"Where. ARE MY PAPAYAS???" The windows rattled, vibrating the crisp
air of an eight AM Saturday morning, as Gennai's voice rang throughout the
house. Groans of extreme annoyance were heard in random parts of the
residence. Most likely because it was a weekend and was one of the few
mornings they were allowed to sleep in.
Tai's sleepy voice streamed through the boy's bedroom door, "We don't care where the hell you're papayas are Gennai; try again in two hours. at least"
"How can I survive a day of constant teenage discipline if I can't have my papaya's?" Gennai pouted to himself.
"You won't."
Gennai looked up to see a disgruntled Shiva; hair disarray, wrinkled pajamas, and one pissed off look on her face.
"So this is what you look like without 'beauty sleep'?
"Get ready to DIE OLD MAN!!!" Shiva lunged at Gennai, knocking the elder off his chair. Gennai shoved her off him before she could slug him. Shiva jumped to her feet and slowly made her way toward Gennai.
"All I wanted was my papaya's," whimpered Gennai as he backed away from the intimidating girl.
"You want you're papaya's? I'LL GIVE YOU YOU'RE DAMN PAPAYA'S!" Shiva whipped out two papayas from her pajamas.
"HEY! Where'd you get those! . And where were you keeping them? OW! AHHH!" The old chap scampered for his life as he was pelted with papayas.
"MWAHAHA! That's right run! Run while you're legs still function!" Shiva cackled as she ran after Gennai down the hall.
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Tai just stepped out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist. He stopped short as he made his way down the corridor. Heading towards at him was a terrified Gennai, closely followed by Shiva. He couldn't help but notice unsystematic papaya's bouncing off the walls. Much to his misfortune, Tai didn't make it out of the way in time. Gennai dove behind him, using him as protection from the insane adolescent.
"Save me!" Gennai cried, grabbing for Tai's towel and ripping it off. Tai's face flushed with embarrassment.
"Ahhh! GET OFF ME!!!" Tai scrambled to pull the towel back up, but Gennai wouldn't let go out of fear of Shiva. Tai did as best he could to cover himself (which of course would be hard for him *wiggles eyebrows*) as he ran down the hall toward his room. Shiva just stood there for a moment, eyes wide in bewilderment.
"Ow ~ow~ It's the crack of dawn!" She called after his retreating khooli.
"What the diploid?" Griff came out of the boy's bedroom in a bathrobe, "What the hell happened?"
"Please don't tell me you slept through that whole thing."
"I was just throwing some fruit at Gennai, no biggie."
"It was a lot more serious than that! It was a run by papayaing!"
"Wimp.what's a diploid?"
Griff rolled his eyes. "Forget it. No matter what you idiots do, you won't ruin my day!" Griff started spinning around with his arms wide open, looking at the ceiling. The Sound of Music soundtrack started playing in the background.
"What the hell are you doing?" Tai stood before them, full clothed now, with his arms folded across his chest.
"Decided to join the land of the fully clad?" Shiva smirked.
"Shut up cinderblock." Tai countered.
Shiva huffed and headed toward her room to get changed. Gennai turned to Griff. "So why are you so happy?"
"Don't you remember whose joining us today?" Griff questioned
"The saints?" asked Tai.
"My newest target! The love of my life! The girl I plan to knock up!!" Griff cried. Shiva came running around the corner, now out of her Jim jams and into some clothes.
"You mean. Angela?"
"Aaiiee! Yes! She will be mine!!" Griff chanted.
Tai rolled his eyes, "humph, She's your online g/f who just happens to show some potential as a guardian."
Griff stuck up his nose, "Just because the chick you liked blew you off for some pretty boy-"
"W-what? NO! I never liked- I-I mean.uh" Tai sputtered, "grr, low blow."
"O yes that chick. I forgot she's coming today, damn, I liked having my own room." Shiva whined as she subconsciously gripped the back of Tai's shirt to prevent him from attacking Griff.
"Nothing last forever, besides, its breakfast time and I'm starved. Too bad I can't have my papayas." Gennai trailed off
"Be silent Lord of the Fruit" Shiva snapped.
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Griff sighed with anticipation as he stared out the window. Gennai looked up from his newspaper and shook his head.
"Why don't you go play video games with the others?"
"And miss Angela's arrival? Stop being so. unwise."
Gennai rolled his eyes. Looking down at his paper, he began to smirk. He contorted his face to a look of horror. He jumped to his feet, facing Griff.
