YAAAYYY IT'S SUMMER VACATION. FINALLY. (actually it's BEEN Summer Vacation) —throws confetti up cause she doesn't have to deal with evil Mrs. George anymore— Gimme a wewt, wewt! IT'S A WONDER DAY!
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Astera Snape: Yeah, I can understand that (although people at school don't tend to want to mess with me…bad rep). And welcome, I'm glad you liked it and made ya laugh! And yeah, I had fun with that part; Kai did deserve it x3! And (I say 'and' a lot…) luckily I got a big idea which I can expand on the next chapter or so, but thanks for offering –smile-
CoCoPicchu: I told you once, I told you again—if you're gonna review so much, GET. A. USER. NAME. XD But yeah, no pity for Kai! Mwuaha! And yeah, they really do work XD
Big Green Eyes: Er, that wasn't on the planned schedule, but I might if I get a chance.
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By the way, everyone! Sorry I took so long, by the way. Major writers' block, but that was cured when I found out where my parents are dragging me on vacation! YAY ESTATES.
Uhhh…Yeah… the… next chapter. Yeah… not too much more to say…
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Chapter 20: Flashlight, Bright Light, and Midnight!
"BRIGHT LIGHT BRIGHT LIGHT!"
Everyone turned to look at Max, who was currently playing with his flashlight. And by playing I mean turning the flashlight on right in front of his eyes, blinding himself until he turned it off. Each time yelling "BRIGHT LIGHT BRIGHT LIGHT" as he did.
"I. Want. To. Stran. Gle. Him." Bryan ground out, growling as he tried to pull his ears shut.
Judy glared, "Don't you TOUCH my son, Kuznetsov… " She glowered as the teens all flinched under her cold glare. Let's get one thing established. I'm sure you're all wondering what happened to the dam plan, right? Well, you see, Mystel and Ray had started their plan, but Max got a little too excited and blurted out his own plan… So, the adults foiled their plan before the chibi's blew up the dam and caused a tidal wave… again.
So that's that, basically.
"I FIXED IT! I FIXED IT!" Gemini yelled, jumping up.
"…" There was a pause before Kai suddenly looked up at him boredly, "Oh… you're still here?" Kai looked at the cheering teen. Gemini gave Kai a blank, but sad, expression.
"Sadly for you, yes," Gemini replied. "BUT LOOK! LOOK!" Gemini aimed the switcher at the chibi's; they started freaking out, thinking Gemini was pointing a gun at them. "Err…" He aimed it at Kevin, who was asleep. "Here kitty, kitty, kitty!" Kevin groggily lifted his head and looked at Gemini, and before Kevin could say anything, the poor kitty was engulfed in a blinding green light.
"AH BRIGHT LIGHT BRIGHT LIGHT!" Max screamed as the light slowly faded. Standing before them… was…
———XX
"Uhhhh… Why was there a scene change…?" Mariam asked curiously as her red cat body stretched out.
"Maybe so the readers don't think we've been disowned from the story?" Kane suggested.
"Can it, blue-boy," Ozuma muttered angrily.
"You know technically YOU'RE the blue-boy now," Joseph said pointedly, blinking.
"I SAID CAN IT." Ozuma repeated, growling.
———XX
"HELL AND HOLY TO THE SWITCHER!" Kevin yelled, jumping up and down happily, "I'M A TWO-LEGGER-TAIL-LESS-MIDGET AGAIN!"
"Ha!" Gemini smirked, laughing, "I hate to say it, actually, I LOVE to say it—I TOLD YOU SO! I TOLD YOU IT WOULD WORK!"
Everyone: —sweatdrop— Errr…
"Does this mean we all can return to normal right now and we can finish the damned fic?" Tyson asked excitedly and mumbled under his breathe: 'Cause I REALLY wish I hadn't agreed to this job.'
Gemini paused. "… No."
"WHAT!" Tyson stomped his foot down, pouting, "WHY NOT?"
"Because… It can only do one person per 5 hours. It's not a very strong machine, you know," Gemini sighed, crossing his arms.
"Well," Judy started, "At least we know the switcher works, right?" Judy smiled as all the teens and animals nodded, agreeing.
"That's the good part." Jet mumbled angrily as Gemini sweatdropped.
"Wanna know the bad part?" Gemini asked nervously.
"…I'm afraid to ask—" The teens, animals, adults, whatever moaned. "—But what?"
Gemini grinned sheepishly, "The marble disintegrated… "
"WHAT DO YOU (bleep)ING MEAN THE (bleep)ING MARBLE DISINTEGRATED!" Bryan yelled, "I DON'T WANT TO BE A (bleep)ING DOG NO (bleep)ING MORE AND YOU HAD BETTER GET A NEW (bleep)ING MARBE OR ELSE YOUR (bleep)ING IN FOR IT!"
