In case you forgot, here's the disclaimer:
Sure, this story is mine. Most of the OC's are mine as well, with the rest belonging to EchidnaGirl. I do not, however, own Sonic the Hedgehog, its characters, or anything else associated with SEGA. I also do not own any songs mentioned in this chapter. All of the routines for figure skating portions of the story don't belong to me either, they were based off of the performances of Sasha Cohen and Fumie Suguri. If there's anything else I've missed, just assume it doesn't belong to me.
Chapter 34
Kevin followed Cam and Alexander until he saw them go into an old, abandoned warehouse. They had gotten far, far away from the school, and Kevin didn't like the looks of the bats outside the door, who thankfully followed them inside when they entered.
He saw an old, dirty window that wasn't boarded up like its counterparts, and decided it was worth taking a look.
Whatever was once in the warehouse was now completely gone, leaving an open floor and an open view of what was going on in the center. There were many people inside, most covered with cloaks Cam and Alexander, along with the two guards and a bat he recognized to be Damian were the only ones without them.
On the floor he saw a circle with some kind of design inside. He couldn't tell what shape it was in because of the angle he was at. However, the color of the circle was a deep, brown-red, and he preferred not to think of what that meant it was made out of. The circle was lit by small candles around its edges, apparently at strategic points according to the design.
Then, all at once, it all made sense. Kevin knew why Alexander was involved with this now. Alexander and his father were part of a cult devoted to bringing Melaine into the world, and all of its members were here. This moment must have been planned years ago.
That's why Cam's parents were killed. That's why Damian told her to hate him and to let the hatred grow; so that Melaine could get a greater hold on Cameron. She, along with Kevin and Knuckles, were almost to the age where they would have to go to the temple Omeletteman was having them translate the walls of and go through rituals, which had a varying purpose for each of them. The purpose of Cam's ritual was to renew the seal that was placed on her at birth, and to strengthen it even further so that she had even more control. Being close to this time meant that the seal on Melaine was at one of the weakest points it would ever be.
There was still a little time before the eclipse, and Kevin had to think of something fast, preferably something that wouldn't get him killed.
The incident involving Amy and Sonic had attracted enough attention that the rest of Amy's dorm-mates saw her running out of the dance. They quickly said their goodbyes to their dates and ran out after Amy.
Of course, Amy could run fast, even in heels. Blaze had to run ahead to keep track of the pink hedgehog while Rouge and Wave followed. Her path was predictable, though, as Amy just ran to their dorm. Wave and Rouge found the cat and hedgehog on the couch in the dorm, with Amy bawling her eyes out and Blaze only able to hand her the tissues and rub her back.
Amy didn't even want a hug. Amy never didn't want a hug. The girls sat down in the chairs around the couch and kicked off their heels, waiting for Amy to calm down enough to talk and for her temper to flare instead of her current state of heartbreak.
"Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place."
The cloaked figures were chanting the phrase over and over again in English, while Damian was saying it in Echidnean. Cam was in the center of the circle, now, on her knees and sitting down on her legs, her eyes closed and down.
Kevin decided that before they could complete the ceremony, he would run in and blind them with a spell from his spellbook, throw Cam's locket and get her out before any of them could see well enough to use whatever weapons they most likely had inside.
Then, somehow, the circle started glowing a deep purple. At the same time, Cam opened her eyes, and looked around, freaked out. She asked something Kevin couldn't hear, stood up, and was about to run out of the circle when Alexander pulled out a switchblade and told her to stay where she was.
Kevin's hands started to glow as he ran to the door. This was the best chance he would have. Cam somehow fought back against Meliane, got control and was trying to get out. She didn't want this, and if he didn't move, she would never be quite as easy to bring back as now, and if he didn't get her out, it would be impossible.
He broke down the door, held up his hands, and as every single person in the room looked at him, he yelled "VCUJX!" Kevin closed his eyes as a blinding flash went through the building. As soon as it was over he ran to Cam and threw the locket over her neck, just as planned. He put her amulet into her hands.
