Chapter 1: Meet Team Gracious
A purple chameleon walked quickly down a dark velvet red carpeted hall. She came to a large oak door craved with the image of a Phoenix. The chameleon pushed the door open and stepped in. "You wanted to see me head master?" The chameleon said. A brown monkey jumped down from the rafters landing in front of the girl. "Yes, I did," he began, "I have a job for you and team Gracious." The monkey said. The chameleon seemed interested, "What kind of mission?" She asked.
"A very important one." the brown monkey answered, handing her a red envelope. The chameleon stared at the envelope, a code red mission. "How soon do we leave?" She inquired. "After classes." He said. The chameleon nodded and ran out the door just as a bell rang; she soon disappeared from sight as she set off for her chamber.
The yellow eyed chameleon threw open the door of her shared chamber and found her teammates sleeping. The chameleon sighed and shook her head. "Why do they do this?" She questioned to herself, she walked over to the couch where her fox friend, Waffle lay sleeping; she pulled the pillow out from under the Fox who woke with a start. "Huh, what the-" the fox began. The fox watched her pillow fly across the room and hit a small albino bee lying on a bed. "HEY," the bee started, "Kaity, why'd you do that?" she yelled. "'cause you two were sleeping and you got in here like what; 5 minutes ago?" Kaity said, crossing her arms. "I was tried." Waffle stated. Kaity looked at her friend and teammate. Waffle was a 14 year old fox with Sea Foam Green eyes and sandy tan fur, plus a little brown-orange on the tip of her tail and the fur on her face. She wore light pink shorts and a flamingo pink tank-top. Kaity said nothing but shook her head. "Stop fooling around and pack, we got a new assignment." Kaity alleged. The bee and fox perked up.
"No foolin'?" Waffle asked.
"Alright, new mission" the bee squealed gleefully
"Yes, very cool, now pack, we leave after the final class." Kaity said. "Okay!" the bee yelled. "Sam! Shut up already." Kaity cried. Ten-year-old Samantha "Sam" the Bee's most noticeable feature at first glance was her off-white and grey striped body; her eyes were a dark shade of red due to being albino. Samantha shrugged, "Fine, fine." She said and went to pack for the mission. Kaity looked over her friends again, Sam had all bright colored clothing; like what she wore now, a bright yellow T-shirt and golden yellow shorts. Waffle was packing up pink outfits similar to what she wore now. Kaity looked down at her own clothing; a long, black shirt with a red Japanese symbol dead in the center and baggy Camouflage pants. 'Well, aren't I original?' She commented to herself, as a bell sounded through out Blitzkrieg School. Three turned and ran for the door, all three had Math now, and actually, the three had all but two classes together; all teams had to stay together during any classes they could manage.
The Fox, Bee, and Chameleon narrowly missed the tardy bell, and quickly walked to their seats; which were right next to each other. Class began; they started off with daily problems, and went on to other math-type things. After 40 minutes of math, they separated to their fighting classes.
Waffle specialized in kickboxing; her instructor, Mr. Skelix the Ox, stood before the class and looked over every face in the large gym. "Okay, start off with 5 laps." The ox said. A loud groan came form most of the students, but they all got up to run. After running, the group stretched out and paired with their partner. Waffle's partner was a sky blue panther named Claudia; Waffle began to attack the punching bag Claudia held. "So, anything interesting goin' on later?" Claudia asked gripping the punching bag hard.
"Well, we got a new mission." Waffle said.
"Any good?" the panther asked
"Don't know yet." Waffle answered slamming her sholder into the bag knocking Claudia to the ground. Waffle pulled her to her feet and switched places. "How 'bout you, any good missions?" Waffle asked. The panther shook her head, "Nothin' much, code green."
"You got a beginners mission?" Waffle asked
"Yeah, dumb huh?"
"You do harder missions then that usually." Waffle said holding tightly to the bag, trying not to let go. "Yeah, I know." Claudia answered punching the bag and sending Waffle into the pair next to them, "Sorry 'bout that!" Claudia yelled over. Waffle was quickly on her feet and back by the panther. Mr. Skelix blew his whistle, indicating that they now fought one-on-one. Waffle kicked Claudia in the stomach sending her to the ground, doubled over in pain. The panther was up again and landed multiple blows to Waffle's chest knocking her breath away. "You've got better." Complemented Waffle
"Not so bad yourself." Claudia panted and dove into another attack which Waffle quickly side-stepped and punched Claudia in the back forcing her down. The whistle blew and Claudia jumped to her feet and joined the other students exiting the gym, Waffle following behind as the end of the 7th class rang.
Sam's choice was Ultimate fighting, for all of you don't know, Ultimate fighting is all styles of fighting in one. The bee sat next to her friend, Kenny the Rabbit. Mrs. Ptack the Hedgehog took her place in front of the class and blew a loud whistle "Now then, start practicing, tests are next week." The hedgehog said. Sam and Kenny took their usual place n the middle of the gym.
"Ready?" Kenny asked standing ready.
"I was born ready." Sam exclaimed starting her attack. Punches came for either person, some hitting and some missing their target and hitting another person. Sam flew up into the air narrowly missing the rabbit's powerful feet. She hastily flew down and hit the rabbit with several punches to the head and stomach. "That's it Samantha, go fast." Mrs. Ptack encouraged. Sam looked back at the hedgehog, giving Kenny time to knock Sam to the ground. "Cheap shot!" Sam yelled.
"Should've kept your guard up." The rabbit shrugged. Sam buzzed into the air and flew down, stinger first and rammed it into Kenny's arm, he screamed in pain.
"Should've kept your guard up." Sam smiled Kenny barred his teeth and dug them deeply into Sam's leg, now she screamed in pain.
