I was browsing through some files on a CD and found this! I couldn't resist sharing. ^_^ And since it's long so I've divided it into parts.

The Case of the Disappearing Spoons!

Aeri: I don’t believe it! Six more spoons are missing!
Yusuke: (walks in room) Have you talked to Kurama?
Aeri: What does Kurama have to do with spoons?
Yusuke: Er. . . nothing, but he was a thief.
Aeri: (sweatdrops) I knew that. But I doubt he has any interest in spoons.
Yusuke: (sheepish grin) Heh. (opens fridge and grabs a coke)
Recca: could there be a thief in the neighborhood with a spoon fetish?
Yusuke: Don’t be silly. Why would anyone want to steal spoons?
Aeri: (pathetic expression) I don’t know, they’re not even silver, just plain ol’ stainless steal.
Yusuke: Besides, we’d a noticed someone sneaking in here stealing spoons.
Fuuko: (enters kitchen) What if it’s a ghost or something. Would you notice then?
Aeri: I wonder if anyone else is missing any silverware. (picks up phone and dials number)


(phone rings)

Ari: (hobbles over on crutches and answers phone) hello. . . Ari here. . .
Aeri: Hey ari, how's the knee?
Ari: it's there. . . how are you neechan?
Aeri: I’m okay, anyway, I was curious, are you missing any silverware by chance?
Ari: (thinks for a moment) Yyyeeeaaahhh, 'bout a couple of spoons at the moment, why?
Aeri: Well, I’m missing about half of mine. They’ve been disappearing all week. Any ideas on who, what or why they’re disappearing? I wonder if anyone else is missing spoons or any kind of silverware.


Kurama: (enters kitchen) Who’s Aeri talking to.
Fuuko: Ari, I think.
Yusuke: You don’t happen to know anything about missing spoons?
Kurama: (sighs and shakes head) No. Are there more missing?
Recca: Yep, that’s why she called Ari or whoever she called.


Ari: (thinks) I have no idea Aeri, I just figured mine got lost in the washing machine somehow, but I wonder if someone has a silverware fetish. . .
Eagle Vision: (walks into the kitchen and sees ari on the phone) you shouldn't be standing on that knee ari.
Ari: (razzes eagle) I’m going to be okay. . .
Eagle: (sighs and drags over a chair and gently knocks Ari into it)
Ari: (sweatdrops as she lands) Ack!! EAGLE!!!!!!!
Eagle: (chuckles and leaves)
Aeri, Ari & Co.


Too random. . .

Meanwhile at Riikii’s. . .

Ryoko: Mamma! Spoon gone!
Riikii: looks up from frantic work This was supposed to be my day off! But instead, I'm working! WHY??
Ryoko: Mamma? tilts head
Chibi Duo: Mom, I think Ryoko's trying to tell you something.
Riikii: panicking Where is it?? Tell your dad or hold it, okay? *opens closet door, and a cascade of things fall out* O_O GAH!! is burried mmmph!
Chibi Duo: . . .
Ryoko: Mamma?
Chibi Duo: I. . . think she's occupied at the moment. Let's find Dad.

Chibi Duo: DAAA-AAAD!!
Chibi Gohan: looks up Hi Chibi Duo! Whatcha yellin' for?
Chibi Duo: Mom's buried under a pile of closet garbage and Ryoko can't find any spoons.
Ryoko: No spoons!
Chibi Gohan: I kinda noticed. Dad's going kinda nuts. . .

Cye-chan: I can't believe it! Who's been taking all the spoons?
Chibi Quatre: *follows Cye-chan around silently*
Shin-chan: glower This lunch isn't getting done any faster, you know.
Cye-chan: I'm TRYING to find some. . . Duo, make yourself useful and ask the others if they've seen any spoons.
Duo: looks up from digging in bowl Eh?
Shin-chan: You IDIOT! That's part of lunch! Get out of there! Busso Suiko! charges after Duo with his yari

Duo: runrunrun Sheesh, it's only a few bits! You won't miss them--
Chibi Gohan: Hey, Duo--never mind.
Shin-chan: chasechasechase GET BACK HERE!!
Chibi Duo: Hey, Shin-chan--never mind.
Chibis: sweatdrop

Duo: *hides behind Ki-chan* Catch me if you can!
Ki-chan: O_O Leave me out of this!
Shin-chan: growls
Ryo-chan: comes in room Has anyone seen a spoon--Oh, grow up, you two!
Shin-chan: This isn't the first time he's stolen food from the kitchens, that Shu wannabe--
Ryo-chan: And it won't be the last. Calm down.
Seiji-chan: *is sitting meditating, gets up and clobbers Duo from behind* Happy? You interrupted my meditating.
Shin-chan: Quite, thanks.
Ryo-chan: sigh
Chibi Duo: Dad, the spoons are all gone!
Ryoko: No spoons!
Chibi Quatre: comes in and whispers to Chibi Gohan
Chibi Gohan: Um, Cye-chan just fell in the pancake batter. . .
Shin-chan: WHAT?!
Chibi Gohan: listens to Chibi Quatre again Well, actually, it was more of the pancake batter eating him whole.
Shin-chan: >.< WASHU!!! runs out of the room
Everyone: . . . .
Washu: I take it now would not be a good time to tell him what I wanted for lunch?
Ryo-chan: sigh Washu, what did you do to the pancake batter?
Washu: How come I always get blamed for this kind of stuff?
Ki-chan: dryly Because you're responsible for it?
Washu: Well, at least I know where that Mass went. . . heads toward kitchen
Ryo-chan: . . . .
Sage-chan: How about takeout?
Ryo-chan: shrug Maybe the Mass ate the spoons. . .
Shin-chan: Or maybe Talpa-chan stole them for some new torture method. . .
Everyone: *stares at Shin-chan* . . . .
Riikii: *comes in room, kicking a howler monkey off her leg* Gahh, scat! Has anyone noticed we have no spoons?
Hariel-chan: from downstairs RIIKII!! He's doing it again!
Riikii: Don't I get any rest around here? How do you guys keep out of trouble when I'm not here?
Cale-chan: comes up the stpes and points to throat agitatedly
Riikii: unmutes him
Cale-chan: Usually we don't tell Talpa-chan when lunch is.
Hariel-chan: a chibi >.< Someone had to insist, didn't she?
Riikii: So sue me. I should leave you like that.
Hariel-chan: >.<
Riikii: *un chibi-izes him* Boy, Talpa-chan must love variety today. picks up a cabbit and zaps it
Anubis: Thank you.
Riikii: Stand back, everyone, I'm knocking. knock
Everyone: goes for cover
door opens a bit and a ZAP comes out
Riikii: blocks ZAP and reflects it
Talpa-chan: from inside What the hey? *comes out, a chibi* I figured it was you.*
Riikii: *unchibi-izes him* Next time look first. Have you seen the spoons?
Talpa-chan: You interrupted me for spoons? I'm on a world takeover here, I don't have time for this! shuts door
Riikii: So he's out. . . who stole the spoons from the silverware drawer?
Sage-chan: I still think the Mass ate it.

So will the spoons ever be found? What happened to the howler monkey? Will Cye-chan ever get out of the pancake batter? Will Duo ever get conscious again? Will Shin-chan kill Washu? What will Cosgrove do? Stay tuned!
Riikii and posse. . .


Adding on (finally)!

(Meanwhile, in the house of Kourin Shirokane and her posse. . . )
Kourin: (rummaging through dishwasher) Heero? Where's the spoons?
Heero: What spoons?
Kourin: Spoons. Kitchen utensils. Devices with which to eat. You know--spoons?
Heero: I know what spoons are, thanks. What do you mean, 'where's the spoons'?
Kourin: Well, there are no spoons in the dishwasher, the drawer, or in the sink. You were the last person to load the dishwasher. What did you do with the spoons?
Heero: I never saw any spoons.
Kourin: Well, then, where are they?
Wimbley: (floats in, carrying a bowl of cereal) Um, we have no spoons in the other house. . .
Kourin: No spoons there, either?
Heero: Hmm. . . maybe the chibis took 'em?
Kourin: The chibis are outside playing on the swingset. What would they want with spoons?
Heero: I dunno. Just a suggestion.
Wimbley: Er. . . would somebody like to tell me what the Hell is going on?

(The phone rings.)

Kourin: (answers the phone) Hello? Oh, hey, Ari! What's up? Spoons? Your spoons are missing too?
Heero: Nani, Kourin?
Kourin: Aeri too?! Yeah. . . not a single one. No, security's tight here and we haven't seen any weird characters lurking about. Except Wimbley, but he's looking for a spoon himself.
Wimbley: Hey!
Kourin: Huh? Oh sure. . . yeah, I can investigate my posse and see if I come up with anything. Maybe one of our friends is a spoon thief? Hmm. . . oh well. I'll let you know if I find any. Ja ne. (hangs up the phone)
Heero: What was that all about?
Kourin: Aeri and Ari have lost their spoons, too. It seems we have a spoon thief in our midst.
Heero: Or someone who's really hungry for ice cream. . .
Wimbley: I'm so confused!
Kourin: Aren't you always?
Wimbley: . . . . . .
Kourin: Well, c'mon, you two. Round up the guys and let's get to the bottom of this. I think I have a very strong suspicion. . .
Kourin


Spoon?

