What Happens In Weiss Stays In Weiss. Chapter 2 (actually, chapter 1, but the intro is chapter one, so yeah.)
Written By Michiko, which explains why she sometimes takes over the story.
Rainbow, Cyrano, and Amaya were bouncing around loading up a small rental car with stuff. It had taken much more planning than they were usually capable of to arrange this road trip. They were going to enjoy it, dagnamit!
Rainbow was skipping around taking inventory. "We need sunscreen, and skiing equipment, and the Al action figure, and the first aid kit..."
Amaya grabbed a bulk box of Reddi-Whip. "Don't forget the WHIPPED CREAM!"
Cyrano looked up from trying to shove a suitcase into the already overloaded trunk. She whipped a wad of paper out of her pocket and held it up. "Or the concert tickets! I'm damned if I'm going to be that close to a Dir en Grey performance and miss it!"
Rainbow looked at her watch. They should leave soon if they wanted to make it to the motel. "Where's Bono? He should be back by now. He's late."
Suddenly, Bono jumped out from behind a tree. "Bono Von Bono is never late! I had to drop the siblings off at the kennel. Are we all going to fit in that car?"
"I get to drive, I get to drive!" Cyrano jumped into the driver seat. "Lets go, lets go!"
Bono looked at the other girls, who were jumping up and down fighting over an Al action figure. "You had caffeine this morning, didn't you?" They nodded. "Well, its not getting any earlier. Are we ready to go yet?"
"Not quite." Amaya turned to the apartment window. "HURRY UP, MICHIKO! WE HAVEN'T GOT ALL DAY!"
"I'M COMING!" Michiko yelled down at her waiting friends. She then turned back to Tsukasa, who was staring at the ceiling. "Where was I? She has a can of food every morning at 8, and then a half cup of dry at 6:30 every night. And give her fresh water in the morning, too. But don't give her more food if she still has some in her dish. I left a list of her favorite brands on the fridge in case you run out of anything. And water the plants every two days, but not if they feel moist. I gave you the key. You have the vet's number, and my cell. Call me if anything goes wrong. If you can't reach me on the phone, E-mail me. I'll have my laptop. The address Her incredibly bored pet-sitter interrupted. "I know! You've been telling me for the last half hour! Relax. I can take care of Yori just fine. I promise. GO already!"
"Ok. You're right. Bye. I'll see you in a while." She turned to Yori (her cat) and glomped her. "Bye bye! Mommy's going to be back soon! I promise! You be nice to Tsukasa!" She then grabbed her laptop and ran out the door. Tsukasa stared after her for a while.
"How come adults are always so tense when they're on vacation?" He asked Yori.
So our happy campers pile into the car and drive like fury for a few hours. Then they slow down and take a few scenic detours. Then darkness falls.
The last few notes of 100 Bottles of Saki on the Wall died down. Nervously, Bono asked a question that had been bothering all of them for a long time.
"Cyrano? Do you know where we're going?"
"Nope! I think I took a wrong turn somewhere." Everybody's favorite Dark Eraser replied gleefully.
"Do you even know how to drive?" Amaya asked as they swerved to avoid hitting a tree.
"Not technically. But I do play Grand Theft Auto a lot!" She replied as she cheerfully pretended to shoot a gun out the window.
The car lit up with the creepy blue glow of a laptop, then cell phone noises could be heard. Rainbow grabbed the cell phone and the laptop out of Michiko's hands and tossed them out the open car window.
"OH MY GOD! MY LAPTOP! But I had all my records on there! And the editorial I was working on, and the directions to the hotel! What did you do that for?" She (Michiko) spazed.
"For your own good. You are on VACATION! Breath in, breath out. You need to relax! You need a Kleenex, 'cause your nose is bleeding really bad." Rainbow explained calmly, considering that Michiko was trying to strangle her.
Just then, there was a huge bolt of thunder, and everybody jumped, including Cyrano, who ran the car off the road and into a ditch.
"Oopsies! Is everybody ok?"
"Yup yup yup!" Rainbow jumped out of the car.
