Title: Answering the Call
Summary: I have no idea where that title came from. About a girl named Tammy and her friends who end up coming from the future and eventually change their last names. They're looking for somebody, but when they find them will they reveal too much?
Genre: General/SciFi
Rating: Teen
Disclaimer: The only people in this whole fic I own are Tamatha, Roxanne, and Skittles. Their last names will remain anonymous until later chapters. Hah!
Author's note: At the end of each chapter of this fic, please review and tell me if you like it or not. I will accept flames for this fic, but reviews that are nice are much better. Either way, please review.
Chapter 1: Tamatha
"Yo, Mom, can I go to the movies with Roxanne and Skittles?" a girl with black hair and blue eyes asked. A mumble from down the hall confirmed her question, and the girl rushed out the door. She jumped on her pink skateboard and started down the street. When she got to the movie theater, she spotted her two best friends. "Roxy, Skittles, wuzzup?" she called out, waving to the two mixed twins. They would have been identical if it had not been that Roxanne and Skittles were sister and brother. Skittles's real name was Richard, but he had earned the nickname Skittles in third grade when he beat the school record for most eaten candy during lunch period, the candy being, of course, Skittles.
"Tammy, you ready to see 'Mutant Dragons' in four-dimensions?" Skittles asked. Tammy grinned.
"Of course," she said, snickering at the name of the movie. She and her two friends ran up to the booth and got their tickets. They were all fifteen, so they were allowed to go to the movie theater alone. If you were under twelve, you couldn't go into the theater without an adult, which was anyone who was eighteen or older.
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Tammy and Roxanne screamed as the "blood" flew over their heads. Tammy was sitting in the middle, while Skittles was to her left and Roxanne to her right. There was popcorn all over their laps and the floor under their feet where Tammy had jumped earlier.
When the movie's finale came, Tammy shrunk down lower into her seat. She screamed when the girl's head was sliced off. Her hand gripped Skittles's even harder. The credits started rolling and they got up to leave. Roxanne looked down and noticed that Tammy's hand was still clenched tightly to Skittles's. She coughed and Tammy turned a light shade of red. Her hand fell to her side and they walked out of the movie theater. When they were outside, Roxanne pulled Tammy out of her brother's earshot.
"Oh come on, Tamatha," she said, grinning. "Just admit that you like Skittles. I know you do. You should see the way you act when you're around him." Tammy turned bright pink. Her eyes immediately looked at the sidewalk.
"Get real, Roxy," she said. "I mean, we're best friends. That's like...liking your brother...and that's not right." Roxanne smirked.
"Sure, Tammy. Whatever," she said, flipping her hair behind her shoulder. "That's what my parents thought. Look at them now. Happily married for sixteen years. Doesn't that say something?"
"Yeah, but..." Tammy stopped talking. She had been beaten. Roxanne was totally right. "I've gotta go home. Mom and Dad are expecting me. My aunt's coming over later. See ya, Roxy." She hopped on her skateboard and headed off to her house.
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The doorbell rang and Tammy skipped to the front door. She opened it and Skittles was standing there with a grin on his face.
"Hey, Skittles. Where's Roxy?" Tammy asked. The mixed girl rounded the corner, panting.
"I...lost...my...skateboard..." she panted. Tammy chuckled and let her two friends inside. They sat on the couch and Roxy smiled. She had talked to her brother earlier. This was the perfect plan. Skittles knew what was going on, Tammy had no idea.
"So, whatcha need, guys?" Tammy asked, oblivious to the fact that Roxanne was grinning like a hyena.
"Tammy?" Skittles asked. Tammy turned to him, her mouth open ready to speak. She didn't get to say a word, though. Her eyes widened for a second, then they closed and she relaxed. She heard Roxanne squeal in excitement but ignored it. She was enjoying every moment of this. There was a flash of light and Tammy pulled away quickly, surprised at the sudden difference in lighting. Her eyes opened and she almost screamed. She wasn't in her living room anymore.
"Where are we?" Tammy asked her two friends. She turned around to a voice.
"You're in New York City," it said. The voice came from a boy around their age with black hair and black eyes. Tammy sighed.
"Duh," she said. "I know that. I was just in my living room, and...what happened?" Roxanne looked around and noticed a calendar.
