Nez: More video gameage references in this one.

Zan: We own multiple copies of HP books, a bottle or two of HP steak sauce, a Playstation2, but not the rights to any of them.

Nez: Arigato Zanbato. Have a cookie.

Zan: Yay! -grins-

Nez: Yes, the gaming references are almost self-explanatory, but if anyone has problems, yell at me in the reviewing.

Chapter Eight: Exploring Muggle Contraptions

"Nehszriah, where are we going?" Remus asked. He, Nehszriah, James and Sirius had been walking for a long time. They crossed many streets and not once did they stop for food.

"Yeah, those things going all over the place are driving me bonkers!" James grumbled.

"You mean the cars on the road?" Nehszriah asked.

"Yes, I hate them. Trying to hit me! Do I have a bull's eye on me or something?"

"No, you just seem like something good to hit," Sirius snickered. James punched him in the arm.

"Stop bickering, we're almost there," Nehszriah laughed.

Sure enough, Nehszriah sharply turned the direction she was walking in and before long, had led the Maraurders to a place none of them had ever been to before.

"Best Buy?" Sirius asked, reading the big sign on the front of the building. "Is that what this place is called?"

"Yup, now come on in!" Nehszriah said, going through the sliding electronic doors. These doors intrigued the boys, for all three stopped to examine them.

"Fascinating what Muggles can do," James said.

"Remarkable," Remus whispered.

"Oh, come on," Nehszriah sighed. She dragged the Maraurders away from the doors as the store greeter stared her down.

"Nehszriah! I want to look at the funny door!" James whined.

"Stop this right now, people are starting to stare!" Nehszriah hissed. "Now follow me." She spun on her heel and started to walk off.

"Wait for us!" Remus said, going off to catch Nehszriah. She turned behind a display shelf and the boys followed her.

"Don't loose us!" Sirius whined.

"Yes," Remus said. "You are our way of getting aroun..."

Remus looked up at what Nehszriah was pointing to. It was a huge display monitor, the screen alone taller than the giant of the group, Sirius.

"Wow..." the Maraurders said at once.

"Want to play Playstation on it?" Nehszriah asked. Sirius twitched.

"I don't want to be put in that thing!" he cried. "The one at Ureth's was bad enough!"

"Oh relax," Nehszriah assured, walking over to the base of the screen and picking up a Playstation controller. "Muggle games are not played like that. Let me show you." She turned on the game, Dragonball Z Budokai 3, and started to go through the story mode.

"What is that?" James asked, pointing at a green character on the screen.

"Oh, that is just Piccolo," Nehszriah said.

"He's green."

"Yes Remus. He comes from the planet Namek."

"The Muggles found a new planet?"

"No, just made one up."

"Gick! That one's hair turned yellow!"

"Yes Sirius, that is what we call 'going Super Sayan'."

"Super what...?"

"Super Sayan, Sayans coming from the imaginary planet Vegeta."

"But... how can someone come from a place that's imaginary?"

"Easy, if they are imaginary too."

Leisurely Nehszriah beat the story mode character. She then challenged the Maraurders to try to beat her. First to go down was James, then Remus, but Sirius seemed to have the upper hand.

"Meeeeeeih!" Nehszriah moaned as she tried to maneuver her character about on the screen. Sirius seemed to be having fun.

"Yes!" he squealed, finally having beat Nehszriah. He danced in place and happily hummed to himself.

"Lovely, now where'd the other two go?" Nehszriah said, looking around for James and Remus. She found the boys in the computer section, playing with a laptop computer.

"This thing is fun!" Remus said. "It is just like the Muffin Laptop!" The Muffin Laptop belonged to the Muffins (Tsuki, Akina, Chels and Fufu) and had even been to Hogwarts a few times.

"Not exactly. The Muffin Laptop is a Dell computer. This is a Sony."

"Huh?" Remus and James said.

"Just computer brands."

"Oh," James said. "Hey, where is Sirius?"

Nehszriah turned around to find that Sirius was not there.

"Damn him," she growled. She fumed off, making sure she did not loose the other two in the process.

"Nehszriah, what is this?" Sirius called out from an aisle. Nehszriah, Remus and James looked down it to see Sirius, examining a DVD case.

"Oh, that is just a DVD," Nehszriah said casually. She then snatched the case from Sirius, thwacked him on the head and put the movie back.

"Ow, what was that for?" Sirius whined.

"Running off, that's what." Nehszriah turned around to see where Remus and James were. She swore, for neither Maraurder was behind her. She latched onto Sirius's wrist and wandered through the large store.

"Nehszriah! What is going on?" Sirius asked as she dragged him around.

"I don't want to loose any of you guys and I am getting no cooperation."

"Nez-chan!"

Suddenly, from one of the aisles, Nehszriah was tackled in the side and nearly fell into a CD rack. She looked to see that it was her little brother, Zanbato.

"How are you doing?" he cried. Nehszriah hit him on top the head.

"Baka! Idiot! Why'd you do that?"

"Do what?" Zanbato asked blankly. Soon, a girl with brown hair and glasses came over and dragged the Zanbato to another girl and what appeared to be her boyfriend.

"Neesan! Sister! Help me!" Zanbato cried as he was dragged off.

"Ah, quit you're whining!" the girl said. The four kids then walked off, leaving the Maraurders a bit confused.

"Who was that?" James asked, having randomly popped up behind Nehszriah along with Remus.

"Meih!" Nehszriah squeaked, a bit frightened.

"Yeah, who were they?" Remus asked.

"That was Aya, her boyfriend Fate and the girl who dragged my brother off is Eagle. The girls are called Bagels, the boys Paçzkis and they are all Zanbato's age," Nehszriah sighed.

"That explains why she could not compute the Muffin/Bagel thing before Coming Home," Sirius whispered to James, who wholeheartedly agreed.

"Oooh! What's that?" Remus asked, pointing over to a claw machine.

Now Nehszriah was not too sure why Remus wanted to play with the wretched contraption, but she gave him a quarter and let him try it out.

"Now how does it work?" he muttered as he moved the claw around. James and Sirius were on either side of him, gazing through the glass at the intriguing game. Just by luck however, the time ran out on Remus and it dropped, picking up a plushie beanie dog. The boys watched in wonder as the claw carried its prey over to the corner of the cell and dropped it down the shaft. Remus then explored the shaft's entrance, pulling out the stuffed toy.

"What in the world?" James whispered as he gave the plushie a firm poke.

"I think it is a prize," Sirius said.

"I think Padfoot's right," Remus replied. He turned around and held it out towards Nehszriah, grinning nervously.

"Yes, you won that," she said, a bit annoyed at the childish behavior of the guys.

"Do you want it?" Remus asked. "I don't want it. It resembles something a female would consider... 'cute'?"

"Sure, I'll take it," Nehszriah laughed. It was amusing to her, the slightly frightened look upon Remus's face and how sickeningly cute the toy was. She took it from Remus, put it upon her head like a hat and started to walk off. "Come on boys, Applesauce and I are going home."

"Applesauce?" James asked.

"I'll never get Americans," Sirius sighed.

"Screw understanding Americans," Remus scoffed. "Let's try the female race first."

Nez: Alright, I do have a plushie dog named Applesauce, but I did not get it as I did in the fic.

Zan: As a gift from a boyfriend...?

Nez: -bops Zan- No! I bought it, thank you.

Zan: Surrrrre. -winks- Review please!

Nez: Hey! That's my line! Review please! Domo arigato! -clicking noise-