"Take this, and follow me." He said.
Cam was just barely able to grab onto it when he started pulling her to the door. She blinked a couple of times and, regaining her vision, ran faster. "Kevin?"
"Keep running!" He said.
Just as they reached the street, they heard a gunshot, and blood spattered on the ground.
"What the hell were you thinking, Faker?" Shadow pulled Sonic off of the ground by the collar of his shirt and dragged him to the side of the gym, by the punch table. Now without their dates, the other guys came over as well. Tails ran up to Sonic.
"Sonic, what happened? What made Amy run off like that?" He asked.
"She was just jealous…" Sonic brushed himself off clumsily and tried straightening his shirt.
"Jealous of what?" Silver asked, crossing his arms. He and Espio were the next to arrive.
"Whoa, whoa, whoaaaaaaaaaa. Caaaalm down, Silver. First of all, she was the one flirting with that Hiko dude."
"What did you do?" Knuckles asked, crossing his arms as well. He wasn't pleased with the fact that Rouge had run off.
"Punch?" The student volunteer asked, offering the glasses to Sonic and Shadow, since they were the closest. Both took the glasses; Sonic already didn't care about whatever was in it. The gym was hot and sweaty from all of the body heat, so Shadow drank the entire thing while the student was handing out glasses to the other guys.
"Well since she was flirting, I figured that I should be able to flirt with some girl, so I went ahead and found the girl who taught me to dance and I kissed her."
Jet facepalmed. "Dude, I saw that chick; why didn't you pick someone better?"
Espio looked at the punch skeptically, and upon taking a sip, he spit it out into the trash can with the glass. "The punch is spiked. He was drunk."
Tails looked at the punch he was holding in disgust; he hadn't even taken a sip yet and decided to throw the glass out.
"Awesome." Jet laughed and finished his punch before anyone could stop him, though Jet was nowhere near drunk. Something told them that he had had alcohol before. The rest of them threw their drinks away and kept Sonic and Jet from getting more.
Shadow knew that the drinks were spiked before; he had had a couple of glasses before the one he just had. To keep the teachers unsuspecting, he only visited the table a few times at reasonable intervals when it was believable for him to get thirsty. He didn't know if he was drunk, and he didn't care.
"I don't even know why he would do that!" Amy blew her nose into a tissue and threw it into the now-full trash can.
They heard a knock on their door. Wave got up and answered it.
"Um… Is Amy alright?" It was Prosephone.
Wave blinked. "Well if it isn't Rosebud. Come on in." She moved aside for her.
"R-Rosebud?" Prosephone asked as she walked in.
"I have nicknames for just about everyone in this school. You get the privilege of knowing yours, congratulations." Wave shrugged and closed the door.
"It's nice of you to stop by. What brings you here?" Blaze asked.
"W-well, Kevin went to find his friend Cameron… I thought he would bring her back here, and I was worried about you, Amy… not to mention some of the football players had a little too much punch and wanted me to…" Her ears went back against her head. "Well, you know…"
"Those guys are scum." Rouge said. "You're welcome here any time, Rosie."
Prosephone smiled at the nickname she was familiar with. It was a running joke in the cheerleading squad to call both her and Amy 'Rosie' in an attempt to confuse them and get them both to respond to the same thing.
"Let's watch some TV or something…" Amy sniffed.
Blaze grabbed the remote and turned on the TV, where the news was on.
"We're here downtown at a warehouse where strange lights have been reported being seen from inside. This warehouse was known to be abandoned for some time until tonight, when some people living nearby called in to report lights in abnormal colors coming from inside." A news reporter said. She stepped aside so that the camera could zoom in on it, where a purple glow was coming out of the windows. "Suspicions are that this is nothing more than a party, but we were called out here due to a surprising lack of music or people, and the fact that nothing else is happening in this city. Here you have it, folks, the most interesting thing we could come up with."
