The next day at school, Lindsay, Michaele, Marie and Becca all sat in the
hallway in the auditorium as they sat there in silence. No one was talking,
not even Lindsay and Michaele. What happened yesterday was too freaky. The
thing that was on all of their minds was 'who's next?'…
The silence was finally broken when Lindsay let out a loud sneeze. The other three girls in the hallway looked over at her and she shrugged as she found a Kleenex.
"Sorry, I'm sick." Lindsay replied.
With this break in the silence, Marie found it an appropriate time to speak. "Uh, practice is in the gym tomorrow. You all know that, right?"
The girls nodded.
"And Katie said she's bringing in something that will scare away any owls."
The girls nodded again.
What was that thing, they did not know. They did not speak again until the bell rang and they all left the hallway to go in back through the band room to go to their next class. Michaele and Lindsay walked together as the others went their own way.
"Who do you think is going to go next?" Lindsay asked as she slipped on her sunglasses.
"I think it's annoying people first. I mean, Jacque did go first." Michaele said as she tried to shield her eyes from the bright sun.
"Hmm, could be… So then who would it be next?"
They both looked at each other and answered at the same time. "Levi."
Lindsay looked around and made sure any guard members weren't around. "Do you think it's possible?"
Michaele pondered the thought as they got closer to their classes. "Well… he is annoying. He thinks he's great and he sucks on rifle, though he gets to do rifle for the show and throw a quad when everyone knows it should be you up there. Heck, even me!" Michaele coughed. "I really think it's him. I just wonder what he's going to turn into."
"Something gay…" They both laughed.
They came up to the empty bay area and said their good-byes as they separated to their respected classes. Well, Michaele did have to pause and drool at her crush for a little bit before moving on, but she made it to accelerated chemistry before the bell rang.
Throughout the day, the thoughts of the guard members and the ideas of Lindsay and Michaele stayed with them the whole day. After school when everyone was hanging out in the band room, no one spoke, except the oblivious band members. However, Michaele did talk with her friend Rachel who long ago switched out of band and Michaele tried so hard not to tell her what happened. When she felt the bridge about to break, Rachel's mom came to get her and she left with her good-byes to Michaele and her twin.
'Whew… that was close…' Michaele thought. No one could know of this. Not even Michaele's sister.
The next day was the same outcome. Until practice began at three o'clock in the old gym.
Lindsay, Michaele, Helanna and Stephanie all dragged their belongings and flag bags towards the old gym for their two-and-a-half hour-long practice. Walking in, Katie was there, set up with her stereo and… paper pigeons posted around the gym.
"That's supposed to keep the owls away?!" Lindsay explained. "We had to get a fake owl in our tree to scare the pigeons away!"
Michaele laughed loudly as Helanna and Stephanie nervously giggled.
"This is going to be quiet an eventful practice today." Michaele said between her laughs.
As promised, the practice was eventful… well eventful that people couldn't get to their sets on the gym floor so the size of the floor had to be reduced for the guard. It was probably because the newbies all march instead of jazz walk.
"Okay guys, take a break!" Katie announced as the guard huffed-and-puffed around the court.
Everyone gave out their sighs of happiness and went to find their water bottles to take a nice big drink of that hydrating-stuff. Sitting on the floor, Michaele, Lindsay, Helanna, Stephanie, and Megan all sat together as they drank their water. Rachelle causally came over and sat next to Michaele and the two began to talk.
"So, are you having fun as the dancing man?" Michaele asked Rachelle as she took a drink of her water.
Rachelle laughed her famous laugh. "YEAH! It's so much fun! Look, I even wrote it on my hand." She stuck out her hand. It indeed said, "I'm the dancing man" up by her wrist.
"That's great!" She responded to her giddy freshman friend. "I'm glad you're enjoying this. Next year, you'll be twirling a flag, right?"
"If I don't hit myself on the head, yeah!"
The girls all laughed.
A loud klank came from the gym floor.
"What was that?" Stephanie asked.
