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Chapter 9
Gone….gone was there home, because of the twolegs and their…monsters. Ever since she had been a kit she had known that the monsters that raced down the black path had that name for a reason, but never had the name suited them so well.
Why… why had the twolegs invaded their home. What had Riverclan or any of the other clans done to make them destroy their haven. Twolegs were always crazy in the head, but why…why destroy the place where she and many other cats had grown up.
It didn't matter anymore because now Amy was putting her faith in the three cats who had been sent by starclan to find a new home. She had to, she didn't have any other option left. And because of that her clan along with the three others were passing through this horrid mountain in the worse conditions.
The clan had lost its medicine cat and some of its elders as well. Mudfur and the elders were too old to be on this long, hard journey. What was left of the clan was exhausted and half starved cats from kit to the apprentice to the warrior.
It's funny, looking back at how tense the rivalry between clans was in the forest to the 'great journey' as the leaders are calling it, to right here and now. Instead of four clans, brought together by grief and suffering, there was only one group of cats.
The distinct scents of each clan had molded into one.
"Dawnpool, are you alright?" a voice snapped her out of her train of thought
"Yes, Eagleheart I'm fine." The Shadowclan deputy had become a slow…partner with her and the other deputies. The cats of the night had been the last of the clans to warm up to each other, but even then they still like to sleep in the same area as other Shadowclan cats.
The four clans were now crossing a narrow path along a Cliffside overhanging a deep trench. If any cat fell they would surely die on impact with the ground…where ever it was.
The sound of shifting rocks made Dawnpool's ears perk and her gaze to shift in front of her. A Shadowclan apprentice just behind Eagleheart let out a yowl of terror as the ground beneath his feet closed in on itself.
Thinking quickly Dawnpool launched herself at the apprentice and grabbed him by the scruff. For one horrid moment she thought, 'we're going to die!' before she threw herself at Eagleheart who in turn grabbed her scruff and hauled her and the apprentice up what little way they had to go.
Gently, she set the spooked and shaken apprentice down. The poor thing wasn't going to have it though and latched himself close to her and buried his face in her chest fur still trembling. She looked up at Eagleheart who in turn gave her a long look before starting to move forward again.
Dawnpool looked down at the apprentice and nudged him forward gently.
They had overcome this terrifying obstacle, but who knew what else was in store for the lost cats.
…..
Amy's eyes opened to the sound of banging. She slowly looked over to where the sound was coming from and her eyes widened.
The nice nurse lady had her back pushed up against her desk and other various items against the door. The noise was coming from the fists of students banging on the door.
Amy sat up and winced when she jostled her arm. She glanced down at it and saw it was in a splint and a sling.
The nurse looked up at her and said, "Thank goodness you're awake I was getting worried."
"How long have I been out?" Amy asked as she scrambled over to help hold the door.
"About…four hours, I don't know what kind of monsters you use or how much energy is needed to summon one, but others have only been out for two hours tops. I suggest you be careful in the future since I know you won't give up dueling for a while in this type of world with duel monsters all over the pla-"
A loud bang that almost made her lose her grip stopped her talking and Amy took the full brunt of the weight that the fists and various items along with the doors. The nurse quickly got back up and helped her. She continued on what she was saying, "I scanned your arm and I found the bone was fractured-BANG-so I put it in a splint and sling-BANG-you'll have to wear it until I deem it alright."
BANG!
"We can't keep this up forever!" Amy yelled
She looked over at Blair's bed. Blair had obviously seen better days. Her condition had neither worsened nor gotten better.
They had to do something about the rowdy teens outside if they wanted to keep Blair safe. Amy looked around and saw her hat, duel disk, holster, board, and strap on a chair next to her bed.
"I have an idea." Amy said and the nurse looked back over at her. She silently watched as Amy picked up her stuff and put them on, then stood up on her own bed and took the air vent off from the ceiling.
"Be careful." She said worriedly as she knew she wouldn't be able to stop Amy.
Amy frowned and knit her eyebrows together before using her one good arm to pull herself up as carefully as she could. Which wasn't saying much, needless to say she had to take a minute to let the pain return to dull throb. Before crawling to where she thought was the way to the hall.
It didn't take her long to find another air vent. She shuffled herself around carefully before kicking the vent off and dropping down. Sure enough students who had been banging on the nurses door turned to her.