"Now as you can see, this extremely abnormal and-" A huge flash came from inside the warehouse. "What was that? Did you get it?" The reporter asked the camera man. "Well, folks, there was just a flash from inside and as you can see, it's fading away now… But what's that? There are people running out of the warehouse!"
The camera zoomed in on Kevin and Cam, with Kevin pulling Cam along behind him. It zoomed out to show Damian and Alexander, as well as the two bodyguard bats, appear next behind them. Damian pulled out a gun.
"Oh my god, one of them has a gun!"
Damian pointed the gun at the two echidnas and pulled the trigger. Kevin fell down.
Prosephone screamed and covered her mouth, instantly driven to tears. Wave managed to tear her eyes away from the screen to move Prosephone to a chair before she collapsed.
The camera moved and did its best to stay on the scene, but the cameraman and reporter clearly got into their van.
"Keep rolling, that's Damian the Bat. We may need to use the footage in court." They heard the reporter say.
Cam was on the ground, cradling Kevin in her arms until he went limp. She then put him down and changed her amulet into her staff and faced the bats.
"What the hell is she thinking?" Rouge said. They heard the news reporter's muffled voice, who had put down the microphone, calling the police. What made the news station not change the image to something else was a mystery.
Damian actually lowered his gun and took something from Alexander. He approached Cam with it, who was slowly starting to glow brighter and brighter with the gold of her normal magic.
"That's that stupid switchblade…" Blaze said, tense. "She's going to freeze up."
The guys came into the room.
"Oh, they're in here, maybe we should-" Tails looked ready to close the door, but all of the girls at once yelled at them to get over to the TV and look what was going on. They ran over and looked as Amy spit out the fastest explanation she could muster. Meanwhile, on the TV, as Damian got closer to Cam, the glow surrounding her only got brighter.
Finally, when he was only a couple of feet away, the light consumed Cam completely for a second, and when it was gone, Cam had changed. Her fur had taken on the same color gold as the glow, her dress changed into a long, flowing white one, draped over her so that it was impossible to tell where the fabric started or ended. Her quills were no longer up in pigtails, now let down and moving as if there were a strong gust of wind only around her.
"Hey, she stole my ideaaaaaaaa. I'm the one with the super forrrm." Sonic whined. Shadow glared at him.
"Quiet, Faker."
She knocked the knife out of Damian's hands without any hesitation using her staff, then sent a blast at him that sent him back into the body guard bats. She then launched herself on top of the warehouse in a single jump, unable to fly like Sonic. She gathered energy out of nowhere until a large golden orb was in her hand. She sent the orb straight down into the warehouse, hitting the circle designed to summon Melaine exactly, not only destroying it, but leaving a crater where it once was. The warehouse, however, stayed up and people inside of it were spared.
She jumped back down to Kevin and dropped her staff, picking him up and cradling him again. The glow once again surrounded her. She changed back to her former appearance as the glow slowly moved from her body to Kevin's. It seeped into him, especially at where the bullet had hit. As soon as the glow disappeared, Cam collapsed. Damian had just recovered from the blow and was moving back towards them when the police showed up and the camera stopped rolling, showing a flustered news man.
"W-We apologize for the images, the only person on our team tonight who knew how to change stories developed an upset stomach and couldn't come out of the restroom until now…"
They continued on awkwardly with other stories, the weather, commercials, etc., but no one seemed to care. Everyone burst out into questions and reactions all at once.
"HEY!" Knuckles yelled after 5 minutes of trying to get someone's attention. They all stopped and looked at him.
"That, the thing that Cam changed into, was Lana. The exact opposite of the spirit that was probably possessing her before, Melaine." He said, grumpy.
"Why didn't you tell us she was possessed before, Knucklehead?" Rouge yelled at him.
"Because I just figured it out, Bat-Girl!"
