Why Are We Here Again?
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Chapter 2 – Thoughts, Lessons and Welcomings
Above Jess, Katt and Ici, on the fifth floor, lay Ming-Ming Sukimara (random surname – please don't kill me!).
Across the room, Garland and King were fighting again. Queen, King's little twin sister, wasn't even trying to stop them now. Michael was snoring away, and Ming-Ming wondered if she could take much more noise to her delicate ears.
Ray was rested against a wall, headphones in to block out various snores, and the previously mentioned argument. The final two occupants of the room were both Russian. Ian and Spencer, total opposites. Blonde, dark green hair. Extremely tall, extremely short. Hardly speaks at all, rarely shuts up. Spencer, Ian. How different did you get?
While Spencer was talking to Queen, most likely about Garland and King's commonplace arguing, Ian was jumping up and down, trying to reach the handle of the kitchen cupboard. For every floor there was a kitchen, bathroom, kids' dorm, and a director's dorm.
As Ian tried still to reach the cupboard, which was high up above the wooden-style worktop, Ming-Ming swung herself out of bed. She shivered as the cold air hit her skin. She grabbed her clothes and headed for the bathroom. Just as she was about to shut the door, Michael woke up and spotted her.
'Hey!' he cried sleepily, running towards her as fast as he could. Ming-Ming shut the door in his face, smirking to herself as she heard Michael bang into said door.
She locked it tight and started to strip out of her pyjamas. She turned on the shower, and stepped under the water flow. Bliss.
A few minutes later, Ming-Ming immerged from the bathroom, ready for the day. Michael ran inside, but not before glancing over her body, like usual. The twit was such a player.
Ming-Ming tossed her bright blue hair over her shoulder, as she walked over to the other occupants of the room. She smiled to Ray, King, Queen, Spencer and Garland. She glared down at Ian, who stuck his tongue out at her.
Ming-Ming calmly reached up and opened the cupboard Ian had so desperately been trying to reach. She took out the item he had undoubtedly wanted the most; coco pops, and handed them to Spencer. The large Russian then proceeded to thoughtfully eat the remainder of said cereal.
'Whaa…!' Ian whined as Ming-Ming walked away triumphantly. Ray, King, Queen and Garland all laughed.
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Kai, Tala and Bryan were surprised to find that the triplets actually got up before them, that morning.
Their beds were empty, and it seemed the contents of their bags had been transferred into a chest of drawers. Only one item was left loose from the neatly kept band of items belonging to the triplets.
The three Russians had ignored the sign, undoubtedly written by either Jess or Katt. It said; 'Touch anything in these drawers or on top of said drawers and you idiots who entered will pay. Don't ask why. You could turn green, if you get my drift.'
A photograph of three children was framed nicely, placed on top of the dresser. Two were girls, with the last one as a boy. They were easily recognisable as the triplets.
Ici was in the middle, with his two sisters either side of him. Katt was on his left, and Jess was on his right. Both had an arm round their brother's shoulders. All three were smiling, and each had tanned faces. Now the triplets were very pale, compared to the picture.
They were at a pool side. It looked hot and sunny – definitely not Moscow, where the orphanage was. The boys wondered if this was the home of the mysterious language the triplets knew so well.
Kai placed the picture back on top of the drawers again, and started to get ready like Tala and Bryan. They left Lee and Mariah sleeping as always.
They each checked their pockets, before walking out of the room, all headed towards the same place. A few minutes later, three people arrived in the gym. They stared at what they saw upon their entrance.
Jess, Katt and Ici were there, and already training.
Jess was running laps round the gym, and seemed to be fairing well, a sturdy expression fixed on her face. Ici was letting his blade out of his launcher over and over again, recording something on his laptop each time. And Katt? Katt. Katt was beating the living shit out of a nearby punch bag.
'Look.' Tala muttered to Kai and Bryan, motioning to Katt.
She was repeatedly punching, kicking, elbowing and kneeing the punch bag, creating a ripple effect. In short, only the last attack would leave a mark or make the bag move, because another attack would cover the effects of the one before it. With nothing left to cover up the last attack, that one would strike worst.
