Tova was very quiet, watching everyone before her and feeling incredibly amused. After Aya's mutilation of the dessert table, she walked over and took a look. Suddenly, Tova wasn't so quiet anymore.
"AUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Psychemon looked up from his pile of papayas. "All right, Tova?"
"THERE'S ORANGE JELLO HERE! ORANGE JELLO!!!" She looked neither happy nor sad, but merely shocked.
"Umm...is that bad?"
"NO! I loooove orange Jello!" Tova cried. She shoveled some onto a plate and added a slice of cherry cheesecake for good measure. "Yum...."
Psychemon shrugged and went back to his papayas.
Kae motioned to another door at the end of the room.
"I think that's a bathroom." She checked. "Yep! With a bath, shower, toilet, and everything!" It was a very big bathroom.
Takashi looked for the Garurumon. "Hey. Where's all the baths?" He asked, curious really.
"Indoor bathrooms!" Seto exclaimed, rushing in to the boys' bathroom before anyone could comment.
Aya cheered, and quickly ran in, "This might take a while!"
She closed the door, and was practically in tears.
"A bathroom... AN ACTUAL BATHROOM!!! SOMETHING CIVILIZED IN THIS WEIRD WORLD!!"
"Finally, I can take a bath!" Eros exclaimed. He dropped his bag on his bed and ran towards the room labled "spa". Ten minutes later, he was sitting in a large heated pool-like area wrapped up in white towels. Lucemon fluttered in.
"Ooh! its a shpa!" he said.
"Shpa? No no, it is called a spa!" Eros replied.
"No, shpa!"
"Spa!"
"Shpa!"
"This isn't Sweden! People say spa!"
"What is Shweden?"
"Oh Madonna......"
Seto didn't look at the bottle labels as he grabbed one and shampooed his hair. "Hey this stuff won't come out. Why is my hair green?"
Takashi sweatdropped as he realized where the place was. He excused himself from the Garurumon, who seemingly hadn't replied and headed towards the bathroom. He sunk into the water and sighed happily. "Great. Some cleanliness. . ." he muttered.
Eros sank down to the bottom of the spa and emerged a second later, whipping his hair back.
"Eww..my hair was dirty! hey, is that...HERBAL ESSENCES!?" he exclaimed. He grabbed the bottle and poured some in his hair.
"Yes! Yes! A total organic experience! I've got the urge for herbal essences!"
Hannah and Fukimon ran into the bedroom--after stocking up on dessert, that is.
"Ahhh, total bliss..." Hannah murmured, sinking into a bath.
"BOMBS AWAY!!!!!!" Hannah looked up to see Fukimon cannonball diving into her bath. Water splashed everywhere.
"Wait a second..." Tova murmured. "There are bathrooms here?"
"Of course, Tova," Psychemon replied, sounding rather patronizing.
"Yay! First orange Jello and now bathrooms! This night is getting better and better!" Tova punched the air with her fist and danced a short happy-dance in a circle.
She found a very large "spa" room. Unsure of what exactly a "spa" was (poor thing), Tova entered and sat on the floor. Her braids definitely needed undoing, since her hair was so dusty! Tova shook out her hair and put the hair bands in her pocket.
Juuso just continued eating ignoring the indoor toilet.
"There is even mämmi in here!" shouted Juuso and stuffed some in his mouth.
Then finally he ran into the bathroom and putted some shampoo in his hair and started washing it. His hair were very dirty. After a while he stopped and went back to the buffet table...
"HEY!!! I WANT A BATH TOOOOOOOOO~!!!"
Tamagomon walked in, sweatdropping.
"AHHH!!!! MALE DIGI-DUDE! OUT OUT OUT! GALS *ONLY*!"
Tamagomon glared, "Fffffffffine. I'll be with Ishimon and the others then!"
He crawled away to the boys side, hoping he wouldn't get rejected there as well.
"I'M NEXT! CALLED IT!! YEEEEEAAAHHH!!!" Then she saw the SPA.
"AHHHHHH!!! SPA!!!!!!!!!!!!"
She practically jumped in the room, "I LOVE THIS!!"
