T.T stupid writer's block. This chapter may be short, apologies if it is. I think I'm getting over it though. This chapter's pretty good if I do say so myself. Anyway, Kia gets into a fight with these bullies and they make a bet. What is the bet? Read and you'll find out. ( Oh the suspense.)

Disclaimer: Ello, I do not own Pokemon. X3

Temper

Luna looked like she was going to be sick. "Luna, what's wrong?" Kia asked in concern.

"Skyle asked me out again," she said to her two friends at the lunch table.

"Oh." Azure wasn't talking much either, so the girl didn't have anybody to talk to. Lake was trying to "fix" his relationship with his brother when sitting at his table, so he was out. Or at least until he came back to sit with them. Kia folded her arms. "Can't do anything about it?" She paused to wait for an answer. "Or are you too lazy to do anything about it?"

"Hey I tried," Lake defended, "But Skyle is just doing his best to piss me off."

Kia narrowed her eyes in suspicion. I wonder why? she said to herself sarcastically. The bell rung for them to go upstairs. The blonde haired girl went as slow as possible because they had more workbook homework to do. She yawned tiredly and walked around all of the kids. Until she heard some snickers, along with Azure's name.

Kia saw a few boys crowded around Azure's locker. She seemed to be ignoring them, but showed the slightest bit of retaliation. She listened while walking swiftly over there. "Come on bookworm, get to class." The blonde one mocked.

"Yeah bookworm, where's your friends now?" another one with short black hair sneered.

"Right here dumb ass!" Kia said, standing in front of her friend defensively.

Kia felt them glaring right through her. "Who the hell is this Azure?"

"Since when do you have friends?" the blonde one scoffed.

I glared at them angrily. "You're lucky you've got your stupid posse or I'd be giving you the whoopin' of a lifetime."

The blonde haired boy folded his arms, actually noticing her comment. "I don't need my posse kick you or bookworm's ass."

"Her name is Azure!" Kia angrily threw her fist at his face. Or at least she tried until the blue haired girl stopped her gently.

"Come one, we'll be late for class," she said, her voice small.

The girl glared up at them with her sunset colored eyes. (By the way, if I've said that she's had amber eyes, my reference of the color amber is fiery or sunset colored. Just a little heads up.) "This isn't over," she hissed.

"Far from it," he shot back. "Tomorrow they're doing sparring in Gym."

Kia nodded. "If I win, you don't tease Azure, ever. And you stop calling her bookworm." She saw the fear in Azure's eyes as she lightly shook her head no.

"And if I win?" he asked, interested.

Kia swallowed. "I'll do your fing (o.o) homework for the rest of the year," she managed to get out.

He grinned. "Now that's a bet."

"We're leaving, Kia," Azure insisted.

"Kia?" he said as if he remembered something. "Oh yeah, you're that new girl who's makin all of Lake's fangirls jealous."

"SHUT UP!!" She flushed in anger and stomped away to Science class, dragging Azure with her.

"Who is that guy?!" Kia asked, trying not to sound mad.

"Danny, he's known for mocking people like that." She said sadly, "Mainly me."

Kia led her to class and went to hers. "I've got to start training," she said determinedly.

At the end of the day, Kia got her new Ocarina from the storage room. Her father had gotten it for her yesterday. It was shell like, colored tan, rusty red, and yellow. She was a little behind in band, but that wouldn't stop her from playing her favorite song on it. She had to practice it tonight; she had to play it tomorrow, almost perfectly. And, even though she hadn't had much experience on it, she'd gotten off to a good start.

Kia sighed. How could she possibly practice sparring and her instrument in one night? She imagined herself doing both at the same time. (Meh: THAT'D BE HILARIOUS! XD) Probably not a good idea. She got off the bus with her brother, along with Lake trailing behind. Thank goodness her father was working today. She told Luna and Umbre to go ahead.

"Come on Bre," said Luna, "We've got something to do."

He tilted his head. "We do?"

"Yeah." The black haired girl grabbed her brother's arm and ran into their house.

Kia's eyes became round white circles (A/N: I love that anime face!! xD) and a sweatdrop appeared on her forehead. What the heck's up with her? She soon started becoming suspicious. She'd better not have read my mind! she thought angrily.

Kia sighed. Oh well, it can't be helped. She glanced back. "Walk faster if you want dinner."

"Huh?" he said, snapping out of thought. "Oh, okay."

He walked up next to her. Kia narrowed her eyes, glancing around cautiously. She speeded up her pace until they go there. "Wait here," she ordered.

He sighed. "Fine."

The girl walked inside to see Rick sitting on the couch. Kia walked over and poked him in the back of the head. He looked up. "Hm? What?"

"Do you have more homework?" she asked.

"Not as much as yesterday," he responded.

"Well-" She tried to come up with something fast. "I want to make sure, and Dad would kill me if your grades don't go up soon, so let's see if there's any extra credit on them."

He turned of the TV and sighed. "I guess so."

