey you! Yeah you with the green eyes! Over here!"
Sakura turned around to face the boys from cabin 5 at the table across the five metre aisle. There were four boys looking her way. One with blond hair and blue eyes, one with brown hair and black eyes, one with red hair and green eyes and one with long hair that seemed originally black, but was highlighted copper, brown, blond, a lighter shade of brown and reddish brown. He was the one calling out to her. "Here, catch!" He tossed over a wad of paper.
Sakura caught it nicely in her calm and unfolded it to reveal a note that said.
"HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOE~!!!!" Sakura screamed, dropped the piece of paper and fainted.
"Sakura!" Tomoyo rushed to her best friend's side as worried friends stood up. Syaoran picked up the piece of paper and screened through it as a look of pure anger swept across his face. He crumpled it up and through it backwards as he started stomping towards Tenji and his friends.
Touya picked it up and read it out loud with Lara, Kara, Tara, Xi Lang, Xi Long, Xi Ling, Eriol, Meiling, Ryu and Fuji listening.
"Hey there sweetcheeks, the name's Tenji Sugimori. How much you want to come over to my bed tonight?
P.S. Or do you want just me?"
Almost immediately, a common look of pure fury appeared on all their faces and they dashed to Tenji and his three friends.
By the time they got there, Syaoran had pushed them all down in one big shove and landed Tenji one right in the kisser.
"GAH!!!!! HOW DARE YOU TREAT MY SISTER LIKE A PROSTITUTE!!!!!! YOU MUST PAY!!!!!!!!! I'LL KILL YOU FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Touya screamed as he picked up Tenji's blondie friend by the shoulders and started swinging him around. The three Ling triplets then decided to make a game out of trying to hit the poor boy who was, from the moment he saw Syaoran's look, praying, "Oh dear god, help me. I'm too young to die!"
Ryu had the brunette by the collar of his shirt, pulled his fist back, and released it with so much force that he went skidding across the table and off it. Fuji, who always fought with him when they were fighting, slid across the table sideways, jumped off last minute and landed above his head. He 'fell' forward, trapped the 'victim's' head between his knees and landed a punch square in the middle of his chest. He got up and Meiling grabbed him and propped him against the wall. She looked over to Fuji and they both nodded. Then they let loose, in all their fury, a spinning kick each in his sides for full impact. But, no~, that didn't stop there. They spun into each other and their legs got somehow tangled and they came crashing down together, all tangled up, Meiling on top, their faces inches away. Expectedly, they started to blush. Luckily for them though, Tomoyo was too busy trying to revive her friend together with the others not involved in the fight to catch this candid moment.
Xi Lang, Xi Ling and Xi Long seemed to have made a game out of this as well. They were passing around the redhead and hitting him in whatever creative way they could think up.
All this meant that Tenji was left to the worst of the lot, Syaoran and Eriol (Say this out and when you get to the comma, pause and say the last three words slowly for added effect. Trust me, it's REALLY cool) Syaoran had Tenji up and against the wall in no time flat. Little did they know, Tenji knew a few tricks of his own. He slipped out, under, and away to the middle of the room. He got into a fighting stance as Syaoran and Eriol leapt towards him and got into their fighting stances. Then Tenji looked from one to the other and said, "This won't be fair, two against one."
"So what?" Syaoran shot back.
"It won't be fair. Even though I could take you both on at the same time."
"Then why don't you?"
"Because. You come one at a time, then it would be fair."
Syaoran looked at Eriol, Eriol looked at Syaoran. ^That sounds fair. Ya think?^
^Hmph.^
^I could always tire him out, leaving you to KO him.^
^Right. For once you said something useful, Hiiragizawa.^
Eriol stepped up and got into a fighting stance and waited for him to make the first move. Tenji aimed a kick at the side of Eriol's head but Eriol ducked. Tenji landed on his hands, flipped, and threw a punch at Eriol's side, and Eriol blocked. It continued like this for a while. Tenji attack and Eriol block. Tenji attack and Eriol block. Until finally, Eriol got sick of it and aimed a kick at his middle and Tenji collapsed backwards. However, Tenji pushed himself sideways and kicked Eriol's feet, causing Eriol to fall.
As Tenji stood up, Eriol 'tagged' Syaoran (those who watched tag team events in WWF should know what I mean) and Syaoran got into a fighting stance. Tenji was panting by now, and Syaoran took advantage of this. He flipped over Tenji and grabbed the leather strip, which had a Kanji character on it, that held his hair together and ran. "Hey! Give that back! That's a family treasure!" Tenji screamed, getting up and ran, but quite unfortunately, fell flat on his face soon after due to the fact that there was a lot of food spilt on the floor.
Syaoran laughed, "So, the oh great Tenji can't even run straight! That's quite something. So, family treasure, huh? What kind of family would consider a strip of leather a *snicker* treasure?" By that time, he was already on stage.
"For your information, that was passed on for many generations! Now give it back!" Tenji retorted, starting to run again.
Syaoran ran off one end of the stage as Tenji ran on the other end. Tenji jumped off the stage and ran with all his might and after a few minutes, FINALLY caught up with Syaoran with the help of a lot of jumping and shortcuts. He grabbed the strip of leather out of Syaoran's hand and skidded to a halt to retie his hair.
"Getting vain, are we?" Syaoran continued to provoke Tenji.
"You are SO asking for it!" Tenji ran and tried to kick Syaoran in the stomach. That was quite easily blocked, mind you.
So, it continued like this, a bit like when Eriol was fighting with Tenji, kick, block, punch, block, and so on and so forth. Until suddenly, Syaoran leapt up in the air and was nowhere to be seen. Tenji looked around, confused. He started to curse about Syaoran being a coward when he felt a big impact on the back of his head and immediately fell forward and felt dizzy.
"No one, absolutely NO one, calls Li Syaoran a coward." Syaoran had been hanging on the ceiling fan all along and when Tenji started calling him a coward, he got so pissed, he leapt down and kicked Tenji on the back of the head. (Ouch. In case you're wondering, the dining hall is a bit like my school hall in terms of layout and height. It's about slightly more than two storeys high and the ceiling fans are, well, on the…ceiling)
He picked Tenji up by the collar and pulled his fist back, about to knock him out when, "Syaoran! No! Time, come to my aid and stop time NOW!"
"Aw, Sakura, you're standing up for the guy?" Syaoran put a frozen Tenji down. Sakura had just woken up to see Syaoran pull his fist back.
"It's not like I've forgiven him. Something like that can never be forgiven. It's just that you can be punished for beating them up, and I don't want my friends to go through all that trouble for me. Besides, I've got something of my own to do and it certainly won't do if they don't remain in the camp to endure my total revenge." Sakura smirked and walked back to her original position.
"Erase, come to my aid and erase all these people's memories of me stopping time and all serious wounds inflicted during the fight." She waited for a while and then continued, "Time, restart time."
Everyone returned to their respective tables as a smirk started to twitch at Sakura's lips. "Oh dear, Sakura's up to something." Tomoyo commented.
"Of COURSE I am. I certainly CAN'T let you guys have all the fun can I?" Sakura said as she got this secretive look and slid off her chair, which was at the end of the table, next to the aisle.
She stood up tall, with that secretive, slightly seductive smile playing on her lips and with her chin up. Then she started walking slightly like a model would across the aisle.
"Oh, so the cherry blossom still can't resist me despite her friends' disapproval. So, come to demand a price? A beauty like you can get any amount out of me." Tenji turned to sit on the side of his chair, resting his left hand on the back of the chair.
Sakura stopped abruptly as she lost her smile and some of her previous grace. She quickened her pace slightly, with apparent flames dancing around in her emerald orbs.
"Uh oh. He is in DEEP shit. No one messes with Sakura when she's pissed." Syaoran commented.
Sakura reached him and bent down so they were at eye level. She glared into his eyes, obviously scaring him, and said, with her tone raising drastically with each syllable, "Baka ka. You stupid mother-f***ing ASSHOLE! YOU CAN GO F*** YOURSELF FOR ALL I CARE!! OH, I'M SOOO SORRY, YOU DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO SO!!!" She stood up straight, drew her hand back and slapped him across the left cheek, then slapped him across the right cheek with the back of her hand, and lastly, clenched her hand into a fist, drew it back, and hit him right across the kisser. After that she stomped off, out of the dining hall.
Tomoyo and Syaoran immediately ran after her and caught up with her, after that, they walked with her back to the cabin.
Back at the cabin, Tomoyo said, "Hey, you guys want something to eat? We never did get much down our throats."
"No appetite." They answered together, "that baka ka spoiled it." They looked at each other and blushed.
"Well, to tell the truth, neither do I. But what are we going to do for the rest of our time here? We can't just walk back in and say we were bored." Tomoyo replied, not failing to catch that candid moment with her brand new palm size digital camera.
Sakura sweatdropped and said, "We could always work on the singing comp. We are both the leaders and we're supposed to organise everything. First, we have to decide how many songs to do, but how?"
Tomoyo had a thinking expression on her face, then she lit up, leapt up and grabbed a piece of paper which she proceeded to tear up into many pieces. She scribbled stuff on each piece, separated them into three groups and put them in three bags. All this time, S+S stood there staring at her, bewildered.
Tomoyo held a bag in front of each of them. They continued staring at her with questioning looks on their faces. "Well, what are you waiting for? Pick a piece of paper."
They picked one out, and discovered there were numbers written on them. Sakura had drawn a 5 and Syaoran had drawn a 7. Tomoyo picked a piece of paper out of the last bag and it revealed a multiplication sign.
"There we go, all we need to do is multiply 5 by 7 and we get 35. That means we're doing 35 songs. Let's get started, shall we?" Tomoyo looked pleased with herself.
"Hoe! Thirty FIVE? That's too many! No one could learn thirty five routines in less than two weeks!" Sakura exclaimed.
