Another morning, another sound sleep. Camyvar and Chuu were dreaming about becoming defenders of those who get bullied alot. Camyvar was dreaming about being a super hero, while Chuu was dreaming about being a knight. Opopo wasn't haveing very pleasent dreams though. He was dreaming about being smashed against the wall by Buboa. ... and then Chuu and Camyvar come along. Geeze, fixated on that, are we? But other than that, everything was fine. Untill...

BOOOM!!! "Yar, mateys! There be ghosts on the high seas!" Everyone was awaken by the loud cannons being fired and all the pirate style spaz out. Buizikiel got up to look out the window to see, wouldn't you know, King Krokus firing a cannon while hollering like a pirate. Everyone was also awaken by the loud cannon. Everyone ran downstairs and went outside torward the king. Once they got close enough, the silly-ol king greated them. "Ahoy their, fellow Buccanears. Today just happenes to be the first game of the compotition. I like to call it... the Bermuda Triangle Ghost Sweeper Chalange." Everyone was perplexed. "You must come to Lake Compotition, which is just outside the shop and the hospital, which is around the area of the stage. And I, and my faithful crew, will see ya there. Welp, time to wake the next house." Then he went away to go annoy another house with his noise maker. Then, Opopo realized something. "Wait! You didn't tell us what time to be there! HEY WAIT!!!" Opopo yelled. But it was too late. The King was gone. That left Opopo and his gang confused and perplexed. But someone wondered out loud "Hey, maybe he might give us a notice when it's time for the first game." That person was Eggbert. Eggbert had always been the brains of the group, so he knows when someone is playing a dirty trick on them. "I think he forgot to tell us on purpose. I mean, think about how the king acts. He's a complete joker. Of coarse it's possible he's playing a trick on us." But why would this be a joke? Maybe he just liked seeing people suffer. Whatever. I guess they had no choice but eat breakfast and head down.

When they got to the lake, they saw many small cannons spewing smoke at the lake. It was suposed to add a misty effect. What? Were you expecting natural mist? Also there, they saw a bulletin board with the rules and a sign-up sheet. Eggbert decided to take a look at the rules. "You must pick your two best swimmers for this chalange, no one else. The people you pick will not be used again untill Friday." Eggbert was puzzled? That didn't explain much at all. Oh well, Eggbert has been around his team long enough to know who the best swimmers were. Opopo was a shoe-in swimmer, he was able to do five laps at the gym's pool in slightly over a minute. Lebeu and himself were more built for mind chalanges. Buizikiel was okay, but was better suited for a speed chalange on land. Camyvar was built for swimming, but also being very strong, he may be better for a strength chalange. Chuu? Forget about Chuu. Pips is a good swimmer, but is also a good runner, so maybe she would be better paired with Buizikiel on a foot race chalange. Shogo is not a good backup for water or speed, but is a good backup for strength. Chuu is also very strong, so they could take over for Camyvar in a strength chalange. Eggbert thought about all this, then asked the team. "I think Opopo and Camyvar should take this chalange. What do you guys think?" Opopo seemed to be pleased with that decision. "Yeah, that sounds good. to me. You guys accept?" he asked his team. Lebeu, Buizikiel, Shogo, Eggbert, and Chuu nodded happily. Pips had to think for a second. Did she really want Camyvar to do this? She decided it wouldn't matter, and also nodded politely. Then Opopo asked Camyvar. "Hey Camyvar, how about you?" But Camyvar wasn't paying attention. "Camyvar?" Opopo asked again. Still, Camyvar was looking away from the team. Then the next thing you knew, Camyvar was heading off to who knows where. So what was Camyvar looking at. Well, it goes like this. While Camyvar was with the team, he heard a... on second thought, let's have fun with it, for now. "Where is Camyvar going?" asked Opopo to his crew. Shogo was willing to be the one to find out. "I volunteer to go and check on Camyvar," said Shogo. Opopo had other personal thoughts. But he wanted to be polite. Opopo can sometimes act on the other side, and he tries to avoid that. "Well, it's not like anyone else could do any better, so, what the hey, knock yourself out." Shogo was right on it. He then chased after Camyvar like there was a meteor shower. Eggbert then fealt like an agreement has been met, and decided to sign up Opopo and Camyvar. ... if only Camyvar could get back in time.

