Someone please explain this to me: my fortune cookie said "Be smart, but never show it". Is it telling me to pretend to be an idiot? Or is it some sort of hipster fortune cookie? I don't know! *sob*

Thank you for reviewing, Random queen 101, Tiger demon of light, and A.B.D.Y.Z! I am so glad I managed to get that sunset right.

I don't own Metal Fight Beyblade (but you guys already knew that :D).

"Oh. Hey, Madoka," Gingka seemed just as surprised as everyone else, but he brushed it off quickly. "What's up?" The girls stared at him in disbelief.

"What are you doing here?" Mei Mei asked.

"Well, I had a key, so I figured I'd check this place out," Gingka shrugged. A whining noise was heard from the kitchen. "Oh, Masamune's here, too."

As if on cue, Masamune came into the room. "There's no food in the fridge! What are we supposed to eat?" he announced. Then he noticed the girls. "What are they doing here?"

Sophie ignored him. "What do you mean, you had a key?" she asked Gingka.

"This is my condo!" Gingka explained. The others gaped at him. "What?"

"You better tell them, Gingka," Masamune prodded.

"Okay, so it's not really mine!" Gingka explains. "It belongs to the WBBA and they normally use it for business and other stuff, but since nobody is using it right now except for some contest, my dad said we could use it! So that's why we're here."

"We won the contest. Or at least, Mei Mei did," Hikaru told him.

"But that doesn't explain what you're doing on our side," Madoka pointed out.

"We thought we'd see if there was anything in the fridge. But there's not! And your side of the condo is way smaller than ours!" Masamune said.

"Huh?"

"Seriously! All the rooms are bigger, and we have three bedrooms!" Masamune nodded.

The girls exchanged a look. "Wait. Who else is with you then?" Sophie asked.

"Me, Masamune, Kyoya, Ryuga, Chao Xin, and Wales," Gingka ticked them off one by one on his fingers.

"How did you pick that group?" Mei Mei asked, eyebrow raised.

"I put names in a hat!" Gingka explained happily. "I didn't want to make anyone feel bad by leaving them out purposely, so I thought this was the best way!"

"Can't argue with that logic," Madoka agreed.

"Right. Now can you two get out of here?" Sophie asked. "We just got here, and we're really tired."

The two left and the girls sat down in the living room for a quick conversation.

"I can't believe this," Hikaru said.

"I know. We'll just have to make the best of this, though," Sophie commented. "At least there isn't anyone too annoying or anything with him. We should be fine."

"Yeah. This could even be fun," Mei Mei put in.

They discussed this for a while longer along with other things to do, then finally went upstairs, apprehensive as to what the next day would bring.

The storm woke her around 2:30 in the morning. Lightning flashed in the sky, rain pelted the house, and thunder shook the foundation. Madoka sat up in the darkness, trying to remember where she was. Then it came back to her. The rain suddenly began to let up. A strange noise coming from below caught her attention. She walked downstairs, trying to be as quiet as possible.

The silence in the house was unnerving.

She was about to go back upstairs when a white flash outside the back door caught her attention. She went over to investigate. The rain made it impossible to see anything. Bracing herself, Madoka turned on the outside light then opened the door and stepped outside. The rain slammed against her, but she hardly noticed. Nothing was out there on the deck or below it... It must have just been lightning she'd seen. The storm was probably just playing tricks on her eyes.

She could see the waves from a distance pounding against the sand. The waves rose up high in the air, then crashed down with an ominous force. It was nothing like the peaceful sea they has seen earlier. There was something scary about seeing the ocean like this. Something scary and forbidding.

The lightning suddenly flashed, illuminating the beach. There was something out there-a person?-running wildly across the beach. Whatever it was glowed white and seemed desperate to get away from something. Then they disappeared into the inky darkness as the sky went black again.

When the lightning flashed again, the figure was gone.

"Who's ready to go shopping?" Sophie knocked on the door of Mei Mei and Madoka's room. The two groaned.

"How is she ready so early?" Mei Mei muttered.

"Maybe if we just ignore her she'll go away," Madoka suggested.

Sophie knocked on the door harder. "I heard that! Seriously guys, Hikaru and I are starving. There's no food here. Besides, it's 11 o'clock!"

The two bolted up. "It's 11?!" Mei Mei gasped. "How?"

"It's got to be because of the time zone difference or something," Madoka said into her pillow.

Sophie and Hikaru banged the door open.

"We tried to be nice, but that's not going to happen now," Hikaru stated.

Twenty chaos filled minutes later, they were all ready and out the door. Mei Mei and Madoka trudged along the path slowly, still half asleep. The only thing keeping them awake was the constant shouts from Sophie and Hikaru, and their stomachs.

The market was right on the edge of the town, about a mile from where the girls were staying. They split up into groups then started grabbing items they deemed necessary.

"What about this?" Mei Mei asked Sophie.

"Maple syrup?" Sophie's eyebrows knit in confusion. "Well, I guess we could get some pancake stuff."

The girls wandered through the aisles, filling up the shopping carts. They ran into each other a little while later, along with a certain group of boys they happened to be splitting the condo with.

Masamune and Gingka waved cheerfully, while the others seemed bored. They glanced at the girls, but didn't say anything. Chao Xin winked at them. Mei Mei looked away quickly.

Sophie was amused. "Mei Mei, do you have a crush on a certain someone?"

"What? No way!" Mi Mei flushed ten different shades of red. "Besides, Chao Xin is like, a total player. I do not like him. No way."

"She never said which one," Hikaru grinned.

"What? Well it doesn't matter. I thought that was who you were talking about! Don't mess with me like that! And I still don't like him, anyway!" Mei Mei defended.

