(Lupicinus and Mystic Rain at 9 something at night up at the nearbypark)

Lupicinus: Hey look, the merry go round! Sweet! (runs up and grabs the bars) You getting on?

Mystic Rain: Uh, no, I don't think so, but you go right ahead and ill help push since i dont wanna get sick

Lupicinus: Oh, so ur gonna leave me spinning all alone are ye?

Mystic Rain: Yes.....?

Lupicinus: Fine fine! (Starts pushing and then hops on while Mystic Rain continues pushing)

Few mins later

Mystic Rain: hey look, a police officer......

Lupicnus: Really where?

Mystic Rain: (Points to parking lot) There.....

Lupicinus: Aw Shit..........

((((((to be continued))))))))

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Chapter 14:

Sunny, that's what it was, extremely sunny, but thankfully there was a crisp and clean breeze, it was as if the Sylphs even felt sympathy for mortals on this blazing hot day. If not for the breeze, they were sure it'd be too hot to be out there. Loreli, Sonson, Eiji and Kira were all at the park, sitting on a bench made of cheap black metal grating by the parking lot waiting for their friends.

The park was extremely large. It had a big play ground area, several picnic pavilions, tennis courts, basketball courts, soccer fields, and 2 baseball diamonds. Beyond the main part of the park was a big creek with a bridge across it that led to running trails. And then there were woods; oh how the woods surrounded it all like a barrier against outside forces. That's why so many people loved this park; it was a sanctuary for those whom wished to escape the worries and troubles of their functioning (or non functioning) everyday lives.

The park had a good sum of people with their dogs in the fenced in dog area and lots of other families were occupying the pavilions and children played happily in the playground. A team was using one of the baseball diamonds, no doubt the coaches making an attempt to keep their players in shape. Off to the side at the far end of the creek an elderly woman had an easel set up and was painting the scenery.

It was pet day at the park so they all had theirs with them. Kira had Yuri, Eiji didn't have her dog with her because it was at the vets with her mom, Loreli had her weimeriner Miliya, and Sonson had her Anatolian Shepherd Dog, Blaine. The pets were all resting under the bench in the cool shade enjoying the breeze, watching the heat radiate off of the parking lot.

Despite how hot it might have been without the constant breeze, it truly was a simply gorgeous day. Barely any clouds were in the sky and the wind was causing the trees to sway and give way to the blossoms which some of them had.

Sonson looked up and spotted Viole's black Dodge Stealth pulled into the park's entrance swerving all over the place, which was unlike Viole since he was a great driver. It had purple designs down the sides but the designs were so dark that you really had to look to see them. It was rather clever because it made people look at the car trying to figure out if there really were designs or maybe their eyes were just playing a trick on them, "It's Viole!"

Kira took a sip from her water bottle and then poured some on her head to try and cool herself down, "Finally." She murmured.

Viole pulled in right beside Sonson's beastly (and not to mention muddy as hell) truck and they all heard him turn off the engine, that and the distinct barking of more than one dog…and the odd noise of some other animal. Viole hopped out of the car with his designer sunglasses on rather hurriedly. He appeared to have a relatively stressed expression as Gatti along with his St. Bernard Jake, and Dallet fumbling two leashes, one for Yoyo, his wirehaired dachshund, and one for his wombat, Larry, piled out of the vehicle. Chesta got out of the front passenger seat with a blonde American cocker spaniel in his arms named Mei. She shook her head causing her ears to flop and he then placed her gently on the ground, again she shook off her stiffness.

Dallet stretched his back and grumbled, "Well that was a terrible ride."

Viole pocketed his keys and rummaged for his dog's leash, "Yea, I only had a wombat trying to rip off my shoe while I was trying to drive!" He gave Dallet a menacing look and glared at him over the ridge of his sunglasses.

Chesta and Gatti sweat dropped. They heard shouting and spotted the girls on a bench waving to them. Jake barked and took off towards the girls pulling Gatti behind him, "Jake! Slow down!" Gatti was nearly taken off his feet be he managed to stay upright.

