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Chapter 8: Drawings and Pandas

Tara's POV

Nya was educating us on different types of venom in class today, except no one was paying attention. Kai stared off into space, Zane stared at his robotic hawk, Jay sat love-struck, ogling at Nya, and Cole was doodling in a sketchbook. I leaned over my seat to get a better look of what he was drawing. It was a self-portrait of him kicking serpentine butt.

"Whoa," I stared, amazed, "Can you teach me how to draw like that?" He nodded and handed over his book and pen casually. I started flipping to a new page.

"No, you're flipping it the wrong way!" he yelled as he tried to take the book back. It was too late, I had flipped the sketchbook open to a pastel and colored pencil version of me. My hands traced over every detail of the creamy paper.

"It's beautiful," I breathed. Every detail and every imperfection was there. He shook his head so some of his hair fell in front of his face and I couldn't see his eyes.

"Just flip it to a new page," he mumbled. I obeyed his words and started sketching. A few minutes passed.

"There! Done!" I gave him a toothy grin. He put his hand on his chin and appeared to be in deep thought.

"An octopus?" he guessed.

I frowned, "Noo. This is you (I pointed to a mess of squiggles). And this is me (I pointed to another jumbled mess). We're holding hands. And down here, see? Right there. It says 'friends forever'. Anyone could see what this picture is, duh." Kai passed by as he was walking back to his seat.

"That's a very nice... rocket ship?" Kai speculated. I gave him my famous death stare.

"Well then, this is the most beautiful art I have ever seen," Cole praised. I beamed at him. I heard laughing later while I was doodling in Cole's book. Something about perfume. Class was dismissed and I saw Zane turn his humor switch off. That reminded me of yesterday. Even though I was in a state of hypothermia, I was still aware of my surroundings. If Zane was a robot, I mean nindroid, then does he even have the capacity for feelings such as love and compassion? Maybe I think too much into things, but I was going to have to ask him about that later. In the meantime, Nya told me that Sensei Wu had instructed her to lay my golden weapon on my bed. I was all jittery with excitement. I ran into my room and saw a small redwood box with gold dragons inscribed on them.

"Please don't be a shovel. Please don't be a shovel," I pleaded as I yanked open the box. It was a small stick. Well, that was disappointing. I was trying to figure out how it worked as a weapon when the stick opened up. Ahhh. It was a fan! Cool... How does that work as a weapon? I traced the blossom design of the fan as my fingers made their way to the base of the fan. A button! I clicked it, razor-sharp metal spokes appeared at the topmost edge of the fan. I started swinging it around pretending I was battling some invisible serpentine army when I accidentally flung it out of the room. I peered outside very, very slowly. Jay was there with the fan just a centimeter above his scalp, and a new haircut.

"I guess we know the weapon works?" I tried to offer up an excuse, "You're all dolled up."

"I'm going on a date," he gloated.

I grinned at him sympathetically, "You might want to fix your hair first." He patted his head to the spot I had gouged some hair out of his head. He started running when I found out there was a second fan in the box to accompany the first. I went up to the cockpit where everyone was.

"Look what I got!" I announced proudly as I stuck both fans up in the air.

"Watch out, she's armed!" Kai said.

I sighed, "Geez guys, I'm pretty sure I can handle my own weapon-" One of the fans slipped from my hands and smashed into the operating system. Note: refrain from talking with your hands.

Kai, getting used to stuff like this, continued with his news, "The bridge picked up serpentine at the local amusement park so we assume that the first fang blade is in those whereabouts.

At the amusement park, I was getting drawn into every attraction, advertisement, over-priced game there was.

"Come on Tara, this isn't time for games," Cole told me. I wasn't paying attention. My eyes were glued to one of the attractions. I tugged on Zane's white uniform and pointed. He nodded in understanding. I flashed one of the biggest smiles known to man and attacked Zane in a bear hug. He gently guided me off of him as he walked over to the attraction: It was one of those dart games where you only have three darts and try to hit the highest valued balloons. Zane's eyes turned a weird blue-green color and I knew he was using his nindroid powers to calculate trajectory and other fancy physic equations. A few seconds later, he was pointing to the prize I wanted: a giant, fluffy panda bear. He came back and next thing you know I was snuggling against a panda. He smiled at the rest of the team sheepishly, unable to come up with an excuse to why he just did what he did.

"Now where could the serpentine be," Kai asked, trying to get us back on track.

I pointed behind him to an attraction where a bunch of people were running out screaming, "They're probably in there."


Kai's POV

Although delayed, we were finally stealthily creeping toward the serpentine to stop them from getting the first fang blade. I turned around to do a head count. Jay was off on his date. Let's see, one... two... where was Tara? I saw no glimpse of her purple uniform anywhere. I then heard a very girlish scream behind me. I turned around and expected to see Tara. Only to find Cole scared out of his wits and a white sheet with two eyeholes.

"What? Scared of ghosts?" Tara asked Cole from underneath the sheet, "We need to dress the part if we're going all incognito here." Her eyes laughed through the two small holes she cut through the fabric.

"Although you are right, if Cole keeps screaming like a girl, we'll get nowhere," Zane stated. Only Tara and I laughed.

Tara rolled her eyes, "Your funny switch Zane." He flicked his funny switch.

"Oh, now I get it. Ha, ha."


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