Chapter 1
A 16 year old girl with dark silver hair stood in the middle of the crowed airport holding onto her bag for dear life. Another person pushed her over as a yelp escaped her lips. She rubbed her head and tried to find the unlucky bastard that knocked her over. "Why I gotta good mind to..." she stopped suddenly as she noticed that he bag had been kicked several feet. With an angry growl, she weaved her way through the mass of people, trying to reach her bag. She let out a louder growl as someone kicked it farther. She smiled as she stuck out her leg, making the guy fall over, but it created a domino effect that reached twenty feet out. Person after person fell over each other, shrieks and screams emitting from them. Everyone in the lobby stopped and looked at the mound of bodies and one girl standing in the midst of it.
"Heh...uhh...I found my bag, so...IthinkI'llbegoingnowsobye!" She blurted out as she grabbed her bag and hauled ass before security got there. She reached the ticket booth and reached into her bag, pulling out a plane ticket.
The woman behind the desk smiled a smile that seemed a little too happy. "Name please?"
The young girl looked at her suspiciously, wondering if there were crack in that mocha java of hers. "Rain McCreedy."
The ticket agent took Rain's ticket and did something to it, then handed it back. Rain grabbed her bag and walked to the plane. She hauled her heavy duffel bag over her shoulder. "Carry on bag, my ass." Rain boarded the plane and took her seat. She looked around to see many Asians aboard her plane. 'Hmm...maybe there's some Asian seminar in New York or something,' she mused. Rain became giddy as she remembered that she was meeting her online best friend in a few twelve hours. 'Few...that's a laugh.' Louisiana to New York was NOT going to be fun.
The pilot came on the intercom, but he either the intercom was screwed, or he was disoriented. She was hoping it wasn't the later one. He seemed to talk in a different language. Rain tensed quickly as she recognized the language. 'Could it be? I don't friggin THINK SO!!!! SEMINAR MY ASS!!' She looked at her bag and noticed the name "Chi Wong" written on it. Rain hurriedly tried to unbuckle her seat belt, but it did not want to cooperate. "Get offa me you sonofabitch!! Leggo!!!" A few passengers gave her some strange looks, but she ignored then and continued her fight with the seat belt. She plane's engine revved up and beads of sweat trickled on her forehead. The plane began to move ever so slowly, then began to pick up speed. Rain looked out the window to see the ground going away from her.
"NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" she screamed, face up against the glass. "I DON'T WANNA GO TO JAPAN!!!"
Suddenly she was startled out of her internal nightmare by an Asian man. The impact was enough to send hers and the man's baggage everywhere. After a few minutes of rushing to gather her things and hissing nasty words at the group of eyes that watched her, she stopped. "Oh.....shit! My passport!" she shrieked in despair.
"Crap crap CRAP!!!!!!" Then she noticed the white slip near her ankle. Quickly, she snatched it up and ran to the desk.
The lady at the counter took the ticket and typed something in. "Hi! May I please ask what your name is??!!"
This perky woman was REALLY scaring her. "Amariie Cordelia Maethros." "OK! Go to the aisle on your left please. NEXT!" Someone needed to lay off that Starbucks special blend...
Amariie ran over through the aisle and onto the plane. It was crowded! "Luckily, I'm in first class," she said to herself with her nose in the air. She sat down in a red luxury seat as the plane started to take off. Suddenly the stewardess appeared.
Feeling impatient, she decided to strike up a conversation. "Excuse me! What time do you think we will arrive in New York?" She asked in her best snobbish voice.
The lady laughed. "Funny! New York! hehehe! Well we will be arriving in Toyama at probably.......oh, I'm not sure. It will be maybe...ten-fifteen hours?"
"Toyama?! What the hell is a toyama?!"
"Toyama, Japan." The stewardess disappeared through the curtains and she glanced around at her surrounding. There was Asians as far as the eye could see.
"Oh NO! She was RIGHT! EEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
When the plane touched down, she got out of her seat and yanked her bag down, causing several other passengers' bags to come along. Rain took her bag and ignored the people cursing in Japanese at her. Her eyes were bloodshot and she walked very slowly. She could have been easily accused of using drugs. With her bag over her right shoulder, Rain made her way to customs. She tried to read some kanji on the walls, but it just wasn't working out. She shrugged and walked up to a random desk using "eeny meenie." A man with a weird looking suit looked up at her and smiled, but quickly faded as she growled in return. Fearing his life right then, he put on a fake smile.
"Oohayo! Ogenki dess ka?"
Rain raised an eyebrow. "Uh...No speaka Japanesea!
"Nani?"
Rain spoke more loudly and slowly. "NO...SPEAKA...JAPANESEA!"
"Nani?"
"Don't you 'nani' me! Can. I. Speak. To. Someone. Who. Speaks. English?"
The clerk was not enjoying her company. "At-chi e it-te!"
Rain became mad. "Look Mr. Bowl of Rice, I need someone who speaks English!"
The clerk said a line of non-polite Japanese words to her. "You see, this is why our countries didn't get along for so long."