"Sakura, you're probably forgetting how we did it at Camp Pop." Tomoyo said impatiently.
"Heck, even Eriol used a bit of magic when we had to learn our routine in a few days." Syaoran added.
"OK. But what songs? We don't have any good CDs except my MP3s, but we can't play MP3s on the CD player. Even if we could, it would take ages! I used the Big Card to expand the CD's capacity and I've got HUNDREDS of songs in there." Sakura sighed.
"That, is where MY expertise comes in. All we have to do is hook up the laptop I stuffed into your duffel to the surround sound speakers in the living room and play the music in random order. Then, we write down the names of the first thirty five songs it plays." Tomoyo looked happy with herself and with the fact that she was good with electronics.
Sakura pulled the laptop out of her duffel with a piece of paper and a pen. If you look at the laptop as if you were just using it (the spacebar is on the side facing you) and just closed it, there were pink cherry blossoms decorating the four corners of it, with the largest right at the corner and 'fading' outwards as the blossoms got smaller. In the middle, there was 'carving' of the symbol at the back of the Sakura Cards (I dunno what it's called) that was painted a two-tone shade of metallic pink and black. At the four corners of the screen were cherry blossoms and at the middle of the top margin, was her name in romaji and at the middle of the bottom margin was her name kanji. All the text and letters, symbols, etc. on the buttons were silvery pink.
After everything was hooked up, the music started blasting. Sakura would listen to the first few seconds of the song, scribble down the name of it and click the button for the next one, and then she would repeat it all over again.
Meanwhile, Tomoyo would look at what songs she scribbled down and list down a brief description of the outfits they'll need. Syaoran would be looking at the list and note on his own piece of paper how many people they'll need for each item.
Sakura and Syaoran were done with their jobs as Tomoyo started on designing the costumes. Sakura then got an idea, "Hey, what about I slow down time for a bit, we do all the planning and then we implant the routines and everything over supper."
"Sure." Syaoran said as she mumbled out commands for Time.
They then got to planning out who to take part in what item. That was done, and then Sakura said, "Create, come to my aid and create us a routine." She closed her eyes and glowed pink a little and then the glowing subsided.
"That's a good one. Now, Create, I want you to create a potion that would infuse it into the minds of others without them questioning it." Sakura smiled as a crystal vial containing a rather concentrated pink liquid appeared before her. She picked it up and looked at the inscription at the bottom. She read it out loud, "Use a drop, that's all thy needs, Mistress do as your servant pleads. I guess something will go wrong if the instructions aren't followed."
She turned to look at Syaoran who had a doubtful look on his face. She laughed and said, "Don't worry. Create won't do anything to hurt any of my friends. You're not in danger of being poisoned."
"I…I d…didn't me…mean that." Syaoran blushed and stammered, afraid she might have been offended that he didn't trust her cards.
Much to his surprise, she started laughing. "Why on *giggle* earth *giggle* would you *giggle* think *giggle* THAT?!" She erupted into fits of laughter.
"WELL, I don't think it very funny if that STUFFED ANIMAL might have decided to have a midnight chat with the cards while you were asleep or something about me and tell them to do what they can to kill me." Syaoran spat, slightly offended himself.
"Look, sorry if I offended you but it just seemed so funny at the time. But about the midnight chat thing, the cards tell me he did have a midnight chat with the cards about you, but he didn't tell the cards to kill you. Don't tell Kero I told you this, he'll burn the cards for telling ME this in the first place, he said that he didn't really hate you after the cards were declared mine. He only hated you because you tried to take the cards from me and was my rival. But after that, it became a habit to argue with you and call you names." Sakura gave him one of her special smiles as a small blush crept up his face.
"I never knew… I guess I felt the same way too. Maybe we CAN get along after all." Syaoran replied.
Sakura put the vial in her duffel as Tomoyo finished her designing and said, "Time, return time to its normal pace." All of a sudden, the door burst open and they heard Meiling's voice yell, "WAY to GO, Sa-KURA!"
"Huh?" Sakura was still as dense as ever.
"Ya know, that backslap. I've mastered kicks and punches, headbutts even! But I could never have mastered a BACKSLAP!" Meiling said with good-natured passion (not THAT kind of passion, ardour-emotion-fervency-fervour-fire- heat-intensity-vehemence-warmth-zeal kind of passion…and if you guessed that I was using a thesaurus, you guessed right).
"What she means is that you left a bigger impression on Tenji than all of us combined on the other assholes." Lara gave her the thumbs-up and winked.
After a few more minutes of constant appraisal, they decided it was enough and Touya asked, "So, what did the kaijuu do while we were having lunch?"
"I am NOT a KAIJUU!!" Sakura did what she always did when he called her a kaijuu. She kicked him. Hard. Twice, even.
He started hopping around yelping, hugging his leg in agony.
"Anyways, we planned out every single thing there was to plan for the comp. We've got the songs, dance routines, Tomoyo's doing the costumes and all there is left to do is practice and for the counsellors to write their speech." Sakura smiled sweetly, with her brother hopping in the background, making the others sweatdrop.
Nakuru said, "That's good, now for the icebreakers. Come on! We're going to the lake. Hurry up and change!"
Everyone dashed upstairs, set to impress certain somebodies.
*At the lake*
Everyone was gathered at the lake. "Yay! Friendship circle! Sit in a circle! The FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE!" Nakuru shrieked in her nice shrill voice.
No one knew what she had eaten during lunch to make her like this, and no one wanted to know. They just sweatdropped as they sat down cross-legged.
"Okay, the whole point of this Friendship Circle thing is to get to know each other. We'll go round the circle clockwise, starting from you Sakura." Yukito said, gesturing to the girl on his left, who happened to be staring at Syaoran.
"Wha…huh? Oh, um, right. Hi, I'm Sakura. I'm just graduated from Tomoeda High, where I was the cheerleading captain, girls' soccer and b ball team captains, star gymnast swimmer and martial artist. I like cherry blossoms, pink and Sy…um, never mind." Sakura blushed.
"Hi, I'm Tomoyo, from Tomoeda High, too. I'm Sakura's best friend. I was in the school choir. My fave thing to do is to film my kawaii cherry blossom with the latest camera models and make clothes for her because she is just soooooooooooooo KAWAII!!" Tomoyo said, making everyone sweatdrop.
"Hi, I'm Chiharu, I'm also from Tomoeda High. I'm into fashion and accessories and stuff like that. What I'm NOT into is Takashi's lies. And I'm also into beating the crap out of him when he tells his lies." Chiharu nudged Naoko, who just happened to be in her own little world filled with Satoshis.
"Oh, uh, I'm Naoko Yanagisawa. I'm ALSO from Tomoeda High, like the majority of us are. I was the editor-in-chief of the school paper and head librarian. In the guy department, I prefer good-looking intellectuals." Fuji and Ryu, sitting at both sides of Satoshi, had smirks on their faces as they looked at their best friend who was currently sitting with his back slouched, staring, mouth a bit open, and drool dripping onto his pants.
"Hey, I'm Rika, I'm from Tomoeda High too, I'm also into fashion and the like, have a fashion advice column in the school paper, was a DJ at the school radio station, am a DJ at the school's alumni association's radio station and used to have a stalker who was put into the loony bin in the end." She laughed, which sounded like music to Ryu's ears.
"I'm Meiling, and I used to live in Tomoeda before going back to Hong Kong. Syaoran's my cousin. I just came back here just in time for Camp Prick, and am happy to say that I'll be staying in Tomoeda for as long as I want. I like martial arts and am pretty good at it too, so don't even THINK of messing with me. Oh yes, and Syaoran, your mom says that you can stay here as long as you want too, and I'm to move into my old room in the apartment unless I can find a place of my own." Meiling said, and laughed at the horrified look on her cousin's face. Meanwhile, Fuji was thinking ^Lucky ass. He gets to stay with her. I mean, he IS her cousin and all, but he's still a lucky ass.^
Lara, Tara and Kara apparently had plans of their own. They said together, "Hi, we're the Ling triplets."
"Tara,"
"Kara,"
"And Lara."
"We're from Singapore. We went to the best schools in the country. First Raffles Girls' Primary School, then Raffles Girls' School, then lastly, Raffles' Junior College. We love to kick ass and are particularly good at kicking their asses." They gestured to the other set of triplets.
"Well, WE'RE the Chen triplets from Shanghai."
"Xi Lang, my name, lang, means wolf."
"Xi Ling, I was called that because it was my mom's great-great-great-great- grandfather's name."
"Xi Long, my name means dragon."
"We love kicking ass too, especially their asses." They said gesturing to the three girls to their rights, leading to a glaring battle.
The others ignored this, and it went on to Fuji. "I'm Fuji, from Tokyo High, I like martial arts, my best friends are Satoshi and Ryu, who is also my fighting partner."
"The name's Satoshi, I'm Tokyo High's IT Club President, Photography Club treasurer and the school paper's head librarian."
"I'm Ryu, and I've known Satoshi and Ryu since we were kids. I also like martial arts."
"My name's Takashi, and I'm from Tomoeda high. I've got a column in the school paper and a radio show called Takashi's useless facts. Talking about useless facts, did you know that lakes are actually big dinosaur's footpr…" *whap* Chiharu whacked him over the head, hard as she could. "Ya know, Chiharu, if you keep whacking me like that, you'll soon have a retarded boyfriend."
"Well, better retarded than lying!"
Everyone sweatdropped as Eriol continued, "I'm Eriol and I'm also from Tomoeda High. I play the piano for the school choir and am in the school's soccer and b ball teams. I like being evil and soccer."
"Li Syaoran. I like martial arts, soccer and b ball. I DON'T like idiots who try to hurt my friends. I also don't like Eriol."
"Touya. I like soccer and calling my sister a kaijuu. I don't like the gaki and any guy who tries to hurt Sakura."