"Why is it that whenever a group of teenagers on vacation drive into a ditch, it's raining?" Amaya asked, also getting out of the car.
"Because then it's creepy when they get chased by psychos through the woods." Cyrano explained.
"Um, Izumi isn't moving." Bono noticed. And indeed, she was sort of passed out in the back seat.
"If only we hadn't thrown out that cell phone! We could get her the medical attention she so desperately needs! I didn't know! How come these things are always my fault? Why am I cursed?" Rainbow launched into what was promising to be a good and angsty soliloquy.
"Wait, her nose is bleeding! There are bishouen nearby! And judging by how much blood she's lost, I would say one of them is 18 or older, with type AB blood and glasses!" Say what you will about Amaya, she knows her nosebleeds.
"And where there are bishouen, there is medical aid! Or death traps." Cyrano grabbed her gun.
"I've got the whipped cream!" Rainbow distributed a bottle of the fangirl's secret weapon to the group members.
"Ok, everybody grab an arm or a leg, and we'll carefully transport her to safety." Everybody turned to stare at Amaya.
"Or, since we're lazy teenagers, we could just take turns dragging her feet first along the ground and ignoring any injuries she may sustain." Bono proposed an easier plan of action, and they were on their way. After a few minutes, the others' noses started to bleed. They were close.
"I hope this one is one of the gay ones." Bono said randomly.
"What do you mean, one of the gay ones?" Amaya asked.
"Haven't you guys noticed that Izumi tends to fall for guys who are either gay, psycho killers, or priests?"
"Or, everyone's personal favorite, the gay psycho killer priest." Rainbow shrieked with laughter.
"He's not gay!" Cyrano stood up for her friend. (And we aren't talking about the gay psycho killer priest, either.)
"Cyrano, honey, someday you're going to have to face up to the facts." Bono said gently.
"You guys are such perverts."
Rainbow didn't hear the malice in Cyrano's voice. "Heeheeheeheehee. Hey, Bono! I wish you were my real father!"
Apparently Bono didn't hear it either. "Well, I wish you would suck OOF" Actually, this last word was not part of this particular joke. Rather, it is the sound Bono makes when he finds a tree branch has just collided with his stomach.
Cyrano waved her branch threateningly. "I HEAR ONE MORE JOKE, AND SO HELP ME, THEY WILL NEVER FIND ALL OF YOUR BODY PARTS!"
"Hey, look! Lights! They're shiny!" Rainbow pointed towards the cottage in the distance, and they forgot their petty quarrels and ran off to the safety of the beckoning home. Then they ran back, because they had left Michiko behind. But they all got to the door eventually and started pounding on said door and screaming until it opened a crack and a red haired guy stuck his head out. (You saw this one coming and you know it.)
"Isn't it a bit late to be selling girl scout cookies?" Bono cleared his throat. "Oh, didn't see you. Look, we're busy. Go away." He closed the door, but the group could still hear the conversation he had with whoever else was in the house.
"Who was that?" asked mysterious voice number one.
"Jehovah's Witnesses"
"At this hour?"
"You are so gullible it's not really funny."
"Who was it really?"
"Just some stupid kids."
"If they're up here, they probably need help."
"Fine. Go and help them. It will just cause us trouble."
The group at the door held their breath as the door opened again and a younger boy with light brown hair stuck his head out. "I'm sorry about my friend. He's not a very trusting person."
"That's ok. We were wondering if we could..." But it was too late. The door had slammed once again.
"HEY! GET OFF MY COMPUTER!" Yelled younger guy. There were sounds of a small scuffle in the background. The group at the door waited for a while. Then a while longer. Finally they knocked again. Once more, the door opened, and this time a guy with dark brown hair stuck his head out. (Getting repetitive, huh?)
He yelled back into the house. "YOU DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER TO LET THEM IN? These poor girls have been standing out here in the rain for how long now?"
"Girls, did you say?" mysterious voice number two asked.
"Yeah. Three of them. They're soaked! Look at their shirts!" This announcement was followed by an 'OOF' similar to the one Bono made when Cyrano hit him with the branch of DOOM. Brunette disappeared from the door way and was replaced with yet another guy, this one with blond hair.