Anomaly tapped her fingers on her desk to a beat only she could hear and sang a song only she could have reduced to only so many useless notes. One of her Muses entered the room and winced. He pulled the headphones out of her ears roughly and said, “Anoma, where's the spoons?"
“Spoons?”she replied, looking totally baffled.
“Yes. . . spoons. . . Curved utensils used for soup, ice cream, you know. . . spoons. . . ” the Muse drawled.
“I'm a spork girl, myself,” replied Anoma seriously.
“Well, I'm a spoon kinda Muse and I want a spoon!”shouted the Muse. He'd lost his patience with his author, but then again, patience never had been one of his strong points.
“They're in the kitchen drawer,” replied Anoma peevishly, reaching for her headset.
The Muse pulled it out of her reach. “They are not."
“Are too."
“Are not."
“Are too."
“Are not!"
“Are too!"
“Are not!"
“Are too!"
( While this went on for several minutes, a stray original character of Anoma's crept in, stole her headset and managed to break it within a few minutes. But, such is life.)
“Are not!"
“Are too!"
“Are not! And I'll prove it to you!”With a snap of his fingers, the Muse and Anoma reappeared in the kitchen. He yanked open the drawer and pointed to the shocking emptiness that was the absence of spoons.
“Oh. . . ” said Anoma, “I guess some freak anomaly has opened up in my drawer and whisked all my spoons into the land of Oz!"
The Muse resisted making rude comments about freaks and Anomalys and said instead. “So how am I supposed to eat my soup?"
“Just drink it."
“How uncivilized. . . ”muttered the Muse as he slurped his soup down.
Anoma rolled her eyes. But behind her look of disdain was pure puzzlement. Why were her spoons missing? Were other people's spoons missing? Was this a pandemic occurence? No. If it were, it would be pans that were missing and these were definately spoons. A possible spoondemic, then. She picked up the phone and dialed the number of her friend, Arianna. Their conversation only confirmed Anoma's fears. There was a spoondemic!
Anoma

Re: Spoon?

Dove stared at the magazine clipping. Somewhere in her pile of oil pastels was the right color, but where was it. Her searching was interrupted by a frantic tugging on her shirt.
"Dove! I can't find the spoons!!” Dove looked down at the confused face of Chibi-Janus and sighed.
"No spoons? Are you sure?” CJ's head bobbed up and down energetically. "Alright, lemme see.” She rinsed off her hands and pulled out a megaphone. "Kadi-chan! Ani-chan! Hara-chan! I need you!” The triplets scurried in. "Ani, woud you make me a spoon please?” She pulled on a oddly-formed coronet and blinked. A silverware chest appeared in midair. Dove opened it. "Knives. . . forks. . . straws. . . chopsticks. . . tongs. . . tweezers. . . ladles. . . no spoons. Nani?"
The girl merely shrugged. "Sorry."
Dove sighed. Something was wrong. She grabbed the red phone that was for emergencies only and started calling everyone she knew.
dove


SPOOOOOOOON!!!

Kat was in her war room, bent over a map. Many different-colored figures were scattered around the continents.
"KAT!” She jumped skittishly, and in doing so, hit the table with her foot and shook the figurines off the map. Getting up, she made a face.
"Damn it! And I was almost halfway to winning, too!” she wailed. She sighed and went upstairs via transport. She opened her mouth to say something when she appeared in the den, but immediately closed it at the sight before her. Vegeta, of course, floated well out of the way, close to the ceiling. His arms were folded and naturally his face was contorted into a mask of disdain. Duo, Gohan (who had powered down from Super Sayajin, for once), Duo-chan, Wu-chan and suprisingly Trunks were having a rough-and-tumble, all-out wrestling match in the floor. Heero sat on the couch, reading the paper calmly, lifting his feet out of the way or moving when necessary but returning to his original stance after the melee was past. Quatre and Evil Tro were nowhere to be seen - they were probably in the kitchen cooking dinner. Wufei. . . well, gods only knew where he was.
"Hey, you guys--” Her plea went unheard. "Oi, will you--”she said a bit louder, but again she was unheard.
Closing her eyes in frustration, she opened them again and walked over to the rolling tangle of limbs and laughter. Heero looked up, smirked at the bit of visible power surrounding her then hid behind his paper to wait for the inevitable crash-landing. Vegeta, triggered from his meditation by her ki, snickered from his perch over the room, watching for the coming explosion. Kat stopped in front of the five boys and waited, hands on her hips.
They rolled straight into her, as she had expected. The squabbling died down as each of them looked up at the stern-faced otaku. Scrambling up, they all stood in front of her, trying to grin and placate her.
"What have I told you about wrestling?” she asked calmly.
"Um. . . no eye gouging?” offered Duo-chan.
"No biting!” added Wu-chan.
"And no unnecessary ki if you're fighting someone without ki power,” said Gohan soberly.
"All of the above are correct,” she said, folding her arms and fixing them with a wilting glare. "However, none of them are the correct answer."
"Do we get a hint?” asked Duo warily.
"It has to do with the location of the wrestling match.” All five of them gulped audibly and looked at their feet uncomfortably.
"Oops.."
"Trowa, where are all the spoons?” came Quatre's voice from the kitchen.
"I don't know, Q. Look in the drawer."
"I did look in the drawer! And the dishwasher and the freezer too!"
"The freezer? Why the Hell would they be in the freezer?"
"If you can't find something where it should be, look in the freezer."
"That's supposed to be refrigerator."
"Well, they're not in there either!” By this time the occupants of the den were all looking toward the kitchen quite curiously. Even Kat's ki had vanished. She went over and opened the shutters separating the kitchen and the den. Quatre started anxiously, banging his head against the top of the refrigerator. "Itai!” He rubbed the growing lump on the back of his head.
"What's all this about not having any spoons?” she asked.
"There. Are. No. Spoons."
"Whaddya mean 'There. Are. No. Spoons.' Of course there's spoons."
"I put them in the drawer, just like I always do,” said Gohan. "Right after the dishwasher finished."
Trowa shrugged. "Not in the drawer, or the dishwasher, or the - "
"Freezer,” interrupted Quatre. Trowa sighed, shaking his head.
"No spoons? Anywhere?” The two shook their heads. Kat chewed on her thumb, thinking. “Spoooooooooooooo-oooooooooooooooon!” she yelled in her mind, and giggled to herself before the phone rang.
Kat, who couldn't resist.


Talk about your original fics. . . ^_^

Somehow, although it was much easier, it just wasn't as much fun to build a house of cards when said cards were being held in place with fanfic magic. However, as Spectrum discovered, if you built it while floating upside-down (also via fanfic magic), the lack of fun problem was easily solved. Although you tended to get a slight headache after a little while.
However, Spectrum didn't get a chance to experience the headache this time, as Duo decided to knock down the towering card structure to gain her attention just as she was putting the finishing touches on it. With a somewhat mournful expression, Spectrum regarded her now scattered and strewn-about cards before turning to look up at Duo. "Yes?"
"The spoons are all gone."
Sweatdrop. "That's all?"
"I need a spoon for my ice cream!”he protested.
"Fine. I'll summon one up for you,”Spectrum sighed, snapping her fingers. Duo waited expectantly.
Nothing happened.
"Where's the spoon?”(*giggle* ^_^) asked Duo impatiently.
"Dunno. . . ”Spectrum admitted, frowning. Now that was weird. She knew her fic powers weren't on the fritz, because she was still floating upside-down. So why hadn't a spoon appeared yet?
"Maybe it won't work because there aren't any spoons around to summon."
Startled, Spectrum lost her concentration and fell down. Luckily, Trowa, who had walked up behind her unnoticed, managed to catch her for the most part, preventing serious injury. Duo, who had nearly fallen over himself in surprise, glared at the banged pilot. "Could you please try not to scare the living daylights out of us next time?"
"Gomen,”Trowa apologized, looking a little sheepish.
"Don't sweat it,”Spectrum assured him, having recovered her senses. "So, what brings you down here? Couldn't find any spoons either?"
"We seem to be fresh out."
"Curiouser and curiouser. . . "
There was a pause as each of them pondered over the situation. Duo was the first to speak again, and when he did so, it was with absolute certainty.
"Somebody stole 'em."
Spectrum sweatdropped. Trowa, however, creased his forehead in deep thought, frowning. "Well, I hate to say it, but out of all the possible explanations, it's probably the most feasible,”he said at last.
"Great,”Spectrum muttered. "So some wacko stole all of our spoons."
"Yep."
"Anyone else find this absurdly, outrageously, unimaginably weird?"
Spectrum "Where's the spoon?” Ryuusei


Adding on again

Dove sighed. No one had spoons, and Chibi-Janus was getting impatient. She really didn't want to deal with this fuss much longer, and even using the combined powers of Kadi-chan, Ani-chan, and Hara-chan, who were visiting for the weekend, Dove hadn't been able to get CJ his spoon. "Alright, Ani-chan, could you and Hara-chan watch the house while I'm gone?”Ani nodded. "And if I'm not back by then, please tell your sister to have a bath when she gets back from her adventuring. Chibi-Janus and I are going to see if someone else can lend us a spoon. CJ! Stop trying to turn the cat into a frog (I really do spend too much time obsessing over Chrono Trigger) and get your coat on!”She snapped her fingers and disappeared.
After a few moments of floating in mist, Chibi Janus tugged on Dove's shirt. "Dove? Are we going to go somewhere?"
"Yeah, yeah, just give me a moment. I'll visit Spectrum first.”Dove snapped her fingers again and was surrounded by blue glowing streaks in darkness, a la CT's time traveling sequence. A Gate appeared in Spectrum's kitchen and Dove and Chibi-Janus climbed out. "Excuse me, but may I borrow a spoon, please? We seem to have lost ours?”Dove asked.
Dove


I admit it. I'm a Spoony Bard.

