OK. This is really ment for only Y.R.U. members to read, and it was easier to post it here then somewhere else so they'd have easy access to it. Don't worry I'll take it down as soon as I get it up on the club website. And also as I stated in Part 1, I couldn't very well post this in the section for original novels or like that because then I'd get flamed for ripping K.A. off. So either way I can't win with this story :p So please don't post stuff like "I don't understand this" or "this doesn't belong here" because it does have to do with the Yeerk invasion just in a different time period, and if your such a baka that you don't heed this warning and go ahead and post something like that in the review, then your an idiot. No offence of course.. Please I'd like constructive critism. Not just "That sucked", if that's what you think then tell me 'why' it sucked, k?
(Part 2)
Written By: Katt
It was another day on board the Saphire 290. That was the name of the ship. It was one of the most beautiful things you could ever see back then. Especially to kids that had never been on a space ship. I remember when we arrived and were getting ready to board. It was massive, I'd never seen anything like it before. Neither had the others. We had all stood there. Just.. just admiring it. The slick silver metal exterior. The huge thrusters in back. The hundreds of picture windows that lined the corridors. And the Surge Cannons. We had just arrived as they were powering them up to test the weapons system. It was truly a site I will never forget.. Among others.
We had been on the S290 for a total of two weeks. We were having the time of our lives. Traveling threw space on the S290 was an adventure for us. And meeting three new people like us, that really made it worth while. Unfortunately, like it was written in Part 1, Jace had caused some problems by breaking Cally's arm. Zeek couldn't seem to get over that fact.
"Why did you do that to her?" Zeek question Jace. Shane and I were there trying to help them get threw it.
"Because she ticked me off." Jace spoke, but his face didn't show any feeling at all. That's the way he was. He didn't seem to care about anything. But this was different. Zeek was one of his closest friends. He had never acted this way tworeds Zeek. They had always had there differences, but it was like they were complete strangers now..
"Is that all you have to say?" Zeek was visibly angry. In the whole time I had known Zeek I had never seen him angry. He wasn't that kind of guy. He was laid back and easy going. A joker. It was his world as long as he could keep everyone smiling, is what he use to tell me. But now..
"No. I'd say more," Jace replied. "But I'm afraid Shane would have to restrain you if I did."
"Are you afraid to say it then?" Zeek taunted and shoved Jace. I knew that things were going downhill. Fast.
"I'm only afraid that I'll hurt you." He smirked, but didn't react to the shove.
"Oh.. So your worried about me huh?" Zeek said turning to Shane and I and smiling, and then turning and punching Jace in the stomach, catching him off guard. But this time Jace didn't say anything, he just tackled Zeek and started beating the crap out of him. Zeek and Jace were about the same size. But Jace looked a little weaker then Zeek. You couldn't tell that by the way Jace was beating Zeek up.
"Get off him!" Shane yelled yanking Jace up off of Zeek. Zeek rose to his feet.
"I don't think so." I said grabbing Zeek's arm, he had been ready to rush Jace. "Both of you are acting like little kids."
"I don't know about little. But we are kids." Zeek replied not taking his eyes off Jace for a second.
"Speak for yourself." Jace said trying to pull himself from Shane's grip.
"Drop the macho act," Zeek said "Your acting like a Yeerk."
"I'll show you a Yeerk!" Jace broke free and nailed Zeek in the face, flooring him. "Come on, Ezekiel! Get up! Or are you going to let a 'Yeerk' kick your @$$?"
"That is enough." Shane growled. I had known he was going to get caught up in this sooner or later. He wasn't one who'd stand for a bunch of petty bickering. "Think about this. You've both been best friends for more then half your lives. Can't you see how stupid this fight is?"
"He had no rite to do that to Cally!" Zeek yelled from his spot on the floor, he was tending to his now broken nose.
"She started it."
"Their both blinded by their own pride.." I had said. Neither was going to give in, that much was obvious.