"Oh my God! It says here that there was a portal collapse. # 67! This morning! Griff that was Angela's trip! NO SURVIVORS!"
"WHAT! NOOOOO!" Griff ripped the paper from Gennai's hands and began scanning it quickly. The anxiousness in his face slowly began to fade as contemplation replaced it. "Wait a minute, if that happened this morning. it wouldn't be in the paper today. GENNAI!"
Gennai had long since left and could be heard laughing psychotically a few rooms down.
DONG DING! Hmmm. sounds like the doorbell rang. Griff froze; he could no longer hear Gennai's psychotic laughter or the sounds of Tai beating Shiva at play station. He reached for the doorknob when suddenly the phone rang. RING RING! Shakily, he picked up the phone on the coffee table and held it to his ear.
"Seven days. 'CLICK'"
Griff let out a 'manly' scream and dropped the phone with a clang. CLANG! - ok! (I'm having way too much fun with the sound effects!) Someone out side started banging on the door. BANG, BANG, BANG! (Ok, I'll stop, seriously) Griff once again reached for the doorknob and slowly turned it. Suddenly the phone rang. again. Griff let go of the doorknob, totally annoyed, and picked up the phone.
"WHAT?" He screamed into the receiver.
"I've got two questions." and eerie voice on the other end said, "First of all. do you feel lucky?" Griff gulped.
"W-what do you want?"
"Second of all," the eerie voice continued, "will you open the damn door?"
"EXCUSE ME?" Griff cried, all fear forgotten.
"I've been waiting forever out here!"
Griff threw open the door to find Angela standing there with her cell phone.
"Oh my God ANGELA!" Griff glomped her, squeezing the life out of her. Then he let go of her and bonked her on the head. "Don't ever do that to me again!"
"AHHH! Owies." Angela pouted.
Griff rolled his eyes and grabbed her hand, leading her inside. Once inside he called to the others, "SHE'S HERE! GET DOWN HERE SHIVA AND SHOW HER TO HER ROOM!"
"I REFUSE! IT'S MY ROOM! MINE!" That was Shiva's only reply before she came flying into the room, and slid on the floor smack into a wall.
"*BANG* Ow! *CRASH* Damn." Shiva began to kick the remains of the vase under the table before Gennai came storming in there like a lunatic.
"What was that? What was that?" His gaze went directly to Tai, who was humming to himself, sprawled on the floor.
"Don't look at me king papaya, I'm just lounging."
Shiva made a desperate attempt to change the subject. "Gennai! Look whose here!"
To her relief Gennai's attention went to Angela, who just stood there, doing nothing.
"Angela! So you've finally made it! Why doesn't Shiva take you to your room? Shiva, take her bags"
"Excuse me?"
"NOW! Hehehe."
"Madcap."
Shiva angrily snatched Angela's bags from her and began to stomp towards the girl's dorm. Angela followed uncertainly, afraid to anger the girl any more. When Shiva reached the bedroom, she kicked open the door, causing it to slam into the wall, denting it. SLAM (heehaw, I swear that was the last time).
"Well, this is... I'm sorry, WAS my room. Now it's *sniff* o-our room. excuse me-" Shiva ran out of the room pretending to cry. Angela plunked down on one of the six beds. There were a couple windows in the room and a few dressers. There were two big closets on either side. The walls had a few posters and such on the pale blue walls.
"Don't you think your being a little melodramatic?" Angela called out to the very fake cries in the hall. Suddenly things went silent. too silent. "Um, Shiva dude. AHHH!" Angela cried out as Shiva came charging into the room and tackled her to the floor.
"I'm going to. to. KILL YOU!" Shiva raised her fist to hit her in the face. " Just kidding." She jumped up and finished carting in the rest of Angela's suitcases. Angela sat up.
"Ok then." Angela said totally calm.
"Did you just attempt to maul my girlfriend?" Griff stood in the doorway with his mouth hanging open in alarm. He ran over to Angela and jumped on her, knocking them both onto a bed. And before ya know it, they were making out.
"Thank you, for making me feel so at home." Shiva said sarcastically as she turned away form the couple. Griff and Angela stopped their activity and looked at Shiva.
"Then why don't you leave?" Griff shot at her.
"It's my room! That's why. There are like two hundred rooms here, can't you pick a different one?" moaned Shiva.
"No." Angela and Griff both sneered.
