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Tara, Kiley and the RBF stood outside of the new restaurant. The glowing neon sign had some oriental writing and under it said Nekkid Dragon Japanese Takeout.
"Nekkid Dragon?" Kiley laughed.
"Dude! What kind of place is this? A nekkid bar?" asked Tara wrinkling her nose.
"One can only hope," said Dan still staring at the neon.
"Well, let's go inside," said Carlos stepping in the door.
The Party People slowly walked into the restaurant. "Hey," said Tavis, "It's a sushi bar! Check it out!"
It indeed was a sushi bar. Lots of cool stuff to eat and everyone sat down and started banging on the bar. "Service dammit!" they shouted. A young Japanese guy, about the Party People's age walked out of the back room. He had a killer surferish style to him. Hawaiian shirt (which Aaron was inticed to steal off his back that very moment) and bleached out raggedy hair.
"Can I help you?" he asked. He seemed sort of cranky.
"Get us some sushi G-Fresh!" said Tara pointing to the raw food in the glass case.
"Name's Ryo. Not G-Fresh." said G-Fresh. I mean Ryo.
"Rio?" asked Scott, "Like the Duran Duran song covered by Goldfinger?"
"No, like R-Y-O. None of this R-I-O shit," he said sort of annoyed.
"Hey, didn't you guys cover Hungry Like the Wolf?" asked Kiley.
"Yeah, it's special cuz it's all my vocals," said Scott rather proudly. No one seemed to give a shit on how to say Ryo's name right.
Ryo served the group and they devoured everything. A few hours later, they all sat around the bar joking and laughing and Ryo seemed to be in a better mood now that he knew the Party People a little better and they didn't seem quite so cockish. "So, what do you guys do for fun around here?" he asked.
"Fun?" repeated Dan, "We're actually pretty boring people. Not that much goes down unless there's a birthday or something. And even then it's nothing that big."
"Well, anywhere to go to find some action?" Ryo asked.
"Where to go?" said Aaron, "What do you think this is? A little town? It's a tour bus! Where the hell are we gonna go?"
"Huh?" said a confused Ryo. "Didn't I pass a stage and a pool coming over here?"
"Well, yeah but every tour bus has that." said Tara. "Calm down G-Fresh. You'll dig it here."
"It's Ryo," said Ryo correcting Tara.
"Yeah I know," she said taking a sip of her drink.
Tavis yawned. "Well, I don't know about you guys but I'm feelin hungry like the wolf myself," he said winking at Tara.
"Hot Nooky!" squealed the blue headed princess and grabbed him by the arm and dragged him out of the sushi bar. "Nighty night, G-Fresh!" she called over her shoulder.
"It's Ryo-aw, forget it, dumb bitch," Ryo mumbled as he wiped down the bar.
Kiley watched Scott take sips of his drink. Scott noticed her staring and said nothing but pulled him out of the sushi bar.
"What the hell is this Hot Nooky ritual?" asked Ryo.
"Aw, they do it all the time. Tara says it's some sort of Zen for her and Tavis' relationship but personally we think she's nuts." said Aaron.
"So what do you guys do?" asked Ryo, "Don't you guys have chicks?"
"Nah, we eat each other's balls" said Dan rather nonchalantly.
Ryo shot him a "what-the-hell" look. Matt yawned. Carlos just nodded.
"Geez, all the sudden I'm like, super tired." Said Carlos in the middle of a yawn.
"Yeah man me too," yawned Aaron back. "I'm heading over to the bunks. Night Rio. Thanks for the sushi!"
"Your welcome and it's Ryo, not Rio." said Ryo.
"Matt, Dan and Carlos bid their farewells and good nights to Rio, I mean Ryo and went to bed.
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Kiley yawned and blinked and pulled the curtain back to see if anyone was awake yet. She knew of course no one would be considering that she woke up at 8am to watch cartoons. She quietly climbed out of the bunk making sure not to wake Scott, and made herself some bagel and went to the TV Room. Even though she was already awake, she was feeling strangely tired. After her cartoons were over it was about noon. Tara would be getting up pretty soon. Kiley went back over to the bunks to see if she was up yet.
"Tara?" she whispered. "Are you awake?"
Tara rolled over away from Tavis and squinted at Kiley. "Yeah, now." she mumbled. "What time is it?"
"12:08," Kiley answered glancing at her trusty watch.
"OK, I'll get up. But I'm so fuckin drained!" said the sleepy Princess, "We didn't even really party that much last night...did we?"
"Not that I remember. Scott and me went to bed right after you and Tavis." Kiley answered.
"See, now that's the weirdest thing," Tara began, lowering her voice so Tavis couldn't hear her if he was awake. "We like, had to cut off Hot Nooky last night right in the middle!"
Kiley gasped.
"Please don't tell anyone! I'm thinking of seeing a doctor about it," said Tara not making eye contact.