Vector ran into the room, almost breaking the door off of the hinges as he ran through. "All of you, with me, now. And do you know where-" He spotted Prosephone and pointed at her. "YOU! You too! We're going to the hospital now!"
When they got to the waiting room closest to where Cam and Kevin were, Mrs. White was already there speaking to a doctor.
"They're both in perfect physical condition. No recent wounds are visible. Had we not seen the news broadcast ourselves, we wouldn't have believed that he had been hit by a bullet at all. They're simply not conscious. The boy should have only a scar to remind him of what happened. But as for the girl…" He trailed off and glanced at the others in the room, staring at him. "Oh, are you the two echidnas' friends?" When he got nods in return, he turned back to Mrs. White, lowering his voice. "The only wound we found on the girl was one which was inflicted much earlier… if you would come with me."
He led Mrs. White into the room where they were being kept, and the sonic gang found seats to wait in.
"I wonder what could be wrong…" Amy thought out loud.
"They found where she was cutting herself." Shadow said darkly.
"What?" Amy's attention immediately switched to Shadow. "What are you talking about, Shadow?"
"She was cutting herself, Pinky."
"Heeeeeeey, maybe you two should get back together! You could be emo together!" Sonic suggested.
Shadow glared at Sonic. "That had better be the alcohol talking…"
The doctor and Mrs. White came back through the doors.
"The rest of you may go see them. Kevin is conscious, but Cameron is still fading in and out of consciousness." The doctor instructed them.
Prosephone, surprisingly, was the first one out of her seat and in the room when the doctor left. The others followed more slowly. When they entered, Prosephone and Kevin were hugging, and Prosephone was already starting to tear up again.
"I-I thought… I lost you…" Prosephone sniffed.
Kevin laughed, but he looked exhausted. "Almost, but not quite."
"Why were you two even at that warehouse with those people?" Prosephone asked.
"Well…" Kevin began explaining what exactly had happened.
While the others listened to Kevin and asked the occasional question, Shadow moved over to Cam's bed, which was a decent distance away and divided from the rest of the room by a curtain. Cam was under some sheets and propped up on a couple of pillows with her arms on top of the sheets. Her wrist was bandaged again, and the gloves she was wearing were carefully placed on the side table in the room. There were a couple more monitors hooked up to her than there were to Kevin, despite the similarity of their physical conditions.
Shadow walked up next to her and pushed the purple-streaked bangs out of her face. It could have been the alcohol or the fact that he missed her – maybe both – that made him wish she would wake up and have amnesia. But he had been there, and it wasn't pleasant. He listened carefully to the others in the room and determined that there was plenty more of the story left, and no one was about to get the picture and walk in their general direction for at least five minutes. He looked back down – Cam was still unconscious, and didn't look like that was going to change for a while.
So, Shadow leaned down, closed his eyes and kissed her.
After a second, he thought he felt her kiss back, but brushed it off until he felt arms go around his neck. He opened his eyes and saw Cam, her eyes open, staring up at him.
They broke the kiss, and she looked like she was about to say something when her arms went limp, her eyes closed, and she was once again unconscious. Shadow moved her arms back to where they were before. Despite being left with more questions, one thing was answered: He was definitely drunk.
Kevin was released from the hospital the next morning, while Cam was released three days later, when she could finally hold consciousness. Both of them decided to work even harder on finishing the massive stack of papers still waiting to be translated.
Cam took her first day back, however, to make things as right as she could. She apologized to almost everyone she could imagine she hurt – Shadow especially – and practiced her ballet and skating with an even greater determination and for an even longer time than before. She dyed her bangs back to their natural color, and asked all of her teachers about extra credit and opportunities to make up work she had neglected to complete.
