http://clampfix.fanworks.net/x-overs/appreciation.txt </head><body><pre>Heyla! This 'fic is pure silliness. It's actually a response to one of the discussions that came up a few days ago on cffml. I know it's a bit late, but there was a little research that needed to be done for it first. ;) The story is in the spirit of those character collages that CLAMP does from time to time. I'm sure some people are getting left out here, so if anyone knows of a series I've missed, please e- mail me. It can always be added to the guest list for next year. :) Jonna ******** Multiple CLAMP series crossover Appreciation Day by Jonna Coombs One-Shot posted May 24, 2001 ******** DISCLAIMER: None of these characters belong to me. Each and every one belongs to CLAMP and their associates (or collaborators). This 'fic is written for non-profit entertainment purposes only. ******** Kujaku perched in the branches of a tall oak tree, smiling down at the group of people lounging on the ground below. "See, it wasn't such a bad idea to stop here," he said, talking without really paying attention to whether anyone happened to be listening to him or not. He tossed his head in the breeze, purple eyes glinting with delight. The spot that had been chosen for today's event was quite scenic--a grassy field with scattered trees, bright tents, and picnic blankets set up in the sun. There was a small pond at the center of everything. "It's such a nice day. We don't get out much, after all. Even though some people might complain about the exercise, it'll be good to meet new people." "Speak for yourself." Ryu-ou, at least, was listening. "As if we don't have better things to do. If you want to go meet new people, then go. Don't sit here talking to us about it." Yasha-ou, sitting next to him beneath the tree, was silent as he held the sheathed blade of Yama-to in his hands. "Everyone needs a break from destiny now and then," Kujaku replied with a broad wink. "Karura and Sohma are relaxing, and Ashura seems to be having fun." He nodded over to where Ashura was laughing and chasing butterflies across the open grass. Then he frowned and looked downward again. "Hey, Yasha! Are you listening? Don't just sit there with that sword. Get up and mingle with the common folk!" Yasha ignored him. But he looked up alertly as two boys dressed in high school uniforms entered the territory that the RG Veda group had staked out as their own. "Hello!" The brown-haired boy said brightly, oblivious to any possible danger. "I'm Kentarou Higashikunimaru, and this is Takeshi Shuukaido. Together we are Campus C...." His words were muffled as the boy with blue-black hair standing beside him clapped a hand over his mouth. "We're security," the other boy said, to fill in the pause. "We need to see your invitations." "I have them." Karura-ou looked up from her sunbathing to produce several pieces of pasteboard, printed with bright gold and blue lettering. Kentarou snatched them up before Takeshi could, reading the words aloud in a solemn voice. "The CLAMP First Annual Picnic for Under Appreciated Series. No CCS, TB, or X characters allowed--one day only. Sponsored by the Imonoyama Group and CLAMP Campus. Admit one." He examined the names on each of the paper cards, then gave a satisfied nod and handed them back to her. "You're clear." Karura-ou accepted them with an amused smile. "Thank you." "That's two series down," Kentarou said cheerily as they walked away towards one of the other groups gathered on the field. "How many are left?" Takeshi consulted his clipboard. "Lots. It'll take forever to check all the tickets at this rate. We'd better hurry. People are starting to separate from the groups they came with." A shadow fell over them, and there was a loud rushing noise from overhead. Both of the students looked up. "Giant Robots! " Kentarou exclaimed. "Takeshi! We have to change into Campus Cop Du--....!" Takashi quickly cut him off by covering his mouth again, casting a nervous glance back at the RG Veda group. "How many times do I have to tell you not to say that! And anyway, it's just the Mashin from 'Rayearth'." The three armored figures landed on the grass well away from the gathered crowd. Guru Clef transported the other members of the series in as the three Magic Knights beamed down from the Mashin. ...All except for Lantis, who insisted on making a stylish entrance of his own on his cool black horse. "Oh. Then I guess they're all right." The two started over to the group to see their invitations, when suddenly Kentarou stopped, looking over at two figures dressed in suit jackets talking underneath one of the trees. "Who are they?" "Those are the guys from 'Combination'. They're cops." "Ah! Okay," Kentarou beamed. "Then they're all right, too." Takashi just sighed and shook his head. "Come on. We have to check their tickets." A