"Hn. . . library cataloguing. How dull. . . ", Rain muttered to herself, perched precariously on top of a ridiculously tall ladder as she slid another one of her ancient spellbooks into place on a high shelf. Cursing to herself, she wished she didn't have so many of them damn things, but then again she wouldn't have access to all the spells she did if she didn't, which would really bite. On top of that, the huge chamber with it's vaulted ceiling and stained-glass windows-once a chapel of sorts, but converted by the old asylum's resident dhampeal into a library-was quiet as all hell. You could probably hear the dust settle on the shelves, which seemed appropriate enough for a library, but still.. it was boring.
The silence was shattered however, as the heavy doors banged open, and her vampire Duo came running in, yelling at the top of his lungs about a total catastrophe. He also managed to knock her ladder over in the process of running around, and had Rain not snapped her wings open she would have landed on the poor boy's head. "Duo! What's going on? Is it another Paladin?” she asked the obviously out-of-sorts vampire, who looked frazzled enough for it to have been a Paladin, or worse yet, a phalanx of the bastards.
"Worse!"
"What could be worse than that?” Rain muttered to herself, and now her Vincent quite calmly entered the room.
"What Duo's so worked up about, is the fact that there's no spoons. It's not the earth-shattering catastrophe he's making it out to be,” he stated calmly.
Rain blinked again as the former Turk's words sank in."No spoons?” she repeated incredulously.
"Not one. Sporks yes, spoons no,” he said.
Duo wailing most broken-heartedly. "How am I gonna have a spoon fight with Evil Wu now?!"
Rainbow Fright, who's re-thinking that statement.


We must find them!
The world needs spoons!

"You're telling us you don't have any spoons either?” Duo asked. Dove nodded.
"Ours have disappeared too,” Spectrum told her unnecessarily.
"Someone stole them,” Duo added, more certain than ever.
"Or at least that's what we think,” Trowa put in. "It just doesn't make sense otherwise. They're all gone, every last one of them."
"It's the same at my place,” Dove said, nodding again. "I called a few of the others too--none of them have any spoons. And Chibi-Janus is getting a little impatient,” she added as the chibi tugged on her shirt once more. "Guess we'll have to keep trying."
"Need any help?”Spectrum offered. "I've got some free time on my hands anyway, and I'm sure the guys want to get down to the bottom of this.” Both Trowa and Duo nodded. "So, how about it?"
Spectrum

spoons????

Venus was in her kitchen in her pajamas early in the morning. She yawned as she opened the cupboard door to get her usually breakfast cereal, Captain Crunch,(don't laugh!) then she got her milk out plus the bowl. She set those things on the table, poured the milk and cereal and turned on the tv.
"Ahhhh!! I forgot the spoon!!! I'm so lame!” Venus said as she went over to a drawer and got a spoon. Then she went back to her seat at the table and started eating as she watched her favorite cartoons. Then Ryo came in and sat next to her.
"Hey, Venus, ummm how are you eating you cereal without a spoon??????” Ryo asked as he watched her eat imaginary food with an imaginary spoon.
Venus stopped "eating” and looked at Ryo then at her "spoon” and back to Ryo.
"Oops. I think I forgot to get a spoon.”
"Oops is right."
Venus got up and went over to the drawer and got another spoon and sat back down to watch her cartoons.
"V, your doing it again!"
"Doing what?!” asked Venus.
"YOU DON'T HAVE A SPOON THAT'S WHAT!!!!” yelled Ryo.
Trunks came in with his hands covering his ears. "Geez, Ryo, don't need to yell so loud."
"Sorry, but it's just that V is eating without a spoon. She's done that twice!"
Trunks took a look at Venus. "Are you sure she's just not playing dumb?"
Venus looked at Trunks at the corner of her eyes. "I'm not playing dumb!! Why would I do that?"
"I dunno, why?"
Venus shook her head. "Fine I'll go get a spoon!"
She got up again and headed for the drawer and opened it up. She looked inside and. . . .
"WHERE'S ALL THE SPOONS???????” she yelled, bringing down the entire posse.
Chibi Goku tugged on her pajama sleeve. "Mommy, thief took 'um! Did did! Me wanna help!!!!!"
"Awww it's ok. Come 'ere!” Venus picked up Chibi Goku and carried him back to her seat and sat him on her lap.
"Sooo. . . .. umm Chibi Goku, you better go somewhere else right now. . . ”she told her chibi.
Chibi Goku got off her lap and walked a little ways and shut his eyes and covered his ears.
Venus continued, "Okay I'm gonna ask you guys this once and only once. WHO STOLL THE SPOONS????????????????? I CAN'T EAT MY CEREAL WITH OUT 'UM!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"V calm down! We did-"
Venus cut Ryo off, "IT WAS MY ALTER EGO, CHRYSTAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO WAIT! SHE'S. . . ” Venus took a breath and shuddered "nomal. But who stole the spoons. Maybe other people are missing spoons too. I wonder if there's somebody as original and creative as that"
"V are you all right? You complimenting a criminal that stole you spoons and you want them back so you can eat your cereal. That's just not normal,” said Trunks, putting his hand on her forehead.
"Trunks, guess what? I'M NOT CHRYSTAL!!! SO THEREFORE I AM NOT. . . ”Venus closed her eyes and whispered, "normal!"
"Well maybe we should wait and see if they show up ok? Then you can eat your cereal. Meanwhile lets just wait and see if other people are missing spoons as well” said Ryo.
"You know what? The problem with you, Ryo is that you talk to much. Much more then me. Not good.” said Venus.
Venus Suteki, the crazy one.


The Spoon Quest begins

"Well, where should we start?” Dove asked.
"Can we go visit some other scary people?”Chibi-Janus asked. Dove shot him a "take-that-back-or-be-fried” look.
"Scary? Mr. 'black wind begins to howl' is calling us scary? But actually that doesn't sound like a bad suggestion in essence. Let's try Rainbow's,” Dove suggested. She snapped and another Gate appeared in front of them. "I reallly do spend too much time replaying Chrono Trigger, don't I?"
dove


Oh where, oh where have our little spoons gone?

Anoma sat on her desk, chewing on the end of her braid furiously. Pathos, part-time Muse and full-time gambler, entered the room.
“Hey Anoma, what's wrong?” he asked, with true concern and a touch of fear. The last time he'd found her like that she'd somehow managed to banish all her anime charaters to an unknown region of Limbo. He was willing to bet she'd done something like that once again. Anoma did not answer though, unless you counted her mumbled singing. He sighed and magicked her headphones away. She scowled at him. He gave her a friendly smile.
"Anoma, you looked upset when I came in. Wanna talk about it?”he asked.
She stared blankly at him for a moment. Then in a voice filled with sorrow and grave seriousness she said dismally, “Spoons."
He blinked. For once in his life, Pathos the quick-talking gambling deity, was at a loss for words.
"The spoons are missing," Anoma continued, “All of them. Everyone's, gone! All gone! All is lost!"
Pathos resisted the urge to roll his eyes at Anoma's melodramatic speech. She was serious, in her way.
Anoma continued to babble morosely, “All gone. And no one knows where they've gone to," she looking sadly at him, "Do you think. . . maybe. . . could have been..” she whispered the next bit so softly he could barely hear it, ". . . my fault?"
"No!” he said. “Of course not! After all, you may have made the majority of your bishies disappear beyond your power to bring them back, but at least you were aware that you did it!"
"Well, yeah. . . "
"So. . . you obviously didn't do this!"
"Okay. . . ” Anoma's eyes lit up with hope. “So, it's not my fault?"
"Mmmhmm."
"Well, then! What are you waiting for?"
Pathos gave her a blank look.
"Bring me my headphones, Muse!"
"Nani?"
"Look, if I didn't do anything wrong, I want to relax, kick back, hang out, get it? And I need my headphones to do that."
"Ah. . . ” said the Muse. Disappointment crossed his features. She should help her friends look for the spoons at least. But he sighed and reached with his mind for the headphones. A look of embarrassment and shock registered on his face.
"Well?” Anoma snapped impatiently.
"They're umm. . . ” he started, “They're gone."
"Gone?"
"Yeah, through the same pyschic anomaly that snatched your bishounen I'd wager."
"Oh, damn. Now I'll have to fanfic in a new set!” She snapped her fingers and as the new headphones settled over her ears she sank into a more relaxed posture and began to sing along with the music. Pathos sighed and left the room, shaking his head with bewilderment. He'd never understand humans.

(The author sighs. It seems she as plenty of time to type this off-line while waiting to get back on. She is not happy, but she is bored.)

Anomaly watched out of the corner of her eye as Pathos left the room. She knew that he thought her to be insensitive. Silly Muse, of course she would help in the search. With headphones still in her ears, she crossed the room to stand near the bookcase. She had recently discovered a secret passage here that led to a spot in Limbo where powers met and crossed. Perhaps she could use it to help hunt for spoons. She slipped into that place and closed her eyes. She could feel the power, like a steady but unfathomable beat, like four-dimensional music. She drew the power into herself and carefully formed her request.
//I want something to find the missing spoons.//
The tempo of the music altered for a moment and she could feel a presence, no several, in the room with her. She opened her eyes and screamed.
Slimy, wriggling, eyeless monstrosities squirmed on the ground and in the air all around her.
"What the--?!”she shouted.
||S'mthinng!|| a voice oozed in her mind.
It, like its owner, was repulsive.
"Oh. . . ”said Anoma, understanding now. She really should remember to speak clearly when doing magic. It was little slip-ups like this that had caused her to lose her bishies. “Could you, please, help me find the missing spoons?"
||Y'z|| Anoma recoiled from the voice in her head. It felt dirty, wrong in some way. But she was unsure of how to get rid of the things. The creatures, whatever they were, melted away, beginning to search for spoons. She sighed with partial relief. At least the things were out of her sight now. Out of sight, and hopefully out of her mind.

