Emi was laughing as they sped down the road in Mia's jeep, "Did you guys see her face? She's seriously peeved." She sat shotgun next to Sage who was driving.

"And Kento," Ryo added, "He's gonna hit the roof once he gets free of that stuff."

Oriana, who was sitting in the middle of the back seat with Ryo and Tamara on one side of her and Cye and Rowen on the other, grinned smugly, "Looks like you two have a ready made funeral when we get back to the house later on."

Ryo puffed up his chest all manly like, "Kento's a weakling compared to me."

Cye muttered a not-so-nice comment about Ryo and his huge ego and Tamara snickered.

Sage, who kept his attention on the highway in front of him, rolled his eyes underneath the sunglasses he was wearing, "Sure Ryo. We all know hands down that he's the strongest of the five of us. Maybe not the brightest or the smartest but he can definitely kick some ex-warlord ass."

Ryo raised an eyebrow, "Must I bring up all the times Dais reduced Kento into a mass of bruises?"

Rowen looked up from the book that had previously held his interest, "Because Kento never thinks before he strikes."

Sage grinned, "See Ryo? Even Einstein agrees with me." Rowen groaned at the nickname that his best friend the bearer of Halo would call him on occasion.

"So where're we going?" Tamara asked.

Sage shrugged, "Wherever you girls want to go...say, Emi, didn't you suggest karaoke at the house?"

Emi nodded, "Yeah, how about we do that?"

"Fun, fun, FUN!" Oriana said enthusiastically, "But...shouldn't we go to a mall or something first? I don't wanna sing in dirty clothes."

Tamara glanced around the jeep at everyone, "Yeah, looks like we all need new outfits. The pizza stains just would not make the proper fashion statement in a karaoke bar."

Sage laughed, "Looks like we have a regular Miss. Fashion on our hands fellas."

Tamara looked confused, "And keeping up on the latest trends is bad?"

"I was just pulling your leg TK." Sage smirked, "It's cool actually."

Rowen, being the genius he was, brought up the inevitable, "How are we going to pay for new clothes for all of us? I certainly don't have a credit card."

Tamara smiled and held up a shiny silver card for all to see, "Visa! It's everywhere anime otakus want to be!"

Oriana gasped, "You have your own credit card?"

"Course not." Tamara answered, "It's my moms. I swiped it and was on my way to a mall in our world before I got zapped here."

"You're going to pay...excuse me, I mean to say your mother's going to pay for new clothes for all of us?" Emi asked incredulously.

Tamara shrugged, "What she doesn't know won't hurt her."

"Will a credit card from your world even work in ours? I doubt it." Rowen replied, being the ever so thoughtful guy he was.

Oriana bopped him, "Don't burst our bubble mister!"

"Ow!" Rowen glared and pouted at Oriana who just stuck out her tongue at him.

Emi switched on the radio and the sounds of "Samurai Heart" filtered through the speakers, throbbing and making the whole jeep vibrate. As the girls squealed to each other over what seemed to be some secret between the three, the guys listened to the song with much concentration.

"That song..." Cye began, "It..."

"Describes us and our experiences perfectly." Rowen finished, equally as aghast as Cye.

Ryo shrugged, "Maybe word of us got around?"

Tamara burst into a huge giggle fit, this she would not fill the guys on. She hoped Oriana and Emi were having the same thoughts about it as her. There was no way they were going to tell the guys that this song was on their soundtrack in the girls' world.

Even if one of them could say anything about it, they were saved from having to because Sage had safely gotten all of them to the nearest mall. Now only if he could find a place to park.

"Damn the handicapped spots!" Sage fumed, "Just look at all of them! So many and not even all of them are used half the time. Waste of perfectly good space."

"Same problem where we live." Oriana said about her, Emi, and Tamara.

"Look!" Cye suddenly exclaimed, pointing out in front of the jeep several spaces down, "There's one! There's an empty spot!" Unfortunately a car facing them had seen the spot to and was getting ready to take it from Sage.

"Gun it Sage!" Ryo screamed, "Beat 'em to it!"

With much hell-bent determination, Sage pressed the gas pedal all the way to the floor, gunning it completely. The other car did the same, equally as ambitious. Scared for their lives, every single person in the jeep except Sage closed their eyes tightly.

Tamara and Oriana both clung to Ryo, every single muscle in their arms tense. Emi grasped the sides of her seat nervously, nearly making holes in the fabric with her fingernails, and bit down hard on her bottom lip. They all felt the car lurching forward and jerk to the left suddenly. Squealing brakes and heated yells were heard milliseconds later.

Everyone slowly but surely opened their eyes and looked around in pure shock, adrenaline pumping through them ninety miles a minute...

"We made it!" Emi screamed, "Yeeeeeeeeees!!" Much more hooping and hollering followed Emi's outburst and they celebrated their victory richly, heading into the mall to buy some new outfits to wear.

