Chapter Two,
The Eccentric Indian Girl
While I was walking around the school looking for Kagome, I found her huddled in a corner sucking her thumb, looking horrified or something. Apparently, the monster had cornered her and it didn't leave till it heard me coming! Tears were streaking down her face and she looked very traumatized.
"Okay, here's the plan, from now on, I stay with you!" she squealed.
"Um, okay. For now, how are we gonna find that monster?" I asked.
"Find him??? More like, run away from him!"
"What? This is so exiting! I love this kind of stuff!"
"Well, good for you, but I don't! You can just do this on your own! I want to go back home!" Kagome crossed her arms.
"I know this is dangerous and all, but that's what makes it fun! We're hunting down danger! Just like real horror movies, or like 'Ghostbusters'! Who ya gonna call? MONSTERBUSTERS!!!" I threw a fist in the air.
"Good for Monsterbusters, well I ain't a part of that parody no more!" Kagome shivered. "Besides, that name sucks."
"Well, I personally don't want to do this alone. I mean, if I were to get hurt chasing the thing, and I got knocked out, there would be no one there to help me. No, I'd just lay there and rot until the next school year came." I tried to make a fake tear come out of my eyes.
"Uh, mmm, fine you got me. I'll stay with you. But like I said before, if I die here, I'm gonna leave it in my will that you were the one to kill me!" Kagome warned me.
"Fine then! I'll be dead, soooo...!"
After a while of trying to hunt down the stupid monster, we got tired and decided to lock ourselves in a classroom and fall asleep, we could continue our journey tomorrow.
The next morning
We woke up in my room, on my waterbed the next morning. WHAT???????
When Kagome woke up, she smiled. "Yea, I knew it was just a dream!"
"Kagome, what was a dream???" I stared at her with wide eyes.
"Well, we followed your imaginary monster on our motorcycles. Then we followed it and it ran into the school I knew it was a dream the whole time so I followed you. And when the monster attacked you I stood up against it and saved your life!" Kagome sighed. "Man, I'm so cool."
"Um, Kagome, there's two things wrong with that theory. One, you didn't save me, I saved you, and two, that wasn't a dream, or I wouldn't have this big scratch on my stomach." I lifted my shirt up and showed her my scratch, and unlike the first time, it was still there.
"What?" Kagome frowned. "Dang, way to burst my bubble."
"Yea, but I don't understand why we're here instead of in the school where we fell asleep." I scratched my head. "Wait, what about our motorcycles?!"
"Oh no! I spent a fortune on that thing!!!" Kagome squealed.
"We've got to see if they're here! If they aren't, we're going back to the school." I smiled.
Kagome stared at me. Then she crossed herself and looked up at the sky.
So, we both walked down the stairs and into my garage. And they weren't there.
"Nooooo!" Kagome banged her head on the wall. "Does this mean we have to go back to the school?"
"Yep!" I rubbed my hands together and laughed evilly.
We got dressed in our clothes and began on our small journey to the school.
Kagome's clothes were a black and pink schoolgirl-like skirt with a belly shirt and black knee-highs.
My clothes were a short, black, sleeveless dress with an orange and purple belt. I also had a JLO hat and orange colored sunglasses.
"I can't believe we're walking through this mud in my brand new black go-go boots!" Kagome whined.
"Why don't you just shut up and keep walking. The sooner you do the sooner we'll be on our motorcycles and on our way back to my house." I scowled.
"Yea, but until we do I'm gonna whine and whine until my lungs pop out." Kagome crossed her arms.
"Come on, stop being such a sissy!" I laughed at her.
So once we got there we stepped under the cover for the picnic area, we grabbed our motorcycles and started to ride off, but before we could even leave the school grounds, we saw a young girl with extremely light blonde hair and very tan skin (tanner than mine!).
"Heyas!" she waved at us.
We pulled over and stopped by her.
"Who are you?"
"My name is Kaolla-Chi, but everyone calls me Chi!" she waved at us.
"Um, I'm sorry, but what are you doing here?" Kagome asked.
"I live right past the school here. What are you doing here?"
"Um, funny story actually-"
I slapped Kagome on the back. "We're here to pick up our motorcycles. We accidentally left them here last night when we came here."
"Why were you here last night?"