girl with short-trimmed white hair wandered past the two boys, looking with wide green eyes at everything around her. She slowed by one of the picnic blankets, the chosen spot of an unusual collection of characters. The person sitting nearest to her, an androgynous looking individual with long white-blond hair and jade eyes, looked up as the girl came to a halt. "Have you lost your group?" The voice was quiet, musical. "You're welcome to join us, if you'd like." The girl blinked. "You have wings." The person smiled gently. "Yes." In fact, six of the eight people sitting on the blanket had wings. The other two were obviously human, a young man and an old one. And there were also two cats. Suu was fascinated. "Come and sit down with us!" one of the other winged people, who had unruly blond hair and amber eyes, piped in cheerfully. "Would you like some food? We have plenty. Most of us don't actually eat." Suu pondered for a moment. "Okay." She knelt down on the blanket as the angels of 'Wish' made room for her. Presea of 'Rayearth' trotted quickly by. The Pharle was chasing after a SD little girl who was wearing a crown on her head. Princess Mokona had arrived less than three minutes ago, and already she was making a beeline for the flower decorations around one of the tents, preparing to wreak havoc. Presea was looking rather harried, and could be heard muttering, "this is absolutely the *last* time I'm ever volunteering to baby sit! And I thought the *fuzzy* version of Mokona was bad!!" In a wide space behind the tent, Gigei from 'RG Veda' had started up a jam session involving her dance troupe and Caldina from 'Rayearth'. Kendappa-ou was providing music on her harp and Nagisa on her flute, while Oruha sang and two women from 'Shin Shunkaden' kept time on their drums. The group had collected a modest audience, mostly minor characters from the cast of RG Veda, MKR, and some of the girl/boy pairs from 'Watashi no Sukina Hito'. A group of three teenage girls from 'Suki Dakara Suki' had paused to watch the performance also. Hinata Asahi, who was wishing that she could have brought Waka with her, glanced away and caught sight of someone standing near another one of the tents. A warm, tingly feeling immediately spread through her heart. "Oh, look!" she exclaimed happily, "There's my new neighbor! HEY, NEIGHBOR-SAN!" An older man wearing glasses turned from where he had just coaxed a black cat to come out from behind a tree. Sirou Asou sighed as he picked up the cat and stood. "It's Sensei," he said in resignation, his voice hardly audible over the background noise of the musicians. In a different corner of the field, the Autozam contingent had set up camp. Eagle was perched rather precariously on the edge of a lawn chair, examining some schematics on his datapad. Geo was staring out at the crowd of gathered CLAMP characters, wishing that Eagle had decided to bring the FTO. They'd hardly been here ten minutes, and already he was bored. "Hey," Geo said abruptly, "Shouldn't the characters from Soryuden be here, too?" "That's one of those grey areas," Zazu piped in. "CLAMP did art for the novels, but it's not written by them. You'll notice that the CLAMP fanfic is pretty much all crossovers." "Still," Eagle said absently, "I think they were invited as guests. The 'CLAMP Gakuen Kaikigenshou Kenkyuukai Jinken File' characters are all here, and that was done in collaboration with an outside writer, too." He nodded over to where four of the five CLAMP School students belonging to the Strange Phenomenon Research Society were clustered on the grass. Takayuki Usyagiya was reading a book. Suoh's cousin Kouji was demonstrating martial arts...or trying to. Rion Ibuki and Yuuki Ajiadou were making flower chains. Yuuki seemed determined to decorate his long blond hair and black CLAMP School dress with as many flowers as possible. Another group of guests, from the manga 'Elementalors', were sitting on the grass a short distance away. Just beyond them, the cheerful young girl from 'Rex' and her pet dinosaur were sitting on a pink blanket. The girl was wearing pink and more pink. Most of the other characters were giving her and her unusual 'pet' a very wide berth. But that may also have been due to the fact that she was chatting happily with Fubuki of 'Shirahime Shou', as a very large black demon- wolf with red eyes sat watchfully nearby. Ferio of 'Rayearth' was trading sword fighting pointers with Kenichi and Prince Ledan of 'Derayd'. The Magic Knights were next to them, chatting with Mifuu Mizukagami from 'CGK' and the female lead from 'Shin Shunkaden'. For some reason there was a computer terminal set up in the middle of the grass in that area, too. It wasn't plugged in to anything, however, it seemed to be working just fine. Lan of 'Clover' and Minoru Kokubunji of 'Chobits' were having some