They continued shopping and went on their way.

The girls dumped their pile of groceries on the ground.

"Okay, next time," Hikaru panted, "We need to find a better way to carry these."

"Definitely," Mei Mei gasped.

The girls had each had 3or 4 bags with them that had threatened to break at any minute. They had to carry them all the way from town back to the condo, which wouldn't have been so bad except for the fact that they had to walk on the beach. The sand made the trek seem harder and longer. They painstakingly carried them up the steps. Ryuga was out on the porch.

"For the record, I had nothing to do with it," he told them then went inside his half of the condo.

"What do you think that was about?" Madoka asked.

"I don't know," Hikaru said slowly. "But I don't have a good feeling about it."

The girls walked in then started to put the groceries away. Sophie opened the fridge and screamed. The others raced over. A furry, spider-like creature was sitting in it.

"Wait a minute," Mei Mei reached in and grabbed it. "This is fake!" Everyone let out a collective sigh of relief.

"That must of been what Ryuga was talking about," Sophie rolled her eyes. "Good job, guys. Real original. I'm going to take a shower."

The others finished up, then they heard a shout from upstairs.

Sophie was standing outside the bathroom, an irritated look on her face. "They flooded the bathroom. There's soap everywhere. Don't even get me started on the bedrooms. Oh yeah, the toilets are covered in plastic wrap, too."

The others went to check out the damage. The bedrooms were filled with balloons, making walking practically impossible. Soap suds spilled out of the tub and made the floors slippery. The toilets were all wrapped up, with at least five layers of plastic.

"We saw them at the market! Were we really gone that long after they left?" Mei Mei asked incredulously.

"Apparently so," Sophie replied with an icy tone. "C'mon, let's go talk to them."

The guys weren't on the deck, but a quick walk around the condo revealed no recent footsteps other than their own so the girls found themselves knocking on the door. Gingka opened it, took one look at their glares, then slammed the door shut. Hikaru knocked again. This time, Kyoya answered.

"What do you want?" he asked.

"You guys to clean up the mess you made!"

"I had nothing to do with that! It was all Gingka and Masamune!"

"Thanks a lot, Kyoya!" they could hear Masamune call from inside the condo.

"Anyway, we're busy, so get lost!" He closed the door.

"Busy doing what?" Madoka wondered.

Sophie had gone silent. "Are you okay?" Mei Mei asked her.

"If that's how they want to play, then so be it," Sophie said. "I'm not backing down."

"Huh?" Hikaru asked.

Sophie ignored her and went back in their half. A plan was already formulating in her head.

The girls waited quietly until the guys had all left. Madoka went out to the deck then came right back. "It's just like we thought!" she confirmed. "They left their back door open."

"Perfect," Hikaru nodded. They grabbed various objects then sneaked into the boys' condo. It was similar to theirs, but like Gingka and Masamune had told them, it was bigger.

"Do you really think it's fair to get back at all them?" Madoka asked.

"Of course!" Hikaru nodded. "Even if it was just Gingka and Masamune, the others obviously knew about it based on what Kyoya and Ryuga told us! Either way, they were still involved!"

Sophie took control. "Okay, I can work on the Oreos, Madoka can do the toothbrushes, Mei Mei can do the soap, and Hikaru can do the deodorant."

"Why do I have to do the deodorant?" Hikaru made a face.

"Just do it! Here's the cream cheese."

The girls split up.

Sophie took out the Oreos and removed the filling. Toothpaste was used as the replacement. It looked identical to the cream that had been there a few moments ago. Once she was done, she put them back in the container.

Madoka went into the bathrooms and sprinkled some table salt on each toothbrush. She put on enough so that it wouldn't be seen, but would still have an effect.

Mei Mei grabbed all the hand soap containers, then emptied them. She refilled them back up with syrup then returned them to where she had found them.

Hikaru ran upstairs. She grabbed the six deodorants, taking note of where each one had been. Then she went back to the kitchen where the others were working and set up on the island. She put a small layer of cream cheese on top of each of the deodorants, then placed them back in their spots.

"If we're going to prank them back, it's going to be subtle but effective, " Sophie commented once they were finished.

Madoka was half-asleep on the couch when she heard the knock at the door. It was quiet at first, then turned into a loud banging. Obviously there was more than one person at the door. As she got closer to the door, she could hear voices on the other side. The guys.

"What do you want?" she asked, opening the door.

Each one of the guys wore a different expression, ranging from shocked to annoyed to extremely pissed off. She had to hide a smile.

"I think you know," Kyoya snarled.

"Yeah, does this mean anything to you?" Ryuga poured the syrup out of the soap container.

Madoka pretended not to know anything. "Um, why are you pouring soap out onto the porch?"

"It's syrup!" Wales told her irritably. "Not like you didn't all ready now that."

"Why was-"

Masamune cut her off. "Seriously?! How could you do this to a pack of perfectly good Oreos?"

"Yeah!" Gingka chimed in. "Madoka, I thought you were better than this!"

"Toothpaste in the Oreos and syrup in the soap bottles? Why would you even do that?" Chao Xin commented.

Hikaru came to Madoka's rescue. "We have no idea what you're talking about. Now leave." She slammed the door shut. The two girls immediately burst out laughing.

"I don't even think they know about the deodorant and toothbrushes yet!" Madoka gasped.

"Then they're in for a big surprise!" Hikaru laughed.

The pranks went on for a while, with the guys being much more dramatic (digging a hole beneath Mei Mei's beach towel) and the girls more subtle (painting bars of soap with clear nail polish and hiding alarm clocks set to go off at 3am).

Madoka watched the guys in the water from the deck. One of them just kept catching her attention no matter what he did.