-Chapter six will be the longest one that I have done so far I will try and make each chapter close to 2,000 words as always I hope you enjoy-
Chapter six Training Camp
"Who was that?" Sarah was a little bit confused.
Jack stopped holding his arm, but he could still feel a sharp pain.
"Its a long story grab your luggage and follow me," Jack picked up his luggage and exited the train with Sarah close behind him.
There was a large crowed entering the train, Jack had scanned the area in hopes of locating Emerald. He luckily spotted her entering into a door on the side of a building.
"She went that way," Jack pointed to the single door.
They hurried through the doors to catch up to Emerald. They stood at the beginning of a long dark hallway. Jack could hear footsteps echo from ahead.
"Uhh ladies first," Jack Backed up a little to allow Sarah to go first.
"There is no way I'm walking down there it looks creepy," Sarah refused to go.
Jack sighed and thought for a moment.
"Okay fine just stick close to me," Jack reached out and grabbed her hand.
Jack was a little bit scared, but swallowed his fear and lead Sarah down the dark hallway. They were surrounded by complete darkness for a few seconds until they saw light shining from the glass of a door. They opened it together and exited the dark hallway. Emerald was standing a few feet away tapping her foot in impatience.
"Ohh, so you guys aren't a couple?" Emerald chuckled.
Jack looked as he saw he was still holding Sarah's arm. He quickly let go and turned to Emerald.
"For the last time we are not a couple!" Jack was angered by her bringing it up.
"Woah woah calm down there buddy," Emerald held her hands up.
Emerald cleared her throat as if she was going to give speech.
"DO YOU guys want to be the freshest around?" Emerald asked waiting for an answer.
"YES!" Sarah cheered, Jack just rolled his eyes.
"Well I will guide you through this training course, but first before we begin we have to get you suited up, do you guys have your Ink tanks?" Emerald pointed at the two.
Jack and Sarah both nodded as they grabbed there ink tanks out of their luggage.
"Good now let me help you put them on,"
Emerald went to Jack first.
"Here, put these straps around your shoulders and tighten them,"
Jack proceeded to attach the straps around his shoulders and tighten them until they fit comfortably. He jumped a little bit when he felt a small pinch on his back.
"Don't worry you will get use to it what it does is absorb the ink that sticks to your body this is what refills the tank," Emerald informed Jack.
Emerald showed Sarah how to hook the Ink Tank to herself, as Emerald proceeded to the next step.
"Ok now I want you to get your weapons and your cords out of your bags," Jack and Sarah proceeded to pull out their equipment.
"Now hook your cord to the bottom of your Ink Tanks and to the back of your weapons,"
They located were the cords were suppose to be hooked and attached them.
"You guys can leave your bags here ill make sure they get back to you, now we can begin with the fun stuff," Emerald giggled.
They left there bags in a shaded area next to a small tree.
"I have noticed you two are not the same color this can be a little bit dangerous because if one of you accidentally shoot each other you will get splatted, Jack how about you change to Sarah's color, to do this just click the glowing orange button on the top of your Ink Tank and insert some of the ink into that small tray that comes out,"
Jack pressed the orange button on his Ink tank and a tray slid out of a compartment. Sarah shot orange ink at the ground with her gun. Jack picked some of the ink up and put it in the tray. The tray closed and a few seconds later Jack felt something small prick his skin, Jack was surprised at how he barely felt it. Jack felt a little bit funny a few seconds after the weird thing pricked him.
Sarah was a little surprised when she saw Jacks gun and hair change from blue to orange. Jack was fascinated when he saw his gun turn blue.
"Good now follow me once you pop all these balloons behind me," Emerald pointed at the orange balloons floating above her.
She shot a trail of green ink and disappeared into it with her squid form.
"You can take the balloon on the left ill take the one on the right," Jack suggested.
Sarah nodded as they took aim at the balloons. It took a few good shots before the balloons popped. Jack ran while shooting an ink trail for him and Sarah. Sarah transformed into a squid and swam through the ink with ease. Jack tried to swim through the ink Emerald left, but was forced back into his humanoid form and sank into the green ink. He had trouble moving through the ink until he shot at it with his weapon. He rose back up and turned to look at Sarah who was swimming close behind him.