They all laughed as Jake hauled Gatti across the parking lot over to them. Gatti nearly fell over when Jake stopped to sniff the pets the girls had brought with them.

Chesta chuckled and shut the car door. Mei seemed to have noticed there were other dogs and began sniffing the air as her stubby tail wagged fiercely. Dallet and Chesta headed over to the girls while Viole attached a leash to his black afghan hound Obsidian. Viole sighed deeply after attaching a water bottle to his belt and then trotted over to where the others were, Obsidian's gleaming coat flowing behind him dramatically. He was an actor in a past life...

Kira was petting Jake as she looked up at the guys, "So where are Migel and Guimel?"

Chesta sat down on the large bench beside Kira with Mei hiding behind his legs out of shyness, "Migel lives with in walking distance, and he had Guimel over for the night. He said they would walk here." Mei barked.

Suddenly everyone's attention was drawn to a shouting Viole who was halfway up a tree with Larry grunting and trying to get at his shoes as he circled the tree like a shark waiting for a ship wrecked sailor to fall off of a rock. Dallet was trying to hold him back but he had slipped out of his harness.

"Larry! Leave Viole alone!" Dallet was now chasing Larry around the tree trying to get the harness back on him. For some reason Larry always went after shoes, especially Viole's nice expensive shoes... Dallet's father was a popular magician and Larry used to be one of the animals he used in his disappearing act. Well Dallet loved the wombat so much that his father decided to give him to Dallet for his 14th birthday. But as to how Larry came to love killing shoes, who knows.

Viole was flustered and angry, which was extremely rare, "If you don't get that thing under control Dallet I'm going to find the biggest anaconda I can and feed it to it!"

Dallet sweat dropped as he tried harder to catch the rogue wombat, "He's just excited! He usually isn't like this!"

Obsidian was barking while he was lying in the grass lazily beside the rest of the group, a bit too lazy to go over and save his master from the big bad wombat.

Everyone except for Dallet and Viole were laughing. Dallet finally subdued Larry with a peppermint and put his harness back on and tightened it. Viole dropped from the tree and brushed himself off looking rather sour.

Loreli and Eiji both spotted Migel and Guimel coming across the baseball diamond with their pets in tow. Migel had his Chihuahua Juan, and Guimel had Molly, his Bedlington terrier, which his family had just got over the weekend so no one except for Migel had seen her yet. They reached the bench and smiled that mostly everyone had showed up.

Juan was doing circles excitedly, "Hey guys!" Migel sweat dropped when he realized no one was paying attention to him. Instead everyone was looking at Guimel's dog.

Guimel was getting uncomfortable with everyone staring at Molly, "Uh? Is something wrong?" he eyed Molly sympathetically knowing what everyone was thinking.

Gatti snickered, "What is that? A sheep?"

Dallet held his mouth trying to hold back laughter, "That has got to be the oddest thing I have ever seen!"

All Viole and Chesta could do was stare while Sonson, Loreli, and Eiji all giggled. Kira was all out laughing. In fact she was laughing so hard she nearly fell off the bench.

Migel scratched his head, "Well she is a bit odd looking…"

Guimel frowned and picked up Molly, "Ignore them girl, they're being mean. They call me sheep head so don't feel bad." He earned a whimper from her and she licked his face.

They settled down after a few moments. Now Sonson, Loreli, Eiji, Kira, Dallet and Chesta were all sitting on the long bench with their pets either under the bench in the shade or sniffing nearby. Viole was leaning against a nearby tree with Obsidian at his feet. Migel meanwhile was at a close by water fountain getting a drink for himself and Juan. Guimel was sitting beside the bench playing with Molly.

Migel sighed when he returned from the water fountain and plopped down beside Guimel, "When are Satori and Dilandau going to show up?"

Loreli sighed and leaned back, "Satori's isn't that far from here so they should be here soon."