"I'm Nakuru Akizuki, I like red, sweet stuff and TOUYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Nakuru then proceeded to glomp him.
"I'm Yukito, your head counsellor, and I like rabbits, snow and food." Yukito giggled a little at the two counsellors beside him. "Well, we're done with the intros, now, to the lake. We're gonna have some activities in the water."
Nakuru instantly let go of Touya's neck and excitedly followed the other girls to wade into the water. This was not good for the guys. It became obvious when Sakura arose from the water, followed by Tomoyo, Chiharu, Rika, Naoko, Lara, Kara, Tara, Meiling and lastly, Nakuru.
The guys turned red, one by one, Syaoran, Eriol, Takashi, Ryu, Satoshi, Xi Lang, Xi Long, Xi Ling (these three stopped themselves within seconds and thought ^Why in the fourteen hells did I blush when I looked at HER?! I'm going mad!^) and lastly, Fuji.
The water had made their big baggy, but sheer white shirts cling to their skin and turn almost transparent. Underneath, they had a variety of products that could only be acquired by one in the lingerie department.
Sakura wore a hot pink sports bra that gave 'extra support', making her assets seem bigger than they really were. Tomoyo wore a lacy strapless half- cup push-up bra from Victoria's Secret. Chiharu wore a peach three-quarter cup that had detachable straps. Rika wore a neon orange sports bra. Naoko wore a black cross back bra with underwire support. Lara, Kara and Tara wore matching halter-top style sports bras, Lara in aqua, Kara in scarlet and Tara in neon green. Meiling wore a scarlet and gold sports bra that she had ordered custom made. (If you're wondering how I know so much about bras, blame my mom, Her World magazine, and all other fashion mags I read)
The boys' mouths dropped open, they stared and blushed the brightest scarlet on the third rock from the sun. Or the whatever rock from the sun for that matter.
Yukito and Touya sweatdropped and rolled their eyes at this. Then, Yukito said, "C'mon, in the water, the first game is tug of war. See this string?" He picked up a piece of rope, with a red section in the middle, "You probably know the rules. Except, here, there's one extra rule. You can use any objects you want to play, seaweed, sand, heck, you can use MAGIC for all I care. Now, let the games begin. And remember, it's battle of the sexes."
Certain people's eyes twinkled, as Sakura called upon the powers of Power, Little and Watery, Eriol, Lara, Kara and Xi Lang meditated for a bit and Syaoran took out one of his ofudas.
The war began, and Sakura used Power to increase the girls' strength, Little to shrink the guys' strength, Watery to apply pressure to the guys so it was easier, Lara, Xi Lang and Syaoran did the same thing, Kara used her powers to make the guys get rope-burn and Eriol made himself invincible to any cards Sakura decides to use on them.
In the end, obviously, the girls won, having the world's most powerful sorceress on their side. Suddenly, there was a splash as everyone got out of the water. Everyone turned to look as they saw Syaoran halfway in the water, clenching his teeth in pain. They rushed to his side to help him, and Sakura got there first. By then, the water around him was tinted red. She helped him up as he picked whatever hurt him out. She helped him as he limped to dry land, with one arm over her shoulder and the other clenched tightly over whatever he was holding.
He sat down as Sakura looked at his foot.
"Here, let me look at it."
Syaoran, suddenly realising how close she was to him, blushed, "No… um… i… it's f… fine."
"Well, sure doesn't look it."
She picked up his foot and despite his desperate protests, started to examine it. He gave up, and started examining the strange rock that he picked up. He wiped it clean of algae and blood, and took a good look. It was a conglomerate, with different precious and semi-precious gems cemented together by a lump of clear crystal.
"Wow," Nakuru said, "Ya know, there's a legend here about two lovers, they around your age, and one day, the guy found a rock just like that, right here in this lake. He gave it to the girl, and from then on, they were bonded for life. Some say that he went to war and was captured by the enemy. The girl heard about this, and set out to look for him. She didn't know where she was going, but in the end, in a miraculously short time, she found him and they went home. Others say he was killed at war, and the moment he fell, she was talking to a friend, and suddenly, her eyes rolled back and she died. Scary, ain't it? So, Syaoran, who're you gonna give it to?"
He glanced in Sakura's direction and blushed. Then, she helped him up and they went back to the cabin.
At the cabin, Syaoran's foot was bandaged up, and he couldn't do much else but lie on the couch and laze around. The others were going to dinner, but Sakura decided to stay with him.
"So, what to do now?" Sakura asked. She thought for a while, and suddenly screamed, "CONGLOMERATE!"
"Um… I think I know that I found a conglomerate." Syaoran said as he fished the stone out of his pocket.
"NO! Don't you get it?!"
"Um... no."
"Then WAIT!" Sakura ran off to the kitchen.
When she came back, she was carrying a tray with a large bowl of konniyaku jelly and lots of little multi-coloured jellies in it, two smaller bowls and two spoons on it.
She set it down and started to explain, "See, the clear jelly is the crystal, the red jellies, the rubies, blue ones, sapphires, green ones, emerald, and so on. NOW, do you understand?"
He nodded as she scooped some onto the bowls as they spent the rest of the time eating jelly.
The others came back just as they were starting on their last bowls of jelly.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No FAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIR!! You get JELLY and we have GRUEL STUFFED down our THROATS!!" Nakuru screamed.
Touya and Yukito dragged her away to lock her in her room. Tomoyo said, "Hey that looks a lot like the rock Syaoran found, doesn't it?"
After that, everyone played a few games and as they had supper, Syaoran was in his room toiling away on… something. Then everyone went to bed.
In the middle of the night, Syaoran sneaked into Sakura's room and woke her up. "Huh? Syaoran! You can walk?!"
"Magic and shhhh. You'll wake the others. Come on."
Sakura followed him, puzzled, to the living room. There, a surprise awaited her. She gasped at the sight of the conglomerate in a crystal ball with little shifting lightning bolts holding it exactly in the middle. At the top, was an upside down gold cherry blossom linking it to a short gold chain the length of a bracelet.
He put it carefully in her hands and said, "Try to picture what it would look like shrunk."
As an image came to mind, the crystal ball shrank to the size of the top of the Star Key and the chain 'stretched' to the length of a necklace.
She looked at it, and was speechless. He smiled slightly, and said, "Now picture how it looked like big."
She did, and it grew to its original size. He said, "Now shrink it back. Mustn't have too many people seeing it and discovering our magic." He blushed slightly.
Their eyes locked for a while and suddenly, "Thank you. Thank you sooooo much." Sakura ran forward and hugged him tight.
He started turning red, partly because he was blushing, partly because she had stopped blood circulation. "GA-Can't… BREATHE-SP"
"Oops. Sorry." Sakura started blushing too, realising what she had just done. They walked back upstairs and went to bed.
SOOOOOOOOOORRY to AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL my fans for making you wait soooooooooooooooooo long for this chapter. Com crashed and got spoilt. Using my bro's com right now while he's not home. Hope you enjoy it. If you're wondering what happened to the potion, Sakura fed it to them during supper.
^…^ - Thinking
(…) - My daft self
… - Singing/Battle Chants (I just found their battle chants and am going to use them in future chapters)
CAPS - Shouting or emphasis on that word
Disclaimer:
tbwwings: Where is that stuffed animal? I told him to meet me here if he wanted his pudding and batteries. Oh well. May as well do the disclaimer. I don't own CCS, CC and everything else I don't own. Oh! Here he comes.
Kero: Where's my pudding!
tbwwings: Here, here. *stuffs pudding and batteries in Kero's arms*Runs off*
1 Camp times two
*Chapter 10: Camp two, Day one*
~*~ Flashback ~*~
They walked over and sat down, Sakura next to the aisle. After a few minutes, Syaoran felt a light pressure on his shoulder. He looked down, saw Sakura sleeping peacefully, and started blushing. He then leaned against the window and dozed off.
~*~ End Flashback ~*~
Sakura woke up and stretched. She looked around and realised that she woke up just on time, they were just pulling into Camp Prick. She turned, realised that she had been sleeping on the still asleep Syaoran's shoulder and blushed lightly. She started shaking him lightly, "Syaoran, wake up."
"Wha…Huh…Oh, we're there? Okay. I'm up." He yawned and stretched as Sakura stood up, picked up their two bags and passed his to him.
They got out of the bus carrying their bags and joined their friends. The whole group, Eriol, Tomoyo, Chiharu, Takashi, Nakuru, Touya, Rika, Naoko, Sakura and Syaoran, walked towards the dining hall, the first building.
They entered, and just stood around, just like everyone. Suddenly, "SYAORAN!!"
Their heads swivelled to see Meiling, with her usual pigtails, running towards them at full speed.
"Hey! Great to see you guys again. Nice outfit Sakura…" Meiling said when she reached them.
"Oh, so the other Chinese gaki decided to join us." Touya smirked.
"Why you imbecilic ass! I'll show you gaki!" Meiling flared up almost immediately, and high kicked him THERE. (I'm not gonna mention where THERE is, but you should know where THERE is) (They're all still shorter than Touya. Only by a few centimetres, though) Touya collapsed to the floor, grabbing THERE in utter agony.
"Shut up you bastard!" Was heard in a distance.
"You shut up bimbo!" Was heard in response as Sakura & Co. turned to see two sets of triplets who looked rather similar glaring at each other.
"Why you…"
"Hey, hey, break it up over there." A woman's voice came over the crowd. "Good. I'm Laura Cooper, most of you have met my sister, Layla Campbell. I own this camp, and my sister owns Camp Pop. In this camp, every morning, you'll get a schedule from your counsellors, except for the weekends, when you can do whatever you want, so its a bit like school, except no lessons, no homework. Each cabin will have eighteen campers, nine girls, nine guys, and three counsellors. One in charge of the girls, one in charge of the guys, one in charge over all. Now, will all of you come to the front, counsellors to the table on my left, campers to the table on my right, and Layla and I will tell you which cabins you're in, give you your camp T- shirts and introduction booklets. On the outside of each door of the cabin and bedrooms, will be a list of names of the people staying there. Got that? Okay, line up please."
