Hey everyone! Don't kill me for taking so long, please, but May is my busy month! I also was running low on ideas, and I lost my little plot paper ::sniffles:: Enough excuses! I am back and in action! Here it is!
Hanazakari- only eight shots? :-( that's not fun! I want more! Hehehee…
Sailor Star Scream- I don't know that I want to at this point in time… they seem a bit young to me, and will probably just have a silly relationship until later. But who knows?
True Locket- Yes, I'm just writing little bits of the summer. Book 5 should be out this month next monthish! Yay!
TGWIOWHP- you should set up a name! And write stories! And I'll read them! yay! Sorry, mesa called Jarjar Binks, and mesa veeewy hypa. Tehehehe! Hmm… California, you say? Maybe not Alaska, but I might be able to do California. Trip to Disney Land, blow up your house along the way……….
DevilsDarling- What witches? I seem to have poured water on them… ::far away hears cries of "I'm melting! I'm melting!":: ::evil laugh:: :-D
SailorArtemis2000- what'd I do to the HuffyPuffies? Oh twell! Kelly is more like me than my friend Kelly… but Kelly can be like Kelly. I love namesakes! So much confusion.
Crazygurl70- glad you approve.
Goddess-of-Light- it would be funny, but also illegal. I like what I've got planned now… mwahahahhaa! A lot of people seem to be a lot like me (that review).
Usagipegasus- hi! Here it is!
Emma- Yep-o! They're a comin' along the mountain! WOO HOO! I've got plans for you, me and… um… Jen, no, Carly, NO! EMILY HA! HEHEHEHEE! And I'll use Henry and… I need one more guy from our grade ::pouties:: Thanks for mentioning that it was blah. I think I knew that.
Lady sakura joy- I've literally bounced off walls. You run and JUMP! It's lots of fun, try it sometime. My friend and I were throwing pencils in a box (returning them to this guy) and they kept on bouncing, and we were having fun. Then I picked up this pair of scissors, and everyone ducked under the desks (almost). Pretty funny.
Sailor Capricorn- I aint nobody's clone! I read Sirena and Ella Enchanted, they're awesome! That reminds me, I need to kill Carly to get Sirena back… "Beast" is pretty good, too, and "The Folk Keeper" and "The Other Ones" and "Just Ella." I could go on, but I won't torture you endlessly. Oh, I have the Princess bride, too! Bestest movie! :-D
Becky- I like Gred and Forge, too! Yes, I know we can get lobster in Maine. Captain Newicks rocks! Don't tell anyone ::looks around furtively:: but I live in Maine. I won't share what part, but I will say I've been to where this takes place, and I know someone from this place. Once, when my family and I was staying at the Boardwalk in Disney World, they said they were selling Maine lobster, but it didn't have claws, so it wasn't Maine lobster! We were mad…
Firefly-chan- hm, that could've worked, too! I was going to have her like hanging off the north tower, but then I decided I wanted her inside. Sorry this took so long!
The Kuro no Tenshi- you mean you can't fly with the pixie dust from pixie sticks? Maybe THAT'S why I never leave the ground. I always thought I just didn't eat enough of it.
Roninchica- ::crosses self:: "Dear Lord, please save me as I reply to this incredibly long review that I so greatly appreciate, amen." ::draws deep breath:: I am very sorry for writing that. Normally, I don't even think swears or another vile language, let alone write or speak them. I apologize for letting my friends (the few of them) that do frequently use such words influencing me, and I have actually begun to try harder to make them stop. I don't even fully comprehend why I was writing about my friend's cats. -.- I couldn't kill Maine! Well, maybe I could go live in Celebration, like my cousin used to! YAY! The thing with Kelly having worn herself out was just one of those little things that I think up on the spur of the moment, and mention in passing. I don't really know… I guess she was just exhausted or something. I don't know if I can really explain how I was using that. If I find something similar in another book, I'll tell you about it. it might help some. Um, the senshi are poofed. I didn't want them in there anymore, so I decided to just turn this into the whole Princess of the Moon Kingdom plot… and did I say in a chapter somewhere that Mamoru was like the head of the generals? I think I did, but I'll check. Snape is a heartless slob, and I'm going to write more about him when I get book five. I figured I don't REALLY understand him, so I'm not going to try to write him yet. LIGHTNING BUGS! YAY!