'Last!' Katt yelled. Ici and Jess got away from Katt and her punch bag, just as Katt stopped punching. The bag fell to the floor with sand spilling out of it. Jess smirked.
'My turn.' She said, walking over to help her sister up. Katt started beyblading, while Ici did laps instead.
Jess was soon doing similar exercises on the next punch bag, although perhaps not quite as violently as Katt had been. She took her time and conserved her strength, working faster and more accurately, but without as much power to each blow. Kai estimated that she would last about twice as long as her sister had done, like that.
Ici was jogging round quickly. He seemed to need no effort for the laps, and was watching his sisters a lot of the time. He spotted Kai, Tala and Bryan at the doorway.
'Hi.' He said loudly. His sisters looked round, Jess still not stopping her work on the punch bag. She was now kicking it, although her punches were better.
'Hi.' Katt greeted shortly, before turning back to the black blade spinning in the centre of the dish. Bryan smirked and let Falborg out as well.
But Katt's blade shrunk back, just as Falborg landed in the spot the black blade had been in just seconds ago. Katt shot a pointed glance at her opponent as he stepped up to the opposite side of the dish.
Jess and Ici smirked. 'Good luck.' Jess sang from across the room. Kai and Tala walked over behind Bryan to watch the match.
'Attack!' Katt cried, smirking as she did so. Her blade surged forward, aimed at Falborg. Falborg dodged it, but the other blade seemed not to care.
'Falborg! Stroblitz!' Bryan yelled. Katt shielded her face with her arms and waited for the attack to pass. Her blade had dodged the entire attack, although there were a couple of scratches on its attack ring.
'So you want to play it the hard way, huh? Scorpius! Hands of Water!' Katt cried again. A huge scorpion rose out of the centre of her blade, just as two copies of said blade appeared on either side of it.
'Falborg attack!' Bryan ordered. Katt smirked slightly, but Bryan didn't see. Falborg paused, and went for the centre blade. Falborg went straight through it, and Bryan growled. Katt smirked wider now, and Bryan noticed.
'Optical Illusions?' questioned Kai from behind. Katt glanced at him and smirked.
'Hmm, you're smarter than you look pretty boy, but what can you do about it!' Katt teased; a small glint in her coal-black eyes.
'This!' Kai yelled, now furious at the girl. 'Dranzer!' He yelled as he let his blue blade into the dish as well. Ici growled.
'Hey!' He yelled, letting his own blade into the dish was well. Tala smirked and sent Wolborg in to help.
'Oh no you don't!' Jess cried as she sprang over to Katt's other side, her blade also landing in the dish.
'Virgo!' Ici yelled. A beautiful gothic woman rose up from his blade, leering over her small master.
'Scorpius!' Katt cried. Scorpius pulled back into position next to Virgo.
'Sagittario!' Jess called. A centaur with a bow of fire appeared from Jess' blade, taking its place on Scorpius' other side.
'Sun Star Formation!' The Morgan Triplets yelled together. (Note: this attack could be portrayed differently in The Wicked Witch of Dingl's stories)
A white light appeared and dimmed very quickly, but the Russians were amazed to see other bitbeasts had joined in too.
The Goat of Capricorn, Man of Aquarius, The Two Fish of Pisces, The Ram of Aries, Bull of Taurus, Two Birds of Gemini, Crab of Cancer and The Lion of Leo were all there.
The triplets smirked again, the triumph in their yet black eyes all identical to each other.
'ATTACK!' They all yelled again. None of the Russians could see clearly, as the swarm of astrologic bitbeasts flew towards their own three bitbeasts.
A few seconds later, only Scorpius, Virgo and Sagittario remained in the dish, with all the others gone from sight and trace. Wolborg, Falborg and Dranzer lay on the floor, still and beaten.
'No way!' A squeaky voice shrilled across the room, making al six turn. 'You guys got beaten by them!'
Kai scowled. 'Ian.' He said in a frustrated monotone. Bryan smirked nastily.
Tala rolled his eyes and picked up Wolborg, but Katt beat him to it, somehow. She whisked it up to her eye level, whereupon she inspected it briefly.
