Okay, so I haven't posted for a month or so. At least I'm posting now! Chapter 2 is up! I'm pretty proud of this one actually, turned out better than I thought it would.

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The Parent Trap

Chapter 2

It was night time, although everyone were still awake. Owls hooted and leaders snored. But most of the girls were in cabin Nightingale.

"Sorry ladies," Ami said, collecting her winnings from the pile in the middle, "Looks like I win again." Everyone groaned around her. Ami Daidouji is no doubt the best poker player in camp. "So that's it?" Ami continued. "No more takers?" Murmuring could be heard, some are discussing how Ami was so good. "I can't believe it, Daidouji never lost one game." Or maybe, "I can't have another go even if I wanted to, I've got nothing left."

The door swung open and bang shut soon afterwards. Haylie Hiiragizawa came in, complete with sunglasses and leather jacket, holding a bag of coins in one hand, swinging it with the other. Nikki and Rika, the rest of the Magpies, followed. "I'll take a whack at it," she said, up turning the small bag, dumping the coins onto the table. "Take a seat," Ami said, smiling forcedly, "Hiiragizawa." Haylie dropped down on to the seat opposite Ami.

"Deal me in," was her reply, crossing her arms. Ami shuffled the cards then started dealing the cards, her hand reaching forward as she placed Haylie's cards in front of her. While waiting, Haylie pushed her sunglasses up to rest on top of her head, folded her arms once more and drummed her fingers. Their eyes never left each other until they both had their cards.

Haylie picked hers up and looked over the table. Her enemy's face was neutral but you can see a slight spark in her eyes, she obviously had a good hand. She looked down at hers, it wasn't so good. "Tell you what," Haylie spoke up, "let's make a deal." Ami looked up from her cards. Haylie kept talking, face devoid of emotions, "Loser, jumps into the lake?"

Ami grinned, "Excellent."

"But naked," continue Haylie.

"Even more excellent," Ami said, placing her cards down. "Start unzipping Hiiragizawa." The cards were all reds in a neat row on the table. "Strait, in diamonds." Ami sat back and smiled, Haylie looked rather horrified. 'Excellent,' she thought to herself.

Haylie sat there staring at the cards, struck dumb. This girl was good, she was very good. But she won't win, time for a little magic trick. "Good, Daidouji," she said, "But…it's just not good enough." Haylie sat back and casually waved her hands over the cards. "In honour of the Queen," Haylie smirked, "A Royal Flush." Ami's jaw dropped.

Ami stood at the small wooden platform wearing nothing but her necklace, which she refused to take off. She took a breath and turned her head, glaring at Hiiragizawa. How she hated that girl, how could she get a Royal Flush? Facing the lake once again, Ami took a deep breath, and walked that last few paces. She bit her lips and lowered her eyes to the darkness below. That water is going to be freezing. Why did she agree to this? Taking another breath, Ami dived neatly into the lake.

Haylie grinned broadly as Daidouji stepped along the walkway. Half the girls that were in the cabin were behind her, watching Daidouji make a fool out of herself. Haylie's eyes wandered around as Daidouji marched, they fell on Daidouji's clothes. The girl jumped and a splash was heard. "Quick, hide her clothes," Haylie whispered. Nikki and Rika took all her clothes that were on a bench and they all ran, laughing like mad.

Ami surfaced from the lake and quickly got up at the shore. She froze as she realised that her clothes were gone. Running up to the bench she saw that the only thing left were the shoes on the ground. Shivering, Ami hugged her body. "Right, Hiiragizawa," she vowed there on the spot, "You want the play? Then let the games begin."

"The Magpies have triumphed!" Nikki was yelling happily, a basketball under her arm. "We hid her evil clothes in the kitchen this morning. She'll never find it." Haylie and Rika giggled. Nikki pushed her glasses up her nose a little higher heading for the Magpie Cabin. Rika walked along next to her, wearing her infamous 'Angel' T-Shirt, Haylie on her back. "I'm so tired," Haylie complained and took a drink from her water bottle, "I'm going to go to bed and sleep until lunch." Rika grinned but it soon fell from her face as she froze.

"I don't think that's a possibility," she said dropping Haylie down. Nikki and Haylie exchanged confused glances until Nikki looked forward and stood rooted on the spot. "Why not?" Haylie asked, taking another swig from her bottle. "That's why not," replied Rika, pointing at their cabin. Haylie finally turned her head at the sight. "No way," she growled, walking forward. Somehow, Daidouji and her two Nightingale friends had managed to get all the beds, trunks and desks of the three members of the Magpies. Haylie knew it was Daidouji because the Japan flag was hanging highly on the flagpole of their cabin, a yellow teddy bear at the tip of it. "They are so going to pay for this," Haylie said, Nikki and Rika nodded next to her.

"How the heck did they do it?" Nikki brooded. "We only left for two to three hours."

"They used magic," Shaolan stated casually beside Haylie. She turned her angry eyes on him, "What do you mean they 'used magic'?"

"You know perfectly what I mean, Hiiragizawa." Shaolan replied coldly, he was only trying to help, no need for glares. "They used magic to lift the furniture up and glue it down. Like how you cheated when you played Poker." Haylie sat there surprised, but before she had time to think of a reply, Nikki had already asked her a question. "You have magic too? You hide your Aura really well."

"Hold on a sec, you both have magic? Am I the only one who don't?" Rika exclaimed.

