Group 2:
Christina: "IT GOES ONE BY ONE EVEN TWO BY TWO!" jamming to "Pon de Replay"
All: singing
Sr: trying to sing but breaks a window and causes Christina to scream and swerve wildly on the road
All: AHHHHHHHHH!
Kouga: I think I just wet my pants…--
All: stop screaming O.o…..AHHHHHHHHHHH!
Christina: gains control
Sr: Come on, it wasn't that bad.
All: -- kick Sr out of the car, leaving him by the road in the middle of nowhere WEEEEEEEE!
Group 3:
Carolyn: W00T! W00T! I ain't playing around! Make one false move I take ya down. Get back y'all don't know me like that.
Everyone else: Get back, get back, y'all don't know me like that
Carolyn: YAY! steps on it I'm gonna be in the Dukes of Hazzard movie! WEEEEEEE!
Cops: O.O pull up behind Carolyn (You saw this comin') Pull over! Stop in the name of the law!
Carolyn: MUAHAHHAHHA! NEVER!
Kikyo: AHHHHH! Pull over! AHHHHH! screaming and shaking people dramatically
Joy: covering her earsMAKE IT STOP!!!
Tyler ….
All: AHHHHHH!
Tyler ……Oh for God sakes…throws Kikyo out the top of the porshe and into the path of the cops
Cop 2run over Kikyo Did you feel something?
Cop 1: Nope.
Cop 2: shrugs and resumes the chase
Amy: calls up Sarah HELP!
I was warming up and getting used to flipping with Geoff, who held the small of my back in his hands as I leapt up and backwards and over his hand. Geoff would then hold me suspended in the air-I was very surprised-while Amy split my legs apart. Our split exercises helped reduce the pain, but they were still unable to open all the way like Mackenzie, so we gave up on the part once we reached our limits. After holding me in that weird position, Amy let go and Geoff flung me up and I swung down with my sword. I felt woozy from being hung upside-down for a bit, but my group had made progress in such a short amount of time. I created a three foot crater in front of me. Amy had done the same. Sarah had perfected the flip on her own, which was saying a lot, seeing how I still needed help with it, and Amy could do a six-foot crack in the earth. And Geoff, of course, already had that move down packed.
"Think you can do it on your own?" Geoff asked me. I nodded, confident I wouldn't kill myself at least.
"GO TO IT, KAT!" Sarah cried encouragingly. Far from making me more nervous, her cry had energized me. I lived on attention….most of the time.
"Don't trip and fall," Amy told me, smiling. I scowled at her.
"OK, back up…," I repeated the steps Geoff had explained to me earlier out loud. I backed up, ran, and flipped. My legs stretched, I heard a pop and after I had done the crack in the earth, which was really long, I gripped my leg tightly in one of my hands. It hurt!
"Mackenzie! Mackenzie!!" I heard. I clenched my eyes painfully tight, gripping a muscle in my upper thigh. It felt stretched, you know? Like butter scraped over too much bread. Sarah was pushed out of the way as Mackenzie muscled her way in, looking at my leg.
"What's wrong with her? Can you tell?" Amy asked, peering over Mackenzie's shoulder.
"Just pulled a muscle," Mackenzie said simply, letting go of my hands and leg. "But none the less, this move has proved too challenging for you three. I'm gonna teach you a new one. It's called the meteor blast," Mackenzie stood up and helped me stand. My right leg nearly buckled. "Katie, you watch from the sides. I'll teach you when you're ready,"
"But I wanna fight!" I whined annoyingly, leaning on Mackenzie as she led me over to a fence post I could sit on.
"Nope. A warrior's health comes first. You rest up for a bit, and then I'll teach you," Mackenzie said, plopping me on the fence post and going back to the others. "The rest of you guys will learn, instead of the shock bomb, an attack called Meteor Blast. It requires incredible amounts of chi. And magic ability. You must make your chi invisible and slam it down on your opponent from above, like a meteor," Mackenzie told the others. Then a thought came to her. "OI! NICH, MORGAN, JAKOB, HANNA!" The rest of the group came over to Mackenzie and listened to her as she explained the idea to just train them all together.
"You should've just done that from the beginning stoopid," Geoffrey scoffed. Mackenzie grabbed one of those expensive pieces of shit called rocks and chucked it at his head. He stumbled back, and fell against the fence post underneath me.
"You shouldn't do that," I told him.
"No, duh!!" he snarled, hopping up and hurrying back to the group.
I watched interestedly from the sidelines as each of my friends slowly practiced the Meteor Blast. It seemed that I could learn a lot more from watching, than actually turning. I got to see each of my friends' bodies twist, their muscles bulging, the exact angle of their legs and everything. It got to the point where I jumped off the fence and landed on my good leg. I hobbled over to them.
"Let me try," I said, looking fiercely around at them all.
"I thought I told you to stay on the fence!" Mackenzie snapped.
"I can do it. I know I can!" I replied. "I've put my own twist onto it, too!"
"Should we let her try?" Jakob asked everyone. They huddled. After five seconds they pulled apart.