MarsMoonStar- coolies! You use coolies, too!
Bunni V- hehee that's why I wrote it in… I thought it would be cool if Usa could be kinda invincible for a while. Voldy wanted Usa to kiss him just to bug her before she died. Twisted teasing. Yes, I have gone insane… "Listen, if we'd just bought the squirrels we wouldn't have had to steal the rocket ship." Lol, Rat Race is a funny movie. Oh, I know it was lame, no worries. I didn't want to write it, but I had to, y'know? So I botched it royally.
Becky- oooh I could write a story like that… funness! But, girl, I think you need help.
Sabrina Tsukino- thank you! I'm sorry this took soo long, and I'm also sorry, because I am going to wait for book five. I was going to make it up on my own, but then I realized that the REAL book five would be out too soon, and then I'd feel all messed up.
Saturnpyroprincess- here ya go, and thanks!
Sailorgirl686- here's more! I'm glad it has been found realistically real! For the fantasy it clearly is…
Kazeya- I'm glad I've saved you from insanity. If you're REALLY into HP and you want something to read, there are quite a few good Lily and James fics. The Gilded Lily has 78-ish chapters, each fairly long, and it's good! Then there are a few others… but I need to move on! I'd love to be your BETA.
Sailor Capricorn- I haven't been to the board lately… I'll go soon. And I have no idea what to post!!! WAAH!
LadyD- no, the senshi poofified.
Jupi- yay! Someone complete agrees that I'm crazy, and not as a joke!
TGWIOWHP- WAAAAAAAHT? How can you leave? Fluff does not exist in my vocab! How is this fluffy? No fluff! NONE! All the fluff exists in like first and second year, and then it's GONEEEEEEEEEE! No fluff! Nonenonenone! And what is this rated? I'll make sure it's PG. No fluff allowed!
Anneliese- thanks for reviewing my poems! I really appreciate it. um… no comment to the rest. I'll do the fifth year when I have the fifth book, which I fifthly pre-ordered.
Jessica Black- articulateDragonsamax- if you're dead, then you can't read this.
Silvershadow- I like you! Funny in the same me way! But don't get gutter-minded on me, please.
Allie-chan- here it is! I'll try!
Angel of Ice- here's some of the summer. Hehehaha.
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"Surfin' USA!" the three male Mischief Makers bellowed at the top of their lungs. They'd been 'singing' all sorts of songs about America the whole plane ride, and whenever they started a new one, the other travelers just groaned and covered their ears. Kelly and Usagi were laughing while warning them that they might end up swimming the rest of the way. Unfortunately, the three seemed to find this idea appealing.
"We didn't say anything," Kelly hissed, vigorously shaking her head to emphasize the point.
"Not a word," Usagi agreed.
The two covered their eyes a moment later and insisted, "I've no idea who they are," as, still singing, the boys began playing with all the buttons and knobs in reach.
"I'd expect this from the twins, but not Lee," Usagi confided. "He's grown up with muggles."
Suddenly, a voice clicked on over the intercom. "Would the three boys in seats A16, A17, and A18 please cease all singing?" it snapped in a very irritated way. "Thank you."
The boys glanced at each other and fell silent for a moment. The other passengers looked hopeful and began putting away their Tylenol, but no, Fred, Lee and George began whistling. Very shrilly, at that. Out came the Tylenol again.
Let's just say there was a stampeded to get off the airplane when it landed, and five people in the Tsukino's Gladiator had a headache by the time they arrived at the house Mr. Tsukino had purchased.
