I'm so sorry about the absence! Anywhoo, I'm back at camp *dives into the lake* and deciding to be neutral on the prank war topic! Though *cough* I've got some tictacs in my luggage that might be a good way of hiding some explosives if any team might want to *cough* persuade me. *grins inexcusably*

Aaaand here we are! Basically, only Shadow Dragon, Cayke, and Somebody have yet to post their sides. (Very recently they all seem to be on a stint of inactivity.) Also, I'm going to start using more descriptive descriptions in my story, hair color, eye color, etc., because I write more realisticaly that way. I will just go by my personal ideas of your or your AEs appearances, and if you do not like it or you want a specific look please tell me.

Anyway, new day!

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It was the perfect day for swimming, Puck thought, diving off the dock and severely splashing Air. The sky was blue, the sun was bright. The cold water shocked and delighted her skin, feeling the coolness prickle across her arms.

It was disappointing (and a bit lonely), however, that Joan was in the canoeing group. And Sydeny sat under a tree, not in the water... reading a book. Puck sloshed over to her cabinmate. 

"Why are you reading?" she asked, trying to get a glimpse of the cover. "It's such an awesome day for swimming!"

Sydeny held the book out of reach of the dripping Puck. "It's called, 'Magic and Madness'. It's about magical objects from around this area. Folklore and stuff. You see how it could be helpful."

Puck stared blankly at her. Sydeny sighed. "The Ring! What if it's in here?" Puck reluctantly admitted that it would be helpful if it was. Sydney asked if Puck would like to help her look.

"Nah," Puck shrugged. "I'd rather swim." She ran back out into the water.

The dock off which she had been leaping was now occupied by Jarvis, Air, and Shadow, and she had no intention of waiting for her go. Instead, she clambered up onto a rock, much higher than the short, wooden dock. She sat on the top, her legs folded, and savored the moment. No obligations. No temptations. Just peace. Pranking was quite fun, and the war even more so, but she was relieved to have a break from both. Even things that you love dearly can get tiring after a while.

She could see the canoers. None of them were very far from shore, and one was even tipped over. Puck stifled a laugh. Dev was on the back of one boat, clutching the sides like his life depended on it, and she could see his terrified expression from where she was. Puck sort of liked the way Dev looked when he was scared.  Maybe it was because he seemed a lot more conquerable than when he was sending brussels sprouts flying at everything. He seemed almost... cute.

Puck smiled and pushed a strand of hair away from her eyes. She was going to have so much fun defeating him. And she bet he would look even cuter when he was terrifed of HER. 

~MEANWHILE~ 

Sydeny flipped through her book, skimming each page with an eye so fast she barely caught two words. Mirror of Desire. Nope.  The Wishing Token. Double nope. The Taking Ring. HOLD IT! Sydeny turned back to the page. Sure enough, there was a passage with the aforementioned heading. Excitedly, Sydeny began to read. 

The Taking Ring is a magical object given the power to "take" whatever is tapped on it. When something is "taken" it enters the Ring Dimension, the place where people go to buy wedding rings. However, they enter through a different way. *(Abigail's Note — @HAB, :D)* The thing will stay there forever unless the ring is boiled in a stew of certain objects and a piece of paper with the name of the thing that one wants to retrieve. There are many "rooms" in the Taking Ring and only one is active at a time. There can be up to 20 years worth of Taken things in one room, but usually a room is active for about three months. Living things inside the ring can summon things from other rooms by wishing for them. Other living things can also be summoned. If a thing is summoned out of an active room then it may never come out until it is back in the room. 

Then it moved to a section about Dwarves' Pots, which can eat the thing that it is cooking if you do not feed it beforehand. Sydeny closed the book. It certainly wasn't much help at all—It didn't even specify the things you needed to make a stew out of.

Then Sydeny had a thought. Were there other living things in the ring besides Danie? And if so... what if they summoned her into an inactive room? Then... then... they would never ever see her again... EVER.

Suddenly, the previously bright sky looked ominous.

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BUM. BUM. BUUUUUM! Things are getting good, I'd say! This post is in the perspectives of Puck and Sydney, to thank them for being some of my most faithful readers!

TOP!!! 

Oh man Abigail, this story is getting so good!!! I can't wait to see what happens in the end with the rivalry between Dev and Puck!! Please keep going!!!  

TTTTOOOOOPPPP!

I am NOT letting this die!

CHOO CHOO! TOP TRAIN!

(Dolphin says "wvvv." That looks like five sloppily drawn birds.)

Please keep going, Abi! Top!

WAITWAITWAIT! IS THIS TURNING INTO A LOVE STORY?!

This is not Fluff/Romance, Dev. This could be catagorized in Action/Adventure, Fanfiction, and Fantasy, but not Romance. Yet.

Er... I don't mean to push, but it's been 19 days since your last post...

TOP! 

Joan: TOP!!!! Please Post Abigail! 

Puck: @Dev: Oh, I don't think this story will turn into a romance story.... YET.!!!!!

*Blushes bright red again as she looks toward Dev*  

Hola! I'm back! Really sorry I haven't posted, I've just been really busy.

