Chapter 4: The Big Change
"Girls settle down please, it's not like it's the end of the world." Jerry said,
"Settle down?! Jerry how am I supposed to settle down?! My life is in this school! The school needs me." Geminia shouted,
"Geminia please!" Jerry said trying to calm her down.
"Ok, one, it's Gem and two, I was practically born in that school. It's like a home to me, my friends are my family. If I'm gone whose gonna be the popular one?" she said,
"Gemin- Gem I know this is a big shock to you but you need to know the reason why." Jerry tried to explain.
"Why? Jerry, why?" Geminia said trying to hold back her tears.
"It's because you two are going to start new lives together as the chosen ones. I need you two to bond so that when the moment comes you know that you can count on each other to be there. To use each others elements to help each other. Helping each others weaknesses, and making sure that you frienship is strong against anything." Jerry said.
Gem was about to say something when Keverine stood and walked over to them. Then she shouted with tears in her eyes "What about old friends? What about friends that were with you ever since you started school? Kim and Manny have been my best friends ever since I started school. They're like family to me! Leaving them is like never seeing them again Jerry! How do I live with that. I know Gem changed but we haven't spent that much time together. Kim is like a little sister and Manny is like an older brother. I can't leave them Jerry, I just can't!"
"Keve..." Geminia started but then decided not to, seeing Keverine so sad about leaving her friends, and she thought she was the angry one.
"Keverine you have to understand, this is apart of your life. It's your duty to Beverly Hills, to the world." Jerry said trying to help her,
"As what? As me or as the chosen one, a water bender." she asked angrily, "You know at first I thought that being the chosen one would make me be important, like I meant something to the world. But if I'd of known that it meant giving up the most important people to me then I wouldn't have accepted this. I'm not just a chosen one Jerry, I'm also Keverine. The smart girl with boys for friends and reads books for fun. Now... m-my whole life is changing in just a few days. This is not what I expected at all."
Keverine walked up to Jerry and picked up a remote, she pressed a button on it and the ground opened up and she fell without screaming.
"I thought Keve took it really well, I didn't know how much this meant to her." Geminia said quietly, "I'll try to talk to her."
"Thank you Gem." Jerry said.
"Kim! Manny!" Keverine shouted as she ran over to them,
"Keve, oh my gosh, are you ok? After you left yesterday I thought you were angry at us." Kim said as she hugged Keverine,
"Ugh, what's with all the hugging? Keve what happend yesterday?" Manny asked,
"I just... I felt angry for some reason but I'm ok now." Keve explained not mentioning Geminia.
"Great, because there's someone we want you to meet." Kim said with an excited smile on her face,
"Who?"
"Hey Keve! R'member me?" a tall boy said smiling.
He wore a a black jacket, white jeans and some green headphones which matched his sneakers. His hair was messy and had a pair of drum sticks in his hands.
"Jay, is that you?" Keverine asked happily,
"The one and only." he replied,
"Dude! What are you doing here? Why do you look so different?" she asked hugging him,
"I took your advice and got a new look that really shouts...me. I transferred from my old school, now I get to see you like everyday!" he said holding her shoulders.
"About that..." Keverine said uneasy,
"What do you mean Keve?" Manny asked,
"I'm going to be attending another school, starting next week." Keverine said trying to hold back her tears.
Everyone was silent, shocked at what she had just said. Finally Kim broke the silence.
"What do you mean?! You can't leave, we're supposed to be best friends for life! I thought we were sisters." Kim shouted and ran away.
"Keve... why?" Manny asked,
"I got a part-time job at a hotel called WOOHP. I'm needed there, it's in another state. I'm sorry, I tried reasoning with Jer- my parents, but they already decided." Keverine said, a tear ran down her cheek.
"I... I'm going to go find Kim... I think she needed to hear this." Manny said quietly then walked away.
"Jay..." Keverine started,
"Just when I thought we could start hanging out, you leave...again. But we're still friends, I'm not dramatic type. So goodbye Keverine Splashretawe." Jay smiled, then walked away.
As soon as everyone had left Keverine ran to her favourite tree and sat down with tears streamed down her cheeks.
"You ok?" Keverine jerked her head up and realized Geminia was standing right in front of her.
"It's ok, it's ok." Geminia said sounding like a comforting parent as Keverine hugged her, still crying.
"Listen, I know it's hard, I haven't even broken it to my friends-" Geminia said,
"Yeah, about that." Keverine said pulling back from the hug, wiping away her tears.
