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~*~*~*~*Hotel~*~*~*~ Razel finally calmed himself down and was sitting on a small little velvet couch in the lobby of the hotel. He was waiting for the boarders to arrive so he could give them their rooms and tell them about the meeting he had set up. He made sure that there would only be two people to a room, because he did not want to repeat the car incident.

After about 15 minutes of waiting the first group of boarders had arrived in the hotel. But of course they were only there for about ten seconds before Mac and Eddie got in trouble by the doorman for not getting out of the revolving doors.

Eddie, Elise, Mac, Kaori, and Brodi gave their bags to the bellhops and sat down on the two couches across from Razel. They were talking about what they had done over the summer and how much they were glad to be back, when the second group had arrived.

Marisol, Seeiyah, Zoe and Moby entered the building next, then Jp and Luther came running up from behind them laughing. There was with a doorman yelling at them about how 'young people these days should grow up and stop playing with revolving doors.'

Razel shook his head at how immature these guys could be but decided not to comment, and finally decided to start his announcements. "Ok now that everyone is here." Wait it seemed quiet, a little too quiet. Someone was missing, and he knew right away who it was.

"Where is Psymon?" he asked. The second group of boarders exchanged glances and no one spoke. "Do I want to know?" he asked. They shook their heads and still did not speak a word.

"Well one of you better tell me where he is, now." He was starting to get agitated when they were not answering.

Finally Zoë decided she better speak before Razel's veins started to pop out of his head, like they sometimes did when he got mad.

"Well do you remember before you stormed out of the airport you said 'choose your seats or walk to the hotel, either way I don't care.' Well I think Psymon took it literally and well.. decided to walk to the hotel." Zoë finished.

"Oh you have got to be kidding me." Razel said to himself. He turned at looked at the others and said, "Why didn't you try to stop him?"

Luther then spoke up "Have you ever tried to stop Psymon from doing anything, because it's not easy. He said 'there is no way in Hell I'm going to ride with you losers. Razel said we can walk, so I'm gunna walk.'"

Razel didn't like that Psymon was purposely trying to piss him off, but decided it was to late to do anything now. "Fine, we will just start the meeting. When Psymon comes, someone will just have to fill him in on what we talked about."

~*~*~Conference Room~*~*~*~

"Oh great, another famous speech from the great Razel. This should be interesting." Seeyiah said sarcastically.

"I think we should feel honored, he could be making history. I don't know anyone else who can make twelve people fall asleep in a matter of seconds by just talking." Brodi joked.

Even he was starting to dread going to the meetings. Meditating and praying to Buddha just weren't cutting it anymore. He remembered at first everyone would listen to what Razel had to say (with the exception of Psymon and Moby who would just joke around the whole time). But everyone quickly realized that all the sessions were just repetitive and boring the hell out of everyone in a 2 mile radius.

The meetings seem to always have the same topic of conversation. The usual "No, Luther there are no pigs or dirt bikes allowed in the hotel." "Sorry Eddie there is no room in the budget to get everyone polyester suits." "Marisol, we are not firing Elise to replace her with muscular male models." These were not uncommon discussions at the meetings.

But every once and a while Razel would announce a new member. Not one of the boarders could probably recall one new recruits name. They never seemed to last long enough.

It became tradition to place bets on how long the newbie would last for. It was like a fun game to the group. Who could get the brand-new boarder to run out, yelling for their life. That was the only thing you had to do to win the game. There are no rules, which made the game fun and challenging for everyone (except the new boarder, obviously).

Razel came to the front of the room and stood behind the podium. He looked around trying to get everyone to stop talking. This was not working, so he cleared his throat loudly, then waited for the conversations to stop. A few people turned their heads to him, but saw it was Razel and continued anyway.

"Ok, everyone just shut up!" he shouted.

But he could still hear someone talking and humming. He looked around and set his eyes on Mac. Mac was mumbling and humming to the beat on his CD player. He was completely oblivious to the rest of the world. Hence the reason he was randomly shouting out words.

Kaori realized what Razel wanted and elbowed him and said "Mac!" He didn't seem to notice. She elbowed him a second time and said his name a bit louder. But the boy had his headphones on and CD player blasting. The third time she pushed Mac with both hands and yelled, "MAC! Razel-san has something important to say. So take off your headphones."

Mac finally realized they were trying to get his attention. "Huh? Kaori, You say sum thin?"

Kaori just pointed to Razel who was now looking kind of tense.

"Ok, now that everyone seems to be listening, I will start this seasons new announcements. I have just received them and I don't really know what they are about, most likely the usual, so you will have to bare with me."

"Oh just great." Sighed Elise

Razel continued on as if he didn't hear the last comment. "Lets see here." He said to himself while briefly skimming over the sheets of paper in front of him. "Junk, junk, , useless info, junk, crap, blah-blah-blAAHHH! What is this?! You have got to be kidding me!" Razel's voice rose dramatically, waking the boarders from their near sleep state.

"What is it? Brodi asked, genuinely concerned.

"Oh, let me guess my request for the disco suites came through right? I bet it did, didn't it? Yelled Eddie, who was getting overly excited.

"No, You-" but Razel was cut off before he could finish.