"Awww man! How do you get this green stuff out?" screamed Seto.
"I think you dyed it," said auroramon, "but I can scratch of all your hair."
Seto ignored him and ran into the shower, "Ahhhh!!!! That's hot!!!"
Eros relaxed in the spa and he rested peacefully. He got out and decided to go into the sauna!
Aya came out of the SPA, ready and relaxed. She sat down in a bed, "I call this one!"
She laid down, "Good night!"
"Maybe this green hair will change back to black overnight, and those do look like some high quality beds," said Seto, "I'm turning in."
Auroramon had been sleeping most of the day when not fighting, "I want to explore some more." He ran off and was not seen again that night.
Fukimon jumped out of the bath and ran towards the bedroom.
"Does she ever tire out?" Hannah wondered.
Hannah got out of the bath and toweled herself dry, then walked through to the bedroom, where she found Fukimon bouncing on a bed.
"I guess this is our bed." Hannah commented, putting on her jacket and a pair of underpants, figuring that they would do for pjamas.
"Why do you humans allways put things on over your body?" Fukimon asked, "It's way more fun letting your naturallness run free and wild and naked!"
Hannah sweatdropped, "Just go to sleep, Fuki-chan."
And they did. Well, Hannah did. Fukimon was way too hyper to sleep, so she ran off. And ran into Auroramon.
"Hiya Auroramon big-time digi pal!" she said, incredibly hyper.
Eros walked out with a bath robe and went to the saunas. Lucemon followed him.
"Its really hot Eros!" Lucemon said.
"Its supposed to be!"
"This charcoal thingy! its hot!" Lucemon took a bucket of water and drenched the heat source.
"Idiot!"
Aya stood there, snoring away in her bed. Meanwhile, Tamagomon, still kinda sick, roamed around the men's dorm, "...Ack.... Stupid Aya..."
Tova finally left the spa with Psychemon trailing on her heels. As she walked, she rebraided her plaits. Coming upon the room with all the beds, she stopped. "Oh, this is cool! Everyone's together!"
"Yeah...cool," Psychemon muttered, looking rather crabby. "Pick a bed and let's go to sleep already, Tova."
She finished tying each of her braids and chose a bed. "This is so great. It'll be the first good sleep I've gotten since we came here." Tova fell asleep rather quickly, but soon after she drifted off, she began twisting and kicking, crying in her sleep.
Aya sweezed her eyes shut as she heard Tova's noises.
She opened her eyes slowly, and looked at Tova.
"Yo... Tova..." She started to shake her, "You okay?"
**Dream sequencey bit**
"Tovy? Tovy? Where are you?"
"Daddy? Where'd Tova go?"
"I don't know, Ezra. Tova?"
Tova could hear him, but look! They were having cake in there...
Tova sat straight up in bed, shoving Aya's arm away. Psychemon mumbled something and rolled over, falling off the bed but miraculously staying asleep. Eventually, Tova's eyes grew focused and she could breathe normally, and she sighed, sneaking a quick look at Aya, hoping she wasn't staring or anything embarrassing like that.
"Not again," she muttered, almost inaudibly.
"Ehm, you okay, Tova?" she asked worriedly, "You looked a little... shooken up."
"Ah--I'm fine," Tova said quickly. She lay back down again and closed her eyes. "Perfectly fine."
Takashi walked into the room, if he had noticed any interactions between the two females, he OBVIOUSLY didn't act it. Lying in the bed, he tried to fall asleep but failed to because of the talking. Unfortunately, this just brought out his cranky side, which really didn't help the situtation much. "Oh PLEASE already!" He complained, sitting up, making sure his hands wouldn't awaken the digimon who had immediately fallen asleep. Turning to Aya, "If something was WRONG with her, she SURELY wouldn't tell you. So just don't bother. 'kay?" He said agrivated, hoping that would just finish their conversation.
'Wow,'' thought Seto, 'People are dreaming already and I haven't even fallen asleep. I can't stop thinking of how comfortable I am...'
"Arg! Can't sleep!" Rumbled Eros in his bed. He got up, slipping into a bathrobe to go see what was all the commotion.