"Not now Keve, I'm trying to help you. You're my friend-"
"Gem!" she said again trying to get her attention,
"Keve! Listen to me, you're my friend and I care about you... so does Jerry. I know you're gonna miss your friends, but you know it's for the best. It took me awhile to understand what was happening here, my whole life changed, now I know it's what I need. It's what we need Keverine." Geminia said softly.
"Gem." Keverine said firmly,
"What? I was trying to be helpful!" Geminia said a little annoyed.
"Helpful? That's not the Gem we know." a voice said from behind them.
Geminia slowly turned around and saw all her friends looking at her with disbelief.
"Gem what you doing with boy-geek Kevin?" Rose asked angrily,
Before Keverine could say anything Geminia stepped in front of her with her hands on her hips.
"It's Keverine, Roselena Margret Aloosia." Geminia said smiling with satisfaction.
Rose blushed in embarrassment as she heard her full name.
"That's not the point," a boy said standing in front of Rose, " why are talking to Kevin? We don't do that. Losers like her don't talk us."
"No Stefe! Not 'we', not 'us'. She is not a loser, she's a true friend unlike all of you. Ever since kindergarden I thought you all were my friends, but now I know who my true friend is. That's my so-called-loser friend, Keverine." Geminia said crossing her arms.
"Whatever, to think that the queen of the school turned out to be an inner loser. See ya' around best friend for never." Rose said sticking her nose up and walking away with the rest of the group.
She heard a few others say stuff like,
"Gemin-loser."
"Loser liker."
"She is not what we expected."
"Woah Gem..." Keverine said, " I can't believe you just did that."
"It was no big deal. Besides, no one insults any friend of mine." Geminia smiled, "Since we're leaving I decided to throw a goodbye party, and your invited of course. I even invited your friends, they seemed thrilled."
"Oh thanks, I guess." she said quietly,
"It's next week, the night before we leave the school and it starts at seven. I gotta go to my locker before the bell-" Before Geminia could finish her sentence the bell rang, "See ya at WOOHP!"
"Yeah... see ya... friend." she smiled and walked into the school.
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"I'll get it!" Keverine heard Geminia shout then she opened the door.
"Oh hey Keve! Came to work on the script?" Geminia asked,
"Yeah, I think we're almost done though." Keverine replied as she walked into the mansion.
"Maybe we can hang out later when we're done."
"Sure, I got some time before dinner."
"Great! So I got this idea for the script where-" Geminia was inturrpted by another knock at the door.
"I'll get it!" a voice said as a tall girl ran downstairs to answer the door.
"Hey!" Geminia said angrily as she pushed her aside, "Amy!"
"What? I've got people I need to see to ya' know." she sneered then answered the door.
"Who's that?" Keverine whispered,
"That evil creature is my older sister, Amethyst, but I call her Amy." Geminia said as she glared at her sister.
"Wow and I thought you were the mean one." Keverine giggled,
"Ha, ha very funny, now let's go." Geminia said sarcastically pulling Keverine arm.
"Gem, it's for you!" Amy screeched,
"Good afternoon girls." a farmiliar voice said.
"Jerry?" both girls said quietly,
"Where mom and dad? He walks to talk to them about transferring you to another school." Amy smiled evily, "Maybe your grades are so low that you're gonna be transferred to a geek-loser school." she said quietly.
"Their in the study." Gem said not taking her eyes off Amy.
"Please follow me sir." Amy motioned for him to follow her then smiled innocently.
"Why that-"
"Why don't we finish working on our script." Keverine interuppted hoping to calm her down.
"Fine." she said a little grumpy, "I just hope Jerry doesn't stalk us in my house."
"If he's been monitoring for years, that's practically stalking." Keverine said as they walked into the kitchen.
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A few days later... (party day)
"Hi Gem, so I hear you and Keve are friends now." Manny said as he entered the mansion.
"So you and Keve are both leaving?" Kim asked curiously, "What a conensidence." she said suspiciously.
"Yup, so any friends are hers are friends of mine." Geminia smiled,
Kim frowned and walked away. Geminia wondered why Kim was so upset.
"Hi my name's Jay, I'm also a friend of Keve." he said as he walked in,
"Oh hi, my name's Ge..." Geminia turned around and saw Jay smiling at her.
Oh my fire... he is cute. Wait, he's friends Keve? How does she know this cute dude?!
"Hey you made it!" Keverine said as she looked at Geminia who was still awe-struck, "I see you've met my new friend Gem."
"Yeah, cool party. See ya later, I gotta get my dance on." he said then disappeared into the crowd.
"So anyway, have you seen Kim I gotta-" she was interuppted by an over excited Geminia who was holding both her shoulders tightly.