"Come on, go to your room and I'll be right there," she insisted. Rick nodded and walked into his room with his book bag, as told.

Kia motioned Lake quickly inside. She felt so retarded doing this. She led the boy downstairs and nearly tripped on one of the steps. She'd hardly been down here. It wasn't too bad. The walls were sheer stone; if you hit your head on them hard enough you'd be dead.

Kia directed him to the green couch and he sat down. "I feel like a Rattata..." he groaned.

Kia rolled her eyes. "Well sorry. It may be a little colder down here than upstairs but it's perfectly fine."

Lake looked around. "Uh, is there any entertainment around here?" he asked.

The girl pointed to a few games on the shelves. "I'll whoop your butt in a game of Digital Sorry later (what? It's all I could think of T.T); right now I have to help Rick with his homework."

I feel like a mother, she complained to herself. Kia began heading for the stairs and reminded him, "If anyone comes down, hide behind the couch and don't make a sound. We have the laundry to do and I'll try to do it as much as possible. Got it?"

He nodded. "Yep."

Before she went upstairs she looked back at him. He was casually glancing around. "You so owe me," she said loud enough for him to here, and walked upstairs.

She agreed to help Rick with half of his homework because he had so little. After she changed Kia collapsed on her bed when her part was done. She put on a red tube top (that's a funny word xD) with the seams and orange-yellow. The girl had found some faded jeans that she hadn't worn in a long time. She sighed and turned her head, looking at the glass box on her dresser. The girl slowly sat up and took the necklace with the amber gem inset, tying it around her neck.

Kia stood up and took her Ocarina out of its case and propped the music up on her stand. After a few tries she got the notes down. She sighed. This might take a while...

And boy was she right. After a few hours of playing off-key, and when she got done with her small break, she was nearly set. Kia looked outside. It was a little cloudy, but it looked cooler than it was inside. She got up and peaked in Rick's room. Kia smiled. The boy had fallen asleep already. She opened the door quietly and slid the covers on him, like their mother would always do.

The girl exited quietly, glancing back at her brother. He looked adorable when he was sleeping. You could never tell that he was an annoying boy who'd drive you to the edge of insanity for the last piece of chocolate cake (O-O THAT WAS LONG!!). Kia looked at the kitchen clock. Yup, all was well at ten o'clock at night.

The girl looked at the clock again, thinking she'd misread it. "Ten o'clock?!" she said, stunned. It took her THAT long?

She sighed. "Well, might as well get outside when I can." Tomorrow she had to start working on the biography of the person she chose. And she still didn't have one. The girl opened the door quietly and sat on the porch swing. She swung it a little before holding her instrument up to her mouth (Just to let ya know, she's playing Lugia's song. I think it's cool so I put it in here ).

Kia took deep breath and blew on the ocarina. The note came out fluently, cutting though the soundless night. Kia closed her eyes and, after she had finished a soothing breeze washed over her. She walked off of the porch and looked at the sky. She could see the moon now. It was a crescent.

I turned to go inside and found Lake in the doorway. Kia sweatdropped. "Yeah, about that game..."

"What was that?" he interrupted. "I thought I heard music."

"Oh, this?" She held up her Ocarina. "Where did you get this?!" he exclaimed.

The girl jumped. "I just picked it out and my father bought it from a music store."

"Do you have any idea how old this is?" The silver haired boy examined it.

"What?" Kia asked.

"It's like, three thousand years old, maybe more."

She froze. "You're kidding."

Lake shook his head. "Nope, haven't you heard of it? It was in The Power of One legend. This is what Melony used to revive Lugia when he suffered severe damage from the three birds."

"Oh," Kia said, finally understanding, "What's the song called?"

"It was named after Lugia because the song sounds just like his roar," he explained.

"Cool!" she said excitedly. Kia tilted her head. "Lugia's a he?"

Lake hesitated. "Guess, I think of Lugia as more of a boy."

She shrugged. "Okay." The blonde haired girl looked at her Ocarina. "I'm gonna have to take extra special care of it."

She sat on the swing carefully and began practicing again. Lake began to head inside until he realized what the song was. He stopped. "That's it, that's Lugia's song," he said breathlessly.

Kia gave a slight nod and kept playing until she had finished. Lake clapped lightly. "Nice," he complimented.

"I hope so," she said, "I'm practicing this song in band."

She looked down; knowing she probably wouldn't have any time to train for tomorrow. Lake stared at her. "Why so suddenly depressed?" he asked.

She sighed. "I made a bet with Danny that if I could beat him in Gym training, he would have to stop teasing Azure."

"Danny, huh? I'd beat him for you but I got to do the same thing with Skyle tomorrow."

Kia looked up and raised an eyebrow. "What? It's just a little friendly competition," he defended himself. "On the other hand..."

Kia shot upward. "What?"

"I could train you, I'm better at this stuff than you think."

The blonde haired girl sighed. "It's worth a try."

