Chapter 15: Stowaways
"Hey mommy?" Michi asked.
"What is it Michi?" Ami asked calmly.
"My bag is moving," Michi answered pointing to her bag on the floor.
"Open it Odd," AMi demanded. Odd bent down and unzipped the bag slowly, when it was open he reached his hand down and moved it around. Then he felt something bit his finger and he yelped in pain, he pulled his hand out and noticed that it had two puncture wounds. Ami reached her hand into the bag and felt to balls of fluff, she used both hands and pulled out two fur balls. "Hey Yumi-chan, look what stowed away in Michi's bag," Ami asked holding up the two albino foxes.
"Kurama and Botan, you are some sneaky little creatures," Yumi said grabbing Kurama, the two albino foxes were found underneath a ledge on one rainy night about three years ago. Yumi was walking down the street and found them, she took them back to her cousin's house and Ami called the small one Botan and Yumi named the big one Kurama.
"Looks like you're going to have some bandits living in your house Ulrich, I hope you don't mind," Ami added petting Botan.
"I don't mind, I have a pet of my own anyways," Ulrich replied.
"Really? What is it?" Michi asked.
"You'll see when we get there," Yumi answered.
"Welcome back travelers, we hope you've had a wonderful vacation. The plane will be landing in exactly 13 minutes in France's airport, so we hope you come again soon," the lady said over the intercom. In about 13 minutes the plane landed in France's airport, everyone got off the plane and waited for their bags. After everyone got their things, they split up and got in one of the two cars. Ami, Michi, and Odd got in the car with Yumi and Ulrich while Jeremie and Aelita drove in theirs.
"We'll see you later Ulrich, we need to go home and unpack," Jeremie replied tiredly.
"Alright, it's movie night anyway so make sure you're there," Ulrich answered.
"Sure what will be watching?" Aelita aske dfrom the passanger side of the car.
"Since Ami is our guest I think she should pick," Yumi added in.
"I've always wanted to watch that movie about that girl that gets picked for a dangerous game," Ami exclaimed.
"You mean The Hunger Games?" Odd asked.
"That's it," Ami said noticing everyone's faces.
"Are you serious?" Ulrich asked.
"Yeah, why do you have that look like it's a bad movie?" Ami asked back.
"Twilight is a bad movie, The Hunger Games is a good movie," Odd answered.
"You have to get off of Twilight, it's an excellent romance/drama/supernatural movie," Yumi replied.
"Yumi is obssesed with Twilight, if it's on tv she'll tell us all to shut up and when I got her the DVD set for cristmas she went nuts," Ulrich chimed in.
"You would've done the same if I bought you that new soccer game you wanted," Yumi replied back crossing her arms.
"You wouldn't have bought it anyway, because you know that I would be spending more time on that game then with you," Ulrich answered back as they drove down the highway. In about two hours everyone arrived at Ulrich's house and it was big, when Ami walked in she could see alot of Japanese decor mixed with a hint of German decor.
"This place is gorgeous, how did you pay for all of this?" Ami asked amazed.
"I run my father's multi million dollar company, Stern Inc.," Ulrich answered.
"What does this company do?" Ami asked again.
"It's a lawsuit company, we help people who want to win court cases," Ulrich answered.
"And I work down at the aquarium as a vet," Yumi added in.
"That is awesome, will me and Michi be able to come down and see you work?" Ami asked.
"Yeah but I'm off right now, I think you should meet our pet right Ulrich?" Yumi asked. Ulrich nodded his head and went to a jar sitting on the table, he reached in a grabbed a handful of weird treats and handed them to Yumi.
"Come her Razor," ULrich yelled through the house, everyone lookd around and Ami noticed that Ulrich had a big brown glove on. Soon Michi and Ami heard a screech come from the kitchen, Ami looked up to see a big bird with big claws land on Ulrich's arm. Botan and Kurama scattered into Michi's bag but the bird just ignored them, for now.
"What the heck is that?" Ami asked curiously.
"This is Razor, he is a red-tailed hawk and they're on the verge of extinction," Yumi answered.
"Why do you have it? Shouldn't be in the wild somewhere?" Ami asked again.
"Yumi saved it when she was walking throught the woods, it was caught in a old hunter's trap but it also had a broken wing," ULrich answered.
"Yep I'm guessing that it got the broken wing from fighting another hawk, then it fell out the sky and landed in a hunter's bear trap. Poor thing would have died or worse if I didn't stop by to help it," Yumi said feeding it the treats.
"Will it attack Botan and Kurama?" Michi asked nervously.
"Maybe, but he is usually in the cage when we have company over," Ulrich said taking the bird to the back of the house, Yumi showed Michi to her room while Ami unpacked her stuff in Odd's room. After everyone unpacked they sat down on the couch and waited for Jeremie and Aelita to arrive.
"I'm going to go make some popcorn while we're waiting," Yumi replied getting up.
"I'll come and help you," Ulrich added getting up and following her into the kitchen. When they got up and left the doorbell rang, Ami went to answer it.
"Can I help you sir?" AMi asked curiously, the man was about as tall as ULrich but he wore a suit and sunglasses.
"I'm looking for a Mr. Ulrich Stern, this is the Stern residence isn't it?" The man asked, Ami nodded her head and yelled for Ulrich. ULrich came to the door and noticed who it was, he went outside and closed the door behind him.
"Who was that Yumi-chan?" AMi asked confused.
"The man who gave Ulrich the company, his father," Yumi answered putting the bowl on the table, Odd tried to grab some but Yumi smacked his hand.
"His father looks quite strict," Ami replied sitting next to Odd.
"Don't let him scare you, he's probably here to discuss about the company," Odd added in. All of a sudden ULrich came in and slammed the door behind him, he had an angry look on his face and it scared Ami and Michi a little.
"Ulrich? Are you alright?" Yumi asked concernly.
"Yeah my father just told me that my mother died while we were over seas,"Ulrich answered calmling down.
"I thought he was here about the company, but i'm sorry for your loss," Odd chimed in.
"To make up for it he gave me 7 tickets to a cruise, they're due next week," ULrich said holding up 7 tickets.
"How did he know that there was 7 of us and not 5?" Ami asked.
"I told him that we have two extra people and he gave me his and my mom's tickets since she died and he didn't want to go alone," Ulrich answered. Then there was a knock at the door, Ulrich opened it reveal Jeremie and Aelita. Jeremie was carrying two cases of sodas while Aelita was carrying a box of movies, Ulrich moved out the way and let them in. They set the things down on the table and the Odd sat on the floor with Michi and Ami, Ulrich turned the tv on and put The Hunger games movie in the Xbox 360. As the movie was playing everyone looked at Ami and Michi and noticed both of them staring at the tv, when the movie was over Ami sent Michi to bed and decided to watch a scary movie.
"Put Underworld in Ulrich," Odd suggested.
"Underworld? What's that about?" Ami asked.
"Which one do you want Odd?" ULrich asked bored, he didn't really care for the movie that much.
"Put the first on in so Ami can understand what happens in the other three," Odd answered. ULrich put the movie in and handed Ulrich the remote, as soon as the movie got to a certain part Odd would pause it and explain the part to Ami. After the movie was over everyone was sleep except for Odd and Ami, until they heard a sudden scream ring through the house.