"Isn't their anyway you two can work this out?" Shane asked them.
"If he apologized to Cally," Zeek replied. "And actually means it."
"I'm not going to apologize, because I didn't do anything wrong." Jace spat "If it had been a guy I would of done the same thing, and it wouldn't have been nearly a big a deal as this!"
"He's got a point.." I commented
"Yeah but it's not a very good one." Shane added. "You know it isn't rite to do that to a girl. It's been that way since the beginning of time."
"Their the ones who want to be equal..." Jace grumbled.
"They want to be recognized as equal to men in some things." I put in, after all I a girl, I should know something about it. "Not in every little detail... Well.. Not all of us anyway."
"Ok... You've got a point there.." Jace finally admitted "But I think I deserve an apology."
"What in the heck for?" Zeek demanded
"For you getting so mad at me." Jace explained "You know dang well I have a short fuse. And even Cally knows that I'm not the best when it comes to anger. So you both new the consequences of Cally's actions."
"Another good point.." I said "But you new better then to do that"
Jace didn't say anything.
"OK, can you both apologize and then we can move on?" Shane asked
"I'm... sorry Jace." Zeek said as he stood, he offered his hand to Jace. Now if Jace could just get over it..
"Fine." Jace sighed shaking Zeek's hand. "I'm sorry too."
"Now apologize for hitting me." Zeek joked
"No way in heck am I apologizing for that!" Jace laughed "Besides. You started it."
"I did not!" Zeek replied as they headed out of the room together. "You did!"
"Are you kidding me?" Jace laughed. We could hear their laughter as they walked down the hall outside of the room.
"They are the dumbe-" Shane began, but stopped and laughed. Unfortunately that was just the beginning of the problems between Zeek and Jace.
See the Crimean race has a higher concentration level then most other species. This means we can channel our energies. These energies can are usually emotional, but in some cases we can use the energy from our own life force to achieve a goal. This of course can be fatal, because, unfortunately, if you drain your life force, you die. We were all skilled with this form of Energy Tapping, but the second form of E.T. only one of us had gotten the hang of.
"Come on you guys," Jace was trying to figure out a way to teach us that particular form of E.T. "It's not that complicated." Jace wasn't exactly skilled in many fields. But when it came to Energy Tapping, he was better then most teachers. That is one reason that they didn't sign on a teacher for that particular field, they just let Jace do it.
"You wanna bet?" Cally challenged with a smile. Thankfully Cally wasn't the kind of person to hold a grudge.
"I'll explain it one more time." Jace sighed. "It's the same concept as Internal E.T. except.. well... external."
"Real helpful." Zeek commented.
"Quiet in back." Jace snapped like a real teacher would. "OK, everyone go threw the steps with me. First close your eyes."
"Like we haven't done this before.." Zeek again. And was about to say more but Shane had elbowed him to make him shut up."
"OK, now everyone find their center." Jace continued. "Now think of the air around you. You can't physically see it, but it is energy. Now harness that energy like you would your internal energies."
We all gave up at trying to see the air as energy. We just couldn't visualize it. None of us had reached that level of advancement. So we all sat and watched as Jace summoned the air's energy. A mini tornado formed in between his hands. He opened his eyes to see how the rest of us were doing.
"Come on. Can't you guys even try to humor me!" He exclaimed the tornado evaporating.
"Jace, we don't get it. I'm sorry if you think we should, but we are not at your level." Luke explained
"Fine." Jace rolled his eyes. "Then everyone just do the basic exercises. You might as well be able to do that to your limit."
"Yes Sir." Zeek said with a mock salute.
"Ezekiel you want to come up here and show everyone how to do the exercises?" Jace questioned
"No." Zeek replied making it sound more like 'duh'.
"I think you should." Jace was not smiling. "Up front now Ezekiel."
"O yeah! I get to play teachers pet!" Zeek this time with mock excitement. He took his time getting up front too. Jace didn't look to happy with him. I swear he seemed to be taking being the teacher way to seriously.
