Chapter 8: Accept The Challenge

Acire quietly sang along to some of the music. She was still sitting in the front row of the auditorium...and the guys were still talking.

"Did I tell you guys I took martial arts classes?" Acire said, out of nowhere.

She still remembered the day her mom had suggested the classes. Acire had refused but her mom forced her to enter, anyway. At first, Acire hated it but then she grew to love it and became the top student.

"No, why don't you show us what you can do? Wufei knows martial arts himself, you know." Quatre said.

"Oh does he?" Well I guess I can show you some things."

She got up on stage and took a breath . When she got up there, the song that was on finished ,and "Butterfly" from one of her favorite games: Dance Dance Revolution, came out. Trowa and Heero looked at each other strangely. Acire looked at them with a weary face.

"What's with those faces!? I like this song!" she protested.

Trowa shook his head and smiled.

"Just show us your moves." he said.

Acire took off her denim jacket so it wouldn't get in the way. She started off by doing endless punches and kicks. Then she decided to do her "showing-off" moves. She knew how to do front flips and back flips. She combined her flips with more kicks and punches. She finished with a leg sweep on the floor. She finished sweating and breathing hard. It was hard work to move around with jeans. She ran backstage and found her mp3 player hooked up to some electronic gizmo. She pressed stop on her player and the music stopped. She ran back to the stage.

"Why'd you take the music off? I kinda liked that song..." Duo whined.

"I want to hear what you guys thought." Acire said.

She really wanted Wufei's opinion since he also did martial arts.

"It was really cool!" Quatre said.

Trowa nodded.

"Yeah you could do some serious damage." Duo said.

Before Heero said anything Wufei spoke up.

"It was pathetic." Wufei said coldly.

"Wufei!" yelled Duo.

Acire smirked.

"So you can do better? Come on! Right here! I challenge you!"

"Don't be foolish." Wufei said.

"You underestimate me, Wufei. Maybe you're afraid you'll get your sorry butt whooped."

Wufei rose from his chair and walked to the stage. He jumped onto the stage gracefully.

"Look at you. You're sweating and tired. You can never win."

"Now you are using excuses?"

"Fine. I accept your challenge."

"Acire you will get hurt." Quatre yelled.

"No, he will."

Acire then looked at Duo.

His lips moved and Acire thought he was saying, "You can do it."

Acire then looked at Wufei.

"Get ready to take your place, girl." Wufei said.

"Wait!" Duo called out.

He jumped onstage and went to the back.

"We gotta create the right atmosphere for this! Wufei's gonna get his butt kicked and it has to be with good music!" Duo said from backstage.

Suddenly the "Mortal Kombat techno theme" blared. Duo came out and ran back to his chair and sat down, everyone looked at him.

"What? What's everyone looking at? Oh and I put the song on REPEAT in case you guys don't finish the first time around."

Acire laughed.

"You're so dumb, Duo." Heero said.

"Hey!" Wufei said to Acire.

Acire looked at Wufei and got ready to fight....



To Be Continued...........^_~