"How do you know him? He's so cute, how are you even friends with him?" Geminia asked,
"Uh... adventure camp, and he helped me with rock-climbing, guitar playing and when I was little he beat up a few kids that were bullying me." Keverine replied uncomfortably. "Anyway have you seen Kim?"
"Yeah, I was talking to her before Jay came. She seemed pretty upset." Geminia said pointing in her direction.
"Thanks." she said then walked in that direction.
Suddenly Keverine found herself being pulled into a coat closet.
"Keve, what's going on?" Kim said angrily,
"W-what are you talking about?" Keverine asked nervously,
"Why are you and Gem friends? Why are you both moving to the same school? Why don't you hang out with me after school anymore? Are you really my best friend or not?" Kim shouted trying to hold back her tears, "If you were really my best friend then you'd tell me the truth!"
"Kim... Kim I-I can't I'm sorry." Keverine said trying to make her feel better.
Kim sighed and shook her head. Then she walked out of the closet.
"Kim... I'm sorry." she said quietly.
She walked out of the closet and bumped into Geminia.
"Hey are you ok?" Geminia asked handed her a cup.
"Yeah, where's the punch?"
"Over there, the new butler just poured in a new recipe and it'd great." she smiled.
"Really? Cool." she scooped up the punch and poured it in her cup, she took a sip started to feel dizzy, "Oh my water, what is in this? This here drink tastes like cardboard putting!"
"Uh... Keve are you ok?" Geminia asked concerned,
"Let's go hang out at WOOHP!" she said loudly.
All eyes turned in their direction and looked at them confused.
"WOOHP is a... it stands for wacky, open, ocean for hearts and ponies." Geminia said trying to make sense of what she just said, she put on a fake smile and dragged Keverine to her staircase.
Geminia grabbed Keverine's hand and dragged her up to the fifth floor and opened a door to the roof. Luckily no one was on the roof. She slammed it shut and looked at Keverine who was now trying to stand still. She titered back and forth trying to keep her balance.
"Keve you almost blew our cover!" Geminia shouted.
"What cover?" a farmiliar voice said.
Geminia turned around and saw four people with confused looks on their faces.
"Rose, Kim, Manny, Jay?!" Geminia screamed in confusion, "Whay are you four doing here?"
"I wanted to see how you were doing, I realized that you're my friend and that friends stick together so I came to apologize." Rose said, " But when Kim told me the both of you we leaving to go the same school I was suspicous."
"If Keve won't tell me, then you have to tell me Gem! What's going on here?!" Kim shouted,
"Oh that easy," Keverine said in a kid-ish voice, "me an' Gem are benders, we have superpowers! WOOHP doesn't stand wacky, open, ocean, heart for ponies. It stands for World, Organization, of Human Protection. We go on missions and save the world!"
"Oh snap. We're so busted." Geminia said in a quiet voice.
"What?!" the four of them shouted in confusion,
Suddenly Keverine fainted and fell on the ground. She started closing her eyes slowly. The last thing she saw was a bunch of men surrounding her friends, Jerry was knealing down looking at her.
"No... don't hurt them." she managed to say, then she blacked out.
Keverine heard voices, and slowly opened her eyes. She looked at her surroundings and realized she was in the WOOHP infirmary, she was lying down on a bed while Geminia and Jerry were talking outside the room. They door was wide open so she could see them.
"Jerry I just don't know what happen." Geminia said a little confused,
"Gem I believe you, but then why would she tell everyone?" Jerry asked with curiousity,
"Look this is what happened, we were talking to a couple of Keve's friends, and then for some reason she started acting all weird." Gem glanced at Keverine.
Keverine quickly closed her eyes and acted like she was still sleeping. Geminia noticed but didn't say anything. Jerry looked at Keverine and walked over to the side of her bed.
"I guess the first investigation is after we take the memory out of Keve's four friends and anyone else who heard. Next-" Jerry was interrupted.
"That means no goodbye party, are we going to have another one?" said Geminia hopefully.
"Well, after the memory some will have déjà-vus for the party, but there is a fifty, fifty chance this might happen again. It's up to you and Keve," said Jerry looking over on Keverine, and saw her waking up. "Ahh, you're awake while you were sleeping we got some of your DNA. I need to go check the tests."
"What's happening," said Keverine trying to act like she waking up.
"Cut the chase I saw you were awake," said Geminia.
"Ok, you caught me, but what happen to me. All I remember drinking juice," said Keverine trying to stretch.
Geminia was looking at her nails, and looked up. "Punch? Wait; after you drank the juice you were acting funny, it might be something in the punch. But there is still one question missing-" she got cut off by Keverine.
"What are you waiting for;" said Keverine and continue "Go find the rest of the punch for analyzing," said Keverine seriously.
