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It was around 1 o'clock in the afternoon when something odd happened to our trainers. They were walking down the path on their search for bishies when they saw in the distance a group of bishies with young, red-haired trainer who was throwing stones into a puddle. As they came closer they could dimly hear her saying, "Stupid people... stupid gym... we didn't do THAT much damage!" The odd trainer then noticed the group of trainers and bishies approaching her and yelled at them, "What are you looking at?"

Risika said nervously, "Uhh, nothing! Nothing at all! We're just passing by! See ya!"

The red-haired trainer narrowed her eyes at her then declared, "I challenge you to a duel!"

Risika, the fluff-brain that she is, immediately replied, "Ok! Wait! No! I mean, I only have one bishie!"

The challenging trainer smirked evilly and said, "That's alright. I'll just use my Hikitsu." A handsome, icy purple haired bishie with an eyepatch glared at his trainer.

"Umm, well, I'll be using Chichiri," Risika said.

"Then let's get this duel over with!" the red-haired trainer said. "Oh, and by the way, my name is Isolde," she continued.

The two duelers stood in the road 30 ft away from each other with their bishies who were going to duel in front of them. "Last chance to back out, girl.", said Isolde.

Risika replied, "No chance I am backing away from this."

"Very well.", smirked Isolde, "Prepare to lose. Hikitsu, attack!"

Hitkitsu closed his eyes and sent out his chi and snakes made of ice appeared and rapidly shot towards Chichiri.

Chichiri put up a shield instantly and the snakes hit it and bounced off, and they attacked again but could not penetrate the shield. Chichiri concentrated his chi into a ball and shot it at the Genbu Seishi.

Hikitsu managed to absorb of the blast and bled it off into the air, which crackled with lightning and an ice bolt shot back to break against Chichiri's shield. Hikitsu sent another barrage of snakes at Chichiri to distract him while he sent creeper of ice silently under the ground beneath the shield.

Chichiri smiled beneath his mask as he watched the frontal assault frizzled again against his shield and then he gasped in surprise as the creeper of ice grabbed his ankle and shot upward to freeze his foot in a block of ice that slowly crept upwards so it would eventually encase him.

Hikitsu smiled coldly and said, "Time is almost up, mage, soon you will be encased in ice and you will slowly stop breathing and die."

Isolde said, "Uh, Hikitsu, you can't kill him."

Hikitsu whined, "What? Why not? I want to!"

Isolde rolled her eyes and said, "Oh for heavens sake just let him go blockhead."

Hikitsu said, "So, do I win?"

"Not yet na no da!", shouted Chichiri as he hit the ice with his staff. (A/N: Anyone know the Japanese name for a monk's staff?) The ice shattered and the monk's foot was free.
Chichiri sent another chi blast at Hikitsu, this one far larger than his previous one, and it struck Hikitsu hard.

The Genbu Seishi flew backwards from the blast and landed on his back. "Itai", Hikitsu said. Isolde looked worried for a moment.

Chichiri asked, "Daijoubu ka? Can you continue?"

Hikitsu shook his head, "I cannot."

Isolde said, "Then this duel is over." The girl hurried over to her bishie then and got out a fist aid kit from a cabinet capsule. After a few minutes, Isolde said he would be fine very soon. "Hikitsu, return!", commanded Isolde, and the Genbu Seishi returned to his bishi-ball so that he would heal faster. "I guess I will have to travel with you for a week.", said Isolde, "Since I lost I am now your servant for one week."

Risika grinned and said, "Alright! First, let's get going, there is at least 5 hrs of sunlight left so we can walk for at least another 3 hrs."

The others agreed to this course of action and continued on their journey to where ever they think they are going.


~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~Sunset the same day~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+

Isolde practically grinded her teeth as she was finishing up the dishes, she would have been cooking but-

~+~+~+~+~+ *Flashback* ~+~+~+~+~+

"Ahh! The oil's on fire!", shouted Angela.

"I'll put it out!", yelled Isolde. The girl then grabbed a bucket of water and poured it over the flaming oil. Oops, big mistake. A fireball whooshed out and singed everyone in a 5 ft radius, the people who were singed: Angela and Isolde.