"Lucky for me, I don't have to stay on the ground to attack." Sam said and charged into another attack. Knocking her rabbit partner to the ground. After several more punches and kicks were sent out the bell rang, signaling for the end of the 7th class for the day.
Kaity was better at the martial arts than anything. She sat quietly listening to the chatter around her. All went quiet as sensei Locke the Porcupine entered the room. They started with stretches and warm-ups before splitting into groups by level. Kaity was in the snake level, one of the highest levels. Kaity sat with her group waiting instruction by their sensei. Sensei Locke came over to the Snake group and paired them with the next level up, dragon level. Kaity was paired with a pink poodle name Fiona; neither liked the other, for the simple reason that they were too different to be friends, Fiona was always goofing off and getting into trouble, she also loved all things pink and fluffy, not to mention she was a prep. Kaity, on the other hand, was always quiet and standoffish, she preferred darker shades of colors and she despised preps. Kaity stood in the ready stance waiting for the poodle to do attack. The attack never came; Kaity looked at Fiona she was instead examining her nails.
"What are you doing?" Kaity asked.
"Hey, I won't break a nail will I?" the pink poodle asked ignoring Kaity's question.
"For the love of… you wuss, you can't worry about your nails if you're getting attacked!" Kaity exclaimed.
"Well then, it's a good thing I'm not getting attacked." She said. Kaity shook her head and went into an attack. 'A roundhouse kick to the head oughta help her.' Kaity reasoned kicking the poodle in the head.
"I broke a nail!" the poodle yelled. Kaity quickly went into another attack.
"How'd you get to Dragon level again?" Kaity asked knocking Fiona to the ground. The dog sat quietly examining her broken nail. Kaity attacked several more times, "If all Dragons are this easy, I'm gonna have no problem getting there." Kaity remarked attacking again. By now, Fiona was mad, she grabbed Kaity's arm before the attack could strike and flipped her over her shoulder. Kaity lay dazed on the ground from the sudden attack. Before the poodle could go into another attack, Sensei Locke came over and handed each of the girls' fake swords. 'Here's something I'm good at.' Kaity thought. Both instantly went into attacks, Fiona swung her sword low and Kaity jumped above the sword and knocked the dog in the side with her own weapon. After many attacks and falling, Sensei Locke dismissed the class and all ran for their final class.
Some students at Blitzkrieg were gifted with special powers some weren't. But Team Gracious all had abilities, Sam the Bee could control all elements, Waffle could summon an attack that she liked to call Hearts Attack, and Kaity could control Chaos with or without Chaos Emeralds.
Sam's class was outside, to practice control over the elements. The class started right away, it was no more then nine to ten kids in the class. Sam looked around for a place to start and found a large patch of tall grass nearby a field of flowers. Sam got to work right away; beginning with control of wind. She waved her arms in the direction she wanted to wind to go, the wind gracefully followed. Next, she practiced moving earth; she concentrated on lifting a large hunk of land from its spot and quickly jumped on. She navigated the land through an obstacle course the teacher had set up the week before. 'This is easy!' Sam thought to herself. She quickly landed and practiced water, a small pond was near by. Sam flew over to the pond and lifted her arms high above her head; making a huge wave. After that was done, Sam ran over to a small fire that was now burning low, 'I'll make it bigger.' Sam thought, she closed her eyes, and relaxed her body, then, she opened her eyes and threw her hands above her head. The slowly dying fire became a roaring fire as if it was just made. Now realizing that she was done, she, with the other students, ran for her chamber to get ready for their mission.
Kaity sat in a small classroom and looked around, only 2 other people in the room. Chaos was harder to control than anything else and is a rare gift. The class started with basic exercises: Chaos blast, Chaos Spear, chaos Control. They were then left to practice on their own, making more attacks using their gift. Kaity had a list of already, and beam of green light that could destroy enemies on impact, and she also found that each emerald had different effects on a user; like the red emerald controlled anger and hatred, makes it more powerful if already taking over the user. Kaity threw all her trained and created attacks at several targets. "Chaos blast!" the chameleon yelled, she also found that attacks respond to the same call. After frying twenty targets, Kaity rejoined her class and went to her chamber to begin packing for their code red job.
Waffle began practicing as soon as she entered the room. The fox began throwing her Hearts attack at moving targets; as the hearts hit, the targets froze in place. Waffle examined one; knowing that she had ten to fifteen minutes before they moved again, one looked really angry. It somehow reminded her of her fight with Kaity, and what happened when they both used their powers, the destroyed the whole west wing of the building. 'Luck no one was there.' Waffle thought finishing the dummies off. She moved on to twenty more and destroyed them with ease. The pink hearts flew left and right stunning the dummies. By the end of class, she destroyed a grand total of two hundred dummies. When the bell rang, she dashed down the hall to her chamber to pack.
Team Gracious was ready and running for the main entrance as a light blue and white tour bus pulled up to the school. "Hurry up you guys!" Kaity yelled, she was the fastest among the three. Waffle and Sam darted after their chameleon friend and hopped onto the bus just as Kaity was taking a seat near the front. "So, Where we goin?" Waffle asked, sitting down across from Kaity. "Yeah, I wanna know too!" Sam said scooting in with Kaity. The purple chameleon pulled out the unopened red envelope; the bee and fox gasped; they never gotten a code red before. Waffle quickly snatched the envelope and ripped it open it read:
For: Team Gracious
Location for job: Station Square
Mission: A group of assassins have been attacking humans and Mobians; Stop them by any means necessary.
"Well, we're going to Station Square." Waffle said to the driver. He nodded and began driving to Station Square.
