Chapter Two
The Outsiders
With that he strode to the door but turned around suddenly "Do you have a motorcycle?"
"Yes why?"
"Were going to have use it to get to the Outsiders"
"Okay"
"you have ten minutes to get packed and I'm leaving in ten minutes exactly" he said while wearing a smile but it wasn't one of his nice smiles it was one that said if you don't get here in time I'm going to leave you to the Diamond Knights. With that he opened the door and strode outside into the lessening snow, I stood there for a moment then I raced up stairs to get packed. When I got downstairs I heard my motorcycle starting up. I raced outside just as James pulled outside the door, "Climb on" he said I knew he meant climb on now. I climbed on then he started zoomed away from my house. Just when we were out of town I looked back just as a red dragon with three heads torched my house. Then the dragon flew away. I turned away from my burning house to look at the landscape. I looked around until I started to get drowsy. A voice awoke me, "Morning, Sleeping Beauty." I sat up very suddenly and grabbed blindly for something, as my eyes tried to focus. I realized I had dozed off and we had stopped. James roared with laughter. He tried to speak "we're… going… into the Outsiders now" he still was chuckling I didn't get what was so funny until I saw something white at the edge of my vision, "Did you do a whip cream mustache on me? By the way were did you get the whip cream" even though I was the victim of this joke I found myself grinning along, as James explained that he had stopped at a local department store. I wiped the whip cream off me as James became grim "We'll see if you can join the outsiders here at the outpost," he looked sad, "and if you don't get in then I have to put you back at your house or what used to be your house, then James said, "come Jake you have got to come before the council to get accepted into the Outsiders." Then he turned around and motioned to me to follow him. I followed him until we got to a small archway he went through the archway then I took a breath and went through after him. The first thing I noticed was that the landscape. It had changed completely what had been nothing but a forest changed into a camp, then I noticed that kids about my age were working on lots of stuff a group of kids were working on what seemed to be a catapult, some were sharpening sword others were fighting with were those real swords there was so much that I had to concentrate on one thing which was a circle of people in the middle of all this they seemed to discussing something important I caught some snatches of it, "He looks alright" "He's skinny" and other stuff like that. Then James stepped into the circle I hadn't noticed that he had gotten so far ahead so I hurried to catch up and said just as I got within two feet of the circle "he's ready" then he beckoned to me and I stepped into the circle. "We have been informed of your acts yesterday I Ammon vote yes" he said. "I vote yes also" said another, and so one by one they said yes all but one. The person that said "no" was a man with red eyes and a scar from his temple to his jaw, his eyes seemed to say I will be watching you Jake Miles. Even that didn't darken my mood. I had been accepted into the Outsiders.