(The author looks darn peeved. She certainly does not want to write a novel about The Search For Spoons. An odd thought crosses her mind and she giggles madly for a moment, entertained by her twisted thoughts. Oh! She hopes there's no sequel planned or she'll totally lose it. Especially if the sequel is called The Search For Spork. If you get it, the author pities you for having the same kind of warped background. Ooh. . . fic idea. . . Oh, have you noticed I've been babbling within the parentheses. If I leave them I'll have to write more Spoonfic and if I stop writing, I'll be bored. *sigh*)

Anoma left the secret room a bit shakily. Perhaps, by now, she should know better than to mess with things she didn't fully understand. But her curiousity about such things often overuled her caution. With one last shudder, she turned the volume up on her headset and sang with it as she walked to Limbo's kitchen.
"Macavity's a mystery cat! He's called the hidden paw. For he's the master criminal who can defy the law, “she sang, “He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's dispair. For when a crime's discovered. . . Macavity's not there!"
The Muses and original characters lounging in the kitchen rolled their eyes. Anoma poured herself some coffee, humming as she drank. Suddenly she stopped. She stared into space as if some great cosmic truth had just been revealed to her.
"Hey!”she said to the room in general, “Maybe it was Macavity who stole the spoons!"
Smothered laughter and looks of utter disbelief answered her.
"It was just a thought!”she said grumpily as she stalked out of the room.

(I'm writing a frickin' novel here! Egads! I'm going to stop now! I am! I'm going to get people off the phone line and post this sucker before I drive us all utterly out of our minds!!!)
Anoma, who unfortunately has
too much time on her hands


Spoo-oon!
Here spoon spoon spoon.

Sona grabbed the carton of Triple C Dough Ben and Jerry's. "Mmmmmmmm uncooked and cold. . . "
She skipped over to the kitchen drawer and pulled it open. "What the? OK, who used all the spoons and didn't wash them?!” No answer.
Sona kicked open the gate to the dragon realm. Pyro! Did you use the spoons?!"
A large red dragon looked up from where he had been sleeping. "What would i need with spoons?"
"Gods only know. Daren?"
The blue watch wher gave her a you-are-insane look and stalked away.
"Mirada! Creel!” A gold and a bronze firelizard appeared in front of her. "Where did you put the shiny objects?"
The two disappeared, then reappeared holding a handkerchief wrapped around miscellaneous pieces of metallic objects. No spoons.
Sona ran over to the living room. "Ok where are all the spoons?"
Kento looked up from his top ramen. "Try chopsticks."
"Not for ice cream!"
Quatre and Wufei looked up from their card game. "Maybe you left them in the dishwasher?” Wufei asked.
"Nope, it's empty."
Mosqui looked over from the couch where he and Averil, a large red war boar, were watching TV.
"Maybe you-"
"I didn't do anything with them!"
"Well someone sure is cranky,” Til said, walking in."
"I need ice cream! I have ice cream,” she waved the now partially melted carton of B&J, "but no spoon with witch to eat it! HAS ANYONE SEEN THE SPOONS!?"
"NO!” echoed from all corners of the gates.
"It's a conspiracy! I will hunt down my spoons dangit! White Blaze! Anubis!” The large white tiger and reddish cheetah (long story) slowly stood, casting 'help us' looks to the rest of the group.
"To the Bat Tank!"
Anubis: "Growl.” Translation: The wha?
White Blaze: "Snarl” Translation: She just finised watching Tank Girl.
Sona: "Ryo-Ohki! Lets go!” She grabbed the cabbit, who tried to make a run for it, and threw her into the air. The crazy girl and two big cats jumped on board.
"We are off to locate some spoons!"
Sona *my posse in tow*


::ala the Tick:: SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!

"Okay. . . no spoons. That's. . . odd to say the least. Have you guys checked all the drawers?” Rain asked.
Vincent nodded, choosing to answer since Duo was in a state of near hysteria, being unable to defend his title of 'God of Spoons' without spoons to use in said spoonfight.
"The dishwasher?"
"Yes."
"Luceid's lab?"
"Yes."
"Trent's room?"
"Yes."
"Behind the T.V?"
"There too."
"Did you ask the Chibis?"
"Of course."
"How about the gremlins?"
"Them too."
"Did you check all my dimensional rips?"
"Every one. Like I said, there aren't any spoons to be found here."
Rain sighed, placing a hand to her forehead. She was already on her way to a spectacular migraine and it hadn't even been 10 minutes since she heard that all the spoons were gone. "Okay. . . first off, calm down Duo. I'm sure we'll find some spoons somewhere and until then, why don't you and Evil Wu use sporks or something?” she said.
The vampiric boy sniffled. "It's just not the same. . . "
The door swung open once more and Luceid stormed in her traditional shredded black JnCo's with 50 inch wide legs that had red paint splattered on them to look like blood, black Marylin Manson tee and white labcoat. She was also holding a bowl of chocolate Frosted Flakes and a ladle, looking a wee bit peeved. "Where the 'ell are all the bloody SPOONS?! I can't very well eat m' Frost'd Flakes wi'a bloody LADLE!” she growled, brandishing the ladle for emphasis. It was apparent that the Guardian of Insanity was in a foul mood due to the lack of spoonage.
Rain sighed, for about the fourth time that day. "There are no spoons Luceid, and no, we don't know why. Could you do me a favor and round up as many of the rest of my horde as you can? I have a feeling we might need them with this..” she said.
"Yeah, yeah. . . I'll be right back. Cripes. . . no spoons. . . bloody stupid if y' ask me..,” she muttered, wandering back out of the library. Within a half-hour she'd retrieved Trent, Schuldich, Evil Wufei, Aya, Dilandau, Zero, Rowen, Irvine, Zelgadis, Chichiri, Xelloss, Cale, Chibi-Asuka, Chibi-Shinji, Chibi-Van, Chibi-Ken, Chibi Seph-Neko, Chibi-Tenchi, Nikki, Eikichi, Sephiroth, Magus and Omi. "That's all of 'em I could find. . . the others're probably hidin',” Luceid reported.
"Doesn't matter. . . I think that's most of them. Anyway guys, I'm sure you're all aware of the lack of spoons..” Rain began, getting nods and one 'No sh*t, Sherlock', as a means of confirmation. After she'd fried Trent with a Bolt 4 spell, she continued. "We can't allow this to go on, since we can't use sporks for everything, and ladles are right out as well. Therefore, we're gonna find the spoon-stealing wacko and kick his ass six ways from Sunday.”
Rainbow Fright, who's listening to Limp Bizkit again.


Spoons? Spoons gone?
All gone? Nuuuuuuuu!!

In a previously abandoned corner of the FicVerse, which was turned into a Vale (hot springs & all >):

Lyric had just made herself a big bowl of Campbell's Chunky Sirloin Burger & Veggie Soup, one of her favorites, and was searching the ekele (multi-story tree house around a huge, magically-grown tree) for a spoon, all of which seemed to have disappeared.
"Rrysa, where're the spoons?"
: Didn't you put them up? I thought you did the dishes this week.:
"Nope, I had laundry. You didn't do anything with them?"
Rrysa shot her a disgusted look. :Yes, I stole them all. You know how much I need spoons, Lyr.:
"Har dee har har, Rrys. D'you think the guys would know where they are?"
Rrysa snorts. :Like I'm supposed to know?:
Lyric set her soup down on the table. "Well, you can read minds, after all."
:That happens to be very rude, in case you didn't hear Keighvin when he explained that. Besides, I'm your mindmate. I don't just talk to everybody.:
"Okay, I'm gonna go ask 'em. Look around for the spoons, will ya? I'm kinda hungry.” Lyric headed for the stairs.
: I don't think you need to worry about your dinner,: Rrysa chuckled.
Lyric whirled about and looked at the table. "Kento Kitten!!” she yelped. Kento Kitten looked up and licked his whiskers. "Mrrrow?"
: I told you all those kittens would be trouble. . . : said Rrysa, a canine smirk on her face.
"Shut up, Rrysa.” Lyric growled and stormed down the stairs to find the guys.
Lyric "Schpoooooooonnn!!!”Wildsong

SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNN!!!!

After hanging up the phone, Kat turned and was met with questioning stares. "What?"
"Who was it?” asked Trunks.
"Was it a member of the CRWS who also had their spoons stolen and wanted to know if you'd had your spoons stolen too?” Duo blurted. Kat blinked at him.
"No."
"Then who was it?"
"Telemarketer.”There was a collective whump when her posse hit the floor. She sighed and went upstairs.
"Where ya goin'?” asked Duo-chan.
"I'm going to get dressed and then I'm going to Rain's. Duo, you and Tro are coming with.” She disappeared before either of them could protest.

15 minutes later. . .

