Yay! People read chapter 1! Thank you SOOO much for any and all reviews,
real and imaginary, so here you go: Chapter 2.
By the way, Disclaimer: Same as Chapter 1. So here we go.
Suddenly, "Do you like CHICKEN?!" Abby was grinning at Ms. Gorspreicht like a mad baboon. Ms. Gorspreicht made a face that said, "I should have become a lawyer like my parents said." and yelled,
"Go away!" She shielded her face and hurried past the three. Anna and Mae cheered, but shut up in a hurry when they saw the ominous silhouette of Ms. Books darken the milk carton windows at the end of the hall. Everybody knew there was no way to deter Ms. Books, the Omnipotent Squelcher of All Things Fun and Joyous in St. Ignatius XXIV, and Mae's face went pale under her freckles as she cried, "We're doomed!"
"Not yet we aren't!" Anna said, "This way!" She grabbed them both and pulled them into Mrs. Fudrick's religious icon-bedecked room just as the snorting Ms. Books plowed over the hall tiles the had previously stood on. "Mrs. Fudrick!" she panted when the religion teacher saw them, "Could we borrow some rubber bands?"
"Sure!" Mrs. Fudrick said as she began to rummage good-naturedly through her desk.
"This room is a great place to load up on ammo," Anna confided to Mae and Abby, and she gladly accepted the handful of springy rubber bands offered her.
"Hey, could we borrow two rulers?" Abby suddenly asked out of the blue. Mrs. Fudrick gave them a weird look, but gave the rulers anyway. "I don't think I'll even ask why you need them," she said as the three girls thanked her and dashed off.
"Rulers?" Anna asked as soon as they were a safe distance away, "What do you need with rulers?"
"Rulers," said Mae in a respectful tone, "Are the traditional weapon of We of the Anime."
"Anime?" Anna said incredulously, "You mean those weird Japanese cartoons where people have perfect legs and hair and soupy eyes like sick cats?"
"Yup!" said Abby, "And for your information, it's more than a way of drawing now; it's a cult!"
"Ch!" said Anna, "And you joined it?" Abby didn't seem to her to be the artsy, cultural type.
"Well, yeah," Abby admitted, "But it was her idea!" She pointed an accusing finger at Mae, "I can get out of it as soon as we- URGH!" Mae hurriedly shoved her elbow into Abby's stomach.
"Do what?" Anna asked nosily.
"Priveliged information," said Mae shortly, "Sorry."
"Priveliged!" Anna yelled, quite forgetting that she was be focusing on being a stealthy hallway-sneaker, "I'm a very priveliged person! What is it?"
"It's a secret," said Abby with an infuriating grin, "YOU wouldn't understand it! I'll tell you when you're older!" Anna grinded her teeth together, then said,
"By golly, if you don't tell me what I'm risking my neck guiding you down to the library for then I'm turning back right now!" Mae's eyes widened and she pursed her lips unhappily, then, looking both ways to make sure nobody was watching, she grabbed Anna and Abby and hauled them into a room and slammed the door shut.
"This," she said in a mystical-sounding voice, "Is the secretest haven of We of the Anime."
"The janitor's closet?" said Anna, who had been shoved into a dirty mop.
"Shut up!" Mae snapped, "Now, if you tell anyone you're dead meat! We will hunt you down and rip you up into tiny little pieces if you breathe a word of this to anyone else." She glanced at Abby, then handed Anna a scrap of paper and commanded her to read. Anna opened the paper and, surely enough, it displayed an elegantly-shadowed picture of a perfect- legged, soupy-eyed, extremely buxom female on it. She was saying,
"I, your Queen, Eclipse Moon, am being held captive in the computer lab. You must rescue me and save my people, We of the Anime. Help me, Serena. You are my only hope."
"Who's Serena?" Anna asked.
"I'm Serena!" said Mae, "Abby's Mina. You can be. Rei."
"Okay, whatever. Let's go." They snuck out of the closet and headed for the stairs. "Rei," Anna muttered to herself, "Huh!"
