No one reviewed my last chapter, telling me if this was any good, but I'll
go on anyway and hope at least some people are reading this . . . right?
Teehee, perhaps the world is not yet ready for the Martha Stewart Reincarnate . . . but then again, perhaps they are . . .
Kai groaned; the plane still was about fifteen minutes away from their destination, but he could feel the now all-too-familiar feelings rising up in him; Martha was trying to possess him again. "Hey Rei?" He finally said.
Rei turned around and blinked. 'Did Kai just ACTUALLY talk to me? Must be a national holiday.' "What's up, then?" he asked.
"I think . . . Martha is trying to escape again. So I ask if you can make sure I don't do anything weird if I can't squash her down again."
"Ok," Rei said almost immediately. 'Poor Kai.' "Oh! I have an idea!" He pushed the copy of 'Exorcism and How To Do It - An Idiots Guide' to the side, and stood up. Walking over one seat, he sat down on Kai's lap. "There, now you can't get up!"
"And I can't do much else either," grumbled Kai, but he WAS thankful Rei was trying to help him, even if he wouldn't let Rei know that. 'Why does he have to sit on my lap, anyway?'
Rei was grinning to himself, 'Yay! I get to sit in his lap and he won't kill me! Ummm, not like I want to do this or anything.'
"Ummm, what are you two doing?" Kenny asked, looking over at them, "I don't really think that that's a good idea to be doing on the plane."
Kai groaned, and Rei grinned and flashed a 'v' sign, explaining why he was there. "See, Kai told me he feels like Martha is taking over again, so I'm sitting on him so that if she does, he can't get up. Brilliant, isn't it?" Rei nodded to himself, very pleased about his ideas. He WAS the brains behind the group, never mind what everyone said about Kenny being the mastermind.
"Oh. Fight her, Kai," Kenny said.
"Yeah!" Max agreed, "We don't need you wearing the dress in the middle of this airplane. Just imagine what people would think if you were wearing that dress!"
Kenny nodded, "It's not like this plane isn't empty."
Kai groaned softly this time; had he not been the one having to deal with Martha, he would have found this situation much more amusing. 'I mean,' he thought, 'Then I wouldn't be wearing my grandpa's dresses! I hate him for that!' To Rei, he said, "I think I'm okay now. . . you can get off of me now, then."
Rei flashed him a grin, fangs and all, "I think I'll just make sure by staying here a little bit longer, ok? We're going to land soon anyway, in like three minutes."
Knowing fully well that all he would need to do was glare to get Rei off of him, Kai grumbled, but did nothing except lean back a little into his seat.
"Seatbelts on, please," rang out the voice over the PA, "We will be arriving in five minutes. Seat belts on, everyone, please."
'For once I am glad we are in the near back of the plane,' Kenny thought to himself, buckling his seatbelt and watching Rei and Kai.
Rei was protesting getting off of Kai's lap; "The seat belt will fit over both of us, easy," he said.
"Yes," replied Kai, "But it's really not the best thing to do . . ."
Rei considered using a sad puppy dog face, but decided that was Max's specialty, and settled for sighing, jumping up, and sitting in the seat next to Kai. He had to gather up the books on exorcism anyway.
In a few minutes, they were safely off the plane. And suddenly, Kai had an unbearable urge to put on a dress.
'Not again,' he growled to himself. "Hey guys," he called out, and the group turned from picking up their bags to look at him.
"What's up Kai?" Tyson asked.
"I'm fighting a losing battle here," Kai said, angry that he had to admit it. "So if one of you guys could just knock me unconscious until we get to the hotel, I can suppress her."
"Ummm, Kai, are you sure you're ok?" Rei asked.
"Just do it," growled Kai. Shrugging, the others came over and smacked him solidly in the head.
He didn't even blink.
"Is your head made out of steel or something?" grumped Tyson, rubbing his hand. "I think I broke my hand on it!"
"Oh, please," Kai said, "Just someone do it quickly!"
"We can't!" Max said, "Your skull is too thick . . . ummm, no offense meant."
"None taken provided you knock me out!" Kai replied immediately.
