Ivanna kept going on and on, boring them with her narcissism, then Sarah noticed a white figure in the distance, she squinted to see better. It was Emma! She stared at her, 'why aren't you coming to help us?' she thought. Then Emma started waving her arms, Ivanna noticed Sarah staring and saw Emma too, she smiled.
"Hello, Beatrice." She purred darkly. 'What kind of name is Beatrice?' Sarah thought. Ivanna whistled and three bears appeared, "bring me the traitor and vhoevers vith her. I'll kill everyone of these people she so desperately cares for right in front of her eyes."
"Darn it Sarah!" Emma spat as soon as she saw Ivanna smile, she pressed the button on the walkie talkie, "Double-D, we've been made. I'm gonna lure them away, the guys are gonna stay here and wait until the bears have moved and keep an eye on where they're moving." She handed it to Eddy, "Are you crazy?" he asked, "Those bears'll murder you." Double-D was yelling through the walkie about how Emma "WILL NOT USE YOURSELF AS BAIT TO LURE A SLEUTH OF BEARS, MISSY!"
"Sloth?" Ed asked, confused.
"It's what you call a group of bears, Ed." Emma explained. "And I was trained to be an assassin, Eddy, I think I can handle a couple bears. You stay and find out where Ivanna's taking them." Suddenly she heard a whistle, "Their coming…" she looked to Eddy, Ed, and Paul, "Stay!" she said. Then she ran towards the end of the branch, the boys called for her, panicked at her sudden dash. To their surprise, Emma landed to the branch of another tree with ease, almost as if she was used to it.
"OI IVANNA!" Emma shouted, "COME AND GET ME, MISS I HAVE TO WAX OFF MY MUSTACHE EVERY TWO DAYS!" she shouted as she ran across that tree, leaping on branches and swinging on vines like a monkey farther from the boys. "MISS I HAVE BUTT ACNE!" she continued, "MISS I CAN'T EVEN GET A DATE ONLINE!" Emma heard the bears stampede towards her voice as she put more distance between herself and the guys.
Eddy looked at the walkie, "Double-D, she's already left to lure the bears."
"IS SHE INSANE?" Double-D screeched into the phone.
"She said she was trained to be an assassin, Double-D, and that she could handle a couple bears. I believe her. And honestly, she's kind of dashing through the trees like a ninja, so yeah, I think she'll get away. Plus if that girl's ego is as big as she claims, I think Emma's saving our butts here by running around screaming insults, I mean, if you hear Emma getting closer, get out of the way… Plus it's kinda funny." He said.
"OH IVANNA WAS COVERED IN PIMPLES, THAT LOOKED LIKE THIRD NIPPLES THAT COVERED HER HAIRY BACK! SO SHE WASHED THEM AND POKED THEM AND CLEARACEL SOAKED UM, BUT WHEN GUYS SEE HER SHE STILL MAKES THEM GO ACK!" Emma sang loudly as she leapt through the branches.
Marie couldn't help but giggle from the mean things Emma was screaming about this Ivanna chick as she ran through the forest. "Eddy's got a point muffin, she's kind of like a advanced warning for incoming bears… Plus it is pretty funny…" She suddenly heard a roar and a scream, she turned to see a bear had cornered Jimmy and Jenna. Kevin ran towards them to help but Marie shouted, "NO! DON'T FIGHT IT AND SPLIT UP, REMEMBER?" But Kevin ignored her racing towards it, his bat raised, only for Marie to shout, "HEY BEAR, OVER HERE!" And wave her arms, "COME AND GET ME!" she challenged, then dashed away, the bear right behind her, leaving the rest of them to run away. The bear crushed everything that stood in it's path as it chased her, she was slowing down. She suddenly wished she had listened to Double-D and just quit smoking. She tripped and fell, turning to see the bear was right on top of her, ready to crush her or drag her back. "Muffin?" she called into the walkie just as the bear roared.
"MARIE!" she heard him cry thorough the walkie. Just when the bear rose it's mighty paw to swat at her, a humongous green snake came out of nowhere, breaking it's neck with its mighty jaws with a loud, sickening SNAP! That echoed through the trees. "MARIE!" Rachel called. "MARIE!" Her sister, Lee, sobbed. "MARIE ARE YOU THERE? MARIE!" Double-D cried into the walkie, as the snake released the limp creature from it's mouth and looked at Marie, she froze. It slithered toward her and she winced as it flicked it's tongue at her face. Then it did the strangest thing, it nuzzled her. Marie took a shaking hand and scratched it near it's belly, the snake hissed approvingly and nuzzled her some more. "I'm okay, Muffin… actually, I'm better then okay… I think I found Jormungard." She said breathlessly.