'A new attack ring and it'll be as good as new.' She said kindly, handing Tala his blade at last. 'Good battle. Wolborg's stronger than you think.' She said with a friendly wink. To her surprise, Tala smiled back, even though only slightly. It was a smile, nonetheless.
'Yeah.' He said, his voice sounding a bit hollow to Katt. She frowned slightly. 'Yeah, you too.' He said, turning to walk away. Katt caught his arm. He looked back at her, surprised almost. She smiled kindly and reassuringly.
'Hey,' she said sternly, before smiling again. 'No hard feelings?' She said. Tala smirked and nodded. He walked away again, and this time she let him go.
/Do my ears deceive me or did you just think how cute he looked/
Katt jumped as Scorpius' voice rang through her mind and back again. Jess and Ici shot her a knowing look each and she groaned as she thought through what had happened. They had heard that too. Either that or her annoyingly truthful bitbeast had told them. Most likely the first one, though.
Darn. Now Katt didn't have anyone to kill. Well, she could try the dish or punch bag. If Jess or Ici would let her near either after that, which Katt highly doubted.
Katt strode towards the doors, not wishing to continue her training at that moment. Jess and Ici sighed as the doors swung shut behind their sister.
'What's up with her?' asked Kai, jerking his head towards the doors Katt had just exited through. Her siblings shook their heads.
'Long story.' They said in unison. Jess started beating her punch bag again, while Ici started to continue his laps.
- Jess' POV –
Great, there she goes again, storming off as usual. I can't believe she said that, though. Ok, thought that, whatever. I mean, I can't remember the last time I've heard Katt thinking someone was cute.
She sounded like she meant it as well, probably forgot we'd hear her, let alone Scorpius. Oh no. That stupid scorpion'll be teasing her something rotten about it! Sheesh, could that thing have a stronger death wish?
Ok, so I guess it could. It could tell Wolborg, who would tell Tala…And knowing the overgrown lobster with a bad attitude problem, that's exactly what it will do. Katt will die of embarrassment. Good thing she ran already…
/Err, mistress you do know that Kai is right next to you, right/
Oh shit! I glance at him, still punching. He's punching as well, but thankfully, I don't think he said anything yet. Yet.
/Ha! Not you too/ I punch harder. Me and Katt have something in common; our bitbeasts are both looking the right way to become two piles of lumpy shit.
/Yeah, that and you're both in luuuuuuuuuuuurve!/ Calm Jess; calm Jess; calm Jess…Oops…was that really the punch bag I just sent flying to the floor in a mad passion of my rage? Oh, yeah, guess it is. Hehe, Ici just could kill me for that.
/Jess you're an idiot. Sagittarius pissing you off again/ Speak of the devil… /And I heard that/
/Oh go fuck your bitbeast, little brother. /
/I say EWW! And Virgo also says EWW/
/Least you have something in common…/
/I give up. But seriously? Katt? IN LOVE/
/I doubt Scorpius will live much longer. And neither will Sagittarius at this rate/
/Calm down. Weren't you taking anger management classes? What happened to them, anyways/
/Umm…I…umm…attacked the…teacher.../
/…Only you do that, Jess. I'm not talking to you anymore; you're too weird, even in your thoughts. / I did a mental retake, and shot an angry glance at my dearest, smallest, younger-and-in-a-bad-position-brother. I think he got the message, is all I'm going to say.
Sometimes I really like being 5'9. Other times I really don't care, but at times like this, it's great. Also at times like this I wish I didn't have to go on and on pointlessly so much…
/Yeah, so do I. But I'm sure you wish that even more, since Kai's looking at you again…/
/WHAT! Oh. Look at him Jess…/
As soon as I look back at him, I see him avert his eyes. I somehow know the hurt is in my eyes. Why does that have to happen?
/Never mind. Maybe he's just shy. /
/Sure you want to try and cheer me up/
/Why wouldn't I/
/Because I'm in a I'm-upset-in-my-head mood./
/I'll live. And so will you. You've known him for a day, calm down./
/Too many people are saying that. I hear that too much today. It's not even breakfast time yet! Hmm, breakfast…/
/-sigh-My mistress is an asshole. What more could I expect. Hey, where did the redhead go to/
/Huh? Tala's not here/
/The redhead has a name/
/And you said I was stupid…/
/You are./
I glanced round, and asked Ici if Tala was still here or not. He wasn't, but Ici wasn't sure when he'd left. He figured not long after Katt.
