ELLO!!! WE'RE BACK!!!

Jock: your doing much betting in this fic then the others...

Aries: that's because I'm standing behind her with a whip

Ami: i believe it's a golf club

Aries: ah yes... can I practice on Jock?

Ami: sure

Jock: EEP!!

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Mission Impossible

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Kai blinked a few times, and then glared at Dawn.

'How DARE she take Dranzer...' he hissed in his mind. 'That... that... DAMNIT I CAN'T EVEN THINK OF AN INSULT TO SUIT HER!!!'

Kai followed Dawn to where the others were, and grabbed her arm. He spun her around so that she faced him, and glared at the smug look on her face.

"Give me back Dranzer," he said in a deadly whisper.

"Or else what?" Dawn smirked, her eyes dancing with mirth. "I replaced her with Euphrates... it should be fair enough. I have your blade, you have mine. Off course... is 'Big Bad Kai' to afraid to use anyone else's blade?"

"Dranzer is MUCH better then your stupid blade," his glare intensified tenfold. "So don't you DARE try to pass it off... now... Give. Me. Back. Dranzer."

The two didn't notice the space between them getting smaller... Kai was almost brushing against her, and their noses almost touched.

"Ahem..." someone said softly. Kai seemed to break out of his slight daze and stepped back curtly, still glaring at her. "WHAT were you two gonna do?"

Kai looked up; it was Ray talking. Ray was also grinning like a maniac.

"I was gonna do nothing," Dawn said simply. "I didn't move at all. HE was the one doing something... ask him." Dawn then simply shrugged, turned and cut her way threw the group, going farther inside of the house.

Then Kai did something NO ONE in a million years would EVER think he would do... he blushed. Very lightly and barely noticeable, but he STILL blushed...

'What the hell?' Kai shook his head; he had no clue what he had thought or felt in the past 15 or so seconds... it was like he had been in a trance or something. 'What happened there?'

"Well Kai?" Tyson grinned. "What WERE you doing?"

"Trying to get Dranzer back," Kai snapped at him. "That pathetic excuse for a girl stole it!"

"I'M A STREET RAT!!! WHAT DO YOU EXPECT!!!" came a muffled cry from deep within the house. The group (excluding Kai) burst out into laughter.

"Hey Dawn!?!" Tyson called back to her. "When are you going!?!"

"A week," Dawn said, returning to the room with a root beer in her hands. "A week and everything's back to normal."

"I wouldn't say normal," Aries piped in. "We're here, aren't we?"

"Yeah," Joel smiled. "We're here... nothing can be normal anymore."

"And there's Aries and Maxy," Dawn smirked as Aries and Max both blushed, trying to hide the fact that they were holding hands and glued hip to hip.

"And you and Kai," Max blurted out.

"Me and who now?" Dawn blinked. Max backed up a bit, sweatdrops pricking the back of his neck.

"Um... I mean... so-sorry..." he stuttered out.

"Good," Dawn crossed her arms and pursed her lips. "Wouldn't want Mr. Sourpuss to get too cocky or anything."

"And what does THAT mean?" Kai glared at her; he got over yet another slight blush at what Max said.

"That means," Dawn closed her eyes as well. "That NO GUY and me have ever been a couple, so the ONLY way that could EVER happen, would be in your dreams... ta ta!!" She shot the group a smile, and walked back down the hallways.

~*~

Aries (who was still blushing) reluctantly let go of Max's hand and followed Dawn down the hallway. Max tried to grab her hand again, but she just gave him a smile over her shoulder, and continued to walk down the hall. She came to a room, and looked in it.

There was Dawn, lying down on a bed with dark blue bed spread, and sparely anything else in the room.

"Dawn?" Aries walked in slowly and Dawn looked up at her. "Why did you go?"

"I can't afford for Kai to like me," Dawn shrugged, as if it was the simplest answer in the world. "And I always come here to think... it's the room that Gramps and Tyson made for me in case I got hurt or something on the streets, and needed a place to stay. They know that I could get away if I needed too, so they didn't try to force me to stay either... that's why I keep coming back..."

"Okay..." Aries blinked, and sat down beside her. "One thing at a time... why can't you afford Kai to like you?"

"Many reasons," Dawn slumped back down. "One of them being that I'm a street rat and his family is rich; it just doesn't work that way."

