Tammy looked like she was going to explode. "How did you get into my
house?" She asked, taking huge breaths of air in between each word, making
it sound as if she were about to breathe fire.
A girl stumbled forward. "Sorry Ms. Pierce! We're REALLY sorry! It's just...the door was open and we didn't think you'd mind if we let ourselves in. We weren't going to screw up you stuff or anything! Honest!" The girl looked as if she were about to burst into tears.
"I believe you." Said Tammy. "There's no reason to get all worked up about it. Also don't call me Ms. Pierce, it's too stuffy, call me Tamora, or Tammy. They do." She said as she pointed to the other girls. She then turned to Kate and Diana, who had just returned from Jon's room. "I'll need you two to use your Gifts with me so we can close up the portal."
"OK." Said Kate, still looking slightly pale.
"Ooooh! I'm gonna use my magic! I'm gonna use my magic!" Said Diana, looking completely recovered and doing a little dance.
"Shut it and do what Tammy says!" Said Maria, trodding on Diana's foot.
"Thank you, Maria." Tammy said, then seeing the scandalized look on Diana's foot she added. "You really do need to concentrate. I want you to think about closing the trapdoor, clear everything out of your mind that isn't about closing the trapdoor."
"This is interesting." Said one of the newly arrived girls. "What are they doing?"
"They're closing the portal you guys came through." Said Krizsta, looking angry. "Didn't your mothers ever teach you not to trespass?"
"Yeah," said Maddy, "I mean, Goldilocks trespassed and look what happened to her!" Maddy drew her finger across her neck.
"EXCUSE US!" Kate half-bellowed. "We are TRYING to work serious magic here and it doesn't help that you make us constantly loose our concentration!"
There were mumbled apologies and hung heads from the girls who had been speaking.
"That's better." Said Diana.
"OK." Said Tammy. "Are you still concentrating on the trapdoor?" The girls nodded. "Good! On the count of 3 I want you to sort of push, but with your minds, do you understand?"
"Um..." Said Kate.
"More or less." Said Diana.
"That's as much as we can hope for, I suppose." Said Tammy. "Ready? 1-2-3!"
A burst of blue, green and chartreuse magic burst from the fingertips of the three ladies. There was a loud BANG from somewhere above and several girls jumped as there was a loud rap on the door.
Tammy had just opened her mouth to say 'come in, it's open' when black fire surrounded the door and it blew off it's hinges completely.
In the now door-less doorway stood an extremely tall man, at least 6'5". He had black hair that was pulled back in a low pony-tail. He didn't look at all happy. In fact, he looked rather ticked off.
"I should have know it was you Tam, you're always up to something." The man yelled, not bothering to keep his voice low." That is the THIRD magical assault on the barrier. All of the signs point out that they originated from this very room. I demand to know what the hell is going on here!"
"I'm sorry. I don't understand. What's the barrier?" Said Tammy, trying to buy more time to think of some sort of excuse.
"The barrier is an invisible wall that surround Tortall. It keeps the enemies out. Our people can leave and re-enter the barrier. All of Tortall's mages used some of their Gift in the barrier so they all feel it if something passes through it. It doesn't really affect them if it's one or two beings, but any more and it can cause serious damage to them!" The man stopped talking, inhaled a huge breath of air and opened his mouth as if he were about to continue talking.
"Oh, I'm so very sorry!" Said Tammy, actually achieving sounding sorry. "I had no idea! As you may know, my fief is on the edge of Tortall and I had some friends visit from...um...Tyra. We all got to Corus by magical transport. I didn't know it would affect the barrier like that. Sorry Numair."
Several of the girls squeaked at the sound of Numair's name and ran toward him. Numair made a hasty retreat, carefully fitting the door back in place with another shot of black magic.