Sonson raised an eyebrow, "Uh? What does Satori living near to here have anything to do with Dilandau's arrival?"

Everyone eyed Loreli questioningly. Loreli didn't like it when everyone stared at her so she began fidgeting and blushing, "I mean that Dilandau… slept the night over. So I imagine that they're going to show up here together…"

They all understood what she had meant except for Migel and Sonson who had taken it the wrong way.

Sonson blinked a few times in shock, "You mean they…?"

Migel's eyebrow was twitching with a kind of embarrassed look before he shot up to his feet, "I can't believe him! How could he be so inconsiderate! Has he no morals! I'm going to kick his ass!"

Kira grumbled, "NO you idiots! They didn't do anything like THAT he simply spent the night! Not a big deal they're good friends. Gosh get out of the gutter."

Sonson and Migel Oh'd at the same time and calmed down, a bit embarrassed at their dirty thinking.

Viole laughed as he eyed the road, "Speak of the devil…s."

They all looked towards the road and saw Dilandau and Satori speeding towards the park like they were racing (which they were). They still found it odd that her littler vespa could keep up with Dilandau's racing bike.

Dilandau grinned and sped up, Dren Park was right ahead and he had a slight lead on Satori, "You're going to lose Irerno!" He was driving so fast his hair was totally dragged back from his face and billowed behind him.

Satori scoffed and kicked it up to 75, "In your dreams Dilandau!" She didn't want to go too fast because she had Ururu with her on the Vespa, but she hated losing so she pushed it as much as she could.

They both turned sharply into the Park's parking lot. Several people hastily had to jump out of their way to avoid getting hit. A little kid was chasing a kitten across the parking lot and he just happened to be in Satori's path.

Satori spotted the child, "SHIT!" She slammed on her brakes while Dilandau, whose path was clear, pulled into a parking space and by doing so won.

Satori waited impatiently for the kid to gather his cat and scurry off the road crying before pulling into the space beside Dilandau, knowing he was going to rub it in.

Dilandau was leaning on his bike smirking, "Looks like I won."

Satori shut off her Vespa and grabbed Ururu's leash, "Yeah, by luck. I would've won if it wasn't for that kid." Ururu hopped off and shook himself and began sniffing the ground.

Dilandau got up and put his hands in his pockets, "Yeah, sure. You keep telling yourself that Irerno."

Satori rolled her eyes and began walking over to where she had seen the others, figuring it was better not to add coal to the fire.

Kira saw Satori and Dilandau approaching and stood up, "Finally! What took you two?"

They stopped in front of the bench with Ururu gazing at the other animals unenthused.

Satori chuckled, "We had to stop at a store so we could get some stronger sun screen cuz Dilandau was already starting to burn."

Dilandau grumbled and looked away with the scent of aloe Vera stinging his nose from the sunscreen.

He saw Dallet sniggering and walked over and punched him, "Shut up!"

Dallet rubbed his arm, "Sorry…"

The others laughed and all stood up. Eiji ran over to Sonson's truck to get the stuff for the picnic.

She waved her hands in the air as she put down the back, "Hey! I need some help with the stuff guys!"

Everyone ran over to help her with the exception of Kira, due to the fact she already had a cooler bag, Satori because she too had a bag of stuff, and Dilandau because he figured the others had everything handled and so he wasn't needed.

Eiji, armed with a big folded up blanket, smiled cheerily, "So let's go find a nice spot!"

Several of the dogs barked excitedly as the group started walking to find a suitable place to hold their picnic.

The girls were walking together with the guys trailing behind them both groups talking about a different subject. They looked odd with all the pets they had with them.

Sonson was beaming, "I'm so glad we're doing this."

Loreli nodded, "Yeah, it's way too nice to be inside. And when have we gone on a picnic with all of us together."

Kira smiled, "I must say I'm glad we planned this as well." Kira looked down at Yuri who was trotting slightly in front of her.

Satori sighed and looked up, "Yeah, this is nice."

