Hello everyone. Well what can I say about this chapter? I finally got what Carinne's life will be so I can now drag her in this...Yay! It might be one of those serious chapters, which I think might be good since we had two scary chapters in a row. But it WILL BE SHORT. Ah, the last chapter was amazing. Yay to Nissi. But moving on...where did we stop? Oh yes, a phone call.
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Chapter Twelve
The phone rings. Tired and sore, Olivia moves to answer it. As she picks up and says hello, a loud voice begins yelling at her.
"Get your butts down here! I'm being attacked!"
"...Carinne?"
"No, I'm Bob. OF COURSE I'M CARINNE!"
"What's going on?"
"Just get down here now!"
The phone is hung up, leaving a bewildered Olivia still holding hers. Instantly she drops it and calls everyone over to Meagan, instructing her that she needs to teleport over to Carinne's. And everyone--still in their pajamas--heads over to her house. Panicked and not caring about the front door Meagan teleports inside, only to find the home in a shambled mess. Little red creatures, the human version of devils, crowded the floor bearing their pitchforks in a menacing sort of way. Nissi freezes them with her ice ball. They crackle and freeze, and the Destinies can't help but think that they would make good statues. Upstairs Carinne is whacking furiously at the little devils with a bamboo stick, and is faring quite well against them. The girls consider just sitting back and letting Carinne fight--until the devils come at them. Together the five girls/four boys make short work of the creatures. Finished, Carinne glares at them.
"What the heck is going on?"
"To Spirit World!" the Destinies cry.
"Spirit World?"
"To Spirit World!"
They grab hold of Carinne and in seconds appear before the baby ruler that is Koenma. He isn't surprised to see them, and is even holding Dawe. Upon sight of his owner Dawe jumps from Koenma to Olivia. So this is where he's been for the past few days... Koenma begins to explain how Dawe is his little communicator when the girls are too lazy to come report in every once in a while. They sweatdrop, laughing nervously. But then it becomes serious. Koenma gives Carinne the once over, noticing how she is not fazed much by what's going on. Quite unusual for a human. But then again, she's probably not human. Sending an ogre to retrieve her file, he is not surprised when he finds it to be missing.
"They are all missing..." he mumbles.
"Hey Koenma, should she just come live with us?"
"Not yet. It was bad enough I had to give you girls medicine just so you could prove that you had 'guardians.' I want things to cool down before Carinne joins you."
"Understood."
They exit, meeting up with Botan in the hallway. She greets them, meets Carinne, then drags them down to the same rooms they had used upon one of their visits to Spirit World. The girl's room is furnished with another bed, for which they are very happy. They plop onto them, discouraged. There is no way they'll make it through freshman year like this. Why don't demons stick to a schedule? Attack, attack, attack--that's all they do! And always at random! Why is it that they can't attack during the holidays? Why do they have to be so uncompromising? Sure they left them alone at Christmas Break, but now... The girls rub their temples. So much stress. How did Kurama put up with this for so long?
Yusuke leads the boys to their room, which is still the same as last time. Kurama kicks off his shoes and heads to relax with a bath. Yusuke and Kuwabara resume their video game position, flicking on the GameCube and watching the words appear smoothly on the screen. And Hiei watches the activity outside the window--there's not much. Every once in a while a ferrygirl comes flying into view with a person whose time had come. Some of them were placidly happy, wheras some of them were wailing uncontrollably. He grimaces in distaste. Pathetic humans.
"Why are we staying here?" Yusuke yawns as Botan comes to speak with them.
"Because you are all tired and confused," Botan confirms. "And you're too lazy to go back home anyway."
"True."
She plops down on one of the vacant beds and watches Yusuke and Kuwabara duke it out on Super Smash Brothers Melee. Yusuke is losing. The silence is unnerving, broken only by Kurama coming out of the bathroom dressed in fresher clothes, his hair still wet from the bath. Botan nods to him, smiling. They all look so tired...
"Actually, Koenma wants you guys to have a bit of fun," she lies.
"Huh?"
"He's sent out one of his men to convince those at the school that you've all come down with the flu--it's not too hard to believe as it's still winter--and that you need two weeks of relaxation. It'll be like everyone has forgotten about you in those two weeks. Those that see you during that time period will just think that their minds are playing tricks on them."
"And who says we need a vacation?" Hiei drawls from the window.
"The girls are frustrated. They can't keep up with school. SO this ensures that they will get to make up the work. They need it."
"Hn."
"Now I just gotta finalize this with Koenma..."
"What was that Botan?" Kurama asks lightly.
"Oh, nothing."
oOo
"Tell me," Olivia groans as she follows everyone to the gates of Spirit World. "Why we bothered settling in if we were just going to leave?"
"Spur of the moment decision," Kuwabara grunts, right behind her. "All Botan's idea."
"Bleagh..."
Half-asleep, the Destinies wave goodbye to Carinne, telling her to come over tomorrow anytime. Thus, with goodbye's finished, clothed changed, and teeth brushed, everyone falls asleep in a peaceful doze, not even aware as to the chaos they will soon cause.
That ended very dramatically, no? HAMTARO! -twitch- Aww, it's so cute! -shifts eyes- Um, moving on. Where do people come up with anime like that? Ish very cute, but... Alright, the next chapter (it may be in two parts) was written entirely by the one, the only--CARINNE! I find it to be very well written. Actually, it was flat out hilarious. See you then! Ja!