Now that's a scene both of us would like to see, but Katt's blocked us out of her head again. She does that every time she's in a bad mood and doesn't want to talk. So we wait until she talks.
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Katt stormed out of the room, walking for a few more paces, and then running down the rest of the corridor. She just wanted to be alone.
/Hey mistress are you o-/ She blocked out Scorpius before he could say another word, though. She continued to run, blocking Jess and Ici out like she had done to Scorpius.
She ran and ran, up to the fourth floor without hesitation. She threw open the door and jumped onto her bed. Lee and Mariah timidly scuttled out. They were so busy looking back at their room mate, that they did not notice the figure in the shadows as they walked by him, down the stairs without a glance at him.
Katt jumped onto her bed, reached down and pulled her walkman out from under it. Under her pillow was a CD, which she placed inside the walkman. She stuffed in her head phones, and started to sob.
'I've become so numb I can't feel you there, become so tired so much more aware, I'm becoming this, all I wanna do is be more like me, and be less like you.' Katt sang along. Tala stepped into the room, watching the girl who thankfully had her back turned from him.
She only looked round as he shut the heavy door, whereupon he locked it.
So that's what I forgot to give to the triplets, the key... Hmm, they must've stolen Mariah's. Tala thought as he pocketed his own key.
Katt paused her music and turned to face him, still sat on her bed. She had her legs crossed, but she uncrossed them as she faced him, so her legs were dangling over the edge.
'What's wrong?' Tala found himself asking. Katt shook her head.
'None of your business.' She spat. He saw in her eyes the regret, and Tala cut the hurt from his eyes. She seemed to soften.
'You wouldn't understand, anyway.' She sighed.
Tala walked over to stand in front of her, perched on the back rail of Bryan's bed. She looked up at him, swinging herself back onto the bed once more. She now faced him head on, cross-legged once again.
He raised an eyebrow, almost playfully. Almost. 'Oh no?' he asked. She smirked at him slightly, but looked away as she did so. Tala sat in front of her on the bed. His legs were over the side of the bed, his feet touching the floor. He faced her side-on.
She looked back at him, slight surprise pooling in her black orbs. 'It's absolutely crazy. You'd never get it. Besides,' Katt said, with a small blush tingeing her cheeks, 'its… personal.' Tala raised an eyebrow.
'Personal…how?' he asked, smirking. Katt blushed harder, and visibly tried to fight it off. It didn't work, to say the least. Tala smirked wider. She looked so cute.
/You're not the only one who thinks that./
/Wolborg/
/According to Scorpius, Katt's blocked him, Jess and Ici out of her mind. She thought you looked cute./
/I don't do cute./
/You do to her./
He shut out Wolborg and turned back to Katt. She had finally stopped her blush, but still wasn't looking at him.
'Does this have something to do with me?' Tala asked. He wanted to know if Wolborg was right or not. Katt stared at him, and frowned.
'Has Scorpius been talking to Wolborg?' she asked. Tala nodded.
'So…you thought I looked cute?' he asked. Katt blushed even harder than before, looking away as much as she could. This was all the answer Tala needed, though.
'Hmm, well you're not so bad yourself.' He mused, smirking. Katt bit her bottom lip to fight a laugh, and looked back at him. Mischief danced in her eyes once more.
- Katt's POV –
How dare Scorpius! When I get my hands on that bloody beeping, beeping beep of a beep beep, I'll… I'll…!
/hey, don't worry. He said you were cute too./
/ARG! Wait till I next get you on your own! You're going to be SUSHI when I'm finished with you!
/They have Scorpion Sushi! AHHHHHHHHHHHH/
/-sigh-Only my scorpion bitbeast does this kind of stuff to me. No wonder I'm nuts./
/and nuts you are! – Hey/
- Normal POV –
Tala watched her fight her blush again, until it was finally gone. She turned to him, still looking rather shy, to Tala.