"Okay..." Aries blinked, and it clicked in the back of her mind that Dawn was talking about Kai liking her more then just a friend. "But... well... that can't be the ONLY reason..."

"Your right," Dawn nodded slightly. "His grandfather is one of my mortal enemies, and I'm over due on pissing him off. He's gonna get cocky if I don't go soon. Kai himself just... hates me. I know because he's always calling me -or at least WANTING to call me- a pathetic little girl. And basically... it's impossible for ANY guy to like me... it's just how it works."

~*~

Kai stood there, dumfounded for a moment, before the laughter of the rest of them broke him out of his ravine.

"What's this?" Dizzi snorted out from Kenny's laptop. "Does Kai have a crush??"

"What??" Kai glared at Dizzi. "Impossible!! That's not right!!"

Tyson jumped into the conversation "That's the truth! Kai does have a crush!"

Kai glared at him.

"Tyson..." he hissed. "You had better that that back, RIGHT now..."

"Um..." Tyson gulped. "Heehee... no... ya don't?"

"That's correct," he glared at Tyson more. "And the rest of you had better remember it as well!!" With that, he pushed past Tyson, and left his house.

He still had Euprates.

~*~

Dawn stretched, and stood up.

"But that doesn't matter," she shrugged half-heartedly. "Now... I'm gonna go grab a bit, and then I'm off to piss of Voltaire some more..."

"Alright..." Aries stood up too, and the two left the room, and headed for the kitchen. "Well... do you like Kai?"

"It's fun to prank him," Dawn shrugged.

"You know what I mean," Aries pushed her a little, and Dawn smiled cockily.

"No..." Dawn shook her head. "I don't."

"You don't what?" Dawn and Aries turned around and the rest of the group was there. It was Kenny talking.

"Nothing..." Dawn said rather quickly; Tyson was the only one to notice that she blushed for a moment. "I'm just going to grab something to eat... you guys gonna come?"

"Sure," they all chorused together.

Dawn sighed, and led the group to the kitchen. There she started to cook. Ray helped her, and together, they managed to make a pretty good meal in 15 minutes

Dawn sat down, and pushed her food back and forth with her fork for awhile, not really in the mood for eating. While she did so, she contemplated what pranks and things she would pull on Voltaire. She also started to plan out how to get past any security systems she didn't know about, and how to get out of the next orphanage

"You gonna eat that?" she snapped out of her ravine, and looked up at Tyson.

"What?" she blinked, not hearing him.

"Are you gonna eat that?" Tyson smirked a little.

"Oh..." Dawn shook her head, and pushed the plate towards him, then continued her thinking.

What other pranks would she pull on Kai?? Switching Euphrates and Dranzer was a great one, but really. What ELSE could she do?

She reached into her pocket to get Euphrates, and ask her dear friend what she thought. Pulling out her blade she realized that it wasn't her's... it was Dranzer...

'I forgot about you...' she thought to herself. 'Kai...'

Clenching her eyes tightly shut, she refused to think about the blue haired blader.

~*~

Kai stormed home, and went inside. He went straight to the practice arena in there. Once there, he pulled Dranzer out of his pocket... only to realize that his storming over to Tyson's was a waste of time.

He still had that cute girl's blade...

'I did NOT just think she was cute...' Kai shook his head. 'No... I didn't...'

Sighing, he needed to kill some time. And this way, he could find out how she beat him...

He got the black and blue blade ready, and launched it into the dish. Thinking hard, he recalled the name of the bitbeast...

"Euphrates!!" he called; the blue mermaid immersed in silver light rose out, and looked at Kai, suspended in air. "Show me what you can do!!"

Euphrates didn't move just continued to stare at Kai. Her eye's penetrated his soul, and her hair floated around her, as if submersed in water. Then she blinked, and started to move. Water flowed throughout the dish, but in secluded sections, like little rivers and lakes. Then in a sudden rush, water filled the entire dish.

Euphrates stayed cemented to the bottom, spinning delicately on its fine tip. The blades coming off of the attack ring cut threw the water like a knife threw butter, creating little ripples and currents.

Kai stared transfixed for a moment, and then called Euphrates back. He started at the black and blue blade, and then blinked. He launched it again, and commanded Euphrates threw a bunch of complicated moves. Some of them, she rose and stared at them a moment, then went back and did them in an expertise style. Other times, she simply did it.