"I just want you guys to know that if I die today you and anybody else including Jaden is to stay out of my room and not touch my duel stuff."
And with that she whipped out her duel board, shoved it under her feet and took off.
…
"So if the whole school has been turned into mindless zombies then how do we get this stuff to Blair?" Axel asked
The gang, minus Syrus and Chazz were hiding out in the boy's bathroom. Not long after the medicine team had arrived back they had been attacked by students then rescued by Hassleberry and Alexis. Jaden had been scanning the crowed for his sister and finally asked where she was.
"She's in the nurse's office. She fought off this really big duel monster that I've never seen before." Alexis said
"Is she alright?" Jaden hurriedly asked
"Yes, Jaden she's fine." Alexis assured him
Jaden breathed a sigh of relief before rapidly inhaling it back in when Hassleberry said, "Except for the fractured arm."
"WHAT!?"
…..
"Worse idea ever!" Amy yelled, she was going slow enough on her duel board for the zombie students to keep up but fast enough to keep out of reach. Oh, how she wanted so bad to leave them in the dust and her want only grew as more students joined the originals.
"Roooaarrr!" Amy looked over at Horus who had joined her in the chase flying alongside her.
"Glad we agree." She looked back at the road in front of her. Her eyes got wide and she gasped as Jaden and the others had come out of nowhere.
"INCOMING!" she yelled as she slammed her foot on the brake and did her best to avoid hitting anybody. Of course her best wasn't good enough as the sudden loss of power ran her board into the ground and flung her off and into Jim.
"Owwww" She whined before realizing she had just knocked Jim down, "Holy shit! Jim you okay?"
She looked up at him from her place on top of him a worried expression on her face. Jim just moved his hat out of his eyes and smiled at her.
"I do believe I'm alright mate. What about you?" he said
"Arm hurts but I'll live…" she trailed off as their position registered in her mind. Jim had one arm wrapped around her waist while his other was on his hat and Amy was lying on top of him with her hands clutching his shirt.
They both blushed and helped each other up.
"Amy!" Jaden pulled her into a bear hug being carful of her arm, "you're okay!"
"Yes Jaden I'm alright." Amy said with a smile, "did you guys get the medicine?"
"You bet we did! C'mon we'll go take it to Blaire!" he said
"Um, I think Blaire is going to have to wait soldiers, we've got company!" Hassleberry said
Sure enough the group of teens Amy was being pursued by was gaining on them fast.
"He he, whoops. I forgot to mention I was leading some zombie students away from the nurse's office." Amy said sheepishly
"Roar" Horus helpfully supplied
…..
After much fleeing, hiding, grabbing (Blair), and, well, more fleeing, the group finally made it to the gym with everyone and in full health…well, minus Chazz and Syrus, who were zombies, and Amy and Blair who had a fractured arm and was sick.
"So…what do we do now?" Amy asked after administering and applying the first aid , as well as nursing Blair back to health.
"We need to find a way to turn everyone back into themselves." Alexis answered
"And…how do we do that?"
"…" silence meet Amy's question
"Well, this is just dandy." Amy plopped down to the ground and leaned herself up against the wall as everyone else joined her.
"We could set up barricades to hold them off while we think of something." Jaden suggested
"That's not a bad idea, why don't we all concentrate on holding those zombies off while we can." Alexis said
It wasn't long before barriers were set up over the school and students were posted as guards around the areas they still had control over.
"This is like some sick version of Risk." Amy said
"Amy, have you ever even played Risk?" Jaden asked her
"Nope." The students surrounding them that were listening to the conversation face palmed
Jaden went over to help Jessie with Blair and Amy was left standing in the middle of the gym. She looked around and saw some gloomy students sitting by themselves.
She put on an encouraging smile and went over to them.
…..
'It looks like It's plan is working…whatever its plan is' Adrian looked over at the students that looked like they had given up.
"Hey! Why all the doom and gloom over here!" Adrian's head shot up from his brooding to see Amy come over with radiant smile.
"C'mon you guys we haven't lost the battle yet, you guys have friends and family waiting for you back home right? Well if you're not going to fight for yourselves fight for them! Think of how sad they'll be when they realize you've given up on yourself already!"