"Psst, its just Levi trying to do his tosses." Lindsay laughed.
"I'm glad it's not the owl…" Megan said.
All of a sudden, Lindsay popped up out of her spot and pointed to the top of the gym. "THE OWL! THE OWL!"
Levi screamed and dropped his rifle once more.
She took down her hand to her side and began to laugh loudly. "Levi is such a wuss!" She exclaimed to Michaele.
"What a baby. Those are just badminton birdies stuck up there." Michaele laughed.
Rachelle added her two cents. "I got one stuck up there!" She laughed at herself as the other girls laughed at her.
"I got one stuck in the rafters at my junior high in the seventh grade." Megan said.
"Man, my school was so cheap, I've never played badminton before." Lindsay said with a pout.
"Okay break is over, set one!" Katie announced. Groaning, everyone set their water bottles down, grabbed their equipment and prepared to do another run-through of the show.
Walking to their sets, Michaele talked with her two 'corner' mates and looked back at Marie banging her rifle on the ground to get something off of it. Laughing, she turned around and went to look at Katie, but Katie was frozen as she taped another paper pigeon to the folded up bleachers. Looking around, the white-spotted owl flew in through the open doors. Levi screamed and ducked. The owl noticed his movement and went straight towards him.
"NOOO!" Levi began to groucho away from his spot as the owl chased him around the gym.
It was quite a sight to see Levi grouchoing, not running, around the gym floor as a white-spotted owl chased him. Lindsay and Michaele were laughing. Marie had a look of puzzlement on her face, Becca was tossing her rifle, Chris was laughing, Stephanie and Helanna were hugging each other crying, Megan was huddle into a ball, rocking back and forth, Caitlin hid behind Megan, and Katie had put a paper pigeon in front of her in hopes of keeping the owl away.
Finally, the owl swooped in and actually nipped Levi's ear. Levi screamed again as the owl flew around the gym once more and out the open door. Everyone stopped and looked at Levi as he waited for the worst. All of a sudden, he began to let out a blood-curling scream.
"OWWW!!!!!" He scratched at his arms, flapped around, and went around in a circle while screaming.
Michaele and Lindsay laughed harder.
Then, he began to dance. It wasn't the Marcerna… it was… the running man!
"THE RUNNING MAN?!" Katie screamed as she threw her paper pigeon aside. "The only other guy on my guard is being turned into a writing utensil and doing the running man?!" She began to get teary-eyed.
Levi still screamed and flapped his arms like he was trying to fly or put on a fire as he did the running man. As he continued to do this, he made his way over to his rifle and began to do toss and toss after toss and then BOOM! Smoke appeared and whirlwind around Levi and sucked down to the ground. Where Levi once stood, was a pink crayola crayon. The guard screamed as Lindsay and Michaele continued to laugh.
After Levi was transfigured into a crayon, the whole gym was silent. Suddenly the door burst open and a dog came running inside, being chased by a man. Becca began to laugh as her dog came over to the corner of the gym floor that her and Marie occupied. Petting her dog as Katie tried to decide what she wanted to do with the rest of the practice, the dog went to run and visit Chris, but spotted the pink crayon. With a lick of his chomps, he swooped down and ate the pink crayon.
"OH MY GOD! MY DOG JUST ATE LEVI!" Becca exclaimed while trying not to laugh.
Marie laughed. She laughed so hard it looked like she was going to pass out or something. "That's what he gets for sinking to that level!" She laughed again as her close friends Caitlin and Chris slightly laughed along with her for support.
Lindsay and Michaele laughed along too. They were online the night before discussing that something might happen to the Levi crayon. They were right. They laughed and laughed as Stephanie, Helanna, and Megan looked at them like they were crazy. Marie laughed harder as she saw her fellow guard mates laughing along with her.
Becca's dad came running in to stop the dog, but it was too late. He had fully chewed and swallowed Levi.
"Oh great…" her dad sighed. "Now we have to wait to see if he digests it or not."
