Chapter I

For about two weeks, not one day had gone by where the rain did not appear. Three families were all together, camping out at Keystone Park, and the rain would not go. Brianna was sitting under a shade, watching the rain pass by and did not dare read her book for she was afraid of getting it wet again. Brittany, Cari, and Logan were laying on air mats in one of the tents, listening to the rain hammer against the roof. The boys; William, Andre, and Cody, sat in the RV, playing a Fast and Furious video game. The parents were either in the RV with the boys, or trapped in their cars because while they were grabbing something, the rain started to pour down.

Brianna sighed and slumped in her garden chair. Every once in a while, the rain would gather up above her and splash down next to her, almost getting to her book. When was this rain ever going to stop? She heard rustling over near the bushes beside her and saw her sister Brittany and one of her cousins, Cari, get under the same roof as her.

"You're still here?" Cari said.

"Amazingly enough, I don't want to get wet," Brianna replied. She stared back out to the rain. "You guys want to play something?"

"Like what?"

"We'll play the Book of Genesis. We'll start by building an ark." Brittany and Cari started to laugh. "The good news, we'll survive. The bad news, we'll be stuck in a smelly boat for forty days and nights."

Being the little children they were, Brittany and Cari kept laughing. A few minutes after they were done, the rain had stopped.

"Hey! It's over!" said Brittany. "We can go to the lake now!"

"Oh yeah?" Brianna interrupted. She pointed left into the sky. "Check out that cloud over there." Sure enough, there was another gray cloud. "That little baby's coming over here."

"Crap!" Brittany snarled. She had been waiting all school year to go swimming, and now she did not get the chance. She stomped her feet, walking away from the shade, and splashed them in some puddles along the way. Cari followed her, also pouting. Brianna sat there and finally opened her book. She was only able to read three words when her male cousins came out.

"About time!" Cody screamed. William ran to the lunch table, expecting to find a hot dog that was saved by the rain, and Andre splashed around in some puddles.

"Guys, seriously!" Brianna said. "Can't I have thirty minutes in peace?"

"Be quiet, Brianna!" her mom said, getting out from her car. "We're camping, here. Have some fun."

"I'm trying to catch up on this! Sarah said that when I finish it, she'll come to my birthday in a couple of months. And you know I want some more people than I had last year. Remember how many came? One! All because somebody's got something to do on July 15th! I guess Mary's my true friend if she's the one that showed up!"

"Stop complaining, kid," her Aunt Jami said, stepping out with some dry food. "We've all had bad days. Just get over here and eat something."

Brianna groaned quietly and closed her book, put it in the seat, and walked over to the smell of fried fish, hamburgers, and salads for the adults who felt they were too fat.

"When can we go hiking?" Logan asked, running up to the table and claiming a seat.

"We just hiked three miles, following those crazy people in the Narnian and Middle Earth and World of Warcraft and Star Wars clothes!" Brianna's mom, Pam shouted.

"But we got to see 'em fight! That was so cool!" Cody said, imitating a sword in his hand.

"It was even cooler that I got to fight!" William joined in.

"But I had to pay five bucks for you to borrow that piece of Styrofoam and duct tape for it," Jami complained. "They should've told me that before you ran out there with the Pie-ans or whatever."

"It's Pyrians, Mom," Cody corrected her. Jami shot a hand up and continued setting the table.

"You're lucky that you got to fight," Brianna said. "If I knew that there was a battle, I would've made some Wolverine claws!" She imitated Wolverine, slashing at victims. "That would've been awesome!"

"I would've been like the Thing!" Andre said. He roared out as loud as he could, right before Jami told him to shut up.

"What would be even better was that if we were all real superheroes," Cari said.

"Yeah!" Brittany agreed. "I would have fire powers! Whoosh!"

"I'd be flying!" Andre said.

"I would want to be like Aquaman and swim and talk to the sea animals!" William shouted.

"I wanna be a monkey!" Logan said her usual four-year old self.

"I want to be a panther!" Cari said.

"I'll be the wolf!" Cody claimed, raising a hand up. "What about you, Brianna?"

"No, it's stupid," Brianna backed down.

"Come on, tell!" Her little cousins and little sister begged for her to tell. Though puppy-eyes never worked on Brianna, she fell for the annoying pitch in their voices as they pleaded.

"All right already!" she caved. "A frost dragon. How does that sound?"

"Isn't a frost dragon just a regular dragon?" Brittany snapped.

"No, it's blue and white and blows ice instead of fire."

"Cool!" Cody said. "And I didn't mean a pun."

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Author's Note: These characters are based off of actual people. The names are real, theie relationship with each other is real, and the sci-fi battle and never-ending rain was real, too. Leave a comment! They're not really considered reveiws, in my terms.

And just so everyone can get this straight (in order of oldest to youngest): Cody, Cari, and Logan are brother and sisters who belong to Jami. William and Andre belong to Monica, a parent who decided not to come. Brianna and Brittany are sisters who belong to Pam. Got it?