The clerk said some more in Japanese and pointed her to a line with no Asian people. Rain grabbed her bag and muttered some bad things about Japanese people not being able to speak right. She pulled out a small picture of her online best friend from her pocket. "Well, so much for meeting ya," she said with a sigh and shoved it back into her pocket. After she was done arguing with ANOTHER Japanese in that line, she made her way into the middle of the lobby. Not putting her bag down (big mistake last time) she looked around. "Crap. Now where am I gonna go?" With a low growl, she started to walk around the airport to find a telephone to call a cab or something.
Amariie opened her eyes and shifted in the comfy plush seat. "I wonder how long I've been sleeping.." She took out her mirror and examined her face. "Hmmmmm no bags...must have been a while..."
Suddenly a Japanese voice came on over the P.A. system. She somehow got the feeling that the plane was going to land, so she adjusted the strap of her purse (make-up filled, of course) and grabbed her 2 suitcases: one with clothes and the other, much heavier, filled with make-up and girly accessories. With an uncomfortably bump the plane landed and stopped. Amariie wormed her way to the door and squeezed out.
She looked around the lobby. "Ugh! I still can't believe I'm stuck in Japan! Rain's gonna kill me!" she whimpered as she sank to the ground and started to cry.
Suddenly she got a tap on the shoulder. Amariie looked up. A Japanese woman was talking to her in some uncomprehendable language called Japanese.
"Sorry, I don't know what your saying!" Amariie squeaked through sobs. "I said-You are in the way!" the lady snapped.
Amariie stopped crying and narrowed her eyes and stood up.
The woman shifted impatiently. "Hello! Are you going to move? Tsk tsk.. you Americans, all alike.." the woman growled.
Amariie turned a deep scarlet, "Listen you Sailor Moon watching piece of trash, I am not an American. I am CANADIAN! And I will NOT move so piss off!"
The woman's eyes widened and she cowered and backed off.
She looked around and saw practically everyone staring at her, so she did the only sensible teenage thing to do....go cry in the bathroom.
Rain wandered down the long lobby, a pissed off look on her face. She saw a payphone to her right and ran to it. 'I should call the folks...they'll go berserk. Oh well, better sooner than later.' Rain took the phone and put some change in. Soon, a soft ringing came from the other end. A click was heard and a masculine voice came on.
"Hello?"
"Dad?"
"Rain, is that you? Where the hell are you?! You said you'd be in New York by 3! It's nearly 11!"
"Uh...there was a mishap on the plane..."
"What?! Are you ok?!"
"Yeah I'm fine. I'm...in Japan."
"WHAT??!?!?!"
"I'm in Japan. I accidentally took the wrong plane."
"HOW THE HELL DO YOU TAKE THE WRONG PLANE?!??!"
Rain's father went onto a rage and she had to take her ear away from the phone so she wouldn't go deaf. Rain winced as he carried onto more yelling. 'I guess later was better than sooner. Oh well.' Rain reached into her pocket and found nothing. 'OH NO!' She fumbled through all the pockets and couldn't find her wallet anywhere. Her silver/green eyes dashed everywhere and landed on a young man walking quickly away from her.
"STOP!"
The young man took off in a dash as Rain dropped the phone, her father's yelling STILL going on. Rain forgot about her bag, well it wasn't even hers to begin with, and ran after the man yelling vile curses at him. She shoved and pushed her way past several people, making them fall over. The man with her wallet ran down an escalator, but Rain jumped onto the middle section and slid down fifty feet, shrieking all the way. When she got to the bottom, the young man had already gotten off the escalator and was running again. Rain spotted the red jacket he was wearing and took of towards it. The guy dashed into a women's bathroom with Rain close on his tail. She nearly took the door off its hinges since she was so mad. She walked quietly into the bathroom and noticed that no one was there. Her gaze went to the stalls and she smiled as she looked under each one for a pair of feet. She spotted a small pair and quietly stood in front of it.
"Give up now or so help me God I will kick your ass royally."
All she heard was a whimper and she tore open the door to find a yellow headed girl crying on the toilet seat.
Rain was ready to bitch this girl out when she did a double take. She whipped out the picture of her online friend and compared. "Wait! You. You're....Amariie. The girl from Toronto!"
Amariie wiped the tears from her eyes and stared at this non-Japanese girl with dark silver hair. "R...Rain???"
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! AMARIIE!!!!!!!!!"
"EEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKK RAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The girls started jumping up and down screaming like lunatics. After about 20 minutes they stopped.
Rain reached talking mode first. "But. How did you end up in Japan?"
"How did YOU end up in Japan?" Amariie countered.
"Ummmmmmm we'll skip this. Its a long story.."
"Ditto."
The girls suddenly both remembered something.
"MY BAGGAGE!!"
"MY WALLET!"
They dashed out of the bathroom and into the desolated lobby. Amariie's baggage was NOWHERE in sight. Rain looked around the lobby to see no guy with a red jacket.
"We're screwed," Rain stated brilliantly.
Amariie clutched on to the strap of her purse. "You are all I have left...
My hairdryer my pretty yellow boots.... my shiny silver JACKET, ALL GONE!!!!!!" she burst into
tears.
Rain sneered. "Shut up Mimi."
Amariie turned and smacked her upside the head. "Bite me!"
The girls got in a bitch fight that had no ending in the near future.
Suddenly, the electricity went out. A shadow spread over the city....
