Tales From CP9

Chapter 6. Videogame Day

It was just another ordinary day at Enies Lobby, Fukurou and Jyabra were helping me clean out my closet, when suddenly I came across my old SNES system in a large, dusty cardboard box.

"What is that?!" Fukurou exclaimed excitedly.

"My SNES gaming system, wow I haven't seen this thing in forever!" I said. I took it out of the box, and hooked it up to my television set. I then put in Mario Kart, and turned the T.V. on.

"Wow, this thing looks ancient!" said Jyabra, "I'm suprised that you don't have an XBox, a Wiiu, or something more recent, Shouko. Why do you still have this hunk of junk."

"It's not junk, it's the best video gaming system ever!" I said proudly. I selected Yoshi as my racer and got to it, not even five minutes later, Jyabra and Fukurou were staring at the screen, jaws dropped in astonishment, as they saw me claim first place, just ahead of Mario himself.

"What are you three up to?" asked a voice curiously.

"Blueno! Blueno! Shouko has an SNES system, a-and she just beat a-a level, and just look!" exclaimed Fukurou like an excited preschooler. I snicker as I beat another race, Blueno left momentarily and returned with Kumadori and with a large purple bowl of popcorn.

"YOYOY!" said an impressed Kumadori.

"You said it..." replied Blueno.

"Can we give it a go after you, Shouko?" begged Fukurou.

"Sure guys" I said cheerfully. I handed the controller to Jyabra, and the chaos began. Soon, everyone was under the control of the electronic, glowing screen, each obsessed with winning first place. The way they acted in front of that game, you would have thought they were watching football or something. It was pretty comical! Bleuno was yelling at Donkey Kong to get out of his way. Fukurou was laughing at Jyabra when he lost to Princess Peach. And needless to say, there was a lot of swearing involved during some of the harder courses.

Kalifa peeked in my room, after hearing all the commotion, and after seeing the boys gathered around my television, Kalifa rolled her eyes, and motioned for me to follow her. When I left the room, Kalifa led me into her room and we had some fun of our own. We put on Sailor Moon, and had a moon-marathon. It was a pretty sweet afternoon, especially since the boys were out of our hair!