Angela raised up a shaky hand and touched her pink and blonde hair that was now crispy fried then she looked over at Isolde. "You.", said Angela seemingly calm. Isolde looked at her nonplussed. "YOU!", screamed Angela who ran at Isolde with her hands into claws.

"Ahh!", Isolde yelled and she ran for her life and her hair.

Everyone else just went O.O

Tasuki asked no one in particular, "I wonder who's gonna cook now?"

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Isolde growled and thought, "Dammit! It's all Risika's fault!", as she wiped the last dish and put it in a cabinet and shut the door so the cabinet turned back into a capsule. The girl was conveniently forgetting that she challenged the trainers and the girl merely accepted the challenge and agreed to the same stakes of course.

Cherry had ended up cooking. She had put a pot of water over and open pit and commanded Tasuki to use his tessen to heat the water. She then had poured the steaming hot water into Ramen-in-a-cup and THEN the BAKA put the Ramen into HANDWASH dishes!

Isolde was mad, but she couldn't do anything, at least not until her week of servitude was up. It was now late and everyone lay down to sleep. Isolde returned all her bishies into their balls and then she lay down and fell asleep instantly.

~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~Dawn the next day~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~

Morning light crept through the trees and hit Cherry's eyes, awakening the redhead.

The girl yawned and stretched until her back made a satisfying pop. She rolled out of her sleeping bag and packed it up.

Angela was already up and was making coffee with Chichiri. The other bishie and Risika and Isolde were still sawing logs. "Good morning!", greeted Angela.

"Morn'in." , mumbled Cherry, still half asleep.

"Want some coffee? It should be ready in a minute.", said Angela.

"Sure, what type?", asked Cherry.

"Jamocha fudge with hazelnut.", replied Angela. (A/N: Mmm, I love that stuff, it's the elixir of life I tell you.) Angela took the kettle off the fire and opened a cabinet capsule and removed two coffee mugs that were cutely decorated with kitties and balloons. She poured the coffee into the cups and handed one to Cherry.

"Thanks.", said Cherry and she sipped the coffee cautiously.

"Milk?", asked Angela.

"No thanks.", replied Cherry.

"Should we wake up the other?", said Angela, "They really shouldn't waste such a lovely morning sleeping."

"If you want to you can, I wouldn't suggest it though. It is a nice morning, I hope it doesn't rain today. Do you know how far it is to the next city?", asked Cherry.

"I would say about 3 days away. It is called Waterslide City, a famous resort area. Trainers and bishies go there to relax from their journeys and duels. I suggest we stay there only overnight. I a bishie in 5 days or I will not be able to stay in this world remember?", said Angela seriously.

Cherry looked at Angela. "I forgot about that rule."

Angela jumps up and dusts herself off. "Well! I am off to find myself a Bishie! Tell everyone else where I've gone!"

"Hold on there!", commands Cherry, "I'm gonna go with ya!"

Angela asks, "Umm... but what about the others?"

"I'll tell them where we are going, and we might as well drag Tasuki-san along with us. Let's wake them up.", replies Cherry. The girls poke and prod everyone awake and tells them what they intend to do. They all nod and fall back asleep, except for poor Tasuki, who was dragged off with the two hyper-active girls on their Bishie-finding quest.

~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~A very long hour later~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~


"This is wonderful.", announces Angela who was ankle deep in mud. The girls had stumbled into a swamp and were now very dirty as a result. To make things worse, there were alot of midges and mosquitoes around biting them. (A/N: What do they eat when they can't get hobbit?!)

Tasuki has a disgusted look on his face as he smacks a mosquito dead on his wrist. "This is pointless. Shouldn't we return to a better place?", says Tasuki.

"No! I heard something this way and we are GOING TO GET IT!", yells Angela, still hyper from the sugar loaded coffee.

Cherry trudges through the smelly mud to a grassy bank and stands on the grass and wipes her boots clean. "The noise we heard was around here somewhere."

Angela nods and join her on the bank. "I hope it's a Bishie!"

Tasuki just rolls his eyes and asks, "Why don't you climb one of these *insert word of your choice here* cotton wood trees and find out?!"

Angela looks surprised, "I never thought of that."