"I'm so sorry, mademoiselles. Please forgive my friends. They are not used to being around such beautiful women as yourselves."
"Are you planning on letting them in this century?"
"I bet they'd be happier listening to your bad pick up lines inside."
"Close the door. You're letting in the cold air!"
"Won't you please come in?" And blondie got to the point and let them in. Once again, in their anxiousness to get inside, they forgot Michiko. (I feel loved)
"Thanks we need to use your phone. Our car broke down on the road, and Michiko is hurt..."
"Aren't you girls a little young to be riding alone through the country at night?" Blondie asked.
"No, we where with our teacher, Izu... OH MY GOD! We left her on the porch!" The group dashed to the door, but blondie got there first.
"I'll get her."
The Nuances of Toast used this time to look at the strange scene surrounding them. Red-Haired guy was standing in a corner glaring at them, Younger guy had a death grip on a computer, and Brunette was doubled over in pain on the floor.
"Aya? Could you at least get them towels? Or help me off the floor?" Brunette gasped. Red-head hastily left the room, having decided on the former option.
"Bono?" Cyrano whispered. "I'm scared."
"Me too, dear. Me too."
"Do you guys still have your whipped cream?" Amaya asked quietly. They nodded. "Ok. Start shaking it. Be ready."
At this moment, Blondie burst through the door carrying Michiko, who, aside from having lost blood, passed out, and sustained several head injuries, now had swallowed a fair amount of rain water as well. Blondie placed her on the couch and turned to his friends with a wink.
"And that, boys, is why you always let people in to use the phone."
"A plate of school fries says she woke up when he was carrying her and didn't say anything." Rainbow muttered to Amaya.
"No bet." (A/N: our school makes addictive french fries.)
Actually, Michiko hadn't woke up. But if she had, she probably wouldn't have said anything.
Meanwhile, Bono explained their predicament to the people whose house they were invading and passed out towels, brought by Red Hair when the author wasn't paying attention.
"So, we saw your house and we came here, and you know the rest."
"You're lucky you found us. Not many people can see this place from the road." Brunette told him. "I'm Ken, by the way, and this is Omi," Younger guy waved, "Aya," he indicated Red Head, who was dialing an number on the phone, "and Yohji." Blondie smiled. "And we own a flower shop."
"Ok. I'm Bono von Bono, and this is Rainbow..."
"Oh, Hello!"
"Cyrano..."
"I only bite when I'm crazy."
"Amaya..."
"...hi." Ken, Omi, Aya, Yohji...Amaya knew those names from somewhere.
"And the one on the couch is Michiko."
Michiko made a good effort to cough up some of the rain water in her lungs.
"And we're students. Except for Michiko, who is, in fact, a teacher. We're on vacation."
Introductions having been made, they sat around awkwardly for a few seconds, until Aya slammed down the telephone and started yelling.
"OMI! Get off the Internet! I'm trying to reach a tow truck!"
"I'm not on the Internet. The lines must be down." There was a brief rustling while the Nuances got out their notepads to write down any new curse words they may learn from Aya. (Always be prepared to learn, that's their motto.) But Aya didn't say anything. He merely fumed silently.
"Oh, does this mean they have to stay here? We can have a sleep over! YAY!" Omi jumped a few feet in the air.
"YAY! I love sleep overs!" Sleep over is an Amaya buzz word.
"You've been drinking coffee again, haven't you?" Ken turned to Omi, who nodded. He (Ken) sighed and turned back to the Nuances. "I suppose you will have to stay here though. You must be tired. It's a long walk to here from the main road."
"I'm sorry we're barging in on you like this..." Bono, using his skills as the prince of an obscure European nation, tried to be polite.
"Finally! I thought you were going to leave us standing here all night!" Tact was not Cyrano's strong point.
And then the scene changed, and the birds sang, and weak sunlight struggled with the rain clouds until a few rays broke through and made their way directly into the eyes of the sleeping Nuances.
"Go 'way, Navi, I'm trying to sleep." Muttered Rainbow, closing her eyes tighter.
"The sun. It burns." Muttered Cyrano, turning over.