—XX This Fiction has been interrupted on account of someone going over the swearing limit and the contract we made him –coughforciblycough- sign XX—
(The set is now pitch black)
"Good GOING, BRYAN!" Kai growled.
"LIKE I GIVE A SH— "
"Kaaaiii…I dun wike the dark…it's scarwy." A whimper.
Kai felt someone latch onto his leg and sighed, "Tala, get the HELL off me."
"NO! You big and strong—protect me!" Tala protested, whimpering and clinging tighter.
"Awww, he likes you Kai—not his fault!" Hilary giggled. "I think it's cute that he's so attached to you!"
"Well I DON'T!" Kai shook his leg, but Tala clung tighter,
"NO!"
"Wittle big bwother…" Tyson felt Hitoshi latch onto his leg as well. The older bluenette sweatdropped from the name (even IF it was technically true). "I dun wike the dark either…"
Eventually each of the chibi's were clinging to someone's leg (…which leads me to: "HOW did they know who was who when it was pitch black? The neko-jins I can understand… but… Meh…." Normal-Non-Chibi Tala: I'm labeling that as plot hole #87… —jots "chibi's seeing in dark miraculously" down on a clipboard— Me: …Where'd that clipboard come from? Tala: … -jots down "clipboard mysteriously appearing- Plot hole # 88.)
Drip!
"GAH!" Kai shook his head as a large droplet of water fell on him, "What the hell!" He shook his leg and then head a loud "Thump!"
"Kaaaiii! Why ya throw me off…?" Tala whimpered. "Made me hit my head on da rock…"
"Rock? What rock!" Kai snapped. "We're in a forest and there was NO rock before!"
Drip!
"ACK!" Mathilda shrieked as a large drop of water landed on her head.
Brooklyn suddenly turned on a flashlight, "Dere." He said proudly as he spun the flashlight around the room, aiming it at people. Max strode over and snatched it,
"MY FWASHWIGHT! MINE!" The blonde snapped, glaring. "NOT YOURS! MINE! MINE!" The gang sweatdropped before they looked around at where they were.
"A cave?" Tala asked curiously. Kai blinked and looked at the chibi captain as he pulled out a clipboard, "I'm wabeling dat as pwot hole #89." The redhead jotted "sudden scene change nowhere near original" down on the clipboard before putting it behind his back, causing it to vanish. He blinked and then took it back out, "Pwot hole #90." He said, jotting "disappearing clipboard" down.
"Interesting…" Miguel mused. Mathilda crawled up onto his (or rather Michael's) shoulders and stood up on her hind legs.
"I wonder where we are…" She asked curiously as Brooklyn walked around a little bit.
He suddenly spoke up, "Well… from da height of da stawagmite and stawactite fowmations, da water dripping and how constant it is… wack of wight… " The young prodigy put his hands on the wall before grinning, "We in da middle of the cave just outside of … Sibewia."
"AGAIN WITH THE SIBERIA THING!" Michael yelled angrily. "WHY ALWAYS SIBERI— … did he say Siberia?" Brooklyn nodded. "Oh hell is it gonna get cold…" Michael grumbled.
Kai sighed and then suddenly…
THE CAVE LITE UP! Well, like something was illuminating it, anyway.
"…Pwot hole #91." Tala said boredly, jotting "cave lit up—physically impossible" down.
"What time is it?" Oliver asked curiously as everyone started walking in the way that Brooklyn said was the way out.
"Uhhhh… " Johnny looked at his watch, "21:45."
"…." Oliver blinked. "What?"
"He say 9:45 PM," Enrique said, smiling to himself. "See? I can tell time!"
"Yeah, well my watch not digi!" Johnny bragged, showing off the watch. Enrique scowled, seeing he was right.
"Well either way…" Rick urged as the gang kept walking. "So what now?"
"We keep walking until we reach the entrance/exit I suppose," Robert suggested as the gang wandered hopelessly around for the next hour or two.
"THIS IS HOPELESS!" Kevin yelled angrily after the second hour passed. "IF I DIDN'T KNOW ANY BETTER I'D SAY WE WERE GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES!"
"Hey…" Max started, "Haven't we passed dat rock 20 or so times now?"
Brooklyn shook his head, "Nah. I counted—329 times…" The chibi replied.
"THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE TIMES?" Tyson yelled loudly. Hitoshi whimpered,
"Wittle big bwother…" He tugged his fuming "little big" brother's pant leg as Tyson growled. "The cave moved."
