The weather grew colder as time passed. The girls had become comfortable in Destiny's Bounty, making good friends with everyone on board.
One cold morning, Sensei Wu gave everyone the day off, so the boys headed to the game room, with Lane and Alexia following. "So, what kind of games do you guys play?" Lane asked, sitting down with her DSI XL.
"Sitar Legend is one of our favorites." Cole said.
"Huh? What about Mario and Zelda and Kirby?" Lane asked, confused.
"What games are those?" Jay asked.
"Clearly, we need to introduce you." Alexia took Super Smash Bros. Brawl out of her pocket and slid the disk into the Wii and took up a controller. "Watch and learn, boys. I call Sheik!"
"I call Kirby!" Lane grabbed one of the controllers while Cole and Zane took the remaining two controllers.
"So how do you play?" Zane asked.
"Simple, just beat the crap out of everyone else!" Alexia explained, and the match began. Within twenty seconds, both of the boys' characters (Ike and Link) were killed.
"Dude, you guys suck." Lloyd said, grinning.
"We do not." Cole protested, but Lloyd's statement was reinforced when Lane knocked him out a second later. "Fine, we give."
Kai and Jay took up the controllers, but had little more success than the other boys. "You guys got the good characters." Jay complained.
Alexia raised an eyebrow. "Fine, I'll use Snake and Lane can use Marth. You'll use Kirby and Sheik." They switched characters but the boys lasted no longer than before.
Kai cursed. "How do you use special attacks?"
"B button plus the control stick." Lane told him. After a minute, the boys began to fight back successfully and managed to knock both of the girls out. "It's so on now."
The seven played three tournaments before Alexia turned off the Wii. "I think we all need a break before our eyes burn up."
"Fine, but that means movie time!" Lane said. Alexia rolled her eyes and left, Kai following. The two went outside to where it was snowing. Alexia leaned on the rail and Kai put his arms around her waist while he placed his head on her shoulder.
"Something on your mind?" He asked. Alexia shook her head.
"Just thinking. I loved winter back home, since that was when I could go to Lane's house and spend time there in front of a roaring fire. I would spend hours watching the flickering flames dance on the log." She sighed, and reached out with her hand to catch a snowflake.
Kai thought for a moment then took one of his hands away from Alexia's waist. She looked up to find her boyfriend staring at his hand. Alexia gave him a questioning look, and in answer a small flame sparked out of his hand. "It's not a fire, but..."
"It's beautiful." Alexia told him, entranced by the flame. She moved her hands over it, feeling a tiny amount of warmth radiate from the flame before it was blown out by the wind.
"Sorry." Kai mumbled but Alexia smiled.
"It was perfect." She whispered, and the two kissed softly.
Back in the game room...
Lane had managed to convince the boys to watch 'Ponyo'. It might not have been so bad, except for the fact that Lane pointed out everything that would be suggestive for a children's movie.
"FOR THE LOVE OF THE TIME LORDS! ALCOHOLIC IN CHILD'S MOVIE!" Lane yelled when the father of Ponyo began to drink heavily from the huge bottles.
"Could you not scream?" Jay asked, covering his ears.
"That's half the fun!" Lane said gleefully.
Around the halfway point, Alexia and Kai re-entered. "I heard Lane yelling 'alcoholic' and knew it was Ponyo." Alexia explained, sitting on one of the couches.
"How did that tell you?" Cole asked, and Alexia smiled.
"Because at her 14th birthday party, we watched the same movie with some of Lane's other friends and did the exact same thing." She said.
"Maybe we should train on the deck." Kai suggested, trying to not yell because of his ringing eardrums.
"Fiiiiiine." Lane whined. Once there, she asked, "Who going to spar me?"
Kai, Cole, and Jay stepped back, while Alexia said, "I want to see you spar someone else. Since they're not, how about Zane?"
Lane nodded approvingly. The two began sparing with their weapons when, a few minutes later, Zane accidently threw one of his shurikens too close and when Lane dodged, the shuriken cut off her ponytail.
Slowly, Lane watched her hair land on the deck. Alexia's eyes widened and she grabbed Kai's hand. "Be prepared to run like hell." She whispered quickly.
Lane felt her short hair then smiled. "Sweet! I've always wanted short hair!" She squealed happily. Alexia let out a sigh of relief. When Lane and Zane returned to sparing, Cole gave her a questioning look.
"Basically, I was fully prepared for a terrible, violent reaction." Alexia explained.
