BOREDOM ONBOARD

A/N: Here it is. I might update pretty soon after this. Oh yeah. I'd just like to say thanks to my brand spanking new beta reader, GeneralDragon! He's basically an editor. Well, enjoy if you can! Oh yeah, I know I changed my name randomly, but I have my reasons.

"Minus five hundred and forty three bottles of Karen's juice on the wall,

Minus five hundred and forty three bottles of Karen's juice,

You take one down,

You flush it down, (a toilet flushed in perfect timing at this point)

Minus five hundred and forty thr…"

Jack's singing was cut off by a swift kick in the jaw. He and the other guys had been singing to pass the time, and had not noticed Karen come into the bathroom. The boat was a pretty big ferry, yet still seemed to only have one bathroom, for both genders to share.

"Get out of here before I make you", Karen said in a tone that sounded like it alone could murder.

The boys scampered out quietly, not daring to protest. They slowly walked into a lunch hall kind of place, with a snack bar on one side, and rows of plushy red bench-like seats with wooden tables in between each two. They were all nailed to the ground. On the spare walls were rows of couches similar to the benches in design, but with plushy backs. They were faced back to back, with tables between (it basically looked like a café or diner).

The group decided on a row of couches in the middle of the eastern wall. Kai sat down on a couch, which emitted a puff of air under his weight. He sidled along and the others sat down gradually, all with a puff.

"There's nothing to do", Jack complained.

He wasn't wrong. They had explored most of the ship, give or take a few rooms, and had found nothing apart from an arcade, black-jack table, ping-pong and darts room, an all you can eat buffet, a pool room (50 X 50 metres, 4 metres deep, slides with diving boards, the works), a library, a movie theatre, and a janitor's closet (they had spent a few hours playing with a mop, but eventually tired of putting it on their heads and singing "I Feel Pretty").

"You know, we could always check out the arcade" Rick said hopefully.

Everyone stared at him for a second, but then they all remembered the last time they'd let Rick in an arcade (he drove them all insane telling them the exact statistics of them winning a game of Pong in the certain positions the ball was in at that particular moment).

"…Perhaps we'd better not" Kai said.

Rick sighed and put his statistics file back in his bag.

"Someday they'll see me as the God of Pong... ", he murmured to himself.

"WHY! WHY IS THE WORLD SO CRUEL!"

Elli moaned and sobbed as Mary handed her another tissue, slowly patting her on the back understandingly.

"He was my love! My all! My, my… POOPIKINS!" she let out another howl, and Popuri came over to her, looking understandingly at the poor girl's now red and puffy face.

The girls were in the library, crowding over Elli, trying to cheer the poor girl up. She had been extremely upset when she found out that the doctor was the only bachelor in the town (not counting Barley or Won, who were both old and evil anyway) who wouldn't be going to the mysterious island on which they were to spend a year.

Karen re-entered the room, returning from the toilet. She was clutching something in her hand… or rather, some things.

"There, there, love, are you alright?" the girl cooed to the bawling nurse (although the roughest person in the village, Karen was always sweet when it concerned her friends).

"Here, look at what I brought." The girl emptied her hands onto a nearby table. Snickers, Mars Bars, Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate bars, Picnics, M 'n' Ms (in packets), Freddo's Caramello Koalas and other various types of chocolate went flying left, right and centre (or center) across its surface, followed by a chic flick (a DVD), a DVD player, a huge chunk of wall that Karen had obviously somehow forced out of the ship (hopefully she had remembered not to break the exterior, Mary thought) and a jar of Vegemite and a spoon.

The other girls looked at the bizarre arrangement of most probably stolen goods on the table in front of them.

"Karen… what the hell are you doing?" Ann asked the girl, still wondering how she'd managed to carry all of the evidence of theft all around the boat. Karen looked expectantly at the girls. After getting no reply apart from a cough, tumbleweed, and crickets chirping, she sighed.

"Break up survival kit!" she exclaimed. Now everything seemed to make sense to the others, apart from the Vegemite and spoon.

"We'll be arriving in 10 minutes. Everybody get ready to leave!" he voice across the ship boomed through the various speakers across the boat. The boys in the diner were relieved.

"Finally" Cliff exclaimed as they started slowly crawling out of their seats, stretching and blinking. Most of them had fallen asleep, with the exception of Rick and Kai, who were playing paper, scissors rock for about 3 hours (Kai won about 56431 to 1. Rick added this to his Reasons to Kill Kai list hidden under the desk).

"Well, I guess we'd better go find the girls" Kai said.

"You'll use any excuse to go find the girls, won't you?" Gray asked. Despite this being a rhetorical question, Kai answered with a nod and an "mmm hmm".

"I think I saw them in the library before… or rather heard" Rick said. The others looked at him strangely for a second, but followed him as he walked towards a door with a big sign on it that read "LIBRARY".

"NOOO! Cedric! How could you!" Elli wailed. The guys instantly knew what Rick meant. Elli was obviously still grieving after being told that she was to be separated from her love (or That Guy with the Weird Circle Thing On His Head, as he was more commonly known to the townsfolk) for a whole year.

All of the girls seemed to be crying, apart from Karen, who was sitting on the floor scooping out the contents of a jar of Vegemite and swallowing it whole (I dare anyone reading this who has access to Vegemite to try it) and playing what appeared to be… Pong (the male group made sure to blindfold Rick as they walked closer with Jack's red hanky).

"Umm… it's time to go now" Gray said matter-of-factly. The girls stared at him for a second, but then turned back to their romance DVD/book (who would have guessed, Mary was reading in a library)/ Pong. Jack seemed to think for a second before snapping his fingers. He went right up close to the girls and said the words he would soon wish he had never even heard.

"SHOPPING!" the girls stared at him for a second, and then launched themselves ruthlessly at the door.

A/N: Ok, I decided to stop there so I could actually get this to my beta reader in time.

YOU ARE THE ONES TO… THANK:

Lost and Disturbed: Thanks and I will.

jack-t-man:… I grew up on Nintendo. My most memorable early childhood moments were watching my brother play Donkey Kong on the SNES. Good times…

Alex the Eval: No story of mine is complete without a reference to that dancing banana (a good reason to one day go back to my old fic).

GeneralDragon: Yes, that Mayor seems to need the school more than some of the at least half educated people in the town. Who knows, who knows… oh wait, I do! I have BIG plans for this story… Oh yeah, and you'll get it at the start of the next chapter.

Avalice: It was damn long, I wreckon. Rightly so, the poor girl did nothing (that I've so far mentioned) to the tomato…

Till next time,

K.M. … I mean T.W. … Ah, what the hell, I'm going to put K.M. on the end anyway, because I will change back to that later, when I can…

P.S Sorry this is in late. I had trouble getting it to GeneralDragon at first because of the email suspension.