Kat knocked on the door impatiently, her Crow-esque face twisted into a mask of impatience. She tapped the toe of her 21-eye combats on the ground. "Goddammit, where's she at..” she muttered.
"Maybe she's looking for spoons,” Trowa suggested. Kat huffed.
"RAIN! OPEN THE DAMN DOOR!"
Kat


So is this script form or paragraph form? *shrug*

"YAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!” Riikii pulled out her pencil and fired off several rapid shots. The stench of something horrible burning filled the room as she turned to face Ryo-chan, who had just come up the stairs and was watching her with a bewildered look. "Have you been cooking again?"
"They're not under the bed,” she said finally.
"I still think Washu's Mass ate them,” Ryo-chan muttered.
"It did NOT eat the spoons!” Washu yelled indignantly.
"No, it just almost ate ME,” Cye-chan growled at her, unusually peeved.
"It was just being friendly,” Washu said with one of her infuriatingly happy grins. Riikii mentally sighed. Washu grinned more than Duo.
"No spoons!” Ryoko said happily, following around the adults.
Sage-chan hung up the phone. "Do you think some old CRWS monster is haunting us or something?"
"What, you mean. . . "
"Yep. No one has spoons."
"Weird."
"Very."
Hariel-chan pressed his fingers to his temples. "I'm going nuts."
"Again?” Riikii said, only half-joking. Hariel-chan insane was kind of strange.
At this point CG came into the room. "Riikii, that 'Nessie' of yours almost ate me!"
"Well, you ARE a frog. What did you expect?"
"I get no respect around here!"
Hariel-chan leapt upon CG, throttling him. "YOU ATE THE SPOONS, DIDN'T YOU?! DIDN'T YOU?!"
The other Ronin -chans helped pull Hariel-chan off the poor put-upon CG while Riikii picked up the frog. "Chill, Hariel-chan, I don't think he ate the spoons. I wonder what happened to them. . . "
"Maybe Nessie ate them,” Cal-chan offered unhelpfully.
"Why is everyone picking on my Loch Ness Monster?"
Shin-chan, a frequent user of the underground lake, only shrugged. "Whomp the thing a few times and it'll get the hint not to eat you anymore."
"Anyway, I think Nessie has her daily dose of iron."
">.< That wasn't funny."
Riikii flopped down into a beanbag chair. "So. . . who stole the spoons from the silverware drawer? Who me? Yes you. Couldn't be. Then who?"
Ryoko laughed and clapped her hands while the (ahem) adults in the room looked at her oddly.
"So the question now, is who took the spoons, how do we find them, and what would anyone want with the CRWS spoons? I mean, forks I can understand, but spoons?"
There was a long pause, which finally Seiji-chan broke. "So? What's your answer?"
"What? Who said I had an answer? I just provided the question. Let someone else do the easy work now."
Everyone fell over.
"No spoons!” Ryoko said happily.
Riikii and co. . .


Spoon. I will not loose my spoon. No. Dang. I lost it.

Fuzzy pink bunnies held hands and danced in a circle singing cheerful songs in a setting reminiscent of Candyland.
"GADINE!"
Gadine snapped awake, looking around frantically before her eyes focused on Chibi Kento. "Oh, thank every god in existence you woke me up. I was having the most horrific dream!"
"I want to eat my Fruit Loops."
"So? You know where they are. Get them yourself."
"But there are no Spoons."
"Sure there are. The flying monkey just washed them yesterday."
"No spoons. Not even any of your collectors spoons are in the display case."
"WHAT?!?!?!?!”Chibi Kento had to scramble to get out of the way of the wings and tail of the dragon who just leaped out of her nest and bolted into the next cave. he followed a bit more slowly. "The pretty painted ones! The engraved ones! The one from Disneyland! All gone! Monkey!"
The flying monkey flew over. "Did you touch my collection of spoons?"
"Oooo ahaha ookk."
"Then who did?"
"Uh ah"
"There is a thief around! Quick we gotta call the cops!. . . ..I can't call the cops I don't have a phone! Stupid no service to caves! Quick Monkey, get the chicken! We are going to go borrow someone's phone!"
"I think I'll just stay- whoah!”Gady grabbed CK and leaped out the front of the cave and off the cliff. The flying monkey flew out behind her carrying a blue chicken.
"I really gotta find a name for that chicken."
Gady (Does anyone else have a neighbor
who collects spooons for real?)


Aeri hung up the phone and frowned thoughtfully. “Weeeelllll.” She looked at Yusuke expectantly.
“What? I didn’t steal them.”
“I know that. Buutt, you are a reikai detective and I think you should investigate this.”
“Why should I investigate this?” Yusuke asked belligerently.
“Because, we’re not the only ones missing spoons.” She answered calmly.
“The others are missing spoons as well?” Kurama asked.
Aeri nodded. “Ari’s missing her’s, Anoma’s are all gone and I don’t know who else is missing any.”
Meanwhile Recca is searching through the cabinets for the missing spoons.
Mikagami walks in stares at Recca. “What is he doing?”
“He’s looking for spoons.” Fuuko told him.
Mikagami gave her a strange look. “Why?”
“Apparently they’re missing.” Fuuko explained.
“Aeri, are you really missing spoons?” Mikagami asked the otaku.
Aeri nodded. “Yep. Some of the others are as well.” She rummages in a kitchen drawer and mutters to herself. “I know I have magnifying glass around here somewhere.” Rummages some more. “Ahh, here it is.” She holds up magnifying glass and smirks. “Come on guys we got ourselves a thief to catch.”


Ari continued to hobble around as Eagle decided to help keep her standing time to a minimum. God dammit, how she hated crutches. "Eagle, honey, look. More than one peep is missing spoons and stuff and it seems we have a real problem on our hands here. Anoma, Aeri and Kourin are also missing theirs.” She hobbled over to a couch and collapsed. "This is definitely worth investigating.”
Eagle looked in concern at the injured girl and decided to get a group of the others to keep her out of trouble while he took her up on her suggestion, or else, she wouldn't never stay still. "Ari, I'll look into it. You just rest.” He said as she looked up at him quizzically.


Aeri grinned and ran from the kitchen. When she returned she was wearing a Sherlock Holmes hat and carrying the magnifying glass she had found earlier.
Everyone just stares at her. “Well? What you guys waiting for?”
Still skeptical, Mikagami opens the silverware drawer only to find all the spoons missing.
Recca jumps up. “I found something!”
“What?” Fuuko asks standing over his shoulder.
“A clue,” Aeri said eagerly.
They all crowded around the dining table to study the clue, a scrap of blue cloth.


Eagle rounded up Yohji (who had been visiting Aya with Ken-ken), Cye, Quatre, Cat, and then Sydney to help look for clues. The ex-digimon emperor, Ken I., helped out the best that he could, by looking around the drawers and such. It turned out that he found a small scrap of white cloth hanging on the edge of the dishwasher. "I think this might be of some use.” He said pointing to the cloth as Yohji came over and examined it further. Yohji nodded as he agreed. "I do believe we have a clue finally, let's see if we can't find anymore.” The search continued.


Aeri examined it with the magnifying glass. “Definitely a scrap of cloth. I think it’s from a pair of jeans.
Recca perks up. “Jeans, huh? I’ll go see if it belongs to anyone here.” He runs out of the dining room, before anyone can stop him.
“Baka.” Mikagami said.
Kurama took the glass away from Aeri and examined it himself. “Hmm… I think you’re right, but it could also be from a jumpsuit or a rag,” Kurama suggested.
Aeri sighed, “Yeah, it could be. Which means we need more clues.”
They all searched through the house and didn’t find a single spoon or another clue.
“Well, that was pointless,” Mikagami said.
“No kidding,” Aeri said dryly. “Ideas anyone?”
Recca grinned and grabbed his coat off the coat rack by the front door.
“Where are you going?” Fuuko asked.
“To catch the thief.” He responded running out the door.
“Aw, what the hell, come let’s go, the thief isn’t here.” Aeri said grabbing her black trenchcoat. She followed Recca out the front door.
Yusuke smirked and followed her out the front door. Kurama shook his head then grabbed his coat and left the house, more to keep an eye on Aeri than anything else.
“I’m not going on a wild goose chase,” Mikagami told no one in paticular.
“Where’s everyone going?” Koganei asked as he entered the room.
“To find the spoon thief,” Mikagami explained with a straight face.
Koganei laughed. “Oy, that’s a good one. Spoon thieves, who’d steal spoons?” He asked between peals of laughter.
Mikagami sighed and shook his head.
Fuuko thwapped Koganei with the phonebook. “It’s true all the spoons are missing.”
“Yeah, right.” Koganei laughed. He disappeared in the kitchen to get some ice cream. Banging noises could be heard as he rattled drawers and cupboards. After a minute he ran into the living room with an annoyed look on his face. “Where the hell are the spoons?”
“I told you someone stole them.” Fuuko told him.
“Heh, in that case I’m goin’ with the others.” He ran upstairs to get his kougan anki, ran back down and out the front door.
Fuuko grabbed Tokiya Mikagami’s arm. “Come on Mi-chan, I refuse to stay here and be left out of this.”
Mikagami sighed and followed her out the front door.
Aeri, Ari and Co.


Holy disappearing spoons, Batman!