The group redoubled their efforts to knock Kai out, but even a punch from Tyson, Rei, and Max all at once didn't even faze Kai. Although he did have this weird urge to make cookies for everyone. "Damn it guys, hurry up!"
"Well, sorry, Mr. Head of Steel, but we ARE trying." Tyson grumbled. "Guess us mere mortals don't have enough strength to knock you out, but no, don't bother to admit that we did try to help, oh heaven forbid you admit -"
Tyson stopped midsentance as Kai swayed once and then fell over. Kenny stood behind him, looking sheepish, and holding his laptop.
"Hey!" Dizzi said, "You could have cracked this laptop in half on Kai's thick skull!"
"Well, I didn't," replied Kenny. "Now lets get out of here and get to the hotel before he comes to; I don't think I hit him hard enough that he will be out for more than fifteen minutes and I think the hotel is almost twenty minutes away. We should really hurry."
Rei and Max nodded, and picked up the unconscious boy. Tyson grinned at Kai's limp form. "For once I am better than you!" he grinned, skipping down the airport terminal while everyone stared at him.
The only good thing was, as Rei said, "At least with everyone wondering what's up with Tyson, they don't have any time to question why we have an unconscious person with us."
Kenny nodded. "I'd hate to think what people might think happened. They could think we're kidnapping him, or worse!"
In total agreement with Kenny, they speed up to get out of the airport and to find a cab to take them to their hotel.
"Thanks for the quick ride!" Tyson said, paying the cabbie as they got out of the taxi. Kenny looked a bit green, and Max did too, matching his shirt perfectly.
"I don't think anyone has every attempted a corner at such high speeds before," Kenny said as they walked into the hotel to check it. "I can't believe we're still in one piece, and that we got here in just under twelve minutes. It's insane, really."
"Well, I think Kai's coming to," Rei said, noticing Kai stir a little in his arms. "So lets get up to our rooms right away."
"Right!" agreed Max, and Tyson nodded agreement.
"Besides," added Tyson, "The faster we get settled in, the faster we can get breakfast!"
Rei sighed and threw Tyson a packet of airplane peanuts. "Knock yourself out."
Tyson grabbed the peanuts and grinned, flashing a 'v'-sign. "Wow, what's this on the back. Hmmm, to eat Airline Peanuts. One. Open packet." Tyson ripped open the packet. "Ok, two . . . " he trailed off and looked sad.
"Tyson," asked Kenny, "What ever is the matter?"
"I don't know what to do next," Tyson said sadly, "I ripped the directions up when I opened the packet of peanuts!"
Kenny shook his head, and Rei and Max grinned. "Tyson, you eat the peanuts."
"Oh! Right!" Grinning hugely, Tyson raced up the stairs to their rooms, stuffing peanuts in his mouth.
Rei lagged behind a little, holding Kai.
"Ok," Kenny said, "We've got two rooms. The first room is small, but I figured you and Kai could stay there, ok, Rei? Tyson, Max and I will share the last room. That should work out well."
Rei nodded, and went into the room. It was indeed quite small; a tiny dresser and table took up two corners of the room; the door to the hall occupied the third wall, and there was a teeny bathroom and closet. The biggest thing in the room was probably the bed, which took up at least a fourth of the small room.
He could hear Tyson's voice from the other room, "Wow, look! Hotel Chocolates! Let's read the instructions! One. . . open packet!"
"Wait Tyson!" Kenny's voice came, "Read ALL of the directions first before opening!"
"Right Chief!"
Rei groaned, but he had to grin. Putting Kai on the bed, he grabbed their bags and started putting clothes in the dresser. "I wonder how long we'll be here."
"Hopefully not too long," Kai said as he sat up. "My head hurts a bit. . . did you guys finally manage to knock me out? Who did it?"
"Kenny," grinned Rei, watching the look on Kai's face. "He smacked you upside the head with his laptop. Dizzi wasn't pleased in the least."
"Heh," Kai laughed a little, "I'll bet."
'Kai's laughing . . . wow . . . that blow to his head must have been harder than I thought!' Rei nodded. "Anyhow, we're going to get some sleep and then tomorrow we'll look for Martha's body, ok?"
"Sure." Kai said. "Where's the clock?"