"We found something, like, a dog running around and came here to get it. We accidentally stayed too long and ran home, leaving our motorcycles behind." Kagome explained.
"Oh, well, can I ride on them???"
"Um, sure! Hop on!" I patted the back seat to my cycle.
"Yay!" Chi clapped her hands and hopped on. "Giddy up!" she kicked the sides of the motorcycle.
"Great, just what I need, another obnoxious 7th grader." I muttered under my breath.
We rode around my neighborhood a bit and then pulled up to my house.
"This is my house!" I got off my cycle and put the kickstand down.
"That was fun! These things are so cool!" Chi giggled as she got off the motorcycle.
"Um, thanks."
"So, what are we gonna do now?" Kagome asked.
"Why don't we hang out in my house!" Chi suggested. "I have a lake in the backyard! We can fish and swim and play!"
"Do we have to bring our bathing suits?"
"Yup! If you wanna swim!"
"Okay." Kagome got on her motorcycle. "I'm gonna head over to my house, you two go without me. I'll probably be there in a second!"
"Okies!" Chi hopped on the motorcycle and kicked the sides. "Let's go!"
Chi's house is a small house a couple miles behind our school I never noticed it there because I never went further than a quarter of a mile (about the size of our school) back there. It was made of bamboo and has mostly wooden floors. Her room is about half the size of mine and it has a small swing, she sleeps in a hammock, and her TV can pop in and out of the walls, which are made of bamboo. If you enter her closet you can climb a ladder high enough and you'll come out on the roof, she has chairs and all sorts of other stuff on the roof. If you look to the backyard from the roof, you can see a huge lake about four miles around. The lake is pure blue, as blue as the ocean, and Chi said it's freshwater.
"This house is so cool, Chi! It's like an Indian hut or something!" Kagome's eyes sparkled as she peered over the water.
"It is an Indian hut!" Chi told us. "I come from India."
"What?" We chimed.
"Yep! We come from India! The land of the bananas (in other words, the land of my favorite food)!"
"No kidding!" Kagome's eyes widened. "Why did you move here?"
"I came here to get a good education when I was young. I moved here with my older sister when I was seven!" Chi explained.
"Wow! It must be so cool to be from there! What's it like?" Kagome asked.
"Um, it is always clear, um, it has many banana trees, and there's lots of nice people! We all dress in these kinds of clothes!" she pointed to her tight white tube top that showed her belly button. She was also wearing a green and red skirt that went all the way down to her ankles. Last, she wore a tan shawl with beads hanging from it. She didn't wear any shoes but a small cloth anklet.
"No kidding???" I eyed her unique clothes.
"Yes yes yes!" Chi nodded her head violently. "I love my clothes!"
"I do too!" Kagome smiled. "They are cool! I wish I could afford something that cool."
"So, you can afford to buy a mini motorcycle but you can't afford to buy something as simple as this?" Chi asked.
"Well, those are pure Indian clothes. Those things are expensive in the US. There's like, no way I could buy those things." Kagome sighed.
"Yes? My mum buys these from the bazaars in India. She sends plenty of clothes for me." Chi explained.
"Wow! Can she send some for me???" Kagome asked.
"Kagome! Don't be so rude!" I snarled at her.
"Sorry. I was raised that way."
"Okay, so what are w gonna do now?" I asked.
"I-"
"Kaolla-Chi! Time for lunch!" they heard a strong Indian accent call from below.
"Oh! You like bananas?"
For lunch (over at Chi's) we had banana smoothies, banana pudding, and some other weird foods that tasted good.
"Yum!" I said as I finished my food.
"Ditto! This is some really far-out stuff you've got here!" Kagome nodded.
"Thank you! It has been a tradition to make this every Saturday at noon." Chi's sister smiled, obviously proud of the food she made.
Chi has a huge appetite. She had already eaten four servings before we even finished.
"You have a very small appetite!" Chi stated as she grabbed a fourth plate.
"You have a very big appetite." Kagome corrected her. "We're normal."
Chi shrugged and took her first bite.
After we finished lunch, I heard my cell phone, which was in my purse on my motorcycle.
"Oh! I'll be right back." I ran to my motorcycle and pulled out my phone. "Hello?"