"But I didn't mean to." Muttered Amaya, throwing a pillow at the wall.
"Football practice." Muttered Bono, sitting bolt upright, then falling back over.
"Snork." Muttered Michiko, who was still in a coma.
So, the functioning Nuances slowly got up, grabbed their whipped cream, and made their way out of their individual rooms and into Michiko's for an emergency meeting. After roll call and a brief reading of the last meeting's minutes, they discussed their unusual situation.
"Do you notice that this place is horror movie weird?" Rainbow asked. The others all started talking at once.
"YES! That creepy Aya guy keeps staring at me!" Bono said.
"YES! I found a crossbow and a sword in my room!" Cyrano raved.
"YES! These guys remind me of something, but I can't think what!" Amaya ranted.
"What are we going to do about it? The phones are dead..."
"Wait for Michiko to recover and don't get on their nerves?"
"Fix the car and get out of here!"
"Keep our whipped cream at the ready."
From the room below a very loud crash was heard, followed by some swearing. Bono turned to the others. "Does anybody want breakfast? I can make pancakes."
"YAY! Pancakes!" said the Nuances as a group. But they didn't get their pancakes, because a at this point Michiko tried to sit up.
"Guys, is that you? I don't feel so good." The Nuances rushed over to her. "What happened? I remember Rainbow killed my laptop, and then I was looking for something to stab her with, and then everything gets kinda fuzzy."
"Cyrano drove the car into a ditch, which knocked you out, but we carried you heroically through the rain until we ended up here." Amaya explained.
"In this cabin with these four cute florists living in it for no apparent reason. The phone lines are out, so we're kinda stuck here." Rainbow finished.
"I think they're gay." Bono added. The others looked at him. "Hey, I'm on vacation. I wanna get laid! Is that a crime?"
"And I found a mini arsenal in my room!" Cyrano reminded them.
"Don't worry. You guys have whipped cream, I have my..." Michiko paused, then started rooting through the pillows. "Guys, have you seen my bling bling cross of DOOM?" (A/N: Commonly used by Wiz-Doms. You know what I'm talking about.)
"I hope it didn't drop out while we were carrying you..." Cyrano looked around.
Michiko whimpered.
"It's ok. We'll get you a new one." Rainbow promised her.
"But it's not mine! I borrowed it for this trip because I lost mine. It's To...T. Damn. What's his name?"
The others exchanged glances. Maybe dragging her along had hurt her head worse than they thought. They started to giggle. Michiko had never forgotten anything like this before.
"Help me out here. I think it starts with a T."
Amaya took pity on her. "You mean T.. T...oh, its on the tip of my tongue!"
Michiko turned to the others. "You know, the guy who lives with Ts...Ts...grr. I can't think of it."
Cyrano never let anyone forget her guy's name. "Tsu... Tsu...Ts...no. I can't remember! He's blond, and he has really big eyes... and...ears! He's friends with that one kid. K...something."
Amaya knew who Cyrano was talking about. "Yes, Ka... Ka... shirtless boy, with the dark hair."
Bono and Rainbow stared at each other. Michiko was flipping out. "You know who I'm talking about! He's my neighbor, and he's tall...and he teaches... something!" She moved her hands around to suggest a nosebleed.
"Don't hurt yourself. You're still pretty weak." Rainbow said gently.
It just occurred to Bono that he had no idea who any of them were talking about, and he said as much to Rainbow, who bit her lip.
"I'm not really sure either, but the one Amaya is describing sounds familiar. He sounds like a friend of Na... of Na...Uh-oh. Bono, remember? He's friends with your boyfriend."
"Oh, Iss...Iss...I... oh my god, I can see him, but I can't remember his name!"
"What's going on? Why can't we think of their names?"
"I've heard of this." Rainbow said seriously, before turning into Super Smart Rainbow (of DOOM), complete with glasses and a power point demonstration. "We can't think of the names of our friends because we have wandered into an adjacent Anime. At any given moment, several parallel universes are touching each other, but completely inaccessible to their occupants. Occasionally, however, a gap will open between two worlds. If someone wanders into this gap, the space-time continuum will be warped, causing them to forget all outside knowledge they may have. Our boyfriends don't exist in this universe, so we cannot know them. The only reason that we can still picture them is because we still retain our emotional ties with them. Also, Amaya probably knows the Anime that our new friends are from, which is why they look familiar to her, but she cannot remember anything else, because in this universe, they are just average people."