"Well, I don't want to, but everyone else is all gung ho for it, so give it a shot," Mackenzie told me.
"wOOt!" I chirped. "Now, back up. I've been watching you guys from my perch, and I've learned better than I thought. So watch this!" I stood still, my hands at my sides. I cleared my mind of everything except mastering the Meteor Blast. I did not screw up my face in concentration as the others had. I calmly thought about what I wanted and how I was going to achieve it.
All of a sudden, I felt very, very warm. I peeked open one eye. There was my pink chi, just as I had planned. Now…that just left using my own move to incorporate it into an attack.
"KYYYAAAAAAH!!" I yelled, throwing my hands up in the air. Morgan and Nich cried out in alarm. The chi soared into the air and fell back to me. At the last second, I flung my body backwards and kicked the thing powerfully with my left leg. I landed hard on my back, and the chi-ball flew out of sight into the distance which, unfortunately, was the village.
"AAH! MY CABBAGES!" A voice cried.
"What's the cabbage man from 'Avatar' doing here?" Hanna asked curiously. Everyone shrugged and helped me up.
"You a'ight?" Sarah asked, helping me up.
I was grinning wildly. "Yuppers. So, what'cha think of my move?"
"That was about the most freaking sweet thing I'd ever seen!" Amy chirped. Sarah let me go, and I tested my right leg tenderly. It hurt, but I could still stand on it.
"Hey, Mackenzie! Is it possible to physically touch your chi other than that attack?" I asked. Mackenzie emerged from behind Jakob and glowered at me for a second. I hid behind Sarah.
"I wouldn't know. I don't think anyone's ever tried," Mackenzie muttered, turning her back on me and heading back to the castle.
"What's her deal?" I asked.
"Who knows? She's just bitter about the fact that you can do the moves better than she can," Nich said.
"HEY, MACK! DON'T FORGET TO ASK ABOUT THE NEW CARAVAN!!" I bellowed after Mackenzie. She raised a hand to acknowledge that she heard me, but she still left.
"So, Katie. Teach us something else!" Geoffrey asked me eagerly. I looked at the sun. It was lowering into the west, and I guessed it was around four or five o'clock.
"I don't know any other moves," I said truthfully, holding my hands in defeat.
"Why don't you teach us how to defend?" Geoffrey asked. Everyone turned, blinked, and stared at him. "There's just this really good way to defend I learned from my hometown!"
"Speaking of which, where did you ever come from?" I asked. Sarah hit me. "OW!"
Geoffrey hung his head. "I don't like to talk about it," he mumbled.
'Huh. I hope he'll tell me about them on our journey…,' I thought.
"OK. Just show us this defence," I said, gesturing Geoff to the front of the group. He came-which was really weird seeing my orders being followed-and turned to face us. I limped amongst the others.
"Now, I need you all to get your shields," Geoff said. Everyone but Amy and I reached for their shield which was slung on their backs. I reached for mine, only to remember that I'd left it in the field. I blushed and scampered off to get my shield, along with Amy. When we returned, Geoff had begun pairing us off into groups.
"I think we'd better split up the duo," Geoff cackled when Amy and I stayed close to each other. "Katie, you'll stay with me, and Amy, you go with Jakob,"
"Screw you, Pal…!" Amy mumbled under her breath as she moved towards the prince.
Once everyone had been split up, Geoff cried for order. (Nich and Morgan, Hanna and Sarah, Amy and Jakob, and Geoffrey and I.)
"It is best if you catch the swing of blade or dagger in the middle of your sword. Chi, however, is oblivious to physical things and is most likely to shatter most. So, to counter chi, you'd better summon up some chi quick," Geoff explained. I nodded, taking this in. "Oh, and try not to kill your partner," Geoffrey sighed when he saw Amy looking mischievous and Jakob looking reluctant to fight her. "Start whenever you wish,"
I looked up expectantly at Geoff and waited. He made no move, so I thought he was going to use a chi move. I backed up and started summoning my counter-attack.
"HIYAH!" I cried. I did my drop kick of chi, but Geoff dodged it, leaping above and beyond it. I was still on the ground, so I wasn't quite ready for his aerial attack, but I managed to get my shield in front of me while I withdrew my blade. I slashed wildly with one hand and Geoff retreated. I jumped up, landing lightly on my toes, ready for another one of Geoff's slippery attacks.
"AURA SHOT!" Geoffrey cried suddenly. I was faced with this enormous ball of chi. It came flying toward me. I remembered that there was no way to block a chi attack. The only way to fight was to fight back with chi of your own. I backed up, ran, and flipped, my right leg shot up with pain, but I landed nimbly.
"SHOCK BOMB!" An enormous crater opened up beneath me, and I jumped into it, flinging my sword across the opening. I hung in the air over the pit while the chi whooshed overhead. The wind nearly unseated my sword. I gripped tighter. Who knew if Geoff was going to come at me again? I lifted myself out of the hole and looked around. The others were deeply immersed in their battles and didn't pay much attention to me. I found Geoff standing ten yards back looking mildly impressed.