The group split up and lined up. After collecting everything, they all went to their cabin, the last one. There, they saw the two sets of triplets who were fighting, another group of boys and Yukito waiting.
The girls stepped up to introduce themselves. They were wearing matching outfits, a dark coloured tank top, really short black shorts (think tomb raider in black), black combat boots and white socks with a symbol embroidered onto the side of the left sock. One girl had a dark green tank top, her symbol was a leaf and her green highlighted black hair was pulled into a high ponytail. The second had a dark red tank top, her symbol was a flame and her hair was the same except highlighted red. The last had a dark blue tank top, her symbol was a drop of water, and her hair was also done the same way, highlighted blue.
The guys wore the same, but they wore T-shirts, black cargo pants, and their hair was short, messy, black and highlighted.
The girl in green stepped up to introduce all of them, "I'm Tara Ling Si Di, the oldest. These are my sisters. The one in blue is Lara Ling Si Hai, second oldest, the one in red is Kara Ling Si Huo. We're from Singapore."
But she didn't stop there, "Those idiotic bastards over there are our parents' second cousins' sibling in laws' kids. The oldest in green, Chen Xi Ling, second oldest in blue, Chen Xi Lang, then the one in red, Chen Xi Long. They're from Shanghai."
Sakura decided to introduce themselves as well, "Nice to meet you. I'm Sakura Kinomoto, the girl with the brown pigtails is Chiharu Mihara, the girl with the glasses is Naoko Yanagisawa, the one with the short brown hair is Rika Sasaki, the one with the buns and pigtails is Li Meiling, the one with the V8 is Tomoyo Daidouji. The boy with the scowl is Li Syaoran, the one with the blue eyes is Eriol Hiiragisawa, the one with the squinty eyes is Takashi Yamazaki. And our two other counsellors, Nakuru Akizuki, she's in charge of the girls, Touya, my bro, is in charge of the guys. We're all from Tomoeda, except Meiling and Syaoran were originally from Hong Kong, and Eriol and Nakuru were originally from England."
One of the other three guys, the tallest one, stepped up, "I'm Fuji Masuda, the second shortest is Ryu Tajiri, the shortest of the lot…"
"Hey! Stop teasing me about my height!"
"The SHORTEST of the lot is Satoshi Harada. The three of us are best friends from Tokyo."
Introductions were complete, and it was then that Sakura realised that the two sets of triplets had auras. ^Could it…could it mean that they have magic?^ Sakura thought.
^Yep! You're right. And you have magic too, don't you?^ Sakura heard Lara's voice in her head.
^I…guess. I'm the cards mistress, Eriol's half the reincarnation of Clow Reed, my dad's the other half, Syaoran is a descendant of Clow on his mom's side, Yukito's the false form of my moon guardian, Yue, and Nakuru's the false form of Eriol's moon guardian, Ruby Moon.^ Sakura 'thought' back.
^Cool! You're the cards mistress? That's so cool! Wait till I tell the others. Well, Xi Ling and Tara's attacks & powers are based on ground, a bit like Earthy, and they can move objects telepathically. Xi Lang and my attacks & powers are based on water, like Watery, and can read minds and talk mentally with anyone we wish. Xi Long and Kara's powers are based off attacks & powers are based on fire, like Firey, and they can see the future or past. PLUS, we're descendants of Clow Reed!^
"Hellooooooo~! Anyone home? HEY! I'm talking to you here!!" Xi Long yelled in Lara's ear.
"Do you know that it's RUDE to yell in people's ears like that?" Lara snapped in his face, covering her ears in pain, "Oh, I'm so sorry, filthy ASSHOLES like YOU and your BROTHERS ARE rude."
"Oh, so this is going to involve my bros huh? Why don't we go three on three. Right here, right NOW!" Xi Long spat back.
"Oh, fine! Us girls can beat you anytime, anyday!" Lara screamed in his face as her sisters stepped up beside her and Xi Long's brothers stepped up beside him. The six triplets got into their trademark stances.
"Um… excuse me? You do know that there are quite a few others in this room, don't you?" Satoshi said.
"Aww, you guys are no fun. Alright, alright." They all said in unison, but when they realised that, they started glaring at each other again.
*After the glaring has stopped and the sulking had been quelled*
Touya and Nakuru handed out the schedules for the day. They had free time until 12.30 pm (it was around 11 am), then they had a briefing on what to expect, lunch, camp tour, ice breakers, dinner, supper and lastly, lights out.
They then proceeded to the assigned rooms with their assigned roommates. Sakura, Tomoyo and Meiling were in one room. Naoko, Chiharu and Rika were in the next, and the Singaporean triplets were in the third one. Syaoran, Eriol and Yamazaki were in one room, Ryu, Fuji and Satoshi in the next, and the three Chinese triplets in the last room.
(For those of you who are curious of what the whole cabin looks like, there are three levels. From a bird's eye view, on the ground floor, there was a porch and the main door right at the bottom, then the dining room took up the top right hand quarter of the place, kitchen the top left hand quarter. On the bottom corner was a small narrow bathroom, the length of a quarter of the place minus two meters, the width of the stairs that was sandwiched between it and the kitchen. The rest of the place was the living room, with a 48-inch flat-screen TV, a 3x1-meter coffee table, three seven seater couches and a lot of empty space. On the second level, there was an empty space with a width of two meters separating two equal rectangles. On the left was the staircase leading up from the ground floor, and on the right was the staircase leading up to the third level, which was out of bounds to campers. Each of the two 'rectangles' was separated into three. On the top half, from left to right, was Sakura, Tomoyo and Meiling's room, then Naoko, Chiharu and Rika's room, then Lara, Kara and Tara's room. On the bottom 'rectangle', from left to right, was Syaoran, Eriol and Yamazaki's room, Ryu, Fuji and Satoshi's room, and then Xi Lang, Xi Ling and Xi Long's room. The girls' rooms were divided into four. The top right hand quarter was the bathroom, the top left hand corner was a huge walk-in closet, in the bottom left hand quarter were three bunk beds on top of each other [one mattress on the floor with a short barrier to prevent it from moving, one bunk one meter up, and another bunk another meter higher. There was a ladder on the far left side of the bed, next to the wall], the bottom right corner was a mini recreation area. It had a long TV table against the wall separating it from the bathroom and a low three seater couch on the opposite wall. To the left of the couch was a tall lamp bridging the gap between the couch and the door. On the TV table was a small flat screen TV, a VCD player, a DVD player, an MCD player, a video cassette player and two large stereos on either side. The guys' rooms were basically the same, except a mirror reflection. On the third story, it was the same, except that instead of three, it was split into two, and there was no staircase on the left. Touya slept in the top right room, Yukito in top left, Nakuru in bottom right, and the bottom left was the reason campers were out of bounds. It was where the counsellors planned everything. On the right edge was a small counter with a stereo on the bottom, a mini fridge and a microwave on the top, and in between was a few bottles of wine and three glasses hung upside down on racks above. On the bottom edge was, from left to right, a desk with a computer on it [mainly to IM Laura and the other counsellors with queries and to plan group activities], a tall cabinet divided into fourteen slots for the schedules and notes on what was planned for each day, and a large notice board with a table under it which had paper and pens to write on on it. On the top left hand corner, was a fireplace, placed diagonally with a small clock on top of it. A poker hung from its handle to its right. In front of it was a small round coffee table with peach blossoms, cherry blossoms, plum blossoms and apple blossoms [weird choice, huh? I dunno why I chose them. They're really pretty though] in a small round brown clay vase in the middle. Three large comfy armchairs surrounded the table. The counsellors' rooms were basically the same as the campers' rooms. However, instead of the bunk beds, there was one normal bed, instead of the huge walk in closet, the closet was half the size and there was a desk on the left and a mini fridge on top of a food cabinet on the right. On the front door, framed in a plainly craved gold wooden frame, was a varnished rectangular plague, with the names of the counsellors and the campers carved in gold)
"Wow! This room is sooooooo GREAT! Top bunk's MINE!!" Sakura screamed as she threw her duffel across the room with perfect aim onto the couch and jumped 2.5 meters onto the top bunk.
"Ya know, she should have gone for track and field instead of gymnastics or whatever other ECA she enrolled for. They sure could use her for high jump." Meiling said, sweatdropping, to Tomoyo. But suddenly, she realised that while she was talking, Tomoyo had started making herself comfortable in the bottom bunk. "Were you listening Tomoyo? Guess I have the middle bunk then."
(ECA stands for Extra Curricular Activity. I dunno what they call it in Japan, but that's what they used to call it here. Now it's Co Curricular Activity, and it makes up part of your O level grades. Since they don't seem to HAVE to have one, I just left it as ECA)
"Yeah, I was listening. I saw her ECA enrolment list. There was cheerleading, basketball, soccer, gymnastics, swimming, air rifle (I'm in that one and it's GREAT), track and field, aerobics, water aerobics, all three kinds of martial arts and volleyball. They only allow max eight ECAs for the really great students, four for average, one for those just scraping through and none for those failing. Eriol, Syaoran, Sakura and I were the top scorers in the exam to test how many we're allowed to have, so she was allowed cheerleading, basketball, soccer, gymnastics, swimming and all three kinds of martial arts. In our senior year, she was captain of the cheerleading team, girls' soccer team, girls' basketball team, star gymnast, swimmer and martial artist. For girls, of course."
"Wow. Talk about accomplished. AND good grades? She signed up for ALL the sports?!" Meiling was amazed.
"Yeah. The only thing that blocked her from the honour roll senior year was a B+ from the English teacher who hates the four of us. And no. She didn't sign up for golf, cricket and air pistol." Tomoyo replied.