"Fear not outcast! Two can play at this game." Tai bounded into the room and shoved Shiva onto a bed.
"Oh it's on," Griff countered.
Both sets of horny teenagers began a war of tonsil hockey. Tai's hands began to wander up Shiva's shirt as Griff moved his mouth down and started to work on a nice hickey for Angela's neck. Shiva slipped a hand down Tai's pants, causing Tai to gasp in surprise. Angela noticed this and growled before she proceeded to do the same to Griff.
Both Tai and Griff jumped off before the girls could get their game on.
"Ladies, ladies. don't you think you're being a tit bit. competitive?" Tai solicited.
"Yes, I'm with him. Stop now before things get ugly." Griff concurred.
Angela and Shiva both had some pretty skeptical looks on their faces.
"Isn't it normally the guys who want the action. and the girls who have to stop them?" Angela pondered.
"I believe that's true. What if they're. gay!" Shiva gasped.
"My God! You may be right Shiva!"
"My God! I may be right Angela!"
"I just said that idiot"
"WE'RE NOT GAY!" Both boys were blushing profusely.
Shiva and Angela just laughed continuously at the embarrassed teens. Griff growled and started helping Angela putting some of her clothes into the closet. Angela felt slightly guilty for embarrassing her boyfriend like that and decided it would be best to change the subject. "Uh, are you two going out or something?"
"US? ACK! NO!" Shiva and Tai said in union. They both stuck their tongues out. "We've just known each other a while."
"So" Angela said," how long have u known each other?
Shiva smiled with intent. "Oh let's just say we've been taking baths together since before you could tell we were a different sex"
Tai gazed at Shiva's crotch, "what ever happened to that thing?"
"I don't know it just. fell off."
"Um, Shiva. that was you're umbilical cord."
"DINNER TIME!!!" The four kids winced as Gennai beckoned them to come down. Their stomachs all growled simultaneously.
"Food." Griff said slowly.
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Gennai just finished setting the table by placing the last fork in its ideal position. He then put on a helmet and strapped it on securely. Next he took a rope and tied a pillow to his back, and one to his front, and strapped on some elbow pads and kneepads. Then he jumped onto a counter and firmly grasped the edges of the cabinets to hold him upright. He was ready for war. Taking in a deep breath he summoned the enemy.
"DINNER TIME!"
Everything went deathly silent for about seven seconds. Gennai's stare dropped to the glasses of milk on the table. The liquid rippled. Then it did it again, and again. Looking up, he noticed the crystals on the chandelier started to shake. A loud stampeding noise filled the house. The walls started to vibrate and books began to fall off shelves. Looking to his left, Gennai saw the four teens round the corner, making a mad dash toward the table. Tai was in the lead, followed closely by Griff. Shiva and Angela were right behind her, elbowing each other. This was it, the moment of truth. Tai was seconds away from reaching the kitchen. He could almost taste the orange chicken.
Gennai hopped of the counter and backed up a few paces. Getting a running start, everything seemed to go in slow motion. Gennai pushed off from his run, suspended in the air for a few second. Tai's hand was reaching towards the kitchen; Griff was gripping the back of his shirt, trying to increase his chances of getting past him. Gennai hit the floor, the pillow cushioning his fall, as he began to slide, still in slow motion, across the tiled floor. Shiva was pushing Angela's face away from her as she gnawed on her wrist. Just as Gennai's sliding course intercepted the path to the dinner table, Tai just entered the kitchen. The teens were too focused on the food, and Tai tripped over Gennai. Now things sped up again. Griff was too close to Tai to stop in time and tripped over him. Shiva, who was holding the back of Griff's pants, was pulled down; she took Angela down with her since her arm was still in her mouth. Gennai made a safe slide into home, securely protected by his pillows and padding.
The old man stood up, ginning like the Cheshire cat. "Don't listen to the voices in you stomachs." All he got was groans for replies.
"Ow, my pancreas."
"Angela, will you please stop chewing on me."
"I think I broke an eye."
"Wow, what a view."
After about ten minutes of untangling themselves, the four sat down for some grub. It was a delicious meal of Chinese takeout. While they were enjoying their food, someone let out a huge belch. Tai began to laugh non-stop. Everyone just stared at him.
"Tai was that you? Tai? Hey answer me!" Gennai glared at Tai as he reached the state of hyperventilation. "At least you could say excuse me."
Tai finally controlled himself. "It wasn't me though."
"It was I." Shiva smiled evenly.