sort of involved discussion over it, while Yuzuki stood attentively beside them. Nearby was a platform beneath a red and white awning, where a solid oak bar had been transported in. Kazuhiko and Lafarga were swapping war stories over drinks. Gingetsu was with them, but most of his attention was diverted to watching Lan. Underneath the same awning, a bunch of electronic equipment and a large, sturdy table had been set up as an 'Angelic Layer' tournament arena. The table had gathered a fairly large crowd, as Misaki Suzuhara's Angel Doll battled against another doll who was shrouded from head-to-toe in black ninja garb. Icchan, wearing his ever-present lab-coat, lurked in the background, rubbing his hands with glee. Unnoticed by others, in the shadows on the fringes of the field, Tatsumi Houjyo and Kyousuke Kaga of 'Yumegari' stood silently surveying the characters who had come to this gathering. The Dream Hunter and her Dream Watcher made no attempt to mingle with the others. They simply observed. "Don't you think it's strange," the Dream Watcher remarked, adjusting his glasses on the bridge of his nose. "To see so many people, so different, all bound together by a single thing." Tatsumi was silent for a long time. The breeze caught at her straight black hair, and ruffled the skirt of her black sailor uniform. "None of them are dreaming now," she remarked at last. Kyousuki looked at her. "Maybe it's because that's all they really are." In a nearby sun-lit area, a group of three people were camped out on a yellow picnic blanket. Heideki Motosuwa sighed, twisting a poor, defenseless piece of grass into knots. "I don't know why we bothered to come all the way out here. That train ride was expensive. And our series hasn't even been around for that long." "What are you complaining about? The Imonoyama Group paid for the tickets. Besides," Shinbo muttered with his mouth full, "there's free food." "Chii," the cute persocon beside Heideki added helpfully. Somehow the top few buttons of her shirt had come open. Heideki reached out to tug it over her shoulder again. He started to fasten it securely back into place, when he was interrupted by a terrified scream from above. He looked up in time to see a flash of blue and white and light brown an instant before he was flattened beneath a young girl who had apparently fallen from the sky. A moment later, a piece of toast bounced off his head. "I'm sorry!" the girl cried, nearly decapitating him with her brown school bag by accident. "I'm late, I'm late!" She scrambled to get off of him and disappeared into a crowd of students from the Art Club of the CLAMP School. He looked up again, and barely moved out of the way as more people tumbled from the cloudless sky onto the very spot he had just occupied. <It's raining mostly-naked women....> he thought numbly. Then he blinked as that thought sank in. <No way!! This has gotta be my lucky day!!!> The collection of women screeched gleefully, bounding off in the same direction that the girl in the blue and white school uniform had gone. "Chii." Heideki glanced over rather distractedly. To his immediate alarm, saw that Chii was staring at an article of clothing that had been discarded on the ground. It looked sort of like a bra, only it had fuzzy things in some places and pointy things in other places, and there were tassels hanging off.... Chii picked it up rather cluelessly, then held it to her own chest. The pointy and fuzzy things settled in all the right places. "WAAAAHHH! Okay, those ladies were *not* a good influence on you...." Meanwhile, one of the girl/boy pairs from 'Watashi no Sukina Hito' had wandered over to a collection of shady looking characters who had claimed one of the tents all to themselves. They were casting threatening looks at anyone who got too close. The group included Lord Zagato, Kataharaitai and several of her black-clad masked minions, Tatra and Tarta, Aska and her followers, and Taishakuten and his generals, among others. "You don't belong here," a red-eyed demon with black feathered wings wearing the name tag 'Koryuu' informed the two encroachers haughtily. "You're trespassing in the nemesis section. It would be better for you to go back to the series you came from." The girl and boy exchanged glances and nodded in agreement. As they were leaving, they overheard Barus complaining to Cassablanca. "Do you know how hard it is to be a truly evil CLAMP character? I mean a truly evil one, with no hidden motivations about doing bad things because of "honor" or "duty", or even worse, because of "love". It's shameful. A true bad-guy can hardly get a bit-part anymore. Most of these losers don't deserve to wear the title of "evil". And some of the ones that are *truly* evil excuse themselves from associating with us because they have "split personalities", and insist on going