Aww... All your reviews made me feel warm and fuzzy. So I hug you all... (Hugs everyone)
And I have finally found a plot to the story!!! Here you go!
Pirika was dreaming again...
She was holding a bright colored stone and smiling at it. But suddenly she realized something, where was everyone? She glared at the stone as if it was the cause, but put it in her satchel and started running and searching for everyone.
During that time she had the weirdest feeling, like she knew it was a dream, but it was important anyway...
Pirika gasped and kept running, then she saw something, it was like a light at the end of a tunnel, everyone had they're spirits, everyone was there... But they were all leaving her...
"MATTE!!!!" She screamed. Her stone was slipping, but she didn't let go. "MATTE!!!" She screamed again.
Then someone turned around. "Pirika." The person said. "Pirika."
"Pirika."
Pirika felt like crying, the person was standing there waiting for her, the door was closing, and she was going to be stuck here...
"Pirika!!!" A voice yelled.
Pirika woke up with a start. She looked up. Lyserg.
"Lyserg-kun?" Pirika asked groggily.
Lyserg looked relieved. "You were screaming, were you having a nightmare?"
Pirika blinked. "I remember I was holding something really pretty... Then something bad happened..." She whispered.
Lyserg smiled. "Well, it's better now, huh?"
Pirika smiled too. "Yep, you know, I used to have nightmares alot, but Onii-chan would come and tell me that nightmares aren't real, which is a good thing, ne, Lyserg-kun?"
Lyserg wanted to laugh. She was speaking like a little kid to her older brother. "Well, when I was little I always reminded myself nightmares aren't real, though it didn't seem to help much."
Pirika looked at him. "So you got scared of nightmares alot too?"
He gazed at her. "Doesn't everyone?"
Pirika blushed. "Well, you see, I always thought of you, Ren-chan, Onni-chan, Tamao-chan, or everybody, wasn't scared of stupid things like that..."
Lyserg laughed. "Well, shamans get scared too."
Pirika shivered. Then she started to shake a bit.
Lyserg eyes widened. She was gonna cry.
"Achoo!" Pirika sneezed. But to Lyserg it sounded like a squeak.
(I am always teased about sneezing like a mouse, and have you ever even heard a mouse sneeze??)
Lyserg suddenly started to laugh like crazy.
Pirika blushed and glared at him. "Hey!!!"
Lyserg ignored her and continued to laugh like a madman.
Finally it started to bug her and she smacked his head with a pillow.
"Oww, Pirika, that hurt!" Lyserg groaned.
"I know." She said simply. "That was for laughing too much!" She stated and pointed at him. Then she realized how stupid that sounded...
Lyserg began to laugh again.
"He-ey!!" Pirika giggled again.
Later...
Pirika looked at Tamao. "Tamao-chan?"
Tamao had heavy black lines under her eyes and was sleeping on the table.
"Hai?..." She said slowly.
"You should go to bed." Pirika said carefully.
"Okay..." Tamao said and got up and started walking to her room. But collapsed after three feet.
"Yoh." Anna said.
"Huh?" Yoh answered lazily.
"We're taking a trip." She said and held up an envolope.
Yoh picked it up and looked inside.
"Hey! They gave us free tickets to go to this Crystal Cave or something!"
Anna made him look at the back.
'For training.'
"You won't get much free time to relax Yoh." Anna said and read her magazine.
"When are we going??" Pirika asked.
"Are we even going?" Ren asked.
Yoh looked at Anna. "Can they? Please?"
Anna looked at everyone. "If they be quiet."
"Yay!!!" Pirika cheered.
"What?? We have to go??" Horo-Horo asked. Last time they spent time together was not very pleasant... He still got a restraining order and a warning.
"Oh course, Onii-san!!! If we don't go, Anna-chan and Tamao-chan will be very lonely because they'll have no female conpanionship!!!" Pirika explained dramatically.
"... Won't they have eachother?" Horo-Horo asked.
"They won't have me!!!!" Pirika roared. "So we need to pack everything we'll need for a cave trip..."
Horo-Horo groaned and laid back down.
Pirika rummaged through jumbles of stuff and was trying to unknot her socks.
Horo-Horo was currently looking quite bored.
"Oi!!! Did you finish packing already??" She asked.
Horo-Horo nodded.
"... Are you absolutely sure?" She asked suspiciously.
"... Yes?" He said uncertainly.
"Then..." Pirika suddenly jumped and took a hold of his bag and unzipped it. "AHA!!! ONII-CHAN!!! YOUR BAG IS EMPTY!!!!" Pirika yelled.
"I was going to!!! I swear!!!" Horo-Horo squealed and ducked for cover.
"AARGH!!! ONII-CHAN!!! I BET YOU WERE PLANNING TO DO THAT THING WHERE YOU PACK AT THE LAST MOMENT!!!" Pirika accused.
"..."
"YOU WERE!!!!" Pirika roared and hit him with a pillow.
"WAH!!!!" Horo-Horo screamed and ran away.
But Pirika grabbed Horo-Horo's collar before he got too far. "You are going to train with Kororo!!! And after that you are going to run 50 laps!!" She ordered and tossed him outside along with his snowboard.
She sighed and started to clean up.
She gently lifted a small trinket she had gotten when she was young...
Flash Back:
"Onii-chan!!!" 6 year-old Pirika called.
"Eh?" He looked at her. "What?"
"While we're at Tokyo can we please visit the Festival??" She begged.
"What?!! We don't have time."
"Noo!!! You just don't want to go with me!!" Pirika said huffily.
"You're going to get me in trouble!!" Horo-Horo said. "You can go yourself."
"You have to come! While we're at Tokyo we have to go to our first festival because I want to get toys and we're family... You said!!! We're family so we get to do family things!!" Pirika said angrily.