The guard laughed harder. Katie let out a loud sob.
"WHY ME?! WHY MY GUARD?!" She got down on her knees and cried. If only she knew that this was not even the climax to our story. No friends, tis only the beginning.
Katie finally excused everyone home early, unable to get out of the shock that she lost another guard member to the mysterious owl and the member being transfigured into a different kind of writing utensil. She announced that on Monday they would either try to adjust the holes or just live with them.
Gathering up their stuff, Caitlin, Chris, and Rachelle helped Marie get Levi's flag bag, which looked like many unfortunate green stuffed animals were killed for it to be made, and the rest of his belongings so she could give them to his parents. Sure, she hated him but she liked his parents. After all, Mr. Buck and Mrs. Buck were one of the coolest band parents.
Michaele and Lindsay walked together to the parking lot by the band room to call and wait for their parents. Still, they could speak no logic explanation for what happened. Let alone the rest of the guard. This was going to be one long and strange guard season.
"I still think it has something to do with 'Labyrinth'." Lindsay stated.
"Maybe… or Harry Potter." Michaele said as she sat on the cement.
"Maybe…" they said at the same time.
Only time would tell what was going on and who was to go next.
*Thanks to everyone who reviewed! (Hee hee, yes of course we take someone being turned into a marker well! That's the power of fiction) I hope you liked this next chapter. And by the way, the names of the chapters will all be the next victim, unless I decided it's not an appropriate chapter name. (There will be about nine, ten, maybe even eleven chapters) Make sure you review! Lindsay, I need more ideas… *throws another log into the fire* I'm running low. And Helanna, I keep on spelling your name different… does anyone know how to spell it? Steph? Lindsay? Anybody?
*By the way, Amanda… (I don't mean to sound prude or anything and Lindsay, you know I love ya!!) but I wrote the story. Yep, that's right. Me. LittleLily. Michaele. Thank you for the review! But I wrote the story. I know Lindsay has helped me with some ideas for the story, but it is all written by me. That kinda hurt my feelings, even though Lindsay should get applause for some of her crazy ideas, but I've written every word you see on your screen. *sniff* Thank you.
The silence was finally broken when Lindsay let out a loud sneeze. The other three girls in the hallway looked over at her and she shrugged as she found a Kleenex.
"Sorry, I'm sick." Lindsay replied.
With this break in the silence, Marie found it an appropriate time to speak. "Uh, practice is in the gym tomorrow. You all know that, right?"
The girls nodded.
"And Katie said she's bringing in something that will scare away any owls."
The girls nodded again.
What was that thing, they did not know. They did not speak again until the bell rang and they all left the hallway to go in back through the band room to go to their next class. Michaele and Lindsay walked together as the others went their own way.
"Who do you think is going to go next?" Lindsay asked as she slipped on her sunglasses.
"I think it's annoying people first. I mean, Jacque did go first." Michaele said as she tried to shield her eyes from the bright sun.
"Hmm, could be… So then who would it be next?"
They both looked at each other and answered at the same time. "Levi."
Lindsay looked around and made sure any guard members weren't around. "Do you think it's possible?"
Michaele pondered the thought as they got closer to their classes. "Well… he is annoying. He thinks he's great and he sucks on rifle, though he gets to do rifle for the show and throw a quad when everyone knows it should be you up there. Heck, even me!" Michaele coughed. "I really think it's him. I just wonder what he's going to turn into."
"Something gay…" They both laughed.
They came up to the empty bay area and said their good-byes as they separated to their respected classes. Well, Michaele did have to pause and drool at her crush for a little bit before moving on, but she made it to accelerated chemistry before the bell rang.
Throughout the day, the thoughts of the guard members and the ideas of Lindsay and Michaele stayed with them the whole day. After school when everyone was hanging out in the band room, no one spoke, except the oblivious band members. However, Michaele did talk with her friend Rachel who long ago switched out of band and Michaele tried so hard not to tell her what happened. When she felt the bridge about to break, Rachel's mom came to get her and she left with her good-byes to Michaele and her twin.