Eiji gasped and pointed over to a big willow tree that was about 60 yards away from the creek, "That's the perfect place!"

The guys followed them over as Eiji ran over to the spot she had pointed out and spread out the blanket in the willow tree's shade. They set the basket and coolers to the side of the blanket and took in the pure glory of the scenery.

Larry, tired from chasing Viole, went over to the tree's trunk and curled up into a ball for a nap. Yoyo ran over to Dallet's bag and pulled out his Frisbee.

Dallet laughed as Yoyo ran around him, "Ok Yoyo, just hold on, I need to tie up Larry."

Dallet pulled out a dog stake with a 10-foot dog line attached to it and headed over to where Larry was resting.

Dilandau pulled out a soda from one of the coolers and took a long sip as the girls all ripped off their shoes and ran out to play with their pets in the open grass. Viole sighed deeply and laid down on the big blanket. Obsidian flopped down beside him, in a very elegant way though of course.

Dallet had screwed the stake into the ground and hooked up Larry. Yoyo's tail was wagging rapidly as Dallet took the Frisbee from his mouth and threw it with the little dog running quickly after it.

Satori had taken Ururu over to the creek side. She looked over the sparkling water and smiled, "What do you think boy? Great isn't it?" He mildly whimpered and rubbed against her legs in a plight to beg her to take him home. She laughed and bent over to roll up her pants. Once they were rolled up past her knees she stepped into the water with Ururu excitedly following her into the cool liquid. She waded out with Ururu running by and splashing her.

"You little jerk!" She playfully splashed him back.

Chesta and Gatti had their dogs playing with a ball while Eiji and Sonson were playing soccer with Blaine. Guimel and Molly were playing Frisbee with Dallet and Yoyo. And Migel was making Juan do tricks for treats…. yes he does take him trick or treating for Halloween dressed up as a little black kitty cat.

Kira had wandered over to the creek with Yuri, laughing at Satori and her wolf, "How's the water Satori?"

Satori turned back to shore and waved, "It's great!"

As if on cue Yuri barked and jumped in, doggy paddling out to where Ururu and Satori were. Kira laughed and followed after her since she was wearing shorts. As Kira had just about made it over to Satori, Yuri had gotten carried over to an area where the current was strong and yelped as she tried to fight against it.

Kira saw this and tried to get over to her but the water lagged her greatly, "Yuri!" she cried frantically.

Satori saw the little dog get carried farther and farther downstream, "Ururu! Get her!"

Ururu growled and sprang forward heading towards Yuri. Yuri whimpered as her head went under briefly. Ururu being bigger and stronger easily leaped through the water. He made it to Yuri and gently grabbed the ruff on the back of her neck.

Kira was a nervous wreck, "Thank god!"

Satori sighed in relief, "Good boy! Come back now!"

Ururu pulled Yuri from the deep water and began heading back towards the little island in the middle of the creek.

Kira ran over as Ururu sat Yuri on the island's shore and shook himself free of lose water. Yuri barked happily and started jumping and licking at Ururu's face. He just kind of stood there unsure of what to do. Kira scooped up her now drenched dog and kissed her, "You scared me! I know you think you're a Great Dane but you're just a little Corgi! The math teacher lied when she said you can do anything you put your heart into!"

Satori pat Ururu's head, "Good boy! You're a hero! Now if only you did that when my shoes floated downstream." Ururu gave her the 'What do you think I am, your slave?' look.

Kira sat Yuri down again and as she was about to stand back up she saw a most obvious catalyst that could spice things up. A devilish smirk formed upon her lips and she took a clump of it in her hands. She rose again, slowly as to not lose anymore of the moist runny stuff, and just fast enough to act natural. Kira's grin widened as she turned around to face Satori, her right hand dripping with mud just dying to be thrown through the air. Kira was about to fling it but she was hit first. She made a distasteful grunt and wiped the mud off of her face and eyes only to see a grinning Satori, hand smeared with remnant mud.