In the Dynasty, everyone was preparing for a night on the town - the town, or rather city, of Tokyo that is. It didn't take much convincing on the girls' part to get the guys to accompany them.

Cale had been itching to go clubbing for quite a while. It was a good excuse to ease the tensions in the household anyway. Cale knew that if they stayed in the Dynasty any longer, Anubis would kill Crimson and Asa. Not that he liked them that much himself, he'd just rather not get a headache from the goings on. And, needless to say, his head was starting to buzz.

He paced back and forth in front of the door that lead into Kayura's room where all five of the women were, digging through Kayura's immense closet trying to find something for each of them to wear. "Can you girls get a move on? By the time ya'll pick something out, it will be morning."

"Oh stick a sock in it Cale." He heard Kayura remark, "We're hurrying."

"Y'know," Asa commented to the girls, "I think he just wants to see us in the nude."

"Get a life." Cale muttered, rubbing his temples.

Sekhmet then joined Cale at Kayura's door, "Damn, they're still not ready? I was hours ago."

Cale pounded on the door, "Come on!"

Dais was leaning against the wall, hands resting behind his head, "Why don't we just leave them?"

"I'm in full agreement." Anubis said, transporting himself to the group, still very peeved about the magazines.

"You do and you die." They heard Venom screech.

"Oh, why not let them leave?" Crimson said loud on purpose, "They're assholes anyway, there's no way I'm going to want to be seen with them."

With a haughty smirk, Anubis stayed put, planning on annoying her senseless and sticking to her like glue the entire night. Unknown to him, that's exactly what Crimson wanted and planned. She knew somehow that he'd react like that.

"Ladies..." Cale said impatiently.

"Keep your pants on Wolfy." Purple replied, stepping out the door.

Cale's mouth dropped and Purple had to shut it for him. She was wearing a sky blue spaghetti strap dress that went down mid-thigh and was low-cut in the front, showing off a little cleavage. On her feet were white high-heeled boots that reached up roughly to her knees. To complement her blue dress, body glitter of many different shades of blue was sparkling all over her exposed chest and shoulders resembling luminous sapphires. Her hair was half up, with only one single silver ribbon keeping it in place.

"So, whatcha think?" Purple asked. Cale was speechless and she giggled.

"His pants probably won't be on for long if he has his way with you." Sekhmet commented.

Purple blushed a deep scarlet and Cale whapped Sekhmet upside his head and scolded him. "Will you keep your thoughts to yourself, huh?"

Sekhmet wasn't paying a bit of attention to Cale because his gaze had fallen upon Venom who had linked arms with Kayura.

She was grinning from ear to ear, "Ready to party guys?" Emeralds dangled from her ears, catching the light and gleaming graciously. She was wearing a black tube top and faux bright green snakeskin pants. Her pants were of a low-cut style that hugged her hips. They flared outwards below her knees, like bell-bottoms but not quite. Jade colored body glitter adorned her bare stomach and shoulders, a little even on her eyelids and a silver snake piece with rubies for eyes was twirled around her upper left arm.

Kayura's outfit was a sleeveless black leather jumpsuit that clung to her body tightly, almost like rubber. It tied around the back of her neck, exposing her slender shoulders and arms. A star-shaped hole was cut into the chest, slightly above the middle of her breasts, showing a little swell of each. Dainty gold bracelets jingled around her wrists and a large golden belt hung loose around her waist, tilting towards one side more than the other. Her midnight blue hair had been cut to around the same length as Venom's and her eyes were adorned with a hint of golden and blue eye shadow. "I say we hit Tokyo with a bang," Kayura said confidently.

"Your hair..." Cale trailed off, shock appearing on his face.

Kayura laughed, "Observant aren't we Cale? Yeah, you like? Crimson cut it." She twirled around to show it off more.

Purple ruffled Kayura's hair a bit with her hand. "There, now it looks a wee-bit wilder." She smirked.

"Where're Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber?" Dais asked. Something snagged and twisted a huge lock of his hair around into a huge tangle and he turned around fast to investigate only for whatever it was to hitch into his hair harder. Then when it was finally yanked out, Dais yelped at the pain.

Crimson now appeared at his side holding Mr. Prongs who now looked like it was wearing a wig of silver hair - Dais' hair. "Haha, now all I need is a miniature eye patch."

Crimson was wearing a burgundy velour tank top that hugged her body snugly. Around the low neckline of the tank were specks of gold. She also wore a short fitted khaki miniskirt accompanied by a belt made entirely of golden metal circles. On her feet were open-toe high heels that were crystal clear. Her hair was left loose but she did have golden glitter on her crimson streaks. She wore a choker around her neck that had a solitary red flower in the center of it and to go together with the choker, matching earrings dangled from her ears.

Dais looked at her crossly, "Why, pray tell, did you do that?"