'Whew… that was close…' Michaele thought. No one could know of this. Not even Michaele's sister.
The next day was the same outcome. Until practice began at three o'clock in the old gym.
Lindsay, Michaele, Helanna and Stephanie all dragged their belongings and flag bags towards the old gym for their two-and-a-half hour-long practice. Walking in, Katie was there, set up with her stereo and… paper pigeons posted around the gym.
"That's supposed to keep the owls away?!" Lindsay explained. "We had to get a fake owl in our tree to scare the pigeons away!"
Michaele laughed loudly as Helanna and Stephanie nervously giggled.
"This is going to be quiet an eventful practice today." Michaele said between her laughs.
As promised, the practice was eventful… well eventful that people couldn't get to their sets on the gym floor so the size of the floor had to be reduced for the guard. It was probably because the newbies all march instead of jazz walk.
"Okay guys, take a break!" Katie announced as the guard huffed-and-puffed around the court.
Everyone gave out their sighs of happiness and went to find their water bottles to take a nice big drink of that hydrating-stuff. Sitting on the floor, Michaele, Lindsay, Helanna, Stephanie, and Megan all sat together as they drank their water. Rachelle causally came over and sat next to Michaele and the two began to talk.
"So, are you having fun as the dancing man?" Michaele asked Rachelle as she took a drink of her water.
Rachelle laughed her famous laugh. "YEAH! It's so much fun! Look, I even wrote it on my hand." She stuck out her hand. It indeed said, "I'm the dancing man" up by her wrist.
"That's great!" She responded to her giddy freshman friend. "I'm glad you're enjoying this. Next year, you'll be twirling a flag, right?"
"If I don't hit myself on the head, yeah!"
The girls all laughed.
A loud klank came from the gym floor.
"What was that?" Stephanie asked.
"Psst, its just Levi trying to do his tosses." Lindsay laughed.
"I'm glad it's not the owl…" Megan said.
All of a sudden, Lindsay popped up out of her spot and pointed to the top of the gym. "THE OWL! THE OWL!"
Levi screamed and dropped his rifle once more.
She took down her hand to her side and began to laugh loudly. "Levi is such a wuss!" She exclaimed to Michaele.
"What a baby. Those are just badminton birdies stuck up there." Michaele laughed.
Rachelle added her two cents. "I got one stuck up there!" She laughed at herself as the other girls laughed at her.
"I got one stuck in the rafters at my junior high in the seventh grade." Megan said.
"Man, my school was so cheap, I've never played badminton before." Lindsay said with a pout.
"Okay break is over, set one!" Katie announced. Groaning, everyone set their water bottles down, grabbed their equipment and prepared to do another run-through of the show.
Walking to their sets, Michaele talked with her two 'corner' mates and looked back at Marie banging her rifle on the ground to get something off of it. Laughing, she turned around and went to look at Katie, but Katie was frozen as she taped another paper pigeon to the folded up bleachers. Looking around, the white-spotted owl flew in through the open doors. Levi screamed and ducked. The owl noticed his movement and went straight towards him.
"NOOO!" Levi began to groucho away from his spot as the owl chased him around the gym.
It was quite a sight to see Levi grouchoing, not running, around the gym floor as a white-spotted owl chased him. Lindsay and Michaele were laughing. Marie had a look of puzzlement on her face, Becca was tossing her rifle, Chris was laughing, Stephanie and Helanna were hugging each other crying, Megan was huddle into a ball, rocking back and forth, Caitlin hid behind Megan, and Katie had put a paper pigeon in front of her in hopes of keeping the owl away.
Finally, the owl swooped in and actually nipped Levi's ear. Levi screamed again as the owl flew around the gym once more and out the open door. Everyone stopped and looked at Levi as he waited for the worst. All of a sudden, he began to let out a blood-curling scream.
"OWWW!!!!!" He scratched at his arms, flapped around, and went around in a circle while screaming.