The blonde and pink haired girl runs over to the nearest tree and starts climbing it. When she reached a reasonable height, she tensed up in excitement and then climbed down as fast as she could. She ran back over to Cherry and whispered, "I see the Bishie that made the noise...it was Suboshi-san! And what's more, Amiboshi-san is there too!"

Cherry grins and says, "Let's sneak up on them and capture them, ne?"

Angela grins back and nods happily.

The girls wave Tasuki over and explain what they are going to do.

"Wait, aren't you gonna have me duel them?", Tasuki asks confusedly.

"We would.", replies Angela, "Except I can't afford you maybe losing."

"Oh.", Tasuki says. Then he sits down on a rock and says, "I'll wait here for you then. Good luck Angela-chan."

Angela ^_^'s and then pokes Cherry to say she is ready. The girls sneak towards the unaware green haired twins slowly so as to not alert the Bishies to their presence.

~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~Meanwhile back with the other trainers~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~

The other part of the happy (A/N: Except for one obvious person.) group woke up around 10 am well rested.

Isolde opened a refrigerator capsule and tossed Chichiri and Risika some yogurt smoothies. Chichiri stared at his wondering how to open it till Risika took pity on him and did it for him. They ate their breakfast quietly then cleaned up. They sat in a circle then and said nothing for a bit then Risika asked Isolde, "Aren't you going to bring out your Bishies?"

"Not right now.", replies Isolde shortly.

"Oh.", says Risika. They are silent for a few more minutes then Risika asks Isolde, "How many duels have you won?"

Isolde glares at her, "I have won 47 duels and lost 1."

Risika blinks, "47 wins? Wow! That's really good! How did you do it?"

Isolde says, "I trained my Bishies non-stop since the first time I got them, I cared for them, bought them equipment to up their powers, and bonded with them to make us an invincible fighting team, at least, invincible until you came along."

Risika looks at her angrily, "Hey! You're the one who challenged us! You should have been prepared to be defeated! It's not like you are some god! No one is totally undefeatable! Everyone has a weakness!"

Isolde glares at her, ''I am training to become a master! I will enter a tournament after I have 50 wins and then battle to become the #1 duelist!" (A/N: Uh oh... she now sounds like Kaiba... I'm in trouble.)

The two trainers exchange glares while Chichiri meditates, waiting for the two other trainers to return.

~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~Back in the Swamp~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~

The girls stare at each other. "We got them.", whispers Angela.

"Yeah.", replies Cherry, "YES!!! Wahoo! I got two bishies now! I've got Amiboshi-chan!!!!!!!!!"

Angela grins and cackles maniacally, "I got Suboshi! Bwahaha!"

Tasuki looks over from his rock at the two raving fan-girls. He shakes his head sadly, "Poor guys, they are not gonna like this one bit."

"Shall we let them out?", asks Angela.

"Oh, yes!", replies Cherry, "Amiboshi come out!", the red-headed trainer commands.

The green-haired Seiryuu Seishi pops out of his bishie-ball and stares dazedly at Cherry. "Who are you and what just happened?"

"I caught you.", explains Cherry.

The poor bishie looks horrified and looks around wildly. "Where's my brother?!", he demands.

"In here.", says Angela tapping her bishie-ball. "Suboshi come out!", commands the girl.

The other green-haired bishie pops out and looks at Angela then at the ball and a look of acceptance passes across his face.

"So...", says Cherry, "I'm Cherry, and this is my friend Angela, and that is Tasuki sitting over there on the rock."

The two new Bishies look over at their mortal enemy, the Suzaku Seishi and Suboshi glared at him.

Angela notices his hostility and says, "Don't you dare hurt him Suboshi- chan!"

Suboshi just nodded but still glared at the flame-haired Seishi who just grins back at him.

"Maybe we should go back to camp?", suggest Angela.

"Yeah, I'm hungry! Lunch time!", agrees Cherry.

The girls arrived back in the camp around noon tired, hungry, and very very happy.

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Dragonheart: Well, what did ya think?

Hikitsu: *glares at Dragonheart and her muse* Why did I lose?

Dante: *shrugs* She likes Chichiri alot.

Hikitsu: *folds his arms and pouts*

Dragonheart: There is a psychological reason why Isolde and her bishie lost, you just don't get to find out yet. 2 reviews to the next chapter.