"Show the class the basic exercise of controlling energy flow." Jace commanded
"OK." Zeek rolled his eyes. "All you do is put your hands this far apart. Find your centerpoint, then direct your energy flow to your hands."
His hands started to glow with white and blue energy, this signified he was using his life force energy for this exercise.
"You can use emotional or life force energy for this exercise. Either way it won't effect your energy level, because when your done the energy will go back to it's main stream. Instead of exploding near an opponent or something to that affect." A small sphere formed in his hand. He usually started with one the size of a golf ball. As he brought his hands further apart the size of the sphere increased, until finally it was the size of a basketball. Then he moved his hands closer together and made it smaller. He did this a couple of more times, and then he let the energy disperse and it flowed back into his hands.
"Happy?" Zeek asked Jace as he walked back to his spot.
Jace gave him a dirty look. Once again Zeek was working on that short fuse..
"If you'd stop acting like an idiot," Jace said after Zeek had taken his seat. "You might actually get the hang of it."
"Idiot?" Zeek laughed "Hey you know, you used to act the same way!"
"Yeah, but I finally realized it was time to grow up." Jace stated "Class times over, everyone can go." He finished and left the training room.
"What is with him lately?" Brad asked a loud. Even though Brad, Luke, and Cally had only known Jace for a short time, they new this wasn't normal for him. When Zeek acted like that Jace took it lightly, he and Zeek both had the same sense of humor, though Jace didn't show it as much. But now it was almost like he had changed into a totally different person.
"I shouldn't of egged him on like that..." Zeek commented sounding a little bewildered.
"Do you know what's bothering him Zeek?" I asked
"I have no idea.." He replied "Since the incident with Cally, he really hasn't talked to me much. It's really starting to bother me."
"He's jealous." Luke put it. "Plane and simple. He doesn't like the fact that you spend more time with Cally then him. And then add the fact that you and Brad are really close friends, he thinks you've replaced him."
"Since when are you a psychiatrist, Luke?" Shane asked.
"It's just a gift." Luke smiled
"Well that would make sense.." Cally commented "But what do we do about it."
"We don't do anything. Zeek is the one he's mad at, it's up to him and Zeek to work it out." I replied
"Oh.. Thanks a lot, Jessie.." Zeek groaned.
"Don't worry Shane and I will be their if you guys start fighting again." I volunteered Shane.
"Yeah, don't worry about it, Zeek." Shane added going along.
"Just be carful," Brad pipped in. "If he get's mad he could take you out with air energy!"
We all laughed at that, and our group broke up. Zeek and Cally headed said they were just going to walk a while, and Luke and Brad had plans to go up to the Bridge and have the weapons system explained to them. Once again that left Shane and I. So we did what we always did when there was nothing else to do. We practiced our sword fighting skills.
What? You don't think that makes sense? We had all these futuristic weapons and we played with pieces of metal? Well to tell you the truth neither Shane nor I had liked guns, even though he was a sharp shooter. We had done it more for fun and exercise then anything else, after all those pieces of metal weren't exactly the easiest things to swing around and keep control of at the same time. Of course we didn't just do swords, we also used other weapons that you would consider "out-dated" in the thirty first century.
"I think the computer loaded the wrong program Shane!" I yelled threw the mass of shrubs and trees.
"I think you might be rite!" Shane yelled back, he sounded a good distance away. "You must of loaded the wrong disk."
"No, the disk I put in was clearly marked Warehouse District'." I replied finally coming to a clearing. Shane stumbled out of the jungle into the clearing from the other side a few minutes later also caring a broad sword.
"Well unless the 'Warehouse District is having some sort of exotic plant show, I think you loaded the wrong disk." He said looking around. "Hey I don't remember this part of the program. Infact I don't think there are suppose to any clearings in this jungle."
"I bet Luke has been messing with it," Luke was really into computer games, unfortunately he liked to tamper with our Virtual Reality programs we used for training instead of a regular computer game. "He probably just labeled it wrong."