Michaele and Lindsay laughed harder.
Then, he began to dance. It wasn't the Marcerna… it was… the running man!
"THE RUNNING MAN?!" Katie screamed as she threw her paper pigeon aside. "The only other guy on my guard is being turned into a writing utensil and doing the running man?!" She began to get teary-eyed.
Levi still screamed and flapped his arms like he was trying to fly or put on a fire as he did the running man. As he continued to do this, he made his way over to his rifle and began to do toss and toss after toss and then BOOM! Smoke appeared and whirlwind around Levi and sucked down to the ground. Where Levi once stood, was a pink crayola crayon. The guard screamed as Lindsay and Michaele continued to laugh.
After Levi was transfigured into a crayon, the whole gym was silent. Suddenly the door burst open and a dog came running inside, being chased by a man. Becca began to laugh as her dog came over to the corner of the gym floor that her and Marie occupied. Petting her dog as Katie tried to decide what she wanted to do with the rest of the practice, the dog went to run and visit Chris, but spotted the pink crayon. With a lick of his chomps, he swooped down and ate the pink crayon.
"OH MY GOD! MY DOG JUST ATE LEVI!" Becca exclaimed while trying not to laugh.
Marie laughed. She laughed so hard it looked like she was going to pass out or something. "That's what he gets for sinking to that level!" She laughed again as her close friends Caitlin and Chris slightly laughed along with her for support.
Lindsay and Michaele laughed along too. They were online the night before discussing that something might happen to the Levi crayon. They were right. They laughed and laughed as Stephanie, Helanna, and Megan looked at them like they were crazy. Marie laughed harder as she saw her fellow guard mates laughing along with her.
Becca's dad came running in to stop the dog, but it was too late. He had fully chewed and swallowed Levi.
"Oh great…" her dad sighed. "Now we have to wait to see if he digests it or not."
The guard laughed harder. Katie let out a loud sob.
"WHY ME?! WHY MY GUARD?!" She got down on her knees and cried. If only she knew that this was not even the climax to our story. No friends, tis only the beginning.
Katie finally excused everyone home early, unable to get out of the shock that she lost another guard member to the mysterious owl and the member being transfigured into a different kind of writing utensil. She announced that on Monday they would either try to adjust the holes or just live with them.
Gathering up their stuff, Caitlin, Chris, and Rachelle helped Marie get Levi's flag bag, which looked like many unfortunate green stuffed animals were killed for it to be made, and the rest of his belongings so she could give them to his parents. Sure, she hated him but she liked his parents. After all, Mr. Buck and Mrs. Buck were one of the coolest band parents.
Michaele and Lindsay walked together to the parking lot by the band room to call and wait for their parents. Still, they could speak no logic explanation for what happened. Let alone the rest of the guard. This was going to be one long and strange guard season.
"I still think it has something to do with 'Labyrinth'." Lindsay stated.
"Maybe… or Harry Potter." Michaele said as she sat on the cement.
"Maybe…" they said at the same time.
Only time would tell what was going on and who was to go next.
*Thanks to everyone who reviewed! (Hee hee, yes of course we take someone being turned into a marker well! That's the power of fiction) I hope you liked this next chapter. And by the way, the names of the chapters will all be the next victim, unless I decided it's not an appropriate chapter name. (There will be about nine, ten, maybe even eleven chapters) Make sure you review! Lindsay, I need more ideas… *throws another log into the fire* I'm running low. And Helanna, I keep on spelling your name different… does anyone know how to spell it? Steph? Lindsay? Anybody?
*By the way, Amanda… (I don't mean to sound prude or anything and Lindsay, you know I love ya!!) but I wrote the story. Yep, that's right. Me. LittleLily. Michaele. Thank you for the review! But I wrote the story. I know Lindsay has helped me with some ideas for the story, but it is all written by me. That kinda hurt my feelings, even though Lindsay should get applause for some of her crazy ideas, but I've written every word you see on your screen. *sniff* Thank you.