"It's over there, why?" asked Rei as he pointed out the black clock on the small table.
Kai strode over to it, and fiddled with it for a minute before grunting a bit and saying, "I'm setting the alarm for five. I want an early start."
"Oh." 'Kai, you're insane.'
"Let's get some sleep." With that, Kai stripped down to his boxers, and lay down. After a moment, Rei did the same.
~~~
The next morning, the alarm went off at five am, just like Kai had set it too. Rei sleepily opened his eyes, and cursed the infernal beeping noise. "Kai . . ." He asked, yawning, "Are you going to turn that off?" He closed his eyes again, and waited for Kai to move. "Kai?" He opened his eyes again, all the way. "Kai?"
Kai was not in the bed anymore. And a further search of the room (after turning off that horrible alarm) revealed Kai wasn't in the room anymore.
"No . . . he couldn't have . . ." Rei thought, and on an impulse, he ran to the dresser (crossing the tiny room in about two steps). The clothes inside were all folded perfectly neatly, except for one thing - the dress was missing. 'Great,' Rei thought, running to wake up Tyson, Max and Kenny, 'Just great.'
Finding the door to Tyson and thems room locked, Rei decided to not waste any time and just find Kai. He ran downstairs and scanned around.
"And another thing!" Kai was saying, but it wasn't Kai's voice. It was Martha's voice. "You're hotel rooms could use a full make over! Here's what I was thinking. The best color scheme to make people feel at home is a nice, brown and green mix."
Rei inwardly groaned as he came upon the scene playing out in front of him. Kai stood, in the dress they had brought along, only it had some obvious alterations.
To begin with, you see, the dress was a forest green color, silk fabric, and kind of like a long sleeved shirt and long skirt together. The dress Kai was wearing was obviously the same dress, but the skirt had been chopped, so that it was rather short. The front of the dress dipped low in a 'v' cut that made it fit Kai better, and he was wearing a brown shirt underneath it.
"Now, here! Let me show this design," Kai added, pulling out a sheet of paper. The person he was talking to, presumably the manager of the hotel, was looking slightly interested by the ideas, but also afraid by this guy wearing a dress.
"Excuse me," Rei called out, interrupting Kai from showing the manager how he could custom order beds that would be dark mahogany wood with forest green satin bedding, and get a discount if ordering more than ten.
"Oh, hello there, Rei," Kai said, smiling, "I see you just woke up."
"Yeah, the alarm woke me," sighed Rei. "Come on, let's go upstairs."
Kai smiled. "Will you let me comb your hair? I can show the others how important good hair is!"
"Ummmmm, sure," Rei said.
The manager looked at them with an odd sort of look on his face. "I take it you . . . know him?"
"Well, you could say that," sighed Rei. "He's, um, being possessed. Nothing I can't handle though, so we'll just leave you alone for now. C'mon Kai."
Kai smiled at the managed, "We'll discuss this more later!" and waved cheerily, "Remember that pink and red clash!" as he walked after Rei.
When they were in the hallway, Rei sighed again. "What am I going to do with you?"
"Well, you said I could comb your hair - you know, you have the worst tangles ever," Kai nodded to himself, "Well, no matter. We'll have to go shopping later. I have my own line of hair care products, you know. I should think that it's only a matter of time before I get back to my TV show."
"Right," Rei nodded weakly as Kai gently but forcefully steered him back into the room, and sat him on the bed. After digging around, Kai managed to find a hairbrush, a comb, a glass of water, and a Easy Bake oven. 'Not going to ask,' Rei thought to himself over and over, 'I'm not going to ask, I'm not going to ask.'
Of course, temptation overtook him, and Rei had to ask, "Ummm, what is that oven for?"
Kai smiled, "I'm going to make us some cookies! I have to practice for my show, you know. I figure I could start a whole new series." Kai went silent a moment as he pondered. Rei shuddered, wondering how to snap Kai out of it.
"Sure, they took my show off air when I 'died'," sighed Kai, "But once I get back . . . there's nothing stopping me from takin- erm, spreading peace and happiness." He grinned, a most un-Kai-like grin, and advanced on Rei.
