Chapter Six
May 19, 2001
1:34 PM CT
Earth: Toyama, Japan

"ROWR!"

"AHHHHHHHHHHH!!"

"White Blaze!"

"Ror?" the tiger stopped and cocked it's head as the girl climbed up the tree.

"Leave her alone. 'Kay?" Ryo asked.

"Roow." The tiger walked away.

"It's safe to come down, now." he called up the tree.

A face popped out of the leaves, "Are you sure?"

"Positive."

"Okay..." The face disappeared and the leaves rustled, then the girl was standing in front of Ryo.

"Don't like cats much, huh?" he asked.

"No..."

"It's alright. White Blaze wouldn't hurt a fly. Would you, Blaze?" he called over his shoulder.

"Rowr."

"See?" Ryo turned, but no one was there. "Hey! Where'd you go?"

"Up here." came a voice above him. He looked up. The girl was hanging upside down like a bat from one of the tree limbs. Her long lavendar hair fell in his face. He brushed it away and grinned.

"How'd you get up there?"

"I jumped. Duh."

"You can jump that high?"

"No. I can jump higher."

"Uh... okay. Well, c'mon, let's go play a game."

"What kind of game?"

"Football."

"'Kay." She jumped down and followed Ryo to the other side of the back yard. Now he could see her clearly. Her lavendar hair went to her waist, and she had purple eyes that rivaled Sage's. She was wearing what looked like a black fighting gi, but he couldn't be sure. And besides, she wasn't wearing the black slippers that belonged with gis. Instead, she wore black high heeled boots.

They made their way to where the other guys were setting up fieldposts. The other girl was there. She was just sitting there on the grass, putting her white hair up into buns. Her green eyes shone out from under her bangs.

"Audi, are you playing? I'm not."

"Noo..." answered the girl sarcastically. "I'm not." She rolled her eyes. "I just hate football. So of course I'm not going to play."

Kento laughed. "Well come on then! What position do you play?"

"Quarterback."

"Cool," Rowen said. "We need another one." He tossed the ball to her.

Cye came up and said, "We need one more person then, if she's going to play."

"Fine, I'll play."

"You?" Audi asked. "Faye, you don't know the rules."

"So? I'll play by ear."

"Great!" Cale said. "You can be on our team. We're going to lose anyways."

"Haven't you ever heard the word 'hope', sugar?" Faye asked.

"Sugar!" Sekhmet fell to the ground laughing.

"Shut the hell up, snakey-chan."

"Ohh.."

"TREATED!"

"Dissed by a girl!" Kento said laughing.

"You can shut up, too, Tubby."

"TELETUBBY!" Audi said smiling.

"Hey!"

"Like you said, Kento," Dais said, "Dissed by a girl."

"You want some of this, spider jerk?" Faye said, holding up her fist.

"No, that's alright."

"Can we just play?" Sage asked.

"Of course we can, Tinkerbelle," Audi said, flipping her long lavendar hair back into a ponytail. "As long we don't have you on our team."

"Hey!" Sage said. "I resent that remark!"

"No," the girls said together, "You resemble that remark!"

Audi threw the ball at him and he dropped it. "See? You can't even catch a ball!" Faye laughed. Sage retaliated by throwing the ball at her. She caught it easily and tossed it at Audi who grinned evilly and ran across the grass. She jumped ontop of the blonde warrior and stuffed the ball down his shirt.

"Hey!" Sekhmet said. "Sage has the ball! Aren't we suppose to get it from him?"

"Yep," Dais said and the Warlords grinned and ran over to him.

The five of them fell to the ground and Sage started shreiking high pitched. "Stop moving!" Cale said.

-RIIIP-

"Oops..."

"I didn't do it!" Audi called out. "But I got the ball again!"