"Takashi? OUT of the girls room, please." said Fukimon, opening the window from the outside and climbing in. She jumped down onto Aya's bed (and Aya's stomech, probably), bounced off again, and landed on Hannah's bed.
"Hallo Hannah." she said, a little disorientated from jumping so much
Aya glared at Takashi, "First you enter the girl's room, THEN you act just plain rude?! What's your problem?!" She just snubbed, and then made a little choking noise as Fukimon jumped on her.
"ACK!"
Takashi groaned as he realized his mistake. "Great. I'm so out of it that I enter the girl's room." Standing up, he started to walk out of the bedroom. Of course then he realized that he had a problem of getting Ishimon out. Sighing, he lifted up the sleeping digimon and walked out of the room.
Aya just stood there, and laughed.
"Yo, take care of Tama-mon!" she shouted as he walked out of the room, "Make sure he don't puke all over the place!"
Takashi didn't even have the energy to retort a witty reply back. He just walked out staying quiet and not paying attention to the irritating female that was laughing at him.
Eros approached the door of the girls room and saw Takashi walk out.
"Oh my God! What were you doing? The girls will kill you!"
Takashi looked at him and just laughed. "Right. Kill me. I believe that." He said smoothly and just walked into the boy's room, smirking at the thought.
Aya just grinned. "What an idiot..." She then fell back, trying to hold back her giddyness.
"Ack... tasted it again..."
Tova laughed quietly. If Takashi was in the room, she couldn't care less. With a grin, she turned over and tried to go to sleep, putting thoughts of the past behind.
Eros was confused and went back to bed.
Seto was half asleep and half aware of the large wolf pacing up and down the hall. 'I guess there should be a sense of security there...' he thought.
Takashi trudged into the boy's room carrying his rather heavy digimon. "Geez Ishimon. . .you're going to have to lose a little weight. . ." He muttered.
Putting down his digimon on the nearest bed, he stepped into the bed. As soon as his head hit the pillow, he was fast asleep.
Juuso passed out at the buffet table a few minutes ago. He changed his position almost every minute. The floor was very uncomfortable, but Juuso was too sleepy to go to a bed.
Seto finally fell asleep and started dreaming about big soft pillows.
When Hannah woke up that morning, she was surprised to find a large weight on her stomach. Pushing Fukimon off the bed and onto the floor, she got dressed. It was still very early.
"Hannnah! I was kinda sleeping!" Fukimon said indignantly, from the floor.
Eros awoke that morning with a smile.
"What a nice day!"
Juuso stood up and yawned. He didn't sleep well. He woke Wormmon and then just stood there.
"Good morning Vietnam!" shouted Juuso sarcastically.
Tova yawned and sat up, looking around. The sunlight came in softly through the window and rested in a patch on her bed.
She stood up, treading on poor Psychemon, who was still sleeping.
"AUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!" they yelled at the same time: Psychemon for waking up under Tova's feet and Tova for being bitten, very hard, on the back of her ankle. If anyone in their room wasn't awake before, they would be now.
Eros trotted out in a bathrobe to the bathroom. Lucemon flew sleepily behind.
Seto woke up with a pair of large eyes staring at him. He quickly sat up, startled, knocking Auroramon over.
"Mornin' Seto!" shouted the digimon, landing on his feet (of course).
"Wow!" exclaimed Seto, "I haven't slept that well in...I've never slept that well."
"Maybe that's why your hair turned back to its original color."
Seto leaped out of the bed and landed on his stomach. He looked at the full length mirror next to his bed and sure enough, the green was gone. "Woo-hoo!"
Eros walked out of the baths refreshed, dressed and hungry. He trotted to the breakfast buffet.
Aya slowly got out of bed, and wordlessly trotted over to the bathroom. She refused to speak until she was CLEAN. PERFECTLY clean. She did her usual 3-hour bathroom routine. Skin, hair, hands, nails, eyes, eyebrows, eyelashes, even her feet, even though they were covered by her high-heel shoes. Her party dress had dried, but had become incredibly wrinkled. She wouldn't wear that if her life depended on it. Jeans would have to do. Of course, she added the Axe spray Eros had given her. When she was ready, she went to the breakfast table, and realized only half an hour had passed. The three hour routine had shrunk to 30 minutes! She must've looked horrible!
