Passengers & Places
Disclaimer – I own Rayne, Lizzie, Trip and Blaze. Flame owns Faust, Shiro, and Armour. Xenolord owns Maria, Natalya and Serras. Flame and I both own Felix. Hazelstar owns Arcana, and Blade100 owns Alex. Everybody else, none of us own.
"So we're really going to do this?"
Lizzie bounced up and down excitedly in her seat. At the moment, she and all her friends were eating at a local fast food restaurant.
"Definitely!" Felix howled, dancing wildly in her seat and attracting attention from the other customers and the staff. She kept up her dance until Rayne pulled the lid off of her drink and poured the entire cup down the back of Felix's shirt.
Just like a cat, Felix hissed, leapt up from the table, and booked it to the washroom with her hair and fur on end.
"OMG IT'S FREEZING!" She screamed.
"Did she just yell OMG?" Aria, their friend and resident animal activist/lover asked, staring at the bathroom door.
"I find that if you want to lead a non-stressful life," Rayne quipped as she got up and threw her now empty cup into the trash, "You shouldn't question what Felix does. Instead, you should just ignore it or put a stop to it immediately."
"What she meant to say, was that she hasn't figured out an answer yet since last chapter's net-speak part." Maria said calmly.
"That too."
"Well, it's been less than a week." Natalya shrugged. "Kind of hard to get an answer as to why the writers would make Felix speak like that in a few days, isn't it?"
"Can we stop breaking the fourth wall and get back to the story?" Arcana asked loudly, looking up at the ceiling and glaring at the writer.
"Well sooorry." Rayne muttered, taking a sip from Lizzie's drink and shooting a look at her equally sarcastic friend.
"Anyways, yeah, we're definitely going on the road trip!" Trip cheered, pumping a fist into the air.
"Road trip?"
Every single person at the table turned too look, surprised by the sudden voice. Everyone except for Arcana, that is; she was so startled by the voice that she began to choke on her burger.
"That's right." Natalya answered, giving the choking girl beside her a few solid whacks on the back.
"You're... just... making... it... worse!" Arcana gasped, letting out a hacking cough between each word.
"If you're going to choke could you cover your mouth, please?" Lizzie asked cheerfully, covering her eyes as Arcana's mouth fell open showing everybody the half chewed food inside.
"What of it, Alex?" Rayne asked, though never taking her eyes off of the commotion in front of her.
Alex, of course, was Alex Dragonark. He had transferred over to Battleon High from Falconreach earlier on in the year. He wore black and blue clothes, and his black hair was swept over one eye.
"Oh, no reason." He grinned. "It just sounds interesting, that's all."
He grabbed a chair from a nearby table and sat down with the group. Turning to the girl next to him (Safiria) he smiled charmingly, winked, and held out a trademark rose that he had whipped out from his pocket.
"A rose," Safiria said dully, looking skeprically at the rose. "In a burger joint of all places. Thanks Alex that's really... romantic."
"That's not what I would have called it." Shiro muttered, causing Blaze to crack up and start laughing.
She took the rose from him, giving the womanizer a plastic smile. With the same fake, overly cheerful smile on her face, she tossed the rose behind her with surprising force. She threw it so hard, that it smacked Felix (who had just returned from the bathroom) in the face.
"At least it was just a flower- BLAST IT! NOT AGAIN!"
Arcana had just managed to spit out her food... only for it to shoot right across the room and onto Felix's shirt.
Felix sprinted back into the washroom, screaming and cursing along the way. As she ran, she managed to knock over three small children, an elderly woman.... and the restaurant manager.
The manager slowly got back up, his face red with anger and embarrassment.
"GTFO!" He roared, and every single one of the teenagers jumped p and ran as fast as they could out of the place.
"What is it with all the net speak?" Blaze wondered ducking as several different angry employees tossed chicken nuggets at her.
"So how about I join you all on the road trip?" Alex panted to Faust, as he dodged an open ketchup packet thrown at him by the manager.
"Whatever!" Faust cried back, jumping into Rayne's arms and narrowly avoiding the mayonnaise tossed at her by the kids that Felix had knocked over.
"AND STAY OUT!" The old lady screamed, waving a shaky fist in the air at them as the manager slammed the doors shut.
The restaurant was completely silent as the customers stared at the retreating teens, and then at the flabbergasted but furious staff members.