"EVERYONE THINKS THAT IVANNA STINKS LIKE A PIECE OF ROTTEN CHEESE!" Emma screamed, "BUT ME I SAY, IT'S OKAY, AS LONG AS YOU DON'T BREATHE!" she noticed Marie was alone with a giant snake, she wished she could throw her voice or something to see if they were okay, then when she sang the next voice, it came from ahead, "IVANNA'S BREATH SMELLS LIKE A SEWER! IVANNA'S BREATH SMELLS LIKE DECAY!" Emma smiled as she discovered her talent for throwing her voice. "IVANNA'S BREATH SMELLS LIKE THE FIFTY FUZZY MOLDY PIZZAS SHE HAD JUST YESTERDAY!" she said even farther. She leapt down beside Marie and the snake, who at the sight of Emma, rushed to her and nuzzled her, "Down boy," Emma whispered, scratching under his chin, she pushed Marie down as a stampede of bears dashed past them, she threw her voice further down in the direction they were going, "FUZZY WUZZY WAS A BEAR! FUZZY WUZZY HAD NO HAIR! YET HE STILL COULD CATCH ME, YOU STUPID LOSERS! HA HA HA HA HA!" The bears surged forward, angry at her insult.
"You can throw your voice? Marie asked, still pressing the button on the walkie
"Apparently." She said with a shrug, then smiled, "I'm glad you're okay," she glanced around, "Where is everyone else?" Jimmy's scream echoed through the forest.
"The rest of your group was over there, weren't they?" Emma said, closing her eyes and rubbing her temples.
"Yeah, a bear found us," Marie indicated the dead bear on the ground, "Jormungard helped me with this one, but they were still there."
"And I stupidly led them to Jimmy, Jenna and Kevin." Emma said bitterly, "Great… I'm so helpful." She berated herself.
"Look, you came to see if I was okay," Marie said, then Eddy's voice came over the walkie, "Good to know your alive, Em."
"Thanks, how's Ed?" she asked.
"Paul and I are trying to keep him from running in to save them."
"Put the walkie near his ear."
"Okay. It's there."
"Ed, do you know what Ivanna's gonna do when she catches everyone? She's going to kill you one by one and make me watch before I'm killed." She paused for a second then asked him, "Do you know why she'd do that?"
"Because she's a bitch?" Rachel replied.
"Well, yeah." Emma agreed, "But it's also because she knows you all are important to me. It's a tactic she adores, if you need intel from the person you're supposed to kill, you use the people most important to them. No one wants to see someone they care about die because of them. It's even better if you want to torture someone while adding to the body count. She'll make sure I feel horrible that I couldn't save you before I die. If you go down there without a plan, not only will she kill you, she will rip one of your limbs off in front of your girlfriend and sister, make them beg and plead to leave you alone. Then she'll make you watch as she murders your little sister and your girlfriend. She will watch as you cry and scream and beg to spare them and she will laugh at you until she kills you, too. Don't go down there yet. I'll take care of her, okay? Then you can tear her bears apart and save them, but right now you need to stay calm, Ed. I know you hate this, trust me, there's nothing I'd like more then for you to go all Chuck Norris on Ivanna's big ugly butt, but please. The best thing you can do right now is track them, find where she keeps them and make sure not to get caught, I'm sending Marie and Jorry to find Double-D, if you see them, join them, everyone, watch out for Marie and Jorry, when you see them, join them, Jorry can take out any of these bears with ease, if there are too many, split up and find Jorry again. I'll take out Ivanna.
"Av, that's so sveet." Ivanna said into the walkie, "But I've already captured another group, Beatrice." Jenna was swearing at her in the background while Jimmy sobbed and Kevin groaned in pain. Marie felt awful for leaving her group behind to get grabbed by bears.
"That's not my name, Ivanna!" Emma snapped into the walkie.
"But that's not all ve've got." She said. Two new voices came from the device, "Somebody! Help! This woman is crazy."
"Father?" Double-D asked, horrified.
"Eddward? Is that you? Are you alright?"
"Mother?"
Marie and Emma looked at each other. Emma screamed angrily into the device, "YESLI VAN VRED LYUBYUM IZ NIKH YA SDELAYU VAS ZHAL', CHTO YA UBIL VAS S VASHIM SOBSTVENNYM GREBANYY KNUTOM SHEST' LET NAZAD, ZHIRNAYA ZADNITSA!" (IF YOU HARM ANY OF THEM, I WILL MAKE YOU WISH I MURDERED YOU WITH YOUR OWN FUCKING WHIP SIX YEARS AGO, FAT ASS!)
"Yes, vell, I'm planning to kill them so that's technically not harming them." Emma froze for a second, stunned by the stupidity of Ivanna's words.
"Wow." Emma said, "That's probably the stupidest statement I've ever… just WOW."