"Eh heh . . ." Rei groaned and sighed for what seemed like the millionth time in the short period of half an hour.
"Don't worry, I'm an expert," Kai assured Rei, but it wasn't too assuring to Rei, who knew that that wasn't Kai speaking to him; it was Martha, and he didn't know her.
Still, it felt really nice to have his hair brushed out, and even though it wasn't really Kai, Rei could pretend.
Suddenly there was a knock at the door. "Hey guys!" Tyson called from the hall, "Are you guys up now? It's time for breakfast!"
"Yeah, come on," Max added.
Kenny opened the door, and saw Kai kneeling on the bed, combing out Rei's hair. 'Maybe it's best not to ask.' "Ummm, Rei?"
"Yeah." Rei answered the unspoken question.
"I see . . ."
"You could TRY to help," Rei added after a minute while Tyson, Max and Kenny gawked at the sight of Kai combing Rei's hair.
"Oh. Right." Tyson grinned, "For me, getting to breakfast is just about as hard as getting up in the morning!"
"So then it's impossible, I guess," Kenny replied.
"Hey!"
"I only say it because it's true," added Kenny.
Rei and Max sweat dropped and Max finally said, "We should really help Rei and Kai now, shouldn't we?"
"What can we do?" Kenny wondered, "Dizzi, help us!"
You could hear the sigh in Dizzi's voice as she said, "What can I do? I'm a computer, not a Martha Stewart expert. I'd say you need to do something to shock him out of it."
"Oh, right," Kenny said, "Like the first time we showed him his pink beyblade. The next time, Rei dumped a glass of water over his head. What can we do this time?" He looked thoughtful.
"Don't even think about it," Dizzi replied, "I'm still surprised my hard drive survived his thick skull once already."
"You know," Kai said happily, in the Martha voice, "If you braided your tail of hair, you'd look so much better."
Rei groaned.
Max looked around. 'Something to shock Kai out of it. . . .' He noticed something.
"Rei, duck!" Rei didn't ask questions; he dived down onto the bed. A second later, the easy bake oven came flying through the air, and Kai, who had turned his head around, got smacked in the back of the head with it.
"What the?" Kai said as he turned back around. He said this in his normal voice. "What did you guys chuck at me this time?"
"Easy bake oven," Max said apologetically.
Kai looked at the toy, and then at his clothes. He paled visibly. "Please, PLEASE, tell me I wasn't about to use that to make cookies or something."
Tyson gasped. "Kai! You used emotion!"
Kai stood up, stalked over to Tyson, and smacked him, causing Tyson to fall in a very anime type way. The funny thing was, even in his short skirt, Kai looked threatening. "Yes, I used emotions. Get used to it. Right now, I'm pissed."
Kenny whispered to Rei who was now putting his headband in, "I think that Martha is starting to get a stronger hold on him; thus his unnatural show of emotions."
"You're kidding, right?" Rei groaned. "Well, then, let's hurry up."
The group went downstairs, except for Kai and Rei (Kai said he had to change and Rei said he'd make sure Kai didn't get possessed by Martha again).
Five minutes later, Rei and Kai were downstairs with the others, who were already started on breakfast. Tyson was grinning broadly as he spread hotel jam on one of his pieces of toast. On the other piece of toast, he picked up a packet of butter.
"What do the directions say?" he muttered to himself.
"Not this again," groaned Kenny, "Tyson, it's not that hard to use butter!"
"Shush Chief, knowing how to follow directions is a good thing." Tyson grinned, and Kenny sighed. "Now, let's see. Open butter packet." Tyson did so. "Spread on object of desire." Tyson blinked. Once. Twice. Looked at the toast. Blinked again.
Finally he stood up.
"Umm, Tyson," Kenny asked, "Aren't you going to put that butter on your toast, then?"
"Chief! The directions said spread on object of desire," Tyson replied.
Rei, Max and Kai watched in amusement as Tyson and Kenny argued over what that meant. In a few minutes, however, Max wasn't laughing. Tyson had came up to him and spread the butter on him.
"Ummm, Tyson, why did you just cover me in butter?" Max asked.
Rei and Kai and Kenny groaned.
Tyson looked pleased.