"Kai!!" someone called behind him. Euphrates came to his hand silently without him beaconing her, and he turned around. There was his grandfather. "Where's Dranzer?"

"Some girl stole it..." Kai hissed. "She said that she knows you... she left her blade though, so I know she'll return Dranzer."

"You mean that pesky street rat!!" Voltaire's eyes grew dark. "DAMN HER!!!"

He turned, and left the room. Kai blinked, staring blankly at his Grandfather's retreating back.

~*~

Back at the group Dawn kept thinking about her evil plans to make Voltaire life a living nightmare, sudden her thoughts were interrupted. I tanned hand waved in front of her face.

"Dawnn... wake up" Aries singed as she did this.

"Uh... hm what?" Dawn came out of the trance Aries smirked.

"Thinking about Kai again?" Dawn look horrified.

"No! Just thinking of a plan..."

"A plan about what?" Aries asked, smirking slightly.

"A plan to ruin Voltaire's life," Dawn said blankly, as if it was the simplest thing in the world. "What else?"

"I can think of three things," Max smiled. "Kai. Kai. And Kai."

"I can think of three things for you to do right now," Dawn said, standing up. "Run. Run. And run."

Max stood up slowly, and started to back away. Dawn started to walk towards him dangerously, and as soon as she bolted for a second, he turned around and ran from the room like a bat outta hell. Dawn stood there, shaking her head.

"I've got an idea," Aries smiled, and walked up to Dawn. She whispered something in her ear, and Dawn smirked.

"Good plan," Dawn nodded. "I'll get to it right away."

"You mean us," Aries said, a glare edging her gaze.

"Maxy would kill me if you got in trouble," Dawn insisted.

"I'll phone up Kai and make sure he catches you," Aries fluttered her eyes. "Or do you want that to happen?"

"You can come..."

"I knew you would see it my way."

~*~

Kai sighed, and sat down with his back against the wall. He pulled Euphrates. He stared at it again... this time he didn't realize as his mind started to wander...

'Hmm...' he looked at the blue tips, clashing with the black. 'Dawn is sorta like that... innocent... yet from a dark back ground...'

Kai stayed dazed out for awhile, before he stood up abruptly and shook his head.

"There is no way I just thought that..." he hissed at himself. Then he left the room.

~*~

Max leaned against a wall, panting hard. Something out of a window caught his eye, and he saw Dawn and his Aries leaving...

"My Aries?" he smiled a little. "I'm sounding a little possessive now... she's her own person..."

THEN a thought struck him.

"DAWN!!" his hands entangled in his hair. "Damn it... Dawn will most likely get her into trouble... damn. Damn. Damn. Damn. Damn..." he slid down the wall, until he was sitting down, and breathed deeply, trying to think. "Now... Dawn wouldn't very well go and let her get into trouble... she'll make me all panicky saying that she's dead or something and then ta da! There's my Aries, right in front of me. As cute as ever..." THEN the panic started to sink in... "But... what if Dawn mixes up with the wrong crowd... hell... I know DAWN can take care of herself... but what about my Aries? It's rough out there... she might get hurt..."

"Calm down Maxy," he looked up, and there was Tyson. "Their just going to go cause havoc on Kai and Voltaire... nothing much else. Don't worry."

"Ya Max!" Ray came up behind Tyson, smiling. "You're becoming more of a worry wart then Kenny or even Mariah!"

"Oh hahaha..." Max stood up, but couldn't help from smiling. "Ya... your right... what could possible go wrong?"

~*~

Dawn and Aries watched the servants and butlers walk inside the Hiwatari mansion. Aries moved aside a branch from the bushes away from her face "Wow Voltaire and Kai sure live great!" she cooed. Dawn smirked "Man, Kai'll never know what hit him" Son enough when all the light went out in the mansion the two girls slowly creped in through an open window, into a gigantic living.

The two street rats took a look around the furnished room; Dawn wiped a fake tear.

"Whoa. This is prank center!"

Aries laughed 'Alright alright.Now to get this party started" she took out a ruddy, old backpack full of suppiles.The reddish haired girl took out a black, mini camera. Dawn looked confused "A Camera?" Aries traced the lens with her gloved hand "My dad was a photographer and he gave me this so now" an evil sparkle was in her crimson dark brown eyes "It's time to bring out the Photoshop!"

Dawn backed off "That isn't gonna erase me right" They both paused then burst into laughter. After fun time they got right down to trashing business.