"The date's right. June twenty-third," she said. Then she noticed the year. "Two thousand and five?" The boy laughed.
"Yeah, what year did you think it was?" he asked. Tammy looked to him, then back to Roxanne and Skittles.
"Guys, this is the year that my dad was our age," she whispered. She glanced at the boy, then turned to him fully. "Excuse me, what is your name?" she asked.
"I'm Jake Long," he said. "Is something wrong?" Tammy's eyes were wide.
"N-no. Um, my name is Tammy, um, Braven," she said. She elbowed Roxanne, who gasped.
"I'm Roxanne...Topez, and this is my bro, Skittles," she said, gesturing towards the confused boy. A bell rang out and they all turned around to face two other teens. One was an African-American girl, and the other looked somewhat like Jake, but a bit taller and blonde.
"Trixie, Spud, wuzzup?" Jake asked. "This is Tammy Braven and her friends Skittles and Roxanne Topez." Trixie nodded.
"Hey, guys, you new here?" she asked. Tammy laughed nervously.
"You could say that," she said.
"Hey kid, get back here, Gramps needs you pronto," a voice called. Jake looked behind him.
"Be right there Fu. Don't come out, though, we've got visitors," he said, and Tammy shuddered at the thought of who Fu was.
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"Okay, this is East Manhattan High School," Jake said as they stopped in front of a big building. "This is where you will make friends, enemies, and maybe even both in the same person." Trixie and Spud both looked at the ground and Jake coughed. "Anyways, until you get a schedule, you will be taking the same classes as us. Now, Tammy, you will go with me, Skittles, you will go with Spud, and Roxanne can go with Trixie. Got that?" Everyone nodded. "Okay, now we'll see each other in three classes and lunch, so let's get going."
"What's our first class?" Tammy asked. Jake sighed.
"Rotwood," he, Trixie, and Spud all said in unison. They didn't seem too excited about that.
"Who's he?" Roxanne asked.
"He's the craziest, wackiest teacher ever known to the human race. He teaches mythobiology. We all have him together," Trixie answered. "So we'd better get going. Oh, and never call him 'Mister' Rotwood. It's 'Professor' Rotwood. Believe me, he'll let you know that by the end of his class." They all headed to their first class, Jake leading the way, with Tammy and Skittles following, hand in hand, then Roxanne, and in the back was Trixie and Spud, hiding their interlocked hands behind their backs. All they needed was Jake to find out that they were "together."
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"And that is why dragon scales have the faintest odor of lavender," Professor Rotwood finished. Jake snickered and mumbled something, along with Trixie, Spud, Tammy, Roxanne, and Skittles, who all tried to hold in their laughter. The bell rang and they all rushed out of the room. Tammy looked to Jake.
"That was the stupidest class I've ever been in," she said. "At least our teacher knew what he was talking about."
"Really, what was his name?" Jake asked. Tammy mentally slapped herself.
"Her name was, um, Miss Carter," Tammy said, remembering her mother's maiden name. She couldn't let on that she knew the Long family of the future.
"Really? That's cool, maybe she should teach in place of Rotwood," Jake said, laughing. They split up to go to their next class.
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"You really think that one day you're going to find out my human identity, don't you, Huntsgirl?" Jake said, grinning. He was in dragon form and currently winning the fight.
"I don't think, I know," the ninja said, dodging an attack.
"Hey, pick on someone your own species," a voice said, and Jake turned around to face a green dragon that looked exactly like his, except it was a bit smaller. This gave Huntsgirl perfect opportunity to attack Jake from the back. Jake flew right into the smaller green dragon, and she groaned.
"Yo sorry," Jake said, scrambling to get on his feet. The green dragon got up.
"Whatever," she mumbled. Huntsgirl was gone when they were both up and ready. "Chicken," the green dragon said.
"Who are you?" Jake asked. The dragon smiled.
"Call me Tam," she said. One of Jake's eyebrows rose, then fell. "You must be the American Dragon. Nice to meet you."
"Yeah, same here," Jake said, confused.
"Well, I've got to go," she said and flew off, leaving Jake confused.
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Okay, that's it for the first chapter. Can you guess what's going on, besides the obvious that they're from the future. I want your guesses on who their parents are. It's sorta obvious, but guess anyways. :eyes turn red: GUESS! :eyes go to normal: Sorry. Please review.