Chapter Seven
May 19,2001
1:59 PM CT
Earth: Toyama, Japan

"Yo! Audi! Throw me the ball!" Faye yelled. Audi threw the ball and Faye caught it. Then she started to run to the posts. But Cye ran after her.

"Hey Fish Boy, I bet you can't catch me!" she called over her shoulder.

"I agree, I can't catch up, but Ryo is up ahead so I don't have to." She turned her head around and took the position like she would push through him but instead she did a one-handed cartwheel and flipped over Ryo and made a touchdown.

"We are the champions, we are the champions," Audi sang, "No time for losers, cause we are the champions... of the world..."

Faye smiled and said, "So, sugar, what were you saying about not winning?"

"It's Cale, not 'sugar'," he growled.

"But, what's wrong with it, babycakes?"

Sekhmet began laughing again and Audi glared at him. "You got a problem, Sekky?"

"Nope."

"Then shut the hell up." He shut up. "Thank you."

"You're welcome." Audi glared at him again, and he shut up. Rowen laughed. "You too, Smurf?"

"No, no... no problem..." he said quickly. Cye hid a smile behind his hand.

Ryo got up off the ground and started towards the porch. "Anyone up for ice cream?"

"YAY!!!!!"

The two girls ran into the kitchen, Kento on their heels.

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"You're the best, firebug." Audi said, her mouth full of chocolate ice cream. "With the exception of you're pet..."

"Sorry 'bout the flip, Match," Faye said.

"No prob."

Faye reached out to give Ryo a noogie, but paused when her hand touched his hair. Her eyes unfocused and she saw only in black and white. What she saw though, wasn't the scene in front of her, with Audi and the guys eating ice cream. It was a forest, the ground shaking, birds flying away. As soon as it had happened, it stopped and her vision returned to normal.

Everyone was staring at her, so she went ahead and gave Ryo his noogie. "I thought you were gonna stop me," she said, in attempt to explain why she had paused.

"Oh. Okay." Ryo said and reached up to grab her arm.

"It's no use now," Audi said, "She already gave you one."

"Oh, too bad." Ryo got up and dumped his bowl in the sink. Audi and Rowen followed suite.

Soon, all of them were done and they all went to the den to play a game.

"Crash Bandicoot, Tomb Raider, or Gundam Side Story 0079: Rise From the Ashes?" Kento asked.

"GUNDAM!" Audi said and grabbed a controller, leaping over the couch and sitting on the floor in front of it.

"Okay..." Ryo said and put the disc in the game system.

"I wanna play!" Rowen whined.

"Okeey dokey." Audi said and tossed him the other controller.

After a couple of minutes, Audi had won the game. "So nice! So good! Oh oh oh!" Audi sang, swaying her body to the imaginary music.

"That's not fair, though!" Rowen said. "I didn't know you could use the ZERO system!"

"Too bad. Neither did I." Audi said.

Rowen stuck his tongue out. Audi did the same. Rowen took a pillow and threw it at her. She threw it back and they all got into another pillow fight.