in their "good" guises today." He cast a glare over at the core group of RG Veda characters. Cassablanca just looked bored. The girl and boy passed by one of the refreshment tables. There Erii Chuusonji and Sukiyabashi of 'Duklyon' were taking plates and helping themselves to some of the delicacies that the CLAMP School Cooking Club had provided for the event. A blond haired man got in line behind them. Erii's eyes narrowed as she looked over at him. She and Sukiyabashi might be on break, but they were still part of CLAMP School security, and this fellow looked like a party-crasher. "Hey," she said. "You're not allowed at this event. You're from X." Yuuto Kigai smiled charmingly and produced his gold-lettered invitation. "Actually I'm here on behalf of 'Hagun Seisenki', so it's alright. Lucky for me, CLAMP likes to recycle characters." Utako Ohkawa, The CLAMP School Kindergarten President, was waiting behind him in line. Her sharp gaze caught movement from the edge of the tablecloth that draped near the ground. Looking around carefully to be sure no one was watching, she lifted the cloth and looked underneath. Someone was sitting on the ground, black cape tucked around him and top-hat clutched under one arm. Utako's violet eyes got very large. "20 Masks!" she hissed. "What are you doing hiding under the table!" "Waiting for everyone to go home again," the young thief said miserably. "My mothers insisted on coming, and if I hide here long enough, they won't be able to tell me they want Yasha-ou's Yama-to, or Lieutenant Colonel Gingetsu's sunglasses, or one of the Mashin." Utako drew in a breath to object, then paused. Instead, her expression lit with sympathy. "Wait here," she instructed firmly. "I'll go and get us both some cake." At a pavillion set up by the small artificial lake, a blond haired boy was surveying the proceedings from behind a large white fan and looking smug. Someone cleared their throat behind him, and he pretended to be startled. "Suoh, you're back. Has everyone arrived?" "Almost." The blue haired boy stepped up beside him. "I can't find Akira, though." Nokoru giggled. "That's because he's not here representing 'CCD'," he said in an undertone. Suoh looked at him sharply, but the President of the CLAMP School Elementary Division simply snapped his fan shut and then opened it again, to reveal the words "Time for ice cream!" Suoh looked disapproving. "You're having an awful lot of fun with this, Kaichou." Nokoru only beamed. "It's a party, Suoh. That's the whole idea." His gaze turned a little wistful. "Still, it would have been nice to get more of the original people from 'Shoten' here. The doujinshi characters are so hard to find nowadays. I'll have to set the CLAMP School computer mainframe to work on that." Suoh sweatdropped. "Are you having fun, Suoh?" Nokoru asked sweetly. "It will be a relief when this is over and we can get back to normal council business." Suoh said carefully. He always became a little nervous when Nokoru got that innocent look on his face. "Well, in that case, we better get some ice cream quickly, before everyone decides to leave." The Elementary Division President stepped out from under the pavilion, headed over in the direction of the food. Suoh stood there, just *waiting* for the words he knew had to come next. One second, two.... "On the way, we can start planning the CLAMP *Second* Annual Picnic for Under Appreciated Series." Nokoru said over his shoulder as he continued walking. He was aware that the Elementary Division Secretary hadn't started moving forward yet. But he also knew from experience that Suoh would never let himself lag very far behind. He smiled. "...And Tokyo Tower will be the perfect place for us to host it." ******** Author's Notes and Acknowledgements: The information in this 'fic was gathered from fan translations and reviews posted at various sites on the web. Many, many thanks go to the site owners of the web sites listed below (and the original translators!) for providing all the details. Any errors and most of the OOC-ness in this 'fic are unintentional, and reflect gaps in the author's own rather limited library. :) CLAMP Rakuen-- Clover, Suki Dakara Suki, Shirime Shou, Chobits CML Fantranslation Archives-- RG Veda, Watashi no Sukina Hito, Yumegari, CCD KatKo's CLAMP Celebration--Derayd, CGK, Koi, Rex, Soryuden, CCD The ONLY Campus Cop Duklyon homepage out there--Campus Cop Duklyon TT's Angelic Layer Arena--Angelic Layer <==========}-----0 The CLAMP end of the world fanfiction page http://www.crosswinds.net/~sunshine60/basement/endofworld.html sunshine60@crosswinds.net 0-----{==========></pre><p><a href="./">Back</a></p><p><a href=http://www.dreamhost.com/donate.cgi?id=216><img border=0 alt="Donate towards our web hosting bill!" src=https://secure.newdream.net/donate1.gif></a></p></body></html>