Dark was running to the Gym. He was running late because he was making a suprise for his friends. "Damn it" Dark muttered to himself as he arrived at the gym, five minutes late. "Sir, I'm sorry I'm...," Dark started to say, but then noticed that there was no teacher in the room. This made team Amazon giggle at him before a cold glare from Carmaleta made them stop.
"What took you so long?" Nina asked a still embarased Dark. "I was making these" Dark said showing his friends why he got hold up. On a tray were ice pops with straws for handles. "Wait," Alex asked, "how did you get these?" "I froze over some juice boxes," Dark answered, "so, who wants one?" The second Dark said this everyone in the class minus everyone except Nephenee from team Amazon ran over to Dark and asked him for some, with the people he didn't know paying him for some. Thankfully, Dark made extra in case some of the ice pops melted, so there was enough to go around. "Mmm." Meters said, "this is good."
Pretty much as soon as everyone had finished and hidden their straws, the teacher for this class, Knuckles, walked in, and Dark could swear he saw Marrow's eyes turn into stars as soon as he came in. "Sorry I'm late," Knuckles told the class, "Tails took WAY to long at the staff meeting." Meters frowned at Knuckles poking fun at his cousin, but didn't say anything. "So," Knuckles continued,"to make up for this, I'm allowed to keep you guys until first break, sound good?" Everyone on the class said 'yes' in some fashion with Marrows agreement being the loudest. "Okay then," Knuckles said, "now, everyone center of the gym, NOW!" The shouting was followed by a quick but loud blow of a whistle, making everyone run to the center of the room. "Okay, so for today, I'm seeing what I have to work with, and before you start asking questions, let me explain," Knuckles said, recognising the class's confused faces, "I'm going to be having you fight someone in the class to see what level of skill you're on. For the rules, you're not allowed badly injure another student, and you can only win by A, knocking you're opponent out, which I don't recommend, B, get them out of the ring or C, you're opponent forfits, which they can only do after five minutes of combat. So, who's up first?"
"Me!" Marrow said while waving her hand in the air. "Alright Marrow, you're up." After fist-pumping and saying 'yes' Marrow went into the boxing-like-ring. "Anyone else?" Knuckles asked. when no one else volunteered, Knuckles spoke up again. "Alright then, I'll chose then. Ally, you're up." The blue furred bat girl sqeaked at the mention of her name and after a pat on the back from Oceania, went into the ring, and Dark only noticed now that the girls were wearing normal clothes, with Marrow wearing a white string top and black tracksuit bottoms, with Ally wearing goggles and a navy and white dress. "Okay, FIGHT!" Knuckles said.
As soon as the match started the two girls started circling each other, as if waiting for one of them to make the first move. After a few seconds, Marrow charged at Ally with a fist ready to punch her, but Ally put up a ice wall at the last second to protect her from the hit. "What the?" Komaki asked, "she has ice powers too!" "Marrow did say Ally was a great fighter," Dark told her, "I guess this is one of the reasons why." Back in the ring, Marrow had punched her way through the ice wall, only to see that Ally wasn't there. Marrow looked up to see that Ally was fling up to the top of the ring. Marrow smirked before aiming her left palm at Ally, followed by a snake of bones comming out. "What?!" everyone in the class said once they saw this. "I guess that's why they named their team Skeletal" Taylor said, still in shock. The bone snake, while leaving her left arm limp, grabbed Ally by the leg, dragging her down. Right before she hit the ground, Ally fired some ice blasts at Marrow, most of which she wasn't able to dodge in time, firing her to the edge of the ring. With a firce frown on her face, Marrow summoned her bones back, before firing them as homing shots. The bat girl was ready this time though, making an ice board and using it to get out of the way and grind the rope at the edge of the ring. Marrow, clearly getting desperate, used the bones from both her arms this time to form a blockcade to trip the girl up. While Ally did fall off her board, she quickly recovered by flying out of trouble, and , before Marrow could retaliate, summoned an ice flail and spun around with it. While Marrow did avoid it for a bit, she eventually got hit and the impact sent her flying to the other side of the gym. "Ouch," Meters said wincing, "that's gotta hurt."
"Marrow!" Ally said, running over, "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to hit you that hard, I just panicked and," "YOU were panicking?!" Marrow asked wincing. "But it's okay , I promise." "That's good to hear," Knuckles said comming over with the rest of the class, "Marrow, you did a good job in the ring, and you were deninatly thinking things through,but you've gotta get faster with your reactions, so you can dodge better. Ally, that was better than I was expecting from you, and you definatly know what you're doing in the ring, but you've gotta get better control over your powers. Marrow could've broken something. Got it you two?" "Yes sir." the two girl said. "Good," Knuckles replied, "Ally, take Marrow down to the nurses office to make sure she's alright, then come back." "Yes sir." Ally said before helping Marrow to the nurses office.
