The Scavenger Hunt
(For people who are bored, do crosswords, watch lame game shows, and play the lottery.)
By: Cat && Lili
"As I sit here on this chair that is too small for me, and stare at the screen I wonder why I haven't killed myself yet."
Disclaimer: I, nor my counterpart Lili, own Kingdom Hearts or anything else mentioned here.
Also: I know Sora && Roxas are like the same.
Chapter One
There was a hollow knock at the door of the house that Sora, Riku, and Roxas were staying at in Twightlight Town. Sora opened the door only to see a very short figure in an odd looking hat and blue robe looking up a him with two yellow eyes. There was a moment of silence in which the two stared at each other, then Vivi shoved a half crumpled piece of paper into Sora's face and ran off in some random direction.
Sora looked at the piece of paper and quirked an eyebrow, and slowly turned around.
Riku stopped watching the Price is Right, and leaned back in his chair. "Sora, who was at the door?" Before turning back to te TV and yelling, "Higher, fool!"
Sora tossed the paper at the back of Riku's head and shrugged. "I donno."
Roxas looked up from his crossword puzzle just in time to glance over Sora's shoulder and see Vivi lean over to pick a flower from the side of a garden and shortly there after get flattened by the tram. Roxas's eyes grew wide as the door shut, but his attention was quickly drawn back to the exciting task of filling the little blocks with letters.
"FLOUR! That's what it was!" Roxas exclaimed, "You bake with flour!" he wrote down his answer. "Funny, how that hit me out of nowhere, huh Sora?" Sora blinked at him and sat at the table, fidgeting. "Oh, your lottery tickets are over there..." Sora pushed the chair over, and stumbled across the couch, and nearly tumbled into the TV.
"AW C'MON! He just got the right price, and you block the TV! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!" Riku threw his half filled can of Mountain Dew on the already stained carpet. He settled back into his chair as Sora eagerly started to scratch the grey off the first card. "I thought we fixed his gambling problem in that group?"
"Well... Ever since that fight with the Gambler nobody, he was never the same. Then he seemed fine until you made him play Bingo for homeless children..." Roxas paused, "It all went downhill from there..."
Riku's eyes traveled to the crumpled piece of paper now on their floor. "Sora..." he kicked over a few empty pizza boxes to get over to it, almost tripping on the now unidentifiable pile of garbage. "Did you throw this paper on the floor?" Sora nodded, still scratching frantically at the third ticket. "Just what we need! More crap on the floor!" he suddenly jumped to the side tripping over the coffee table, (knocking more trash on the floor), "WHAT JUST RAN OVER MY FOOT!"
Roxas slowly withdrew his legs up from the floor and sat cross legged on the chair, not bothering to react in any other way to Riku's comment. "What's it say, Riku?"
Riku un-crumpled the piece of paper and stared at it blankly. Roxas tilted his head to one side. "It says..." Riku started to turn the paper in a circular motion, "'Are you bored? Trapped in a trash hole? Stuck doing crossword puzzles, playing the lottery, or watching some lame game show? Come down to the Sandlot tomorrow at one sharp to relieve the boring everyday routine.'" He stopped spinning the paper.
Sora looked over his shoulder, now ripping up his losing lottery tickets. "Why did you turn the paper while you read it?"
"It's written in a circle..." Riku flipped it around so the other two could see it. "Are we going?"
"Let's ask the guy watching the 'lame game shows'," Roxas suggested. Riku glared at him. "I'll take that as a yes." Riku shrugged.
The next day the three started down the road towards the Sandlot. Sora had to stand between Roxas and Riku to stop the constant flow of verbal insults, and now they weren't talking.
"Excuse me, Sora, could you ask Roxas what we should do once there?" Riku asked.
Sora sighed and turned to Roxas, "Riku wants to know what we should do once we get there."
Roxas shrugged, "Maybe there was something about it on a commercial during the Price is Right last night," he suggested. Riku glowered at him, both of his hands balled into fists. Sora rolled his eyes at the two. Thankfully they were almost there.
Voices could already be heard as they approached the 'Lot. Sora slowed his pace, some of them sounded very familiar... He shook his head and jogged to catch up with Riku and Roxas who were already a few paces ahead of him. He resumed his role as human barrier just in time for all three of them to stop in a stunned silence.
Cat: Thus we leave you hanging!
Hailey: We did...? Oh yes, we did!
Cat: Now review and we'll get to work on chapter two!