Everyone's eyes widened, "CAVE IN!" They screamed as stalagmites (they're on the top right? Or is it stalactites? I always get them confused…) started falling down, once almost hitting Max if Bryan had not grabbed the chibi's shirt collar and tugged him out of the way.
"RUN!"
They all yelled as they started running, unfortunately most of them
went the other way…
CRASH!
…
…
…
"Kai?"
"Kaaiii…"
"Kai? Yo, Kai?…."
"Ahem, wet me try… KAI WAKE UP AWWEADY KUSO!"
Kai shot up, panting, "What the hell!"
"Owwie!" The slate haired teen blinked and looked down at Tala, who had landed on his head, seeing he had been standing on Kai's chest, trying to wake him up. "Dat wasn't nice!"
Kai scowled, "Whatever Tala. Who else is here?" Kai asked, glaring. The chibi pouted and pointed to Max, who was now, for some reason, a normal but hyper 15 year old again. "Oh joy."
"Aw, be nice," Max teased, laughing.
"Where's the others?" Kai asked irritably as he stood up.
"Separated. They're on that side—" Max pointed to a large pile of rocks, blocking the two teens and a chibi from the rest of the gang. "—of the rocks, while we're on this side of the rocks."
Kai grumbled, "Great. Just when things were ALREADY going SO well…"
"Do I detect sarcasm?" Max asked, snickering. He shut up when Kai sent a cold glare to him. Max smiled sheepishly, "Either way, Kai, we're screwed. We can't get through."
"How are you 15?" Kai asked, raising a bored eyebrow as the trio started walking down the cave.
"I… Well… " Max paused, "I'm not sure."
Tala pulled out a clipboard, "Pwot hole #92…" He jotted down "Max changing ages mysteriously".
"Tala…" Max said suddenly as the chibi put the clipboard away, "Aren't you afraid of the dark?"
The redhead nodded.
"Then why aren't you now?"
The redhead simply pointed to Max's flashlight.
BZZT!
"…Out went the flashlight!" Max said in a singsong voice that sounded like "pop goes the weasel" for some reason…
"AHH!" Tala quickly clung to Kai's leg, whimpering. "KAI!"
Kai grumbled angrily, "Tala. Off. NOW." Tala whimpered,
"No! Me scared of dark!" Tala cried, clinging even tighter to the slat-haired boys leg. Max snickered, causing Kai to turn to the blonde and growl. Max sheepishly smiled,
"Sorry, Kai, but it's cute. I can't help it." Max replied, snickering as Kai clenched his fists as they walked.
"Yeah? Wanna know what I think? It's annoying, irritating, stupid, and it's CUTTING OFF MY CIRCULATION!" Kai yelled loudly as Tala whimpered again, this time not from the dark. Max looked over,
"You don't have to be so harsh on the little guy, Kai," Max frowned as Tala got off Kai's leg slowly. "He looks up to you..."
"HE'S LIKE ONE FOOT TALL! He looks up to everyone!" Kai snapped as Tala tottered over to Max, whimpering and clinging to his leg.
Max sighed and picked up the chibi Blitzkrieg Boyz captain. "It's okay, Tally. Old meanie-sourpuss-Kai is no fun. But I am—you can cling to me!" Max grinned as Tala just muttered something to the boy in Russian before hiding his face in Max's yellow and green shirt.
Kai just huffed and walked ahead, grumbling. Max frowned and sighed, following his captain, still holding the whimpering redhead in his arms.
———XX With the others…
"Okay so… we lost Kai, Max, and Tala?" Judy asked as they all nodded. They had found another route conveniently placed right next to them, and if Tala was there at the time, he would've labeled "passageway appearing out of thin air" as plot hole #93.
"Yeah," Tyson nodded. "I hope they're okay…"
"Should be," Ming Ming said, huffing.
"No, I mean… Kai's stuck with two chibi's, isn't he?" Tyson asked as everyone blinked.
"I thought I saw Max return to normal age," Gemini said pointedly. "OW!" He fell backwards, rubbing his nose.
"Watch the stalactites," Jet said boredly, walking around the boy, as did everyone else. Gemini grumbled a curse at the boy as he stood up and chased after them, mumbling about "stupid Russian with his cat ears and crap".
"I wonder how the three are fairing," Michael wondered aloud randomly.
"Me too," Miguel mused.
———XX Back with Tala, Max, and Kai…
"This fic is going to make everyone turn against me…" Kai muttered angrily.
"Well," Max mused, "That's the problem when you're in a fic where the authoress hates you." Kai only grumbled a curse under his breath. "Well it's true!" Max argued.