~~
So . . . will they find the body or not? Who knows!!! Let's hope so, for poor Kai's sake
Teehee, perhaps the world is not yet ready for the Martha Stewart Reincarnate . . . but then again, perhaps they are . . .
Kai groaned; the plane still was about fifteen minutes away from their destination, but he could feel the now all-too-familiar feelings rising up in him; Martha was trying to possess him again. "Hey Rei?" He finally said.
Rei turned around and blinked. 'Did Kai just ACTUALLY talk to me? Must be a national holiday.' "What's up, then?" he asked.
"I think . . . Martha is trying to escape again. So I ask if you can make sure I don't do anything weird if I can't squash her down again."
"Ok," Rei said almost immediately. 'Poor Kai.' "Oh! I have an idea!" He pushed the copy of 'Exorcism and How To Do It - An Idiots Guide' to the side, and stood up. Walking over one seat, he sat down on Kai's lap. "There, now you can't get up!"
"And I can't do much else either," grumbled Kai, but he WAS thankful Rei was trying to help him, even if he wouldn't let Rei know that. 'Why does he have to sit on my lap, anyway?'
Rei was grinning to himself, 'Yay! I get to sit in his lap and he won't kill me! Ummm, not like I want to do this or anything.'
"Ummm, what are you two doing?" Kenny asked, looking over at them, "I don't really think that that's a good idea to be doing on the plane."
Kai groaned, and Rei grinned and flashed a 'v' sign, explaining why he was there. "See, Kai told me he feels like Martha is taking over again, so I'm sitting on him so that if she does, he can't get up. Brilliant, isn't it?" Rei nodded to himself, very pleased about his ideas. He WAS the brains behind the group, never mind what everyone said about Kenny being the mastermind.
"Oh. Fight her, Kai," Kenny said.
"Yeah!" Max agreed, "We don't need you wearing the dress in the middle of this airplane. Just imagine what people would think if you were wearing that dress!"
Kenny nodded, "It's not like this plane isn't empty."
Kai groaned softly this time; had he not been the one having to deal with Martha, he would have found this situation much more amusing. 'I mean,' he thought, 'Then I wouldn't be wearing my grandpa's dresses! I hate him for that!' To Rei, he said, "I think I'm okay now. . . you can get off of me now, then."
Rei flashed him a grin, fangs and all, "I think I'll just make sure by staying here a little bit longer, ok? We're going to land soon anyway, in like three minutes."
Knowing fully well that all he would need to do was glare to get Rei off of him, Kai grumbled, but did nothing except lean back a little into his seat.
"Seatbelts on, please," rang out the voice over the PA, "We will be arriving in five minutes. Seat belts on, everyone, please."
'For once I am glad we are in the near back of the plane,' Kenny thought to himself, buckling his seatbelt and watching Rei and Kai.
Rei was protesting getting off of Kai's lap; "The seat belt will fit over both of us, easy," he said.
"Yes," replied Kai, "But it's really not the best thing to do . . ."
Rei considered using a sad puppy dog face, but decided that was Max's specialty, and settled for sighing, jumping up, and sitting in the seat next to Kai. He had to gather up the books on exorcism anyway.
In a few minutes, they were safely off the plane. And suddenly, Kai had an unbearable urge to put on a dress.
'Not again,' he growled to himself. "Hey guys," he called out, and the group turned from picking up their bags to look at him.
"What's up Kai?" Tyson asked.
"I'm fighting a losing battle here," Kai said, angry that he had to admit it. "So if one of you guys could just knock me unconscious until we get to the hotel, I can suppress her."
"Ummm, Kai, are you sure you're ok?" Rei asked.
"Just do it," growled Kai. Shrugging, the others came over and smacked him solidly in the head.
He didn't even blink.
"Is your head made out of steel or something?" grumped Tyson, rubbing his hand. "I think I broke my hand on it!"
"Oh, please," Kai said, "Just someone do it quickly!"
"We can't!" Max said, "Your skull is too thick . . . ummm, no offense meant."
"None taken provided you knock me out!" Kai replied immediately.
The group redoubled their efforts to knock Kai out, but even a punch from Tyson, Rei, and Max all at once didn't even faze Kai. Although he did have this weird urge to make cookies for everyone. "Damn it guys, hurry up!"