~*~

Aries and Dawn quickly tiptoe to Kai's room. The girls had to be quiet so not to wake up the slated haired boy.

"Shhh..." Aries quickly stuffed ear plugs in the sleeping boy's ear.

"Wow! How'd you do that?" Dawn cooed as she stared looking through Kai's things.

"I learned it at the orpange; they used to call me QT short to for quick tips." The street was amazed at her new founding but then back to work.

Dawn shuffled threw all of Kai's stuff and Aries was on the other side of the room. They were both armed with pink... Dawn was dying most of (if not all) Kai's clothes partially pink while Aries painted little pink hearts and diamonds and stars all over the plain, midnight blue walls.

While shuffling threw his shirts, Dawn stopped for a moment... as if on instant, she pulled one out, folded it up small, and tucked it away for her to keep... she wasn't really thinking at the moment, and if she had, she would be screaming at herself.

Soon enough, all the clothes there were pink. Next, she pulled out a little metal box. She sat down next to Kai on his bed, being careful as to not wake him up. Opening the box, revealed a lot of pink make up...

Snickering, she softly applied eyeliner, eye shadow, blush, lip liner and lip stick. And then she put two pink bows in his hair, and snapped fake earring on his ears.

"Wow..." Aries looked over. "He's gonna kill you..."

"Mhm..." Dawn stood up, smirking.

"Or kiss you."

"I MUST have heard wrong..." Dawn glared at Aries, who just smiled and continued to paint. Dawn rolled her eyes, and grabbed another paint brush and started to work on another wall. One thing that had not been hindered by anything, was her sense of drawing... which still wasn't that good, but possible.

She drew a rough squrille, taking up most of the room of the wall, and painted a heart around and behind him. The rest of the wall was filling with hearts of different sizes and tones. Finally satisfied, she joined Aries on a third wall, which was filled with flowers and other plants. This was was the one with the door. On the door, they drew a pretty rough phoenix, with little hearts in its eyes

Dawn picked up the paint, and went to the fourth wall. Aries decided to stay at the door on a couple of more minutes. When she was done, she had some pink paint smeared on her nose.

"You don't paint much, do you?" Dawn smirked. Aries shrugged, and they started to just draw random things...

When they were FINALLY done, they packed up the paint, and stood back. Aries quite quickly took the ear plugs out of Kai's ears, and then smirked broadly. Dawn nodded a little, and then turned to the door.

There she stopped short.

On the door, underneath the phoenix, was an equally roughly drawn pink mermaid. You couldn't see its face because it was looking up at the phoenix...

Dawn glared at Aries, but left the room in silence; at least she knew why the girl was in a hurry to take those ear plugs out.

As they started to walk down the hall, Aries started to go into the library; Dawn stopped her.

"You go down the hall," she said quietly. "At the end room to the right, is Voltaire's room... do NOT go in there without me... go into the one of the left. I'll do the library. I'm not letting you touch a SINGLE book in there... I have a deep respect of them."

"Deeper is your respect of Kai," Aries winked, nodded, and skipped down the hallway. Dawn winched at two things; the comment, and how Aries was making a little more noise then she would of liked...

Dawn just sighed, and entered the library. Out of her backpack, she took long bits of plastic, nails and a hammer. Being as quiet as she could, she sealed off all of the places with plastic, so when you entered, there was basically a small plastic room, instead of a large space and tons of rows of books. Then she brought out the paint... she had 3 spray cans of pink (all different shades) and one spray can of purple.

She got to work.

A pink bunny here, a big pink flower on the carpet there. And so on and so forth...

After awhile, Dawn was satisfied, and started to use the purple. She didn't use it that much... just to highlight and make it look a little weirder.

The over all effect, Dawn was proud of.

Smirking, she left the library (after painting BOOKWORMS FOUND HERE on the door -inside and out-). She looked down the hallway at Kai's door.

She almost gagged.

Someone had written 'DAWN'S PRINCE CHARMING'.

She was gonna throttled Aries when they left...

Walking down the hall, she entered the room on the left at the end. It was COVERED in lines of pink. Aries had simply taken the pink paint, and splashed it around. Now she was taking red and orange, and making little stars around the room.

"You know..." Dawn shook her head. "I sorta wanted to wreck at least ONE of the computers in here myself..."

