*Disclaimer: You already know what I'm going to say, so why do I need to say it? :P
FrozenBloom, you guessed almost exactly right: almost all of them are werewolves; she growled and snapped at Jason and Lilia because they're mother is Renesme, which makes them 1/4 vamp. She accepted the others as 'fellow wolves'. Tsunamichikara, I know you know it's a wolf :P YAY! I'm done with the early, not very exciting chapters in which there's not much action! Things'll start picking up faster after this :D
Btw, it's still from Dakoda's POV.
Chapter Nine
Seriously, Jason needs to tone it down.
"Jason! Quit pacing!" Lilia said for the thousandth time, "Good grief! You're going to smother Fae!"
"What on earth are you talking about?" Jason seems to like asking dumb questions.
"Uh, dude; everyone can tell you have the hots for her. Did you imprint on her or something?" Chase asks; we all are kind of curious, he's never paid this much attention to a girl before.
"Shoot, I don't know; I don't think I have. She's just so..."
"You know, if you keep drooling over her, you'll never get on her good side." Mina commented.
"Drooling?! I am not!" We all look at him, "Well, I'm not!"
"Riiight, you're not." Mina replied, heavy on the sarcasm.
"What are you guys arguing about?" Celeste asked, curious; she'd been talking on her cell. I don't know why they didn't want her to know about us; it's not like she'd flip out if she did. It makes it harder for us; always covering up, coming up with dumb excuses, and outright lying to her.
"Oh, just bugging Jase about his 'Fae obsession'." Lilia replies,
"Uh huh; anyway, I just got off the phone with Fae, they just left their house. She said something about Arisa taking forever to get ready."
"Wait; you have her phone number! What is it?" Jason demanded;
"Can you say: over zealous?" I put in; really, he needs to tone it down before it drives the rest of us mad. He glares at me, then looks back at Celeste.
"No. I. Will. Not. Give. You. Her. Number." Celeste growled, "If you want it that bad, ask her; then if she wants you to have her number, she'll give it to you." Rolling her eyes, she stalks over toward the parking lot.
Okay, maybe inviting them to the beach wasn't such a good idea after all; what do people normally wear to the beach? If you guessed 'swimsuit', you would be right. And if you guessed that Jason went gaga over Fae... well then, you get major bonus points.
"Fae! I love your suit! Where'd you get it?" Lilia asked; she's La Push's police force. Fashion police, that is. Fae looked at her blankly,
"It's custom made; it was a birthday present." Arisa answered, "I had to talk her into wearing it; but I know how to motivate her." She grinned, "All I had to do was tell her that she would go in that, or I would find -" Arisa wasn't able to finish, due to the fact that Fae's hand was clamped over her mouth.
"Hey! Is that your car?" Fae quits glaring at her sister to glance at Chase;
"Yeah, what of it?" She's probably pleased that everyone's attention is on the car, instead of her.
"It's a 1969 Corvette Stingray, manual transmission; fully restored, with a few modifications, of course." Trey says, grinning; "It belongs to me and Fae; we bought it and fixed it up."
"Me and Seth are usually the team captains," Jake began, "but just to change things up a bit, we'll let our guests decide."
"Jason and Dakoda." Fae and Trey say together; "Copycat!" They both exclaim, then they laugh.
"No, I think it should be Fae and Trey." Arisa chimes in, grinning impishly. Fae glares,
"If Trey is on the other team, it won't be a game; it'll be war."
"Well then, that'll make it interesting." Lilia says; I have a feeling that despite the age difference, Arisa and Lilia are going to be fast friends.
"All right then." Fae replies; she and Trey step out in front of the line. "I get J.B."
"Seth."
"Dakoda."
"Jason."
"Ren." When no one moves and she notices our confused looks, Fae sighs and then explains; "There is no way I'm going to call you Renesme; you are now officially Ren." Laughing, 'Ren' joins Fae's team.
"Leah." Interesting; instead of trying to get all the good players, they're dividing up so that there's an even amount of talent on each team. After dividing up the rest of the players, Fae steps out in front;
"Okay, this is how we're going to do this: we have too many on each team for a good game, so some people are going to have to sit out-"
"What?! I'm not going to sit out; I'm going to play!" Justin objected, interrupting Fae. She rolled her eyes at him;
"Everyone will get to play; we're going to have to rotate out, that's all. So which four want to sit out first?"