Gennai just about hit her. "Can we try to keep it civilized please?"
The silence was once again broken by a new noise.
"Safety"
"GRIFF!"
Tai's sleepy voice streamed through the boy's bedroom door, "We don't care where the hell you're papayas are Gennai; try again in two hours. at least"
"How can I survive a day of constant teenage discipline if I can't have my papaya's?" Gennai pouted to himself.
"You won't."
Gennai looked up to see a disgruntled Shiva; hair disarray, wrinkled pajamas, and one pissed off look on her face.
"So this is what you look like without 'beauty sleep'?
"Get ready to DIE OLD MAN!!!" Shiva lunged at Gennai, knocking the elder off his chair. Gennai shoved her off him before she could slug him. Shiva jumped to her feet and slowly made her way toward Gennai.
"All I wanted was my papaya's," whimpered Gennai as he backed away from the intimidating girl.
"You want you're papaya's? I'LL GIVE YOU YOU'RE DAMN PAPAYA'S!" Shiva whipped out two papayas from her pajamas.
"HEY! Where'd you get those! . And where were you keeping them? OW! AHHH!" The old chap scampered for his life as he was pelted with papayas.
"MWAHAHA! That's right run! Run while you're legs still function!" Shiva cackled as she ran after Gennai down the hall.
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Tai just stepped out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist. He stopped short as he made his way down the corridor. Heading towards at him was a terrified Gennai, closely followed by Shiva. He couldn't help but notice unsystematic papaya's bouncing off the walls. Much to his misfortune, Tai didn't make it out of the way in time. Gennai dove behind him, using him as protection from the insane adolescent.
"Save me!" Gennai cried, grabbing for Tai's towel and ripping it off. Tai's face flushed with embarrassment.
"Ahhh! GET OFF ME!!!" Tai scrambled to pull the towel back up, but Gennai wouldn't let go out of fear of Shiva. Tai did as best he could to cover himself (which of course would be hard for him *wiggles eyebrows*) as he ran down the hall toward his room. Shiva just stood there for a moment, eyes wide in bewilderment.
"Ow ~ow~ It's the crack of dawn!" She called after his retreating khooli.
"What the diploid?" Griff came out of the boy's bedroom in a bathrobe, "What the hell happened?"
"Please don't tell me you slept through that whole thing."
"I was just throwing some fruit at Gennai, no biggie."
"It was a lot more serious than that! It was a run by papayaing!"
"Wimp.what's a diploid?"
Griff rolled his eyes. "Forget it. No matter what you idiots do, you won't ruin my day!" Griff started spinning around with his arms wide open, looking at the ceiling. The Sound of Music soundtrack started playing in the background.
"What the hell are you doing?" Tai stood before them, full clothed now, with his arms folded across his chest.
"Decided to join the land of the fully clad?" Shiva smirked.
"Shut up cinderblock." Tai countered.
Shiva huffed and headed toward her room to get changed. Gennai turned to Griff. "So why are you so happy?"
"Don't you remember whose joining us today?" Griff questioned
"The saints?" asked Tai.
"My newest target! The love of my life! The girl I plan to knock up!!" Griff cried. Shiva came running around the corner, now out of her Jim jams and into some clothes.
"You mean. Angela?"
"Aaiiee! Yes! She will be mine!!" Griff chanted.
Tai rolled his eyes, "humph, She's your online g/f who just happens to show some potential as a guardian."
Griff stuck up his nose, "Just because the chick you liked blew you off for some pretty boy-"
"W-what? NO! I never liked- I-I mean.uh" Tai sputtered, "grr, low blow."
"O yes that chick. I forgot she's coming today, damn, I liked having my own room." Shiva whined as she subconsciously gripped the back of Tai's shirt to prevent him from attacking Griff.
"Nothing last forever, besides, its breakfast time and I'm starved. Too bad I can't have my papayas." Gennai trailed off
"Be silent Lord of the Fruit" Shiva snapped.
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Griff sighed with anticipation as he stared out the window. Gennai looked up from his newspaper and shook his head.
"Why don't you go play video games with the others?"
"And miss Angela's arrival? Stop being so. unwise."
Gennai rolled his eyes. Looking down at his paper, he began to smirk. He contorted his face to a look of horror. He jumped to his feet, facing Griff.
"Oh my God! It says here that there was a portal collapse. # 67! This morning! Griff that was Angela's trip! NO SURVIVORS!"