Also, I probably won't post for about another 2 weeks or so. For a more detailed explaination:

http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/chirpatcricket/node/205735 

Finally, I need another character! One other person can join now because I have this really weird idea that calls for another character and I don't want to just make someone up. So, newsflash, 1 spot now open! (You won't have a very big part though. Sort of a secondary charrie.) One person ONLY, first come first serve.

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This is the life. Silvery Ink thought. Relaxing in a canoe... This camp is amazing. She turned around and peeked over her shoulder at the other campers' feeble attempts to get their boats moving. Cayke and Somebody were trying to flip their canoe up the right way, Dev still looked terrified, and Joan kept accidentially hitting Feather with the paddle.

"Ow! Watch it!" Feather grumbled after the third time this had happened. "You know what, I don't care if we sit here all day." She pulled out a dictionary and began reading.

Joan sighed. "Feather, c'mon, you can have a go with the paddles!"

Feather looked up. "Oh, okay! Sure!" She stuffed her book back into her bag and snatched the two paddles out of Joan's hands. Slowly, she stroked them through the water. The boat moved five inches.

"OH!" Feather said in glee, and in her excitement dropped one of the paddles.

"Oops."

Joan sighed again.

"Anyway," Feather said, as if she hadn't just ruined their prospects of canoeing, "There's no use for this paddle now that we lost the other one. We might as well put it to good use."

She threw it at Dev.

It hit him on his right shoulder. Dev wobbled...shrieked...lost his balance...and tipped over the edge of the canoe, causing an enormous splash which hit Squeak full in the face.

Feather went into hysterics. 

MEANWHILE

Sydeny stood up, pacing back and forth, words spiraling crazily through her head.

Realms. Summoning. Never return. Dimension. Ring.

This was bad. Really bad. CBers went through all sorts of crazy things, but nobody had been trapped in a ring before, at least as far as Sydeny knew. "Okay, calm down." Sydney said to herself. "You don't know what this book said was true. And you don't know that there's another living thing trapped in the ring. You can think about this later. Now just go and enjoy the swimming."

She walked over to the lake and dipped her toe in. Quick as a flash, Puck sped over.

"Hey!" she said, delighted. "You're coming in!"

"Uh-huh." Sydney said. "I found what I was looking for. You know, if there are other living th—"

She was dunked into the water and did a little somersault to stand up. Puck was laughing.

"I'll get you!" Sydeny said, leaping for Puck, but the latter dove out of the way just in time, launching herslef up into a mega-jump. Puck flew through the air and landed with a thump on something soft.

"HEY!" roared the something, which happend to be Spyro, who had been innocently floating around on an inner tube until interrupted. "Watch it, Prankster-Girl!" Puck smiled. She liked that nickname.

"No can do, Donut Dragon!" she yelled, flipping his seat over. 

Spyro shouted out a certain unmentionable word as he went under. Puck gasped and giggled. Sydeny, taking advantage of Puck's distraction, then dove down and grabbed Puck's ankle.

Spyro popped up with another heartfelt outberset not advisable to write here. 

Hotairballoon paddled over. "Spyro!" He reprimanded. "One more word like that and no donuts tonight!"

"There are NEVER donuts here." The dragon pouted.

"Tonight's donut night for dessert." Hotairballoon pointed out. "The menu's posted on the cafeteria door. If you weren't so lazy as to look, you might've known sooner."

Spyro gasped. "Donuts? Really?" he said, ignoring Hotairballoon's hardly hidden insult. "YAHOOOOOOO!" He skipped off singing, "Donuts, donuts, do-nutty donuts, I loooove donuts, yum!" 

Hotariballoon moaned. "Can I pretend I don't know him?"

"Nope." Air laughed, diving off of the dock. "A bit too late for that!" She landed with a splash and swam over to the small group.

"What're you guys doing?"

"Oh, nothing." Puck said. "Just playing... SNEAK ATTACK!" As she said those last two words, Air felt her feet slip out from underneath her. She landed with a plop on her backside.

"Grr, Puck!" She growled, diving for her ursurper's legs. However, Puck was very skilled in the art of dodging angry people and not only managed to escape, but to bowl over Hotairballoon in the process.

"Who votes," A very wet HAB said a moment later, popping his head up, "That we all gang up on Puck?"

"Oh, yeah!" Air and Sydeny cried, and all three dove at Puck.

Attracted by loud noises and splashing, Jarvis and Shadow Dragon headed over. "What's going on?" Jarvis asked.

Puck explained in the same manner she had to Air. Once the two girls had recovered, they agreed to the Anti-Puck alliance.

Laughing and splashing under the bright, summer sun, Sydeny almost forgot the sinister possibilities of the ring.

Almost. 

Now I wanna read this one. IS THIS THE ONE WITH THE THING WITH DEV AND PUCK?!

Oooooooooooooo 

OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH!!!! OOOOOHHH MYYY GOOOSH!

ME ME ME EMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEME

*trips over chair*

I HAVE TO COME!!!!! AAAHAHHHHH 

I JUST READ THIS WHOLE THING!!!!!!!

MEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEME

THIS IS BRILLIANT!!!! ALL THESE SKI LODGES ARE BRILLIANT!!!! 

this is like a movie!!! I especially like that thingy where Dev tried to fix the table and he did almost but then it came apart!!!