After another minute, Lane managed to flip Zane over. He groaned slightly, and Lane extended a hand to help him up.
"Nice match." She told him, smiling. Zane fought back a slight blush but Lane didn't notice.
Lloyd picked up the hair and threw it overboard. In the next second as the hair went down, Lloyd felt himself punted overboard after it. "YOU'D BETTER COME BACK WITH THAT PIECE OF HAIR!" Lane screamed.
"Nya! Lloyd overboard! Drop the anchor!" Jay called. Nya complied but the anchor hit Lloyd on his way down. He grabbed onto it, but quite unfortunately, the anchor hit the ground while he was under it, resulting in a sickening crunch.
"Ooo… That'll leave a mark in the morning." Alexia said sympathetically.
Lane leaned over the rail and shouted, "HAVE YOU GOT MY HAIR?!"
Lloyd moaned and shook his head.
"DAMN IT!" Lane yelled, throwing a hammer in his general direction. Lane jumped off the ship mumbling something about finding small, helpless animals.
"No! Not the cute, helpless animals!" Moppet screamed, starting to run after her sister.
"Moppet?" Moppet turned to face Alexia, who shook her head. "Don't even try."
"Wait, Lane could have killed me?" Zane asked, slightly worried.
"Zane, you know that's not-" Cole's mouth was quickly covered by Zane. Thankfully, Alexia didn't notice.
"Could you not tell Alexia and Lane that I am a nindroid?" Zane asked the other ninja.
"Uh... Sure." His brothers answered.
Few hours later...
Lane returned to the ship, the smell of dead animal and dried blood on her. Moppet sniffed.
"The poor, defenseless animals." She whimpered.
"Oh don't worry most of the animals are still alive. Well, mostly alive. Well actually, kind of alive. Well, alive in my book means dead, you know that right?" Lane asked.
While the ninja and Nya were confused, Alexia and Moppet nodded.
"I'm going to take another nap." Moppet said, but on her way to her bedroom Lloyd stopped her.
"I want revenge for your sister's crimes." He told her, arms crossed.
"We all do. Except maybe Alexia." She answered.
"I still want vengeance." Lloyd said. "I challenge you to video games!"
Five minutes later...
"NOOOO!" Lloyd yelled after Moppet had defeated him for the eleventh time. "Girls can't play video games!"
"Says the boy who just got beaten by a girl!" Moppet countered.
The two continued to bicker until they became tired and flopped back onto the couch were they had been sitting. "You still want revenge on Lane?" Moppet asked.
Lloyd nodded. "Then I have an idea!" Moppet said gleefully. "My sister hates being soaked, so..."
"So what?" Lloyd asked.
"So let's pelt her with water balloons! I've wanted vengeance for so long for what Lane has done!" Moppet said.
Flashback
"That my cake, Moppet!" Lane said, taking away a piece of cake from Moppet.
End of Flashback
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Lloyd asked.
"Do you want revenge or not?" Moppet asked in turn.
"Alright then!" Lloyd said, smiling.
Page Break? Again? You know what, no more mercy. *Takes out Rose's Dalek gun* DIE! AHAHAHAHAHA!
After two days of planning, Lloyd and Moppet had successfully planned their revenge on Lane, involving twelve water balloons.
"Remember, this is all going to be worth it, even when Lane tries to murder us." Moppet assured Lloyd.
"I never agreed to getting murdered." Lloyd said quickly.
"Do you want revenge on Lane or not?"
Lloyd sighed. "Yes." He mumbled.
"Then man up." Moppet told him.
Slowly, the two edged down the corridor to where they knew Lane would down come in a few minutes. Each had a sling filled with six water balloons that were completely filled to the brim with cold water.
"Remember; only throw them when she comes around the corner. Throw three at a time so she can't recover before we've finished." Moppet reminded Lloyd.
The two waited until they heard soft footsteps from the corner. When the person's shadow was visible from where Moppet and Lloyd stood. The moment the person turned the corner, Moppet yelled, "GO!"
After pummeling the person, the two actually got a look at their victim, with mixed results.
"Oops." Moppet whispered.
"AH SHIT!" Lloyd yelled.
Hmm... Wondering who was pummeled? Well, we know it's not Lane! Review to who you think it was!
Alexia
Kai
Nya
Jay
Cole
Zane
Sensei Wu
Also, I apologize for taking more than two weeks to make the chapter, but only with my friend did I manage to get it done. Sorry!