"Hey, Sango. Mind telling us where you are?" I heard my mom's voice say.
"Oh, I'm behind my school at one of my friends houses. Her name is Chi." I explained.
"Okay, have you eaten lunch yet?"
"Yep. I have."
"Make sure you come home by seven, okay?"
"All right. Luv you. Bye." I bid farewell and hung up.
"Who was that?" Kagome asked as I walked back into Chi's house.
"That was my mom. She was wondering where the heck we are." I giggled nervously.
"OH, we never did tell her we left." Kagome bit her nails.
"Oh well, we're all right. I don't have to go home until seven." I declared.
"Okay, for now what do you wanna do?" Kagome asked.
"Wanna go into town?" I asked.
"Yup!" Chi nodded and tugged on them. "We can go on the motorcycles!"
"No, we can go on our roller blades." Kagome corrected her.
"Aww." Chi sighed. "I don't have roller blades."
"Okay, you can use my old pair." Kagome gestured for her to get on her motorcycle.
"Giddy up!"
We just bladed around town a bit before we bought some ice cream as we did the day before. Chi got vanilla, I got strawberry, and Kagome got New York Cheesecake.
"Wow! I shoulda gotten that flavor!" Chi stared at the ice cream Kagome was licking.
"Um, well, whatever."
Chi didn't have any roller blades, and both of our moms had thrown away our old ones, so Chi was riding on my back, since I was the strongest and she was only 40 pounds (very very light for a 12 year old pig).
"Now, why did you insist on me giving you a piggy back ride?" I asked Chi.
"I love piggy back rides, and it's faster this way!" she kicked my sides.
"Yea, you're gonna have to not do that."
"Sorry."
We skated around town for a bit and then we stopped to rest.
"That was way cool! Let's do it again!" Chi giggled with excitement.
"You weren't the one skating!" I panted.
"Um, it can't be that hard. I'm really light." Chi stated as if she was proud of being light.
"Well I always get tired after rollerblading." I explained. "You've never bladed before, have you?"
"Nope! I always walk."
"Wow, no wonder you like our motorcycles so much!" Kagome raised her eyebrows.
"This is really fun! I've always wanted a set of wheels to get around on. We just can't afford too much. You guys have it all, you have a motorcycle (and you're only 13), a bike, and probably all kinds of other stuffs!" Chi sighed. "I wish we were rich, but I only have my sister."
"It's okay, as long as you're hanging out with us you can do all sorts of cool stuff. Like hang out at the beach and ride around town." Kagome cheered her up.
"Yaaaay!" Chi jumped up in the air.
"For now why don't we head back to my house. My parents are probably wondering where the heck I am." Kagome stretched and got up.
"Okay. Let's go." I smiled and chucked Chi onto my back.
We bladed as fast as we could through town and into our neighborhood. Soon enough we were almost to our house.
"Weeee!" Chi squealed as we whizzed over hills, sped around corners, and flew through the streets of Myrtle Beach. "This is so fun! I've never gone this fast before except in our car!"
"We should be there soon." Kagome yelled over all the wind.
"Okay, get ready!" I yelled back to Chi as we flew down the biggest hill in the neighborhood. We flew down the hill at, like five or more miles per hour. The hill was probably at a seventy-degree angle! We were almost flying the whole way down.
"Whoa!" I wiped the tears off the sides of my face. "That was fun!" We began to slow down until we pulled up to Kagome's driveway.
Kagome's house is only a little bit bigger than mine was. She has a pool in her backyard for freshwater swimming. The house is all white and it's three stories tall. Her room has a balcony that she can overlook the sea in. Her room is decorated in light pinks and whites. She likes stuff like that. Her windows are always open and she likes a chilling breeze blowing through in the winter. I hate the cold, I simply can't stand it, that's why we hang out in my room most of the time.
The walls in her room are light pink and her windows run from the ceiling to the floor. Her bed is pink and it has a huge canopy that runs all the way down to the floor. Her carpets are pure white and she has to soak them almost every week so that they wont get dirty. She has a flat screen computer and an old fashioned white phone right next to it. They entrance to her room is made dramatic with white beads and a see thru white curtain. If you climb a ladder right next to her door, you'll climb up to her small loft that her TV is in. We like to hang out up there and play her gamecube and watch TV.