The two echidnas were contacted by many reporters and everyday citizens alike, asking about what had happened. The only answers the two could give them were that they both were blacked out at the time and weren't sure what exactly happened in the time they were interested in, but that they were working hard to try to find an answer. That wasn't necessarily true, of course. They knew what was happening before the drama that was caught on camera, they had gone back and looked at the footage themselves, and Knuckles had told them about his realization that whatever Cam had transformed into had links to Lana.
Damian, of course, was locked up again, and Alexander managed to wiggle free from any serious punishments. Community service was his only penalty, since he technically had only walked with Cam to the warehouse and watched the happenings while he was there. He didn't force her, he argued, to go there in the first place. He was only a witness to the events.
Finally, Cam managed to make up with most of the dorm. After a few apologies and making nice meals, Cam was once again friends with everyone in the dorm but Shadow. She obviously still felt awkward around him after their arguments, and she only thought that the kiss had been a dream. But, with all of the extra work she was putting forward, all of her spare time and energy were gone. Shadow figured out Cam's ballet schedule because of his late night runs, where he would come back to find Cam asleep either on the couch or at the table after doing homework or translating.
~The next weekend, in Amy's room~~
"Come on, Pinky, you need to get out of this slump." Wave put her hands on her hips and looked skeptically at the pink hedgehog lying under the covers on her bed.
"No." The pink cover-blob responded.
"Hon, you've been depressed for over a week now." Rouge crossed her arms.
"I don't care."
"Amy, be reasonable. You need to leave your room at one point or another." Blaze was exasperated. She had been leading the efforts to get Amy to do something other than schoolwork.
"No I don't."
"Why don't we go shopping?" Cam suggested. The covers moved and Amy looked out at her. "Maybe you just need to change your image. I know that I was kind of under the influence of a demonic entity at the time, but when I changed my image to a darker look, I liked it. I still kind of like it, except I want to find clothes that are a little more modest. And no purple hair. That was a little too much for me. I need to get out of this t-shirt and camo pants, and I have free time today… so why not?"
"An image change…?" Amy asked.
Cam nodded. "Find a look that isn't your red dress and boots that makes you feel confident, beautiful and independent. We'll go to all of the different groups' stereotypical stores together. Are you in?"
Amy slowly sat up from her bed, and the other girls realized that she was still in her pajamas. "…Give me half an hour."
Cam grinned. "You got it."
They left Amy in the room to get ready in peace and went out to the living room, where the guys were playing a new video game that had come out.
"HAHAHAHA! TAKE THAT, SONIC! HOW DO YOU LIKE MY GRENA- OH GOD YOU THREW IT BACK!" Jet mashed on the buttons of his controller in an attempt to get away, but his part of the screen showed an explosion.
Sonic laughed. "Who's the best now?"
"I AM!" Jet yelled in the blue hedgehog's ear, still waiting for his character to respawn.
"If you two haven't noticed, I've killed you both five times already and you haven't killed me once." Shadow said, still staring at the screen and pressing a series of buttons on the controller.
"STAY OUT OF THIS!" They both yelled, glaring at their rectangles on the screen and mashing more buttons.
Tails sat by, operating the fourth rectangle of the screen, not really killing anyone but not dying, either. Cam walked up behind the couch, right behind Shadow. She looked at the rectangle that belonged to him and studied the maps on the corners of the screen, comparing them to the terrain the characters were moving through.
"Hey Sonic, turn left." She said.
Sonic blinked, but did so anyway and came up right behind Shadow's character. With a click of a button, Shadow died for the first time in the game.
Shadow turned and glared at Cam. "Was that really necessary?"
"Why yes, yes it was. Tails, go up that ladder."
Tails followed her instructions and ended up killing both Sonic and Jet.
"Go away; you're messing up the game!" Jet yelled at her.
"Not my fault that I have the sense to look at the other boxes."
"You don't do that!" Sonic said, mashing buttons to try to get back to the place he was.
Cam rolled her eyes. "Video games…" She went and sat down at the kitchen table, where the translation papers were spread out from a big translation-fest the night before. She grabbed a notepad and started scribbling.