"That's him gone." Said Tammy. "Now you all introduce yourselves. Oh and you in dresses will be nobles ladies, you in breeches will be pages, and you," said Tammy pointing to a girl with a small pin on her shirt, "will be a Rider. Any questions? I hope not because I'm not explaining anything right now."
"I'm Reganas." Said a girl in breeches. "I don't want to be a page though!"
"We'll figure something out for you, I'm sure." Said Tammy.
"I'm Kaitlin!" Said the girl with the Rider pin. "I'm gonna be a Rider!"
"OY! We are too!" Said Anne Marie.
"Yeah!" Said Maddy, "Come on down!
"OK." Said Kaitlin and she went over to sit with Anne Marie and Maddy.
"I'm Liney." Said a girl in a dress. "I hate dresses." She said some more things but they weren't heard by anyone because she mumbled them.
"Come on, Liney!" Said another girl in a dress. "It'll be fun! Oh, I'm Caprice by the way."
"You're such an optimist, Caprice." Said Liney.
"And damn proud of it too!" Said Caprice.
"I'm Kathryn." Said a girl in breeches, smiling and attempting a bow, and tumbling over, and blushing.
"That happened to me once, when I tried to curtsy. I probably looked like a fool!" Said Maria, laughing politely.
"Yeah, it's just, I don't fall down that much." Said Kathryn, attempting to climb up the wall. "This wall isn't sticky enough!"
"Um, right...that was my first though when I touched them too..." Said Reganas, joking.
"Really?" Said Kathryn.
"No." Said Reganas and Maria together, causing a few people to giggle, Anne Marie to snort, and Krizsta to topple over laughing hysterically.
"It wasn't THAT funny. And I'm Lady Light!" Said a girl, bowing Yamani style, even though she was wearing a dress.
"Great!" Said Tammy. "Take a while and get to know each other."
The girls milled around, shaking hands and exchanging comments about what they were going to be doing. After about 10 minutes there was another knock on the door.
"I hope it's Numair again." Said Rosefyre.
"Oooooh!" Said Caprice and Olivia together. Rosefyre blushed.
Caprice walked up to open the door because Tammy was using the chamber pot. It was Raoul, now accompanied by a young looking man with twinkling blue eyes and darkish hair.
"Hello girls! I'm supposed to take you all down to the practice courts where we can 'sort you out.'" Said Raoul. "Oh, and I don't believe you've met this sergeant?"
"Domition of Masbolle." Said Domition of Masbolle. "Call me Dom."
Kate screamed and threw herself upon Dom. After a seconds hesitation Rosefyre walked up and joined them. The other girls looked shocked.
"What's going on?" Said Tamora, returning from the bathroom.
"Help me!" Cried Dom from the floor.
"IT'S DOM!" Screeched Kate. "Look everyone! It's Dom!"
"We saw." Said Liney, grinning at the utterly terrified look on Dom's face. "Hehe! You look funny!"
"I'm thinking we should rescue him before something, you know, happens!" Said Maddy, plopping onto the ground and laughing so hard that tears streamed down her cheeks.
Raoul waded in through the two girls, to pull out Dom, who looked utterly shocked at being jumped upon and almost trampled. "OK, after that, er, interesting display of affection...we should go down to the courts now. Everyone is waiting."
So with Raoul and Dom leading the way the 14 girls and Tammy walked out the door, and down the stairs to the practice courts.
~*~
Sorry to any body who signed up after the third chapter was up. I'll try to put you in the next chapter. You wont have wonderfully huge rolls but my small brain isn't capable of storing so many names and personalities. *Puppy eyes* Forgive me?
Also I haven't been putting disclaimers above every chapter because there's one over the first chapter and I figure that's enough, if you're about to sue me...don't. Here's a disclaimer just because:
Disclaimer: The characters belong to Tamora Pierce, and so does *gasp* Tammy (Who is *more gasping* TAMORA PIERCE), also the people I use belong to themselves. The plot is mine though...all mine...but yet, I got the idea from Rosefyre! So read her fics, too!