My favorite part of her house is her white puppies. She has exactly five of them (and they're all girls). This is all of they're names: Daisy, Angel, Chemita, Annie, and Vanilla. My favorite one is Vanilla, she loves to curl up in lap of beauty (which is often me, hee hee!).
"Wow! This house is neato! I wish I lived in a place like this! It's even right by the ocean!" Chi examined the room. "Neato! Can I go up here???" she gestured toward the loft.
"Sure, go wherever you'd like, just as long as you don't mess anything up." Kagome sent her off.
"Cool!" Chi ran around the room staring at everything in sight. "Ooo! Food!" she grabbed Dory, one of Kagome's albino fish and stuck it in her mouth.
"Aaahhh! Noooo!" Kagome slapped Chi so that she spit Dory out and threw her back into the bowl. "That isn't food!"
"What? We always eat fish." Chi stated, looking confused.
"But that kind of fish isn't the kind you eat." Kagome scolded her.
"Oh." Chi sniffed, and still looked at Dory, drooling.
"Ch, let's get back to what we were doing." Kagome rolled her eyes and climbed to the top of her loft. "I'm gonna play some video games, wanna join me?"
"Sure." I shrugged and climbed up with her.
We played Inu-Yasha the game until our eyeballs felt like they would pop out. Then we climbed down the ladder, grabbed Chi, and sat down on the balcony and watched the ocean.
"I'm so tired." Kagome yawned and stretched.
I looked at my watch. Hm, only three o'clock. I swear it was four five hours ago.
"This place is so cool! I wish we lived her longer." Chi sighed as she looked at the view.
That kid sure has tired me out. I wonder how she has so much energy. I sighed and fell back onto my chair.
"Do you ever get tired, Chi?" Kagome whined.
"Nope! Except at bed time." Chi smiled.
"This is gonna be a long summer." Kagome banged her head on the back of the chair.
And she was right.
"Hey mom! I'm home!" I waved at my mother, who was preparing a late dinner.
"Hey, honey! I'm making spatgettie for dinner." She waved at me.
"All right! Sounds good to me!" I nodded. "Today was a long day."
"I heard you ate lunch at your friend's house, but who is she?" Mom asked.
"Oh, her name is Chi and she came from India. She's quite an eccentric girl!" I laughed. "She only weighs 40 pounds, she's 12, she loves bananas, she eats raw fish, and she is most hyper kid I ever met. You'd have to take her on a one way jog around the Grand Canyon to tire her out."
"Wow! She sounds like an interesting kid. I'll have to meet her some time." Mom nodded and got back to cooking. "So what else did you do today?"
"I rode around town on both my roller blades and my motorcycle. I gave Chi a piggyback ride around the town. I hung out at both Chi and Kagome's house, and I got ice cream." I said.
"Wow, no wonder you look so tired!" mom laughed.
"Yep! So, when is dinner gonna be ready?"
"In about twenty more minutes."
"Okay! I'm gonna go to my room, tell me over the intercom when it's done!" I yelled as I headed upstairs (we have an intercom in each of our rooms so we can talk to each other without yelling across the house).
"Okay!"
So I climbed my staircase and threw myself on my bed. Wow! What a day. I wonder what happened at our school last night. I'm determined to find out, even if it takes me the rest of my life! Ah ha! I grabbed my phone and dialed up Kagome's number.
"Hello?" I heard Kagome answer.
"Hey, gurl. I just called to chat for a while." I rolled over on my back.
"All right, I was bored anyways. So, what's new?" she asked.
"Nothing much, I just came home and my mom's cooking a late dinner. Now I'm laying on my bed waiting for her to call me down."
"Hm, about the same for me."
"How much longer did you and Chi play after I left?"
"Not very long, I got tired of looking after her, she's such a little monkey." Kagome sighed. "I took her home on my motorcycle and hung out at my house by myself for a while. She is so immature, I'm serious."
"Yea, but I like her, nevertheless." I smiled. "There's just something about her..."
"Really? Is it another one of your magical feelings?"
"No!" I giggled. "It's just, I don't know, maybe it's just because she's different, of because she's kind of a mini-me."
"Um, I don't think she's like you at all." Kagome said.