Driving down the street, the five Hogwarts students stared out the front window in awe. "How pretty!" Kelly summed up their feeling on the view. The road was a dead end, with stairs leading down to a stretch of private beach. The water was bright blue with a few islands further out and boats dotting the water.
"Aloha South Portland," Usagi breathed.
"Aloha gianormous house!" Lee exclaimed as Mr. Tsukino turned into the last driveway of the street. It was a very big house, mansion standards by all accounts.
"Rooms!" George screeched.
"Views!" Fred added.
"How articulate," Shingo acknowledged dryly. "We've got your standard six stories, three rooms with a view per top five floors, including bathroom connected to two of them. You'll get the idea when we're in."
Usagi's jaw dropped open. "We live here?"
Usagi and Kelly had rooms on the top floor, with a living room area (which had 'gianormous' bay windows) sandwiched in between their bedrooms (each with a private bathroom). The boys simply had three bedrooms, with Fred and George sharing a bathroom. There was a lift next to Lee's room that opened beside Kelly's.
Usagi's parents employed Shingo to give everyone the grand tour before supper. The house- no, mansion –was every bit as large on the inside as it appeared to be from the outside.
As the group passed the front door, Mr. Tsukino called Usagi out to the car. "Can you step on the brakes while I check the lights?" he asked.
"Okay," she agreed as her friends and brother settled themselves on the grass. After pushing on the brakes several times, her father asked her to put on the left blinker. "How?"
"Just pull down the little stick beside the steering wheel."
Usagi faced the wheel once more and considered her choices. There were two little sticks, one on the left, one on the right. Picking a random side, she pulled down on the right stick, lifting her foot up from the brake in the process. "Is it working?" she shouted to her father before she realized that the car was moving. Very slowly and backwards down the hill of the driveway, but still moving. "Uh oh," she muttered, slamming frantically on the brakes. In her haste, she forgot which were the brakes and which was the gas, and hit the wrong pedal. The car lurched backwards down the hill, nearly running over her father's foot and smashing into the telephone pole across the street.
Mr. Tsukino caught up with her at last, breathing heavily and looking furious. "Oops," Usagi said quietly.
"Were you trying to kill me?" he hissed.
"No! I thought I'd pulled the blinker stick, and then I thought I'd stepped on the brakes."
Mr. Tsukino closed his eyes and shook his head. "I'm signing you up for driving lessons, and all your friends! You need to know your way around a car, young lady."
"All right, Daddy," Usagi said meekly. {A/N: this is where we pretend that 14-year-olds are allowed to get their permits. Just for Kelly, 'cause she's cool.}
"Driving? ME?" Fred asked.
"American driving scares me!" George complained.
"Yeah, everyone drives on the wrong side of the road," Lee agreed.
"I… I don't know about this…" Kelly mumbled.
"DADDY!" Usagi had trilled over all this. "Are you mad?"
"One moment please, sir," Fred said politely, looking meaningfully at the others. They nodded imperceptibly.
{A/N: It's BA-ACK! Mwahahahaha!} The five exchanged a glance, with Shingo looking on closely.
George raised his left eyebrow. {Translation: Well, I think we've fooled him into thinking that we really don't want to drive…}
Kelly raised her right. {So boy will he be surprised! Imagine all the people we can terrorize!}
Lee blinked three times in rapid succession. {This will be brilliant! I can't wait until the first lesson. Can we come back next year to get our licenses, Usa?}
Usagi blinked once, then started to move her jaw to her left. {I don't see why not. Imagine, driving and-}
Fred interrupted with moving his jaw to the right and then left. {Rec. camp should be fun, but right now I want food. Let's just tell the man we accept already, so we can-}
Lee's eyes widened. {Óu est le FOOD?}[Double translation: 'óu est le' is 'where is the' in French]
Fred glared. {AS I WAS SAYING! Eat.}
Kelly, George and Usagi all winked with their right eyes, as Lee winked with his left. {First three: Right! Lee: FOODFOODFOODFOODFOOD!}
Shingo gave a small, sly smile. {This conversation was way too easy to understand, guys. Maybe you should figure out how to communicate telepathically. Although, if I'm lucky and I get to go to Hogwarts or something, I might break that code, too. By the way, I don't think Dad really cares if you like it or not. Oh, and Mum's finished cooking, Lee.} He looked up at his father, just missing the surprised looks his sister's friends gave him, and said, "I believe they've agreed to do it. Can we go eat now? Lee and I are hungry, as is Fred. It is Fred, right?" The last part was directed at Fred, who nodded.