"Don't you want to come to my mansion?" said Geminia, stopping at the door to look at her.
Keverine was beside the window looking outside. It began to rain, trees swooshing back and forth, and puddles all over the ground. Geminia walked up to her and tap her on the shoulder.
Keverine looked up at her and said "Did we make the right decision, about leaving?"
"Keverine," Geminia looking at her "I know this is hard of leaving the place we grew up, but if we stay we might leave the world in danger. Don't worry," she smiled at her, "Come on let's go find that punch, race you to the limo," as Geminia started running to the limo.
"No fair, you got a head start," said Keverine trying to catch up with her.
"Let's see, Keve you look over there and I'll look over hear," said Geminia separating form Keverine.
"Hey, Gem I think I found more then a bit, come over here in the kitchen," said Keverine.
"Coming," said Geminia running as fast as she could. Geminia looks around and saw the black and white tiles the entrance of the kitchen floor, with spilling of juice. She looks up to find Keverine. Suddenly Geminia been pulled away with her mouth covered. The person pushes her to the ground lightly and revealed her face, who was Keverine.
Before Keverine lifted her hand, she said quietly she "There's someone in the kitchen and it might be the person who made juice. If it is then we might have to use our bending. Now let's go," Keverine released her hand and moved closer into the kitchen entrance. Geminia took a deep breath and followed her, but suddenly they both stopped. They saw a man wearing black and a red bow tie. His hair was greasy and wearing white gloves.
"Wow, those two girls are too easy to trick," he open a cupboard and took out a big pot of juice and poured it down the drain. "Maybe I should keep it a bit for a memory." He took a cup from the same cupboard a cup that said, 'THE WORLD IS MINE' and poured some juice into the cup. He turned on the tap to wash the sink of all the stains of juice.
"Wait, evil dude is the butler," whispered Geminia.
"Yes, know keep it down, it's our turn on the count of three we will jump out and defeat this dude. Ready, one, two, three," said Keverine.
Geminia and Keverine jumped out and said "FREEZE!"
The butler dropped the pot of juice and smiled, and said "you little funny girls, you cannot stand me."
"Try us," said Geminia pulling her arms back and bringing them forward to pump the fireballs out.
The butler continues to laugh, and jump away from the fireball. While the other fireball aim for his stomach. He screamed as loud as he could.
"I guessed you asked for it," the butler said. "Let me stretch first."
He pointed his arm at Geminia and blast of air came right at her. Geminia fell to the ground, she came right back up with a struggle. Keverine stretch her arm to the direction of the water. She move her hands elegant, but in small movements. The water moved slowly to her; she stretches her fingers the water turn into water balls. Suddenly, she moved her hands to the side the water turned into ice. She aims right at the butlers face, and Geminia formed her fire balls to aim at his legs. They both aim at the same time, and the butler scream "MOMMY." He pulled his arms back forth as fast he could to break the ice and fire with air flying towards them. The air was aiming to the fire balls made them bigger. Suddenly he was knocked out.
"We did it!" said Geminia turning towards Keverine smiling.
"I can't believe it but we did it, I think its time to get that sample of the juice," said Keverine walking towards the pot of juice that was dropped by the butler. "Catch," said Keverine throwing Geminia a pair a hand cuffs.
"What are these for?" said Geminia trying to catch the pair of hand cuffs.
"To cuff the butler," said Keverine taking out her X-powder to get a sample of the juice. "After you cuff him, call Jerry, so whoop could take him away."
"Sure," said Geminia whiling cuffing her new butler. She turned him over and noticed a piece of paper in his pocket. She unfolded the piece of paper and said "Poison the water bender."
"Hey Keve, look at this," she stood up and passed it to Keve. "I'm gonna call Jerry before butler wakes up." She too out her X-powder, it was ringing, Geminia picked it up and Jerry was on it. "Jerry I know you gonna say something but this is kinda important," she said excitedly.
"Ok, Gem, you may tell me," said Jerry very curious.
"Well, we figure out that Keverine had drunk some juice, that's why she was acting so weird. So we came back here to get sample." Geminia stopped and saw Keverine getting up to continue.
"Then we heard a person in the kitchen, and we saw the butler with the juice. It was odd because he was talking to himself about the juice plan," said Keverine still looking at the piece of paper.
"We defeated him using our bending," Geminia got interrupted by Keverine.
"I sent you a sample of the juice, just so you," said Keverine still looking down on the piece of paper.
"Keve, are you alright, you look quiet upset, what's wrong," said Jerry looking at her form the X-powder. "Oh, and whoop is on their way to get the butler," he said patiently.