"I know, it's just that she's like my second side I never reveal. I'm sure you've felt that way some time before!"
"Nope!"
"Come on! You're so boring!" I laughed.
"No, I'm just being practical."
"No! You're being tiresome."
"So, changing the subject, do you really think something really happened last night?"
"I'm not sure. I think it happened, but then again, if it didn't happen, how were our motorcycles there when we woke up?"
"That's true." Kagome frowned in thought.
"It's almost like someone carried us back home or something. Maybe someone is behind all of this." I thought for a minute. "But it would have to be someone stooping really low."
"You know, that is very true. I just wish I knew. I don't want to go through this. Why does it have to be me???" Kagome pouted.
"Suck it up. It isn't just you, you know. It's me too, maybe even somebody else." I reminded her.
"But if it was somebody else, how come it only cares about you?" Kagome asked.
"Not sure, maybe it goes to other people in its spare time or something." I shrugged. "I dunno."
"Maybe- wait a minute, wasn't there a science fair right before school ended?"
"Yea, why does it matter?"
"It matters because when it started, I heard something escaped, I also heard there's been monster sightings around town. Maybe the something that escaped was this monster thing that's been after us. Who knows, it could be a genetically enhanced dog or something." Kagome explained.
"No way!"
"Yes way!" Kagome exclaimed. "It all started back in the good old days, the seventh grade."
FLASHBACK
"Okay, ya'll. In about ten more minutes we can go to class!" the principle, Mrs. Gravy yelled over all the noise in the cafeteria.
Sango, Sissy, and I were all really bored, so we all decided to walk outside for a little bit. It was a really boring conversation, we didn't pay attention to the rumors, there was a monster that was crawling around the school, so we just waked right out the cafeteria door. It was hot, cloudy, and foggy outside. Sissy chickened out and went back inside, but we pressed on. We walked around the basketball court and the tetherballs until we heard a huge screeching noise. I stopped for a moment until the others called me back up with him.
"Come on, Kagome!" Sango called me back up with her.
"Coming! Listen, Sango, you didn't happen to hear a huge screeching noise just now, did you?"
"Nope!" Sango grabbed my hand and dragged me on.
"Let's go back inside, I'm scared! It's so creepy out here!" I tugged on Sango.
"I wanna stay out here!"
Just then, we heard a huuuge screeching noise that I know she heard.
"Um, what was that???" Sango shivered.
"Don't worry, I'm sure it was just a horrible monster coming to get us!" I said sarcastically.
Then, without warning, we saw a small dog like creature run around a corner and into the school.
We tried to follow it, but it was too fast, we never saw it again, until today.
END OF FLASHBACK
"That is the cheesiest story I've heard in my entire life." I laughed.
"It's true, don't you remember it?"
"Well, I do remember something like that. Maybe it isn't all fake. Maybe you just made up a little bit." I laughed again.
"Shut up! I know my story is all true!"
"Whatever." I smiled. "Hey, Kagome, do you think that you could meet me at the school tonight? If the monster comes to get me I'll call you on your cell phone. Okay? Please! I don't wanna go alone!"
"Um, sure, I guess. I didn't get hurt last night, so I don't think I'll get hurt this time." Kagome sighed. "You got me."
"Thanks!" I thanked her as my mom called me over the intercom. Wow! That didn't take very long! I thought as we bid each other farewell and I walked down the stairs.
"Here you go guys!" My mom dished out food for everyone in my family, my mom, dad, sister, and brother (you know, it's kind of amazing how I'm so spoiled when I have an older brother and sister, maybe it's cause I'm the baby in the family).
"Thanks mom!" my sister, Ash, thanked my mom.
"Oh you're welcome honey!" Mom blushed.
"Hey, Ash, what were you doing all week?" my brother, Keitaro asked.
"None ya." Ash snarled.
"I think we're all wondering that, gurl." I stared at my sister.
"Indeed!" My dad agreed.
"Aww, do I have to tell?"
"Yep." Mom nodded.
"Dang!" Ash rolled her eyes and told us. She said that she went to six flags in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She went on a hike up Pike's Peak, she went to Focus on the Family, and she even went to the zoo.
"Wow! I wish I could go on a high school trip." I sighed.
