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Chapter 11: Track and Crash
Tara's POV
I sprinted as fast as I could into the game room, tripping over the rug right when I was about to enter the doorway. I bounced back up and saw four sets of eyes staring at me.
"Look what I found!" I jumped excitedly as I pulled my new prized possession out from behind me.
"A bush... that's nice," Nya commented. The "bush" started to squirm, clearly not liking the name it was given.
"No, it's my new puppy! It just happens to shed blueberries..." I told them, "Nya had told me about your dragons and I thought of how awesome it would be if I could have a pet too. Then this guy shows up!" The dog jumped out of my hands and started to greet everyone.
"So every time we see something on the floor we need to make sure it's not a blueberry," Jay said while petting the puppy's leafy "fur".
I responded as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, "Of course not, you just gather all the blueberries before he sheds them and then you can make delicious blueberry pie!"
"Have you named it?" Zane asked.
"Not yet, that's why I came in here to ask you guys for suggestions... Sorry, he hasn't been potty trained yet," I mentioned while Cole looked disdainfully at his soiled outfit.
"While this news is great and all," he frowned at his shirt (maybe he thought if he frowned at it hard enough the spot would magically go away?), "how are we going to find Kai, it's not like we put trackers on our teammates."
"Oh that was the other thing I came in here for! Out of all the things he," I motioned towards my dog, "isn't trained in, turns out he is an excellent tracker." I didn't want to go into the details of how I exactly found that out. Let's just say someone decided to hide the fruit from me and I was not a very happy camper.
We were departing on our mission to find Kai in around five minutes. I was already packed and ready to go so I headed over to Nya's room.
"Hey Tara, need something?" she asked kindly. With the boys not letting Nya come with on our mission, she seemed to be handling it fairly well.
"Not really... Congrats on winning at the party yesterday," I said. That's me, I just flow right into one conversation into another. I was going t need to work on that.
"You shouldn't really be congratulating us. Jay built all those voting devices at the party. He programmed them so that no matter whom you voted for, four out of five times it would choose us. He wanted to make sure we would get the fang blade. I believe if the voting wasn't rigged, you and Zane would have won hands down," Nya said informatively.
"Speaking of which," I asked cautiously, "what exactly did I say about Zane at the awards?"
Nya's eyes lit up as she got closer to me as if to tell a secret, "That was so cute! You said that meeting Zane was one of the best things that ever happened to you!" I looked at her aghast. I remember writing that down now; why would I write something so cheesy? I put my hand over my heated face to hide some of my embarrassment and practically flew out of the room.
(Smack!)
I clenched both hands to my head to make the world stop shaking. I could make a smudge of blue a few feet away. Jay must have been heading to Nya's room too.
"Geez, watch where you're going Tara!" he yelled at me. The Jay saw my pink face and wide eyes. I bit my lip nervously as he tried to recall what would make me so humiliated. Understanding lit his face.
"Oh... that," he remembered as he pulled me off the floor, "Don't worry about it. You were just playing it up for the crowd. Come on, would kicking Kai's sorry butt around make you feel better?" I gave a small nod and he led me to the others. He only got it half-right. Sure, I had wanted to play the audience a little, but I truly meant every word I wrote.
"Snow! It always has to be snow!" Jay complained as we moved through the Frozen Wasteland. My dog (I think I'm just going to call him Mr. B), the only one immune to Jay's whining, sniffed a piece of Kai's clothing, then poked his head in the snow and trotted forward.
"I don't believe there is anything wrong with the snow," Zane replied.
Cole stared at him, "Of course you do! Your element is this entire stinking wasteland!" I peered up at the sky and saw aurora blanketing the sky. I watched as the colors shifted from green to pink to blue.
"I wouldn't call it a wasteland, places like these can be pretty magical," I thought aloud. We hadn't really paid attention to where we were going, we just followed Mr. B. When we finally noticed we were standing on top of a frozen lake, it was too late. The shattered and we all plunged into freezing cold water.
Okay, not so magical.
Should I rename Mr. B? I couldn't come up with anything cool... :,(