"How did you know about magic, Rika?" Haylie asked, she was confused now. She had thought she was the only one here with magic. Maybe her dad was right, she does need to practise frequently. "One of my teacher is a sorcerer, I kind of found out about it then he explained it to me." Rika answered, even though she knew that there was magic, and had seen it, in the world, she still found it a little hard to believe her roommates were witches.

"So, how many people in this camp has magic?" Nikki questioned, that thought was on Haylie's mind too. Shaolan replied nonchalantly, "Five. Daidouji and Sak-Kinomoto. Rae doesn't have magic but knows about it." He had almost said 'Sakura', not a wise move with people who hate the Nightingales. Haylie did some quick calculations in her head. "You said there were five people and you have only mentioned four."

"Oh yea, I have magic too," there, he had done his job. He had told both sides about the magic in it. Sakura owes him big time, he never wanted to be part of it but she could be pretty persuasive when she wants to be. She had asked him to tell the Magpies so they would know what to expect after he had told them, the Nightingales, that two of the Magpies have magic. Typical Sakura, wanting a fair game. A slight blush came to his cheek as he thought about Sakura. The way she smiled, the way her eyes sparkled, the way…well, Shaolan liked just about everything about her.

For the next few days, pranks after pranks were pulled by the Magpies and Nightingales. A war had begun between the two cabins. They had a food fight every other day, in which the rest of camp joined in delight. They were always on different teams and competing against each other like mad. Once, the leaders tried to put them on the same team. They had to tear Meiling and Rika apart in the end, which was rather hard considering they were both experts at Martial Arts…for their age anyway.

Girls could be heard squealing as maggots poured down upon them instead of water in the showers. Many screamed when their dinner sprouted legs and walked off the table. They found that spiders were underneath them but that didn't make it much more believable. Mud sank like quicksand; the lake had whirlpools; flowers shot pollen into the air, making loads of campers sneeze; trees fell down on their own accords, blocking people and getting them lost in the forest; birds flew down from treetops, dropping waste on everyone's head; bees came buzzing out behind doors. It was amazing how they were doing all of this, unexplainable unless you knew that four of the campers were sorceresses.

Shaolan stayed completely out of the whole affair except to help Sakura walk to her cabin after she twisted her ankle. He was not about to help anyone in anyway. They were all his friends, he just hope that Daidouji and Hiiragizawa would stop trying to kill each other soon. He has to get them to stay together on their own without anyone else interrupting them and without them getting suspicious. His eyes lit up all of a sudden, he had a plan. A plan that should at least get Daidouji and Hiiragizawa to respect each other, even if it was only a little. No one must know about this, not even Sakura.

The Magpies walked up the steps of their cabins, they had had an uneventful supper and were going to have a last minute check of their master plan before turning in for the night. Rika turned the knob and pushed, the door wouldn't budge. "Hey, what's going on?" Haylie bent down and examined the lock, it had a magical seal on it. She sensed out to see whose made the seal, dark purple. Haylie checked again to make sure, she thought she sense a flash of forest green but it disappeared as quickly as it came. Must have been her imagination. "It's Daidouji," Haylie told the others.

"I'll try the windows," said Nikki, stepping over to the windows. She tried to open it with a spell, nothing happened. "This is stuck too," she banged her hand against the glass. Rika sighed and Haylie glared at the lock, willing it to open. "Ah!" Haylie and Rika quickly turned around and gasped. Nikki's fists seemed to have frosted over so that it was stuck to the window. "Help!" she cried in despair, trying to pull free. Haylie pressed her palms together then slowly pulled them apart, a small flame appeared in the space between her hands. "Stop yelling, Nikki," Haylie said as she sent a line of fire straight at the ice. The fire was reflected by a barrier and it zoomed towards Rika instead, she ducked just in time. "It won't work, you'll have to try and start a fire on the inside, Nikki," said Haylie, looking at the frozen hands.

"Alright," she said and tightened her fists. Closing her eyes, Nikki concentrated all her energy to start a fire. That was rather hard for Nikki, even if her hands were not stuck in ice, fire was never her speciality. After a while, Nikki's hand started to steam. She couldn't conjure up a flame, not with the temperature of the window. Luckily, when Nikki's hand steamed it melted the window, which had turned to ice, into water. "Finally," Rika sighed, clambering into their cabin. Nikki and Haylie followed and the three of them dropped into bed. "I have had enough of waiting," Haylie said angrily. "Tomorrow night, we are going to stop scheming and actually carry it out. You both with me?" Rika mumbled a yes and Nikki nodded. The three of them lied there in silence for a couple of minutes, none of them fully asleep yet. "Hey," Nikki suddenly spoke up. "What are we going to do about that window."

"Oh I'll fix it in the morning," Haylie half yawned her reply. They all soon fell into a deep sleep after that.

Shaolan smiled, a rare sight indeed. Plan A, get the Magpies mad and make them blame the Nightingales. That went perfectly, but he suspected it would. Hiiragizawa obviously does not practise her magic much. Either that or her sensing power is very very very weak. He stealthily crept up the steps of the cabin and went to the glassless window. He took out four, water, ward papers and placed one at each corner of the square. Muttering a few incantations, water seeped out of the papers, filling up the hole. Once the water settled and froze, it turned into glass. Shaolan silently slipped into the night and back to his own cabin. Mission accomplished…at least, for that night.

To Be Continued……