The rustic paint-peeling blue bus arrived at 12:00 sharp. The gang was glad that it was a pretty deserted bus line and that they would be traveling with no one other than an obese fast food loving driver that would keep to himself during the duration of their travels on the worn out vehicle.
But that was probably why Kouga and Ayame had picked this bus line to take them all to San Francisco.
There were no breaks until they reached their destination, with the exception of the occasional pit stop.
And through the trip the group discovered that leaving Inuyasha and Kouga to their own devices proved to be disastrous. Kagome, Sango, Ayame and Miroku had come to this conclusion after they had all left the bus to use the frightening restroom, only to return to Inuyasha and Kouga wrestling in the aisle of the bus, the result of a conflict over the last doughnut. Which, in the end, had smashed on their shirts and left them with strawberry jelly stained clothes. And all over their faces and all in their hair… it was pretty hard for Kagome to scold the two without exploding with laughter, along with the rest of the gang.
When they arrived in San Francisco, it was 6:45, because of some traffic jam on highway 15. Kouga immediately called for a taxi to take them to the airport, ordering a van instead of a small yellow car. It was large enough to hold all their articles of luggage (with minimal pushing and shoving) and the entire group, (again, with minimal pushing and shoving).
All was relatively silent in the vehicle, and in about 1 hour they arrived at the airport. But none of them had expected what was going to happen next.
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"I would like to purchase six tickets on the next flight to Brest, France." Kouga discussed with the ticket clerk.
The LUX airport was all a bustle with tourists, honeymooners, and all the other basic travelers and business goers. People crowded all around the luggage turn styles and lined in front of the metal detectors and x-ray aisles, waiting to exit or enter the state of California. It was an amazing sight.
But all too soon were the groups' attentions diverted from the airport when they heard the screech from the loud speakers, "Announcing that all flights to Europe have been canceled due to weather conditions, and the flight to Peru has been delayed." The intercom then repeated the announcement in Spanish, just in case they could not understand. The friends then shared the similar look of, "what the hell are we supposed to do now?"
It was then that Kagome's vision became focused on a turn style that held all the brochures of all the places that you could travel. And it wasn't the places that you could go that had her fixated on them, it was the alternative way that you could be transported there. 'If not by air, then by sea,' she thought picking up an ad for a cruise line that would carry them to their destination in France.
"Hey, guys!" she called to them and then told them of her brilliant epiphany.
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Upon hearing the idea that Kagome had suggested, every one seemed to smack each other for not thinking of it sooner. San Francisco was famous for its docks on the on the West Coast line. Though a lot more expensive and at least two weeks longer a trip than traveling by air, Koga and Ayame seemed desperate to keep moving, it was crucial in their point of view that they not stay in one place too long.
This is what set the others on the edge. There had to be a reason for their apparent need to always be moving forward. And that's when they discovered that they had a reason to be a great more significantly cautious. They were being tracked by a Filtine, one of the great human hunters that held a great deal of racism in their morals against the Werewolf and Vampire clans.
SO, it was decided. They were to go on a cruise the very next day, on the ship line Carnival, the main boat Princess.