Now, the moment you've all been waiting for, the showdown between Jace and Clary. (Honestly though, you can probably guess what will happen)
It only took Clary, Izzy, Magnus, and Jace 3 minutes to get to class. But to Clary, it took too long. Will we get to choose who we fight? Will we be assigned a partner? Can I kick, whoever is my partner's, ass. Yes. Obviously.
When they split up to go get changed, Clary was almost bouncing with excitement. The uniform for gym was simple, grey shirts and black gym shorts. That is exactly what Clary brought. She quickly slipped the shorts on, and in the process of putting her shirt on, someone ran into her.
"Oomph" Being the solid wall Clary is, the girl bounced 4 feet away from her, and fell. "Sorry" The girl quickly got up and offered her hand. "My name's Maureen. You the new girl?"
Clary took her hand "Ya"
"Your name's Clarissa, right?"
"Don't call me that. Call me Clary" Maureen nodded
"Well, it's nice to meet you" With that, Maureen took off. Clary shook her head. She seems so small. How can she stand gym. She probably can't. She probably needs to take this class.
Clary finished putting her shirt on, and left the changing rooms to go warm up, find a punching bag or something. If all else fails, Jace could be her punching bag. She smiled at the thought.
She entered the class and her first thought was, Dang it. There are punching bags. That means I'll have to wait to punch Jace. Her next thought was, Big gym. Clary looked around, surprised with what equipment they had in there. The had a small rock wall, ropes to climb on, a soccer field, a wrestling arena, and a football stadium outside. There were the punching bags she saw earlier, stretching stations, and a track field, also outside.
Clary saw everyone standing near the arena, so she started in that direction. What the hell! A basketball court too?! They can probably use it as a volleyball court too! She got over near everyone and stood between Izzy and Magnus, Jace right next to Izzy. Clary looked around again, and noticed Maureen from the changing rooms. She also saw she was standing right next to a geek. Or at least, that was what he looked like. He had glasses, curly brown hair, and warm brown eyes. His shirt, like everyone else's, was grey. But on it, it said Beware of the snake! with two dice that were rolled to ones. He was probably a gamer.
The teacher came in, he said his name was Mr. Garroway, and told us to run two laps on the track. It was easy. I beat everyone. Jace was second, he finished forty seconds after I did. He wasn't breathing to hard and neither was I, but you could tell that he didn't like to run too much, or he would be gasping for air.
After everyone finished, we moved back to the arena to fight. Sure enough, we got to choose who we fight. I immediately went to Jace. He said yes, jerk was probably thinking I wanted to spend time with him. Now that I think about it, he probably also thought that he was going to win because of his size and mass.
We went two at a time, entering the ring, getting two minutes to knock someone unconscious, and to get out of the ring. When it was our turn, we walked to either side of the arena, entering separately.
When I was in the arena, I took a maneuverable stance. I would doge and weave around him, find a pressure point, push hard, and drag him out of the arena to the nurse. Wait, dragging him around was going to be hard. I'll ask Magnus and Izzy to help.
Jace took an offensive stance. Or he at least tried to, it was a sloppy stance, he could easily be pushed over if he wasn't expecting it. Mr. Garroway said we could start when we were ready. Jace took that as run forward and kick her legs out from under her. He missed. When he swept his leg, I jumped to the side, looking for a pressure point. But for the moment, I was going to play with him.
When he realized that he missed, he got up, turned around, and swung his fist. I easily dodged it. He was getting mad already. Apparently he never missed his mark. Well, he better get used to missing, he wasn't ever going to land a finger on me.
I kept dodging his attacks until,
"Fifty seconds left" Perfect timing, I had just found a great pressure point.
"Come on Fray" Jace taunted, knowing that to hit me, I would have to run at him. "Too scared to try to hit me"
"Not exactly" I smiled. He started to smile too, then he saw the look in my eyes, and his smile faded, fast. He was focused and ready. Well, he thought he was ready for what was going to happen.
I did exactly what he wanted me to, I ran at him. As I got to him, he swung his fist again, at my stomach. Again, I dodged at the last second, swung myself up onto his shoulders, and pressed his pressure point with two fingers. He instantly crumpled into a ball. I jumped off his shoulders as he fell to the ground, landing on my feet.
Everyone was staring, Izzy and Magnus were smiling at me. The geeky looking boy seemed to be trying calculate what had just happened. "Iz, Mags, can you help me carry him to the nurse? He'll need to rest for a little bit. Jace will be immobilized for the next half an hour to an hour, maybe a little longer than that."
Their smiles widened and together, all three of us dragged him out of the arena and to the nurse, just as I had planned. He was going to be sore for a long time. I whispered to myself, saying to him, "Sleep well Sleeping Beauty, this competitiveness won't stop when it comes to me. Just be grateful I went easy on you, it won't happen again. I can promise you that. If your lucky, I might even tell you why I wanted to learn how to fight." She lent in closer "Because you remind me so much of that reason" She backed away with a fire in her eyes, remembering what had happened to her before she moved.
Sorry guys, but you'll have to wait to see what had happened to Clary in LA before she moved.