"Oh, I'm so sorry, guys," she told them as she sat down, "I look horrible, don't I?! My 3-hour make-up routine, shortened to THIRTY DRASTIC MINUTES!" Tamagomon sat on the chair next to her, with his weird wormy expression on his face, "You look exactly like always."
Aya blinked, "Impossible!"
"..."
"...Oh well." She got up from her own seat and looked around for Takashi.
"Aw, he must not be here yet," she said with a sigh.
"Aya! Wait!" Eros cried. He ran over to Aya with a spray can in his hand. He sprayed it all over her hair."Complete volume and electric shine! Alberto European formula," he said holding the bottle in a displaying format.
"Eros.." Lucemon said taking the bottle. He sprayed it in Eros's shoes.
"Why you little! Hey! Look at my shoes! Shiny!"
Aya laughed, "Hey! Thanks, Eros. Glad you're supporting me in this. Too bad Takashi doesn't seem to notice me at all! No matter HOW MUCH make-up I put on."
She grunted, 'All he can care about is my disease.'
Takashi woke up to discover that his digimon had dropped from his spot beside him and had landed on the floor. Rubbing his eyes and lazily scooting over, he looked at his digimon and tapped him awake.
Ishimon whimpered as he started to wake up. The first face he saw was Takashi's. "Takashi?"
The male nodded slowly and yawned again. "Let's go. I think it's morning. . ." He stated. Standing up, he headed towards the bathroom first hoping that maybe a shower would wake him up.
30 minutes later, Takashi had already finished his shower, brushing his teeth, combing his hair (somewhat anyway), and changing his clothes. Ishimon followed behind him, still slightly sleepy. "We're going to eat, right?"
The male nodded and yawned again. "We need more food. ." Automatically he entered the room, rushing first towards the food and grabbing all the 'breakfast' foods which would mostly include egg, bacon, pancakes, and anything else that would look good. Grinning he just made his way to a table and started eating. All the while, Ishimon walked around the room, trying to see who was interesting. He walked up to Aya and Eros and smiled. "Good morning you two." He greeted. "Isn't it a lovely morn. . ." He said before cutting off with a yawn. "Ing?" He continued.
Aya stared at Takashi, astounded, "Well... ehm... good morning to you too!" She laughed, "So... I guess that bad attitude was because you didn't have such a good bed to sleep in, eh?"
Takashi glared at Aya at half bite into a bacon strip. He swallowed it and then commented. "I'm NOT in a bad mood. Just tired. There's a difference."
Ishimon sweatdropped. How was it that when he was TRYING to be nice. . .Another fight broke out between Aya and Takashi?
Aya just sweatdropped, "I was just saying..." She sighed, "Oh well. Whatever then."
She put her head between her hands and stared into space. Meanwhile, she put some eggs and bacon in her mouth.
Takashi rolled his eyes and went back to the food. 'She's NOT going to make me feel guilty. She's NOT going to make me feel guilty. She's NOT GOING TO MAKE ME FEEL GUILTY!!!' He shouted to himself. Shaking his head, he just decided to ignore himself AND everyone around him and went back to eating.
Aya savoured the taste of bacon in her mouth. Good food. Usually she never ate breakfast. As Harada-san always said, "Breakfast makes you fat. Fat makes you ugly. Ugly makes you unpopular. Plus, eggs give you pimples." She laughed as she thought back to that. Harada-san was such a freak. She never liked her. But she needed to get on her good side. Harada-san was so amazingly thin.
"I can't believe I ever listened to that freak!" she said out loud, "I must've been crazy!" She gobbled her eggs, "Mmmmmmhmmmm... bacon."
Kae, somehow, was still asleep. Isamon let her sleep; he didn't want her getting sick again. Instead, he quietly trotted out of the room on his own.
"Gooooooood morning everyone!" He said brightly, chipper as always.