"Yeah, probably." He replied turning and facing me, we were a good thirty yards a part. "But hey, this will work. After all it's big enough, just a little different terrain..." He said with a smile and came running at me.
"A little?" I asked skeptically and waited for his attach.
As he reached me he jumped into the air and with both hands brought the sword down at my head, I quickly brought mine up to meet his, the sound of clashing metal rang throughout the virtual jungle. Then he brought the blade back around and swung it down low attempting to cut off my lower leg, I quickly jumped barely avoiding the blade. Unfortunately as I landed I began to loose my balance, and, seeing this opportunity, he brought his blade down on my right shoulder. Cutting my arm clean off.
"I keep telling you if you had a lighter sword you wouldn't loose your balance as easy." Shane sighed.
"I know.. " I sighed looking at my arm witch was now lying on the ground. Since it was virtual reality it didn't hurt.. But it sure looked bad.
I took my helmet off, and was back in the V.R. center on the ship. It was a fairly large room with quite a few V.R. sets. I looked at the "sword" I was holding. It was actual a V.R. rod, you could change it's weight and size to make it feel like the weapon you were using in the program.
"Don't feel bad." Shane said slipping his helmet off. "You can do just as much damage with something lighter, plus you'll have better balance and speed. Who knows you might actually beat me with a lighter sword." He smiled playfully.
"Didn't you know?" I asked
"Know what?" He looked puzzled.
"The only reason I haven't been using a lighter sword is because I know I'll beat you." I smiled
"Ooooh..." He laughed. "Well, I believe that when I see it."
By now it was getting late, and we had to get up early the next morning for E.T. training, so we said our goodbyes and headed to our separate quarters.
"What was that?" Cally asked still half asleep
"I don't know, but I think we should find out." I said and hopped out of bed, pulling on my regular training outfit. I opened the door as another loud crash echoed threw the hall. It had sounded like it had come from the deck below us, which was were the different training centers were. We headed down, and quickly found it was coming from the gymnasium. The guys were already there. Luke, Brad, and Shane were keeping their distance as Zeek and Shane were battling in the middle of the gym. Zeek was in Sernt morph. Imagine a saint bernard sized armadillo, that is dark green, spits acid, and the armor on it's back looks like thousands of overlapping razor blades. That is what a Sernt looks like, and it was one of Zeek's battle morphs.
Jace was staring him down from the other side of the gym. He wasn't in morph. He wasn't armed. He wasn't wearing armor of any sort. He was just standing there, anticipating Zeek's attach.
"What the heck is going on?" Cally exclaimed pushing her way between Brad and Shane. "What are they doing?"
"We don't know." Luke said shrugging.
"We didn't even hear them leave this morning, we woke only new something was going on when we heard those loud thuds." Brad explained.
"Yeah and when we got down here, it turns out it is Zeek in morph stomping around the gym trying to ram into Jace." Shane finished
The conversation was interrupted by a sudden shrieking sound coming from Zeek. He had started spitting acid at Jace, but Jace had been prepared. The acid hit an invisible barrier that Jace had set up. The acid sizzled as it ate threw the floor. Zeek's morph let out another shriek enraged at not having beaten it's enemy, it proceeded to charge at Jace, who just calmly stood there.. waiting..
"Zeek stop!" Shane yelled too late. Zeek connected with the electrified barrier and curled into a ball of razors as a couple thousand watts of power fried him.
"Is he ok?" Cally was deeply concerned.
And as though in reply the massive ball started to roll. It got going pretty fast too, but just before it hit the barrier it stopped and started to hop up and down. The floor shook beneath our feet knocking us down. Jace however simply smirked and levitated a few feet off the ground to avoid the mini earth quake. Zeek finally stopped and uncurled. He snarled at Jace and then de-morphed.
"Fine. You win." He said de-feated "This round anyway."