"Well, sorry, Mr. Head of Steel, but we ARE trying." Tyson grumbled. "Guess us mere mortals don't have enough strength to knock you out, but no, don't bother to admit that we did try to help, oh heaven forbid you admit -"
Tyson stopped midsentance as Kai swayed once and then fell over. Kenny stood behind him, looking sheepish, and holding his laptop.
"Hey!" Dizzi said, "You could have cracked this laptop in half on Kai's thick skull!"
"Well, I didn't," replied Kenny. "Now lets get out of here and get to the hotel before he comes to; I don't think I hit him hard enough that he will be out for more than fifteen minutes and I think the hotel is almost twenty minutes away. We should really hurry."
Rei and Max nodded, and picked up the unconscious boy. Tyson grinned at Kai's limp form. "For once I am better than you!" he grinned, skipping down the airport terminal while everyone stared at him.
The only good thing was, as Rei said, "At least with everyone wondering what's up with Tyson, they don't have any time to question why we have an unconscious person with us."
Kenny nodded. "I'd hate to think what people might think happened. They could think we're kidnapping him, or worse!"
In total agreement with Kenny, they speed up to get out of the airport and to find a cab to take them to their hotel.
"Thanks for the quick ride!" Tyson said, paying the cabbie as they got out of the taxi. Kenny looked a bit green, and Max did too, matching his shirt perfectly.
"I don't think anyone has every attempted a corner at such high speeds before," Kenny said as they walked into the hotel to check it. "I can't believe we're still in one piece, and that we got here in just under twelve minutes. It's insane, really."
"Well, I think Kai's coming to," Rei said, noticing Kai stir a little in his arms. "So lets get up to our rooms right away."
"Right!" agreed Max, and Tyson nodded agreement.
"Besides," added Tyson, "The faster we get settled in, the faster we can get breakfast!"
Rei sighed and threw Tyson a packet of airplane peanuts. "Knock yourself out."
Tyson grabbed the peanuts and grinned, flashing a 'v'-sign. "Wow, what's this on the back. Hmmm, to eat Airline Peanuts. One. Open packet." Tyson ripped open the packet. "Ok, two . . . " he trailed off and looked sad.
"Tyson," asked Kenny, "What ever is the matter?"
"I don't know what to do next," Tyson said sadly, "I ripped the directions up when I opened the packet of peanuts!"
Kenny shook his head, and Rei and Max grinned. "Tyson, you eat the peanuts."
"Oh! Right!" Grinning hugely, Tyson raced up the stairs to their rooms, stuffing peanuts in his mouth.
Rei lagged behind a little, holding Kai.
"Ok," Kenny said, "We've got two rooms. The first room is small, but I figured you and Kai could stay there, ok, Rei? Tyson, Max and I will share the last room. That should work out well."
Rei nodded, and went into the room. It was indeed quite small; a tiny dresser and table took up two corners of the room; the door to the hall occupied the third wall, and there was a teeny bathroom and closet. The biggest thing in the room was probably the bed, which took up at least a fourth of the small room.
He could hear Tyson's voice from the other room, "Wow, look! Hotel Chocolates! Let's read the instructions! One. . . open packet!"
"Wait Tyson!" Kenny's voice came, "Read ALL of the directions first before opening!"
"Right Chief!"
Rei groaned, but he had to grin. Putting Kai on the bed, he grabbed their bags and started putting clothes in the dresser. "I wonder how long we'll be here."
"Hopefully not too long," Kai said as he sat up. "My head hurts a bit. . . did you guys finally manage to knock me out? Who did it?"
"Kenny," grinned Rei, watching the look on Kai's face. "He smacked you upside the head with his laptop. Dizzi wasn't pleased in the least."
"Heh," Kai laughed a little, "I'll bet."
'Kai's laughing . . . wow . . . that blow to his head must have been harder than I thought!' Rei nodded. "Anyhow, we're going to get some sleep and then tomorrow we'll look for Martha's body, ok?"
"Sure." Kai said. "Where's the clock?"
"It's over there, why?" asked Rei as he pointed out the black clock on the small table.