Shogo was still on Camyvar's rear. He even tried calling Camyvar, but Camyvar was still fixated on where ever he was going to notice. Shogo kept on calling and following Camyvar untill they got back to the camp site. The next thing you knew, Camyvar was heading into one of the huts. Shogo tried to follow him in, but the door closed right on Shogo's foot. What was going on? Shogo wanted to know, so he went over to a window. ... But the blinds were closed and he could not see Camyvar or anything through the blinds. He then decided to go over to the door to see if he could at least listen to what was going on. ... But all he could hear was talking, and not about or from Camyvar. What was going on with Camyvar? I'll tell you what's going on. You see, he... nah, I'm gonna stall you for a little while longer. Shogo was waiting and waiting outside for so long, that he was starting to get mad at Camyvar. If Camyvar didn't come out soon, Shogo would have to chop his way through the door with his samurai sword. ... wait? Does he have one? Well he is a samurai frog, but the only thing he carrys with him everywhere is a paper fan, and that can't cut butter.

Eventually, Shogo heard someone running down the stairs. The steps were very loud, so it was probably a heavy person. Then out the door came Camyvar, after like an hour. Camyvar looked flustered, like he did while talking to Megumi. But this was not the TapyTapy house. If you looked at the sign near the door, it said Zafmagara Team House. I wonder what happened in there. Shogo, who was fealing very impatient, wanted to know. "So what took you so long, pal?" said Shogo in a very angered tone. Camyvar was slowly sliding down the door on his back till eventually he was sitting down. "I just got picked up by a very pretty lady," Camyvar said, with hearts in his eyes. Shogo had a fealing he wasn't talking about Megumi. Couldn't have been. It's the wrong house. "Who was this mystery babe?" Shogo asked, still kinda angered. "It was some surfing shark named Trixi LeFeur," Camyvar replied. "Tri, Tri, TRIXI LEFEUR!?! THEE TRIXI LEFEUR!?!" Shogo said in a very shocked manner. Camyvar was surprised at Shogo's current state. "Yeah, why is that special?" he asked. Shogo was shocked at Camyvar. "Don't you remember?" Shogo asked. "She is the girl everyone was talking about yesterday! She has been the talk of the campgrounds! To be picked up by her is an honor!" Shogo was still surprised at how bad Camyvar's memory was yesterday. "Now, tell me everything that happened and why you ran off here." "Okay, it all happened like this," Camyvar replied. Then we went into a flashback

Here is what happened. Camyvar wasn't paying as much attention to the bulletin board as everyone else. He was actually looking around quite alot. While looking around, he spotted a pretty flower that was also looking at him. It was a small, cute little humanoid shark who carried with her a surf board. You know, Camyvar is part shark as well, so maybe she thought Camyvar could relate to her. Why else would she be winking and giggling at Camyvar? After winking and giggling, she signaled Camyvar to follow her, and what does Camyvar do? He follows her, darn it! All the way back to her team's house, with Shogo following him every step of the way, but of coarse, Camyvar was too busy to notice. When he got inside, her teammates closed the door behind Camyvar, and slammed it right in Shogo's face. Poor Shogo. Camyvar was then introduced to the whole team. Trixi decided to introduce all of them herself. "Hello their, cutey. Welcome to the Zafmagara House. Before we continue, I would like to refresh you about me and the rest of my team. Or do you remember, still?" Camyvar did not, so he shook his head "no." "In that case, my name is Trixi LeFeur, I am the very pretty team leader, and the one who just brought you here." This was all very sudden for Camyver. Why was she introducing her whole team? Wasn't it just going to be them talking? I guess it's because of Camyvar's memory and the fact they had not gotten to know each other very well, yet. Then she pointed to an anthropromorphic alienoide with large ears. "That guy right there is desmond, he's supposedly the brains of our group." Then he pointed to a small tadpole witch small arms and legs, a sproingy little ball orniment, and the same snot dripping as Shogo. "That there is Po. You will be seeing us in todays chalange. And right here is my best friend... err... Lexi." Then, walking up to Trixi was the most mangy, ungroomed, hideous humanoid cat Camyvar has ever seen. Ashley and Racheal were way prettier than this witch of a cat. Camyvar could not stand to look at her. Lexi was apparently ticked off by this. "HEY!!! DON'T TURN YOUR FACE LIKE THAT!!! How dare you give me the "You're so ugly" cold shoulder! GET OUT!!!" Trixi thought that they had enough time downstairs, so she decided on taking Camyvar upstairs. "You will have to excuse my friend, she can get pretty mad at times. Well, let's go upstairs, where the rest of my team resides." Trixi took Camyvar's fin and pulled him upstairs. Once they had gotten upstairs, Shogo had put his ear to the door to listen. Better luck next time, frog samurai.