Amy went on like that, giving the teens reason after reason to not give up and by the time she was done all the feelings of defeat in the atmosphere vanished. One by one students went to different areas of the school to help.
'Sh-she just got rid of all the negative thoughts in the surrounding atmosphere! Amy could pose a definite problem in It's plan…wait a second, her arm…it couldn't have been fractured just by dueling a duel monster! From what Alexis told us about her duel there is no way Amy could've fractured her arm. Unless…she was the one that was behind the door that time in the library! But, she didn't say anything…I wonder why…..'
….
"Dinner time!" At the sound of Dorothy's voice student's heads shot up and at the prospect of food ran over to see what she had made.
Much to the students' disappointment the duel ghouls had taken over the food storage and all that was available was made into brown Jell-O.
"Yes! I love Jell-O!" Amy yelled and the students that had already eaten theirs nodded in agreement.
"It's great! I just wish I had a little more." Hassleberry said sadly and Dorothy's head dropped as well
"You know there isn't a lot left." Amy said
"Hey! We want more!" An obelisk blue complained and before they knew it a riot had broke out. Fortunately thanks to Axel it was quickly broken up.
Hassleberry growled, "If we could just get to the food storage we could have more!"
The night ended with a troubling though, 'the situation just keeps getting worse…'
…
The next morning, the three students who had begun the riot were missing.
"How'd they sneak out of here?" Axel asked
"My fault, they got out through a window. I thought my crew had it nailed down tight enough." Jim said
"It's too risky to go out and look for them." Bonaparte said
Just then a voice came out over the speakers, one that was familiar to the group.
"Marcel?" Blair asked
"Where'd your accent go?" Jaden asked
"Silence! Marcel is nothing but a shell for me. I rule this world and my duel soldiers!"
"A shell? What does he mean?" Jessie asked
"It means Marcel has been possessed by a duel spirit." Amy answered, her usual carefree attitude gone.
"What?"Blair asked in disbelief
"Your sister is right Jaden, now then I have a proposition to make…"
….
"Okay, raise your hand if you think this is a bad idea." Amy said
No one raised their hands.
"No? It's just me? I'm the only one here who thinks that Jim, Jessie, and Axel dueling those creeps is a bad idea?"
"Amy it's the only option we have to get food." Alexis said
"Well yeah, but I mean doesn't anyone else think that maybe, I don't know, we don't have the supplies to treat them with if they get seriously injured!"
"Amy calm down they'll be fine." Jaden said
"I'll calm down when we're back at our apartment watching a movie! I can't watch I'm going inside."
Amy walked slowly back to the gym thinking hard about what to do about Marcel when she ran straight into Blair.
"Ow! Oh, sorry Blair, are you okay?" Amy asked seeing the look on her face
"Amy! Oh! No, I'm alright." She told her
"What are you doing here?" Amy asked her
"I went to-Amy?!" Thud. Blair looked down at the now unconscious teen.
"Oh no! What do I do?" Blair panicked
Amy's p.o.v.
The moon shined brightly against the midnight black sky, its light piercing through the night to rest on top of the river. Dawnpaw gazed at the reflection, lost in thought.
'Why is it' Dawnpaw thought, 'that even though I'm just like them, they judge me based on my fur color? I can swim, I can hunt, I can fight, so then…why does no one like me?'
More than anything in the world Dawnpaw wanted to be treated like any other cat around. She was so willing to give her life for her clan, so much so that if her clan leader told her to end her life for the sake of the clan, she would. So why was it that they looked at her with those eyes? Eyes holding wariness, and even fear. What made her so different that they would look at her like that?
Yes, more than anything in the world, even if it meant ending her own life, she wanted those eyes, if only for a moment, to hold acceptance and maybe, just maybe, love.
…
Amy woke to a cheering crowd. Jim, Jessie, and Axel had all won their duels.
'Maybe things are finnaly looking up.' Amy thought
"Hey Amy! Where ya been?" Jaden asked
"Nowhere in particular, just taking a nap." She said
"Really? Blair said you collapsed." He eyed her suspiciously
"Ah, yes. See, I was so tired I fell asleep on my feet."
"Well, alright. I'll let it go THIS time."
Amy smiled, but inside she almost cracked. Jaden, however innocent the act had been, had looked at her with THOSE eyes.
TBC…..
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