"One, because you insulted Asa and I, and two, Mr. prongs wanted to dress up like you." Crimson answered.

"Yeah, I'm really sure that a spork can talk." Anubis muttered, only for his butt to make sudden contact with the sharp utensil.

"Do not insult the spork." Crimson said, hugging Mr. Prongs, as Anubis rubbed his sore rear. Crimson looked at him with mock sympathy, "Aww, poor 'Nubis. Did Mr. Prongs hurt you? Want Crimmy-Poo to kiss the boo boo to make it better?"

"Get real." Anubis muttered irritably.

"Someone here needs medical help." Dais said, eyeing Crimson.

"That's exactly what I was thinking." Came a voice from the doorway, it was Asa. She was leaning against the doorframe, hands casually tucked into her jeans pockets, "Say, Kayura, you don't happen to have a straight jacket in Dais' size do you?"

Asa was wearing a black bikini top underneath a long sleeved black shirt that resembled fishnet stockings with zillions of patterned holes in it, showing off the bikini top. The neckline of the shirt was purposely large and nearly reached each of Asa's shoulders. The shirt didn't reach her stomach so her bellybutton was exposed. On her legs was a silver mirror-like pair of hip hugging pants and on her feet were black high-heeled sandals. Her hair was left down, except for a few strands of hair held in place by a spider-shaped beret.

Cale wasn't about to waste another minute standing there, "Let's go. Now."

Everyone was in full agreement and made their way together to the mortal realm.

Back at the mall, everyone had made their selections and bought and changed into them. Inside the jeep once again, the group eagerly awaited arriving at a karaoke bar. The girls were, of course, bounding with limitless energy.

On their way to their destination, Emi was already testing out her vocal chords by singing along with the radio. She had picked out a pair of red, black, white, and gold plaid pants, a sleeveless black top with a huge cross on the front of it made entirely out of millions of smaller silver dots, and a pair of silver shoes that added at least five more inches to her height. In her ears dangled silver crosses to compliment her shirt.

Sage laughed and winked at her, "Save it for the stage."

Emi grinned back, "You're getting to hear my debut so hush."

Oriana chose a translucent long sleeved yellow, orange, and red shirt and a sleeveless black top to wear underneath. She selected a short black skirt and matching open toe sandals to accompany the shirts. The translucent shirt hung down below her hips. Around her neck she wore a gold chain on which dangled a glittery yellow sun. Unknown to Ryo, She was staring at him with this almost lustful look in her eyes. She was hoping that what she chose to wear would really get his attention tonight.

Tamara looked at Oriana and shook her head with amusement, 'She's got it for Flame Retardant baaad.' She wore a dress very similar to one worn by a woman in a recent M&M's commercial. It was a tight shiny green leather dress that went down mid-thigh. The sleeves of the dress were long and trumpeted outwards - much like bellbottom pants would. To go with the dress, she wore matching knee-high boots.

Sage drove them all to a nearby karaoke bar that happened to be the most popular one in town, named the Mad Hatter. Not surprisingly, it was packed from wall to wall with people. That's what was so fun about it, so many people to mingle with. Sage was an expert mingler, especially with the ladies. Though, only one woman would remain number one in his heart and that was Mia. Okay, so they weren't official _yet_...but he still felt obligated to not mess around with other girls. He winced inwardly knowing Mia'd rip him apart limb by limb when he returned home. And this wouldn't help him win any points from her either he knew. But he'd make it up to her, he would.

As they all walked in, the girls nearly busted with excitement. So many people!

Oriana squealed, "What're you all gonna sing if anything?"

"I say that the three of us do something together." Tamara suggested.

"Good idea TK!" Oriana exclaimed.

Rowen laughed, "You girls do that. I'll just watch."

Emi gasped, "You're not gonna sing anything? Why nooot?"

To support his blue-haired buddy, Cye put an arm around Rowen's shoulders and said coolly, "He's got better stuff to do."

"Oh?" Emi challenged, "Like what?"

"Mingle for one thing." Sage said, adding in his two points.

"Yeah," Cye agreed, "And watching everyone else belt out tunes."

"Hey, Ryo, are you gonna sing?" Oriana prodded Sanada.

He smiled back at her, "Sure, why not."

Emi stuck her tongue out at Sage, Cye, and Rowen, "Nyaa! You three are just wussies! Ryo here is the real man."

Ryo smirked as the guys shot evil eyes at him.

"What should we do first girls?" Tamara asked Emi and Oriana.

"The Macarena!" Oriana squealed, Emi happily agreed.

Cye blinked, "The Macaroni?"

Emi giggled, "No, Mac-a-re-na. It's this cute song with totally fun dance moves."

Sage perked up, "Does it involve any sexually explicit moves?"

Tamara wholloped Sage, "No Perve."