Blaze sat down with Cam and watched what she was doing, as it was more fascinating to her than the shooting game, while Rouge went and sat down next to Knuckles, and Wave kicked Tails off of the game when the round was over, taking over and proceeding to kick all of the guys' butts at the game.
Amy emerged from her room just as the round finished, with Wave the absolute victor. The guys she defeated stared at her in awe and shock, with one thought: "Don't give her a gun. Ever."
Espio only smirked, glad that his girlfriend was as capable of defending herself as he would be defending her.
When the girls got back from their shopping adventure, the guys were still playing the video game with the intent of continuing well on into the small hours of the night. It was a Saturday, and they had all of tomorrow to sleep then cram their homework in.
The girls put their bags away in their rooms. Blaze and Amy were exhausted by the process and decided to just go to sleep, while Rouge and Wave went to watch and play, respectively, the video game. Wave shoved Shadow off of the game instead of Tails, who was getting tired of Sonic and Jet's antics.
Cam went and got a snack, then sat in her usual spot at the table, pulling out her math homework. Shadow noticed this, and decided to get revenge for the game earlier. He waited for a few minutes until she was a few problems in and looked frustrated, when he walked up behind her and looked over at the paper.
"Numbers 2,3, and 5 are all wrong. Also, what you're doing right now in number 6 is wrong."
"What?"
"You forgot to use that formula we got about a week ago."
"What formula?"
"You were there."
Cam turned and glared up at Shadow. "You know perfectly well that I really wasn't."
"That's what you say, but you were physically there in class. You should have paid more attention."
For a second, Cam was speechless. Finally, she found the words she was looking for. "Screw you, Shadow."
"Oh, also, you shouldn't be eating that. Your coach said just the other day that you were gaining weight, and it's starting to show."
Cam stood up and turned around, face-to-face with Shadow. "It's all muscle! I'm burning more calories than I've ever burned my entire life!"
"You keep telling yourself that."
Growling, Cam grabbed her things off of the table, minus the snack, and stormed into her room.
Rouge only shook her head and went back to watching the video game. She knew no one else heard the conversation over the explosions coming from the TV. 'You really are an idiot sometimes, Shadow.'
Come Sunday morning, the boys got a shock.
Amy came out from the girls' hallway in heavy, black makeup, a bright green t-shirt with a black wing design on the back, ripped up, black skinny jeans, and skater shoes.
Jet, the first to see her, did a spit take, spewing the soda he was drinking all over Tails.
"Hey!" Tails whined. "What was that for?"
Jet took Tails' head and turned it towards Amy. The yellow fox's mouth dropped open. "Amy?"
The pink hedgehog turned to him as if nothing was wrong. "Yeah Tails?"
"You- That- I- What- HUH?" Tails stammered.
Amy giggled. "How do you like my new look, guys?"
"What the hell?" Knuckles said when he looked over at what all the commotion was about.
"Blaze told me that you would look a little different after your shopping trip and all, but… seriously?" Silver asked.
Sonic strolled in from the kitchen. "Hey, who's the new chick? Shadow's new girlfriend or something?"
Shadow glared at Sonic. "That's Amy, Faker."
"Huh? No it's not. Shads, go get your eyes checked or something. Amy doesn't wear that kind of stuff."
The rest of the room was speechless. They only sweatdropped at Sonic.
"Well, I'm going on a run. Smell ya later!" Sonic grinned and zoomed out of the door.
"What an idiot." Wave rolled her eyes.
"KICK THEIR BUTTS, BLAZE!" Amy yelled in between cheer routines out on the basketball court.
Blaze didn't have any time to acknowledge Amy's cheer of encouragement. She currently had the basketball and was dribbling down the court. When too many were about to surround her, she passed the ball over to Silver. He caught it and passed it to another team member, who in turn passed it to Blaze, who had run closer to the basket. She shot the ball up past the hands of the guys trying to block it, into the basket with a lovely swoosh.