"Everyone in," Mister Tsukino growled. "I need to call a tow truck to make sure the damage isn't too much."
"Maybe we could get a limo if I totally trashed it," Usagi said half-heartedly.
"No."
None of them noticed the small knot of laughing kids… three girls and two boys, to be exact, all of who had sticks poking out of their pockets.
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"The name of the game is… Strip Poker," Lee announced as he finished dealing out five cards to everyone.
"What?" Usagi shrieked quietly, in concert with Kelly.
"You're kidding, right?" Fred asked.
"Because you know we're one girl short," George pointed out.
"I was joking," Lee said, dealing out three more cards to everyone. "We're going to play Crazy Eights."
"Ooh," the others sighed.
"And the losers all have to remove one piece of clothing from their person, accessories may be counted."
Everyone scrambled to put their shoes back on their feet. Every little thing counts.
Crazy Eights can take a very long time to finish even one round, and the amount that they all played didn't make it too surprising to find everyone wearing only their undergarments, tee-shirts or tank tops, and pants or shorts. It was when Mrs. Tsukino had been going to get a late night snack (maybe three in the morning) that she noticed the light and laughter.
She opened the door just as Lee, Usagi, Kelly and Fred all had to remove another article of clothing, seeing as how George had won. The aforementioned four were very relieved to have the interruption, and all five set off to bed after a yawned, "Bed… now… camp… driving lessons… tomorrow…" from Usagi's mom.
And, of course, Shingo just had to find out that they'd stayed up very late, so they had a rude wake-up call the next morning. Somehow, he had rigged a bucket of icy water over each of their beds, with a single string connecting them all. He tied the string to his door (which swung open out into the hall), went into his room, and slammed it shut, HARD. SPLASH! SCREAM! Yep, it had tipped all five buckets at once, waking up the Mischief Makers with a nice bath.
"LEE! FRED! GEORGE! We're going to kill you!" Were the cries from Usagi and Kelly.
Of course, the boys were shouting, "KELLY! USAGI! You'll pay!"
Realization dawned on them, and from the two different floors came five bellows of, "SHINGO!!!"
"Eep!" he shrieked, and dashed down a few flights of stairs and out the front door.
"Come back here you brat!" Leaning out the window was Usagi, screaming her lungs out. "I'm going to kill him!" she muttered maliciously as she hurriedly put on her bathing suit and clothes. She slid on her flip flops and dashed out into the hall the same time as Kelly, and two seconds later the elevator doors opened revealing the boys.
"Wands?"
"CHECK!"
"Shoes?"
"CHECK!"
"Food?"
"CHE- no check."
"FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Does it really matter who said what? All that matters is that they rode the lift down, ran to the kitchen, stocked up quickly, and flew out the door and down to the beach. They had whipped out a blanket from the garage as they ran past it, and set everything down on it. Shingo was spotted a piece further down the beach with his back to them, breathing heavily. They silently crept up on the exhausted boy and tackled him, dragging him to the water.
"No! NO! I'm a wizard, I'll melt!" he screeched as they dunked him in.
As the Mischief Makers trooped back to the blanket, the same group that had been watching Usagi kill her dad's car the previous day.
