We walked through the forest, and Aussie spoke up.
"I don't think I've see you around before," He said to Mr. Motorcycle, "I'm Xander Bly, and this is Vida, Chip, and Madison."
"Nick," Mr. Motorcycle said plainly, and looked over to me, "How 'bout you?"
"Emma," I stated, just as plainly as Nick, but with a small smile.
"You're the new employee that Toby keeps going on about!" Chip exclaimed.
I let out a dry chuckle.
"Yeah, he hired me this morning," I stated, thinking of how he put me to work right away.
Suddenly, Madison stopped walking.
"Where'd the old man go?" She asked, as we looked around – the old man was nowhere in sight, and we were already lost.
"Great!" Vida exclaimed sarcastically, "5 minutes in the forest and we're already lost!"
Suddenly, we saw the bushes around us shake, and upon instinct, backed up. Out of the bushes jumped these weird …. Things. I don't even know how to explain them. They had cloth wrapped around their head and wore brown clothing…. Oh, and did I mention that they had weapons?
All at the same time, they charged at us, and I was the first to take action. I ducked under one's blade quickly, picked up a large stick, and tossed it to Chip to use as a weapon .
"Chip!" I yelled, and he acknowledged me and caught his weapon.
I grabbed another one, and used it to block another thing's blade above my head. Quickly, the monster thing kicked me in the ribs and I flew back into a tree, hitting my already injured shoulder that I had forgotten about until know. I quickly tried to right myself, and threw the stick towards Madison.
"Madison!" I yelled, just before ducking below a punch aimed for my face. I kicked my leg out to the creature and hit it in the knees, knocking it over. I picked up it's weapon, and stabbed it in the chest. It squirmed for a moment before turning in to ashes. I looked at the sword in my hand curiously. That's weird-
"Move!" Someone yelled to me, and I whipped around to see about 3 more of those things charging towards me. I quickly ran towards them, and blocked the first one's weapon, and kicked it in the chest to send it to the ground.
I jumped as the next one swung it's sword at my feet, then blocked it as it swung towards my abdomen. Thinking quickly, I kicked that one right in the balls, and it went down with a groan.
I smirked. Maybe I wasn't half bad at this!
I heard pounding footsteps behind me, and turned around just in time to see another thing charge towards me, but I couldn't block it. It punched me right on the collar bone, and I was sent flying into a heap of the other teen agers.
Coughing, I desperately tried to get air in my lungs. Damn, who knew a blow to the collar bone could do something like this to you?
Putting a hand over the throbbing part of my chest, I sat up and saw a dark, hooded figure raise their arms above their head just in time to send the new wave of monsters rushing at us up in flames.
Managing to kneel and look up at the figure, they pulled their hood down to reveal a middle-aged woman with red hair.
I looked at her skeptically. Who was this lady?
I didn't have time to ask, though, as another wave of about 15 things came at us from nowhere! I growled, frustrated and angry with this shit. I jumped up, despite the throbbing of my chest and shoulder, and attacked the one nearest to me.
"If you want to win, you have to believe in magic!" I heard the old lady shout, and I rolled my eyes mentally.
"To hell if I believe in magic," I growled lowly as I faced the things in front of me, but suddenly, they went up in fire.
I growled under my breath. It was that damn cloak lady again, butting in when no one asked her to. I could've handled that myself.
I turned to see Chip kicking some major ass with this lightning bolt thing.
Surprised, I turned to Madison. She was sending waves of water at her attackers!
And looking at Vida, she was using some sort of wind power, and Xander was using vines to crush his enemies.
Next, I looked over to Nick to see him… getting his ass whooped.
Quickly, I ran towards him, just in time to watch him get hurled against a tree. nThe remaining monster charged at him, and Nick didn't move from his position on the ground.
Quickening my pace to intercept the monster, I leapt at it, crashing into it fully with my previously injured shoulder.
The monster turned into ash, and I tumbled to the ground with a thud. I winced at the pain that throbbed continuously through my shoulder and color bone area. I took a deep breath to steady my nerves, but it only worsened the pain in my chest.
"Ugh….." I let out a small noise of pain, and I heard footsteps come towards me.
"Emma!" Came the voice of Madison, as her and Xander helped me stand.
I gripped my badly injured arm with my not so badly injured one, and started to sway.
"Woah," Xander said, putting a hand on my hip and opposite shoulder to steady me, "Easy there, mate,"
I could've busted out laughing at his accent, but was too tired at the moment.
"Thanks," I managed to get out in a slightly raspy voice.
Across from us, Chip and Vida helped Nick up as he clutched his side in pain. He looked up at me, his bright eyes meeting my dull grey ones.
"Thanks," He said, voice strained with pain.
I did my best to smile, but it most likely came out as more of a grimace.
"No problem," I replied, my voice equally strained from the pain in my chest.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the cloak lady approach us.
I snapped my head towards her upon instinct, ready to fight again, but the sudden movement sent a shock of pain through my chest.
She stopped in front of all of us, and looked from Nick, to me.
"You did not use magic," She stated, staring fixatedly at me.
I glared at her.
"Was I supposed to?"
She stared at me incredulously, like I had just asked the stupidest question ever.
"Yes, you were!" She exclaimed disapprovingly, shaking her head.
I bit my tongue to keep myself from saying something I would regret.
"And you also," She stated, looking at Nick.
Now it was his turn to look at her like she was a freak.
"Excuse me for not believing in fairy tales," He stated, still clutching his abdomen, slightly hunched over.
Cloak-lady didn't reply to that, but instead began to walk away. We all stared after her.
"Come along," She threw over her shoulder, and we all gave each other looks, but followed after her anyways.
As we walked, the pain in my collar bone and shoulder worsened, and pain began to work it's way into my ribs.
Out of the corner of my vision, I could see Nick grimace in pain, and could only guess that he was in the same situation as I.
Walking a little farther, we reached a giant tree with what looked like a dragons head at the base.
Suddenly, two red eyes glowed on either side of the head, and the jaw opened.
Cloak-lady entered, and we all filed in.