"What the heck were you guys-?" Cally was cut off by the sudden appearance of the Captain. We all stood at attention.
"What is going on here?" He demanded.
"Training exercises sir." Jace immediately replied.
"What kind of training exercise causes the entire ship to shake and leaves a hole in the floor!" He yelled.
"The kind we need to practice to get prepared for battle, sir." Jace replied almost automatically. "It was a simple test of Zeek's morphing ability against my E.T. ability."
"The gym is not a place for such exercises." The Captain walked over to Jace. "You are to use the V.R. units for such training."
"With do respect, Sir. When we are put down in the middle of a war zone it's going to be a lot different then V.R. and if we are not fully and completely prepared we aren't going to last to long." Zeek answered before Jace could.
The Captain thought a moment then turned to leave. "Very well. And since you've already damaged this gym, you can practice here. And ONLY here." He quickly left to attend to his duties.
"You guys were training?" Cally asked skeptically.
"No. I was proving a point to Zeek." Jace replied
"And what would that be?" Shane inquired. "That my E.T. skills can't be beaten by someone in morph."
"Are you saying your invulnerable?" Luke asked.
"Not completely, no. But if I keep training in a few years I will be." Jace explained "I've already mastered the advanced forms of Defence and Suggestion. I've mastered the basics of Hypnosis and Attach, and I've almost got the advanced forms of Healing and External E.T."
"What's Suggestion?" Brad wondered.
"Suggestion is an extremely advanced form of Hypnosis. You can use it to make your opponent believe something has happened that really hasn't." Shane explained, Brad just looked at him.
"Think of it this way. If Jace here wanted you to think that Luke had just hit you upside the head, he could. And it would seem so real that you'd probably sock him Luke." I tried to make it easier for him to understand.
"But that's impossible." Zeek commented "Even the most talented E.T.s back home had to study from twenty to twenty three years to get that advanced."
"Well I learned it in five." Jace smiled
"How come you never told us you were that advanced, Jace?" I couldn't help but wonder. After all he had obviously been training on his own, without our knowing so for quite sometime.
"Didn't seem important." He replied.
"Well then why did you decide to show off all the sudden?"
"Because we are going into battle in less then two days, and I haven't got to test my skills outside V.R."
"So you don't actually know if your that advanced or not. Your just now finding out how advanced you are by testing your skills on Zeek." Cally commented.
"Yeah, I guess you could put it that way."
"Have you tested your Suggestion skill?" Shane asked.
"No, not yet."
"Try it out on Brad. Make him think Shane hit him." Luke smiled.
"I'm not going to screw around with you guys' minds. It wouldn't be rite." Jace said.
"I think we should all test Jace's Defence. Since I wasn't able to beat him by myself, if we all morph he can't possibly win." Zeek suggested.
"You wish." Jace laughed "But it would be a good test. Come on guys give me everything you got."
We all agreed. Zeek went back into Sernt morph. Brad morphed a Mauch, which is a creature that is a little bigger then a house cat, but it definitely does not look like a cat. It has no ears, not tail, and no eyes. It stands on four legs and has shaggy fur that is a deep brown color. It can use it's sense of smell to identify the enemy, but the hairs on it's body are also extremely sensitive to air currents and can form mental pictures based on these currents. It is lightning quick and has needle teeth and claws to rip into it's prey.
Luke morphed a Crilne. A Crilne is the no bigger then a rabbit, and looks surprisingly like one. Well except for the fact it has no fur and claws tipped with poison. It also has an amazing tunneling ability, it can dig threw solid rock, and most types of metals. The poison in its claws can kill a full grown human being in less then 5 minutes once in the blood stream.
Cally went with a Monscrem. Twice the size of the Sernt it has stands on four legs and is covered with parasitic spider like creatures called Ress. The Ress and the Monscrem live off each other. The Monscrem is actually a herbivore and is defenseless against predators. The Ress can suck the life out of most creatures, but for some reason the Ress can live off of the Monscrem without killing it. But if any creature should venture close enough to the host Monscrem to scare it, a group of Ress will attach the enemy which they assume is trying to steal their meal. So the Monscrem provides the meal and the Ress provides the protection.