THE END of Chapter 2! And now I must study for my dreaded History Exams. Final Chapter soon to come!!! -Nike Shizu
Suddenly, "Do you like CHICKEN?!" Abby was grinning at Ms. Gorspreicht like a mad baboon. Ms. Gorspreicht made a face that said, "I should have become a lawyer like my parents said." and yelled,
"Go away!" She shielded her face and hurried past the three. Anna and Mae cheered, but shut up in a hurry when they saw the ominous silhouette of Ms. Books darken the milk carton windows at the end of the hall. Everybody knew there was no way to deter Ms. Books, the Omnipotent Squelcher of All Things Fun and Joyous in St. Ignatius XXIV, and Mae's face went pale under her freckles as she cried, "We're doomed!"
"Not yet we aren't!" Anna said, "This way!" She grabbed them both and pulled them into Mrs. Fudrick's religious icon-bedecked room just as the snorting Ms. Books plowed over the hall tiles the had previously stood on. "Mrs. Fudrick!" she panted when the religion teacher saw them, "Could we borrow some rubber bands?"
"Sure!" Mrs. Fudrick said as she began to rummage good-naturedly through her desk.
"This room is a great place to load up on ammo," Anna confided to Mae and Abby, and she gladly accepted the handful of springy rubber bands offered her.
"Hey, could we borrow two rulers?" Abby suddenly asked out of the blue. Mrs. Fudrick gave them a weird look, but gave the rulers anyway. "I don't think I'll even ask why you need them," she said as the three girls thanked her and dashed off.
"Rulers?" Anna asked as soon as they were a safe distance away, "What do you need with rulers?"
"Rulers," said Mae in a respectful tone, "Are the traditional weapon of We of the Anime."
"Anime?" Anna said incredulously, "You mean those weird Japanese cartoons where people have perfect legs and hair and soupy eyes like sick cats?"
"Yup!" said Abby, "And for your information, it's more than a way of drawing now; it's a cult!"
"Ch!" said Anna, "And you joined it?" Abby didn't seem to her to be the artsy, cultural type.
"Well, yeah," Abby admitted, "But it was her idea!" She pointed an accusing finger at Mae, "I can get out of it as soon as we- URGH!" Mae hurriedly shoved her elbow into Abby's stomach.
"Do what?" Anna asked nosily.
"Priveliged information," said Mae shortly, "Sorry."
"Priveliged!" Anna yelled, quite forgetting that she was be focusing on being a stealthy hallway-sneaker, "I'm a very priveliged person! What is it?"
"It's a secret," said Abby with an infuriating grin, "YOU wouldn't understand it! I'll tell you when you're older!" Anna grinded her teeth together, then said,
"By golly, if you don't tell me what I'm risking my neck guiding you down to the library for then I'm turning back right now!" Mae's eyes widened and she pursed her lips unhappily, then, looking both ways to make sure nobody was watching, she grabbed Anna and Abby and hauled them into a room and slammed the door shut.
"This," she said in a mystical-sounding voice, "Is the secretest haven of We of the Anime."
"The janitor's closet?" said Anna, who had been shoved into a dirty mop.
"Shut up!" Mae snapped, "Now, if you tell anyone you're dead meat! We will hunt you down and rip you up into tiny little pieces if you breathe a word of this to anyone else." She glanced at Abby, then handed Anna a scrap of paper and commanded her to read. Anna opened the paper and, surely enough, it displayed an elegantly-shadowed picture of a perfect- legged, soupy-eyed, extremely buxom female on it. She was saying,
"I, your Queen, Eclipse Moon, am being held captive in the computer lab. You must rescue me and save my people, We of the Anime. Help me, Serena. You are my only hope."
"Who's Serena?" Anna asked.
"I'm Serena!" said Mae, "Abby's Mina. You can be. Rei."
"Okay, whatever. Let's go." They snuck out of the closet and headed for the stairs. "Rei," Anna muttered to herself, "Huh!"
THE END of Chapter 2! And now I must study for my dreaded History Exams. Final Chapter soon to come!!! -Nike Shizu