Oriana held out her arms for each Emi and Tamara and the two accepted graciously, thus linking their arms together. Oriana led them off in the direction of the machine while singing, "Hi Ho! Hi Ho! Off to sing we go!"

Ryo chuckled and shook his head at Oriana. What an entertaining girl.

The lights of the building flickered off them back on again suddenly, signaling a performance up at the bar where the karaoke machine was. And the guys looked on as the girls were to begin strutting their stuff up on stage. Sage let out an ear-piercing whistle to show his support for them.

And then...the music started...chaotic notes that were yet in tune with one another. Pure insanity. A spotlight soon hit the three girls, their bodies swaying seductively to the rhythm. And then they began to sing in a language the guys nor anyone else could understand...well, except maybe for Rowen the super boy genius.

Knowing this, Cye nudged Rowen, "Eh, mate? What are they singing?"

"Spanish if I'm not mistaken." He then blushed deep red at a line Tamara sang, "Y-you don't want to know..."

"Who cares what they're singing." Sage blurted, "Damn! Look at those moves! 'Not sexually explicit' my ass!"

Ryo gasped, "And you of all people are complaining?"

"Hell no!" Sage exclaimed, "I'm with it!" And with that he jumped on stage with the girls and began doing the little dance. Not long after the entire crowd at the Mad Hatter was doing the little dance.

The dance was done like this: first the right arm was held straight out then the left, the palms of the hands facing the floor. Then, the palms of their hands would be twisted upwards to face the ceiling, right palm first then the left. Next, the right hand would move to rest upon the inside of the left elbow and the left hand would move to the right elbow. As quick as that happened, the right hand would move to the right side of the neck and the left to the left side of the neck. The right hand would then move again, this time to the left side of the waist and the left hand mirrored the movements of the right again. After this, the right hand would move to the right butt cheek and the left hand to the left butt cheek. What happened next was Sage's favorite part. The last part of the dance before it began all over again was the booty shake.

The place was going absolutely wild with this newfangled dance. Even long after the girls' performance, the music still played on with people happily doing the little dance. Ryo was beginning to think he'd never have his chance at the karaoke machine but the dancing bug bit him in his rear end and he couldn't help but join in the madness.

Cale was rejoicing. They had finally made it to Code Red, Tokyo's biggest and best nightclub. He was planning on losing the wackos who accompanied him and dance the night and his tensions away with a beautiful exotic woman. Okay, maybe he'd forget about the beautiful and exotic woman and dance with Purple the entire night...if she'd accept his invitation. Not that Purple wasn't beautiful and exotic to him...she was so much more.

Without much hassling the group was on their way inside the three-story club. The girls marveled at its splendor. The main floor was a huge polished wooden surface, a square bar sat in its center already serving a few customers. Multi-colored strobe lights were everywhere, reaching all possible nooks and crannies of the almost pitch-black levels, and the building throbbed from intoxicating music coming from unseen speakers. Fog crept like a stealthy killer along the wooden floorboards, almost completely hiding it from view. Adding to the already dreamy scene were bubbles, millions of them, floating around mindlessly in the miasma of dancers. An occasion mist would fall upon the hot and sweaty crowd to cool them down.

In a flash Asa was gone before anyone could object, losing herself in the throng of partiers, her movements spurred on by the pulsating beat. Crimson headed straight to the bar, Anubis right on her heels. Kayura's eyes had fallen upon a tall dark and handsome stranger and she instantly made plans to get as close to him as possible that night.

That left Venom, Cale, Dais, Purple, and Sekhmet. Sekhmet felt like he'd die if he stood still any longer so he took Venom by the hand and slyly lead her into the horde like a serpent that had just set its eyes on new prey. Dais decided to check out the dancing on the second level. He scanned the crowd below as he slowly ascended upward by way of a spiraling black marble staircase.

Cale grinned. He was alone with her at last. "Want to dance Purple?"

His expression changed when she shrugged indifferently, "I don't dance."

"Oh come on." He teased, "Everyone dances."

"Very well but you'll regret it." Purple laughed.

Cunningly Cale lead her to the dance floor, "Naaaah. Never met a dance partner I didn't like."

"There's always a first time for everything." Purple replied smiling. Boy, was he in Big Bad Wolf mode or what? Cale's sudden personality change made Purple feel a little like Red Riding Hood. Not that she was complaining; she kind of liked this different version of Cale. She supposed nightclubs made people act bizarre. Purple soon let all rational thoughts dissolve as Cale and her began to dance together, their bodies melded perfectly as they swayed as one to an insane rhythm. Nothing mattered after that but each other and the melody crashing through them like waves.

And so the ex-warlords and the girls began their night together at Code Red while things were already underway for four of the Ronins and their female guests at the Mad Hatter. What else is in store for them? Stay tuned to find out. Same bat time, same bat channel :P

to be continued...