"No, see so did me and Scott!" Kiley said a little louder then she pleased. "We were just so tired out!"
"Dude! Me too!" said Tara climbing out of the bunk. "It was like, I was on a million sleeping pills or something!"
"Yeah, and I'm still tired," said Kiley yawning.
"Well, let's go play Nintendo," said Tara brushing her blue hair.
"I'm too tired," said Kiley, "Let's just go back to bed."
"Yeah," Tara agreed and curled herself up next to Tavis again and fell asleep.
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The Party People were all lying on the floor of the Stage Of Constant Partying. The RBF had tried to give Kiley and Tara a little show out of sheer boredom but they were way too tired to even play their instruments!
"I'm hungry," said Aaron with a yawn.
"Me too," Carlos yawned back.
"Maybe we should make something to eat," Dan suggested rubbing his eyes.
"No way dude," said Scott, "I'm so tired."
"Why don't we go to G-Fresh's place? He just serves us food." said Tara trying to sit up.
"You mean the Nekkid Dragon?" asked Kiley giggling a little.
"Hey, yeah!" said Tavis, "Sounds good."
"Let's go then." said Matt still lying on the floor, bass in hand.
"OK." said Tara not moving.
"OK, here we go," said Aaron not moving as well.
They lie on the floor for a few minutes longer. Everyone was too tired to even move! When finally, Dan pulled himself up and began to walk. Tara grabbed his foot and Kiley grabbed the other and Dan dragged them to the Nekkid Dragon as the rest of the RBF had to crawl or walk by themselves.
"Hey G-Fresh!" Tara called as Tavis picked her up and put her in her chair. "Service man!"
Ryo walked out of the back room, as he usually does and leaned on the bar eyeing the Party People up and down. "What's wrong with you guys today?" he asked.
"We're dead tired man," said Scott in the middle of a yawn.
"Can you serve us some not cooked fish like shite?" asked Tara.
"Sure," Ryo shrugged pulling some already made plates out of nowhere.
The Party People slowly ate their food. Picking up the damn chopstick thingys was so tiring. Tara had said "fuck it" and asked for a fork. Chopsticks didn't go with her very well.
After the 2 hour meal they sat around the Nekkid Dragon contemplating weather to leave or just spend the night there.
"I've never been so tired in all my damn life!" Aaron tried to exclaim but he just said it like a normal sentence.
Suddenly Ryo jumped a little bit and nervously looked around the bar. "W-when did you guys start to feel like this?" he asked quietly.
"Um, this morning." Kiley answered. "Why?"
"Shit!" Ryo screamed. He then began frantically looking through all the raw fish, pawing through it madly like a dog. "Shit, shit shit!" he screamed.
"What the hell?" asked Tara looking up at him.
"Oh man! I'm so fucked!" Ryo shouted.
"Why?" asked Scott not bothering to turn his head to look at Ryo.
"I must have gotten the wrong shipment by accident! Dammit!" shouted the pissed off sushi bar owner.
"What the hell are you talking about man?" asked Tavis.
"I was supposed to get 3 boxes of happy fish! Instead they must've sent me 3 boxes of sleepy fish! You know! The kind of fish they make sleeping pills out of?" Ryo said still looking through the fish.
"They make sleeping pills out of fish?" asked Tara.
"Doh!" said Ryo slapping his head to mock Tara.
"Cock," she mumbled.
"A-HA!" shouted Ryo, "Found It!"
"Found what?" asked Matt.
"Here you guys," said Ryo motioning for them to stand by him. Ryo had a bag of white powder and was separating it into lines. "Snort it. One line each." He ordered.
"Are you crazy?" Aaron shouted. "I'm not any fuckin crackhead man!"
"It's not crack! It's powdered hyper fish! It'll restore your energy again! Hurry please before the sleepy fish has you for good!" Ryo argued.
"Well, OK." said Tara unsurly and snorted the hyper fish up her little ski slope nose. "Kinda burns." she said rubbing at the side of her sniffing device.
The rest of the Party People hesitantly snorted the hyper fish and waited. Suddenly, Dan's shoulder twitched. "Woah." he said surprised by the sudden jerk of his body.
"Dude! I'm getting hyper!" Tavis shouted jumping up.
"Yeah man! I'm not tired anymore!" Tara exclaimed bouncing her leg. "You know," she said looking up at Tavis.
"Rock!" Tavis shouted and slung Tara over his back and they went to the side of the sushi bar with the little sit-down tables and proceeded with Hot Nooky.
"Well, glad that's over and done with!" said Scott rolling his head around his shoulders. "Hey Kiley," he began but Kiley was already running around in circles a few feet away screaming.
"CAN'T STOP RUNNING!" she screamed and laughed at the same time.
