CHAPTER 9!!! "Players, they gonna play. Haters, they gonna hate"


Ive ran a hand through her hair as she leaned back in the seat. "I swear...they all have serious mental problems," she remarked. Tai smiled slightly but didn't reply. "I'm so tired... Fainting doesn't provide much rest," Ive relaxed, Tai's arm coming up around her shoulders do that she had something to rest against. He watched quietly over her as she slowly fell asleep, his eyes never straying even when laughs came from lower in the theater.


Max watched Savvy as she absolutely glowed while they talked about the surfer's competition that was happening in the city.

"I never knew you were interested into surfing.." Max murmured.

"Well, yea..I never knew anything was going on here though. I used to live in California where we surfed all the time, but then..my parents moved here, bringing me along. So I had to give up my sport, for my friends I suppose," Savvy said, her face saddening for a moment, her reason for finding Max completely gone.

"Peer pressure, eh?" He asked, taking her hand and squeezing it. A gracious smile came to Savvy's lips as she looked at him.

"Yea, I need to become more immune to that," Max smiled at her comment.

"Everything'll turn out right," Max whispered to her.


Savvy watched Max as she talked about her problems as she hadn't since she had moved. She found trust in him that she found in no one else. Here eyes were glued to him and she sat, dazed until she realized he'd said something. Savvy jerked and then slowly let the question get to her.

"Oh, do I want to go surfing?" Savvy repeated the question with a blank look and then jerked again and answered. "Heck yea!" Savvy grinned as a reply to Max's smile.



Tai brushed Ive's hair out of her face as he watched her lips move slowly to her dream.

"My dreams are filled with her, but now I've no need for dreams with her in my arms..." Tai thought and moved her slightly more into the crook of his arm. He sighed and rested his head on the back of his seat, being swallowed by his thoughts and mixed feelings.


Blade wandered around the theater, wondering where everyone had disappeared too. He finally sighed and pushed open the doors to the lobby, the light flowing on him and temporarily throwing his eyesight some. After readjusting, Blade saw a dark figure run into a room across the lobby. He raised an eyebrow and then started towards the door the figure had gone through. A cloth covered him mouth as he reached for the door handle though and he fell to the floor, glimpsing a man cloaked in black with black eyes.


Savvy and Max both stood up, upon deciding to look for the others. Savvy's grudge against Ive forgotten, she skipped alongside Max with a smile. They started up the aisle as the screen flickered a silent warning once again but with everyone gone and looking the other way, no one knew.