"But that'll only leave you six players." Claire pointed out from the sidelines; everyone that wasn't playing had gathered to watch, including Fae and Trey's parents, Corrynne and Mason Keylock.
"Yup; just the right amount for a good, fast game." Fae turned to her team, "You four are sitting out?" She asked; Ren, Kayleb, Lilia, and Sam had gathered to one side.
"Yep." Ren answered.
"Okay; that leaves me, J.B., Justin, Dakoda, Mina, and Dax; get in position!" Fae ordered, taking the spot in front of the server. Crouching slightly, she put her hands on her knees; "Let the game begin!"
* * *
"Time out!" Fae shouted, "Half-time break!" And boy, do we need it; Fae wasn't kidding when she said it would be war.
"So, what's the score?" Justin asked as we reached the drink cooler
"What? You mean I was supposed to keep track?" Fae mused, draining her water bottle in a matter of seconds. Justin froze for a few moments, then swore vehemently. Fae glances at me, then reaches for the cooler; grinning, I grab the cooler's other handle. Everyone watched in amusement as ice-water and cold drinks rained down on Justin.
"What was that for?!" He sputtered, wiping the the water out of his eyes.
"To cool your temper." She replied shortly, opening another water bottle.
"How do you tell who wins if you don't keep score?" Jason queried, puzzled.
"Oh, I know the score, it's just not important. No one looses the way we play; we just have fun." She answered after draining her second water.
"But you play like it's life or death!" Sasha exclaimed, "If it's really just for fun, then why do you play like that?" Trey grinned;
"Because it's fun. Also, it helps pull the team together when you play hard and fast."
"Besides that, there's sort of a running competition between Fae and Trey." Daxton added.
"You mean you're making us play our best, not so our team wins, but just so you two can have some sort of private contest?!" Kayleb exclaimed. Fae laughed,
"No! Would you rather play your best, and so become better; or would you rather play half-heartedly and never get anywhere?" Wow; another water bottle sucked dry.
"And what he calls a 'running competition', is really just us trying to best each other in almost everything we do; that's how we decide who's older." Trey explained.
"What?" Justin looked very puzzled indeed.
"We have absolutely no idea which one of us was born first, so we're trying to gain 'predominance' in a different way." Fae said,
"For example; if your team plays better than mine, regardless of the score, then Fae is 'oldest'." Trey added, "At least until I, or the team I'm on, bests her, or hers."
"Got it!" Fae and I shout at the same time; intent on hitting the ball back over the net, neither of us was watching where we were heading. This would be the second time we've collided this week.
"OWWW!!!" Fae shouted; unfortunately, I landed on her this time. I got off of her as fast as possible: to the human eye, it probably looked like I had landed beside her instead of on top. She had one leg tucked up against her chest and was holding her left foot. "OWWWWWWWWWW!!!!"
"Fae!" Jason was kneeling next to her before you could say 'inhuman speed'. Glaring at him, she turned to her brother, who was also kneeling at her side.
"What hurts Kit?" He murmured softly,
"I think he broke my foot!!!" She growled, glaring at me. "I totally had that! Grrr!!! Then you had to squoosh me!!!"
"Wha? But he landed beside you?" Trey replied, confused. Time to change the subject.
"Are you sure it's broken; can you move it?" I query, moving as if to touch her foot.
"Eeeep!" Fae screeched, scuttling backwards.
"Dakoda!" Jason said irritably, "Don't bother her!"
"You're bothering me more than he is!" Fae snarled; "BUZZ OFF!!!" Grudgingly, Jason backed up, but didn't leave.
"Want me to have a look at it?" Jake asked,
"NO! Don't touch it!" Fae fussed, glaring.
"Fae, move your hands so I can see it." Trey sighed; slowly, she moved them. Trey's eyebrows shot up in alarm: her ankle was already swollen twice it's normal size with some pretty nasty looking bruises forming. "Can I have a closer look at it?" Fae nodded; gently, Trey explored the joint with his fingers, then tried flexing it slightly. Fae's quick intake of breath was the only thing that hinted at the pain it caused; jaw clenched and face blank as she concentrated on blocking out the pain. "Well," Trey said, leaning back; "I don't think it's broken; just a bad sprain." He stood up, then helped Fae to her feet.