"Vhat?"
"That was just so stupid…"
"AHHH!" Eddy cried into the walkie.
"EDDY!" Double-D and Lee cried.
"That's another group down, Beatrice."
Rachel and Nazz's screams could be heard through the forest, a man's shout echoed through the forest.
"Papa!" Rolf cried.
"And another, hov does it feel, to come to try and save them only to lead them to their ovn demise?"
Emma's whole body shook with rage, but she took a deep breath and said, "Hey, Ivanna."
"Vhat?"
"How's that hemorrhoid of yours doing? Still the size of a man hole cover or has your butt grown bigger since then?" Marie chuckled despite herself.
"I am going to enjoy killing you." Ivanna growled.
"And I'm going to enjoy giving you a swirly in the massacred guts of your stupid bears." Emma seethed, feeling the plastic crack a little in her clenched fist.
"Double-D, destroy the walkie, I'll take Marie and Jorry to you guys and we'll find the others, release them, then we'll take Ivanna and her stupid bears out together." She stopped pressing the button and looked to Marie, "Marie, you have anything of Double-D's that Jorry can use to find him and the others?"
Marie patted herself down, "No… but what about your hat? It was his, right?"
"Yeah," Emma said, taking off her hat and letting Jorry sniff it, Marie gasped at the scar on Emma's head, "Emma…" Emma noticed where she was looking and smiled meekly, "It doesn't hurt anymore, Marie, I'm fine. Besides, we've got bigger problems to worry about then my scar." She looked at her snake "Got the scent, boy?" The snake nodded, Emma put her hat back on, "Good, take Marie to Double-D then find the others being held captive, I'll meet you there, okay?" The snake nodded then jabbed it's tongue in the air and began to slither away, Marie hugged her, "Be safe, Emma." She then followed Jormungard into the forest. Emma walked towards where she heard Jimmy scream and found bits of blood. Emma turned on the walkie, "Hey Ivanna? Can you ask Kevin, what part of 'don't attack them' did he clearly not get?" There was silence for a bit before Ivanna told her that "He says 'shut the fuck up'."
"I think he was talking to you, Ivanna." Emma said, looking around for any kind of discarded weapon, she found nothing. "Great." She said. A roar came from behind her, "Oh COME ON!" Emma shouted, then ran, "FREAKING BEARS!" as the bear roared behind her, easily catching up. Emma grabbed an empty bottle someone had thrown into the brush and threw it at the bear's head. Glass shattered and the bear cried out in pain as the glass embedded itself into it's eyes and nose and mouth, cutting it's face.
"Vhat did you just do to my bear, Beatrice!"
"You keep saying that name," Emma said, running up a tree and pushing off so she could kick the bear in the face, further embedding the glass into the creature, "But I think you're talking to the wrong person."
"I knov exactly vho I'm talking to, you little brat!"
"Then 'vhy' don't you enlighten everyone else then?" Emma said, grabbing a branch and using it as a bat to smash the bear's head against the tree, knocking it out.
"Vine. I vill."
"Fine." Emma corrected again, "Code 12, woman learn some Code 2 English already."'
"Code 12?" Ivanna asked, "Code 2?"
"When Zoe and I come to kick your butt, she'll translate."
"Code 12 is 'God dammit.'" Zoe said into the walkie. "And code 2 is 'fucking'."
"Zoe! Destroy that walkie-talkie! Destroy that right now!" Emma scolded into the device.
"Okay, DESTROYING THINGS!" she shouted as a loud screeching sound hit the speakers on Emma's end. Emma winced and heard another roar, "You've got to be kidding me." She ran away from the bear shouting, "CODE 3! CODE 3! CODE 3!"
"Well, I guess you two made that code, huh?" Lee asked.
"Code?" Double-D and Rolf asked in unison.
"Yeah," Zoe explained, "Emma said she's not allowed to swear, so we made up a code so whenever she wants to swear, I can do it for her. Like, for example, Code 3 means 'Oh fuck!'"
The teens looked at her, stunned.
"We're still working on it." Zoe said with a shrug.
"I see." Double-D said, a little upset that Emma would come up with a code for swearing, but he was more worried about his friends and his parents. How did his parents even get out here, he hadn't left a note or anything for them to know where they were or anything, so how did Ivanna manage to find them?
"Hey, Guys!" Marie called, waving as she reunited with the few members of this search party that weren't held captive by evil bears. Lee hugged her sister, "I thought you were a goner earlier!" Lee cried, "What was all that about earlier?"
"I was trying to lure a bear away from the others, you know, Emma's 'split up if found plan'? But I fell, luckily Jorry saved me before the bear got to me."
"Jorry?" Rolf asked. Just then Jormungard coiled up near Double-D and flicked his tongue at his hat, then nuzzled the nervous man.