Camyvar had gotten upstairs with Trixi holding his fin like he was a boyfriend. Upstairs were the rest of the gang. Trixi went over to a large Pegasus slash Unicorn on two legs. She was quite pretty, to be honest. "This is Lani," Trixi announced. "She is my best friend." "Didn't you say Lexi was your best friend?" Camyvar asked. "Yes... well..." Trixi stuttered, then continued. "Well, I really don't like Lexi. Not only is she ugly, she's mean. She scares away most people that enter this house, even our own members. I only call her my best friend to make her feal better about being ugly. But it really isn't worth having an ugly friend if they are a pain in everyone's rear." Wow, that came from the heart. Then Trixi pointed to a legless merman. "That over there is Bubble. Besides Lani, Bubble is my best friend. He is the one that will be joining me in the game today." "Didn't you say Po would help you?" Camyvar asked, after more confusion struck. "I never said that," Trixi stated. "I said you would see us in todays chalange, but I meant by that, is that... well... ... ... umm... I'm not playing. Me and Po are also great friends, but niether of us are playing. No, actually, that would be Bubble and Bubassa over there." She then pointed to a fat narwhal, kinda like Blowfellow, but a little darker in color. He then started to talk. "Hey there, I am sure you met the TapyTapy house?" he asked Camyvar. Camyvar simply nodded. "Oh, of coarse you do, they are the kindest team here. Especially Blowfellow, he is so sweet. I wish he were on this team instead of Lexi." Wow, Lexi really isn't popular, is she? Then Trixi pointed to a large round blob, kinda like Megumi, but round and flappy, not tall and pointy. "And finally, we have Burger. He seems to have a crush on TapyTapy as well, especially Megumi." "Megumi." Megumi." "ME GU MI." That name rang in Camyvar's ear like a bell. Every time he hears that name, he falls into a daydream of him and... Should I really tell Shogo this? Let's keep it secret. Him and Megumi having a huge lunch together, sucking on the same piece of spagetti and touching noses to each other. "Hey, are you listening!?" Camyvar woke up from his dream. Trixi was still talking to him. Trixi then ordered everyone to go down stairs. Finally, they were alone. "Camyvar, you are cute. Is it all right if I ask you one thing?" Camyvar looked down and realized, again, how cute Trixi was, and forgot about Megumi for a while. "Uh-huh?" Camyvar said while nodding. "Okay, Camyvar... ... ATTENTION CONTESTANTS!!! PLEASE REPORT TO THE STAGE FOR TODAYS GAME INSTRUCTIONS, NOW!!!"

And then the flash back ended. "Oh no," Shogo said, "We have to get down to the stage. The game is starting any minute, we will miss it if we slack any longer." Shogo took Camyvar's fin and rushed him over to the stage area. The Zaffmagara house was right behind the two. Well, I guess they had to attend, too. Once Shogo and Camyvar had gotten to the stage area, they had to find the rest of their team, which wasn't that hard. Once they found their team, they sat down. "Where were you guys?" Opopo asked as they sat down. But Shogo and Camyvar didn't listen. Once everyone was seated, the king, his queen, and his son, all came up to the stage. The king went up to the mike to speak. "Good day, fellow monsters. Today is the first chalange of the compotition. I am proud to announce that our Cap Tain has prepared for us a splended game, today, and our lovely queen will tell us what that game is." As King Krokus sat down, Queen Liz went up. "Thank you, todays chalange is called, THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE GHOST SWEEPER CHALANGE!!! Whoooooo, scary. The game is simple. Our king will give two of each team a set cordinate. To make things fair, each will have the same cordinate. But you won't know what that cordinate is, for only the teammates of a house get to watch their own people go. That means the rest of you must stay here untill you are called. You will both be swimming on these." Queen Liz pulled from behind her back a long, wooden board. "That's solid pine. Lubricated to be waterproof. Two members will swim on these to their locations. Once they have found the ghost, they must come back and tell the king what the ghost looks like, but WATCH OUT!!! There are decoy ghosts planted all around the misty lake. You must tell me what the ghost of the correct cordinate looks like. Go to the wrong cordinate and guess the wrong ghost, and before you know it, your chances are toast. So get it right. Oh but don't worry. It won't be too hard to know if you're right or not. You will just have to find out for yourself what I mean by that. Now, my adorable son will tell us everyone participating today." The queen sat down, and Prince Gof went up. "For the TapyTapy house, we have Blowfellow and Squishy. For Grangara house, the Shell Brothers, Basker and Bothe." The Grangara team are the big guys. They are the ones predicted to win the entire compotition. Although it's just a prediction, right? "For the BushBoosh team, KreeKree and Kit." Not much is known about BushBoosh by the Hipicups team. Their most notable membor is Gangor, a big ursa with a chineese symbol on his chest. He is almost worthy of the Grangara team. "Next, for the DipsyDori team, we have Nooky and Flats." The Dipsy Dori team is full of ladies' men. They all talk about Trixi LeFeur like a godess. ... Except for Flats, who actually likes, wouldn't you know it, Pips, The lone Female of the Hipicups team. "Next up, for Zaffmagara, we have Bubble and Bubasa." Guess Trixi was right about that, but how will Camyvar see Po and Trixi at the compotition. Only the Zaffmagara house gets to view their own run. "And for the Hipicups Team, we have Opopo and Camyvar." What? Were you expecting me to say "Hipicups" last? "Next, for Bumpamara, we have Grumpy and Sellfish." Are you sure we aren't talking about the Wanswago house? "And finally, for the Wanswago house, we have Owen and Shelly." Oh, there we go. I wonder if there is much to worry about from those guys? "That will be all." Prince Gof sat back down, and the King got back up. The King, holdig the mike right to his mouth, softly said, "Let the game, BEGIN!!!!!" ... except for the word "begin." "I shall test the TapyTapy house, first." Then Squishy and BlowFellow got up and went to where the king was. The three went behind the stage and went torwards the lake. The rest of the TapyTapy house followed to watch. "Now what do we do?" asked Buizikiel to his group. But there was no answer. His team had already got up to wander around for a while. Buizikiel found himself alone in the stands.