"WHAT! NOOOOO!" Griff ripped the paper from Gennai's hands and began scanning it quickly. The anxiousness in his face slowly began to fade as contemplation replaced it. "Wait a minute, if that happened this morning. it wouldn't be in the paper today. GENNAI!"
Gennai had long since left and could be heard laughing psychotically a few rooms down.
DONG DING! Hmmm. sounds like the doorbell rang. Griff froze; he could no longer hear Gennai's psychotic laughter or the sounds of Tai beating Shiva at play station. He reached for the doorknob when suddenly the phone rang. RING RING! Shakily, he picked up the phone on the coffee table and held it to his ear.
"Seven days. 'CLICK'"
Griff let out a 'manly' scream and dropped the phone with a clang. CLANG! - ok! (I'm having way too much fun with the sound effects!) Someone out side started banging on the door. BANG, BANG, BANG! (Ok, I'll stop, seriously) Griff once again reached for the doorknob and slowly turned it. Suddenly the phone rang. again. Griff let go of the doorknob, totally annoyed, and picked up the phone.
"WHAT?" He screamed into the receiver.
"I've got two questions." and eerie voice on the other end said, "First of all. do you feel lucky?" Griff gulped.
"W-what do you want?"
"Second of all," the eerie voice continued, "will you open the damn door?"
"EXCUSE ME?" Griff cried, all fear forgotten.
"I've been waiting forever out here!"
Griff threw open the door to find Angela standing there with her cell phone.
"Oh my God ANGELA!" Griff glomped her, squeezing the life out of her. Then he let go of her and bonked her on the head. "Don't ever do that to me again!"
"AHHH! Owies." Angela pouted.
Griff rolled his eyes and grabbed her hand, leading her inside. Once inside he called to the others, "SHE'S HERE! GET DOWN HERE SHIVA AND SHOW HER TO HER ROOM!"
"I REFUSE! IT'S MY ROOM! MINE!" That was Shiva's only reply before she came flying into the room, and slid on the floor smack into a wall.
"*BANG* Ow! *CRASH* Damn." Shiva began to kick the remains of the vase under the table before Gennai came storming in there like a lunatic.
"What was that? What was that?" His gaze went directly to Tai, who was humming to himself, sprawled on the floor.
"Don't look at me king papaya, I'm just lounging."
Shiva made a desperate attempt to change the subject. "Gennai! Look whose here!"
To her relief Gennai's attention went to Angela, who just stood there, doing nothing.
"Angela! So you've finally made it! Why doesn't Shiva take you to your room? Shiva, take her bags"
"Excuse me?"
"NOW! Hehehe."
"Madcap."
Shiva angrily snatched Angela's bags from her and began to stomp towards the girl's dorm. Angela followed uncertainly, afraid to anger the girl any more. When Shiva reached the bedroom, she kicked open the door, causing it to slam into the wall, denting it. SLAM (heehaw, I swear that was the last time).
"Well, this is... I'm sorry, WAS my room. Now it's *sniff* o-our room. excuse me-" Shiva ran out of the room pretending to cry. Angela plunked down on one of the six beds. There were a couple windows in the room and a few dressers. There were two big closets on either side. The walls had a few posters and such on the pale blue walls.
"Don't you think your being a little melodramatic?" Angela called out to the very fake cries in the hall. Suddenly things went silent. too silent. "Um, Shiva dude. AHHH!" Angela cried out as Shiva came charging into the room and tackled her to the floor.
"I'm going to. to. KILL YOU!" Shiva raised her fist to hit her in the face. " Just kidding." She jumped up and finished carting in the rest of Angela's suitcases. Angela sat up.
"Ok then." Angela said totally calm.
"Did you just attempt to maul my girlfriend?" Griff stood in the doorway with his mouth hanging open in alarm. He ran over to Angela and jumped on her, knocking them both onto a bed. And before ya know it, they were making out.
"Thank you, for making me feel so at home." Shiva said sarcastically as she turned away form the couple. Griff and Angela stopped their activity and looked at Shiva.
"Then why don't you leave?" Griff shot at her.
"It's my room! That's why. There are like two hundred rooms here, can't you pick a different one?" moaned Shiva.
"No." Angela and Griff both sneered.
"Fear not outcast! Two can play at this game." Tai bounded into the room and shoved Shiva onto a bed.
"Oh it's on," Griff countered.