"Oh. And Sakura? Will you please stop bouncing up and down? I'm talking to Tomoyo and I can hardly hear her over the creaking." Meiling looked upwards.
"Sorry. These mattresses are sooooooo soft and bouncy! So, what were you talking about?" Sakura stopped bouncing up and down and decided to join the conversation.
"You and your ECAs." Tomoyo said, replying for Meiling.
"Oh." Was the only response.
"Hey did you know what ECAs my dear cousin joined?" Meiling asked.
"Yeah, Syaoran joined soccer, b ball, football and martial arts. Not as many as Sakura, but just as accomplished. Captain of the boys' soccer and b ball teams, star quarterback and star martial artist." Tomoyo said. "I think we should get to unpacking, don't you?"
Sakura leapt to the couch, grabbed her duffel, and ran all the way into the closet in record time, picked the rack right under the light and started unpacking. Meiling hopped down, picked her bag off the floor and took the middle rack. Tomoyo had never let go off her bag, so she just rolled off the bunk and walked over to the closet.
Syaoran ran into the room in front of the other two boys, jumped up onto the top bunk, picked out a smelly green sock from the time they were in Camp Pop, placed it nicely on the pillow, and leapt down with his duffel and started unpacking in the closet.
"Ya dow, ya coulda had the tob bug if ya had just assed." Takashi said, holding his nose. (translation: You know, you could have had the top bunk if you had just asked) "Dere's doe way I'b sleebing on da biddle bug dow." (translation: There's no way I'm sleeping on the middle bunk now) He continued, crawling onto the bottom bunk.
Syaoran just shrugged it off as he finished unpacking and picked out another smelly sock to place on the best seat in front of the TV.
Eriol stuck his Portable All-Purpose Light (Put it on the wall! Put it on the floor! Put it on the ceiling and much, much more! Carry it around and read in bed! Or set it to the max and shine it through your head!) onto the wall with the Magic Adhesive (The strongest adhesive you can find, any two objects it will bind. When it needs to be taken out, a strong solvent you can do without) both of which he got over the Wizard Wide Web. "You know, Syaoran, neither of us think it very polite of you to stink up the things you want for yourself so that others can't use it."
"Yeah… Hey, how did you know I was just thinking that?" Takashi asked.
"I have my ways." Eriol smiled that mysterious grin of his.
"That's the whole idea." Syaoran shrugged, leapt on his bunk, pulled his sock off the pillow, tucked it neatly between the mattress and the wall and said, "Wake me up at ten to eleven." Before falling asleep, leaving the other two boys to sweatdrop on their own.
The other kids, on the other hand, were having a perfectly good and peaceful time, if you consider squabbling over who got the top bunk, etc. peaceful, unpacking.
*Time Gap*
It was 11:30 am by the time everyone was gathered downstairs. "Oh great! Now we only have half an hour to explain every single thing about this bleedin' CAMP!! This is just GREAT!!" Touya exclaimed, quite obviously frustrated.
Everyone had been late because they either had to or wanted to change out of their clothes into something new.
Sakura was wearing a pink tank top with metallic emerald green lining and jeans that was sewn with sparkly pink thread on one side and sparkly green thread on the other. She had platform sandals that had one emerald green strap that went round the ankle and was linked to the shoe, and another green strap just above the toes that had three pink cherry blossoms on it.
Tomoyo was wearing a lavender tank top with metallic navy blue lining and jeans that was sewn with sparkly purple thread on one side and sparkly blue thread on the other. She topped it off with dark grey ankle boots with really low heels.
Meiling was wearing a red tank top with gold lining and jeans that was sewn with sparkly red thread on one side and sparkly gold thread on the other. She wore red low ankled sneakers with a gold zip in front instead of laces.
Syaoran was wearing a baggy dark green T-shirt and long brown cargo pants. Eriol and Takashi wore the same thing, except Eriol had a navy blue T-shirt and black cargos and Takashi had dark red and dark grey. They all wore white socks and the same Reebok sneakers, Syaoran in dark green, Eriol in navy blue and Takashi in dark red.
Chiharu wore a scarlet tube top with 'Bad Girl' written in silver cursive lettering across the middle, a white windbreaker and black three quarter pants with a gold hem and half inch slits at the sides of each leg. She also wore low ankled white and red sneakers to show off her perfectly tanned legs.
Naoko wore a V-neck three quarter sleeved white T-shirt, three quarter light grey cargos and Reebok sandals.
Rika donned a white tank top, a purple and pink semitransparent three quarter sleeved jacket that had frilled hems, a matching knee length skirt over a tight stretchy knee length white skirt and silvery purple heeled sandals.
Ryu, Fuji and Satoshi were all wearing the same black and silver Nike sneakers and jeans. Ryu wore a white T-shirt that accented his bronzed skin, Fuji a loose sleeveless black T-shirt that had blue strips down the side showing off his tan and biceps and Satoshi a loose red T-shirt that had the words 'Tokyo High IT Club' across the front, Tokyo High on top, IT Club below, in white-outlined blue letters.
Tara, Lara and Kara wore T-shirts that were two-toned in black and a very dark version of their respective colours and was obviously cropped, with the fringe at the sleeves that ended at the shoulders and at the hem that ended a good two inches above their belly buttons. They kept the socks, combat boots and the shorts.
Xi Lang, Xi Ling and Xi Long wore black short sleeved T-shirts over long sleeved T-shirts in a very dark shade of their respective colours. They replaced their full-length cargos for ones that reached just below their knees. They too kept the socks and combat boots.
"Calm down, Touya. I'll do the explaining." Yukito flashed him a smile.
"Well, basically, this is different from the other camp. Much different, the only thing that's the same is that there's also a singing competition at the end of everything, and we're supposed to start planning now. From the start, everyday, we'll have breakfast at seven thirty, lunch at noon, dinner at seven and supper at ten. By seven each morning, you have to send a rep from your room to come to us at the gate that blocks from coming upstairs to collect your schedules. In most of the activities, it'll be guys vs. girls, why we have two different counsellors for the guys and girls. You guys will have the weekends off to do whatever you want. Today's Monday, and the first day of your camp. Nakuru, can you pass out the booklets?"
"Sure!" Nakuru leapt off the back of the couch she was perched on and passed out some rather thick booklets.
"Now, turn to the page that is titled Main Events. See that? You'll see that the first main event you have is the Block Party. That's where each room has a theme, and you'll have to dress the theme. Each girls' room's theme should have a male counterpart more suited to guys. It's the girls' duty to pick the themes and it's the guys' duty to ask the girls out."
"Uh-WHAT??!!!!!" was heard from the Chen triplets.
"Yeah, you heard me right. ASK. THEM. OUT. Now, we'll be moving on…"
"You can't do THAT! It's INHUMAN!!" Xi Long yelled out as his brothers fell to the floor pretending to clutch their sides in agony.
"Oh, yes I can, and there will be no more interruptions from you. Moving on, that is on the fourth day of camp. On the sixth day, a Saturday, you'll have a costume party. You have to have a costume, no matter how simple and it's compulsory. And then, on day ten, Wednesday, is the inter-cabin sports meet. We'll have to train really hard for that one. On the last night, we will have the Grand Prick Singing Marathon, which I'll elaborate more on later. In the first week of June, on either Saturday or Sunday, is the Camp P Post-Graduation Prom. Which leaves you six months after this one to get ready. The price of the tickets is not yet known. Now, any questions?" Not waiting for even a second, he said, "On the singing marathon, everyone has to participate in someway, and the counsellors have to be the MCs. On the last page of the booklets, are the rubrics. There are a few main ones you have to look out for. The usual singing stuff, pitch, blah, blah, blah, audience reaction, quantity and quality. It's the last two I'd rather you place emphasis on. You can do as many as you want, and there is no maximum points you can get. Each item will be given a mark, and in the end, all the marks are added up and taken as the total score. We also have to choose two campers to be our lead singers. They have to be in every item except a maximum of two. One guy, one girl, any nominations?" Yukito asked.
"Sakura!" Tomoyo said, full of confidence.
"Hoe~" Sakura said.
"Yeah, I vote for Sakura too!" Meiling agreed.
"Me too." Chiharu responded.
"Me three." Naoko said.
"Me FOUR!" Rika giggled.
Yukito looked around. "Hmm, seems it's unanimous. Sakura the first one, now for the guy."
Eriol and Yamazaki looked at each other and nodded, as Eriol gave his hand a slight flick. "Syaoran!" They quipped together.
"Hey!"
Satoshi and Fuji actually wanted to vote for Ryu, as they had for most other singing and music competitions, but suddenly, they found their arms very heavy and couldn't speak. (Oh, I wonder why)
"This is unanimous too. Syaoran and Sakura." Yukito smiled. Tomoyo and Eriol weren't the only ones who thought they looked cute together.
"Now, we have to come up with a name for us. Any suggestions?"
"How about something to do with both their names?" Tara asked, after discussing something with her sisters.
"Like HOW? A little wolf, and a cherry blossom. Not quite what one associates with each other." Xi Lang said.
"Well, in Camp Pop, for the category Team Name in the rubrics, our team scored pretty high." Tomoyo commented.
"What was it?" Eriol asked.
"Cherry Blossom All Stars."
"Well, we can definitely leave out the Blossom, how about…" Chiharu trailed off, unable to think of anything.
"Cherry WOLF All Stars!" Takashi said.
"That's good, any objections?" Yukito said.
"We think it should be called Hai Shang Zui Bang." Xi Long spoke for his brothers.
"In case you're wondering, not all of us know what that means, probably only you, Syaoran, your brothers and I know what it means." Meiling commented, a little irritated by their attitude.
"And US!" Tara, Lara and Kara shouted in unison.
"Aren't you from Singapore? That isn't part of China." Meiling continued.