Shane morphed into a Dentrime. This creature is the same size as a coyote but looks almost identical to the Earth Panther. The only differences being the size and the face, which is covered by distinctive markings that are either blue or yellow. They are agile and easily sneak up on their prey without it even knowing it is there.
I morphed a Trilc. The first thing I always noticed when I morphed Trilc was my skin changed to a crimson red and I grew about 3 feet. My arms grew out until they were about four and a half feet long. About a foot down on my arm was were my elbow was. At my elbows my arms flattened out and hardened into blades. Three and a half foot long blades. I felt spikes grow out of my spinal column and go from the top of my skull all the way down my back. I went blind momentarily as my eyes grew a little bigger and changed to a solid black. When my vision came back all the Trilc could see was the heat emanating from the animals around it. It didn't take me more then a few seconds to finish the morph since it was one I had practiced a lot. The creatures mind was passive. It didn't seem to mind the other creatures around it. What did bother it was the fact it wasn't in it's natural mountain habitat. This bothered it deeply and almost seemed to perplex the mind as it worked to figure out where it was. The Trilc were a very inteligent race of creatures. They weren't ruled by their animal aggresion, and yet weren't sivilized enough to develop a society. At the time it was one of my favorite morphs. The only defence the Trilc had was it's blades and spines. It had quick movement, not quite as fast as some of the animals my friends had morphed, but fast enough to sute me.
Jace stood a good distance from us. He calmly waited for us to finish morphing.
"Who's first?" Jace asked looking over the group. "Or are you all going to gang up on me at once?"
I'm going to get you this time. Zeek replied in thought speak.
He stomped the ground a few times then charged Jace, but stoped a few yards away and spat acid. The acid once agian revealed the barrier Jace had surrounded himself with.
"Now what?" Jace asked the Zeek.
I can't do anything but get electrocuted in this morph.. Zeek sighed and walked back to his place.
That... Hurt.... A... Lot... Brad commented before demorphing. He staggered to the side. "I'm fine. Somebody else will have to take him down."
We all took turns trying to get to him, but it seemed impossible to get past that barrier.
Hey, I've got an idea. Shane said to us, leaving Jace out. Luke do you think you could tunnel under Jace?
No sweat. Luke replied.
Cally do you think you can get the Ress to follow a tunnel?
Yeah I'm pretty sure I can. She replied
Ok. Then here's the plan. Zeek, Jessie and I will distract him. When he isn't paying attention to you two, Luke you dig a tunnel under him, and Cally try to get the Ress to follow Luke. If I'm rite he won't be expecting that, and the barrier won't be under him.
Sounds reasonable. Let's do it and show him that he isn't as invincible as he thinks! Zeek shouted.
Zeek, Luke, and I approached Jace cautiously. Zeek started spitting acid at the barrier, Shane acted as though he was trying to find a weak spot in the barrier, and I tried hitting the barrier with my blades. It hurt, but hey it did distract him. I glanced at Cally and Luke. Luke had just gone under the floor and making the tunel. I could see the Ress on Cally start to scurry down off her and into the hole.
"Come on guys, give it up. You can't get threw the barrier." Jace smirked as we continued the distraction. But he wasn't smurking when the floor suddenly burst open and a Crilne popped out followed by a couple hundred Ress. The Ress imediatly crawled onto Jace and latched on. Jace responded to this with a scream of fear. He dropped to the floor and started to roll to crush the spider like creatures.
"Ok! Ok! You guys have proved your point!" He yelled yanking them off his body as he continued to roll.
Cally demorphed and as she did the Ress disapeared. The rest of us demorphed as well. It was funny to see Jace still rolling on the floor, he was truly terrified, but none of us laughed. After all we all had known that Jace wasn't going to be happy about loosing. We knew better then to rub it in, but Zeek just couldn't help it. He really tried not to. Well at least that's what he told me later..