Both sets of horny teenagers began a war of tonsil hockey. Tai's hands began to wander up Shiva's shirt as Griff moved his mouth down and started to work on a nice hickey for Angela's neck. Shiva slipped a hand down Tai's pants, causing Tai to gasp in surprise. Angela noticed this and growled before she proceeded to do the same to Griff.
Both Tai and Griff jumped off before the girls could get their game on.
"Ladies, ladies. don't you think you're being a tit bit. competitive?" Tai solicited.
"Yes, I'm with him. Stop now before things get ugly." Griff concurred.
Angela and Shiva both had some pretty skeptical looks on their faces.
"Isn't it normally the guys who want the action. and the girls who have to stop them?" Angela pondered.
"I believe that's true. What if they're. gay!" Shiva gasped.
"My God! You may be right Shiva!"
"My God! I may be right Angela!"
"I just said that idiot"
"WE'RE NOT GAY!" Both boys were blushing profusely.
Shiva and Angela just laughed continuously at the embarrassed teens. Griff growled and started helping Angela putting some of her clothes into the closet. Angela felt slightly guilty for embarrassing her boyfriend like that and decided it would be best to change the subject. "Uh, are you two going out or something?"
"US? ACK! NO!" Shiva and Tai said in union. They both stuck their tongues out. "We've just known each other a while."
"So" Angela said," how long have u known each other?
Shiva smiled with intent. "Oh let's just say we've been taking baths together since before you could tell we were a different sex"
Tai gazed at Shiva's crotch, "what ever happened to that thing?"
"I don't know it just. fell off."
"Um, Shiva. that was you're umbilical cord."
"DINNER TIME!!!" The four kids winced as Gennai beckoned them to come down. Their stomachs all growled simultaneously.
"Food." Griff said slowly.
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Gennai just finished setting the table by placing the last fork in its ideal position. He then put on a helmet and strapped it on securely. Next he took a rope and tied a pillow to his back, and one to his front, and strapped on some elbow pads and kneepads. Then he jumped onto a counter and firmly grasped the edges of the cabinets to hold him upright. He was ready for war. Taking in a deep breath he summoned the enemy.
"DINNER TIME!"
Everything went deathly silent for about seven seconds. Gennai's stare dropped to the glasses of milk on the table. The liquid rippled. Then it did it again, and again. Looking up, he noticed the crystals on the chandelier started to shake. A loud stampeding noise filled the house. The walls started to vibrate and books began to fall off shelves. Looking to his left, Gennai saw the four teens round the corner, making a mad dash toward the table. Tai was in the lead, followed closely by Griff. Shiva and Angela were right behind her, elbowing each other. This was it, the moment of truth. Tai was seconds away from reaching the kitchen. He could almost taste the orange chicken.
Gennai hopped of the counter and backed up a few paces. Getting a running start, everything seemed to go in slow motion. Gennai pushed off from his run, suspended in the air for a few second. Tai's hand was reaching towards the kitchen; Griff was gripping the back of his shirt, trying to increase his chances of getting past him. Gennai hit the floor, the pillow cushioning his fall, as he began to slide, still in slow motion, across the tiled floor. Shiva was pushing Angela's face away from her as she gnawed on her wrist. Just as Gennai's sliding course intercepted the path to the dinner table, Tai just entered the kitchen. The teens were too focused on the food, and Tai tripped over Gennai. Now things sped up again. Griff was too close to Tai to stop in time and tripped over him. Shiva, who was holding the back of Griff's pants, was pulled down; she took Angela down with her since her arm was still in her mouth. Gennai made a safe slide into home, securely protected by his pillows and padding.
The old man stood up, ginning like the Cheshire cat. "Don't listen to the voices in you stomachs." All he got was groans for replies.
"Ow, my pancreas."
"Angela, will you please stop chewing on me."
"I think I broke an eye."
"Wow, what a view."
After about ten minutes of untangling themselves, the four sat down for some grub. It was a delicious meal of Chinese takeout. While they were enjoying their food, someone let out a huge belch. Tai began to laugh non-stop. Everyone just stared at him.
"Tai was that you? Tai? Hey answer me!" Gennai glared at Tai as he reached the state of hyperventilation. "At least you could say excuse me."
Tai finally controlled himself. "It wasn't me though."
"It was I." Shiva smiled evenly.
Gennai just about hit her. "Can we try to keep it civilized please?"
The silence was once again broken by a new noise.
"Safety"
"GRIFF!"