* * *
"How's your ankle?" Jason queried,
"You asked me that about thirty seconds ago; do you think it might have magically gotten better since then?" Fae replied, her voice practically dripping with sarcasm.
"No. Do you want anymore ice?"
"NO!" She snapped, throwing her drink at him."JUST GO AWAY!!!" He easily dodged, and was about to say something else idiotic when Lilia clamped a hand over his mouth.
"Jason! Just shut up!" She growled, "Now lets go somewhere where you can't bother Fae." Once they were out of sight, I opened the cooler and got Fae some more ammo in case he came back.
"Thanks." She said, taking the soda thankfully, "Why won't he just leave me alone." She mumbled, taking a drink. Everyone else had gone cliff diving, and most of the adults, including Fae's parents, had gone home earlier, so now that Lilia had dragged Jason off, we were the only ones left at the beach.
"I'm supposing that's a rhetorical question."
"Yup." She took another drink, then looked at me curiously; "I know you landed on top of me; why did Trey think you hadn't?" Oh great; I should have known this was coming. I shrugged;
"Maybe it was the angle he was looking from." She wasn't buying it, but she didn't push me about it.
"And how did Jason get to me so fast? He was farther from me than Trey was." Crap; Jason's gonna pay for slipping up like that!
"He's a good sprinter." She looks at me incredulously;
"So's Trey, and he was closer."
"Ah, but Jason's practically in love with you; mightn't that have given him some extra speed?" I joke, trying to divert her thoughts. She wrinkles her nose and grimaces.
"I wish he had a girlfriend: then maybe I wouldn't have to deal with him."
"He has been on a few dates, but he's never really been that interested in girls; until you came along."
"Wonderful. I'll probably have him tagging along after me for a while, then." Sighing, she finishes her soda and crushes the can. "Hand me another one; I want to have plenty of ammo when he gets back." Laughing, I was handing her another one when a howl split the air. "What was that?" Ignoring her question, I turn toward the direction it came from. This cannot be good; something must have come up. "Did you hear me? I asked you-"
"Fae! Oh, good, Koda's still with you." It's Trey, with everyone else right behind him. "It sounded like it came from somewhere close by-" He was cut off as another howl pierced the night; closer this time.
"We should probably head home; it's almost full dark anyway." Fae says, carefully standing up, she starts toward their car and almost falls.
"You're not in any condition to be walking by yourself." I comment, grabbing her arm to keep her from falling.
"I'll manage if I have to." She retorted, but didn't object to being helped to their car."Thanks." She murmured, glancing at Jason; I imagine that she's grateful for me helping her before he could. "Trey, did Cory and Mase want us to call when we were done?"
"Yeah." Using her free arm, she pulled a black object from the pocket of the cut-offs she had pulled on over her swimsuit.
"Wait, I thought that was a camera." Once again, Jason looks confused.
"It is." She replied, flipping it open and hitting a button. "Mom and Dad." She said, then put it to her ear; Sasha's jaw dropped.
"Is that a Keylock Infinity?" Everyone did a double take.
"But it's not supposed to be coming out till next year!" Fae just looked at them.
"This isn't the Keylock Infinity; this is the Keylock Infinity Expansion, beta version, of course." Silence. "Oh, hi Mom; we're just leaving; yeah, okay. Bye." Once she hung up, everyone exploded; figuratively speaking.
"WHAT!"
"Where did you get it!"
"How much did it cost?!"
"I want one!" After everyone quieted down, Trey explained as he helped Fae into the car.
"Mason Keylock, our father, is the inventor of the Infinity Card; he lets us try out the beta models before they go on the market. He came up with the Expansion beta a few weeks before we moved." He waited a few secs before he continued; "There's been a few bugs, which have been worked out; it's a camera, a radio, a hand held computer, a GPS, a DVD player, a MP3 player, a video camera, a projector, a recording device, and a phone with an option which let's you talk 'face-to-face' through live video feed. And with a woven carbon fiber casing, it's practically indestructible."
"So that's why your last name sounded so familiar." I say, thinking aloud.
"That's also why you have so much stuff." Justin harrumphed. "But why did you guys move here?"
"Oh; Cory got a job offer; she's a biologist." Fae said quickly, glaring at her siblings as if daring them to say anything else. Just then another howl split the darkness.
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