"Well, Geminia found a piece of paper from the butler," she looked up at Jerry and continue, "it said poison water bender," tears falling from her eyes.
"Keve, he was gonna poison you, you're still here," he said but it made her cry more.
"Ummm…. Jerry can I take over from here," said Geminia awkwardly.
"Yes, by the way can you open your door please," said Jerry a little disappointed.
"Yeah, sure," Geminia closed her X-powder put it back into her pocket. "Here go up to my room and ill meet you up there," said Geminia looking at her. Keverine walked up the stairs and disappeared out of sight. Geminia walked to the front door, notice the rain stopped.
Jerry walked in and so did the other agents. The agents went directly to the kitchen but Jerry stayed right in front of Geminia.
"Is Keve alright, I just said it the wrong way," said Jerry watching the butler taken away.
"Don't worry Jerry she not made at you, I'm gonna go talk to her," said Geminia staring to walk the stairs.
"Gem, I would like to meet you and Keve at whoop later today please," said Jerry and Geminia stopped, Jerry continue, "By the way I tested Keve DNA and its alright, just that she had the punch from the party. The lab will work on it, ta-ta" said Jerry waving goodbye.
Geminia walked up the stairs to her room. She saw Keverine sitting on the couch beside the window looking out the window. Keverine turn around and looked at Geminia.
Geminia smiled and said "I know you're a little upset about that punch you had today, and that note. Future is more important then the past, so forget about it," Geminia notice Keverine looking down back to the window.
"Look to make you feel better Jerry said we could have the goodbye party again," said Geminia walking towards her.
Keverine got up and walked towards Geminia, she said "Thanks for cheering me up Gem. I don't want to have a goodbye party, besides my friends hate me."
"What are you talking about, you friends memory form the party has been erase," said Geminia noticing Keverine had a smile on her face. "By the way we need to go see Jerry; he said he wanted to meet us later today. So let's go," said Geminia grabbing her coat.
Jerry heard foot steps he looked up and saw Geminia and Keverine walking into his office with smiles. Jerry felt happy inside that Keverine was happy again after what he said to her. He looked away back to his work.
"Hey Jerry, what did you wanted to talk about," said Geminia looking at Keverine.
"First I want you to congratulate you for a successful mission before it was even time to have it. Girls I am very proud of you. Second this juice that you have given me was a potion of the truth spell but only witches would know in…" Jerry drifted away in his mind.
"Jerry, Jerry," said Geminia going to Jerry and Keverine followed.
"Let me try," Keverine slapped Jerry in the face. Suddenly Jerry started moving. Sit down before his eyes do," said Keverine running to the couch.
Geminia following her "that's a little rude, slapping in his face," whispered Geminia.
"He deserved it," said Keverine, looking at Jerry and smiled.
"Well, anyway girls," said Jerry rubbing his face.
Keverine was smirking; Geminia elbowed Keverine to make her stop and smiled back to Jerry and said "I didn't know that other people have bending powers just like us, Jerry."
Jerry looked to Keverine to Geminia, "You remember that I told you are the chosen ones. You two have might have thought that you two have bending power. Am I right," said Jerry walking to the front of his desk.
"Well, yeah. But what is our job to be the chosen one. I know mission, but isn't their something more important then that?" said Keverine standing up looking at Geminia and back at Jerry.
Jerry starting to bit his lips, thinking to himself "Is it time to tell them the truth… they came to a point that I think that their ready… is it time… or is it to fast…"
"JERRY, JERRY," said Geminia trying to get Jerry's attention.
"May I," said Keverine picking up Jerry's coffee.
"Keve, that's rude," said Geminia looking at Keverine.
"You could do it," said Keverine handing the coffee over to Geminia.
"Fine, but this is the last time, oh look there's water will use that instead," said Geminia sternly. She took the pitcher of water and splashed it over Jerry's face. "Sorry, Jerry, but it was the only why to get you attention."
"It's alright, I'm going to wash off my face, and you girls can be dismissed, I'll see you at tomorrow's bending lesson," said Jerry walking back to his desk to click the whoop button. "Tata," he said smiling at the girls.
"Whoa," said Keverine and Geminia going up the tube back to Geminia's mansion.
"Wasn't that weird," said Keverine walking up the stairs to Geminia's room.
"What's weird," said Geminia looking at Keverine.
"Jerry zone out on us, he was thinking about the question I asked him. But why, is he keeping a secret away from us?" said Keverine sitting down in front of the window in Geminia's room.
"I have no clue, but right now that's not important." Geminia said turning to her, "What's important is getting a whole new wardrobe for school!" she whined.
Keverine sighed, "Some things never change."