'Umm, Wolborg said you thought I was cute, too?' Katt said, a small smirk playing on her lips. Tala smirked.
'Hmm, seems we'll both be planning our bitbeasts' deaths, then.' He said. Katt grinned and nodded.
'What CD you playing?' he asked, looking down at the forgotten walkman. Katt followed his eyes and smiled.
'Lying, Pure and Simple. Wanna listen?' she offered. Tala shrugged and took the headphone held out to him.
'Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!
Don't wanna hear it!
Get out! Get out! Get out!
Get outta my way!
Step up! Step up! Step up!
You'll never stop me!
Nothing you say, today, is gonna bring me down! (Note: this song isn't mine. It's by Simple Plan, but in this fic, they do not exist, ok?)
Tala watched Katt tapping along to the beat. The chorus alone was really powerful, and so was the rest of the song.
Katt caught him watching her, and smiled. Tala smiled back, though it was too small to tell, really. Katt's eyes softened, but they were suddenly broken apart.
'AAAAAAAAH!'
Katt's head shot up at once. 'JESS!' She yelled, pulling the headphone from her ear, and leaving it stranded on her bed. Tala stopped her walkman for her, and raced after her. He had no idea Katt could run so fast, but this was clearly a crisis.
She raced into the mess room, and stopped dead. Tala stopped after her. Jess was deathly pale, and pointing to the corner of the room. Where the triplets had left their instruments. Ici ran up to them too.
'What's wro-WHAT!' Ici yelled as he saw what was wrong. Tyson, Max and Ray were examining their instruments. Tyson on drums, Jess' precious drums, Ray was holding Katt's prized electric guitar, and Max had Ici's base guitar.
'GET AWAY FROM THEM.' Jess spat. The three boys looked up. Tyson grinned.
'Are these yours?' he asked. 'They RULE!' He said. Jess let out a small, strangled cry as he hit her symbols with enough force to rip a hole in a drum. She ran towards him.
Ray was meanwhile twirling Katt's guitar between two fingers. She started running as well. Ici soon followed. Max was just placing it back on the stand, when he got there.
'Gimmi!' Katt screeched, snatching her precious guitar from the surprised niko-jin. She started to inspect it. Ray backed away from her, as soon as he received a strong glare from said triplet.
Meanwhile, Jess picked up Tyson – yes, she actually picked him up – and threw the boy across the room. He landed at Bryan's feet. She sat down on her seat, and also started checking over her drums.
Ici was satisfied that his base was playable still, and was now lecturing Max on how they could have destroyed them, especially Tyson and Ray. Kai, Tala and Bryan walked over.
'I didn't know you three played.' Bryan said. Tala saw the inscription on the front drum and smirked.
'So you're 'Lying, Pure and Simple.'' He said. The triplets nodded.
'Yup.' Katt said, placing her guitar back on its stand at last.
'He's Pure' She nodded her thumb towards Ici,
'She's NOT Simple,' she said, indicating to Jess, She clapped her hands to her chest,
'And I'm Lying.' she said with a final smirk. Jess scowled at Katt, while Ici grinned at his two sisters.
Ici picked up his base again. He looked to Katt. 'We'd best get these back in tune, sis.' He said. Katt nodded and picked up her own guitar. She growled as flat and high notes erupted from her guitar.
'What did they DO to them!' She wondered aloud as people all across the mess room winced at the off-notes.
'Well, well. Look what they cat dragged in. Ready to be beaten, Morgans?' came a sugary-sweet voice from the doorway. All three triplets smirked nastily.
'Why hello there, Mingie' Katt said with a horrible smirk. Jess and Ici turned to the girl menacingly, both grinning.
'This place gets better and better.' Jess muttered. Her siblings nodded.
'Tell me, Mingie,' Ici smirked, 'how's the player working out for you? Parker, wasn't it?'
In the doorway, Ming-Ming Sukimara froze.
Tell me what you think. If anyone knows Ming-Ming's surname (if she has one so far,) please let me know. Thanks for reading, pretty please review, naioka1992 - xoxo