"So how do we get back to our universe?"
"I'm not entirely sure. It is possible that the worm hole was created because something happens in this universe that we have a part in, or it could just be a fluke. If the wormhole is still open, then it may be possible simply to walk back through it. If not, we may need to find another one, or remember something important about the Anime we are from."
"Do we have to remember on our own? Or can we just read the manga?"
"Either one should work. However, we have no clue what we are looking for. It is physically impossible for us to remember any details that could lead us to finding the series. This message will self destruct in five seconds. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. ZAP!" Rainbow turned back to her normal self
"Well, that explains a lot. Let's get something to eat. I'm starving." Bono got up and left the room, followed by Amaya, Cyrano, and Rainbow. So they stumbled around a bit and found the kitchen, which was already occupied by the four guys that we met earlier. Or that you should have met, if you were paying attention. They were eating pancakes that had mysteriously appeared there, because as far as I know, none of them can cook.
"Wakey wakey." Ken paused. "Eggs and Bakey. Did you guys sleep all right?"
"Yeah, we slept fine. Thanks." Rainbow said, maybe a little seductively. Bono was right. They were on vacation to have fun.
Bono was trying to eat pancakes, but having some trouble, because Aya kept glaring at him until he (Bono) winked and licked his lips. Aya immediately turned to Cyrano, who was sitting next to him being cool and mysterious. Bono smiled. Works every time.
Amaya was talking to Omi, who was shaking from Internet withdrawal.
"So, you work at a flower shop, right?"
"Yes. We work at a flower shop, because we are normal, every day florists." He said very loudly.
"Yup. Florists. That's us." said Ken with a large and obviously fake grin. Rainbow got scared and sat down next to Bono with her pancakes.
"Yessiree. Florists who work with flowers." Aya didn't smile, but he did nod like a bobble head.
"Because flowers are your friends." Yohji added cheerfully.
"Bono?" whispered Rainbow.
"Yeah?"
"Something is very very wrong here."
"Don't make any sudden movements."
Both jumped three feet in the air when Yohji snuck up behind them. "So, have you checked on your friend today, by any chance?"
"Yes, we did. She woke up. But she's looking a little pale, and she's still pretty weak, so she couldn't come down. We should take her some soup or something." Amaya suddenly remembered the cripple sitting patiently in her room. Bono and Rainbow focused on breathing slowly.
"Do we have any of those nosebleed pills left? It looked like she could use a few." Omi added.
"Good idea. I shall take her some soup and nosebleed pills, and maybe be back in a while. Heheh" And with that somewhat perverted remark, Yohji disappeared.
"Hey, Nuances? Should we be worried that we're letting an obvious lech alone with our sick, unarmed, helpless friend?" Cyrano asked.
"Nah. She makes her tests too hard and my pancakes will get cold.." Rainbow went back to her breakfast.
"Yeah, she needs to loosen up. We should leave her alone. Also, I have a theory that sex doesn't exist, so she's perfectly safe." Bono concluded.
"Anyway, helping her would be like work or something." Amaya continued her chat with Omi.
Ken walked over to Bono. "You don't have to worry. Yohji's not a bad guy. He's just a tad bit... forward sometimes."
Bono opened his mouth to reply, but Rainbow, angered because she wasn't getting the attention she was used to in large groups of men, cut him off.
"Well, Yohji obviously isn't gay or a priest...so is he a psycho killer?"
Ken laughed. "Aya is the only psycho. The rest of us are just plain old assassins."
And they all had a good laugh.
Quick A/N: Since this was originally written as an inside joke, there are several references to obscure AMVs, inside jokes, old TV shows, ect. If you would like to be enlightened, or if you just want me to apologize personally, my AIM screen name is kalliopestarmist. (Hard to remember, huh?)