Wonderful, wasn't it? Course it was. Please R&R peoples!
A girl stumbled forward. "Sorry Ms. Pierce! We're REALLY sorry! It's just...the door was open and we didn't think you'd mind if we let ourselves in. We weren't going to screw up you stuff or anything! Honest!" The girl looked as if she were about to burst into tears.
"I believe you." Said Tammy. "There's no reason to get all worked up about it. Also don't call me Ms. Pierce, it's too stuffy, call me Tamora, or Tammy. They do." She said as she pointed to the other girls. She then turned to Kate and Diana, who had just returned from Jon's room. "I'll need you two to use your Gifts with me so we can close up the portal."
"OK." Said Kate, still looking slightly pale.
"Ooooh! I'm gonna use my magic! I'm gonna use my magic!" Said Diana, looking completely recovered and doing a little dance.
"Shut it and do what Tammy says!" Said Maria, trodding on Diana's foot.
"Thank you, Maria." Tammy said, then seeing the scandalized look on Diana's foot she added. "You really do need to concentrate. I want you to think about closing the trapdoor, clear everything out of your mind that isn't about closing the trapdoor."
"This is interesting." Said one of the newly arrived girls. "What are they doing?"
"They're closing the portal you guys came through." Said Krizsta, looking angry. "Didn't your mothers ever teach you not to trespass?"
"Yeah," said Maddy, "I mean, Goldilocks trespassed and look what happened to her!" Maddy drew her finger across her neck.
"EXCUSE US!" Kate half-bellowed. "We are TRYING to work serious magic here and it doesn't help that you make us constantly loose our concentration!"
There were mumbled apologies and hung heads from the girls who had been speaking.
"That's better." Said Diana.
"OK." Said Tammy. "Are you still concentrating on the trapdoor?" The girls nodded. "Good! On the count of 3 I want you to sort of push, but with your minds, do you understand?"
"Um..." Said Kate.
"More or less." Said Diana.
"That's as much as we can hope for, I suppose." Said Tammy. "Ready? 1-2-3!"
A burst of blue, green and chartreuse magic burst from the fingertips of the three ladies. There was a loud BANG from somewhere above and several girls jumped as there was a loud rap on the door.
Tammy had just opened her mouth to say 'come in, it's open' when black fire surrounded the door and it blew off it's hinges completely.
In the now door-less doorway stood an extremely tall man, at least 6'5". He had black hair that was pulled back in a low pony-tail. He didn't look at all happy. In fact, he looked rather ticked off.
"I should have know it was you Tam, you're always up to something." The man yelled, not bothering to keep his voice low." That is the THIRD magical assault on the barrier. All of the signs point out that they originated from this very room. I demand to know what the hell is going on here!"
"I'm sorry. I don't understand. What's the barrier?" Said Tammy, trying to buy more time to think of some sort of excuse.
"The barrier is an invisible wall that surround Tortall. It keeps the enemies out. Our people can leave and re-enter the barrier. All of Tortall's mages used some of their Gift in the barrier so they all feel it if something passes through it. It doesn't really affect them if it's one or two beings, but any more and it can cause serious damage to them!" The man stopped talking, inhaled a huge breath of air and opened his mouth as if he were about to continue talking.
"Oh, I'm so very sorry!" Said Tammy, actually achieving sounding sorry. "I had no idea! As you may know, my fief is on the edge of Tortall and I had some friends visit from...um...Tyra. We all got to Corus by magical transport. I didn't know it would affect the barrier like that. Sorry Numair."
Several of the girls squeaked at the sound of Numair's name and ran toward him. Numair made a hasty retreat, carefully fitting the door back in place with another shot of black magic.
"That's him gone." Said Tammy. "Now you all introduce yourselves. Oh and you in dresses will be nobles ladies, you in breeches will be pages, and you," said Tammy pointing to a girl with a small pin on her shirt, "will be a Rider. Any questions? I hope not because I'm not explaining anything right now."