"I don't care whether it's true or not! You know the authoress hates Ray too, but you don't see RAY getting abused and turned against!" Kai argued.
"Kai, Ray's a chibi." Max said in exasperation. "The authoress doesn't torture chibi's… besides, you weren't tortured when YOU were a chibi!"
"So?" Kai growled, glaring. "I don't care! By the time this fiction is over, everyone is going to hate me!"
"More so than normal?"
"MAX!"
"EEP! REDRUM! REDRUM!" (who the hell says "murder" backwards?)
That comment led to a chase through the cave cavern, the two accidentally leaving Tala behind.
The redhead chibi sighed, "How immyture…" he muttered as he walked after them.
———XX And back with the others…
"You know," Rick mused as she looked around the cave cavern, "The authoress tends to skip around A LOT."
"I've noticed that too…" Robert said, "one minute your with the others, next minute with us."
"How confusing," Tyson mused.
"…Where are the chibi's?" Moses suddenly asked.
Everyone looked around and, indeed, all the chibi's were gone. "Oh shit…"
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"I can't bewieve dere dat stupid," Johnny mumbled as he leaned back on the tree. He was sitting on a branch above the others, but next to Mystel who was hanging upside down by his legs.
"I know…" Mystel mumbled as the other chibi's all nodded. It was midnight out and the (how many some?) chibi's had ventured on a different path and they had found a way out. Too bad the idiotic teenagers had refused to follow them—if they had, they would've found a way out… but OH WELL! Their lost, right? Yeah, their loss…
"Tink we shoulda at weast tried ta go get Tally?" Brooklyn asked, frowning lightly.
"If we go back in now, we'll get wost…" Mystel explained as the prodigy sighed.
"HEY WOOK AT DAT!" A hyper Ray pointed to a huge castle. "DAT'S A HUGE MANSION!"
"Actually," Brooklyn started, looking over the old walls of the castle, "It's called the Biltmore. It's the largest estate in da USA in 1895 and is now open to the public as a country attraction. It became an attraction wound da time of da Great Depression. The house itself covahs 4 acres and has 250 rooms, including 35 bedrooms and 65 firepwaces. Dere's all kinds of treasures from around da world in certain 65 rooms. Also, tons of movies have been filmed here! The Swan, The Clearing, Being there… many more. But Richie Rich, in 1994, was the family favorite that was filmed there!" Brooklyn beamed, grinning, "It's property totals, with the 4 acres of just the home, 750,000 square feet—dat's equal to, like, 88 average homes today! The Banquet Hall alone measures more than 3,000 square feet and reaches 70 feet high!" (A/N: Yeah, this is where we're going for vacation! I can't wait! –giddy about old stuff like this- )
The other chibi's looked on in sheer confusionment (A/N: that is SO a word you stupid word program!).
Mystel glared at the prodigy, "Awww, shuddap ya smarty-ass… " He grumbled as he jumped down, Johnny jumping down with him.
Brooklyn glared back, "Hmph!"
"Wet's go explore it!" Enrique said excitedly. "I've nevah seen an AMERICAN castle!"
"Yeah, wet's go!" The others all quickly agreed as the teens and other lost chibi were forgotten. They quickly started running to the estate, grinning.
"Wow, wook at dis huge garden…" Johnny said in awe as the ran through it. It was midnight, so generally no one was out, but the lights were on and illuminating the millions and millions of flowers arranged along a smooth, winding sidewalk with so many gardens it'd make any naturalists head burst. The Spring Garden, Walled Garden, Azalea Garden, Shrub Garden, Italian Garden… so much more!
"Is that a winery?" Johnny asked curiously, pointing to an old building. Brooklyn nodded. "Wow, cool…"
"Wook! There's the house!" Mystel exclaimed excitedly as they raced up to it. The slipped easily through the crack in the large doors as the started down the hallway, eager to explore…
At least they were lucky that no one still lived there… physically anyway.
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Afraid I gotta end it there. When I write the next chapter, I'll be on vacation and writing in a notebook… but I'll be able to write the inside more clearly than this travel book gives me. Plus I'll have pictures to refer to. So, I apologize for this not being very long, but… I really wanted to update 'fore I left on vacation and made you wait longer –sweatdrop-
Oliver: What kept you before!
Me: -glowers at him- Well I had to do a ton of cleaning and packing and shopping for the trip! I'm only gonna be at the Biltmore for 3 days, anyway… First week is that evil ocean.
Oliver: Sucks to be you, fraidy cat.
Me: HEY! …Meh, whatever.
R&R please!
T-LW-T
