Disclaimer: I own Amy and Lucas, but no other characters.


"Come on Lucas, we're going to be late." Amy Potter yelled to her friend, Lucas O'Hara, who was refusing to move quickly, despite the fact that they were running late.

"I'm late. I'm late. For a very important date." Lucas teased, shuffling his sneakered feet through the autumn leaves. Lucas was very tall, large and sturdily-built, making him a perfect candidate for the high school football team. However, he abhorred violence and so refused to play a game where he had to tackle people, much to Coach Carlson's dismay. Amy, on the other hand, was a petite ice-skater whose competitiveness pushed her to be the best on the ice rink and in every other walk of life. The only reason she had Lucas as a friend, was because of the bigger boy's lack of competitiveness.

Spotting the clubhouse ahead, Amy beckoned to Lucas and ran ahead. Lucas sighed, and broke a lazy trot to keep her in view. The clubhouse was built in the nitch of several small trees that grew parallel to the ground, so that you could step easily through the doorway. Inside were several make-shift seats made of tree trunks and pieces of junk that the kids found around the clearing. Several of these seats were already occupied by other members of the club.

One boy waved to them and motioned for them to take a seat. It was Kevin Applegate, the club president. The two friends immediately took over a small bench made out of a log.

"All right everyone!" Kevin yelled, using a rock as a gavel. "Now, who has an adventure they want to tell us about?"

Amy and Lucas sighed, sitting back in their seats as several of the other children raised their hands. Both had fairly ordinary families, with fairly boring parents, and had thus never had a real adventure. Even with Amy's competitive nature, she had never even left the town except to go to disney world for her 12th birthday. Of course, that didn't stop the other children, who told about things like touring a jelly bean factory as if it were the most exciting thing that ever happened to them.

Lucas actually fell asleep during the meeting, his long legs stretched out before him and his head resting on Amy's shoulder, his black hair in stark contrast with his friend's orange curls. Amy was ready to join him in slumberland as a boy named Nick droned on about some very unexciting "adventure", but managed keep her eyes open until Kevin banged his rock gavel, making her jump. Beside her, Lucas startled awake, his ice blue eyes snapping open in surprise.

"Finally." The lanky boy sighed, towering over Amy, now that they were both standing. "Why do we even come here? We never have any stories to share, and we're always bored out of our minds."

"Yes, we must be quite mad by now." Amy agreed, with a giggle that seemed to prove her point

They made strange pair as they sauntered down the street, the raven-haired giant of a seventeen-year-old boy and the petite sixteen-year-old carrot top girl who didn't even make it up to his shoulder. Suddenly. Amy spotted something out of the corner of her eye and patted Lucas' shoulder to get his attention.

"Did you see that?" She asked, peering around for the flash of blue and white she had seen.

"What? I didn't see anything." Lucas said, joining his friend in her search, though he had no idea what he was looking for.

"Look! There it is again!" Amy released Lucas' arm and raced away into the trees, with the raven-haired giant attempting to keep up. The orange-haired ice diva sped ahead, her eyes on something only she could see.