"I'm Reganas." Said a girl in breeches. "I don't want to be a page though!"
"We'll figure something out for you, I'm sure." Said Tammy.
"I'm Kaitlin!" Said the girl with the Rider pin. "I'm gonna be a Rider!"
"OY! We are too!" Said Anne Marie.
"Yeah!" Said Maddy, "Come on down!
"OK." Said Kaitlin and she went over to sit with Anne Marie and Maddy.
"I'm Liney." Said a girl in a dress. "I hate dresses." She said some more things but they weren't heard by anyone because she mumbled them.
"Come on, Liney!" Said another girl in a dress. "It'll be fun! Oh, I'm Caprice by the way."
"You're such an optimist, Caprice." Said Liney.
"And damn proud of it too!" Said Caprice.
"I'm Kathryn." Said a girl in breeches, smiling and attempting a bow, and tumbling over, and blushing.
"That happened to me once, when I tried to curtsy. I probably looked like a fool!" Said Maria, laughing politely.
"Yeah, it's just, I don't fall down that much." Said Kathryn, attempting to climb up the wall. "This wall isn't sticky enough!"
"Um, right...that was my first though when I touched them too..." Said Reganas, joking.
"Really?" Said Kathryn.
"No." Said Reganas and Maria together, causing a few people to giggle, Anne Marie to snort, and Krizsta to topple over laughing hysterically.
"It wasn't THAT funny. And I'm Lady Light!" Said a girl, bowing Yamani style, even though she was wearing a dress.
"Great!" Said Tammy. "Take a while and get to know each other."
The girls milled around, shaking hands and exchanging comments about what they were going to be doing. After about 10 minutes there was another knock on the door.
"I hope it's Numair again." Said Rosefyre.
"Oooooh!" Said Caprice and Olivia together. Rosefyre blushed.
Caprice walked up to open the door because Tammy was using the chamber pot. It was Raoul, now accompanied by a young looking man with twinkling blue eyes and darkish hair.
"Hello girls! I'm supposed to take you all down to the practice courts where we can 'sort you out.'" Said Raoul. "Oh, and I don't believe you've met this sergeant?"
"Domition of Masbolle." Said Domition of Masbolle. "Call me Dom."
Kate screamed and threw herself upon Dom. After a seconds hesitation Rosefyre walked up and joined them. The other girls looked shocked.
"What's going on?" Said Tamora, returning from the bathroom.
"Help me!" Cried Dom from the floor.
"IT'S DOM!" Screeched Kate. "Look everyone! It's Dom!"
"We saw." Said Liney, grinning at the utterly terrified look on Dom's face. "Hehe! You look funny!"
"I'm thinking we should rescue him before something, you know, happens!" Said Maddy, plopping onto the ground and laughing so hard that tears streamed down her cheeks.
Raoul waded in through the two girls, to pull out Dom, who looked utterly shocked at being jumped upon and almost trampled. "OK, after that, er, interesting display of affection...we should go down to the courts now. Everyone is waiting."
So with Raoul and Dom leading the way the 14 girls and Tammy walked out the door, and down the stairs to the practice courts.
~*~
Sorry to any body who signed up after the third chapter was up. I'll try to put you in the next chapter. You wont have wonderfully huge rolls but my small brain isn't capable of storing so many names and personalities. *Puppy eyes* Forgive me?
Also I haven't been putting disclaimers above every chapter because there's one over the first chapter and I figure that's enough, if you're about to sue me...don't. Here's a disclaimer just because:
Disclaimer: The characters belong to Tamora Pierce, and so does *gasp* Tammy (Who is *more gasping* TAMORA PIERCE), also the people I use belong to themselves. The plot is mine though...all mine...but yet, I got the idea from Rosefyre! So read her fics, too!
Wonderful, wasn't it? Course it was. Please R&R peoples!