Marina got it. Her prize is a week with Kaiba.

Kaiba: O_O

Forte: You heard me right, Marina, who I can only assume is a she, gets a week with you.

Marina: Who?

Forte: Seto Kaiba, from Yu-Gi-Oh. If you want, I can switch it so you have someone else for the week.

Marina: I'll think about it.

Kaiba: FORTE, YOU HAD BETTER NOT BE SERIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chapter nine - I hope this isn't a sign of what I think it's a sign of..............

Kyle managed to chase the bus all the way to the school he was supposed to go to. Billy and Emily were nowhere nearby. They had been left behind on Fourth and Washington. Kyle noticed the bus actually pass the school.

"Huh?"

Then he heard all the students in the bus make quite a commotion.

"Wonder what that's about. Oh well, I'm here."

Then Kyle went inside, and the bus stopped.

"Did you kids see that?" The bus driver asked.

"What the heck was that?" One student asked.

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"Are you serious Jake?" A girl asked a boy wearing sunglasses.

"Hell yeah! Some sort of monster was chasing the bus!"

"YIPE!"

The students heading to their homeroom were surprised when their teacher ran past them like the Devil himself were chasing him.

"What was THAT about?" Jake asked.

"I have no........AUGH!"

Then the girl that was skeptical of what Jake said ran from the homeroom. Jake arched an eyebrow, and the students looked inside.

"You have to be kidding me!"

"What the hell?"

They saw a scaly tail poke up from the desks, and someone talking.

"Where'd my pencil go? That's the only one I have sharpened."

Then Kyle got up holding a pencil. (Please don't ask how a raptor can hold a pencil, Lucca said it's too hard to explain, but possible, with or without genetic alteration, just unlikely.)

"Got it."

Then the students outside the room promptly fainted.............

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"Cripes, first school day of the year, and we're late." Billy complained.

"Not only that, but you're in deep trouble when I tell Mom and Dad you used a bad word."

"Give me.......a break. We just went the whole distance to school on foot........"

"I know that!"

They went inside, and immediately noticed the school was empty.

"No one's here." Emily noted.

"Is there something we don't know?"

Then Kyle came by.

"There you are. Can you tell me why no one's gone into the schoolroom or why the janitor gave me a funny look when I asked where homeroom 107 was?"

Billy and Emily looked at each other, and knew where everyone was. Then they spoke to each other in some language Kyle couldn't understand. To him, it was gibberish, to the twins, it was their own language, which they alone knew, and had made a long time ago.

"Huh?"

"Kyle, do you realize your.........different?" Emily asked.

"Different how?"

"That settles it." Billy noted.

"Settles what?"

Billy and Emily then left.

"Hey! Don't I have a right to know what you're talking about? It's about me after all!"

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"Sir, we intercepted a police report of a creature with a description matching the target."

The commanding officer in this installation took the report, and looked it over.

"Seems accurate. Are you sure it's him?"

"What else could it be? Orders to capture target?"

"Yes, but be discreet."

"Er, we can't exactly pretend to be with the animal control department."

"True. However, the cover is your problem. And we want him ALIVE and preferably uninjured. We want to study him after all."

"Yes sir!"

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"We're going to get in trouble for leaving school." Kyle told Billy.

"This is more important.........Geez. I can't find anything."

"Keep looking." Emily told him.

The three had left the school grounds, and were at the library nearby. Luckily, everyone inside had left to see what the commotion at the school was, but it was a nightmare getting past all the onlookers. They almost got caught at one point, but the person looking their way turned out to be a friend of Billy's named Leon, who let his hair grow past his eyes. Normally he was made to wear his hair in a ponytail to see, but it came undone somewhere.

"What are you looking for?" Kyle asked.

"A book on dinosaurs with pictures."

"Why?"

"Because."

"Because why?"

"Because because!"

Kyle saw where this was going.

"Well, I'm hungry, and I left my lunch at school, so see ya."

"See ya............"

Then as Kyle left, it sunk in.

"SEE YA!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Billy and Emily rushed outside in time to see Kyle rushing off himself.

"Oh crap."

"That's twice Billy."

"Crap isn't a bad word!"

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"Let's see, Kyle would probably head home, so let's start there."

Emily and Billy were heading towards Kyle's home, but passing a restaurant, Billy happened to look inside, and went wide-eyed.

"What on!?!"

Emily heard him and looked. In what was probably a bustling, now empty restaurant, there was Kyle, eating something. They went inside.

"What are you doing?"

Kyle looked up from the steak that was once on someone's plate before Kyle arrived.

"Eating. This smells and tastes wonderful! What is it?"

Billy and Emily blinked.

"That's a steak........."

Kyle didn't seem to know what a steak was, but he sure knew he liked it.

"Kyle, what are the five food groups?"

"There's only four. Fruit, Vegetable, Dairy, and Grain."

Then Billy and Emily seemed to catch on. Sarah had probably kept Kyle away from meat his whole life for one reason or another. They were afraid it was another............

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Kaiba: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am NOT spending a week with her!

Forte: With this wristband Lucca whipped up, you can't go fifteen feet from the person wearing the other wristband, which I'm giving Marina. You also can't remove it without Lucca deactivating the program in it. However, I'm giving Marina a chance to pick who she wants to be with for a week.