Chapter 14: Training

Zaks p.o.v

It's been two days and Courtney still isn't awake. I had checked on her about ten times the past two days, and I hadn't seen her do anything yet.

I walked into the guest bedroom where Courtney was sleeping to make sure she wasn't awake, and she wasn't. I sat at the foot of her bed for a while just to make sure she wouldn't wake up. After thirty minutes, Courtney began to stir.

She sat up and yawned, then she stretched. Then she looked at me.

"What?" She asked.

I must have been staring at her in a weird way.

"Oh nothing. It just that, you were asleep for about two days."

"What?! Are you serious?!"

"Yeah. I came in here to check on you a few times but you never woke up."

"Oh. Well, now I'm up. So what should we do?"

"First, if you like you can take a shower."

"That'd be great! Thanks!"

I walked Courtney down the hall to a bathroom. We walked in and I told her she could use any of the soap we had. She thanked me, then I left her to take a shower.

Courtney's p.o.v

I had finished my shower and was just stepping onto the cold floor. I saw my clothes, they were folded and laying in a nice pile. I got dressed and, since I had seen Zak do it so many times, opened the door. I walked down the hall and called Zaks name as I went.

"Courtney?" Zak asked.

"Yeah, it's me."

"Ok, coming!"

I saw Zak turn the corner at the end of the hall. He grabbed my hand and pulled me along behind him.

He pulled me along until we were outside the airship.

The airship was parked in an area with lots of trees, a forest.

"Ahhhh, fresh air." Courtney said as she spread out her arms as if she was about to give the earth a huge hug.

"So why are we out here?" She asked.

"We're out here to train! Well actually to play capture the flag, but that basically is training."

"Cool! I love capture the flag!"

"You used to play?"

"Well there weren't many kids to play with in the village I used to live in but sometimes a new family would move in and we would play together."

"Oh cool."

"Yeah. But could you go over the rules again? Just so I know how you play now?"

"Sure..." I explained the rules to Courtney.

(I don't know how you guys like to play capture the flag but this is how they're gonna play in my story, each team has some territory, if someone from the opposite team is on your territory, you can tag them. If you tag a player from the opposite team then they go to your jail. After twenty seconds any player that's in jail can run out of jail and try to get onto their territory again. If they make it to their territory, they're safe. If they get tagged on their way back then they go to jail and can try again after another twenty seconds. Another way to get out of jail is if someone from your team tags you without getting tagged on the way. If they do tag you you get a free walk back, just hold your hand in the air so the players know you got a free walk back. If you actually get the flag from the other team but get tagged on your way back to your own territory then you go to jail and the other team gets their flag back. If you do somehow get the flag and make it back to your own territory then the game is over and your team wins)

"You got all that?" I asked her.

"Yeah." She said.

"Ok, well my family is waiting for us in the forest."

"Ok."

"Lets go!" I began to run along the path that led to where my family was waiting for us.

Courtney began to run after me. "Race ya!" She yelled as she ran past me. Courtney then transformed into a Fiskerton phantom and disappeared into the trees.

I ran faster and faster into the trees until I reached my family.

As soon as I got to the clearing where everyone was waiting for Courtney and I to arrive, I saw Courtney doing a victory dance.

She then turned back into herself and stopped her victory dance.

"I... Win..." She gasped, out of breath.

"Yeah... But you cheated." I answered.

"Ok... Anyway, Courtney did Zak tell you what we're doing?" My mom asked Courtney.

"Yeah, we're playing capture the flag, right?" Courtney had caught her breath again.

"Yeah, Doyle and Doc are team captains."

"Ok."

My dad spoke first. "I'll pick first. Ok... Zak."

"Courtney." Doyle said.

"Drew."

"Fisk."

"Komodo."

"Zon."

Doyle's team consisted of Courtney, Doyle, Fisk, and Zon. My dads team consisted of me, my dad, my mom, and Komodo.

No ones p.o.v

All the territory was marked and the flags were ready, as well as the players.

"Ok, we need a plan." Courtney said. Her team was huddled together in a circle.

"Right. I think I have one." Doyle said. "We need three distractions and one fast runner."

"I can be the runner!" Fisk volunteered.

"Ok, Fisk is the runner, the rest of us are the distractions. So what we're gonna do is the distractions are gonna distract someone while the runner will get the flag."

"Sounds good. I call distracting Zak!" Courtney said.

"Ok I'll distract Doc. Zon can you distract Drew?" Doyle asked.

Zon gave two loud squawks which meant yes.

"Ok, good. Scout out." Doyle ordered.

The team of four scouted out of their territory and into the enemies territory.

Courtney's p.o.v

As soon as I got into enemy territory, I saw Zak patrolling the border. Before he could turn around and see me, I stuck up behind him and yelled, "HEY ZAK!"

He turned around and screamed. I almost died laughing. He tried to tag me but I easily dodged him by doing a back handspring.

"Can't catch me!" I yelled, trying to be extremely annoying. And I guess it worked, cause Zak started chasing me.

I transformed into a Fiskerton Phantom and jumped into a tree. After I got in the tree I hung upside down by my legs. I put my thumbs to my ears and wiggled my other fingers while I did a raspberry. I turned back into myself as I did this and then stopped when I was myself again. I began to laugh as Zak tried to touch my fingertips so I would go to jail. Then I lifted myself up so I was just sitting in the branch.

"Nah-nah-nah-nah-nah! You can't catch me!" This was hilarious! I could do whatever I wanted to do and he couldn't stop me while I was up in a tree. Unless... Zak used his metal stick to grab the branch I was on and pull himself up into the tree. He almost touched my hand, but I panicked and jumped down so quickly that the force caused me to fall forward. Zak jumped down from the tree and almost tagged me once again, but I managed to scramble to my feet just in time. I ran as fast as I could, just hoping I wouldn't get caught and ruin the plan.

Suddenly, I saw Fisk run past us holding a red flag. He was shouting, "I got the flag! I got the flag!"

"Gotta go!" I yelled to Zak. I changed directions and moved to the left so Zak ran past me and fell.

Them I followed Fisk back into our territory. Zon flew closely to the ground and perched herself on the branch of a tree in our territory.

Then I saw Doyle being chased back to our territory by Doc. He lunged forward and just made it into our territory without getting tagged. Luckily Doc lunged after him and fell onto our territory. I ran over to him and tagged him.

"Twenty years in prison for trespassing." I said.

Doc just stared at me as I grinned at him. Zak came out of the bushes, his hair full of twigs.

"Ok, you win." He said.

"Yes! We are victorious!" I yelled happily.

"Alright, you win. Well I think that's enough training for one day, lets get back to the airship." Drew said.

The Saturdays (plus Courtney) gathered the flags and went back to the airship.