Opopo and Camyvar were doing flexes in a random spot. Opopo was doing overhead arm stretches, and Camyvar was doing jumping jacks. When guess who would go near them but the Wanswago players. One was a small white kitty ball, and the other was a small dog with pig tails, and currently wearing a swimsuit. She obviously came for taunting, because the first thing out of the dog's mouth was, "Pfft, you think you and that BOULDER have a chance at beating a natural born swimmer like me? Hah! I'm Shelly, I shall be your biggest opponent for todays game, and this is Owen." "Win! Win! Win! Win! Win!" Owen kept saying. "Win! Win! Win! Win! Win!" It was getting quite annoying. "Win! Win! Win! Win! Win!" Jeeze, shut up already. Shelly then decided to end it. "You will have to excuse my overly enthusiastic friend here. He is confident and focused. His eyes are on the prize, as you would say. Certantly a better swimmer than you two." Camyvar also wanted to play the game of ranking. "Really. You don't look like you were put on this planet to swim. How do I know you're not an odd one out?" This angered Shelly quite a bit. "Oh yeah?! Just you wait! I will show you what I'm really made of!" Camyvar, now trying to be funny, said "Fur, flesh, arteries, lungs, a gluteous maximus." "AHH!!!" screamed Shelly, while looking at her but. "Did you just say my but was big!!!" Camyvar was confused. She completely put words in his mouth. "Wait a minute, I didn't mean..." But Shelly was so rude, she didn't let Camyvar finish. "Well, how DARE you! Just you watch! I will win this. Me and Owen will wipe the floor with you two! Isn't that right, Owen?" Oh great, here we go again. "Win! Win! Win! Win! Win! Win! Win! Win! Win! Win! Win! Win!" he kept saying as Shelly and him were walking away. Opopo was a bit worried about those two. Was there anything to worry about? Guess only time would tell.

As teams were taking their turns playing the game, Opopo and Camyvar were still stretching. Eventually, their time came. "HIPICUPS PLAYERS, PLEASE REPORT TO THE LAKE," the king said over the loud speaker. "Alright, buddy. Let's do our best out there," Opopo said as some enchouragement. Opopo and Camyvar were advancing torward the lake, where the last team had just gotten done with their turn, and were leaving the area. Opopo and Camyvar had gotten to the lake, which was covered with deep mist. They found the Queen, the King, and their son there, standing near a corner of the lake. The Queen was holding the boards with which the two would be swimming on. After obtaining the boards from the queen, the King gave them a map of the lake, and gave them the cordinates. "The cordinates for the correct ghost are 12X, 4Y." Opopo looked on the map. It was a 15 by 15 grid. They would start at 1X, 1Y, apparently. That's what the map said. Plus, that's the closest square on the grid to where they currently were standing. "Now then, are you guys prepared and ready to begin?" Opopo and Camyvar gave a high-five with each other the know that they were ready for anything. "Then, get ready. Get set. And...