Horo-Horo blew his bangs up and sighed. "Fine, but if you cause any trouble we're booting out." Horo-Horo muttered and dragged her into the crowd.
Later...
"Onii-chan!! Look! I got a teddy bear!!" She said happily and carried her other stuffed animals. (Though the teddy bear was the biggest)
"Geez, how come you got such good luck? So far I've won nothing..." Horo-Horo complained.
Pirika peeked in his hand. "Then what's that?"
Horo-Horo showed her. "Oh yeah, a lady with long black hair and red eyes gave it to me since I kept losing. She said it's good luck. But then she also said she wanted something in return for it sometime later."
Pirika held it. It was like ice. And held by a thin silver string. She gulped and looked at it closer. Was it made of glass? It looked so delicate.
Pirika gave the trinket back and then they started playing games again.
Pirika cheered. She had won again. "YAY!!!! Onii-chan!! Look at this!!! I won so many animals!!!"
Horo-Horo looked at all her prizes. Then he heard, 'Che, she must be cheatin'.'
Horo-Horo glared at the voice. "What the hell?! She's not cheating, you creep!"
"Phhff!! How could anyone win so much??" The kid jeered.
Horo-Horo's face slowly got red and he was about to tackle the kid when...
"Onii-chan!! Let's go on the carousel!!!" Pirika called.
"Pirika, go by yourself, I need to do something."
Pirika just glared and said. "No, Onii-chan has to go to the carousel with Pirika!!"
Horo-Horo sighed and said. "Alright, let's go."
"Yay!!" Pirika cheered and ran.
Horo-Horo started walking toward her when the same sneering voice said. "Keh, what a wuss."
Horo-Horo simply flipped the kid off and resumed his walking but then he got a hard punch in the back.
Horo-Horo's face darkened and he hit the kid's stomach with his own fist.
Dramatically, the two started fighting like savages. There were no rules, they were biting, clawing beating. People watched in horror or simply shook their heads and walked away. They rolled to a nearby river and seemed like an equal match until Horo-Horo heard a small voice pipe.
"Onii-chan!!!"
Horo-Horo gasped and tried to look at his sister when he was forcefully pushed to the ground. The kid smirked and lifted his fist and prepared to hit.
"STOP STOP STOP!!!!" Pirika yelled and continuosly hit the other boy's head with her giant teddy bear. But soon she tossed it away and picked up one of those strength testing hammers. "STOP IT!!! STOP HURTING ONII-CHAN!!! BAKA!!!" Pirika was pulled from him and the boy ran away, embarrassed by being beat by a little girl.
"Pirika!" Horo-Horo yelled and picked her up. "Don't do that ever again!!"
Pirika was still crying and yelled at him.
"Why'd Onii-chan fight?!!! WAAHHHH!!!! Pirika thought Onii-chan would fall into the river!!!! Pirika didn't want Onii-chan to fight with that boy when he said Pirika was cheating!!!! Pirika was scared when Onii-chan was fighting!!! Pirika dropped all her prizes that she wanted to give to Onii-chan!! But now Pirika only has this bear to give to Onii-chan!!!" Pirika started crying harder and shoved the bear into Horo-Horo's hands.
Horo-Horo blinked and realized that was why she wanted to come. "You wanted to come here because you wanted to get something for me?"
Pirika nodded shakily. "Onii-chan's always tired but still plays with Pirika. So Pirika wanted Onii-chan to be happy and have fun. But now Onii-chan got in a fight!!"
Horo-Horo smiled and pressed the small trinket in her hands. "Here, it's a trade."
Pirika looked in awe at the glittering jewel and looked at Horo-Horo. "For me? A trade?"
"Yeah, in exchange for the teddy bear." He chuckled.
"Then Pirika doesn't want it." Pirika said carelessly and held it to him. "Pirika doesn't like trades, Onii-chan always wants it back later."
"HEY!!!" Horo-Horo roared. "Argh!!! Fine, it's just a gift, but if you still don't want it then-"
Pirika now held it in her hands. "If it's a gift Onii-chan can't take it back. So Pirika will keep it. Besides, Onii-chan will probably lose it."
Horo-Horo smiled and pat her head.
Suddenly the keychain was wrenched out of her hands and thrown in the river. Pirika gasped and instinctively reached out and fell into the water.
Horo-Horo yelled and jumped into the water after her.
And they both died in the rushing currents that cold night.
Well, that wasn't true, but it was better than what really happened.
Horo-Horo and Pirika were caught in a fishing net and Horo-Horo got sick from drinking so much dirty water and he had to go to the hospital.
And even worse, the kid that was being a b#$&ch was the hospital's owner's son... So, they were refused by the owner and told to go to the next one in the next town. But after Pirika got incredibly mad and created a big scene telling everyone what had happened and how the kid was a b#$&ch and crying about how Horo-Horo was her only family and how he was gonna die just because he wasn't let into the nearest hospital and just because he defended her from the hospital's owner's son and tried to save her from the river, the hospital's owner reluctantly let Horo-Horo in. Then he caught the flu and stayed in bed for days and she had to take care of him. But she still got the trinket.
End of Flashback:
Later... Or at night...
Horo-Horo moaned and crawled into his room when he noticed a suitcase on his bed. "Huh?" He looked inside and saw a bunch of neatly folded clothes along with snacks and other things.
He tiptoed into Pirika's room and noticed her room was a mess and her suitcase's contents were messy and shoved in. He sighed, pat her head, and went to bed.
Omigod... I didn't put the part with the plot in it... ARGH!!! But I'm too tired to type!!! I want to sleep!!!... Well, I still liked that flashback though... That kid was a b#$&ch... Oh yeah, can you guess who that woman who gave Horo-Horo the trinket was?... Hint: she asked for something in return later...