"Alright," Knuckles said once the two had left, "who's up next?" This time pretty much everyone put there hands up, wanting to see who could top the chaos Ally created. "Okay then," Knuckles said, deciding who to pick, "Dawn, Leo, you're up." "Sir," Leo said quite nervous, "I don't think there's anyone in this class named Dawn." "I know," Knuckles said, "I was just using Taylor's last name, now, get in the ring you two!" Another whistle blow later and Taylor and Leo were in the ring. "P p please go easy on me" Leo said, terrified. "We'll see" Taylor said, pulling a weirdly shaped white stick from behind her back, while Leo grabbed a purple and black book. "and...FIGHT!" Knuckles said.
The second the match started, Taylor ran to the edge of the ring, before holding up the stick-thing like a bow and summoned a string and arrows, both glowing pure white. "Wow" Oceania said once she saw the bow. "It is pretty cool" Nephenee said, but quickly looked away to make it look like she didn't say anything. Taylor fired the arrow, then fired multiple more in quick succession, giving Leo little time to dodge, a good few hitting him. Taylor then pulled herself on the rings ropes, then quickly launched herself at Leo, her legs hitting him square in the stomach. "Ow..." everyone said, knowing that would leave a mark. Leo quickly fell to his knees in pain, then Taylor decided to get him out of the ring, but was shocked to see that he wasn't there. "Huh?" Taylor said confused. "He's getting back up!" a boy said pointing to the other side of the ring, where Leo was using the ropes to pull himself back up. "Woo who!" Carmaleta said. "Go Leo!" Meters and Komaki said together. Dark smiled at how the boy wasn't quitting because of the pain. "Hmph," Taylor said, "not bad, but now, have some of THIS!" Taylor quickly ran towards Leo, ready to whack him with her bow, but a flash of white light happened at the last second, and once it was gone, Leo was on the other side of the ring, smiling weakly. "He can teleport?!" the whole class, even Taylor said. "He was always good with magic" Carmaleta said. Taylor tried to shoot some arrows at Leo again, but he warped away at the last second, but this time before Taylor could attack again, Leo appeared right next to her and quickly tossed the bow out of the ring. "Sorry" Leo said quietly before opening the purple book and raising his hand into the air. Taylor ran toward Leo in an attempt to attack him, and landed a very strong punch to the face, but before she could strike again, a strong gust of wind began to push her away. "What the?" Taylor asked while trying to run back to Leo, but the wind was to strong, and soon Taylor fell over the rings ropes and onto the mats placed around it.
"That's my brother!" Carmaleta said, running up to Leo and gave him a hug. "Sis," Leo said meekly, "it hurts." "Right," Carmaleta said, letting go, "and don't worry, I'll make sure to give Taylor a good talking to for hurting you so badly." "How?" Taylor said, coming over with her now stringless bow in hand. "How did you do that?" "My...my mother was good with magic," Leo answered a bit embarased while also casting some spell that healed the deep cut on his shoulder made by Taylor's arrows,"she taught me how to use it." "Well..." Taylor started to say," Good match. Now I've got to try extra hard to beat you next time." This made Leo blush in embarasment, followed by Knuckles coming into the ring. "Not bad," he said, turning to Taylor first, "Taylor, you've got great talent with your bow, and can also handle melee fighting, but once you got a big enough lead, you got reckless and basically let Leo catch up. You need to not get cocky." "Yes sir" Taylor said, understanding where he was coming from. "As for you," Knuckles said, turning his attention to Leo," for the first part of the match, you barely did anything and let Taylor beat you up. Why?" "Sometimes my spells don't work," Leo said embarased, "I didn't want to risk it." "Well then," Knuckles said putting his hand on his shoulder, "looks like what you need to work on is confidence. If you don't, you're going to keep freezing up like you did in there, got it?" "Yes sir." Leo told him.
"Alright," Knuckles said, getting the attention of the students praising both sides, "I know that was a good match, but we need to keep going. So, who's next?" Once again, everyone put their hands up. "Alright then," Knuckles said, happy to have so many volunteers, "I choose, ... Hedgehog, girl Dusk, you're both up." Dark realised that he had been picked and ran into the ring, followed by Carmaleta. "Oh," Carmaleta said," I didn't expect to be fighting you Dark. But anyway, let's give it our all, okay?" "You bet." Dark said smirking, getting into a battle stance and seeing that Carmaleta's normal clothes were a no sleeved purple top that shows a LOT of her clevage, shorts that basically look like underwear, and black flats. Carmaleta, giving a smirk, pulled an axe from... somewhere and getting ready. "Okay," Knuckles said, whistle ready, "FIGHT!" A blow of the whistle later, the two charged at each other.
A.N:
Yeah, I'm doing a cliffhanger. But only because I've been really busy lately and haven't had a lot of time to write. Part 2 will be out as soon as I can though. And sorry for taking so long to update. I've just started school again and I'm having a hard time to find a good time to write. Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed and see you next time