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It was a boring lunch at the cafeteria. It was so boring because only Xarae, Kirana, Mika, Annika, Obi-Wan, Nami, Chakra, Melesse, and Chouko were there.
Everyone else had something to do -- shopping, training, visiting, fixing things, and everything in between.
So tonight would be nice and quiet.
At least that's what they thought.
It all started with Mika's clumsiness...
"Oops, sorry," she said as her juice fell all over Nami.
Nami gasped and looked down at her now red clothing. She grabbed a heap of noodles and tossed them at Mika. "Take that!" she cried. But instead of hitting Mika, the noodles hit Kirana, who was sitting next to her.
"Hey!" Kirana exclaimed, throwing whatever she could easily grab.
She and Mika loaded themselves with food and ducked under the table. Joining forces was definitely a good idea.
"Food fight!" cried Chakra happily, and soon the food was flying.
Annika giggled as she hurled pudding through the air. Chouko's eyes went wide as she watched. We could get in so much trouble... she thought. Suddenly a creme pie hit the side of her face. She gasped and threw salad at Nami. Melesse tried to hide under the table, but Mika and Kirana were there, armed and dangerous. She was about to hide somewhere else when she realized how fun it looked... Xarae sat in her seat, her arms crossed. The beautiful young woman was graceful and civilized, and wanted nothing to do with a food fight. But, she thought as she watched Chouko throw her juice at Obi-Wan, you can't be civilized all the time...
"Stop it! Stop it!" Minae cried, but no one listened to her. A smile twitched at the corners of her mouth. Well, she thought as she licked frosting off her fingers, just this once...
Food pummeled Obi-Wan, but he didn't care. He tried to get out and tell Yoda, but Kirana and Mika had come up with a whole bunch of food and bombarded him. Annika threw a roll at Chakra. She chuckled with glee. Then an over-ripe fruit hit her, exploding. She gasped as sticky purple juice trickled down her face. Her white hair was now purple.
"Hey!" she whined loudly. Tears hovered in her brown eyes.
"What happened, Annika?" asked Obi-Wan, rushing over. It was funny to see Obi-Wan, talking in his dignified Scottish accent, wearing rainbow-colored Jedi robes. He did his best to comfort Annika, then cried, "No one hits Annika and gets away with it!" Annika thought she saw a smile on his usually serious face. He threw a pie at Xarae, and she laughed as it hit her.
"Catch!" she cried, throwing her noodles.
"Is this fun or what?" asked Mika as she and Kirana surveyed their "base."
Kirana grinned. "Yes!" she exclaimed.
"Hey," Minae cried, crouching under the table,"so that's where all the food went! Gimme some!" She grabbed a piece of cake, then left.
"Enough, that is!" cried Master Yoda's voice.
Nami saw the pudding sail towards him. "Master Yoda -- WATCH OUT!" she cried.
The pudding hit him with a splat. Everyone took deep breaths, knowing they were going to be in BIG trouble.
"Clean this mess up," Yoda said, then he left.
"That's all?" asked Melesse.
"ALL?!?!" Obi-Wan cried. "Look at the room!"
Nami couldn't resist. She threw a hunk of butter at the back of Obi-Wan's neck, and there it stuck. "Why you-" he said, turning around.
Kirana grabbed his arm. "No, no," she said. "That's how the whole thing got started."
Xarae looked at the after math of the food war. "We have a lot of cleaning up to do," she said.