Suddenly, Felix came out of the bathroom. Her hair was standing on end again, but this time, it was because she was soaking wet from head to toe.
"Guys I think we should run for it.... I kind of broke the sink, and we should probably head out before anyone finds..."
She trailed off, seeing everyone's eyes on her.
"...Aw crap."
"Guys, do we have to take him?" Shiro asked. They were now all sated on Rayne, Felix, and Faust's couch as they had headed back to the Penthouse.
"I already said yes." Faust explained awkwardly, fixing her expensive clothes and picking the lettuce out of her hair. "And what am I supposed to say now?"
"Uh... guys?"
"Tell him he can't come!" Shiro whined. "Tell him there are too many people coming already!"
"Hello?"
"Why don't you want him to come, Shiro?" Blaze asked, glancing down at the shorter male sitting in between him and Armour.
"He cramps my style!"
"What style?" Rayne scoffed. "You have no style."
"...Guys?"
"Well," Shiro spluttered, "He shouldn't come anyways! I'm supposed to be the only ladies man around here!"
"But he's so much better at it than you." Armour commented.
"What the hell, man?" Aren't you supposed to be on my side?"
"You do realize I'm right here, right?" Alex asked, watching the entire argument bounce around the room.
"Well why not bring him?" Maria shrugged. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but... we all do consider him a friend, don't we?"
"I didn't know you cared, Maria!" Alex smirked.
He squealed like a pig and fell off the couch when Maria leaned over and slugged him in the jaw, a vein throbbing in her temple.
"Not to mention we need a guide." Serras added in.
Aria looked at her questioningly.
"What do we need a guide for Serras?"
"Well we need someone to show us around Falconreach, don't we?"
"YOU'RE GOING TO FALCONREACH!?" Alex gasped, sitting up from the floor.
Lizzie blinked.
"Well of course we would go to Falconreach! It's one of the three big cities in the area, and surprisingly, none of us have ever been there."
"But you can't!" Alex protested. "I m-mean, the scenery is terrible there. It's just so boring, and-"
"Don't you live there Alex?" Maria questioned, looking suspiciously at the flustered boy.
"W-well I do, but-"
"And... didn't you tell us just yesterday, and I quote-"
Safiria cleared her throat, and deepened her voice to the point where she had a perfect imitation of Alex's voice.
"I love Falconreach more than any other place I've ever lived?"
"I do, but-"
"We're going." Arcana announced suddenly. "He's definitely coming with us."
She paused. "Nice impression, by the way."
"Thank you." Safiria smiled, her fangs showing. "Back to the topic on hand, I thought you hated Alex, Arcana?"
"She's right!" Natalya pitched in. "I thought you would have been the first one after Shiro to not want him to come along?"
"Pfft, I do hate him." Arcana smirked. "And you're right, I normally wouldn't have wanted him to tag along; but with the way he's resisting against the idea of going to Falconreach, there's got to be something there that doesn't want us to know about.
Realizing this, everybody let out a soft, realizing "Oh!"
An evil, satisfied grin replaced Arcana's smirk. She smiled maliciously and glanced at Alex, who had suddenly gone very pale.
"Cheer up, buddy." Shiro patted his fellow skirt-chaser on the back, suddenly feeling a lot more sympathetic to the other boy's plight. "They may be doing this to you, but think about it; on the way to Falconreach... hell, for the whole summer, we'll be stuck inside a car with tons of hot girls for hours on end, right?"
"But they all don't like guys..." Armour pointed out.
"Not to mention they're all taken." Blaze added in, smiling sheepishly.
The white haired boy and the brunette stared at the others. Slowly, they both let out identical sighs.
"Son of a b-!"
"-each chairs?" Rayne asked, looking at the two identical cat girls, a clipboard and a list in one hand.
"Check!" Faust yelled, stuffing the chairs into the back of the car. It was now morning, and they were packing so that they could all leave by noon.
Thanks to Faust's money, they had managed to get cars to drive in. Two cars, in fact: two oversized vans.
"I could have gotten us luxury vehicles." Faust told them earlier when the cars had pulled up. "But I wanted the real thing, you know? Hours upon hours of non-stop driving in a van crammed full of people and their stuff, with barely any room to breathe, never mind move; the real deal, right guys?"
She turned back to her two friends, and smiled.
