Day One-Part 3

"What do we do now!?" Sophie spoke as she turned to the Ganondorf-cosplayer. "We should probably go after older brother and Kuroyanagi-san-"

"Nah," Matsushiro replied as he smoothed back his straightened, orange-dyed hair. "Let them be. I think it'd be good for them to sort things out by themselves."

Before Sophie could ask what exactly he meant, that was when they saw a horde of fangirls coming their way.

"EEEEE!"

"LINK! GANON! WE LOVE YOU!"

"I WANT YOUR AUTOGRAPH!"

"OH MY GOSH! IT'S LINK AND GANON!"

The Link-cosplayer turned to the Ganondorf cosplayer. "Truce?" Sophie asked. Matsushiro nodded before the two immediately screamed and starting running for their lives.

Shachihoko stopped walking, and took a deep breath, hesitating before speaking. "...I can't believe we won."

Tsukino nodded with agreement on Shachihoko's remark. "I know..." She trailed off. "The whole thing was so short! Pierrot, how long did it take Shachihoko and I to win the Hunger Games, exactly?"

"Nine minutes, ten seconds and two miliseconds." Pierrot responded, grinning ear to ear. "That's a pretty good record compared to how long it took the original Katniss and Peeta to win the Games."

"Pretty good? It was SO FAST!" Shachihoko responded, throwing his hands up in the air. "I mean, half the contestants died instantly when they stepped off their starting spots before the countdown was finished and ended up getting blown up, six other people got killed by muttations, and then the others that were left decided to throw themselves to the tracker jackers when they realized they were most likely doomed! Tsukino and I got lucky! All we did was stand there while everybody else killed each other!"

"Hey, you won coupons for free food! I think that's a pretty good reward considering your luck." Pierrot chimed in response. "I think you two make a good team."

Both Shachihoko and Tsukino sighed. "Let's just join the others soon...we have to meet up for lunch!" Tsukino spoke, looking at her watch. The other two nodded with agreement before they continued walking.

"Aargh, me hearties!"

Kawachi grinned at Mizuno's pirate shout. "I hate to admit it, but you actually make a really good pirate...despite the clothes being big on you, that is."

Mizuno shrugged as she looked down at the pirate costume she wore. "Can't do much about that." She responded. "At least it's not long to the point that I'm going to trip over the pant legs."

Kanmuri looked to his left, noticing two certain cosplayers. "Hey, isn't that Meister and Kuroyanagi?" He asked, pointing at them. He squinted a bit. "Who's that girl with them?"

Azuma turned to look as well. "Hey, is it-" He started, but then he ran towards them. "Inaho! Inaho, is that you!?"

Inaho Kazuma, Azuma Kazuma's older sister, turned to see her brother and his other three companions run over to her and the other two cosplayers. "Hey, Azuma! Nice to see you again!" She spoke, grinning. "I thought you might be around here, considering I found these two here as well." She gestured to Kuroyanagi and Meister as she continued. "How's the convention so far?"

"Great!" Azuma responded, before quickly doing introductions. "Sis, these are some of my co-workers, Kawachi, Mizuno and Kanmuri! What are you doing here anyway, onee-san?"

"I won a free trip to this place in a contest I entered for the heck of it, with the hotel and travelling expenses paid for. Sweet, huh?" Inaho responded. She turned to Meister. "Out of of all the crossdressed cosplayers though, you've seriously got to be the best one I've seen yet!"

The Zelda-cosplayer blushed a bit while Kawachi and Kanmuri supressed a few snorts of laughter as best as they could. "Um...Thank you..." Was all Meister could say, before feeling quite unable to say anything else he could think of without embarassing himself any further.

"So...what do we do now?" Kuroyanagi asked Matsushiro.

Everyone had gotten back together in time for lunch, and they were now currently eating the food they bought, crowding around one table (Inaho included).

"Well," Matsushiro started after taking a bite out of his hamburger (his voice was a bit muffled because of this, but everyone could hear him well enough), "I was thinking we could all wander around a bit more, and then have dinner and go to the hot spring section of the hotel after that."

"YEAAAAHHH!" All of the teenagers immediately cheered while Kuroyanagi, Sophie, Pierrot and Meister exchanged awkward-looking glances at each other.

"Do we have to go to the hot spring?" Sophie asked.

"Yes." Matsushiro responded immediately.

"Um, Matsushiro, that might actually be a bad idea for both Pierrot and I considering we are constantly hunted by paparazzi. It would be bad if we got caught in public in unclothed states." Meister interjected.

"Oh, yeah, right..." Matsushiro trailed off. "You two can just go and hang out in your room or something, I don't care. But, changing the subject...How's everyone doing with the Vocaloid stuff for tomorrow?" All the girls said something about everything going well. Inaho mentioned that she was going to be Gumi for Vocaloid, which was great since they were missing Gumi in their cosplay group.

He got a variety of responses from the boys.

"I'M TRYING TO FINISH PUTTING MY OUTFIT TOGETHER, I SWEAR!" (Kawachi)

"I'm having trouble with memorization for 'Under the Darkness'..." (Meister)

"Do Kuroyanagi and I REALLY have to sing 'Magnet?'" (Kai)

"I'm still looking for that blue hair-dye, Matsushiro! Do you have it?" (Kuroyanagi)

"I guess it's okay..." (Azuma)

"Mm, okay I guess. Though it sucks that I have to be part of the backstage crew than onstage..." (Pierrot)

"I'm not really sure if I can sing 'Servant of Evil'..." (Kanmuri)

Matsushiro face-palmed himself. "All of the guys, you go and work on your Vocaloid stuff for the rest of the day until dinner!" He muttered. "The girls can go ahead and wander around some more."

"YAY!" The girls cheered while the guys let out a groan. Things were only going to get crazier later on...