Seto grabbed an omelet and pulled a bottle of hotsauce out of nowhere to top it off. "Gotta be spicy!"
Eros and Lucemon stood looking at the breakfast foods. All of a sudden, they both begun whining.
"Noo! Everything has meat and eggs in it! Why me!" Eros cried out.
"If you were smart, you would see there is a an apple left in the bowl" Lucemon commented. Both looked at eachother and they ran towards the apple. Both were tugging on it.
"Mine!"
"No, mine!"
Tova, after spending quite a long time in the shower, finally came into the dining room with Psychemon trailing behind her. He held one of her hairbands in his mouth and clearly wasn't happy about it.
"Don't you want this yet?" he asked irritably, being careful not to drop the hairband.
"In a moment...maybe," Tova said absently. "I think I'll wear one braid today!" She smiled happily.
Psychemon sighed. "So do you want this back or should I swallow it?"
"Oh, don't be so crabby." She took it from him and put it around her wrist. "Go eat a mango."
"M-ma-mango?" asked Psychemon, looking a bit more cheerful. "Where? WHERE?"
Tova pointed to a bowl. "Over there."
Making her way to a nice big pile of bagels and chocolate crullers, Tova held back a laugh. Psychemon, the silly thing, had dove straight for the mangos and disappeared. "You'll make yourself sick if you eat nothing but mangos!" she called.
Tova grabbed a cruller, a bagel, and some cream cheese on a plate and moved to sit near Aya. She broke off a piece of bagel, dipped it in the cream cheese, and chewed it thoughtfully. "So, how'd you sleep, Aya?"
"Mangos you say?" Eros said in delight. Just as Psychemon was going to eat one, Eros snatched five in his hands.
"Keep the apple Lucemon! I'm eating mangos!!"
Hannah came rushing into the breakfast hall, Fukimon behind her.
"Sorry I'm late," she said, heading over to the breakfast buffet, "Fukimon was playing with the shower, and she absolutly soaked the bathroom, and me."
She grabbed a plate and put a huge helping of pancakes on her plate, and went over to sit by Tova and Aya.
"Morning." smiled Fukimon, her hand snaking over to steal one of Hannah's pancakes.
Hannah slapped Fukimon's hand away, annoyed.
After Eros finished his mangos, he stared out at the pink castle in the distance.
"So, are we heading to the Dream land? It is close to Infinity Mountain, we can stop there, is that right?"
"Kae's still asleep." Isamon informed Eros. "I'm sure that's where we're going, but let's wait for her to wake up. I don't want her getting sick again, so she needs all the sleep she can get right now."
Aya looked at Tova and smiled, "I'm alright, thanks. You were able to go back to sleep also, right?" She got up, and grabbed a mango for herself, "Mmmhm! I haven't eaten a mango since I lived in India all those years ago!"
"Yeah, I slept all right after..." Tova busied herself with her bagel. "I've never had a mango before. Are they good?"
Takashi didn't want to be nosy so he ignored the talking females near him. Finishing up his "breakfast" foods, he reached over the table for a mango himself. "It's been a while since I ate one." He murmured before eating it.
Ishimon grabbed himself an apple and bit into it. "Food. .Really good here." He said after taking a couple of bites.
Aya nodded, "It's delicious! Very sweet, satisfying taste!" She smiled, "Try one!"
Takashi nodded as he finished it up. "Delicious." He murmured. Sighing, he leaned back on his chair. "Boy is this such a weird world. We're meant to save it. . Why US? Geez. . We're only . . . er. . Kids. ." He hesitated at the "kids" sentence since well. . . Some of them were teenagers.
Aya looked at Takashi, "Yeah... it is..." She looked at the Digimon, "There must be something we must've done to be able to come here. I mean, you said yourself, you trained to stay with us ever since you were born."
Tamagomon shrugged, "We just did our duty."
Takashi nodded. "Ahh. . But I doubt we'll get an exact answer until. . . Until the end of this mission." Frowning, he turned to Ishimon. "What do you know?"
Ishimon shrugged. "I really don't know."