Kira's eyes flared, "YOU BITCH!" She flung the mud but Satori had been expecting the action and had ducked. Kira scooped up another handful and whipped around to aim at Satori, but it wasn't necessary for she saw that a soccer ball was plummeting straight for her best friend's head.

Satori saw the surprised look on Kira's face, "What's wrong- "

KASWACK!

Satori groaned painfully as the ball knocked her in the side of the head hard. She was knocked backwards and fell into the water, the current slowly started to take her down stream.

Kira was cracking up but stopped when she saw her friend being carried off, "Oh my god! Satori are you ok!" Kira ran over to her friend while Ururu attacked the creature that had so viciously harmed his master. The soccer ball.

Kira dragged her to shore and laid her on the grass. She looked up when she heard someone running towards her. It was a young man, his head covered in unruly ruby hair with bright enchanting emerald eyes nearly yellow, that knelt down beside Satori and checked her over in a distraught frenzy. He was wearing black pants and a white tank top.

He looked up at Kira with concerned filled eyes, "Sorry about that! I truly didn't mean for it to hit her!"

By then the others had seen what had happened (except for Viole for he was snoozing) and had sprinted over to the side of their fallen friend. They were now hovering over them while Satori groaned. Dilandau clenched his teeth with some not so nice negative thoughts directed at the stranger. The only reason he was keeping his mouth shut was because it was an accident and Satori's skull was thick so she would be ok. And not to mention he was feeling unnaturally peaceful today, no need to ruin that by punching some dudes face in. Though normally he was dying for any excuse to start a fight.

He smiled as Satori groaned and put a hand to the area of where the ball had hit her. She sat up holding her head and wincing in pain, "Ouch, dammit that hurt…more than it should have…"

The guy grinned, "Sorry about that, I missed the goal there by about 10 feet." The girls all laughed except for Kira who was kind of in a state of blah.

Satori cracked open an eye and growled at the guy, "Well then maybe you shouldn't be playing soccer." She stood up holding her head.

The guy's grin faded and was replaced with an 'oh wonderful she's one of those girls' look, "I'm sorry, it's not like I was aiming for your head you know."

Satori glared at him, "Well it sure as hell seems like you were, seeing as that I was in the creek which is how far from the soccer field?"

Migel folded his arms, "She's got a point there you know?"

Chesta meanwhile kneeled down beside Kira and pulled out a bandanna and poured some water on it. She jumped when he took her chin and made her look his way while he attempted to clean off the mud that was on her face. She felt the heat rise in her face and she knew she was blushing, but he was too. Their eyes connected and for a moment it felt like everything froze and the only thing that could be heard in the background was the arguing drone of Satori and the stranger.

"You couldn't hit a goal 6 feet away but you can hit me 20 feet away!"

The guy took up his defense, "Sorry, maybe if you hadn't made such a distraction and caused me ta look your way at the same moment I was trying to kick the ball this might not've happened!"

Satori growled again, "Distraction! There are plenty other distractions around this park besides the mild chatter of two girls far away from you!"

The guy took a step closer, "Oh yea? I'm not perfect, I make mistakes. I don't pretend to be, like SOME people!"

Satori took an aggressive step forward as well, "Perfect? You don't have to tell me you're not perfect, I could tell from the moment I got hit with the ball that was supposed to be in a goal a few feet away yet ended up colliding with my head, which was far away mind you, instead of the goal at point blank range!"

The others could practically see the surge of negative electricity pass between them, "I shouldn't have even bothered to come over and see if you were ok! Now I regret telling my friends to stop laughing and that it wasn't funny and then waste all the energy to come over and see if you weren't dead!"

"Then why did you come over!"

"You know! Don't want to get sued or anything!"

Satori snarled and closed her eyes in a desperate attempt to stop herself from kicking his ass, she spoke through clenched teeth and anger staining her voice "In honor of the manners my mother taught me. I thank you for you concern."