"I know, the league is going to get us sports cars. That's what I requested." Mac shouted.

"That would be nice.but that's not the point. No the league did not.." Once again Razel was cut off in mid sentence.

"Oh let me take a guess," yelled Marisol "the league is finally firing that wanna be."

"You finish that sentence and you're dead." Shouted Elise.

"Are you going to stop me chika?" Laughed Marisol, purposely trying to anger Elise.

Elise stood up and was about to charge Marisol when Seeiyah put her hand on her shoulder and said "Its not worth it girl, sit down."

Elise reluctantly sat down, and quietly said "If I punched you I would have ruined my new gloves, considering how much makeup you have on. And these were really expensive gloves."

"I am just going to pretend I didn't hear that." Marisol snapped back.

Luther was not paying attention to the bickering women, so decided to take a stab at what Razel was so surprised about. "Hm, lets see. I bet the league is going to let us take a vacation!" Luther seemed to be very proud of his guess.

"You moron, we were just off for two months. How much more of a vacation do you want?" Seeiyah shouted. She wouldn't usually be this harsh, but considering it was Luther, and she was stuck in a conference room with several yelling boarders, she was a bit on edge.

"Geez it was just a guess." Grumbled Luther

His face brightened up with his new thought. "The league is going to pay for all our meals during the season?"

Everyone turned and looked at Luther.

"Dude, they already do." Mac answered

"They do?" Everyone nodded.

Razel smacked his own forehead, wondering where this man's mind had been when he explained this before every season. And why no one had ever stopped him from paying for dinners in the past. Then he remembered that Luther never paid for anything, that was Jp's job.

Then the double doors of the conference room burst open, and in walked the biggest instigator of trouble in the history of the SSX league, Psymon Stark. "I know what it is, and you are all wrong." He shouted as he jumped up onto a chair.

"You do?" all the other boarders said. They were all stunned at how Psymon got this information before the rest of them.

"Yep, they are finally going to get rid of all you losers, and make me the main attraction!" He shouted. Then he started into a howl of maniac-like laughter.

The rest of the boarders grumbled, shaking their heads at their stupidity for believing that Psymon actually had information before they did.

"Well we should have seen that one coming a mile away." Moby half laughed.

"Yes, you should have my friends!" Psymon shouted, as he jumped from empty chair to empty chair. Then into a not so empty chair where Jp was sitting.

"Opps, sorry Frenchy, didn't mean to wrinkle you what seems to be very expensive pants.. Ok yes I did. Hehehe." And he continued to jump into empty seats.

"Psymon! Please sit down before you break your arm.or someone else's arm." Said Razel who was starting to loose patience with the group. "Ok, Can I just continue and tell you what it is? I am sure it would save a lot of time."

"NO! I didn't get to guess yet!" Shouted Kaori, who was looking really upset about not getting a turn.

"What? Oh, yeah fine, whatever. Everyone else seemed to have a turn anyway." Razel said as he slowly shook his face into his hands.

"Is the league going to let us have giant bunny mascots at each race?" from the look on Kaori's face you could tell she was pleased just thinking about fuzzy pink bunnies, hopping around before each race.

"Um. no." Razel stated simply. The group could tell he was also contemplating what it would be like to have large bunnies getting in the way at every race.

"Oh what about playboy bunnies." Eddie added.

"You are a pervert, you know that?" Elise yelled

Jp shot in his remark "I wouldn't mind them."

"Of course you wouldn't. Your gay, you wouldn't notice at all." Laughed Zoe.

"WHAT! NO I'M NOT!" Jp defended himself.

"Are to!"

"Are not!"

"Are to!" The two continued to shout back and forth.

"I know what would be a good investment for the league. A life time supply of Tylenol." Brodi said massaging the sides of his head because of his throbbing headache.

"I couldn't agree with you more." Said Seeiyah.

Razel had reached the breaking point. The veins were now clearly visible on his forehead and he screamed at the top of his lungs, "ALL OF YOU SHUT UP! I don't have time to deal with you. I have other problems to sort out." With that he threw the papers he was holding up in the air and stormed out of the conference room.

The papers slowly drifted to floor. The room was extremely quiet. Everyone was glancing around the room as if looking for what to do. Razel seemed to be doing that a lot lately, but it was still a bit awkward.

Twelve pairs of eyes set on the unguarded papers on the floor. As if they all got the same idea at once, the all dove for the sheets of paper with the mysterious information.

They piled up on top of each other, pushed, pulled, whatever means necessary to get the papers. Once again they all seemed to realize that this was not getting anywhere. They decided stopped abusing each other for the moment.

"Well I got one side of it." Mac said holding up a piece of paper that was ripped down the center.

"I have the other side." Answered Zoë

Both Mac and Zoë placed their pieces of paper next to each other, fitting the paper together like a puzzle. All twelve pairs of eyes scanned the paper reading it once, then twice to make sure they read it correctly. So this was what made Razel so upset.

The silence was broken when Moby said, "Well, that would upset me a little too."

All the boarders turned their gaze to Moby for a second. Then back to the paper on the floor, nodding in agreement.

What important information was on the paper, find out next time.

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