The Party People were all having a blast when 2 guys in big black coats busted through the door putting a damper on the partying Party People.
"What the hell are these guys?" asked Aaron.
"We're with the board of health and we're here to shut the Nekkid Dragon down." said the right one.
"What? Why?" asked Ryo suddenly not smiling.
"For these reasons," began the one on the left. "One! Unauthorized serving of deadly sleepy fish. Two: Negligence to watch shipping crates. Three: Illegal usage of hyper fish-"
"No ege!" Kiley shouted from Scott's lap. He was trying to suppress her.
"Four: Public display of sexual intercourse-" he went on but was cut off.
"Sexual intercourse?" asked a confused Carlos. "What's that?"
"It's another word for Hot Nooky." Matt explained.
"Oh! OK." said Carlos nervously drumming on the table.
"Five: Indecent exposure," the left guy said pointing to Tara and Tavis, composing themselves trying to walk to the ruckus.
"You have a week, sir," said the right one, "Then we shut your sorry black ass down. Have a nice day."
"Fuck you man! And I'm Japanese not black!" Ryo shouted as they left.
Everyone sat at the bar in silence. No one knew what to say.
"Dude, I'm sorry," said Tara. "I didn't know Hot Nooky would get you in trouble."
"Yeah man, me too." said Tavis not making eye contact.
"No, no. The sleepy fish alone would've got me kicked out of here anyway." said Ryo with a sigh. A tear might have been seen in his eye as he walked over to the karaoke corner and began to sing some sad song. No one could really tell cuz he was bawling as he sang.
"We gotta help him somehow." said Matt.
"Nah. We shouldn't really get involved." said Aaron.
"Oh, come on Aaron, look at him!" said Tara.
"I reely don't think..." Aaron said but trailed off as he watched Ryo cry.
"You know Aaron, there's nothing sadder then a sad Japanese man," said Tara quietly.
"Well, what could we do?" asked Aaron beginning to buckle.
"I know!" said Scott. "Get him reely pissed off!"
"Huh? Why?" asked the Party People.
"Trust me. I saw it in a movie! Just do it!" Scott assured them.
Everyone got up and walked over to Ryo. "Um, G-Fresh," said Tara uncertainly, "This food sucks ass."
Ryo looked up at her, mouth dropped open wide. "HUH?" he asked.
"Yeah man, you suck!" shouted Tavis.
"Shut the fuck up guys!" Ryo shot back, getting irked.
The Party People began to shout obscenities and cut downs toward Ryo and Ryo was getting mad. He was getting reely mad. Suddenly Ryo's clothing tore as his body began to grow and he turned into a giant metal thing like right out of a Godzilla movie! He let out a defining roar and headed outside the bar.
"Woah dude!" said Tara, "He's Mega G-Fresh!"
Mega G-Fresh roared again and they quickly followed him. They ran past the stage to the Pool Of Endless Horseplay when they stopped short. There were candles lit everywhere and those 2 health board guys were in the pool together!
"What the hell is going on here?" said a confused Aaron.
"Hot...um...Nooky?" Scott answered unsurly.
Mega G-Fresh roared and shot two red beams out of his eyes and electrified the Pool Of Endless Horseplay! The two men's bodies spazed out for a few minutes and a slight breeze from an unknown source blew away the ashes. Mega G-Fresh calmed down and shrunk back down to just plain Ryo.
"Woah, man. What a rush. I think it's all that cement glue I've been sniffin or something." said a little dazed Ryo.
"I guess the Nekkid Dragon doesn't have to close down after all." said Tara.
"Yeah!" said everyone else all happy-like.
"We better get back there so Tavis and Tara can fuckin boil that table in the far corner!" said Ryo sorta laughing.
"Yeah man! Wait a minute....HEY!" said Tavis.
More laughter from everybody and they walked back to the Nekkid Dragon. When they walked in, guess who was standing there! You guessed it! Ryo's soul brotha Benley! In a bunny costume?
"Benley!" said Ryo and ran up to him and then stopped. "Dude."
"Dude," said Benley.
"Dude," they both said and then they like, kissed.
The Party People's mouths dropped open and there was an awkward silence until they were finished. The two Asian homies saw that they were being stared at. "What?" asked Ryo, "Best friends don't do that around here?"
Kiley and Tara looked at each other then back at Ryo. "Not us!" they quickly said at the same time.
"Well, Ryo has his sushi bar back. We're fixed from that crack shit Ryo gave us, and Benley is here to chill," said Aaron. "Everything seems to be in order."
"Well, don't you think we should have a party for Benley's arrival?" asked Matt.
"YEAH!" said everyone in unison.
"I'll get the saki!" said Ryo running into the back room.
Kiley reached into her pockets and pulled out a box of Sex Mints.
The Party People partied and it turned out to be a very cool night.
~*~THE END~*~
You kids and your handshakes.