After dinner, we had dessert, summer coolness. It has lemon pudding, whipped cream, and crust, it's really, really good!
As I finished my food, I thought about the monster, and how I was gonna sneak out tonight. I mean, normally, every Monday night, my parents stay up almost all night (it's cause they both get off of work on Tuesdays).
"Mmm!" I smiled from ear to ear. "That was really good dad!"
My dad has loved cooking ever since he was little. He even owns his own restaurant. He cooks our dinner sometimes, and our dessert almost all the time. His favorite dish to prepare is called Five Layers of Heaven. It's chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting.
"Thanks! Did you expect any less?" my dad cracked his knuckles.
When I was done eating and doing the dishes, which were my turn to do that night, I went upstairs to my room. First, I read some fanfictions on my computer, one was about Tokyo Mew Mew, it was called 1 Heart, 3 Loves. It was about a young princess named Ichigo who had to choose between three princes, Prince Ryou, Prince Kish, and Prince Masaya, but she ended up choosing Kish.
Then I read a story about a young girl named Starfire who lived with her secret crush, Robin because her dad abused her.
After I finally finished reading, I went to bed, and that night, I had a dream.
End of Chapter Notes:
I finally finished that chapter! Whew! It seems like writing drags on forever when you have to submit the story in for something. I guess writing for a career (or a purpose) is somewhat hard. It seems like when you get reviews to put up more chapters, it seems more like a job than a hobby!
Okay, for a little extra story, and to take up a little space, I am gonna tell you how the dream that I based this story on really went. I'll give you a little bit of it every end of chapter. Just to let you know, this dream is in Ariel's perspective.
It was a foggy and lonely day at Carson Middle School. Kristin, Jocelyn, and I were all sitting at a table talking about school and all sorts of other stuff. We overheard Jocelyn and some of her other friends talking about the science fair. We heard them say that a monster escaped from the science fair. We didn't care. I got up because I was bored of the conversation, and Kristin followed. There was no turning back then because we heard the teacher say if we got up we wouldn't be able to sit back down.
We walked out the door to the small playground. The playground was barely visible through the thick fog, but we pressed on. After a few minutes of walking around, we heard a small screeching noise. We ignored it for a while, and then we heard the screech again, only this time it was louder.
"Hey, Kristin, did you hear that?" I asked.
"Yea, um, it was probably just construction going on or something."
So we just kept walking for a while until we saw a small shadow at the end of the wall we were walking by.
"What the...?" I squinted at it. Then I saw it coming nearer to us. "Kristin, don't you think we should go inside now?"
"What? Why?"
"Come on!" I grabbed Kristin's hand and ran inside.
Our school was huge! It was at least 3 stories tall and 26000 square feet on each floor. The lockers were all white, and the walls were painted white along with them. The carpets were just the normal school carpets.
We ran past the sixth grade classrooms and into the office. Just then, we heard a deafening screeching noise, we saw a black dog with red eye and knives for its ears, legs, and it's tail.
To Be Continued...
I hope you liked it! Please review so I can prove to my friend that this story isn't crap!
Chapter Three
Teaming up
This is the dream I had before I woke up:
I was walking through my school, and I saw the monster I've been chasing. A girl named Kristin, and a girl named Jocelyn were walking throughout the school with me. They kept calling me Ariel, and I just went along with it. We saw a monster thing and we started to run. We ran and ran and ran until we ran into a bunch of dogs that were foaming at the mouth (literally). We ran from them, and just when we began to go up the stairs, and then I woke up.
When I did wake up I saw the monster, which came as no surprise to me, and I sat up.
It stood on it's hind legs and tried to scratch me again, but I backed up just in time. It growled and ran off.
I followed it until it ran out of my house. I hopped on my motorcycle, put on my gear, and rode off.
It'll probably run to the school again, if not I'm gonna be in trouble with Kagome!
It ran and ran and ran until it finally turned onto the dirt road, which lead to my school. I looked around, but no Kagome, and that came as no surprise to me.
I'll just call her up, maybe she forgot to wake up.
I took out my cell phone and dialed her room number (she has her own separate phone line in her room).
"Hello?" I heard her answer.
"Hey, Kagome! Are you coming?"
"Coming where? Oh, you mean to the school? Yea, I was just getting read