“Muses! Here Muses, Muses, Muses!” called Anoma.
Reluctantly, the Muses trekked into the kitchen and regarded Anoma with bored expressions.
“Look, there may be a massive spoon crisis going on, but this doesn't give any of you an excuse to quit working,” she said.
Arawn muttered, “We don't need excuses; we just stop."
Anoma shot him a disgusted look and continued, ”I want an idea, today!"
A Muse leaning in the corner raised her hand. Anoma nodded.
“Excuse me, Anoma,” said the Muse, “But if I'm correct you have three characters left; a psychotic maniac, a suicidal maniac and a spare 'hero's best friend'. What are we supposed to do with those?"
“Be creative."
“Hmph."
Another Muse spoke, “We absolutely cannot work without a concave agitator."
“A what?” asked Anoma.
“A spoon, “ said the Muse.
Anoma blinked mutely and slowly turned and left the room. A few moments later they heard her scream with frustration. The Muses looked at each other and slowly, grins spread across all their faces.
Half an hour later she stormed through the kitchen, grabbing miscellaneous items off the counter and a cup of coffee. She turned the Muses sitting there and said “I'm going to Ari's. See you bums later!"
And with that, she was gone.

In a distant part of Limbo. . . .
“Ahhh..CRUD!!!! Where the heck am I?!"
Anoma


Batman stole them!

Ryo-Ohki droped Sona, White Blaze, and Anubis off in front of Kats. Sona banged on the door.
Sona: Kat! Are you home?!
No answer.
Anubis: Growl, snort. trans: Ya know, we do have a phone. Why could she not have used that?
White Blaze: Rumble. trans: Cause that would have been sane?
Ryo-Ohki: me-ow.
Sona took off running.
Sona: Come on you guys! We gotta make it to the next house before the ice cream melts!
White Blaze: Growl. trans: It's called a refrigerater.
Anubis: Rumble trans: Come on, lets catch up before she hurts herself.
Sona (can we blame the guy in tights anyway?)


Da na na na na na na. . . . . . . . . . . BATMAN!

Rain blinked, hearing much pounding and yelling of her name, and concluding that it was at the front door. She also concluded that it was Kat, and that she was highly miffed. Was it possible that she was missing spoons as well? "Aya? Go get the door, would you please?” she asked, and the half-feline (Yes, mine's a half-cat.) sighed and rolled his eyes before silently exiting the library and heading down the ridiculously long spiral staircase, through the main hall and to the door.
The wrought-iron gate with black roses twined around it slid up, and the door swung inward, proving that it was indeed Kat and that she looked fairly miffed. "Let me guess. . .you're missing all your spoons too,” Aya remarked dryly. Not intentionally dry mind you, just that seemed to be his default tone of voice most of the time.
"Damn right. . . I assume that Rain doesn't have any either then?” she replied. "No, she doesn't, Luceid's pissed, Duo's near-hysterical and I can't speak for everyone else. Rain's waiting in the library for ya. . . ."

Rainbow Fright, who has no respect for a show in
which the word 'Biff' pops up after hitting someone.


Waaaay too much time on Chrono Trigger

Dove stepped out of the Gate, pulling Chibi-Janus and Spectrum behind her. Chibi-Janus, having just come up with a brilliant idea, looked at Dove "Hey, Dove? Aren't Gates for time travel?” He received another glare, this time in the "the-spoons-are-missing-why-do-we-care?” variety, for his troubles. Dove surveyed the room she had just appeared in, before realized the Gate had taken her straight to Rainbow, not the entrance to her house as planned.
"Oh, hi Rain. Um. . . we've seemed to have lost our spoons and are starting a Quest to find them. You don't happen to have any, do you?"
Dove


Finally adding on!

"No spoons!"
"If she says that again--”Talpa-chan growled.
"Excuse me?” RiIikii turned around and waved the fanfic pencil under his nose. "I vote we make spoons out of you if you threaten my daughter again."
While threatening Talpa-chan, Riikii forgot she was driving. When Ki-chan began to scream when the hovercar went dangerously close to a tree, Ryo-chan calmly took over.
"So where are we going?” Washu asked.
"Um. I hadn't gotten that far."
"Why don't we go see if Artemis has any spoons?” Cale-chan suggested.
"You only want to go over there cause Arty's there. We already called, dummy.” Shin-chan snorted.
"And how do you know that's why I want to go over there?” Cale-chan said stiffly.
"Cause Seiji-chan's thinking the same thing about Slayer."
Seiji-chan growled at Shin-chan. "When I said you had free access to my mind, I didn't mean you had to spill its contents."
"So you ARE thinking that about Slayer?” Chibi Duo giggled.
"You never said that I had free access, actually,” Shin-chan said merrily. "I just took the liberty anyway."
While Seiji-chan glowered, Hariel-chan intervened. "Let's go see if Venus has any spoons."
"Nah, let's go over to Shannon's. She's not associated with the CRWS,” Cye-chan suggested.
"No, let's go to Carniss's house,” Sage-chan suggested.
Riikii sweatdropped. Each of the -chans was suggesting their girlfriend's house.
"Why don't we go over to Spectrum's house, then?” Duo said pacifyingly.
"That would be a good idea, except I don't know how to get there,” Ryo-chan said.
Duo jumped into the front seat in between Riikii and Ryo-chan, to Riikii's annoyment. "I'll direct you."
Riikii grumbled and crawled into the backseat, shoving Sui-kun, the white Writer's Block Monster and Kalla-kun, the cat, over. "Human needs lots of butt space."
"YIP YIP!!” Sui-kun happily crawled into her lap. Kalla-kun gave her a disdainful look and perched on the back of the seat, absently cleaning Chibi Ro's hair. Chibi Anubis giggled at the sight, but Chibi Ro didn't notice. Kalla-kun wondered absently whether there would be a Rowen where they were going. Riikii sulked because she couldn't be in the front. Ryo-chan calmly drove, trying to make sense out of Duo's directions, while Duo got annoyed at Ryo-chan's lousy direction-taking ability. Ki-chan moved around until she was behind Duo, her adopted brother, and played with his braid. Hariel-chan, Sage-chan, Cye-chan and Cale-chan engaged in a card game, which Anubis watched with interest, while Shin-chan played with the radio and Seiji-chan watched the landscape go by. Talpa-chan and Washu tinkered with a laptop while Chibi Heero and Chibi Trowa watched. Chibi Gohan began chasing CG, while trying to get the shy Chibi Quatre to do the same. Chibi Trista sat at her 'father' Hariel-chan's feet, playing with his shoelaces, with Chibi Kama nearby. Ryoko sat in her father's lap, watching the bright lights of the control panel merrily, while Chibi Duo kept her hands off them. All was at peace.
Riikii


Hmm? What? Oh. . . hello!

Deep in the depths of Limbo. . .
“Oh. . . fishsticks!!” Anoma cursed. Or attempted to curse. Unfortunately, the wild censors who hide in the less populated parts of Limbo had got to her.
“Darn it! I've gotta remember to concentrate when I teleport. Otherwise I'll end up in worse deity-forsaken heckholes than this!!"
She paused, mentally comparing what she'd meant to say to what she'd actually said.
“Darn censors!!"
Anoma looked around her for some defining landmark that could clue her in to her exact location. There are parts of Limbo where it's safer to walk through the suspicious slime than to attempt any magic. Luckily, this seemed to be one of the safe areas. Remembering, for once, to be cautious, Anoma scanning for approaching energy storms or bizarre creatures. With relief, she found none. So concentrating carefully, she closed her eyes and tried teleporting once more.
When she opened her eyes, she was at least out of Limbo. And safe. Nearby was house. It seemed sort of familiar. So with only slight trepidation she began walking towards it.
Anoma

Well, I am one with no respect for any show (except for Thundercats... *drools*) that is not anime. Does that count?

Arin was jolted out of her manga by an extremely inventive spate of cursing. Recognizing the source, she yelled, "What is it *now*, Tasuki?"
"I wanted to try this 'cereal' stuff, but the spoons are gone," came the reply. Arin groaned.
"Not again. There's been spoon thefts like mad around here, and we're the latest victims."
Fire Child, the neko who is
joining this crazy thing


Aeri stopped in front of an old two-story brick home a block from her three-story gothic manor. Kurama, Koganei, Mikagami and Fuuko caught up to her.
“Where’s Recca and Yusuke?” Fuuko asked.
Aeri shrugged, “I dunno. I lost sight of them. Which doesn’t really matter.”
Kurama watched her thoughtfully. “Why is that?”
Aeri turned around to face the redheaded kitsune. “Well, really, there has got to be a better way to do this, besides running around aimlessly.”
“Why didn’t you think of this earlier?” Mikagami asked annoyed.
Fuuko sighed and Kurama tried not to snicker.
“I didn’t think of it earlier,” she answered honestly. Everyone but Aeri sweatdropped at that comment.
“What are you going to do?” Kurama asked curiously.
“I’m gonna call the others for a conference.”
“A conference? What’ll that do?”
“We’ll wait and see,” Aeri said. She dug a cell phone from her pocket and dialed a number.
* *
The group of "detectives" continued to poke around the kitchen. Ken I. (Ken-chan for short) and Sydney searched around the tables and such stuff, as Cat and Yohji looked for footprints, and Quatre, Cye, and Eagle looked over the places the others missed.
In the meanwhile, Ari was being watched over by Aya, Aidan, Davis (dai-chan), and helping keep an eye on the nine chibis that were running amuck in her house, well, some of them at least. Ranma and Akane were out back cough practicing cough martial arts, aka, Akane was trying to hit Ranma with the mallet for something he said and/or did and she misunderstood, or took it the wrong way.
Then a phone rang and startled poor Lina-chan as she was running by it. Dai-chan was nearest to the phone as she screamed and ran and picked it up chuckling. "Moshi moshi."
* *
“It’s Aeri, is Ari-chan there?”
Dai-chan thought for a second. "Yeah, she is. She's basically keeping an eye on the chibis with some of the others while the others investigate. Hang on a second." Davis ran the phone over to the injured otaku. "Here you go. I'm heading out now." And with that, he grabbed a soccer ball and headed outside to practice. Ari giggled as she spoke up. " Aloha, this is Ari."
Standing on a street corner, Aeri blinked, then asked with a hint of amusement in her voice. “When did ya move to Hawaii? And why didn’t You tell me sooner?”