"Oh, shut up Zeek!" Jace yelled getting up. "It's not like you beat me by yourself."
"Yeah but you should of seen your face!" Zeek laughed.
"I'm sure it was hilariouse," Jace replied sarcastically "But remember I was just practicing my Defence there. Now I think I'll practice my Attach."
His hands began to glow with red energy. The red symbolized anger, which ment he was tapping his emotional energies. He made a quick slashing motion with his hands causing them to create a red X in the air, which emmidiatly headed for Zeek.
"Zeek drop!" I yelled.
He stopped laughing and looked up, and dropped apon seeing the energy. The X flew past him and hit the wall, which left a big hole in the wall.
"Watch it!" Zeek yelled getting back to his feet. "You could of killed me!"
"You should have seen the look on your face." Jace mimicked with a smirk. "Not as funny when it's you is it?"
"I get it." Zeek mumbled, the he dropped to his knees and placed his hands palm down on the floor. "Let's see you block this." His hands charged with yellow energy, symbolizing adrenalin, and sent it threw the floor boards at Jace. The floor under Jace exploded as it reached him, sending Jace into the air. He got lucky and landed on his feet.
"What would have been the point of blocking when it's so easy to dodge?" Jace provoked.
"Enough is enough guys." Shane yelled. "Both of you knock it off rite know!"
They ignored him, Zeek used his anger this time to send a sphere of red energy cerining twored Jace. Jace put his hands out infront of him and created a barrier just as the energy sphere exploded. Jace then sliced at the air agian, this time using his life force to charge the attach. As the streak of energy flew at Zeek it hardened, into a curved blade. Zeek barely ducked it in time. The blade hit the wall behind him and stuck there. We all looked at Jace. It was nearly impossible to energy into something solid. Those who could do it had spent their entire lives training in E.T. and were well in their eighties. Jace looked just as shocked as the rest of us, he looked at his hands his jaw open.
"How the heck did I do that?" He asked out loud still looking at his hands.
"Good question." Zeek said as he examined the blade in the wall. He tapped it to make sure it was safe, then pulled it out of the wall. It was 2 ft long and 2 inches wide, it was curved like a boomerang and both sides were razor sharp.
"It's impossible." Shane said in a hushed tone.
We all stood in the partly demolished gym in silence and awe. At the time we couldn't of immagined that Jace had that kind of power. It was, after all, impossible. That's one thing you learn as you grow up, things that often seem impossible are very possible... And in some cases those things can become your worst nightmares.
"Great, we have to spend or last day fixing something that he clearing gave us permission to break." Brad moaned.
"It Zeek and Jace's fault. Your the ones that started it." Luke commented.
"We weren't the ones that tunneled threw the freakin' floor!" Jace snapped.
"That wasn't my idea, it was Shane's." Luke replied.
"Leave me out of this." Shane said. "After all Cally and you didn't have to listen to me."
"Oh, don't even try and blame this on us." Cally put it. "We were following orders. And if it's anyone's fault it's Jaces'!"
"It is not my fault!" Jace yelled "Zeek's the one who said he could beat me in morph, he's the one who started it."
"Your the one who was acting like a big shot about it!" Zeek shot back.
And before I knew it they were all yelling about who's fault it was. It was amazing how easily we had all become friends in the begining, but nobody was acting like friends at that moment.
"Guys?" Everyone ignored me. This was going to work out real good when we got to the war zone. "Can you all just shut up for one second!" I yelled, and they shut up. See at the time I wasn't one to yell. I was quiet and that's the last thing I did to get peoples attention. But at that moment they were really starting to get annoying. "What is with everyone lately? It seems like theres always an argument about something. Especially when it come to you two!" I said pointing to Zeek and Jace. "Now, we all trashed the gym. Regardless of who started it, and the Captian told all of us to fix it. And this fight of 'who started it' isn't going to help any!"