"How CAN you be SO narrow-MINDED?! In Singapore, we are FORCED to take a mother tongue. Tamil, Malay or Chinese, so DUH, we took Chinese. Then, in secondary school, we were allowed to take a third language. That was easy, Japanese. Of course, it's compulsory that we take English for a firs…" Kara explained.
"Okay, okay. But that's TOTALLY beside the point. The point is that most of us here don't understand Chinese." Meiling cut in.
"Alright! It means the best in the seas! Happy now?!" Xi Long exclaimed, frustrated.
"And you're being totally prejudiced! If most of us Chinese speakers haven't noticed, hai shang, is reverse for SHANGHAI! Which means that indirectly, according to the way THEY think, Shanghai zui bang. Which MEANS, Shanghai is the best! Ha, so there!" Tara shot back.
"Fine, fine, we don't think it should be called that anymore. HAPPY?" Xi Lang glared at her.
"Perfectly." Tara smiled her sweetest, most sickening smile at him.
"Which means this too is unanimous. Cherry Wolf All Stars it is, then." Yukito smiled. "Oops, five to twelve. You guys better go get ready."
Everyone marched up to the rooms to touch up whatever.
*At the dining hall*
Sakura bounced into the dining hall ahead of the others. All the girls had redone their hair and make-up. Sakura had three ponytails at the top of her head that bounced as she bounced. She had on a tiny little bit of pink eye shadow, a bit of blusher and a shimmery pink lip-gloss.
Tomoyo had somehow twisted her hair up quickly with one singular chopstick like hairpin, the way Zhang Ziyi did in Rush Hour 2. She, like Sakura, used a tiny little bit of light purple eye shadow, a bit of blusher and a clearish purple lip-gloss.
Meiling had her buns, as usual, but she braided the pigtails into, roughly, more than thirty tiny braids, which she beaded with little sparkly gold beads. She pulled them from the side of her head, over the buns like bun nets and bobby pinned them in a bunch behind the bun. Then, they were pulled horizontally towards each other and tied with a red scrunchy. She gathered every single thing (including the rest of her hair) at the nape of her neck and then tied it all together with a two-toned red and gold scrunchy. She used a translucent gold eye shadow and red lipstick.
Chiharu wore a scarlet lipstick to match her top and silver eye shadow. To replace blusher, she wore red and silver shimmer powder. She also had fine sparkles in her hair, which was pulled into tight ponytails where her pigtails once were.
Naoko went a bit more casual than the others, wearing only a bit of blusher and clear lip gloss. She had somehow twisted her hair with little multi coloured fur ball like clips such that the clips framed her face, making it seem as if she had on a multi coloured furry hair band.
Rika just pulled her hair back with a purple hair band and wore pink lipstick, eye shadow and blusher.
The Ling triplets had twisted their hair into tight braids, tomb raider style (Lara Croft is their idol). They each wore only clearish lip gloss in an extra dark shade of their colours, with the angry flush in their cheeks to replace blusher.
They chatted merrily as they ate. Suddenly, "Hey you! Yeah you with the green eyes! Over here!"
Sakura turned around to face the boys from cabin 5 at the table across the five metre aisle. There were four boys looking her way. One with blond hair and blue eyes, one with brown hair and black eyes, one with red hair and green eyes and one with long hair that seemed originally black, but was highlighted copper, brown, blond, a lighter shade of brown and reddish brown. He was the one calling out to her. "Here, catch!" He tossed over a wad of paper.
Sakura caught it nicely in her calm and unfolded it to reveal a note that said.
"HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOE~!!!!" Sakura screamed, dropped the piece of paper and fainted.
"Sakura!" Tomoyo rushed to her best friend's side as worried friends stood up. Syaoran picked up the piece of paper and screened through it as a look of pure anger swept across his face. He crumpled it up and through it backwards as he started stomping towards Tenji and his friends.
Touya picked it up and read it out loud with Lara, Kara, Tara, Xi Lang, Xi Long, Xi Ling, Eriol, Meiling, Ryu and Fuji listening.
"Hey there sweetcheeks, the name's Tenji Sugimori. How much you want to come over to my bed tonight?
P.S. Or do you want just me?"
Almost immediately, a common look of pure fury appeared on all their faces and they dashed to Tenji and his three friends.
By the time they got there, Syaoran had pushed them all down in one big shove and landed Tenji one right in the kisser.
"GAH!!!!! HOW DARE YOU TREAT MY SISTER LIKE A PROSTITUTE!!!!!! YOU MUST PAY!!!!!!!!! I'LL KILL YOU FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Touya screamed as he picked up Tenji's blondie friend by the shoulders and started swinging him around. The three Ling triplets then decided to make a game out of trying to hit the poor boy who was, from the moment he saw Syaoran's look, praying, "Oh dear god, help me. I'm too young to die!"
Ryu had the brunette by the collar of his shirt, pulled his fist back, and released it with so much force that he went skidding across the table and off it. Fuji, who always fought with him when they were fighting, slid across the table sideways, jumped off last minute and landed above his head. He 'fell' forward, trapped the 'victim's' head between his knees and landed a punch square in the middle of his chest. He got up and Meiling grabbed him and propped him against the wall. She looked over to Fuji and they both nodded. Then they let loose, in all their fury, a spinning kick each in his sides for full impact. But, no~, that didn't stop there. They spun into each other and their legs got somehow tangled and they came crashing down together, all tangled up, Meiling on top, their faces inches away. Expectedly, they started to blush. Luckily for them though, Tomoyo was too busy trying to revive her friend together with the others not involved in the fight to catch this candid moment.
Xi Lang, Xi Ling and Xi Long seemed to have made a game out of this as well. They were passing around the redhead and hitting him in whatever creative way they could think up.
All this meant that Tenji was left to the worst of the lot, Syaoran and Eriol (Say this out and when you get to the comma, pause and say the last three words slowly for added effect. Trust me, it's REALLY cool) Syaoran had Tenji up and against the wall in no time flat. Little did they know, Tenji knew a few tricks of his own. He slipped out, under, and away to the middle of the room. He got into a fighting stance as Syaoran and Eriol leapt towards him and got into their fighting stances. Then Tenji looked from one to the other and said, "This won't be fair, two against one."
"So what?" Syaoran shot back.
"It won't be fair. Even though I could take you both on at the same time."
"Then why don't you?"
"Because. You come one at a time, then it would be fair."
Syaoran looked at Eriol, Eriol looked at Syaoran. ^That sounds fair. Ya think?^
^Hmph.^
^I could always tire him out, leaving you to KO him.^
^Right. For once you said something useful, Hiiragizawa.^
Eriol stepped up and got into a fighting stance and waited for him to make the first move. Tenji aimed a kick at the side of Eriol's head but Eriol ducked. Tenji landed on his hands, flipped, and threw a punch at Eriol's side, and Eriol blocked. It continued like this for a while. Tenji attack and Eriol block. Tenji attack and Eriol block. Until finally, Eriol got sick of it and aimed a kick at his middle and Tenji collapsed backwards. However, Tenji pushed himself sideways and kicked Eriol's feet, causing Eriol to fall.
As Tenji stood up, Eriol 'tagged' Syaoran (those who watched tag team events in WWF should know what I mean) and Syaoran got into a fighting stance. Tenji was panting by now, and Syaoran took advantage of this. He flipped over Tenji and grabbed the leather strip, which had a Kanji character on it, that held his hair together and ran. "Hey! Give that back! That's a family treasure!" Tenji screamed, getting up and ran, but quite unfortunately, fell flat on his face soon after due to the fact that there was a lot of food spilt on the floor.
Syaoran laughed, "So, the oh great Tenji can't even run straight! That's quite something. So, family treasure, huh? What kind of family would consider a strip of leather a *snicker* treasure?" By that time, he was already on stage.
"For your information, that was passed on for many generations! Now give it back!" Tenji retorted, starting to run again.
Syaoran ran off one end of the stage as Tenji ran on the other end. Tenji jumped off the stage and ran with all his might and after a few minutes, FINALLY caught up with Syaoran with the help of a lot of jumping and shortcuts. He grabbed the strip of leather out of Syaoran's hand and skidded to a halt to retie his hair.
"Getting vain, are we?" Syaoran continued to provoke Tenji.
"You are SO asking for it!" Tenji ran and tried to kick Syaoran in the stomach. That was quite easily blocked, mind you.
So, it continued like this, a bit like when Eriol was fighting with Tenji, kick, block, punch, block, and so on and so forth. Until suddenly, Syaoran leapt up in the air and was nowhere to be seen. Tenji looked around, confused. He started to curse about Syaoran being a coward when he felt a big impact on the back of his head and immediately fell forward and felt dizzy.
"No one, absolutely NO one, calls Li Syaoran a coward." Syaoran had been hanging on the ceiling fan all along and when Tenji started calling him a coward, he got so pissed, he leapt down and kicked Tenji on the back of the head. (Ouch. In case you're wondering, the dining hall is a bit like my school hall in terms of layout and height. It's about slightly more than two storeys high and the ceiling fans are, well, on the…ceiling)
He picked Tenji up by the collar and pulled his fist back, about to knock him out when, "Syaoran! No! Time, come to my aid and stop time NOW!"
"Aw, Sakura, you're standing up for the guy?" Syaoran put a frozen Tenji down. Sakura had just woken up to see Syaoran pull his fist back.
"It's not like I've forgiven him. Something like that can never be forgiven. It's just that you can be punished for beating them up, and I don't want my friends to go through all that trouble for me. Besides, I've got something of my own to do and it certainly won't do if they don't remain in the camp to endure my total revenge." Sakura smirked and walked back to her original position.
"Erase, come to my aid and erase all these people's memories of me stopping time and all serious wounds inflicted during the fight." She waited for a while and then continued, "Time, restart time."
Everyone returned to their respective tables as a smirk started to twitch at Sakura's lips. "Oh dear, Sakura's up to something." Tomoyo commented.