The next morning Kia felt really refreshed for some reason. Guess the training had paid off. She quickly scooted Rick out the door and when the coast was clear she and Lake walked casually to the bus stop. Kia sighed. She hoped it wouldn't be like that every morning.

And, before she knew it, it was Gym time (sry I skipped some unimportant stuff, I've written a LOT). At the moment they were outside preparing for the field activities. They were doing an obstacle course first, a few laps, and maybe some rock climbing. Kia exhaled. No problem, gotta think positive, gotta think positive. I've just got to win two out of three, no pressure...

Danny was lined up next to her behind the white line. There's no way I'm gonna let him win, Kia thought determinedly. The girl glanced around the obstacle course. First she had to get across the monkey bars (meh: lol, monkey bars. xD), and her upper body strength wasn't that good.

"Okay!" the Gym leader shouted loud enough for everyone to hear. "The first competition pair will be between Kia and Danny, followed by Skyle and Lake and so on. I will blow the whistle when the pair will start the obstacle course. Ready..."

Kia looked back and Lake gave her a thumbs up. She waited and glanced at her friends. Luna and Azure smiled and she smiled back. "Go!" the man shouted, blowing the whistle.

And they were off (I just had to type that xD). Kia leapt up and gripped the bar. She did her best to not look at Danny, for it would only slow her down. Her arm muscles were hurting a little, but not as much as they did when she'd trained. She used her body weight and swung to get her arms moving. And it worked; her feet were on the ground and she was running as fast as she could.

Kia heard a faint whistle and knew that Lake and Skyle began competing behind them. She glanced at Danny and saw that he'd gotten the lead. The girl looked up ahead and saw a balance beam. This'd be a piece of cake. Her balance was excellent. So, when she was already off, Danny was just barely at the end.

The girl swallowed. The high jump was next. You had to jump over the bar kind of sideways and would land on a mattress-like thing (I've done it before, it's hard T.T). Kia did a fast sprint, hoping to make it over. She took a big leap, twisted in the air and landed on the mattress.

She opened her eyes. She didn't feel anything when she came down. Kia looked at the pole. It remained where it was hanging. And Danny had just finished, just barely missing the pole. Kia got up off of the mattress to watch Lake.

Skyle was edging in front of Lake and when he jumped, he wasn't even close to the bar. The same went for Lake; they were at least one foot above the bar. She watched breathlessly. "Wow," was all she could get out. Sadly, Skyle had won that round. The four lined up in a kneeling position on the track. WHISTLE!! (XD I couldn't think of another sound for it)

Kia and Danny were a few feet behind Skyle and Lake. Holy crap, they're fast!

The blonde haired girl noticed the blonde haired boy pulling in front. Oh no you don't! I plan on winning this! But she couldn't muster up the strength to do so. Her lungs felt like they would burst. Once she'd reached her physical limit, she slowed down three-fourths of the way. Kia had finished behind Danny. She couldn't tell if Lake had come in before Skyle.

She gasped for air. Running wasn't really her strongpoint. The girl rested for a minute and went over to the rock climbing wall. She looked up. It was pretty darn high. She inhaled and got the gear required on. This required both arm and feet muscles so she guessed they were evenly matched.

Kia looked up and saw a bell at the very top. The first one to ring it would win. She stared sternly upward and grabbed a foot and hand rest. "Ready, set, GO!!"

Kia heaved herself up, giving her a slight lead. But she knew slow and steady would win the race, if she kept this up she'd run out of energy. So she tried spreading out her weight evenly, that way she'd be able to keep her lead. She didn't look at Danny, focusing on winning. She tried to find a big footrest but there was only a small one, so she used it.

When Kia had grabbed another rock, her foot slipped. Thank goodness she didn't go any further. Expecting she would fall, Danny made a leap upward. The girl regained her balance, trying not to look at the ground, and pulled herself upward. Kia pushed even harder than she'd done before. Come on! She made a leap upward. Ring!!

She slammed against the wall and grabbed a rock so she wouldn't go plummeting downward. Kia sighed in relief and slowly pushed of the wall to get down. The girl took off the equipment and went over to her friends, tired. "Dang that was a lot of work..." Kia sighed.

Azure gave her a tight hug. "Thanks!!" She let go and nudged Luna. "Nice job," she muttered.

Kia smiled. Lake walked over and wiped his cheek, irritated. "Did ya win?" she asked.

He shook his head. "No," he hissed. "Stupid rock climbing."

The blonde haired girl sighed. Skyle must've been good at a lot of things in order to beat Lake. She caught a glare from Danny and grinned. He lost the bet, no more teasing Azure. Hopefully...

Y'know what I just noticed? That when I update after a long time, the chapter is unusually long. O.o Maybe I just feel guilty... T.T

Heavy Schedule: Kia's got to think of someone to do her biography report on, not to mention the tour of the Transformation Chamber coming up. And she has to try out for a part for the winter concert that she desperately wants. Isn't it all a little too much?