Jupiter's Magic: Here's the Easter Chapter, FINALLY! Had massive writers block. Anyway, HAPPY belated EASTER EVERYONE!
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or any of the songs used in this story.
"'WAKE UP EVERYONE!" Valon shouted loudly, causing the remaining members of the household to jolt awake; Alister and Raphael were both startled enough by Valon to roll out of their beds, Skye screamed and sat bolt upright in her bed.
"Valon!" Skye and Alister screamed in unison, storming out of their rooms and down the stairs.
"This better be worth waking up at six thirty in the morning for, you damn Aussie," Alister snarled.
"It's Easter chum. Why're you bein' so nasty?"
"Because its six thirty in the morning," Skye mumbled, heading into the kitchen to brew some coffee. "Decaf or regular?"
"Decaf," Alister stated, not tearing his annoyed gaze away from the brunette.
"It is way too early for this, so why is everyone screaming?" Raphael called from the stairs as he started to make his way to his friends. He did not pay attention to where he was going, though, and he ended up slipping on one of the steps, falling the rest of the way down them.
"Good morning, Raphael!" Skye called from the kitchen. Alister chuckled and left the room to help the blond up.
"Raph fall down the stairs again?" asked Valon as he watched the red-haired biker go.
"Yup. He's one of the worst morning people ever."
"Oh ha ha," retorted Raphael as he and Alister came into the room. "But seriously, Valon, why did you scream? It's only—" He looked up at the clock in the room and he sighed. "—six thirty in the morning. Why doesn't this bother me anymore?" he finished with a mutter.
"Because i's Eas'er!" Valon exclaimed. "This means that the Eas'er Bunny came 'n' left us goodies."
The two male bikers looked at each other and then back to the teen. "You sure you aren't thinking of Christmas, Valon?"
"I'm sure I'm sure! I know the difference; Santa's a fat bloke who spies on ya, 'n' the Easter Bunny isn' so temperamental as Santa," retorted Valon, folding his arms over his chest.
"You believe in the Easter Bunny?" Alister questioned in disbelief.
"Of course!" Valon exclaimed. "He's just like Santa!"
"Believe what you want," Alister sighed.
"Wait. Today's Easter! It's Easter Sunday?" Skye asked sharply, pausing in her tasks to look at all three of the bikers.
"Apparently so."
"ACK!" she squealed, her eyes widening in alarm. She carefully picked up Raphael's and Alister's coffee mugs, handing them to their respective owners. Skye gave Raphael a quick kiss on the cheek before bolting upstairs to her room, slamming the door behind her.
The three men stared after her in confusion. "What the hell was that about?" asked Alister at last.
"Must be a girl thing," said Valon with a shrug before his eyes narrowed. "Oy! Why aren' there any eggs hidden?"
The two bikers looked at each other. How on earth had they never gotten around to explaining what Easter was to Valon? Dartz had never overly celebrated the holiday, true, but Mother Mary should have mentioned something in passing to Valon about it.
"Do you know what Easter is?" asked Raphael at last, looking at Valon carefully.
The boy blinked, and then nodded. "Mother Mary always celebrated Easter the way all the adults did, but all the kids hunted f'r Easter eggs tha' the Easter Bunny 'id. There was somethin' t' do with religion, but I don' 'member all tha' much 'bout it."
"That explains quite a bit," said Alister in an undertone to Raphael. "He got the causes mixed up and no one realized it."
"No Lola, I'm serious! I can't find my phone," Skye said irritably, storming down the stairs. The other bikers turned in surprise, noticing that the girl was wearing a white sun dress. Red and black flowers were artfully scattered on the lower half of the dress and it had black straps; she had completed the outfit with a short sleeved black sweater and black heels.
"Um, Skye—" Raphael started. She just swatted him away and started to throw things into her purse. "Skye," he said again. She still swatted him away, looking at him with a briefly annoyed expression. Getting fed up with the girl, he raised his voice. "Skyler."
"What?" she snapped back.
"You're talking on your cell phone.''
Skye took the phone off of her ear, looked at it, and promptly hung her head. "I'm more stressed out than I thought I was…sorry, Raphael," she apologized, only to return to her conversation with Lola."Are you coming?"
There was a small pause. "Your family gets up at five every day! How can you not be ready?" asked Skye in disbelief.
Another pause. "Fine. See you in an hour. Bye," she said, hanging up.
"Mind explaining the freak out to us?" Alister asked flatly.
"Today is a really hectic day for me and my family, as well as Lola's. Sorry I was so annoyed," said Skye sheepishly.
"Why so stressed out? Oh, wait, the Easter Bunny hasn' gotten 'ere yet, that's why!" exclaimed Valon brightly.
"Valon, there's more to Easter than candy and bunnies," said Skye in exasperated fondness.
"'ow so?" Valon tilted his head to look back at Skye for an explanation.
"I'm Catholic, and every Sunday I go to church—which is why you never see me in the mornings," she began, but she was interrupted by Alister's startled expression. "What?"
"You're Catholic?" asked the redhead.
"Didn't you ever figure that out?" she replied in equal surprise.
"Not like you ever told us."
"Oh…oops. But anyways, you guys remember that I gave up chocolate recently?"
"Kind of hard to forget that little announcement, since you banned us from having any in the house. That's why we hid a stash in our rooms," Alister bluntly stated.
"Right. That's because it was Lent, when Jesus walked the desert for forty days without any commodities. This week was Holy Week, when Jesus entered Jerusalem, and it leads up to Good Friday. That was when Jesus died on the cross for our salvation; three days later He rose from the grave. So we go to mass to celebrate His resurrection."