"Yeah Blaze!" Amy jumped up and down and waved her pom-poms around.
"That's the way!" Prosephone joined in.
Hannah glared at them. "Rosie, you know that there are other members of the basketball team, don't you? Now shut your traps about her and do cheer 4."
Hannah turned back towards the crowd, and the others were forced to do the same. They did an overly-complicated cheer that no crowd member in their right mind could follow along to.
Of course, Jet the Hawk and Sonic the Hedgehog were not in their right minds. Both of them had somehow gotten into an argument and then a challenge that one could do the cheers better than the other. Shadow was next to them, trying his best to pretend he didn't know them and wishing that he hadn't let himself be dragged to the game.
Cam and Amy sat on the other end of the same row of bleachers, perfectly content with speaking to Wave and one another.
"…and so I told the guy that he had better move along or he was going to get a taste of my shoe, then he-"
"Excuse me, but may I sit with you?" Hiko interrupted Wave's story.
"Sure, Hiko." Cam and Amy moved over in the bleachers to let Hiko sit on the end by Cam. He apparently came from the concession stand, as he had a soda and popcorn in his hands.
He tilted the bag towards the girls. "Would you like some?"
"Sure, thanks!" Amy smiled and gladly took a small amount from the bag, then turned her attention back to the court.
Cam gave Hiko a look. "Your coach lets you have that stuff?"
"My coach isn't here, Cameron. And neither is yours." Hiko took a bite of popcorn and tilted the bag back towards Cam again.
"That's hardly a reason to do it anyway." Cam turned her gaze towards the court as well.
"True, but I would say the fact that you haven't eaten lunch for the past few days is good enough of a reason."
Cam looked over at Hiko for a second, not saying anything. But the look in her eyes was enough. Reluctantly, she took a small handful of popcorn out of the bag and started eating it.
"I'm gaining weight, and I haven't had time to do all of my homework at night." Cam explained. "It's a win-win situation. I get to do my homework, and I lose a few pounds."
"The weight you have been gaining is muscle, Cameron, and if you would eat your lunch you may have the stamina after all of your practices and lessons to get your homework done."
"Coach sent you to talk to me, didn't she?"
"Yes. She did. She also agreed to you being my partner in a pair-skating routine after nationals."
"She did what?" Cam's voice turned ice-cold.
"Calm yourself. It is simply for a charity event. If you end up liking pair skating, then we can compete together after the event. If you still prefer to work alone, then we can both go back to single competition."
"Whatever. If Coach agreed to it, then I can't do anything about it."
The buzzer blared over whatever Hiko was going to say next, followed by the announcer's voice. "The Fighters win!"
The band started blasting the fight song, the crowd cheered, and the cheerleaders joined the mob in the center of the court with the basketball players, yelling and screaming their heads off.
Blaze, Silver and half of the other players on the team were sweaty, exhausted and disgusting. But they didn't care. The two teams lined up and gave high fives for a good game.
Just when Blaze and Silver were about to walk off the court back towards the locker room, both with an arm over the other's shoulder, a black cat over-dressed for the occasion approached them, but only looked at Blaze.
"Miss Blaze, may I ask what this is all about?" The cat had good posture and a slight British accent.
Blaze's eyes widened. "Simon?" She glanced at Silver, then back at the cat. "What are you doing here?"
"The better question is, Miss Blaze, what would your parents say if they discovered that you were on a boys' sports team? What would the media say? And who is this boy you are being so friendly with?" Simon eyed Silver with a disapproving expression.
"Simon, why are you here?" Blaze growled out at the cat. She ducked out from under Silver's arm at the same time as removing her own. She then grabbed Simon by his sleeve and began dragging him off somewhere else. Quickly, she turned around. "I'll meet you back at the dorm, Silver."
Then, she was gone.
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