On another note, I want to make some AMVs, but I don't have anything to use. For some reason Windows Movie Maker does NOT like me.
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We began walking, Jeri and Crystal on my right and Henry and Rika on my right. We were just about to leave when I felt a slight tug on the edge of my shirt. I turned and I saw Guilmon's big golden eyes looking at me with a sad look.
"Me no go, giru?"
"Oh yeah!" Crystal remembered, hitting herself on the forhead in lack of rememberance. She quickly pulled a card out of her pocket. "I'm sorry I forgot to give this to ya earlier, I kinda forgot."
She handed it to me, and I looked at it, reading the small print. "Downgrade", it said.
"Go on, slash it."
I quickly slashed it, and with a small burst of light, Guilmon quickly turned into Gigimon. He fell onto my feet, looking up at me.
"Oh, so THAT was your oh-so-amazing card," Rika muttered. She crossed her arms, and I could tell she was trying to pretend she had thought of using that card before. She stopped talking, due to embarrassment.
Crystal gave out a laugh, and offered the card to her cousin. Rika stared at her hand, as if being handed a poison apple, then reluctantly, she quickly slashed the card, turning Renamon into Viximon. Rika quickly passed the card back, so she could pick up her digimon.
"So are we ready to go, Digimon and all?" Henry asked. We all nodded, and we made our way towards the boardwalk.
I was kind of suprised to figure out that the boardwalk is actually made out of boards, but Crystal told me that the only place around here that was made out of boards other than the houses was the pier. I felt kind of embarrassed about it, but then again, when the only two places you recall ever going to is Shinjuku and Okinawa, and the Digital world if you count that...
We walked along the sidewalk, past several beach shops, and we laughed as Crystal told us a story about how she came to Japan and wondered if it would be really different from California (AN: This is where she came from, I have no idea if this was implied anywhere else other than Summer of Suprise - which by the way MAY get a rewrite soon! That is if I can remember the original plot again... - but yeah, I'm sorry if it wasn't written anywhere else) but was relieved when she found out there was a McDonalds in the airport, and how she knew it wouldn't be that bad as long as she knew that McDonalds didn't serve onigiri.
We passed a lot of shops, ducked in a few. Nothing really caught our attention, being mostly tourist gift and T-shirt shops, so we decided to head for the pier instead.
We walked along, and at first I just thought it was just a long stretch of wood across the water, until a few small shops appeared, then a resturant, and then some booths, for playing carnival games. The more we advanced across the pier, the more things that we saw and appeared infront of us.
Suddenly, as I was staring at some of the carnival game booths, I was hit in the face with something, and a large mass of pink attatched itself to my face. I struggled to get it off, but the wind continued to push it against my face, smothering me.
Luckily, Henry pulled it off for me after the wind died down. Crystal snatched at it, curious.
Jeri and Crystal huddled around the paper, and they both wore grins on their faces. I looked at them with wondering faces, and they grinned at me and the others, and Jeri practically screeched out her excitement.
"THERE'S A DANCE COMPETITION ON THE END OF THE PIER!"
She practically dashed off on her own and left us in the dust, if not for us instinctively following her. She was excited, I could tell. I hadn't seen Jeri so active about something - well, that is, until she saw me for the first time after so long, but still.
We ran, and we found ourselves standing infront of a crowd. Jeri had disappeared somewhere within it. I heard an announcer talking on a mega phone, being almost as energetic as Jeri - if we could find her. He was bouncing around on the wooden planks as his stage, enthusiastically telling about the details of the contest.
After searching through the crowd, I found her - standing next to the announcer.
"And who might your name be?" He asked into the mega phone towards the audience, but his eyes on Jeri. He blinked in suprise, wondering why she was standing up there next to him, midway within his energetic speech.
"My name's Jeri Katou! And I'd love to join your contest!" Jeri jumped into the air with excitement, her feet lifting off the ground and almost jolting Katzeimon, who was still held in her arms' grasp.
"Haha, a contestant! That's wonderful! Well like I was saying, the contest starts in three days, and you may even go up against this girl in a dancing battle unlike any other!"