Kurama stared at the brick house. “Hmm. . . ” I thought I saw something move. . . Mikagami followed Kurama’s gaze and frowned. Someone was watching them.

Ari giggled. "I only wish I had." she sighed, "Oh well, some things are not meant to be yet. Anyway, you'll be the first to know if I do neechan. So what's the occasion?" Ari was chuckling over the phone.

Meanwhile, Yohji and Cat finally found a footprint as Quatre, Cye, and Eagle found some fingerprints near the window frame and doors and Ken-chan and Sydney found a blue scrap of cloth.
Yohji called the group in for a collective unveiling of what they found as Ken-chan looked longingly out the door at where Dai-chan was practicing some soccer stuff.

Aeri grinned. “Heh, just kidding. Anyway I was thinking about calling a conference about the missing spoons. I mean something has got to be done about this. I refuse to settle for sporks!”
Koganei and Fuuko stared at Aeri, she rarely raised her voice when talking to someone, but she obviously felt strongly about the disappearing spoons.
“So, do you think the others will be interested in a conference?” Aeri continued.
Ari thought it over. "Possibly, I mean, I think so. I'll be there IF I can get a certain few bishies convinced that I won't break at the faintest gust of wind." She threw a rather pointed look over at Aya-kun and Ken-ken who at that point decided to look as innocent as possible, at least Ken-ken did since Aya just looked blankly back at her. Eagle and the others were still in the "conference" so they didn't see the look.

Aeri shook her head she understood all too well how protective her posse could be. “Well, to make it easier on them would it be all right to have the conference at your place?”

Koganei and Fuuko noticed Kurama and Mikagami still watching the house. They exchanged looks and saw a hand push a curtain out of the way. After a minute the curtain returned to its former position. Someone was watching them.

“Sure, that might help. As long as everyone can handle having nine really young chibis around and two in training digimons, etc... I'll even see if I can get something cooked up..."
Aidan snorted and giggled at that before retorting, "And how the fudge are you going to do that on crutches?"
Ari sweatdropped. "Yeah right, you just want to impress your boyfriend Red-chan." She promptly razzed the ficcie character. Aidan laughed as the two bishies sweatdropped and the chibis giggled.
Aeri grinned. “Good. Um… who do you wanna call, just so the same people don’t get called twice.”
Ari thought for a second. "I'll call Krim, Anomaly, V-babe, Kat, and Rain. Is that okay?" Aidan smiled as she lead the assorted chibis out of the room.
Aeri nodded. “Yeah, that’ll work. I’ll call Kourin, Riikii, Sona, Spectrum, Dove, Gady and Arin. Is that everyone?”
The front door of the brick house opened, an old lady with short white hair peeked out from behind the door. “Thieves!” She yelled.
Aeri blinked and looked at the house. “Eh?” I’m not a thief. she thought somewhat indignantly.
“You heard me, thieves.”
“Excuse me, Ari, I have to go some old lady just called us thieves. Ja ne.” Aeri hung up the phone.
“Excuse me, but we’re--mmph” Fuuko began angrily, but was cut off by Mikagami grabbing her and cupping his hand over her mouth.
“Are you missing something ma’am?” Kurama asked politely.
“Don’t you play innocent with me.” The old lady said stepping onto the porch. “I know yer type, you waltz around in them long coats o’ yers, hidin’ all kinds o’ things in them pockets.” She pointed a finger at them. “Where’d put them?”
“What are you missing?” Kurama tried again.
The old lady snorted, “Hmph, like you don’t know.” She muttered under her breath. Kurama heard her anyway. “My spoons, where are they?”
Fuuko stopped struggling against Mikagami. Kurama frowned and Aeri and Koganei just stared at her.
“You’re missing spoons too?” Aeri finally managed.
* *
Ari sighed as she hung up the phone and started to call Rain. The assorted bishies and fic characters that weren't involved with watching with the chibis started to compile the information and decided that a conference with the other is what was needed.
Aeri, Ari and Co.

What?

"Not here, huh? Where'd she go?"
"To Rain's," Duo replied promptly.
"Duo!" Riikii's Duo greeted his original. "How ya been?"
"Duo!"
Riikii looked from one to the other. "Gahh...just remember who goes with who, okay?"
The two Duos looked at each other and grinned wickedly.
"Oh great. I can see there's going to be some pranks at my suspense..."
"A duo of Duos," Ryo-chan muttered.
"THAT WASN'T FUNNY!"
"Anyway, we'll show you how to get to Rain's if you want," Trowa offered.
"You will? Great!" Riikii glomped him. Chibi Trowa, who had been watching his bigger version with some interest, smiled.
"To the Rain House!"
"That wasn't funny either."
"Oh, I get it. None of my jokes are ever funny, are they?"
"NOPE!"
"Riikii! You're supposed to be on my side!"
"You're just so kawaii when you're flustered." Glomp.
"ACK!"
Riikii


I'm popular today.....

A flock of bats winged their way through the perpetual gray-violet mist that perpetually surrounded the massive obsidian cathedral/fortress-esque edifice that sat at the top of an extremely craggy peak, having at one time been an asylum. The winged rodents and the ravens perched in the branches of the trees were the only visible signs of life, unless one took the various nightwalkers that populated the graveyards in the area into account, or the restless spirits which flitted through the abandoned hamlet that stood at the base of the mountain into account ,but their activities really couldn't be taken as 'signs of life'. It was a rather somber corner of the fic-verse, where the remnants of various characters tended to roam after their untimely demises in fics, and yet the group of lunatics we all know and love as Rain and her horde had taken up residence here. Go figure.
Rain shook her head in response to Dove's inquiry. "I'm afraid we don't have any spoon either.. we've looked all over the place and there isn't a single one to be had. Plenty of sporks though," the dhampeal replied, getting a grumble from Luceid.
"That's all well an' good now, but I can't eat m' bleedin' Frosted Flakes wi' a spork any more than I can wi' a ladle! Bullocks!" The Guardian of Insanity growled from where she was leaning against a wall, her bowl of cereal in one hand, a ladle in the other and a dour expression on her face. Her blue-black wolf ears were laid back against her head and the rune inscribed under her left eye was beginning to glow a bright purple, leaving no doubt that the Guardian was angry.
"Kat's here too...she was at the door, so I sent Aya down to go get her. He should be bringing her up here soon and maybe we can all form a group to go find the deluded freak who's stealing the spoons.." Rain added to her previous comments.
Just at that moment, Dilandau re-entered the room, as he'd left a moment or so before to answer the phone. "Rain ,it's another one of your friends. My, but aren't you the popular one today..."
Rainbow Fright, the lunatic
who's running the Asylum.


Spatula!

Anoma awoke from her little nap. She tossed the spork away and stretched leisurely, like a cat. She yawned massively and looked around her. She blinked rapidly in a startled fashion. Then she chuckled at herself. She'd forgotten for a moment what she'd set out to do. She rummaged through her backpack and found an almost fresh croissant, a thermos of coffee and her headset.
She grinned as she ate breakfast to the sounds of her self-compiled tape of anime songs. Life was good. She frowned slightly. No. Life was a lonely. Muses were a great help when undistracted, but they weren't good company. They were different from humans. Aloof and eccentric. They had a different mindset about things, a different perspective. Hanging around them too long could change a person. Anoma sighed. The only other humans she saw on a regular basis at her home were her own creations. It was creepy trying to hold a conversation with a person she'd dreamed up. And boring. She could predict just about everything they said. What she really wanted was one of her anime charas back. But she had no idea where they were. Or even if they were still alive. She shrugged as if dismissing her thoughts and began repacking her bag. As she hefted it on to her shoulder she felt a presence. One of the s'mthinngz, no doubt. She turned to face the slimy thing. Her brow wrinkled in confusion. Why did this pink, fluffy bunny slipper feel like a s'mthinng?
||R'prrt!|| it trilled.
Ah...it was a s'mthinng. One disguised as fluffy pink slipper, but a s'mthinng nonetheless. Inanely, she wondered if another of the creatures was costumed as this slipper's mate.
"What do you have to report?" Anoma asked.
||Nn spuns!|| came the reply.
Anoma shook her head. This felt like some wacky dream sequence. The strange landscape, the talking pink slipper, the fact that it was saying that there were no spoons. Things like this never happened to nice, normal girls, she mused wryly.
" Well, if you can't find me a spoon, maybe you could find one of my bishies and fetch him here, eh?" she replied, half-jokingly.
The fuzzy slipper slid from view. She blinked. She hadn't really meant for it to take that as a serious order. But, at least she hadn't asked it to conquer the world or something drastic like that. She giggled as she pictured an army of fluffy pink bunny slippers taking over the world.
The s'mthinng returned and it had brought someone with it. One very confused Gundam pilot.
" Where am I?" he asked softly, slightly dazed.
Anoma gave him a once over. Okay, not her first choice, but who was she to be picky at a time like this. With a running leap, she leapt and glomped him.
" Trowa!!" she squealed at the top of her voice. All theatrics aside, she was indeed glad to see him.
" Oh, hello Anoma," His tone seemed slightly cold
" You're not mad at me are you?" Anoma asked, giving him her best puppy eyes.
" No."
" Good!" she renewed her glomping with tripled vigor.
" Could you let go of me?"
" Yes!" And a minute later, she did.
Trowa regarded Anoma with those eerily calm green eyes of his and asked, " Where did you send me Anoma?"
" It was an accident! I don't know! I'm sorry!" she blurted out. She shut her mouth fast. Where had the clever answers, the smooth double-talk she picked up from the Muses gone? She was too excited.
Trowa merely nodded. Nothing more.
" The spoons are missing, Trowa. Everyone's. You'll come help us find them right?"
She watched his eyes as he digested this latest bit of news. With a bit of the " well-I'd-hate-to-find-out-what-happens-if-I-say-no" attitude he agreed to.
" Good!" Anoma said. She turned to look for the s'mthinng. It was gone, without making a report.
||Tu w'shz|| its voice said in her mind.
" I thought it supposed to be three, " she said aloud and shrugged. Fairy tales didn't always mimic reality.
With Trowa now, she ventured to the house she'd seen. Up close she realized where she'd seen it before. It was her old house. The one she'd lived in before moving to Limbo. She ran inside. Most of the stuff she'd left behind was actually still there. She plopped down on the dusty, moth-eaten, frayed, sagging, but comfortable couch. Trowa followed and found a reasonably safe chair to sit on.
" We'll wait here for a bit. We'll have lunch and then figure out how to proceed from there, okay?" she said.
" Okay," Trowa said.
Anoma spread her belongings on the table. Food, coffee, foil spork, cell phone, headphones, tapes, coffee, spatula. Not what she would have packed had she put some thought in it. But since she hadn't she really couldn't do much about it but deal with it. Well, after lunch that was.