"Jormungard?" Double-D asked, the snake nodded and held it's head up proudly.
"MOST WICKED!" Zoe cried, running over to scratch the snake's belly, "I was so right to choose Emma as my BFF! Because only my BFF can have a cool pet like this!" Jormungard nuzzled her and gave her a lick on the cheek, Zoe giggled.
"White-as-a-Turnip-Emma girl's serpent is very tame, yes?" Rolf said, carefully petting it, Jormungard hacked up a fox that Rolf recognized as the one who had opened the hen house and let the chicken out the day before. The chicken that would go on to get Emma's hand burnt. Double-D cried "Good Lord!" while Lee and Marie looked at it, disgusted. Zoe cried, "Most Wicked! What else have you got in there?" Rolf smiled at the snake. "Thank you for ridding the Son of a Sheppard of that fowl snatching pest, World Serpent." Jormungard bowed it's head, then hacked up several weapons that were well bagged up, including a gun. Each weapon was in perfect condition and had the name, 'Beatrice' engraved on it. The teens picked them up in disgust while Zoe just beamed with pride, "Only my best friend would hide her awesome weapons in there!" Jormungard hacked up three boxes, one full of bullets, another full of ninja stars and the last one was a first aid kit. Zoe picked up the box of ninja stars, her eyes wide with glee, "BEST BFF EVER!" she squealed.
"Yes, well, we're lucky Emma and Jormungard were smart to have back up supplies."
Double-D said, picking up the gun and bullets and shoving them into his bag, then the first aid kit and pulled out some bandages and began wrapping Jormungard's wound. Once Double-D had finished, Jormungard gently wrapped around him and squeezed a bit.
"Aw." Zoe said, "He's giving you a hug." Double-D smiled, a little nervously, "I see, well thank you Jormungard." Jormungard then slithered off him and hacked up a bagged up tape recorder. Double-D ran to it and pulled it out of the bag, ignoring the snake spit on his hands, and pressed play with his clean one.
"Hello. My name is Beatrice Vale." Emma's voice informed them in a hushed tone, "If you are listening to this, then something has probably happened to me or I have been killed and you have gained Jormungard's trust. I came to Peach Creek to stop an assassin guild, known as 'the Academy', from completely annihilating the entire town for it's traditional 'game.'" Emma's voice spat out the word game as if it was a bad taste in her mouth, "I'll ask you to listen closely and keep Jormungard close, he has their entire plan on his shoulders… well, I guess it's more like his back because snakes don't really have arms so I don't think they have shoulders… anyway, I guess I should explain why Peach Creek was chosen over some other town…"
Emma was splattered with blood, breathing heavily. Her left arm was bleeding pretty bad from a scratch, she had a nasty-looking bite on her right leg, and she had small scratches on her neck, but she knew that they weren't all that deep and managed to tear the bottom of her shorts and t-shirt to make makeshift bandages for herself. She looked at the leftover bit of handle from a shovel she had managed to find where Noah, Rachel, Nazz and Kyle had been, then sighed and tossed it behind her, "Well, that's not gonna help." She said, then picked up the walkie-talkie from the ground, it too, was splattered with blood, "Hey Ivanna, is that all you've got?" she huffed, "Cause I could've sworn you had, like," Emma counted on her fingers for a few minutes, "Maybe… ten more bears? Or did I kill those too?"
"I VILL MURDER YOU, BEATRICE VALE!" Ivanna shouted, "I VILL AVENGE MY FALLEN ARMY!"
"My name is Emma." She corrected, "And could you please shut up? I can't find you as well if you're shouting into the walkie, just shout into the air like you always do and I'll kick your Code 32 shortly."
"Code 32?"
"I'll give you a hint." Emma said, remembering the arrowhead she found earlier in her pocket, "It's another word for 'butt'."
(Hey guys, it's a ME! Sorry I haven't updated in a while, but life happens, but I've got part 10 up and running. Just FYI, I have nothing against bears. I like bears. They were some of my favorite animals to see when I went to the zoo, they still are. But I also know they're very dangerous animals and, come on, a russian assassin chick with a whip is too easy, so I figured, 'hey why don't I give her an army of blood thirsty bears?' because how fucked would you be if someone was hunting you down with an army of bears? (hint: the answer is PRETTY FUCKED) anyway, you probably thought I forgot about the code because she was swearing in russian? NOPE! Emma didn't remember she could speak russian until that morning, so she didn't have time to add it to the code she and Zoe already had, that and she'd have to teach Zoe Russian to understand what she was saying and how to say to say the bad word in Russian. Any who, look forward to the next part, it'll be a little gory and violent, but hey, you've made it this far so maybe you can handle it(?) )