"Of COURSE I am. I certainly CAN'T let you guys have all the fun can I?" Sakura said as she got this secretive look and slid off her chair, which was at the end of the table, next to the aisle.
She stood up tall, with that secretive, slightly seductive smile playing on her lips and with her chin up. Then she started walking slightly like a model would across the aisle.
"Oh, so the cherry blossom still can't resist me despite her friends' disapproval. So, come to demand a price? A beauty like you can get any amount out of me." Tenji turned to sit on the side of his chair, resting his left hand on the back of the chair.
Sakura stopped abruptly as she lost her smile and some of her previous grace. She quickened her pace slightly, with apparent flames dancing around in her emerald orbs.
"Uh oh. He is in DEEP shit. No one messes with Sakura when she's pissed." Syaoran commented.
Sakura reached him and bent down so they were at eye level. She glared into his eyes, obviously scaring him, and said, with her tone raising drastically with each syllable, "Baka ka. You stupid mother-f***ing ASSHOLE! YOU CAN GO F*** YOURSELF FOR ALL I CARE!! OH, I'M SOOO SORRY, YOU DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO SO!!!" She stood up straight, drew her hand back and slapped him across the left cheek, then slapped him across the right cheek with the back of her hand, and lastly, clenched her hand into a fist, drew it back, and hit him right across the kisser. After that she stomped off, out of the dining hall.
Tomoyo and Syaoran immediately ran after her and caught up with her, after that, they walked with her back to the cabin.
Back at the cabin, Tomoyo said, "Hey, you guys want something to eat? We never did get much down our throats."
"No appetite." They answered together, "that baka ka spoiled it." They looked at each other and blushed.
"Well, to tell the truth, neither do I. But what are we going to do for the rest of our time here? We can't just walk back in and say we were bored." Tomoyo replied, not failing to catch that candid moment with her brand new palm size digital camera.
Sakura sweatdropped and said, "We could always work on the singing comp. We are both the leaders and we're supposed to organise everything. First, we have to decide how many songs to do, but how?"
Tomoyo had a thinking expression on her face, then she lit up, leapt up and grabbed a piece of paper which she proceeded to tear up into many pieces. She scribbled stuff on each piece, separated them into three groups and put them in three bags. All this time, S+S stood there staring at her, bewildered.
Tomoyo held a bag in front of each of them. They continued staring at her with questioning looks on their faces. "Well, what are you waiting for? Pick a piece of paper."
They picked one out, and discovered there were numbers written on them. Sakura had drawn a 5 and Syaoran had drawn a 7. Tomoyo picked a piece of paper out of the last bag and it revealed a multiplication sign.
"There we go, all we need to do is multiply 5 by 7 and we get 35. That means we're doing 35 songs. Let's get started, shall we?" Tomoyo looked pleased with herself.
"Hoe! Thirty FIVE? That's too many! No one could learn thirty five routines in less than two weeks!" Sakura exclaimed.
"Sakura, you're probably forgetting how we did it at Camp Pop." Tomoyo said impatiently.
"Heck, even Eriol used a bit of magic when we had to learn our routine in a few days." Syaoran added.
"OK. But what songs? We don't have any good CDs except my MP3s, but we can't play MP3s on the CD player. Even if we could, it would take ages! I used the Big Card to expand the CD's capacity and I've got HUNDREDS of songs in there." Sakura sighed.
"That, is where MY expertise comes in. All we have to do is hook up the laptop I stuffed into your duffel to the surround sound speakers in the living room and play the music in random order. Then, we write down the names of the first thirty five songs it plays." Tomoyo looked happy with herself and with the fact that she was good with electronics.
Sakura pulled the laptop out of her duffel with a piece of paper and a pen. If you look at the laptop as if you were just using it (the spacebar is on the side facing you) and just closed it, there were pink cherry blossoms decorating the four corners of it, with the largest right at the corner and 'fading' outwards as the blossoms got smaller. In the middle, there was 'carving' of the symbol at the back of the Sakura Cards (I dunno what it's called) that was painted a two-tone shade of metallic pink and black. At the four corners of the screen were cherry blossoms and at the middle of the top margin, was her name in romaji and at the middle of the bottom margin was her name kanji. All the text and letters, symbols, etc. on the buttons were silvery pink.
After everything was hooked up, the music started blasting. Sakura would listen to the first few seconds of the song, scribble down the name of it and click the button for the next one, and then she would repeat it all over again.
Meanwhile, Tomoyo would look at what songs she scribbled down and list down a brief description of the outfits they'll need. Syaoran would be looking at the list and note on his own piece of paper how many people they'll need for each item.
Sakura and Syaoran were done with their jobs as Tomoyo started on designing the costumes. Sakura then got an idea, "Hey, what about I slow down time for a bit, we do all the planning and then we implant the routines and everything over supper."
"Sure." Syaoran said as she mumbled out commands for Time.
They then got to planning out who to take part in what item. That was done, and then Sakura said, "Create, come to my aid and create us a routine." She closed her eyes and glowed pink a little and then the glowing subsided.
"That's a good one. Now, Create, I want you to create a potion that would infuse it into the minds of others without them questioning it." Sakura smiled as a crystal vial containing a rather concentrated pink liquid appeared before her. She picked it up and looked at the inscription at the bottom. She read it out loud, "Use a drop, that's all thy needs, Mistress do as your servant pleads. I guess something will go wrong if the instructions aren't followed."
She turned to look at Syaoran who had a doubtful look on his face. She laughed and said, "Don't worry. Create won't do anything to hurt any of my friends. You're not in danger of being poisoned."
"I…I d…didn't me…mean that." Syaoran blushed and stammered, afraid she might have been offended that he didn't trust her cards.
Much to his surprise, she started laughing. "Why on *giggle* earth *giggle* would you *giggle* think *giggle* THAT?!" She erupted into fits of laughter.
"WELL, I don't think it very funny if that STUFFED ANIMAL might have decided to have a midnight chat with the cards while you were asleep or something about me and tell them to do what they can to kill me." Syaoran spat, slightly offended himself.
"Look, sorry if I offended you but it just seemed so funny at the time. But about the midnight chat thing, the cards tell me he did have a midnight chat with the cards about you, but he didn't tell the cards to kill you. Don't tell Kero I told you this, he'll burn the cards for telling ME this in the first place, he said that he didn't really hate you after the cards were declared mine. He only hated you because you tried to take the cards from me and was my rival. But after that, it became a habit to argue with you and call you names." Sakura gave him one of her special smiles as a small blush crept up his face.
"I never knew… I guess I felt the same way too. Maybe we CAN get along after all." Syaoran replied.
Sakura put the vial in her duffel as Tomoyo finished her designing and said, "Time, return time to its normal pace." All of a sudden, the door burst open and they heard Meiling's voice yell, "WAY to GO, Sa-KURA!"
"Huh?" Sakura was still as dense as ever.
"Ya know, that backslap. I've mastered kicks and punches, headbutts even! But I could never have mastered a BACKSLAP!" Meiling said with good-natured passion (not THAT kind of passion, ardour-emotion-fervency-fervour-fire- heat-intensity-vehemence-warmth-zeal kind of passion…and if you guessed that I was using a thesaurus, you guessed right).
"What she means is that you left a bigger impression on Tenji than all of us combined on the other assholes." Lara gave her the thumbs-up and winked.
After a few more minutes of constant appraisal, they decided it was enough and Touya asked, "So, what did the kaijuu do while we were having lunch?"
"I am NOT a KAIJUU!!" Sakura did what she always did when he called her a kaijuu. She kicked him. Hard. Twice, even.
He started hopping around yelping, hugging his leg in agony.
"Anyways, we planned out every single thing there was to plan for the comp. We've got the songs, dance routines, Tomoyo's doing the costumes and all there is left to do is practice and for the counsellors to write their speech." Sakura smiled sweetly, with her brother hopping in the background, making the others sweatdrop.
Nakuru said, "That's good, now for the icebreakers. Come on! We're going to the lake. Hurry up and change!"
Everyone dashed upstairs, set to impress certain somebodies.
*At the lake*
Everyone was gathered at the lake. "Yay! Friendship circle! Sit in a circle! The FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE!" Nakuru shrieked in her nice shrill voice.
No one knew what she had eaten during lunch to make her like this, and no one wanted to know. They just sweatdropped as they sat down cross-legged.
"Okay, the whole point of this Friendship Circle thing is to get to know each other. We'll go round the circle clockwise, starting from you Sakura." Yukito said, gesturing to the girl on his left, who happened to be staring at Syaoran.
"Wha…huh? Oh, um, right. Hi, I'm Sakura. I'm just graduated from Tomoeda High, where I was the cheerleading captain, girls' soccer and b ball team captains, star gymnast swimmer and martial artist. I like cherry blossoms, pink and Sy…um, never mind." Sakura blushed.
"Hi, I'm Tomoyo, from Tomoeda High, too. I'm Sakura's best friend. I was in the school choir. My fave thing to do is to film my kawaii cherry blossom with the latest camera models and make clothes for her because she is just soooooooooooooo KAWAII!!" Tomoyo said, making everyone sweatdrop.
"Hi, I'm Chiharu, I'm also from Tomoeda High. I'm into fashion and accessories and stuff like that. What I'm NOT into is Takashi's lies. And I'm also into beating the crap out of him when he tells his lies." Chiharu nudged Naoko, who just happened to be in her own little world filled with Satoshis.
"Oh, uh, I'm Naoko Yanagisawa. I'm ALSO from Tomoeda High, like the majority of us are. I was the editor-in-chief of the school paper and head librarian. In the guy department, I prefer good-looking intellectuals." Fuji and Ryu, sitting at both sides of Satoshi, had smirks on their faces as they looked at their best friend who was currently sitting with his back slouched, staring, mouth a bit open, and drool dripping onto his pants.