The audience applauded eagerly, and the announcer continued on, with much gusto. I looked around and motioned for Henry and Rika, but I had no idea where Crystal was. Suddenly I found her standing next to Jeri, and the announcer, suprised once again that a second girl was up there.
"Umm, and what is your name, miss?" The announcer asked, slightly bothered that his speech was interrupted once again.
"Crystal Starr," Crys said (AN: Yes, that is her real name, just like my username), in a somewhat quiet voice. She stood up straight, closed her eyes, and seemed to reassure herself as she burst out in a loud voice. "And I'm going to join this contest too!"
"Umm... well, uh, that's great!" The announcer scratched his head, flustered from the improptu ad-libbing. The audience applauded again, with just as much energy.
"Anyway, since my speech is pretty much over..." I heard him mutter something about how he didn't want his speech ruined again, and he continued on. "Well, why not see how well these lovely ladies can tango!"
The audience cheered, and Rika and Henry finally made their way towards me, and they were clapping as well.
Jeri smiled, now growing a little shy, and then she looked at me. I grinned ath er, and then suddenly she grinned and got her energetic self back.
"If you don't mind, may I go first?" She asked, flipping her auburn hair back away from her face. The announcer nodded, and Jeri quickly told the DJ standing by the song she wanted, and took center stage.
Suddenly, with an odd harmony of sounds and a drum beat, the song began, and Jeri started to sing as she started to dance, and I could hear some of her words as she did something similar to a pirouette and a curtsy and a dropkick at the same time.
"I wear a disguise, I'm just your average Jane, the super doesn't stand for model but that doesn't mean I'm plain... If all you see is how I look, you miss the superchick within!"
I saw her grin at me as she continued her dance, doing a mixture of hiphop and trance and I don't know what else exactly. She had stopped singing to concentrate on her song. Often she looked at me, smiling while she spun around in circles, on one turn of her foot, she faced me and blew me a kiss. I blushed intensely, as she attempted to somewhat fall to the floor as "One Girl Revolution" (AN: By Superchick - I've been watching quite a few AMVs lately...) continued playing, the beat slowing and her spinning her legs around while holding poised.
As the guitar chords slowed, and so did the song, Jeri ended in a heroic pose, one leg keeping her balanced on the ground, the other held up right against her thigh, and her arm in a "HYAH!" kind of way. The audience applauded loudly, and so did I - it was really a great performance. She curtsied - well, as much as she could in pants - and grinned, looking up at everyone, and locked eyes with me, proud of herself.
Meanwhile, as Jeri left the "stage", Crystal had been preparing her dance, and was leaving the DJ's table. Beats of a song rose up again, and the audience cheered, happy that they would be seeing another dance.
Crystal positioned herself, doing a quick curtsy, and as the song started, she did a quick spin, and started to dance, practically jumping around in circles. She didn't really look like she was dancing, but she was clapping, and she was trying to get everybody to clap the beat. Obidiently, we did, and that small part of the pier started to bounce with energy, as she continued to spin and dance.
The words were foreign to my Japanese ears, not even English. But it was energy, LOUD energy. Almost vibrant. As the first verse of the song started, Crystal mimicked a small boy pretending to be an airplane, taking to center stage, and then, being serious, started her performance.
Because honestly, that was the only thing you could call it. A performance.
It was ballet. It was ballroom. It was -something-, if not energetic and awesome.
Crystal did everything that could possibly boggle the mind with dance moves, and somehow put it together. The Can-Can. The Charleston. She touched the floor, she touched the sky, she flew around, she did a jig. She did the disco, the electric slide, and some things she had never even taught me before.
She even did the Numa Numa.
Which I guess was appropriate, since it -was- Dragostea din Tei by O-zone, one of the songs that she had taught me with, and told me about all the crazy fandom.
But she did it all, putting it together in some weird way, doing odd things, but she looked like she was having fun. She had energy in it all, and it all just fit together.
She left the stage in an unbeatable, awed performance. The whole audience applauded with fury.
On our way back to the beach house, we all complimented her, if not just staring at her in awe, like I was. My dance teacher was incredibly unpredictable.
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Cutting it short... 'cause it seems a bit long. XD;
Yeah... I listen to O-zone a tad too much.
The songs in this chapter belong to those who own 'em, which is stated in there, so yeah.