"Yeah but Jace-" Zeek started.
"Just drop it Zeek." I interupted. "We are suppose to be a team! If we can't work together when we aren't on the battlefield how the heck are we suppose to work together when we are in the middle of the war that's going on?"
"You know we have been fighting a lot lately." Zeek comented.
"No kidding.." Jace rolled his eyes.
"And it's always you that starts it." Zeek accused.
"In your dillusional mind maybe."
"Hey didn't you guys hear a thing I said?" I interupted agian.
"Yeah. But Zeek didn't." Jace replied.
"Oh shut your-"
"Knock it off you two." Brad interupted Zeek. "Jessie's rite. If we can't work together now, we are going to get slaughtered out there."
"Fine." Zeek and Jace replied in unison.
"Now, are you guys finally ready to go fix that gym?" I asked.
"No." Zeek stuck out his tounge. "Because the Captian should clean it up... After all he was the one dumb enough to let us use it in the first place.."
We all laughed and headed to the gym.
"This would go alot faster if you'd do something besides complain." Cally laughed helping Zeek lay a new floorboard over a portion of one of the acid induced holes.
"I spy with my little eye..." Zeek started.
"That is the stupidist game." Luke commented.
"Something that is blue." Zeek finished ignoring Luke.
"I know!" Cally exclaimed. "Shane's jeans!"
"Bingo." Zeek chuckled.
"I thought we were playing 'I spy'?" Brad asked confused.
"He ment that she got it rite not the game." Shane laughed.
"Oh.. I new that.." Brad smiled a little emberased. "Ok my turn!" Cally siad. "I spy something... gray!"
"Brad's shirt." Luke guessed decideing that the game was a good way to pass time.
"Nope."
"The nails we are using to put down the floorboards." Zeek guessed
"No.."
"The walls." I guessed
"Yes! Your turn Jessie." Cally excalimed "Ok. I spy something brown." I said
"My shoes." Jace guessed.
"No."
"The floor boards." Shane guessed.
"No."
"My shirt." Cally guessed.
"Nope."
"Is it part of the gym or on somebody?" Brad asked.
"On sombody." I replied.
"My cap?" Zeek asked pulling his cap off his head.
"No."
"Luke's shoe laces." Brad guessed
"Nope."
"Well what is it then?" Cally said becoming flustrated.
"Everyone give up?" I asked.
"Yes." They replied.
"Shane's eyes." I smiled at Shane. He smiled back.
"Oh, my gawd.." Zeek said acting shocked. "How could have we missed that!"
"Shane's eyes? Isn't that just so sweet." Jace teased.
"Oh, shut up. I won didn't I?" I laughed.
"Technically you cheated though." Zeek argued
"How did she cheat?" Shane questioned "Well... uh.. She just did ok." Zeek replied
"You are so immature." Luke said
"I am not immature.." Zeek protested
"Then what exactly are you?" Jace asked "I haven't decided yet." He replied.
"Well until you decide we will consider immature." Luke laughed.
"He can't help it," Brad said seemingly coming to Zeek's defence. "After all he is the youngest."
"Yeah so there." Zeek added then looked a little confused. "Wait a second.."
"Ok we aggree you have a valid excuse Zeek." Jace luaghed.
"I can't win with you people can I?" Zeek asked.
"No, because your outnumbered." Brad smiled
"Oh come on guys, leave him alone." Shane said .
"Yeah, we do have to finish working on this sometime today." I added.
"Fine. We can continue this conversation later." Luke smiled.
The rest of that day went by quickly. We never finished fixing the gym, but we came close. We had put the thoughts of the war zone out of our minds that hole day. Unfortunatly at night, when it's dark and quiet, your mind tends to wander to the stuff you really don't want to think about. I don't think anyone got any sleep that night. And after that night I don't think any of us had a good night sleep for quite some time...
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