Kai strode over to it, and fiddled with it for a minute before grunting a bit and saying, "I'm setting the alarm for five. I want an early start."
"Oh." 'Kai, you're insane.'
"Let's get some sleep." With that, Kai stripped down to his boxers, and lay down. After a moment, Rei did the same.
~~~
The next morning, the alarm went off at five am, just like Kai had set it too. Rei sleepily opened his eyes, and cursed the infernal beeping noise. "Kai . . ." He asked, yawning, "Are you going to turn that off?" He closed his eyes again, and waited for Kai to move. "Kai?" He opened his eyes again, all the way. "Kai?"
Kai was not in the bed anymore. And a further search of the room (after turning off that horrible alarm) revealed Kai wasn't in the room anymore.
"No . . . he couldn't have . . ." Rei thought, and on an impulse, he ran to the dresser (crossing the tiny room in about two steps). The clothes inside were all folded perfectly neatly, except for one thing - the dress was missing. 'Great,' Rei thought, running to wake up Tyson, Max and Kenny, 'Just great.'
Finding the door to Tyson and thems room locked, Rei decided to not waste any time and just find Kai. He ran downstairs and scanned around.
"And another thing!" Kai was saying, but it wasn't Kai's voice. It was Martha's voice. "You're hotel rooms could use a full make over! Here's what I was thinking. The best color scheme to make people feel at home is a nice, brown and green mix."
Rei inwardly groaned as he came upon the scene playing out in front of him. Kai stood, in the dress they had brought along, only it had some obvious alterations.
To begin with, you see, the dress was a forest green color, silk fabric, and kind of like a long sleeved shirt and long skirt together. The dress Kai was wearing was obviously the same dress, but the skirt had been chopped, so that it was rather short. The front of the dress dipped low in a 'v' cut that made it fit Kai better, and he was wearing a brown shirt underneath it.
"Now, here! Let me show this design," Kai added, pulling out a sheet of paper. The person he was talking to, presumably the manager of the hotel, was looking slightly interested by the ideas, but also afraid by this guy wearing a dress.
"Excuse me," Rei called out, interrupting Kai from showing the manager how he could custom order beds that would be dark mahogany wood with forest green satin bedding, and get a discount if ordering more than ten.
"Oh, hello there, Rei," Kai said, smiling, "I see you just woke up."
"Yeah, the alarm woke me," sighed Rei. "Come on, let's go upstairs."
Kai smiled. "Will you let me comb your hair? I can show the others how important good hair is!"
"Ummmmm, sure," Rei said.
The manager looked at them with an odd sort of look on his face. "I take it you . . . know him?"
"Well, you could say that," sighed Rei. "He's, um, being possessed. Nothing I can't handle though, so we'll just leave you alone for now. C'mon Kai."
Kai smiled at the managed, "We'll discuss this more later!" and waved cheerily, "Remember that pink and red clash!" as he walked after Rei.
When they were in the hallway, Rei sighed again. "What am I going to do with you?"
"Well, you said I could comb your hair - you know, you have the worst tangles ever," Kai nodded to himself, "Well, no matter. We'll have to go shopping later. I have my own line of hair care products, you know. I should think that it's only a matter of time before I get back to my TV show."
"Right," Rei nodded weakly as Kai gently but forcefully steered him back into the room, and sat him on the bed. After digging around, Kai managed to find a hairbrush, a comb, a glass of water, and a Easy Bake oven. 'Not going to ask,' Rei thought to himself over and over, 'I'm not going to ask, I'm not going to ask.'
Of course, temptation overtook him, and Rei had to ask, "Ummm, what is that oven for?"
Kai smiled, "I'm going to make us some cookies! I have to practice for my show, you know. I figure I could start a whole new series." Kai went silent a moment as he pondered. Rei shuddered, wondering how to snap Kai out of it.
"Sure, they took my show off air when I 'died'," sighed Kai, "But once I get back . . . there's nothing stopping me from takin- erm, spreading peace and happiness." He grinned, a most un-Kai-like grin, and advanced on Rei.
"Eh heh . . ." Rei groaned and sighed for what seemed like the millionth time in the short period of half an hour.