GO!!! PUT ALL YOUR HEART INTO THIS GAME AND SHOW YOUR TRUE METAL!!! GO! GO! GOOOOO!!!" Well, Yippie Ky Ay. And off they went into the water, to start the game. Unfortunately, after a few minutes of swimming on their wooden boards, they were completely lost in the fog. "Where do you think we are?" Opopo asked Camyvar, who was holding the map. Unfortunately, no one mentioned the map wasn't waterproof. Camyvar had accidentally held the map in his fin while trying to swim. Fortunately, the map still heald together good enough. Camyvar tried to look at the now drinched map. "I think we have been swimming Diagonally for quite some time. We should be... huh?" Just then, they spotted a large, floating object in the water. It was one of the ghosts. It was tall, and had a single spike pointing up from his face. "Hey, you think this is the one, Opopo?" Camyvar asked Opopo. "... No, I don't think so. If we have been swimming diagonally from the corner for... mmm... say... 8 minutes about, we should be in... 4X 4Y by now. We will have to turn our boards left and try swimming for 16 more minutes." Camyvar was unsure. "Are you sure that's approxamite?" Opopo wasn't too sure either, but he decided "I'm not sure either, but do you have a better plan?" Camyvar did not have a better plan, so he just accepted. It was true, they were only taking a guess as to where they were, but what else were they supposed to do, so they just accepted. After about 16 minutes, they found their target. They saw another floating ghost. But was it the right one? It was completely round, short, and it didn't have any real desing except an expressionless face with blank eyes and a drooling mouth. "Well, I think this one is it," Opopo said as they were swimming back to shore. But as they were swimming back, something creepy happened. "Oooooooohhhh." Opopo and Camyvar looked back to see that coming out of the little fake ghost was a real, honest to god, ghost. "Congradulations, you have found me. I am impressed by your sense of direction. A few teams took way longer. Or did they? The question is, did you really do that well? I shall phone the king about your success." Wait, ghosts can use phones? Opopo and Camyvar swam back to shore as the ghost was talking to the King on his cellphone.

Opopo and Camyvar had just gotten to the shore, the King was waiting for them there. "We have found the ghost at the right cordinate, now what was our time?" Opopo said as they got to the king. But the king wanted proof. "Okay, what did it look like?" Opopo was really shocked. "Didn't the ghost phone you?" Opopo asked. "What? You guys have a very creative imagination. I didn't get a phone call from a ghost," the king said, pretending back there never happened. Opopo decided to answer anyway. "Okay. ...Let's see... I believe it was round... and it had no real patturn except a single face with pupilless eyes and a drop of drool hanging from its mouth." The king paused, then responded. "That is CORRECT!!! How did you know it was that one?" Opopo rolled his eyes and gave out a grunt. "Congradulations," the king said. "Your sense of direction seems to be pretty good. ... but your speed was kind of slow. but did your sense of direction make up for your lack of speed? Please go back to the stage, and wait for the results."

Opopo and Camyvar had sat down patiently for the rest of the teams to go. Finally, it was over. The long wait was over, the game had ended, and the royal hosts went up to the stage to announce the verdict. The king went up to the microphone and announced "The quees will now tell the results." Then the queen went up to the mike, holding a clipboard. "Okay, in first place, the Grangara team with 6 minutes, 46 seconds. In second place, TapyTapy with 9 minutes and 32 seconds. In third place, we have the Dipsy Dori team with 13 minutes, 54 seconds." There were pretty big intervals, it looked like. "In fourth place, Hipicups team with 15 minutes, and 44 seconds." Shelly dropped her mouth at those results. "I can't believe it! We lost to that sumo wrestling dragon and his weed cheeked fruit face! No way!" Her priotity was to beat the Hipicups house. ...Actually, it was to win, but still. Another shock was Opopo's sense of time was way off. He really isn't good with time, though. The Queen continued to count down the rest of the verdict. "Fifth place goes to Wanswago with 16 minutes, 12 seconds." Ooh, so close. "In sixth place, the Zafmagara team with 17 minutes and 24 seconds. Seventh place is BushBoosh with 17 minutes and 58 seconds. And in eigth place is Bumpamara team with 18 minutes, 23 seconds." The queen backed off and the king went forward. "Thank you for comeing, I hope you have a nice day. And all your winnings have been registered to the shop. That's how it works. Your spending money is set in the shops bank, which makes managing money pointless. Well, have a nice day."

And the Hipicups team did. They were happy with their fourth place win. They bought hotdogs and pancake mix from the store, and had a nice dinner of lasagna, and also spent time with the even more victorious TapyTapy house. But overall, the rest of the day wasn't much to talk about, but they still enjoyed the day, waiting for the tomorow to start.

Next time on May the Best Team Win: The tables are turned and the scales are tipped. The Hipicups team send two of their members in a see-saw tip of fate. It's not the heaviest or the fastest who prevail in this next game, but who can make the smartest moves. All this and more next time on May the Best Team Win.