"I can tell you can think quickly in tough situations, Short Stack!" He taunted. I felt flames lick the inside of my stomach. I barreled down on him.
"YOU THINK I'M SO SHORT BECAUSE I'M THE SIZE OF AN ANT THAT CAN ONLY BE SEEN WITH A MAGNIFYING GLASS?!" I roared, raising my shield.
"Haha. This is where you falter. You get angered way too easily. You must learn to control that!" Geoff told me mockingly as I locked blades with the man. I growled and pulled back, then attacked again.
"Don't talk like that! You don't know me!" I snarled, attacking with my sword from the right side. Geoff blocked me easily and flipped backwards.
"Oh, but I can get inside your head," he replied.
"Oh, yeah?! Let's see about this!" I ran back about fifty feet and began concentrating. I didn't know what I would do, but I was gonna make this man pay for pissing me off this badly.
"As if concentrating's going to save you here!" Geoff cackled, running at me, blade raised.
All of a sudden, my eyes flew open. They were glowing pink behind my brown pupils. I swung my sword at my side, making dust rise up around me. I could feel the power in my body. And ohh, this guy would pay. When Geoff was about ten feet from me, I dropped my weapon, hanging my arms at my sides, appearing to be asleep.
"Did you give up?" Geoff asked, stopping in his tracks. "What a waste!"
"HA! YOU WISH!" I raised both my hands in front of me, pointing at Geoff. "DUAL BLAST!" I bellowed. The pink chi that I had felt flew forward and curled itself into the form of a dragon. It whipped around Geoff and flung him onto his back. He'd passed out.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" I heard Amy shriek. She ran over and pulled Geoff's wrist to her fingers to check for a pulse. I couldn't tell if what I had done had killed him. My head was spinning, my rage draining out of me.
"Katie! I thought this was just practice!" Morgan snapped, glaring at me.
"You…you didn't see…what he d-did to me!" I protested weakly.
"Still! You should have held back!" Nich told me. I shook my head.
"From our position it looked like you were trying to kill the guy!" Hanna said. The others nodded their agreement, but I shook my head in protest. I felt really weak then. I don't know what happened to me.
"I…I hope he's...o…OK…," I muttered. Then I fell back into the darkness.
"KATIE!"
By the time I woke up, it was pitch-black out. I was back in my room lying on my feather-mattress with the tiny oil-lantern flickering beside me. My head pounded with one helluva migraine when I sat up, trying to remember what had happened. Then it hit me; I had almost killed Geoff! I sat back down in my pillows, wishing there was a window I could look out of.
'What the hell came over me? Am I some kind of monster?' I pondered this question silently to myself, pulling the covers over my face and yawning.
"Now, now, now. You're never going to get over it if you act like that!" a voice said. I peered over the edge of the blanket to see who the voice was. It was Jakob. The prince was in my bedroom!
"What the heck are you doing in my room…?" I asked without much enthusiasm, glowering at him in the doorway.
"Well, technically, I'm not really in your room." Jakob pointed out.
"Oh, leave me alone," I snarled, turning to my left and burying my face in the pillows. Not was so not the time to try comforting me.
"Nope. Mackenzie sent me up here to check on you. The others are pretty peeved off," Jakob told me, making me feel worse than I already did. He kneeled down by the foot of my bed and sat on my trunk.
"You're not the best psychologist in the world. I'm fine. Don't bother me. Go away," I told him. I sniffed. I was feeling sick. About the fact that there were only two days left before I set off, and Geoff's health, and the fact that I was pretty positive everyone hated me now didn't help my churning stomach.
"Oh, stop being so pouty. There's some food here on your trunk-," I heard a slight clack of a wood try being put down on my trunk, "-and I expect you to eat it. You're going to waste away. Night," Jakob chirped, whistling and closing my door on his way out.
'Why is everyone so damn nice to me? I can't stand it! It hurts!' I thought. I got up, and despite the painful protest of my right leg, I grabbed the bread and meat that had been on the tray and sat back in my pillows, thinking deeply. I hated being tended to. I was way more independent than that. I licked my fingers and got out of bed. I looked over at Amy's bed to see that no one was in there. I shrugged and stripped down and got into my comfy white sleeping gown.
I tiptoed out the door, peeking down the halls to check if anyone was coming. It was clear. Perfect. I hurried down the right path and opened the door at the end of the hallway which led to the balcony. I needed fresh air. I closed the door and turned around. The sight was absolutely breath-taking. There was a full-moon which was casting a gorgeous blanket of blue-ish light down onto me. I went over to the ledge and looked down. The River was sparkling and crystal-clear. I sat down on the ground and stared up at the moon, thinking back on the days I had spent in River Belle Path. I missed my parents.
Before I noticed, I had hot salty tears dripping down my face. I screwed up my eyes, letting the tears flow, but determined not to let out loud sobs. I buried my head in my hands hard until little stars popped in front of my eyes and my tears subsided. I stood up. Enough crying for one night, I thought. I headed back to my room.