Jesse slammed full force into something cold, getting a mouthful of... snow. But it wasn't THAT cold...
"Come on, Nell!"
"I'm trying, Em!"
"Would you two stop bickering already?!
Jesse bolted to her feet, spitting out the snow, mouth falling open at the sight of people in red and green running around the area with shovels, and some of them wearing gray helmets. Looking around, Jesse spotted a head wearing a white beanie covering chocolate-brown hair near them, and a couple more feet away was a blonde girl dealing with some guy wearing the gray-and-red uniform.
People were hitting each other over, there were people above throwing TNT down at them, and the white blocks of snow were getting knocked away beneath people's feet, one block of TNT detonating near their feet and making Jesse backpedal a couple of steps to avoid getting blown apart.
"Well, what do we have here?"
Jesse felt a chill shoot right up her spine, eyes widening in shock.
Why did that voice sound familiar?
"It seems as if some new competitors have entered the match!" the voice continued, as the four of them drew their swords and held them at the ready, staring around at the utter chaos around them.
"My, isn't that special?" A woman's voice sounded, as Petra practically screamed over the 'announcers' or whatever they were supposed to be, "What in the world did Harper dump us into?!"
"It's- it's like some sort of crazy game!" Jesse exclaimed, looking around her. It was the first thing that popped into her head at the sight of people wearing the same colors, the same sort of uniform, whacking the blocks out beneath people's feet.
The guy wearing the beanie straightened up a bit when he heard her (or, well, it seemed like it, but Jesse could've been mistaken), but still didn't turn around to face Jesse.
"You think this is a game?!" Ivor almost squeaked, stepping back so that his back ran into the others, all of them back-to-back with their swords out.
Lukas shook his head, making his ears twitch. "No, no, Jesse's right- SPLEEF!" he exclaimed.
Ivor stared at the blonde ocelot hybrid, looking confused. "Gesundheit?!"
Lukas shook his head rather violently at Ivor's questioning response, ears flapping even more furiously. "No- it's a game! You try to knock the floor out from under other people and make them fall!"
Jesse was half listening when she spotted a guy in green hoisting a shovel into the air. "Be like Tim!" he bellowed, and then charged at Jesse, who dove sideways automatically, tackling Lukas out of the way as Petra and Ivor leaped sideways. Jesse glanced down to see some lava blocked by glass beneath them, before glancing up to see the guy charging again.
Jesse reacted- raising a hand, lower arm whipping out her sword, she shot a web at the guy, which slammed into his chest and made him stagger- and trip backwards through the gap he'd just made, falling to the ground. He got up, horror in his eyes-
Before blocks propelled by pistons crushed him, exploding into dust and leaving his items on the floor.
Jesse cringed as she stepped backward in shock, reminded forcibly of Soren's grinder.
"Argh!" groaned a big burly girl with brown hair that might've been bigger than Axel, "that was one of my only decent teammates!"
Jesse winced sheepishly. "Oops."
The burly girl gave her a look of utter hatred, and she raced towards Petra, who was doing her best to not fly and shock everyone to pieces. A little ways away, Ivor was staggering out of the way as flaming arrows slammed into the ground in front of him.
Every hair on the back of Jesse's neck stood up, as did Lukas's' hair, and they both instinctively looked up to see a flashing block of TNT fly down at them-
Jesse instinctively slammed Lukas to the side with her arms, the TNT blasting her sideways and making her topple dangerously close to an opening, which she quickly scrambled away from, heart hammering in her chest so hard that she felt almost as if it were about to burst.
Petra hovered into the air and dove out of the way, looking as though she'd simply made a huge jump as she rolled away, Ivor leaping backwards in alarm with a yell as more arrows came down at him, fiery and flaming and dangerous.
A blur of yellow passed Jesse, tail flapping in the air- Lukas, of course he'd do something like that- and Jesse dodged out of the way and ran towards Petra, who looked noticeably shaken. "Petra, you okay?" she asked, shakily.
"Terrified out of my wits," Petra squeaked, from where she was rigidly kneeling, "but yeah, I-I think I'm fine, I don't think I got hurt..." She got back to her feet, before her eyes widened. "CRAP!"
Jesse spun on her heel, feeling dread shoot through her like a bullet-
Lukas and Ivor fell with twin yells, a blonde girl swiping her shovel beneath the both of them, and they plummeted downwards, hitting the glass with a grunt. The both of them lunged to their feet, spinning to look up at the two girls, standing on the ledge above them with horrified looks on their faces, Jesse frozen still in absolute horror. "Jess-"
The 'grinder' did its job, slamming together and making the two of them vanish in a puff of smoke.
Jesse's eyes widened in shock, everything seeming to fall out beneath her. Emotions bubbled up inside of her, bubbling and seething and boiling, until it came out in a scream that Jesse had never expected could come out of her mouth, could never be produced by her, not this horribly raw scream, and screaming the one thing she'd been trying to correct herself for such a long time now.
"DAD!"
A/N: Who thinks someone's about to get hurt?
Jesse FINALLY just yells it. Finally!
Next chapter we're gonna have an interesting guest make his way into this fanfic.
ThunderstarGames: Oh lol xD don't literally die xD
rebekahtpe: (sits down with popcorn) I am hyped. And yes, I've heard of it, but never watched it.
x.X. A.L. X.x