"The one in the corner is still untouched," Aries smiled at her, and continued; she had more pink paint on her face, a little in her hair, and a tiny bit of red near her right eye.

"You look TOTALLY guilty..." Dawn shook her head. "I know this is exposed to be FUN and all... but you havta try to stay CLEAN, because then they don't suspect you."

"Max has a shower I can use."

"Is he gonna help you as well?"

"You're sick..."

"And proud of it."

Aries rolled her eyes and Dawn went over to the computer. She simple pulled her fist back, and smashed it threw the screen. She then took her purple paint, and started to make little planets to go with the stars...

After they finished the computer room, they slowly went to Voltaire's room. Due to previous pranks (some worse, some not so bad), there was a nice little security system... Dawn guided Aries threw it skillfully and they both stood in front of Voltaire's bed.

"And here the fun really begins..." Dawn smirked.

~*~Morning~*~

Aries had managed to get even MORE paint on her somehow... Dawn had some red smeared across the bridge of her nose.

"Oh my god!!" Aries burst out laughing as they left the mansion. "I didn't know Voltaire had a wig!!"

"It's called a taupe," Dawn smirked. "And now EVERYONE will know, because it's a WONDERFUL hot pink..." They laughed some more, and continued down the street.

~*~

That very morning Kenny, Ray and Max were already awake. Ray was cooking breakfast, Kenny typing away on Dizzi and Max worrying about Aries. The blonde boy shuddered.

"What if Aries got kidnapped?! And she's never coming back?" The bladerbreakers chuckled.

"Don't worry about it Max, I bet Dawn and Aries are in the living room sound asleep," Ray suggested flipping a pancake.

Kenny put a hand on Max's shoulder "Plus I doubt would Dawn get her in trouble."

Soon Joel came into the conversation, "I can't believe you guys are worrying about to street girls," he yawned. "They know there way around."

"Street girls?" Max blinked. "Aries was on the streets?"

"Only for a little while," Joel shrugged. "She ran away for awhile... no big deal. Either way, they'll be fine."

"Yeah..." Max closed his eyes; that only lasted a second, as they snapped open again. "But what if some guy that Dawn knows comes to get revenge and Aries gets in between them and gets hurt!!" he started to hyperventilate.

"Max!!" Tyson shook him. Hard. "Calm down!! Breathe... feel any better?"

"Yeah..." Max smiled sheepily. "Sorry..."

~*~

Dawn and Aries were now at a cafe. Aries was eating some pudding and Dawn was sipping a cup of coffee.

"You've been on the streets before," Dawn said suddenly. "Haven't you?"

"Yeah..." Aries answered; she blushed lightly, and continued to eat her pudding.

"Well..." Dawn shook her head, smiling a little. "Though you MIGHT be able to take care of yourself... I want you to NOT do anything like that -even if it's only pit pocketing- unless you ABSALUTLY have to, or if I'm there to yell at you and tell you that you're about to pit pocket a mastermind murderer or encourage you to go on, alright?"

Aries blinked a few times, and then started to laugh.

"You're joking, right?"

"No."

"Oh..." Aries blinked. "Um... alright..."

"Good," Dawn downed the last bit of her coffee. "Now... come on... we gotta get ourselves cleaned up... you especially."

The two stood up, and walked to the washroom. There, Dawn entered one of the stalls, while Aries started to scrub her skin. There she pulled off her red sleeveless turtle neck, and let it drop to the floor. It wasn't the cleanest of things, but it was better then Aries' paint covered clothes...

Now all she needed some something to change into...

She caught the sight of one of Kai's shirts from the corner of her eye... it was tucked into the back of her backpack.

Groaning, she pulled it out and pulled it on, then left. She threw the turtle neck at Aries before she could comment on Kai's shirt, muttered that she would be waiting outside, and left the washrooms.

Soon enough Aries came out wearing a long, blue shirt and come ruddy cut up jeans.

"Alrighty lets go." Aries said as she threw on an orange vest. It wasn't a long walk to Tyson's, since they cut fences and hops off some blocks.

"What did you do with my other shirt?" Dawn asked, as they started walking down Tyson's street.

"It's in my backpack," Aries smirked. "I -unlike you- thought ahead and packed extra clothes."

"It helps when you actually OWN extra clothes," Dawn pointed out.

"You seem right at home in Kai's shirt..."

"Awe shut up..."