Anoma " I could have said spoon," Mortis


The old lady stared at Aeri shrewdly. “You’re missin’ spoons too are ya?” she asked skeptically
Aeri sighed. Some people were so distrustful. “No, I don’t have any spoons, either and nor do my friends.”
The old lady didn’t seem to believe her. “Hmph! If you don’t have them who does?”
“That’s what we’re trying to figure out, ma’am.” Kurama said.
The old lady memorized their faces, just in case. “Right.” She snorted and opened the door to her home and walked in, slamming the door behind her.
Mikagami let Fuuko go. Aeri sighed and dialed a number. Yanagi answered the phone.
* *
Ari continued to call those she said she would. She had finally gotten a hold of v-babe and things were becoming a bit more animated. However, she was hungry, and she wanted a hamburger or a steak for crying out loud! Yohji and that little group tried to put the few clues they had found together while the rest of the gang watched the chibis and Ken-chan and Dai-chan started an impromptu "soccer" session outside. Sydney sighed and smiled. All in all, it was a lovely day... now if only the spoons were still here...
* *
“Yanagi-chan, when did you get back from the park?” Aeri asked.
“Just a little bit ago.”
“Oh, umm… do you mind watching the chibis a little longer?”
“No, I don’t mind. Domon and Kuwabara are playing with them right now.”
“Ah, okay, and thanks.”
Aeri hung up the phone.
Kurama stared at the brick house a little longer, then turned to Aeri. There’s something strange about that house. “On to Ari-chan’s?” he asked.
Aeri nodded and they continued down the street. Aeri dialed another number.
The two digi-destined boys continued to kick the soccer ball around as Ken-ken apparently decided to join in the fun and ended up coaching them in some of the "finer" aspects of ball handling and blocking. Aidan and Sydney took over caring for the chibis as Cye and Quatre helped them out.. and made sure that Ari didn't have to move too much. Cat was with Yohji, Aya, and Eagle as they still started putting the clues together and Ranma and Akane were arguing yet again over something.
Suddenly Dai-chan managed to kick the ball past Ken-ken to Ken-chan... only that it went a little wild and started rolling towards a red-haired green eyed man that could almost pass for Cat's twin. The two digi-destined blinked as the elder Ken waved. "'Allo Kurama. Nice of you to drop by."
Kurama smiled. “Umhm.”
Mikagami and Fuuko soon showed up with Koganei and Aeri trailing behind. Aeri was on the phone talking to Kourin. She had talked to Gady, Arin, Sona and Dove. She still needed to call Spectrum and Riikii.
She hung up the phone and greeted Ari. “Hey! We’re here.”
Ari waved through the window. The others all except for Yohji, Cat, Aya, and Eagle headed out the door as Ari started to hobble over on her crutches. Ken-ken smiled as Dai-chan and Ken-chan abandoned their game to go get Ranma and Akane. "Neechan... Niichan... guys... long time no see." Ari said as she barely managed to hobble down the stairs.
Aeri laughed. “It hasn’t been that long. Just a few days.”
Kurama greeted the others. Fuuko, Mikagami and Koganei waved a greeting.
Ari chuckled as she heard that. "But it feels longer than that girl..." she hobbled down to meet her friends. Dai-chan and Ken-chan came around with Ranma and Akane, who were still arguing.
Yohji and that "detective" crew eventually drew a conclusion that the thief was male, young, and wore a white shirt. That was it. They heard the noise outside and decided to ask if the new arrivals had discovered anything potentially helpful.
Cat walked out the door and stopped when she saw Kurama. She now had a clue of what she would like if she was a guy.
Eagle chuckled and shook his head. "That's right you haven't met all of Aeri's crew have you."
Ari giggled. "Oh yeah... Cat, get over here!" she smiled in her gentle, young childish way as Cat semi-mock-grudgingly obliged. "Guys, this is Cat. Cat this is Aeri, Kurama, Mikagami, Koganei, and Fuuko." Cat merely gave a half smile and waved. "Hi. Nice to meet you."
Aeri smiled. “Hi, so you’re Cat.”
Kurama blinked and glanced at her. “Nice to meet you.”
Aeri watched as the rest of her crew greeted them. “You know what’s really strange? This old woman accused us of stealing her spoons.” Aeri threw up her hands. “Can you believe it?”
Ari looked shocked. "That's weird . . . Kinda strange don't cha think. You weren't in her house were you?"
Cat, Aya, and Yohji all looked highly interested in that answer. Then Cat decided to pick up. "Speaking of missing spoons, did you guys find anything unusual around where the spoons normally were in your house?"
Mikagami shook his head, “No we weren’t in her house. We just walked by and she came out and accused us.”
Aeri answered Cat’s question. “Recca found a torn piece of blue cloth. It looked like it could have come from a pair of blue jeans, but we’re not entirely sure it did.”
Ari looked a bit taken back. "That's definitely peculiar. Yeesh, the people you can run into at times."
Yohji however seemed a little bit more concerned about it. "How did she accuse you?"
Cat merely kept chatting with Aeri. "Well, we found a scrap of white material, some foot prints and finger prints and pretty much figured we're probably dealing with a semi-young male who likes to wear white shirts... and I guess blue jeans or overalls is now added to that list."
“Hmm…. Well, that helps a bit, but not much.” Aeri commented. “I mean how many young males in this town wear white shirts and blue jeans or overalls? I know most of my crew have several white shirts and blue jeans.”
“How do you know that the perpetrator is a young male?” Fuuko asked joining the conversation.
Mikagami frowned as he answered Yohji’s question. “She acted like we were some kind of lowlife thieves who enjoy stealing stuff and creating trouble.”
“She thought we were hoodlums.” Kurama said.
Yohji shock his head." Bah, that won't help out much at all." He looked up as he heard Fuuko's question. "The footprints were too big to be a female's or a young boys, and the finger prints had the same problem. It's not much of a lead."
Cat shrugged. "That's our life 'round here I figured."
Ari simply blinked as she looked at them. Needless to say, she loved a good mystery novel as much as the next person, but she wasn't all that good with what they were talking about.
Aya watched calmly throughout the whole thing, then Eagle spoke up. "As soon as the others get here, we can ask them if they found any clues."
Aeri sighed, “No it won’t help. And that reminds me I need still have to call Spectrum and Riikii.” She digs out phone and dialed Spect’s number.
Cat sighed and walked off, feeling slightly anti-social, bad break ups do cause those feelings towards all males at times. Ari just sighed as she smiled." Do you guys want to come inside and sit down?"
Aeri nodded and entered Ari’s house still talking. The rest of her crew followed suit.

Meanwhile at the brick home. . .
The old lady walked down the hall and opened the door to the basement. She took off her face mask (ala Mission Impossible) and white hair, revealing a tall, young woman with dark hair. She stood up straighter as she headed down the steps.
The inside was immaculate. If anyone had bothered to look in the windows they would have seen a normal living room. Doilies were placed in various places, nice furniture and old antique coffee table dominated the room.
The basement however was a different matter. All kinds of surveillance equipment and other related items took up the space.
“Well?” the now young lady asked, hands on her hips.
“They don’t seem to suspect anything, but I’d watch the two long-haired young men,” said a young man watching the monitors.
The woman nodded, pleased. “I’ll keep that in mind. How is the plan coming?”
“Extremely well, no one but that group you talked to earlier has even noticed the spoons are missing.” Another young man said.
“Good, the boss will be very pleased.” She stared thoughtfully at the pictures of the group she talked to. “See who they are and let me know if they come back.”

And that's all I have.