The guy exhaled and his glare softened a bit, "Yea, and in honor of my father's teachings to be nice to a lady, it was my…pleasure…" With that he turned and left after staring briefly at Dilandau and then glancing over towards the creek only to see a wolf and a corgi making mince meat of his soccer ball. He sighed and headed back towards his friends, "Boy am I in a rotten mood today…"

Dilandau glared at the back of the retreating stranger and turned to Satori, "Are you alright?"

She moaned and laughed, "Yea, I'm fine."

They all stared at her oddly, "Uh, are you sure you're alright, you're smiling."

Satori shook her head and through clenched teeth she spoke, "You see if I don't change my mood fast, I'm going to tackle him." She sighed and looked away distracted.

They all Oh'd and began heading back to the blanket with Satori still standing there zoning out.

Chesta stood and pulled Kira to her feet, "You ok?"

All she could manage was a nod. They both looked down at the same time and noticed that Chesta was still holding her hand from when he pulled her to her feet. They both blushed and turned away, "…Sorry…"

They too headed back towards the blanket but Kira briefly turned around while still walking, "Satori! Are you coming?"

She looked up, "Yeah, I'll be there."

She whistled and Ururu came running with Yuri close behind him. He had the deflated and chewed soccer ball hanging from his mouth proudly. She sighed and laughed, taking the ball from his mouth and looking it over, "Wow, he has good taste in soccer balls. How surprising for an asshole. But then again, how does one have good taste when it comes to a soccer ball…He probably just picked the most expensive one to feel special. Good job boy, he has now just wasted money on a ball no longer usable." She scoffed and chucked it over her shoulder because it was way beyond salvageable. She patted Ururu on the head and began to head back for the blanket.

She glanced over to the soccer field to see the stranger…well for now she'd call him red since she didn't know his name (not like she wanted to anyways) 'red' was lounging on the top bleacher while his buds were playing a four on four match with another soccer ball, obviously they had extras. She growled and looked back towards her friends and their dogs that were now all attached to the dog stake so they wouldn't run off while their masters ate. Dilandau was the only one not sitting on the big blanket digging into the many foods. Instead he stood there with that famous scowl of his and his hands stuffed in his pockets. Satori laughed at him and began to run towards him.

She stopped in front of him once she got there, "Waiting for someone?"

He smirked, "Yeah, a psychotic bitch who'll beat the shit out of you if you look at her sideways. Have you seen her?"

She grinned, "Maybe…but I'm not going to tell you. The voices in my head said it was a secret…" She chuckled and sat down on the blanket. Dilandau smirked and shook his head, then joined the others on the blanket.

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Mystic rain: He knows we're here, and I think he wants us to leave

Lupicinus: (hops off merry go round) Yes, that would be logical since we are...............trespassing.....

Mystic Rain: Rrr........uh........what now?

Lupicinus: (Starts walking away quickly) We run from the state police officer!

Mystic Rain: (Stares briefly at cop car and then runs after Lupicinus) Hey waitup!!!! (latches onto her sleeve)

(Both quickly make their way to forest path and head towards house development. Mystic rain is having trouble seeing and maneuvering through woods and constantly grabs onto Lupicinus)

Mystic Rain:WAAAAA, you're going tooo fast slow down! I cant see you've got the light!

Lupicinus: (Stops as they come to the small stream with the only way across without getting ur feet wet is by means of a small rock bridge. Lupicinus easily crosses and leaves Mystic Rain standing on other side)

Mystic Rain: Are you sure this wont break! (pokes rocks with the tip of her shoe)

Lupicinus: (Shines light at rocks) Oh definitely, it didnt break when i crossed now did it?

Mystic Rain: Ok then... (quickly rushes across rocks onto other side)

(Both run up through the yard and onto the side walk)

Mystic Rain :Well that was exciting

Lupicnus: Yes, yes it was......but now i have to pee since i didn't go before we left for the play......

Mystic Rain: Oh...........hey look christmas lights!

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