"Hey, I'm Rika, I'm from Tomoeda High too, I'm also into fashion and the like, have a fashion advice column in the school paper, was a DJ at the school radio station, am a DJ at the school's alumni association's radio station and used to have a stalker who was put into the loony bin in the end." She laughed, which sounded like music to Ryu's ears.
"I'm Meiling, and I used to live in Tomoeda before going back to Hong Kong. Syaoran's my cousin. I just came back here just in time for Camp Prick, and am happy to say that I'll be staying in Tomoeda for as long as I want. I like martial arts and am pretty good at it too, so don't even THINK of messing with me. Oh yes, and Syaoran, your mom says that you can stay here as long as you want too, and I'm to move into my old room in the apartment unless I can find a place of my own." Meiling said, and laughed at the horrified look on her cousin's face. Meanwhile, Fuji was thinking ^Lucky ass. He gets to stay with her. I mean, he IS her cousin and all, but he's still a lucky ass.^
Lara, Tara and Kara apparently had plans of their own. They said together, "Hi, we're the Ling triplets."
"Tara,"
"Kara,"
"And Lara."
"We're from Singapore. We went to the best schools in the country. First Raffles Girls' Primary School, then Raffles Girls' School, then lastly, Raffles' Junior College. We love to kick ass and are particularly good at kicking their asses." They gestured to the other set of triplets.
"Well, WE'RE the Chen triplets from Shanghai."
"Xi Lang, my name, lang, means wolf."
"Xi Ling, I was called that because it was my mom's great-great-great-great- grandfather's name."
"Xi Long, my name means dragon."
"We love kicking ass too, especially their asses." They said gesturing to the three girls to their rights, leading to a glaring battle.
The others ignored this, and it went on to Fuji. "I'm Fuji, from Tokyo High, I like martial arts, my best friends are Satoshi and Ryu, who is also my fighting partner."
"The name's Satoshi, I'm Tokyo High's IT Club President, Photography Club treasurer and the school paper's head librarian."
"I'm Ryu, and I've known Satoshi and Ryu since we were kids. I also like martial arts."
"My name's Takashi, and I'm from Tomoeda high. I've got a column in the school paper and a radio show called Takashi's useless facts. Talking about useless facts, did you know that lakes are actually big dinosaur's footpr…" *whap* Chiharu whacked him over the head, hard as she could. "Ya know, Chiharu, if you keep whacking me like that, you'll soon have a retarded boyfriend."
"Well, better retarded than lying!"
Everyone sweatdropped as Eriol continued, "I'm Eriol and I'm also from Tomoeda High. I play the piano for the school choir and am in the school's soccer and b ball teams. I like being evil and soccer."
"Li Syaoran. I like martial arts, soccer and b ball. I DON'T like idiots who try to hurt my friends. I also don't like Eriol."
"Touya. I like soccer and calling my sister a kaijuu. I don't like the gaki and any guy who tries to hurt Sakura."
"I'm Nakuru Akizuki, I like red, sweet stuff and TOUYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Nakuru then proceeded to glomp him.
"I'm Yukito, your head counsellor, and I like rabbits, snow and food." Yukito giggled a little at the two counsellors beside him. "Well, we're done with the intros, now, to the lake. We're gonna have some activities in the water."
Nakuru instantly let go of Touya's neck and excitedly followed the other girls to wade into the water. This was not good for the guys. It became obvious when Sakura arose from the water, followed by Tomoyo, Chiharu, Rika, Naoko, Lara, Kara, Tara, Meiling and lastly, Nakuru.
The guys turned red, one by one, Syaoran, Eriol, Takashi, Ryu, Satoshi, Xi Lang, Xi Long, Xi Ling (these three stopped themselves within seconds and thought ^Why in the fourteen hells did I blush when I looked at HER?! I'm going mad!^) and lastly, Fuji.
The water had made their big baggy, but sheer white shirts cling to their skin and turn almost transparent. Underneath, they had a variety of products that could only be acquired by one in the lingerie department.
Sakura wore a hot pink sports bra that gave 'extra support', making her assets seem bigger than they really were. Tomoyo wore a lacy strapless half- cup push-up bra from Victoria's Secret. Chiharu wore a peach three-quarter cup that had detachable straps. Rika wore a neon orange sports bra. Naoko wore a black cross back bra with underwire support. Lara, Kara and Tara wore matching halter-top style sports bras, Lara in aqua, Kara in scarlet and Tara in neon green. Meiling wore a scarlet and gold sports bra that she had ordered custom made. (If you're wondering how I know so much about bras, blame my mom, Her World magazine, and all other fashion mags I read)
The boys' mouths dropped open, they stared and blushed the brightest scarlet on the third rock from the sun. Or the whatever rock from the sun for that matter.
Yukito and Touya sweatdropped and rolled their eyes at this. Then, Yukito said, "C'mon, in the water, the first game is tug of war. See this string?" He picked up a piece of rope, with a red section in the middle, "You probably know the rules. Except, here, there's one extra rule. You can use any objects you want to play, seaweed, sand, heck, you can use MAGIC for all I care. Now, let the games begin. And remember, it's battle of the sexes."
Certain people's eyes twinkled, as Sakura called upon the powers of Power, Little and Watery, Eriol, Lara, Kara and Xi Lang meditated for a bit and Syaoran took out one of his ofudas.
The war began, and Sakura used Power to increase the girls' strength, Little to shrink the guys' strength, Watery to apply pressure to the guys so it was easier, Lara, Xi Lang and Syaoran did the same thing, Kara used her powers to make the guys get rope-burn and Eriol made himself invincible to any cards Sakura decides to use on them.
In the end, obviously, the girls won, having the world's most powerful sorceress on their side. Suddenly, there was a splash as everyone got out of the water. Everyone turned to look as they saw Syaoran halfway in the water, clenching his teeth in pain. They rushed to his side to help him, and Sakura got there first. By then, the water around him was tinted red. She helped him up as he picked whatever hurt him out. She helped him as he limped to dry land, with one arm over her shoulder and the other clenched tightly over whatever he was holding.
He sat down as Sakura looked at his foot.
"Here, let me look at it."
Syaoran, suddenly realising how close she was to him, blushed, "No… um… i… it's f… fine."
"Well, sure doesn't look it."
She picked up his foot and despite his desperate protests, started to examine it. He gave up, and started examining the strange rock that he picked up. He wiped it clean of algae and blood, and took a good look. It was a conglomerate, with different precious and semi-precious gems cemented together by a lump of clear crystal.
"Wow," Nakuru said, "Ya know, there's a legend here about two lovers, they around your age, and one day, the guy found a rock just like that, right here in this lake. He gave it to the girl, and from then on, they were bonded for life. Some say that he went to war and was captured by the enemy. The girl heard about this, and set out to look for him. She didn't know where she was going, but in the end, in a miraculously short time, she found him and they went home. Others say he was killed at war, and the moment he fell, she was talking to a friend, and suddenly, her eyes rolled back and she died. Scary, ain't it? So, Syaoran, who're you gonna give it to?"
He glanced in Sakura's direction and blushed. Then, she helped him up and they went back to the cabin.
At the cabin, Syaoran's foot was bandaged up, and he couldn't do much else but lie on the couch and laze around. The others were going to dinner, but Sakura decided to stay with him.
"So, what to do now?" Sakura asked. She thought for a while, and suddenly screamed, "CONGLOMERATE!"
"Um… I think I know that I found a conglomerate." Syaoran said as he fished the stone out of his pocket.
"NO! Don't you get it?!"
"Um... no."
"Then WAIT!" Sakura ran off to the kitchen.
When she came back, she was carrying a tray with a large bowl of konniyaku jelly and lots of little multi-coloured jellies in it, two smaller bowls and two spoons on it.
She set it down and started to explain, "See, the clear jelly is the crystal, the red jellies, the rubies, blue ones, sapphires, green ones, emerald, and so on. NOW, do you understand?"
He nodded as she scooped some onto the bowls as they spent the rest of the time eating jelly.
The others came back just as they were starting on their last bowls of jelly.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No FAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIR!! You get JELLY and we have GRUEL STUFFED down our THROATS!!" Nakuru screamed.
Touya and Yukito dragged her away to lock her in her room. Tomoyo said, "Hey that looks a lot like the rock Syaoran found, doesn't it?"
After that, everyone played a few games and as they had supper, Syaoran was in his room toiling away on… something. Then everyone went to bed.
In the middle of the night, Syaoran sneaked into Sakura's room and woke her up. "Huh? Syaoran! You can walk?!"
"Magic and shhhh. You'll wake the others. Come on."
Sakura followed him, puzzled, to the living room. There, a surprise awaited her. She gasped at the sight of the conglomerate in a crystal ball with little shifting lightning bolts holding it exactly in the middle. At the top, was an upside down gold cherry blossom linking it to a short gold chain the length of a bracelet.
He put it carefully in her hands and said, "Try to picture what it would look like shrunk."
As an image came to mind, the crystal ball shrank to the size of the top of the Star Key and the chain 'stretched' to the length of a necklace.
She looked at it, and was speechless. He smiled slightly, and said, "Now picture how it looked like big."
She did, and it grew to its original size. He said, "Now shrink it back. Mustn't have too many people seeing it and discovering our magic." He blushed slightly.
Their eyes locked for a while and suddenly, "Thank you. Thank you sooooo much." Sakura ran forward and hugged him tight.
He started turning red, partly because he was blushing, partly because she had stopped blood circulation. "GA-Can't… BREATHE-SP"
"Oops. Sorry." Sakura started blushing too, realising what she had just done. They walked back upstairs and went to bed.
SOOOOOOOOOORRY to AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL my fans for making you wait soooooooooooooooooo long for this chapter. Com crashed and got spoilt. Using my bro's com right now while he's not home. Hope you enjoy it. If you're wondering what happened to the potion, Sakura fed it to them during supper.
