Sorry it's taken me a while XD. For those of you who know me a little better I was grounded again since I didnt go to bed as early as I'd have liked to. hehehe...'
Yes! Yes! I have returned and so now I know what to write. Not a bad chapter, tho the next one will be…interesting.
----------------------------------Hidden Power: Chapter 6...The Babysitter
Hovering nearby the little sprites tittered gaily with each other while Eriol watched the dancing lights. They were back on Earth.
"New best friend, huh?" Syaoran said looking at the person who had blindfolded him. If it could be called a person…
The "person" looked to be male around the age of ten or so. He was rather tall with fluffy silver colored hair and what looked like a tail sprouting from his posterior. A tail…obviously this thing was not HUMAN. Of course he was floating half way off the ground, so that thought was further reinforced.
But his sense of fashion wasn't too bad, Syaoran noticed with interest.
He wore a blue half short sleeve blouse with a mandarin collar and elaborate frog buttons on his sleeves and also on slits of his knee high pants. Nope, no footware, apparently except for a solid gold anklet from which a round pendant dangled. Another, set of jewelry, Syaoran noticed was on his wrists…if manacles could be considered jewelry.
"Wha—," Syaoran stopped himself just in time as the 'new best friend' looked at him inquiringly with pink eyes, a big grin on his face. "WHO are you?" he finished.
"Here to watch choo," it replied as if it was obvious.
"We have a messenger?" he asked Eriol, who just shrugged 'I guess'. "We have a messenger?" Syaoran asked Gaia who twittered, "Obviously."
"We don't need a messenger!" Pyro said to the new messenger, who just flipped up his tail and promply said, "It not my problem. Prophet say, 'I want to watch over the Guardians. Be sure that they get their work done! choo' So I do."
The little water sprite tipped over and began to giggle madly as Syaoran put on a sour face. Great, they needed babysitters.
"Weeeell, this would not have happened if Syao-kun did his homework!" Skye chided.
"What do you mean MY homework! You're supposed to be helping me." And for a while they were all silent except for a few intermittent choos as the new babysitter zoomed around a parked car.
"……………………."
"Well, maybe if we find the next (choo) Guardian this person will (choo) leave," Eriol suggested.
"Whatever (choo). I guess it's worth a shot ," Syaoran agreed.
"But what (choo) do we do (choo)?" the sky spirit asked a little sleepily. A bag of potato chips will do that to you should you down enough of them. Should we just (choo)—"
"WILL YOU CUT THAT OUT?" Syaoran, Pyro, and Gaia roared at er…Choo simultaneously, who promptly cut off his last choo and plopped onto the car he had been zooming on, causing the alarm to go off.
BWEE BWEE BWEE BWEE ARROOO ARROOO
"Oh my gosh…" Syaoran groaned as Eriol struggled to hold onto to the legs of the two sprites who had attempted to fly at the now wailing babysitter.
"Hold on! Hold on!" Eriol cried.
"I'm gonna tear his wings off!" Pyro growled.
Eriol looked at the babysitter, "He doesn't HAVE wings Pyro-san!"
"Well, he won't be flying when I get through with him!" Gaia wiggled more desperately when the babysitter seemed to notice their efforts and rewarded them with a big raspberry.
"Knock it off!" Syaoran cried. "We need to find the next guardian as soon as possible."
"And how," gasped Pyro, "do you propose, gasp we do that?"
"I have an idea," the little sky spirit piped up and all heads turned. "I think we should trust the Hand."
"The Hand! Isn't that a gang?" Gaia asked a little wierded out.
"No." Skye shook his head and pointed to a nearby shop. "The Hand!"
The others looked to where he was pointing and noticed a little fortune telling shop.
"No way," Syaoran denied the plan flatly.
"You got a better idea?" Pyro shot Syaoran a withering glare.
Of course he didn't. The last plan he had had literally gone up in flames. Really, what else did he have to lose this time but his reputation? Come on, that's not too bad.
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Well, a minor cliffhanger (if you can call that a cliffhanger, lol).
So tell me what you think of the babysitter. Yeah, he has a name, but I haven't told you yet. Yeah, he is annoying as HELL. That's the whole point. Some people might ask me what the HECK is choo?
Babysitter: I choo. Is me me!
It's his identity. It's just a part of who he is, which will remain a secret for now. Though there is a reason. Be it a stupid one? We'll see.
S-h-O-U-t:
Ryu-Faiya:Ne, ne komapda! (im so sick of repeating 'thank you' but i am grateful. just to be different...its in Korean.) Your praise rocks cuz u make it so fun!
Little Rose: Thank you! I guess I was just looking for a little more character from Syaoran. He does talk like he doesn't care but that's just him being rough around the edges. I think it's kind of cute, lol. But I don't understand what you meant about the sprites...? (scratches head nervously :'o ) Gomen, I can be kinna slow sometimes.
Anime flower: Thanks hahahaha! They're like cute/pain in the butts for Syaoran. :)
Alice 19th: (notices a little repitition and sighes. Smile) You have my gratitudefor so many nice compliments. Though you're not the first to wonder where the hell Sakura is. Don't worry she'll come soon enough. To be honest with you all, when first drew out the summary for the fic I was planning for Sakura to come in at the VERY end of this story. The original story is actually a series, but I didn't think I would be able to keep UP with you all and squeezed everything into one fic. Which brings me to another topic.
Everyone who's been keeping up with my blab sections will probably know that this story is oooold. I wrote it a long time ago, so this fic is a re-run. I've tried to write it before on Mediaminer but it never worked out. It's gone through a lot of changes throughout the years. For those of you who want to know about these changes you can check out my homepage when I put them up (IF i do). Does anyone want to know? Ne1 care or would it just be a waste of space? lol
Well, please watch for my next chapter which I will post up soon enough. :) Thank you to everyone who's been with me this whole time and thanks for reading my story! Til next time...Ja ne!
Foots:
Frog buttons- He wore a blue half short sleeve blouse with a mandarin collar and elaborate frog buttons on his sleeves
n. pl. Elaborate ancient Chinese knotting which the Chinese use to tie their robes shut as well as for decorative purposes. (Yeah, the Chinese buttons you see on the kung fu outfits.)
Raspberry- … the babysitter seemed to notice their efforts and rewarded them with a big raspberry.
n. Slang for sticking out our tongue and blowing. (Some people have given me a few raised eyebrows so that's why it's a footnote.)