Hello all! . It's Friday here in Indiana which means that is Saturday in Japan. It is actually 12:13 a.m., according to my clock. And even if I don't post these chapters while I'm in Indiana, oh well. Haha! Awright, next chapter up. .
Disclaimer: I do not own any part of Yu Yu Hakusho and I do not own my friends. I only own me, basically.
Chapter Three
"So why were you guys stuck in a store for the night?"
"It started snowing. Hard," Vanessa explained, sipping her BubbleMan soda.
Kurama stares at his girlfriend with an amused expression on his face. He suspected that she had something to do with the chaos of the night, but he wasn't exactly sure. So he asked. Instantly, the other Destinies began rambling about her sugar-highness and all the mess that she made that they never cleaned up and how she cut the power on them and how they had to go get her. Kurama sweat-drops. Nissi slurps her soup.
Kuwabara stares at his beloved Vanessa, who is now fingering her bat. "When Touya gets back, I'm going to whack him soo hard."
"Don't whack him too hard," Yusuke warns. "He may have tricked us but he's still one of the best allies we have."
Olivia swivels in her chair, round and round. And round. I have a feeling that something bad is about to happen... Malia glances her way and the two lock eyes. She nods her head--she has the same feeling. But who will this forecoming disaster include? Nervously the two search about the room, but cannot find any signs of distress or anything from either one of those present. They shrug it off. Just being paranoid.
Kuwabara drags Vanessa off, "We have to train."
"It's winter vacation! I don't have to train!"
"You never know when a demon will attack, my love."
"I'm not training!"
She pulls away from her sensei and stomps up to her room. Meagan grins and tells Yusuke that she also will not be training during this winter break. He shrugs. Kurama tugs Nissi's shirt, "You don't have to train either."
"Yay!"
Moaning, Olivia whacks her head into the table. Hiei will never let her off. Kurama pats her head sympathetically and Nissi offers her the rest of her soup. Olivia gulps it down and goes off to find her sensei. As usual, he's in his room. Ah, the rooms. Once pink, the boys had finally gotten around to repainting--all save Kurama. He actually enjoyed the color. But the others...Yusuke repainted his room a nice, deep blue. Kuwabara put his back to the green it was, and Hiei put his back to black. Olivia knocks on the door and lets herself in. Hiei is fingering his katana.
"Hn."
"Hiei, do I have to--"
"Yes. You have to train."
"Hiei," Olivia moans, ploping onto his bed.
Before he can reply, the two hear the door open slowly. "Anyone home?"
Oh, no. Olivia clutches Hiei's arm. I think I know what's going to happen. Vanessa appears in the hallway as she runs to her room for her wooden bat. Olivia scrambles out after her, getting downstairs as fast as she can. Malia rushes up to her, hands over her mouth. Her eyes are shining. As much as she doesn't want anything to happen, she really wants to see what Vanessa will do. All of the Destinies run down to the front room. Touya comes over to the Destinies and they hug him...all except Vanessa.
"Hello, Vanessa," Touya moves towards her.
WHACK! Touya spins around once before hitting the floor in a crumpled heap. He is sporting the swirly eyes and is rubbing his head vigourously. But the real trouble is the fact that laying beside him is the top half of Vanessa's precious bat. Her eyes widen with realization and she drops the other half of her bat. Her breathing becomes shallower and shallower, and the Destinies scramble for cover behind the couch.
"NOOO!"
Vanessa drops to the floor in defeat, her precious bat now in two pieces. Even Kuwabara is uncertain whether to go and comfort her. Finally he goes to her and wraps his arms around her. She is too numb to even notice. The Destinies are amazed at the power of her swing and now will know to stay away from her when she weilds her bat. Scary thought...(a/n: It is a scary thought, innit?) Very soon Vanessa throws Kuwabara's arms off of her and turns to face the Destinies.
"Uh-oh..."
But Vanessa only walks past them and into her room. Meagan runs after her, unafraid. The others follow.
"What did you expect, hitting him that hard? It is--or was--a wooden bat."
"I miss my bat!" Vanessa wails.
"We'll get you another one," Nissi assures.
"Really?"
"A better one."
"A better one?"
"Yes."
"YAY!"
Vanessa bounds off to Touya to explain why she hit him. He takes it very reasonably, considering she whacked him so hard the bat broke. Kuwabara tosses Touya an ice pack; he catches it and sticks it to his head. Hiei comes down wrapping his right arm in a bandage. Kurama raises his eyes at him but Hiei just shrugs nonchalantly. Nissi bound over and pokes his forehead, laughing at the face he makes. His Jagan glows behind his headband and she scampers behind Kurama instantly.
"Nissi, you know better."