"Don't worry, I'm an expert," Kai assured Rei, but it wasn't too assuring to Rei, who knew that that wasn't Kai speaking to him; it was Martha, and he didn't know her.
Still, it felt really nice to have his hair brushed out, and even though it wasn't really Kai, Rei could pretend.
Suddenly there was a knock at the door. "Hey guys!" Tyson called from the hall, "Are you guys up now? It's time for breakfast!"
"Yeah, come on," Max added.
Kenny opened the door, and saw Kai kneeling on the bed, combing out Rei's hair. 'Maybe it's best not to ask.' "Ummm, Rei?"
"Yeah." Rei answered the unspoken question.
"I see . . ."
"You could TRY to help," Rei added after a minute while Tyson, Max and Kenny gawked at the sight of Kai combing Rei's hair.
"Oh. Right." Tyson grinned, "For me, getting to breakfast is just about as hard as getting up in the morning!"
"So then it's impossible, I guess," Kenny replied.
"Hey!"
"I only say it because it's true," added Kenny.
Rei and Max sweat dropped and Max finally said, "We should really help Rei and Kai now, shouldn't we?"
"What can we do?" Kenny wondered, "Dizzi, help us!"
You could hear the sigh in Dizzi's voice as she said, "What can I do? I'm a computer, not a Martha Stewart expert. I'd say you need to do something to shock him out of it."
"Oh, right," Kenny said, "Like the first time we showed him his pink beyblade. The next time, Rei dumped a glass of water over his head. What can we do this time?" He looked thoughtful.
"Don't even think about it," Dizzi replied, "I'm still surprised my hard drive survived his thick skull once already."
"You know," Kai said happily, in the Martha voice, "If you braided your tail of hair, you'd look so much better."
Rei groaned.
Max looked around. 'Something to shock Kai out of it. . . .' He noticed something.
"Rei, duck!" Rei didn't ask questions; he dived down onto the bed. A second later, the easy bake oven came flying through the air, and Kai, who had turned his head around, got smacked in the back of the head with it.
"What the?" Kai said as he turned back around. He said this in his normal voice. "What did you guys chuck at me this time?"
"Easy bake oven," Max said apologetically.
Kai looked at the toy, and then at his clothes. He paled visibly. "Please, PLEASE, tell me I wasn't about to use that to make cookies or something."
Tyson gasped. "Kai! You used emotion!"
Kai stood up, stalked over to Tyson, and smacked him, causing Tyson to fall in a very anime type way. The funny thing was, even in his short skirt, Kai looked threatening. "Yes, I used emotions. Get used to it. Right now, I'm pissed."
Kenny whispered to Rei who was now putting his headband in, "I think that Martha is starting to get a stronger hold on him; thus his unnatural show of emotions."
"You're kidding, right?" Rei groaned. "Well, then, let's hurry up."
The group went downstairs, except for Kai and Rei (Kai said he had to change and Rei said he'd make sure Kai didn't get possessed by Martha again).
Five minutes later, Rei and Kai were downstairs with the others, who were already started on breakfast. Tyson was grinning broadly as he spread hotel jam on one of his pieces of toast. On the other piece of toast, he picked up a packet of butter.
"What do the directions say?" he muttered to himself.
"Not this again," groaned Kenny, "Tyson, it's not that hard to use butter!"
"Shush Chief, knowing how to follow directions is a good thing." Tyson grinned, and Kenny sighed. "Now, let's see. Open butter packet." Tyson did so. "Spread on object of desire." Tyson blinked. Once. Twice. Looked at the toast. Blinked again.
Finally he stood up.
"Umm, Tyson," Kenny asked, "Aren't you going to put that butter on your toast, then?"
"Chief! The directions said spread on object of desire," Tyson replied.
Rei, Max and Kai watched in amusement as Tyson and Kenny argued over what that meant. In a few minutes, however, Max wasn't laughing. Tyson had came up to him and spread the butter on him.
"Ummm, Tyson, why did you just cover me in butter?" Max asked.
Rei and Kai and Kenny groaned.
Tyson looked pleased.
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So . . . will they find the body or not? Who knows!!! Let's hope so, for poor Kai's sake