"I knew you guys would agree with me!" She had cheered, completely mistaking the tears in Rayne and Felix's eyes as they had stared at the big vans.
"Cooler?" Rayne yelled.
"Check!" Felix gave her thumbs up, pushing the heavy box into the back of the van.
"SHINY!" Felix squealed, as she saw a penny glinting on the ground.
She bent over to pick it up, and due to this she missed the cooler sliding out and hitting Faust straight in the stomach.
"What's wrong, Faust?" The hyper cat demon asked innocently, blinking as Faust doubled over and fell on the ground in pain. Rayne bit her lip to stifle her laughter and checked off another item on her list.
"You okay, Faust?" Felix asked again, nudging the groaning rich girl with her foot. "You want to lie down? Just let me get the chairs..."
"NO!" Faust screamed, not wanting another accident. "I'll be fine, I'll be fine!"
"No, no, let me get it!"
Felix reached into the trunk to get the beach chairs that Faust had just packed, and as she did, Faust's life was flashing before her eyes; Felix didn't see that she was just about to knock over everything.
"You REALLY don't have to!" Faust shrieked, waving her hands frantically in the air. Rayne laughed as she watched her two friends banter back and forth.
Unbeknownst to them all however, it wasn't just Rayne who was watching...
"What are they doing?" The woman whispered, observing the three girls through binoculars. She was standing on a balcony of an apartment across the street.
"They're packing for their road trip, Flame." One of her companions piped up. She was looking through her own pair of binoculars at them s well, though she was considerably farther from the railing than Flame was.
Flame turned around to look at her friend and fellow teacher questioningly.
"How do you know they're going on a road trip DA?"
"Don't ask and I won't tell." Da smirked.
"But... I did ask." Flame Tiger blinked.
"...Shut up."
"Can I ask why we're spying on them?" The third person, a man, asked curiously.
"Because Xeno, we need to know exactly where they are going!"
"Why, exactly?" Xenolord questioned.
"Felix failed my gym class!" Flame exclaimed, watching the three roommates in the parking lot heave all their possessions into the back of the van.
The three all taught classes at Battleon High. Flame Tiger taught music and gym, while Ms. Angel (DA) taught English and Theatre. Xenolord however, taught the most interesting (and most twisted) class out of all of them, for he was the 'Defense Against Dark Magicks, Omens, Hexs and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' teacher.
"And Felix failing your class has to do with stalking the kids how, exactly?" DA muttered.
"We need to stop Felix's plans and bring her back for summer school!" She explained, turning to her colleagues.
"Why don't you just go and stop her right now?"
"Where's the fun in that?" Flame and Xeno asked her simultaneously. The two grinned at each other, before giving the other high fives and continuing their watching.
"So let me get this straight." DA said, crossing her arms. "You're going to follow Felix and those kids on their cross-country trip, and capture Felix so that you can take her back for her remedial courses?"
"Not just me!" Flame chirped. "We are going to follow them!"
"We." DA repeated disbelievingly. She sighed heavily and shook her head.
"Flame, I know I'm your best friend and all, but if you think for a single second that I'm going to waste my summer chasing those kids, you-"
"Felix called you and all the other teachers stupid." Flame interrupted.
"That's nice Flame, but- WHAT!?"
DA tensed up, suddenly seething mad. She jammed the binoculars back to her eyes, and glared through them at Felix.
"I'm going to murder that girl when I get my hands on her!"
Flame snickered quietly; if there was one thing DA hated, it was being called stupid by anyone.
"You coming along too, Xeno?" Flame asked casually.
"Hell yeah!" He smiled evilly.
"Why?" DA asked. "Not that I'm objecting, but why are you coming? Do you have a score to settle too?"
"Nope."
"Wait, what?" DA stared quizzically at him, and Flame even turned away from her careful observations to look at him.
"I don't have a problem with them. I just want to help you guys."
"Meaning he's coming because he's creepy like that." DA whispered to Flame.
"Hey!"
Flame laughed as DA and Xeno began to squabble behind her. She put the binoculars back to her eyes, and watched as the rest of their friends (minus Alex, for they were going to pick him up when they went to Falconreach that day) showed up and began to load their own items into the car.
"Students beware." She murmured, focusing on them all as they got inside the vans.
"Because the teachers are going on a road trip of our own."
You're up now Xeno!