She nods at Kurama, giving an apologetic grin to Hiei. He smiles lightly. Meagan grabs Olivia and settles down at the table to play a game of poker. In the days since Olivia taught her to play she has become increasingly good and taken a lot of Olviai's money. Not to mention Vanessa's. Of course they take it back when she goes out to play in the snow, but she doesn't know this. Grinning, Olivia shuffles--she just taught herself how--(a/n: I really just did, actually. Haha.) and deals the cards out, grimacing at her bad hand.
"Your poker face sucks, Olivia," Meagan jeers at her friend.
"Hmph. This could be but one fraction of my elaborate plan to lure you into a false sense of security before crushing you with an iron fist."
"Yeah, right."
Olivia sticks her tongue out.
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The night comes swiftly, bringing with it a campout. Deep in the woods in which they train the Destinies huddle in their tent, preparing to create their fire. Olivia and Malia wield the matches, Nissi and Meagan hold the timber, and Vanessa holds the lighter fluid. The last time they had created fire they had burned all of their school papers, and that was the end of 8th grade.
"Let's go!"
"Yeah!"
Grinning and whooping the Destinies exit the tent and settle around their campfire. "No magic," they warn Vanessa.
"I won't!"
Nissi and Meagan stoop down and arrange the timber just as the boys had taught them--but not exactly like they taught them. Do the Destinies ever do something completely the way that someone had told them to? I don't think so. Laughing maniaclly, Vanessa douses the sticks and paper with all of the lighter fluid in the can. And last Olivia and Malia each light one match, step away from the fire, and toss.
WOOSH! The Destinies scream as the fire blazes up past the trees. Calming down they laugh and laugh at their fire--until the trees start burning. O.o
The flames go higher.
The flames go higher.
The flames go even higher.
"FIRE!" the Destinies shoot off back to the mansion, but then double back and start to take care of the trees.
KURAMA! KURAMA WE SET THE TREES ON FIRE--WE NEED YOU GUYS TO COME OUT AND HELP!
"Olivia, take me up!"
Meagan grabs Olivia who materializes her cloud and flies up through the burning branches, choking back the smoke. Eyes shielded the two fly higher and higher until Meagan forms her ball of air in her hand and tosses it at the fire. "Hah!" The twisting air hits the fire and diminishes it quickly. Meagan and Olivia hit knuckles. A sharp cry echoes and the two look up to see Nissi jumping from branch to branch, falling to the cloud. In her hand forms her ball of ice. She tosses and it sprays the topmost of the flames. Suddenly, the things they learned when they went to the Earthquake Disaster center came floating back to Olivia's mind. She jerks her cloud downward, earning screams from Meagan and Nissi.
"We have to hit the base!" she shouts. Meagan and Nissi look blank, then nod.
"Why don't you use your ball, Olivia?" Meagan shouts.
"Sure, if I wanna suck up all the trees!"
A flash of black shoots past them: Hiei. In his speed the wind picks up, going faster and faster until the fire nearest him disappears. The Destinies whoop and cheer. Vanessa flies past the cloud in the form of a huge hawk, carrying Malia on her back. The two drop onto the cloud. Happy to help, Vanessa forms a ball in her hand and tosses. Sadly, she has forgotten that her ball is that of fire. The fire flashes at least three feet higher. The Destinies scream, whacking her on the head multiple times.
"Oops..." Vanessa mutters.
Grinning, Malia forms...a ball? Yup, a ball of water in her hand. The others stare in wonder--since when did Malia know how to do that? With a cry of luck Malia lets the ball go and water sprays from her hand. Surprised that it has so much power, Malia topples backwards, positioning the water to shoot upwards like rain. Immediately the rain douses the fire leaving nothing but smothering trees. The Destinies whoop.
"Malia you did it!"
"When did you learn to do that?"
"That was so awesome!"
All five of the Destinies hold tight onto Olivia's cloud and she brings them back to the ground. Hiei lands next to them; they jump on him.
"Thank you, Hiei!"
"How come the others didn't come?"
"Man, we could have really used Jin, huh?"
Hiei rolls his eyes, "Do you honestly think that they could have done anything? Think: Yusuke has the Spirit Gun, the oaf has the Spirit Sword, and Kurama has a rose whip. What could those things have done to fire? You're lucky I could have helped."
"And we're very thankful," the Destinies chorus.
"But what now?" Nissi asks. "Our campout is pretty much destroyed, isn't it?"
"Well...I guess I could just move the tent," Malia shrugs her shoulders and lifts the tent up into the air via telekenesis. "Just no more fire, okay?"
"Okay."
In the Morning
"AAAH! SPIDER!"
I think...I think I'm going to cut it off right there. Whew. Man, my laptop is being uncooperative again but at least it's working. Yay! How'd you guys like the chapter? If I keep going like this the story will be finished before I get back. Mou, I don't think I want it to end that fast. Oh well. Que sera, sera--as they say.