"Uhh Sarah it looks like we cant go into Emeralds ink, I tried to swim in it, but I got stuck," Jack warned her.
Jack shot over Emeralds ink and continued to move forward. They keep progressing until they saw Emerald standing in the center of what looked like a mini skate park.
"Excellent now pop these balloons on both sides of me," Emerald I pointed at the two balloons to the left and right of her.
"You take the left on and ill take the right one," Sarah ordered.
They split up and popped both balloons in a matter of seconds.
"You guys are showing potential," Emerald looked at both of them and grinned.
"Follow me up the ramp," Emerald inked another path and climbed up the ramp. They quickly inked a path followed behind her.
"You can jump out of your ink in squid form, this is helpful for jumping over gaps, make sure to change back to your human form to gain more speed," Emerald shot at the ramp and changed into her squid form. She swam quickly and jumped out of the ink simultaneously changing into her humanoid form, she did a flip in the air for style and landed on the other side.
Jack was surprised how agile Emerald was. Sarah clapped at the amazing trick Emerald did.
"thank you thank you," Emerald bowed.
"Now your turn,"
Jack shot over Emerald's ink and got a running start and transformed into his squid form. He jumped and turned into his humanoid form and landed.
"I give it a 8/10 the landing was a little bit off," Emerald held up eight fingers.
Jack just grunted as he walked to Emerald. Sarah got ready as she ran and turned into her squid form. She jumped turned into her humanoid form and did a back flip and stuck the landing.
"10/10 I liked that backflip," Emerald held up 10 fingers.
Jack didn't know Sarah was that agile either.
"Enough of judging follow me down here," Emerald jumped off and landed on the ground below. Jack and Sarah jumped down and were in awe as they saw a saucer like object behind Emerald.
"Don't worry about this, it crashed here some time ago and no one knew why, what I want you to pay attention to is this," Emerald pointed down at the purple ink surrounding the UFO.
"If you have steeped in my ink you have noticed you have got stuck, if you step in ink that is not your color you will sink in it, while you are trapped your movement will be slowed, to get out just cover the enemy ink with your color and you will be good," Emerald demonstrated this by walking around in the purple ink and shooting the ink below her to get free.
"One more thing, if you are trapped in enemy ink you will be easier to splat another reason to stay clear of it," Emerald turned back around and swam to the next area with them following.
"As you can see there are boxes in the way, on the side of your hip you will find your sub weapon, yours is the splat bomb throw it at the boxes and see what happens,"
Jack grabbed a triangular shaped bomb on the side of his hip and aimed at the boxes. He cocked his hand back and threw it, the bomb bounced toward the boxes before stopping in front of them. The bomb began to expand for a few seconds before it exploded and covered a massive area of blue ink while destroying the boxes blocking them. Sarah and Jack were surprised at the power of the splat bomb.
"As a squid you can climb up walls you inked, try it,"
Jack turned into a squid a started climbing the wall until he reached the top he turned around smiled.
"This is amazing," Jack was like a kid in a candy store.
Sarah did the same and reached the top. Emerald inked over the blue and swam up the wall.
"Last step as a squid you can swim through grates," Emerald walked up to the grate and changed into a squid, she easily went through it and changed back on the other side.
Jack and Sarah changed into their squid forms and went through the grate and changed back. They looked down as they saw a puddle of blue ink. it was bubbling and glowing.
"This is called a launch pad you will see why its called that in just a moment," Emerald signaled Jack to go first.
Jack was a little hesitant at first but went into the puddle he didn't like the feeling of it bubbling around his feet.
"Just turn into your squid form," Emerald instructed.
He did what he as told, he felt himself swelling up as ink filled throughout his body. His arc (the tip of his squid form) raised up.
Emerald looked at him and laughed.
"Make sure you land on your way down,"
"What do yo-" the build up of ink had no where to go, but out as he blasted up in the air.
"AHHHHHH!" Jack screamed as he was flying through the air at blazing speeds.
He transformed back into his human form and he spun in a circle. He looked down and saw he was flying over buildings. He didn't enjoy the view for long realizing he was descending. A blue marker showed up on a black paved road warning everyone of the incoming inkling. Jack closed his eyes and bent his knees and landed safely on the pavement.
Jack looked up and was at awe at what he saw.
-These cliff hangers really get ya-