Raphael seemed to have been familiar with the explanation, since his next question was, "And the reason for your spasm?"
"Our families go to mass together every Easter and we go get brunch afterward. Then for her little sister and mine, we have an Easter Egg hunt around my parents yard—"
"Can we go?" Valon asked excitedly.
"Sure. If you don't mind sitting through mass first."
"We'll all go," Raphael said, catching on to Alister's reluctance to ask—if Lola was there, he would likely follow. "Valon, a nice pair of pants and a polo shirt will be good enough to wear. No jeans."
"What? I can' wear—"
"Don't you want to go on the Easter Egg hunt?" asked Skye all too innocently. "If you do, you have to dress up for it."
Valon looked around at the faces of his friends before he grumbled and stalked up the stairs. "Stupid girls 'n' their stupid manipulations," he muttered as he went.
"I heard that!"
During the Mass
"Oye." Valon whispered.
"What?" Alister asked.
"In this book it mentions the 'sign of peace? W'at do they mean by 'hat?"
"It means you shake hands with anyone around you." I hissed. "Now shush. He's consecrating the Eucharist."
"What's a Eucharist?" Valon asked.
"Shut up!" Alister and I said in unison. He mumbled and went back to reading the pamphlet.
It was then that everyone stood up and held hands, reciting the "Our Father".
"Now wha-" Alister just smacked him over the head.
"W'at was that for?"
"Being you-"
"The Lord be with You" the priest said.
"And also with you" I replied, with the rest of the congregation, giving a glare at Valon.
"Let us offer each other the sign of peace."
The congregation turned to one another and began to shake hands. I got on my tippy toes and kissed Raphael. I turned to shake hands with Alister, only to see Valon arguing with a kid about his accent – luckily, he wasn't yelling, but it was still disrespectful.
Pissed, I grabbed him by the ear and forced him to stand in-between myself and Raphael.
"W'at I do?" he hissed.
"Behave" I said, venom clearly heard in my voice.
"W'at? That rugrat started it!"
Raphael gave him a scary glare, which caused him to flinch and sit still.
At Brunch Skye's POV
"Skye!" a little five year old squealed happily, running over once she had seen me. The little girl looked like a miniature version of Lola, but she was actually my sister.
"Hey there, munchkin," I said brightly, picking her up. "You're getting heavy."
"Oy! It's a mini-Skye!" said Valon, coming over to investigate; behind him, Raphael and Alister were following to see what he was looking at.
"Guys, this is my sister, Morgan. Momo, this is Valon. That's Alister," I added once Alister came up to us.
"He talks funny," Morgan stated, pointing to Valon.
Predictably, Valon scowled. "Says the kid called Momo," he retorted, though I can tell he doesn't mean it.
Momo looked over at Valon and smiled. Suddenly, my sister's eyes landed on Raphael next and she tugged at my hair. "Who's he, Skye?" she asked in a loud whisper.
"That's my boyfriend, Raphael," I replied, watching him getting a glass of water; I could tell he was in earshot of us, because at the word 'boyfriend' a small smile had appeared on his face.
Morgan studied him intently for a long minute. "Is he going to be my uncle?" she asked at last.
Raphael, who had been drinking the water at this point, choked and began to cough. His face turned a bright shade of red.
"We'll see," I replied mysteriously, watching my boyfriend's face go an even deeper shade of red. "So what did the Easter Bunny leave you?" I continued, changing the subject.
"Candy!" she squealed, a huge smile on her face. "And Squinkies!"
"Wow. That's so cool!"
"Wha's a squinkie?" Valon asked.
"It's a children's toy. They look like those little things you can get out of a vending machine at the front of a grocery store; those commercials have been on for ages," replied Alister knowledgeably.
"Ohhhh. So, Morgan, you been on an Easter Egg hunt yet?" Valon said, his eyes lighting up hopefully.
"Nope. Mommy says we're waiting until after brunch to do it," the little girl replied brightly.
"Awesome!" Valon exclaimed
Later After Easter Egg Hunt
"Has anyone seen Valon?" Alister asked. This phrase was kinda getting old, but they were used to it.
"Nope"
"Nada" Skye said.
"He's upstairs" Momo said, looking up at Alister from the floor, with Misha on her lap and Jasper sitting next to her. "He said something about eating candy"
"Oh sh-"
"Alister!" Skye exclaimed, "There's a kid in the room."
"-chiz" he finished.
It was at this time, that Valon came flying (literally) down the stairs, screaming. "WOO-HOO!" Misha bolted from Momo's lap, which only had him chase her. "COME BACK KITTY!"
"Cripes" Skye said.
"Why is Vally acting like that?"
"Well Momo, Valon and sugar don't mix. It's like if you eat ice cream followed by spinach"
"Ewe!" she exclaimed, making a face.
"Yep." Skye nodded.
"So Uncle Alister. Why do you dress like sissy?"
Alister smirked and sat down on the floor with her. "I feel comfortable wearing what I'm wearing"
Momo looked up at him, with a look saying she understood the red head. "Skye, can I go swimming?"
"Sure, munchkin" Skye said, leading her up the stairs. She was stopped in her tracks when she saw Valon jumping into the pool, with a struggling Misha is his arms.
"Valon! Put my baby down!"
"I'll get him" Raphael sighed, getting up from his recliner and heading outside.
"Idiot" Alister muttered.
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