"Hello," said the brunette girl, who was shorter even than Kelly and Usagi. "I'm Emily, but my friends call me Chaos. Who're you?" Her hair was long, and, as stated, brown, with red highlights. It was slightly angled, but very messily as if she was trying to grow it out. Her eyes were huge, and brown with the tiniest hint of green, and framed by long, black lashes. She was burnt and freckled, as if she was normally very pale. A mischievous smile played across her lips. The Mischief Makers turned to survey the rest of the group. Seeing their gaze, Chaos announced, "Oh, maybe I should introduce everyone else, first. This is Emma, and you'll hear us calling her all sorts of names." This girl was about an average height, with chin length, messy hair that was dyed red. "That's Henry," this boy was the tallest of them all, with brown hair and a square face. "This over here is Jen, but we just pretend she isn't here. Elsewise, she scares the shimooligans out of us." This girl, about Usagi's height, had dirty blond hair, blue eyes, and was thin. She did look a bit… flaky. "And this is Dillon." Leaning closer and glancing at the tallish boy with blond hair, she added, "He's kinda scary too, but we don't tell him that. Jen at least admits she is, but Dillon is just a bit loony. He's funny, too, though." Chaos clapped her hands. "SO! Now that you have been officially introduced to the Chaos Causers, what're your names?"
The MM's stared at the seemingly very hyperactive girl, who had begun bouncing a bit waiting for their response. Finally, George spoke up.
"I'm Fred, this is my twin George, that's Lee, that's Usagi, and that's Kelly. The boy we were trying to drown is Shingo, Usagi's little brother. Collectively, we're known as the Mischief Makers."
"British?" Chaos asked, catching the accent.
"Yes, and don't let George fool you. They're always trying that. One time, they even tricked their mother!" Usagi replied.
Chaos grinned back, "No worries. I knew he was lying, but they," she jerked her thumb over her shoulder, "didn't. I wanted to see how long it took them to catch on."
"How did you know?" Kelly asked.
Chaos simply pointed at Fred's shirt, which clearly read Fred, and George's, which clearly said George.
"Oohhh!" the Mischief Makers and Chaos Causers breathed in unison.
"What's the time?" Lee suddenly asked.
"Eight hours and one minute past yesterday, why?" she responded, looking at her watch after she gave the time.
"Because, we have rec camp today, and we were supposed to be back at the house a minute ago," Fred explained.
"Gotcha! We're going, too. Oh, and I saw you crash the car yesterday, Usagi, and it was really funny! I actually almost did that myself a few weeks ago."
The Mischief Makers laughed, as did the Chaos Causers, just because they had been told the story in much funnier terms.
"Let's go! We don't want to be late!" Emma said.
"Where are you staying?" Dillon asked.
"DUH!" Chaos exclaimed, flicking him in the head. Or trying to. He was a bit tall. "Didn't you see them go in that house yesterday?"
"Oh yeah…"
"So, what are your names?" Jen asked, as if they'd never told them.
"Holy shooties! Look at the time! We must fly, darlings!" Chaos cried. Everyone looked at her weirdly. "What? What did I say?"
They just shook their heads sadly.
"Maybe we should join forces," Henry announced on the way back to the mansion.
"Yeah, just for the summer!" Emma agreed.
"We could call ourselves the… Summer Strikers, or something," Usagi said.
"Or how about the Summer Smashers? Or the Sudden Springers!" Chaos exclaimed.
"I liked Summer Smashers," Fred and George said.
"Me too," Dillon, Henry and Lee agreed.
"So how about it?" Jen, Emma and Kelly asked.
Everyone looked expectantly at the only other person who hadn't spoken. Usagi.
She weighed the choices. She'd be spending time with her friends no matter what, and wouldn't it be cool to have some American friends? But it would be hard to keep the fact that they are witches and wizards concealed if they were with the Chaos Causers all the time.
"I…" she began.
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All this time, just for a cliffie! MWAHAHAHA! Chaos is a Mary-Sue, with some changes, and Jen, Emma, Henry and Dillon are really some of my friends. ta da! Hope you're all satisfied! Usagi's decision and the first day of rec camp, coming up next week on "Usagi's Destinies."